Be a Movie Star in a Two-dimensional World

Su Huai, who was thinking this way, suddenly turned his head, looked at those eyes shining in the cold night, and suddenly asked, "How is it, how do you feel about filming?"

"Simple."

Also, if you stand around casually like this, and you can earn money by reciting a few lines, it will indeed make people feel simple.

Su Huai felt like he asked a stupid question.

Row.

"Let's go," he said.

Just as he was wrapping up his outer coat tightly and was about to open his legs, he heard a voice behind him: "But I'm quite happy with Su Huai."

"Really?" Su Huai turned his head.

Seeing Mo Qi nodded and followed.

Let's upgrade to a higher level today and add a tea egg.

Chapter 287 Don't Guess The Director's Thoughts

The experience value of life will not be capped due to the change of level.

No matter how small the work is, if you savor it carefully, you can get something useful from it. Similarly, even in the face of failure, if you don't forget to summarize, it can become a lesson for the future.

Su Huai's work all day today was definitely not smooth, but after returning home, he lay on the bed facing the ceiling, thinking carefully, and found that today's day was actually very meaningful.

In the past.

Su Huai has always relied on his own vision of an actor.

There is no way, because when Su Huai got started in this business, there was no one to guide him, and he relied on a pair of eyes to observe how other people acted, and then he figured out what form of expression he should use and how to do it if he was acting himself. better.On this point, after Su Huai read a certain amount of theoretical knowledge, and then went to Qiuying University to learn related acting skills, he became more dependent on this method.

So before the performance, he will make a lot of preparations, resulting in insufficient response.

But today, he has exposed another problem invisibly.

That is the character image constructed by the actor, which may not match the character image in the director's mind.

This question is very interesting.

Think about it carefully, this is actually when you read a novel, you will have different degrees of imagination about the characters in the work according to the author's description.But one day, this novel is changed into a film and television drama. When you come to the movie theater or turn on the TV with your inherent impression, and find that the characters are completely different from what you imagined, you will curse: "What a rotten thing, It’s really destroying the original work.” The truth is actually the same.

A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts.

It is completely understandable that people's way of understanding produces different impressions of characters.

Su Huai wondered why he had never thought about this problem before.

Looking back, he had good luck in the past few times, and he met more enlightened directors, such as the role of Shigu, and then L. He used the characters he created to impress the directors and let them accept them. he.But looking back at Su Huai's career as an actor, this is actually a very small probability event, otherwise he would not have been unknown all the time. He has played so many tricks and unknown roles, and only recently has he gradually emerged.

A thousand-mile horse is often found, but a Bole is hard to find.

Su Huai thinks that's probably what it means.

But if you pretend to be an idle savage like the people in ancient times, and wait for others to poach you, then in this era when there are so many movie kings and stars walking everywhere, you should wash up and go to bed early .

Of course, Su Huai would not be without such foresight, so he was seriously thinking about this issue.

First of all, you have to identify the status of the director.

Excluding the trivial matter of the director and investors fighting for power and profit, the director is definitely a well-deserved leader on the set, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he holds the power of life and death. Why every film can omit anyone, but will definitely do it again Somewhere on the promotional poster, the work of such and such director is marked, which is exactly the case.

The director is the chief designer of a work, everyone is based on this, adding bricks and tiles to this blueprint bit by bit, but some materials look elegant and luxurious, some are just fancy but not useful, and some are simply inferior products , but one thing can never be wrong, that is, the buildings you build with these materials will never exceed the director's frame, and will not change from a thatched cottage to a palace, nor from a playground to a Toilet, if it becomes like that, it is the responsibility of the director.

It can be concluded from this point that the actor needs to follow the director's will to determine the role.

There is no problem with Su Huai. He has always followed the principle of communicating with the director as much as possible to adjust the role.

But—here has to be a twist.

Not all directors will talk to your mother-in-law about every detail.After all, there are so many actors on the set, and the protagonist might be a little better, but who cares about your idea of ​​a supporting role or even a secondary role, if you can act, you can act, if you can't act, just leave, that's all.

Thinking about it now, maybe Su Huai's failures in the past were due to this point.

then what should we do?

This person's heart is separated from the belly, and you don't have the ability to read minds, how can you know what the director thinks.

Relying on guessing is an unreliable method after all.

Regarding the solution to this point, Su Huai lay on the bed and thought about it for a long time, but he still had no idea.

From the past, Su Huai has always been a person who accepts death, just like he delved into the role, if one notebook is not enough, then another one, if one day is not enough, then two days, ten days, until all the methods are listed, and then choose Optimal solution.

But now, Su Huai has gradually changed a little bit.

Maybe it's because he has some trustworthy partners around him, so he won't be alone anymore, but looking at the time, it's already past 12 o'clock, it's really unreasonable to call and nudge the other party at this time, and he still has acting work tomorrow , Simply turn off the lights early and go to bed.

Silent all night.

Su Huai didn't affect his sleep because he thought about so many strange problems yesterday. Although he didn't sleep for a long time, he couldn't sleep well. When he woke up, he felt refreshed. Before going out, he went to the park After running a few laps, I came back with breakfast, and then I rushed to the set with Qiqi.

That's right, I have to continue shooting today.

After shooting today's content, I will make up some leftovers tomorrow, and the work can be almost completed.

Does it feel fast.

But it is also true.

Su Huai had a lot of NG's yesterday, and the scenes of Mu Qi and others were almost all passed by one. Because of this, it seems that his problem is serious, but if you pinch your fingers to count, make up for it. The number of scenes is less than double digits, and if it is the directors of the film studios, it is not counted if one is guaranteed. It is estimated that just one scene may be repeated ten or twenty times.

The factor restricting this is very simple, and that is the problem of money.

Su Huai still has a deep understanding of this small workshop-style crew, so today's topic is to minimize the number of NGs, and then try to use his own method to find out the answer he thought about last night.

Fortunately, the director on this set is not as extreme as the one in the example. Perhaps because of Uncle Bai Pi and Qi Qi’s face, his attitude towards Su Huai is not bad, and his answers to questions are not as expected. So impatient in the middle.

Today's Su Huai learned to be smart.

Before starting, let the director and the surrounding staff smoke first, and then while they were smoking, Su Huai tried to ask some questions about the characters.

Sure enough, when there is no filming, it will be regarded as a small talk, and even the attitude of the director has improved a lot.

Chapter 288 Personality

Su Huai roughly guessed some routines from yesterday's NG, for example, the director wanted to express some of the humanistic atmosphere of that era, and the conflicts and conflicts of youthful agitation of teenagers and girls.

Compared with acting skills, the director who controls the General Administration seems to care more about these things.

It can be said that this is not only the advantage of the director, but also the unavoidable flaw of the director.

Let's just put it that way.

When you look at a special effects blockbuster with big production and big scenes like Hollywood, why is it that the actors are full of big names, and the audience buys it and earns a lot of money, but the film critics and those who think they have a high style will say nothing: Popcorn movies, or they have no connotation.

"For more than an hour, there was nothing else except you singing and me fighting."

"A hollow blockbuster that relies on special effects to pile up."

Interestingly, those who shoot these so-called special effects blockbusters all say that they are long-established big directors, and they are the only ones who can hold down the big producers and distributors and are willing to bet such a large investment on them.

Don't they understand movies?

No, obviously not.

This type of movie has a clear goal, which is to go for money.

As the most extreme comparison, there are still some counterexamples in this world.

Most of them focus on feature films, which are labeled as low-cost investment and literary films.

Since the word "literature and art" is attached, it is natural to be inseparable from some twisted and awkward things.

For example, the theme of the story, the deep meaning contained in it, and the kind of storyline that is eager to refuse but still welcome, all of which are the favorite things of the directors who make this type of film.Because the investment is small, there are no well-known actors to act in, and the profits of this kind of film are almost non-existent. Usually, they are taken to a certain film festival. If they can win awards, they will not worry that the film will not be sold, and it is impossible to sell well. But at least the cost can be recovered and a small profit can be made. At the same time, the director and actors are equivalent to being plated with gold.

If you don't win a prize, at least you can't lose money even if you invest less.

The advantage of this type of theme is that the plot must have a deep meaning, maybe so deep that you don’t know it unless you read the movie reviews. Fuck, there are so many thoughts and so many metaphors stuffed into the redundant plot of more than an hour.

And the evaluation about it is also very polarized.

Those who are on the airwaves will regard it as a classic, while those who are not on the airwaves will say: What kind of shit is this filming, a waste of my time.

By the way, most of them don't understand, which is why those who think they have high taste and style have a sense of superiority, and the reason why the income of literary films is so bad no matter how they are made.

Therefore, there is a consensus in the industry that those who want to make money, make blockbuster films, and gain fame rely on these literary films.

But that's back.

Not every director is able to draw this line clearly and control the majestic and vast prehistoric power in their bodies.

The most taboo thing about this business is that when you obviously want to make a commercial film, you can't help but want to engage in some literary youth, and when you want to gain fame with literary and artistic films, you can't help but want to make some fancy ones. stuff, want to increase the target audience.

The result is that neither side pleases, and it is directly made into a bad movie.

After all, those who spend money to buy tickets to watch a blockbuster movie may avoid it if they know in advance that it is a literary film, but you are obviously starting a commercial film model, but most of the time you are "instilling theory", then I can't bear it anymore.

I spent money to come here to relax, not to listen to your preaching, and I won’t give away a bad one-star review.

And those who really want to watch the entanglement and analyze the film will naturally classify those showy and gaudy things as vulgar, and the ending is naturally not difficult to deduce.

To sum up, the success or failure of a movie largely depends on the director, and more importantly, what kind of movie the director wants to make.

This is also something that Su Huai is eager to figure out now.

"Let me tell you this." The director took a sip between his cigarettes and said, "If you want to make a 20-minute short film like a one-and-a-half-hour movie, it is absolutely impossible. A lot of plots need to be cut out. , and we need to set aside time for those advertisements, after all, these are all life-saving things for us, and the rest is to think about how to make this film look better."

Probably already knew from Uncle Baipi that Su Huai went out here, the director didn't hide it, and simply told the truth.

After the call was over, the director asked a question: "So if you were to make this film, how would you make it?"

"This……"

Su Huai was stunned.

He has already done his best to think about the actor, and he never thought of taking the director's job again.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if you can't answer. After the director looked at him twice, he continued: "You need to make your work outstanding. After that, you're done, not everyone has the patience to spend time, even 20 minutes, on a bad movie that they know is boring and vulgar."

Suddenly, the director's eyes became sharper, and he said at a faster pace: "So we have to make good-looking and wonderful shots-even elementary school students know this kind of thing, but where does the money come from, Cast, The script, the actors, under the premise that we don't have these, if we want to be brilliant, sometimes we have to go the wrong way."

The sword goes slanted.