The Director's Road of Airflow

The recording time of the second phase of "I Am an Actor" is January 2022, 1. Lu Ming set off early and came to the recording site.

For this work, the program team gave the contestants 5 days to prepare, and required that the final presentation to the audience was an independent short film with a duration of 30 minutes or less and unlimited themes.

The program team did not divide the contestants into groups this time, but everyone formed their own teams. The rules even allow one person to complete the work independently.

Lu Ming chose to cooperate with screenwriter Yang Xingyu and photography Yu Shiwen.

Yang Xingyu is a senior who is two years older than him. After graduation, he has written three original scripts. Among them, the suspense drama "Who Moved My Key" became the hottest online drama in the third quarter of 2020, and has won high popularity and wide acclaim.And Yu Shiwen is a 15th graduate of Nortel. He first cooperated with major fashion magazines and star studios for two years. After becoming famous in the industry, he resolutely turned around and returned to his favorite field to cooperate with some cutting-edge directors. Shoot literary films.

The choice is two-way. Lu Ming was able to form a team with them successfully because the creative ideas he provided were impressive enough.

After finding Yang Xingyu, Lu Ming directly clarified the core of the story he wanted to shoot: "I want to tell a story about an anorexic teenager. The character is set to be 17 years old, named Hu Yangyang."

Since the age of 6, Hu Yangyang has been intentionally trained by his parents as a child model because of his good looks, and has been shooting advertisements for children's clothing stores on Taobao.And when his parents found out that he could earn 5 yuan a month, they both quit their jobs and stayed at home, taking their children all over the country to shoot commercials. Sometimes in summer, it took six or seven hours to shoot winter clothes.Because he was immersed in the education of lazy parents since he was a child, and rarely had the opportunity to go to school, Hu Yangyang has become a powerful and vain person like his parents. When he was 17 years old, he returned to the nominal high school for the art test. Cultural class, but it was difficult for him to integrate into the class, and he was subjected to cold violence on campus. Under the pressure of all parties, Hu Yangyang suffered from anorexia nervosa, and he began to induce vomiting secretly. Even though he was already as thin as a paper man, he still felt Not thin enough, and his parents relied on the money earned by Populus euphratica in their hometown, eating, drinking, playing cards, and knew nothing about his son's situation.At the end of the story, he committed suicide in despair.

Yang Xingyu touched his chin after listening to Lu Ming's explanation, and said, "I think the framework of this story is good, but only one character is too thin, and new characters need to be added to fill in the gaps."

Lu Ming thought for a while and said, "Now there is only Hu Yangyang as the character, and the story ends in tragedy. If we add a female character, it may be more conventional to change it into a story of mutual redemption."

Yang Xingyu took out a blank A4 paper, recorded the main points of the conversation, and asked: "Lu Ming, would you mind changing the final direction of the story? If the protagonist is set to Hu Yangyang and his parents, it will be carried out in two lines, through Interlude to supplement childhood experience, the theme of the portrayal is the broken childhood memory and the split parent-child relationship. This is a very heavy topic, and there are many points that can be dug deeper. But I may be more inclined to briefly explain the relationship between him and his parents , adding a female character as a light in his life, leading the story to a warm tone, and finally letting the story stop at him successfully admitted to the ideal university and finding a way to reconcile with life."

Lu Ming nodded, frowned slightly and said, "However, in this case, anorexia is not a main topic of discussion. The purpose of my story is to introduce the concept of anorexia to the public. In fact, anorexia is common in young women. , Many people suffer from anorexia nervosa during the unhealthy weight loss process, including the dangers of extreme methods such as vomiting and fasting. Many girls don’t understand it. I hope that through this video, more people Realizing that anorexia, once diagnosed, is a mental illness that requires professional medical intervention, not some 'you eat more' problem."

Yang Xingyu frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "When I was writing the script, I could keep anorexia as the main topic and show the complete growth line of Populus euphratica. This can also achieve the purpose of popularizing the current status of anorexia."

Lu Ming agreed to such a script plan and handed over the information he had collected in advance to Yang Xingyu.

Before the official recording of the second episode of the program, Lu Ming went to the Shanghai Mental Health Center. He contacted the relevant person in charge of the hospital in advance and got the opportunity to interview the deputy chief doctor of the eating disorder diagnosis and treatment department.

Lu Ming met Dr. Li at 12:[-] noon on Monday. He had just had lunch and took advantage of his lunch break to be interviewed.

Lu Ming took the lead and said, "Sorry to excuse me, I'm Lu Ming, and I'm preparing a short film for "I'm an Actor". I want to discuss the topic of anorexia. Get some professional advice and the current reality of the disease."

Dr. Li gave him a friendly smile and said: "Eating disorders are mainly divided into anorexia and bulimia. These two conditions are not uncommon in our country at present, especially in young women. Many girls are subjected to some media criticism. Guide, always want to pursue the so-called perfect body, adopt some radical methods such as dieting and fasting to lose weight, and some people even induce vomiting. In the later stage, it becomes anorexia nervosa or bulimia. At this time, you need Professional medical forces have stepped in, but many people don't think it's a disease that needs treatment."

Lu Ming responded while recording: "Yes, I just learned about this situation, so I want to help more people face up to this problem and receive treatment through my own efforts. I also want to ask, this disease usually occurs alone Is it? Or is it possible to co-occur with other mental illnesses?"

"The normal life order of some patients is completely disrupted in the later stage. Indeed, some people have depression and other conditions in addition to eating disorders, and their mental state is very unsatisfactory."

Lu Ming mainly asked Dr. Li about the main manifestations of eating disorders, development stages, treatment options, social pressure faced by patients, and what role family members played in the patient's recovery process.

Dr. Li's words left a deep impression on Lu Ming - "Patients with eating disorders actually need the support of family and friends very much, but it is usually difficult for them to speak up when facing their family members."

Especially Hu Yangyang's family with alienated parent-child relationship.The resistance faced by some patients is that the family members do not know enough about eating disorders, and they do not know how to tell them so that they realize that it is a disease, not that the child refuses to eat well.Some parents also care about their children, but they think that anorexia is a poor appetite, so just eat more; bulimia is too gluttonous, and eating less will be fine.They don't realize that if their child has an eating disorder, it is a mental illness that needs professional medical intervention to get better.

But Hu Yangyang is even worse. His parents not only don't understand eating disorders, they don't even care about the child, they only care about how much money the child makes.When Hu Yangyang was 10 years old, his mother would scold and beat him at the shooting scene because he was in a bad mood because he was shooting continuously for more than 6 hours.Such a distorted parent-child relationship made Hu Yangyang's mental state extremely unstable.

With a tight network of relationships, no friends, and unreliable parents, he flaunts his worth by counting how much money he makes.At a young age, he kept his mouth shut about how much that Rolex was because he needed a vanity mask to protect himself.

He even asked to take the art test. His parents felt that as long as being a model and Internet celebrity can make money, there is nothing wrong with continuing to do so. As for the future, long-term planning, and career, these are not issues they will consider.

It was Hu Yangyang who did not completely give up on himself. He secretly thought: If I can enter the university, maybe I can get out of this state and go to a higher and farther place.

It took Yang Xingyu only one day to finish writing the script, and during the time he was writing the script, Lu Ming and Yu Shiwen found actress Jin Can to play the role of the newly added female classmate - Chen Yi.

Lu Ming and Jin Can first discussed the roles based on the script outline.

Although Jin Can is 27 years old, she still looks like a very clean and elegant little girl, and it is not against her temperament to play a high school student.When she was 18 years old and was selected by the great director Tang Kai as the heroine of a movie, many people were asking: With her ordinary appearance, can she also be an actress?

Jin Can was faced with many doubts. Until 3 years ago, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for her role as Gu Yin in the work "Autumn Memories". Lagerstroemia star from the sky, the leader of 95 Flowers, and the hope of the new generation of Chinese films.The reason why she agreed to be an assistant guest in Lu Ming's group was because she and Yu Shiwen were good friends in college, so she could save face and gain some exposure before entering the next movie.

During the discussion of the roles, Lu Ming and Jin Can had some disputes.

In the past, Lu Ming always believed that an actor should fit the character as closely as possible, and shorten the distance between the character and himself, so that he can enter the state better.But Jin Can was dissatisfied with this statement: "I played a gay in "Autumn Missing". During that time, the media kept asking me if I liked girls. What does sexuality have to do with my sexuality? Then why doesn't anyone ask the guy who plays the alien 'are you really from Mars'. It's a misunderstanding of acting, as if you have to find common ground with the character, You can play a character well, you have to make yourself like him or her. But I think this is wrong, you can play anyone, even a stranger who has nothing to do with your own life, as long as you have a set The systematic and scientific approach can grasp the characters' monologues and background colors, and with a little actor's intuition, you can completely play a role that is completely different from you."

After hearing her words, Lu Ming did not rush to refute, but began to think about whether his past interpretation method could be improved.

When the makeup artist fixed Lu Ming's makeup, he applied a lot of contouring on his cheeks to fit Hu Yangyang's thin face as an anorexic patient.Lu Ming looked at himself in the makeup mirror and thought: Of course it is meaningful for him to consciously diet and lose weight for this role in the past two weeks, but what Jin Can said is also reasonable. If you want to play the role of Hu Yangyang alive, you cannot It is just to increase the similarities between myself and him as much as possible, but to make footnotes for the behavior of the characters, to rationalize the logic of the characters, and to make the emotions coherent. First, I must convince myself that such a character can really exist, and then try to convince the audience.

The author has something to say: Everyone pay attention to protection, wear masks when going out, wash hands frequently, try to avoid crowded places, if you go to the hospital for medical treatment, it is best to wear gloves, I wish everyone a healthy and safe New Year!