Actors have no vacation

Chapter 101 Tools
Since the performance training class has a new teacher, Xing Yan finally has time to do what he wants to do.

When Guan Chen was working part-time in a restaurant a few days ago, he heard Xie Jinzhu say on the phone that recently Xing Yan has to go to bars or nightclubs every night these days, and he always comes home very late at night.

Xie Jinzhu is worried that Xing Yan's old ways will sprout, and he will spend his days and nights like when he was young, regardless of career and family.

After Guan Chen heard about this incident, he was also very worried about Xing Yan, thinking that he would soon receive news of Xing Yan's death or heavy debts—lonely elderly people have always been high-quality fraud targets and robbery targets.Of course, it is also possible to go into debt and then die.

Guan Chen came out of the studio and checked the time, it was already six o'clock in the evening.

As May was approaching, the sky still had the afterglow of dusk, Guan Chen realized that he had to hurry up.

He remembered that his younger brother, who was in charge of debt collection business in his previous life, liked to go to people's homes to collect debts most in the evening.

Guan Chen asked the reason, and the younger brother said that for those who have a family, the family members go to work during the day, so they don't have to have breakfast and lunch together, but they only have dinner, and they eat together when they can.As night falls, the family gathers to eat together, which is a habit written in genes.Moreover, according to scientific evidence, people's willpower is weakest at dusk. What "the head of the willow on the moon, people make an appointment after dusk" refers to confessing love at dusk, and the probability of success is the greatest.By analogy, it is also effective in debt collection.

Guan Chen wondered if debt collectors in this world would be so educated, so he took out his mobile phone and called Xing Yan.

"Mr. Xing, where are you?"

"I'm at home." Xing Yan said.

"How is the teacher's wife? The silk scarf she gave her last time, did she say it was good-looking?"

"What???" Xing Yan felt baffled, "It's late at night, don't be scary."

Xing Yan's wife passed away a few years ago.

"Oh." Guan Chen understood. It seems that Xing Yan is fine now, so he can look for him.

When talking on the phone, mentioning a person who died or did not exist in reality can be used as a signal to remind that something is wrong.

"You kid, speak clearly, why did you suddenly..."

"I'm worried that there are debt collectors around you."

"A debt collector?" Xing Yan felt that the more he listened, the more confused he became!
"Don't worry about that for now." Guan Chen said, "I received director Tian's script today, and there are some things I don't understand. Can I go and find you now?"

"Script?" When Xing Yan heard that it was a question about the cash cow of the training class, his tone immediately became a lot more serious, "Okay, come here."

Guan Chen hung up the phone and took a taxi to Xing Yan's house.

Guan Chen is familiar with this place, he has been here several times, and seeing that there are no people around, Guan Chen is sure that Xing Yan is still safe.What luck.

Guan Chen bought some fruit at the fruit stand on the side of the road.This is learned from the big brother.When preparing for the role in "Police Story" before, Xie Jinzhu took Guan Chen to Xing Yan's house, bringing something every time.Things have nothing to do with high or low, what matters is attitude and heart.

After buying the fruit, Guan Chen went upstairs and knocked on the door.

Xing Yan came and opened the door for Guan Chen. After Guan Chen entered the room, he found that Xing Yan was preparing for dinner. The atmosphere was very warm.And Xing Yan was not the only one in the room, Guan Chen happened to know that person.

"Yo, Pi..." Guan Chen greeted politely.

"Cough cough!!!!!!" Xing Yun coughed deafeningly, almost coughing out his throat.

"Are you going to die?" Xing Yan asked with concern, not understanding why his grandson did this suddenly.

Guan Chen looked at Xing Yun's pleading eyes, then at Xing Yan's reaction, and understood——

It turned out that Mr. Xing didn't know the side job his grandson was doing.

"Have you eaten yet? Do you want some?" Xing Yan asked Guan Chen.

"Okay." Guan Chen put down the fruit and sat down obediently. He just came out of the studio and didn't eat dinner.

Xing Yun was very sensible and offered to let him serve the meal.

Guan Chen took the bowl full of rice from Xing Yun, and gave Xing Yan a portion of the rice on the grounds of "so much, I can't eat it".If Xing Yun had added anything to the rice, then Xing Yan would not be able to escape.Seeing that Xing Yun's expression had not changed, Guan Chen started to eat with peace of mind.

He took out the script from his arms and explained to Xing Yan the words he had prepared along the way. He said that the last page of the script was blank, which greatly affected his character creation. He hoped that Xing Yan could guess the general content of the last page. Come out so he can be sure when he auditions.

"I have also tried the [big target] and [small target] that you taught me before, but this page is missing, [big target] is not clear, and the character of the killer cannot be established."

Xing Yan is very experienced, and said almost the same judgment as Qian Liangyi: "Maybe it's out of secrecy; maybe the director himself didn't think about how to write it; or maybe the director deliberately didn't want the actors to know, thinking that this kind of acting can achieve their goals." desired effect."

Guan Chen was a little disappointed, thinking that Teacher Xing was really useless, and he was on the same level as Qian Liangyi.

Fortunately, Xing Yan took a sip of tea, and the old god offered a third possibility on the ground: "In some scripts, the actors are determined first, and then the characters are perfected. This blank page may be a question for you, wait When it comes time to audition, ask what you think it will end up like."

Guan Chen thought it made sense.

He was glad in his heart that he was not fooled by Qian Liangyi!
Xing Yan asked Guan Chen to eat first, while he himself brought reading glasses to put on, and read the script with relish.

Xing Yan roughly went through the script in about 20 minutes, and judged: "[Big Goal] is not difficult. It is actually quite obvious even if you don't read the last page."

Guan Chen immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks, and clasped his ears with his thumb, which meant that he was listening attentively.

"In the creative rules of genre films, the first step is the [opening scene], which is used to determine the tone and type of a movie. The second step is [clarify the theme], which generally uses dialogue to explain the theme of the movie."

Xing Yan pointed to the second page and said, "Part of the theme has already come out."

The second page is two dialogues.

In one scene, after the killer finished the task, he called the agent to report the situation. The agent praised the killer for its beautiful completion. One of the sentences was: [It is indeed the sharpest knife. 】

The other is the scene of the mission. After hearing the news, the remnant forces of the criminal group who rushed to the scene reviewed a part of the killing process of the killer through a hidden surveillance camera that had not been destroyed by the killer. Some people exclaimed after watching it: [This is completely It's a killing machine...]

"[Knife], [Machine]. They are all tools." Xing Yan glanced at Guan Chen.

Guan Chen's chewing speed gradually slowed down, and he felt that something was about to emerge in his mind, but he still couldn't grasp the answer, so he owed a little.

Xing Yan continued to flip through the script, turned to a certain page, pointed to a character on it, and asked Guan Chen, "Did you notice this character?"

Guan Chen took a look, it was the heroine's grandfather.After being hospitalized, the heroine works around to earn money in order to save for her grandfather's hospital expenses.

"I noticed." Guan Chen nodded and asked Xing Yan: "Do you want to act?"

"No..." Xing Yan froze for a moment.

"Don't want to act? I think Mr. Xing is quite suitable for you to play this role. You won't lose your money to outsiders, and you are going to recommend you to the director."

"Ah? I think, I think, I think...but the point is not this now!" Xing Yan's face changed suddenly, he poked the script with his fingers, and said loudly: "Look at the character settings!"

Guan Chen looked over, and he remembered that the heroine's grandfather was in a state of dementia.

"This role is a small role about [memory]. It mainly talks about the importance of memory and experience in shaping personality."

"Memories are no different from ordinary moments. Only when those moments leave scars, people will really remember them and become memories. The scars don't have to be left only by sad things, but also by happy ones." Xing Yan said, "After the killer returned to the darkness, it was a kind of whiplash for him to think of the days he lived in the sun. Although that period was only a few months, it was short compared to ten or twenty years, but No matter how short, it has already affected the personality of the killer."

Xing Yan said that instead of distinguishing the status of the killer into [before amnesia], [after amnesia], and [retrieval of memory].

It is better to divide it into [tool-like asexuality], [only instinctive animal nature], and [human nature that knows good and evil and understands etiquette].

"Obviously, the killer line tells a story about a tool turning into a person."

Xing Yan picked up the bowl, picked up the cold rice, and said, "You don't know what else can make the killer come out of the darkness other than love. It's actually very simple. Apart from love, there is also the awakening of the killer's self-awareness."

(End of this chapter)