Actors have no vacation

Chapter 108 Advanced
On the lively street, a group of people in black suits hurried out of the clubhouse.

The crowd first separated into two, stood on both sides of the road, looked around alertly, and then separated into two, opened the door of the car parked on the side of the road.A middle-aged man in a top hat who was hugged from front to back shakes off his windbreaker and prepares to get in the car.

At this time, several people in police uniforms appeared out of nowhere.The leader was a handsome young man with a sense of rage and inviolable justice. He held down the car door and blocked the way of the middle-aged man in the top hat.

[Brother Qiang, in such a hurry, where are you going? 】

[Officer, my father-in-law is sick and has to go to Shanghai to visit him. 】

[Take so many people on a medical visit? 】

[My friend is kind enough to take me to the station. 】

[Don't be so troublesome, the police car is convenient and fast.I see you off. 】

[Don't, don't, use public equipment for private use, don't you know the law and break the law? 】

【You know the law so well, then—the Ding family was wiped out yesterday, and someone claimed that they heard you arguing with the victim that night.Brother Qiang, do me a favor and come with us? 】

【Oh, I just heard about it this morning too.Lao Ding is my friend, no one wants this kind of thing to happen.I am willing to help, but now my father-in-law...]

The middle-aged man in the top hat smiled hesitantly, and stepped back slightly.In an instant, the younger brothers around quietly put their hands into their pockets.

Seeing this, the police immediately tightened the hand that was already on his waist.

The street was bustling with people coming and going, but the air within a radius of ten meters in front of the clubhouse seemed to be isolated from another world.

At one point, the two groups drew their guns at the same time and pulled the trigger while looking for cover.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Boom!"

When the gunshot rang out, passers-by were stunned for a moment, then panicked and fled in all directions.

The windows of the car were shattered, the walls were splashed with rubble, and human blood gushed out.

Screams, shouts, gunshots, the sound of the body being torn apart by bullets, and the sound of the body falling, all intertwined.

The black community and the police have each other's losses.

There are also unlucky passers-by who were hit by stray bullets.

Guan Chen looked at the dead friend beside him with shock and sadness on his face, tears filled his eyes.

……

"Okay, not bad!" The director in the distance yelled with a loudspeaker, "Change the camera, and another one." After speaking, he put down the loudspeaker, walked up to the middle-aged man in the top hat and the handsome police officer, and praised them for their good performance just now. .

A group of workers rushed to the scene and re-arranged the street as it was before.

Several leading actors, being fed with water and fanned by the assistants, were introduced into the clubhouse, where they rested and touched up their makeup in a cool place.

The passers-by who were running around the corner like cockroaches one second, walked slowly back to the street the next second, hiding in the cool shadows in twos and threes, waiting for the next shooting.

Guan Chen snatched a shady curb and beckoned Holly to come and sit down.

"How was that part just now?" Guan Chen began to replay the performance just now, saying that he was originally just playing a person who ran away in a panic, but there was a colleague next to him who suddenly became addicted to acting, and added scenes to himself, ehhhhhh He fell to the ground, and Guan Chen suddenly thought of the cry he had practiced yesterday, so he took advantage of the situation, "Play a person who goes shopping with friends, but is suddenly involved in a street fight, and witnesses his friend being hit by a stray bullet."

"That's right." Holly sat next to Guan Chen, wiped his sweat, and said, "Just now you jumped from one panic to another, two panics, and one sad, and your expression was very good and natural. .”

Guan Chen was happy to hear that, even in the hot afternoon, he didn't feel hot anymore.

He gulped down the mineral water Holly bought back earlier.

For nearly a week, Guan Chen has been staying in the capital, studying with Huo Li in his acting class at the University of the Arts.

Although he has always been regarded as an acting genius, Guan Chen knows very well that the real genius is not him.Playing the roles of "Police Story", "Black Dragon 2" and "Key of Destiny", the reason why several directors are favored and valued, more or less took advantage of the true performance.Guan Chen understands that he is lucky to meet these characters, but he may not always be so lucky in the future.Now that I have decided to be an actor in this life, I will definitely meet other types of movie characters in the future, such as those who fall in love, those who fall in love and then break up, those who quarrel with their parents, those who are just, kind, and gentle ...and for the good guy and the normal guy, he doesn't know how to act at all.Let him only play roles like killers, gangsters, gangsters, etc., he feels too boring, but he is not very reconciled.

He originally hoped to learn something in Teacher Xing's acting class, but Xing Yan regarded him as a genius, and the things he taught were not basic at all, such as self-suggestion, a second self.From Guan Chen's point of view, it was very dangerous.

The appearance of Hawley can be described as an emergency in the world, and it came at just the right time.

Guan Chen knew that his predecessor was very talented, but he didn't know how to fully utilize it.It is always right to be humble and learn from scratch.The teaching materials in the school have been adjusted and improved by generations, combined with the experience of countless actors and scholars, not to say they are the best, but they must be the most suitable for beginners.

For this part-time job, Hawley is also very cautious. He specially contacted his old classmates and sorted out a curriculum that includes six major directions: body, voice, emotion, belief, communication, and creation.

Guan Chen is very motivated and wants to be a hexagonal warrior.

Even if he barely has an obtuse triangle now, at least three of the data are 0.

Hawley told Guan Chen that the acting major in his school rarely taught theory, because acting is a practical art, so there is no fixed formula, and each actor's situation is different, so there is no uniform training template.In the words of the school teacher, 【The performance teacher is not a professor, but a developer. 】

These words are very good, let Hawley let go of his psychological burden while talking, and no longer afraid of teaching people badly because of unprofessionalism.

Guan Chen talked about the acting method he learned from Xing Yan, worried that it would conflict with the performance system taught in the orthodox school.But Hawley said that although Xing Yan's method has changed, it is actually included in the system.

[Performance is not about becoming a different person, but about finding similarities under the superficial differences and finding yourself in them. 】

In this sentence, oneself is the core and the "Tao".The shape and accent are just the outermost "instrument" and "skill".

Guan Chen felt that Huo Li deserved to be a college graduate, and his words were always well-founded.What kind of instrument and way, what kind of magic way, sounds very powerful.

Hawley said that just like learning music, painting, and car maintenance, every skill, "tool" and "art" is the basis of "Tao".He wanted to see Guan Chen's foundation.

Guan Chen stayed at Holly's house and was roommates with Holly's three-year-old son.

Huo Li got up every morning to make breakfast for his wife, and Guan Chen also wanted to eat it, but Huo Li refused, saying that he would take Guan Chen out to practice first.Guan Chen also practiced martial arts before, practicing boxing, running and wrestling.Holly corrected Guan Chen, the actor's practice is to practice vocalization, resonance, crying, and laughing.From crying silently to crying bitterly; from snickering secretly to laughing boldly.

Guan Chen had no choice but to move his boxing and exercise to night.

Guan Chen studied with Huo Li according to the class schedule for a few days, and soon discovered that the talent of his predecessor was really powerful, and the legacy left to him was rich enough.

Whether it is crying or laughing, or embarrassment, shyness, fear, panic... as long as he has seen it, he can remember it, as long as it is stored in his mind, he can copy it when he wants to use it.

Most of the fears Guan Chen has seen are the fear of being stabbed on the neck with a knife, or the fear of being pointed at the forehead with a gun. Others, such as the fear of his wife giving birth and asking for salary from an unscrupulous boss, have no concept at all.Fortunately, there are many movies in his previous life in his memory, Guan Chen categorized them and filled his performance inventory.

In the past few days, Guan Chen has followed Holly to run group performances in various studios, turning practice into practice.

Sometimes he is a thief arrested by the police, and when he passes by in a hurry behind the protagonist, he also looks at all the natural enemies with hatred.

Sometimes he is a flower vendor on the side of the road, and his shouts are not allowed to be loud, but he can look warily at anyone who passes by, hoping to make a deal.

Guan Chen didn't want the reward for playing tricks, half of it was given to the introducer, and the other half was given to Huo Li.Both the rent and part of the tuition fee.

Holly accompanied Guan Chen to play tricks, and kept monitoring near Guan Chen to see if the latter's expression was accurate.He also occasionally set up characters and situations for Guan Chen, allowing Guan Chen to develop independently within the framework.Follow exactly what was taught in school.

One dared to teach and the other dared to learn. It was hard to say whether they were professional or not, but the progress was indeed fast. Guan Chen soon felt that he had succeeded in building a foundation.Any expression, as long as Guan Chen has seen it and remembered it, or has it in a movie he has seen in his previous life, he can vividly and accurately interpret it.

"It seems that you have laid a solid foundation before." Huo Li was not surprised by Guan Chen's rapid progress, but he only thought that he had honed and accumulated hard in the magic city for three years, and these days it was just a summary and summary.

"I'm just lucky." Guan Chen replied.

"But crying vividly, laughing naturally, flustering realistically, and not being embarrassed are just the basic skills of an actor." Hawley wiped his sweat, looked at the set of the crew in the distance, and there was still a while before he told Guan Chen, "What really distinguishes the level of actors is the next stage."

Guan Chen cheered up: "What is it?"

"It's [choice]." When Hawley talked about things related to his major, he was always confident and straightforward, and rarely dragged his feet.

He said that there are a thousand kinds of laughter, and there are a thousand kinds of crying. Among the many options, it is difficult to choose which kind of crying and laughter to use on the character.

This is also the reason why a thousand people play the same role, there will be a thousand ways of acting. Everyone has a different understanding of the role, so the [choice] of actors is different.

"For example, just now, when you saw 'friend' was hit by a stray bullet, you panicked and then sad." Hawley asked, "What were you thinking when you acted sad?"

Guan Chen thought for a while and replied, "I'm thinking about why we are so unlucky."

"If it were me, I wouldn't play [sadness] and [sadness] directly, I would play [fear], afraid that my best friend might leave me forever, and also afraid that I would be the next to die."

Hawley gave an example.

For example, playing a serial murderer who was abused and neglected in childhood, and grew up to form an anti-social personality, hunting and killing ordinary people.If two actors play this role at the same time, the actor who plays "revenge on parents, compensates childhood" will be more dramatic and tasteful than the actor who plays "slaughter".Because the levels of the two roles are different.

"There is no distinction between your two [choices], they are just based on different understandings, so the purpose of shaping the characters is also different. If I were a director——I am actually a director—my [choice] It will make the character more three-dimensional and more dramatic. I will like my performance more."

The so-called spiritual actors are mostly able to grasp the most suitable [choice] for the role by relying on intuition.But intuition alone won’t go far after all. No one can act with intuition and talent all the time. If you don’t want to be short-lived, you still have to study and hone honestly in the end.

Hawley said to Guan Chen, when an action or expression contains the character's personality, emotion, subtext, and purpose, it also promotes the story, or puts down the hook to form an echo, that means you have a thorough understanding of the character. And script, reached a certain level.In this second stage, it has reached its peak.

"What about the third stage?" Guan Chen asked.

Hawley said: "The third stage can be said to be a return to basics. Actors are no longer [playing who looks like who], but [playing whoever is who]. The integration of roles and actors is rare."

"It's hard to come by." Guan Chen sighed with emotion.

In the distance, the scene was set up, and the director and actors returned to the set.

Another shoot is about to start.

Guan Chen and Huo Li stood up and started wandering on the street.He had his eyes fixed on the group performer who liked to add plays to himself just now, thinking about the "choice" that Holly told him, and was going to try a new acting method later.

After the director yelled to start, the leading actors confronted each other and drew their guns again.

Passers-by fled in all directions again.

The group performer Guan Chen was staring at didn't disappoint him, he oopsed and fell to the ground without a sound.Guan Chen ran the first few steps, as if realizing something, he stopped slowly, turned his head, he looked at the "corpse" on the ground, the panic on his face gradually disappeared, and finally squatted beside his friend in a daze.

"Stop, very good, very good!" The filming went smoothly, and the director shouted to stop, announcing with satisfaction that the scene was over, and began to transition.

Everyone on the set dispersed.

When the director turned his head, he looked in a certain direction along the street from a distance.After seeing a group performer who had fallen to the ground jumping up swiftly, he breathed a sigh of relief.I was a little puzzled, why did I worry that something really happened to this actor just now?The director searched for someone, but couldn't find that person.

……

When Guan Chen and Huo Li returned home drinking milk tea, they found that Xing Yun, who hadn't seen him for a few days, appeared at the downstairs door.

Guan Chen was a little surprised, his life was fulfilling, and he almost forgot about this person, "Yo,"

Hearing Guan Chen's voice, Xing Yun's eyes twitched, and he hurriedly stopped it before it happened: "Don't."

"...Brother Pimp." Guan Chen finished talking on his own, chewing red beans and asked him, "Why are you here? Cengfan?"

Xing Yun let out a long breath: "Isn't it because your phone always..."

Seeing Guan Chen with a calm face, drinking milk tea without any shame, Xing Yun seemed to be tired, and directly explained the reason for his visit:

"Director Tian called in the afternoon and said that you have been chosen for the role of the killer."

(End of this chapter)