Actors have no vacation

Chapter 7
Xing Yan's sitting posture has changed since the beginning of Guan Chen's performance.

When Guan Chen's performance ended, the audience was silent.

[Playing casually], [not serious] This kind of excuse is often made by people who are conceited, afraid of failure, and unwilling to accept the reality.

Xiaoxiong explained to Guan Chen like this just now. Although everyone was prepared and knew that Guan Chen was going to show his true skills next, he didn't take it seriously.However, no one expected that Guan Chen could come up with such a performance when he got serious.

Xing Yan was silent, lit the notepad with a ballpoint pen, and there was a sound of "click, click, click".

He has opened performance training courses for so many years, and Guan Chen is not the first to want to refund the tuition.

Among those who were about to drop out of school, most of them were persuaded by him for various reasons, except for those who urgently needed money such as the death of their family members, sudden terminal illness, and large gambling debts.

Some are tempted to make a profit and make promises, saying that after learning how many days, they will have the opportunity to be recommended to the brokers of well-known companies.

Some are emotionally moved, and they show their housekeeping skills to sell miserably.

Know how to prescribe the right medicine.

Xing Yan remembered the day when Guan Chen came to sign up.Guan Chen came up and asked what he could learn here, and if he couldn't learn anything, could he return the money.

Very reckless.

Xing Yan really saw this arrogant young man a lot.The frog in the well with little ability is often the easiest to be pretentious.But there is no reason to launch the business when it comes to the door.

He asked Guan Chen, "What do you think is acting?" This was actually a difficult question.

Guan Chen's answer was still wild, saying, "Performing is acting as a god."

Xing Yan wanted to see how Guan Chen embodied this sentence in his performance.

However, in the first class, Guan Chen didn't come, and when the second class came, he wanted to leave. He even used a poor performance, excused illness, and didn't know what he was doing.Talking about refunds if you don’t learn anything well, if you want to leave without taking this class is against the rules.

Xing Yan knew very well that if he wanted to persuade such arrogant people, he had to convince him professionally, so that Guan Chen could personally feel that acting was not something that could be practiced by just being bored at home and practicing according to things. This will make him willing to keep the money here.

He criticized Guan Chen and scolded Guan Chen. In fact, it was a kind of teaching, the purpose was to make the characters and actors have emotional connection.

As for whether this teaching method is appropriate, Xing Yan can only say that the actor's ability to withstand pressure is also a very important part. The director of the studio often scolds people even more, and there are some unpleasant ones.If it is so easy to crash, it may really not be suitable for this line of work.

After guiding Guan Chen, he was already planning to greet Guan Chen's grateful eyes after his performance.

However, what he never expected was that Guan Chen not only didn't use what he taught at all, but also created such an unexpected situation.

【It's so fucking amazing...】

Xing Yan felt that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and wanted to see how he commented on Guan Chen's performance.

"Well..." After pondering for a while, he clicked on the notebook with a pen, but he didn't give a comment, but asked:
"do it again."

……

Do it again.

Guan Chen did not respond to this request.

Because his current mind is no longer on Xing Yan.

The 5 minutes just passed by in a flash for him, and he still hasn't figured out what it feels like.

He imitated the very famous movie character in his previous life, the Joker in "The Dark Knight".He watched this film over and over a dozen times, and he remembered most of the scenes in it.

However, his physical instincts were warning him that if he tried to imitate it frame by frame, it would only be self-defeating in the end.So he just constructed a vague feeling in his heart, letting his body's instincts interpret that state, while consciously reciting the lines of "Dawn of Weakness" in this world.

Recalling this feeling is like having a lucid dream. In the dream, he held a flame and walked on a tightrope while holding his hands together to prevent the flame from going out.

After a performance, he obviously didn't have much exercise, but Guan Chen was as tired as a ten-round boxing match.

"When did you become so powerful!" Xiaoxiong ran over and whispered in amazement, wanting to pat Guan Chen's shoulder, but seeing Guan Chen's pale face, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you? Did you get sick?"

"It's okay." Although Guan Chen was tired, he was very excited.

【Is this a show? ] It's like grasping a switch, and when the switch is turned on, he becomes another person.

Guan Chen wanted to try to see if the switch was a one-off. Before the feeling disappeared, he said to Xiao Xiong, "Let's do it again."

The little bear looked at Guan Chen's frantic eyes, smiled, nodded and ran back to the other side of the stage to get ready.

Guan Chen stood in the "cage" and began to think about which character to "summon" from his previous life next.

When it comes to [interrogation], [anti-guest-based], and [classic villain], there seems to be another famous character.

Guan Chen's mind came to Hannibal from "The Silence of the Lambs".

"Da." Guan Chen snapped his fingers at Xiao Xiong, which means it's time to start.

Everyone in the audience held their breaths, looking forward to and watching.

Then they saw that Guan Chen, who was staying in the "prison", did not sit on the ground this time, but put his hands on both sides of his thighs, standing tall and straight, his shoulders and neck stretched out in an elegant manner. A graceful, unnerving angle.

Guan Chen's hair was not wet on his scalp like the previous paragraph, but was tucked behind his head by his hand, not behind his ears.

The delicate facial features are exposed.

When the little bear approached the cage, Guan Chen stared at the little bear deeply with a slight smile in his eyes.As if a hospitable host was waiting here very early, ready to welcome guests.

"Oh, you're here." Guan Chen's greeting was full of gentleness and grace from the upper class.

Even if he was in a mess, even if he was wearing outdated sportswear, even if his long hair was messy, even if he was in a cage, he was like a real down-to-earth aristocrat and a down-to-earth artist at this time.

But everyone felt that something was not quite right.

Because Guan Chen stood upright, there was an indescribable dangerous aura all over his body.A sports suit with a zipper pulled to the top gives the impression of being in a psychiatric hospital.

"Don't be so far away from me, I won't eat you again." The angle of Guan Chen's smile and the gentle curvature of the corners of his eyes are so perfect that they seem to have been measured thousands of times, not much, not much. .It felt like nothing in this world could change his heart rate.Calm and unhurried to an eerie level.

The little bear walked to the front of the cage and looked curiously at Guan Chen, who was showing his new look. [Is it an elegant killer, a gentleman criminal this time? 】

"When people are nearing death, they will show their true side." Guan Chen's tone was cadence, elegantly like he was reading a poem, he asked Xiao Xiong with concern: "I killed so many of your friends, to some extent Look, I know your friends better than you do. Do you want to know who of them is the real coward?"

Guan Chen's eyes were full of compassion.It looked like he was a kind man who was saving lost lambs.

Xiaoxiong liked Guan Chen's performance very much this time, and felt that she could perform well this time with peace of mind.Guan Chen's neurotic performance just now was very dangerous at first glance. Even if she knew she was acting, she didn't dare to get too close. She always felt that in the next second, for the sake of dramatic effect, Guan Chen would really stab him with some kind of weapon.If it weren't for her maturity, she would hardly have finished her lines just now.

This time it was fine, this time the refined criminals were much gentler.

Little Bear paced around Guan Chen: "Laughing and crying, what's the difference, it's all bad luck. I'd really like to know, how do you evaluate yourself, what do you think your luck is..." When Xiao Xiong said this, he turned his head sharply, wanting to highlight the majesty and imposing manner of the interrogator.

But when she turned her head, she saw a pair of eyes that Guan Chen had no time to retract.

"hiss--"

This look made the hairs on her whole body stand upright.

Because she saw undisguised desire in Guan Chen's eyes.It's not the desire that ordinary criminals can't let out after being locked up in prison, but the appetite - the beast that hasn't eaten for a long time, the kind of appetite that sees good food.

【He wants to eat me! 】The little bear was so frightened that he took a few steps back.

Looking at Guan Chen again, the dangerous eyes were gone.He still stood upright, without any extra movement, just looked at the retreating bear with a look of pity.

This time, Xiao Xiong no longer felt that Guan Chen's eyes were kind and gentle. She felt that Guan Chen's eyes looked at her like a hungry gourmet looking at the food on the chopping board.

"Your luck, your luck is..." Little Bear's heart thumped, and he couldn't say any more words.

"Huh?" Guan Chen kindly took a step back to let the other party not be nervous.

Little Xiong stammered and continued: "Is your luck good or bad? You are in prison now, and you will soon face a 300-year sentence..."

"Then what do you think of your luck?" Guan Chen suddenly left the script again and changed his words improvisationally.

"what?"

"You came here from a small police station, won a few games, and solved a few cases, but no one really cared about you. Want to know what your friends think of you? Ahh , yes, I didn't say you guessed it, maybe you've heard more than I know. You tried your best to prove yourself, don't fall in love, don't go to dinner parties, and try to build a hard shell for yourself. The accent is inferior, inferior to your own taste, why don't you look at yourself with your keen insight? You think about it, are you really one of them? Do you really care about them? You really... Are you angry about their deaths?" Guan Chen looked at the bear with pity, "It's really pitiful."

Xiao Xiong stood there in despair, his heart was pierced heavily, and he was speechless.

offstage—

"Okay, here we go." Xing Yan stopped the performance.

The people who held their breaths were gasping for breath as they surfaced.

"The last line is too cruel..."

"It's also very ruthless! Is this fucking trying to turn against the interrogator?!"

……

The so-called "ordinary people" are people whose words and actions are easily predictable.

The villain in "Dawn of the Weak", even if he killed a lot of people and committed a lot of crimes, he is still in the category of ordinary people.

Xing Yan has been in the film and television industry for decades and has read thousands of scripts.He can basically guess how the villain of a movie will appear in the movie.

And Guan Chen's two performances are not ordinary criminals who belong to ordinary people.

It can be said that Guan Chen's performance has been divorced from the text, and it is a very failed performance.In the crew, this situation is to be hated.

But from the point of view of performance, Guan Chen's performance is really amazing.It is simply showing off his talent without any scruples.

Watching Guan Chen's performance just now, one sitting cross-legged and the other standing upright, both were opening scenes that grabbed the audience's eyes and hearts from the very beginning.

Character settings are even rarer.

The first time is to play the opposite of God, a devil who delights in evil; the second time is to play God himself.

None of them are the ordinary, superficial serial killers.

The level of sophistication and literary depth of the two roles Guan Chen reveals is truly astounding.

What is even more shocking is that Guan Chen did indeed perform a kind of "persuasion".This is pure talent.And talent is something that doesn't make sense.

Before Xing Yan watched these two performances, he never expected to see such a thing.Judging from his many years of acting experience, Guan Chen's two characters with very different styles have not been fully displayed. Today's performance is only the tip of the iceberg.

Although Guan Chen's performance is immature and there is still a lot of room for improvement, Xing Yan can be sure that if Guan Chen meets the right team and meets the right opportunity in the future, in time, two classic villains will be added to the history of film.

He really wanted to ask Guan Chen how he could play these roles by staying at home. He taught himself for three years, and what did he learn from watching.

But now, at this moment, Xing Yan just wanted to applaud.

"Crack, snap, snap..." Xing Yan put down the notebook recording the students' homework and began to applaud.

Seeing that Xing Yan did not comment but directly applauded, the students also applauded accordingly, applauding enthusiastically.

Although the students didn't think deeply, at least they knew that it was definitely not something they could perform.They had never seen such a criminal in the movies and TV shows they had watched.They don't hate such criminals, on the contrary, they find it so charming that they can't see enough, and they really want to see such a character on the big screen.At the same time, they were also hit hard and had a clearer understanding of the cruelty of "talent".

Looking at the crowd applauding in front of him, Guan Chen stood in the center of the stage, sweating profusely, as if the two performances just now had exhausted all his strength.

Holding his numb hands, he felt the touch of reality returning to him little by little.

Guan Chen blankly recollected everything that happened in the past 10 minutes.

"I want to apologize to you, I really misunderstood today." After the applause stopped, Xing Yan's first sentence was to apologize to Guan Chen, and his tone was no longer as mean as before.

"It's an apology to [us]!" Little Bear reminded.

"..." Xing Yan ignored it and continued, "But I was also very lucky to see the best performance I've seen this year."

Xiaoxiong approached Guan Chen cautiously, and found that Guan Chen's eyes were neither crazy nor sympathetic, and finally dared to approach him, complaining, "Anyway, remind me."

Guan Chen grinned and said, "I don't know what it will be like."

The two walked off the stage.

Next, Xing Yan continued the class.

And Guan Chen was sitting in his seat, still reminiscing about the feeling brought by the first performance, and it was not until the end of get out of class that he regained his senses.

After class, some students specially came to say hello to Guan Chen, and even wanted to exchange contact information with him.

Guan Chen got out of the siege and stared at the old man's back, ready to follow up to talk about tuition.

"Why are you so powerful all of a sudden? Did you secretly find another training class to teach?" The little bear jumped over the crowd, jumped up and grabbed Guan Chen's neck, almost twisting Guan Chen's neck, "Please, please, take me too. Introduce me."

Guan Chen slapped the little bear on the arm with the frequency of admitting defeat: "There is no such training class, come down quickly!"

The little bear jumped down and asked with a smile, "Are you still coming to class during the day next week? Let's finish our homework as a group."

Guan Chen has been wandering around since he got off the stage, not listening to the homework assigned by Xing Yan.

"Let's talk about it." Guan Chen didn't agree, because according to the plan, after taking a class this time, he would get back the tuition, and he would not come after that.

"Are you still going to drop out?" Xiao Xiong's tone was a little low.

"Hmm." It was inevitable.Without this money, many things cannot be done.Although the acting class just now was very fresh and interesting, survival has become a problem for him, and the cultivation of hobbies and other things will be discussed later.

The two walked out of the classroom, and there were several people in the hall waiting for the bear to go to a dinner together.Their eyes glanced at Guan Chen from time to time, vaguely hoping that Guan Chen might as well go together.

Guan Chen didn't even look over there.

The little bear smiled and refused, saying that she was running out of time to work, so she would not eat with everyone.

The girls had to leave.

"Are you still working?" Guan Chen asked.He thought Xiao Xiong was the kind of wayward rich girl who casually spent more than 1 yuan to learn acting. "Isn't today the weekend?"

"Young actors like us with ordinary family background who don't even have works have no vacation!"

"Great, come on." Guan Chen waved his hand, ready to bid farewell to the little bear.Since there is no value in borrowing money, it is not his friend.

Xiao Xiong grabbed Guan Chen and said, "I called you several times last week, but I couldn't get through."

Guan Chen, who couldn't walk away, had to explain: "I lost my mobile phone." The predecessor's mobile phone should have been dropped at the scene of the fire. When he was discharged from the hospital, he only had a wallet in his pocket.

"What's your new number?" Little Bear took out his phone.

"I haven't bought a new phone yet." Guan Chen replied.

"Didn't lie to me?"

Guan Chen sneered and didn't bother to answer.

"It's too late, I'm going to work! I'll go to you to discuss the homework!" The little bear ran downstairs in a hurry.

"I'm moving! Don't come!" Guan Chen stopped loudly.

Little Bear left a back for him.

I don't know if I heard it or not.

Guan Chen searched along the corridor, and finally found Xing Yan in the office with the door open.

Submit medical records.

"Are you really dying?" Xing Yan was taken aback.

"You think I'm joking?" Guan Chen was dissatisfied, "If you don't have money to take care of your body, you might really die."

"So it's not an excuse..." Xing Yan grumbled, flipping through the medical records at random, and asked, "Is there a shortage of money?"

"Very short."

"What work are you doing now?"

"no job."

"What about part-time jobs?"

"nor."

Xing Yan pondered for a while, then said, "I can refund you a lot of tuition fees."

Guan Chen nodded and was not in a hurry to be happy, because Xing Yan's tone clearly indicated that he still had the second half of the sentence.

"But you should continue to come to the class in the future." Xing Yan returned the medical record to Guan Chen, "Next week, you will continue to come to the class, and I will teach you free of charge."

Guan Chen was a little surprised. When he openly dumped Xing Yan's face in class, he was mentally prepared that he would not be able to get the tuition back.Unexpectedly, not only was the tuition refunded, but the admission was free.

Xing Yan said: "You are talented. When you said that you couldn't be an actor, it was to irritate you, and it was also to make you remember the emotion of criminals facing language provocation and to try to suppress their impulses. If you let you I'm not happy, I'm sorry to tell you again."

Guan Chen shook his head, not paying attention.

"Your two roles are very interesting. This is your talent. If you don't do it, it will be a pity. If you are an ordinary actor, I will not advise you like this.

"In the Huaxia Actors Association, 90.00% of the actors can't support themselves by acting alone. The most important thing in art is talent, and it's a waste of people who don't have talent. It's not like they don't have Strength, but in addition to strength, you also need luck. Actors don’t just need to act well to make a lot of money. It’s always something other than acting that determines how far an actor can go in the end.”

When Xing Yan said this, he looked at Guan Chen seriously:

"But you're different. You can make money just by performing. So I'm going to give you lessons, and at the same time, I'm going to give you the opportunity to perform and bring you into the industry. Although I haven't produced a work for a long time, but There's still a bit of human resources available.

"Besides, don't think I'm doing good deeds for free. In the future, if you become famous, I will use you as the sign of the training class.

"This deal, you should consider it."

……

After sending Guan Chen, who got back the tuition and said "I'll consider it", Xing Yan sat on the sofa and sighed in relief.

The little brother with earrings sitting behind the counter listened to the conversation between Xing Yan and Guan Chen just now.He came over to clean the cups on the coffee table, and said contemptuously, "Which person did you say those words to? The hundredth?"

"There are so many, at most tenth." Xing Yan raised his foot to hide from the broom, sighing: "It's not easy to do business."

"It's because you always give people free tuition, so we don't manage well." The little brother with earrings gave Xing Yan an unhappy look.

Xing Yan knew that he was wrong and did not talk back.He lowered his voice and said, "This time it may be true. Although that kid's skills are not good enough, his performance is all based on instinct. He should practice hard behind closed doors, and he should have taken a lot of detours. But he can practice it. This level is already very good, and it is a good material. Teaching such students will not humiliate my reputation. After becoming famous, we can earn it back tenfold and a hundredfold. "

"You've said similar things seven times." The little brother with earring sneered: "I've never seen it wrong... I'm laughing to death."

"Well, this time it's true, I really saw it right."

"This sentence is relatively rare, but it has been said three times."

"It's true this time!"

　The next chapter "Chapter 8: Node" is blocked and still being revised...

　　
　
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