Actors have no vacation

Chapter 74 Questions
Zhang Jingsheng and Guan Chen intended to revise their lines, and Director Chen was not dissatisfied with this.After all, he knew how he got his job.

The project, funding, production team, and distribution were all approved because of Zhang Jingsheng. The film side found him, an ordinary director, in order not to press Zhang Jingsheng on the set and to be obedient.

So Director Chen adjusted this scene later, filmed the other first, and gave Zhang Jingsheng and Guan Chen some time to discuss.

Guan Chen and Zhang Jingsheng got together and thought about how to change it.

But changing the lines is not something that comes out of the blue.

Guan Chen has played Wu Ze for so long, and he is very clear about Wu Ze's character and behavior pattern.He can change Wu Ze's lines during the confrontation to be domineering, cunning, and calm in the face of danger. Even if death is imminent, he will not lose his demeanor... But no matter how he changes, as long as Wu Ze cries for the last time, Guan Chen will I feel awkward, and all the previous efforts have been abandoned.I didn't want to understand why Wu Ze was crying, and how the lines in front of him seemed to be broken.

"If the lines can be changed, can the crying scene be changed?" Guan Chen asked Zhang Jingsheng.

"It shouldn't be possible." Zhang Jingsheng smiled and asked, "Why do you want to change it? That crying is like giving Wu Ze a wash, which is very appealing to the audience."

Guan Chen frowned and thought for a while before saying that the more he knew about Wu Ze, the more he felt that Wu Ze's crying was forcibly arranged by the screenwriter at that moment and that scene. "I don't know what the screenwriter's intention is for this arrangement."

Guan Chen thought to himself: [It's impossible to pass the trial, right? 】

Zhang Jingsheng didn't answer right away, he just took out his script.

Zhang Jingsheng's script was not as broken as Guan Chen's, it was just a little bit convoluted.Unfold it, and use a clear black pen to write in a circle in the blank, like a writer's manuscript, like a good student's class notes, clean and orderly.

Turn to the last pages of the script, the confrontation on the roof.

Guan Chen's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the top of the page, he wrote two words with a red pen—[Answer].

"Because that cry is not only for shaping the characters, it is also part of the [answer]." Zhang Jingsheng said.

Guan Chen didn't understand, and asked for advice humbly.

Zhang Jingsheng seems to have a wealth of experience in changing his lines, and when someone like him says he wants to change his lines, he obviously doesn't just want to abuse the privileges of big-name actors and play with his temper.

"I probably know where your problem is. Let's analyze it bit by bit." Zhang Jingsheng said.

Guan Chen immediately sat down in class.

Zhang Jingsheng said: "The reason why the screenwriter does not welcome actors to change their lines without authorization is because the actors can only drill into the characters and speak through the characters. Although what they say fits the character, it may not match the movie. After all, the movie is not reality, the movie is Since a work is a work, it must have the creator’s expression of the world.”

Guan Chen nodded after listening to Zhang Jingsheng's analysis.He almost forgot that in addition to being an actor, he was also a good director.

"It was only after I became a director that I figured it out." Zhang Jingsheng said with a smile.After I became a director, my eyes stood high and far, and I realized that some of the quarrels with the director and screenwriter when I was young were unnecessary. "Expressing with characters and expressing with works are two dimensions. If you quarrel with the screenwriter for lines in the future, don't be too impulsive. If you know the creative method and the structure of the script, and then quarrel, it can greatly improve the odds of winning."

Guan Chen quickly took out a small notebook and wrote it down.

He used to think that having a diploma from a famous university would allow screenwriters to bow down to their heads, but now it seems that changing the lines is also a technical job.

Zhang Jingsheng went on to say that although the film "Police Story" is a commercial film, it also has its own intentions.The film raises a question - how much influence does the family of origin have on a child?
"Some films are only responsible for asking questions and not giving answers. Although this is left blank, it prompts the audience to ask questions outside the film, but this is not conducive to the marketing of commercial films, and it also seems that the creators have not figured out this issue. The audience sees it. After finishing, I will feel that something is missing. The film "Police" has the answer. At the end of the film, it is also the time to give the answer." Zhang Jingsheng said.

Guan Chen thought of Duan Xiaofeng's life experience.In the middle of the film, Duan Xiaofeng was found not to be a real policeman, this time Zhang Jiaju and the others were trapped in the police station.

It turns out that hiding one's life experience is not only to whet the audience's appetite, but also to show the [answer] in contrast to Wu Ze's death when it is revealed.

Zhang Jingsheng said: "Wu Ze and Duan Xiaofeng, one had parents but was abused and grew up; the other had no parents, but he saw his father ran a crime to give him a bite to eat and was hit by a car and killed; Going astray, one is enthusiastic and helpful. The [answer] given in the film is the [parents' hatred] and [parents' love] that a child felt in childhood, which will always accompany them and affect them."

Guan Chen listened carefully.

When he acted opposite Zhang Jingsheng before, he thought Zhang Jingsheng's acting skills were very good at most, but now, what is even more powerful is the knowledge and experience that supports those acting skills.The other party can become a veteran actor, director, and artist, and there is indeed something in his stomach.

"Based on the [answer], it is to let the audience understand the importance of the original family to the child, so the crying scene was arranged at the end, the effect was to make the audience feel that Wu Ze was pitiful. Wu Ze's father came out cursing, and everyone hated him. No, then when Wu Ze cried, the audience softened and felt that people like Wu Ze were originally saved, but they were unlucky, and no one was born bad. Then they understood the importance of parent-child relationship and family education. "Zhang Jingsheng answered Guan Chen from the creator's point of view.

"Crying to make the audience feel sorry for Wu Ze?" Guan Chen frowned, his expression as if he drank expired milk.

He desperately analyzed why he cried from the character sentiment analysis, and the result told him that it was a plot cry and he had to cry?

Although Zhang Jingsheng's explanation, from the creator's point of view, he understood why the screenwriter arranged for Wu Ze to cry like this.

But he was not satisfied with the explanation.

From Wu Ze's point of view, he doesn't like this answer either.

Guan Chen still remembers what the senior brother said, the profession of an actor is to make the story of the script believable.If you just explain it like this, you can't convince him.As the actor of Wu Ze, he can't cry.

"Of course, this is just the original script. If that's the case, I will advise you to cry like a child, the harder you cry, the better. I won't tell you to change your lines." Zhang Jingsheng saw Guan Chen Not persuaded, he said with a smile: "I changed the lines because I think, I think this cry is related to the [answer] of another question."

"Where is the other question?" Guan Chen didn't understand.Isn't the idea of ​​this movie only about the family of origin?
"Yes, the problem raised by the movie is the family of origin." Zhang Jingsheng said, "But I think there is another problem with this movie - [Wu Ze, who was hated by his parents since he was a child, who has never been loved, do they have only one problem? Is the road to death?”

Guan Chen was stunned for a moment, and asked in a dry voice, "Is there an answer to this question?"

Zhang Jingsheng nodded: "Yes."

Guan Chen expressed doubts, but also with a trace of desire and expectation.

In his last life, he was hated by his parents. He ran away from home. In order to live and not be bullied, he took a dark road and armed himself with violence. Apart from going to death on this road, what else could he do?
"What answer?" Guan Chen held his breath.

"Go love." Zhang Jingsheng said.

"Simply put." Guan Chen's rising expectations suddenly disappeared, "Wu Ze has never been loved, how can he love others?"

"If you haven't been loved, you won't love others?"

"Yes." Guan Chen said, "he doesn't even know what love is. This kind of thing should have been learned from his parents when he was a child, but he hasn't seen it, so he doesn't know what love is, and he doesn't know how to be nice to others. ."

Guan Chen remembered that he had never loved anyone in his last life, and he had never been able to understand what love was.

It's not that no one has approached him, but if he can't judge, he will be tested first.

Not surprisingly, no one could withstand the test he set, and those who were close to him eventually left one by one.He couldn't get love, and he couldn't tell love.

He also thought several times about how nice it would be to know what love is.

"This shouldn't be an excuse." Zhang Jingsheng shook his head, "There are so many children without parents in the world, don't they know how to love others?"

Guan Chen said: "You are right. But at least none of them have been abused by their parents. So they can tell what love is.

Keeping the house clean, serving delicious food to parents, and wiping their faces when they are drunk must be love, right?What is taught in books and taught on TV all say that this is love?But the result?In exchange for this love is an inexplicable beating.

Why were you beaten?Where is it not cleaned?Is the food not delicious?Is it too hard to wipe your face?neither.do not know.You don't even know why you were beaten.Love in exchange for pain, how can people love? "

Zhang Jingsheng was stunned for a moment, then slowly adjusted his sitting position and asked casually, "So you hate your dad?"

"Yes. I tried desperately to escape his control, but after I escaped, I found that to some extent, I was still being manipulated by him. I didn't know how to love others, and I didn't love at all; every once in a while, There is no sense of being alive without being beaten.”

"So you anesthetize yourself with all kinds of stimuli? You even want to destroy yourself?"

"Yes. Apart from death, there is no other way. As long as I live, I can feel his influence on me, and I can't get rid of it for the rest of my life." Guan Chen's tone was in a trance.

"Have you ever been loved?"

"No."

"If so, how did you tell the difference?"

"Test." Endless test. "I don't trust anyone's love."

"You are not distinguishing love, you are rejecting other people's love. Even if there is, it has been consumed by you again and again, and eventually missed. If there is truly love you feel, when you distinguish it, it will be too late ." Zhang Jingsheng said.

Guan Chen opened his mouth and remained silent.

Zhang Jingsheng turned the script forward: "So, you think that you are... wrong. You think Wu Ze's crying is the answer to the question. Why did he cry?"

　This chapter is a bit difficult to write. I have written several editions, but I am not satisfied.

　　So late update, sorry sorry.

　　
　
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