I'm not illiterate

Chapter 50 Who Taught You To Act Like This?
Of course Xu Mu entered the scene quickly, and it was almost a natural reaction.

Because in the past week, he imitated this clip countless times.

This scene is different from participating in the "Acting Training Class". The purpose of participating in that show is to learn, no matter how bad the acting is, no one will say anything.

But now, Xu Mu is facing a group of old actors, and he was recommended, so it is inevitable that there is some burden.

For example, don't disappoint others' good intentions.

What has the past week been like for him?It's like when my tutor recommended me to go out to do a scientific research report in front of a bunch of experts when I was in graduate school.

So he subconsciously made quite adequate preparations.

For example, he made a biography of a character. The person he played was named Xiao Ding. When he was young, his family was not good. There were only himself and his grandmother in the family, so he was often bullied.

Those kids always hit the glass in his house with a slingshot, which made him hate it.

He later began to fight back in the same way.

But he is different from others.

He was being bullied, and the grandma at home couldn't do much.

And if he bullies others, their parents will chase him out.

Later, "make a slingshot and hit your glass" became his obsession...

But at this moment, with the C-level sense of faith and such sufficient preparation, Xu Mu felt that he was Xiaoding.

Everything in front of him was gradually blurred, and even the voices of outsiders could only be heard intermittently.

Because he found out that most of the world of mental patients is his own obsession.

At this moment, all he could think about was Xiao Ding's grievance when he hit the glass in someone's house with a slingshot when he was a child, and was chased and beaten by his parents.

"I'll find a rubber band and make a slingshot to hit the glass in your house..." he was still muttering.

at this time.

Zhou Jingkai entered the mirror with his hands behind his back.

He walked up to Xu Mu, and said according to the lines Xu Mu gave: "Hello."

The voice is very gentle.

From Xu Mu's perspective, a voice interrupted his thoughts.

So his swaying body stopped, and then he turned his head to the left a little bit, raised his eyelids, and looked at Zhou Jingkai.

"Has he always been like this?" Zhou Jingkai asked the person next to him.

"Correct."

Then Zhou Jingkai pointed out the window and asked Xu Mu, "What do you see outside?"

Xu Mu tried his best to suppress the scenes in his mind, turned his head and lay down on the bed, and looked out.

"Hey, the action is quite neat." Someone around said.

And Chen Yutang was staring at Xu Mu's eyes, watching intently.

"Pretty, so beautiful." Xu Mu had a wretched smile on his face, licking his lips with his tongue.

"Pfft..." Among the staff, a woman laughed out loud.

What she laughed was not the lines, but Xu Mu's handsome face, who actually made such a gesture.

Zhou Jingkai sat on the bed and pulled Xu Mupa back with his hands.

"Speak from your heart, what's on your mind right now?"

Xu Mu kept panting, as if thinking of something that made his mouth dry.

His face also twitched a little with excitement.

"I want to take her shirt off."

"Rogue!" A female staff member next to him played.

"This already has the thinking of a normal person." Zhou Jingkai said to the people next to him.

Here comes the best part.

At this time, Xu Mu nodded quickly and slightly like a child who has been approved.

That expression seemed to say, "Look, he thinks so too."

What is mental illness? Mental illness never feels that they are at fault.

"Well acted."

"Really good."

There are already discussions in the crowd.

As for Xie Chen, a big stone fell to the ground, with a smug expression on his face.

"Then... what happened later?" Zhou Jingkai grinned suddenly when he saw Xu Mu's expression, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud: "No, no, I just want to see him making such a wretched expression on his face." laugh."

Smiles are contagious.

And as he laughed out loud, the sound of laughing came from all around.

"Old Zhou, you are not strong enough to catch the scene." Chen Yutang leaned forward and said.

"Xu Mu, you did a pretty good job."

At this time, Xu Mu realized that the acting was over, so he quickly turned off his sense of belief, and he was also separated from the role.

It's just that when he pulled away from the role, he was confused for a moment.

It took about a second before his eyes turned from numb to energetic, and the chaotic things in his mind just now disappeared.

"Wait a moment." At this moment, the person who played the cripple with Zhou Jingkai just now suddenly shouted.

Xu Mu remembered that his name was Liu Wangzhu, and he was also an old actor.

And judging from when Xu Mu and the others came in just now, he acted better than Zhou Jingkai.

"What's wrong, Mr. Liu?" Xu Mu raised his head and asked.

When Liu Wangzhu yelled, Chen Yutang and the others were also taken aback.

"Ms. Liu, you can show me where he doesn't perform well." Xie Chen walked up quickly.

"No, no, good acting." Liu Wangzhu waved his hands: "That's why I'm a little confused."

He looked at Xu Mu, carefully recalling the moment when Xu Mu's eyes turned from numb to energetic.

"Xiao Xu, how did you act? Or how did you prepare for this role?" Liu Wangzhu asked.

Xu Mu thought for a while: "I made a biography of the character."

"Hey." Zhou Jingkai cheered beside him, "Okay, young man."

"Let me see." Liu Wangzhu stretched out his hand.

"What's the matter, Old Liu?" Zhou Jingkai became puzzled.

The people around were also a little puzzled.

Then Xu Mu took out the biography of the characters he made.

Liu Wangzhu and Chen Yutang took a look at it together.

"Isn't that good?" Zhou Jingkai said.

Liu Wangzhu frowned and asked Xu Mu: "When you acted, did you imagine that you were this Xiaoding?"

Xu Mu nodded: "Yes."

Shouldn't it?
"Who taught you to act like this? Experience school, method school, which school do you think you are?" Liu Wangzhu suddenly asked such a question.

"Old Liu, are you sick again, and you have to talk about everything." Zhou Jingkai glared at Liu Wangzhu.

Liu Wangzhu is an old pedant, who loves to study, but also likes to argue, and he has to say one, two, three, four about everything.

Xu Mu thought about it.

I am a systemist?
"This shows the experiential school! Imagine yourself as a character to enter the play." Chen Yutang pointed to the piece of paper and said.

He also noticed Xu Mu's confusion for a second just now.

Xu Mu thought for a while, what Chen Yutang said about getting involved in the play probably meant that his sense of faith was opened.

"At such a young age, you entered the play so quickly, and you hesitated for so long when you appeared in the play, which shows that you are deeply involved in the play." Liu Wangzhu looked at Xu Mu and said.

Indeed, the C-level sense of belief is very strong.

"What's wrong with the experience school? I'm the experience school, and I want to imagine myself as a character." Zhou Jingkai began to get excited.

This group of veteran actors can handle anything.

"How old are you and how old is he? Can you tell the difference, and can he tell the difference?"

As he said that, Liu Wangzhu patted Xu Mu's shoulder: "My child, I dare not play this kind of role in the future."

"It's not that the experience group is bad, but the experience group will hurt themselves when they meet special characters. Some people get into the play too deeply and imagine themselves as characters, so they can't get out. Actors must distinguish between the first self and the second self. self."

In fact, Xu Mu didn't have this problem.

He has always had a sense of belief in his mind that this skill switches that string.

When the skill is turned off, Xu Mu can be completely withdrawn from the character.

But at this time, Liu Wangzhu aroused his curiosity: "Mr. Liu, the first self and the second self you mentioned are..."

"It's over, Lao Liu is about to start again." Zhou Jingkai sighed.

"Xu Mu, what did you ask him for? Later, I will teach you some of our school's acting."

Several actors around also began to discuss: "I have to listen to Lao Liu's class again."

"This guy is addicted."

Liu Wangzhu ignored the voices of the people around him and said: "Your first self is your body, which is yourself, and the second self is the character you created. For example, if you perform a scene of eating meat, you need to eat It’s delicious, but the meat the props team gives you is smelly.”

"Your mouth tells you it stinks, which is the reaction of your first self, but the character you play thinks the meat is delicious, which is your second self."

"There can be a thousand kinds of second self, but the first self is only you, and the second self must be the tool of the first self."

Xu Mu thought for a while: "That means I must always remember that I am acting."

Liu Wangzhu frowned: "It's not entirely true, but it's almost the same. Let me give you an example. You want to play a mental patient, and you imagine yourself as a mental patient. This can be said to be an experiential school, but you have experienced it for too long. There will be problems."

What Liu Wangzhu said actually made sense.

Like the earth, there are always some marketing accounts on the Internet saying that so and so is too involved in the drama, breaks down and cries, and can't get out of the drama.

That might be good for the audience, but not necessarily for the actors.

Like the actor Heath Ledger who played the clown on Earth, it is said that he was completely integrated into the role, and he committed suicide before the movie was released.

And it is said that Earth Zhouxun, Wang Qianyuan, etc. are also experientialists, and even equipped with professional psychologists.

Liu Wangzhu went on to say: "At your age, experience parties are a bit dangerous for you. Some experience parties have played the role of the emperor for a long time, and when they go home, let their daughter-in-law treat him like an emperor. Do you think it's okay?"

"Hahaha." There was laughter from someone around.

"So actors must have enough experience, have a clear self-awareness, and don't be affected by the role they play."

Xu Mu felt as if he was receiving guidance from the experts after finishing the report.

"How do you play the method school?" Xu Mu asked.

Liu Wangzhu smiled and said: "It's too complicated, I'll give you a little trick, you can imagine that someone is crazy, and you are imitating him."

Xu Mu nodded, understood.

The next time I act again, I imagine that Dong Fei is crazy, and then I am imitating him.

"Okay, okay, you two talk in private, don't try it today. There will be enough time for Lao Feng to come tomorrow."

Chen Yutang listened to Liu Wangzhu's babble for a long time, and finally made a conclusion.

"Teacher Liu added a friend." Xu Mu said with a smile.

"can."

"You add me too." Zhou Jingkai patted Xu Mu's shoulder.

"okay."

A scene ended like this in the end.

In the taxi back to the hotel, Xie Chen was still muttering: "I don't even understand what the experience school is."

Xu Mu smiled and said, "I also seem to understand."

But he felt that he was quite rewarding.

At the same time, Zhou Jingkai, Liu Wangzhu and others were eating together.

"Old Liu, you said the kid's acting is pretty good, why are you scaring him?" Zhou Jingkai muttered.

Liu Wangzhu laughed and said: "He's too young, he entered the drama so quickly and deeply, how could it not be worrying. Besides, haven't you read the information on the Internet? This is a very stubborn child. No one taught him before. I guess he just listened to it." Others say that you enter the play and enter the play, but you have learned half the trick."

Zhou Jingkai nodded: "That's true, Tianxing was delayed before."

That night, when Xu Mu returned to the hotel, he received a message from Zhou Jingkai: "Don't listen to Lao Liu, the experience school is fine, just remember who you are, and play when it's time to play."

Xu Mu replied: "Okay."

Then he began to search for relevant information.

It took about an hour, and Xu Mu figured out a little bit the difference between the experiential school and the method school.

Generally speaking, the experience school will indeed produce good results, but it will hurt the body the most.

It is easy for people to get out of the play.

The method school is relatively moderate.

"Judging from what Zhou Jingkai said, he and Liu Wangzhu actually have some similarities in their thinking."

"No matter what, you must have yourself in your mind."

Xu Mu took out his phone and turned on the camera.

Then he closed his eyes, and the sense of faith opened.

"Xiao Ding is crazy, I am imitating him."

Under the blessing of a strong sense of faith, Xu Mu imagined Xiao Ding's appearance in his mind, and he imitated Xiao Ding's every move.

A few minutes later, Xu Mu took back his phone and looked at himself inside.

Heh, almost exactly the same as before.

But when the sense of faith was turned off, Xu Mu didn't feel tired at all this time.

That sense of confusion and detachment has never appeared again.

"So it can be like this." Xu Mu narrowed his eyes.

It turns out that the sense of faith can be played like this.

Xu Mu's mind gradually cleared up, and he also decided that he would use this method for characters that were too outrageous in the future.

For other roles, you can directly substitute your sense of belief.

Among other things, today's harvest is definitely a worthwhile trip!

ps: Disclaimer, I do not have a professional understanding of the specific situations of the experiential school and the method school. If the above conclusions are wrong, please criticize and correct them.

References: Guan Shan, Chen Ziyang. Talking about the Transformation of Actors' "First Self" and "Second Self"[J]. Drama House, 2016, No.235(19):140-141.
Zhang Bingjie. An Analysis of the Similarities and Differences between Steiner's "Experience School" and American "Method School"[J]. Northern Literature (Second Half Month), 2011(10):63.
Then, the example of the stinky meat is an example given by the old man You Benchang. His acting skills have reached the level of the old man, and he did not follow the path of the experiential school, but distinguished the actor's first self and second self.

Please rest assured that the path the protagonist is taking now and the use of the sense of faith will never cause him to have any psychological and mental illnesses, he is still a cheerful person.

I feel like I'm going to break my promise. I checked a lot of information in this chapter, and Chapter 2 has to be updated again.

(End of this chapter)