China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 110 The Goddess

"Okay, okay." Li Mu nodded and continued, "The acting is not bad, do you understand that 'wait a minute' is actually the moment when the coffin is closed?"

Yu Feihong nodded.

Li Mudao: "It's reasonable, and the individual performance is not bad, but we still need to see the situation of the actors in the future, Ms. Yu should go back first, and we will notify you as soon as there is a result.

"Thank you Director Li, thank you teachers."

Saying that, Yu Feihong walked out.

Li Mu turned to discuss with the director Shen Junsheng, both of them felt that Yu Feihong's performance was good.

Soon the staff called in the second audition actor.

"Hello Director Li, hello teachers, I'm Zeng Li."

Li Mu looked up and said that Zeng Li was the school girl of Chinese opera, and she was much prettier than the one shown on TV, he was still a little curious about it.

The final conclusion is that Zeng Li is indeed very beautiful, and she is indeed more beautiful in reality than on TV, but how amazing is she?In fact, it's not that exaggerated.

The audition began, and it was still those three scenes.

The first two scenes are not difficult, the key is the third crying scene.But Zeng Li is from a major, after all, ordinary people think how difficult it is to cry, but for an actor from a major, it is called basic skills, and Zeng Li soon cried.

Next came in was the actor Hu Jing. Hu Jing and Zeng Li were classmates in the university, and they were also one of the seven golden flowers in the 96th grade of Chinese opera. The relationship between the two was very good. Hu Jing even gave Zeng Li Had an exclusive nickname - Zeng Damei.

"Why are your eyes red?" Hu Jing stopped Zeng Li before entering the door.

When Yu Feihong left, everyone could see that her eyes were red. I didn't expect Zeng Li to be like this now.

Zeng Li replied, "There is a crying scene."

Hu Jing nodded: "I guess."

I didn't take it too seriously, after all, I was born in a major, so it's not scary to perform a crying scene.

After Hu Jing was Gao Yuanyuan. Gao Yuanyuan saw that three actors in a row went in normally and came out with red eye circles.

She was afraid that she would not be able to cry at that time.

"Hello, Director Li, and teachers, I'm Gao Yuanyuan."

"Gao Yuanyuan, hello."

Li Mu looked at the 28-year-old Gao Yuanyuan, silently comparing her with the Hiromi Ryoko in his mind, and then nodded secretly in his heart.

If only in terms of personal image, Li Mu felt that Gao Yuanyuan was the most suitable among the four people who auditioned.

Still the same process, director Shen Junsheng handed the three pages to Gao Yuanyuan, and after Gao Yuanyuan got acquainted with it a little, she began to formally audition.

The first scene and the second scene were barely okay, but they were undoubtedly the worst of the four auditions, but when they auditioned for the third scene, they completely collapsed.

Gao Yuanyuan couldn't cry at all, no matter how much she squeezed tears and stared at her eyes, she couldn't squeeze a single tear out, Shen Junsheng shook his head while watching.

Seeing the director shaking her head, Gao Yuanyuan became even more anxious, but the more anxious she was, the more she couldn't cry, and the more she couldn't cry, the more anxious she became, and finally formed a vicious circle.

Li Mu thinks it's a pity. From the perspective of personal image, both Yu Feihong and Gao Yuanyuan have a high degree of fit with the characters, but Yu Feihong's disadvantage is that she is a little older, so Li Mu once placed high hopes on Gao Yuanyuan, but now It seems that Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills seem a bit forced.

Shen Junsheng leaned over and said, "Director, do you see...?"

Li Mu glanced at Gao Yuanyuan who seemed to have basically given up and said:
"Performance is about action, not state. Let you act out the cold wind and biting cold. You should not act in a state of cold, but act in an action that keeps you from being cold."

"Most of the time, the action of the character is completely opposite to the state of the character. For example, if you are asked to act cold, you have to act how to warm up; if you are hungry, you have to act how to find food everywhere; What is more serious is not the sneaky state of the thief, but the thief trying to cover himself up so that he doesn't look like a thief."

"So in the performance, if you are acting in emotions and states, you will be in the situation you are now, and you will not be able to continue acting. So the first step for an actor to do after receiving the role is to Figuring out what's going on with the character and what actions she's going to take, that's the only way to really get into the character and let you know what you're going to do next."

"Take the three scenes I tested today as an example. In the first scene, the heroine is anxious to get married. In the second scene, the heroine's father said that she would not live long. In the third scene, the heroine cried after saying 'wait a minute!' It's obvious that the heroine's father is dead, as for why the heroine said the phrase 'wait a minute'..."

"Because the heroine's father recorded several video tapes before he died, some of which were kept for his own funeral, and some were kept for his daughter's future wedding. But on the day of the funeral, the video tapes were misplaced. At the funeral, a tape recorded in advance for her daughter's wedding was played. The staff wanted to exchange the video tape, and the hostess said the phrase 'wait a minute', she wanted to see what the father wanted to say at her wedding."

"Then now that you know the background, the reason why the heroine is crying is because her father died, so how do you play the crying scene of the heroine?"

"I...I..." Gao Yuanyuan couldn't answer for a while.

Li Mu continued: "Remember what I said above? The act of acting and the state of acting are often the opposite. If you want to act crying, you have to work hard not to cry. The actor who wants to cry is not actually the person who died. Now, don’t just think about the word death, because the more you think about it, the more you won’t be able to cry.”

"It's the opposite. You have to think about the wonderful things that happened between you and this person, those scenes that make people feel very warm."

"Scenes of incomparably beautiful scenes from the past appeared in front of your eyes. At this time, you might still laugh unconsciously, and then suddenly remembered that this person was actually dead. No matter how beautiful those pictures were, no matter how beautiful those pictures were The pictures are so warm, you have lost them forever, your heart will twitch suddenly, and then tears will come down naturally, in fact, what makes you cry is not the death of someone, but the beautiful future that once was Will never have again."

"Remember, the purpose of a crying scene is not to make actors cry. A good crying scene must make the audience cry. You cry very hard. You only know how to stare and squeeze your eyes, and the audience will be very embarrassed. Only you are acting. I try my best to control myself so that I don’t cry. In the end, I can’t help crying, and the audience will feel distressed and cry. Therefore, a good crying scene is often about how to control myself so that I don’t cry. In the end, I can’t restrain myself I can't stop crying, instead of crying with all my strength."

Gao Yuanyuan was thoughtful after hearing this, and then Li Mu gave her another 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, Gao Yuanyuan continued to audition.

Her mind began to imagine the warm picture of the heroine laughing on her father's shoulders when she was a child, the carefree time when the heroine played games with her father, the happy moments when the heroine played with her father, and the father dreaming of his daughter The kind smiling face at the wedding, scenes of beautiful and warm images flooded into her mind, the corners of Gao Yuanyuan's mouth rose unconsciously, but her laughter turned into crying, because she suddenly remembered that her father had left forever own up.

So finally broke down in tears.

Seeing that Gao Yuanyuan, who was unable to cry just a few minutes ago, suddenly broke down, Director Shen Junsheng and the assistant director surnamed Zhang were all surprised.

Unexpectedly, Li Mu, as a director who became a monk on the way, is not only very good at being a director, but also very good at directing actors.

(End of this chapter)