Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 328

After listening to Zhong Cunheng's distress, Li Tang hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Zhang Ziyi.But classmate Xiao Zhang gave him an encouraging look with a smile. This girl was probably idle and happy to watch the fun.

The two of them had just been watching the shooting and had a private discussion.Performances will never be the same, they will all have their own style.Nakamura Hiroshi's problem may be that he is too nervous or a little too reserved. Especially when he walks all the way through the camera, it makes people feel out of tune with the surrounding environment and the busy extras. He doesn't look like an engineer, but more like A soldier.

Zhang Ziyi also felt the same way. She felt that Nakamura Hiroshi's performance was too obvious, that he wanted to perform too well, but fell behind.

In a word: not relaxed enough.

Performance is a matter of benevolence and wisdom.For example, the difference between the performances of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors and mainland actors is obvious.The performances of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, especially Hong Kong actors, are very life-like at first glance, while mainland actors always feel a little pretentious or have heavy stage marks.

In fact, this is caused by different performance environments. Hong Kong actors themselves have sufficient resources. From the mid-70s to the 90s, it was the golden age of the Hong Kong film and television industry.Due to the lack of film and television resources, most mainland actors use their talents on stage.

The so-called life-like performances of Hong Kong actors may not be harmful when filmed in TV series, but their shortcomings come out when they are really magnified on the big screen. Their performances are often superficial, without inner drama, and they look hollow.

In contrast, the advantages of mainland actors with a solid foundation in this aspect can be reflected. Often, one movement or one look can convey inner emotions.

If the two are in the same frame, you will find it particularly awkward, as if they are not performing in the same system.

The reason is that most Hong Kong actors have not received systematic learning. For example, in the so-called "Cradle of Hong Kong Stars" wireless training class, it is impossible to learn too much theoretical knowledge in just a few months. They are often practicing. It was tempered by being beaten.The lack of theoretical support is like not laying a good foundation, let alone the skills in lines, body and other aspects.

In fact, when Hong Kong movies or TV series are introduced to the mainland, a big advantage is that they are all dubbed.You must know that the dubbing actors are all professional dubbing actors, which is equivalent to reshaping the characters, and coupled with their life-like performances, it will inevitably be refreshing for the mainland audience to watch, and thus they can draw the so-called good acting conclusion.But actually hearing their original Cantonese voices often makes people laugh.

In terms of physical appearance, many Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas are now costume dramas.The so-called costume drama is very particular in the performance. The simplest one is just a walking posture, such as playing some roles of officials or emperors. The actors in Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas seem to walk no different from everyone's usual walking, modern and casual.

If it were performed by a mainland actor with a professional background, it would definitely be a small square step. The upper body is very stable and hardly wobbles, and the walk is very impressive.

As for things like Teacher Jiao Huang's use of Chinese classical dance forms when playing Kangxi, or Teacher Li Xuejian's short steps when playing Song Jiang, these are all sublimations of performance.If you tell this to Hong Kong actors who have no theoretical foundation, they may not even have heard of it.

Of course, not all Hong Kong actors are useless, and there are some who are very talented, such as the tall Tony Leung who has many faces; the short Tony Leung whose inner drama is all written on his face; the ever-changing enchantress Maggie Cheung, and the comedy master Stephen Chow and so on.These people are probably similar to Zhou Xun and Liangziqing from the Mainland. They are the kind of people who are chased by God to feed them. They can certainly not be defeated by so-called systematic learning or hard work.

In fact, Li Tang was not willing to criticize other people's performances. Firstly, he was not familiar with the other person, so it was not good to have a shallow conversation with him. Secondly, after all, the other person was several years older than him, and he was relatively respectable. How should I put it, it was just not very good. Good at being a teacher.

However, he also sympathized with the other party, because he knew Lou Ye. During on-site shooting, he always likes to stay alone in a small room and stare at the monitor. He talks very little and does not give specific opinions. He looks very profound and incomprehensible. Measured.In fact, if he really had to tell me, he probably wouldn't be able to tell me anything.To put it bluntly, he didn't know what to say, he just wanted to find what he wanted to express through the actors' performances over and over again.

It was obvious that this little bookie, who was working with Lou Ye for the first time, could not adapt to Lou Ye's shooting method, or that his ability was not enough to achieve the various possible performances that Lou Ye needed.

Seeing the sincerity on the other party's face and the longing in his eyes, Li Tang softened his heart, asked the other party to sit down, and then analyzed it carefully for him based on his own understanding.

In fact, it's very simple. It's just to let him relax, don't think too much, and forget about the identity of the spy he will play in the future.His current identity is that of an engineer in a Japanese-owned iron factory. He gets along well with the Chinese workers in the factory. He also has a beloved Chinese girlfriend whom he will meet soon after get off work. He is excited and walks briskly...

Zhong Cunheng nodded repeatedly as he listened, but after listening, he still looked embarrassed and hesitated to speak.

It’s still the same sentence: It’s easy to say it, but if you really want to perform it, you still have to test your acting skills.For example, if you are excited, as a Japanese man, you generally don’t show joy, so how do you show it?

He also forgot about the identity of the agent, but when he was researching characters before, he always regarded himself as an agent lurking in China, and he would be brought out if he was not careful.

In Zhong Cunheng's stammering and very ashamed explanation, Li Tang understood.He suddenly realized that Lou Ye did not let him and Zhou Xun read the script when they were filming "Suzhou River". It made sense to only have these few pieces of paper before filming started every day.I just want to prevent myself and Zhou Xun from changing their identities too quickly and affecting their performance.

After all, Nakamura Hiroshi is an idol and has a weak acting foundation. He can't act well just with a handsome face and pretending to be cool.

Li Tang pondered for a moment, and finally he could only say: "In this case, let me help you perform it again."

Forget it, help people till the end.For two whole days, he felt uncomfortable watching the scene.

Zhongcun Heng was overjoyed when he heard this. He quickly stood up and bowed deeply: "Li Sang, thank you so much!"

He could understand what Li Tang just said, but he was not confident that he could perform well.But if Li Tang is willing to demonstrate again, then it is really a wish, just follow the gourd and draw the scoop.

While the two were communicating, the 10-minute break had already passed. Lou Ye, who walked out of the small dark room, did not rush. Instead, he lit a cigarette with the executive director and waited quietly next to him. .He has always encouraged actors to be creative on set, hoping to get shots that make his eyes shine.Zeng Jian, who was responsible for shooting the simultaneous documentary, completely recorded the scene just now.

We are all experienced actors and have long been accustomed to the ubiquitous synchronized documentary footage at the filming site. We will do whatever we have to do. Even if there are some inappropriate scenes, we will just delete them in the end. We will definitely be able to present them to the audience in the end. It's the best side.After all, this is to help promote the movie, and it is impossible to show bad things.

Originally, Li Tang wanted to demonstrate to Zhong Cunheng in the rest area, but Lou Ye suddenly became interested after hearing this, and quickly came over and said: "Li Tang, come on, let's try it on the spot."

With that said, without waiting for Li Tang's response, he directly ordered the executive director: "Let all departments prepare for actual shooting!"

Li Tang was stunned for a while. Originally, the director said that it might be better to try it on the spot, but what is the purpose of actual shooting? Could it be that there is too much film and it will burn?
When he was about to speak, he saw Lou Ye turning around and leaving, taking the walkie-talkie and getting into his small dark room.The executive director urged: "Teacher Li, please change your clothes."

"Ah... oh, good!"

Since he had to change clothes for a real shot, the makeup artist on the scene took the time to apply paint on his face.

Although he didn't know much about Lou Ye's brain circuit, Li Tang didn't care. After all, it wasn't his money that was burned.

Although taking a real shot on-site may cost a book of film, which costs more than 1000 yuan, but with nearly [-] people on site dispatched together, this cost is very high.

There were nearly two hundred people on site, half of them were crew members and the other half were local extras, men and women, old and young. Everyone needed to make up and put on costumes that represented that era.

These extras, except for the elderly and children, are almost all laid-off workers.The assistant director deliberately selected the actors. Many of them were once workers of this closed steel factory. Those who turned sand acted as sand-turners, and those who burned boilers acted as burning boilers. Although they were a little nervous and unnatural at the beginning, once they got familiar with it, there was no sense of disobedience. .

Moreover, the labor for extras here is much cheaper than that of Hengdian and Chedun Film and Television City. It costs ten yuan a day to provide a packed lunch, and people are flocking to sign up.

With everything ready, Li Tang walked towards the blast furnace. Passing by the place where extras were gathered, he heard them whispering. "Hey, why have you changed people? What about Japan?"

"Wow, it's Linghu Chong!"

There is no way, who made "Swordsman" too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"I saw it yesterday. He and Zhang Ziyi were sitting together and chatting."

"Hey, you said he and Zhang Ziyi..."

Well, the gossip power of the broad masses of people is still very admirable, and Li Tang couldn't help but speed up his pace.

Climbing up the steaming blast furnace and walking behind the equipment, he raised his hand to signal to the executive director who was looking up on the ground.

"Okay, all departments are ready... to start!"

As the sound started, Li Tang got out of the equipment. He took a long breath, patted the dust on his body, looked around aimlessly, then picked up the bag and put it on his shoulder, walking along the steel The escalator goes down from above.

He walked very relaxedly. He had walked up and down this steep steel escalator countless times. He didn't even need to pay attention to his steps. He took every step casually and steadily.

From appearing in front of the camera to walking down the steel escalator, Lou Ye, who was staring at the monitor screen in the small dark room, finally smiled.

Even though Lou Ye always seems to be serious and stern in public, in fact he is a very shy person and only releases his true emotions when he is alone.

Zhongcun Heng, who was also staring at Li Tang at the scene, was still mumbling: "There may be many roads there (no wonder, it turns out that is the case)..."

At this moment, he finally knew what the "relaxation" in Li Tang's mouth meant. His movements and expressions all looked so natural, without any trace of acting. He looked like a person who had just emerged from the blast furnace equipment and breathed a breath of fresh air. , a worker carrying a bag after work.

As Li Tang walked to the ground, photographer Wang Yu followed him with his camera.

One good thing about filming Lou Ye's movies is that you don't have to worry about where the camera lens is or whether it will go out of the shot. You can just focus on your performance.

Li Tang watched it for two days and was already familiar with the shooting route.Although the route is constant, Li Tang deliberately ignored Nakamura Hyung's previous performances.Because there is only one sentence in the script for this scene: "1928, Manchuria. Itami Hidehiko, an engineer at the steel plant, got off work from the factory, and his Chinese lover Ding Hui was waiting for him."

In just one sentence, as Lou Ye often said: As long as you can act, there is no problem in acting for an hour.

But Li Tang didn't want to make it too complicated, because the extras were rehearsed according to Nakamura Hiroshi's method.For example, when Li Tang came down from the blast furnace, he met two Chinese people. They were wearing hats and clean clothes. They were probably hired Chinese managers.Perhaps because of this status, these two managers were particularly polite when seeing Japanese people, and even described them as flattering.

The two extras stepped out of the way, took off their hats and bowed to Li Tang. Li Tang also bowed back. The movements were very standard, but the amplitude of the bow was obviously smaller than that of the two extras.Then, as a matter of course, he continued walking towards the path out of the way of the two extras.

Itami Hidehiko is a Japanese. He has found a Chinese lover. He is usually polite to Chinese workers. In the eyes of the Chinese, he is a good Japanese, but as a Japanese, his sense of superiority is engraved in his bones.

For example, his small bow and his natural attitude towards Chinese workers getting out of the way all revealed his sense of superiority as a Japanese. It also reflected his hypocrisy, paving the way for him to become a Japanese spy in the next step.

This is what Lou Ye is most satisfied with about Li Tang. The details of the performance are very accurate, but Zhong Cunheng may not have noticed this at all in his previous performances.

Turning the corner and walking through the steel-making workshop where dust was flying and flames were blazing into the sky, Li Tang's expression remained normal. He just covered his mouth and nose with a towel around his neck before entering the workshop.It's not like Nakamura Hiroshi's performance, where he always frowns subconsciously every time.

This is the only way to go to and from get off work every day. I have walked it countless times. What is there to frown on?

However, when walking through the steelmaking workshop, he quickened his pace like Nakamura Hiroshi. However, when he walked out of the workshop and pulled down the towel from his face, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to walk forward, but at a walking speed of It remains the same as when walking through the steelmaking workshop.

Because this is his eagerness to see his Chinese lover.Including meeting a group of Chinese workers head-on again. Because Itami Hidehiko is a good Japanese, everyone is willing to say hello to him.

He also smiled and said, "Goodbye!"

Passing by in a hurry.

After walking out of the factory gate, where a camera was set up, he walked straight towards the camera. He stopped in front of the camera, picked up the towel hanging around his neck, wiped the sweat on his face, and then looked around. Look, he seems to be searching, his expression is still calm...

"good, very good!"

Lou Ye's slightly excited voice came from the intercom.

The executive director on the scene took a loudspeaker and shouted stop in time, and almost at the same time, there was a warm round of applause.

Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, just be afraid of comparing the goods!

The staff behind the scenes at the scene are all well-informed. It is clear at a glance whether Li Tang's performance just now is better than the performance of the previous day.While the staff clapped their hands, they even felt a sense of pride in their hearts.

Not only the staff at the scene, but also Zhang Ziyi who was waiting and Nakamura Heng who was watching extremely seriously, were also clapping.Nakamura Heng looked excited and applauded enthusiastically.

The Japanese are always attracted to strong people. If your performance is about the same as him, he may be completely unconvinced. But if you are obviously much better than him, then he will be completely convinced.

Just like after America's father defeated him, even though my father abused me thousands of times, I still treat you as my biological father.I will do whatever my father tells me to do. It’s the same principle.

Zhang Ziyi looked indifferent. Maybe in her eyes, Li Tang's performance was wonderful, but as a young actor in Venice and Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Rooster Award, this was his foundation.

In fact, in the final analysis, a performance is about being heartfelt. There is no design in Li Tang's performance, it is just a heartfelt performance. Along the way, there is a subconscious sense of superiority as a Japanese and an eagerness to see his lover. There is no need to exaggerate. Deliberately, moisturize things silently!
(End of this chapter)