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Chapter 440: Attitude, Lectures, Chicken Soup
"Mr. Li, I don't think kung fu and martial arts films will really die out. Of course, even if these two genres really die out, action actors will not die..."

Lin Xing said to Li Jing seriously: "Just look at the audience's dislike for Xianxia, ​​fantasy, ancient idol, ancient costume and even other types of fighting dramas in the past two years. If you are talking about the audiences born in the 00s or 10s, they won't say much, after all, they haven't had good ones. But the audiences born in the 70s, 80s and 90s are different. They have had good ones..."

At this point, Lin Xing smiled and said, "Jiang Ning also said this in an interview a few years ago, that is, the audience will grow up. When you serve a plate of garbage, the audience may feel something when they first eat it, but after a few years, when the audience grows up, they will definitely scold, 'Why did this grandson serve me a plate of this stuff in the first place?'"

This is why Lin Xing tries his best in everything he does.

Maybe the audience won’t notice anything in the short term, but they will definitely find out over time.

Just like the reason why classic works become classics is because they last forever, let alone five years, even ten or twenty years later, they will still be loved by the audience.

Many classic works may not be very good in the year they are first broadcast, but as time goes by, they are truly remembered by everyone.

Just like the 2000 costume detective drama "The Legend of Di Gong in the Tang Dynasty", the cast of this drama was quite large at the time, and even the director was Yu Qi, who never failed.

But something went wrong.

This TV series was exclusively bought out by Tan Province Satellite TV, and at that time it was intended to compete with CCTV's "Across the Ocean to Love You".

You have to know that "Across the Ocean to Love You" is a romance drama, and this type of romantic drama was quite popular in 2000.

If you were to watch it now, this drama would be full of minefields.

Green tea, dog licking, abnormal love, hardworking wife, husband who always cheats, etc.

But the drama was quite popular when it was broadcast, and even the heroine Song Nan, who was only 18 years old at the time, became famous overnight.

As for "The Legend of Detective Dee", its ratings hit the worst record among all TV stations in the province, and even crashed the market.

Moreover, over the years, Tan Province TV has never had such a bad bet.

Not only did the industry consider "The Legend of Detective Dee" to be a failure, but even the audience at the time did not think the TV series was good.

People even think that the many detective and suspenseful methods used in this movie to solve the case are really boring.

In the TV drama complaints list in 2000, "The Legend of Detective Dee" ranked first.

As a result, a few years later, "The Legend of Detective Dee" was gradually recognized by the audience, especially with the development of the Internet, countless people began to recommend this drama.

Not only that, the rise of detective dramas later on was also due to "The Legend of Di Gong in the Tang Dynasty".

As for "Across the Ocean to Love You", no one cared about it at all. Only a few creators who needed to promote the TV series said that it was everyone's youth.

But not many viewers bought it.

After all, whose youth is such a melodrama? ?
But in 2000, and even ten years later, there was too much literature about the pain of youth.

Just like the three-piece set that youth movies always have: going abroad, abortion, death of a best friend, or even sleeping with a best friend, having a threesome, etc.

This was popular in youth films during those years.

This is what Jiang Ning said. The market was like this back then, and many people would just shoot whatever was popular, and they would often make some money.

Because of this, in those years, there was a serious proliferation of various types of TV series and movies, but movies could easily make hundreds of millions.

Why do so many people still say that those years were the best times?

It's simply because even if they make a piece of shit, the audience is willing to pay for it.

But the same thing goes, the audience has improved, but these filmmakers are still immersed in the glory of the past, and even blame the audience for not having enough appreciation for their flopped movies.

Lin Xing believed that Li Jing knew all this as well.

If he had made a movie like this twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, the box office would definitely not be low.

But not now.

Nowadays, people no longer like this kind of full-lineup of actors. What people like now is to focus on the script.

But many of today's big directors just can't write good scripts.

Li Jing has the same problem.

He is very strong in action direction. He can design very graceful movements, and the fights between actors are very visual.

But if the script is not good, if the actor's personality is not good, if the character can't hold up, what's the point of your best fighting scenes? ?

As a result, a group portrait drama like "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China" was filmed like a fight between young and dangerous men.

There are too many fighting scenes, but the audience doesn't get into the story.

This was Lin Xing’s first feeling when watching “Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China”.

Those who know about it thought it was a performance of Eighteen Knights, while those who didn't really thought it was just street boxing.

As for action director Lin Xing, he thinks Li Jing is really strong. Otherwise, this is not just "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", this is a film about eighteen masters.

In this movie, there are Wing Chun, Baguazhang, Bajiquan, Xingyiquan, Huo Family Boxing, Shaolin Boxing, etc., even sticks and guns, etc.

Anyway, the action is really good.

But if the plot is not good, the audience will not buy into the action movie no matter how good it is, because they don’t feel involved.

Of course, it was not Lin Xing’s turn to say these things. He just said that he was serious about wanting to learn action directing.

"I don't need to improve much, I just need to understand this. I think an actor can't always be in the same genre. And even if I know some action scenes in the same genre, then I will know whether I can perform many scenes..."

This is really Lin Xing's innermost thoughts.

Lin Xing often feels that it is better to have more skills, especially as an actor needs to play various roles. If you don't understand, how can you get into the role? ? ?

This is also true for action scenes.

Lin Xing may not be able to do action scenes now, but that doesn’t mean he will never do action scenes.

Just like that, for the next half month, Lin Xing really treated himself as a student and tried hard to learn the movements.

Of course, Lin Xing was not just a student. Situ Hui would sometimes ask Lin Xing to give lectures.

You have to know that with Lin Xing's acting skills and his status, he is fully qualified to be a teacher.

"Actually, I don't really have any tricks. I just read the script, and then look at my own role..."

"I've said before that I'm an experiential person. I think that when playing a role, we can't just act out the appearance. Many times we need to act out the underwear."

"My approach is to make myself believe that I am the character. What is the character thinking? What is his network of relationships? Many times the script may only have a few sentences, but what we need to consider is to dig out more about the character through these few sentences." ...

Lin Xing doesn’t think of himself as a mentor, he believes that everyone should make progress together.

At the same time, Lin Xing gave an example of [script] and [actual effect].

For example, when filming "Bad Kids", there were only two sentences in the script about Li Dongsheng accompanying his father-in-law and mother-in-law to climb a mountain.

[Li Dongsheng accompanied his father-in-law and mother-in-law to climb the mountain, and pushed them down when they were taking pictures at the top of the mountain].

How to perform such a sentence?

Lin Xing made an in-depth analysis of the character of Li Dongsheng. He was once considered a child of destiny, and then he gave up everything he had to come here with his wife.

The most important thing is that Li Dongsheng can tolerate being cuckolded, he just wants to maintain his decency.

At the same time, he treated his father-in-law and mother-in-law the same way. He knew, of course, that the old couple looked down on him, but he didn't care.

As long as you don't let your daughter divorce me.

Generally speaking, when murderers really want to kill someone, especially for revenge or revenge, they actually want to give the other person a chance.

Therefore, Li Dongsheng’s words “Do you think I still have a chance?” were not so much a death-seeking move as they were an attempt to give both the other person and himself a chance.

But it was obvious that he had no chance, so he could only send the other person to death.

In addition to "Bad Kids", Lin Xing also compared his first supporting role Zhou Bo in "Sweeping Black Wave" with the later "Never Breaking Line".

“In fact, when I was filming ‘Sweeping Black Waves’, my acting skills were still a little immature, so I could only play Zhou Bo as a villain. Now when you look back at my dramas, especially the character Zhou Bo, you will only think that this person is evil. Apart from evil, he has very few other emotions…”

"But when I played Hong Yi in 'Never Breaking Line', I had a lot of experience and it was completely different. Hong Yi is an extremely complicated person, and you can imagine his methods when he is called Guizi Liu.

Is he a bad guy?
He killed to save others.

Think about how painful it was for Hong Yi to say: "It is your comrades who sent you off."

Hong Yi himself could no longer tell whether he was good or evil, as there was too much blood on his hands.

If he were to play Lin Xing in "Sweeping Dark Waves", he really wouldn't be able to perform this kind of layering.

"This often requires practice, just like when we take exams. No matter how well you do in the mock exams before the exam, it is useless. You will only know how you will perform in the exam room.

Just like athletes competing, why do many people seem to be very strong but fail in big competitions? It is also because they don’t participate enough.

……

What Lin Xing said was quite true.

Just like the Olympics, some athletes who usually do well in other competitions simply perform poorly in the Olympics.

As I said, experience, only with more experience can one act well, and this kind of experience needs to be honed in various crews.

Look at many actors nowadays. They play the leading role right away, but many of them act like fools or idiots, and are completely overshadowed by all the supporting roles.

Even Lin Xing himself felt that if he were to play the role in "Bad Kids" or even "Never Breaking Connection" after Wu Yao's resurgence, Lin Xing would never be able to take it on.

Why do many people feel that they can’t catch the opportunity when it comes?

In fact, the principle is the same, it’s because you didn’t practice the basic skills hard before.

"Axing, I think you should give more lessons to these students..."

When Situ Hui was having dinner with Lin Xing in the evening, she said with a smile: "You don't know that you are actually the idol of all of them. Everyone takes you as a role model. I spread chicken soup for them but they didn't listen at all. It's still you who is doing the trick."

During the past half month, Lin Xing practiced action scenes while giving several lessons to the students.

Just as Situ Hui said, the students in this first phase are all unknown actors with little popularity.

Of course, there are also artists like Xie Long who are slightly out of date.

These people recently regard Lin Xing as an idol, or a motivation for them to persevere.

It took Lin Xing ten years to come out of his slump, maybe if we persist, we will succeed? ?
In Situ Hui's opinion, these actors, let alone this batch of students, even the next batch of students may not be able to succeed by just persisting.

how can that be possible? ? ?
But she is a teacher of Jingwutang after all, so she often needs to give some people some spiritual chicken soup.

Lin Xing doesn't think so.

"I don't think I'm just spreading inspirational stories. Oftentimes, hard work doesn't guarantee success, but how can you succeed without hard work?"

Lin Xing shook his head slightly and said, "In fact, actors are just trying to get a one in ten thousand chance. This often requires not only strength, but also luck. There are so many talented actors who actually haven't become popular..."

Situ Hui agreed with this statement deeply.

When it comes to acting skills, there are plenty of male and female artists in the entire entertainment industry, but some of these male and female artists are out of date, some have retired from the circle, and some can only play supporting roles.

On the contrary, some people who are unworthy of their positions have become popular.

"But Ah Xing, please don't talk about these things when you are teaching, otherwise these students will be mentally broken."

Situ Hui thought about it and reminded.

"Don't worry, Sister Hui, I won't cause any trouble like that."

Lin Xing also laughed.

"By the way, we should start shooting a short film tomorrow. Currently, Mr. Li is still inclined to shoot an action film, a costume drama..."

Situ Hui said: "Because every student needs to be taken into consideration, it is considered a group play. Of course, even a group play has a protagonist. You, Xie Long, and Meng Fei are the absolute protagonists..."

Lin Xing didn't say anything, he just said that he knew.

The next day, everyone gathered in the conference room.

"Let me say a few words first. What I'm sending to you is the script for this time, 'Jin Yi Wei'..."

Li Jing said to everyone: "We are going to shoot a 50-minute short film next..."

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(End of this chapter)