This director needs to apologize

Chapter 190 Free Ambition
In Chen Yiming's original script, the lines were actually written in two versions. One version is more ancient, and the other is more popular and closer to the vernacular.

After repeated consideration, Chen Yiming chose the popular version.

Although it will weaken the sense of historical significance, it is a commercial production with an investment of 3 million, and Chen Yiming has to consider market acceptance.

More modern lines not only make it easier for the audience to understand and prevent distractions from watching subtitles, but also have a consideration for overseas markets.

The ancient lines are too concise and concise, and the dubbing and translation are too difficult. It is also difficult for the actors to match their mouth shapes, and it will be very fragmented for foreign audiences to watch.

In the center of the studio, Yu Nan no longer sat upright, but stood up and walked back and forth in the open space of the boudoir.

As he walked, he muttered something.

Her voice echoed in the empty studio, referring to the recording that had just been played.

The basic skills are very solid. Just after listening to it once, I can remember most of it.

This is not the first time for the judges to participate in casting auditions, but this is the first time they have encountered Chen Yiming's audition method.

Since China has always been a director-centered system and has very little accumulation of commercial films, casting is often decided by the director, and the director's eye for auditions is the decisive factor.

In recent years, with the expansion of film investment scale, directors' decision-making power has shrunk, and investors' will has gradually become more prominent.

With room for the crew to compete, auditions began to have substantive significance, and the procedures became formalized.

Despite this, auditions for domestic film crews are still relatively casual, and they are more meaningful as a qualifying line for evaluation.

Passing the line means basically meeting the requirements. The next step is to fight for qualifications, connections, background, salary and other off-screen things.

Like Chen Yiming, he only tries out one person a day, just wears makeup, and actually shoots in the prescribed scene. It can definitely be called an effort to mobilize people.

What's even more exaggerated is that Chen Yiming also gave the actors a lot of autonomy, with a full three hours of time at their disposal for one scene.

Expressionists can show off their skills to the extreme and come up with [-] different acting methods, and there is always one that suits them.

Experiencers can be fully immersed and come up with the most infectious performance through repeated attempts.

Those with strong comprehensive abilities can mobilize photography and lighting to show their best side.

In short, this is an impromptu skit-style audition similar to an acting academy exam. The more business you accumulate, the more advantageous it will be. It definitely fits the bill of the heroine movie "Mulan".

When it was almost 10 o'clock, Yu Nan signaled that preparations were complete.

Chen Yiming asked, "Teacher Yu, do you have any special requirements for camera position and lighting?"

Yu Nan shook his head and replied, "No, let's walk through it first."

Upon hearing this, Qi Yu and Cui Fang stood up and left the judges' table, and stood behind two cameras respectively.

The initial camera positions are relatively conventional, with one in front of the boudoir and one on the outside of the stools, roughly forming an angle of 60 degrees.

After everyone was in place, Yu Nan nodded to Chen Yiming, who immediately shouted to start.

Wang Lizing pressed the play button, and the voiceover sounded again.

Yu Nan's appearance was full of uniqueness. He did not sit on a couch or a stool. Instead, he sat on a desk with his back to the judges' bench and hugged his knees, raising his head to look at the moonlight outside the window.

The voice-over did not move her in the slightest. She only tilted her head slightly, giving the judges a hint that "she was listening."

The conversation between father and mother quickly finished playing, and Yu Nan turned her head. After a moment, she confirmed that there was no more sound. She raised her legs and landed lightly on the ground, standing up in front of a few cases.

She walked slowly towards the door, her expression still calm, except for her lips pursed tightly.

Yu Nan has a typical northern appearance, with an oval face, slightly protruding cheekbones, a slightly rounded jaw, and three-dimensional facial features. In fact, he has a very feminine face.

In order to neutralize the bright look of this face, the makeup artist trimmed her eyebrows twice, with only a slight undulation at the ends of her eyebrows, and used a lighter lip gloss to modify her naturally thick lips.

Now Yu Nan pursed her lips further and immediately exuded a strong emotion, making Chen Yiming feel the thoughts contained in her body that were about to burst out.

She walked slowly step by step until she walked out of the door and was only a step away from the camera before she stopped.

Staring at something behind the camera, her eyes flickered, but when tears started to form, she suddenly turned around and turned her back to the camera.

Raising her hand to pull out the hairpin that held her hair in place, she took apart the double-ring bun and lifted her long hair up in front of her with her right hand.

While combing her long hair with her hands, she walked back to the boudoir and sat down in front of the desk again.

Her hands became slower and slower. After a long pause, her hands suddenly became decisive, flying up and down quickly to tie her long hair into a loose bun on the back of her head.

Yu Nan suddenly stood up, held up her skirt and walked quickly to the wall, reaching for the hanging sword.However, when she was about to touch it, her hand became slow and then stopped. She turned around and leaned over to open the wooden box.

Inside were men's clothes placed in advance. Yu Nan took out the clothes and spread them out on the couch.

The next moment, everyone in the studio was in Oz.

Because Yu Nan's back was to the judges' bench, she immediately started to take off her clothes and change clothes.

In fact, there was no erotic scene. Yu Nan's upper body was wrapped in a bandage and her lower body was in culottes, with only one arm exposed.

However, women's changing of clothes itself contains some sexual implications, and Yu Nan knows how to change clothes to look better. Her movements are crisp and neat, but still full of beauty.

After changing into men's clothes, she paused briefly, then naturally took off her embroidered shoes, stepped on the floor wearing only her socks, walked lightly to the door, and bowed slowly to the camera.

The solemn and formal three-kowtow and nine-prostrations, Chen Yiming could feel the subtle changes in his eyes and expressions every time he bowed down and stood up.

From the determination in the first rak'ah to the reluctance in the fifth rak'ah, this is a downward emotional change. Then the emotion turns upward, and finally looks up again in the ninth rak'ah. The two emotions have merged into one.

The tightly pursed lips began to relax, indicating that he would never regret his decision, while his eyes became extremely determined, neutralizing the charming charm of Yu Nan's appearance.

After she stood up again, her steps obviously changed, and her femininity was gone.

Yu Nan walked to the wall and took off the long sword, then went out and turned right to the open space outside the boudoir. Cui Anxin calmly picked up the camera and started to follow.

What follows is a smooth pantomime performance without props, closing the door, taking out the mount, soothing the horse, tiptoeing forward, getting on the horse, stamping one's feet, looking back, and leaving decisively.

Yu Nan's scene ends here.

Chen Yiming directly made three checks in his heart, one for attitude, one for ability, and one for morale.

In fact, Chen Yiming's audition method is difficult for actors.

Only a broad framework is given, and all other elements are decided by the actors themselves. It seems to be free, but in fact it is not.

There is a hidden question here, which is whether the actors themselves have the ambition and ability to expand Mulan Ci.

Because there is no script and no knowledge of the plot, the actors can only prepare for the audition based on Mulan Ci. If the actors limit themselves to the content of the text itself, then the scene will most likely fail.

The reason is very simple. Performance is a systematic behavior supported by a certain logic, and the logic comes from changes in the character's personality and the outside world. If you want to perform this scene well, the actor must first regard himself as a screenwriter.

What is related to this scene is the sentence that Wei Wen Nu sighs. What exactly she sighs and how she sighs need to be filled in by the actors themselves.

First of all, Mulan's more complex character must be designed based on the filial piety at the bottom. In a nutshell, it is the external manifestation of personal will, whether it is more traditional to deal with changes, or more modern to embrace changes.

Yu Nan's character setting is obviously the former, with reluctance as the anchor, and the struggle is expressed through the actions of the characters until the final surrender, achieving the liberation of individual will.

Through her delicate performance, she successively expressed her reluctance to let go of her identity as a woman, her reluctance to let go of the quiet years, and her reluctance to let go of her parents and relatives. The logic of the layers was clear and without a single line, but the judges could all see it. Understand.

Each level of reluctance has a three-stage transition of up, down, and up. The overall performance also follows the three-stage structure of rising, suppressing, and rising. Chen Yiming feels that the design is indeed exquisite, but it is a bit too neat.

To put it bluntly, Yu Nan was showing off his skills.

The three check marks that Chen Yiming made have different meanings. In addition to his unquestionable ability, his attitude refers to Yu Nan's desk preparation.

It was obvious that she had thought everything about Mulan, and Chen Yiming believed that she must have written a detailed biography of the character.

At the same time, she also has a clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of her role as Mulan.

To be honest, in terms of image alone, Yu Nan's thick lips were a big detractor. When Chen Yiming was considering candidates, this made him hesitate.

It is indeed heroic to play a heroine, but there are some problems when a woman disguises herself as a man. Especially when only the front of the face is exposed with a helmet and armor, the sexy red lips will undoubtedly be more conspicuous.

However, today's audition made Chen Yiming retract his previous worries. Yu Nan consciously restrained the "drama" of the lips, highlighted the eye drama, and designed special micro-expressions and small movements, which effectively reduced the negative effects of the lips.

In addition to attitude and ability, there is also anger. This refers to whether the actor has the ambition to "privatize" Mulan, that is, he believes that the Mulan he plays is unique and has qualities that others cannot play.

The whole process of film shooting is full of collisions, tug-of-wars and compromises between actors and directors. If the actors do not have a sense of belief that they must do it before filming starts, then acting is just a matter of clocking in and out.

I will act as the director says. This is how many veteran actors make money by filming TV series.

The five candidate actors selected by Chen Yiming are all unknowns outside the third-tier business field. As long as they know the recent situations of Lily-Collin, Liu Dongjun, and Duan Yining, they should be inspired to win.

If you just go with the flow indifferently, Chen Yiming can only express his regrets. He gave you a chance, but you didn't use it!

(End of this chapter)