This director needs to apologize

Chapter 343: Relying on one’s own abilities

To be fair, Liu Dongjun's performance in the first half of the confession scene was quite good.

The experience of the two movies "1951" and "Love Letter" has made him improve a lot. Now his acting skills are no longer the same as when he first entered the industry. Very flavorful.

However, in the second half, after An Xixi played the good guy card, Liu Dongjun's response was a little worse.

It's not a matter of not catching the scene, even if it's his own "wife", Chen Yiming can't say that An Xixi "presses the scene", and girls simply can't do it.

Her performance can only be said to be quite satisfactory. The shock and guilt were a little superficial, and could not be seen by the naked eye.

However, acting requires detailed analysis of specific situations. What the media and fans refer to as "superb acting" in a certain scene is actually a huge difference between what is real and what is wrong.

Anxixi obviously belongs to the latter.

Take this scene as an example. Acting the shock and guilt at first glance is the first level, making it look fake is the second level, and acting like it is real is the third level.

This scene is at a critical point in one-third of the entire film. By this point in the movie, the audience has already had an initial impression of the heroine. Although the hero is full of hope when he confesses his love, the audience clearly understands that they have full feelings about the heroine's rejection in their hearts. expectations.

So the studio fell into the rhythm of repetitive work, over and over again, hoping that the effect would be acceptable through "piling up" the number of times.

After all, all actors who can be actors are handsome men and beautiful women, and they are all winners in the emotional world. It is difficult to act out the mangy spirit of being unable to lick and not letting go.

This kind of acting is in line with the logic of the script, and can also smoothly connect the entire story line of the two people from the establishment of the relationship to the final breakup. The disadvantage is that the female protagonist is not liked by the audience. The more involved the male protagonist is, the more she will reflect on the female protagonist. Perfunctory.

It is also possible that Xiangrui is particularly persistent in his storyboarding and composition and is unwilling to make rash changes to accommodate the actors.

A more powerful actor will go one step further and try to present the third level of real appearance but fake inside, so that the audience can feel the goodwill of the heroine.

It seems that dog licking is not so easy to act. It is everywhere in life, which actually poses a problem for film and television productions. Even if the audience is not a dog licker, they have seen and heard of it. If the actor's performance is slightly less than perfect, it will be easy. It was immediately identified as fake.

As for Liu Dongjun, he was most likely affected by An Xixi's "good condition". In addition, he himself indeed lacked the personal experience of being rejected and forced to smile, so the performance just now was obviously short.

With this kind of goodwill foundation, whether it is a change of words or a final rejection, it will all have the word "sincerity", and the audience will not accuse the heroine of being a scumbag who is looking for a horse.

An Xixi, who was praised repeatedly by Xiangrui, smiled awkwardly and had question marks on her head, which also showed that Chen Yiming's judgment was correct.

However, the overall effect of this kind of acting is the worst, because it is too direct and determined, and lacks charm and suspense. Moreover, when the two finally break up in the second big turning point, they will suffer another round of backlash, which will remind the audience of the hypocrisy of the heroine.

Chen Yiming was more willing to believe that An Xixi was focused on acting at the first level. However, her good mood today and her weak acting skills made her unable to express her shock and guilt properly.

The acting skills are online and it is easy to perform the first level, showing the gentle and kind side of the heroine.

If your acting skills and understanding are both online, you will be able to act to the second level. As long as you read the script thoroughly, you will know that the heroine has no idea about the male protagonist at this time. It is just like ordinary colleagues watching, and when the girl is not emotional, she is very affectionate towards the boy. It's hard to have sympathy.

Xiangrui praised An Xixi's awesome performance both inside and outside of her words, but Chen Yiming knew very well that our heroine was simply wrong.

Starting from the positioning of "500 Days of Summer Solstice" as a love education film, the second level is actually the acting method that should be used. If Chen Yiming was leading this film, he would most likely ask An Xixi to act like this.

In terms of inspiring actors, Xiangrui, who has only made two movies, does not have many tricks. Apart from helping Liu Dongjun analyze the characters, he has neither the ability to demonstrate nor the thought of using technical means to "add special effects".

After clearing the scene, we took the second shot. Dongzi's performance was a little better, but it was still far from being realistic.

But Xiangrui's choice is obviously the third level. Didn't you see that she was pointing at An Xixi to educate Liu Dongjun.

Liu Dongjun's acting style made Chen Yiming feel like a tough-talking boy who was "not humble enough" about love.

So the overall effect became one of surprise and comfort, which combined with the girl's irrepressible joy, achieved a wonderful effect of negation.

By noon, Dongzi's condition had plummeted, and Xixi couldn't be happy anymore. The comedy factor that had been the foundation before was gone, and she was about to slip into a blue life-and-death love atmosphere.

In desperation, Xiangrui could only announce that filming would be stopped for lunch and would resume in the afternoon.

After starting up, the filming was not going well, which made her give up her reserve as a director. She drove An Xixi away at noon and took Chen Yiming to a corner for a private chat. "Yi Ming, all bystanders know, what do you think the problem is?"

Chen Yiming actually made up his mind before he came here and didn't say much, because in this group he only played a planning role, not even a screenwriter. Xiangrui saved the script one by one, and as a producer, he shouldn't be there Pointing fingers on set.

He is also the first screenwriter of "The Usual Suspects", so he watched the whole process in Bangkok.

When he was a director in his previous life, what he hated most were those supervisors, producers and even investors who came to the set to "visit" on a whim.

Anyway, no matter what his name is, he is considered to be someone from above.

Just like you must deliberately leave a few conspicuous typos in a manuscript submitted to your boss for review. If you want the manuscript to go smoothly, you must leave room for revision and improvement for your boss.

It's a pity that the crew couldn't learn this trick, and there was no threshold required to give instructions on filming. The result was that every time someone from the top came to "visit the team", Chen Yiming had to create a lot of extra, useless and time-consuming work.

He suffered a lot back then, and now he has become a producer. Chen Yiming has repeatedly warned himself not to overstep his will on the set. Since you selected the director, you must trust him and be trustworthy.

However, if the director takes the initiative to ask for help, Chen Yiming is not going to shirk it. Within the scope of the producer's work, there is a layer of responsibility for filming.

"According to your opinion, what is the biggest difference between "500 Days of Summer Solstice" and "Love Letter"?"

Chen Yiming did not answer directly, but asked back.

Xiangrui frowned and fell into deep thought. Of course she knew that Chen Yiming was not testing her by asking this question, and he was not a film critic writing a review. Even if she listed all the differences, she would not be able to solve the current problem.

This is a conversation between directors. Translated, it is the previous and later works of the same director, and how the director himself defines it.

The more author-oriented a director is, the more obvious this characteristic of continuation and progression becomes. Although Xiangrui's two scripts are not pure literary films, because she herself is deeply involved in and leads the creation of the scripts, she is said to be an author-type director. It’s not an exaggeration.

Chen Yiming asked Xiangrui how her original creative intentions had changed from "Love Letter" to "500 Days of the Summer Solstice". What kind of story did she want to tell through "500 Days of the Summer Solstice"? Compared with "Love Letter", where was it? levels are inherited and continued.

Once you find the connection between the two, you can identify the key differences and then find the crux of the problem when shooting is not smooth.

The reason why it was so difficult to film a moderately difficult scene was obviously due to more than just performance.

After a long time, Xiangrui raised his head and said with an unclear expression, "Yi Ming, it seems that the problem mainly lies with me."

Chen Yiming laughed and said, "Why do you say that? Guiding performances is not the director's job. The actor in the actor's performance this morning was indeed average. You are not too demanding on him."

Xiangrui shook his head, "No, it doesn't matter how well Dongzi acted, the key is that I didn't grasp the point.

"Love Letter" uses a story of secret love to describe the miss in youth, while "500 Days of Summer Solstice" uses the shell of love to explore the miss in growing up. You have already said it before, this is not a love story. "

Chen Yiming's eyes flashed, and he raised his hand and clapped a few times to congratulate Xiangrui, "Congratulations to Director Fu, for finding your artistic keyword so early. What a romantic theme you missed."

Xiangrui looked bitter, "But you told me these two stories. When I think of this, I can't get excited for some reason."

Chen Yiming laughed and said, "Why do you still have a mysophobia? Those great directors are not all playwrights. Sun Wangquan has always used other people's stories and other people's scripts, which did not delay him from forming a unique artistic concept early, and then became famous at home and abroad. How about a prize?

Be happy, compared to most directors who are confused about CASE BY CASE, you are already far ahead.

Although the story is told to you by me, the theme and the origin and transition are completely given by you. There are countless ways to tell the same story, and the way of telling "Five Hundred Days of the Summer Solstice" is uniquely yours.

You shouldn't be obsessed with these minutiae now. Isn't it more important to quickly find a way to make the actors understand your ideas?

That idiot Dongzi is still trying to act the role of what he considers to be a licking dog. It’s not that I underestimate his acting skills. He really doesn’t play the role of a licking dog. Besides, your leading actor is not a real licking dog either. "

Xiangrui nodded, "I understand what you mean. I was the one who got into trouble before. What I photographed should be a life, a life of wandering young people in a modern city. It is less dreamy and more unwilling than "Love Letter"."

"Bah, bang, bang," Chen Yiming clapped directly. He couldn't help but admire Xiangrui's sensitivity and intuition, and even envied him. He himself was the one who cheated with the help of God, and the person in front of him was the real cheat who relied solely on his own ability. force.

(End of this chapter)