Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 282 - Friendly Appearance
"Chen, don't be so lazy when you make eye contact with Gulinazha. Be more serious. Otherwise, the critical audience will easily think that you don't respect your secretary."

Director Ryan shouted "stop" and took the initiative to jog to Chen Yu's side to patiently explain. At the same time, he asked Judy and Guli Nazha to walk around the set to give Chen Yu a live demonstration.

After Gulinazha joined the cast of "Knives Out", she suddenly felt that her professional abilities had improved slightly.

In particular, the control and display of facial expressions, which was originally very weak, have actually found some ways to do it in the past few days.

Her "old symptoms" of flying features and glaring eyes have been gradually decreasing, and even if they occasionally occur, their amplitude is much smaller than before.

What can achieve such an effect is not that Guli Nazha suddenly had an epiphany or enlightenment after arriving in New York, nor is it Director Lane's superb teaching skills that turn everything into gold.

Instead, Director Ryan used a little trick to cover up Guli Nazha's performance flaws very cleverly.

He found that the reason why Gulinazha’s facial movements in front of the camera were too exaggerated was because she was too focused on the conveyance of emotions.

In other words, Gulinazha always wanted the audience to easily see what she was sad, sentimental and happy about, and over time she developed a habit.

Therefore, Director Ryan asked Gulinazha to play with small objects and trinkets every time she spoke her lines.

As a result, her attention was distracted and her facial movements became soft and gentle. In addition, Director Ryan also suggested that Guli Nazha should be slightly slumped when speaking her lines.

Doing so can neutralize Gulinaza's habitual exaggerated performance style with a slight sense of laziness.

In Director Lane's eyes, Guli Nazha's acting skills when facing the camera are purely for quick success. It is hard to imagine that she graduated from a higher art college.

"I'm not criticizing the personal quality and teaching attitude of Huaxia Performance Teachers, but it's obvious that they are producing assembly-line products in batches."

Director Ryan said this sentence so fast that Guli Nazha could not react at the moment, and Chen Yu was not qualified to start a fight because he had never studied in a university such as Nortel.

When Gulinazha understood what Director Ryan meant, her pretty face immediately became a little stunned.

As the saying goes, "Master leads the way, and cultivation lies in the individual." Director Ryan's remarks just now are somewhat one-sided.

He was expressing his personal opinions from the perspective of a good student. Chen Yu looked at a certain woman who secretly shook her head and chose to remain silent.

Although Director Ryan made Gulinazha become a more outstanding actor in the picture, he also emphasized that similar small tricks only apply to "Knives Out".

Because Gulinazha only played a friendly role in this work, the audience's attention to her was relatively limited.

Therefore, no one will be curious or question her small movements, speaking speed and tone of voice.

"When you return to China, you must not use the methods I taught you, because there you will be the number one female lead that attracts much attention from the audience."

Director Ryan believes that the audience will not accept a female lead with ADHD and a slightly disjointed speech, unless Guli Nazha plays a character suffering from a special disease.

This is also the reason why directors who have worked with Guli Nazha do not use this trick.

It’s not that Chinese directors don’t have as many creative ideas as Rian Johnson, they are just limited by Guli Naza’s role and character design and have no conditions.

Therefore, the poor professional abilities of Dilraba and Gulinaza are certainly related to their poor study during school and their limited talent and spirituality.

But it is also inseparable from the fact that their starting roles are too high and then they are continuously promoted to higher levels. They are held in the palm of their hands without any initial polishing.

So much so that in the future, in order to pursue shooting efficiency, directors in the future will take the initiative to give Dilraba and Gulinaza quick skills with extremely strong side effects.

After giving instructions to Chen Yu and Gulinazha respectively, Director Ryan signaled them to return to the starting area, and at the same time asked each department to check the machinery and prepare to do it all over again.

The content of this scene is indeed very simple on the surface:
Gulinazha plays the administrative secretary of a detective agency delivering documents to her boss Chen.

However, the various information hidden in it is very rich, enough to make viewers who like to dig into details hooked.

However, it does not affect the viewing experience of those who are just watching the excitement. Director Ryan has put a lot of effort into taking care of everyone.

The second time, there was no problem with Chen Yu's eyes. He could accurately determine the balance between seriousness and laziness, and kept it very stable.

There is no greasiness like that of a domineering president, but it is also not like the wandering cowboy who was careless before.

On the contrary, Guli Nazha's demeanor deviated from the established track. The script required her to show a hint of ambiguous emotions, but Guli Nazha's performance was close to concern.

Or according to the words of chief photographer Steve Yedlin, Gulinazha is like a sister looking after a younger brother.

Of course, he swallowed the more ethical jokes because of Chen Yu's face.

In fact, Gulinazha's wrong performance was related to the wording of the script. Ryan habitually used a Maryland expression to describe "ambiguous" as "warm."

If you asked a Montanan further north to look at it, he or she would think it was: blurry.

So when Gulinazha communicated with Ryan in confusion, the latter discovered the mistake, made corrections and apologized to Gulinazha and the staff.

To be honest, Guli Nazha's spoken language was far worse in Ryan's ears than Shang Yuxian's before. These days, Guli Nazha and Chen Yu insist on speaking their lines in English when they are acting together.

Chen Yu, who had rarely read the script carefully before, was forcefully forced to memorize all the lines for the next day.

Otherwise, Chen Yu would really have to guess and figure out what Guli Naza said, but the funniest one was Grace. Every time this little girl finished a scene with Guli Naza, she would deeply doubt whether her pronunciation was good enough. Correct, do you have any problems with your articulation?
Grace's spoken evaluation of the beautiful and charming Chinese sister is:
I felt like I was reciting various magic spells from Hogwarts to each other.

But what frightened me so much was that she could understand me but I had no idea what she was reciting!
Chen Yu once tried to help Gulinazha correct her pronunciation, but she almost led her into a ditch.

Guli Nazha's spoken language and Meng Ziyi's singing voice are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"Can you please don't always ignore me? I only started to improve my English after I came back from "Flowers and Boys Season 3". I should be rewarded for reaching this level."

Gulinazha raised her eyebrows and threw the soda water to Chen Yu and then walked to the dressing room with the stylist. It would be her last friendly appearance in this film.

After finishing the work, you can enjoy a full four-day short vacation. Before coming to New York, Guli Nazha had already made a schedule with Dilraba's consultation.

It's a pity that Chen Yu can't be a tour guide, driver and bag-carrying boy because "Knives Out" is about to wrap up in ten days.

This makes Guli Nazha lose the fun of tossing old fish.

"She wants to continue her previous casual style, you know? Sexiness goes against the overall styling plan of this movie."

Ms. Jenny Egan, the chief stylist of the "Knives Out" crew, spoke out to stop the operation of Gulinaza's team.

However, the stylist who came with Guli Naza said that this was a brand-sponsored clothing and hoped that Guli Naza could wear it and appear in the camera for display and promotion.

Ms. Jenny Egan said very calmly:
Chen Yu is the only one in the cast of "Knives Out" who has the privilege of independent styling. Even Captain America must be obedient.

If Gulinaza's team still insists on their opinion, then just get out of here with those ugly clothes.

Gulinazha felt that the verbal dispute between the two parties was about to escalate, so she hurriedly stood up from the recliner to separate the two parties, and called Chen Yu to tell him to please handle the matter.

Chen Yu definitely couldn't let his sweet little wife's best sister be angered by the foreign devils, so he immediately trotted to the ladies' dressing room with the producer Leopold Hughes.

But after understanding the whole story, Chen Yu could only touch the tip of his nose in embarrassment.

According to Hollywood rules, Ms. Egan did not do anything wrong except for her bad tone.

But the conflict was definitely going to end. When Chen Yu was thinking about how to resolve the matter satisfactorily, producer Mr. Hughes looked at the situation that had calmed down and made a suggestion.

"The crew can provide photography and a set for you to take some still photos, but when the filming starts, Ms. Guli Nazha will continue to use the cool casual style."

A very typical compromise solution, each taking a step back and treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

Fortunately, Guli Nazha acted as a friend, otherwise there would have been conflicts sooner or later.

"Tell your team members not to use Chinese thinking to measure the logic of Europeans and Americans. Sometimes these guys are very flexible. But they are absolutely unreasonable when they are stubborn."

Chen Yu's funny expression made Gulinazha cover her lips and snicker.

In fact, as long as Guli Nazha's stylist communicates with Ms. Egan in advance, the dispute can be completely avoided.

Guli Nazha's team feels that relying on Chen Yu can dominate the crew. In addition, they also look down on the crew's stylists. This is the current situation of Chinese crews.

However, the European and American crews rely on their strength to speak and also involve human feelings, but not much.

Chen Yu's international worth and reputation are enough to overwhelm the cast and crew of "Knives Out", so he has special privileges.

But these have nothing to do with Guli Nazha. She is neither Chen Yu’s fiancée nor his relative or family member, so Ms. Egan doesn’t buy it at all.

Chen Yu's banner of making friends could not make Gulina move freely in Europe and the United States.

On the other hand, Dilraba, as Chen Yu's fiancée, can enjoy preferential treatment.

"Human relationships in China can reach a large area and many groups, but Europe and the United States can only take care of a small area."

Chen Yu curled his lips and distributed the candies he had just asked his assistant to buy to Gulinazha's team.

But after this incident, I believe that the cast and crew of "Knives Out" will no longer be discriminatory towards Guli Naza and the others.

After all, Chen Yu, who was standing next to Gulinazha, had already brought her into the illuminated range.

Gulinazha lowered her head and glanced at the candy in her hand, and suddenly thought of something she wanted to tell Chen Yu.

"Has Reba mentioned anything about it recently?"

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