Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 35 Observing Life
"Hey, hey, talk!" Zhang Weiwei said on the phone: "Shocked into dumb?"

"Get out, you country bumpkin." Su Ze said mercilessly, "It will take 10 minutes to enter the city. It's shocking."

"Hey hey, I have a Ferrari!" Zhang Wei said even more proudly: "My father rewarded it!"

Su Ze hung up directly, shameless!
"Hey, hello?" Hearing the busy voice, Zhang Wei laughed out loud, his whole body swayed wildly, and said frantically, "Sisters in Chinese opera, your Viagra is here!"

Scolding is all scolding, Su Ze must be happy that all his friends around him have passed the college entrance examination, no matter Hu Lei, Zhao Yuncheng, or Liu Yunyun and Zhang Wei, everyone is in the capital, and there will be plenty of time to play in the future.

Especially the fat man, it's so simple!

In the next few days, I don’t have to memorize the cultural lessons by rote, I have a good rest, and I devote all my time to the acting major, and the time will soon come to the beginning of July.

"Start learning to observe life from today." Liu Tianyi looked at the three students in front of him, and said seriously: "It is also the last homework for you."

Looking at the three people with anticipation on their faces, as a teacher, my heart is a little complicated, and there is not much time left.

"In my opinion, the most important homework for an actor is to observe life. Duan Yihong spent 20 days with the police in order to star in "Scorching Sun"; Zhou Xun specially learned to drive a taxi in "Li Mi's Conjecture" and wore a mask every day. Solicit customers everywhere."

"Qin Hailu also went to a factory in Northeast China to experience life in the filming of "The Piano of Steel". Such examples abound, and it can be said that it is a compulsory course for a really good actor."

Su Ze listens attentively. In fact, the system trains to observe life every day, especially performances without real objects.

But after all, there is no complete theoretical system, and it is less than two months before the start of Chinese opera, which is also the last time to study with Tianyi teacher.

"Why do actors observe life? Observe how life will proceed?"

"In Huang Bo's words: combine the characters observed in life with the performance, and use experience and observation as the path to get closer to reality."

"You have all seen him play "Dear". A father who experienced great sorrow and great joy, when he found his child, why did he not show an emotional outburst?"

Su Ze was thoughtful. After finding the child through all kinds of hardships, his father sat slumped on the stairs, his trembling body bowed at ninety degrees, and tears flowed down involuntarily while talking.

It has to be said that compared with the intense emotional expression, the restrained and introverted treatment is more real and touching.

In fact, the main job of an actor is to create characters. Facing the fictional characters in film and television works, how to make the characters feel real?How to convince the audience?
It not only tests the actor's shaping ability, but also tests the actor's understanding, conception, and imagination of the role, and even more tests the observation of life.

Luo Dan said: The so-called master uses his own eyes to see things that others have seen, and finds beauty in things that others are familiar with.

It sounds very pretentious, according to Su Ze's understanding, it is divided into several steps: observation and accumulation, behavior imitation and psychological speculation, and finally the creative portrayal of the overall audio-visual image of the character.

"You guys are about to enter Chinese opera. I can't teach you much in a short time, but I hope that as an actor, you will always be curious, you know?"

Liu Tianyi said emotionally: "Cultivate the habit of observing everything in daily life. Shu Qi once said in an interview that she likes to sit at the door of the bar and watch people, to guess what these people are thinking and what kind of personality they have."

"Zhou Xun also teaches students to sit in a certain place in the lecture hall at the foot of the mountain and watch people coming and going. She thinks that an actor is like an octopus in life."

"Every organ of the body must be fully opened, accept everything from the outside world frankly, enjoy the natural response brought about by this unknown stimulus, and then put what you observe and feel into the character."

"Ni Dahong went to the countryside when he was young, drove a horse-drawn cart, and knew how to grow vegetables. So he knew how to distinguish weeds from leeks. He remembered the pain of soybean seedlings pricking his hands, and felt that farmers' gestures of cutting wheat were beautiful. These life experiences have long been engraved in his mind. "

"As long as you can hold the seemingly trivial life experiences in your heart, the accumulation of fragments is like a kaleidoscope, and it will turn into a beautiful shape no matter how you turn it. This is ever-changing!"

Su Ze nodded secretly, this is called experience.Art originates from life, but it must also be higher than life.

Would you still watch TV dramas if it was just an ordinary beggar on the street begging for food?

What the audience wants to see is Jigong!
Robert De Niro played "Taxi Driver" and drove a taxi for 12 hours a day. The performance also needs to deliberately imitate the so-called habitual actions?
That's an instinctive reaction!

"A Lawsuit by Qiu Ju" Gong Li lived in the countryside, didn't take a bath for several months, and even washed her hair with washing powder!

Every day, the shoulder pole is really filled with water, and the left shoulder is worn out and the right shoulder is replaced.A few months later, Qiu Ju with a face full of plateau red appeared in front of the audience, who would not believe it?
In "The Theory of Everything", the actor Freckles plays Hawking's little freckles. In order to try to understand the other party's thinking, he not only studied all of Hawking's works, but also asked physicists to help interpret advanced theories.

Visited more than 30 ALS patients, and even ate and lived with them, and later found that Hawking's mother and wife said that his eyebrows are the most expressive in the world.

Because the loss of speaking ability can only be expressed through the eyebrows.

"Imagine a scene where you and your friends are eating and chatting at KFC."

"Other friends just came in and wanted to ask about tomorrow's class schedule. You invite the other person to sit next to you and give him your untouched Coke. Then you take out your notebook from your schoolbag."

Liu Tianyi stood up and said, "Okay, close your eyes and give you 5 minutes to design the scene, and then answer my questions."

Everyone closed their eyes and started to build characters and scenes. This kind of thing is very easy for Su Ze. To put it bluntly, it is just an upgraded version of the performance without physical objects.

When you eat a burger, do you hold it in your left hand or your right?

Is your burger wrapped in paper or is it all removed?
What's your seat status like with your friends?
In front of whom is the plate placed?
Is the food eaten on a plate or taken to the table by itself?

Do you put down your burger when your friends come to say hello?
Did you reach out to say hello?
Do you pick up the burger again after saying hello?

Or pass the Coke directly to the other party?

Is the straw inserted into the cup when the Coke is handed over?
Did you wipe your fingers with a tissue when holding your laptop?
Is there a way to clear the desktop and then spread out the notebook?

Hu Lei and Zhao Yuncheng: "..."

(End of this chapter)