muscle actor

Chapter 369 Heartbroken!

"To be fair, I can't actually see your acting skills in this movie!"

"What?" Brother Hu, who had just relaxed, was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and his hair suddenly exploded: "Why?"

Ding Cheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Of course it doesn't mean that your acting is bad, nor does it mean that you have no acting skills. It's not even the actor's fault. In my opinion, this movie itself is not a container that can accept the actors' acting skills. "

Seeing the other party's confusion, he analyzed: "The director and photographer showed an almost paranoid use of light and shadow, and each shot is driven by perfectionism, a finely crafted exhibition display."

"Although it shows his strong desire to control, under such a dictatorship, actors don't have much room to play."

Ding Cheng said with a serious face: "The euphemistic name is actors, but they are more like chess pieces placed by the director to achieve a certain purpose, which is what Cartier-Bresson said about the models in the movie. The effect of performance is said to be for hunting, Pretend to be prey, be easily accessible, and protect yourself from detection.”

"For example, the so-called wild goose pond created in the movie is the main venue where the plot takes place, and most of the time is at night, right?"

"What is enclosed is a closed area that inactivates people's senses. It is weak, dilapidated, dark, and full of shackles. It is difficult for actors to perform in such an environment. They only complete the performance with sound and movement. Acting on instinct, indistinguishable from an illuminated animal..."

"It's a human, but it's also a trapped beast."

"I have worked with Gui Lunmei, and I didn't even see her acting skills, because under the director's extremely strong stylized audio-visual language, the audience's attention will not fall on the actors' acting skills."

"Damp rainy nights, noisy ambient sounds, neon cold light, all spaces become thick, dirty, and dark... and the passage of time becomes slow."

"The factors other than these characters are infinitely magnified. All the actors can give back to the audience is body language, and even the lines are very few. Micro expressions are not a panacea!"

Seeing that Brother Hu was thinking, he continued: "What are you doing most of the time in the movie? Running... resisting... shooting... riding a motorcycle... bandaging the wound alone..."

"Even the picture of holding a gun is given from the first perspective, and I can't even see your expression."

"Many times the camera even completely abandoned the actors and turned to your shadows?"

"Maybe in the director's opinion, because in the dark night, shadows are more expressive than real people?"

"You're right!" Hu Ge muttered to himself: "This approach is exactly what the director wants. On the set, he often said: I don't want actors to have too many psychological things, as long as they present actions."

Ding Cheng nodded and said, "Let's go back to the story of this movie, I think the director didn't put his mind on portraying the characters."

"A man who has been hiding from his family for a long time, regardless of his wife and children, went on the road to escape after accidentally killing someone. He accidentally learned that his reward was as high as 30 yuan, so he made a plan: let his wife report him, And leave the money to your family?"

"Aren't character motives too arbitrary?"

"This..." Brother Hu was shocked, recalling that the director once said that the original intention of the creation was an accidental flash of inspiration?

"It's just a story, superficial, without the desire for deep narrative. It may involve the self-expression of some directors, such as the tragic process of the marginalized people realizing their self-worth, or the powerless sense of fate, and the relationship between the bottom people. A natural mistrust and mutual betrayal..."

"" But the weakness of the story makes the stylized audio-visual language a burden. I only have eight characters after reading it..."

"More than enough to show off skills, not enough emotion!"

Ding Cheng took a sip of tea, said that this made Brother Hu think calmly, and shared: "This script is somewhat similar to Huang Hai, but the background is quite different."

"Although the entry points are all low-level little people, the former is caught between two countries, and even the historical hatred of the two countries has never been in contact with each other. The audience can feel the natural sadness from the beginning."

"Then there is the motivation of the characters. Huang Hai is desperate for an obsession. From the first step in Korea, the whole environment is dangerous for him. No one will help him. Like a desperate beast, he can only struggle desperately. "

"Speaking of the scene in the mountains..." Ding Cheng said with a smile: "I only acted in one aspect. What is more important is the oppression of the environment. I am a foreigner myself. Living in a foreign country, facing a strange environment, I have a natural sense of immersion. It’s not something you can understand if you’re filming in China.”

That's it!

Brother Hu was like enlightened, he understood a lot in an instant.

"So what I appreciate about this work is not the story, nor the actors' performances, but the restoration of a market rooted in magicism based on the powerful audio-visual language."

"From "Fireworks in the Day" to "The Gathering at Southern Station", the director once again built a dilapidated, dangerous, and romantic town."

"Although the film is realistic, the sense of absurdity in it is almost everywhere, not just a simple list of symbols or critical awareness, it seems that it is all daily life."

"Those people dancing square dance wearing fluorescent shoes look like fireflies scattered in the dark..."

"The pink color of the advertising sign fills the room..."

"Violence can come from any person, any ordinary food, and it is sudden and hard to guard against..."

"A dagger is hidden in a stack of banknotes, an umbrella can become a sharp blade, a motorcycle's U-shaped lock can become a weapon, and even a forklift can be a guillotine..."

"Crowded streets, old residential buildings, flashy and vulgar hotels, an underground world with a clear division of labor..."

"And these are real!"

Ding Cheng agrees: "While presenting the underlying spaces of these cities, we always focus on people and pay attention to the changes of people in these spaces. The various forms of beings that are connected in series all point to the life of people in this era. Loneliness and aphasia."

"I love these..."

"It's not plot and acting skills!"

Brother Hu sighed and looked at Ding Cheng. After seeing Ding Cheng in just two years, he was no longer from the same world as him!
Not only acting skills, but also thinking and vision. It is no exaggeration to say that he understands what is needed even better than the director himself?
Ding Cheng waved his hand and concluded: "So you ask me why the box office is not going up?"

"Your so-called neo-noir movies are fundamentally different from crime movies. If the audience wants to watch a thrilling scene and the excitement of cops and gangsters, then they can just withdraw."

"do you understand?"

"Understood!" Brother Hu nodded, remained silent for a moment, and then asked: "What is my acting skill?"

"It's a bit hard!" Ding Cheng commented seriously: "Compared to Wan Qian and Liao Fan, you can still see the traces of acting!"

Seeing the other party's painful and confused look, Ding Cheng made up his mind and pointed out: "The details are still not enough, such as dialect. Compared with other people's fluent and natural, yours is still too deliberate."

"There are still many places to ponder!"

"Hey……"

"Old Tie is heartbroken!"

Brother Hu sighed, took a sip of tea, and finally relaxed. He looked at Ding Cheng and laughed and cursed, "Isn't that too cruel?"

(End of this chapter)