Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald waited at the door of the room for a long time, feeling very remorseful for not insisting that Meg go to the Stella Adler Acting Studio recommended by Julia.

Julia is a professional in the industry, and Meg's sister is a young actress who has not yet entered the industry, so she should stick to it.

But who knew that Lee Strasberg's acting training class could torture people like this?

Ronald was so angry that he banged his head against the wall.

"Hey, doesn't your head hurt? This wall can't withstand your impact."

A man's voice sounded, "I've been watching you here for a long time. I didn't want to care about your business, but you banged the wall. This wall is made of wood and cannot withstand strong impacts."

Ronald looked back and saw a small man sitting in the conference room opposite. His hair was spread to both sides and he was wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses.

"Sorry Sir, I just blame myself a little." Ronald felt even more embarrassed when he thought about his embarrassment being seen by others.

"It doesn't matter, you don't need to be embarrassed. I often do stupid things, and I am extremely embarrassed afterwards. For this, the psychiatrist made a lot of money from me. In order to treat myself, I started to make movies. Every time I make a movie, it is a The process of self-healing.”

The little man approached slowly, but his eyes were a little evasive, as if he was observing Ronald instead of talking to him.

Ronald felt even more embarrassed. He wanted to avoid this strange man, but he was also worried about Meg's situation and couldn't leave too far, so he could only deal with this little man in a perfunctory way.

"I told you a lot about my troubles, why don't you try to tell me about your troubles? I don't talk much under normal circumstances, but I can still have a chat when I meet the right person."

Ronald looked at him, with a pair of blistered eyes behind the thick spectacle lenses, shining with concern, and he suddenly felt the desire to talk in his heart.

"...The situation is roughly like this. I don't know what happened. I just felt that she was crying in too much pain."

After hearing what Ronald said, the visitor snorted:

"It's another problem caused by the methodists. Their methods have their benefits, but acting should be a natural thing. You stand there and bang your head against the wall. This is not something that any emotional memory can perform. At that time, that The location, plus your mood, you just do it, that’s the natural reaction.”

"I'm sorry, sir, what is emotional memory?" Ronald looked at his conversation and seemed to know how to act, so he started to ask for advice.

"Emotional memory is to retrieve a memory that has impressed you deeply. This memory is associated with a strong emotion.

You were afraid of spiders when you were a child. Emotional memory uses the hypnotic method of psychologist Freud to allow you to return to the memory of that time, completely reproduce the emotion you were afraid of at that time, and lay an anchor in that memory. point.

In this way, when you need to show fear when filming, you extract the memory of this spider, and you immediately feel the fear of facing spiders when you were a child. "

"But the disadvantage of this method is that if some people's memories are too terrifying and embarrassing, the brain will automatically seal them away. The emotional memory method will retrieve those memories again and again, which will cause psychological harm to the actors."

"Is there a solution?" Ronald asked eagerly.

At this moment the door opened, and Julia and Eileen helped Meg out.

Ronald stepped forward and rushed to the door to pick up Meg. She looked much better.

"Ronnie, I'm a little weak. Erin said I'll be fine after I rest for a while." Meg finally spoke, and Ronald breathed a sigh of relief.

Irene motioned for Ronald to go to the room with him to talk. Ronald placed Meg on the sofa and followed Irene in.

Julia was greeting this guy, "Hey Woody, are you talking to Ronald?"

"Oh, yes, we are exchanging some views on Method. I think he is very talented and his acting skills are natural and smooth. What role will you let him play?"

"Hahaha, Woody, don't look at Ronnie the way you look at audition actors. Ronnie is our photographer and takes audition portraits."

"No, no, I'm serious. His acting skills are very natural. He hit the wall just now very well."

"Okay, okay, are you done with the premiere of 'Manhattan'? Do you have time to start casting for 'Stardust Memories' again?"

"Ah, yes, I need to discuss my new movie with you?"

Eileen closed the door and explained to Ronald why Meg was crying.

As Woody said, the so-called methodical emotional memory method actually involves great risks. The brain tends to forget a person's particularly painful memories. This is a human self-protection mechanism.

Replaying the memory of crying over and over again is very damaging even to a professional actor. In fact, except for Lee Strasberg, few acting coaches recommend this.

This also involves a public case in the Actors Studio.

At that time, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler were the main actors of the Actors Studio. The acting method of the Actors Studio was learned from the Russian acting master Stanislavsky.

After teaching practice, Stella Adler became more and more suspicious of Lee Strasberg's emotional memory method.

So she went to see Stanislavsky, who told her that he had abandoned the emotional memory method long ago, and now he was using a more advanced method of combining imagination and external details.

The shocked Stella returned to the Actors Studio and told Stanney's original words to several other executives in the studio. In the end, several top executives defected from the Actors Studio and started their own businesses. Lee Strasberg was also forced to resign as director, and from then on he could only run classes in his own name.

"I am Stella's disciple, so I will not comment on Lee Strasberg's method. But you have to remind Meg not to use the emotional memory method again. Just don't retrieve the part that caused her to cry in the future. memory, it won’t cause much psychological problems.”

Eileen finally told Ronald the solution.

"However, today's memory has caused a lot of harm to her. Is there a way to completely eradicate the hidden dangers in the future?"

Irene looked at Ronald for a long time and finally nodded:

"The problem with the emotional memory method is that the memories extracted are very personal and may be the deepest privacy in a person's heart. It is actually very simple to eradicate this hidden danger. As long as you tell others this privacy, then the emotions it contains will The power will be greatly reduced.”

"You mean to ask Meg to tell me what her painful memories are?"

Irene smiled, stared into Ronald's eyes and said: "Don't worry, Meg has already told me the memory that caused her to cry, but because of my commitment to her, I can't tell you. I can only say that the time bomb has already It has been lifted and will not cause such a strong reaction in the future.”

"Thank God, then I'll be relieved. I'll drop out of the course there, and then take Meg to Ms. Stella's place to sign up." Ronald let out a sigh of relief.

"Remember to mention the FTC's name if they won't refund your money."

After speaking, Irene signaled Ronald to go comfort Meg, and she went out to find Julia.

"Isn't it him?" asked Julia.

"No." Eileen replied, "Generally speaking, such a strong reaction usually has two possibilities, the first is domestic violence, and the second is being molested by an adult male as a child."

"The memory Meg told was the latter. I tested Ronald again. After hearing Meg tell the memory, his first reaction was to relax, not to be nervous, so it shouldn't be him.

Ronald found Meg, took her back to the apartment, carried her into the room, put her on the bed, tucked the blanket, turned off the light, turned around and sat on the sofa and looked at Meg.

Ronald, who was watching Meg as she fell asleep, also fell asleep after a while.