I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 87: 085. Just a Wild Way

Chapter 87 085. Just a wild way

"His Royal Highness Prince Yan is here~~"

Following this sound, Jay Chou re-entered the arena.

But this time, Gong Li's attitude was much more casual.

It cannot be said that it is not good, it can only be said that it is worse than before.

But there was nothing wrong with it, because the one she did just now was also recorded in the camera. It just needs to be edited when the time comes, because both of them gave different close-up shots.

"Everyone back down."

Following Gong Li's words, the bead curtain was pulled down again.

Then, the camera re-entered the scene, and after aiming at the two people according to the original camera position, as expected, after Jay Chou heard the sound of "start", he first looked to the right and then to the left.

seemed to be attracted by the sound, and then revealed a kind of tentative curiosity:

"Mother queen?"

This time it is an interrogative sentence.

Listening to the voice in the earphones, Xu Xin nodded slightly.

Although that curiosity...is not qualified for him, at least he is on the right track.

And Zhang Yimou nodded slightly.

Because I have already taken close-ups through the curtain before, so I don’t need to stop at this moment and continue to shoot.

"I have taken your father's medicine for more than ten years, and she suddenly changed the prescription these days."

Gong Li spoke while Jay Chou stood and listened.

Then after the other party pushed the book over, he picked it up directly.

Watching, trembling.

"The queen mother fell ill yesterday, is it because of it?"

"..."

"Father...cough cough...sorry sorry..."

When seeing Gong Li nodding, Jay Chou subconsciously used the body language of looking around, but suddenly coughed, causing the filming to temporarily stop.

Xu Xin frowned again.

Didn’t I tell you that you are building an image for the audience...why did you suddenly become pretentious again?

At this time, Zhang Yimou suddenly turned his head and said:

"You are talking to him."

"…ah?"

Xu Xin was taken aback for a moment, but nodded immediately:

"Eh, good."

While getting up and walking towards Jay Chou, he was a little surprised.

Director Zhang saw himself just now?

Thinking, he walked up to Jay Chou, and Gong Li, who was sitting still on the chair, also looked over.

"Teacher Gong."

Xu Xin greeted politely, and then said to Jay Chou under Gong Li's interested eyes:

"Don't keep trying to express your emotions with your eyes...Didn't I tell you just now, through the body, to promote the expression. Look, after the queen mother told you about the aconitum, the first thing you should do It's anger. It's not surprise. Because that's... put your emotions in, if someone really wants to kill someone you cherish, will you think about other things? Don't you pick up the knife first? What's more, it's your mother!"

"..."

Jay Chou was a little speechless.

I always feel that this is cursing.

Then Xu Xin continued to say:

"So, don't use your eyes to act, you can't express it like that. Didn't you just start to tremble with anger? Then use this trembling to ask directly. Don't look at your eyes, look directly at your mother, understand ?Look directly, ask questions, you don’t need to look around, you can try to change your tone of voice...Look here.”

He pointed to the script in his hand:

"After you ask: The queen mother fell ill yesterday because of it? And the queen nodded here. The moment you saw her nodding, turn this anger into an emotion that can't wait to find out the truth, and ask questions quickly. Why do you have to hurry?" ?Because you are anxious, you are worried about her, understand? You are worried about your mother first, and then you will think about why your father and king did this. So...the queen nodded when she saw her mother, and asked directly, understand? Don’t hesitate, don’t think about it Quan, as a son of man, you care about your mother, so that the audience can create an image of you as a filial son in their hearts, understand?"

"Well…"

To be honest, when Jay Chou saw Xu Xin coming over, his first reaction was "Why are you here again", but after hearing this, before he was sure what the other person said was right, he suddenly heard Gong Lilai who was sitting on the stool. said a sentence:

"You can try Xiao Xu's method. I can give you a beat this time."

"?"

Jay Chou subconsciously looked at Gong Li:

"Time?"

"Yes, I answer you. After speaking, you speak directly, and the tone is faster. Xiao Xu, is that what you mean?"

When she turned her head to look at Xu Xin, her tone of voice was smiling.

Xu Xin nodded:

"That's right... Anyway, you try, I think it will be better to deal with it this way, okay?"

Nodding to Jay Chou, Xu Xin opened the curtain first and walked out.

Just sitting on the chair, Liu Guonan, who had been staring at Xu Xin for some reason, paused for a while before saying:

"Then let's do it all over again..."

…

"The queen mother fell ill yesterday, is it because of it?"

Looking at the worried Prince Jie, the queen nodded slightly, and replied softly:

"Um."

Before the words fell, a quick question came from the close-up:

"Why did the emperor do this!"

After he was impatient and asked oppressive questions, the queen seemed to be hesitating.

Hesitating whether to tell him or not.

Blocked this impatience all at once, removed it silently, and replaced it with an unhurried tone:

"Yuan Jie."

Calling out her son's name, she stood up.

It was still the entanglement, the hatred and the desolation, but facing her son, she chose the most peaceful tone:

"After the Double Ninth Festival, I will tell you everything."

Yuanjie is in a hurry, but the queen is slow.

The more anxious he is, the slower she is.

And amidst the haste and relaxation, Zhang Yimou nodded.

Um.

This tastes just right.

Even the acting skills are still too bad...but at least it's on the right track.

…

"Every day, in front of your father..."

In the close-up shot in the middle of the screen, Dahong and Dajin, with that dignified and ironic face, the queen played by Gong Li turned her back to Prince Jie and said to herself:

"I'm going to pretend I don't know."

"..."

"Every hour, I will drink these poisons calmly."

Irony turned into self-mockery.

"I will die the way your father wants."

"..."

"...But I don't want to die like this!"

Self-mockery, between these words, became a kind of determination.

Camera switching.

She turned around and sat down again.

After taking her seat, she seemed to have transformed from the woman murdered by her husband to the queen of the world.

With that dignity, she said:

"Double Ninth Night, I want to end all of this..."

…

Oh shit.

The acting skills are awesome!

His gaze was fixed on Gong Li's face on the monitor.

Xu Xin began to curse in his heart.

Can't help cursing.

Because he couldn't find a more appropriate word to describe Gong Li in front of him.

is really good.

The acting is really good.

Manipulating various emotions, showing the basic skills of the lines, and the expression of emotion from lines to emotions, which is not abrupt at all, and is transformed into an incomparably natural emotion...

He looked shocked from the soul.

At this moment, beauty and ugliness are not important anymore.

The important thing is that in his heart, who is Gong Li and the queen, who plays who, has become no longer important.

He didn't know how good Gong Li was now.

I really can't guess it, I can't see it.

But the role of the queen can already be ignored by the actor, and people can naturally immerse themselves in it.

Just this level…

Gong Li really deserves to be one of the most accomplished actresses in the Chinese film industry.

Really **** knowledgeable!

Staring fixedly at the queen in the picture, Xu Xin sighed and praised.

pity…

While listening to the dialogue between the two people's lines in the earphones, while he praised each other's acting skills, there was always a kind of regret spreading in his heart.

Jay Chou's play, no matter what, was completely blown up.

There is no doubt about this.

Even if I have myself helping to sort it out, the gap lies there...

Gong Li is like a Ferrari, go fast if you want to go fast, and go slow if you want to go slow. Regardless of whether he helps Jay Chou or not, he is just a bicycle at best.

No matter how fast you go, you can't catch up. But when I wanted to slow down, I suddenly found that the gate line was cut by some grandson...

What a pity...

By the way, who is suitable for this role?

Chen Kun?

it should be OK.

But the age seems to be out of line with Prince Jie.

Zhou Jie?

Not very good, he always likes to roar when filming, and he can see it when he is still in the princess.

Who else?

His thoughts went astray subconsciously, until he heard a sound:

"Xiao Xu, help him sort it out again. Seeing that Gong Li was in a bad mood when he was drinking the medicine."

"Oh well."

Hearing what Zhang Yimou said, Xu Xin nodded, got up and walked over.

The plot at this time is that Gong Li decided to force the emperor to abdicate, but Prince Jie dared not, thinking that it was the father after all. And at this time, it happened to catch up with Shen Shi, and it was time for the queen to drink the medicine.

Shen Shi's plot has been filmed in the morning, and at this moment, the maid who should serve the medicine comes in to deliver the medicine.

Prince Jie watched helplessly as his mother drank the bowl of poison, his anger overcame his reason, and he said that he wanted to help his mother.

But Jay Chou's mood is wrong.

Xu Xin, who had lost his mind, quickly regained his senses and walked into the curtain.

As a result, I saw the maid holding the medicine at a glance, that is... what is it called?

Oh yes, Zhao Liying's girl.

At this moment, she was standing with a few court ladies, and she kept looking at herself.

Xu Xin didn't say a word.

Instead, he walked up to Jay Chou.

But Gong Li suddenly said with great interest:

"Xiao Xu, what are you going to do?"

"..."

Xu Xin felt a bad taste from her smile again.

My good fellow, your old man was still in tears just now.

Changing face can be really fast.

While thinking, he said to Jay Chou:

"How long can you hold your breath?"

“…not sure, but I have good lung capacity.”

Jay Chou was right.

How can a singer's vital capacity be bad?

He nodded:

"You just hold your breath during this paragraph, and then twist your arms. Keep your expression calm... Our teacher in the theory class taught us this trick to express anger, try it..."

"Hold your breath? Twist your arms?...Are you sure?"

When Jay Chou heard this, his face was a little absurd.

"You didn't lie to me, did you?"

"..."

Xu Xin shrugged:

"To make you hold your breath is to make your face, especially these two pieces."

He pointed to his temple:

"Let these two blood vessels bulge up, the same reason, and the blue veins on the neck. And when people hold their breath to the limit, the body will tremble. You can grit your teeth at that time, but don't open your mouth. Grit the back molars It will also make your temples bulge. Adding the pain of holding your breath is the most superficial technique for expressing anger. Try it and you will know~”

In terms of film and television theory and acting theory, the teacher will talk about these skills.

Coincidentally, Xu Sanjin, who had changed his mind from Sina Zi, listened more seriously than anyone else.

In fact, he also saw that the difficulty of Jay Chou's acting skills is not that he likes to express some emotions with his eyes like many novices.

It is true that eyes are an important part of acting.

But as he said just now, acting skills should first be promoted by emotions, facial expressions or body language, so as to be shown to the audience.

Instead of talking about it, the eyes fluttered for a while.

Say a word of home.

The eyes can't speak, no matter how you try to show some acting skills, it's nothing more than blinking, squinting, staring, or turning your eyes around.

With these few physiological movements, expressing everything just by controlling the eyes is the easiest misunderstanding for newcomers to fall into.

After all, there is only one Liang Chaowei.

The same is true for Jay Chou, but his biggest shortcoming is not this, but his lack of theoretical knowledge.

Yang Mi's so-called "template flow", that is, the Stanislav system, requires actors to record all the emotions in life at all times, because these emotions are real and can be felt.

Record these emotions in your heart, and when needed, you can directly use them to generate empathy.

is the so-called method school.

Let’s not say whether this girl has learned the wrong way, but at least she is on the right path at the very least.

It's not a wild way.

But Jay Chou’s acting skills... Not to mention Zhang Yimou can’t see it, even Xu Xin can see it at a glance. He is definitely not from any orthodox major, at most he only took acting classes...or "acting tutoring".

He lacks expressive tension.

It can even be said that his cognition of acting skills only exists in "making expressions".

If no one talks to him about the theory, then he will never understand why "emotion" occupies such an important position in acting.

A good actor must empathize with the audience from the inside out.

Don't care about the protagonist and the supporting role, the villain is still decent, you have to act like whatever you play.

But he is not.

If you want to be angry, then I will stare.

If you want to be sad, then I will stare.

If you want to be happy...hey~ Then I squint my eyes!

Anyway, my eyes are small...

These things are performance, not acting.

He doesn't know acting skills at all.

And it is precisely because Xu Xin understands this that he is asked to use some acting skills to fill the emptiness in this area.

The family's main business is singing.

It is simply unrealistic to ask him to use the requirement of a traditional academic background.

So, what Xu Xin can help him is to help him sort out the context of the characters, and then tell him some skills that he can use naturally even though he also learned from the teacher.

and Gong Libiao's acting skills are forgotten.

But at least...be able to keep up, instead of making the audience feel like they want to fast forward when they see him, this is already the limit of what Xu Xin can do.

But that's the case, what he taught Jay Chou is enough for him to benefit from.

Because of what?

Because these are also taught by the teacher.

The things that the teacher chooses to teach the students must be the precious knowledge that has been summed up bit by bit through the tempering of the predecessors.

So, it must be right to go this way.

After explaining these skills, leave the other party some time to think.

He walked back to the chair behind Zhang Yimou...

Suddenly wanted to go back to school for no reason.

If I know more things, can I teach better?

he thought.

Then I thought about it, and suddenly thought of something.

Before he had time to ask Teacher Yu what he told the school.

Suspension of school? Or leave?

The Olympics are still more than two years away.

If it is a leave of absence... I seem to have graduated after the Olympics is over?

But the problem is...

Haven’t learned anything yet!

But if it's not a leave of absence, but a suspension of school, then after more than two years of busy work, wouldn't he go back to freshman year again?

Don't.

Our old Xu doesn't want to lose face?

The classmates in the same batch as me are about to graduate, but they meet me in the freshman year?

Then how will our old Xu behave in the future?

Looking at the monitor, the trembling Prince Jie, who was so angry that his veins burst out because of watching his mother drink the bowl of poison herself...

he secretly thought.

…

In one afternoon, based on the script, we shot four scenes in total.

Actually, many laymen don’t understand why it’s so slow to shoot when it’s just a scene-by-scene transition. But that's the way it is, the actors make mistakes, the director isn't happy, the sets take time...not to mention the big mise-en-scène behind it.

As for the four scenes filmed this afternoon, Xu Xin reckoned that at most five or six minutes of drama was the most.

But it's not over yet, because there will be night scenes at night.

The play ended in the afternoon, and the sky became a little cooler because of the time.

But the filming of the movie doesn't mean that Xu Xin can rest.

He, together with Zhang Yimou and the Olympic creative team, came to the tent filled with essential oils.

The big guy came out of the tent after the meeting until the meal.

Xu Xin glanced at the phone:

"I'm done shooting! Oh hoo!"

"Hey, Teacher Yu taught me a trick."

"Young man, have you ever seen what is called a half-step punch?"

"Hey, let me tell you... my treatment today is really different, do you know? Really, the gap... is too big. The one a few days ago, the field manager who killed me, was specially given today. I apologize!"

"Teacher Xu~ Are you done with your work?"

"Director Xu~ Remember to tell me when you're done~ Come back and I'll let you try my half-step punch!"

"Oh! It's time to get off work! I'm in the car, go back and read Jiang Chan's script."

"Say to me when you get back."

"Half-step Bengquan, oh ho!"

This woman...

Looking at these inexplicable text messages, Xu Xin shook his head amusedly.

A sound suddenly appeared next to the result:

"Chat with Xiao Yang?"

"Oh fuck!"

Xu Xin was frightened and took a step back.

And Wei Lanfang was also taken aback by his big reaction.

"Sister Wei, are you going to scare me to death?"

Xu Xin couldn't laugh or cry, and Wei Lanfang was even more speechless:

"I thought you were going to scare me to death!"

"...No, why?"

While talking, he suddenly realized that Ma Wen, whose eyes were a little strange during the meeting just now, was also looking at him.

Upon hearing this, Wei Lanfang said maliciously:

"What are you talking about?... Let me ask you, did you chat with Jay Chou this afternoon!"

"...Have you two installed monitors on the set?"

Xu Xin was speechless.

"Come on this."

Ma Wen, who has been wearing a peaked cap since the afternoon, directly put on a malicious look, smiling on the surface:

"Xiao Xu, sister usually treats you well, right?"

"...Sister Ma, let's have a meal first, okay? I've been tossing around all afternoon, can I have a full meal before I kill my head?"

"sure…"

Ma Wen nodded generously, but her fingers pointed in a very subtle direction:

"Hey, look who that is."

Looking in the direction she pointed, Xu Xin saw at a glance that unlucky Jay Chou was sitting in front of his RV and cooking.

Look at your unlucky look!

Why can’t you eat it in the car!

Xu Xin rolled his eyes angrily:

"Just talk about why..."

Then the elder sister took off the hat she was wearing.

"Xiao Xu~~~~"

"... How about you, Miss Wei?"

Reluctantly took the hat, he turned to look at Wei Lanfang.

After receiving it, Wei Lanfang took out a notepad that he knew was newly bought from his bag.

The notepad is quite girly, with a colorful cartoon cover.

"I have low requirements, Xiao Xu, Wei Tingting, that Ting from the women's booth—Wei Tingting, I hope you study hard, come on!"

"That's too low!?"

Xu Xin was speechless when he heard the blessings coming up.

Wei Lanfang chuckled:

"Hey, hurry up, I'll treat you to a barbecue at night, okay?"

"...Then you two help me make a meal."

"OK, hurry up~"

"Remember to write the name correctly!"

Listening to the urging of the two, Xu Xin nodded helplessly:

"knew."

Holding a hat and this colorful cartoon notebook, Xu Xin walked directly towards Jay Chou.

When he was about to reach the place, Jay Chou looked up and saw him.

Didn’t eat anymore, but called Dani in the car:

"Dani, bring out your drink."

After shouting, Jay Chou, who still had makeup on his face, said with a smile:

"Hey, let's eat together? I have sausages from Wanwan Province~"

"Why don't you eat with the big guys?"

Walking in front of him, Xu Xin asked.

But as soon as the words fell, the door opened.

In the commercial vehicle next to the RV, the security personnel who stopped him at the hotel entrance all got out of the car.

"..."

Jay Chou frowned, and then shrugged at Xu Xin.

The answer is self-evident.

At this time, Dani also appeared at the door of the RV with a bottle of drink.

After seeing Xu Xin, she hurriedly said:

"I'll get it again."

"Don't, don't take it."

Looking at the apologetic Jay Chou, Xu Xin waved his hand:

"Sign your name, sign your hat, and the notebook is a girl named Wei Tingting, the Ting next to the word "female", sign a blessing saying that I hope you study hard."

As he spoke, he handed over both the hat and the notebook.

"no problem."

Jay Chou agreed very happily:

"Dani, get a pen."

"oh!"

There was a sound inside.

Then, after the fat girl came out with a pen and a drink, she glanced at the security guards and said:

"Teacher Xu is the director, what are you guys doing?!"

As she spoke, she stopped directly in front of those people.

It is completely different from the previous attitude.

Jay Chou did not say anything, first signed the cap, then opened the title page of the notebook, looked up to confirm:

"Which WEI?"