acting substitution syndrome

Huge stage.

Robbie stood in the middle of the stage.

But he couldn't say a word.

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Robry has long been used to the spotlight, all kinds of lights falling on him, and the figures coming and going. It is not difficult for him to do live radio.

These are no longer enough to disturb him, standing on the stage and concentrating on it.

As for the difference between drama and film, before coming to New York, Xia Zhongsheng had already helped him regain the feeling of acting in drama.

They even performed three performances on the stage of the National Center for the Performing Arts.

Robbie... there's never been a scene where you can't get into character.

unexpected.

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"Did you forget the words?"

Qian Xing muttered in the audience, and quickly asked someone to send the script up.

Robbie on the stage didn't answer either.

Just stood there blankly.

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All the dancers behind Robrie stood on tiptoes, waiting for Robrie's opening remarks.

But Robbie, with blank eyes and a murmured mouth, couldn't utter a single word.

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"How is this going?"

"Did something happen to the actor?"

The other theater actors who were waiting and seated saw this scene and started talking about it.

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It wasn't until Robery was pulled off by Xia Zhongsheng that his eyes regained focus.

"I have no idea……"

He didn't know what was going on. Standing on the stage, he felt that his eyes were all white.

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"Not hypoglycemia."

"Maybe it's because I just came to New York, I'm not used to it, I'm not used to it, it's a little stressful."

"Maybe, I didn't think of this either. I don't know what went wrong. My student was not like this before, and it's not the first time I acted in a play."

"It's okay, maybe it will be fine in two days, the main problem is the adjustment of mentality."

"Indeed, sometimes when I'm nervous, my mouth really doesn't listen..."

Robli heard Xia Zhongsheng and the deputy head of the ballet troupe talking.

Robbie took a deep breath.

Xia Zhongsheng came over: "What's going on? Why can't you speak your lines?"

Robry shook his head, paused, and said a long line.

Very smooth, without any lag.

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But when he got on stage, it was as if he had exhausted his soul, and when he stood there, he became dazed again.

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Everyone in the troupe realized that something went wrong.

Something is wrong with Robrie.

In this theater stage in New York.

He can't act, he can't speak his lines.

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Teacher Xia Zhongsheng is a teacher after all, he knows his students well, and tries every means to keep things under control.

He knew Robrie's form acting, had done it well since college.

"Well, don't play the role of a prince, let me see if you play a little swan."

Robbie put down the hamburger and went on stage to play a little swan.

It's more like a swan than the ballet dancer in "Swan Lake".

Let Luo Li and the other ballerinas widen their eyes in disbelief.

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But let Robrie play the prince, and he won't play it again.

But the crux, Mr. Xia Zhongsheng seemed to see it.

"Do you not believe in the role you play?"

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If you don't believe it, you are a prince.

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"I remember a long time ago, there was a case in an acting class, saying that a student was asked to act as a lame man. This student was very talented and acted like that, but his teacher shook his head and kicked up. Just kicked on the student's crutch."

Just when everyone was at a loss, the teacher said that the real cripple's whole body weight is on the crutches, and the crutches are kicked off, and the cripples cannot support their bodies.

The students are just imitating, but they are not acting as real cripples.

Later, the student tied up his left leg, insisted on using a wheelchair instead of walking, carefully captured every detail of the cripple's state, felt the feeling of the cripple being looked down upon by others, and felt the feeling of his own inconvenience. crippled, and finally his show was a huge success.

This student was the later actor Wu Peilun.

Those who can become movie kings all have real skills.

When teachers of Chinese opera teach students to perform without physical objects, the first step is to let students strike matches.

When you strike [-] matches, you will believe that you really have a match in your hand.

This method, in performance, is called experience school.

The so-called experiential school means that when performing a character, the actor must feel more or less the same emotions as the character.

It just so happened that Robrie did the worst thing right from the start.

At the beginning.

Count from the day you enter college.

Robery couldn't walk into the characters, couldn't perceive the characters, couldn't bring himself into the characters he wanted to play.

That's why his acting has been so bad.

Xia Zhongsheng thinks that this is Robery's old problem.

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Xia Zhongsheng told the whole troupe to really treat Robli as a prince from now on, and changed his address to His Royal Highness.

I hope that through this method, Robrey can believe that he is the role he wants to play.

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"Here, Your Highness, your lunch."

Very well, the luxurious top-level prince set menu brought by Luo Li is beef burger, French fries, and iced cola.

While eating, Robrie thought to himself that in a few days, the muscles built up in Fei Ge's crew would be replaced by fat.

"Why can't you perform it? Haven't we rehearsed several times at the National Center for the Performing Arts?"

Robry lowered his head and gnawed on the burger, suppressing his trembling fingertips: "I don't know, maybe there's something wrong with me."

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Robbie was on stage again.

He even had a pre-show in the dressing room before taking the stage.

Looks all right.

However, when he stood on the stage, he lost focus again and looked around blankly.

According to Qian Xing's words, it was like "a worker who was doing decoration above the stage suddenly fell to the center of the stage and was at a loss."

Robery saw the crowd coming towards him.

There are anxiety, anger, doubt, and ridicule on the faces that crowd one after another.

He felt like he was breathing wrong.

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"Do you want to consider dismissing this student..."

"He can't act at all. It's not a teacher who said he can't act. You can ask the teachers of fourteen courses, which one mentioned Robry and didn't shake his head and sigh?"

"He can't experience the emotions of the character, and his inner world is likely to be relatively closed, that is to say, the degree to which he receives external information is much weaker than that of ordinary actors."

What Chinese opera teaches is all experiential.

You must experience the emotions of the characters, think what the characters think, and think what the characters think.

Other actors can more or less receive character information, and the more they receive, the better the actor will perform.

But Robry, it's like that old-fashioned radio that can't receive anything else, but stubbornly can only receive specific frequencies--

Namely, animal shows.

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Flashback.

Flashback.

Robbie's ears were full of noisy voices.

"I'm going to turn off the sound..."

Old-fashioned radios, one click and the world will be quiet.

A pair of hands grabbed his hand.

Gentle and strong hands.

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"...wrongway, if he doesn't believe in the character he plays, he won't be able to play Little Swan."

If he can play Cygnet, it's not his problem.

"It's... a matter of the acting method you instilled in him."

A woman's old and experienced voice successfully stopped all voices.

"My name is Susie, Susie Miller, the head of the New York Actors Studio, and also the head of this theater, let me tell you...what happened to you, what happened."

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Ahhh, I'm so excited, the next chapter will make you excited too.