The Eye of the Storm

After making up his mind to leave, Liang Sizhe lowered his head and continued to read the script.

He had obtained enough from Cao Ye, and now he wanted to return this opportunity to Cao Ye intact.Not only that, he hopes that he can complete the role of Xiao Man with Cao Ye.

After reading a few professional books for a while, he probably has a certain understanding of the profession of an actor. To put it bluntly, the most important ability of an actor is the ability to understand. He has to use these thin pages of the script to concretize a living actor in his mind. people.

According to Liang Sizhe's own understanding, the most important point is to grasp the character's motivation for doing things based on the character's personality.For example, Xiaoman, he is the son of Aunt Fang, the proprietress of the bathhouse. In addition to going to and after school, his daily life is to help his mother heat the water in the bathtub behind the guests time after time. When it was closing time, Aunt Fang would call out Xiao Man, who was buried in her homework in the bedroom, with a loud voice, and ask him to play a piece of violin in front of the guests.

What kind of expression should Xiaoman have when he is called out of the bedroom by Aunt Fang, playing the violin?It wasn't written in the script, but judging from his oppressive environment and his passive reaction, he should be a boy who swallowed his anger, so the appearance of him playing the violin should probably be numbness revealing some imperceptible impatience.

Does Xiaoman like the violin?It seems neither like nor dislike, he liked it very much when he took the bus, because he liked the vanity feeling when the passengers on the bus looked at him; he got off the bus and walked in the alley of the bathhouse I didn't like it when I was in the street, because there were a few gangsters in the alley, they would always rudely surround him and ask him for money. "If you have no money, sell your broken piano for money."When Xiao Man curled up to protect the qin, he actually hated the qin to the core.

And when Xiaoman was living this kind of boring life day after day, a woman suddenly came to the bathhouse one day. The alley is incompatible... At this time, when Xiaoman was carrying the wooden bucket to heat the water behind Peng Yu, and when he saw the naked body through the gaps in the wooden boards, what was he thinking?

——It seems that when the character makes every action, there will be emotions and motivations behind it.

The time of the movie is very short, mostly less than 120 minutes. If you want to tell the story clearly through the scenes during this time, you must sit until every shot can not be wasted, and the actors are in these seemingly ordinary scenes. Complete the shaping of the character through every move.

Liang Sizhe thought he might be able to help a little. His comprehension ability is not bad. In the past, when playing the violin, the most important thing was to understand the composer's mood and emotions from the score. Empathize with the audience.

Perhaps performers and performers have the same thing in common, Liang Sizhe thinks, it seems that the most important thing is understanding and empathy, and how to realize empathy, Cao Xiuyuan should be able to teach Cao Ye personally when he joins the crew, but at least for now, He can help Cao Ye do a good job of understanding this step.

Thinking of this, Liang Sizhe felt a sense of enlightenment. He had read a lot of professional books and movies before, but he always felt confused about how to play a role well. It seems that Ren Du's two channels have been opened up in a flash, and he has his own understanding of how to act.

A month ago, after learning that this rare screen opportunity would probably fail, Liang Sizhe would never have imagined that he would give up this opportunity with such a peaceful mind a month later.

While flipping through the script, Liang Sizhe made plans for the next step in his mind. He thought that he would pick a morning when the sky was just shining, and leave quietly before Cao Ye woke up.

As for this period of time, let's accompany him to understand the role of Xiaoman well.

Maybe I will become an ordinary person in the future, but I think of this summer, he and Cao Ye completed the role of Xiaoman together, and then watched him become known to audiences all over the country because of this role, and the boring time of the rest of his life In the movie, he has a lot of time to play back the movie, recalling Yin Si's summer, thinking about it this way, it seems that becoming a mediocre ordinary person is not so terrible.

After seven o'clock in the evening, the sky outside the window was dark, and the words on the script were too unclear. Cao Ye still kept his sleeping position lying on the bed motionless. Liang Sizhe put down the script in his hand, got out of bed and walked to the opposite side. He bent down and supported the edge of the bed with one hand, and patted Cao Ye's back with the other: "Are you still lying on your stomach?"

"...Huh?" Cao Ye replied in a daze, "What time is it?"

"It's past seven o'clock, are you really asleep?" Liang Sizhe reached out and rubbed his hair, his heart itched when he saw it, and he couldn't help it.

"Don't think that I'm unconscious because I fell asleep," Cao Ye raised his hand to press the back of his hand, "Don't move... Oh, it's over, I'm numb from sleep again, quickly turn me over..."

"Then let me go and let me touch two." Liang Sizhe teased him.

"No, I will not grow taller. This is a matter of principle." Cao Ye took his hand away, gritted his teeth, and tried to turn over on the bed with one hand, "I can turn over by myself..."

Liang Sizhe laughed a few times, but finally helped him, helping him to sit up.

Cao Ye breathed in hissingly, moved one shoulder, and said with a wrinkled face, "Why do I always forget that I can't sleep on my stomach..."

His expression and state are the same at the moment, Liang Sizhe knows that the matter of the air conditioner is over, Cao Ye always loses his anger quickly, the last time when Cao Xiuyuan came over, he was like this, he lay down sullenly for a while, and then When he got up, he was revived with blood.

When they went downstairs to eat, Cao Ye took the hand-held camera again, hooked Liang Sizhe's neck and said, "Why are you so nice, Liang Sizhe."

"Huh?" Liang Sizhe turned his face to look at him.

"You actually knew that I was afraid of heat, and secretly installed the air conditioner for me. You treated me better than Lin Yan."

"Is that so..." Liang Sizhe smiled.

"I've decided that I will also be a director in the future," Cao Ye said harshly, "We will make a movie together, and we will compare my father to the street, and let him hit the street hard."

The word "Pujie" was spoken in Cantonese, and the accent sounded a little joyful. Liang Sizhe was amused by him: "Really, don't you want to be a director?"

"Oh, yes," Cao Ye quickly discouraged, "It will be very annoying to be a director, and he is a genius, I will definitely not be a better director than him... Then what if I am the one who is on the street? Wouldn't it be miserable?"

"It's pretty miserable." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.

"Then will you still act in my movie?"

"No way."

"How could you do this?" Cao Ye tightened the arm around his neck and threatened, "Are you going to act or not?"

He was stern, but he didn't use much strength in his hands. Liang Sizhe cooperated and said, "Okay, I'll act."

"Whose play? Mine or my father's?"

"Play you," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "Let's pounce together."

"Who said they would pounce?" Cao Ye turned his face and stared at him, "We won't pounce."

"Okay," Liang Sizhe followed him, "I won't pounce."

I don't know if it's because I set a deadline for my departure, but after that time seems to pass very fast, the script has reached the ending in the blink of an eye, and only a few thin pages are left after pinching my fingers.

Xiaoman finished his violin lesson and went home with the violin on his back. When he passed the building where Peng Yan was renting, he stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then went up the stairs.He secretly followed Peng Yan here, but he didn't dare to follow her upstairs, so he didn't know where she lived.

He searched from room to room, lying on the door to listen to the movement inside, watching a ray of light leaking from the door through the small cat's eye.On the second-to-last floor, he heard the sharp sound of furniture rubbing against the ground upstairs.He ran up quickly, listening to the hysterical cursing of the woman inside the door, the heavy growling of the man, and the pounding of heavy objects on the wall.

The man was beating Peng Yan, Xiao Man realized this fact, and Peng Yan's intermittent curses could be heard through a door, he thought in a panic that Peng Yan might be beaten to death.

He began to raise his hand and slammed on the door, and the movement inside the door stopped, and then a man's rude voice came: "Who is it?"

"Downstairs," Xiao Man tried his best to calm down, he took the violin off his back and held it tightly in his hand, "Your house is leaking."

The man opened the door for him with swear words, and just opened a crack, Peng Yan got the strength from somewhere, picked up the stool beside him, threw it towards the back of his head, and was dodged by the man, hitting him on the shoulder In the morning, the enraged man wanted to grab the stool and beat Peng Yin as if he lost his mind. At this time, Xiao Man squeezed in through the crack of the door, raised the violin in his hand high, and smashed it hard on the back of his head. The violin hit the brain. Shit, the man staggered, Xiaoman took the violin out of control, and slammed it heavily on the back of his head...

Liang Sizhe remembered that they were discussing this scene on the roof that night. He was sitting on the edge of the roof, and Cao Ye was squatting aside, with his arms on his shoulders.

"Why do you think Xiaoman lost control?" Cao Ye looked up at Liang Sizhe from the script, "Obviously the first few heavy blows could knock that man unconscious, but he killed him in the end."

The tone of this script has always been obscure and depressing. Everyone has their own story. Xiaoman's emotional changes are the dark line of the script. It accumulates gradually and imperceptibly, and then explodes in the climax of the last scene.

The relationship between Xiaoman and Peng Yan is written very vaguely. At first glance, they seem to have nothing to do with each other. In the scenes where they appear in the same frame in the script, there is no deep overlap.

For example, when Peng Yan came out of the shower, Xiaoman secretly looked at her from the crack of the bedroom door. He hoped that his mother, Aunt Fang, could call him out and play a violin piece for Peng Yan, but Aunt Fang didn't like Peng Yan but Also jealous of Peng Yan, she never said a word to Peng Yan, nor let Xiaoman say a word to her.

For example, Xiaoman went out to take out the garbage, and when he came back, he saw Peng Yan sitting on the stairs in the corner, lighting a cigarette and smoking slowly.He stared dumbfounded, standing where he was, Peng Yan beckoned him over, he sat with her a little awkwardly, Peng Yan was a very charming woman, but Xiaoman was just an ignorant boy, the woman was smoked by the boy After a puff of cigarettes, none of them spoke, and sat there quietly blowing the air.

The rest of the large number of scenes are Xiaoman's unilateral peeping and tracking. The most frequent scene in the script is Xiaoman looking out from his cramped bedroom to see the wet body after taking a shower through a very thin crack in the door. Peng Yan.

Why did Xiaoman lose control?Liang Sizhe was also thinking about this question. He always felt that if he didn't understand Xiao Man's feelings clearly, he would have no way to know the reason why he lost control...Peng Yan was raped by a man's domestic violence, it was just the fuse that caused Xiao Man to lose control, but it was not his mistake The root cause of the murder.

As he thought about it, Cao Ye asked another question: "What do you think... what is Xiaoman's feeling for Peng Yan?"

"It should be a little envious." Liang Sizhe said the most superficial reason.Xiaoman's initial curiosity about Peng Yan was because they seemed to live in completely different worlds. He was closed and depressed, but Peng Yan seemed to live an indulgent and willful life.

"Envy? It seems to be a little bit. I should be grateful?" Cao Ye thought for a while and said.

There is a scene in the script where Xiao Man walks into an alley with a violin on his back, and is surrounded by gangsters asking for money. That time, Peng Yan helped him out, and she took out money from her wallet and threw it in the faces of those gangsters.The gangsters coveted Peng Yan, secretly lusted after her, and insulted her with words, but when Peng Yan threw money in their faces, they dared not say a word.That evening, Xiaoman followed her to say thank you. That was the longest time they talked. Xiaoman knew that her name was Peng Yan and she was married. Peng Yan also knew that Xiaoman was learning the violin, but she didn’t play much. good.

"Well, I'm grateful and curious," Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "I'm wondering...whether there is still love."

"Ah?" Cao Ye was stunned, "Where did you find out? Peng Yan is married..."

"Unrequited love, unrequited love is also a kind of love." Liang Sizhe said while looking into the distance.The five-story building of Lanyan is not very high, but it is enough to see the vehicles galloping like birds homing to their nests on the main road not far away.

Cao Ye gave a half-understanding "Oh".

"There are still fantasies," Liang Sizhe continued, "Peng Yan is Xiaoman's most beautiful fantasy, so I think his loss of control is actually because the moment the fantasy was shattered, he felt the despair of life."

"Oh yes, fantasies..." Cao Ye suddenly realized and nodded, "Xiao Man has been fantasizing that one day he will live a life of indulgence like Peng Yan, but the truth of Peng Yan's life has been revealed, and his fantasies have been shattered. Broken means that his thought of escaping from the present life is also broken."

"Well, besides this, there should be other fantasies..." Liang Sizhe said in a daze.

"Huh? What else?"

"Oh, it's gone," Liang Sizhe recovered, "You said it just now, and it's exactly what I thought."

And sexual fantasies.He originally wanted to say.

Director Cao will tell Cao Ye about it in the future. Liang Sizhe thought about it, but he didn't say the word "sexual fantasy".

In fact, Xiaoman's sexual fantasies about Peng Yan existed at the moment Peng Yan appeared, because the first time Peng Yan appeared, the violin music that Xiaoman played that night was "Afternoon of the Shepherd", which is probably a vague hint.

Sexual fantasies are the most wonderful fantasies of young Xiaoman about life.Peng Yan was raped by a man's domestic violence, and together he broke Xiaoman's two layers of fantasies - fantasies about life and fantasies about sex. This is probably the main reason why he lost control.

Moreover, without sexual fantasies, it probably can't be considered love... Liang Sizhe thought of an article he had read before reading "Afternoon of the Shepherd", which said that sexual fantasies are the starting point of love.

Then... Do I have sexual fantasies about Cao Ye?This idea involuntarily appeared in Liang Sizhe's mind, and then this thought surprised him.

How can it be?Lying on the bed with another boy, entangled with each other seamlessly... Stop, what kind of scary picture is this?

"What are you thinking?" Cao Ye looked at him at this moment.

"No..." Liang Sizhe recovered and said.