This director needs to apologize

Chapter 60: If you have enough fun, shut up

(The post yesterday was blocked. I can’t figure out where the taboo was violated. I’ll post it again)
What the hell!Acting in a sketch?
Xiangrui's eyes almost popped out of the camera.

Chen Yiming almost tilted his chair and pushed himself directly to the ground.

Duan Yining, who was opposite, laughed loudly, "Didn't Director Chen want to be happy and jumpy? Is what I just said happy enough? Is it jumpy enough?
Before coming here, Li Tuan told me that performing abroad has moved me to the second round in the second half of the year, and I must win the role this time.

My little arms can't twist your big thick legs, so what can I do?

It's very interesting to see the whole thing in one scene, so for the next six months, I'll leave these 100 pounds to you, and I'll act how you want me to act.

But let’s make an agreement first, this time I will play the second male lead, and you will have to return the lead to me in the future.

It’s settled! "

Chen Yiming couldn't laugh or cry. Who said that a crazy actor must be as deep and low-key as Daniel Lewis?

Since he is a madman, it is naturally within the scope to be funny and off-line.

Like saying goodbye to Teacher Hou Yong, Chen Yiming walked around the conference table and walked to Duan Yining, stretching out his hands to shake hands with him.

"It's settled, next time I will tailor a protagonist for you and write the script in advance.

I can’t guarantee whether it will win or not, but it will definitely be a fun performance for Teacher Duan! "

The smile on Duan Yining's face stopped instantly. She looked at him seriously and stretched out her right hand to shake his hand.

"Okay, I'll wait for your script. See you later!"

Then he opened the door and left without looking back!

Xiangrui popped his head out from behind the camera and asked weakly.

"Yiming, if you can't handle him, he's just a lunatic."

Chen Yiming shifted his gaze from the door to Xiangrui and grinned.

"Just tell me whether his play is good or not."

Xiangrui nodded, "Okay! That's great!"

Chen Yiming spread his hands and shrugged, "That's fine. Why should I deal with him? If it's OK on camera, then everything is OK. If it's not OK on camera, it's not me who's doing it again and again!"

He continued to add as if he suddenly remembered something, "By the way, when the time comes, he will have to walk a large section of the mountain road again every time he re-enacts it. You, the assistant director, will also have to follow the whole process. You'd better take care of yourself first."

Ignoring Xiangrui's changed expression, he took his cell phone and called Xiaomei, "Xiaomei calls the next one, Teacher Shi Lei."

……

As his name suggests, Shi Lei is short of stone in his five elements.

He sounds like a serious person with a career as a soldier.

But after meeting him in person, Chen Yiming discovered that he was a man with great personality and temperament.

Many people say that after watching celebrities in real life offline, they feel deenchanted and desensitized because they are not as radiant and otherworldly as they appear on screen.

In fact, this evaluation is half right and half wrong.

The right half is that the image on the screen is technically processed, with makeup, light and shadow, filters, and special effects, just like ordinary people's wedding photos, which are definitely extraordinary.

The wrong half is that the technical processing on the screen is not all positive, but also negative, which is to make a person with outstanding temperament look more like an ordinary person.

This does not mean that the former is a star and the latter is an actor.

The former also has actors, and the latter also has stars, all of which are requirements for watching the show.

Some actors play ordinary people, such as farmers, soldiers, workers, and traders. Their images on the screen are always earthy, or to put it another way, down-to-earth.

The frequent appearance of this type of character on the screen will put a pair of flat glasses on the audience, blocking out the actor's own light.

Once the audience has the opportunity to meet this kind of actor offline, they will instantly open the door to a new world and exclaim "Wow", saying that such and such a real person is so handsome and so dazzling.

Shi Lei is this kind of actor.

He was born in 1982 and is 28 years old this year.

His face is very consistent with his age. He is the type that looks young but looks unconventional, but the handsome man has a very long shelf life.

He and Hou Yong are almost made out of the same mold, with similar height and similar figure.

He has a long face, a flat head, medium-sized eyes, and cleanly pushed sideburns.

The only difference is in the ears. Shi Lei's ears don't attract the wind, and they just make up for the slightly protruding cheekbones.

This makes his temperament completely different from Hou Yong's.For example, when Chen Yiming and Teacher Hou first met, when the latter smiled, the two nasolabial folds around his mouth would deepen, and the corners of his eyes would droop slightly, giving people a naive look.

Therefore, the characters played by Teacher Hou, no matter whether they are good or bad, will have a cute undertone and are not annoying.

Shi Lei who entered the door seriously stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Chen Yiming. There was no smile on his face, but his eyebrows were tightened. Two figure-eight wrinkles were clearly visible above the straight bridge of his nose.

Obviously, he came in with the character.

Chen Yiming actually wanted to see his other half, so he handed over his lines directly.

"Instructor Jin? Under the order of the regiment commander, your troops will retreat immediately after dark."

Chen Yiming raised his right hand to look at the watch, and then his eyes suddenly widened. He rolled down the watch and knocked it, then put it to his ear to listen, and then grabbed Shi Lei's arm anxiously.

"Instructor, do you have a clock? What time is it now?"

Shi Lei let go of his eyebrows, and his eyes and expression relaxed. He patted Chen Yiming's hand comfortingly, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Don't worry, it's still early before dark, and the enemy will attack again. After repelling them, it's still too late to retreat."

Chen Yiming stopped talking and instead grabbed Shi Lei's hand and shook it a few times. "Teacher Shi acted really well. There's no need to audition anymore. Let's just chat casually."

Seeing Shi Lei's smile, Chen Yiming knew that there was no need to continue acting because he had already got the other half he wanted.

……

Leader, staff officer, and instructor are the three most important roles in the movie "1951" besides the protagonist.

The weight here is not the role, but the positioning of the character in the movie.

The regiment leader is the representative of the rear commander. Although there is only one scene, his sense of proportion must be absolutely precise. A slight deviation will cause the entire movie to collapse.

The audience's position naturally lies with the protagonist and the frontline officers and soldiers who have experienced the danger. The commander who issued the order is the representative of all efforts. The decisions he made are all anti-human, just like the most anti-human behavior such as war.

In a sense, he is the embodiment of war in the movie.

If you want the audience to think about the justice of that war, it is not enough to reflect the heroism and sacrifice of the soldiers. It is just a superficial stimulation. If it is too much or it is desensitized by watching too much, it may even have the opposite effect.

The leader's performance, in other words, his full speech, is the introduction that triggers in-depth thinking.

Therefore, we can find that all the anti-war films popular in the West are ridiculous and are the targets of criticism.

In traditional main theme movies, the all-out speech is empty, but in fact it is harmless, because the Chinese people of that era personally experienced and believed from the bottom of their hearts the great power of the collective and the great significance of sacrifice.

Only in the Chinese movies of the new era, the full speeches are awkward and embarrassing, saying things that don’t mean what they say, and wearing a mask of hypocrisy.

Just like the leader played by Hu Jun in "Assembly Number", the impression he gives is somewhat false, lest the audience cannot see that the so-called "Assembly Number" was a lie from the beginning.

Hu Jun can act confidently, because in the plot, the regiment leader died. Whether the trumpet was blown and whether a correspondent was sent are all unresolved and inconclusive.

But the core of "Assembly" is the war version of Qiu Ju's lawsuit. From the standpoint of ordinary people, he questions the full force and asks for an explanation. The director and screenwriter themselves do not believe that the group leader can blow the trumpet at all.

In the eyes of their generation, isn’t it natural to sacrifice ordinary people for the sake of profit?

This is the dilemma of the main theme movie, and it is also the dilemma of the leader, the incarnation of all his strength, in the movie.

Either it's completely ridiculous, or it's pretending to be sincere, but it's not true anyway.

There is reincarnation in the way of heaven, and Zhang Hanyu, who was asking for an explanation in "Assembly", also became the embodiment of all his strength in "Changjin Lake".

After more than ten years, the director still doesn't know how to deal with the full force in the war movie. The regiment leader played by Zhang Hanyu is "hypocritical" every time he appears.

Looking at the thermometer of minus [-] to [-] degrees, he refused the cotton coat brought by his men, saying that he must send the cotton coat to the soldiers.

But everyone from the creators to the audience knows very well that this is completely impossible.

Therefore, the more decisive Zhang Hanyu's lines are, the more completely hypocritical they appear.

Didn't they issue a fatal order later and let the Seventh Company, which was short of food and clothing, go blow up the bridge?

To be honest, it's not as good as filming empty shots without saying any lines. At least there is room for film critics to do some reading and understanding.

For a character who is born with an awkward position, he should learn from Zhang Tingyu, the master of prime ministerial skills in China for 2000 years, and the prime minister of the three dynasties.

He condensed his 60 years of official experience into a famous saying that has been passed down to future generations.

It is better to be silent than to say a thousand words.

The translation is, if you don’t know how to speak, just keep your mouth shut.

(End of this chapter)