Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 177 Chapter 187 [Experience Performance, Return to Mountain City to Start Filming]

noon.

In the small courtyard of the alley.

Naturally, there was bound to be a fight between the two who hadn't seen each other for more than a month.

Fortunately, someone had installed an air conditioner in the east wing, otherwise it would be extremely hot in June in Yanjing.

But even with air conditioning, Li Yishu couldn't help sweating after the physical labor.

Yu Feihong felt even more exhausted. She lay in Li Yishu's arms, panting and saying, "Next semester, I may have to teach freshmen while preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam."

"You want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Li Yishu was slightly startled and asked in surprise, "Why do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Yu Feihong said: "Our teacher suggested it. She said that if I want to continue to stay in Beijing Film Academy, taking the postgraduate entrance examination will facilitate my future rating within the school."

"Whose graduate school are you going to apply for?"

Li Yishu pondered and said, "Professor Li Ranran?"

"It's Professor Li."

Yu Feihong nodded and said, "I checked it out, and I still feel that the Stanislav system taught by Professor Li Ranran is the most suitable for me."

"Are you sure you want to follow the experiential path?" Li Yishu frowned. It's not easy to follow the experiential path.

The Stanislav system is one of the three major performance systems of world drama, which can be summarized in three words: "experientialism".

To experience the character’s inner world, life and career.

For example, if you play a policeman, you should experience the life of a policeman; if you play a prisoner, you should experience the life of a prisoner.
This method school is completely different from the expressionist school.

In general, the experiential school is the most difficult of the three schools and requires the most talent, the talent to liberate oneself and the talent to believe in the situation.

Let’s take a simple example: a straight man plays a gay man and lets him fall in love with a man.

The Method school allows straight actors to imagine their antagonist as a woman instead.

But the experiential school does not allow this. It requires you to find the part of the person of the same sex that you love.

In other words, it makes you really fall in love with the "same sex".

The experiential school can indeed perfectly perform the meaning of the "role", but it is also easy for problems to occur.

Just like the later "Lan Yu", Li Yishu heard that the director of the film at that time, Stanley Kwan, insisted that Liu Ye act in an experiential way, "You have to fall in love with him." Only when Liu Ye fell in love with Hu Jun, the movie would have soul.

At first, Li Yishu thought it was fake, but after watching the movie, she realized something was wrong. After more than ten years, there was no news of the two of them working together again until they met on the parent-child program "Dad".

At that time, Li Yishu watched some clips and was basically certain that the two might have actually acted out their fake love. Seeing that something was not right, the director immediately separated the two and said that they would never see each other again.

This shows that the experiential school is really torturous, because some people have rich emotions, and once they get into a role, it is almost difficult to get out of it. Examples abound.

"I understand what you're worried about."

Yu Feihong smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm just a graduate student, and I'm not an experiential person. Besides, I know my own talent, and it's difficult for me to act in an immersive way."

"That's true." Li Yishu smiled softly and said, "Your acting skills are okay, but you can't follow the path of Sister Gong Li."

Yu Feihong's acting skills are pretty good. At least he is never too awkward in any role, including some TV dramas he acted in later, he was able to control the right degree.

But, it’s easy to perform the same thing~
The TV series and movies he starred in later all gave people the feeling, without exception, of "Yu Feihong".

This is just like Chen Daoming later. No matter what role he played, the audience's first impression was "Chen Daoming" and they would not have any other thoughts.

Whether he played Qin Shi Huang, Liu Bang or Kangxi, the feeling he gave people was that of "Chen Daoming".

No matter what role he plays, even if he is a beggar, he always gives people the feeling that it is him.

It’s not that his acting is bad, but his personal style is too strong, a performance style that runs through most of his acting career.

Veteran actor Ni Dahong is much better at this. He plays Sima Yi in a cunning way, and the weird father Su Daqiang in a very infuriating way, and there is no chance of confusing the two.

"nonsense!"

Yu Feihong rolled his eyes: "Not everyone can be born with the talent to act like Gong Li, right?!"

"Haha, then you still want me to get you a movie queen?"

"I...I'll try my best, okay. Anyway, you...you have to get me as many as you can."

"Okay, I'll design an award-winning movie for you if I get a chance."

Li Yishu smiled. If Yu Feihong plays certain roles, she has a high chance of winning the Best Actress award. The first person that came to his mind was Wu Zhizhen in "Black Coal, Thin Ice".

"That's pretty much it."

Yu Feihong raised the corner of her mouth. She actually didn't really need to win the Best Actress award. All she cared about was Li Yishu's promise.

Yu Feihong asked: "By the way, when are we going to Shancheng?"

In "The Unknown", Yu Feihong will play the role of a policewoman, but her role will not be large.

Li Yishu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I have to meet with Director Situ and go to the Film Bureau."

"What are you going to do at the Film Bureau?"

"It's about co-production."

If Li Yishu collaborates with Cheng Long on "Rumble in the Bronx" next year, he plans to bring his own film company in the mainland and give a small share to the Beijing Film Studio.

This way, the film can be released in mainland China under the name of a co-production between China and Hong Kong. Otherwise, when the top ten imported films system comes out next year, it will be a big loss if it is released as an imported film.

Movies co-produced by China and Hong Kong can be released as normal movies as long as they have a mainland share. However, the share of imported films is pitifully low, at only 18%.

time flies.

Fast forward two days later.

The flight to Shancheng arrived smoothly at Shancheng Airport.

Li Yishu took Yu Feihong and Yongmei off the plane. He originally thought that no one would come to pick them up, but unexpectedly, Han Sanping personally brought people to drive to pick them up.

Looking at the enthusiastic Han Sanping, Li Yishu asked in surprise: "Uncle San, why did you come here in person?"

"Can you not come here in person?"

Han Sanping laughed and said, "You've become an internationally renowned director. Renmin Daily has praised you to the skies. How can a mere deputy director like me put on airs in front of a great director like you?"

Hearing this, Li Yishu said with a smile: "Okay, Third Uncle, don't say that. I will have many more places to ask for help from you in the future."

"how?"

Han Sanping was stunned: "If you have anything to say, just tell your uncle directly. It's hard to say anything else. Your uncle still has some connections in the film industry."

"No, I just said it casually."

Li Yishu smiled. Han Sanping's level is still not very useful now, but it will be different in a few years.

"It's okay. If you have anything to say, tell Uncle San later."

Han Sanping didn't care too much about it. With Li Yishu's current achievements at home and abroad, it was unlikely that there would be any problems. You know, Li Yishu is now a business card of the domestic film industry.

Soon the group headed to the crew.

In a booked hotel.

When Zhang Manyu learned that Li Yishu was here, she immediately ran out with a smile on her face, "Director Li!"

Li Yishu smiled and said, "Sure, you're getting better and better at speaking Shancheng dialect."

"That's fine." Zhang Manyu smiled brightly.

Zhang Manyu had arrived several days in advance. She had been getting familiar with the environment and dialect of the mountain city. Although Zhang Manyu had taught herself the mountain city dialect for a long time, she had never communicated with anyone, so she felt it was strange that a foreigner was speaking Chinese.

Li Yishu introduced: "Let me introduce you, this is Yu Feihong, a teacher at Beijing Film Academy."

Zhang Manyu was surprised that the young Yu Feihong in front of her was actually a teacher, and immediately said in her very unstandard Mandarin: "Hello, Teacher Yu~"

"Hello, Ms. Zhang Manyu."

Yu Feihong politely shook hands with the other party. "I am a fan of yours. I really like the movie "Ruan Lingyu" starring you. It was filmed so well. Our teacher said that you played the essence of Ruan Lingyu. I asked around and found out that Miss Zhang has never studied acting systematically. She only praised your acting."

"Thank you, teachers at Beijing Film Academy are so kind. I just figured it out on my own."

Zhang Manyu smiled brightly, and her plump apple cheeks made her look very beautiful.

Yu Feihong said with emotion: "Ms. Zhang has become the Berlin Film Queen in just a few years, which makes those of us who come from professional acting backgrounds ashamed."

"Teacher Yu, you are too kind. Acting is something that varies from person to person. Everyone has his or her own way of acting. I believe that Teacher Yu is definitely much better at acting professionally than someone like me who has to figure out his or her own acting skills."

Zhang Manyu smiled slightly. She was once regarded as a vase, but who would have thought that in just a few years, she would become the Berlin Film Queen and one of the few actresses with good acting skills in Hong Kong.

(End of this chapter)