Chapter 74

How to define a good movie and an excellent movie?

Every movie has its own specific audience and unique work attributes. For example, popcorn is to make the audience entertainment, comedy is to make the audience laugh, and horror is to make the audience fear. As long as the work can achieve its own purpose, it can be called "not vulgar".

Take "Transformers" as an example, the series of works were scolded by film critics, but the box office was always high, because it successfully detonated the adrenaline of the audience, and really gave full play to the action popcorn attribute of visual effects. From this point of view, "Transformers" is a good work.

So how can a good movie be "excellent"?

A movie is like a proposition work. Every work has a core idea. Even the vulgar comedy of "shit" is no exception. It's either family, friendship or growth. After watching the movie, is the theme well discussed? Does the audience understand? Can you bring something more to the audience? Can it reflect the audience's life and even the society? Can it stimulate a surge of reflection? What is the depth and height of this reflection? Apart from simple visual and auditory experience, what else does the audience get? How long can the film remain in the audience's mind?

That's the key to defining a great movie.

As for what kind of movie can be called classic, that is another level. From excellent to excellent, from excellent to classic, the natural barrier is not easy to cross.

According to Rodriguez's original idea, the core idea of "buried alive" photography only stopped when Langley said "first". As Langley said, such a work is just an ordinary thriller suspense film - if Rodriguez can successfully complete the lens scheduling, rhythm control, atmosphere building and emotional bedding, then it can become a good thriller film and stand out from many ordinary works.

But that's all.

The "second" mentioned by Lan Li just now is exactly the key to make "living burial" outstanding.

The Achilles' heel of most thriller suspense films lies in the fact that the story is not full enough, or that the characters are not full enough, and lack of contact and communication between the characters and their personal data and social background, which also makes the thriller of films stay at a simple level. The reason why "flash" can become a classic in film history is because of the background information of hotels, and the social background The hero's family background enriches the whole story, so that the thrilling emotion can take root and extend in the audience's heart.

Paul's personal attributes can do this. The world outside the coffin is a supplement to the plot. It builds a bridge between the audience's feelings inside and outside the film screen, and further enables the ups and downs of the story to affect the audience's emotions, making the whole film full up; In addition, Paul's social attribute is the distillation and refinement of the core of the film. People will think more deeply about Paul's experience in addition to being frightened, in fear and after watching the film.

Rodriguez's brow is more and more locked, the deeper he thinks, the more surprised he is, and the more excited he is!

It's hard to imagine that lanli has not seen the script at all. Just reading the simple information left by the trade union, he can outline such a grand blueprint. It's really incredible! Of course, Rodriguez can feel that Langley is considered from the perspective of the role, and all his ideas revolve around Paul. In the real height of thinking, the perspective of being a director is different, but even so, it's too incredible!

Rodriguez looked up and began to look at blue Lilly again. There is a pair of quiet eyes on the invincible face of youth. The dark brown pupil blooms in the hazy shadow like a black hole. It is like looking up at the starry sky, which brings a profound shock.

In a trance, Rodriguez once again felt the surprise when he met for the first time - vicissitudes and calm, introverted and rough, every detail between the eyebrows and eyes is full of traces of Paul Conroy, which is absolutely not the temperament of twenty years old, absolutely not!

"Cough." Rodriguez realized his gaffe and coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, "... You know... I mean, you should know that if you interpret it according to your interpretation, it's a tough task for the actors. No, to be precise, it's almost impossible. "

"I know." Lan Li said with a smile. His understated and concise words were full of irrefutable self-confidence, and even some arrogance. The sharp light burst out in an instant made people unable to face it.

Choosing "buried alive" means that lanli does not intend to play the security card. Unlike the "Pacific War", it can be said that "buried alive" is a challenge beyond lanli's current ability, which is exactly the reason why lanli's blood is boiling.

Acting is an art with a long history, which can be traced back to hundreds of years or even thousands of years. After a long period of precipitation, it has developed to today. Generally speaking, people's understanding of acting is to perform a role by means of action, expression, language and other means, which is also people's basic cognition of acting for thousands of years, Then formed the traditional academic school performance way - also known as the performance school.

The so-called Expressionists are not difficult to understand. "Performance" refers to body language, facial expressions, lines and so on. Actors need to accurately understand emotions, understand roles, understand the plot, and then present the performance through accurate control and accurate way.

There is no shortcut for this kind of performance, which completely tests the solid basic skills. It really interprets the sentence "one minute on stage, ten years off stage". Every actor must go through systematic learning, long training and professional training, and every detail must be carefully trained from body posture to appearance.

Each actor has different levels of understanding of performance, different levels of practice of basic skills, different performances and lingering charm after performance. The real materials are clear at a glance, especially in traditional performing arts such as Peking Opera and stage opera, where the same role is performed by different actors and the same actor at different times, Can taste different charm.

Langley is a typical orthodox academic. During their study in the Royal Academy of Arts and drama, they began to learn basic skills unremittingly. In fact, thanks to the advantages of chonghuo I, lanli began to receive systematic performance education since childhood. In aristocratic education, performances such as drama, opera and ballet are also a kind of elegant art. The learning of basic skills is the same, and it's extremely hard. It really needs the accumulation of blood and sweat to complete.

Therefore, Lan Li's basic skills are very solid. He is a representative of the traditional performance school.

In addition to expressionism, in the past half century, another form of performance has risen strongly, and even gradually become the mainstream of the industry. This is methodology acting.

The so-called methodology, in short, is about the actor completely into the role of the status quo, according to the role of the situation, into their own understanding, and then express the feelings of the role.

The most famous example in film history is Robert De Niro's performance in "taxi driver". In order to feel the real life of taxi driver and the background of the original script creation, he really worked as a taxi driver in New York for three months, feeling the confusion and madness of the hero. This is a typical local French performance, Strive to integrate themselves into the role, the role to drive the performance, truly integrated into the story, real and shocking, publicity and madness.

The highest level of this way of performance is "no madness, no survival", which completely ignores the boundary between reality and illusion and reaches the realm of selflessness. Heath Ledger's clown in the "Dark Knight" has reached such a state that he can't get out of it and finally chooses to know himself, ending his short and brilliant life.

For the methodology advocates, they firmly believe that the role of life is full of strange things, no one can really feel their emotions, unless they have experienced it again. Take "burying alive" as an example. In the view of methodology, they need to experience the feeling of being imprisoned in a narrow space to experience what it is like to be buried alive. Only by the way of expressionism, the emotion is accurate, but the sense of reality is lacking.

More importantly, expressionism is an unswerving college line with a high threshold. It requires not only years of accumulation, but also professional teachers' training and teaching, which requires actors to learn systematically. But there is no threshold for methodology. Anyone can participate in it and experience the emotion of the role with his own understanding. Even if he has not received any education, he can become an excellent actor.

In the contemporary film industry, the Expressionists are highly praised in Europe. They firmly believe that acting skills need a threshold; The film industry represented by Hollywood has achieved countless grassroots star dreams. With no professional background and no historical background, the film industry is open to everyone.

As a reborn man, Lan Li received academic performance education, but in his heart, he was still Chu Jiashu, a grass-roots man, especially the special experience of two generations, which made him have a unique feeling about the role. Therefore, he always wanted to try to see the performance of methodology, and even further integrate the two methods, To explore a new field of acting.

Obviously, burying alive provides such an opportunity.

The first part is expressionism and the second part is methodology. In other words, this is a bold attempt to integrate the two performance methods!