Chapter 411

"What? What happened? "

Seth, with question marks all over his head, watched lanli and will walk into the room, feeling a little out of step. From the first moment of his debut today, Seth felt that common sense had been broken many times, and he could not understand his every move.

Yes, he can understand Langley's idea and idea of communicating with the screenwriter, but why do two people communicate alone? What's the point of putting all the other actors out of the way? Shouldn't the first thing an actor should do when he enters a production group is to cultivate a tacit understanding with his partner?

Judging from the number of the opponent's plays, the cooperation between him and Lan Li is the most, and it is not a simple matter for them to interpret the tacit understanding behind their friendship.

From the chemical reaction of the opponent play, Anna and Langley's cooperation is the most difficult. Anna will play a psychologist and communicate with Adam. It's a bit awkward and warm.

From the perspective of the difference in the opponent's play, Bryce is the one lanli needs to communicate with, because she will play Adam's girlfriend - later betrayed Adam, and the two choose to break up. The emotional change between the couple is a very important part of the branch line.

In other words, the whole movie is based on lanli as the core character, and then radiates a circle. Every link is closely related to lanli. But now, lanli has left others aside, communicated with will, and even refused to let other actors join in. This is really weird!

Seth turned his head to look at Anna, Bryce and others, and cast a look of inquiry, but everyone was confused, unable to answer. Seth stares at Bryce as if to say, "shouldn't you be his girlfriend? Even if you're talking alone, it should be your past. " This refers to the characters in the play.

Bryce opened her hands and looked at Seth speechlessly: how could she know?

If you think about it carefully, from the time of telephone communication, Langley doesn't play according to common sense - otherwise, how can any rational person be willing to act in such a low-cost independent work and shave his head when the Oscars are about to be held.

Seth got a little comfort at the thought.

Nathan came out and closed the door of the room, blocking everyone's exploration. He turned around and found that he had become the focus of attention, which made him tremble. "Er... I'll go to the bathroom." Thirty six stratagems, walking is the best policy.

Lan Li looked at the room, simple and generous, log furniture, no redundant decoration, simple and simple; Bedding is cool blue department, you can see some work supplies on the desktop, placed neatly.

"Is that the style of your own home?" Lan Li asked.

"Well, basically the same." Will nodded in affirmation, but then thought of something, adding, "but these things are not mine, they are all bought again."

He sat down at his desk, only to see will still standing not far from the entrance. On the contrary, lanli is more like the host and will is the guest.

Just from this small detail, we can see that will is not a good social personality, but also relatively slow. Even though they had a good talk during the brief contact just now, they benefited more from the atmosphere of the scene, and Seth was also on the scene, which was helpful.

"Sit down, please." Lenley kindly invited, "before I officially read the script, I want to talk to you about the script, or, more accurately, I want to talk to you about yourself."

Will sat down with a slight pause and a puzzled look.

Langley had to explain, "Seth told me the play was based on your own experience." Will nodded to confirm, "I believe that the details and plots of the script will be extremely real, truly showing the whole process of facing cancer. But what I'm more curious about is what kind of person you are before you know you have cancer. "

The main line and core of the whole play of "anti-cancer me" fall on the theme of "treating cancer", and all the branches and plots revolve around it.

This is the strength of the script, but it is also the weakness of the script.

The advantage is authenticity and delicacy. From the moment of knowing about cancer, to accepting it calmly, to receiving treatment, and a series of mood changes after that, the description of the state of each plot is extremely real, without any dramatic treatment, completely presenting will's mental journey. It can be said that this is a script that can easily move the audience and arouse resonance.

The disadvantage is the limitation of the role. Because all the focus is on cancer, and it also actively shows the impact of cancer on life, so there is not too much space for the script to shape the characters. Each character in the script is only set basically. Each character extracts a bright point in his character and carries it forward. Relatively speaking, the character is relatively simple.

From the point of view of writers and directors, this has no impact. Because the dramatic tension of the work is enough, and it is still a comedy work with some humorous points added, there is not much space left in a 100 minute film. A relatively simple script has a bonus effect on the completion of the work.

This is what the "anti-cancer me" of the last life was like. The overall quality of the work is not bad, but for the actors, this is not good news, because the space left for the actors is very limited.

Joseph Gordon Levitt's performance was really good. Several explosive scenes showed tension, which also won him the Golden Globe nomination for best actor in musical comedy category. But those scenes have nothing to do with the character itself, they have something to do with cancer.

In short, what the audience can see is a person's emotional ups and downs, even out of control when facing cancer, but they can't see Adam himself. This "one person" can be changed into anyone.

This also means that actors lack a foothold in their performance, and the performance can be wonderful, but it is only a mirage and castle in the air, and the role can't stand scrutiny.

Joseph's performance in "anti cancer me" has many praiseworthy highlights, but from the standpoint of performance, in fact, his performance is not much different from the previous "500 days with summer". It can be said that two similar characters are copied and pasted into different works, and the only difference is that the two characters encounter different things——

Or it can be said that the same person experienced the breakup story, which was made into "500 days with summer"; Then he suffered from cancer, and was filmed as "anti cancer me".

But Langley is not Joseph. His way of performance and interpretation are totally different from Joseph. Langley is not going to copy Joseph's performance, let alone "500 days with summer".

Lanli clearly knows that different people and different personalities will have different treatment in the face of cancer. The difference in performance under sudden situations is just the embodiment of angular personality.

Whether it's Methodist performance or expressionist performance, it's very important to have a deep understanding of the role.

However, the Methodists will pay more attention to it. Because the Expressionists pay more attention to the accuracy of acting skills, while the Methodists pay more attention to the experience of roles. It can be understood that the former focuses on themselves, while the latter focuses on roles. This description is somewhat partial, but in the general direction, it does have such a tendency.

Although will didn't write too much in the play, he was based on himself when he wrote. Therefore, if he wants to further explore the role and make the whole magnificent castle in the air have a stable foundation, he must have a deeper understanding of will.

It was Adam who got the cancer, not chujiashu or lanli. It's will lissel's Adam.

"Me?" Will couldn't help laughing. This question was a bit unexpected and made him flustered. "I'm just a very ordinary person with no characteristics. I'm standing in front of you now. You should see it clearly. "

Lenley chuckled. "Will, relax. I'm not a psychiatrist or your date. I just want to share the script with you." The banter relaxed will a little bit. "I mean, if it's a character without any characteristics, then it's impossible for him to be the protagonist of the play, isn't it? So I need to learn more about the characters. "

Will was stunned. He could understand what Langley meant, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't conceive of the role when he wrote the play "cancer fighting me". Because, all the plots are from personal experience, after the brain's second creation, if you write with God, you will naturally write out... And so on.

Thinking of this, will reflected the real meaning of Langley at this time. But what would he say? He didn't know what his own characteristics were? As the protagonist of a movie, does he have anything to pay attention to? What's the special feature of Adam?

Will is at a loss all of a sudden, because there is not too much writing about it in the script. On the whole, Adam is a person with a peaceful personality, who insists on not giving up in the difficult situation, and always remains positive and optimistic

Will suddenly realized that Adam is really a character without edges and corners. With such an ordinary role as the hero, would anyone like to go into the cinema to watch it?

Although he is a screenwriter and has been writing scripts, he has been active in the field of TV series and radio, and "anti cancer me" is only his first screenplay. Will's confidence began to plummet.

But lanli didn't know. In a few seconds, will's mind was full of vicissitudes. He further explained, "I mean, what do you like to do, except writing."