Chapter 619

Into the room, the line of sight after a rush look, this is a special audition room.

There is a white board on the left side against the wall. There are two tables in front of it. Lucinda is standing in front of the table, playing with a family style hand-held camera; On the right hand side is a relatively spacious space, with soft light lamps, reflective umbrellas, light barriers and other equipment. A large number of connecting lines are stacked on the ground, and they are not sorted out, so they are randomly staggered together.

"Stand in front of the camera." Lucinda didn't look back. She put the camera on the tripod. After confirming the placement, she pressed the record button and saw that the red light was on. Then she staggered toward the back of the table and said, "well, start with introducing herself." When he spoke, he still didn't look at Lan Li, just like the back of his head was talking.

Stand in front of the camera, introduce yourself briefly, and then offer a prepared performance, or the interviewer delivers a page of script, reads the lines temporarily and prepares for the performance temporarily. The whole process is about three to five minutes. The casting directors record all the performances with cameras and mark them on their resumes. After the audition, they select the impressive or worthy actors and watch the video for the second time to select the right actors.

This is the mainstream audition method in Hollywood. More than 80% of the films choose actors in this way.

In fact, the "Pacific War" was the same way of selection before, but at the beginning, hundreds of actors needed to be selected, and thousands of actors participated in the audition, so they directly skipped the video link and chose the spacious space as the theater, relying on the impression of the live audition to complete the selection, which was more cruel and more efficient. TV and movies, after all, are different.

Lanli just felt strange. So far, he has never participated in such an audition, just seen it in the film. Today, I had a chance to experience it, which made lanli eager to try. At the beginning, the "Pacific War" paid more attention to stage expressiveness and explosive power. Today, more attention is paid to the sense of lens. There must be differences in performances.

Holding back his exultation, lanli stood in front of the camera, straightened his posture, raised his head and held his chest straight, with a smile on his face. Instead of rushing to speak directly, he waited for Lucinda to sit down before introducing himself. "Langley hall, 21, came to audition for William cage. Can I start the show? "

About auditions, he had asked for advice when lenley and Chris Hemsworth were roommates. Generally speaking, in an audition like this, the casting director has to see hundreds of actors a day, and many of them are familiar with faces, so they don't have time to be polite and like to cut into the theme directly. If they are interested, they will naturally ask for more.

That's what Langley is doing now.

But Lucinda raised her right hand and stopped Lan Li, "don't worry." Then he narrowed his eyes, looked at Lan Li carefully, and asked aloud, "Englishman?"

Deja vu, the first question of the "Pacific War" audition was also this. The radian of the corner of blue Li's mouth rose slightly, "yes." After a pause, Lucinda looked hesitant. He added, "the script describes the alien war, and the battlefield is set in Europe. So I think the nationality and accent of the officers are not that important. " That's why he didn't change his accent. "Or does the crew want an American hero?"

In the last life, the role of William cage was a clear American. He was sent to Britain to help fight against aliens; But after reading the script carefully, lanli found that there was no mention of nationality in the original script. Obviously, this is a change to the script after Tom Cruise took over.

As a matter of fact, the original novel was written by Japanese, and the hero is naturally Japanese. Just like the later "shell attack mobile team" movie live action version, after Hollywood adaptation, it naturally changed to the American.

However, these two works are still different. The story content of "shell attack mobile team" still takes place in Japan, and the whole story structure, theme and core content are closely related to the oriental culture. Suddenly, the role changes from Asian face to white face, and the overall style becomes different.

"Tomorrow's edge" is different. The change of the screenwriter directly transplants the whole story to the world background. It is no longer the Japanese fighting against aliens, but the whole world fighting against aliens. The main battlefield has also moved to Paris. The most important thing is that the core idea of the story is not directly related to the oriental culture, and it is closer to the game mode of upgrading, so the overall style is very harmonious.

Because of this, in the first edition of the screenplay, more emphasis was placed on the science fiction world view, and there was no mandatory setting or even mention of William cage's nationality and accent.

For Langley, the experience and growth of the character William cage has no direct connection with the matter of nationality, and "tomorrow's edge" is originally a commercial film, so he did not further refine his accent.

In the face of Lan Li's response, Lu Xinda chuckled and showed her irregular teeth. However, instead of responding to Lan Li's response, she said directly, "you can start performing." In the meantime, the initiative is in hand.

Lan Li didn't mind. Instead, he adjusted his standing posture. His whole posture was straight and upright, with his shoulders open, his back straight, and his legs in a slightly relaxed shape. He stood upright. His natural and handsome posture was like a soldier who had been trained for many years.

Lucinda's eyes show a playful smile. She can clearly see the adjustment made by lanli for the performance. Even though he only wears a smoky grey shirt with jeans and skateboarding shoes today, the temperament and posture of the soldiers are still revealed, which looks like the soldiers who were on holiday in Paris during World War II. This is not unusual. Langley played in the Pacific War, which is his famous work; But what's interesting is Lanley's next performance.

Although he was tall and straight, Lan Li's chin was closed. There was confusion and worry between his handsome eyebrows. He tried his best to cover it up, but the effect was very little. When he opened his mouth, his deep voice was trembling slightly. He pretended to be calm, but his bluff was fierce. It can be seen that, "general, I have encouraged millions of people to join your army, When the body bags are transported back to China, there must be a person carrying the black pot. How difficult do you think it is for me to convince people that all this is your fault? "

That slow sentence, word by word, but the rhythm is a bit disordered, uneven, even so, the power is still strong, and then saw that pair of eyes become firm and resolute, in an instant, the momentum of killing and decisive will speak out the words behind, "I think, the general does not want to do this?"

Thirty seconds, a short 30 seconds of performance, freely retracted and released, instantly burst out, instantly returned to the original position, the kind of panic to the extreme, grasp the straw and regardless of everything, the ruthless means, show incisively and vividly. However, it is neither cunning nor insidious. It is more like the resistance of survival instinct.

Lucinda thinks it's funny. What's the credit for the performance? Or the credit of lanli? But whatever the reason, it's a necessary quality for a big screen superhero. But what really impressed Lucinda was not the audition itself.

Lucinda is a Frenchman. She began to work as a casting director in 1997. Before that, she had been active in Europe. Luc Besson, Guy Ritchie and other directors were long-term partners; After landing in Hollywood, with excellent ability and extensive contacts in Europe, he became the casting director of numerous blockbusters, "Troy", "Alexander the great", "Batman prequel" series, "X-Men" series and so on.

Lucinda doesn't belong to any company, but in the last two years, she has cooperated with Warner Brothers more frequently. Recently, she is also casting another work of Warner Brothers, "cloud picture", in which Wachowski is in charge of the director. Warner Brothers are quite optimistic about the two directors who have shot the "matrix", With a wave of his hand, he approved a budget of 100 million yuan.

In a busy scene, the production department called her last night and gave her the casting task of "tomorrow's edge". She naturally refused. The "cloud picture" crew needs at least 230 actors with lines, which is impossible to complete in a short time. Where can she have time to deal with another work? But Tim Lewis came to her in person and convinced her to join in with sincerity.

Lucinda didn't even have time to get the script of "tomorrow's edge". She just listened to Tim's outline of the story and went to the shelves early this morning. Lucinda doesn't have any idea about lanli's performance just now. She doesn't know that it's a play in the script. What's more, she doesn't know why lanli performs like this.

But, to Lucinda's surprise, Langley's attitude.

First there was an Oscar nomination, then there was a work of 300 million in North America, not to mention the friendliness shown by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. From any angle, Langley can now be regarded as a second-line actor, or even an actor who has touched the edge of the line. It is a hot and rising stage. Especially recently, the news of the sequel of "speed and passion" has been very popular.

However, in the audition just now, lanli did not show any pride. Let alone pride, he didn't even have the airs of actors. The enthusiasm and cheerfulness he showed were the attitude of loving acting skills, the concentration and devotion he showed in the performance, and the posture of professional actors.

Between trance, stripped all the additional aura, Lucinda only saw an actor, conscientious actor posture. This attitude alone was enough to make Lucinda look at her.