"Cooper." Donald shouts Cooper, who is ready to leave. This makes Cooper raise his eyes, and then he sees Donald beckoning Murphy.
Turning his head, Cooper noticed Murphy's loneliness: there was a trace of depression and loss in her expression. Her words could not persuade her brother, nor her father. No one wanted to believe her.
With a little breath, Cooper also understood Donald's meaning. The two children who were lack of mother's care needed more care and support. However, he often forgot this, immersed himself in his work, hoping to forget the sadness and bitterness, and left all his parents' work to his father-in-law. He needs to stop occasionally.
Standing in the same place, Cooper lowered his eyes and covered up the look between his eyes and eyebrows. He stepped slightly. The sigh and struggle revealed by him were fleeting, but it was meaningful; But then Cooper raised his eyes again, put the coffee cup on the table, pulled back his chair, and sat down facing Murphy, keeping his eyes parallel so that the two could talk on an equal footing.
"If you want to talk about science, all right, Murphy." Cooper looked at Murphy with concentration and devotion. His eyes did not dodge. He kept his sincerity and frankness. "You just told me that it's not enough to be afraid of ghosts. No, you have to keep digging. Record all the facts, analyze them, understand the causes and methods, and then summarize the conclusions. "
Pause, Cooper did not continue to speak, but looked at Murphy, eyes that smile gently rose, so silent for a second.
In just a second, the conversation between father and daughter became warm, and then Cooper said, "deal?"
Murphy's smile bloomed and nodded heavily, "deal!"
Cooper was stunned by his confident manner, as if he had seen himself in his childhood. Then the radian of Cooper's mouth rose, his jaw dropped, his eyes dropped. After he stood up again, he picked up the bath towel on Murphy's shoulder, wiped the little guy's wet hair, said nothing more, and grabbed his coffee cup, Then he turned and left.
"Go to school today." Instead of staying in the house, Cooper walked straight out.
"Wait a minute." Donald's steady and muddy voice rang, but Cooper's pace did not stop, just slowed down slightly, still tasting his own coffee, just slightly over his head, sending a signal: he was listening, "there's a parents' meeting today."
Before Cooper could speak, Donald added, "it's a 'parents' meeting, not a' parents' meeting."
Cooper's steps finally stopped, his left hand still holding his coffee cup, standing quietly in the same place, can only vaguely see a side face, the sun through the open door spilled down, outline his side face lines, slightly sloppy beard seems to be able to catch a touch of bitterness and sadness, but fleeting, so disappeared in the dazzling light.
"Card!"
Christopher's voice rang in the room, interrupting the filming of the scene.
That clear and loud voice, let all people come back to God, but the aftertaste is still on the tip of the tongue, slowly faint open, this just gradually feel the heavy play.
Jessica also recovered, but still not anxious to get rid of emotion, but to savor.
Although Lan Li was constantly subtracting in the performance, he could hardly see the trace of the performance, and he didn't carve and polish his eyes and lines so much. The whole play was flowing and completed at one go. This skill alone was enough to make people applaud; But the really amazing part is the two pauses of Langley.
The first time Donald signaled that Cooper needed to talk to Murphy.
The second time Donald talked about the parents' meeting.
The reasons for the two pauses are similar. Donald reminds Cooper that he needs to shoulder the responsibility of being a father. Although he is the children's grandfather, he can't replace Cooper in the end. What's more, in the absence of mother's care, the father's role becomes more and more important.
Cooper's two pauses have different meanings.
The last time he was sorry, with hidden guilt. Instead of refusing to fulfill his father's responsibility, he was immersed in his own pain, often neglecting the two children. In fact, he loved the two children more deeply than anyone else. So, when Cooper sat down in front of Murphy, he did not avoid, but looked directly into Murphy's eyes, patiently explained, not only love, but also respect.
The last time was a struggle, and the painful memory of deep burial was awakened in my mind again. Once upon a time, it was all the responsibility of the mother, but now he has to shoulder all the responsibilities alone. He couldn't tell whether he devoted himself to work in order to forget the pain or to forget the existence of the children and remind his wife of the fact of her death.
In the "Star Trek" script, the Nolan brothers almost consciously ignore the existence of Cooper's wife, but for this problem, Langley and Jessica have talked in depth——
Cooper's wife died in the end.
In fact, not only Cooper's wife, but Tom's two children died in the same way when he came of age. According to the setting of the story, the dust storms on the earth in the last days are becoming more and more serious. Not only crops can't survive, but also breathing becomes extremely difficult. That's why NASA needs to go to the universe to find a space suitable for human survival. Cooper's wife and Tom's children all died because of this.
At the beginning of the story, which is just the beginning of the play, Cooper is reading the monitoring information on the computer screen. In fact, he has been observing the development of mode disaster and trying to find a way to save the earth. He is not to save mankind, but to save the pain of losing his wife, to save his two children.
Cooper almost lost sleep and food to work, trying to forget the pain in this way, also trying to find a ray of life in this way. Unknowingly, he and the two children gradually away, especially the rebellious period of Tom, he has even forgotten the method of communication.
When Donald's "not a parent's parent" hit Cooper hard, he was confused and at a loss. Not so simple as sadness or bitterness, but a kind of lost loneliness. What should he do? What else can he do?
Great skill does not work!
This is Jessica's intuitive experience of lanli's performance. She doesn't have any craftsmanship and intention at all. She only uses two steps to pause, without any unnecessary expressions and actions. Instead, she skillfully connects with the plot seamlessly. The emotional points revealed in the light atmosphere are strong enough and deep enough to create layers of ripples, Inadvertently, it can bring a completely different viewing experience.
Not all the outside performances are wonderful, or they may be bloody yelling; Not all introverted performances are simple and easy. They may also be turbulent and turbulent. There is no difference in performance itself, but actors and acting skills can really see the pros and cons.
Of course, all these contents are self perceived by the audience. If you watch the film carefully, now these details are foreshadowing. With the later story unfolding, it will gradually evolve into a stormy mood and enlarge the core of the whole film to the extreme; But if we just treat the movie as popcorn, we will ignore it, but it has no effect.
Jessica read and understood the script over and over again, and her feelings became more direct and profound.
Comparing the two works of "gravity" and "Star Trek", Jessica can immediately understand what is addition and subtraction, and the differences in eyes, manner and details switch the aura and momentum of the whole performance, showing two different ways of expression.
In terms of depth and height, "gravity" is definitely better than "interstellar crossing"; But in terms of skill and difficulty, the two are almost the same, especially lanli's skillfulness and ease in the performance process, which makes the "star crossing" performance perfectly natural.
After all, egot is just a name. People seem to get used to it when they shout, and they don't feel the difficulty and profundity in it at all; But now, Jessica can really feel the brilliance of Langley. It's hard to describe it in words, which makes Jessica a little excited and can't wait to put into the performance.
When her eyes fell on Timothy and McKenzie, Jessica showed a touch of envy: not that they could play against Langley, she was not so unpromising; But envy them to be able to encounter such a rare opportunity in their youth, and then it depends on how much they can learn from Lan Li.
"Langley..." Christopher's voice rang. He stood in the same place and thought for a moment. Then he asked, "if you change the angle, what's the effect? I mean, it's just a side face. There are too few emotions revealed. You turn around and face the camera. In this way, will your emotions be more direct? "
If you are facing the camera head-on, it will be inferior. It may not only destroy the integrity of the picture, but also make the performance too rough and direct. More importantly, it does not conform to the keynote of Christopher's whole film.
Jessica was a little surprised, because what Christopher put forward was a bad idea, which was not his strong point in directing performance skills; But unexpectedly, Lan Li nodded dryly and gave a positive reply, "no problem, just the last shot?"
"Yes, the last shot. Let's do it again." There was a light smile on Christopher's face.