It's perfect.
This is the only thought in Ethan Cohen's mind at this moment.
From Cannes to Venice to the Oscars, in the past year, everyone has said that Langley's performance in "gravity" and "drunken folk songs" is not only the first young actor of generation Y, but also comparable to that of Meryl Streep and the first young actor of generation y Daniel Day Lewis's peak strength.
It's just because of this praise that the hat is too big for a 24-year-old actor. Coupled with the historical moment of egot, it's more than enough. During the whole award season, everyone is rejecting lanli, and scorning and belittling lanli has gradually become the mainstream of the industry. It seems that everyone is "kind" to cool down lanli, He is looking forward to a longer career.
Ethan does not comment on this.
As a director, Ethan has personally experienced every performance of every play of "drunken folk songs". Although he is not the kind of director who is good at training his acting skills, he can still truly feel that the delicate texture and three-dimensional depth that lanli gives to his role in the performance is far ahead of his peers, Even now, Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence, who have made great achievements, are far behind Langley.
Ethan was dismissive of the cooling remarks; Ethan fully agrees with those words of praise.
To be honest, Lan Li is the only candidate in Ethan's mind in this year's Oscar competition. In terms of strength, talent and aura, it is difficult for other competitors to compete with Lan Li, but... The Oscar competition has never been a competition of strength. Even if Ethan wants to prove that Lan Li is the second film emperor, he is also powerless.
In other words, Ethan also believes that "gravity" and "drunken folk" are indeed the peak state of lanli. He doesn't think anyone can challenge these two performances in the short term——
Yes, even if there is no qualification to challenge, let alone breakthrough or anti surpass, even Lan Li himself is not likely to be able to copy such a feat. After all, such a difficult and wonderful performance is unbelievable for the consumption of energy and physical strength. The actors are all flesh, and the performance state is just like the competitive state, which is bound to fluctuate. If you want to copy it again in a short time, the difficulty increases exponentially. Even some actors release all their energy for a short time, and then they return to mediocrity.
Jamie fox is such a typical case. In 2004, the "king of soul" and "killing people with a knife" burst into brilliant light; But that year seemed to consume all the energy, and then there was no more performance worthy of mentioning.
Today, however, Ethan has to overturn his ideas——
"Pop drummer" is the real peak!
The premise is that the film itself explores the process of looking for the peak state of Art -- Fletcher and Andrew's game of resistance, from the start to the uphill and then to the setback, and then to the comeback, but suffered a serious blow, fell to the bottom and destroyed hope, finally broke and then stood up, completed the soul baptism and sublimation with the action of Patricide, and achieved perfection.
The whole film clearly presents the whole process of artistic transformation and sublimation, even more complete than "black swan".
Although Damien chazere's skill control, including lens scheduling, picture editing and light application, is slightly inferior to Darren Aronofsky's, and is slightly green compared with David finch's, the integrity of the performance complements the director's work and makes the film complete.
This also means that "pop drummer" is different from "drunken folk songs" and "gravity" in nature. The actor has got a role platform that can openly explore the acting ceiling and artistic barriers. If he can show his brilliance, he will be brilliant and unstoppable!
That's what happened when Natalie Portman played black swan.
Among the "pop drummers", lanli really presents the psychological transformation on the road of artistic exploration, from the physical torture to the psychological collapse, and then to the dual baptism of psychological and physical levels. Step by step, he finds the real and bright self in the ocean of art, and reaches the peak in the last performance, Showing the soul of art unreservedly in front of the audience brings a pure supreme enjoyment.
marvellous! Wonderful! People can't help but want to stand up and clap!
In particular, the contrast and reversal of the momentum between Andrew and Fletcher vividly and truly interprets the "patricide" plot on the road of artistic upgrading, and complements the transformation of "black swan" Rina in killing superego, releasing ID and breaking through ego, showing the spiritual fission and sublimation in the process of artistic transformation.
If that's all, the performance of "pop drummer" and "black swan" can only be regarded as the same. To some extent, Nina played by Natalie Portman is slightly better than Nina. The main reason is that director Darren Aronofsky's camera painting gives the characters and films a kind of thrilling temperament, which is different from superego, ID, ego Self struggle to form a complementary, so that the performance bloomed an incredible powerful charm.
But the reason why lanli is lanli is that he can always bring surprise!
In the process of performance, when the tension and boldness are all over the show, Lan Li skillfully converges his emotions and presses all the emotional changes from the outside to the inside. More importantly, he uses his eyes to explore the complex psychological changes——
The so-called transmutation of artistic inspiration, no matter which way to explain it, is too awkward and too awkward. Even if it is explained with the drum of the drum, it is pale and powerless, far from showing the subtle changes of the artist's inspiration; Blue Li, on the other hand, narrates all the changes through his eyes. Combined with the essential transformation of drum playing, he presents the feeling of artistic upgrading, and finally leaves the space for thinking and recalling to the audience.
Eyes, the most simple but also the most difficult part of the performance, are endued with infinite possibilities by Langley: the eyes of Andrew talking with Nicole twice, the eyes of Andrew talking with Fletcher bar, the eyes of Andrew hugging his father backstage, the eyes of Andrew at the last moment of playing
In the close-up shot, the psychological changes at each critical turning point are all filled in the eyes. Compared with the publicity and release of the drum show, the performance of artistic understanding and ideological transformation is all introverted and low-key, converging and then converging, which makes the performance of the whole work truly relaxed and relaxed.
The most amazing thing is that the mixed emotional changes presented by those delicate performances can be reflected in the following plots. The combination of the two can help the audience to complete the understanding and substitution. At the same time, it can also complete the sublimation step by step. The shock comes from the bottom of my heart.
This power of control, this power of interpretation, this power of expression, and most importantly, this power of spirituality, can easily get rid of Natalie's performance in the "black swan" with every gesture and smile. The spontaneous and flowing emotional interpretation is too brilliant and shocking, and even makes Natalie clumsy - obviously too powerful, And the lack of hierarchy, more is a single line all the way to the end.
Of course, Natalie's performance in the "black swan" has been rated as first-class, and now among the Y Generation actors in the industry, it can still be regarded as the top level. There is no doubt about her strength.
It's just that Lan Li is too rebellious.
Before today, Ethan never knew what "perfect performance" was. Even those old actors didn't really make him feel it. It's not that they are not good enough, but Ethan's lack of performance savvy and understanding, just like some people can never understand the advantages and disadvantages of liquor or food.
But from today on, Ethan really feels the weight of the word "perfect", not only the beating of blood, not only the breakthrough of spiritual torture, not only the overthrow of Patricide, not only the cold of cutting off the fetters, but also the paranoia and madness from inside to outside, even the eyes and soul have completely changed.
When Andrew broke through Fletcher's repression, he realized the perfection of drumming; At the same time, lanli also broke through the shackles of performance and really achieved the perfection of acting skills. The double breakthrough inside and outside the play breaks the barriers of the big screen and brings a hearty shock to the viewing experience.
Beyond the "gravity", beyond the "drunken folk", and most importantly, beyond lanli himself, touch the new world of performance.
Inexplicably, Ethan recalled a brief interview with lenley during the Venice Film Festival. He said at that time, "now I want to try more different styles and different types of roles and explore more possibilities of performance.".
The words themselves are official and polite. Almost every actor answers like this in every film promotion period: "I want to challenge some new characters and try some different things." But everyone knows that it's just propaganda. Most of the actors in Hollywood have been repeating themselves throughout their career. No one tries new things, because they know that even if they try, there will be no change.
But now Ethan understands that Lanley wants to challenge comedy, action, horror and other different types of characters, and even the performance of commercial films. This is not only to relax himself, but more importantly, because in the aspect of plot characters, he has already seen a lot of people, Even the works of "Night Walker" can not bring more challenges to Lan Li.
However, it is inconceivable that lanli was only twenty-four years old; But after watching "pop drummer", this is Ethan's real feeling!
Perfect art!
Yes, blue touch has met the perfection of art.