"I can't. I really can't do it. "
Rachel seems to be on the verge of collapse.
The actors and actresses are always like this: the east wind may overwhelm the west wind, or the west wind may overwhelm the east wind, or they may destroy each other's rhythm and lead to total chaos, or they may burst out chemical reactions to improve the performance quality, and then create more sparks and bring unexpected surprises.
Anything is possible!
Because everyone is different! The rhythm, state and style of performance between people are also different. Depending on different roles, scenes and directors, there will be more differences, which will naturally lead to the development possibility of countless chemical reactions.
Generally speaking, both Rachel and Langley are very experienced actors in performing, and they are also very experienced actors in stage performance. The rhythm of each other is completely destroyed and one side completely loses balance, which is very rare and even unlikely to happen.
After all, Rachel is not a lonely vase, her strength and standard are beyond doubt.
So what happened just now?
In short, lanli's firepower is fully open. From posture, eyes to lines, lanli gives many details to the performance of the whole play, that is, adding. If placed in the medium shot, these additions are too subtle to fully capture, only to experience the change of the overall aura, which is also the reason why the staff can feel the surge of emotion; But if placed in the close-up lens, these emotions will appear too heavy and too powerful, release instant thump, which also creates the effect of a magnifying glass, regardless of the face.
What Engels and others see is the middle shot, while what Rachel sees is the close-up.
As a rival actor, Rachel is under the pressure of lanli's performance emotions. She can clearly feel that lanli's performance strength is improving in an all-round way, and those emotions are just like a torrent of water, all of which give Rachel no breathing space and time at all.
Then, the performance went out of balance.
Rachel is no longer a rookie. She has rich performing experience, which enables her to cope with all kinds of scenes. Even most of the time, she is the one who is in charge of the play. If the young actors are not careful, the rhythm may be out of balance. This mature and steady performance quality makes her successfully hold the bottom line and stick to the play until the end, And not shooting half lost rhythm and lead to interruption.
Nevertheless, Rachel is still very, very dissatisfied with her performance.
In fact, Rachel can see that in recent years, Langley's performance has always maintained a state of cold outside and hot inside. This ambivalence fits well with David's role. On the contrary, it gives more possibilities to the development of his works, which is a good thing.
But the difference is that the previous part of the play, the mood is strong, but relatively stable; In today's play, the mood is turbulent, and it breaks out in an instant. Then lanli's performance is a little bit too strong, and the whole details are too tight. The mood is like a wave after wave, and then the balance is easily broken.
Rachel doesn't know what happened to lenley, and she doesn't want to pry into lenley's privacy.
Rachel is not sure if her performance is too strong. She is more focused on herself.
But Rachel can be sure that she is not satisfied with her performance. The feeling of being suppressed is too bad, which makes her performance without any soul; What's worse is that she directly broke away from the performance state of a short-sighted woman and developed empathy with David, which is a fatal performance defect. It can be said that she was not involved in the play at all - it's not that Langley's performance was not good enough, but that her concentration was broken.
Rachel was very, very dissatisfied with her performance.
"I can't do it! I need five minutes! "
Rachel realized that she was too emotional to continue her performance. She asked for a five minute break.
With Rachel as the representative, the whole crew can feel the powerful aura of lanli. It's like a martial arts master finally shows all his strength in full swing. That sense of oppression bursts out and easily forms the aura of repression. No one can be an exception.
Instead of sitting beside in a daze, Rachel got up and went to the back of the monitor and asked to watch the replay.
From the playback of the performance, we can clearly see that the whole rhythm and aura are completely concentrated on lanli. We can't even feel the existence of Rachel in the camera. She is just like a wisp of air and is directly ignored. The serious imbalance also destroys the coordination of the whole play. This is not a normal phenomenon.
Rachel's body language is very rigid, and she can't show the calmness of a short-sighted woman at all. At this time, she should be the one who controls the initiative. Even in the face of David's temptation, she doesn't have any problems and calmly deals with all the potential possibilities; But the reality is:
"God, this is a disaster." Rachel couldn't believe the person in the camera was herself.
Among them, David focuses on the picture of a short-sighted woman, and Rachel's back muscles are obviously stiff, and her aura is becoming wavering, which also reveals the inner panic and hesitation of a short-sighted woman——
But at this time, the accurate emotion of a short-sighted woman should be calm, slightly nervous, but still calm, pretending that she didn't notice David's gaze at all, and even expressing doubts because of the silence of the atmosphere. She raised her jaw or slightly tilted her head to ask David, "what's the matter?", This kind of general style is the right way to perform.
But what about her?
"Eugene, please hide all this and never let me see it, OK?" Rachel was very remorseful. "I can't believe it was me. It was as clumsy as an open book. If short-sighted women really are like this, they will be eaten alive in the forest as early as possible. "
"Rachel, it's not that bad." He tried to comfort his love.
Rachel turned her head and looked at oggs with great seriousness. "Are you serious?"
Oggs got stuck - remember? According to the original design of oggs, Rachel is the eye of the whole work, but now it has been completely overthrown. David's every move, every word and every action endows the whole story with more profound and complex possibilities. It's hard to imagine that the actor's performance can have such power; On the contrary, it was Rachel's interpretation of the role that failed to open up the situation.
Rachel pursed the corners of her mouth and her jaw, as if comforting herself. "I can take it. I can take the crap I just performed. It's good to start over. We just need to start over. Right? We can have new possibilities when we start over. How about it, Langley? Would you like to do it again? "
Rachel seems to have suffered a big blow. Her mood is inevitably exposed. On the contrary, her appearance reveals a little bit of a little woman's naivety.
Lanli is also watching the replay of the performance. After he calms down, he also realizes that he is too strong.
Although, from the perspective of medium range, those emotions are accurate and not unreasonable; But there are still many aspects to consider in the performance, such as the actors in the opponent's play, such as the overall picture, such as the style of the work, and so on. Otherwise, the actors are too prominent and damage the integrity, so the actors are also derelict in their duties - at least they must bear part of the responsibility for the work not as expected.
That's how it is now.
The style of Eugene's works is still relatively cold and stable, and all performances have to converge inward, which is why bast Keaton's previous performance style can bring many inspirations. That kind of rigid performance can give the whole work more wonderful and more intense chemical reaction.
However, in lanli's performance, we can clearly see the traces of exertion - the details really increase the mood, but they seem too many. At this moment, it should be "less is better than more". It is most appropriate to point to the end and leave a lingering charm. He made an obvious mistake.
It's a bit similar to Matthew McConnell. After winning the Oscar with the "Dallas buyer's Club", Matthew's career has plummeted. At the peak of 2013 and 2014, his performance received numerous praises, both inside and outside the industry, There are even people who ridicule that Leonardo DiCaprio should learn from Matthew - the two of them did play opposite roles in "Wall Street wolf".
But what happened?
In fact, it's very simple. Matthew learned how to carve the details, but he didn't learn how to control them. This makes him continue his usual way of performance in his subsequent works, just like a template. He uses the same way of performance to interpret different roles. Too many complicated details become a burden and destroy the characters and works. Then, his performance is a "failure".
The same set of performances is icing on the cake in some works, but they are black sheep in some works“ "Your honey, my arsenic" is the truth.
In this play, lanli also encountered the same problem - he was able to act, he was able to control the overall situation, but at this moment of the play, he didn't need to show off his skills. On the contrary, his show off skills destroyed the integrity and sense of balance, and he needed to recycle his performance.
Oggs is not a professional performer. He can detect the difference, just like Rachel. But for a while, he can't tell why; However, after Lan Li calmed down, his whole thought became clear, and he also realized that those confused thoughts in his mind made him too tight and too involved, and as a result, he fell into the pattern of "too much is not enough". He needed to readjust his rhythm.
Then Rachel's inquiry came, and Langley didn't hesitate. "Of course, I'd love to!"