"Lan Li, do we need to be a little... Brief?" Felicity raised a question.
"What do you say?" Instead of answering or defending directly, Langley raises a question and signals felicity to continue.
Felicity stopped for a moment to sort out her thoughts. "Can I understand that in this play, the expression of the whole emotion needs to be more direct and concise, and those delicate emotional changes are precipitated and presented with more efficient expressions and actions to simplify the complexity?"
Lanli still did not speak, just gently jaw head, waiting for felicity's follow-up.
Felicity could detect the affirmation in blue Li's eyes, which encouraged her. Her words were obviously a little lighter. "In this play, your performance was very unique, making full use of the change of light. Half of your face was hidden in the dark, even the half of your face facing the light didn't have much emotion, and your eyes were all hidden in the shadow, but, The change of tone is more direct, just like pencil drawing. Every turn and pause can be felt, but the wonder is that with your overall performance, including eyes and body, the concise lines will not appear too monotonous and clumsy, but can enrich the role. That's what you want to do, right? "
Compared with the "crazy love" period, Felicity also grew up a lot, perhaps not as fast as Langley's progress, but for the role, the mastery of skills, can see obvious changes, the most important thing is, the understanding of performance has a new concept, and then produce their own style.
Then felicity raised her head and looked into blue's eyes. "But why? Why perform like this? "
At this time, lanli finally said, "this is a commercial movie. It's that simple. " Aware of felicity's confusion in her eyes, Langley then explained, "look, in commercial movies, rhythm is more important than story, special effects and performance. That's why popcorn is called popcorn, because the audience needs constant climax to keep their attention focused, which also means that, Our performance should not be too cumbersome and trivial. We still need to be concise as a whole, so that emotions can be transmitted quickly and accurately, so as to ensure that the rhythm of the director will not be dragged down by the actors. "
Felicity understood a little, but she had more questions: it was obvious that lanli's performance was more than that.
"But that doesn't mean the character is thin," he explained. Film critics always like to say that the characters in commercial films are all functional paper people, and the characters themselves have no depth and breadth. On the one hand, this is caused by the script; On the other hand, it's performance. "
"It's also anger. In fact, in the process of performance, the actor does not need to express the level of anger, but can leave a space for reverie, so that the audience can realize that there is a reason behind the anger. This is enough. As for the reasons, commercial films do not need to explore in depth, because every audience can have their own understanding. But this one reason, but can let the role of three-dimensional full up
Langley pours out all her thoughts in one go, and felicity falls into deep meditation. Compared with confusion, more complicated and complicated thoughts rush up, just like the big bang.
Just right, just right?
Advance and retreat properly, precise and ingenious!
These are undoubtedly the most difficult and arduous parts, not just the performance. All things are the same. How to find a clever balance point on the balance and maintain a perfect balance state is no exception at any time. Now, Langley and felicity are also facing such problems.
Objectively speaking, they don't have to.
"Grand theft one" is just a commercial film. Performance is not the focus of audience appreciation. Felicity just needs to be aware of the difference between shots, cut down the branches of her performance, and make the whole performance more concise and clear. Then there is no problem. Other things are self seeking troubles
The director won't ask, and the audience won't ask. The "depth" of popcorn movies is just like flattering the blind. It's not necessary at all. It's just the actor's self-cultivation.
A lot of times, it's even rejected by directors and producers.
However, it is obvious that Langley has a different view: the reason why the excavation of characters and the carving of performances become redundant cumbersome for commercial films is that the creation of actors and directors does not fit on the same track in the final analysis; Once they fit together, commercial films will be separated from simple "popcorn" and have more aftertaste value, such as "Titanic", such as "Batman: Dark Knight" and so on.
Lanli's ability is obvious, so he is pursuing a higher level and perfect state of performance - how to integrate the role's self-consciousness into the entertainment effect performance; But felicity had no need, no need at all. She was just embarrassing herself.
Nevertheless, Felicity was still in deep thought.
She hopes to be qualified for the role of commercial film, but also hopes to retain her own characteristics - otherwise, how can she survive in the highly competitive Hollywood industry?
Is this greed? Or ambition?
In the iron triangle of "crazy love", both Jennifer Lawrence and Langley hall have achieved the peak of their career. However, Felicity Jones, who is praised for her solid and delicate performance, has fallen behind and gradually forgotten by people. Now she meets Langley again. She has too much burden to prove herself. Is that right? Unwilling? envy? Desire? Are these emotions turning the world upside down?
No, she doesn't think so.
For the performance, she also has her own obsession, always unable to give up, also unable to calm obsession - just like the eyes of captain Cassian Ando.
It's not for comparison or jealousy, but a yearning, a passionate yearning. She yearns to be an actor like lanli. She yearns to complete the role modeling according to her own ideas and ideas. She yearns to interpret her own taste.
Although it's very difficult!
In the past two years, due to her high praise and attention, Jennifer seems to be losing her aura of performance, as if she is gradually content with the status quo and does not want to explore and refuse to change; But the actors themselves know that the noise and confusion under the spotlight is as suffocating as an invisible cage. It's not that Jennifer doesn't want to change, but that she doesn't have enough energy to change——
For example, in the award season, she has to participate in various parties and social activities every day, even three or four times a day. During the two months, she has been constantly facing the social interaction of insincere and insincere, and even a quiet and stable sleep is very difficult, let alone the exploration performance. And that's just a very small part of her daily life all year round.
That's why many actors turn to alcohol or drugs for help.
Similarly, Langley also faces a similar dilemma, which is better than that of Jennifer; But lanli's way of dealing with it is quite different. He chose to continue to stick to his performance major, leave the noise and noise of the award season, devote himself wholeheartedly to the performance, constantly explore his own field, and try to go further in the performance level and touch the threshold of the highest palace.
If you have some, you have to give up some. That's true for both Langley and Jennifer.
Perhaps, the difference between lanli and Jennifer is that lanli is a man who can always occupy some advantages in the film industry. Even if he does not participate in the college public relations, he can still open up a world; But this is not the most important difference. Every actor knows this well. In the final analysis, it's still a matter of choice. Felicity also knows this clearly.
Of course, no one needs and no one should blame Jennifer, because every actor has to make his own choice. Most people can't even achieve the level of Jennifer. Her every footprint also records her career track and an irreplaceable journey.
"Love crazy" iron triangle has made their own choice, now felicity is facing another fork in the road, she needs to further complete the choice.
To bid farewell to the award season of "theory of everything" and devote herself to the performance of "grand theft one" is felicity's final choice.
So, she doesn't want to "pass the insurance", she doesn't want to "average".
As a result, Felicity followed lanli's words, crawling forward step by step, pushing away the fog layer by layer, looking for her own performance rhythm and scale in the chaos.
It wasn't easy, but she was immersed and enjoyed it.
Felicity didn't speak, and Langley was still deep in thought. After a short high-frequency conversation, the scene was quiet again. Angus Wright and may bell were slightly surprised, not sure what to do.
On the one hand, Langley and felicity's conversation frequency keeps high speed, and there is no room for interruptions between them, which is over in a flash; On the other hand, it seems that Langley and felicity are not ready to include others. They do not allow outsiders to intervene in their world.
Angus and may bell are helpless, both exchanged a line of sight, the fundus showed each other's joking eyes, seems to be saying, "ignored by the big brand."; However, for them, this has long been taken for granted. They thought that Lan Li might be different, but now they are disappointed.
The main reason why they didn't turn around and leave is that they also know their acting tasks: they need to cooperate with the director and two leading actors to complete the whole play. Now, the actors in it can feel the abnormality more or less, and the rhythm of the performance obviously does not fit in with the track. What should they do next? They also need to follow the direction of the director - or, in other words, the direction of Langley.
"Er... Langley?"
At this time, a sound broke the noise of the scene, and some eyes were projected towards the source of the sound. It was the director Garris Edwards.