Chapter 1080

Langley is an actor, no matter how the outside world comments, this has never changed.

All along, he has been trying to explore and study acting skills in his own way, hoping to find his own way and climb to a higher peak of acting skills, not to surpass a certain magnate or create a record, but to constantly surpass himself and improve himself in the field of art, Pursuing the "perfect state" which can never be reached or even does not exist at all.

This is not an easy road. It may still be a road with no end in sight. However, Lan Li has no regrets.

Last year's "anti cancer me" was his first breakthrough in acting. It really broke the barriers between the Methodists and the Expressionists, and initially integrated the two ways of performance, thus giving the role a more real, more delicate and more upright texture, and integrating the performance and the role.

In the subsequent "detachment", he went a step further, found the common ground of methodology and Expressionism in the context of performance, endowed the role with more power with his own understanding, and integrated the core idea of the script into the role, truly regarded the role as a part of the film, pursuing the overall harmony and harmony.

Now "gravity", he completely blurred the boundaries between the two ways of performance, got rid of the rules of performance, and looked at the role and performance from a higher perspective.

Every actor should know that the method of performance is only a medium. In the final analysis, the task of an actor is to give vitality to the role. Whether it is a Methodist or an expressionist, as long as it can achieve this, it is an excellent performance.

For many gifted young actors, they don't know how to perform at all. They just perform by instinct, and then give the characters their own spirituality and texture. So was the performance of Jennifer Lawrence in "winter bones" and timothye chalamet in "please call me by your name.".

However, if you want to make a further breakthrough in performance, just relying on talent, it will not work; Methods and skills are indispensable. Spirituality and temperament will gradually become routine in day-to-day performance, and then lose their unique texture. They must make themselves better through skills. This is just one of the differences between Hollywood and Europe.

In Hollywood, talented actors like Macaulay Calkin emerge one after another, but they are disappearing too fast, falling like meteors. Hollywood can't wait for them to complete their transformation and evolution, and they have been replaced by a group of new faces. As a result, the performance skills become more and more simple and rough, and the accumulation of new generation blood becomes more and more difficult.

In the European film world, whether young actors or mainstays, they are bound to experience such a process: simply relying on talent to perform; Further study and research, through skill performance; Finally, he completed the transformation again, returned to nature, and integrated the skills into his body. Every move, every frown and every smile is a performance.

To express the charm and mystery of Oriental culture, that is: to see mountains is mountains, to see water is water; Looking at mountains is not mountains, looking at water is not water; Finally, the mountain or the mountain, the water or the water.

This time, unexpectedly, Langley opened the door from the second stage to the third stage - not only the three stages of Ryan stone, but also the three stages of actors.

Although, in the second stage, lanli has not fully matured, controlled or even understood, it is too early to enter the third stage, but... Performing arts has never been a mathematical problem, it is impossible to follow the formula step by step, all the development is natural, inspiration is the only key to progress.

At the beginning, lanli was ready to recreate the "buried alive" performance experience. In the way of methodology and experience, he really integrated into the role and environment, feeling the emotion and reality he had never experienced.

Gradually, those fictional facts, circumstances and emotions, bit by bit, found a foothold and borrowing point in lanli's ego and ID, and then enlarged and expanded step by step, and finally completely evolved into "reality".

Whether it's Methodist or experiential, the performance itself gets rid of the frame structure, confuses the boundary between reality and illusion, and truly feels the same way. From my own perspective, I reexamine the story, experience and perception of the characters.

It seems that such a statement is too abstruse and academic, and can be illustrated with simple examples.

In the process of "burying alive" and "detachment", through the personal experience of Methodists, Langley is truly on the scene, feeling the ups and downs of emotions and psychological activities, including Paul Conroy and Henry bass. Even in some moments, Langley confuses the difference between film and reality.

But at the end of the day, Paul is Paul and Henry is Henry. Those feelings, those experiences, those memories, all belong to them, not to lanli.

Now, in the "gravity", everything that Ryan stone experienced is completely integrated with the stories of lanli hall and Chu Jiashu. It's like that the three characters are different independent individuals, but they are all broken up and rebuilt, and they are made into a new character, lanli now.

Compared with the "anti-cancer me", it goes further and explores a higher level of perception. It can be said that Ryan experienced Chu Jiashu lying on the hospital bed for ten years, and it can also be said that Lan Li really put himself in space and fell into a desperate situation. All these stories have broken the barriers of time and space and become a whole.

People always say that art comes from life and is higher than life. In every artist's works, you can more or less see my memories, stories and even thoughts. Even many artists' works are semi autobiographical situation, or the evolution and derivation of autobiography. Painting, literature, music, performance and so on are all like this.

In the process of performance, the actor's understanding of the characters' emotions such as fear, happiness, fear and joy all comes from his own experience, which cannot be shaped out of thin air. This is also the source of Methodist acting. Robert De Niro has never been a taxi driver, so in order to play "taxi driver", he really experienced the life of a taxi driver for two months, so the inspiration appeared.

But what's the next step after that?

What if actors can't experience reality in a methodical way? It's like Langley can't really be in space, become an astronaut, and be in a desperate situation, and so on. There are too many situations that actors can't personally experience.

So, does this mean that actors can find resonance with the characters and stories in their own way, and then transform themselves into characters and characters themselves, just like tearing the soul into innumerable pieces, one of which becomes a character -- a character with actor's personal experience, personal characteristics and personal understanding.

In essence, a role is a part of itself, or a part of an actor.

When the actor and the role are naturally integrated, the actor can reinterpret the story, reread the script, and reinterpret the specific plot and emotions from his own perspective and understanding. In such a performance process, the expressionist acting skills are undoubtedly the core, because the actor needs to show all kinds of emotions according to the director and the local opera, which can be controlled freely and accurately.

It's like Langley now.

Through the experience of methodological school, Ryan becomes Lan Li, and Lan Li becomes Ryan. Later, in the process of performance, Lan Li accurately controls every emotional node in the way of expressionism, and truly turns the performance into arbitrary play, showing the real feelings from the depths of the soul.

After breaking away from the stage of "seeing mountains is mountains", now Lan Li has left the stage of "seeing mountains is not mountains", and has a preliminary insight into the realm of "mountains or mountains".

At this moment, lanli can really feel the existence of Ryan, but his mind is very clear. He knows that he is not Ryan stone or Chu Jiashu, but lanli hall; However, if he is going to shoot now, he also knows what situation Ryan is facing and how he needs to perform.

This feeling is very vague and ambiguous.

Language to describe, after a long speech, just become more and more rap, oneself around dizzy; But the actor can feel the difference vaguely and carry it out in the performance.

Although, Lan Li is not sure whether he really understood, and is not sure whether his understanding is correct, everything can only be understood through the next actual shooting, can also practice, and truly understand; But lanli began to see different levels and levels.

Like Meryl Streep.

Everyone says that Meryl is one of the greatest actresses in American history, but in fact, after entering the middle of her career, Meryl's roles are more or less similar, strong and independent, independent and firm, but there is no lack of fragile and soft women in her heart, following the consistent style since "Sophie's choice".

So, isn't Meryl just repeating herself?

But now, Lan Li knows that it's not like this.

Meryl's seemingly monotonous performance, each role can see her own shadow; In fact, each character is different. The differences in the details of eyes, facial expressions, actions and speaking tone, as well as the inner and soul revealed by them are totally different.

Such performance quality endows each character with the characteristics of Meryl and not Meryl. That's what's special.

Similar situations can also be felt in the old actors such as Daniel Day Lewis, Judy Dench and Maggie Smith.

In the same situation, Tom Hanks lacks such a texture. Although the roles of Hanks seem to be different, their internal origins are similar, so that each role repeats itself. Hanks hasn't nominated for an Oscar since "the rest of his life on a desert island" in 2000, and that's why.

Performance quality, a magic professional word, now lanli seems to have no touch, which also makes him more looking forward to the next shooting.