Movie Master

Acting is not easy, never has been. Acting requires talent, spirituality, and hard work. Even if you are a genius, acting talent and spirituality will often be wasted and dissipated between increasingly mediocre roles.

For example, Jennifer-Lawrence (Jennifer-Lawrence), who later became popular all over the world, won the recognition of the Oscar statuette at the age of 23. She is not only the hottest actress among the new generation, but even in the long history She is also the high-profile darling of the academy. Her performance has received numerous praises, and she seems to have become the leader of the new generation of actors.

But in fact, Jennifer's best performance comes from "Winter's Bone", which is the third work of her acting career and the first work as the leading role. The freely retractable and soul-stirring performance was a blockbuster, and the three-point performance improved the overall quality of the work, and finally won an Oscar nomination for Best Actress easily. It's a pity that this kind of spirituality has slowly disappeared with the advancement of time. Whether it is "Linux Behind the Dark Clouds" that won her the title of actress, or "American Hustle" that has won many praises, it is hard to compare.

The reasons for each are very complicated, and it is difficult to explain clearly in a few words, but it is undeniable that performance habits are one of the very important reasons, or they are called performance routines, performance models, or comfort areas and safety areas.

Every actor will have his own acting routine. When this routine is successful, if it continues in this way, it can often be easily replicated successfully, so actors will inherit this habit. Over time, it evolved into repeating myself constantly, so that I forgot the essence of acting, and just "habitually" showed that set, and my spirituality and talent were exhausted.

In fact, not only actors, Hollywood is also keen to shoot sequels and genre films; at the same time, in society, people always try to follow the footsteps of successful people, hoping to replicate success in the same way. It is the same reason.

Opening up wasteland, the unknown, adventure, and change are always daunting.

This is also one of the main reasons why the old academics of the British academic school always put the stage play at the top of the list. A play in the West End of London is often staged in seasons, ranging from three months to several years. Time, therefore, the same actor must play the same role in the same play, with hundreds of performances. So, the same actors and the same repertoire, why do the audience take the trouble to go into the theater to enjoy it?

This is the essence of performance. Each performance will be interpreted according to different situations and different states of the actors, and it will not be interpreted, and it will show different effects. What the expert audience "taste" is the taste of the drama. In this framework, if an actor keeps repeating himself, he will be eliminated easily-either the audience loses interest in the role, or he cannot break through himself after changing to a new play. Therefore, this requires that the actor not only Performing still requires research, repeated and tireless research on roles and performances, hoping to deduce new things while maintaining one's own characteristics.

That's called polishing your acting skills.

Lance’s acting skills were born in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, following this habit; but Lance’s acting experience was honed out on Broadway. Unlike London’s West End, Broadway is more open, more trendy, and more innovative. Accept more possibilities with an inclusive attitude. Even so, after thirteen years of training in the previous life, Lance did not think that his acting skills had truly mastered.

So of course Lance has his comfort zone, but he's not resting on his laurels.

But this is not an easy task for Tom. This comfort zone has not only established a glorious dynasty for him for two decades, but also is an irreplaceable part of his idol image. Even if Tom wants to get rid of the control of habits, I'm afraid I can't help myself.

However, if nothing breaks, there is no building. Before inviting Tom, Lance was already ready for a head-on confrontation. Now, it's time to start the battle.

Lance quickly got out of the car and came to the back of the monitor. Tom stared at the monitor with a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice, "Replay." Percy didn't respond, but raised his head and glanced at Lance. For a brief moment, Tom frowned slightly, and turned his head to frown at Lance.

Lance didn't dodge, but straightened his spine, faced Tom's gaze, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. Percy started playback after receiving instructions—as if declaring that in this crew, he is Director and producer, he is the one who has the right to speak!

Tom frowned slightly, and his pupils shrank—just like Vincent's little movement just now. After struggling for a while, he turned his head and looked at the monitor, temporarily avoiding the sharp edge; Lance was not aggressive either. , and then watched the replay of the performance clip just now.

As Lance expected, Tom's performance was too impetuous. He kept turning his head and shifting his gaze, and the rhythm of the performance was completely led away, which made Vincent's emotions fragmented. The action happened in the scene just now-in fact, this is Tom's comfort zone. They finally corrected it, and after shooting that scene, they reverted to their old ways in this scene, which is really speechless .

At the same time, the details of Tom's performance are also very bad, especially the small details inside his mouth, such as grinding his teeth, biting his lower lip, and moving his jaw. People feel the cute and charming side of his image, which is a disaster for Vincent's character.

Similar performance details can be seen in almost every work of Tom, especially "Rain Man", "Yi Haixiongfeng" and "Mr. Sweetheart", even "Magnolia". It's like... It's like putting a different Tom Cruise in a different movie.

In the past five days, Lance has been adjusting Tom's performance, but it has been repeated, and almost every scene has to be corrected again.

However, Lance's performance just now was not good enough. His emotions were a little too shallow, and he didn't really reflect the fear and panic in his heart, which made his performance look a little frivolous, especially the few details of adjusting his breathing. He looks like a sea lion playing with ocean balls, too pompous to look at. Of course, for a commercial film, this can already score 80 points, but in Lance's standards, it can only cause headaches.

The two teamed up to deliver a performance that was unbearable to look at!

Lance took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and turned his head to look at Tom. This time he gave Tom the initiative, hoping that Tom would take the initiative to see that the performance was abnormal. But Tom stood there stiffly with a frosty face, without saying a word, Lance didn't mind, raised his chin towards Percy, and played back again.

Once, twice... After playing it back five times, Lance still turned his head to look at Tom, waiting for Tom to speak.

Tom finally couldn't bear Lance's looking up and down anymore, turned his head suddenly to meet those blue eyes, and raised his eyebrows, "Is there any problem? I think this scene is very good, everything is fine. Very good!" By the standards of Tom's previous work, it is very good--Tom is not lying; but this is not any of Tom's previous works.

Lance thought they had reached a consensus, "Are you serious?" Lance raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked seriously.

"Of course, I couldn't be more serious." Tom gritted his teeth, and could almost hear the voice echoing in the dantian part, and then squeezed out one word after another from his throat.

Lance carefully looked at the anger in Tom's eyes, and it was gradually losing control. Instead of anger, he smiled, and a ridiculous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he even laughed softly. Then he lowered his eyes and looked at Tom condescendingly , "You must be joking with me." Immediately, the smile suddenly stopped and paused at the corner of his mouth, and all the emotions in his eyes froze into ice in an instant, "But he/mother is not funny at all !Absolutely stupid!"

"Lancelot!" Tom began to lose control of his emotions. He couldn't help but clenched his fists and raised his voice. Seeing that Lance seemed to have something to say, he immediately yelled, " Lancelot! Don't cross the line! I'm telling you, this is my best performance, I've done what you want, I've pushed myself to the limit, don't take it too far!"

The smile at the corner of Lance's mouth paused, and then rose again, the taunt and banter hurt Tom without any cover, even without any words, Tom could feel his whole body being surrounded by angry flames, "Grass! You shameless bitch! I've been rolling in Hollywood for 20 years and I fucking know how I'm supposed to act, I'm the goddamn real one, you ain't someone who just crawled out of a cesspit Who gave you the qualification to teach me to perform? You are a rookie who only sells your ass/eyes, and you actually put on airs in front of me! Do you know? I can easily kill you with just one finger! Your disappearance All of Hollywood won't fart! No one will even notice!"

Tom completely lost control, and vented out the grievance and anger in his heart. The monstrous anger reverberated over the entire crew, and everyone was silent. The tense air seemed to need only a little breathing. Like a complete explosion, the oppressive atmosphere became more and more contracted amidst the harsh engine sound on the road, and even the sound of the heartbeat completely disappeared in the air.

Tom's eyes were red, and he stared at Lance closely, motionless. Those stormy eyes seemed to swallow Lance directly at any time!