"Balzac and the Little Tailor" competed for Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards, and unsurprisingly went home. Because this film represents France, and the big hit of this unit is "Hero" by the National Teacher, He Xin, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun all knew each other and did not participate in this event.

But as the saying goes, if you are a big hit, you must die, and "Hero", which was highly anticipated by the Chinese people, also lost the competition for the best foreign language film, and the award was won by the Spanish film "Say to Her", a small-scale literary film.

How can I say it? Maybe it's because they despise chains, and don't look at their talk about democracy, freedom, and human rights all day long, but in fact they still have that sense of superiority in their bones, especially in the United States, which shouts the most vigorous slogans.

He Xin was actually absent from last year's Golden Horse Awards ceremony, although he was not shortlisted for this time, but as the last actor, he received an invitation as usual and attended as a guest.

However, last year's Golden Horse Awards ceremony was held in a certain independence base camp, which has always been very unfriendly to the mainland, so almost all the mainland guests who received the invitation, even including the shortlisted actress Zhou Xun, did not attend.

He Xin is actually very grateful to the Golden Horse Award in his heart, after all, this honor has brought him a lot. But it's very helpless, some people in Wanwan are really annoying and don't know each other.

The general trend of the world, Shunchang is against the death, and it will be together for a long time, what do you say you are more energetic?

Li Miaoxue loves the city of Qingdao, and in her words, looking at Qingdao through the lens of a camera is like an oil painting in a frame from any angle.

She comes here almost every year to stay for a while, and the filming location of "The Scenery of Love" was chosen on her favorite Yushan Road.

This road can be summed up in about seven words: old city, old streets, old buildings.

This small road is built on the mountain, with ups and downs, and on both sides there are most old buildings, former residences of celebrities and various small cafes decorated with petty bourgeoisie, which feels particularly literary and artistic, and can especially attract literary young women like Li Miaoxue.

Even Guan Jinpeng and Zhang Shuping, two literary and artistic old youths, were amazed after walking around this street, Zhang Shuping also said that this place is very similar to Hong Kong, but Hong Kong does not have the profound cultural heritage here. And there is a special sentence: walking on this road is like reading a history book.

A short distance along this road is the famous Huiquan Bay of Qingdao, and the beach by the sea is known by the locals as the No. 1 Bathing Beach.

The crew stayed at the Huiquan Dynasty Hotel by the sea, which was the hotel where He Xin and his girlfriend opened that day.

However, He Xin did not live in a hotel with the crew, he still lived at his girlfriend's house. When filming "Chinese-style Divorce" a while ago, the reason why he stayed in the crew's hotel was mainly to establish a tacit understanding with Zuo Xiaoqing as soon as possible, and at the same time, he also knew the truth that the fragrance was far away and the smell was near, and he went back once in a while, so that he could continue to contact his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and maintain a certain distance appropriately.

But this time is different, his girlfriend is rarely idle at home, of course he is reluctant to live under the same roof for a short time, even if there are two old policemen at home, he can't take a step beyond Lei Chi.

During this time, he was interning at the post office where Yushan Road was located, but in fact, the work of a postman was much more tedious and hard than he imagined. There is a post office with about a dozen postmen, each with their own precincts.

After the mail truck arrives early in the morning, the first thing to do is to classify, many units are newspaper subscriptions, and the volume of letters is relatively large, the newspapers and letters of each unit must be divided and put together, and then there are private newspapers and letters.

A Type 51 heavyweight bicycle with green canvas bags hanging on both sides of the bag rack, which is standard for postmen. Every morning, after sorting newspapers and mail, I went out with the master, and returned to the office to have lunch after delivering the mail. After lunch, the second batch of newspaper mail, sorted and arrived, set off at about half past two, and the second batch of newspaper mail was delivered, and it was time to get off work.

Every day, over and over again. And this area of Yushan Road is built by the mountain, the downhill is fine, the uphill is going to be old, you can only press hard with your head and desperately pedal.

The master he followed was already an old postman who had been working for more than 20 years, and there were almost no people he didn't know about this piece up to the unit and down to the residents, and he was also very gossipy, up to the change of leaders, down to the conflict between husband and wife.

In his words, he could touch it with his eyes closed, and he didn't want to hide anything from his eyes and ears.

The so-called experience of life means that the actor goes from rational script analysis to real life of the character, and then deeply feels the creative foundation of the character's inner world.

He Xin remembered that this was what was written in the textbook.

In layman's terms, it means that before the actor experiences life, the actor will have a variety of reveries and ideas about the character's image, personality, external actions, habits, communication methods, etc. But this drama is just a fantasy and speculation that stays at the rational level, and it is all on paper.

Only when an actor really walks to the place where the character lives, walks into the living space of the character, eats the food that the character likes to eat, looks at the books that the character likes to read, plays the games that the character likes to play, does what the character likes to do every day, contacts the people that the character comes into contact with every day, and completely walks into the character's life, can the actor truly understand the character, feel the role, and begin to become a character.

It is said that art comes from life and is higher than life, and to put it bluntly, experiencing life is the creative basis for actors to complete the creation of roles.

To take the most obvious example, Robert De Niro is widely regarded as a "godfather" actor, and he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his role as a taxi driver in "Taxi Driver". And before he starred in this play, he spent a whole month, driving a taxi for twelve hours a day, and experiencing the daily life of a taxi driver for a long time.

Therefore, he no longer needs to deliberately make the habitual actions of a taxi driver when performing, and shows the attitude and reaction that a taxi driver should have. Because he has become a taxi driver, he will instinctively produce all kinds of things that a taxi driver should do, think, and feel at the moment, and truly achieve "I am the character".

For another example, Wu Jing stayed in the special forces for fifteen months in order to shoot the self-directed and self-starred "Wolf Warrior", eating, living and training with the special forces soldiers every day, and finally completed a movie with a box office of more than 500 million, and then "Wolf Warrior 2" amazed the Chinese people and created a domestic film box office record.

Therefore, Wu Jing's success is not accidental, don't always say that Wu Jing has no acting skills, even if he really has no acting skills, but at least he used his real and in-depth army life experience for fifteen months to create a Leng Feng image that makes the audience believe and shock.

Of course, He Xin has only experienced the daily life of a postman for a week, and he can't do it to this extent, but at least he understands the process of the postman's daily work, and knows that when the postmen in each area gather in the canteen of the office for lunch at noon every day, they will talk about all kinds of gossip about the area that everyone is responsible for, such as which unit has changed leaders, which family's husband cheats and is caught by his wife.

And each of them is very familiar with the route, just as the master who brought him a new experience of life said, the streets and alleys can be touched with their eyes closed.

Returning to the role itself, I have to say that when Li Miaoxue created the character, it was extremely accurate to portray Xiao Lie as a postman.

Xiao Lie met through the heroine Man'er asking him for directions, and then when he was delivering a letter, he met by saving Man'er who was poisoned by gas due to the temporary loss of his sense of smell, and finally fell in love by helping Man'er find the scenery in the painting wholeheartedly. This is a complete narrative line, and the script is very story-telling.

In fact, before a movie is finished, there is a limit to what actors can do to judge whether this movie is good or not, whether it is a bad movie or not. Unless the starring actor's acting skills are very poor, so that the audience can play as soon as they see it, it is definitely a bad movie, just like "Liuhai Fortress".

Many times the actor performs diligently, but the final effect is not satisfactory to the audience, this should not be completely blamed by the actor, the problem is multifaceted, it may be in the script, director or editing.

And what an actor can control is not only his own performance, but also the script.

He Xin stepped into this circle, and the two plays he received at the beginning, "Bicycle" and "Lan Yu" were completely lucky, but they brought him a very high honor, laid the foundation for him to gain a firm foothold in the circle in one fell swoop, and also gave him a certain right to pick and choose the script.

In addition to "Jade Guanyin", "Conquest", "Chinese-style Divorce", as well as "Can't Escape", which he watched in his previous life, the impressive TV series, "The Little Tailor", "Purple Butterfly", "Incense" and "The Scenery of Love", which is now being filmed, the reason why he starred next, in addition to the salary and favors, the most important thing is to see whether the story of the script is strong or not, whether it is a complete story.

He didn't like the boring, lengthy hometown trilogy that Jia Kechang filmed, because the kind of storyless performances would confuse him.

Another reason is that when he was lingering in the hospital bed in his previous life, he used his mobile phone to rush a member and watched the last movie called "The Last Night on Earth".

Because at that time, he saw that this movie was starring Tang Wei, and he thought it should be a disaster movie when he looked at the name, but it took nearly two hours, and after watching this movie, his brain was confused and he didn't know what he watched.

Until now, in retrospect, it seems that there are only dark and cold long streets, continuous drizzle, too frequent long shots to capture, a storyline that is easy to make people deranged, and there are more almost dreamlike narrations of the male protagonist.

Coincidentally, he actually met the actor on the set of "The Landscape of Love".

"Ah Xin, this is Huang Jue who plays Xiao Wu!"

"Huang Jue, this is He Xin. ”

Li Miaoxue introduced the two, and He Xin carefully looked at the neurotic male protagonist in the young version of "The Last Night on Earth". He is about the same height as himself, his face is still a little pitted, his hair is a little curly, and his hairline is not as worrisome as in "The Last Night on Earth".

But this guy does look cool, the kind of cool that can especially attract literary young women. It's no wonder that when Li Miaoxue was introduced, she always felt a little rippling when she looked at this buddy.

In fact, before he came to the crew, Zhou Xun called him, saying that the man in front of him was the male protagonist of her next play, or a buddy she had known for several years, and said that he would help take care of it.

He heard his brother on the phone that this buddy was the first to dance, and when he first came to the capital, he often fried in the dance hall, and met her who sang in the same dance hall at that time.

Brother Xun even joked that she was attracted by the coolness of this guy at that time, and if she hadn't had a boyfriend at that time, maybe she would have gotten along with him.

He Xin secretly complained in his heart at that time, saying that he seemed to be so single-minded and pure, and he didn't love one when he saw one!

But this thing is also quite strange, wrenching his fingers, counting the boyfriend that Brother Xun once had, it may be almost half a dozen. If there is any actress like her in the future, it must be a scumbag, or a water-based Yang Hua or the like, another Xiao Yaxuan.

But Brother Xun is not disgusted when he sees one and loves the other, not only is he not disgusted, but even the audience is not disgusted. Maybe it's because of her straightforward, dare to love and hate character!

will make people feel that every one of her relationships is a true affection and the pursuit of the true meaning of love. But sometimes He Xin also thinks, who knows if she really pays her feelings, or is she simply greedy for other people's bodies?

Let's talk about this cool buddy in front of me.

It is said that in his last life, he watched "The Last Night on Earth" mainly for Tang Wei, who would pay attention to the name of the actor who often dreamed, even if he saw the name, he probably forgot it in a blink of an eye.

He didn't expect that the Huang Jue in Zhou Xun's mouth was him!

"Congratulations ......"

Obviously, this cool guy still looks quite honest, he stretched out his hand, but he didn't think about what to call He Xin.

Since Brother Xun greeted him, He Xin immediately shook his hand warmly and said, "Brother Huang, you just call me Xiaohe or Ah Xin, everyone calls me that." ”

"Ah Xin, hello!" this guy is as good as a stream.

Xiao Wu played by Huang Jue in the play, of course, is not the thief from Elder Jia Ke's family, but Su Jin's ex-husband, probably in addition to him and Zheng Yijian, he can be regarded as the third male lead. It's a pity that there is only a performance in the whole process, and there is not a single line.

In this film, Li Miaoxue depicts a total of four loves, the love between Lin Jiaxin and Zheng Yijian, and the later love with him, the postman, and the love of an old couple next door to Su Jinkai's hotel and the love between her and Huang Jue.

In fact, the love between Su Jin and Huang Jue in the script is very touching, the two of them have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, got married very early, and unfortunately divorced after three years of marriage. However, Xiao Wu played by Huang Jue never let go, and often came to the hotel to hang out, and when he saw that Su Jin had a new boyfriend, he rushed up to fight with the other party regardless of it, until he drove people away.

At that time, when He Xin saw this paragraph, he felt a little funny, but looking back, if he married his girlfriend, and Cheng Hao insisted on divorcing him, would he be able to let it go?

Will it be like Xiao Wu in the script?

The answer seems to be yes as well.