Chapter 15: Emancipating Nature
At the beginning, after the Red Mansion was established on CCTV, some people began to recommend actors to Wang Fulin, but after careful consideration, Wang Fulin made a decision that no one could understand, and the main roles in the play did not need professional actors.
The reason why he made this decision is mainly because Wang Fulin feels that the atmosphere of the performance of professional actors is too heavy and cannot show the feeling he wants, especially those young masters and young ladies in the Grand View Garden, there is a big gap between the famous professional actors and the characters in the play in the first place, and the innocence that should be at the age of the role cannot be shown at all.
That's why there is a back, the Red Mansion crew recruits actors from all over the country, but in this way, there are people from all walks of life, and most of them have never been exposed to acting before joining the group.
In the classroom, Yi Qing's animal simulation performance continued, as if the real King of Beasts was patrolling his territory, a pair of eyes scanned everyone fiercely, and everyone who made eye contact with him felt what it meant to be chilling.
Suddenly, Yi Qing bowed down, and was about to rush towards Chen Xiaoxu in front of him, Chen Xiaoxu, who was watching the performance intently, was so shocked that he screamed, jumped up with a "poof", and was about to run back.
Hahahaha~~~~~~
A burst of laughter woke Chen Xiaoxu up, and he turned his head and glared at Yi Qing with a look of shame, while Yi Qing was full of innocence.
Li Jie nodded with satisfaction, although Yi Qing did not finish the scene, but basically the effect of the demonstration has been achieved, he is very optimistic about Yi Qing, although he has never been in contact with acting before, but as an old actor who has acted for decades, Li Jie can see that Yi Qing is a very talented student, the appearance conditions are also very good, the height is more than one meter eight, and the appearance is handsome enough, he is polishing and polishing, if he has the intention to develop on the road of actor, there should be no problem in being admitted to the film academy.
Li Jie asked Yi Qing and the two to sit back, sorted out their thoughts, and began to lecture: " Let me explain, just now Hu Zehong said that there will be no drama for actors to play a pig, indeed, there will not be a director who will let actors really play a pig, the reason why I asked you to act, just now let Yi Qing do an animal simulation performance, in fact, this is the opening course of the course of acting, the acting teaching of world film and television, mainly divided into Brecht and Stanley, the cloth school is very difficult for beginners, so in long-term practice, most of the world's first-class film and television acting schools, including China's film academy, adopt the Stanley school, if any of you go to Beiying in the future, if you go to school in Beijing Film and Chinese opera, everyone will enroll, there will be a copy of "The Essence of Stanley System Theory" as a textbook. ”
The people below listened to it ignorantly, and Li Jie also knew that it was a little difficult to let them accept so much at once, but what should be taught still had to be taught.
"Generally speaking, if you are a professional professor of acting, first-year students enter the school and spend a whole semester doing 'liberating nature' exercises, the most important of which is animal simulation. First of all, we must develop the concept that the study of art is always a straight line, and it does not mean that I want to play a certain type of role in the future, so I will practice this kind of role now, which is not the case. Practice what you play, because you won't be able to play animals in the future, and you won't do animal simulation exercises when you practice, this concept is the most essential wrong direction. ”
Then Li Jie said to Hu Zehong: "The biggest difference between correct acting learning and wrong acting learning, or the biggest mistake of laymen teaching acting is that they think that acting is a specific practice for a certain play, a certain role, a certain action, or an expression." When they train students, they are often divided into, for example, how to play a good guy and how to play a bad guy, similar to this situation, in fact, this kind of teaching method ruins an actor's life. The plot in the world is ever-changing, the characters are also ever-changing, and the prescribed situations are changing all the time, how can you summarize all the characters and find a performance mode to set one by one? So what is it to learn acting? Learning is a systematic concept and method, a kind of ability to play all the characters well, and a unified law of creating the characters as works. Learning the rules of creation is the most important thing, just as the conservatory of music learns composition and the academy of fine arts teaches students to draw, what they learn is not how to draw an apple or how to draw a certain portrait, but to teach students the ability to draw everything and create with a brush. ”
Teacher Li Jie's words seem to be for Hu Zehong, but in fact, he is also teaching everyone, just now I thought that Li Jie asked Yi Qing to imitate animals is really funny, and these are all serious.
Li Jie took a sip of water and said, "What is liberating nature?"
was about to say more, when he suddenly looked at Yi Qing: "Yi Qing, you come and explain to everyone." ”
Yi Qing was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Jie to call his name, but fortunately, his reaction was fast, and he quickly got up and said: "The Stanley system believes that the most suitable person to be an actor should have a child-like personality. When each of us is born, there are various innate personalities, brave, cowardly, cunning, honest, selfish, generous, narrow-minded, generous, etc., all the various forms of human character traits can be found in children, this is the so-called 'natural circle theory', people's innate character is like a perfect circle, countless kinds of character have become countless points that make up the circle, at the beginning, our character is complete. ”
Yi Qing said, forgetting his nervousness, he walked directly to the front of the classroom, drew a circle on the small blackboard, and said: "Let's assume that if our character is still perfect now, that is, we have all human personalities, then acting will be simple." If we need to play a despicable one, we will take out the cunning and despicable part of the character and use it, cover up the good side, and if we need to play a great and selfless one, we will cover up the despicable side of the character and use the good side, no matter what kind of character performance the script and the prescribed situation require us to make, we can easily do it, because the perfect character has all the character factors we need. Therefore, a childlike personality is most suitable for being an actor. ”
Li Jie also nodded again and again when he listened, feeling that during this time, the work he spent on Yi Qing was not in vain, and when he saw Yi Qing looking at him, he nodded encouragingly and motioned for Yi Qing to continue.
Yi Qing took a deep breath and continued: "But in life, we people, especially us Chinese, have been taught since childhood that this is wrong, that is right, this can be done, and that cannot be done. Our parents, our family environment, our level of education, all these things affect and transform us to varying degrees, so that our natural circle is squeezed in various ways. Some people abandon all negative personalities and become good people, while others do not get a good upbringing during the rebellious period and become jealous, narrow-minded, selfish and vicious, thus constituting all kinds of people in our society. ”
Yi Qing then drew a few irregular shapes on the blackboard, and said, "In this way, our circle has been squeezed by parents, schools, and society, and has become an incomplete shape. For example, just now the teacher asked Hu Zehong to play a pig, but she couldn't play it, why? Because her parents told her that girls should be reserved, and the education she received taught her what kind of image a girl should be beautiful, and her own life experience also told her how to maintain her image in front of people. As an ordinary person, there is nothing wrong with this, but as an actor, such a nature is suppressed and distorted, and he can't play many roles. ”
Everyone listened and nodded as if they understood.
Yi Qing also sincerely hopes that they can understand the true meaning of acting, the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" is indeed a classic, but at the same time, it has also ruined a large number of actors with real potential, these actors After filming "Dream of Red Mansions", the vast majority of them have not been able to have greater development on the road of acting.
Doing business and changing careers.
seems to have become more choices for the actors of the Red Mansion crew, in addition to the fact that there is no better role for them to play, what is more important is that they have forever closed themselves in a certain role in the Red Mansion.
For example, Ouyang Xiaoqiang, such as Chen Xiaoxu, such as Zhang Li.
Even Deng Jie, who is trying to survive in the entertainment industry, every role she plays in the future can more or less let people see the shadow of Sister Feng.
Yi Qing doesn't want these peers who love performance to follow the old path of their previous lives, he hopes that everyone can have more development in the future, so under his suggestion, Mr. Li Jie adjusted the teaching content, and from a week ago, it was no longer just a simple rehearsal sketch, but a more systematic training for these Red Mansion students.
After Yi Qing finished speaking, Li Jie couldn't help but clap his hands, motioned for Yi Qing to return to his seat, and then Yi Qing said just now: "Therefore, the first and most important thing in the teaching of acting is to liberate our nature. What is the liberation of nature, is to restore our character to the state of the perfect circle that Yi Qing just said, as close as possible to the perfect character, let us be as credulous as children, no matter what kind of role we play, we all believe in our hearts that we are that character, and the most effective means of liberating nature is animal simulation and non-physical practice, if you even yourself are a pig, a monkey, a tiger can believe from the heart, if there is nothing in your hand, you can firmly believe that this thing exists in the void, then what else can you not believe in other roles in the futureEmancipating nature is the first step for you as a professional actor to distinguish yourself from amateur actors and ordinary audiences. So as the jargon goes, whether you can play a good animal today determines whether you can play a good person tomorrow. ”
Dongfang Wenying raised her hand at this time and asked: "Then those actors we usually see, did they all start learning from animal simulation?"
Li Jie replied: "Those who are from professional classes must be all of them, but there are also some people, especially some developed regions and Western countries, such as some Xiangjiang actors, whose family environment and upbringing conditions are very enlightened and democratic. The nature of children is not too suppressed, and they basically maintain a cheerful and open nature in adulthood, and such people hardly need to deliberately liberate their natural practices. This is also the reason why Hollywood actors, actors from some Western countries are inherently better than our actors, generally speaking, actors in these countries are more comfortable than us, China's traditional Confucian education, parental power supremacy family structure, in fact, the education of future generations and the development of nature are particularly harmful. ”
Listening to Li Jie's words, Yi Qing couldn't help but be stunned, these words, Li Jie never said to him in private, I didn't expect it to be brought to class, you know, if these words are in a special era, at least they can be beaten against the crime of revolution, although it is not a special era now, but there are still a lot of things that have been convicted for words, Yi Qing never expected that at this age, Mr. Li Jie's mind is still so open.
"Tell me something that everyone doesn't know, I went to Xiangjiang with Director Wang once, and I went to a TV station in Xiangjiang to learn the advanced experience of others, and then I found out that there was an actor training class in that TV station, and the teachers who taught them to perform were basically from the mainland, and their teaching material was Stanley's "Actor's Self-cultivation", and their first lesson was to play pigs and trees, play various animals, and simulate the morphology of plants. In this regard, when Xiangjiang's media report was published, many people did not understand, and even some ignorant reporters wrote articles to ridicule this teaching method, but as a result, the actors trained through this kind of teaching have now become the pillars of that TV station, which shows how important the basic practice of liberating nature is to the growth of a professional actor. ”
Everyone nodded their heads as they listened.
Yi Qing knew that the TV station Li Jie was talking about must be the media giant TVB in Xiangjiang.
Li Jie waited for everyone to digest for a while, and then said: "Okay, now everyone imagines that they are an animal in their hearts, three minutes later, all the students get off the stage and start the animal simulation performance, not requiring everyone to act like much, but you must dare to act, you must believe in yourself, whoever has a shaken sense of faith, who is free, I can see that if anyone fails, the students on duty in today's classroom will be done by these students who failed." ”
It stands to reason that according to the foundation of these students, it is too late to teach from scratch now, but this is also a helpless thing, during this time of the sketch, everyone can't let go at all, sometimes it's just memorizing the lines, and they don't even dare to look at the camera lens that is not turned on, as long as they glance at it, they will immediately be stupid and can't even read the lines.
Li Jie arranged the training of liberating nature, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to let these students get used to being open-minded, and only when they are completely open-minded can they not be afraid of the camera.
After listening to Li Jie's words, everyone immediately thought about it one by one.
Three minutes passed quickly, and the students stood up and walked off the field.
The boys and girls who were very reserved just now were taught by Teacher Li Jie, and they also let go of themselves. There are all kinds of pretenses, Li Jie stood directly on the chair, carefully observed, there were many students who played half of the performance, and they continued to act without stopping, and they were stunned there, the best actor was Yi Qing's tiger, and there were also people, what was the acting, Li Jie watched it for a long time, and Leng didn't guess it.
After a few minutes, Li Jie saw that the toss was almost there, and shouted to stop.
commented on a few good performances, and then finally couldn't help it, and asked Hu Zehong: "What are you doing, I really don't see it." ”
Hu Zehong replied proudly: "I just want to play a different role from everyone else!
Li Jie said with interest: "You do it again, let everyone guess." ”
When everyone heard this, they all gave up their places, and then their eyes focused on Hu Zehong's body.
I saw Hu Zehong lying on all fours on the ground, lying on the ground like a frog, and then stretched out one leg, hooked upwards and inwards as best he could, dangling there.
Now no one can guess it, let's say it's a frog, the leg behind it is like a tail, let's say it's a monkey, there's no such posture.
Yi Qing pondered for a long time and didn't understand, and was about to ask Chen Xiaoxu beside him, when he saw Chen Xiaoxu clapping his hands, suddenly realized, and said, "I know, it's a scorpion!"
Hu Zehong jumped up and said with a smile: "It's still Xiao Xu who is smart!"
Yi Qing thought for a moment, and laughed himself, lying on his stomach like a frog, with a tail hooked behind his back, and a curved heel, what is it that is not a scorpion with a tail hook?
Chen Xiaoxu proudly raised his eyebrows at Yi Qingyi and smiled.
Teacher Li Jie couldn't help laughing, and while asking everyone to sit down, he clicked the names of a few students who didn't perform well just now.
Then, I talked about animal simulation, and I took the students to do a non-physical exercise.
Professional acting schools, when teaching students to perform at the beginning, have to do a lot of non-physical exercises, such as "eating noodles", "sewing socks", "crossing the grass", "crossing a single-plank bridge", "stepping on a snake in the dark room", "dumb eating coptis", "blind man lighting a lamp", all of which are used to train actors' sense of faith.
Although they are not a film academy here, but with Li Jie, an old actor, Yi Qing and they can learn a lot.
A two-hour class passed in a blink of an eye, and when Mr. Li Jie announced the end of the class, the students were shouting and feeling unfinished.
Before, they were all learning theoretical knowledge, which was inevitably a little boring, but the first time they came into contact with real performance, everyone was deeply fascinated.
Li Jie said with a smile: "Let's continue tomorrow, in the next period of time, we will all arrange exercises to liberate nature, and we do not require everyone to be at the same level as students in film schools, as long as we can pass this level, it is a big step towards the success of a real actor." ”
Saying that, Li Jie said goodbye to everyone and turned around to leave the classroom, but when he reached the door, he stood again, turned around and said, "If you usually don't understand anything, you can ask Yi Qing." ”
Yi Qing was discussing with Deng Jie what he had just learned, when he suddenly heard Li Jie say this, which made him confused.
Teacher, I'm just a cook, okay?
Why is it more like an extracurricular tutor now?
"Xiao Yi, you have to teach me. ”
"That's right, Xiao Yi, you can't hide your secrets, honestly share the small stove that Teacher Li opened for you, and share it with all of us. ”
Yi Qing was surrounded by everyone, and suddenly had a feeling: I shouldn't be cheated by the old man, right?
What Mr. Li Jie talked about in class today, basically taught Yi Qing in private, if you want to talk about learning progress, Yi Qing must surpass others, of course, except for Deng Jie, since she knew that Yi Qing often went to Li Jie to ask for acting problems, she had to follow every time, after all, she was professional, and she learned much faster than Yi Qing.
Li Jie is old and can't keep up with his energy, so it is impossible to teach every student by hand, so he taught Yi Qing first, probably so that he could tutor everyone in private.
This old man really thinks long-term.
"Okay, good, good, if you don't understand, just ask me, I must know everything, I can say everything!"
At this time, Deng Jie suddenly said: "Why don't we have another animal simulation performance?" Xiao Yi, this time you come to watch, and then you are responsible for commenting on everyone. ”
Deng Jie's proposal was responded to by everyone, Yi Qing was directly put on the table, and as soon as he stood up, he saw a group of handsome men and women in the classroom staged a chicken and dog jump again.