Chapter Twenty-Four: Doing Things

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"Thank you, teacher, for the compliment. Xiao Yao smiled reservedly.

"Not to mention your memories, I feel like I'm more than a thousand words anyway. Zhao Xinghua asked Xiao Yao with great interest, "What I want to know most now is, is your ability to multifunction from birth? When did you discover that you have this ability? Or did you train it through some special method?"

Compared with Xiao Yao's terrifying memory, Zhao Xinghua was more interested in Xiao Yao's distraction in the real sense. Reading the script and memorizing lines is indeed a thing that every actor can't avoid, but no matter how good your ability is in this area, it can't be concluded that you can definitely become an excellent actor. And this kind of thing, even if you have less talent and qualifications, can be solved, it's just that it takes more time than others. And this kind of distraction is different, this kind of talent and ability is even more rare for an actor.

The performance department of Shen Opera, like Yan Dian, is mainly a methodological school that teaches the Stanley system. In other words, they also teach students how to fully integrate into the character, to merge the actor and the character into one person. But everything also pays attention to a degree of mastery, and in acting, this involves the actor's first self and second self.

The first self is the id, the life form of the natural person. The second self is the rational "I", which is the ideology, the self-rational understanding formed in the process of growth, and the carrier that carries various cultures, thoughts, and ideologies. For an actor's performance, the first self is the original self, and the second self is naturally the "self" of the role played, the self formed by the character's mind, spirit, and soul.

In acting, what the actor pursues is the overlap of the first self and the second self, turning himself into the character he wants to play, and performing in the state of the "self" of the character. At that moment, "I" is no longer the actor himself, but the living character. This is also called "entering the play".

But if an actor is too deep into the play, there may be a phenomenon of "overplaying" or difficulty in withdrawing from the role.

When Sun Zhihao first asked Xiao Yao to act in a drama, he also talked about this issue. At that time, on the one hand, Sun Zhihao believed that Xiao Yao's involvement in the play would not be too deep after Xiao Siqi's remarriage, and on the other hand, Sun Zhihao himself had always been by Xiao Yao's side, supervising and controlling Xiao Yao's performance at any time.

Even when Xiao Yao made a TV series for the first time to play "Chengying", he was also somewhat related to this problem. When Xiao Yao has been in the role of "Chengying" outside of filming, it is actually a performance of "too deep into the play". It's just that he was still a child at that time, and the role of "Chengying" itself was not annoying, so everyone was more tolerant of his state, and did not forcibly ask him to withdraw from the role and interrupt his role experience. But if Xiao Yao plays every role in every play like this, I'm afraid few crews can stand him.

The most ideal state is that when an actor enters the play with a perceptual experience, he can also rationally supervise his performance, grasp and grasp the degree of his performance, which is also required to be distracted.

But this is just a theoretical ideal state, in real life, even those particularly powerful actors, I haven't seen anyone who can really divide the heart into two parts, emotional and rational, and the only ones who can really do this are probably only schizophrenic patients, right?

So when Zhao Xinghua saw Xiao Yao's true "single-minded and three-purpose", this old man's heart was extremely excited and excited. In his heart, Xiao Yao definitely has a rare advantage and talent in acting. In Xiao Yao, he also saw the possibility of putting the idealized state of pure theory into practice. Therefore, the old man didn't even care about Xiao Yao's calligraphy, and first of all cared about whether Xiao Yao's "distracted and multi-purpose" skills were innate, or could be exercised through some methods.

"It's a congenital and an acquired one," Xiao Yao said, "To be immodest, my brain is indeed better than that of ordinary people, my memory is very good since I was a child, and I learn things quickly, but it is difficult to stay focused for a long time." When I was in elementary school, although I did well in school, I often got distracted in class, and I was scolded by my teachers for this. Later, when I was in junior high school, I memorized both Chinese and foreign languages in advance, and when it was time for the morning reading class at school, I secretly taught Korean on my own in class. In order not to disturb other students and not be discovered by the teacher, I sandwiched the Korean textbook between the English and Chinese books and tried to read the English with my mouth, but my eyes were looking at the Korean textbook. Maybe my brain was really good, but it turned out that I actually learned Korean in this way, and that's when I first realized that I could do it at the same time.

"Damn, this is fine!" It is estimated that many of the candidates at the scene have had the experience of doing other things in class, but like Xiao Yao, who can read Korean while reading English texts, it is unheard of, or even unthinkable.

"Later, I deliberately strengthened my training in this area. Xiao Yao continued, "I can play musical instruments, and I know a lot, so I first practiced and tried to play the instrument, trying to play the guitar and the harmonica at the same time, and later added the use of my feet to beat the drums." That's how I practiced the performance during the blind audition on "The Voice". Later, I felt that playing three instruments at the same time was actually playing the same piece, without any major tempo changes, and it was not really "multitasking", so I started to try to do different things at the same time, such as today's recitation, calligraphy, and performance at the same time, which I have only recently practiced. ā€

"In other words, you are born with a good brain that is different from ordinary people, and you have practiced this kind of ability?" Zhao Xinghua said.

"Yes. Xiao Yao nodded.

"Then which of these two factors do you think is more important?" Zhao Xinghua then asked.

"It should be quite important," Xiao Yao said, "but if I have to say which factor is more important, I would like to borrow a sentence from Edison: genius is one percent inspiration, plus ninety-nine percent perspiration..."

"Isn't this a famous quote hanging in the corridor outside the classroom of a primary and secondary school?" many candidates laughed in their hearts.

"In other words, it is more important to work hard the day after tomorrow?" said Zhao Xinghua said with a smile.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head, "I heard that there is still half a sentence after this sentence, but that one percent of inspiration is the most important, even more important than that ninety-nine percent of sweat." I know that this sentence is posted in the hallways of many schools, but it is never the first half of the sentence, not the second half. Actually, I don't know if Edison said the second half of the sentence, but I personally agree with the second half. ā€

"Let's take myself," Xiao Yao pointed to the rice paper on the table, "I started learning calligraphy when I was more than three years old, and I started to learn photography at the age of eight, and the time to learn and practice calligraphy is much longer than photography, but now my photography works have been published in many professional photography magazines, but my calligraphy is still only formal, and I can only be regarded as passable." I don't believe that any calligraphy magazine would publish my calligraphy works. The reason why this is this is because I am not as talented in calligraphy as I am in photography, so I think talent is more important. ā€

"You can also take pictures?" Zhao Xinghua glared. As a scholar who focuses on theoretical teaching in school, Zhao Xinghua's understanding of Xiao Yao, the second generation of stars, is obviously not comprehensive.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "I am the youngest photographer whose work has been featured in City Pictures in France and World Geographic in the United States. Since it is a talent show, Xiao Yao doesn't mind introducing more of his talents. It's not convenient to perform live, so it's okay to say.

"Damn, is this guy human?" There are also many candidates who don't know Xiao Yao well enough.

"You know why we keep calling him a demon, right?" Lin Qisan said to Nina with a smile, "I used to be stained with the light of his photographer and went to the scene of the Eva show. ā€

Old man Zhao Xinghua no longer knows what words to use to describe his mood at this time. Looking down and seeing the rice paper on the table in front of him, Zhao Xinghua picked up Xiao Yao's calligraphy and changed the subject, "Your evaluation of your calligraphy is quite pertinent, tangible and godless, and you can barely read it, but it is relatively rare at your age... Wait, what are you writing about?"

"A modern poem written by myself. Xiao Yao smiled.

"What's wrong?" Several other examiners and teachers also looked at the rice paper in Zhao Xinghua's hand curiously, and then looked at Xiao Yao with some complicated eyes, with a wry smile on their faces.

"What is written?" The teaching assistants in the back also stood up slightly and looked at the rice paper, while the other candidates next to them looked at the examiners with puzzled faces, not knowing why the examiners reacted this way.

"You read it. Zhao Xinghua noticed everyone's expressions, and handed the rice paper in his hand to a teaching assistant behind him.

The assistant teacher behind Zhao Xinghua stood up and took the rice paper, and then read aloud with the three-cavity resonance that he had practiced for many years: "If the talent is not recognized..."

"Poof~" Several teaching assistants next to him immediately sprayed, and the candidates also looked at Xiao Yao with constipated expressions.

"If your talent is not recognized? The actor won the Feitian Award for Best Newcomer, the "Golden Disc" Award for music, the photography works have been published in magazines, and the Oscars have been there, how do you want others to recognize your talent? Writing this kind of poem, are you Xiao Yao sorry?" Many people complained in their hearts.

"Since today

No one knows a star

Then tomorrow

Why don't you do a round of Haoyue. ā€

After the teaching assistant finished reading aloud, he returned the rice paper to Zhao Xinghua and sat down. also looked at Xiao Yao with a complicated and laughing face.

Xiao Yao wrote a modern poem by Wang Guozhen, a modern poet in his previous life, called "If Talent Is Not Recognized". There is nothing wrong with this poem itself, it is a very inspirational and positive modern poem, but when it is written on this occasion, it makes people feel a little bitter. This is originally an art test to test talent, and the "stars" in the two most impressive sentences at the end correspond to their future "star" status.

"Just now I said that let's not do anything, and in the blink of an eye, I wrote such a poem," Lin Qisan rolled his eyes in his heart and said, "Now it's obvious that you're doing things, okay?"

"The poem itself is very good, especially the last two lines, which are very tasteful. Zhao Xinghua commented with a smile, "But why did you write such a poem on this occasion? Do you think you can't pass the exam?"