How do you define a good movie and a great movie?

Each movie is shot with its own specific audience group and has its own unique work attributes, for example, popcorn is to entertain the audience, comedy is to make the audience laugh, thriller is to make the audience fearful, as long as the work can achieve its own purpose, it can be called "good". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Taking "Transformers" as an example, the series was simply scolded by film critics for being bloody and miserable, but the box office has always remained high, because it successfully detonated the audience's adrenaline and truly brought the action popcorn blockbuster attributes of visual effects into full play. From this point of view, "Transformers" is a good work.

So how can a good movie be "excellent"?

Movies are like proposition works, every work has a core idea, even the vulgar comedy of "/pee/fart" is no exception, it is either family, friendship, or growth, after watching the movie, is this theme well explained? Does the audience understand it? Can it bring something more to the audience? Can it be refracted to the audience's life and even society? Can it stimulate turbulent reflection? What extent can the depth and height of this reflection be? What do the audience get beyond the mere visual and auditory experience, and how long will the film last in the viewer's mind?

That's what defines a great movie.

As for what kind of movie can be called a classic, that's another level. From good to excellent, from excellent to classic, the horizontal moat is not easy to cross.

According to Rodrigo's original conception setting, the core idea of "burying alive" actually only stopped at the "first" mentioned by Lan Li. As Lan Li said, the result is nothing more than an ordinary thriller and suspense film - if Rodrigo can successfully complete the camera scheduling, pacing, atmosphere and emotional foreshadowing, then this can be a good thriller film that stands out from the crowd of ordinary works.

But that's all.

The "second" that Lan Li just mentioned is precisely the key to making "buried alive" from good to excellent.

The Achilles' heel of most thriller and suspense movies is that the story is not full enough, or in other words, the characters are not full enough, and the lack of contact and communication between the characters and personal information and the social background also makes the thriller of the movie stay at a superficial level.

Paul's personal attributes can do this, the world outside the coffin is a supplement to the plot, building a bridge of empathy for the audience inside and outside the movie screen, and further making the ups and downs of the story can affect the audience's emotions and make the whole movie full;

Rodrigo's brows tightened more and more, and the deeper he thought, the more surging his surprise became, and the more excited he boiled!

It's hard to imagine that Lan Li hasn't seen the script at all, just reading the simple information left by the union, he can sketch such a magnificent blueprint, which is really incredible! Of course, Rodrigo can feel that Lan Li is considered from the perspective of the character, and all the ideas revolve around Paul, in the real ideological height, the perspective of a director is still different, but even so, it is still too incredible!

Rodrigo looked up and began to look at Lan Lilly again. Above that youthful and invincible face, there was a pair of eyes as calm as water, and the dark brown pupils bloomed in that hazy shadow like a deep matte like a black hole, as if looking up at the starry sky brought unfathomable shock.

In a trance, Rodrigo once again felt the kind of amazement he had when he first met - vicissitudes and calm, restrained and rough, and every detail between his eyebrows and eyes was full of traces of Paul Conroy, which was definitely not the temperament of a twenty-year-old, absolutely not!

"Ahem. Rodrigo realized his gaffe and coughed lightly twice, hiding his embarrassment, "...... You know...... I mean, you should know that if you interpret it according to your interpretation, it's a difficult task for the actors. No, to be precise, it's almost an impossible task. ”

"I know. Lan Li said with a smile, the understatement, concise and clear words were full of irrefutable confidence, even a little arrogant, and the sharp light that burst out in an instant made people unable to face it.

Choosing to "bury alive", Lan Li did not plan to play the safety card, unlike the "Pacific War", "burying alive" can be said to be a challenge beyond Lan Li's current ability, which is precisely what makes Lan Li's blood boil.

Acting is a long-standing art, which can be traced back to hundreds of years or even thousands of years, after a long period of precipitation, it has developed to today, generally speaking, people's understanding of acting is to perform a role by means of action, expression, language, etc., which is also the basic understanding of people's acting skills for thousands of years, and then formed a traditional academic performance method - also known as expressionism.

The so-called expressiveness is not difficult to understand, "performance" refers to body language, facial expressions, line skills, etc., actors need to accurately understand emotions, understand the role, understand the plot, and then present the performance through precise control and accurate way.

This kind of performance is not any shortcut at all, it completely tests the solid basic skills, and truly interprets the phrase "one minute on stage, ten years off stage", each actor must go through systematic learning, lengthy training and professional tuning, from physical posture to appearance, every detail must be carefully trained.

Each actor has a different level of comprehension of performance, a different degree of practice of basic skills, and the performance presented and the charm left after the performance are completely different, and the real material is clear at a glance, especially the traditional performing arts such as Peking Opera and stage plays, where the same role is performed by different actors and the same actor in different performances, and you can taste different charms.

Lan Li is a typical orthodox college student, in the Royal College of Art and Drama in the United Kingdom, they are persevering in starting from the basics. In fact, thanks to the advantages of reliving a lifetime, Lan Li began to receive systematic performance education from a young age, in the aristocratic education, performances such as drama, opera and ballet are also a kind of elegant art, the learning of basic skills is the same, and they are all extremely hard, and it really needs to be completed with the accumulation of blood and sweat.

Therefore, Lan Li's basic skills are very solid, and he is not lazy at all, he is a representative of the traditional expressionists.

In addition to expressionism, in the past half century, another way of acting has risen strongly, and even gradually become the mainstream of the industry, which is methodological acting.

The so-called methodology, in short, is to talk about the current situation of the actor completely substituting into the role, substituting his own understanding according to the situation of the role, and then expressing the emotion of the character.

The most famous example in film history is Robert De Niro's performance in "Taxi Driver", in order to feel the real life of the taxi driver, and in order to feel the background of the original script creation, he really worked as a taxi driver in New York for three months, and really felt the confusion and madness of the male protagonist, which is a typical method performance, trying to integrate himself into the role, and the role will drive the performance, and truly integrate into the story, real and shocking, flamboyant and crazy.

The highest level of this kind of performance is "if you don't go crazy, you can't live", completely ignoring the boundary between reality and illusion, and reaching the realm of selflessness. Heath-Ledger's role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" reached this level, so much so that he was never able to come out of it, and finally chose self-understanding to end his short but brilliant life.

For methodist adherents, they firmly believe that the lives of characters are so strange that no one can really feel their emotions unless they have experienced them themselves. Taking "buried alive" as an example, in the view of the methodists, they need to experience the feeling of being imprisoned in a narrow space in order to experience what it is like to be buried alive.

More importantly, Expressionism is an unswerving academy line, with a very high threshold, which not only requires years of accumulation, but also requires the training and teaching of professional teachers, which requires actors to learn systematically. But there is no threshold for methodism, anyone can participate in it, experience the emotions of the character with their own understanding, and even if they have not received any education, they can become a good actor.

In the contemporary film industry, Europe admires expressionism, they firmly believe that acting skills need thresholds, while the United States advocates methodology, and the film industry represented by Hollywood has achieved countless grassroots star dreams, with non-professional backgrounds and no historical background, opening up opportunities to everyone.

As a reborn person, Lan Li received an academic expressionist education, but he is still Chu Jiashu from the grassroots in his bones, especially the special experience of being a human being in two lives, which makes him have a unique touch on the perception of the role, so he has always wanted to try to see methodological performances, and even further integrate the two methods to explore a new field of acting.

Obviously, "burying alive" provides such an opportunity.

The first part is expressionism, and the second part is methodology, in other words, this is a bold attempt to integrate the two performance methods!