Lan Li is an orthodox academy student, completely receiving systematic performance education, and his understanding of methodology is very limited, only theoretical knowledge on paper, and even the theory has not really been read in depth, which can be said to be very shallow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Prior to this, Lan Li always believed that the core of methodological performance lies in experience, truly substituting oneself into the character, and then placing it in a similar situation, interpreting the character's emotions with one's own understanding and interpretation. To put it simply, it's a mad demon who lives and really blurs the line between himself and the character.

This kind of performance is undoubtedly the most rigorous. For example, if you don't really experience the situation of being buried alive, the resonance during the performance will be distorted, which will lead to the performance deviating from the original track or even being unsustainable.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is very strict with the dedication, dedication, research and talent of the actors, and it is definitely not something that anyone can try. When Lan Li was lying in the coffin, if he didn't believe that he was really buried alive, if his head couldn't hypnotize himself, if his understanding of the character and the script was not deep enough, if his understanding was biased...... Then the result of personal experience is still not able to bring into the role.

To put it simply, an actor needs to put himself in that situation with full attention and believe that he is the character. If this ability and talent are missing, then unless someone really throws the actor into the desert and buries him alive, then he will not be able to perform in this way.

From "Pacific War" to "Buried Alive", Lan Li completely followed this way of acting, and even "I Fight Cancer" is the same.

He truly brought his emotions and feelings into the despair of cancer, and even produced a true reflection of the side effects of chemotherapy. But this scene just now gave Lan Li more inspiration.

He did empathize with Adam's or Will's experience, but his emotions weren't cancer, they were paralyzed. That was the same on the third day, and it's the same today. The anger, despair, sadness, confusion and loss that are plagued by illness and whose vitality is passing little by little are completely displayed through performance.

But to put it another way, high paralysis is not cancer.

Lan Li has always known this, high paralysis is a straight line, at the moment of paralysis, the turning point is a cliff-like fall, but after that, it is a smooth straight line, but cancer is a downward curve, little by little, downhill, and finally to the end.

So, the performance of "buried alive" and the performance of "I fight cancer" are two different ways. Lan Li has always thought that he is using the method school, but in fact, "burying alive" is the experience school, and "I am fighting cancer" is the method school.

From a purely theoretical point of view, it may be more complicated, but it can be understood that the so-called experiential performance is the scene of the actor's real and profound concretization of the script, which is truly integrated into the role, completely breaking the barrier of the four dimensions, bringing the illusion into reality, and not allowing the deviation of thinking.

The so-called method performance is that the actor separates his own emotions, resonates with the character, and then interprets the script and the role in his own way, and the result is half of the actor himself, half of the character itself, in which there can be an understanding bias.

For example, when filming "Buried Alive", the experiential school genuinely believes that he was buried alive, while the methodology uses fear, horror, and fear to drive the whole performance.

To put it more intuitively, in the case of "Brokeback Mountain", the experiential school genuinely believes that he is in love with the same sex, and he is still in the background of the 60s, and he can't extricate himself, while the methodist school allows the other person to be imagined as the opposite sex, just to interpret a forbidden love.

In this way, Lan Li's guess has been confirmed.

When he was "buried alive", he brought in a real experiential performance, immersive, and tearful, he really blurred the boundary between himself and Paul, and also blurred the boundary between reality and drama;

In fact, I had only seen these contents in books before, and they were not even talked about on paper, but they were just casually glanced at a few times, and the theoretical knowledge was almost forgotten. Because whether it is a method school or an experience school, the scope of performance is too narrow, and the energy and energy of an actor often wither quickly after playing a role.

Not to mention an actor like Heath Ledger who died young, even a methodological acting master like Daniel Day-Lewis, the reason why his works are so small is because he needs a lot of research and investment before each role is performed, and secondly, because after the performance, the whole soul seems to be hollowed out, and he must slowly settle down and calm down, waiting for recovery.

For the traditional authentic academy, an actor can only play one role in a period of time, which is undoubtedly dereliction of duty, for expressionist acting, one person has a thousand faces, this is the ultimate meaning of the actor, and even on the same stage, one person plays multiple roles, and can also show the image and personality of the character, which is the real master.

Experiential and methodological schools are largely in the same vein, experiential schools originated in the former Soviet Union, and this kind of performance style and expressiveism are considered to be the original concept of performance. Later, it was inherited and developed by the United States and formed a branch, which is the method school.

Because for Hollywood, they don't have so much time to slowly fit every role, every image, every actor, and in the rapid development of the film industry, they must form an assembly line operation. Therefore, the approach that is less demanding – for example, a white man as a black man, a heterosexual as a homosexual, and an American as a British person -- is the most appropriate.

In 2016, a tentatively titled "Everything" film was put into preparation, produced by Mark Ruffalo, focusing on a transgender female character, and Mark invited Matt-Bomber to play the role, causing quite a bit of controversy.

Because, although Matt has come out publicly, he is a real man. In Hollywood, there are more than 2,000 transgender actors, but they have a hard time finding jobs, male roles are played by men, female roles are dominated by women, gay roles are stolen by heterosexuality, and now even transgender roles are not their turn to "play in their true colors".

This is Hollywood. There is even a stereotype in the industry that if a homosexual plays a homosexual, it is not convincing because it is a true performance, but if a heterosexual plays a homosexual, it will make people applaud and think that he/she can make a breakthrough. But the problem is that if homosexuals play heterosexuals, major film companies are reluctant, believing that this will affect the box office market.

At the same time, experiential acting, like expressive acting, has gradually fallen to the margins of Hollywood, and even experiential acting has almost been eliminated.

Before today, Lan Li did not have a clear sense of the difference between method and experience, after all, the difference between these two performance methods is really too subtle, who would have thought that a comedy movie would really make Lan Li enter a higher level?

"I am fighting cancer", it is really fate to be able to meet this work.

So, is it better to be experiential, or methodical?

To be honest, in the process of performing "Anti-Cancer Me" today, Lan Li's performance was indeed free, the whole idea was very clear, and the feeling of being natural was like divine help, and the performance was handy; more importantly, the feeling of all the situations being controlled in the palm of his hand made the performance a kind of enjoyment - although his stomach was still not very comfortable, and his bald head had been shivering coldly, the effect was satisfactory enough.

But what about "buried alive"?

The process of performing "buried alive" is completely a torment, because Lan Li really thought that he was buried alive, and that real feeling made the heart almost stop beating, so that the performance became a kind of instinct/ability, not to mention control, and even the lines were blowing out like a volcanic eruption, and the catharsis that gushed out endlessly made people even a little frightened.

In particular, the nightmare of that time completely confused the difference between reality and illusion. Fortunately, Lan Li filmed "Buried Alive", if it was "American Neurological Patient" or "Requiem for Dreams", then the consequences would be unimaginable.

It can be understood simply and crudely, the use of methodology is more extensive, even if you have not really killed someone, you can also experiment with serial murderers, but the delicacy and realism of the performance will be slightly inferior, after all, it is not your own real experience, and the actor's understanding deviation is likely to lead to the performance completely detached from the script.

The scope of use of the experiential school is very narrow, if you want to play a serial killer, you may really have to feel the realism of the blood, even if it is not killing, at least you need to use artificial plasma to feel the viscosity and temperature of the blood, and the performance is rarer, in the process of thinking and positioning, once the realism is not in place, the performance cannot be completed. But the advantage is that you are in the soul!

Two ways of acting, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, Lan Li has really experienced it, although he can taste the subtle differences now, but he is just getting started, not to mention being good at it, and even distinguishing the differences between the two methods in the performance process, he may not be able to do it.

There is no doubt that on the road of performance, he needs to slow down, study carefully, and move forward step by step.

Putting aside the difference between the method school and the experience school for the time being, Lan Li seriously recalled every detail of the performance just now, and the slow feeling of sinking and drowning penetrated into the depths of his heart little by little.

He likes to delve into the process of acting.