The students in the class saluted in unison: "Hello teacher!

"Hello students!" Zhang Ran nodded and began to lecture, "Before talking about today's content, let's make a game, now you are a flock of chickens, little roosters, little hens, when you hear that the atomic bomb is about to explode on your head, how will you react? Start now!"

After a moment's thought, the students immediately put on a performance.

Cao Bingkun shook his wings, his body shrunk into a ball, and he trembled; Zhang Xinyi's face was full of horror, running around, trying to find a place to hide; Huang Shengyi clucked and shrunk in a corner......

Li Xinyue and Zhou Zheng watched everyone's performance, and really wanted to laugh, but they were afraid of hitting everyone, so they could only endure it desperately, and the muscles on their faces were a little stiff after a long time. However, Zhang Ran always had a faint smile on his face, and he seemed to be very satisfied.

After everyone played for two minutes, Zhang Ran clapped his hands, motioned for everyone to stop, and then shook his head and said: "It's a pity that no one played it right, you are all playing yourself, but you added the action of the chicken during the performance, and you didn't think from the perspective of the chicken at all." ”

Zhang Xinyi said puzzledly: "Teacher Zhang, how is it right to act? I have tried my best to think about the feelings of chickens, how can it be wrong?"

Zhang Ran smiled and explained: "Do you really think about it from the perspective of chickens? Let me tell you a story. When Marlon Brando was in the actor training class, Ms. Stella asked everyone to simulate a situation, how would a flock of chickens react when they heard that the atomic bomb was about to explode on their heads? Most people are like you, only Marlon Brando stayed in the corner as if nothing had happened, and Ms. Stella asked Marlon Brando why he was acting like this, and Marlon Brando said I was a chicken, how do I know what an atomic bomb is? What am I afraid of?

Ahh

So that's it!

The students suddenly realized that their performance seemed to be fine, but they ignored the most critical issue, the cognition of chickens is different from that of people, and chickens may not know what people know. Do chickens know what an atomic bomb is? I don't know. Since you don't know, then you won't be afraid of the atomic bomb explosion, you won't be afraid, then it's a big mistake to play fear.

Zhang Ran is not playing brain teasers with everyone, but hopes that everyone understands how to figure out the psychology of the character, which is very important to the actor. An actor is acting as a person, and if you want to play a character truly and credible, you must try to get as close to the character as possible, think according to the character's way of thinking, and figure out the psychology of the character, otherwise you will act and act yourself.

Zhang Ran patted it, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then got to the point: "In the last class, we did the exercises of simple actions such as 'sitting', 'drinking water', and 'nailing buttons'. Now the training we are going to do is related to 'walking', so let me tell you a scene for you to play. The content is like this, you cross a single-plank bridge, and you are walking in the middle and suddenly you find a snake under your feet, and you raise your head and spit out at you, but there is no other way, what are you going to do? Now give everyone five minutes to think, and then I'll ask someone to come up and perform!"

The students in the class started to move, gesturing, thinking and figuring out their movements.

Five minutes later, Zhang Ran clapped his hands and said, "Okay, now prepare to perform!" His gaze swept over his face, and finally fell on Huang Shengyi's face: "Huang Shengyi, you come!"

Huang Shengyi walked to the middle of the classroom, calmed down, hummed the tune of "I'm a girl", and strode forward. She suddenly screamed "snake", stared at the ground in horror, slowly retreated, and then she bent down and picked up a "stone" and threw it at the snake, then patted her chest, breathed a sigh of relief, and then kicked the snake away, striding across the bridge.

The whole performance was a bit pompous and fake, and the students in the class were laughing and silent.

Huang Shengyi's performance was expected by Zhang Ran, the students in the class before only did a few simple movements to sit, drink water, and nail buttons, but now although it is acting, the scenes given to them are more complicated, and the acting is not the content often encountered in life, the difficulty has increased a lot, and it is already good to be able to perform to this extent.

Zhang Ran analyzed with a smile: "Huang Shengyi acted well, what to do, why, how to do, there are three elements of action, but there are many unreasonable things in her actions, which makes the whole performance more fake." First of all, the song she sang was "I Am a Girl", which should be a song that little girls like, but Huang Shengyi's character was very bold, and he killed the snake in two strokes, and the song did not match the character of the character;

The students in the class laughed for a while, Huang Shengyi's small arms and legs have nothing to do with the shot put.

Huang Shengyi's face was slightly red, she bit her lip, and said angrily: "Teacher Zhang, you are talking nonsense, I don't practice shot put!"

Zhang Ran glanced at her and said with a smile: "You should have a process of finding stones when you are looking for stones, and there should also be a process of smashing snakes, how to smash them, and after smashing them, there should be a process of judging whether the snake is dead, right? What if the snake is not dead? I said that if you take over the play in the future, the script often will not have specific actions, and you need to design it yourself." Then the actions you design must be logical, in line with reality, and in line with the identity of the characters, otherwise it will be very fake. There's a concept involved here – digging into a prescribed situation!

What is a prescribed situation? It is the plot of the script, the events and times of the script, the time, place, living conditions, and so on. There are two aspects to a prescribed situation: external and internal. The external context is the plot and style of the script, the external structure and foundation of life in the play. The internal situation refers to the inner spiritual life situation of the person, including the person's life goals, intentions, qualifications, thoughts, emotions, motivations and attitudes towards things, etc., which contains all the content of the character's spiritual life and psychological state.

In fact, any performance, any characterization, the script and the director provide you with a prescribed situation. What the actor does is to explore the prescribed situation, to discover the details, to organize the action, which is to excavate the prescribed situation. I've mentioned the method of digging into a prescribed situation before, who knows?"

Cao Bingkun asked tentatively, "Character biography?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "That's right, it's a character biography." According to the content provided by the script, we designed the details of the characters' family background, education, main growth experience, what jobs they have done, and what they like to eat. I'm going to give you 10 minutes, and I'm still going to cross the bridge and encounter a snake, and I hope you will have the time, the place, who you are, and the purpose of your next performance. Remember, the action must be real, accurate, delicate, and have a basis for life. Start now!"

The students in the class began to reorganize their movements and explore the prescribed situations, while Zhang Ran, Li Xinyue, and Zhou Zheng walked among the students to guide everyone's movements.

Ten minutes passed in a flash, and Zhang Ran clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to stop. After everyone stood up, Zhang Ran glanced at everyone, and saw that Wang Luodan's eyes were a little evasive, so he said, "Wang Luodan, you play it again!"

Wang Luodan walked onto the stage, glanced at the sun overhead, wiped the sweat on his forehead, flipped the big backpack behind his back, and hurriedly walked onto the single-plank bridge. Suddenly, she froze. His feet seemed to be nailed, his eyes stared at the snake motionlessly, and he stopped breathing. After a moment's pause, she realized the danger and was extremely cautious, slowly retreating backwards with great caution until she reached the bottom of the bridge. She hastened to hide behind a large rock and secretly observe the snake. She noticed that the snake's head was slowly rising, as if it was about to come.

She looked around, trying to cross the river elsewhere, but there was only one way. She thought for a moment and decided to break a branch and fight a snake across the river. Just as she was breaking a long branch, she had a premonition, and she held her breath and looked down to see the snake at her feet.

Through Wang Luodan's frightened eyes and movements, everyone seemed to have seen the snake raise its head, the core stretched and retracted, and the snake's eyes seemed to be staring at her, and it would attack at any time, and everyone's breathing was short.

Wang Luodan glanced around, no one passed by, so he could only rely on himself. She bit her lip, suddenly reached out and grabbed the snake seven inches, lifted the snake up violently, screamed, and threw the snake towards the big rock with all her strength, and then she beat the snake like crazy, screaming as she fell.

It wasn't until he broke the snake and was sure that the snake was dead that Wang Luodan threw the snake away, sat on the ground as if he had collapsed, panting and crying like a child.

The students in the class were shocked by Wang Luodan's performance, their eyes widened, and the leaders present couldn't stop nodding, this performance was too real, it was just like the real thing!

Zhang Ran was also shocked by Wang Luodan's performance, could it be that my enlightenment magic palm has worked? His acting skills have exploded! He clapped his hands and praised: "Wang Luodan, the performance is very good." Don't cry, go down!"

But Wang Luodan didn't move, he sat in the middle of the classroom and continued to cry, his back kept twitching, and the tears fell down, and he couldn't stop it.

When the students in the class saw this, they were at a loss, and no one knew what was going on.

Zhang Ran hurriedly walked over, squatted down in front of Wang Luodan, and handed over a tissue. He knew that Wang Luodan was too deep into the play, and he was frightened by the content he played, and now he is in a state where there is no way to get out.

Entering the play is a good thing for the actor, but entering the play too deeply is a harm to the actor, and may even lead to mental illness. Those actors who always play the role of drug addicts, murderers, **, etc., who have inner pain or depression, are prone to psychological problems.

Of course, experienced actors will control their level of involvement when performing, while inexperienced young actors may plunge headlong into the play and it will be difficult to get out after the play. After the filming is completed, many actors will have a sense of loss and discomfort for a few days, precisely because they have not yet stripped themselves of themselves and their roles.

Zhang Ran gently patted Wang Luodan's back and comforted him softly: "It's okay, we're just acting, it's fake, there are no snakes, don't be afraid, don't cry!"

"When I was a child, I encountered a snake in the countryside and was almost bitten, and I was scared when I thought of snakes!" Wang Luodan's tears couldn't be contained, he cried until he was a little out of breath, his voice was completely dumb, and his eyes were completely swollen.

Wang Luodan also wanted to stop, but he couldn't control it, so he howled and cried, and all the sadness accumulated in his heart was released after these days.

Zhang Ran patted Wang Luodan on the back, feeling a little surprised, but then realized that it was not only a matter of entering the play, but also what grievances he had suffered. Then cry, for Wang Luodan, it can be regarded as an emotional release!

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