Chapter Eighty-Five: Striking Matches

"It's time to eat!"

Hearing Liu Xiaoli's shout, Zhang Ran announced the end of the morning's training, and came out of the dance studio with Liu Yifei and Li Xinyue and came to the restaurant.

Liu Xiaoli nodded at Zhang Ran with a smile, and put a plate of green vegetables and a plate of green peppers in front of Liu Yifei: "Qianqian, this is specially prepared for you!"

Liu Yifei looked at the green peppers on the noodles and said puzzledly: "Mom, I don't like to eat chili peppers, why do you specially prepare fried green peppers for me?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "I asked your mother to prepare it for you." When you did the Wujae training in the morning, you didn't feel good about the performance, so in order to increase your sensory memory, these dishes were specially prepared!"

Liu Yifei glanced at the chili pepper, then picked a piece of green vegetables with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. It's just that she just chewed it, frowned, and spit it out.

"It's so salty, Mom, you've put too much salt!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "This is for you to experience saltiness, and the plate of chili peppers next to you is to make you feel spicy! Both dishes are specially prepared for you, you should chew slowly when eating, and remember your feelings well! Only when you really remember the psychological and physical reactions at this time, and you need to perform accordingly in the future, can you evoke your memories today and make a real and credible performance, which is called sensory memory in performance!"

Liu Yifei nodded, but the two dishes in front of her were just as salty and spicy, she really didn't want to eat more, she looked at Zhang Ran pitifully, and asked, "Teacher, can I only eat a little bit?"

Zhang Ran shook his head and said: "This is not a vegetable market to buy vegetables, there is no price to talk about, you must eat them all, so what is the feeling of saltiness and what is the feeling of spicy will be engraved in your mind, and you can only perform when you perform." If you can't stand the salty and spicy food, then I advise you not to be an actor, being an actor is much more bitter than this!"

"I didn't say I wouldn't eat it, I underestimate people!" Liu Yifei angrily took a piece of green vegetables, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly, "Woo, it's so unpalatable!"

Liu Yifei's face was wrinkled, but she didn't spit it out, nor did she swallow it immediately, but still chewed slowly until the dish was completely chewed.

Zhang Ran looked at Liu Yifei with a smile, thinking that this kid has average talent, but his temperament is quite tenacious, it is not incurable, at least it can be rescued.

This was the most painful meal Liu Yifei had ever eaten in her life, especially when she ate chili peppers, tears flowed out of her eyes, and Liu Xiaoli's heart hurt a lot. But Liu Yifei didn't scream, she persevered, but she couldn't help but say in her heart, the teacher is a big demon king, a monster, and a bad person! Woo, it's so spicy! Woo, it's spicy!

After lunch, Zhang Ran smiled and asked Liu Xiaoli to bring out the fruit after the meal and put it in front of Liu Yifei. One lemon is for her to experience what is sour, a glass of coptis water is for her to experience what is bitter, and two sugars are for her to experience what sweetness is.

Liu Yifei was tossed and almost cried, and she realized that acting training is actually not so fun.

After Liu Yifei finished eating everything, Zhang Ran said with a smile: "You play a sour now, recall the taste and feeling of sourness, and then act again!"

Liu Yifei recalled the feeling of eating lemons just now, only to feel a sour taste, and his whole face suddenly wrinkled.

"Very good, now act bitter!"

"Now it's spicy!"

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After Liu Yifei's performance, Zhang Ran looked at Liu Xiaoli and said: "You can see the difference, the feeling of the performance that you have experienced is different from the performance you have not experienced." This is just the simplest taste, and we often encounter it in our lives. Therefore, acting cannot be taught by teachers, and an actor cannot act well without enough life experience. ”

Liu Xiaoli nodded, Liu Yifei's feeling of performing now is indeed much better than when she was practicing in the morning. She also knew what Zhang Ran meant, Zhang Ran wanted Liu Yifei to go out and experience life.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Ran asked Liu Xiaoli to call Li Xinyue and Liu Yifei downstairs and take them to the dance room. He clapped his hands and said loudly, "Okay, let's do the non-physical practice!"

Liu Yifei asked curiously: "What is no physical training?"

"Have you seen Chen Peisi's sketch "Eating Noodles"? Chen Peisi's bowl has no noodles, he didn't really eat it, right? A performance without an actual object is a performance without a physical object, which is a lesson that actors must practice, which can improve the actor's observation and imagination. ”

"But that's so hard, isn't it?"

"It's really difficult for you to eat noodles, let's do the simplest non-physical exercise, draw matches!" Zhang Ran took out a box of matches from his pocket and handed it to Liu Yifei, "Now you put the matches in your pocket, then take out the matches, draw one, and then put the matchbox in your pocket." Do it ten times in a row, memorize your every move, and then we'll do the no-object training!"

Liu Yifei began to pull out matches, struck matches, and did it over and over again.

Training without physical objects is quite boring, and you may be very excited to practice it once, and you may not be so passionate when you practice it 10 times, and you may not want to do it after practicing it 20 times. But the actor must practice the movements over and over again, until the muscles have a memory, and there is no physical object before they can say that they have practiced at home.

Human muscles have memory, for example, a person learns to stutter, and after a long time, it is possible to really stutter. This is the memory of the muscles, and the body remembers the past experience. In the early stage of training, actors do various movement training, which is actually to store memories in the body. In this way, when it is necessary to express a certain action or a certain state, these memories can be called upon and vividly reproduced.

Ten times to finish.

Zhang Ran looked at Liu Yifei, didn't see impatience in her eyes, nodded with satisfaction: "Now let's do the action decomposition, although striking a match is a very simple action, but this action also has steps, you tell me, what is the step of this action?"

Liu Yifei said directly: "Take out the match!"

If it weren't for Liu Xiaoli's presence, Zhang Ran would have slapped her on the head and opened her up: "You don't even put your hands in your pockets, how can you take the matchbox?"

Liu Yifei said "oh": "I know, put your hand in your pocket." ”

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Go on, what is the second step?"

"The second step is to feel the matchbox and take it out of your pocket, and the third step is to open the matchbox and take out the matches!"

Zhang Ran frowned and said: "The action decomposition is not detailed enough, you take out the matchbox, don't you see which side of the matchbox is facing up? If it is the back side up, won't the match fall out as soon as you open it? The third step is to pull open the matchbox The match will not fall out, hold the matchbox face up; taking the match is a complete action, how you open the matchbox, how you take it, you should show it!"

Liu Yifei recalled the action just now, and said while gesturing: "Hold the matchbox with two fingers, open it with the other finger, and then take out a match with the fingers of the other hand, and then pinch the match with two fingers and pull it out of the matchbox." ”

"Very good, continue to break down the action, what's next?

"Hold the matchbox head down, and the hand holding the match will not burn the match, hold the end of the match, and move the side of the matchbox to the underside of the match......

……

Zhang Ran instructed Liu Yifei to complete the decomposition of the action of striking the match, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, now according to the decomposition of the action just now, the action of striking the match will be performed again." ”

Liu Yifei took a breath, calmed down, began to take out matches, struck matches, and then made a candle lighting action, puffed out the matches, and finally threw the lit matches into the trash.

After the performance, Liu Yifei felt good about herself, felt that she had mastered the true meaning of the performance, and asked excitedly: "Teacher, how did I act, and how many points can I score?"

Zhang Ran groaned slightly: "Ten points!"

Liu Yifei jumped up and let out a cheer: "Really? Great!"

Zhang Ran said lightly: "What are you excited about?

Ahh

Liu Yifei was a little shocked, her face bulged, and she was round like a bun: "The total score is 100 points, teacher, I acted so badly?"

Zhang Ran explained: "You just performed all the actions that should be, but why is the score so low? Unreal! In order to make the performance without physical objects authentic and credible, it is necessary to follow the principle of three senses and two sexes. The three senses refer to the texture, volume and proportion of the action. Texture refers to the fact that the action should produce different sensations and effects according to the texture of the object. Because of the different textures and weights, there are also differences in the force used by the performers, that is, the movements should have a sense of volume. In addition, the action must be done in a measured way to be realistic, how much effort to use, and how much amplitude the action is.

The two sexes refer to the logic and sequence of completing the physical movements. Everything has its logic and order, and there is an inevitable connection between the front and back actions, and there is also a certain sequence, which cannot be disrupted. We just did the action decomposition to ensure logic and order.

To put it simply, you should have a specific image in your mind when performing, how long and wide the matchbox is, whether it is new or running out, how to take the matchbox, how to open it, what posture the hand is, how to take out a match with your fingers, and how much force you use to draw a match, all of which must be shown. If you don't have such a concept in your head, the performance will not have a sense of reality, and it will be very fake!"

Liu Yifei tilted his head and thought about it, and suddenly understood, with inexplicable joy on his face, it turned out to be like this, and laughed: "I know, Mr. Zhang, then I'll play it again!"

Zhang Ran smiled: "One time is enough, come fifty times first, until your muscles have a memory!"

"Ah!" Liu Yifei was dumbfounded.

(Now I'm going to take it out and observe life.) Thanks to "Fengyun Fuchen, xiaotang246, Sixi Maruko" for rewarding, asking for collection, asking for recommendation!)