Chapter 274 of the text The actor's sense of conviction

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"Time and Space Warrior" has a lot of martial arts and fighting scenes, and before the start of filming, the three leading actors, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody and Zhang Ziyi, must receive special training in martial arts, otherwise they will not be able to make the required effect. The training started in December last year and has been going on for three months now.

When Zhang Ran took the students to the training ground on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the three stars had not yet arrived. No, the tiger has arrived, and in addition to this, there is a lean man in his fifties, and several young people in their thirties.

Seeing Zhang Ran, Cheng Hu hurriedly came over to say hello, and then brought Zhang Ran to the thin man, ready to make an introduction: "Director, let me introduce you!"

Zhang Ran waved his hand, signaled no, and introduced himself: "Mr. Yuan, hello! I am Zhang Ran, I am your fan, I have watched your kung fu movies since I was a child! It is my honor to cooperate with you, and I am a little more sure of the success of this movie with you!"

Yuan Heping shook hands with Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "It's really young and promising, Chinese movies depend on you young people!"

When Zhang Ran returned from the Tokyo Film Festival last year, he sent a fax to Yuan Heping and sent him an invitation. But Yuan Heping ignored Zhang Ran at all, he had a lot of projects in his hands, and he didn't need to cooperate with a new director like Zhang Ran, and more importantly, Zhang Ran's fax said producer Luc Besson. Yuan Heping felt that it was impossible, how could Luc Besson be the producer of a new director in the mainland, this Zhang Ran must be a liar.

After more than a month, Yuan Heping received a call from Cheng Hu. Cheng Hu is a member of Yuan's family class and an apprentice of Yuan Heping when he was in the United States. Cheng Hu told Yuan Heping that there was a drama that wanted him to be a martial arts instructor, the producer was Luc Besson, and the starring role was Keanu Reeves, and then Yuan Heping knew that he had misunderstood Zhang Ran.

Since it was a movie made by Chinese, and there were a lot of Chinese elements in it, Yuan Heping felt that this was a good thing to promote Chinese culture, so he rushed to the United States with Yuan Jiaban. However, when he arrived in the United States, Zhang Ran had already returned to China. After signing with Neil, the film's producer. He took the members of the Yuan family class and began to train the actors in martial arts.

Zhang Ran smiled, bowed down and said: "This movie is a science fiction film, but the connotation of the movie is not Western, it has our Chinese culture." Philosophical thought is inside. I might be a bit demanding in terms of action, so please!"

Yuan Heping nodded, many of them of the older generation of Xiangjiang filmmakers have the desire to promote Chinese culture: "Bringing Chinese culture and Chinese martial arts to every corner of the world is the wish of all our filmmakers." You can rest assured. Even if I don't want to fight this old bone, I will design the action!"

Soon, Keanu Reeves and they came. After a brief hello, Cheng Hu and the members of the Yuan family class began to take them for training.

The first thing to do is to stretch, which is also the most difficult for the three stars. Zhang Ziyi's situation is better, after all, she is young and has dancing skills.

The trio did a two-minute warm-up exercise, then slowly spread their legs apart with their hands on the ground. The members of the Yuan family class carefully supported them, and then slowly pressed down. Last time Brody pressed his own legs. The pressure was too strong, and as a result, he lay in the hospital for half a month, so everyone was very careful.

"Ahh No matter that despite their extremely poignant shouts, they did not stop, and they were desperately persevering.

The students looked at each other a few times, speechless. They felt the shock, Reeves was a Hollywood superstar, and Brody was an Oscar-winner. I thought that such a big star must be eating and drinking well, and I didn't dare to offend at all, but I never expected that I would receive such training. And without the slightest resistance, they are desperately persevering!

Zhang Ran called Cheng Hu over and said to him: "Tiger, you have trained many Hollywood stars, you can tell you the story of training stars!"

Cheng Hu said: "I have trained several Hollywood stars, and I trained all three of them when I was filming "Breaking Baby". Cameron Diaz is the most talkative and laughing of the three babies, and can fight with anyone, and once I pressed Cameron's leg, Cameron was pressed to cry, and he cried very loudly, but he had to do his homework. Later, when I finally finished my homework, I thought she would ask me why I was working so hard, but she apologized to me very sincerely, saying that she shouldn't have resisted training so much......"

Cheng Hu told a lot of stories about training stars, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore, Uma, Thurman, etc., all of which are his personal experiences, without the slightest falsehood.

The students were speechless, and the dedication of these Hollywood stars was far beyond their imagination. They realize that it's really not for nothing that a superstar can become a superstar.

After Cheng Hu finished speaking, Zhang Ran looked at the students and said sternly: "It's different from what you think, Hollywood stars are much more dedicated than everyone thinks." In fact, if you look at the resumes of Hollywood superstars, you will find that many people basically take on one or two plays a year, and they will make a lot of preparations and devote themselves to the role before the film starts, just to play the role well. I hope you can learn more from them in the future, spend more time on character building, and don't desperately take on the drama! Remember, for actors, making a good drama is more useful than filming ten bad scenes!" After speaking, Zhang Ran turned his head to Li Xinyue and said, "Xinyue, take them to classical dance training!"

Li Xinyue clapped her hands, called the students in her class aside, and began to train the basic skills of classical Chinese dance.

Zhang Ran discussed with Yuan Heping about the action design in the movie, and he had two requirements for the moving scenes in the movie, when fighting in close combat, it should be solid and have the texture of punches to the flesh;

Yuan Heping is known as the world's first martial artist, and it is easy to design actions for the film. After listening to Zhang Ran's request, he immediately put forward his own ideas, what kind of punch to use, how to fight, and dance hand to hand.

An hour and a half later, Reeves and the others stopped training and sat on the ground gasping for air. Zhang Ran walked up to him and sat down, looked at him and said, "Keanu, have you finished watching "The Art of Performing", how do you feel?"

"The Art of Performance" is Stella's book, and it is a must-read textbook for Zhang Ran and his school. Reeves nodded, "This book is about something different from what I've learned before, which is to activate characters based on context and imagination. However, there is no specific training method in the book, and I need guidance on this!"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "I originally wanted to ask my teacher to guide you, but her health is not too good, so it's up to me." The following month. You may have to practice martial arts for half a day and receive acting training for half a day, which is more hard, are you willing to accept this training?"

"Of course I do. Reeves said without hesitation. The reason why he took on the film "Time and Space Warrior" is that he hopes to break his predicament in acting.

"My training wasn't difficult, at least it was much easier than martial arts training. But this training may be a little strange!" Speaking of his training method, the corners of Zhang Ran's mouth smiled.

Brody is a method actor with the most professional training. He put his hand on Reeves' shoulder and grinned, "Keanu." There are so many really fantastic training methods in Method, you'll love it!"

"Of course, I like Stella's theory. Reeves said a little impatiently, "Zhang, let's start now!"

"Okay, let's start now!" Zhang Ran took out a Zhu Bajie mask from his bag, he looked at Reeves and said with a grin, "In the next period of time, you will wear this mask to live, remember from the moment you put on the mask." You're not thirty-nine-year-old Keanu Reeves, you're only nine years old!"

Reeves couldn't figure out why he was wearing a mask for acting training, and why he was pretending to be a nine-year-old, and asked, "Why do you do this?"

Reeves' biggest problem is that he has experienced too many things, he grew up in a divorced family, his friend died after becoming an actor, his child had a miscarriage, his girlfriend died, and his sister had leukemia. Quite unfortunate. Too much experience makes him always have a sense of alienation when acting, and he feels a little bit like seeing through the red dust. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has seen through the red dust, he has indeed been in contact with Buddhism in the past two years, and he often read Buddhist scriptures on the set when filming "The Matrix 3".

Acting is about being fake. Believing that what he is acting in is true, it is more difficult for a person who has seen through the red dust a little. If Zhang Ran has Stanley's third-stage training method, Reeves's situation is not difficult to solve, and he can directly use guò external action training to drive internal emotions, and he can let the actor enter the play. It's a pity that there is no Stanley third phase training method. He can only develop his sense of conviction through guò training using the second stage of training.

Zhang Ran did not have the misfortunes of Ti Reeves's past, and simply analyzed: "The performance of our school is based on careful analysis of the characters, and the imagination allows us to carry out the prescribed situation, and then achieve the play." But you've been through so much and seen so many things through that it's hard to get into a prescribed situation!

A sense of belief is the ability to believe it to be true. You like "Hamlet", just take this play as an example, when the actor acts on the stage, everything is real, he really cries, laughs, he is really angry, even if he is holding a fake sword, he must believe that the sword is real. On the stage, the actor is the character, and the two are integrated, which is called really listening, watching and feeling. The actor is not Hamlet, and the actor cannot really become the person in the story, but the actor can make his psychology and behavior close to the character. For acting, the closer the actor is to the character, the more realistic the performance will be!

Therefore, we have to exercise your sense of belief, that is, to exercise your ability to believe, as long as you believe that you are the character, that is, the person you play, then you have really entered the role, and you have entered the play. What kind of people have the strongest sense of conviction? Children are children, and when they play at home, they say and do whatever they say, and they will have a strong conviction to learn to do what adults do. If they are mothers, they will treat the lifeless little rag doll with real feelings, play with it, put it to sleep, and so on. Stanley said that if actors can achieve the same belief and truth as children in play, then we can become great actors. So our next training is to let you get back to your childhood state and restore your innocence! Putting on a mask for you is to make you forget your current identity and let go of the baggage in your heart, do you understand?"

"Yes, I see!" Reeves nodded, putting on Zhu Bajie's mask, and then shook his head, his big ears shaking wildly.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"

"Hahaha......"

The students laughed, Reeves wearing the mask of Zhu Bajie was too funny, where was the majesty of an international superstar.

Zhang Ran glared at the giggling students, stretched out his hand to mess among the students, called ten students out, and then looked at Reeves and asked, "Let's make a game first, Eagle Catches Chicken, will you play?" (~^~) Mobile phone users please visit wènhttp://mnet

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