After the song was sung, a huge sound erupted at the scene. The cheers of the mountains and the tsunami, the deafening applause, spread so overwhelmingly that the walls of the theater trembled slightly.

"Reeves !!"

"Reeves !!"

Keanu Reeves watched the boiling crowd in the audience with tears in his eyes, never before had Sirius received such a round of applause for their performance since Sirius was founded. Unfortunately, the band is about to disband!" he sighed slightly, waved his thanks to everyone with a smile, and walked off the stage with the band members.

When Zhang Ran and Cheng Hu came backstage, they saw Keanu Reeves sitting in the corner with a sad expression, as if immersed in memories, while the other two members of Sirius were slowly packing up their instruments, and their expressions were also a little lonely.

Cheng Hu walked over, gave Reeves a hug, and shouted, "Keanu, your performance is amazing!"

Reeves smiled shyly like a shy big boy, "Thanks, Tiger." I'm glad you came to see Sirius perform. But when this tour is over, the band will be disbanding!"

"It's a pity!" said that, but Cheng Hu didn't have any regrets. He thinks Reeves is still suitable for being an actor, and he really doesn't have any talent in music. He didn't forget the purpose of coming, and hurriedly introduced, "This is my friend Zhang Ran, he is a director, I want to meet you!"

"Hello, Mr. Reeves, I'm Zhang Ran. Your performance is very interesting, I love the last song!" Zhang Ran stretched out his right hand with a shallow smile on his face.

Reeves looked at Zhang Ran. Seeing that he was only twenty-four or five years old, I thought that he should be a new director who had just graduated from school, and he might like his own movies more. It was specially to see himself, and he held Zhang Ran's right hand: "Hello, I'm very happy to hear you say that!"

Zhang Ran took out a business card and handed it over: "This is my business card!"

Reeves took the business card and looked at it, the producer and director of "Time and Space Warrior", and was slightly stunned, isn't this the movie produced by Luc Besson that he pushed down? He knew why Zhang Ran came, although Cheng Hu was his friend. But he still shook his head and said: "I've read the movie script, but I don't want to act in this play." I always wish I could play different roles and make different types of films. I don't really want to repeat myself, like McDonald's, sandwiches, ...... People love it, but I don't want to do it. You are friends with the tiger, and we can be friends too. But I can't say yes to this movie!"

Zhang Ran knew it would be like this. said unhurriedly: "Mr. Reeves, I know that you are an actor who pursues art, you don't care about money, you often go to act in some low-budget movies, and you are even willing to play a supporting role in it." However, I think you have fallen into a misunderstanding about acting, you think that you can only improve your acting skills by trying different roles, so you keep trying different roles. In fact, it is more important to discover the inner life of the characters than to try differently. I can help you. Let you make a breakthrough in acting!"

Reeves naturally didn't believe it, he had met more big directors. None of them have been able to help themselves in acting, let alone a young director in his twenties. If Zhang Ran wasn't Cheng Hu's friend, Reeves probably wouldn't have paid any more attention: "Do you think you, and your movie, can discover my acting skills?"

Zhang Ran said confidently: "As a director, it is very important to guide the actors to act. However, the vast majority of directors have not learned acting, and many directors can see the problems of actors, but they don't know how to help actors and how to solve their problems. I'm different, I'm from a performance background, I've systematically studied acting, and I've also been on the drama stage. So far, I've only made two films, but I've had two actors win Best Actor at international film festivals. I have absolute confidence in directing the actors. I know where your problem is, and I can help you!"

Reeves was a little surprised when he heard that Zhang Ran brought out two film festival actors, which was indeed a proud achievement, and asked, "Then what is my performance problem?"

Zhang Ran said directly: "Your performance path is wrong. ”

Reeves was stunned, this answer was beyond his expectations, he originally thought that Zhang Ran would say, you haven't explored enough characters, you haven't entered the hearts of characters and so on, and couldn't help asking: "What does this mean? I don't understand!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Ran's mouth: "You haven't studied acting systematically, and several directors you met at the beginning of making movies like methodist performances, such as Coppola, Gus Van Sant, and Kathryn Bigelow, so your performance is also relying on methodology." There is a theory called emotional substitution, for example, when an actor needs to feel the fear of a character, he can replace it by recalling a frightened memory from his childhood. This is very controversial and criticized in the American performance industry, because people have privacy, some things we don't want to touch, some scars we don't want to touch, and emotional substitution constantly makes actors open their own traumatic memories, which will hurt the actors themselves.

Meryl Streep was an opponent of methodism, studying acting as an undergraduate at Vassar College and attending the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, her teacher, Robert Lewis, was an important figure in Methodism and the founder of the Actors Studio. Streep was very repulsed by some of the training, especially emotional memory, and felt that her privacy had been violated. Although she was trained by Methodism, she did not become a Methodist actress, but went along the Expressionist route, and now she is one of the best actors in the world, even known as the Methodist Terminator.

You, like Streep, are inwardly resistant to emotional substitution. But Streep has a very solid Expressionist foundation, and she takes some of the Methodist stuff and then goes down the Expressionist path, and that's what you start with. Although it rejects emotional substitution, acting is still a methodological thing. You use methodist techniques, but you can't get to the heart, so your performance is always superficial and can't show the deep emotions of the characters. ”

Reeves was completely dumbfounded, and looked at Zhang Ran in a daze. Who the hell is this guy?

Things are indeed like what Zhang Ran said, when I used to film with those big directors, I always said it to Reeves. Keanu, you have to go deep into the hearts of the characters, and you have to look for similarities from your own experiences. They always tried to dig into his heart, but he was reluctant to remember the misfortunes of the past, and it was too painful for him.

However, Reeves is an introvert and is reluctant to communicate with others or reveal his inner pain. So the directors think that his performance is not deep enough, but they don't know the real crux of the problem. Zhang Ranzhi can say this, it's not that he is better than big directors like Coppola. It's because his teacher once said that Reeves was on the wrong track. Combined with the teacher's words and Reeves's experience, the answer is clear at a glance.

Zhang Ran saw the vibration in Reeves' eyes, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was even bigger: "Mr. Reeves." You're always playing different roles. I just want to break through the shackles and find my own way of acting. But your problem is that you're on the wrong track, and playing different roles doesn't work. If you don't get into the heart of the character, the performance is always superficial. In this movie, the character of Jason has similarities with Neo, but his heart is more complex than Neo, and it is more difficult to play than Neo, he is a little anxious in his heart. Even painful characters. I can help you make some breakthroughs and dig deeper into the hearts of the characters. If you are able to do this. Whether it's for your performance, or for your acting career, it will be a breakthrough!"

Reeves asked, "Are you an expressionist?"

Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile and said, "No, I'm a method school!"

Reeves looked at Zhang Ran speechlessly, you all said that I took the wrong path to learn the Method, but you yourself are all Methodist, isn't this teasing people!

Zhang Ran could guess what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "There are many branches of the method school, and the method school and the method school are also different. You've met Strasberg's faction, which is the Actors' Studio, and they're very influential, and the American method has the most people, and our faction is called Stella Technique. You may not have heard the name, but Marlon Brando, you know for sure. Yes, Marlon Brando is from our faction, as well as Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, and so on!"

Reeves has not studied performance theory, and he is not clear about the performance system and the development of the performance system in the United States, but the people Zhang Ran said are all famous, it is impossible not to know, and asked: "You are all methodists, is there any difference?"

Zhang Ran knew that he had won Reeves, and explained with a smile: "Strathberg's theory focuses on emotional memory, that is, shaping characters according to their own personal experiences and feelings, in which the role of emotional replacement is very crucial. Although we will also use emotional substitution, but it is more restrained, for us the core of the performance is the highest task and the continuous action, the task is determined, and the emotional substitution can be used to adjust appropriately. It's okay not to replace emotions without emotion, and you can also drive the character's heart through external actions. To give a simple example, Al Pacino came out of the actor's studio, and Pacino acted to discover his own experiences, find similarities, and rely on his own personality to control the character, while De Niro was from our school, and his performance was based on analyzing all aspects of the person, and then integrating himself into the character. You can see the difference between the two of them, and De Niro's method is undoubtedly more suitable for you!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran stared at Reeves's face seriously: "Mr. Reeves, many actors have completed their transformation in their forties and finally matured. Once this stage passes, when you reach your fifties, your acting career will become more and more restricted, and it will be difficult to get a good role, and it will be very difficult to break through. De Niro and Pacino are all great actors, but do you see any good works in them in the past few years? You are talented, I can help you, would you like to try?"

Matthew McConaughey is a well-known vase actor, and by the time he was forty years old, almost everyone thought that his acting career was hopeless, and that he would not make a big difference anyway. He faded out of sight at this point. Two years later, Matthew McConaughey returned to the screen with "The Lincoln Lawyer." changed the image of the romantic comedy in the past, and became a capable, calm, free and easy, and not angry lawyer. With this film, McConaughey successfully transformed and won the Oscar two years later.

The current Reeves is somewhat similar to McConaughey, and what McConaughey can do is not necessarily what Reeves can't do. Zhang Ranzhi doesn't think that his movie can help Reeves transform, at least this one can't. But I was able to make a breakthrough and find the right direction.

Reeves stared at Zhang Ran for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "You said it so well, I can't find any reason to refuse." I've taken this movie!" (To be continued.) )