Chapter Eighty-Three: The Tradition of Monkey Play
Watching Andy Serkis walking upright in the green background wall, and Sun Wukong majestically shuttling through the forest on the computer screen, Xiao Qilingtong couldn't help but hold his breath. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Dr. Lin and the actors of the Central Repertory Theatre also gathered around, looking solemn,
The smiles on the faces of Xiao Ba and Xiao Jiu had frozen, and they both couldn't take their eyes off it, and Xiao Jiu couldn't help but stammer:
"Teacher, he's not professional at all, he's not walking at all...... But how can it look more ...... than us?"
"What do you know...... Xiao Qilingtong's face was a little pale, and his voice trembled slightly:
In fact, in the traditional performance of the Monkey King, there are two gaits, one is the tiger step during the Water Curtain Cave period, the legs are bent, showing the wild naughtiness of the monkey, and after attaining the Tao, it is to use the crane step...... The first to learn is the bouncing of the macaque, and the latter is to learn the atmosphere of the ape...... After Sun Wukong attained enlightenment, he turned back to Huaguo Mountain, and saw that the Water Curtain Cave had been occupied by the Demon King of the Mixed World, and he slashed the Demon King of the Mixed World, and the owners of the 72 caves respected him as the king. The "golden hoop stick" borrowed by his Dragon Palace went all the way to the Netherworld Palace, eliminated the book of life and death, he stole the peach and stole the golden pill and made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, so powerful, he should have the domineering and majesty of a king...... You have to perform with crane steps. ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Qilingtong also took a deep breath and said:
"It's just that the latter kind of crane step has extremely high requirements for skills, and it is impossible to perform a 30-minute play on the stage, and it can't hold up at all, since the monkey saint Xiao Shengchun, few people have practiced it, even Xiao Shengchun's apprentice Wang Liansheng, and he can only play a 5-point image...... Don't talk about you, even your uncle Jiu Xiaolingtong didn't perform this feeling in "Journey to the West", this foreigner has already had 3 points, it's really unimaginable......"
Xiao Qilingtong secretly thought that even if his senior brother Jiu Xiaolingtong came in person, at his age, he might not be able to act better than this foreigner.
Jiang Wenjun was also shocked when he listened to it next to him, he never thought that Andy Serkis would become a two-level disciple who surpassed Xiao Qilingtong...... This Andy Serkis "Chaplin of the CG world" is simply incredible.
Xiao Qilingtong couldn't help but ask Angkridge through the translator: "May I ask this performance master, how did he learn the crane step in the monkey play?"
When Unkridge heard this question, the muscles on his face softened, and he explained with a smile:
"That's a long way to say, Andy can be said to be a real madman, no one has ever done this like him~"
Unkridge paused deliberately, watching Xiao Qilingtong and Jiang Wenjun being hung up, and his face was full of anxiety to know the answer, before he continued to explain with a smile:
"In '03, he was going to shoot his first motion capture scene in "King Kong" to play a gorilla, and the director originally just wanted him to go to the zoo to observe the orangutans, but guess how he did it? This guy actually went to Rwanda alone to observe the gorillas in the wild, and the director Peter Jackson was going crazy at that time, so Andy stayed in Rwanda for a whole year, following a group of wild gorillas, studying their behavior and sounds, imitating how they groom each other, how to express emotions with sounds......
Of course, not only the gorilla, but also many other apes, because the performance is too realistic, a female orangutan is still attracted to him and behaves very affectionately to him~haha~
It's a pity that there was no such set of expression capture technology in "Avatar" at that time, otherwise his King Kong would have performed more exquisitely~
The year before last, he ran back to Rwanda for a whole year to perform in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes...... Studying more ape characteristics, it seems that the acting skills have improved a lot. ”
Xiao Qilingtong stood on the spot as he listened, and he finally understood why there was such a huge gap between the performances of the two sides.
This foreign actor actually spent two years studying apes in the African rainforest, imitating them
It's an experience they've never had at all......
You must know that his own master Liulingtong, although he is a master of monkey play, but the monkey play he performed was through raising a macaque by himself, observing the life form of the monkey, and then integrating the understanding and development of the characters, and often going to the magic capital to watch the monkey play of Zhang Yipeng and Zheng Faxiang, the monkey king of the north and south.
But in the end, the six-year-old boy only learned that the southern monkey king Zhang Yipeng was playful and cute, but he didn't learn Zheng Faxiang's domineering might, the most important thing is that he learned to be a monkey in captivity, and he has lost his original wildness, let alone majestic and domineering.
Therefore, in "Journey to the West", his successor Jiu Xiaolingtong is also more than agile, but not majestic enough......
Xiao Qilingtong understood this, couldn't help but close his eyes, and sighed bitterly:
"Alas...... Our monkey show in China can't catch up with others......"
After this sigh, the pride and pride on Xiao Qilingtong's face disappeared, and he seemed to be a few years older, his face was full of chagrin and grief......
When Jiang Wenjun heard his words, although he sympathized with him, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, and secretly thought:
"Today, I originally wanted to use the monkey show of "The Return of the Great Sage" to deter Disney, but I didn't expect that the monkey show heirs who were invited with a lot of money would be defeated directly in front of Andy Serkis...... I've always had the upper hand today, but I didn't expect to lose such a big person in the most sure link, and this battle was too bad......"
Mrs. Flo saw the change in atmosphere and winked at Unkridge, the Disney ace animation director, and smiled warmly at Little Qilingtong:
"Teacher Xiaoqi, if you are willing to learn the performance methods of these apes, we can arrange for you to visit the crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". ”
Xiao Qilingtong was suddenly overjoyed when he heard this, he originally felt that he would not be able to surpass this foreigner in his life, but when he heard that he could learn his monkey opera performance, he was immediately surprised:
"Really? I can visit...... But I ...... this America."
Seeing Xiao Qilingtong's embarrassed face, Unkridge suddenly understood that he was worried that he couldn't speak English, and laughed:
"Don't worry, Teacher Xiaoqi will pay for us, I will find you a portable translator to serve you throughout the process, this is also a friendly exchange between our two companies, if you want, we can also send someone to arrange for your two apprentices to go to Rwanda, to observe the wild apes in person, I just hope you agree to us a small request......" (to be continued.) )