Chapter 35: New Learning
Although Li Xuan is very young, his personality is too precocious, and his temperament is not quite like a minor teenager at all, coupled with all kinds of hard work in recent days, his appearance will not look so immature.
Therefore, after he entered the crew of "Once Upon a Time: The Lion of the Western Regions", everyone in the crew only thought he was too handsome. Everyone didn't have too many objections to him playing the new role of Devil's Feet Seven, after all, no one stipulated that the role of Devil's Feet Seven would not be very handsome.
And the two bigwigs Hong Baojin and Xu Ke, who are mainly responsible for the production of this new "Huang Feihong" film, did not let Li Xuan have too many relaxing moments, and after he arrived at the crew and barely managed to get rid of the jet lag, they immediately let him directly participate in the filming process of the film.
In any case, as an important follower and apprentice of Huang Feihong in the film, Ghost Foot Seven, Li Xuan's role in this role is still very heavy and cannot be delayed.
In other words, in fact, the position of the chief director of this new "Huang Feihong" was officially given to Mr. Hong Baojin in the end. Mr. Xu Ke, who has produced many "Once Upon a Time" movies, took the initiative to take a step back behind the scenes this time after careful consideration, and only became the producer of this movie.
It seems that Mr. Xu Ke wants to use the new director Hong Baojin to bring more different characteristics and highlights to this new sequel to the "Once Upon a Time" series and break his personal mindset about the "Once Upon a Time" series of movies.
So, within the crew, Li Xuan actually deals more with Hong Baojin, Fang Long's elder brother, and has a lot of face-to-face communication.
However, Hong Baojin, as a famous director, martial arts finger and actor in Xiangjiang, is also extremely serious and strict in his attitude in the work of the crew, and he will not give Li Xuan a little special care because he is a member of Fang Longfang's class. He resolutely treated everyone equally, and his requirements for Li Xuan were even very high.
Especially Hong Baojin, like everyone, also felt that Li Xuan was too handsome in his first impression, and in the process of Li Xuan's official performance of the role of Ghost Foot Seven, he soon found that Li Xuan was also very easy to inadvertently seize the focus of the main actor Li Jiete and others in the camera, and the method of acting was a bit problematic.
Therefore, Hong Baojin constantly asked Li Xuan not to deliberately pretend to be handsome when performing roles, but to find more ways to act deeper and more low-key. In other words, he thinks that Li Xuan's appearance is already very dazzling, but in the process of acting, not only does he not take the initiative to restrain himself, but there is an acting method that carries forward the dazzling degree of his appearance, which is obviously very unsuitable for the role of Ghost Foot Seven, and it is an extremely wrong way of acting.
But for Li Xuan, his sudden appearance in this situation is really a bit of a coincidence and helplessness.
After all, he just collaborated on a movie with the famous idol actor Liu Dehua, and it is inevitable that he will subtly learn some of the other party's unique acting methods. This may lead to his recent acting style in the crew of "Once Upon a Time", which is indeed slightly similar to Andy's style, and there is a kind of involuntary subconscious imitation of being handsome and cool.
But director Hong Baojin's words, it is naturally impossible for him not to listen, and it is true that he should not bring his overly handsome and exaggerated acting style to a relatively simple and low-key character like Devil's Foot Seven today.
Li Xuan can only work hard to make changes and strive to meet the dual requirements of the director and the needs of the scene.
However, when he wanted to work hard in this direction, he suddenly found that there was a new difficulty in front of him, and he was unlucky to hit the "acting wall"!
He knows very well that his level of literary and opera acting was enough before, but sometimes it was just a trick, or the performance model was too small, and his shortcomings were not exposed. Previously, in the crew of "Heaven and Earth Ambition", he successfully used some opportunistic methods to barely finish playing a policeman with a less lofty style. He has already discovered that his acting level has quickly reached a bottleneck, and those many shortcomings are basically about to be covered up, and the opportunistic way obviously can't continue to help him!
Now when he plays the role of Ghost Foot Qiyi in a completely different style, he finally hit the bottleneck wall of acting, and those previous technical things don't seem to help him, but let him fall into a dazed situation!
As a result, in the next continuous filming process of "Once Upon a Time", he was clearly blind, not only could not successfully interpret the essence of the Ghost Feet 71 Corner, but even sometimes made some very abnormal low-level mistakes. It's as if he's more like a pure newcomer who doesn't know anything. The situation where he hit the acting wall is very serious!
In this bad situation, he quickly affected the crew's work plan and other cast and crew, resulting in the continuous interruption of the on-site plot shooting process of the new movie "Once Upon a Time", and everyone's work efficiency was extremely low!
Fortunately, the main actor of this movie, Li Jiete, and the heroine Guan Lingzhi have good quality and good attitude, and they are not angry at the situation often caused by Li Xuan.
In fact, for the young Li Xuan suddenly made a lot of mistakes, not only did they not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but they were even willing to continue to play with him, and often took advantage of the time between acting or some breaks to enthusiastically take the initiative to teach him some skills to help Li Xuan get through the difficulties. They were really good, without the slightest sign of a big name at all.
In addition, although they are not known for their acting skills, their rich performance experience is definitely not comparable to Li Xuan, and some of the things proposed will definitely be very helpful to Li Xuan.
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"Xiao Li, at this time, don't smile so obviously, you just need to show a little reluctant smile with the corners of your mouth on your face! After all, when you laugh, the whole person looks too handsome, which destroys the mood and temperament of the character at this time!"
"Yes, you don't need to be too handsome at this point, it doesn't look like your character at all. When you smile, you have to bring out a bit of ruthlessness and ruffianism. After all, Ghost Foot Seven is a low-level background, and although he has become Huang Feihong's apprentice, he still has some nature that is difficult to change. ”
Just when another close-up shot of the plot of "Huang Feihong" was stopped, and director Hong Baojin pointed out that it was still Li Xuan's performance that had problems, Li Jiete and Guan Lingzhi took the initiative to give Li Xuan some personal opinions as usual.
Li Xuan was also very embarrassed that he had affected the normal shooting again, and quickly nodded and continued to apologize: "I'm sorry, it's been many times, I'm really sorry for a few." I should have hit the acting wall, so I was still in a bad state! If you think about it, the main thing is that you may have learned a lot of things recently, but you want to use them all at once, but you are trying too hard. ”
The director over there, Hong Baojin, nodded: "By the way, after so many times, you should have roughly found your problem by now." For example, in the performance just now, not only are you still a little too handsome and deliberate, but you are also a little too strong in your specific facial expressions. But don't worry, don't rush and take your time, I've seen the video footage of you at Aaron, and I know that you kid still has a lot of potential, don't let us down!"
Although Fang Long has always been in the ascendant in Xiangjiang and is basically a well-deserved number one representative superstar, in the eyes of Hong Baojin, the junior brother is the junior brother, and he is still the senior brother. And he has a bold personality and is very atmospheric, for the little brothers under his junior brother, he will naturally think that he is his little brother, there is not so much estrangement between them, and he is very caring.
In the face of such enthusiastic help and forgiveness from the director and the leading actors, Li Xuan was naturally very grateful, listened to their opinions very carefully at the first time, and then began to think hard about how to act well.
At the same time, this time, he also took the opportunity to sort out the magical parallel world images in his mind, trying to see if there were similar scenes and deductions for him to learn from among the many picture plots that he had usually flashed.
This subconsciously searched, but he really found a lot of useful scenes, and in addition, he seemed to be more and more familiar with the magical images in his mind.
Soon, after a moment of rest, the scene once again filmed the plot that had just been interrupted because Li Xuan did not act well.
This time, from the very beginning, Li Xuan kept in mind the tricks and points that Li Jiete, Guan Lingzhi and others had just told him, and at the same time, he kept trying to imitate the performances in some magical images he had just memorized.
Not to mention, such an action is really effective. This time, he passed the camera shooting very easily!
He completely cooperated with the leading actors to complete the performance, not only did he not over-steal the scene and destroy the scene, did not let himself out of the role, but also had a little bit of a problem effect on the scene just now, and perfectly played the supporting role and background behind the leading actor Li Jett.
"Okay, this time Xiao Li did a good job, keep it up. In addition, Applejack and Miss Kwan are also perfect, we have calculated this!" Director Hong Baojin shouted excitedly at the first time, obviously to take the opportunity to encourage everyone.
As for Li Jiete and Guan Lingzhi, they were very pleased that Li Xuan was finally able to complete the adjustment, and encouraged Li Xuan to strive to keep it.
As long as Li Xuan doesn't have too many problems, they will be able to continue acting relatively smoothly.
In fact, things like this have appeared a few times in the crew of "Once Upon a Time". However, Li Xuan's acting skills for this new role have become more and more proficient, and he has finally found some correct ways, and he gradually needs other people's tips less, so he can barely keep up with the rhythm.
In the end, with this kind of similar efforts, he successfully broke the wall of acting skills, perfectly adapted to the role of Ghost Foot Seven, and performed quite well, proving that his acting skills have made great progress!
Of course, these literary dramas of the crew of "Once Upon a Time" are actually only some secondary scenes, and its more focused aspects are naturally dominated by martial arts action scenes.
And this is also one of Li Xuan's strengths, he immediately attached great importance to it, trying to show his skills in the best state, to save some of the previous face and bad effects lost due to hitting the acting wall and making mistakes.
At the same time, he is also more curious, Li Jiete, who has won several national martial arts championship titles, how chic and powerful will his real skills in the crew be?