Chapter Seventy-Nine: Proportion
Playing Xu Xian is not only a challenge to the classics, but also a challenge to Lu Yan's acting skills, and he hopes to find an opportunity to break through from the role of Xu Xian.
But judging by the course of the first day of shooting, his challenge was not smooth.
He and Wu Jiatai had a disagreement on Xu Xian's understanding.
Prior to this, whether it was Zhou Tao, Murong Fu, Liu Zheng or Zhong Yuemin and Li Tianmin, although these characters were diverse, they all had one thing in common, that is, the strong self-confidence they exuded, and Lu Yan's own temperament and these characters all fit in.
In his understanding, although Xu Xian is a scholar and has no power to restrain chickens, he is not cowardly, but the simple kindness and tenacious temperament in his personality make him look like a scholar, just like most literati in the background of the times at that time.
And Wu Jiatai always felt that Lu Yan's aura was too strong, and there were too many self-factors, what he wanted to see was Xu Xian's "weak" temperament.
Originally, how the director filmed, the actors had to act, but after a reshoot, the producer of the crew, Li Gongda, insisted that Lu Yan should perform in the previous way, and Wu Jiatai, as the director, naturally could not easily give in to the general direction, and the two got together.
Who is the dominant producer and director, this point is inconclusive in the circle, Li Gongda is a famous CCTV producer, and Wu Jiatai has just come out of the shadow of Zhang Jizhong's producer, and he is very uninterested in the producer's power to dominate the crew.
The two bigwigs of the crew were blushing and their necks were thick, Lu Yan was caught in the middle, and he didn't know who to listen to, so the filming was deadlocked.
The two quarreled for a day, but they didn't come up with a reason, and the two screenwriters of the crew also stood on their own side.
It's not that it's incompatible, it's a difference in philosophy, although the starting point is to try to make the scene as good as possible, such scenes can happen when the director or producer of many crews does not have absolute power, sometimes the producer and director, sometimes the actor and the director.
On the first day, Lu Yan's scenes were only filmed twice, and they were filmed once according to the opinions of Li Gongda and Wu Jiatai.
Lu Yan didn't stay on the set anymore during the night scene, and took a taxi back to the hotel.
didn't eat, lying on the bed tossing and turning, he also understood that the root of the disagreement between the two bigwigs was because of himself, he couldn't fully control the role of Xu Xian, or he couldn't fully grasp the balance of Xu Xian's character, so that both of them could be satisfied.
And Ye Tong's version of Xu Xian, she doesn't have to think about these at all, she prefers the ultimate softness, because she is a woman, and it is basically impossible to deduce a man's aura, but if Lu Yan also acts like that, "Male Xu Xian" is just a gimmick in the end, and maybe it will be nondescript.
After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason, this was the first time he played such a contradictory role as Xu Xian, and he was under a lot of pressure in his heart.
At this time, he remembered Chen Baoguo, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone and dialed Chen Baoguo's number.
"Hey, teacher, I'm Lu Yan, are you busy?"
"Not busy, something?"
"That's right, I'm filming "The Legend of the White Snake" now, and the role I play is Xu Xian."
Lu Yan told Chen Baoguo about the problems he encountered, and even the general plot of "The Legend of the White Snake".
Chen Baoguo pondered for a while before he said: "In this way, didn't I tell you about performing in the way of experience before, whether it is your producer or director, what they see is the "you" component of Xu Xian, if you eliminate your own shadow, you and the character are "one", and the controversy will naturally be gone." ”
"But..."
"I know your concerns, the key is that you can do it now with your previous methods?"
Lu Yan's voice was a little dull and said: "No", his ability to shape second nature has not yet reached that level, otherwise he would not have apprenticed to Chen Baoguo.
"That's not the end, no matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, it's a good cat to catch a mouse"
After chatting for a while, Chen Baoguo hung up the phone, the experiential method Lu Yan occasionally used when he first started filming, but he almost never used it again, and more time he still tended to perform from the perspective of a spectator, that is, to shape "second nature".
Treating himself as Xu Xian, which is what Chen Baoguo called "unity", sounds very simple, but it is not actually a little difficult to do, because he has become accustomed to the previous performance style and method.
Lu Yan is not sure whether Chen Baoguo's method is useful, but now he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, unless his own acting skills can be improved immediately, otherwise relying on his own control ability, he will not be able to create a Xu Xianlai who satisfies both Li Gongda and Wu Jiatai.
"I'm Xu Xian, I'm Xu Xian, I'm Xu Xian." While going to the bathroom, Lu Yan muttered silently in his heart.
He really doesn't have much experience in the school, and he can't enter a role as quickly as Chen Baoguo, so he can only use this stupid method of self-suggestion.
"Girl, if I say that it is all because I saw a man on the broken bridge yesterday, do you believe it?"
"Hey, no, this is a confession, no matter how frustrated Xu Xian is, he can't even have the courage to look at others."
"Since then, I've felt like I've had an extra sickness in my heart, and I've been in pain all the time in the morning and night, and I can't figure out who I'm sick for, but I happened to meet that person again today, and now I, I seem to know it all."
Lu Yan stopped, propped his hands on the sink, and looked straight into his eyes, he still couldn't get into the state, or he couldn't get rid of his own shadow.
Shaking his head, he walked out of the bathroom: "Let's read the script again." ”
From the moment he got the script, he had read it several times from beginning to end, but this time was different from before, he carefully stared at any of Xu Xian's lines, hoping to find something.
"I want to say that I fell in love with her from the first time I saw her......"
Lu Yan was like a demon, reading a few lines, closing his eyes and thinking for a while, and occasionally standing up and dancing with his hands.
After a phone call, Yan Danchen's, Lu Yan was also absent-minded when chatting, and hung up the phone after a few words.
"What did I just say?"
Holding the script in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, Lu Yan frowned, he didn't pay attention at all when Yan Danchen spoke just now, his pressure was too great.
"Gollum"
His stomach screamed, and he touched his stomach with a wry smile, and it was deflated like a deflated ball, and then he remembered that he hadn't eaten lunch yet.
I went downstairs and bought some food to fill my stomach, and after returning to the room, I continued to practice, the crew had already started up, Wu Jiatai and Li Gongda were in a hurry, and he was even more anxious.