Chapter 810: A Real Actor
When Gu Xiaofan got the DVD of "American Psycho", it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, and he began to play the movie on his TV. 【】
Since Nolan said that the best actor for the Joker in his mind is Bell...... Gu Xiaofan really wanted to see if he was bragging.
Gu Xiaofan started watching a can of beer while slowly discovering that this movie was completely different from what he imagined, it was a niche theme about schizophrenia.
The protagonist is a double personality of a social elite by day and a criminal by night.
Most of Gu Xiaofan's previous impressions of Bell actually came from a 2004 movie "The Mechanic", one of the movies that Mr. Yan liked to mention most when he was in film school.
It's not that Bale is amazing, but the British actor quickly lost 50 pounds in 2 weeks in order to play the insomnia-stricken character in the film, which is equivalent to 1/3 of his weight.
That's why the audience can see Trevor Leznick, who is 183cm tall and 54 kilograms, and his thin cheeks can't even cover his teeth. In particular, some of Bell's close-up shots, dragging his skeletal body through the nightmarish gray sky, heavy machinery, and blood, can almost feel his cheeks sunken, nothing like the real insomniacs.
In fact, Bell actually wanted to lose 90 pounds of weight, but the producer and director were frightened and did not agree with him to lose so much weight for fear of causing health problems. In order to lose weight, Bale only ate a can of tuna and an apple every day, and in the end he set a record for an actor to lose 57 pounds for a role.
Teacher Yan pointed to the screen with admiration at the time and said: "This is a professional actor~", Gu Xiaofan still remembers it vividly.
But at that time, everyone in the class had only one impression of this guy in their hearts, that is, this British actor was a "weight maniac......
As for how good his acting skills are, he doesn't have any specific concepts.
And Gu Xiaofan watched this "American Psycho", and suddenly understood that Bale, an arrogant guy, is not just a character actor who plays Batman, this guy is really powerful.
In this film 9 years ago, Bale is so handsome that it can be described as earth-shattering...... The body appearance is not inferior to any of the current popular first-line students.
In the film, he plays an ordinary Wall Street elite, whose light brown hair, eyebrows, and eyes are inconspicuous in a comic-style gray-black suit under a healthy wheat complexion.
In the story, the group of Wall Street stockbrokers who don't know what they are doing every day have no conspicuous external symbols other than the color of their tie and the color of their business cards, and these yuppies will even call each other by the wrong names in their own small circles.
In such a living environment, everyone needs a little bit of madness, so these people sleep with other people's girlfriends and smoke contraband...... Even silently waiting for someone of the same sex to discharge himself.
The protagonist played by Bell chooses another way to vent his emotions, filming himself going to a prostitute and enjoying the beauty and pleasure of blood flowing from the body of his prey, commenting on his favorite pop music, and slashing his friend's head with an axe in a raincoat......
In a killing scene, Bell improvised a segment: as the music began to twist his waist, the music, the dance, the raincoat, the killing that was about to begin...... Scenes that are obviously completely out of tune, dialogue and body language combine to create a magical effect - that's what a madman looks like......
When Gu Xiaofan saw this paragraph, he couldn't help but gasp, and finally knew why Nolan said that Bell should play the clown the most.
Mommy's ...... The way he prides himself on the way he behaves as a clown, Bell did 9 years ago...... No, it should be said that 9 years ago, the 26-year-old Bell did better than him.
This kind of cold and perverted malice is very similar to his style of playing a clown, but it is more thorough than him.
"This guy is really similar to my style......" Gu Xiaofan's eyes stared at the TV screen, and he couldn't help but talk to himself, and suddenly felt a strange feeling, Bell 9 years ago is not the same as his current acting skills...... The style is also very similar.
And such a Bell, who played Batman after 9 years of grinding, changed from madness to tranquility, no wonder it gave him an overwhelming sense of power......
Is this Hollywood's top-level actor? Gu Xiaofan felt a clear realization in his heart, and the hand holding his knee couldn't help but tremble slightly, a little worried, but it was more of an irrepressible excitement.
The 26-year-old Bale is evenly matched without any system help.
Then he surpasses 35 years old, and he surpasses himself after 9 years...... Gu Xiaofan thought silently, and continued to carefully study Bell's performance on the screen, almost maintaining this posture without any movement throughout the night......
The next morning, the crew of "The Dark Knight" officially began rehearsals, and the various actors began to gather together, playing rival scenes in various places, looking for tacit understanding.
As the producer, Chen Keer also came to the scene and stood with Nolan and Jonathan to observe the various actors.
Nolan is a very, very traditional director, he not only hates 3D shooting, but also hates stunts, completely advocating live shooting, and in the treatment of actors, he also likes to use British drama to carry out this kind of meticulous rehearsals and tap the potential of the actors.
This rehearsal is a collection of all actors who have lines, whether they are big names or small characters.
This made some young American actors who were similar to Liu Shishi extremely excited.
"Hey Colin, wait a minute, I'm going to have a fight with Bell, I'll make sure he has a fight with me." A white strong actor looked at him excitedly.
"Skeeter, don't brag, you're obviously playing a robber, you're the Joker's subordinate, you just punched Batman a few times, this is also called rival play?" The black actor named Colin scoffed at this, then looked at Gu Xiaofan from a distance, rubbed his hands and said:
"Look at me, I'll let that Chinese kid know what kind of momentum the gang boss should have~"
After speaking, Colin said to Liu Shishi next to him: "Hey, girl~ What are you playing?" Do you want me to teach you how to shine on camera? As he spoke, he put his hand on Liu Shishi's shoulder,
"I'm playing a police officer." Liu Shishi squinted her eyes and smiled: "I remember, you seem to be one of the people who were handcuffed, right?" With a backhand squeeze on Colin's wrist, Colin screamed in pain.
This scene immediately made the third-tier actors laugh, but for those of them who only have one or two lines, there are not many opportunities to act face-to-face with Hollywood first-line stars today, and everyone wants to go up and learn something