Chapter 929 Scene 929 The Demon King's Eyes
Under the proud gaze of Wu Wei's animation CG masters, the six-year-old boy who has been practicing monkey drama for many years was silent when he looked at the computer screen.
Is this a man or a monkey? They can't tell the difference, isn't this the secret of monkey opera that the late Peking Opera master Li Wanchun said about the "Northern Monkey King": "people learn monkeys, monkeys learn people" The highest level? Everyone is looking at me, I look at you, goosebumps all over the body are up, they find that these monkeys and monkeys made by animation CG are probably the peak that they can't surpass in their lives, and this feeling makes them extremely frustrated.
I don't know who shouted: "Even if their physical fitness is the same as that of monkeys, but Sun Wukong's eyes can't be imitated, those 'fiery eyes' are a must for our six teachers, and the highest level of monkey opera still depends on people to act~!"
A group of people nodded their heads, and their confidence came up again, yes, no matter how much the animation simulates the characters, it can't simulate the charm, and sure enough, at this time, the six-year-old child on the camera played the Monkey King Sun Wukong as soon as he came out, handsome and abnormal, the lightness, liveliness, and agility of the "Southern Monkey" were vividly displayed by the Monkey King played by the six-year-old child, especially the magic of the "stealing peach" scene, eating real peaches in the camera, gnawing the skin in circles, and finally lifting the entire long peel with his hand, which won the applause of the people at the scene.
This time, the Monkey King in "The Legend of the Great Sage", before learning the Tao, was played by Liuxiaolingtong in the early stage, and after learning the Tao, he was played by Li Xiaole.
All the monkey opera actors understood in their hearts that this Director Li was going to argue with the six-year-old child, they were all looking at the scene of watching a good show, thinking, Director Li, you dare to compare the monkey play with the sixth teacher, isn't that looking for death?
You must know that the shot just now is a close-up of the real eyes of the six-year-old child, in order to express the charm of the Monkey King, the six-year-old child's "fiery eyes" has a history, he himself is actually a short-sighted eye that can't see the distance clearly, but in order to show the "fiery eyes"? Six-year-old children train themselves to watch table tennis during the day, watch their heads not move, watch the round trip of table tennis, practice the rapid movement of their eyes, look at the cigarette butts lit at night, and watch the sunrise in the morning.
Although Li Xiaole's eyes are also very good, they can't be compared with the six-year-old child, and at this time, the gap will be seen~~
In the screen, a group of monkeys in the mountains squeaked, as if they had never stopped all day long, in the manic afternoon, thousands of monkeys screamed the most energetically, and at this time, the Bull Demon King who was waiting for the return of Sun Wukong next to him coaxed the cow's nose twice, and these two times covered all the monkeys all over the mountain.
However, at this time, I saw Sun Wukong carrying a whole mountain-like burden from a distance and walking slowly, step by step, he did not chirp like a monkey all over the mountains, nor did he gasp in his nose, he was very silent and walked very slowly, like an old man with a cane about to step out of the alley.
But when he stopped, put behind the huge burden like a mountain, and then roared, no one could tell where this sound came from, only felt that the mountains shook in an instant, the monkeys all over the mountains no longer screamed, the nose of the Bull Demon King was no longer breathing, the wind was no longer moving, the water was no longer flowing, and even the people in front of the screen were stunned by his roar.
After a long time, the wind in the mountains began to move, the water began to flow, and one or two bold monkeys began to grin, but the Bull Demon King still drooped his head and pressed his thighs tightly.
The roar of the Monkey King is called a roar, and the tiger is called a roar, but the roar of the king of beasts is less than one-ten-thousandth of that of the king of ten thousand demons!
Looking at the close-up of the camera, Sun Wukong's eyes are calm and restrained, unassuming, and there is boundless wildness in those eyes, and at the same time they are so gloomy and decisive......
Is this Monkey King! No...... That's a careerist...... Although he looks like a monkey, his eyes are completely human...... Can't be wrong, he's definitely human! Everyone was stunned by this scene......
"This is the Monkey King." Wu Wei chuckled beside him: "In your Peking Opera monkey opera, the 'Monkey King' only performed 'beauty' and 'monkey', but there is no such 'royal spirit'...... This is the Chinese hero needed on the big screen, and this is the real Monkey King. ”
The six young children were silent when they heard this, they were completely shocked by the scene just now, and they felt for the first time that the "Monkey King" and the "Monkey King" were two completely different life forms......
Everyone looked into Li Xiaole's eyes, but saw that his eyes were completely devoid of the majestic spirit of the Monkey King in the lens, and the sixth Xiaolingtong even walked over and observed Li Xiaole's eyes up close for a long time before he opened his mouth wide in surprise and asked, "All the eyes in this are computer synthesized?" ”
The actors all know that the eyes are the window of the soul and the most able to convey feelings, such as the warmth of Sun Wukong when he met Bodhi Ancestor, and the unfair treatment after entering the Heavenly Palace, all of them need eyes to convey the changes in his heart, if you take people as a metaphor, this may be a process from your 10s to 30s, this kind of life experience changes are not only emotional, but also physiologically subtle, such as the size of the pupils, the light of the eyes, which are all difficulties that the actor cannot surpass.
Therefore, traditional actors tend to make Sun Wukong infantil, and have always maintained an impulsive little monkey state, and have not performed the king's side, which is not only because of the style, but also actually difficult to perform, after all, Sun Wukong is not like other human characters, and the sense of age change can be strengthened by makeup and clothing, his appearance and body shape will not change for hundreds of years, the only change is in those eyes, and obviously Li Xiaole has done something in these eyes.
"Yes~" Wu Wei tilted his head next to him and explained proudly: "Why this picture is so shocking, it is because Director Li has done a lot of homework in advance, including he asked the ophthalmologist for help, carefully observed the various layers and details of the human eye through some instruments, the highlights and reflections of the eyes, etc., and then applied these things to the eye mold, and we also patiently studied the movement process of the eye muscles." In addition, the crew also spent a lot of time studying the monkeys' eyes, including looking at photos and videos. For the film, the crew also developed an eye system that included pupil changes and eye muscle changes, and used all the collected data. ”
Wu Wei pointed to his eyes and said: "With the help of the eye system, you can give the effect of some tearlight reflection at the bottom of the eyes, and this effect will achieve amazing results when using Sun Wukong's fighting scenes and psychological changes." Why did Director Li look like his eyes were about to be torn apart when he was in the Monkey King's emotional scene, his eyes were bloodshot, and there would be redness and swelling in his eye sockets, these details were actually applied to CG characters through the eye system. ”
A group of monkey opera actors looked at these pictures in a daze, and suddenly felt that the highest peak pursued by all those monkey opera predecessors in the past hundred years had been completely broken through, and the role of Monkey King had been developed to an unprecedented height.
The most shocked thing in his heart is actually Liu Xiaolingtong himself, he has been learning monkey opera since he was a child, and he has been filming a TV series in the crew of "Journey to the West" for 6 and a half years, and he has not achieved anything after hard thinking and meditation, Li Xiaole only solved it lightly in just one month, and it is also a high-tech method that they can't imagine, completely subverting all the methods of monkey opera, and he suddenly realized in his heart that what is the southern monkey king, the northern monkey king...... All these old antiques should be lost to history, because they are no longer needed......
The monkey opera actors present at this moment all understood that they were not participating in a remake of "Journey to the West" to make money, but an unprecedented Journey to the West-themed movie! What this young director has done is a complete innovation in monkey opera, and he has liberated all actors who want to learn monkey opera in the future from boring and boring, long years of practice! It's an unbelievably great feat! This is a hundred times greater than the deeds of any of the "Monkey Kings" who were praised a long time ago!
Throughout the evening, the monkey performers were in a strange mood, excited to participate in such a masterpiece that subverted the past, and at the same time felt sad for their past, their ten years of hard work have not been compared to the progress of film technology...... They are the product of obsolescence by the times.
A few days later, the night after the end of the stand-in shooting, Liu Xiaolingtong specially invited Tom Cruise, Wang Baoqiang and other actors and Li Xiaole to have a candied meal with these monkey opera students in the evening, took pictures with each of them, signed autographs, and said thank you to them one by one, so that these monkey opera actors were flattered, after a few cups, a group of people were crying and laughing, Li Xiaole can also understand the sadness of being a stuntman, doing the most dangerous actions, but never had the opportunity to show his face, I can only watch other big stars shine in the camera.