Chapter 24: Neuropathy

For the success of a movie, the acting skills of the supporting characters are crucial.

The actor's good acting skills can enhance the height of the film, and the height of the film can increase the value of the actor, which is all mutual.

For example, Huang Bo, this ugly actor who is stricter than passers-by, is red and purple in China on Earth, why? Because he has acting skills, but there are more people with acting skills, why is he popular? Because he participated in a movie, that movie made him, and with him, the movie also left a particularly deep impression, that movie is called "Crazy Stone".

I have to say that this is a subversive work in Chinese mainland, which has achieved directors and a large number of actors.

And Huang Bo is the most brilliant one among them.

His dashing head shake on the subway has become a meme that can often be seen in Internet jokes, and the scene where he sticks his antenna out of the hole in the manhole cover in the sewer to make a call has become the most classic scene of the whole film.

After that, he successfully won the leading role in Ning Hao's next movie "Crazy Racing" with a supporting role, and soon he became the box office champion of mainland actors, which is the charm of a supporting role.

There are countless examples of this, such as the pervert in "This Killer is Not Too Cold", the police officer Stan who kills people while listening to music, there is an unforgettable drug action before the killing, as well as nervous sweating and shouting, you may forget a lot of plots in the whole movie, but you will not forget the scene where the villain kills people and takes drugs.

And "Prison Break", if someone asks you which of the four seasons of TV series you remember the most? I'm sure half of the people will answer not the main character, let alone his brother, but the gay, the pervert who likes to stick out his tongue and lick his lips, the villain with a split personality, T-Bag.

Huo Que knows this very well, so he also pays great attention to the two supporting roles in "Home Alone", and their acting skills will directly affect the whole play.

Today, he is here to interview two supporting roles.

Of course, the protagonist is more important, but since his play is not a big production, there are only about two dozen children who want to audition, which is far from meeting his expectations, anything can be done, but the protagonist can't be settled anyway, so he decided to extend the starring audition for a few days, and wait for more children to audition.

The location of the audition was arranged by the Screen Actors Guild, right in the office premises of the Actors Guild.

In addition to Alice, the assistant who should have come to interview for the supporting role with Huo Que has one more person, that is, the assistant director recruited by Huo Que yesterday, Laurie.

Among the more than 20 applicants yesterday, only a few of them did not graduate from the directing department, and Huo Que chose Laurie among them. Because of the rainstorm he took casually, the memorable rainstorm.

The empty interview hall was very quiet, and the slightest movement would cause an echo.

"Bang Bang ......" A dense sound of high heels stomping on the ground sounded from outside the door, and then the door of the interview hall was gently pushed open, and a young white girl wearing a professional suit and glasses walked in elegantly.

Seeing this person, Huo Que's eyes lit up, of course, not all because of her beauty, but because he knew this girl.

"Oh, Huo Que?" The visitor was even more surprised than Huo Que, she covered her mouth in disbelief: "We are really fateful, I didn't expect you to meet me again." ”

"Miss Bella!" Huo Que stood up, and his words were quite polite. Because that's exactly what this girl introduced him to, Bella. Irving.

"Thank you for remembering my name." Beira. Owen smiled: "I went to see your movie, it was very exciting, and I am really glad to be able to introduce you to the actors." ”

"No, no...... I should thank you. Huo Que said a little embarrassed: "If you hadn't introduced me to Brown last time, then I might not be able to sit here and talk to you today." ”

"Then treat me to a meal." Bella blinked, quite teasing Huo Que.

"That's my pleasure." Huo Que didn't expect Bella to be so direct.

"Okay, I remember, let's get down to business, we've got almost two hundred actors in contact with you, and they're all here according to your requirements." Bella handed the information in her hand to Huo Que.

Although the salary of the supporting role that Huo Que wants this time is not very high, the requirements are not low, first of all, the first point is to have participated in at least two works, so that Huo Que can understand the actor's acting skills from their other works, of course, live performances are also definitely required, anyone who has watched "Home Alone" knows that the acting skills of the two supporting roles in it are good, although it is the first time in this world, but in any case, it is also a remake of Huo Que, if the effect of the shooting is not as good as the original work, then Huo Que is not a very failure?

The four of them sat down, and in order to save time, the Actors Guild also did a lot of preliminary work, such as the actors who came to audition to send at least one short video of the roles they had previously participated in.

And in order to win this role, these actors will of course focus on sending one of the most brilliant scenes they played to the Actors Guild.

So Huo Que didn't rush to call those who were going to audition in for the audition, but first watched the videos sent by the actors in the mailbox in Bella's laptop, after all, there are more than 200 people who are going to audition today, and if they audition one by one, I don't know how long it will take?

Click on the first video, the source of the video is a low-budget horror film, the actor is a man in his forties, he has lines in it, and there is a lot of room to play, but Huo Que only watched it for less than a minute and vetoed it, because the actor's performance traces are very heavy.

Many people who watch movies are non-professionals, so what do they rely on to judge an actor's acting skills? In fact, it is very simple, that is, to see if the actor is integrated, any actor must forget his original identity after entering the play, but follow the setting of the role and the background to perform the role itself as much as possible, if you can't enter the play, then there is no doubt that this is an unqualified actor.

The so-called heavy performance traces are actually that he did not enter the play, but far-fetched to play this role through guò performance.

In the second video, the actor is not qualified.

In the third video, the actor is not qualified.

watched more than a dozen videos at once, and none of the actors in it were what Huo Que wanted, either they acted too far-fetched, or they didn't enter the play at all, and some of them were the kind of acting for the sake of acting.

The nineteenth video, which is a small video from a TV series, shows that the actor is a tall, thin man in his forties, playing a role as a mentally ill person. The moment the video was opened, Huo Que's eyes narrowed.

His character is a psychotic man who kills people and carries a blood-dripping knife in his hand, and the police lights shine on his somewhat wooden face, and his eyes look a little glazed, but not without a look.

"Put down your knife!" The police yelled.

His eyes swirled vigorously in his sockets: "I can't find a threat to him anymore." ”

"Put down the knife." The lines of the policeman with bad acting skills are very stiff.

The actor gently placed the knife on the ground, with fear and doubt in his eyes.

"He's dead." The actor said innocently like a child: "Even if you shoot me, it's useless, he's really dead." ”

"Poof......

Looking at this tense scene, listening to the actor's funny lines, Alice and Bella laughed at the same time, even Huo Que didn't feel it, and nodded silently in his heart: "He is indeed a good actor, and he plays the role of neuropathy well, which is very suitable for the role of Marven, who is a little stunned and makes a lot of laughs." ”

"Let him come in and audition." Huo Que said to Bella, who was sitting next to him.

Walking in from outside the gate was a thin middle-aged man in a suit, who could not have been associated with that neurotic in any way if he had just looked at him, with a smile on his face and a steady and graceful walk.

"Daniel. Percy! Huo Que confirmed his name and pointed to the chair in front of him: "Please sit!" ”

Daniel nodded, then sat down, "Thank you for giving me this opportunity." ”

"I just watched the video of you playing neuropathy, and I think it's a good performance." Huo Que said.

"Thank you." Daniel gestured to his face, "But you should be able to tell that I'm not a psychopath. ”

"Hehe......" Huo Que smiled: "Can you restore the role of neuropathy without using lines?" ”

As soon as Huo Que's words came out, the middle-aged man who was wearing a suit and behaving elegantly and decently disappeared from their eyes in an instant. The man who appeared next had a morbid enthusiasm in his eyes, he tilted his head, his mouth was slightly open, as if he was smiling, he stared at Alice closely, his eyes were full of love and greed, more of a human unpredictable feeling.

Alice couldn't help but be startled by that kind of look, and suddenly grabbed Huo Que's arm, almost screaming.

"I'm sorry, ma'am!" The neuropathy is gone, and the personable middle-aged man is back.

This is an excellent actor, who was mentally ill one second ago, and a personable uncle a second later.

Alice breathed a long sigh of relief, patted her undulating chest with her hand, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "God, it seems that I am a very qualified audience, so soon I will enter the play...... Of course you're a more qualified actor. ”

This sentence is very pertinent, Daniel is indeed a very good actor.

"You're welcome to join our crew." Huo Que stood up and stretched out his hand to Daniel in front of him.

Daniel shook Huo Que's hand: "Thank you for giving me this opportunity." ”