Lance is not modest, on the contrary, he tends to be very confident and even a little arrogant. But that doesn't mean he's blind. For the professional field, he has always maintained an objective mentality, because only true objectivity can bring progress.

The performance just now really can't be called outstanding, and it's far from it!

Lance hasn't performed for more than two years, although the habits and gestures of acting have been deeply rooted in the blood, as if talking and walking, have become a part of the body; But stage performances and screen performances are still different after all, not only taking time to prepare, but also time to carve, and a long period of alienation will inevitably lead to dull the tactile sense of performance. What's more, Lance is far from being a master of acting, he is still an ascetic who has been exploring on the road of performance, and the performance that came at his fingertips in a hurry is still lacking in heat after all.

Although Lance seemed to be in the driver's seat all along, today's situation was far beyond the unexpected, Shirley and the others were really caught off guard, and Wade was even more stingy with the preparation time he had before the show. In an emergency, Lance can only take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the east wind.

In fact, Lance chose this scene, not only because Max's ups and downs are the most explosive, but also because the situation he faces is similar to Max - Max faces Felix, while Lance faces Shirley, Peter and Wade; Max is chasing ducks to the shelves, and Lance is going into battle at the last second; Max is pretending to be a professional killer, while Lance is playing a taxi driver who has never known anything in his life; At the same time, they were all forced to a dead end, either completely crushed and crushed, or launched a Jedi counterattack.

So, Lance chose this scene to borrow the embarrassing situation he was facing at the moment. Push yourself to the extreme between the electric and flint, forcibly substitute into Max's state, and then rely on your acting skills to explode the tension of the role.

It's called opportunism.

The results presented can also be seen. Lance quickly entered the state of performance, pulling the full tension of the love xù to the extreme. It attracts all eyes with a close-up visual shock. But in fact, Lance's performance is shocking enough, but it is not delicate enough, the depth is limited, and the most important thing is that the rhythm of the performance is too obvious and the sense of character substitution is not enough.

In short, Lance's performance just now is not just Max, it can be anyone who bursts into potential in the face of a desperate situation, and the mark of "Max" is almost invisible. It can be Brad, it can be Shirley, it can be Wade, and naturally it can also be Lance himself, and the connection with "borrowing a knife to kill" is even weaker.

However, Lance did a good job of covering up the fatal mistake, covering up the lack of detail with the power of the performance, making the four laymen in the room mistakenly believe that they had entered Max's world. In particular, Wade's stiff and tasteless performance weakened Felix's sense of oppression. Success "helps" Lance together to cover up the mutilation of the performance.

I was lucky enough to get through this difficulty, but it doesn't mean that the performance just now was outstanding.

The art of performance has been precipitated for a long time, and today it is mainly divided into two schools. Methodism and Epitomia Xiàn.

The so-called methodology, in short, is to completely substitute the actor into the current situation of the role, according to the situation of the role, substitute his own understanding of the situation, and then express the emotions of the character; The so-called Xàn school is to express accurate emotions and tell accurate plots at the right time, in the right situation, and in the right way.

Take Robert De Niro's performance in "Taxi Driver". In order to get a feel for the real life of a taxi driver, he worked as a taxi driver in New York for three months. I really felt the confusion and madness of Travis, which is a typical representative of the methodists. Strive to integrate yourself into the character, let the character drive the performance, and truly integrate into the story, real and shocking, flamboyant and crazy.

Another example is Colin Firth's performance in "Single Man", when he receives a phone call and hears that his same-sex/lover has died in a car accident, the shock of the love is like a mountain of mountains, but it is so suppressed that it can't burst out, and what is even more desperate is that the lover's family refuses him to attend the funeral, and the surging emotions that fall apart but have to be suppressed are shocking under his performance, which is a typical epitomia. Precise and profound, delicate and fitting.

In fact, to understand "performance" in a literal sense, it should be the acting skills of the Xiàn school, which is also the definition of performance in traditional theory; Methodological acting, on the other hand, interprets performance more from the perspective of personal understanding. Therefore, most of the acting skills of the table xiàn school come from academic actors, especially British actors; On the other hand, there are many non-professional actors from all walks of life, cultures, and ages.

On the whole, methodological performances require input, even loss, and are often easy to lose control, and different actors' different understandings of the role will also derive different performances, and once the actor enters the role, it is difficult to control the performance. Therefore, the performance of the method school is real enough, and even makes the actor deeply trapped in the character and unable to extricate himself, unable to distinguish the difference between reality and fantasy, but it is not necessarily completely accurate, it may be slightly exaggerated, or it will be slightly insufficient, but its advantages are very obvious: real and shocking, the actor is really integrated with the character, so that people cannot distinguish it, pushing the plot to unknown heights.

Each actor's understanding of acting skills is different, and the performance presented and the charm left after the performance are completely different, which is a performance that really tests the basic skills, especially the traditional performing arts such as Peking Opera or stage plays, where the same role is performed by different actors and the same actor in different performances, and you can taste different charms. But the shortcomings are also very obvious, it is difficult to polish without ten years of foundation, and the performance is a little too restrained, lacking the unique charm of some of the characters themselves.

Hollywood, which is "non-professional and has no historical background", has recently been very methodical, and this way of acting has been in Hollywood for almost half a century. But strictly speaking, there is no superiority or inferiority between the two kinds of performances, some directors favor the methodist school, but some directors do not use the methodological school, some films are suitable for methodological interpretation, and some works must be presented through the guò表xiàn school. In the final analysis, acting is a test of an actor's ability - whether it is basic skills or expressive strength.

Lance's acting experience is unique, he came from an academic background, studied under the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and can be said to be a traditional performer. According to the tradition of British academic actors, he should first graduate from the academy, then spend several years in London's West End, sharpen the control and precision of his acting into the outline, and then devote himself to independent films to hone his acting skills, play some individual roles with a sword, form his own unique performance style and performance charm, and finally return to traditional drama films.

However, Lance dropped out of school and never really made it to the West End stage - he spent a year in the West End as an intern. Luckily, after Lee/Jin crossed over, he honed his basic skills little by little on Broadway in New York. Those actors who can become acting teachers are not necessarily actors with excellent acting skills or outstanding talents, but they are bound to be teachers with unique teaching skills, and they are also actors with solid basic acting skills. Lance was able to become an acting teacher, which was slowly polished after years of precipitation.

However, Lance has been looking for a methodological breakthrough. Lance has always believed that when performance reaches a certain level, the method school and the table school actually have something in common, and the two can often burst out more amazing sparks when they learn from each other. However, before being reborn, Lance still failed to find the key.

On the one hand, it is because Li / Jin has completed the transformation of acting skills from a layman to a fusion memory, there is no shortcut, and he must spend enough time to practice little by little, repeatedly, repeatedly; On the one hand, it is because he does not have enough opportunities to fight, let alone have good enough opponents to hone.

Take Lance's performance just now as an example, this is a typical acting skill of the Epixiàn school. Lance showed the most accurate feelings at each accurate point in time, the panic and timidity when he first appeared, the despair and fear after revealing his feet, the jerkiness and inadequacy after the ruin, and the composure and ease after the integration...... The whole process of Max's meeting with Felix is clear at a glance, and the accurate and in place show the tension of the whole performance with the help of the ups and downs of the plot.

However, even with the acting skills of the Epixiàn School, Lance still seems a little rusty, the transformation and connection of the love are slightly too deliberate, and the expression of some details is too conspicuous. The two-year interval can still be glimpsed. But the problem is not this, but that there is no trace of "Max" in this performance.

Imagine, if it was really Max facing Felix, Max's transformation was so obvious that it was like a roller coaster, as a gangster boss, wouldn't Felix have any doubts at all? Felix was so lightly convinced that the person in front of him was Vincent? Felix didn't plan to spy on it again?

What's more, Lance didn't really substitute Max's role into it, this is the way of acting with methodist acting, Lance needs to fully integrate himself into Max, he needs to look back on Max's entire long life, and then interpret this ordinary taxi driver in his own way, including detailed actions, idiomatic expressions, usual demeanor, etc.

This is the part of Lance's whole performance that was completely cut off just now, and it is also the part that Lance tried to run in before being reborn, and it is also the most difficult part of the performance.

Therefore, Lance's performance just now is far from being wonderful.

In the face of Brad's praise, Lance fell silent, the turbulent thoughts in his mind were roaring heartily, every pore on his body was breathing happily, and the joy of the performance made him a little carried away. This reminded Lance of the filming of "City of God", no matter how hard, even if it was difficult, even if it was painful, but the happiness of immersing himself in the world of movies was irreplaceable.

This is the charm of dreams, the fatal charm. (To be continued.) )

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