Chapter 8 Casting
The first to come was a young white actor, with pale blonde hair, a good look, and some red spots and freckles on his face. After seeing Chen Feng's appearance, he couldn't help but squeeze his eyebrows, and he was also surprised by Chen Feng's youth. However, he still handed his resume to Chen Feng and introduced himself quite nervously: "Hi, hello, my name is Cameron Reiter. ”
Chen Feng flipped through his resume, born in 1991, 20 years old this year, he used to take acting classes in high school, participated in local stage plays, and came to Hong Kong after graduating from high school, but almost all of his performance experience in the past two years is extras, that is, there are no lines.
He looked at Cameron Reiter across from him and asked, "Reiter, if you were asked to explore a witch, what would be your first reaction?" ”
Cameron Reitt frowned and thought about it, and said cautiously: "Maybe it's exciting." ”
Stimulate? Chen Feng suddenly made a cross in his heart, but Lei Tet came so early and obviously attached great importance to this interview, so he continued to ask quietly: "Then if it is late at night, you are asleep with a few companions in a deserted forest, and you have slept very sweetly, but suddenly there is a strange sound, including the voice of a child, and the sound of unknown objects rubbing on both sides of the tent. Then he fled from his tent and hid in panic in the dark woods until dawn. He made a gesture of please, and said, "Please act out your panic and flee." ”
"Ok, ok, I'll think about it first." Cameron Reiter looked down and thought for a moment, then took a deep breath and said, "Then I'll start." Chen Feng nodded and looked at him.
Leiter closed his eyes, then frowned at first, looked left and right with a very frightened expression, looked like he didn't know what to do at all, and finally fled in panic with an "ah". After the performance, he exhaled a long breath, looked at Chen Feng nervously and expectantly, and said, "That's what it was just now." ”
The performance traces are too heavy, and they are deeply influenced by stage plays, and they can't perform life-like DV movies at all. Chen Feng made another cross in his heart, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Leit, you don't meet my requirements......"
"Oh, God!" Leiter suddenly hugged his head in a deep shock, his voice trembled, and hurriedly said, "Can you let me perform again?" Okay, okay? Without waiting for Chen Feng to answer, she performed a panicked expression on her face.
"No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" Chen Feng handed her back the resume, although he sighed in his heart, he could only be hard-hearted at this time: "Leiter, your performance has not gotten rid of the style of stage plays, I am a DV movie, and I need a life-like performance, so the interview is over." ”
Reiter took the resume with a frustrated face, stood up and said, "Thank you for this opportunity to interview." With that, he went away lonely.
Although Chen Feng specifically stated that the salary is very small, but whatever, in this world of developed entertainment, making a movie is as enviable and respectable as becoming a lawyer on earth, so there are many people who come for interviews, and in one morning, Chen Feng has interviewed nearly twenty people, all of whom are not very good, and they cannot meet his basic requirements.
Looking at the strong muscular man in front of him, Chen Feng asked, "If you were sleeping with a few companions in a deserted forest, and you heard a strange noise, what would you do?" ”
"I guess I'll scold, Maragobi!" The muscular man scolded, and said viciously, "Which bastard woke me up!?" ”
Chen Feng almost couldn't help wailing, the result of this performance was that the horror film became a comedy! He shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, sir, you can't meet my requirements......"
Chen Feng looked at his watch, it was almost 12 o'clock, so he called the waiter and explained that if someone came for an interview, he said that he had gone out to eat and continued the interview at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
When Chen Feng came back from lunch, he saw an ordinary-looking boy staying at Chen Feng's table. Chen Feng walked up and asked with a smile, "Are you participating in the interview?" ”
"Yes." Although the man was a little surprised by Chen Feng's youth, his tone of voice was very calm.
Chen Feng looked at the man in front of him in surprise, he looked very ordinary, yes, it was very ordinary, and few people with an ordinary appearance like him chose to be an actor, unless he had strong confidence in his acting skills. Chen Feng began to become interested in the ordinary-looking man in front of him.
Chen Feng took a look at his resume, Lin Yuhong, the name is not bad, hey, he once won the first prize in the drama competition in Kowloon. Chen Feng looked at the man in front of him again. "What would you do if you slept with a few companions in a deserted forest and heard a strange noise?"
Lin Yuhong didn't rush to answer, but asked, "That's what to express about the theme of the movie." ”
"Oh, how do you say?" Chen Feng's interest became even stronger.
"If it's a horror movie, it's panic and fear; If it's a suspense film, then feel suspicious and curious; If it's a comedy, I'll have a good sense of humor and say, 'Hey, if you're going to be scary, I can help you.'" ”
"Then you can act out the effect of a horror movie."
Lin Yuhong closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened his eyes.
"Oh my God, what's that?" Lin Yuhong whispered to his companions beside him, with a trace of horror and complaint on his face. With the sound of footsteps, his breathing began to become a little rapid, depressed, his head did not move, but his hands were shaking the companion next to him.
“good!” Chen Feng's eyes couldn't help but light up, and without waiting for his performance to end, he applauded: "That's it, this is the performance I want!" ”
Unlike Cameron Reiter, who was influenced by stage plays, resulting in a performance bias towards body language; Lin Yuhong's series of expressions, reactions, and movements are very natural, almost performing with micro-expressions. He understands the director's intention to arrange this scene, the suppressed breathing sound will make the audience more and more nervous, although the breathing becomes too fast when it becomes short, but considering that this is on the street, not in the scene, he has such skills, it is very rare.
"Lin Yuhong, congratulations on joining." Chen Feng said with a sincere and happy face.
"Really? Thank you, thank you. Lin Yuhong, whose face had always been very calm, could no longer maintain a calm expression after hearing Chen Feng's invitation, and said excitedly and excitedly, after all, he was just a young man who had just graduated from high school.
"Yes, Lin Yuhong." Chen Feng looked at the excited Lin Yuhong and said with a smile.
"I'm sorry, I was just too excited." Lin Yuhong suppressed the excitement in his heart and said apologetically.
Chen Feng understood Lin Yuhong's mood very well, but just shook his head with a smile, indicating that he didn't mind.
"Let's talk about that character." Chen Feng told the story of the movie with great interest, as well as the personality characteristics of the male protagonist and so on.
"This movie is about psychology, so we need to let the audience scare themselves, which requires a high degree of substitution, and of course this is also the benefit of DV movies in the first person. Think of a dark movie theater, a big screen in front of you, and the audience follows the shot of the male protagonist, as if they are the one holding the DV, and then suddenly ...... Wow! I think the moviegoers in the cinema must be scared to roll back and forth. Chen Feng said so loudly that he couldn't help but depict his imagination of the future.
Lin Yuhong was stunned this time, and asked curiously: "Cinema?" I thought it was just your assessment. ”
Evaluate the work? Sort of! Chen Feng shook his head with a smile and said confidently: "No, it is not only an assessment work, but also a movie, a movie that can be placed on the big screen." I'm sure it's going to be released, and it's going to be good at the box office. ”
"Maybe." Lin Yuhong didn't believe it very much, but in order not to hit Chen Feng's passion, he still said in agreement.
Chen Feng also saw Lin Yuhong's suspicions, but it was understandable, after all, when Chen Feng first heard that a movie with tens of thousands of dollars had a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars, he didn't believe it. But Chen Feng believed that he would surprise everyone.
Then Chen Feng talked to Lin Yuhong about some details about the movie, and when Lin Yuhong left, he asked for a phone call again so that he could contact him.
With a leading actor, if you find another one, you can make a movie, and you can realize your dream of being a director, okay, our Chen Feng children's shoes are starting to get excited again.
Throughout the afternoon, there was a steady stream of people who came to participate in the interview, excluding Lin Yuhong just now, Chen Feng had at least interviewed more than thirty men, but there was still no gain.
Damn, almost all of the actors who came to the audition were only extras, and they had never played a role with lines or a single shot, so it was not surprising that they didn't meet the requirements.
Just when Chen Feng decided to close the stall and leave, a handsome young man walked over. Chen Feng looked at this young man, well, he was very handsome, with a shaved face, fair skin, and long flowing and handsome hair, brand-name clothes all over his body, to be exact, he was a bit of a pseudo-girl. According to the aesthetics of girls, he is a very handsome man, a tall and handsome rich, the best prince charming among girls; According to Chen Feng's aesthetics, he is a little white face, a pseudo-mother, because he is the most handsome in Chen Feng's heart, and he often feels pressure for this. I have to say that Chen Feng's children's shoes are not ordinary narcissism.
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