Chapter 1256: Deconstructing Characters
What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you lose control? Is it really like Matthew said, in fact, this qiē is controlled by himself from beginning to end, and the demon is not Matthew, but himself?
Hugo forced himself to calm down, not to panic because of this possible fact, he had to clear his mind and find a way to control him, otherwise he would be a demon, regardless of whether this demon's personality was Matthew or not.
There was a mess in his mind, Hugo couldn't find a clear idea at all, only fragments of thoughts, disorganized, from the recent "Death Row Walk" crew, to Lancaster's childhood memories at Lanches, to his own childhood rehearsals with his band members on the school playground, countless clips filled his head, making Hugo feel like his head was about to explode.
But this time Hugo did not lose his calm because of his irritability, he closed his eyes and let himself gradually adapt to the darkness, although the cry of Matthew's mother around him was still circulating, but he recalled Adam's back just now, the memories of the past were vague but clearly made Hugo quiet, and all the irritability slowly settled down in the darkness.
Hugo remembered a movie, "Fatal Identity", this movie is about split personality, the movie magnifies the split personality infinitely, so that each personality becomes an independent individual, and then fights each other, and finally only one main personality remains.
In fact, from the perspective of psychoanalysis, the essence of multiple personalities is the separation of psychological processes, and it is often the personalities with great differences in self-identity, personality states, and ideological cognition that are gradually separated to become independent individuals, in short, the difference between angels and devils.
In fact, multiple personalities are different sides of a personality, good and evil, meek and irritable, compromise and rebellious, when these different personalities begin to receive external stimuli from childhood, after encountering a trigger point, they gradually split apart, and finally form two completely different personalities.
Of course, this is not absolute, and in some cases of multiple personalities, there will also be similarities between personalities. This needs to vary from person to person.
But in essence, it can be understood that multiple personalities are different characteristics that are split from one personality. It's like an adult who can't define his character purely, he has a good side, and naturally there is an evil side; There is a docile side and a grumpy side. Most people are a combination of multiple personalities, and then depending on the person, they show more traits of a certain personality.
Therefore, it is always said that everyone is a combination of angels and demons, but most people are able to control the devil and not let their code of conduct go beyond the constraints of moral laws. If it is more specialized, this again requires explaining the difference and connection between the id, ego and superego.
However, Hugo didn't know much about psychology, he just suddenly realized that what Matthew said was likely to be the truth, and Matthew's personality was actually the dark side of Hugo's heart, which was infinitely amplified by the process of performance study, and then became independent, and then formed the personality of Matthew, which eventually led to a loss of control. And in essence, Matthew is part of Hugo.
This reminded Hugo of what Katharine Hepburn had said to him before about acting.
In the process of studying the performance, the actor must have enough understanding and cognition of the role, but this so-called "understanding and cognition" is based on the actor's own position, not the idea of the real person.
To put it simply, Hugo has never killed anyone, he will never know what it is like to kill someone, even if he "kills", but every murderer's psychological state after committing a crime is different, some people will feel guilty, some people will panic, and some people will not feel anything. Then, Hugo first didn't know how Matthew felt when he killed someone, secondly he didn't know Matthew's psychological state after he killed someone, and third, he didn't know Matthew's psychological experience before he chose to kill.
As Katharine Hepburn said, it is impossible for an actor to experience all the situations of the role, because the actor is just a simple person, he has his own life, but the role played by the actor has an infinitely rich life. There is no way to equate this.
Therefore, the actor's understanding and cognition of the role is always based on his own experience and knowledge. From this point of view, when an actor interprets a role, it can be called a performance, or it can be called digging out a similar side of the character from his own personality, and then interpreting it according to his own life experience and ideological understanding.
This is true for playing as a real person, and even more so for playing a virtual persona.
In 2012's "Lincoln", Daniel Day-Lewis gave amazing and wonderful acting skills, which made him win the Oscar for the third time, becoming the only actor in film history to win the best actor three times.
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln, he can't really understand Lincoln's difficulties and struggles in making decisions, because he didn't go through that period, he didn't experience the torment of emancipating slaves and the confrontation between the North and the South, and his upbringing and life experience are 108,000 miles away from Lincoln.
Daniel can only learn a few words from historical sources, and then according to his own understanding and knowledge, he constructs the background of that era, and then thinks about his feelings and sufferings in that position, and interprets Lincoln from his own perspective. So, Daniel is playing the real Lincoln in history, but at the same time, he is also showing a Lincoln-like side of his personality, or using his thoughts to construct a "Lincoln as he thinks of it".
Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver (Taxi. Driver)" as Travis is considered one of the famous classics in film history, and it also pushed the peak of methodist acting.
In order to play Travis, Robert went to experience the taxi driver for two months, and he realistically drove passengers on the streets of New York, observing this era from the perspective of a taxi driver. Travis is a virtual character, and Robert's interpretation of Travis is actually precipitated by what he has seen and heard in the past two months, and then combined with Robert's outlook on life, worldview, and values, to build the virtual character of Travis.
Robert uses his own experience and self-knowledge to figure out Travis's mentality, thoughts, and behaviors. In the end, Trusway is a character that belongs only to Robert, a unique existence.
The same Travis is played by Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman, which must be another image, the difference in appearance is certainly a part, the most important thing is the actor's understanding of the role, and the actor's own experience, experience and thoughts will lead to the deviation of the character's personality and image.
It can be said that if a person drinks water and knows that he is warm and cold, there are a thousand Hamlets for every thousand readers.
Acting can be said to be performing a role, but it can also be said to be performing the part of your personality that is closest to the character. In the final analysis, in fact, the performance still starts from the actor himself, and the performance that separates the actor's own situation cannot be called a performance at all.
For example, when Hugo first started to learn acting, he was just imitating. He can imitate the different performances of many actors, but these performances lack verve, because he can't capture the psychological state of the actor when he performs - he is not the actor, so Hugo has to find something of his own, something suitable for himself, from imitation.
Therefore, the "acting" itself has the personal characteristics of the actor, even if it is just a vase role, it is no exception, like Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington Wheatley. Huntington-Whiteley) also plays the role of a vase in "Transformers", but the effect presented by the two men is quite different. The point is just that after the actor has integrated his personal characteristics, what way he expresses and expresses himself. The first half is the acting of the method school, and the second half is the acting of the xiàn school.
For example, in "Schindler's List", Amon Goss's ideological struggle, each actor's focus is bound to be different, some focus on body language to show, others focus on the narration and expression of lines, and Hugo focuses on his eyes, the momentum that bursts out from the inside out gives Amon his soul. That's the difference in expression, there is no right answer, only the right answer for yourself.
In the final analysis, Amon Goss is Hugo's understanding of that period of history, and it was Hugo who sketched out the oral accounts of those survivors and combined it with his own understanding to construct the character of Amon Goss in his mind. It can be said that this character is also a part of Hugo, that is, Hugo who "believes in Nazi rhetoric in the context of World War II", Hugo shows the coldest and most cruel side of his personality, so he bursts out with terrifying power.
The Matthew Ponsley constructed by Hugo is not actually the real Elmer Patrick Thornier, nor is it the Matthew Ponsley constructed by Tim Robbins in the script, but Matthew Ponsley constructed with Hugo's thoughts, Hugo's experience, and Hugo's understanding.
In essence, Matthew is a part of Hugo's personality, which belongs to the dark, cowardly, and violent side, and then Hugo combines the script, the characters, and the story to shape it, and then develops a complete personality.
It's just that Hugo has never realized this: the role and the actor are inseparable. Hugo has always cultivated the role as an independent personality, and has been successful before, but when playing Anonymous, Hugo gradually realized that the blurred line between the character and the actor, the role cannot be born out of thin air, each role is inextricably linked with the actor himself, and it is impossible for a completely separated character to exist in it, and it is impossible to dig out something that never exists in his own personality.
Constructing a thing out of thin air, that's the job of a scientist, not an actor. Scientists can imagine incredible things like rockets, airplanes, and telephones out of thin air, but actors can't create zào out of thin air, because it doesn't make sense.
It's as if when George Lucas conceived the image of aliens, he was bound to conform to the "rules of the human body", because George himself was a human being, not a real alien, and he had never seen aliens, and all his understandings were based on existing science such as human anatomy and environmental theory, so even if aliens looked weird, he still conformed to human imagination.
Even more so for actors. The character is a part of the actor's personality, an inseparable part!