Chapter 191: Acting
And, it is certain that Joan Crawford suffers from recurrent miscarriages. This kind of problem will only occur if the early years were too chaotic and there were too many abortions. By inference, the rumors may be exaggerated, but they are not necessarily entirely false.
As for the feud between Betty Davis and Joan Crawford, it dates back to 1931, when Universal Company specially held a press conference at the Ambassador Hotel, and the newly debuted Joan Crawford did not hesitate to steal the limelight from Betty Davis. In 1935, the engagement and divorce between the two people due to the competition for the little fresh meat Franciaud Thorn was the first war between the two people.
In 1943, after Joan Crawford signed with Warner, Warner's first sister Betty Davis had an extremely fierce battle with him, from competing for scripts, photographers, stylists, to competing for men and Academy Awards for Best Actress, and even her adopted children.
As the saying goes, once a woman goes crazy, she is irrational. The two of them have to argue about everything. This time, it's for the rest of my life! And after Joan Crawford pushed the door in, the rest of his life knew why his clerk's eyes were so ambiguous.
When the Joan Crawford entered the door, he ignored the knife that came out of Betty Davis's eyes. Walking in front of the rest of his life, it is a Western-style embrace. After the veneer, he was separated from the rest of his life with a smile on his face. Then find a stool and sit down. When he bent over, the eyes of the rest of his life swept by. I was shocked, this eldest sister is actually in a vacuum!
Anyway, both Bette Davis. It's still Joan Crawford, who is now in his thirties and is about to be forty. Although the maintenance is not bad. However, after the age of forty, most of the European and American races have wrinkles and freckles. On weekdays, in photos or movies, due to makeup and post-retouching, you can't see it. But communicate in person. The folds and freckles on the face still can't be hidden.
At least, neither of them is the food for the rest of their lives. So, even if Joan Crawford was dressed very coolly. I didn't have anything to think about for the rest of my life. I just feel that the thunder is rolling, and it is really unblessed.
And since this famous old enemy appeared in the room of Yu Sheng, this room began the competition at the grandmaster level in Chinese martial arts novels. Two forty-year-old women. Show the eyes of the competition. Look at who has sharp eyes, and who has more knives in their eyes. After finding that the eyes could not overwhelm the other party, they began to compete in momentum. After two minutes of confrontation, with the cultivation of the martial arts master for the rest of his life, he felt that it was a pity that these two eldest sisters did not practice kung fu. If these two are invited to play Tianshan Tong and Li Qiushui in "Dragon Babu", they are definitely in their true colors. You don't even need to pretend, you're already full of killing intent.
Of course, after the momentum has accumulated to a certain extent. The two top masters always have to make a move. Betty Davis was the first to attack: "Joan, what are you doing here?" Don't you know that you are desperately needed in Hollywood cafeterias? You should now be washing dishes in the kitchen of the Hollywood cafeteria! ”
Hollywood Cafeteria. It's Betty Davis's proudest work! After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the whole United States was shocked. Americans' sense of national pride exploded, and these Hollywood movie stars bore the brunt. A large number of A-list actresses began to circle the United States, selling American war bonds. With the huge appeal of the actress, the sale of bonds is very smooth. Bette Davis alone once sold $2 million in war bonds in one day. And there are countless actresses in Hollywood. The total amount of war bond sales is far more than the money raised for the rest of your life at a charity gala!
Moreover, these Hollywood stars are also really serving the country. Carl Lombard, the new wife of film emperor Clark Gable, was killed in a plane crash while selling war bonds. Clark Gable was heartbroken. At the age of forty-one, he enlisted in the US Air Force. And carried out combat missions to bomb Berlin. And accumulated merit and was promoted from private to major. And the Hollywood actor who also went to the battlefield is James Stewart.
Hollywood actresses supported American GIs, in addition to selling war bonds, they also participated in a large number of touring performances in the army to soothe the morale of the military. Back then, Rita Hayworth and several other actresses were goddesses in the minds of thousands of American soldiers!
And Betty Davis's approach is ingenious. At the suggestion of John Garfield, Betty Davis worked with Jack Warner, Gary Grant, Jule Steyn and others to convert an old nightclub into a Hollywood restaurant. Also known as the Hollywood Canteen. Opened on 3 October 1942. Almost all of the staff in the restaurant are volunteered by popular Hollywood stars. Moreover, Betty Davis also promised that every night, heavyweight stars will appear in the restaurant and perform for the soldiers who are about to go to the front.
This Hollywood canteen is one of the few restaurants in the United States that can compete in popularity with the herring Chinese restaurant. Betty Davis is proud of one. For Joan Crawford, it wasn't so good. Whenever Joan Crawford appeared in the Hollywood cafeteria, Betty Davis would always say, "Hello, Joan. Now the kitchen needs you so much and there are a lot of dishes to wash! ”
It seems that the tricks of women dealing with women throughout the ages are similar, although Betty Davis has not watched "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but the motive for letting Joan Crawford wash the dishes is the same as the motive for Jingbai Shitai to let Zhen Huan chop wood and carry water......
And for Joan Crawford, as a Hollywood A-lister, this Hollywood restaurant can't be missed. But once you want to go, you will be supported by Betty Davis, which is really unpleasant. Therefore, Betty Davis's opening made this ordinary and amazing emotional intelligence of JonCraw's angry seven tricks smoke.
Of course, Joan Crawford is also a violent temper, and although he is choked by Betty Davis, he is also wise not to answer. sneered: "Betty, you and I have both read Yu's script, and we both know in our hearts that there is only one role suitable for you and me, in fact, there is only Rosie Naracott." also understands that no matter who plays it, this movie will be a hit! ”
"But I don't hate you, no matter how sarcastic you may be to me. Because I don't see anything in you that you can really call acting! It's just a series of bad habits! In addition to popcorn eyes, cigars. And those funny languages, what else do you have? Although you are pretending, there are indeed viewers who like this! ”
And as Betty Davis, who is unusually confident in her acting skills. was also choked by Joan Crawford's words. However, she also has a hard time arguing. This era, though it was the golden age of Hollywood. However, the shortcomings of Hollywood's typology and pattern in later generations have been revealed. It is not obvious in individual films, but if the audience watches the movie too much, it will be noticed. How can the heroes and villains in the movie be so similar?
Betty Davis though is known for her acting skills. However, because it follows the script produced on the Hollywood assembly line. It's easy to get caught up in the repetition of roles and details that have already been set in the script.
However, now that Joan Crawford has already picked out the matter of grabbing the role, and has drawn a line in his acting skills. Then Betty Davis naturally won't retreat in the field she is best at, and took a deep breath and said, "Since that's the case." I think we could audition together. Now that we've all read the script. Then, you might as well play the part of Rosie Narakot in "War Horse". Let Yu choose according to his acting skills! ”
These two are both strong women, and they choke on fire and don't care about others at all. Although Yu Sheng has the right to cast, these two didn't even ask Yu Sheng's opinion, so they planned to compete in a biao way. For the rest of his life, he lay down and became the referee of the two major actresses.
However, I have heard of these two names for a long time in the rest of my life, and in later generations. I've only seen one or two movies played by these two. The impression is not so deep. The audition of the two actresses just opened his eyes! So. didn't stop it, and directly acquiesced.
And these two are also worthy of being actress-level characters, and their ability to regulate their psychology is super strong. After deciding on the PK form, and getting the tacit consent of the rest of his life. glanced at each other, took a deep breath, and the anger around the original body disappeared, and suddenly calmed down. This kind of emotional control ability makes the rest of your life really breathtaking.
At this time, on the table for the rest of his life, there was still the script that Hedy Lamarr had just read. "War Horse" is among them, and Yu Sheng pushed the script forward, signaling the two to choose a paragraph from it and memorize the lines.
Unexpectedly, these two had already made all preparations before they came. Betty Davis only glanced at the script, and then said to Yu Sheng, "Yu, can you please help me play the play?" ”
The rest of his life smiled, and said in his heart, playing against the actress, buddy, this treatment is very high! Without excuse, he said, "No problem!" ”
Betty Davis chose the scene where Rosie Naracott's husband Ted is doing farm work when Joey is carrying Joey back to his estate.
When Rosie Narakot heard the neighing of a horse, she rose from the ground and watched her husband lead a foal that could not do farm work into the manor. Rosie Narakot stepped forward and asked, "What did you do?" You should buy a horse that can plow the land! ”
"How much did it cost? How much did it cost, Ted Naracott? ”
Ted said drunkenly, "I wanted to lie, but forget it." Thirty Geni! ”
Rosie was taken aback: "Thirty kini? This horse ten kinis is not worth it! Are you crazy? What about ground rent? ”
Then, it was Rosie who insisted that Ted return the horse, and when she learned that it was the landlord Lyons and her husband who were fighting for the pony, she exclaimed sadly and predictively, "We're going bankrupt!" So many winds and waves have come, but we are going bankrupt! ”
In fact, in the movie, this paragraph is very short, but just these few lines of dialogue, plus the body movements of the actors, vividly portray the personality of a shrewd, capable housewife with a pungent temperament. I don't know if it's a coincidence, Betty Davis's movements and movements are very similar to Emily Watson who played Rosie in the later "War Horse"!
After Betty Davis finished acting, she was amazed for the rest of her life, worthy of being the Oscar-winning actress second only to Katharine Hepburn, and in this short scene, you can see that Betty Davis basically grasps Rosie's character and psychology ninety. There is no need to guide anything for the rest of your life, as long as you set up the scenery and change into costumes and makeup, you can shoot directly.
After this rival scene, Betty Davis glanced at Joan Crawford very arrogantly, and the meaning expressed was very clear - you can do it! No, don't beep!
And Joan Crawford is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although throughout his life, he has received many Academy Award nominations and Oscar actresses, and has not as many as Betty Davis. However, as an actress, she naturally has her own unique acting skills. Moreover, Joan Crawford is a full acting school. can always adapt to market demand and adjust their own play. Although it can't exactly what it looks like, the acting skills are by no means ordinary.
From a female worker in the economic downturn, to a young girl at MGM in the thirties, to a heroine in a romantic melodrama in the forties. In the fifties, she was transformed into a femme fatale. Until the sixties, she challenged more complex roles, although she did not star in too many blockbuster films. However, she became the actress with the longest acting career in film history.
Therefore, Joan Crawford is not afraid of the challenge of Betty Davis at all. The passage she chose is the first plot high point of the movie. Albert was in the middle of the rain, driving Joey, plowing the gravel-covered dirt. As a mother, Rosie watched from the wooden fence, letting the rain soak through her clothes, and smiled with relief.
And the landlord Lyons got out of the car and said to Rosie, "I will not let a child slip in the mud with the blade of a plowshare, he will cut his feet!" ”
Then, Rosie was furious! Pointing the sweater needle in his hand at the landlord Lyons, he roared, "You're more likely to lose your eyes, Mr. Lyons!" If you are going to keep nagging me about what I do with my son, or my horse, or my plow, or my land, or my farm! ”
In the finger painting, Rosie pressed forward step by step, and Lyons stepped back, very embarrassed.
This scene is actually shorter than the one chosen by Betty Davis. However, Rosie's anger brought the man to life. The impact on the audience is also greater. And Joan Crawford does have some understanding and understanding of this person, not to mention the way he looks like he is holding two pencils to draw into a sweater needle, even the expression and demeanor on his face are very in place!
Generally speaking, the actor's control of acting skills can be roughly divided into two types, one is the experiential school influenced by Stanislavsky's theatrical theory. The theory of this school of thought requires the actor to merge himself with the role, eliminating the distance between the actor and the role. The characters performed in this way are real and powerful. On the other hand, the Brecht-influenced expressionists emphasize the separation between the actor and the character. And only this distancing will make the characters realistic.
And acting is by no means as simple as theory...... (To be continued.) )