On the lively street, a group of people in black suits hurriedly walked out of the clubhouse.

The crowd split up and stood on either side of the road, looking around alertly, then separated a few more and pulled open the doors of the cars parked on the side of the road. A middle-aged man in a top hat who was hugged by the front and back shook off his windbreaker and prepared to get into the car.

Suddenly, several people in police uniforms appeared, led by a handsome young man, who held down the car door and blocked the way of the middle-aged man in top hat.

[Brother Qiang, you are in such a hurry, where are you going? 】

[Officer, my father-in-law is sick and has to go to the magic capital to visit. 】

[Do you want to bring so many people with you to visit the sick? 】

[Friends are kind enough to take me to the station.] 】

[Don't be so troublesome, our police car is convenient and fast. I'll send you. 】

[Don't don't, don't use public weapons for private use, isn't this illegal and unlawful? 】

[You know the Fa quite well now. Ding's family was wiped out yesterday, and some people claimed to have heard the sound of you arguing and arguing with the victim that night. Brother Qiang, do me a favor and come with us? 】

[Well, I only heard about it this morning.] Lao Ding is my friend, no one wants this kind of thing to happen, I am very willing to help, but now my father-in-law ......]

The middle-aged man in the top hat smiled again and again, and his steps retreated slightly. Suddenly, the younger brothers around quietly put their hands into their pockets.

Seeing this, the police immediately tightened the hand that had been pressed on his waist.

The streets are bustling with people, and within a radius of ten meters in front of the clubhouse, the air is so solemn that it seems to be isolated from another world.

At one point, both groups drew their guns at the same time, staggering to find cover while pulling the trigger.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang bang! ”

As soon as the gunshots rang out, passers-by were stunned for a moment, and immediately panicked and fled in all directions.

The windows on the side of the road were shattered, and the walls were littered with rubble.

Screams, screams, gunshots, the sound of a car being torn apart by bullets, and the sound of a human body falling.

The black-clad community and the police have suffered losses from each other.

There were also passers-by who were unlucky enough to be hit by stray bullets.

Guan Chen looked at the dead friends around him, his face was shocked and sad, and tears filled his eyes.

……

"Good, good!" The director in the distance shouted with a loudspeaker, "Change the camera position, and do another one." After speaking, he put down the horn, walked up to the middle-aged man in the top hat and the handsome police officer, and praised them for their very good performance.

A bunch of workers rushed into the scene and put the streets back in good condition.

Several of the leading actors, the assistants who were brought water and fanned the wind, introduced the clubhouse and rested in the shade to touch up their makeup.

The passers-by who were fleeing in the corner like cockroaches one second, walked back to the street slowly the next, and hid in the shade to rest.

Guan Chen grabbed a shady road tooth and beckoned Holly to come and sit down.

"How was that part?" Guan Chen began to review the performance just now, saying that he was originally just playing a person who ran away in a panic, but there was a colleague on the side, and suddenly he was addicted to drama and added drama to himself, and he fell to the ground with mm ”

"Not bad." Holly sat next to Guan Chen, wiping his sweat and saying, "You just jumped from one panic to another, and then you acted sad and sad, and your expression was very good and natural. ”

Guan Chen listened happily, even in the hot afternoon, he didn't feel hot.

For nearly a week, Guan Chen stayed in the capital, studying acting at the University of the Arts with Hawley.

Although he has always been regarded as an acting genius, Guan Chen knows very well that the real genius is not him. played the roles in "Police Story", "Black Dragon 2" and "Key to Destiny", and the reason why he was favored by several directors was more or less because he took advantage of his true performances. Guan Chen knows that it is his luck to meet such a role, but he may not always be so lucky in the future. Now that I have decided to become an actor in this life, I will definitely meet characters from other types of movies in the future, such as those who fall in love, quarrel with their parents, justice, and kindness...... And he doesn't know how to play the roles of good guys and ordinary people at all. asked him to only play roles such as killer gangsters and gangsters, and he felt that this was too boring, but he was not very willing.

He originally hoped to learn something in Teacher Xing's acting class, but Xing Yan regarded him as a genius, and what he taught was not basic at all.

Holly's appearance can be described as an emergency in the rivers and lakes, and it came just in time.

Guan Chen knew that his predecessor was talented, but he didn't know how to play it completely. It's always right to be humble and start from scratch. The textbooks in the school, adjusted over several generations, combined with the experience of countless actors and scholars, are not the best, but they are certainly the best for beginners.

Hawley is also very cautious for this part-time job. I specially contacted the old students and compiled a curriculum that included six major directions: form, sound, emotion, belief, communication, and creation.

He told Guan Chen that the acting major of his school rarely teaches theory, because acting is a practical art, so there is no stereotype, and each actor's situation is different, so there is no cookie-cutter training template. In the words of a school teacher, an acting teacher is not a professor, but a developer. 】

Guan Chen talked about the acting methods he learned from Xing Yan, and was worried about conflicting with the performance system taught at Holly's school. But Holly said that although Xing Yan's method has changed, it is actually in the system.

[Acting is not about becoming a different person, but about finding the similarities beneath the superficial differences, and then finding yourself in them. 】

In this sentence, oneself is the core, the "Tao". The body and accent are just the outermost "instruments" and "techniques".

Guan Chen felt that Holly deserved to be a college graduate. What kind of instrument and Dao, what kind of magic Dao, it sounds very powerful.

Hawley said that just like learning music, painting, and car maintenance, every skill, "instrument" and "technique" is the foundation of "Tao".

Holly took Guan Chen to practice with him every morning. Guan Chen also used to practice, boxing, running and wrestling. Hawley corrected Guan Chen, the actor's practice is to practice vocalization, resonance, crying, and laughter. From crying silently to crying out loud; From snickering to laughing out loud.

Guan Chen had no choice but to move his boxing and exercise to the evening.

Guan Chen followed Holly to study according to the class schedule for a few days, and soon discovered that the talent of his predecessor was really powerful, and the legacy left to him was rich enough.

Whether it's crying or laughing, or being embarrassed, shy, scared, panicked...... As long as Guan Chen has seen it, he can remember it, and as long as it exists in his mind, he can copy it when he wants to use it.

Most of the fears Guan Chen has seen are the fear of being held to the neck with a knife or being pointed at the forehead with a gun, and other fears, such as the fear of giving birth to a wife and asking for wages from an unscrupulous boss, have no concept at all. Fortunately, there are many movies in his previous life in his memory, and Guan Chen classified them and filled his performance inventory.

In the past few days, Guan Chen has followed Holly to run group performances on various sets and practice. He didn't want the remuneration he got for running the show, half of it was given to the introducer, and the other half was given to Holly.

Hawley accompanied Guan Chen to play tricks, and has been supervising near Guan Chen to see if the latter's expression is accurate. He also occasionally sets Guan Chen's characters and situations, allowing Guan Chen to play independently in the framework. It's exactly the same as what was taught in school.

Now the foundation has been built. Any expression, as long as Guan Chen has seen and remembered, or has been in the movies he has seen in his previous life, he can vividly and accurately interpret it.

"Looks like you've had a solid foundation before." Hawley was not surprised by Guan Chen's rapid progress, but he had worked hard and accumulated in the magic capital for three years.

"I'm just lucky." Guan Chen replied.

"But crying vividly, laughing naturally, and panicking so much that people feel real and not embarrassed are just the basic skills of actors." Holly wiped his sweat and looked at the set of the crew in the distance for a while, so he told Guan Chen, "What really distinguishes the level of actors is the next stage." ”

Guan Chen's spirits perked: "What is it?" ”

"Yes [choice]." Hawley said.

There are a thousand kinds of laughter, there are a thousand kinds of crying, and among the many options, choosing which kind of crying and laughing to use on the character is the difficult part.

This is also the reason why there will be a thousand ways for a thousand people to play the same role, and everyone has a different understanding of the role, so the actor's [choice] is different.

"For example, when you just saw that your 'friend' was hit by a stray bullet, you panicked and then became sad." Hawley asked, "What were you thinking when you were playing sad?" ”

Guan Chen thought for a moment and said, "I'm wondering why we are so unlucky." ”

"If it were me, I wouldn't play [Sadness] and [Sadness] directly, I would play [Fear], afraid that my best friend might leave me forever, and I would be the next to die."

Hawley gave an example.

For example, playing a serial murderer who was abused and neglected in childhood, and when he grew up, he formed an antisocial personality and hunted ordinary people. If two actors play this role at the same time, the actor who plays "revenge on his parents and compensates for his childhood" is more dramatic and flavorful than playing "torture and killing". Because the two roles embody different levels.

"There is no difference between you and me, but based on different understandings, the purpose of shaping the characters is also different. But I'm a director—I'm actually really a director—and my [choice] will make the characters more three-dimensional and dramatic. ”

Most of the so-called spiritual actors rely on intuition to grasp the most suitable [choice] for the role. But intuition alone can't go far after all, no one can always act with intuition and talent, if you don't want to be short-lived, you still have to learn and hone honestly in the end.

Hawley said to Guan Chen, when you have an action or expression, in addition to containing the character's personality, emotions, subtext, and purpose, but also push the story forward, or put down the hook to form an echo, it means that you have thoroughly understood the character and the script and reached a certain level. In this second stage, it is considered to be at the peak.

"What about the third stage?" Guan Chen asked.

Hawley said: "The third stage can be said to be back to basics. The actor is no longer "who plays like whom", but "who plays is whom". The characters and actors are integrated with each other, and it is hard to find. ”

"It's hard to find." Guan Chen sighed.

In the distance, the scene is set up and the director and actors are back on set.

Another shooting is about to begin.

Guan Chen and Hawley stood up and began to wander the streets. He saw in his heart the group performance who loved to add drama to himself just now, pondered the [choice] that Holly told him, and was ready to try a new acting method later.

After the director shouted to start, several leading actors confronted each other, and then drew their guns and shot at each other again.

Passers-by scattered again in all directions.

The group performance in front of Guan Chen ran and ran and oops, and fell to the ground without a sound. Guan Chen ran the first few steps, as if he realized something, his steps slowly stopped, he turned his head, looked at the "corpse" on the ground, the panic on his face gradually disappeared, and finally squatted beside his friend in a trance.

"Stop, very good, very good!" The filming went very smoothly, and the director shouted to stop, satisfiedly announcing that the scene was over and the transition began.

Everyone on the set dispersed.

When the director turned around, he looked at Guan Chen from a distance. After seeing a certain group performer who fell to the ground jumping up neatly, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He wondered why he was worried about whether something had really happened to the actor. His eyes searched for someone, but he was nowhere to be seen.

……

When Guan Chen and Holly came home drinking milk tea, they found that Xing Yun, who had not seen him for a few days, appeared at the door downstairs.

"Why are you here? Rubbing rice? Guan Chen asked him as he chewed red beans.

"Why does your phone always ......?"

Looking at Guan Chen, who had a calm face and drank milk tea and knew his mistakes, Xing Yun seemed to be tired, and directly explained his intentions:

"Director Tian called just now, saying that the role of the killer was selected as you."