At the beginning, Xu Zhen didn't quite understand why Meng Xiaosheng wanted to reveal to him the crew's expectations for the "Flying Eagle Award".

As a result, after a few days of shooting, he quickly understood:

It turned out that Director Meng was giving himself a vaccination.

From the second week after the official start of filming, Xu Zhen obviously found that the crew's attitude towards himself had changed.

Originally, in order to pursue efficiency, his own plays rarely reworked, and they were almost over.

However, during this time, as long as it involves an important drama involving emotional outbursts, Director Meng will always repeat NG and strive for excellence.

The crew even assigned him an exclusive acting director, but whenever Xu Zhen was not in front of the camera, he followed the acting director on the sidelines to practice the follow-up scenes.

If there was no advance instruction from Director Meng, Xu Zhen would probably think that he had not acted well recently and could not meet the requirements of the crew.

But in fact, this is the chief director Zhang Xinjie's extra care for himself.

Xu Zhen is grateful for the director's appreciation.

Shooting to a high standard is stressful, but it's also an opportunity for me to improve.

If you can bear it, the performance level will be able to go to a higher level; Can't bear it...... Then grit your teeth and carry it!

"Click!"

On this morning, the crew filmed the scene where Chuanwu was fired by Shopkeeper Xia for inadvertently eating old ginseng, and in the same scene, Xu Zhen has been stopped by Director Meng five times in a row.

"Xiao Xu still hasn't stepped on the point."

Meng Xiaosheng poked his head out from behind the monitor and patiently explained to Xu Zhen: "You listen carefully to the lines of the shopkeeper Xia, after he finished speaking, 'If you want to say compensation, I'm afraid this bit of the Zhu family's belongings is not enough', his voice fell, you tilted your head sideways, wanting to argue, but you couldn't bear to speak." ”

"This string of reactions has to be done before he says the next sentence."

"The two of you are in the same frame at camera 2, and you can't edit, so you must grasp the rhythm well."

"Let's do it again!"

Xu Zhen took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and immediately returned to shooting.

Liang Minying, who was on the side, glanced at his stupid son with his spare eyes, and shook his head with a smile.

……

After a morning, Xu Zhen finally stumbled to complete the prescribed shooting task.

Although he understood that this was because the crew was polishing themselves, Xu Zhen still inevitably felt a little frustrated when he saw that his various problems were found out one by one.

During the lunch break, Liang Minying seized the opportunity, sat next to Xu Zhen, and said softly: "How is it, Chuanwu, have you felt a little stressed recently?" ”

Xu Zhen smiled helplessly and said, "Fortunately, there is pressure to be motivated." ”

"I didn't find so many small problems before, but in the past two days, Director Meng has helped me find out a lot of problems that I didn't notice before, and I feel that I have gained a lot."

Liang Minying nodded and said, "It's right that you can think so." ”

"Director Meng is asking you according to the standard of 'drama bones', not that you are not acting well."

"There is no such thing as perfection, and there is no end to acting."

Hearing her say this, Xu Zhen hesitated slightly, but still asked: "Mother, you say, what is the essential difference between ordinary actors and 'drama bones'?" Is it from quantitative change to qualitative change? ”

Hearing this, Liang Minying thought for a moment and said, "It's really a matter of accumulation in terms of skills, but the kernel is not. ”

Xu Zhen said: "What is the kernel?" ”

Liang Minying said: "When I was as old as you, Master once told me a word, and now I will pass it on to you. ”

As she spoke, she paused for a moment, cleared her throat, and then said: "Third-rate actors play the plot, second-rate actors play emotions, and first-rate actors play feelings." ”

Xu Zhen was slightly stunned when he heard this, and said, "What does this plot, emotion, and feelings refer to?" ”

Liang Minying explains: "To put it simply, these are the three levels of character building. ”

"The worst actor is a tool man who serves the script, and performs the plot through action, language and demeanor, and that's it, the audience can't feel his existence."

"At the level of 'emotion', the actor can resonate with the emotions of the audience and the character through performance, which is a little more advanced than the previous layer."

"As for the ...... feelings"

Speaking of this, Liang Minying said: "In fact, feelings don't just look at acting skills, but start from the step of picking the script." ”

"Look, why am I willing to take on the drama "Breaking through the Guandong"? The character I played was called 'Child', and I didn't even have a name. ”

"Haha......" Hearing Liang Minying's self-ridicule, Xu Zhen couldn't help but smile.

Liang Minying also laughed, and after a while, he continued: "But ah, there is no name, this role can stand." ”

"She supported the family when her husband was nowhere to be found, and took the children thousands of miles to go to Kanto, this character's strong and brave, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, represents the image of thousands of mothers in China."

Liang Minying said: "Women are weak, but mothers are strong." ”

"What really touches the hearts of this character is not the few big scenes in the script, but the audience will think of their mother when they see her."

"I think of my mother's kindness to me, and I think of the hardships my mother endured."

"Being able to use performance to evoke a certain emotion that goes deep into people's bone marrow, and being able to use this character to connect the story and reality, this is 'feelings'."

"Love the country, love the hometown, love the parents; Reminiscing about childhood, reminiscing about student days, and reminiscing about green love...... These are all feelings. ”

"Performances without feelings are thin, and it is much easier to use reality to penetrate people's hearts than to use stories, and 'feelings' are the most important allies of actors - you know what I mean?"

Hearing this, Xu Zhen's eyes gradually lit up, and he nodded suddenly.

It turns out that I always feel that the seniors around me play better than me...... Is this the reason?

Is it because the roles of the predecessors are not only standing, but also down-to-earth, making people feel like they are living around them?

Liang Minying saw that Xu Zhen seemed to be enlightened, so she stopped here, did not continue to force the theory, and only nodded: "So, you don't need to be too nervous." ”

"You can score at least 80 points on acting skills, and if you want to win the award, it's actually enough."

"If you want me to say, your biggest problem now is not that you don't act well, but that the 'acting' component is too big, and you haven't found the point where the role of Chuanwu really touches people's hearts."

"Regarding this aspect, my mother has also thought about it in the past few days, you can see if I am right......"

The two talked about this topic for a long time.

Xu Zhen originally thought that he already knew a lot about "Chuanwu", but the more he dug in, the more he realized that acting is like digging a well and collecting water, and there are many layers waiting for the actors to discover.

You think you've touched water, but it's just surface water, and the best groundwater is still separated by several layers of granite!

……

In mid-July, when the crew of "Crossing the Guandong" was filming intensively, Qiao Feng, an agent who had not been contacted for a long time, brought him a piece of news: "Three Kingdoms" will be released in early August.

Prior to this, as the sponsors, Yingke Song Satellite TV and Penguin Video will release some relevant tidbits and interviews one after another, so that Xu Zhenxian can pay attention to it.

Idle?

Xu Zhen felt that this word was too far away from him, so he didn't read it at all.

However, just because he doesn't look at it doesn't mean that others don't look at it.

At the moment when the "Three Kingdoms" tidbits were released, tens of thousands of netizens clicked in very curiously, wanting to see what these eternal romantic characters would look like offstage.