After listening to Zhongcun Heng's distress, Li Tang hesitated for a moment, and then looked back at Zhang Ziyi. Xiao Zhang smiled and gave him an encouraging look, this girl is probably idle and idle, happy to watch the excitement.

Just now, the two have been watching the shooting situation and have discussed it in private. Performances will never be the same, they will all have their own style. Nakamura's problem may be that he is too nervous or a little too dignified, especially when he walks all the way through the camera, which makes people feel out of place with the surrounding environment and busy extras, not like an engineer, but like a soldier.

Zhang Ziyi also felt the same way, she felt that the traces of Nakamura Heng's performance were too obvious, that is, she wanted to act well too much, but she fell behind.

In a word: not slack enough.

Acting is a matter of seeing the wise. For example, for example, the performances of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors and mainland actors are very different. The performances of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, especially Hong Kong actors, make people feel very life-like at first glance, while mainland actors always feel a little upright, or the stage traces are very heavy.

In fact, this is caused by a different performance environment, Hong Kong actors themselves have sufficient resources, from the mid-70s to the 90s, it was the golden age of the Hong Kong film and television industry. Due to the lack of film and television resources, most of the mainland actors display their talents on the stage.

The so-called life-oriented performances of Hong Kong actors, filming TV series may be harmless, but when they are really enlarged to the big screen, their performances are often superficial, without inner drama, and they are very empty when they look at it.

In contrast, mainland actors with a solid foundation can reflect their advantages in this regard, often with one action and one look, they can convey their inner emotions.

If the two are in the same frame, you find it very awkward, as if you are not performing in the same system.

The reason is that most of the Hong Kong actors have not received systematic learning, such as the so-called "Cradle of Hong Kong Stars" wireless training class, which is only a few months, and it is impossible to learn too much theoretical knowledge, they are often honed in practice. The lack of theoretical support is like not having a good foundation, not to mention the foundation in terms of lines and shapes.

In fact, Hong Kong movies or TV dramas are introduced to the mainland, and one of the great advantages is that they are all dubbed. You must know that the dubbing is all professional voice actors, which is equivalent to re-shaping the characters, and with their life-like performances, it is inevitable that the mainland audience will be refreshed after watching it, so as to draw the so-called good conclusion of acting. But when you really hear their original Cantonese pronunciation, it often makes people play.

There is also the physical aspect, many Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas are costume dramas now. The so-called costume drama is very particular in the performance, the simplest is a walking posture, such as playing some roles of officials or emperors, Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas actors walk as if they are no different from everyone usually walking, modern and casual.

If you let a mainland actor from a professional class perform it, it must be a small square step, the upper body is very stable, almost does not shake, and it is very imposing to walk.

As for the similar teacher Jiao Huang, he adopts the form of classical Chinese dance in terms of body when he plays Kangxi; or Mr. Li Xuejian's small broken steps when he played Song Jiang, it was all a sublimation of performance. If you tell this kind of talk to those Hong Kong actors who have no theoretical foundation, they may not even have heard of it.

Of course, not all Hong Kong actors are useless, and there are some who are very talented, such as Tony Leung, a tall man with thousands of faces; Tony Leung, a short man whose inner drama is written all over his face; Maggie Cheung, the enchantress, and Stephen Chow, a master of comedy, to name a few. These people are probably similar to Zhou Xun and Liang Ziqing in the mainland, they are all the kind that God chases and feeds, and they are definitely not defeated by the so-called systematic learning or acquired efforts.

Li Tang is actually reluctant to criticize other people's performances, first, he is not familiar with the other party, and it is not good to speak lightly; Second, after all, the other party is several years older than him, and he still has a head and a face, how to say it, he is not a good teacher.

However, he is also quite sympathetic to the other party, because he knows Lou Ye, he always likes to stay alone in a small house and stare at the monitor when filming on the spot, saying very little and not giving specific opinions, looking unfathomable. In fact, if you really want him to say it, I don't think I can say four, five or six. To put it bluntly, he doesn't know the bottom in his heart, he just wants to find what he wants to express through the actors' performances over and over again.

And the little book who cooperated with Lou Ye for the first time obviously couldn't adapt to Lou Ye's shooting method, or his ability was not enough to achieve the various possible performances that Lou Ye needed.

Seeing that the other party looked sincere and his eyes were full of eagerness, Li Tang still relented, beckoned the other party to sit down, and then helped him analyze it carefully according to his own understanding.

In fact, it's very simple, it's nothing more than to let him relax, don't think about it, and forget the identity of the spy he will play in the future. He is currently an engineer at a Japanese-owned iron works, gets along well with the Chinese workers in the factory, and has a beloved Chinese girlfriend who is about to meet after work, and he is excited and brisk......

Nakamura Heng nodded again and again when he listened, but after listening, he was still embarrassed and stopped talking.

It's still the same sentence: It's easy to say, but if you really want to perform, you still have to test your acting skills. For example, if you are excited, as a Japanese man, you don't usually like it, so how do you show it?

and forgot the identity of the spy, but when he studied the characters before, he always regarded himself as an agent lurking in China, and he would bring it out if he was not careful.

In Nakamura Heng's stammering and very ashamed explanation, Li Tang understood. He suddenly found that Lou Ye didn't let him and Zhou Xun read the script when he was filming "Suzhou River" before, and it made sense to have just a few pieces of paper before filming started every day. is not to let himself and Zhou Xun change their identities too quickly, which will affect the state of the performance.

After all, Hiroshi Nakamura is an idol, and his acting foundation is weak, so he can't act well just by having a handsome face and blindly pretending to be cool.

Li Tang pondered for a moment, and finally could only say: "In this way, I'll help you play it again." ”

Forget it, let's help people to the end. It's been two whole days, and he couldn't watch it at the scene.

Nakamura Heng was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly stood up and bowed deeply: "Li San, thank you so much!" ”

He could understand what Li Tang said just now, but he didn't have the confidence to act well. But if Li Tang is willing to demonstrate it again, it is really unbelievable, and he will paint a scoop according to the gourd.

When the two were communicating, the twenty-minute break had already passed, and Lou Ye, who came out of the small black room, did not urge, but lit a cigarette with the executive director and waited quietly beside him. He has always encouraged actors to be creative on set, hoping to get a shot that is their own eyes. Zeng Jian, who was in charge of shooting the simultaneous documentary, recorded the scene just now.

Everyone is an experienced actor, and he has long been accustomed to the ubiquitous synchronous documentary lenses around him at the shooting site, what should be done or what, even if some inappropriate pictures are deleted in the end, what can be presented to the audience in the end must be the best side. After all, this is to help the promotion of the movie, and it is impossible to show the bad things.

Originally, Li Tang just wanted to demonstrate it to Zhongcun Heng in the rest area, but Lou Ye was immediately interested when he heard it, and hurriedly walked over and said, "Li Tang, come on, try it on the spot." ”

said, without waiting for Li Tang to respond, he directly instructed the executive director: "Let all departments prepare and shoot live!" ”

Li Tang was stunned when he heard it, the director originally spoke, and it might be better to try it on the spot, but what is the real shooting for, could it be that there is a lot of film burned in a panic?

When he was about to speak, he saw Lou Ye turn around and leave, taking the walkie-talkie and entering his small dark room. The executive director urged: "Mr. Li, change your clothes." ”

"Ah...... Oh good! ”

Since he must change his clothes if he wants to shoot in real life, the makeup artist on the scene seized the time to take the paint and smear it on his face.

Although he doesn't know Lou Ye's brain circuit, Li Tang doesn't care, it's not his money that is burned anyway.

Although it is said that if you take a live shot on the spot, you may burn a piece of film, about more than 1,000 yuan, but nearly 200 people on the scene are dispatched together, and the cost is very large.

There were nearly 200 people at the scene, half of them were crew members, and the other half were local extras, men and women, old and young, all of whom needed to put on makeup and change into costumes that represented that era.

These extras, presumably except for the elderly and children, are almost all laid-off workers. The assistant director deliberately selected, many people used to be workers in this collapsed steel plant, turning sand and turning sand, burning boilers and burning boilers, except for a little nervous and unnatural at the beginning, there was no sense of disobedience after getting acquainted.

Moreover, the labor of the extras here is much cheaper than that of Hengdian and Chedun Film and Television City, ten yuan a day, and a boxed lunch, and people who sign up are flocking to it.

When everything was ready, Li Tang Dynasty walked to the blast furnace, and passed by the place where the extras were gathered all the way, and he heard them whispering.

"Hey, why did you change people, what about Japan?"

"Wow, it's Linghu Chong!"

No way, who made "Smiling Pride" too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"I saw it yesterday, he was sitting with Zhang Ziyi chattering."

"Hey, you said that he ...... with Zhang Ziyi"

Well, the gossip strength of the broad masses of the people is still very admirable, and Li Tang couldn't help but speed up his pace.

Climbing up the steaming blast furnace and walking to the back of the equipment, he raised his hand to the executive director who was looking up on the ground.

"Okay, all departments are ready...... Begin! ”

With a start, Li Tang got out of the equipment, first took a long breath, patted the dust on his body, looked around with his eyes aimlessly, and then picked up the bag on his back and walked down the steel escalator from above.

He walked very relaxed, he had walked up and down this steep steel escalator countless times, and he didn't even have to pay attention to his feet, and he walked steadily with every step at will.

From appearing in front of the camera to walking down the steel escalator, Lou Ye, who was staring at the monitor screen in the small dark room, finally smiled.

Don't look at Lou Ye always seems to be unsmiling in public, he looks very stern, in fact, he is a very shy person, and he will only release his true emotions when he is alone.

And Nakamura Heng, who was also staring at Li Tang at the scene, was still chanting words in his mouth while watching: "That road is more or more (no wonder, so it is) ......"

At this time, he finally knew what the "relaxation" in Li Tang's mouth meant, the movements and expressions looked so natural, without the slightest trace of performance, he was a worker who had just come out of the blast furnace equipment, breathed a breath of fresh air, and carried a bag to get off work.

As Li Tang walked to the ground, photographer Wang Yu carried the camera to follow all the way.

One of the advantages of making Lou Ye's movies is that you don't have to care about where the camera lens is, whether it will get out of the shot, you just need to focus on your performance.

Li Tang watched it for two days, and he was already familiar with the shooting route. Although the route is constant, Li Tang deliberately ignores Nakamura Heng's previous performance. Because this scene has only one sentence in the script: "1928, Manchuria." Hidehiko Itami, an engineer at the steel plant, leaves work at the factory, and his Chinese lover, Ding Hui, waits for him. ”

In just one sentence, in a sentence that Lou Ye often says: as long as you can act, there is no problem in acting for an hour.

But Li Tang didn't want to make it too complicated, because the extras were rehearsed according to Hiroshi Nakamura's way. For example, Li Tang came down from the blast furnace and met two Chinese, wearing hats and clean clothes, probably as hired Chinese managers. It may be because of this identity that these two managers are extremely polite when they see the Japanese, and even describe them as flattering.

The two extras, while getting out of the way, took off their hats and bowed to Li Tang, Li Tang also bowed back, the action was very standard, but the bowing was obviously smaller than the two extras. Then, as a matter of course, continue to walk the way that the two extras got out of the way.

Hidehiko Itami is a Japanese, he found a Chinese lover, and he is usually polite to Chinese workers, in the eyes of Chinese, he is a good Japanese, but the superiority of being a Japanese is engraved in his bones.

For example, the small amount of the bow and the natural attitude of the Chinese workers to get out of the way all reveal his superiority as a Japanese, and at the same time reflect his hypocrisy, laying the groundwork for the next step of becoming a Japanese spy.

This is what Lou Ye is most satisfied with about Li Tang, the control of the details of the performance is very accurate, and Zhongcun Heng's performance may not have noticed this at all before.

Walking around the dusty and blazing steelmaking workshop, Li Tang's face was as usual, but he covered his mouth and nose with a towel around his neck before walking into the workshop. Instead of performing like Hiroshi Nakamura, he always subconsciously frowned every time.

This is the only way to commute every day, and I have walked it countless times, so what is there to frown about?

However, as he walked through the steelmaking workshop, he quickened his pace as Nakamura Heng, only when he stepped out of the workshop and pulled down the towel covering his face, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking, but the pace of his walk remained the same as when he walked through the steelmaking workshop.

Because this is the eagerness of his Chinese lover who is eager to see him. Including meeting a group of Chinese workers again, because Hidehiko Itami is a good Japanese son, and everyone is willing to greet him.

He also smiled and said, "Goodbye!" ”

Hurriedly passed by.

Walking out of the factory gate, there was a camera there, he walked straight towards the camera, until he walked in front of the camera, stopped, picked up the towel hanging around his neck and wiped the sweat on his face, and then looked around, looking for it, his expression was still unfazed......

"Good, very good!"

Lou Ye's slightly excited voice came from the walkie-talkie.

The executive director of the scene shouted in time to stop with a loudspeaker, and almost at the same time, the scene resounded with warm applause.

If you don't know the goods, you're afraid of shopping around!

The behind-the-scenes staff at the scene are all well-informed, and it is clear at a glance which of Li Tang's performance just now is better or worse than the previous Japanese son's performance. While the staff clapped their hands, they even felt a sense of pride in their hearts.

Not only the staff at the scene, but also Zhang Ziyi, who was waiting, and Nakamura Heng, who was watching very seriously, were also clapping. Nakamura Heng was excited and applauded very warmly.

The Japanese have always admired Qiang, if you play similar to him, he may be a hundred unconvinced, but you are obviously much better than him, then he is completely convinced.

It's like after the American dad defeated him, even though my father abused me thousands of times, I still treated you as my own father. I'll do whatever my dad tells me to do, it's the same thing.

Zhang Ziyi looked indifferent, maybe in her eyes, Li Tang's performance was wonderful, but as a Venice actor and Golden Rooster Award Best Supporting Actor, this is his basic exercise.

In fact, in the final analysis, the performance is to go to the heart, Li Tang's performance has no design, it is to go to the heart, along the way, there is a subconscious sense of superiority as a Japanese, and there is an urgent psychology of wanting to see a lover, no need to exaggerate, no need to deliberately, moisturize things silently!

(End of chapter)