[Puppet Practice] is actually a series of exercises, the performance departments of major art colleges and universities in China have such courses, including the combination of imagination of body stretching, control and relaxation, body posture changes and muscle necessary tension, as well as psychological sensations and so on...

It is a very useful training method for acting students.

Standing in Zhang Songwen's international performance training class, the famous director Zhang Yimou clapped his hands and said loudly:

"Now that you have all of you, then you should relax your whole body, your hands down, your feet shoulder-width apart, and your cervical and lumbar spine upright; Eyes slightly narrowed; The face is relaxed, without any expression, the mouth is slightly open, and the jaw is relaxed;

Think of yourself as a puppet, with a thread on the top of your head, on your elbows, on your wrists, on your fingertips, on your knees, on your ankles, and now that it's in my hands, and when I mention it, you make the corresponding movements, understand? ”

"Understood!" Neon said loudly.

Recently, this beauty is very positive, one is that she feels that she has indeed learned something, before, she was still ignorant about acting, and now, Nini feels that she is getting happier and happier on the road of acting.

The second is that the movie "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is about to start filming, and after filming this movie, you can be completely free.

If you want to live with Yang Hao, you can live together; If you want to participate in any movie of Yang Hao, you can participate in any of his movies; Well..., also, after the filming of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is over, he may be able to sit on an equal footing with his mentor director Zhang Yimou.

Because according to Yang Hao, in the future, Zhang Yimou will shoot movies again, and the film studio can participate in the investment.

Then..., when the time comes, when you invest in Zhang Yimou's movie, can you kindly pat him on the shoulder and shout Lao Zhang?

And just when Ni Nimei was suffering from hysteria, she saw Zhang Yimou, who was standing in front of many girls, suddenly straighten her face.

"You're puppets now, how can puppets talk?"

"Oh..."

When Nini heard this, she immediately stuck out her tongue obediently,, how could Miss Ben forget about this!

After a dozen girls stood calmly for a few minutes and cleared their inner distractions, Zhang Yimou began to give orders:

"Now, I have lifted the line of your right elbow joint, hear clearly, it is the line of the right elbow joint, and now your right hand is slowly being lifted until the arm is parallel to the shoulder!"

Hearing Zhang Yimou's instructions clearly, the right arm of more than a dozen girls in the training class was slowly raised until it was parallel to the shoulder.

In this process, Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo each held a black notebook and walked among the girls to check to see if everyone was relaxed.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yimou asked the girls to imagine their wrists being lifted by the thread, and then the fingertips were lifted by the thread and pulled upwards so that the whole arm was parallel to the shoulder; Next, by following the same steps, lift your left hand up so that both arms are fully straight.

If it was in the acting department of the film academy, after the ordinary puppet training hands were pulled up, the teacher who taught the performance would let the thread break and let the students restore it piece by piece, but Zhang Yimou did not do this.

The training method of this domestic director is different from that of ordinary acting teachers, and he wants to let the girls continue to practice as much as possible:

"Don't be tense, let's try to use your imagination, your necks are stretched up, the longer the better, oops..., your head hits the beam, it hurts a little!

Now, you guys look to the left, there's a super big exhaust fan on the wall on the left, see?

Well, your head is in the exhaust fan, and even though the exhaust fan is not turning, you have to be afraid!

Well, your arms are also stretched out from the exhaust fan, and they reach into the sky, and there are clouds in the sky......"

An actor

If you want to act vividly, you must clearly and exhaustively see all the images in the scene you want to play in your inner vision, which is called inner vision.

And now, it is through his own description that Zhang Yimou, a well-known domestic film director, guides more than a dozen girls to enter the described scene through imagination, form a vision in their hearts, and feel what they imagine.

"At this moment, there was a foul smell in the air, a bit like rotten eggs, it smelled bad!

Do you smell it?

Let's take a closer look! I saw that Nini, He Jun, Li Xinru, Li Chun and others had their noses wrinkled.

This is good!

It smells terrible, it stinks to death! Where does the smell come from? It turned out that this was an abandoned grain depot, and at the location of the grain depot against the wall, there was a corpse hanging from a tree..., the smell of the corpse was so bad that it was unbearable!

Now let's slowly take our heads back into the room, and then, our hands back into the room!

Take your time, don't rush, don't touch the blades of the giant exhaust fan!

Now, we're back in the room! Okay, that's good, please stay this way, relax, completely relax, empty all the distractions in your heart, don't think about anything! ”

After a dozen girls stood quietly for a few minutes and cleared their inner distractions, Zhang Yimou began to give orders:

"Now, I'm starting to loosen the thread in my hand, first the thread on the tip of my left finger!"

When Nini heard the command, she was like a puppet with a broken string, and her left wrist automatically drooped.

At this time, Zhang Yimou continued: "Now, the line on my left wrist has been let go by me!" ”

When more than a dozen girls heard this, everyone's forearms hung down neatly.

………

After about half an hour of practice, although the intensity was not too high, the girls were also very tired, especially when they were engrossed, and their spirits were always nervous.

Seeing their wonderful performances, Zhang Yimou smiled and applauded in the training class, and let them rest freely, either lying or sitting or lying down or like neon, he dragged Li Chun over, and then tickled her.

Li Chun, the director asked you to write a short story, why did you name the hero of the short story Yang Hao!

I see, you're a nymphomaniac, aren't you?

Haha..., Nini, I was wrong, I was wrong, can't I do it yet?!

In the laughter and slapstick of Nini Li Chun, Zhang Yimou walked towards Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo, who were already sitting on the sofa.

"How?

Do you have a score in mind? ”

"There you have it, Director!"

In front of Zhang Yimou, Zhang Songwen didn't dare to hold it up at all, he was originally sitting, but when he saw the director coming to ask, he immediately stood up respectfully.

"Well, I'll see."

Zhang Yimou smiled and took the black notebook in Zhang Songwen's hand.

[Nini as Zhao Yumo;

Li Xinru as Meng Shujuan; He Jun as Hongling; Bai Xue as Xianglan; Li Chun as Cardamom ......]

"Hmm..."

Zhang Yimou is a man and has a strong purpose!

Absolutely not.

Today, the reason why he personally came to teach more than a dozen girls to learn acting is because he wants to take the opportunity to determine the role and see which girl is more suitable for which role.

And Zhang Songwen and Zhang Momo's opinions, he will also have references.

"Well..., Momo, what about yours?"

After carefully browsing Zhang Songwen's suggestion twice and returning the black notebook to him, Zhang Yimou turned his head to look at his daughter.

And Zhang Momo took the opportunity to smile at this time: "Dad, in two days, I want to go to Thailand, well..., that is, I want to be the executive assistant director in Yang Hao's crew." ”

(End of chapter)