Snowflakes fluttered and fell from the sky, forming a curtain of snow.

The cold wind blows, sometimes left and sometimes right.

Li Shengyao held a cup of hot soy milk and walked alone on the set.

At this time, it was only half past eight, and he came to the set with the first crew bus, and as in the past, he started work early.

On the other side, Zhang Songwen was wearing a long down jacket and holding a black umbrella, quietly looking into the distance, he looked a little melancholy.

Last night, Li Shengyao chatted with Zhang Songwen, and after a few bowls of chicken soup, he began a script workshop and an analysis of the next day's performance.

When the first crew bus was about to depart today, Zhang Songwen followed.

Li Shengyao is not sure if Zhang Songwen has thought carefully about whether the next performance can reach the top level, but the attitude is good, and he is willing to give him time.

At this time, Zhang Songwen stood there in a daze, looking like he was wandering out of the world, but he was actually looking for a state.

Different actors have different ways of finding their status.

Li Shengyao whispered to Dapeng and asked the workers not to disturb Zhang Songwen.

After about an hour, all the actors arrived, and the makeup was finished, and the rehearsal was done twice, and then the official shooting began.

The plot of this scene is that Zhang Songwen is shoveling snow outdoors, and someone comes to inform him that his brother has passed away and asked him to go back to his hometown.

The plot is not difficult, and the acting does not seem to be difficult.

The most important point is the atmosphere, which wants to quietly show the depression and sadness hidden in the depths of the hero.

"Manchester by the Sea" did not tell the audience what kind of story it was at the beginning, with a little suspense at the beginning, first showing the life of the male protagonist, making the audience curious why the male protagonist was so sad, and then giving an answer.

In terms of performance processing, the actor is required to restrain his emotions from the beginning, indifference is greater than sadness, and the core is still endless pain.

Such a subtle and restrained performance is undoubtedly not easy.

Zhang Songwen's performance a few days ago was actually quite good, but just like Li Shengyao said, it was not amazing enough, he needed Zhang Songwen to be 100% immersed in the role, and he needed the role to be charming.

The assistant director held the bullhorn and shouted "start".

Li Shengyao sat behind the director's monitor, staring at the monitor tightly, he chatted with Zhang Songwen yesterday, it stands to reason that even if people change, it shouldn't be so fast.

However, Li Shengyao still expects Zhang Songwen to surprise him.

After all, "Gao Qiqiang" is a well-known drama idiot.

In Li Shengyao's expectation, Zhang Songwen began to praise.

In the fluttering snow, everyone stared closely, and soon after, a warm applause rang out.

……

Zhang Songwen's performance has changed qualitatively, before he was a role played by Zhang Songwen, and now, Zhang Songwen is the male protagonist, the man immersed in sadness.

He found his form quickly and he was playing better and better.

Zhang Songwen played well, and the crew of "Dalian by the Sea" advanced quickly.

Li Shengyao is very satisfied with Zhang Songwen's progress, and he feels that he has not chosen the wrong person.

In the early morning of this day, the long-lost sun slowly opened its eyes and radiated some sunlight.

Many children go out to have snowball fights, and they shout loudly for joy.

The crew of "Dalian by the Sea" is an indoor scene today, and this scene is the most intense emotional outburst in this movie.

According to the original plan of Lee Shengyao and the assistant directors, they were supposed to arrange this scene in the closing stage.

After all, Zhang Songwen got the script in too short a time, and Li Shengyao was worried that if he shot in a normal order, Zhang Songwen would not be able to accumulate enough emotions so quickly.

And Zhang Songwen has been in very good shape recently, he took the initiative to find Li Shengyao, hoping to take advantage of the good state of his performance now to shoot this most difficult scene.

The plot of this scene is that the male protagonist killed his two children because of carelessness, and he fell into despair and endless remorse.

After recording a confession at the police station, he was about to leave, but he had lost the courage to live, and suddenly got into trouble, grabbed a policeman's gun, and then tried to pull out the safety and shoot himself.

However, the police reacted very quickly and quickly rushed to control him, but did not let him kill himself.

Li Shengyao likes the design of this plot very much, and when watching the movie, when he sees the actor exploding and committing suicide by snatching a gun, he can feel the infinite self-blame and sadness in his heart.

The emotional tension of this scene is very strong, and the actors need to have enough explosiveness.

Before filming started, when Zhang Songwen was still putting on makeup, Li Shengyao came to Zhang Songwen's side, and then explained to him the core of the plot.

Last night, when the two of them were studying the script, Li Shengyao had already discussed it with Zhang Songwen, but in order to deepen his impression, Li Shengyao continued to tell Zhang Songwen.

The reason why he attaches so much importance to it is naturally because this scene is too important.

The film's strongest emotional flashpoint is in this scene.

After acting in this scene, it can be said that the movie is 50% successful.

Not long after, Zhang Songwen put on makeup, and then rehearsed three times, and determined that he was in good shape, and this time he was officially shooting.

"Ahh

Zhang Songwen suddenly shouted, then snatched the gun and shot it at the temple, but he didn't open the insurance, he immediately took the gun and opened the insurance.

In this short three-second shot, Zhang Songwen performed sadness, despair, anger, consternation, panic, and calmly dying......

He obviously knew the importance of this scene, and he had rehearsed it carefully for a long time I don't know how many times, and at this time he performed it very skillfully and completely.

"Click!"

After the assistant director shouted the card, everyone then applauded warmly, whether it was the actors or the field workers, they admired Zhang Songwen's performance very much.

Zhang Songwen frowned slightly, he lowered his head, didn't say a word, and was completely immersed in his own world.

This is the state of his review of the performance and thinking about the performance.

The big guys all know Zhang Songwen's habits, and they are not surprised.

After a while, Zhang Songwen said to Li Shengyao: "Director, I can have a better performance." ”

Li Shengyao nodded, "Okay, let's go on." ”

Fifteen minutes later, Zhang Songwen played the scene just now.

After the performance, Zhang Songwen reviewed it, but he still didn't feel very satisfied, and then asked to continue the performance.

Li Shengyao naturally will not refuse.

It wasn't until two hours later that Zhang Songwen finally came to a more excellent performance, this time the performance, Zhang Songwen felt even more, the actors and field workers watched him act, and even forgot to applaud.

Zhang Songwen himself was also very satisfied, and after reviewing it this time, he happily said to Li Shengyao: "Director, I think it's okay." ”

When the words fell, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Shengyao glanced at Zhang Songwen and shook his head, "Teacher Zhang, let's try again, I think you can have a more outstanding performance, the performance just now has probably been rehearsed too many times, it is very complete and smooth, but I feel that there is a lack of a sense of panic."

The actor snatched the gun and committed suicide on a temporary basis, and there was no plan, he didn't open the insurance for the first time he shot, after he reacted, he panicked, and the action was relatively speaking, not as skillful as the first time, and he was a little clumsy to open the insurance. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Songwen thought about it, and then nodded, "Director, you're right, I understand." ”

"Okay, you take your time, don't rush, the crew has time."

Lee smiled encouragingly.

He knows the importance of this scene, and he also hopes that Zhang Songwen can contribute a wonderful performance and make this scene one of the classic clips in film history.

Zhang Songwen prepared alone, the field workers rearranged the set, and the other actors re-cooperated with the makeup, the big guy just applauded very enthusiastically, many people thought that this scene was over, but they didn't expect Li Shengyao to give a better performance.

Everyone didn't say anything on their faces, but they weren't happy in their hearts.

However, Li Shengyao's status and power are there, and these people dare not show it.

In this way, the crew of "Dalian by the Sea" continued to grind this scene.

But the first day was not successful, until the second day, after fifteen shots, Zhang Songwen finally contributed a very wonderful performance, and this scene is finally over.

In the warm applause, Li Shengyao waved his hand and asked the big guy to prepare for the next scene, they had to take the hot iron and continue filming.

……

"Dalian by the Sea" doesn't have any big scenes, and it doesn't require stuntmen to crash, jump off buildings, or flip jumps.

It seems to be easier to act, but only the actors know that it is actually very difficult to perform such a sense of sadness, which requires the actors to be able to drive emotions, so that the audience can ignore other points, stare at the actor wholeheartedly, and completely substitute for the actor.

Today, Zhang Songwen encountered the second most difficult scene in this movie.

The plot of this scene is that the male protagonist killed his children and then left his hometown, and a few years later, his brother died, and the male protagonist had to return to Lao Jia to handle his brother's funeral.

He once went out shopping and ran into his ex-wife.

Because he killed his children before, his ex-wife hated him very much and said some very ugly things, and soon divorced him.

This time, the ex-wife has let go, she apologized to the actor, saying that she ignored the hero's feelings at the time, and then introduced her recent situation.

She got married again, started a new family, and her third child was born.

She went on to say that the actor should come out, forget about those sad things, and face life again.

The actor didn't have much emotion at the time, but he was very uncomfortable when he was separated from his ex-wife.

It was only then that he realized that his children had died.

Everyone gradually came out, only he was still immersed in sadness and self-blame, and he couldn't recover it.

This scene also has to hide the sadness, so that when the actor communicates with his ex-wife, he can't see the sadness, and when the ex-wife leaves, he exposes the sadness hidden behind him.

This scene needs a strong sense of hierarchy in order to show the mood of the male protagonist, and naturally requires strong acting skills.

With the experience of grinding a scene in the previous two days, a group of actors and field workers all thought that Li Shengyao would have to grind this time.

But something unexpected happened, and Li Shengyao did not grind this time.

Zhang Songwen performed well, and Li Shengyao announced that he had passed it after only four shots.

When the other actors and crew heard this, they applauded.

At this moment, Zhang Songwen left the set quickly, came to the outside of the set, squatted down, covered his face with his hands, and cried sadly.

Dapeng got Li Shengyao's order and kept staring at Zhang Songwen, and immediately told Li Shengyao about Zhang Songwen's situation.

The crew didn't care, they continued to work, preparing the set for the next scene.

The actors also didn't care, Zhang Songwen's situation is actually very understandable, but he is too immersed in the role to be so unable to get out in a short time.

However, they believed in Zhang Songwen's professionalism, so no one came to persuade them.

Some actors even want to joke with Zhang Songwen to help him "come out".

A group of assistant directors also didn't pay attention to it, they all knew Lee Shengyao's plan and felt that they should immediately switch scenes and prepare for the next scene.

As for Zhang Songwen's emotional breakdown at this time, the big guy didn't take it to heart.

Li Shengyao heard Dapeng's report, paused slightly, and then looked at the sky, "Okay, let's do it today, let's get off the morning shift and go back to the hotel to rest." ”

It was almost four o'clock at this time, and it was not yet time to get off work.

In the past, Li Shengyao was eager to use one minute as eight minutes, but everyone didn't expect that this time Li Dadao would be extra kind and let them get off work early.

Dapeng quickly thought of Zhang Songwen, "Director, do you want to persuade Zhang Songwen." ”

"I'll talk to him myself."

"Dalian by the Sea" is a very sad and depressed movie.

Other movies have encountered bad things, even if the life situation of the hero and heroine has not changed in the end, the mentality of the hero and heroine must have changed, and they are definitely more confident and hopeful, as if they can see the light.

And "Dalian by the Sea" is different, the actor still didn't come out in the end.

He couldn't be his nephew's guardian, he left his nephew in the care of a good friend, he still couldn't face the sadness of the past, he couldn't stay in his hometown, he had to leave here to live.

The actor who mourns like this is really depressed.

Zhang Songwen has read the complete script and knows the ending of the male protagonist, at this time, his ex-wife has come out, but the male protagonist is still trapped in endless sadness.

At this time, Zhang Songwen was too involved, and it was completely understandable that his emotions collapsed.

Although Zhang Songwen looks very mature, Li Shengyao is still not at ease and plans to give him more time to recover.

He then walked over and squatted down next to Zhang Songwen.

Zhang Songwen covered his face with his hands, tears continued, at first there was a sobbing sound, and then there were silent tears.

It took twenty minutes for his emotions to recover.

"Teacher Zhang, your performance is great, I'm proud of you."

Li Shengyao felt that there was no need to discuss this plot, it was better to divert Zhang Songwen's attention, which might allow Zhang Songwen to come out faster.

When Zhang Songwen heard this, he was slightly stunned, "Director, am I acting well?" ”

"Very good, I would have been ready to grind for two more days, and you met my requirements so quickly.

Rest early today, rest in the evening, and come back tomorrow. ”

Li Shengyao smiled and had no extra words.

Zhang Songwen quickly understood what Li Shengyao meant, he was really uncomfortable in his heart, and he needed time to squeeze out negative emotions.

It was good for him to let him rest early.

He nodded gratefully, "Thank you, Director." ”

"Small things, in my case, the physical and mental safety of actors is more important than movies."

(End of chapter)