Chapter 371: A Manchester Town by the Sea
A good actor, in order to release his inner self, must tear down the wall of inner self-protection.
Whether in Natsushu or Kyushu, unleashing one's nature is an important course.
The scariest thing in the world is to give up self-preservation, and that's what an actor does.
If you often try to give up self-protection and open up in real relationships, then your true nature will naturally flow out on set.
Kevin. If Blatter had been born in Xiazhou and had not talked about his private life, he would have attracted a lot of criticism if he had said that the output of this work would have been guaranteed.
Lin Qiu did not set the starring role in "Manchester by the Sea", but among the actors in Mizhou, Lin Qiu wanted this actor to audition the most, so he asked Bruno to help contact him.
"Absolutely."
"Blatter should be happy to star."
Bruno immediately agreed, for Lin Qiu, an oriental director, Bruno has never appreciated it so much.
The competition between the director and the director, in the end, is against the aesthetics, the aesthetics of showing the lens language on the big screen.
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"There's really Manchester by the sea!"
"Not the ...... in England"
"The sky in Manchester is red."
"No, it's blue."
"Fight!"
Manchester, Massachusetts, by the sea.
When the Chang'an crew came to the local area to step on the scene and prepare for filming, many staff members were talking about it.
The population is not large, the sea breeze is strong, and the winters are cold.
This is an unremarkable town, and it is not even beautiful compared to the previous filming locations of "Truman's World".
Despite the sunshine, the reality of Manchester is a bit cold and bleak.
"It's really called 'Manchester by the Sea', not Manchester."
"It was the nineteenth century, and in order to distinguish it from the one in Yingzhou, it was renamed this."
"What a town with a sense of age."
Neither the British-style industrial city of Manchester, nor the popular Red Devils Manchester United, is called "Manchester by the Sea".
Lin Qiu's side, Lu Yan chatted with another crew member, Lin Qiu looked up at the sky, thoughtful.
In the movie, the line between the sky and the sea is blurred, a large blanket of gray, and I don't know where the air is and where the cold sea is.
Even the street buildings look ordinary and deserted, with no features.
If the natural scenery is like this, there is no need to do special effects, and the texture on the screen will be better.
In the previous life, many viewers who had not seen this movie, when they heard this name, most of them thought it was more beautiful, but in fact it was not, the population of the entire town was less than 5,000, and what they wanted was this natural and deserted feeling.
"Did you make a date with Blatter tonight?"
"Well, right here, Blatter said that he liked the script very much and was willing to audition for the leading actor."
Lin Qiu smiled.
In the movie, the actor Li is naturally the actor who has an absolute role, and at the same time, he has a very high ceiling while playing a very difficult role.
In his previous life, Cassie Affleck, the actor of "Manchester by the Sea" actor Lee, won the Best Actor at the 89th Academy Awards for this movie!
Although Lin Qiu's domestic popularity is not very high, how many people can win the Academy Award for Best Actor in the world?
So even if Lin Qiu asked Bruno for help, he had to watch Blatter's performance in person.
The whole town is not big, it doesn't take a few hours to drive around, and soon, some of the filming locations were determined.
Because Lin Qiu is a director with a lot of fame in Kyushu, and Manchester by the sea is indeed a very small town, so small that even the residents of this town don't know why a great oriental director like Lin Qiu would make movies in his town, so some filming procedures are quite smooth.
Because of the arrival of such a big Xiazhou crew, it instantly became the topic of conversation in the entire Manchester town, and many people in the town that Lin Qiu met along the way greeted Lin Qiu warmly, and asked if there was a group performance by the way.
The originally deserted town seems to be lively all of a sudden.
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The small town of Manchester, no flow of restaurants.
"Oh my God! Do you know who I just saw? ”
"Who? Blatter! Kevin Blatter! ”
"Oh my God! He is going to star in this movie directed by Lin Qiu?! ”
"It must have been a brilliant collaboration!"
When has it ever received such a guest?
The moment he saw Blatter, the waiters in the restaurant thought they were dazzled.
In the restaurant, Blatter was chatting with Lin Qiu, with the temperament of a wanderer, and he really liked the script of the movie "Manchester by the Sea".
"It's not that I'm too lazy to act in movies, it's that I don't want to act in some boring movies."
"Did you say yes, Director Lin Qiu."
Blatter's facial features are not very delicate, and they can be matched with the rough lines and hair.
As long as you dress up a little, you are a standard rice-style man.
For Lin Qiu, although Blatter has not been in contact, but he appreciates it quite a lot, the first time I heard Lin Qiu's name, I heard it from the mouth of director Bruno, director Bruno's admiration and praise for Lin Qiu, which made Blatter very curious.
So after the release of "Truman's World", Blatter went to the theater to watch it, which was quite exciting.
It's just that Truman's role, Blatter knows that he can't play it, no matter how good his acting skills are, he can't force himself to play a role that doesn't match his tone and appearance.
A 40-year-old actor plays an 18-year-old boy, no matter how awesome his acting skills are, what he acts like, all for nothing.
"Tell me about your understanding of this movie."
"I think the movie tells such a sad story trapped in the pain of the past and unable to extricate itself, unlike ordinary tragedies, this movie is very sad, there is almost no yearning and pursuit of life, even if it is self-redemption, it is very vague."
When it comes to movies, Blatter gets serious, and he knows that this is also the key to his fight for this role.
At that time, Bruno said on the phone to Blatter that this was a great opportunity, an excellent movie, so Blatter should not miss it.
In the story, Lee, a decadent and depressed repairman, after learning the news of his brother Joe's death, goes to his hometown - Manchester by the sea to deal with Joe's funeral.
The reason why Li is reluctant to stay here too much is because this place has Lee's painful past, and a desperate memory is buried, and it is because of Lee's negligence that his two daughters were buried in the fire, and his wife left him because of this.
This character image, the emotions of the characters, is quite easy to understand for professional actors.
But to truly interpret it on the big screen, it is extremely difficult to control emotions.
Take the previous Chen You as an example, extreme sadness is actually easy for actors to express.
It is difficult to restrain the sadness, and Lee's mood in the movie is the depression of years of despair.
If the pupils are dull, it's over.
The emotions in the movie are not hoarse, a person who is extremely sad is often insensitive, living like a walking corpse.
"When can I start auditioning?"
"Tomorrow, when you see me tomorrow, I'll be Lee."
Blatter smiled brightly and said confidently.
This kind of image is difficult to associate with Li in the movie.
So after Blatter went back to the hotel to rest, even the assistant director Lu Yan was a little skeptical.
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But when the sun rose in Manchester the next day, Lin Qiu and Lu Yan saw Blatter in the hotel, Lu Yan subconsciously got goosebumps.
This feeling is not an admiration for Blatter's acting skills.
It's a sense of shock that the person in front of you has become another person.
"Come in."
Blatter held on to the door, and then lit a cigarette, which was not fast, and even glanced at Lin Qiu, and the whole person exuded a gloomy aura that was completely different from yesterday, so that after entering the hotel, the scene was a little silent for a while.
The low air pressure in the room was circling.
When Lin Qiu looked at Blatter's eyes again, he suddenly laughed:
"How the hell did you do that?"
Those eyes were full of stories, as if there was a wounded soul, but it was buried deeply.
"It's simple."
"I'm Lee."
That's Blatter's answer.
"I'd love to start it right now, but it's probably going to be June."
Lin Qiu suppressed his excitement and said to Blatter.
No wonder Bruno can be called a once-in-a-century genius actor, ordinary actors, when facing the interview mirror, Lin Qiu will feel that there are traces of performance, and the criterion for judging is "whether the performance is good or not".
But Blatter felt like he was a different person entirely.
"Okay."
"During that time, I will live here, waiting for news from the crew."
"I need the full script."
Blatter nodded and said in a deep voice.
He likes to spend enough time figuring out the characters, walking the streets of small towns in Manchester and putting himself in the shoes of Lee.
It's better to be the kind that when you close your eyes at night, you can do the nightmare of your dead daughter.
Blatter has always appeared in public with a "bohemian" image.
But only Bruno knows that there is an artist-like "crazy" soul hidden in his heart.
When filming "Green Mountain", Blatter put himself in a barren mountain for a whole month, with no contact with the outside world, and finally presented such a classic supporting role.
"No problem, nice to work with."
"It's a pleasure to work with, it's going to be a great movie."
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(End of chapter)