Chapter 13 Three Golden Actors(1/3)
The director has been extremely kind to Liu Wei recently, so kind that it makes her hairy.
Ma Su and Tang Xi didn't understand the whole story, so they kept Liu Wei under wraps every day to guard against the director becoming lustful.
But later I discovered that the director didn’t have the evil heart yet. Maybe he didn’t have the guts.
He just got addicted to acting.
I don’t know which god she worshiped, but recently the director especially likes to call Liu Wei over to “criticize” her and teach her how to act.
Liu Wei is an amateur and has never acted before, but how else can he be called an actor? It is said that people who lie are actually addicted to acting. Only those who can tell lies flawlessly can be a good actor - this is what the director said
of!
So Liu Wei is also addicted to acting, and she happens to be on the set, and she happens to have a role, and she is dressed very heavenly and beautiful. From time to time, she wants to act.
In the past, she occasionally got addicted to acting. As long as she didn't steal the words or forget to move and block others, the director never cared.
But that's not the case now. As soon as she started acting, the director immediately called her to stop and called her over to "tell her the story."
Everyone in the scene was waiting for her.
In fact, this is just a small drama. The scripts were all written on the sidelines. What can be said about it?
Liu Wei didn't understand it at first, because the director didn't teach her how to act well, but told her "don't act".
"Don't think about anything"
"Don't make facial expressions. People are ugly when they make facial expressions. No matter how beautiful a beauty is, not all expressions are good-looking."
What the director said didn't sound like he was teasing her, so Liu Wei was forced to play her part with a wooden face.
During lunch, she brought her fitness meal to the director, half out of curiosity, and half in response to the director's recent preferential treatment to her. She wanted to curry favor with the director.
How to curry favor?
Talk to the director more. She can’t do anything else. She can’t give gifts with her fixed salary. She only gets a little over 10,000 yuan in various subsidies. She went to Ma Su to apply for the gift fund. Ma Su said: “Director
All wages are paid by our company.”
The implication seems to be that the director should give them gifts.
The director's teaching habit was still there, so he asked her: "What have you learned recently?"
Liu Wei wanted to say if you were teasing me, but she didn't dare, so she could only say: "I don't have any experience. How can I act if I don't make any expressions?"
Director: "You can act if you can make expressions? Then acting is too easy. If you open a movie and watch it, which actor in it cried and laughed after the performance? When actors act, they play ordinary people. Now watch it
Look at the ordinary people around you, who has any expression?"
Liu Wei actually turned around and looked around.
The place where the director eats is a Feng Shui treasure. Nearby are the assistants, in the distance are the screenwriters, assistant directors and team leaders, and further away are the workers. During lunch time, most people are eating, and a few are talking or on the phone.
Looking carefully, Liu Wei found that everyone was really expressionless. The work was hard, the income was little, and the weather was hot. Everyone had a dead look on their face, as if they were ready to blow up the company.
Director: "Ordinary people can't act because they overact once they act. Which actor is the best? It is often said that some actors can even act with their eyes. In fact, acting is about playing your role well without making any expressions. If you
If you want to learn, then practice in front of the mirror and ask your assistant to take pictures of you, especially your face, to see what your own expressions look like when you don't care, what kind of mood you have under those expressions, and what kind of expression you show.
Let’s see if you have any understanding of your mood.”
What the director said is a bit interesting.
Liu Wei asked Tang Xi to take a picture of her with a mobile phone, and shoot her face. At first she would notice the mobile phone, but after watching the video, she found that her expression became unnatural from the moment she noticed the mobile phone. When she became busy later, she forgot
She has a cell phone, and her expression when waiting off the court is always more lively and beautiful than when she is on the court.
This really shocked her - she thought her face was always bad-looking.
But it turns out that when she is relaxed naturally, her face is more lively and lively. She may be remembering to act when she is on stage. Her face is beautiful, but it lacks content and makes people want to stop looking at it.
At least when she saw her face on the set, she didn't want to look at it. She didn't feel anything after watching it patiently, and she even felt annoyed.
But off the court, whether she is playing games or in a daze, she will look at herself in the video and unconsciously think back: What was I thinking at the time? This expression is so stupid!
Stupid is stupid, but stupidity is also attractive. Because of its beauty.
Liu Wei vaguely touched the door that the director said about acting, but she didn't know how to open the door. She only knew that her expressions were not good-looking, and her face was not as beautiful when she was expressionless as when she was relaxed, so now she just relaxes when she goes on stage.
Remembering to relax in her heart, she had to think about things in her mind. She had nothing else to think about. In the small kitchen in her mind, she had eaten hot pot more than a hundred times and fried chicken for seventy or eighty times.
, even three to four hundred packs of instant noodles have been cooked.
Acting in such a relaxed manner, the director didn't ask to stop, but the video taken by Tang Xi beside him became more and more terrible.
It's not that her expression became stiffer, but everyone could tell that she was distracted and not taking the filming seriously.
This is not progress but rather regression.
Tang Xi and Ma Su both knew that she had been practicing her acting skills recently, but they didn't think her acting was getting better, but rather that she was getting worse, so they both advised her not to listen to the director's nonsense.
Tang Xi: "If he could direct, would he still come to film this drama?"
Ma Su: "Sister Sisi, if you want to learn, I will find a teacher for you when you return to Beijing. Let's study hard, don't study here. Let's film well first."
Regardless of whether Liu Wei's acting was good or not before, at least she looked serious. Now that she's not even serious anymore, it's not good.
Liu Wei didn't dare to think blindly while filming, but she also remembered that making random expressions didn't look good, so her face remained expressionless when acting, and she didn't see any ups and downs when speaking her lines. The lines are actually related to the state of acting.
This is all unconscious. People will make expressions and movements involuntarily when they want to cry or laugh. Especially when acting, they will amplify their expressions and movements. Now she deliberately restrains her expressions and even speaks her lines.
Not good.
Fortunately, this is a drama that no one takes seriously. The director is rushing to play, the producer only focuses on whether the shooting schedule is completed on time, and the screenwriter only focuses on completing the script as required, regardless of whether the logic behind it is smooth. So no one cares about Liu Wei
I have an opinion. The director used to "guide" her, but now he doesn't guide her anymore, and no one cares.
Liu Wei fiddled around, but it seemed to be in vain, because Tang Xi's phone was filled with her short videos.
Liu Wei is reluctant to delete it. She often thinks about it now, always feeling that it is just the last step, but who is going to kick it?
Tang Xi wanted to make her happy and didn't want to delete it, so she told Ma Su that she wanted to apply for a sum of money to buy a camera. The camera on her mobile phone was still not good enough. A camera could take photos, record videos, and pay bills.
In the future, Liu Wei had more activities, and sometimes some Reuters photos needed to be released, which were all taken by the staff. A camera was a serious expense, and Ma Su readily approved it.
When the director saw that there had been no movement for half a month after showing the photos and short videos, he thought that the matter was dirty. Either someone had been found there, or the other party had checked Liu Wei and thought she was not qualified and gave up.
The director's great enthusiasm was silently wasted, but no one could tell him about it. Even if he wanted to express his gratitude to Liu Wei and get a reward, he couldn't go because it didn't work out, which was very unlucky.
As a result, I didn't even have lunch that day, so I just received a call from there.
The director immediately stopped eating and ran out to pick up people.
Liu Wei was given a temporary extra scene in the afternoon to make her cry.
Director: "The scene where Jiang Yuan died last time was still not good after we shot it, so we had to reshoot it."
The male lead who plays Jiang Yuan went to the second unit. Today's unit was just for Liu Wei to reshoot. The scene was extremely crude. There were only lights, cameras and sound. There was not even a stand-in, no puppets, and no clothes.
Just let Liu Wei kneel down on the floor and cry in front of the open space.
Also, you cannot use eye drops.
Liu Wei was asked to cry on her own.
The director was a little excited and specially told Liu Wei about the play, trying to help her find inspiration.
Director: "This King of Lu, Jiang Yuan, loves Jiang Ji very much. However, the State of Lu has many powerful officials and the State of Lu is also weak. Jiang Yuan has no ability and can only provide a luxurious life for his beloved daughter Jiang Ji. But all this is
It was over when Zhao Guo came to ask for marriage. Zhao Guo was powerful and wanted to marry Jiang Ji by force. Ministers of Lu also forced Jiang Yuan to send Jiang Ji over. Jiang Yuan was forced to have no choice but to take poison and commit suicide. You see, you have lost such a person now.
Should you grieve for your father who loves you so much?"
Liu Wei felt that the logic didn't make sense as early as when she was filming this scene. It just happened that today was just a reshoot, there was no one else, and the director seemed to have a teacher addiction, so she took the opportunity to ask questions.
Liu Wei: "I don't understand why Jiang Yuan committed suicide? Once he committed suicide, wouldn't there be no one to protect Jiang Ji?"
Director: "He was forced to the point where there was nothing he could do. He just wanted the world to see him. King Zhao and the powerful ministers of Lu State forced him, the great king, to death."
Liu Wei still feels that the logic does not make sense. What will happen after everyone in the world has read this? Jiang Ji was protected by King Lu before, but Jiang Yuan committed suicide. Will King Zhao and the powerful officials not force Jiang Ji? Then they will force her even more. The world
Even if people look around, they can't protect Jiang Ji.
But the director already felt that it made sense, so Liu Wei didn't ask any more questions.
She sat alone on the floor and began to cry.
At this time, she saw two people walking next to the director to talk to him. One of them was tall and wearing sunglasses on the set. This was an indoor scene, and the light was not good. How could he still see the road clearly with sunglasses?
The other one stared at her after talking to the director.
Liu Wei immediately forgot to cry for her father.
The director had to remind her: "Sisi, it's time to start. My machines are all on. I can't leave without filming today."
Liu Wei had no choice but to regain her composure and continue brewing.
Thinking about her father, she couldn't cry, not even if she lived or died. But the suffering she suffered after becoming Liu Sisi was worth crying for.
Isn't it worth crying if you become someone who is not yourself?
What if you live a happy life after you change, but you are not happy at all and your actions are all controlled by others. Don’t you want to cry?
Liu Wei sat quietly and thought about her past days for a while, and compared them with her current days. She felt sad, tears began to flow down quietly, and she began to sob.
To be continued...