619 Internal Communication
After watching Allen leave, Lance turned his head and looked at the monitor. He originally planned to watch the playback again, but found that he was still in "Jeff state". His hands were tied to the handrail. He could only look back at Michael standing next to him, "play it back again."
After his revision of "Fruit Hard Candy", the center of gravity of the script began to shift, and more of the actors' performances were needed to support the entire work, and all the burden fell on him and Allen's shoulders.
As a director, he had to think about it from the big picture, so he had to revisit Allen's performance, and if necessary, he had to make a certain directing.
Although in the last life, Allen won the Oscar nomination for Best Actress with his performance of "Juno", Allen's performance was not the kind of explosive. She needed to incorporate her own style into her style and present her role through the accumulation of lines and action details. However, in "Fruit Hard Candy", he needed Allen to contribute this explosive power in certain scenes, just like the energy bursting out of the last line during the audition process.
After watching the replay just now, Lance realized that Allen had not fully entered the role. She was always in control and still groping, but relatively speaking, his performance was completely relaxed due to the guidance of the method. In contrast, Allen's performance became increasingly insufficient. Next, he would try to return to the performance style and hold on to the performance, but at the same time, Allen also needed to make some changes. There was almost no emotion surging in her eyes, and she needed to release it.
Emma and Michael stood behind, looking at Lance who was in deep thought. Both of them were exchanging sights, as if they were encouraging each other to speak, but neither of them was willing to speak first, everyone knew that Lance was working attentively and planned that his creative ideas were definitely not a wise act. However, both of them had countless questions about the performance just now, and their mouths were so itchy.
"If you have something to say," Lance's voice suddenly came over, which scared Emma and Michael. Both of them shook their heads quickly and denied. Lance turned his head and looked at the two of them for a while, and then turned around, "Since there is no, then forget it."
"Lance." Emma could not bear it after all, shouted, and Michael, who was standing next to him, clenched his fists secretly, but before he could finish his gratitude, Emma's voice came over, "Michael has a problem."
Michael gritted his teeth, but knew that if he denies it at this time, he would miss the opportunity. He could only ask, "Lance, shouldn't Jeff's personality be cowardly? He can't handle normal social relations, so he misses his childhood memories very much, so he has a gentle personality. But why did your performance seem very violent in the last scene just now? This seems to be inconsistent with the role."
In fact, this is one of the differences between the expressionists and the methodists. The expressionists follow the rational analysis and then present the accurate performance methodists. They go with the flow, letting emotions and roles integrate and release them naturally.
Lance actually noticed this detail. He was thinking about whether the last scene should be closed or released. Now Michael also mentioned it, which shows that Michael is on the same thinking track as him, and is indeed a European actor. "I think this is more like a desperate struggle. At this time, Jeff has not been truly disarmed. He is still energetic and has the ability to resist. When facing Haley's aggressiveness before, he tried to quibble, but did not really resist. This is the manifestation of his cowardice. However, when he realized that Haley began to rummagate about the safe, he was finally forced to the edge of the cliff. If he did not resist, his secret would be truly revealed. So, Jeff first began to break free from the rope and he succeeded a quarter, and then he was planning a Jedi counterattack."
"So, you mean, will Jeff start fighting back next?" Michael asked curiously.
Lance nodded, "To be precise, Jeff will fight back without any means. He has already had the idea of killing Haley. Whether it is the process of being castrated or the moment he is forced to hang, Jeff's complaints and hatred towards Haley have occupied a major position. Every emotional change is a push of tension until." Lance said this, leaving a gap and did not continue to talk.
Emma took the opportunity to take over the topic, "Until Haley played Ginell's trump card, Jeff mustered all the courage it was like a domino, and began to collapse, and finally was completely defeated, agreeing to commit suicide." Emma's eyes became brighter and brighter. At this time, she finally understood the process of Lance's construction of the entire character, and also supported the emotional direction of the entire script.
On the surface, Haley is the rhythm controller of the entire movie, but in fact, the real burden falls on Jeff.
Lance did not affirm, but did not deny it either. Because he was thinking at this time, these ideas were a little vague before, just a concept, but now they became extremely clear and complete. This also means that after Lance truly understood Jeff, all reactions were natural, and there was no need to think about it. The things presented by conditioned reflex are the most correct.
No wonder Hollywood admires the acting skills of the Methodist School so much, and no wonder the Methodist School can always win the Oscars. It is undeniable that the shock that comes to the face is more dramatic. But if we discuss character sculpting and personality construction, the Methodist School is far from comparable to the Performance School.
Lance is increasingly discovering the fun of the character Jeff.
"I'm ready." Allen's voice came from behind, and it actually passed in a blink of an eye.
Lance looked up at Allen, whose thin body straightened his back, as if full of confidence. Lance did not intend to start directing Allen now. He prefers to let the actors perform themselves and then make adjustments so that the actors can retain their own characteristics to the greatest extent.
Of course, for a limited cost-effective work like "Fruit Hard Candy", this approach is undoubtedly a very luxurious waste of film. However, the investment cost of "Fruit Hard Candy" is not really 600,000, and within one million is within Rance, so for the sake of performance, luxury is acceptable.
So, Lance looked back at Michael, "Push me back to the room." It was really hard to do the director's filming under "Jeff" state. The whole movie was tied up for more than half of the time, and every move required a lot of effort.
After returning to the shooting, Lance changed the performance method, and Allen could clearly feel his rhythm being led away. The so-called "rhythm imbalance" means that Allen felt like this, but after the performance was over, standing in front of the monitor and seeing the performance on the big screen was like that, and he felt that he couldn't help himself, and all the performances were developing according to the rhythm and style of the actors in the opposite scene.
This made Allen a little discouraged. She felt that she had found the right method, but during the actual combat, she found that this was not the case at all.
"Lance." Allen hesitated a little, biting his lower lip, not knowing how to speak, but Lance did not respond immediately, but quietly cast his eyes. The deep eyes seemed to have countless emotions, but she couldn't interpret them, "I didn't feel right in this scene just now. Is there something wrong with it?" She could see the obvious difference without the director's veto, which just shows the seriousness of the problem, but she didn't know how to start.
Lance pondered for a moment, "I don't think your mentality is right." Whether it is the method or the expressionist, it is very important to understand the character, but Allen still does not understand this scene enough, so no matter how he performs, he feels that he has not reached the point. "You should think this way, it's like playing hide-and-seek. You have seen the tail exposed by others, but the person involved doesn't know, and you think you are hiding well. You lighten your steps and get closer step by step."
A little bit of joy, a little bit of complacency, and a little bit of teasing is like a Persian cat playing with a mouse, but at the same time, you must be careful to avoid alerting the snake. She must slowly and gradually capture prey and enjoy the whole process.
Allen's eyes lit up slightly. In the scene just now, Haley's core goal was to defeat Jeff and find substantial evidence to prove her guess, just like playing hide-and-seek. So, she pressed carefully and carefully. Jeff's resistance and arguments seemed to her in vain, which made her feel very interesting. It was like the perspective of God. Then, when she started from pornography and told Jeff's inner secrets, she clearly saw the dodge and fear in Jeff's pupils, which also proved all her guesses. She should be a little proud. After all, Haley was only fourteen years old.
After understanding this, Allen suddenly realized that her emotional expression just now was too straightforward, not only lacking changes, but also lacking this psychological delicacy. It was like when she was approaching step by step, she lacked the cat step on tiptoe, but just searching for the target with normal pace. This lack of details seemed ordinary, but it caused the entire performance to lose its core soul, so there was almost no more things in her eyes. Compared with Lance's eyes that controlled the whole audience, it could even be said to be empty and boring.
In this scene just now, Lance used the shooting technique of mid-scene Rat, and finally locked the camera on the eyes, only the eyes, so the actor's proper understanding and accurate grasp of emotions will determine the tone of the entire scene.
Alan finally realized it, but the weight of her shoulders did not decrease. She stood there, thought carefully, repeatedly chewing on the inspiration just now, and constantly pondering the changes in her inner emotions. In this way, she fell into Hailey's world in front of Lance.
Emma stood aside and looked at Allen with some envy, because her mind was also turbulent, and she had her own understanding and opinions, but she could not perform on the ground with real guns and bullets. However, envy was only a moment, and then Emma thought quietly: If she were to perform, how should she perform? To be continued.
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Chapter completed!