"Time Warrior" has many martial arts and fighting scenes. Before the filming begins, the three starring actors Keanu Reeves, Adrian Braudy and Zhang Ziyi must undergo special martial arts training, otherwise they will not be able to achieve the required results. The training has been going on for three months since December last year.

When Zhang Ran brought the students to the training ground in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the three stars had not arrived yet. The tiger had arrived. In addition, there was a thin man in his fifties and a few young men in his thirties.

Seeing Zhang Ran, Cheng Hu hurried over to say hello, then brought Zhang Ran to the thin man, preparing to introduce him, "Director, I'll introduce you to you!"

Zhang Ran waved his hand, signaled no, and introduced himself: "Hello, Mr. Yuan! I am Zhang Ran, you are your fan. I have watched your kung fu movies since I was a child! It is my honor to be able to cooperate with you. If you join the movie, you will be more confident of success!"

Yuan Heping shook hands with Zhang Ran and smiled and said, "You guys are so young and promising. Chinese-language movies depend on you young people!"

Last year, Zhang Ran faxed Yuan Heping and invited him. But Yuan Heping ignored Zhang Ran. He had many projects and did not need to cooperate with a new director like Zhang Ran. More importantly, Zhang Ran fax said producer Luke Besson. Yuan Heping felt that it was impossible. How could Luke Besson be the producer of a new director in the mainland? Zhang Ran must be a liar.

More than a month later, Yuan Heping received a call from Cheng Hu. Cheng Hu was a member of the Yuan family class and the apprentice that Yuan Heping accepted when he was in the United States. Cheng Hu told Yuan Heping that there was a drama that he hoped he would be a martial arts director. The producer was Luc Besson and the starring Keanu Reeves. Only then did Yuan Heping realize that he had misunderstood Zhang Ran.

Since it was a movie made by Chinese people, there were a lot of Chinese elements in it. Yuan Heping thought it was a good thing to promote Chinese culture, so he took Yuan Family Ban to the United States. However, when he arrived in the United States, Zhang Ran had already returned to China. After signing a contract with the film producer Neil, he took Yuan Family Ban members to start martial arts training for actors.

Zhang Ran smiled and bowed and said, "This movie is a science fiction film, but the connotation of the movie is not Western, it has our Chinese culture. Philosophical thoughts are in it. My requirements for action may be a bit high, so please!"

Yuan Heping nodded. Many of the older generation of Xiangjiang filmmakers have the wish to promote Chinese culture: "Take Chinese culture and Chinese martial arts to every corner of the world, this is the wish of all of us filmmakers. Don't worry. Even if you don't want this old bone, I will design the movements!"

Soon, Keanu Reeves and the others came. After saying hello, Cheng Hu and the members of the Yuan family class began to take them to train.

The first thing to do was stretching, which is also the most difficult for the three stars. Zhang Ziyi's situation is better, after all, she is young and has a foundation in dancing.

The three of them did two minutes of warm-up exercises, then supported the ground with their hands and slowly spread their legs apart. The members of the Yuan family class carefully supported them, and then slowly pressed them down. Last time, Braudy pressed his legs too hard, and ended up lying in the hospital for half a month, so everyone was very careful.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" When the legs were overwhelmed by a certain extent, Reeves and Brady began to scream, and one more scream was shriller. No matter how hard their screams were, they did not stop and they were trying hard to persevere.

The students looked at each other for a few times and couldn't speak. They were shocked. Reeves was a Hollywood superstar and Brady was an Oscar winner. I thought such a big star must be served with delicious food and drink, but I didn't dare to offend him at all. I never expected that he would receive such training. And without any resistance, he was trying hard to persevere!

Zhang Ran called Cheng Hu over and said to him: "Tiger, you have trained many Hollywood stars. Tell you the story of training stars!"

Cheng Hu said: "I have trained several Hollywood stars. When filming "Charlie's Angels", I trained all three girls. Cameron Diaz is the one who loves to talk and laugh the most among the three girls. Once I pressed Cameron's legs, and Cameron was crushed and cried very loudly, but he had to do his homework. Later, after finally finishing his homework, I thought she would ask me why I was so hard, but she apologized to me very sincerely, saying that she should not resist training like this..."

Cheng Hu told a lot of stories about training stars, including Liu Yuling, Drew Barrymore, Uma, Thurman, etc., all of which are his personal experiences, without any falsehood.

The students couldn't speak, and the dedication of these Hollywood stars far exceeded their imagination. It was really not unreasonable that they realized that superstars could become superstars.

After Cheng Hu finished speaking, Zhang Ran looked at the students and said seriously: "It's different from what you imagined. Hollywood stars are much more dedicated than everyone imagines. In fact, if you look at the resumes of Hollywood superstars, you will find that many people basically take one or two movies a year. Before the filming of the movie starts, they will make a lot of preparations and devote themselves to the role well. I hope you can learn more like them in the future, spend more time in character creation, and don't take action desperately! Remember, for actors, making a good show is more useful than shooting ten bad shows!" After saying that, Zhang Ran turned to Li Xinyue and said, "Xinyue, take them to do classical dance training!"

Li Xinyue clapped her hands, called the students in the class aside, and began to train basic Chinese classical dance.

Zhang Ran discussed the action design in the movie with Yuan Heping. He had two requirements for the moving scenes in the movie. In close combat, you must fight firmly and have a texture of fist to flesh; when two people hit the air, they must fight elegantly and have the feeling of being a god.

Yuan Heping is known as the world's number one martial arts finger, and he can easily design the movements for the film. After listening to Zhang Ran's request, he immediately put forward his own ideas, what kind of fist to use, how to hit, and gesture with his hands and feet.

An hour and a half later, Reeves and the others stopped training and sat on the ground to breathe. Zhang Ran walked to him and sat down, looking at him and said, "Keanu, have you finished "The Art of Performance"? What do you feel?"

"The Art of Performance" is a work by Stella and a must-read textbook for Zhang Ran and the others. Reeves nodded and said, "The things in this book are different from what I learned before. They activate the characters based on situations and imagination. However, the book lacks specific training methods, and I need guidance in this regard!"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "I originally wanted to ask my teacher to guide you, but her health is not very good, so I will do it. In the next month, you may have to practice martial arts for half a day and receive performance training for half a day. It is quite hard. Are you willing to receive this training?"

"Of course I do." Reeves said without hesitation. The reason why he took on "Time Warrior" was to break his performance dilemma.

"My training is not difficult, at least it is much easier than martial arts training. But this training may be a little strange!" When talking about his training method, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Braudy is a Phraser actor and has received the most professional training. He put his hand on Reeves' shoulder and smiled: "Keanu. Phraser has many very wonderful training methods, you will like it!"

"Of course, I like Stella's theory." Reeves couldn't wait to say, "Zhang, let's start now!"

"Okay, start now!" Zhang Ran took out a Zhu Bajie's mask from his bag. He looked at Reeves and said with a smile, "In the next period of time, you will live on this mask, remember to start from the moment you put on the mask. You are no longer thirty-nine-year-old Keanu Reeves, you are only nine years old!"

Reeves couldn't figure out why he had to wear a mask for his performance training and pretended to be a nine-year-old child, and asked, "Why do you do this?"

Reeves' biggest problem is that he has experienced too many things. He grew up in a divorced family. After becoming an actor, his friend died, his child had a miscarriage, his girlfriend died, and his sister was leukemia. It was quite unfortunate. Too many experiences made him feel a sense of alienation in acting, and he felt a bit like seeing through the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that he saw through the world. He has indeed been in contact with Buddhism in the past two years. When filming "The Matrix 3", he often read Buddhist scriptures on the set.

The performance is to take false as true. Believing that you are acting is real is more difficult for a person who has seen through the world. If Zhang Ran had the third stage training method of Stanis, Reeves would not be difficult to solve. Directly driving internal emotions through external action training, the actor can be immersed in the role. Unfortunately, there is no Stnis' third stage training method now. Only the second stage training method can be used to cultivate his sense of faith through training.

Zhang Ran did not have the misfortunes of Reeves in the past and simply analyzed: "Our performance is based on careful analysis of the characters, and through imagination, allowing yourself to make a prescribed situation, and then get into the role. But you have experienced too many things and have seen a lot of things thoroughly. It is difficult to enter the prescribed situation! We must train your imagination and sense of belief!

A sense of faith is the ability to believe in truth. If you like "Hamlet", as for this drama, everything is true when an actor acts on stage, crying and laughing, and being really angry. Even if he is holding a fake sword, he must believe that the sword is true. On stage, an actor is a character, and the two are integrated, which is called real listening, real seeing and feeling. An actor is not Hamlet, and an actor cannot really become the person in the story, but an actor can make his psychology and behavior close to the role. For performance, the closer the actor is to the character, the more realistic the performance is!

Therefore, we need to exercise your sense of belief, which is to exercise your ability to believe. As long as you believe that you are the role and the person you play, you will truly enter the role and get involved in the role. Who is the person with the strongest sense of belief? They are children. When they play house, they will give you strong beliefs and learn from adults to do whatever they say they do. If they are mothers, they will be full of real feelings towards the inanimate little dolls, play with it, coax it to sleep, etc. Stanie said that in artistic creation, if actors can achieve the belief and reality of children in playing, then we can become great actors. So our next training is to help you find your childhood and restore your innocence! Putting a mask on you is to make you forget your current identity and put down your burdens in your heart. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand!" Reeves nodded, put Zhu Bajie's mask on, then shook his head, and his big ears shaking.

"Hehehe..."

"Hahaha……"

The students laughed and said that Reeves wearing the Zhu Bajie mask was so funny, and there was no trace of the majesty of an international superstar.

Zhang Ran glared at the students who were laughing and joking, reached out and called out among the students, called out ten students, then looked at Reeves, and asked, "Let's play a game first, the eagle catches the chicken, can you play it?" (~^~)
Chapter completed!