Chapter 275 Learning to act is to play
Reeves had never played the eagle catching the chick, so he shook his head: "Tell me the rules!"
Zhang Ran introduced the rules, one person pretended to be an eagle, one person pretended to be an old hen, and the rest were chicks. The chicks grabbed the back of the hen's clothes and pulled one by one. The old hen spread his arms to protect the chicks, and the chicks followed closely behind. The eagle rushed into the chickens and chased them left and right, and seized the opportunity to rush over to catch the chicks. If they couldn't catch it, they would still serve as an eagle; if they caught a chick, the person who was caught changed to an eagle, and the original eagle changed to an eagle, and the game started again.
After introducing the rules, Zhang Ran asked the ten students he selected to demonstrate, then looked at Reeves and asked, "Do you understand?"
Reeves nodded: "It's time to start."
Zhang Ran asked Reeves to be an eagle, and the other ten students were chicks. He called Zhou Zheng over and asked him to be a chicken mother.
"Children, be careful! React quickly, don't let the eagle capture you." Mother Chicken Zhou Zheng saw Reeves rushing towards his right. He reminded him and reached out to stop him.
The students reacted quickly and ran to the left in a hurry, but Reeves didn't catch anyone.
Reeves tried twice, first pounced to the left. When the students ran to the right, he suddenly changed the line and rushed to the right, shouting: "Haha! You guys have been fooled."
Zhou Zheng then realized that Reeves was playing the game and rushed over to try to stop Reeves, but Reeves quickly moved, rushed over from Zhou Zheng and grabbed Gao Hang at the end. Reeves laughed proudly: "Haha, I caught it, I caught it!"
When Cheng Hu saw Reeves wearing Zhu Bajie's mask pounce and flashing, he couldn't help laughing: "I feel that they are not playing with eagles catching chicks, they are just wild boars catching chicks! Why did you find him such a mask?"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Everyone who is more handsome than me is a pig's head!"
Cheng Hu laughed: "I think so too, but can playing such a child's game really train your acting skills?"
Zhang Ran shook his head and said, "This is not training acting skills, but also cultivating a feeling. After students who are studying performance enter school, many teachers will use many children's games as exercises to tell students that the task of this class is to play, and to play like when they were young. Let students play with handkerchiefs, eagles catch chicks, and play and play, which is to regain the feeling of childhood through this method.
Mature actors are easy to act in a craftsmanship. Although these people have good acting skills, they often lack infectiousness. When Ang Lee filmed "Reason and Emotion", the two heroines were Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson. Kate Winslet was only 19 years old. Some things are more difficult for her, such as dealing with the camera. Emma Thompson is an Oscar winner. Her acting skills are skillful. She can express four or five layers of emotions effortlessly at once. But her performance is not as charming as Kate Winslet and lack infectiousness. Ang Lee has thought of many ways! It is particularly important for actors to be innocent and keep their childish hearts!"
Cheng Hu nodded thoughtfully: "I think Keanu is the kind of naive person, and his ideas are really simple."
Zhang Ran looked at Reeves and said, "As an actor, naivety is more precious than skills. Great artists are often childish people, because the source of art is in love with a simple and simple soul. This naivety is not made, but from the heart, which is something that the teacher cannot teach. I also think Keanu has a naive side in his personality. But his problem is that he has experienced too many things and sees many events more thoroughly. It is difficult for him to actually enter the role, so his performance is superficial."
Cheng Hu and Reeves are particularly good friends. Knowing that Reeves' acting skills are often criticized, he asked: "Will he become an actor with excellent acting skills through these training?"
Zhang Ran felt that Matthew McConaughey could break through himself, and Keanu Reeves could not do it. Anyone has the potential to become a good actor, and the key is how to discover it. He nodded and said, "It's a bit difficult, but I will do my best to help him discover it!"
After Reeves played the game of catching chickens with the students several times, Zhang Ran found a few girls and asked them to take Reeves to play the game of hopscotch. Reeves was very interested in this game and had a lot of fun.
At 2 pm, the training started again, and this time was a real performance training.
Li Xinyue turned on the recorder and played Matthew Lian En's "Wolf", light music, with the sound of nature such as streams, rain, wind, etc., which was very soothing and especially suitable for performance classes.
Zhang Ran looked at Reeves in front of him and signaled: "Kinu. Now take off his mask and sit on the ground, sit cross-legged, close his eyes slightly, and eliminate distracting thoughts."
After Reeves took off his mask and sat down, he took a calm breath for more than ten seconds. Zhang Ran said: "Now use your left hand to stroke your right hand and right arm, be careful not to touch your arm, keep a distance of one centimeter, slowly move your left hand up to the top of your head, then to your chest, and then put it in place. You must feel the part of your body, feel your existence, and feel the space around you. Now change your right hand, relax yourself, and don't think about anything. As an actor, you must calm down and not have any distracting thoughts."
After Reeves did it as Zhang Ran asked, Zhang Ran gave the next command: "Now put your legs together, bend your knees, lean your thighs to your abdomen, hold your calves with both hands, and squat slowly. You are a seed, in the soil, and it is pitch black around you. Feel everything around you, dark, damp, and cold. OK, now you arch the surrounding soil with your back, arch hard, continue, continue arch hard! Okay, now you break out of the soil and stand up! Lift your hands slowly, your hands are branches!"
Seed practice is a kind of relaxation exercise, similar to puppet training, allowing actors to train their imagination while relaxing, allowing them to build a visual image in their hearts. When Zhang Jingchu first learned to perform, she couldn't get in with seed exercises. She felt that believing that she was a seed was ridiculous, and she couldn't get into the situation, and she cried into tears.
Zhang Ran continued: "Now open your eyes and your hands sway like branches. Don't be too stiff, relax, relax! You hear birds singing and the fragrance of flowers in the air. You have to feel all this. Now a breeze blows over your face, and it feels particularly comfortable. Your hands sway with the breeze! This is not a performance, but a feeling. Whatever you feel, you will react to it! Relax, relax! Now a laser hits your face. It is not the sun, it is the laser! You feel it is very hot and uncomfortable!"
Reeves raised his hands high, and his hands were still swaying. However, his brows frowned and his head kept shaking, as if a laser was really hitting his face.
Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction and said, "Now this laser has moved to your hand. How do you show this state? Move, action! OK. Now the laser has been moved away and it is starting to rain in the sky..."
Next, Zhang Ran began to describe different situations, snow, hail, strong wind, etc., and then he raised his voice and said, "Suddenly, a lightning bolt hits you! What should you be in the state?"
Reeves suddenly stiffened and his hands were hanging down, indicating that the branch was destroyed by lightning.
Zhang Ran nodded: "Now you are a charred tree, keep in this state. OK, it's another spring. The spring breeze blows! Your charred tree is now starting to grow leaves and start growing again!"
Reeves' hands were raised again, raised high, and gently shaking over his head, like a willow branch swaying in the wind.
Zhang Ran closed his hands and smiled and said, "Okay, seed practice will do this. Let's do the training to watch basketball games!" As he said, he waved his hand, asked Zhou Zheng to bring a chair over, and let Reeves sit down. Then he explained, "This training is like this, basketball is better than you have seen? Now you are sitting in the audience watching a game. Which team plays with which team requires you to use your imagination, how they play. You also need to use your imagination!"
Reeves began to perform, staring at the front, frowning, smiling, applauding, and sighing. He was very serious about the entire state of a basketball enthusiast watching the game.
After Reeves finished the performance, Zhang Ran shook his head slightly and called him over: "Kinu, you don't have the basketball court in your heart, and you have not entered the prescribed situation. If your heart cannot form a visual image and cannot see everything on the court, then your performance will not be real. If you really listen, see and feel, you must build a real basketball game scene in your heart, so that your performance will have touching power. In a game, there must be a home team, where is the home team on the court, and where is the visiting team on the court? When watching the game, your sight will definitely follow the basketball, and it is impossible to move! In this way, let me demonstrate! I am playing the situation where our students participate in the basketball game!"
After saying that, Zhang Ran sat on the chair and started performing. His eyes were staring at the front, his head and gaze moved back and forth to the left and right sides, and kept shouting: "Jia Niaoliang, defend, defend! Cover him! What the hell, I didn't eat in the morning! Forget it, it doesn't matter, come again!"
"Haha, come in! Ji Chen, throw it beautifully!" Zhang Ran slapped his thighs, raised his hands and stood up, cheering loudly. Then, he looked to the left and smiled embarrassedly: "Brother Lei, I'm sorry, I'm so excited!"
After saying that, he sat down again, but just a second later, he shouted again: "Jia Niaoliang, what are you doing? How do you defend and defend!"
Jia Niaoliang looked depressed. I was so shot while lying down!
Zhang Ran yelled and acted for a minute, then stopped and smiled and said, "How is it, do you understand?"
Although Zhang Ran was speaking Chinese and Reeves couldn't understand, he clearly felt what Zhang Ran conveyed. To be honest, he never dreamed that Zhang Ran would act so well, completely bringing him into the situation. He seemed to have really seen the shooting, blocks, and rebounds, as if everything was alive in front of him.
Reeves admired Zhang Ran very much and said sincerely: "Your performance is vivid and contagious, it's so exciting! I understand, I'll do it again!"
Next, Reeves performed several times, but he could not satisfy Zhang Ran. Reeves' performance had all the actions and even expressions, but he did not form a video in his heart and could not enter the prescribed situation.
In fact, it is also OK to act in "Time Warrior" according to Reeves' current state. This movie mainly sells special effects and actions, and attracts people by scenes. In fact, most science fiction action movies do not require the actors' acting skills, as long as the audience is not out of the play.
But Zhang Ran always believes that the most important thing in the movie is people. Although "Space and Space Warrior" is a science fiction action movie, it also talks about people's growth and the kindness in their hearts. If the inner change of the male protagonist Jason cannot be expressed and the character image cannot be established, then the whole movie is a simple popcorn movie, which is not what he wants.
Zhang Ran rubbed his temples and thought to himself that I was still too anxious. Keanu had not regained her innocent state and had to let him play! (~^~)
Chapter completed!