Chapter 521: Action Logic
Zhang Ran stood on the podium and knocked on the table, signaling the students in the class to be quiet.
The main actors of the earthquake have been finalized, and the start-up will take until the end of July. Now Zhang Ran is more relaxed. More importantly, he has a professional team and even has a dedicated person to draw the storyboard. He doesn't need to do everything himself, so he started class with peace of mind.
After the students were quiet, Zhang Ran cleared his throat and said, "In the past half month, you have been doing various observations. Let's do a simple improvisation exercise to test your observation results. Who will?" Zhang Ran took a look and saw Yang Mi raise his hand high, and said, "Yang Mi, come here."
Yang Mi was happy and ran to the center of the classroom with a smile.
Zhang Ran pulled two chairs and placed them face to face. He sat on one chair and signaled Yang Mi to sit on another chair.
After Yang Mi sat down, Zhang Ran signaled: "Yang Mi, I play a director, you are an actor. I am a director who talks a lot, and I can't finish it. Now I will analyze the script for you. While flattering me, you must show the boredom in the characters, but at the same time you can't let me see that you are bored!"
"Ah?" After saying this, everyone present was stunned, and Yang Fan was even more stunned.
Yang Fan felt that Zhang Ran was deliberately making things difficult for him: "Teacher Zhang, how can he have such a role? This is too difficult, even the actor can't play it!"
Some of the students in the class lowered their heads and thought, while others nodded in agreement with Yang Mi's point of view. This requirement is too harsh. They have to perform, but they cannot let the other party see it. How can this be done!
The students' reaction was as expected by Zhang Ran, and they glanced at the assistant teacher next to them and said, "Yan Shuo, come and demonstrate it to them."
Yan Shuo sat down directly opposite Zhang Ran, smiled and nodded, indicating that he could start.
The students in the class stared at Yan Shuo tightly to see how she completed the performance.
Zhang Ran nodded to Yan Shuo, his whole body was dissipated differently, his waist was straight, and he felt a sense of majesty: "Our drama is called "Killing" tells a story of a wife who killed him in a city in the north. This is a story about **, a story about betrayal. Although the story is fictional, in real life, similar events..."
Yan Shuo had a smile on his face and listened to Zhang Ran's statement seriously. She nodded from time to time, and seemed to hear it very seriously, but did not show boredom.
Zhang Ran kept saying that Yan Shuo was in that state and listened very seriously. Most of the students in the class were shaking their heads, and Yang Fan even curled his lips gently. Didn’t Teacher Yan perform it?
Only Chang Jirong nodded thoughtfully: "So that's how it is!"
Huang Qi next to him couldn't help but ask when he heard Chang Jirong's words: "What did you see?"
Chang Jirong said: "Look at Teacher Yan's feet!"
Everyone else noticed that Chang Jirong said this. Although Yan Shuo always kept a smile on his face, his eyes seemed normal, and he listened seriously, she kept crossing her legs, first putting her left foot on her right foot, and after a few seconds, she changed to her right foot on her left foot, and then she kept exchanging. This movement fully showed her boredom. If she was really listening carefully, her feet would not move.
The students all realized that this was the case!
Zhang Ran heard the voices of the students and turned to look at them: "How about it, you can do it without the need for the actor, right?"
The expressions of the students in the class changed, and a seemingly simple action presented the characters' hearts. They looked at Yan Shuo with a little admiration.
Zhang Ran stood up and explained: "When a person is impatient, or is restless, lonely and bored, he will unconsciously cross his legs. Suppose you go on a date and your date keeps crossing his legs, it means that others are already irritable. At this time, it is best to change the topic. I have told you that our performance is different from others. We only learn to observe, analyze, experience, and only practice imagination and movement. The basis of our performance is imagination, and the core is movement. Other schools of the Stani system start from the heart, and we start from the movement, so next you need to establish a vocabulary of movement and analyze the meaning behind each movement!"
Yang Mi asked, "Our method is the most advanced, right?"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "The performance is similar to martial arts. There is no invincible martial arts, only invincible people. No matter which method is, it is very strong as long as it reaches the extreme." Zhang Ran paused and said, "But from the development of the Stani system, which belongs to the third stage of Stani's movement method, or the body movement method. I don't know whether this method can work, but I hope we can complete it together!"
All the students in the class were stupid. They thought Zhang Ran was teaching Stella Adler's training method, but they didn't expect it to be. What made them even more exaggerated is that Zhang Ran didn't know if it could work. What if it didn't work? Wouldn't it be in vain?
Zhang Ran saw the students' reaction and smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, my teacher was also conducting the same experiment when he was teaching us, but the students she taught were not worse than others, but were stronger. You may not be able to master the physical movement methods, but the training you received is enough to make you the top actors!"
The students in the class were relieved when they heard Zhang Ran say this. It was not enough to just learn it in vain.
"Okay, don't talk nonsense! People's standing and walking, including every move we move, is inseparable from our hearts. Take the seat as an example. Yang Mi used to sit with her legs spread out and often she was leaning back and forth. This shows that she has a strong personality and is careless." Zhang Ran patted the chair and said, "Jiao Junyan, come here and sit down on the chair!"
Jiao Junyan said oh and sat down on the chair beside Zhang Ran. Her knees were together, and her calves were separated into an "eight" shape with her heels. She pressed her hands on her knees, looking at Zhang Ran timidly, looking a little shy.
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Look at Jiao Junyan's sitting posture. Who can tell me what kind of personality is this sitting posture?"
The whole class said in unison: "Shy!"
Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "It's right. Girls in this kind of sitting posture are more shy, but very cute. Jiao Junyan, go down! Everyone has seen that a simple sitting can reflect the character's personality. This is the purpose of I asked you to establish an action vocabulary, which is to let you figure out the meanings represented by different actions. For example, if you play a strong woman, you can't sit like Jiao Junyan. An actor acts like acting, and there must be a logical support behind the action.
Hold on, otherwise the audience will feel that it is false. Recently, "The Return of the Condor Heroes" is very popular. Liu Yifei called me several times, Master, you must watch it! I just took a few glances. Liu Yifei performed well, after all, she is my apprentice! But I can't stand Huang Xiaoming's performance. He often smiles like a handsome smile. This kind of smile can be put on Wei Xiaobao, but it is not suitable to put on Yang Guo. So Jin Yong said that Huang Xiaoming's Yang Guo seemed to be seducing his master."
The students in the class burst into laughter when they heard this, and Jin Yong was too ruthless.
When Yang Mi heard Zhang Ran have watched "The Return of the Condor Heroes", she quickly asked: "Teacher Zhang, where is me? How do you think my Guo Xiang is playing?"
Zhang Ran nodded: "It's not bad, very cute, full of aura. But you are performing in a true form. Your age and personality are similar to Guo Xiang, so you will perform well. Acting in a true form is the primary stage of an actor. Many actors often act fresh and natural in the early stage of the performance, but after crossing this stage, they are a little lost and become more and more artificial. Huang Xiaoming's "The Emperor of Han" is good, but recently the drama has become more and more artificial, so you have to practice it intently."
Fan Yang was rarely praised by Zhang Ran, and said with his head held high and his chest raised: "I will practice seriously!"
Zhang Ran clapped his hands and said, "Now we stand up, we go out to observe today. However, today's observation is different from the past. We must analyze the logic and heart of the characters based on observation. Today we will go out in three groups, Yang Mi, Yuan Shanshan, Huang Xuan and me; Chang Jirong, Jin Shijia, Lin Xiaolu and Teacher Guo, Chen Li, Fu Xinbo, Jiao Junyan and Teacher Yan!"
After leaving the classroom and coming to the school gate, everyone briefly discussed that Guo Zhen took three students to the station; Yan Shuo took three students to the mall; and Zhang Ran came to Yuyuantan Park with three students.
The cherry blossoms in Yuyuantan are absolutely famous. The cherry blossoms grown on a large scale are of different colors and tastes, which are very beautiful. On sunny days, in the park, walking leisurely in the garden, smelling the fragrance of flowers, enjoying the cherry blossoms, and blowing the breeze, the mood is extremely good without reason. Occasionally, a few petals fall on their hair, stop at their fingertips, and smell the fragrance of flowers fills their hearts.
However, it is only mid-3, and the cherry blossoms are not in full bloom. Moreover, it is morning, so there are not many tourists in the park. Zhang Ran and the others found a chair to sit down, and then began to look for objects suitable for observation.
Zhang Ran looked around and saw a girl in a red coat standing not far away. She looked at the entrance of the park from time to time and raised her hand to look at the watch. Zhang Ran felt that this was a good object of observation, so he said, "Did you see the girl in a red coat? Now observe her and tell me the results of the analysis!"
Yang Mi’s reaction was the fastest: “When she stood, her legs were spread apart, which means she was very strong. She kept looking at her watch, which meant she was waiting for someone.”
Zhang Ran nodded: "The analysis is good, continue. Everything outside of clothing, dressing, etc. can provide us with a lot of information. Who is she waiting for here? What is her profession? All of them can be analyzed."
Huang Xuan immediately said: "She is waiting for her boyfriend!"
Zhang Ran asked, "Give me a reason."
Huang Xuan immediately added: "This is a park, and there are more couples. You see, many of them are all in pairs!"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Why must I meet my boyfriend? Can't I meet netizens? Yuan Shanshan, come and analyze whether she meets her boyfriend or netizens? Tell me the reason!"
Yuan Shanshan stared at the girl in red coat and looked at it, thinking about it again, and said frowningly: "Teacher Zhang, I don't know!"
Zhang Ran shook his head and said, "Before I came, I told you that you should go deep into the character's heart based on observing external characteristics and grasp the character's inner and personality logic. What is your inner state when you meet a netizen for the first time, and what is your psychological state when you date a boyfriend? These two must be different. Since your psychological state is different, the character's performance must be different. Please observe again!"
Huang Xuan reacted quickly and slapped his thigh: "Teacher Zhang, she is just waiting for her boyfriend. If she is waiting for netizens, she should be a little nervous. She will worry about whether the other party is not coming, whether there is something wrong with it, etc. But on this girl's face, I only saw irritability and dissatisfaction. She must be waiting for her boyfriend, and her boyfriend is often late."
Zhang Ran smiled and applauded: "The analysis is very good, so we will wait for her date to appear to see if she is a boyfriend." (To be continued.)
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