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43. Chapter 43 Scene 43 The Elements of Comedy

Jin Zhongmin blushed and bowed to Li Xiaole and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Li Xiaole.

"Director, is there anything else?" Kim Jong Min felt that the young director was staring at him and seemed very uncomfortable.

Li Xiaole came back to his senses with an "Oh", cut off the information in his mind, shook his head and smiled: "It's okay, I just want to ask you, why do you want to act in a movie if you are such a good singer?"

"I just want to give it a try." Kim Jong Min lowered his head, looking very unsure.

Li Xiaole knew at a glance that he was not telling the truth. He was a little worried about Kim Jong Min's motives. He had no impression of Kim Jong Min at this period in his memory. He looked at Lei Ting with pleading eyes, and Lei Ting said in a tacit understanding:

"Ko Yotai's original lead singer Cha Sungmin returned to the United States to study, and he has just replaced him. Now the recording of this album is recorded by Cha Sungmin, so his performance is just lip-syncing. The outside world has a very poor evaluation of him. Maybe he wants to

Find another way out."

Oh, it turns out there is still such a part. Li Xiaole suddenly realized it and smiled and said to Kim Jong Min: "You go back first and wait for my call tomorrow."

Then he left Kim Jong Min in a daze and took Lei Ting and Jin Nan to the school cafeteria for lunch.

"Producer Lei, Uncle Jin, I don't know what you like to drink, milk, cola, beer, juice?" After entering the Xier Canteen, Li Xiaole immediately bought a drink at the window and put it on the table to occupy the territory. During this time,

It's not easy to grab the seats for 3 people.

Now we are catching up with the peak of lunch time. In addition to students, there are also teachers who are dining in the cafeteria. Lei Ting, who has a sexy figure, is wearing a slightly see-through white shirt. You can vaguely see the outline of the underwear underneath, which is so lethal.

It was extremely astonishing, especially when looking at the snow-white skin on her thighs from a distance, which seemed to be carrying an alluring and sinful body fragrance, which made a large number of men fascinated. Although there were also beautiful female classmates sitting there, they could be compared with

In comparison, Lei Ting turns into a stunted cartoon girl. Lei Ting is just like Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor, with the power to instantly eclipse other women.

One thing Li Xiaole had to admit was that he would occasionally have physical reactions when he saw her... This girl was really deadly.

Lei Ting's appearance attracted more people's attention, and some people were whispering, seemingly discussing her identity.

"Li Xiaole." Lei Ting stared at Li Xiaole and said.

"What's the matter?" Li Xiaole said, twisting away the Coke in his hand.

"As a producer, I want to find out why you chose Kim Jong Min. I want to write a report to explain to the boss." Lei Ting asked coldly, and Jin Nan next to her looked at him with a curious expression.

"Classmate, do you need help? Let me help you with the meal~" Before Li Xiaole could answer, a boy with four eyes came towards Lei Ting.

"Classmate, I haven't seen you before? Can I help you with the food?" Another boy wearing a sweatshirt also came over.

"What do you want to do?" The four-eyed boy who spoke first obviously gave up: "Do you understand that first come, first served?"

"Fuck you, what did you say?" The boy in the sweatshirt immediately became angry when he saw that the four eyes in front of him dared to chirp. He is the vice president of the school's Taekwondo club, how dare someone dare to do something in front of him?

"What's wrong with you? What are you looking at? Are you pretending to be with me?" The four-eyed frog was obviously not as gentle as he seemed on the surface. He pointed at the nose of the boy in the sweatshirt and cursed: "What if you don't accept it?"

"You idiot! What do you want~!" The boy in the sweatshirt pushed him on the shoulder. The four-eyed frog was pushed back and the eyes on his face were crooked.

"You hit me? You can do it, but you're useless! Just wait for me!" The four-eyed frog adjusted his glasses and pointed at him angrily.

"Fuck, are you stupid?" The boy in the sweatshirt obviously didn't take him for a moment and snorted.

Li Xiaole felt very funny when he saw these two boys were about to fight over Lei Ting.

Lei Ting was annoyed by the noise. She frowned slightly and exposed the scorpion tattoo on her neck to the two boys. The two guys, who had just looked like they would risk their lives for the beauty, turned pale on the spot and backed away a few times in fright.

Step, run away in a hurry.

Seeing that there was no good show, Li Xiaole took a sip of Coke and then began to explain why he chose Kim Jong Min:

"Producer Lei, let's put it this way, the actors who came to the audition did not do enough to liberate their natures. They all acted in the way of 'I am playing Eun-sik' instead of 'I am Eun-sik'. They belong to the three levels of acting.

It is the most basic stage of 'expressionist' method. Of course, we cannot hire any good actors at the price we pay, so we can only find a compromise and find an actor who is similar to Eun-sik in all aspects, even if his acting skills are immature.

, can also perform this role well."

Lei Ting frowned as she listened: "Is it fun to drop your schoolbag? Say something I can understand."

Li Xiaole was helpless, his eyes moved, and he thought for a moment about how to explain to a layman like Lei Ting: "Okay... let me make an analogy, if all the people in the world are a kind of drink." As he said this, he poured out a drink.

A bottle of Coca-Cola was placed in front of Lei Ting: "And the protagonist Enzhi is a bottle of Coca-Cola."

"A really good actor has an open drink. Whether it's Fanta or milk, he can empty himself first and fill it with Coca-Cola. When you drink it, it tastes like Coke." Li Xiaole said with a wry smile: "But...

I can't afford such a good actor, and there's no way he would come here to audition for a small role like mine. The only materials we can choose are the original silly drinks without the caps opened."

"Well..." Lei Ting bit the straw with her small mouth and seemed to understand a little bit, and emptied the bottle to put in new things.

"Just like those people who were interviewed today, they all had unopened bottles of Fanta and milk. They tried very hard to act like Coca-Cola, so they tore off the Fanta milk label on their bottles and put the Coca-Cola trademark on them.

There, he screamed 'I am Coke, I am Coke', but the content inside did not change. Others picked it up and drank it and they were dissatisfied..." Li Xiaole finally came to the conclusion after going around for a long time.

"Although this Kim Jong Min is not Coca-Cola, it is still a bottle of Pepsi-Cola. Putting the Coca-Cola label on it is enough to make it look like the real thing. It tastes almost the same when you drink it. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Lei Ting finally understood what Li Xiaole meant, and there was a trace of surprise in her eyes. She had served as a producer for some independent filmmakers before, and she understood best that these people like to use esoteric professional terms to complicate problems and make you understand.

Li Wuli couldn't find anything wrong with him, and this Li Xiaole seemed to be frank, and he explained his problem clearly in a few words, but there was still a question in his mind:

"There's something wrong with what you said. I think everyone else is funnier than Kim Jong-min. If Eun-sik is Coca-Cola, why does he have to be Pepsi-Cola and everyone else is milk?"

"You can't even see this?" Li Xiaole secretly sighed that the way Lei Ting bit the straw was so sexy, which made people think of scenes from Japanese action movies... He suppressed his evil thoughts and explained:

"Producer Lei, this is a typical misunderstanding of yours. Ordinary people will mistakenly think that a good comedian has the kind of appearance and behavior that makes people laugh. In fact, the core quality of a truly great comedy performance is loneliness.

And the sense of sadness. If you try to think back harshly in all the great comedies, do the protagonists of the comedy seem very sad and lonely in private? It is their sad inner and outer joy that creates the key to the contrast that makes people laugh.

"

Li Xiaole paused for a moment, put down the Coke bottle in his hand, and said seriously:

“The greatest comedy characters are often tragedies in their hearts but comedic in their expressions, such as Chaplin, the early generation comedy master, Zhou Xingxing, the great Hong Kong comedian, and Ge You, the actor with unparalleled acting skills in our Chinese region.

Without this kind of inner quality, no matter how funny they appear on the outside and body, all they do is just funny. For example, those people who were interviewed before, you will laugh at them, but you will not sympathize with them or suffer for them.

I feel the pain. Only this Kim Jong Min has a sense of sadness and loneliness that a comedian must have from the inside out. This trace is inimitable. When we shoot a good comedy, we must use Kim Jong Min. This will make people pity him.

An actor who is weak and feels the sadness in his heart."

Li Xiaole, who had always maintained a playful smile, suddenly said such thought-provoking words, which made Lei Ting thoughtful. She thought of the famous Hollywood comedy king Jim Kelly who seemed to have a particularly lonely character in private, which perfectly confirmed Li Xiaole's

point of view, I couldn't help but lower my head and take out my computer to record Li Xiaole's words in the report.

Jin Nan listened from beginning to end and was extremely surprised. Li Xiaole seemed to have a more thorough understanding of how to choose actors than he, a person who has been in the film and television industry for decades...

His words seemed like a film master had analyzed the essence after half a lifetime of making movies. How could this nineteen-year-old boy inadvertently reveal his insights beyond his years?

It seems like he has been working in this industry for half his life. Pay attention to Li Xiaole's focused and persistent eyes, and then look at the film students around you who are bragging about beauties and shouting loudly while eating. It's really a world of difference...



In fact, how did he know... Li Xiaole's metaphor was mentioned on the Internet in 2009 by the famous acting master Strasberg's public class. For a while, almost every Hollywood producer knew this.

Coca-Cola is a metaphor for seducing a girl in a bar. It can be said to be one of the most classic jokes in movies about pretending to pick up girls. Li Xiaole must have said it ninety times if not a hundred times.

When Li Xiaole returned home in the evening, after he finally decided on the male lead, he mainly considered the selection of several supporting roles. Compared to the leading role, supporting roles are easier to choose. They don't have many scenes and don't require too much acting skills. The important thing is

It's good if you have something unique. There are a lot of people like this at the Seoul Film Academy. What's more, there are several senior actors from the Chungmuro ​​Stage Theater Company who came for the interview, and their performances are very explosive.

During an afternoon audition, Li Xiaole followed the original version and selected three best friends around the male protagonist - "sissy", "obscene man" and "Afro" - three acting students with different temperaments, and the role of the school boss was chosen.
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