On the busy street, a group of people wearing black formal clothes hurriedly walked out of the club.

The crowd first separated into two, standing on both sides of the road, looking around warily, and then separated into several more, and opened the doors of the cars parked on the roadside. A middle-aged man wearing a top hat, who was being shouted at, opened the door.

Windbreaker, ready to get in the car.

Suddenly, several people in police uniforms appeared, led by a handsome young man. He pressed the car door and blocked the way of the middle-aged man in a top hat.

[Brother Qiang, where are you going in such a hurry?]

[Police officer, my father-in-law is sick and I have to go to Shanghai to visit him.]

【How many people do you need to bring with you to visit a doctor? 】

【My friends are kind enough to take me to the station.】

[Don’t go to such trouble, our police car is convenient and fast. I’ll take you there.]

[Don’t, don’t, don’t use public equipment for private use. Isn’t this illegal? 】

[You know the law quite well now. The Ding family was exterminated yesterday, and someone claimed that they heard you and the victim arguing and arguing that night. Brother Qiang, do you a favor and come with us? 】

[Alas, I only heard about it this morning. Lao Ding is my friend. No one wants this kind of thing to happen. I am very willing to help, but now my father-in-law...]

The middle-aged man in the top hat smiled hesitantly and stepped back slightly. In an instant, the boys around him quietly put their hands into their pockets.

When the police saw this, they immediately tightened their hands on his waist.

The streets were bustling with people coming and going, but within a ten-meter radius in front of the club, the air was so solemn that it seemed like I was isolated in another world.

At one moment, the two groups drew their guns at the same time, looking for cover and pulling the triggers at the same time.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Bang bang!"

When the gunfire rang out, passers-by were stunned for a moment, then panicked and fled in all directions.

The car windows on the roadside were shattered and rubble was scattered on the wall.

Screams, shouts, gunshots, the sound of car bodies being torn apart by bullets, and the sounds of human bodies falling were all intertwined together.

The black community and the police suffer losses from each other.

Some passers-by were unlucky enough to be hit by stray bullets.

Guan Chen looked at his dead friend next to him, his face full of shock and sadness, and his eyes filled with tears.

…

"Okay, not bad!" The director in the distance shouted with a loudspeaker, "Change the camera position and try another one." After saying that, he put down the loudspeaker, walked up to the middle-aged man in the top hat and the handsome police officer, and praised them for their excellent performance.

A group of staff rushed to the scene and rearranged the streets as intact as before.

Several leading actors were ushered into the club by assistants who brought water and fans, and rested in a cool place to touch up their makeup.

The passers-by who were scurrying around the corner like cockroaches one second, were slowly walking back to the street the next second, hiding in the cool shadows to rest.

Guan Chen grabbed a shady curb and asked Holly to come over and sit down.

"How was the part just now?" Guan Chen began to review the performance just now, saying that he originally just played a person who panicked and ran away, but there was a colleague next to him who suddenly got addicted to drama and added some drama to himself, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

As he fell to the ground, Guan Chen suddenly thought of the cry he had practiced yesterday, and used it accordingly, "Play the role of a person who goes shopping with a friend, but is suddenly involved in a street fight and witnesses his friend being hit by a stray bullet."

"Not bad." Holly sat next to Guan Chen, wiping his sweat and saying, "You just jumped from one panic to another, and then you acted sad and sad. Your expressions were very good and natural."

Guan Chen was happy to hear that, even in the hot afternoon, he didn't feel hot anymore.

For the past week, Guan Chen has been staying in the capital, studying acting classes at the University of the Arts with Holly.

Although he has always been regarded as an acting genius, Guan Chen knows very well that the real genius is not him. The reason why he has been favored by several directors for his roles in "Police Story", "Black Dragon 2" and "Key to Destiny" is that

More or less, it was because he took advantage of his original performance. Guan Chen knew that he was lucky to encounter such a character, but he may not always be so lucky in the future. Since he has decided to be an actor in this life, he will definitely encounter him again in the future.

There are roles in other types of movies, such as those in love, those who quarrel with parents, those who are righteous, and those who are kind... But he has no idea how to play the roles of good people and ordinary people. Let him only play roles such as killers, gangsters, and gangsters.

, and he felt that this was too boring, so he was not very willing to do it.

He originally hoped to learn something from Teacher Xing's acting class, but Xing Yan regarded him as a genius and taught him nothing basic.

Holly's appearance can be said to be a rescue, and it comes at just the right time.

Guan Chen knew that his predecessor was gifted, but he didn't know how to use it to its fullest. It was always right to be humble and learn from scratch. The teaching materials in the school have been adjusted by several generations and combined with the experience of countless actors and scholars. Not to mention

It is the best, but it is definitely most suitable for beginners.

Holly was very careful about this part-time job. He contacted his old classmates and compiled a curriculum that covered six major directions: body, voice, emotion, belief, communication, and creation.

He told Guan Chen that the acting major in his school rarely taught theory, because acting is a practical art, so there is no formula. Every actor's situation is different, so there is no cookie-cutter training template. In the words of a school teacher

Say, [Performance teachers are not professors, but developers.]

Guan Chen talked about the acting method he learned from Xing Yan, and was worried that it would conflict with the acting system taught by Holly School. But Holly said that although Xing Yan's method has changed, it is actually part of the system.

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[Performing is not about becoming a different person, but about finding the similarities beneath the surface differences and then finding yourself in them.]

In this sentence, oneself is the core, the "Tao". The body shape and accent are just the outermost "tools" and "techniques".

Guan Chen felt that Holly deserved to be a college graduate. What tools and techniques and techniques sounded very powerful.

Holly said that just like learning music, painting, and car maintenance, every skill, "instrument" and "skill" are the basis of "Tao".

Holly takes Guan Chen to practice martial arts together every morning. Guan Chen also practiced martial arts before, including boxing, running and wrestling. Holly corrected Guan Chen, the actor's martial arts practice is to practice vocalization, resonance, crying and laughter. From Silence to Silence

From crying, to bursting into tears; from snickering and secretly rejoicing, to bursting into laughter.

Guan Chen had no choice but to move his boxing practice and exercise to the evening.

Guan Chen followed Holly and studied according to the class schedule for a few days, and soon discovered that his predecessor's talent was really great and the legacy left to him was rich enough.

Whether it's crying or laughing, or whether it's embarrassment, shyness, fear, panic... As long as Guan Chen has seen it, he can remember it. As long as it exists in his mind, he can copy it when he wants to use it.

Most of the fears Guan Chen had seen were the fear of having a knife held to his neck or a gun pointed at his forehead. Others, such as the fear of his wife giving birth or asking for salary from an unscrupulous boss, had no idea at all. Fortunately, he remembered his previous life.

There are many movies in the movie, Guan Chen classified them into categories and filled up his performance inventory.

In the past few days, Guan Chen followed Holly in various studios to perform as an extra for practice. He did not want the remuneration he received from acting as a walk-on. Half of it was given to the introducer and the other half was given to Holly.

Holly accompanies Guan Chen to play a small role, and has been supervising Guan Chen to see whether the latter's expression is accurate. He also occasionally sets up characters and situations for Guan Chen, allowing Guan Chen to play independently within the framework. Completely copied

Just follow what is taught in school.

Now it can be said that the foundation has been successfully established. He can vividly and accurately interpret any expression that Guan Chen has seen and remembered, or from the movies he has seen in his previous life.

"It seems that you have laid a solid foundation in the past." Holly is not surprised by Guan Chen's rapid progress. He just thinks that he has trained and accumulated hard in the Magic City for three years.

"I'm just lucky." Guan Chen replied.

"But crying vividly, laughing naturally, panicking enough to make people feel real, and not being embarrassed are just the basic skills of an actor." Holly wiped his sweat and looked at the crew in the distance. There was still some time left on the set, and he followed Guan

Chen said, "What really differentiates the level of actors is the next stage."

Guan Chen perked up: "What is it?"

"It's [choice]." Holly said.

There are a thousand kinds of laughter, and there are a thousand kinds of crying. Among the many options, it is difficult to choose which one to use for the character.

This is also the reason why a thousand people can play the same role in a thousand ways. Everyone has a different understanding of the role, so the actor's [choice] is different.

"Just like you just saw your 'friend' hit by a stray bullet, you panicked and then became sad." Holly asked, "What were you thinking about when you were acting sad?"

Guan Chen thought for a while and said, "I'm wondering why we are so unlucky."

"If it were me, I wouldn't play [Sadness] and [Sadness] directly. I would play [Fear]. I am afraid that my best friend may leave me forever, and I am also afraid that I will be the next to die."

Holly gave an example.

For example, if you play a serial murderer who was abused and neglected as a child, and develops an antisocial personality when he grows up, he preys on ordinary people. If two actors play this role at the same time, and the actor who "revenges his parents and compensates for his childhood" needs to

It's more dramatic and interesting than the "torture and murder" part, because the two characters embody different levels.

"The two [choices] between you and me are not superior or inferior. They are just based on different understandings, so the purpose of character creation is also different. But I am the director and I am actually the director. My [choice] will make the character

It’s more three-dimensional and more dramatic.”

Most of the so-called spiritual actors rely on intuition to grasp the most suitable [choice] for the role. But relying on intuition alone will never go far. No one can act based on intuition and talent all the time. If you don't want to be short-lived, in the end

You still have to study and practice conscientiously.

Holly told Guan Chen that when an action or expression not only contains the character's personality, emotion, subtext, and purpose, but also advances the story, or drops the hook and forms a response, it means that you have understood the character thoroughly.

and the script have reached a certain level. In this second stage, it has reached its peak.

"What about the third stage?" Guan Chen asked.

Hawley said: "The third stage can be said to be a return to nature. Actors no longer look like who they play, but they are who they play. The role and the actor are integrated with each other, and they are rare."

"It's something you can't find but can't ask for." Guan Chen sighed with emotion.

In the distance, the scene was set up and the director and actors returned to the set.

Shooting will begin again soon.
To be continued...