"Yan Liang?" Su Ze drew this character with a pen, and couldn't help but wonder how Liao Fan was going to play it?
There are many outstanding characters in this story, and everyone involved in this grand sacrifice is assigned a proper role, even the young reporter Zhang Xiaoqian.
Especially Jiang Yang, who he will play, and Zhu Wei, who will be played by Zhao Yang, are the most popular.
Any role that makes the audience unforgettable not only requires actors to convey the role with superb acting skills, but also requires the personal charm of the character itself.
These characters who finally appear in the form of extremely decisive blood will make people moved even if they are just through words.
But what about Yan Liang?
As the most important detective of Zijin Chen Universe?
Throughout Undocumented Crimes, hidden corners, including the core characters of this Silent Truth trilogy?
Where is his place?
Thinking of this, Su Ze was full of curiosity and expectation. Yan Liang, who Liao Fan will play, is also a policeman, but he is completely different from Zhu Wei. He is a policeman from beginning to end.
If he is just a character who only investigates crimes and has no special character, why does he exist as a core character?
Of course, the author of the original work designed him to be a non-police officer, but the adaptation of the film and television series requires that the character must be a real police officer. This is the unshakable bottom line.
So, if such a policeman wants to complete the crime-solving task within the original drama framework, without adding his own character background, and finally make the audience empathize?
It all depends on acting!
"If it were me." Su Ze instinctively took on the role of Yan Liang and murmured to himself, "How would he act?"
How can such a character who is actually a go-between in the script be performed brilliantly?
It is necessary to understand the context and emotions of the entire story in advance, and clearly analyze what reaction the audience will make at which moment.
Therefore, the performance can be more targeted, because the role is easy to assume, but the audience is difficult to please. You need to stand from the audience's perspective, take them deep into the story, experience the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy of the character, and finally achieve empathy.
Thinking of this, I turned to the end of the script, which is also the last scene of the whole play. In the cemetery, Chen Mingzhang handed the remote control to Yan Liang, and this remote control was given to Chen Mingzhang by Yan Liang.
The story ends abruptly at this scene, leaving the audience with endless imagination.
In Su Ze's opinion, this action meant that Yan Liang knew what this group of people wanted to do very early on!
He grasped the truth, but ultimately chose to remain silent. Because he knew that if he revealed it too early, the entire case might be suppressed and the expected effect would not be achieved.
In a sense, this was a grand sacrifice completed by Yan Liang and them.
As a police officer, he chose to shoulder the responsibility together.
"What a great book!" Su Ze had to admire Zijin Chen's strength. He was shocked when he first watched "The Murder of Officials". The high-IQ crimes and reversals were impressive.
I didn’t expect that the socialists could play so smoothly!
No wonder Undocumented Crime and The Hidden Corner are so popular. As long as the script is not randomly changed and the actors' acting skills are on point, 80% of them will be fine.
What's more, compared to the previous two works, The Silent Truth has one of its biggest trump cards:
Three-line narrative.
The whole story involves three time and space narrative lines, namely Hou Guiping's investigation of the missing and suicide case of a girl in a mountainous area in 2000, Jiang Yang's investigation of the incident of Hou Guiping falling into the water in 2003, and Yan Liang's investigation of the murder and dumping of Jiang Yang's body in 10 years.
The narrative of the novel is relatively simple. It first introduces the story of Hou Guiping's case through Li Jing, and then introduces the story of Jiang Yang after telling it.
But Liu Guoqing, the screenwriter, is so bold that he directly makes large-scale adjustments to the narrative?
First, Yan Liang investigates Jiang Yang's girlfriend Wu Aike to lead to Jiang Yang's story. In the story, Li Jing asks Jiang Yang to investigate the truth behind Hou Guiping's death, leading to Hou Guiping's story.
The three mysteries are nested together, connected end to end, forming a thimble structure.
"Can this Chen Yifu work?" Su Ze was a little worried about the control of the new director whom he had never met before. There was no way. The script required the narrative to adopt a three-line parallel method. The three characters were investigating at the same time, which seemed to be better than the traditional flashback investigation.
More compact and more interesting?
It all depends on the director’s level!
Su Ze hypothesized that it would be cool to advance three time-space plots at the same time, but what if the connection between time and space lacks a convincing causal relationship?
Huge feeling of fragmentation!
What appears in front of the audience is more like several unrelated parallel times and spaces!
How to establish a valid connection?
Let the audience feel the tension and excitement without lacking a sufficient sense of immersion?
How to reasonably arrange the filming schedule of actors?
Su Ze couldn't help but shake his head, "There's nothing you can do about this kind of thing. It's not something that actors have to worry about. You can only believe that the platform dares to hand over the project to an unknown new director. At least you have some confidence, right?"
Su Ze put down the script, walked to the window, and looked at the lights of thousands of houses. Although there seemed to be Liao Fan, Ning Li and even Tan Zhuo this time, the roles were not important and could only be said to be the main supporting roles.
What's more, the people who have the most roles with Jiang Yang are police officer Zhu Wei and forensic doctor Lao Chen, that is, actors Zhao Yang and Tian Xiaojie, they can be called a spotlight-chasing trio.
The lawyer Zhang Chao played by Ning Li and Li Jing played by Tan Zhuo are just okay. After all, they have several opposite scenes, and they can feel the powerful acting skills and aura up close.
As for Yan Liang played by Liao Fan?
There are only a handful of rival scenes!
Su Ze was helpless and had no choice. This is the life of an actor. Even if they co-star in a work, it might be over without even meeting each other?
Let’s take a group photo to find out.
Activities, lying on the bed, entering the system, and starting to simulate Jiang Yang's status and details. The character has a gradual personality change process, from ambitious and energetic to suffering and giving up...
Then I experienced blow after blow and stood up again and again...
In the end, his wife and children were separated, he was plagued by cancer, and he became old and exhausted.
The image is okay, Fu Hua Dao can solve it. The most important thing is temperament. In just twelve episodes, he has to go through the changing state from teenager to deathbed, and the real-life shooting should not exceed a month at most.
This is the biggest challenge.
Su Ze was very excited. It was the first time he had tried this kind of role since his debut. In the past, he often watched senior celebrities perform large-scale roles, but this time he was finally able to enjoy it.
Cool!
Time passed very quickly in preparation, and at the end of the month, Su Ze received an invitation to join the set three days in advance, and finally started reading the script and meeting other actors.
"Hello, Teacher Liao Fan, I'm Su Ze." We set off half an hour early. Who expected Liao Fan to arrive earlier than himself?
"Hello, hello." Liao Fan stood up and said enthusiastically, "You came quite early."
As soon as the two sat down, the door opened and Tan Zhuo walked in, followed by Ning Li. The four leading actors had arrived early?
"Hello teachers, I am Chen Yifu, please take care of me." The director was very polite and exchanged a few words with the leading actors. Soon the seven or eight leading actors gathered and started reading the book for the first time.
Listening to everyone's understanding of the role, Su Ze couldn't help but sigh, they are indeed a capable group, they are all well prepared!