"The method school is similar. Although actors can replace emotions, they also need to fully explore their hearts and find parts that are similar to the characters, which is also very difficult."
"On the contrary, the expressionist style feels the most practical. It improves the actor's level through various basic trainings, such as body shape, lines, movements, expressions..."
"Getting into the role from the outside in little by little is also a process of developing one's own potential, and finally the quantitative change will lead to a qualitative change."
"I don't know this way either, right?"
Su Ze said seriously: "It's best for you anyway!"
Liu Tianyi listened, his eyes became more and more appreciative, and finally he sighed and said with emotion: "Congratulations on being able to start training!"
Seeing that Su Ze didn't understand, he explained: "The reason why I ask you is that there has been a so-called school dispute in Chinese opera for a long time."
"That's right, it's the experiential school and the method school!"
"What you are doing now is the expression school, which is also called the drama school in China. It is derived from stage drama. The training process is what you call the inner to outer use of various details to shape the character."
"The battle of genres is not just domestic, but also for actors all over the world. After the 92nd Academy Award for Best Actor was awarded to Joaquin Phoenix for his role as the Joker, all the fans of experience-based performances celebrated."
"Throughout the history of the Oscars, a total of 132 Oscars for Best Actor and Actor have been awarded. How many of them have been awarded to experienced actors?"
"Fifty-nine seats!"
Su Ze was not surprised. In his opinion, the Oscar selection had a sense of deja vu that it was neither crazy nor a Buddha.
Joaquin Phoenix, who was originally ranked among the top three, lost 47 kilograms as a clown before he could win the Oscar. Not to mention that Leo, the long-time running star, also ended his 22-year running career with a nearly self-mutilating performance in The Revenant.
"The experiential approach I understand is simply to start from oneself and live in the situation of the character. It prefers that the actor replaces the emotions of the character with himself."
"The more famous domestic actor experience groups include Ren Suxi who starred in "The Donkey Gets Water" and Duan Yihong who starred in "The Sun Burns Heart."
"They often go through the process of experiencing the role before taking on the role. For example, in "The Burning Sun", the police officers Yi Guchun and Duan Yihong stayed at the police station for more than ten days in a row, following the police officers to catch gamblers, just to experience the real working conditions of the police.
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Liu Tianyi analyzed: "The experience school does have the highest quality requirements for the actors themselves. First of all, they need the actors to have the ability to liberate themselves and believe in the situation."
"Liberating one's self is different from ordinary acting as one's true self. It emphasizes the need for actors to delve deeply into their inner feelings and expose the emotions that are common to the character and the character."
"For example, when playing a gay male role, the experiential school requires actors to bring out all their deepest feelings for men and truly fall in love with this gender during the performance."
"Secondly, the actor needs to believe in the plot of the current scene and convince himself that this is real life. Maybe there are only a few descriptive words in the script book, but the actor himself needs to build a real scene based on this information."
"What if there was only one sentence in the script called Fireflies Flying on a Country Road on a Summer Night?"
"The representative actors need to construct a scene that connects vision, hearing, and touch for performance. From virtual concepts to reproduction of real-life situations, the filling content requires the long-term accumulation of experiential actors."
Su Ze nodded. This is the main reason why the experiential performance is more impressive. The actor's performance during the process is more like a subconscious reaction.
This kind of reaction has something in common with ordinary audiences. Performance is not how actors react, but how ordinary people react.
Can the sense of immersion be strong?
"For the Method School, the acting training is actually also derived from the realist performance system founded by the former Soviet dramatist Konstantin Stanislavsky. It mainly uses the actor's external body and expression to deeply explore the complexity of human nature and human heart.
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Liu Tianyi continued: "The more famous actors include Natalie Portman who starred in "Black Swan" and Matt Damon who starred in "Life and Death"."
"This group emphasizes recreating the behavior of the characters. For example, Portman underwent a year-long professional ballet training to deepen the role. The high-intensity training and diet even made her feel sick."
"The advantage is that it reduces the requirements for the actors themselves, and can use other technical means. Even actors with ordinary qualifications can achieve performance effects through long-term copying and imitation."
Su Ze listened quietly because the threshold was relatively low. In the process of development, Methodism gradually became a common performance style in Hollywood movies. Film shooting and drama performances also provided Methodism with greater room for development in terms of presentation methods.
After all, a movie can be shot multiple times, and a good performance only needs one shot so that the actors do not need to maintain the emotional state from beginning to end, which also makes emotional substitution and emotional memory possible.
At the same time, it is also the main reason why stage actors are said to be better than film and television actors. No matter how many times they do it behind the scenes, as long as there is one thing that satisfies the audience through the camera, they are good actors.
Try a stage play or drama instead?
Are you going to watch the audience beat you to death?
"The last one is expressionism, which is the path you are taking now." Liu Tianyi paused for a moment and said: "If the actors of the first two groups perform from the first-person perspective, then the expressionist actors pay more attention to the third-person perspective.
Design the role you want to play from your perspective.”
"He often builds the image of the role he needs to play in advance in his mind, and then imitates the preset image to achieve the performance effect, right?"
Seeing Su Ze nodding, he smiled and said: "The popular actor variety shows in China in the past two years, such as "The Birth of an Actor" and "I Am an Actor" are relatively well-known expressionist ones, such as Teacher Dandan and Teacher Guoli."
"In China, it mainly comes from opera, such as Master Mei Lanfang. The most mature one is the TVB training class. I don't need to mention how many movie stars it has produced, right?"
"A lot of their training for actors is to extract the performance experience of the older generation into a book and formulate specific practice standards. When young actors need to express a certain emotion, they only need to imitate the designed practice standards."
"Of course, many Method actors will also construct simulation objects through their own life and performance experience. When the actors themselves have a certain amount of performance experience, Method actors can also present very expressive performances."
Su Ze smiled and said plainly:
No matter if a cat is black or white, it is a good cat if it can catch mice!
When watching a movie, do you pay more attention to the actors? Or do you pay more attention to the characters themselves?
This may just be a matter of personal preference. Some people will fall in love with actors because of their roles, while others will go to see a movie because of the actors.
When the audience tries to get deeper into a certain movie, and the character selection becomes the criterion for evaluating the movie, the so-called one-size-fits-all performance is likely to hinder the movie-watching experience.
For the world's most handsome man, Tom Cruise, whether as a partner of justice to fight aliens, mummies, or shoguns...
I always feel like Tom is just trying to be cool, right?