"After the fool has finished, let's study how blind people act." Chen Gang opened another video and showed: "Many actors have played blind people, such as the blind man A Bing in Wang Baoqiang's The Conspiracy."
"I'll edit a clip and let's see what we can learn from it from an acting perspective."
"What happened to Lao Chen today?" Zhao Yuncheng complained in a low voice: "He is a fool and a blind man again. Isn't he torturing people?"
"Nonsense, this is called the Chinese Opera Professional Course, do you understand?" Before Su Ze could say anything, Zhang Yu countered: "A strict teacher produces a good disciple."
The disdain on Zhao Yuncheng's face is actually just a complaint. He must be serious when he should be serious. This is called the cultivation of an actor.
Chen Gang did not play the video, walked off the stage and asked: "Do you know what the world of a real blind person is like?"
"Isn't it just pitch black?"
"No, I heard that many blind people can feel weak light."
"I have read reports that blind people are also divided into fully blind and partially blind?"
"There are also nature and nurture. One of my classmates was in a car accident and became invisible."
Chen Gang signaled for silence and explained: "You are right. In order to experience life, I have studied blind people. I understand their world as if..."
"When you close one eye during the day and feel the other eye with your heart, that feeling is the world of the blind."
Su Ze couldn't help but nod. He had simulated a blind person before and read many research reports on various conditions of blindness, such as congenital and acquired blindness.
People who are born blind feel like what Teacher Chen just said. Their world has no color, and they don't even know what black is.
So it is not darkness, but nothingness. For example, if you try to look around with your knees, what can you see?
People who are congenitally blind can perceive things with their hands. For example, by touching a stool, they can roughly perceive the spatial position and shape of the stool, but the feedback in their minds is definitely not the stool we see.
Maybe it's an object with an unclear shape and no color in the void world?
"For those who are born completely blind, they have no visual concept and cannot describe their own feelings, and others cannot understand the world in their eyes."
After Chen Gang finished explaining, he asked: "Do you think blind people can dream?"
"I guess so?"
"Definitely, but it's different from normal people!"
"I don't think so. How can they dream if they don't even know colors?"
Chen Gang continued: "Dreams are the product of human beings processing all kinds of junk memories in the brain every day, and the essence of memory is the integration of various senses. If vision is lost in dreams, the concept and logic of space will be lost."
"I have asked many blind friends, and the interesting thing is that they also dream. Especially people who are congenitally blind do not see in their dreams, but a combination of other senses."
"For example, touch, hearing, and taste, ordinary people's dreams are illogical, and their dreams are even more bizarre, with various illogical and fragmented spatial combinations."
Everyone listened with great interest. Although they had seen many blind characters and even secretly tried acting, it was really new to understand it from a scientific perspective.
"As for people who are blind after birth, they will have normal dreams at first, but as their memory becomes blurred, their dreams will become more and more unreal, and eventually they will become like people who are congenitally blind, and they will completely lose visual perception in their dreams."
Chen Gang closed his eyes and kept groping with his hands: "People who are blind due to accidents are much better off than those who are born blind. According to what they said, their eyes are not black, but covered with a thick layer of fog!"
"Or it may be some kind of transparent wall that blocks the real scene. Occasionally, you may see a little flash of light. This is an illusion left by the memory of the past."
"As an actor, when you get a role as a blind person, do you have to know whether it is nature or nurture?"
Everyone suddenly realized it and sighed that everyone who pays attention to it is knowledgeable. They didn't expect that there are so many ways to be invisible?
I walked on stage again, turned on the video, and the big screen started playing clips. The first one was A Bing in The Conspiracy.
Su Ze watched Wang Baoqiang's performance and realized that in the midst of the war, A Bing was definitely a very complex and tragic character. Any actor who wants to control this character must possess strong expressive power and control.
He is a genius, not only blind but also stupid, all caused by a high fever when he was a child. Therefore, he is blind after acquired, and his performance must be distinguished from his congenital blindness.
He is gifted with amazing hearing, and can distinguish even the smallest differences in sounds. Children from several nearby villages and towns can tell whose home it belongs to just by saying a word, and can even hear whose homestead is slowly sinking at night.
After the three-minute close-up, Chen Gang paused and said: "When I entered the set, I started to enter the blind state according to the requirements of Director Liu Yunlong. I went to the school for the blind at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain every day to experience life and observe how blind people live and work."
"Look at this performance. When A Bing was about to leave home to work in a distant place, he acted like a child whose intelligence has not yet fully developed, helplessly asking for help and crying for his mother."
"When I heard that I had made no mistakes in the code test, I showed joy from the bottom of my heart. But as soon as I turned around, I returned to my childlike state and directly said that I wanted to poop."
"As a blind man who is absolutely confident in his hearing, whenever he hears someone questioning the listening results, he immediately shows hysterical anger."
"why is that?"
Hu Lei answered quickly: "Because his ears are everything he has."
"That's right!" Chen Gang affirmed: "Blind people are also human beings first. They have all the emotions and desires of normal people, and they are more eager to be recognized and respected than ordinary people."
"A Bing is stupid, but he also knows that hearing is the only way to gain recognition. What would you do if it were you and someone questioned your life-saving straw?"
"Hit him!" Zhao Yuncheng blurted out.
Everyone burst into laughter, and Chen Gang laughed and scolded: "It's just that the words are rough and the truth is not rough."
When the second clip started, Su Ze was stunned, who is he?
"Zhu Yilong." Ding Feng explained: "A very popular actor in the past two years."
"Acting a blind person is divided into several stages, such as the elementary level." Chen Gang analyzed: "When walking, the hands are first stretched out, shaking left and right, and when picking up things, first gently touch the contact surface. The hands are the eyes."
"If your eyes are not focused, even if there is someone in front of you, you will not focus on the other person. Of course, every blind character must have a repertoire, that is..."
"The trembling hands touch the camera of your lover and relatives."
Su Ze laughed dumbly. It seemed reasonable?
Looking carefully at the details of Zhu Yilong's performance, the biggest difficulty in playing a blind person is actually forgetting that the eyes can move.
It is human instinct to use eyes to see the world. Most people do not analyze how to use their instincts. It is useless to just know that the eyes cannot see the eyeballs?
So the most intuitive feeling for the audience is: every time they look at something, their eyes don’t move, but their whole head turns?