Chapter 1256 1256 Deconstructing the Role

What happened to yourself? Why is it out of control? Is it really like what Matthew said, in fact, he was manipulating all this from beginning to end, the devil is not Matthew, but himself?

Hugo forced himself to calm down, not to panic because of this possible fact, he had to sort out his thoughts and find a way to control, otherwise he would be a demon, no matter if the demon's personality was Matthew or not.

There was a mess in his mind, and Hugo couldn't find a clear idea at all. There were only fragments of thoughts, disorganized, from the recent "Death Ramble" crew to the memories of Lancaster's childhood in Lanches. When it comes to the picture of himself rehearsing with the band members on the school playground when he was a child, countless clips fill his head, making Hugo feel like his head is about to explode.

But this time Hugo didn't lose his calm because of his irritability. He closed his eyes and let himself gradually adapt to the darkness. Although the cry of Matthew's mother around him continued to circulate, he recalled Seeing Adam's back just now, the vague but clear memories of the past made Hugo quiet down, and all the irritability slowly settled in the darkness.

Hugo remembered a movie, "Deadly ID (Identity)", this movie is about split personality, the movie amplifies the split personality infinitely, so that each personality becomes an independent individual, and then kills each other, in the end there is only one The main character remains.

In fact, from the perspective of the psychoanalytic school, the essence of multiple personalities is the separation of psychological processes. Often, personalities with large differences in self-identity, character state, and ideological cognition gradually separate into independent individuals. In short, angels and The devil's difference.

In fact, multiple personalities are different aspects of a personality, good and evil, docile and irritable, compromise and rebellious. When these different personalities begin to accept external stimuli from childhood and encounter a trigger point, they gradually split and eventually form two a completely different personality.

Of course, this is not absolute. In some cases of multiple personalities, there will be similarities between personalities. This needs to vary from person to person.

But in essence, it can be understood that multiple personalities are splitting different characteristics from one personality basis. Just like an adult, his character cannot be purely defined. He has a good side, and naturally also has an evil side; he has a docile side and a violent side. Most people are a combination of multiple personalities, and then show more characteristics of a certain personality according to different people.

So people always say that everyone is a combination of an angel and a devil, but most people can control the devil and not let their code of conduct exceed the shackles of moral laws. If it is more professional, it needs to explain the difference and connection between id, ego and superego.

However, Hugo didn't know much about psychology. He just suddenly realized that what Matthew said was probably the truth. Matthew's personality was actually the dark side of Hugo's heart, which was infinitely magnified by the performance research process. , and then became independent, and then formed the personality of Matthew, which eventually led to loss of control. Essentially, Matthew is part of Hugo.

This reminds Hugo of the acting point Katharine Hepburn had told him earlier.

In the process of studying the performance, the actor must have sufficient understanding and cognition of the role, but this so-called "understanding and cognition" is based on the actor's own position, not the idea of ​​the real person.

To put it simply, Hugo has never killed someone, and he will never know what it is like to kill someone. Even if he "killed someone", each murderer has a different mental state after committing the crime. People feel guilty, some panic, and some feel nothing. Well, firstly, Hugo didn't know how Matthew felt when he killed, secondly, he didn't know his mental state after he killed him, and thirdly, he didn't know about Matthews' psychological experience before he chose to kill.

Just as Katherine Hepburn said, it is impossible for an actor to experience all the roles, because the actor is just a simple person, he has his own life, but the role played by the actor has an infinitely rich life. There is no way to equate it.

Therefore, the actor's understanding and cognition of the role is always constructed based on his own experience and knowledge. From this perspective, when an actor interprets a character, it can be called a performance, or it can be called digging out a side similar to the character from his own personality, and then interpreting it according to his own life experience and ideological understanding.

This is true for playing real people, and even more so for playing virtual characters.

In 2012's "Lincoln", Daniel Day-Lewis gave his amazing acting skills, which allowed him to win the Oscar for the third time, becoming the only actor in film history to win three best actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln. He can't really understand Lincoln's hardships and struggles in making decisions, because he hasn't experienced that period, he hasn't experienced the emancipation of slaves, the torment of North-South confrontation, the atmosphere of his upbringing and his life The experience is even more different from that of Lincoln.

Daniel can only understand a few words from historical data, and then build the background of that era based on his own understanding and knowledge, and then think about his feelings and sufferings in that position, and interpret Lincoln from his own perspective. Therefore, Daniel is playing the real Lincoln in history, but at the same time he is showing the side of his personality similar to Lincoln, or using his thoughts to construct a "Lincoln he thinks".

Robert De Niro's role as Travis in "Taxi. Driver" is considered to be one of the most famous and classic characters in film history, and also pushed method acting to its peak.

In order to play Travis, Robert specially went to experience a taxi driver for two months. He actually carried passengers on the streets of New York, and observed this era from the perspective of a taxi driver. Travis is a virtual character. Robert's interpretation of Travis is actually based on his experience in the past two months, and then combined with Robert's outlook on life, world outlook, and values, Travis is constructed. This virtual character.

Based on his own experience and self-knowledge, Robert tries to figure out Travis's mentality, thoughts, and behaviors. In the end, Trathway was presented as a character that only belonged to Robert, a unique existence.

The same Travis is played by Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman. It must be another image. The difference in appearance is part of it. The most important thing is the actor's understanding of the role. The actor's own Experience, experience and thought will lead to the deviation of the character's personality and image.

It can be said that if a person drinks water and knows himself, a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets.

Acting can be said to be performing a role, but it can also be said to be performing the part of one's own personality that is closest to the role. In the final analysis, in fact, the performance starts from the actor himself, and the performance that separates the actor's own situation cannot be called a performance at all.

For example, when Hugo first started to learn acting, he was simply imitating. He can imitate the different performances of many actors, but these performances lack verve, because he can't capture the actor's psychological state when performing - he is not the actor, so Hugo must find his own from the imitation. something that suits you.

So, the act of "acting" itself has an actor's personal characteristics, even if it is just a vase role, it is no exception, just like Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Rosie. Huntington-Whiteley) ) also acts as a vase in "Transformers", but the effects presented by the two are quite different. The point is just, after the actor integrates his personal characteristics, how does he express and express it. The first half is method acting, and the second half is expressive acting.

For example, in "Schindler's List", Amon Goss's ideological struggle, the focus of each actor must be different, some people focus on body language to show, some people focus on the narration and expression of lines, while Hugo It focuses on the eyes, the momentum that bursts out from the inside out gives Amon his soul. This is the difference between expressions, there is no right answer, only the answer that suits you.

In the final analysis, Amon Goss is Hugo's understanding of that period of history. It was Hugo who outlined the character of Amon Goss in his mind based on the dictation of those survivors, combined with his own understanding. It can be said that this character is also a part of Hugo, that is, a Hugo who "believes in Nazi speeches in the context of World War II", Hugo showed the most ruthless and cruel side of his personality, so he burst out with terrifying power. .

The Matthew Poncelet constructed by Hugo is actually not the real Elmer Patrick Saunier, nor the Matthew Poncelet constructed by Tim Robbins in the script, but a Hugo Matthew Poncelet built from his thoughts, Hugo's experience, and Hugo's understanding.

In essence, Matthew is a part of Hugo's personality, which belongs to the dark, cowardly, and violent side, and then was shaped by Hugo combined with the script, the characters, and the story, and then developed a complete personality.

It's just that Hugo never realized this: characters and actors are inseparable. Hugo has always cultivated the role as an independent personality, and has achieved success in the past, but when playing Anonymous, Hugo gradually realized vaguely that the blurred boundary between the role and the actor, the role cannot be born out of thin air, every time. A character is inextricably linked with the actor himself. It is impossible for a completely separated character to exist, and it is impossible to dig out something that has never existed in one's own personality.

To build something out of thin air is the job of a scientist, not an actor. Scientists can imagine incredible things like rockets, airplanes, and telephones, but actors can't create them out of thin air, because it doesn't make sense.

It's like when George Lucas was conceiving the image of aliens, he must still conform to the "human body rules", because George himself is a human, not a real alien, and he has never seen an alien, All of his understandings are based on existing science like human anatomy, environmental theory, etc., so no matter how weird the alien looks, he still fits the human conception.

Actors even more so. A character is a part of an actor's personality, an inseparable part!