Chapter 1916: 1916 Comedy Style

Truman Burbank's optimism has become the brightest ray of sunshine in the dark reality drama film "The Truman Show", injecting a kind of humor into the whole story.

This reminded Hugo of the previous chat with Helen Hunt about comedy performances. Helen always believed that what comedy needs is expression-style acting skills, not method-style acting skills. Because the method school pays attention to the personality and thoughts of the characters growing up under the background of the whole life, but before the comedy movies dig into the hearts of the characters, they must first make the audience laugh, whether it is tears in the laughter or forgetting after laughing, or There is more than hilarious laughter, and the smile is the most important thing in a comedy performance-this requires expressive acting skills, giving life to the performance in the most accurate way at the exact time.

Jim Carrey's exaggeration is undoubtedly the most popular comedy style in the past two years, while Billy Crystal's sharpness makes him a master of language and humor. Both actors inject soul into the performance in their own way , which in turn makes the characters come alive, and finally makes the story have a sense of humor.

To give an inappropriate and inaccurate example, Jim Carrey has starred in several movies in recent years, with different stories, styles, contents, and characters. Different masks are interpreting different stories—that is, the same. This is true from "Grandmaid" to "Liar", from "Aeroplane" to "Dumb and Dumber".

This is a disaster for a drama film, which may be called facial paralysis, and it will just keep repeating itself. But for comedy movies, it is a strong personal style, so that the movie is labeled with a strong personal mark, and it is impossible to achieve such an effect by replacing any actor.

Imagine a different actor for the exaggerated, sly and mischievous character from "The Mask"? Is there another person to play the honest, stupid, simple and lustful character in "Dumb and Dumber"? That would have been a disaster, and the entire movie would have been ruined.

It can be said that Jim Carrey has made these comedy movies. His unique way of acting has injected a completely different energy into the movies, which cannot be achieved by replacing any actor.

This is also the reason why comedians are so rare to meet, because it is definitely not an easy task to meet a comedian with a strong personal style. Playing ugly, spoofing, and imitating are just mediums to make the audience laugh. As long as the script is good, any actor who does not hesitate to look good can be competent, but the comedy style is not. It requires acting skills, acting talent, and comedy savvy.

Challenge Jim Carrey's version of "The Truman Show"? Perform "The Truman Show" according to the performance style of Jim Carrey in your mind? This is a shortcut, Hugo knows, but he has stopped doing it a long time ago. He wants to figure out his own comedy style, and he wants to try to use the expressive performance to drive the method performance. This is his A new challenge on the road of acting.

Just now, Hugo has completely constructed Truman's life in his mind. This is the category of the method school, and it is also the part that Hugo is most familiar with. So how should he behave? How should he find his own way? What is his comedy style?

In fact, over the years, everyone has praised Hugo for his sense of humor. Even in the period after the Golden Raspberry Awards, Hugo was repeatedly praised for his performance on talk shows, not to mention when dealing with reporters. The conversation and laughter were lively, and many people thought that Hugo's humor was a kind of talent.

However, Hugo didn't know where his humor came from. This is the biggest difference between him and comedians. He has never really studied the method of comedy performance, nor has he really experienced the process of comedy performance, which is different from the investment in other works. And Intoxicated, the comedy needs a little extra spark, a little extra "Hugo."

Hugo couldn't help but think of the time when he was a guest star in "Friends". In a completely relaxed situation, Hugo played freely and completely collided with a group of partners, which even won an extra Emmy for Hugo. This is not only a surprise, but also proves that Hugo does have comedic cells and talent.

self-deprecating.

Hugo is always very good at self-deprecating, which is almost a must-have skill for every comedian, but Hugo’s self-deprecating is different, he knows how to use self-deprecating to look at everything, not only to lower his posture, but also He doesn't mind other people's criticism of him, and he will launch a counterattack at the most accurate time, accurately and effectively hit the opponent's weakness, and when people are caught off guard, humor emerges spontaneously.

This is wisdom, which is fermented by the precipitation and brewing of time. Hugo has experienced such an incredible event as time travel, and also experienced such absurd and funny events as the Golden Raspberry Award, not to mention Chen Hugo's ten years of underground rock and roll. Life and Lancaster's ten-year hard-working life as an actor gave Hugo more wisdom in life, allowing him to have this calmness and open-mindedness.

Just like exaggeration is to Jim Carrey, sharpness is to Billy Crystal, playfulness is to Robin Williams, elegance is to Steve Martin (Steve. Martin), grassroots is to Charlie Cho Belin, trivial to Jerry Seinfeld, gangster to Eddie Murphy... These seemingly ordinary characteristics have been carried forward in their talents and become a means of comedy, Formed their comedy style, injecting spark and vitality into the movie story.

The same is true of self-deprecation and wisdom for Hugo. What he has experienced is beyond anyone's imagination, and the achievements he has achieved are also beyond anyone's imagination. Most importantly, the commonality between him and Truman It is also beyond the reach of others. He can inject these trivial characteristics into the performance, making Truman real and lively, and at the same time making the story humorous and relaxed.

He stopped walking aimlessly, turned his head and saw the pharmacy on the side of the street, and tried to make a suitable movement in front of the huge mirror at the door.

Hugo thought about it carefully, then slightly puffed up his chest, opened his shoulders, and raised his chin slightly. The whole person looked full of energy. The high-spirited and majestic fighting spirit was transmitted from every line of the body, and the vitality could be seen from every body. Feeling it in small movements, he tried to raise his right hand—originally his hand was placed in front of the eyes to the right, but he found that the height seemed not enough, so he lifted it up slightly, then raised it again, and then vigorously With a wave, the smile on the corner of the mouth bloomed like this, and seven of the snow-white teeth were neatly and perfectly exposed—no, nine should be exposed, which would make the smile more silly.

But...why does this Truman look so familiar?

Hugo kept a bright smile and said, "Good morning, in case I don't see you, so... good afternoon, good evening, good night!"

Looking at his own faint reflection in the glass, Hugo thought for a while, and then suddenly came to his senses, isn't this the Truman Burbank played by Jim Carrey?

Among Jin's versions of Truman, his bright and innocent smile is undoubtedly the most impressive. In fact, this continues Jin's personal performance style. He has shown such a smile in previous movies, with a neat palate His nine teeth are fully exposed, and even some gums can be seen, which looks extremely brilliant, but also has a hint of childlike foolishness and comic exaggeration, so that all the audience can't help but outline their smiles together.

The slightly deliberate exaggeration and magnification of body language is to adultify the childish innocence and innocence, which makes Jin's performance always full of a factor that makes people smile, and with Jin's exaggerated expressions and With puppy-like eyes, it only takes one appearance to win everyone's laughter - and at the same time, it is extremely impressive.

Hugo let out a long breath and resumed his movements. For him now, imitation is not a problem at all. He can always easily capture the characteristics and highlights of the imitated object, and then copy the model—this can be regarded as a comedy A must-have basic for an actor, but not so much for Hugo's comedic delivery, since he doesn't want to copy King's classic version.

He closed his eyes and thought about it carefully. Hugo didn't open his eyes, but did the greeting again according to the image in his mind. Hugo thought this was the performance that was closest to the real Truman in his heart. But when he opened his eyes, it was still the golden version of Truman, which made Hugo a little discouraged. It's been years since he's had this kind of clueless confusion—not even during a plateau.

But just when Hugo was about to put down his arm, he noticed something abnormal, so Hugo lowered his elbow slightly, and then lowered it a little bit, and the positions of his head and shoulders also evolved differently, and finally looked for to the most appropriate position.

The figure in the glass raised his right hand and raised his elbow actively, but it did not exceed the shoulder line. It just seemed that the whole waving gesture became very formal and polite, but not too exaggerated; shoulders spread out, The spine is straight, the whole person is like a tall and straight green pine, but he didn't deliberately stand up his chest, just stood there in the most perfect model hanger posture, and the gentleman's temperament exuded from the inside out was outlined bit by bit in the body language Come out; a smile was drawn on the corner of his mouth, calm and calm——Hugo thought for a while, and then pulled the smile a little further, revealing seven teeth, a perfect and elegant smile, and then laughed softly, that There are some immature smiles in the brilliance that don't fit the whole person's elegance, as if... It's like putting a 12-year-old soul in a 30-year-old body, but this 12-year-old The year-old soul behaved very well, and it didn't make people feel inappropriate at all, just with a little bit of sarcasm.

Immediately afterwards, Hugo waved his hand lightly. He was humble and polite but not childlike. His white and flawless smile was like a jasmine flower slowly blooming under the sun. It was fragrant and elegant but not offensive. "Good morning , in case I don't see you... so good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"