Chapter 1919: 1919 Struggling
The significance of script practice is to let the actors get familiar with the lines, gradually enter the performance state, and cultivate a tacit understanding with the actors of the opponent. At the same time, it also allows the director and screenwriter to have a certain understanding of the overall performance rhythm. If there is a need to make adjustments, it is a correct choice to make adjustments before shooting.
Therefore, Hugo naturally wouldn't mind Nicole's request and restarted the practice of this scene. But it is a pity that Nicole is still out of shape, and she practiced three more times, and she still feels completely wrong. Nicole is also a little irritable. After apologizing to Peter and Hugo, she temporarily went for a walk to get some fresh air .
Hugo and Peter sat where they were, looking at each other and smiling. Peter was appreciative, while Hugo was helpless.
"The Truman Show" is a dark reality comedy, and almost all the stories are tied to Truman, but in fact, it is quite challenging for the two people closest to Truman - his wife Meryl and his friend Malone . Choosing Nicole Kidman to play Meryl and Alexander Lorraine to play Marlon is not only a commercial consideration, but also a trust in them.
In the story, Truman's life is a grand deception, and everyone must join hands to deceive Truman. But everyone ignores the fact that Truman is thirty years old, and the people around him have been with him for thirty years. Even if they are only with a pet for thirty years, they will have feelings, let alone a pet. What about humans?
For Truman's best friend Ma Long, he shoulders the responsibility of being a "friend". He has to make up for the part that Meryl can't take care of. At the same time, he must cooperate with the program group to continue to deceive Truman and keep Truman in this reality show. Ma Long is Truman's best buddy-Truman believes so firmly, but what does Ma Long think? Is it just a job, a role, or a real friend? So cheating is getting harder and more painful. Not only Truman, Ma Long is also struggling between reality and illusion, between truth and lies.
The role of Malone is also a huge challenge for Alex, and it depends on how he handles it next.
Meryl and Malone have similarities and differences. The biggest difference is that love and friendship are never the same. In many cases, what love needs are sparks, passion, and chemical reactions. Two people can become good friends but not necessarily lovers, and vice versa. So, relationships in love are different from friendships.
Unknowingly, Malone has really regarded Truman as a good friend, but Meryl has never really regarded Truman as her husband; Meryl is just the name of "Truman's wife", just like in the movie Her real name is Hannah-Gill, but Marlon uses his real name. This is the biggest difference between love and friendship. The difficulty Malone faces is to continue to deceive Truman against his own heart; and the difficulty Meryl faces is to continue to love Truman against his own heart.
For Hannah, she doesn't love Truman, Truman is not her type, too childish, too naive, and too mediocre. Hannah just regards this as a job, a long-term meal ticket, and a springboard that can make her acting career shine. Therefore, Hannah has always been very objective and conscientiously played the role of Meryl, becoming a "one-hearted A good mother and wife who loves Truman." Hannah will not refuse any request from the program group, even if the program group asks her to have a baby for Truman.
But here is the problem. For Hannah, this is just a job, but for Truman, it is a marriage and a love. He is eager to get a response, recognition, and understanding from his wife. The most important part of Truman's life, and Malone—and Sylvia in memory constituted his life.
In the face of Truman's true feelings, Hannah not only cannot reveal her feet, but also responds to Truman. She needs to play the role of a good wife, and she needs to maintain this perfect marriage. But in fact, Hannah finds Truman more and more annoying-because Truman's goofing is ruining her career, and because Truman's nonsense wants to annoy her, she just wants to deal with Truman's so-so "Emotional Calling", continue to do this reality show. This is work, not personal life. Public and private must be clearly distinguished but cannot be distinguished. This makes Hannah very painful, so her face is always full of deliberate and indifferent The hypocritical smile, like an exquisite mask, maintains this "destined" marriage.
Therefore, the role of Hannah is actually very complicated, always hovering on the edge, even more difficult than Malone.
In the history of Kim Carrey's version of "The Truman Show", the role of Hannah is played by Laura Linney, an actress who ushered in a full-scale acting explosion after entering the 21st century , has won Oscar nominations three times, and has won Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards many times.
However, when she starred in "The Truman Show", Laura's performance was not yet fully formed, lacking detailed carvings and character changes. Although the performance of the whole movie was good, it lacked gradual changes, and The excavation of the inner confusion and struggle, the sense of struggle in the play of "a real actor playing a Hollywood actor playing a role in a reality show" is not shown at all, which is quite embarrassing.
Now, played by Nicole Kidman, objectively speaking, Nicole is more suitable than Laura. Her appearance like a porcelain doll and the "perfect marriage" deliberately created by the program group in "The Truman Show" Coincidentally, it is a kind of irony to interpret the traditional definition of perfect marriage in such a simple and straightforward way. Moreover, the noble and elegant taste in Nicole's temperament is even more incompatible with the slightly silly Truman, which makes the hypocrisy of the marriage more obvious.
If Nicole can really delve into the role of Hannah in detail, and sparks sparks with Hugo during the performance, it will definitely bring the finished movie to a higher level.
But judging from the practice just now, Nicole's grasp of Hannah is not accurate enough.
To put it simply, in the scene just now, Hannah was playing the role of Meryl's wife wholeheartedly. At this time, Truman was just full of doubts. He didn't even know what he wanted, but just wanted to try to break the rules. Therefore, when Meryl faced Truman's request, it was more like coaxing a child, and she responded to the child's request with doting on the child, as if the child asked for an ice cream before dinner, and then she smiled coquettishly Convincing the children carefully, buy the ice cream and put it in the refrigerator first, and then eat it after dinner.
This kind of "love" coaxing should be dealt with with a little bit of patience, because Meryl feels that Truman is just a whim, just like we often say in daily life, "I want to quit my job and go to the world." "Travel", the urge to come up every now and then, but never actually executed. Therefore, Meryl just dealt with it with a smile, thinking that Truman was joking.
It wasn't until later, when Truman mentioned it repeatedly, that Meryl gradually felt irritated, and even a little angry with Truman—because Truman's whims were likely to ruin Hannah's career as an actor.
This gradual change is crucial to the foreshadowing of the entire story.
But Nicole didn't grasp the key word "beloved". The whole line practice seemed a little too impatient, and at the same time, her expression seemed a little too stiff. Nicole's performance is more Hannah than Meryl, and that's exactly what shouldn't happen in the beginning of the movie. If the image shows that it should be Meryl when the movie first appeared, as the plot progresses, the proportion of Hannah gradually increases, and finally the two roles of Hannah and Meryl become blurred, causing Hannah's mentality to be completely out of balance.
Correspondingly, Hugo's performance just now was very good. He brought out Truman's feeling of excitement in the confusion, like a child who got the treasure map and couldn't wait to find the treasure , he needs a partner, a partner who supports his ideas - Malone didn't agree with his ideas, so he turned to his wife, the urgency and earnestness to be recognized was vividly expressed in a pair of eyes.
However, Hugo also thinks that this kind of performance is a bit too forceful. He deliberately made it a little dramatic in order to match the sense of comedy. Truman's mentality should be simple and optimistic, but it is not naive. This subtle difference is difficult to see only from the eyes, and it is more manifested in the rhythm of speech and the arc of action.
Therefore, Hugo is still in the process of gradually entering the state, and he still needs to adapt bit by bit to gradually polish the correct appearance of Truman. But even so, Nicole still felt the delicate but tenacious power in Hugo's performance, which had affected her performance, which made her deeply feel that the rhythm of her performance was completely wrong, not only because her rhythm was blocked Hugo was confused, also because she felt the life force that Hugo gave to the lines, but it didn't appear on Meryl.
Nicole realized that she was holding her back, but she couldn't find the reason for a while, so she took the initiative to ask for a pause and rest, wanting to calm down, think carefully, and reorganize her thoughts.
With the sea breeze blowing head-on, Nicole was a little confused. Before entering the "Truman Show" crew, she began to look forward to it, looking forward to the rivalry with Hugo, and even more looking forward to her acting talent to shine. To prove to people that she is also an excellent actor, not even inferior to Hugo.
When she arrived at the set today, she was full of confidence. But now, she was not so sure. Looking back at Hugo, who was quietly sitting in a chair and reading the script repeatedly, the bitterness on the tip of Nicole's tongue was dancing.