Chapter 976 976 Throwing Away the Crutch

Hugo was thinking about the person Jesse. Although this is a character he created, what appeared in his mind at this time was not himself, but a completely different figure.

Jesse should be twenty-seven years old this year. He was born in 1967 like him, but he didn't have a job not long after he graduated from college, or he just quit his job and fired his boss not long ago. He is full of life. confused. He decided to travel to Europe with his girlfriend for a period of time, a gap year. Maybe not a gap year, just a few months, just a trip, at least he needs a little time.

But after Jesse and his girlfriend came to Madrid, they found that his girlfriend didn't seem to want to follow him at all, because she had a "new friend", so Jesse bought a ticket back from Vienna , but since there was still some time before takeoff, he bought another Eurail pass and started his journey in Europe. He had no purpose, no direction, and no destination. He wandered around the European continent at will, not knowing How long has passed, two or three weeks, his return ticket expires tomorrow, which makes him have to leave Budapest and get on the train to Vienna: tomorrow his flight home will be in Vienna take off.

Jesse has an imperfect but stable family. The parents are married because of an unexpected pregnancy. They can't say love or happiness, just make do. Jesse also has a sister who accidentally learns that he is not welcome because the father does not want the child, but at the insistence of the mother, he is born.

This realization changed his outlook on life, values ​​and worldview, and he began to learn to look at the world in an outsider's way, because he was an uninvited guest who came to this world. He was like a time traveler walking around the world, watching Someone else's life is either boring or exciting or sad, trying to find the meaning and purpose of his life.

Such Jesse is a little confused, just like most young people - or most normal people, without a clear goal, just living a simple life. Birth, going to school, working, getting married, having children... everything is done step by step, and there is no special meaning. It's just that the whole society works like this, and they live like this. They are running around for a living every day, but they can't find any meaning to stimulate their hearts except to make money and live.

It's just that Jesse is different from others, he wants to find a meaning, he wants to find the meaning of his appearance in this world. Maybe it was too philosophical, but he wanted to inquire, even if he didn't know how to look for it and how to find it.

Therefore, Jesse is somewhat casual and uninhibited. He is positive and optimistic, always with a casual smile on his face, with a little bit of ruffian cunning, but full of childhood innocence, and those clear eyes can always be See a childlike clean smile. But if you look carefully, you can see the traces of the years between the contemplative eyebrows, which is different from the maturity and wisdom of age.

He was a boy and a man, and this mixed temperament showed from his words, which attracted Selena, and this was the birth of this night.

Is this Jesse ordinary? He is very ordinary. You can see countless young people like this in the hippie era. Maybe Jesse's ideas also carry the style of the hippies. He likes rock, but he is not necessarily crazy about it. He likes literature, but not necessarily just Only read serious novels.

But this kind of Jesse is not ordinary. He can look at his origin and his family with optimism. He can abandon all wandering in Europe uninhibitedly and go with the flow. He can think about many life problems philosophically, but he can look at it innocently. In this world, the courage in his heart to break the shackles of reality is not obvious, not aggressive, but there is a kind of stubbornness hidden in the depths.

It can be said that Jesse is a part of Hugo, but a completely different independent entity.

Jesse's family is more like a collection of two families before and after Hugo's time travel. There are not so many waves, but it is not that simple. Jesse's parents finally chose to divorce and break up peacefully, which made both children loose. A breath, but they will still keep in touch with each other now. Family is special to Jesse, and good memories still occupy most of it, but it makes him question love.

Jesse is casual and free, he has no clear goals, he may not know what he wants, but he knows exactly what he wants. Hugo is different. Rock and roll has always been his dream. He is like a stupid Icarus, running towards the sun tirelessly, even if he can't get close to the sun for a lifetime, or he will turn into ashes after getting close to the sun. He also continued to run wildly without giving up. So, Hugo is confused, but he will not lose his way.

Jesse was interested in philosophy and literature, but Hugo was more interested in psychology. Jesse would recklessly accost a strange woman, and after only ten minutes of conversation, he would boldly invite the other party to get off the bus in Vienna, but this was something Hugo would not do.

So, how should such a character be presented?

Maybe, he should wear a casual t-shirt with jeans, most likely the t-shirt is still a little worn, and with a plaid shirt or a work jacket in his hand, he's carrying a suitcase with a few clothes in it, He walked around like this; perhaps, he had an untrimmed beard, looking a little sloppy, and his messy hair was not carefully taken care of; perhaps, when he spoke, his eyes were shining with sincerity, and every word was a bit sloppy. From the bottom of my heart; maybe, when he listens to others, he always looks straight at each other, and his clear eyes can clearly see his devotion and concentration; maybe, he will inadvertently show confusion or vulnerability , There is uncertainty about the future in the emptiness and emptiness of eyes...

In fact, a character like Jesse should have more temperament exuding from the inside out. His views, his thoughts, and his soul are the most attractive parts of him. Although he has a handsome face, which makes him Selena was willing to talk to him right away, but what he really attracted to Selena was the soul under the skin.

Therefore, Hugo should obviously not pay too much attention to details or think too much about his acting skills during his performance. Instead, he should fully understand the light of thought reflected by his lines, and express this point of view in his own way, so that the character will be natural. shaped.

This is also the most difficult part of playing such an ordinary role. Maybe people can't see that you are working hard, but in fact, you are fully committed to the role.

Hugo clearly remembers, whether it is Judi Dench's eyes in "Philomena", even if you don't say a word, just look at the camera quietly, a thousand words can be between your brows. I can feel it; it is still Bruce Dunn's stubborn back in "Nebraska", a lonely and desolate figure who is always unwilling to give up, coupled with the vague words, the father's image is thus outlined. .

Looking at such a picture, many viewers will wonder: Are you acting? But in fact, the actor has already presented the "play". That kind of delicate carving requires almost all the energy of the actor, because he must be completely integrated with the character.

Hugo decided to give it a go, throw away the crutches, and use his own way to interpret this ordinary but extraordinary Jesse.

"I remember childhood...it was like a magical time," Jesse said earnestly, sitting on the chair, as if with the words, he returned to his childhood, his eyes were full of deep, "Really." Jesse murmured something to reinforce his certainty, and then he looked away from Selena and looked out the window into the distance, looking at the receding scene, he said slowly, "Remember my mother's first. Talked to me about death once, my Zeng passed away, my family went to Florida for a funeral when I was three—or three-and-a-half years old…”

Jesse's recollections were not very coherent. He was framing the situation bit by bit along with his own memories. "Anyway, when I was playing in the backyard, my sister taught me how to hold a water hose..." Jesse slowed down, looked at Selena seriously, and then gestured with his own hands, as if he had a water hose in his hands, "Just hold it like this..."

Jessie paused, as if waiting for the water to come out from the hose, then he raised his eyebrows slightly and said excitedly to Selena, "The spray of water will form a rainbow in the sun," he also used The right hand drew the appearance of a rainbow, and the clean smile at the corner of his mouth was outlined like this, and then he twisted his body excitedly, shaking his hands, as if he was a three-year-old child at this time, making a rainbow with a hose, "So I did this," he kept shaking his hands, but suddenly stopped, and the smile kept a touch of sunshine on his lips, "At this time, through the mist... I saw my great-grandmother."

Having said that, Jesse looked at Selena again, but there was no sadness on his face, just a shallow smile, pure and happy like a child, "She just stood there, Smile at me." Then the smile surged from the bottom of my heart to the eyes, blooming proudly like a spring flower, this child-like smile is so simple and so clean, it seems to light up the sky in an instant, so that all views The person smiled involuntarily, "I was there for a long time, and looked at her, and finally, I let go of the nozzle, you know?"

Jesse's hands also loosened along with the sound, and the smile on his face faded, "Then drop the water pipe, she, just disappeared..." Then, he spoke faster again, really The good part is over, the next part is just unimportant, "So I ran back to the house and told my parents, they let me sit down, and then reprimanded me, you can't see it again after death They, that's just my hallucination..." He still had that impatient and speechless expression on his face, clearly expressing his true feelings for these words.

After a quick speech, his tone became situational again, and his smile showed again, "But I know what I saw and am happy about it, I will never see a similar scene again in the future, but I don't know, That made me kind of understand how unexplainable things are in the world, including death."