Chapter 96: Experience and Method
In the small auditorium.
Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen and others were preparing for the audition on the stage.
Wu Yuan sat in the center below the stage, holding the script, wondering where to start rehearsing.
The play "Romeo and Juliet" has a total of five acts.
Wu Yuan certainly would not rehearse all five acts, as that would be a large-scale play of 3 hours.
He only planned to rehearse the second and third acts.
The second act of "Romeo and Juliet" is considered to be the most lyrical and youthful act in the whole play. In the garden under the moonlight, the two young people expressed their love and feelings to each other.
The plot of the third act took a sharp turn for the worse due to the death of Tybalt. Romeo was exiled and Juliet was forced to marry. The couple began to fall into the abyss of pain.
Rehearsing these two acts can just test the acting skills of the male and female protagonists. They need to give two completely different emotions, sweetness and pain, in the two acts.
It not only trains the actors, but also the directors.
After thinking about it, Wu Yuan planned to start with some scenes of Romeo and Juliet confessing their feelings to each other.
It's the same as filming a movie. Acting some scenes that require more emotional outbursts first can help the actors get into the state as soon as possible.
Closing the script and raising his head, Wu Yuan was about to ask the actors to get ready when a small hand suddenly stretched out from his side.
This hand is very beautiful, white and slender, with distinct joints and pink nails.
A cup of isatis root in a disposable paper cup was held in the palm of this hand, and the cup was still steaming.
"Brother, drink a cup of isatis root."
Liu Yifei's voice came from behind Wu Yuan: "The newspaper said that drinking more of this can prevent pneumonia."
Wu Yuan was stunned and reached out to take the cup of isatis root.
He really wanted to tell Liu Yifei that this rumor was a lie and that isatis root really couldn't prevent SARS.
Just facing her concerned gaze, Wu Yuan pursed his lips and thanked her: "Thank you, I see."
After all, it was the girl's good intention.
Picking up the cup of Isatis root, Wu Yuan didn't mind the heat, and drank it all in one gulp. After putting the quilt aside casually, he stood up and shouted: "Everyone get ready and start rehearsing!"
"Let's rehearse the first scene first!"
"Romeo, do you love me?"
"I know you will answer yes."
Dressed in a European-style dress, Liu Yifei gazed affectionately at Zhu Yawen who was facing her sideways, and said in the most gentle tone she could:
"And I will definitely believe what you said, but maybe the oath you made is just a lie. People say that the gods will laugh at the betrayal of lovers."
The lines are very beautiful.
But Wu Yuan, who was sitting under the stage, frowned so much that he could almost pinch a fly to death.
Although Liu Yifei had just given him a cup of Isatis root, which touched him a little, it did not mean that Wu Yuan would be tolerant of her performance.
"Stop!" Wu Yuan interrupted Liu Yifei's speech and sighed: "Sissi, the emotion of this speech is not like this.
"What was Juliet's inner emotion when she said this to Romeo?"
"It's not tenderness and infatuation, but expectation, understand?"
Liu Yifei looked confused.
To be honest, it is really difficult for her, a little girl who has never been in love, to experience the love between Romeo and Juliet.
Wu Yuan also understood this, so he tried to explain in a language that Liu Yifei could understand: "When Juliet said this to Romeo, she actually expected Romeo to give her a firm response. "
As he spoke, Wu Yuan stood up, set a model, and started reading the script:
"Oh! Gentle Romeo, if you really love me, please tell me sincerely. If you think I am too easy to give in, I will also put on an angry face, pretend to be stubborn, and reject your kindness. "
His tone was full of expectation, as if he couldn't wait for the other party to give a warm response in the next second, and his emotions were very clear.
Wu Yuan really didn't act much, he only acted in "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle", and often modestly said that he couldn't act.
But he is a director!
His understanding of the script is absolutely incomparable to ordinary actors!
He can accurately find the emotions that should be expressed and the reactions that should be given in each line of the script.
He also clearly knows how to play these roles well, and tells the actors and guides the actors to try.
If you really want to talk about it, any director who is considered excellent will definitely not be bad at acting!
Wu Yuan is willing to teach, and Liu Yifei is also willing to recognize If she really learns, even if she is a little stupid, she can always learn little by little.
Moreover, Liu Yifei is not stupid in acting.
She often fails to play a role well, mostly because she has not experienced these things personally.
She is more inclined to be an experiential actor, but her life experience is relatively scarce. She has been living a life of luxury since she was a child, and has not experienced much suffering in the world. She started acting at a young age, and her life experience is not rich.
She finds it difficult to empathize with the experiences of many characters.
Unless she experiences life for a few months according to the character's personality before filming each time, but this is obviously unrealistic for Liu Yifei.
So generally, actors like her are more suitable for the method route among the experiential ones.
Experience school is that actors must turn themselves into characters, think about what the characters think on stage, try to get into the characters, and then express the emotions of the characters.
When the camera is turned on, you are no longer acting, you are the character himself.
As for method school, although the core idea is still the experience school, it is more about skills.
It doesn't matter if you can't keep your thoughts consistent with the character. You can use some small skills to achieve the effect by calling on your own inner emotions instead of directly getting into the character to figure out the character's mood.
Simply put, for example, if an actor needs to play a gay role, the experience school really puts himself in the role as a gay, hypnotizing himself that he is gay when performing.
Method school actors do not require to really get into the role. They can imagine the opposite actor as their girlfriend or wife, and then put their own emotions into it.
Although method school also requires actors to put in emotions, at least they don't need to stand completely from the perspective of the character.
Method school means that no matter what method you use, as long as you can give the emotions required by the character, it's fine.
"If you really can't find this feeling of anticipation, I'll teach you a trick."
Wu Yuan smiled and said in a teasing tone: "You can imagine Yawen as your favorite cats and dogs."
"Every time you go home, you will call their names and expect them to rush up to greet you, right?"
"Imagine it, you put this emotion into the performance, and you can almost feel it."
When Liu Yifei heard Wu Yuan say this, she immediately understood.
But when she put her eyes on Zhu Yawen and imagined him as a Doberman she raised at home, she couldn't help laughing.
"Sorry." Liu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled while apologizing to Zhu Yawen.
Zhu Yawen looked a little embarrassed, but he still nodded in understanding: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you think of me as a pug."
"As long as you can perform this play well, anything is fine!"
On the other side, the other actors who had no role in this play listened carefully and kept Wu Yuan's words in mind.
This is the acting teaching of the top domestic director, you must learn it!
"Okay." Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction and clapped his hands to signal: "Xixi, find the feeling, let's do it again!"
If your acting skills are not good, you can teach them, you have to believe in the strength of the great director.