Chapter 440: Attitude, Lectures, Chicken Soup

"Mr. Li, I don't think kung fu and martial arts movies will really die. Of course, even if these two types are really dead, action actors will not die..."

Lin Xing said to Li Jing seriously: "Look at the audience's disgust with fairy tales, fantasy, ancient puppets, ancient costumes and even other types of fighting scenes in the past two years. If you want to talk about the audiences born in the 2000s or 2010s, they won't say anything. After all, they haven't had good ones, but the audiences born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are different. They have had good ones..."

Speaking of this, Lin Xing smiled and said: "Jiang Ning also said in an interview a few years ago that the audience will grow up. When you serve a plate of garbage, the audience may feel something when you first eat it, but after the audience grows up in a few years, they will definitely scold, 'Why did this grandson serve me a plate of this stuff in the first place?'"

This is why Lin Xing tries his best to do everything.

Maybe the audience won't feel anything in the short term, but they will definitely find out over time.

Just like the reason why classic works become classics is because they are enduring. Let alone five years, even ten or twenty years, they will still be loved by the audience.

And many classic works may not be very good in the first year of broadcast, but as time goes by, they are truly remembered by everyone.

Just like the ancient costume detective drama "The Legend of Di Gong in the Tang Dynasty" in 2000, the cast of this drama was quite large at that time, and even the director was Yu Qi who never failed.

As a result, something went wrong.

This TV series was exclusively bought out by Tansheng Satellite TV, and it was prepared to compete with CCTV's "Across the Ocean to Love You".

You should know that "Across the Ocean to Love You" is a love drama, and this kind of romantic love drama was still quite popular in 2000.

If you look at it now, then this drama is full of various minefields.

Green tea, licking dogs, abnormal love, hardworking wives, husbands who always cheat, etc.

But at that time, this drama was quite good when it was broadcast, and even the heroine Song Nan, who was only 18 years old at the time, became famous in one fell swoop.

As for "The Legend of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty", the ratings hit the worst record for Tansheng Satellite TV, and even crashed the market directly.

And for so many years, Tansheng Satellite TV has never had such a bad bet.

Not only did the industry think that "The Legend of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty" was a failed work, but even the audience at that time did not think that this TV series was good.

Everyone even felt that the movie used many detective and suspenseful methods to solve the case, which was really boring.

In the TV series complaint list in 2000, "The Legend of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty" ranked first.

As a result, a few years later, "The Legend of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty" was gradually recognized by the audience, especially with the development of the Internet, countless people began to recommend this drama.

Not only that, the rise of detective dramas later was also due to "The Legend of Judge Dee in the Tang Dynasty".

As for "Across the Ocean to Love You", no one cared at all. Only a few creators took this TV series and said it was everyone's youth when they needed to promote it.

But not many viewers bought it.

After all, whose youth is such a bloody drama? ?

But in 2000, or even ten years later, there were too many youth pain literature.

Just like youth movies always have three things in common, going abroad, abortion, death of best friends, or even sleeping with best friends, threesomes, etc.

In those years, youth movies were popular.

This is what Jiang Ning said. The market was like this back then, and many people just watched whichever one was popular and filmed it, and they could often get the meat and drink the soup.

Because of this, in those years, whether it was TV series or movies, the types of genres were too serious, but movies could easily make hundreds of millions.

Why do many people still say that those years were the best era? ?

It’s just because even if they made a piece of shit, the audience was willing to pay for it.

But again, the audience has improved, while these filmmakers are still immersed in the glory of the past, and even blame the audience for not appreciating the movies they made.

Lin Xing believes that Li Jing also knows these.

If he had made such a movie twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, the box office would definitely not be low.

But it’s not possible now.

Now people don’t like this kind of full cast of actors anymore. What people like now is to focus on the script.

But many big directors nowadays just don’t have good scripts.

Li Jing has the same problem.

He is very strong in action direction. He can design very beautiful actions, and the actors’ fighting is very vivid.

But if the script is not good, if the actors’ personalities are not good, if the characters can’t hold up, what’s the use of your good fighting scenes? ?

So a group drama like "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China" was filmed like a fight between young and dangerous people.

There are too many fighting scenes, but the audience didn’t get involved.

This was Lin Xing’s first feeling when watching "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China".

Those who know it think it’s about the eighteen heroes, and those who don’t really think it’s just boxing on the street.

As for the action director, Lin Xing thinks Li Jing is really strong. Otherwise, this is not just "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", this is the filming of eighteen masters.

In this movie, whether it is Wing Chun, Baguazhang, Bajiquan, Xingyiquan, Huojiaquan, Shaolinquan, etc., there are even sticks and guns.

In short, the action is really good.

But if the plot is not good, no matter how good the action is, the audience will not buy it, because there is no sense of substitution.

Of course, it is not Lin Xing's turn to say these, he just said that he is serious about learning action guidance.

"I don't need to be more advanced, I just need to understand this. I think actors can't always be in the same type, and even if I know some action scenes in a type, then I know whether I can do many scenes..."

This is really what Lin Xing said in his heart.

Many times, Lin Xing always feels that "art" is not a burden, especially as an actor needs to play various roles, so if you don't understand, how can you get into the role? ? ?

Even action scenes are the same.

Lin Xing may not shoot action scenes now, but this does not mean that he will never shoot action scenes.

In this way, in the next half a month, Lin Xing really treated himself as a student and worked hard to learn the action.

Of course, Lin Xing is not just a student. Situ Hui sometimes asks Lin Xing to give a lesson.

You have to know that with Lin Xing's acting skills and status, he is fully qualified to be a teacher.

"Actually, I really don't have any tricks. I just read the script, and then look at my role after reading the script..."

"I said before that I am an experientialist. I think that playing a role cannot just be about appearance. Many times we need to play underwear."

"My approach is to make myself believe that I am this role. What does this role think in my heart? What is his network of relationships? Many times the script may only have a few sentences, but what we need to consider is to dig out more of the character itself through these few sentences."

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Lin Xing does not think of himself as a mentor. He believes that everyone will make progress together.

At the same time, Lin Xing gave an example of [script] and [actual effect].

For example, when filming "Bad Kids", there were only two sentences in the script about Li Dongsheng accompanying his father-in-law and mother-in-law to climb the mountain.

[Li Dongsheng accompanied his father-in-law and mother-in-law to climb the mountain, and pushed his father-in-law and mother-in-law down when taking pictures at the top of the mountain].

How to act out such a sentence? ? ?

Lin Xing deeply analyzed the character of Li Dongsheng. He was once a favored child of heaven, and then he gave up everything to accompany his wife here.

The most important thing is that Li Dongsheng can tolerate being cuckolded, he just wants to maintain his dignity.

At the same time, he is the same to his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Of course, he knows that the old couple look down on him, but he doesn't care.

As long as you don't let your daughter divorce me.

Generally, when murderers really want to kill, especially when they kill for revenge, they actually want to give the other party a chance.

So, Li Dongsheng's words "Do you think I still have a chance?" are not so much about asking for life, but rather giving the other party and himself a chance.

But obviously, he has no chance, so he can only send the other party to death.

In addition to "Bad Kids", Lin Xing also compared his supporting role Zhou Bo in "Sweeping Black Waves" and the later "Never Breaking Line".

"In fact, when I was filming "Sweeping Black Waves", my acting skills were still a little immature, so I could only play Zhou Bo as a villain. Now when you look back at my dramas, especially the character Zhou Bo, you will only think that this person is evil. Apart from evil, he has very few other emotions..."

"But when I played Hong Yi in "Never Breaking Line", I had a lot of experience and was completely different. Hong Yi is an extremely complicated person, and you can imagine his methods because he is called Guizi Liu.

Is he a villain?

He kills people to save people.

Think about how painful it was for Hong Yi to say: "It is your comrades who sent you to the road."

Hong Yi himself couldn't tell whether he was good or evil, and his hands were stained with too much blood.

If he was Lin Xing in "Sweeping Black Waves", he really couldn't act out this kind of layering.

"This kind of thing often requires training, just like when we take exams. No matter how well you do in the mock exams before the exam, it is useless. You can only know how you are in the exam room.

Just like athletes competing, why do many people seem to be very strong but fail in the big competition? It's also because of the lack of participation.

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What Lin Xing said is quite realistic.

Just like the Olympics, some people who usually get good results in other competitions will perform poorly in the Olympics.

As I said before, experience, only with more experience can you act well, and this experience needs to be honed in various crews.

Look at many actors now, they play the leading role right away, but many of them act like fools and idiots, and are completely overshadowed by all the supporting roles.

Even Lin Xing himself thinks that if he plays the role of "Bad Kids" or even "Never Breaking Line" after Wu Yao becomes popular, Lin Xing will never be able to catch it.

Why do many people think that you can't catch it when the opportunity comes? ?

In fact, the reason is the same, because you didn't practice the basic skills before.

"Axing, I think you should give more lessons to these students..."

When Situ Hui had dinner with Lin Xing in the evening, she said with a smile: "You don't know that you are actually the idol of all of them. Everyone follows you as an example. If I give them chicken soup, they won't listen at all. You still have to give it to me." ”

For more than half a month, Lin Xing practiced action scenes while giving several lessons to these students.

As Situ Hui said, the students in this first batch are all actors who are transparent and not very popular.

Of course, there are also slightly outdated artists like Xie Long.

These people have recently regarded Lin Xing as their idol, or a motivation to persevere.

It took Lin Xing ten years to come out. Maybe we can succeed if we persist? ?

In Situ Hui's view, these actors can't talk about this group of students. Even the next group of students may not be able to succeed through persistence.

How is it possible? ? ?

But she is the teacher of [Jingwu Hall] after all, so she often needs to give some people some chicken soup for their souls.

Lin Xing didn't think so.

“I don’t think this is just chicken soup for the soul. Many times hard work may not necessarily lead to success, but if you don’t work hard, how can you succeed??”

Lin Xing shook his head slightly and said: "Actually, being an actor only has a one-in-a-ten thousand chance. This often requires not only strength, but also luck. There are many capable actors who have not become popular..."

Situ Hui believed this deeply.

In terms of acting skills, there are many male and female artists in the entire entertainment industry, but these male and female artists have become outdated and have withdrawn from the industry. They can only play supporting roles.

On the contrary, some people who were not qualified in virtue became angry.

"But Ah Xing, don't talk about this when you talk, otherwise the mentality of these students will collapse."

Situ Hui thought about it and warned.

"Don't worry, Sister Hui, I won't stir up trouble like this."

Lin Xing also laughed.

"By the way, I should be shooting a short film tomorrow. At present, Mr. Li still prefers to shoot an action movie, which is in ancient costume..."

Situ Hui said: "Because every student needs to be considered, it is considered an ensemble play. Of course, even an ensemble play has a protagonist. You, Xie Long, and Meng Fei are the absolute protagonists..."

Lin Xing didn't say anything, he just said that he knew.

On the second day, everyone gathered together in the conference room.

"Let me say a few words first. What I have sent to you is this time's script "Jinyiwei"..."

Li Jing said to everyone: "We are going to make a 50-minute short film next..."

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