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In a 14-story tenement building in Chinatown, San Francisco, the props and camera crew of the crew of the "Detective Chinatown" were also busy debugging the on-site tools, lighting teams, art teams, and set teams.

Several old faces in the Cheng Family Class stood aside to check Cheng Long's Wildlife and did a jumping drill. Li Zi stood on the rooftop with a hesitation on his face, looking downstairs, with fear in his eyes.

"Safe, don't you jump."

The eldest brother Long smiled and patted Little Lizi on the shoulder, revealing his body as relaxed as a joke. "Don't look at the height, it's actually not difficult to jump up."

"Does it take such a life to make a movie?" Little Lizi asked tremblingly.

This is much more dangerous than running to play with a water gun.

"My movies have always been like this. In action movies, you always have to make the tickets worth the tickets for the audience, right? Wu told me that our performance in movies must be ahead of the audience. This way we will have a sense of expectation.

But don't worry, there are usually substitutes. My brothers follow me around the world and have experienced many battles." Cheng Long used a non-standard English pronunciation to tell the words that Little Lizi understood.

"Jack--"

Wu Xiaozu suddenly waved to the Tool Dragon, followed Lin Chaoxian and Jiang Digui with a smile.

"Director." Little Lizi quickly stood attentively and said hello.

Wu Xiaozu glanced at the handsome little Lizi who was about to catch up with him, and showed a fatherly smile, "How is it?"

"It's incredible that making movies is harder than I thought. My acting experience in TV shows is not very useful here."

Little Li Zi looked at Wu Xiaozu, who was more handsome than him, and was more mature and more masculine.

Who doesn't want to be such a charming man? Yes.

"Don't be nervous, sit."

Looking at Li Zi, who seemed to be about 600% of the beautiful figures when he was young, he calmly pressed his hands down and sat down together.

"Leon, what do you think the performance is?"

"Play a character well." Li Zi, who has a low level of education, used her only knowledge reserves to describe: "It is to play a character particularly similar..."

"You are too general." Wu Xiaozu turned his head and looked at Lin Chaoxian and Jiang Digui again, "What do you think?"

"It should be a way to convey drama." Jiang Digui said very seriously.

Lin Chaoxian nodded, approving his words.

"This is an understanding and definition of performance, but have you ever thought about how to tap the potential of actors, or how to do what you said?" Wu Xiaozu raised his legs and stretched out his hand. Lin Chaoxian hurriedly gave him a cigar, and Jiang Digui helped ignite it.

Little Lizi also took the ashtray and put it in a convenient place for Director Wu.

"Audiences have an outside-in feeling when watching a play. They need to see the content of the drama itself and the inner thoughts of the characters through the actor's language, shape, costume, makeup, and style. When you start to perform, you lose your most moving physique."

Wu Xiaozu's voice attracted a lot of attention, and Cheng Long, Chen Chong, and others also came over. Except for Chen Chong, all of them were from wild ways.

"So, since you start acting, the first thing you need to understand is what performance is. Performance is expression, expression, and performance is interpretation. In the simplest words, to summarize it is through our external, that is, to feel the inner heart, and then express the inner things through the body. Therefore, for actors, performance is an external-inside-out process.

Therefore, actors should express the scripts, lines, characters, and inner feelings we know from the inside out to the audience. The audience's experience from the outside to the inside. If you don't feel the inner things when acting, for example, crying for the sake of crying, the performance is the surface.

That's not a performance, but a performance. Performance is an external-external process. This is putting the cart before the horse... So, in the early stage of acting, your teacher will definitely tell you, listen, watch, and feel. At this stage, what you cry is not the character, what you cry is your own sadness."

Speaking of this, Wu Xiaozu looked at Lin Chaoxian and Jiang Digui, "For new actors, it is most effective to use real experience to inspire inexperienced actors. For example, if you can't cry when you cry, you can think of your deceased relatives.

Of course, as you eat in this industry, you can’t always think that your relatives will die or break up, you can do it once or twice... If you have too many, you will become numb."

"So what should I do?" Chen Chong took the small notebook and asked for advice very sincerely.

"If you have more and more experience in acting, then you have entered a golden stage of actors, which is a purely technical stage. You can just smile and scold them with your own hands, cry quickly, and stop immediately after the performance. The skills are very good, and the acting is right. At this time, what you lack is emotion and explosiveness. Some actors even stagnate at this stage and can constantly extract their own "emoticon packages" to complete the performance.

If you just start to enjoy your technical performance, then you stop in the process of going from vulgarity to elegant. All your expressions are used correctly, and the characters are done well, but lack glory. If you want to be truly brilliant, then you will reach the end of vulgarity."

Don’t think that Wu Xiaozu has gained nothing when he was attending the film academy. He has indeed improved his understanding and sublimation of film and performance.

In other words, the training actors are more capable.

With a slight movement, the actor's whole body trembled in an instant.

"In this line book, don't always think about what "happy" and "sad" marked by the screenwriter in brackets. I ask you, "happy", how to act "sad"? "You must combine the plot before and after and grasp the whole play.

A line is performed in one go, which makes people moved, but where is the emotional explosion? Which one has come back? This must be controlled layer by layer. Your excellence may not be in this word, but there must be an emotional explosion in this range, and then the emotions are given to the lines from the inside out. At this time, whether crying or laughing, it is the emotion of the character. The "truth" at this time is definitely not the truth in your first stage, but the truth of the character.

Taking crying as an example, the first stage is real emotional crying, the second stage is technical crying, and the third stage is real emotional crying, but this is crying based on the emotions of the characters.

So I often say that rhythm is very important. This requires you to constantly practice and temper your body, your volume, line rhythm, and performance rhythm."

Wu Xiaozu's self-awareness of the performance benefited a lot from everyone on the scene.

Little Lizi began to understand how she should express her emotions, but it was nothing more than substitution.

Chen Chong was also thinking about how to move from technicality to the third stage.

"Don't act as the 'first'."

Wu Xiaozu looked at Chen Chong, "You often play the role of a policeman, and you often play it for the first time. It's like you go to work on the first day. However, when a policeman who has been working for more than ten years, she can talk to the family of the deceased, she can be sympathetic, but it must be professional, because it is definitely not the first time she has encountered such a thing.

Also, I think you are used to writing biography of characters, right? Have you ever thought about why you wrote so much, but when you were playing against Brother Long and others on the spot, you were very different? I often shouted "Can"?"

Chen Chong held his legs together, with a look of shame on his face.

She has seen the world...

However, in the crew of "Detective Chinatown", she was really embarrassed. Except for the fact that Little Li was often called out for her because of her immatureness, she was called out for more than a dozen times. This is definitely a blow to an actor.

"You guys will prepare for the scenes that will be filmed immediately. Ah Xian and you, Kang Digui, will tell Leon what to film soon. The rest will disperse, too." Wu Xiaozu waved his hand.

The on-site staff also returned to their respective jobs.

Then, Wu Xiaozu waved his hand at Chen Chong and signaled to sit next to him. The latter sat next to Wu Xiaozu and sat down with a plump buttocks.

"You wrote a biography of the characters, right?"

"Yes."

"Take it and see." Wu Xiaozu took the other party's notebook and said with a smile: "You wrote a biography after reading the script, which is a good advantage."

Wu Xiaozu praised him and then changed his voice.

"But this also misleads your understanding of the characters. You designed various plots at home, designed the way to speak lines, and designed the rhythm...

However, when you go to rehearse on site, you will actually find that you are working behind closed doors. Because when rehearsing, the opponent actors will constantly give you different excitement. From the beginning of the audition to the end of the filming, many things often change.

Not only your understanding of the characters is changing, but the direction of the characters will also change, your opponents will also change, and even I will schedule the scene and need to make certain adjustments. But you have already defined the characters in your mind early, which has hindered your judgment of the characters.

A real biography is what you need to do after you keep getting along with your opponent and correcting it. In this way, you will understand more clearly what you are going to play when the filming officially starts. Instead of drawing a tree in your heart in advance, and then growing and performing as the tree."

Chen Chong was close to Director Wu, and when he heard the other party's words, he suddenly realized and felt a sudden understanding.

"I always think that those who can't act, those who can act."

Wu Xiaozu smiled and patted Chen Chong's thigh three times. The latter felt enlightened and hurriedly pulled down his short hair.

"Director..." Seeing the other party get up, Chen Chong suddenly spoke: "I think your movie theoretical posture is really inspiring to me. Can I ask for advice in the evening?"

"Your performances have been doing addition, from liberating nature, no physical practice, animal imitation, concentration, improvisation, observing characters, sketches, and finally creating characters.

It's like the process of wearing clothes, wearing underwear, vest, autumn clothes, autumn pants, then wearing sweaters, sweaters, sweaters, and finally wearing a down jacket. Do you think you can still be free to perform? If you want to make progress, what you need is to do subtraction."

Wu Xiaozu smiled slightly, "If you really want to ask for knowledge, then I can help you with subtraction."

"I do." Chen Chong nodded quickly.

Otherwise, what if Wu Xiaozu is good at training actors? He is really informative.

There is a saying in Grotovsky's performance theory: Physiological stimulation. Don't think he makes up the truth. This is true! It is also a particularly important part of performance theory!
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