Entertaining Children

Text Chapter 24 Doing Things

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"It's really amazing!" Zhao Xinghua waved his hand, signaling the candidates to be quiet, and smiled at Xiao Yao.

"Thank you teacher for the compliment." Xiao Yao smiled reservedly.

"Let's not talk about your photographic memory, anyway, I feel like I have more than a thousand words." Zhao Xinghua asked Xiao Yao very interestedly, "What I want to know most now is, is your ability to multi-task from birth? Did you have it? When did you discover that you have this ability? Or did you develop it through some special method?"

Compared with Xiao Yao's terrifying memory, Zhao Xinghua is more interested in Xiao Yao's true distraction and multitasking. Reading scripts and memorizing lines are indeed things that every actor cannot avoid, but no matter how excellent your ability in this area is, it cannot be concluded that you will definitely be able to become an excellent actor. And this kind of thing, even if you are less talented, you can still solve it, it just takes more time than others. But this kind of distraction and multi-purpose is different. This kind of talent and ability is even more rare for an actor.

The performance department of Shenxi Opera is the same as that of Yan Dian, and it mainly teaches the methods of the Stanislav system. That is to say, they are also teaching students how to fully integrate into the character, merging the actor and the character into one person. But everything needs to be mastered to a certain degree. In acting, this involves the actor's first self and second self.

The first self is the id, the life form of a natural person. The second self is the rational "I", an ideology, a self-rational understanding formed during the growth process, and a carrier that carries various cultures, thoughts, and ideologies. For an actor's performance, the first self is the original self, and the second self is naturally the "self" of the character played, which is formed by the character's thought, spirit, and soul.

In the performance, what the actor pursues is the overlap of the first self and the second self, turning himself into the character he wants to play, and performing in the state of the "self" of the character. At that moment, "I" is no longer the actor himself, but the living character. This is what is called "playing".

But if an actor is too involved in the play, there may be a phenomenon that "the play is over" or it is difficult to separate from the role.

When Sun Zhihao asked Xiao Yao to act in a play for the first time, he also talked about this issue. At that time, on the one hand, Sun Zhihao believed that after Xiao Siqi's remarriage, Xiao Yao's involvement in the drama would not be too deep;

Even when Xiao Yao played "Chengying" in the first TV series, he was somewhat related to this question. When Xiao Yao has been in the role of "Cheng Ying" outside of filming, it is actually a manifestation of "too deep into the film". It's just that he was still a child at that time, and the role of "Chengying" was not annoying, so everyone was more tolerant of his state, and didn't force him to leave the role and interrupt his role experience. But if Xiao Yao played every role in every play like this, I am afraid that few crews could stand him.

The most ideal state is that when an actor enters the play with emotional experience, he can also rationally supervise his performance, grasp and control the level of his performance, which means that he needs to be distracted for two purposes.

However, this is only a theoretical ideal state. In real life, even those extremely powerful movie stars and post-actors have never seen anyone who can really divide the heart into two parts, sensibility and rationality, and can really do this. Yes, probably only schizophrenic patients?

So when Zhao Xinghua saw Xiao Yao's true "one mind, three functions", the old man was extremely excited and excited. In his heart, Xiao Yao definitely has rare advantages and talents in acting. In Xiao Yao, he also saw the possibility of putting that purely theoretical idealized state into practice.

Therefore, the old man didn't even care about Xiao Yao's calligraphy. He first cared about whether Xiao Yao's skill of "multitasking with distraction" was innate or could be cultivated through certain methods.

"It can be regarded as congenital and acquired," Xiao Yao said, "To be honest, my brain is indeed better than ordinary people. I have a particularly good memory since I was a child, and I can learn things quickly, but it is difficult to maintain concentration for a long time. I In elementary school, although my grades were good, I was often distracted in class, and I was scolded by the teacher for this. Later in junior high school, I memorized all the things that needed to be memorized in Chinese and foreign languages ​​in advance. When I was in class, I secretly learned Korean by myself in class. In order not to disturb other students, and at the same time not to be discovered by the teacher, I sandwiched Korean textbooks in the English books and Chinese books that were erected, and tried to read English with my mouth. , but I was looking at Korean textbooks. Maybe my brain is really good, but I found that I actually learned Korean with this method. That was the first time I found that I could use two things at once.

"Damn it, that's fine!" The candidates at the scene probably have the experience of doing other things in class, but it's unheard of for people like Xiao Yao to be able to read Korean while reading English texts. It's something you can't even think about.

"Later, I intentionally strengthened my training in this area." Xiao Yao continued, "I can play musical instruments, and it's not a small number, so I first practice and try to play musical instruments, and try to play musical instruments. Playing the guitar and playing the harmonica at the same time, and later adding the drums with my feet. That’s how I practiced the performance in the blind selection of "The Voice". Later, I think playing three instruments at the same time is actually more important. I played the same piece of music without any major rhythm changes, so I started to try to do different things at the same time, such as today’s reciting, calligraphy and playing at the same time. practiced."

"That is to say, you are born with a good brain that is different from ordinary people, coupled with acquired practice, you have developed this ability?" Zhao Xinghua said.

"Yes." Xiao Yao nodded.

"Then which of these two factors do you think is more important?" Zhao Xinghua continued to ask.

"They should all be very important," Xiao Yao said, "but if I have to say which factor is more important, I would like to borrow Edison's words: Genius is one percent inspiration, plus ninety-nine percent inspiration. sweat..."

"Isn't this the famous quotes hanging in the corridor outside the primary and secondary school classrooms?" Many candidates laughed in their hearts.

"Does that mean that working hard the day after tomorrow is more important?" Zhao Xinghua laughed.

"No," Xiao Yao shook his head, "I heard that there are half a sentence behind this sentence, but that one percent inspiration is the most important, even more important than that ninety-nine percent sweat. I I know that this sentence is posted in the corridors of many schools, but there has never been only the first half of the sentence, not the second half. In fact, I don’t know whether Edison said the second half of the sentence, but I personally agree with the second half.”

"Take me for example," Xiao Yao pointed to the piece of rice paper on the table, "I started learning calligraphy when I was three years old, and photography when I was eight years old. The time spent learning and practicing calligraphy is longer than that of photography." There are too many, but now my photography works have been published in many professional photography magazines, but my calligraphy still has only form but no spirit, which can only be regarded as passable. How can I say that calligraphy magazines will publish my calligraphy I don’t believe in the works myself. The reason for this is that my talent in calligraphy is not as good as that in photography, so I think talent is more important.”

"You can still take pictures?" Zhao Xinghua stared. As a scholar who focuses on theoretical teaching in school, Zhao Xinghua's understanding of Xiao Yao, the second generation star, is obviously not comprehensive.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "I am the youngest photographer whose work has been published in France's "City Picture" and the United States' "World Geography." Since it is a talent show, Xiao Yao doesn't mind introducing himself more talent. It's not convenient to perform live, so it goes without saying.

"Damn it, is this guy human?" Among the candidates, there were many who didn't know Xiao Yao well enough.

"Do you know why we keep calling him a monster?" Lin Qisan said to Nina with a smile, "I used to be in the Eva show's scene under his photographer's influence."

Mr. Zhao Xinghua no longer knew what words to use to describe his mood at this time. Looking down at the rice paper on the table in front of him, Zhao Xinghua picked up Xiao Yao's calligraphy, changed the subject, and said, "Your evaluation of your own calligraphy is rather pertinent. Considering your age, it is quite rare... Wait, what are you writing?"

"A modern poem created by myself." Xiao Yao smiled.

"What's the matter?" Several other examiners and teachers also looked curiously at the rice paper in Zhao Xinghua's hand, and then looked at Xiao Yao with complicated eyes, with a wry smile on their faces.

"What did you write?" The teaching assistants at the back also stood up slightly and looked at the rice paper, while the other examinees next to them looked at the examiners with puzzled faces, wondering why the examiners were like this reaction.

"You read it." Zhao Xinghua noticed everyone's expressions, and handed the rice paper in his hand to a teaching assistant behind him.

The teaching assistant behind Zhao Xinghua stood up and took the rice paper, and then recited aloud with the three-chamber resonance that he had practiced for many years: "If the talent is not recognized..."

"Pfft!" The teaching assistants next to him immediately sprayed, and the candidates also looked at Xiao Yao with constipated expressions.

"If talent is not recognized? You won the Fei Tian Award for best newcomer for actors, the "Golden Disc" award for music, your photography works were published in magazines, and you have been to Oscars. How do you want others to recognize you? Your talent? Are you guilty of writing this kind of poem, Xiao Yao?" Many people complained in their hearts.

"Since today

no one knows a star

then tomorrow

Why not be a bright moon. "

After the teaching assistant finished reading, he returned the rice paper to Zhao Xinghua and sat down. He looked at Xiao Yao with the same complex expression and dumbfounded expression.

Xiao Yao wrote a modern poem by Wang Guozhen, a former modern poet, called "If Talent Is Not Recognized". There is nothing wrong with this poem itself, it is a very inspirational and positive modern poem, but when it is written on this occasion, it makes people feel a little wry. This is an art test to test talent, and the "star" in the two most impressive sentences at the end just corresponds to their future "star" status.

"Just now I told the two of us not to make trouble, but in a blink of an eye I wrote such a poem," Lin Qisan rolled his eyes in his heart and said, "Now it's obvious that you are doing things, okay?"

"The poem itself is very good, especially the last two lines, which are very flavorful." Zhao Xinghua commented with a smile, "But why did you write such a poem on this occasion? Do you think you can't pass the exam?" No Pop-up window, update in time!