I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 87 085. Just a wild path

"His Royal Highness Prince Yan has arrived~~"

With this sound, Jay Chou re-entered the stage.

But this time, Gong Li's attitude was much more casual.

I can’t say it’s not good, I can only say it’s worse than before.

But it didn't matter, because her good time just now was also recorded in the camera. It just needs to be edited in when the time comes, because both of them are given different close-ups.

"Everyone, stand down."

Following Gong Li's words, the bead curtain was pulled down again.

Then, the camera reentered the scene and focused on the two people according to the original camera position. As expected, after hearing the sound of "start", Jay Chou looked first to the right, and then to the left.

He seemed to be attracted by the sound, and then revealed a somewhat tentative curiosity:

"Queen mother?"

This time it's a question.

Listening to the voice in the headphones, Xu Xin nodded slightly.

Although that curiosity... was not qualified for him, at least he was on the right path.

Zhang Yimou also nodded slightly.

Since I have already taken a close-up shot through the curtain before, I don’t need to stop now and continue shooting.

"I have been taking your father's medicine for more than ten years. In the past few days, she suddenly changed the prescription."

Gong Li spoke while Jay Chou stood and listened.

Then after the other party pushed the book over, he picked it up directly.

Watch and tremble.

"The queen got sick yesterday. Is it because of it?"

"..."

"Father...ahem...sorry, sorry..."

When he saw Gong Li nodding, Jay Chou subconsciously used the same body language of looking left and right, but suddenly coughed, causing the filming to be temporarily interrupted.

Xu Xin frowned again.

Didn't I tell you that you are building an image for the audience... Why did you suddenly become pretentious again?

At this time, Zhang Yimou suddenly turned around and said:

"You are talking to him."

"……ah?"

Xu Xin was stunned for a moment, but immediately nodded:

"Hey, okay."

As he stood up and walked towards Jay Chou, he was a little surprised.

Did Director Zhang see himself just now?

Thinking about it, he walked to Jay Chou, and Gong Li, who was sitting still on the chair, also looked over.

"Teacher Gong."

Xu Xin greeted politely, and then said to Jay Chou under Gong Li's interested eyes:

"Don't always try to express your emotions with your eyes... Didn't I just tell you that expressions are promoted through the body. You see, after the queen mother told you about this Aconitum, the first thing you have to do is It's anger. Not surprise. Because that's... Put your emotions into perspective, if someone really wanted to harm someone you cherish, would you think about other things? Wouldn't you pick up the knife first? What's more, it's your mother! "

"..."

Jay Chou was speechless.

I always feel that these words are insulting.

Then I heard Xu Xin continue to say:

"So, don't use your eyes to act, you won't be able to express yourself that way. Didn't you just start to tremble with anger? Then use this tremor to ask directly. Don't look around, look directly at the queen, do you understand? ? Look directly and ask questions. There is no need for your eyes to wander around. You can try to change your tone... Look here."

He pointed to the script in his hand:

"After you ask: Is it because of this that my mother fell ill yesterday? And the queen nodded. The moment you saw her nodding, you turned the anger into an emotion that couldn't wait to dig out the truth, and quickly asked. Why hurry? ? Because you are anxious and you are worried about her, understand? You worry about your mother first, and then you will consider why your father is doing this. So... when you see your mother nodding, ask directly, understand? Don't hesitate, don't say anything. Think about it, as a son of man, you care about your mother, so that the audience can create an image of you as a filial son in their hearts, do you understand?"

"Well……"

To be honest, Jay Chou's first reaction when he saw Xu Xin coming over was "Why are you here again?" But after hearing this, before he was sure whether what the other party said was right or not, he suddenly heard Gong Lilai sitting on the stool. One sentence:

"You can try Xiao Xu's method. I can leave you a beat this time."

"?"

Jay Chou looked at Gong Li subconsciously:

"beat?"

"Yes, I promise you. After speaking, you speak directly and in a faster tone. Xiao Xu, is this what you mean?"

When she turned to look at Xu Xin, her tone was smiling.

Xu Xin nodded:

"That's right... Anyway, you give it a try. I think it would be better to handle it this way, okay?"

Nodding to Jay Chou, Xu Xin opened the curtain and walked out.

Liu Guonan, who had just sat down on the chair, his eyes falling on Xu Xin for some reason, paused for a while and then said:

"Then let's do it all over again..."

…

"The queen got sick yesterday. Is it because of it?"

Looking at the worried Prince Jie, the Queen nodded slightly and responded softly:

"Um."

Before he finished speaking, a quick question came from the close-up:

"Why would my father do this?"

After he issued the impatient and oppressive question, the queen seemed to be hesitating.

Hesitant to tell him.

This impatience was blocked at once, and it was removed silently, replaced by an unhurried tone:

"Yuanjie."

Calling out her son's name, she stood up.

There was still the entanglement, the same hatred and desolation, but facing her son, she chose the calmest tone:

"I will tell you everything after the Double Ninth Festival."

Yuan Jie was anxious, but the queen was slow.

The more urgent he is, the slower she becomes.

And in this rush and slowdown, Zhang Yimou nodded.

Um.

This tastes just right.

The acting is still too bad... but at least he's on the right track.

…

"Every day, in front of your father..."

In the close-up shot in the middle of the screen, bright red and gold, paired with a dignified and sarcastic face, the queen played by Gong Li turns her back to Prince Jie and says to herself:

"I'm going to pretend I don't know anything."

"..."

"Every hour, I have to drink these poisons calmly."

Irony turned into self-deprecation.

"I will die the way your father wants."

"..."

"...But I don't want to die like this!"

Self-deprecation, in this sentence, turned into a kind of determination.

Camera switch.

She turned around and sat down again.

After sitting down, she seemed to have transformed from the woman who was murdered by her husband to the empress of the world.

With that dignity, she said:

"Double Ninth Night, I want to end all this..."

…

Oh shit.

What a great acting!

His eyes were locked on Gong Li's face on the monitor.

Xu Xin began to curse in his heart.

I couldn't help but curse.

Because he couldn't find a more appropriate word to describe Gong Li in front of him.

It's really good.

The acting is really great.

The mastery of various emotions, the display of basic line skills, and the emotional expression that transforms from lines to emotions without any abruptness at all...

He was shocked from the bottom of his soul.

At this moment, beauty and ugliness actually no longer matter.

The important thing is that in his heart, it no longer matters who Gong Li and the Queen are, and who plays whom.

He didn't know how good Gong Li was now.

It's really hard to guess and can't tell.

But the role of the Queen can already make people ignore the actor and immerse themselves in it naturally.

Just this level...

Gong Li is truly one of the most accomplished actresses in the Chinese film industry.

It’s so fucking enlightening!

Staring at the queen in the picture, Xu Xin sighed and praised.

pity……

While listening to the dialogue between the two in the earphones, while praising each other's acting skills, he always felt a sense of regret spreading in his heart.

No matter how you say it, Jay Chou's scenes were completely smashed.

There is no doubt about this.

Even if I am helping to sort it out, the gap is there...

Gong Li is like a Ferrari, as fast as she wants and as slow as she wants. Regardless of whether he helps Jay Chou or not, he is just a bicycle at best.

No matter how fast you go, you can't catch him. When I wanted to slow down, I suddenly found that the gate line had been cut by some grandson...

What a pity...

By the way, who is suitable for this role?

Chen Kun?

it should be OK.

But his age doesn't seem to match Prince Jie's.

Zhou Jie?

Not very good, he always likes to roar when filming, and you can see it when he was filming Huan Zhugege.

Who else?

His thoughts subconsciously went astray until he heard a voice:

"Xiao Xu, please help him sort it out again. It seems that Gong Li was not in the right mood when he took the medicine."

"Oh well."

Hearing Zhang Yimou's words, Xu Xin nodded, stood up and walked over.

The plot at this time is that Gong Li decided to force the emperor to abdicate, but Prince Jie did not dare, thinking that he was his father after all. At this time, Shen Shi happened to catch up, and it was time for the queen to take medicine.

Shen Shi's plot had been filmed in the morning, and now, the palace maid who was supposed to serve the medicine came in to deliver the medicine.

Prince Jie watched his mother drink the bowl of poison. His anger defeated his reason and he said that he wanted to help his mother.

But Jay Chou's mood was not right.

Xu Xin, whose thoughts were wandering, quickly recovered and walked into the curtain.

As a result, I saw the palace maid holding the medicine at a glance. It was that... what was her name?

Oh yes, that girl from Zhao Liying.

At this moment, she was standing with several palace maids, looking intently at herself.

Xu Xin said nothing.

Instead, he walked up to Jay Chou.

But Gong Li suddenly said with great interest:

"Xiao Xu, what are you going to do?"

"..."

Xu Xin felt a bad taste in her smile again.

Good guy, you were in tears just now.

Faces can change so quickly.

While thinking about it, he said to Jay Chou:

"How long can you hold your breath?"

"...not sure, but my lung capacity is good."

Jay Chou is right.

What's wrong with a singer's lung capacity?

He nodded:

"Hold your breath during this period, and then twist your arms. Keep your expression calm... Our teacher in the theory class taught us this trick to express anger. You can try it..."

"Holding your breath? Are you still twisting your arms?...Are you sure?"

When Jay Chou heard this, his face looked a little ridiculous.

"You didn't lie to me, did you?"

"..."

Xu Xin shrugged:

"The purpose of holding your breath is to hurt your face, especially these two areas."

He pointed to his temple:

"Make these two blood vessels bulge. The same principle applies to the veins on the neck. When a person is holding his breath to the limit, his body will tremble. You can bite your teeth, but don't open your mouth. Bite your back molars. It will make your temples bulge as well. Coupled with the pain of holding your breath, it is the crudest way to express anger. Just try it and you will know~"

Teachers will talk about film and television theory, acting theory, and these techniques.

It happened that Xu Sanjin, a reformed prodigal, listened more seriously than anyone else.

In fact, he also saw that the difficulty of Jay Chou's acting skills is not that he likes to express some emotions with his eyes like many novices.

It is true that eyes are a very important part of acting.

But as he just said, acting should first be driven by emotion, facial expressions or body language, and then revealed to the audience.

It's not that his eyes were wandering when he came up.

Let’s talk homely.

Eyes can't speak. No matter how much you try to show some acting skills, it's nothing more than blinking, squinting, staring, or looking around.

With these few physiological movements, just trying to control the eyes to express everything is the most common misunderstanding for new actors.

After all, there is only one Liang Chaowei.

The same is true for Jay Chou, but his biggest shortcoming is not this, but his lack of theoretical knowledge.

Yang Mi's so-called "template flow", also known as Stanislav's system, requires actors to record all the emotions in life at all times, because these emotions are real and can be felt.

Record these emotions in your heart and use them directly when needed to create empathy.

This is the so-called method school.

Let’s not say whether this girl has learned things wrongly, but at least she is on the right path.

It's not some wild way.

But Jay Chou's acting skills... not to mention Zhang Yimou couldn't tell, even Xu Xin could see it at a glance. He was by no means from an orthodox academic background. At most, he had only taken acting classes... or "acting coaching". .

He lacks expressive tension.

It can even be said that his knowledge of acting only exists in "making expressions".

If no one talks to him about it, he will never understand why "emotion" plays such an important role in acting.

A good actor must make the audience empathize from the inside out.

Don't worry about the protagonist and supporting characters, whether they are villains or decent characters, they have to act like whatever they are playing.

But he's not.

If you want to be angry, then I will stare.

If you want to be sad, then I will just stare.

If you want joy...hey~ then I'll squint!

My eyes are small anyway...

These things are performance, not acting.

He doesn't understand acting at all.

And it was precisely because Xu Xin understood this that he asked him to use some acting skills to fill the void in this aspect.

His main occupation is singing.

It is simply unrealistic to ask him to come from a traditional academic background.

Therefore, all Xu Xin could do for him was to help him sort out the character's context, and then tell him some techniques that he could use naturally even though he also learned them from his teacher.

Don't even think about Gong Libiao's acting skills.

But at least... being able to keep up, instead of making the audience want to fast forward when they see him, is the limit of what Xu Xin can do.

But even so, what he taught Jay Chou was enough for him to use.

Why?

Because these are what the teacher taught him.

And what teachers choose to teach students must be valuable knowledge summarized bit by bit through the experience of predecessors.

Therefore, it must be the right way to go this way.

After explaining these skills, leave the other party some time to think.

He walked back to the chair behind Zhang Yimou...

I suddenly want to go back to school for no reason.

If I knew more things, could I teach better?

he thought.

Then as I was thinking about it, I suddenly thought of something.

Before he could ask Teacher Yu what he told the school.

Take a break from school? Or take a leave?

The Olympics are still more than two years away.

If you're asking for leave...it seems like you'll graduate after the Olympics are over?

But the problem is...

I haven’t learned anything yet!

But if instead of asking for leave, he takes a leave of absence from school, then after more than two years of busy work, wouldn't he have to go back and study again as a freshman?

Don't.

Do we, Mr. Xu, have no face?

The classmates in the same batch as him are about to graduate, but they meet him in his freshman year?

Then how will we, Lao Xu, behave in the future?

Looking at the monitor, Prince Jie was so angry that his veins popped out and his whole body was shaking because he watched his mother drink the bowl of poison...

he thought to himself.

…

In one afternoon, according to the script, a total of four scenes were shot.

In fact, many outsiders don't understand why it is so slow to film a scene that is just a scene-to-scene change of shots. But the actual situation is like this. The actors make mistakes, the director is not satisfied, and the setting takes time... not to mention the big scenes later.

Xu Xin estimated that the four scenes shot this afternoon were only five or six minutes long at most.

But that's not all, because there is also a night show in the evening.

The afternoon drama ended, and the weather became a little cooler due to the time.

But just because the movie was filmed, it didn't mean that Xu Xin could rest.

Together with Zhang Yimou and the Olympic creative team, he came to the tent that smelled of Fengyoujing.

The meeting lasted until dinner, and everyone came out of the tent.

Xu Xin glanced at the phone:

"I'm done filming! Oh ho!"

"Hey, Teacher Yu taught me a trick."

"Young man, have you ever seen what half-step collapse fist is?"

"Hey, let me tell you... my treatment today is really very different, you know? Really, the difference... is too big. The one who hurt me a few days ago, today I apologized specifically!"

"Teacher Xu~Are you done?"

"Director Xu~ Remember to tell me when you're done~ When you come back, I'll let you try my half-step collapse fist!"

"Oh! It's time to get off work! I'm in the car. I'll read Jiang Chan's script when I get back."

"Tell me when you come back."

"Half-step collapse fist, oh ho!"

This woman...

Looking at these inexplicable text messages, Xu Xin shook his head in amusement.

As a result, a sound suddenly appeared next to him:

"Chatting with Xiao Yang?"

"Oh fuck!"

Xu Xin was suddenly frightened and took a step back.

And his big reaction shocked Wei Lanfang.

"Sister Wei, do you want to scare me to death?"

Xu Xin couldn't laugh or cry, and Wei Lanfang was even more speechless:

"I thought you were going to scare me to death!"

"...No, what are you doing?"

While he was talking, he suddenly discovered that Ma Wen, who had something wrong with her eyes during the meeting just now, was also looking at him.

After hearing this, Wei Lanfang said maliciously:

"What are you talking about?... Let me ask you, did you chat with Jay Chou this afternoon!"

"...Have you two installed monitors on the set?"

Xu Xin was speechless.

"Come on this."

Ma Wen, who had been wearing a peaked cap since the afternoon, put on a malicious look and smiled softly:

"Xiao Xu, sister is usually nice to you, right?"

"...Sister Ma, let's have a bite to eat first, okay? I've been struggling all afternoon, can you give me a full meal before beheading?"

"sure……"

Ma Wen nodded generously, but her finger pointed in a very subtle direction:

"Hey, look who that is."

Looking in the direction she pointed, Xu Xin saw the unlucky Jay Chou sitting in front of his RV eating rice.

Look at how unlucky you look!

Why don’t you just go back to the car and eat?

Xu Xin rolled his eyes angrily:

"Just tell me what to do..."

Then the sister took off the hat on her head.

"Xiao Xu~~~~"

"...Sister Wei, where are you?"

He reluctantly took the hat and turned to look at Wei Lanfang.

After taking it, he watched Wei Lanfang take out a notepad from his bag that he knew was a new one.

The notepad is quite girlish, with a colorful cartoon cover.

"I have low expectations, Xiao Xu, Wei Tingting, that Ting from the female pavilion - Wei Tingting, I hope you study hard, come on!"

“Isn’t that asking too much!?”

Xu Xin came up as soon as he heard the blessings and was speechless.

Wei Lanfang chuckled:

"Hey, hurry up, I'll treat you to a barbecue when I go back tonight, okay?"

"... Then you two can help me get a meal."

"OK, hurry up~"

"Remember to write your name correctly!"

Listening to the urging of the two people, Xu Xin nodded helplessly:

"knew."

Holding a hat and this colorful cartoon notebook, Xu Xin walked directly towards Jay Chou.

When he was almost there, Jay Chou looked up and saw him.

He stopped eating and called Dani into the carriage:

"Dani, bring out the drinks."

After shouting, Jay Chou, still wearing makeup on his face, said with a smile:

"Hey, let's eat together? I have sausages here from Wanwan Province~"

"Why don't you eat with the big guys?"

Walking up to him, Xu Xin asked.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of opening the door.

In the commercial vehicle next to the RV, the security personnel who had stopped him at the hotel entrance all got out of the vehicle.

"..."

Jay Chou frowned and shrugged at Xu Xin.

The answer is self-evident.

At this time, Dani also appeared at the door of the RV holding a bottle of drink.

After seeing Xu Xin, she quickly said:

"I'll get it again."

"No, no, don't take it."

Looking at Jay Chou who looked a little apologetic, Xu Xin waved his hand:

"Sign your name and hat, and the notebook is a girl named Wei Tingting. The Ting next to the female character is a blessing. I hope you will study hard."

As he spoke, he handed over his hat and notebook.

"no problem."

Jay Chou agreed happily:

"Dani, bring me a pen."

"oh!"

There was a response from inside.

Then, after the chubby girl came out with a pen and a drink, she glanced at the security guards and said:

"Teacher Xu is the director, what are you guys doing?!"

With that said, she stopped directly in front of those people.

Very different from the previous attitude.

Jay Chou didn't say anything. He signed the cap first, then opened the notebook's title page, raised his head and confirmed:

"Which WEI?"

"Wei Yixiao."

"Oh~"

He wrote a blessing in a swipe, signed his signature, and handed it to Xu Xin.

Xu Xin nodded:

"Thanks... By the way, we have your show tonight, right?"

"Hmm...I'll talk to you about the script later?...I'm also annoyed that they're here."

He chose to speak out.

It doesn't matter if those security guards sound good or not.

Xu Xin also agreed happily:

"Okay, I'll see you after dinner. I'll give the signature to someone else first... By the way."

"ah?"

"The sister in our team bought a hundred copies of your "Chopin in November", so... I have to find you in a few days."

"..."

With eyes wide open, Xu Xin saw the corners of his mouth twitching.

Laughed:

"Haha, let's go."

After waving his hand and holding his hat and notepad, he walked towards the lunchbox master.

After walking a certain distance, I turned back.

The security guards had returned to the car.