my time as a director

Putting down the water glass, Li Qian said with a smile, "Director Zhou is right. Truman left this false world and returned to the real. This scene is echoed from beginning to end. It is used in many movies like this. It is often watched with doubts, anger, and apprehension at the beginning." End, revisit the ending with regret, satisfaction, and doubts.

Just like the classic spy war movie Bourne, Bourne is floating in the sea at the beginning, and the end of the third part is also floating in the sea. In the same scene, the former is full of doubts and despair, but the latter has a promising future. Transition from one mood, state, to another. "

They actually agreed with Zhou Xingchi's words, which surprised everyone.

Even Zhou Xingchi was a little surprised that he agreed to his plan so easily?

Li Qian turned around and said, "However, although Truman is about to change from falsehood to truth, Truman has not changed from the beginning to the end. He is still the enthusiastic, cheerful, and laughing Truman. No matter what the environment is, he is still the real one." Truman."

In Li Qian's setting, this scene is not as absurd as Zhou Xingchi said, even the smile and sunshine on his face are ironic, ironic about this false world, ironic about the plot that will last for more than an hour.

I just laughed and greeted my neighbors with a sunny face. Compared with the ending, the smile is just a little brighter and simpler, and it will not be overly exaggerated or ironic.

Zhou Xingchi said, "However, the previous Truman was incomplete. In the past 30 years, there have been countless coincidences and accidents. In fact, Truman has already discovered something wrong.

It's just that he didn't have the courage to break everything he was born with, so he lived on deceiving himself and others, covering up, satirizing and venting with a sentence every morning.

Until the end, he changed from weak to firm, from timid to strong, and faded away the negative emotions generated in the false environment, so I think the absurd performance at the beginning is more appropriate. "

"The previous Truman was also a Truman, not an incomplete Truman, and those shortcomings are also the real Truman character." Li Qian shook his head.

"No, that's not the real Truman." Zhou Xingchi interrupted Li Qian.

Li Qian didn't take it seriously, and smiled and said, "For example, I waited to go to a restaurant to eat, but the chef's dish was really bad, and the restaurant owner was very aggressive, saying that I have bad taste, and I immediately became popular." , Asked hundreds of people to smash his shop and broke the boss's three legs.

This impulsive, irritable, short-tempered me is not like me. I am a very easy-going person, but that state is also real, and like Truman, it happens in specific situations. "

The words are rough and the rationale is not rough, this weird metaphor made Zhou Xingchi speechless.

"Actually, everyone has different periods. I believe Director Zhou also had the period in the movie when the laughter could knock the ceiling down. Looking at you now, can it be said that it is an incomplete and false you? Is it?" Li Qian continued.

Zhou Xingchi sighed secretly. In fact, he is still himself, but the environment and other people have changed, and he has changed accordingly.

If there are still people and things from back then, will I still be the same me back then?

Shaking his head, he temporarily put down this unrealistic idea.

Zhou Xingchi still insisted on his own thoughts, "The necessary exaggeration and absurdity in the front are also to express the irony of the current situation of Truman. If this scene shows peace, it will not have much effect."

Li Qian smiled, and asked back, "How did Director Zhou feel after watching Brother Chao's performance just now?"

"Although it's not in place, this shot itself has a very ironic meaning." Zhou Xingchi said.

"That's right. Brother Chao just now is similar to how we usually greet our neighbors when we go out. It's not too exaggerated or absurd. Don't you think it's ironic after watching it?"

"But this is how I feel when I watch the script after I read the script and understand the movie."

"That's right, the audience recalled the opening scene after watching the movie. Even if Truman's smile is not ridiculous and ironic, they will still find it ironic."

"" Zhou Xingchi was stunned again.

Li Qian continued, "The world of Truman itself is an absurd and ironic story, so there is no need for the characters to express the absurdity and irony deliberately, otherwise it would be superfluous.

Because after watching the movie, the audience will naturally find that even a normal performance will become extremely absurd throughout the story.

It's just like comedy, it's a funny story in itself, a serious performance is still funny, but if the story itself isn't funny, then the actors have to use exaggerated lines and body language to make the story that isn't funny in itself become funny. "

"A funny story, a serious performance can still be funny, but a story that isn't funny needs the actor's lines and body language to make it funny?"

Zhou Xingchi chewed on this sentence over and over again, and after a few seconds he suddenly smiled, "Director Li's style is indeed as simple and unpretentious as the rumors say."

In fact, playing the role of producer, apart from really liking the story, is also part of my curiosity about Li Qian.

Every famous director has his own unique style, and Li Qian naturally has it too, but this style is not very special, but it is very special.

Except for the frequency of life and death, it is all a very creative story with a straightforward narrative.

From a professional technical point of view, it is no exaggeration to describe it as mediocre.

However, it is this style, but it can be sold again and again, and it is very popular among the audience.

Now I understand that the reason for using the most common narrative method is because the story itself is good enough and there is no need to show off skills, not because Li Qian does not have this ability.

Looking at it this day, Li Qian's thoughts on every shot are extremely detailed, whether it is a camera position or an actor's performance.

Even when filming, Li Qian thought about the effect of the editing, the relationship between the film and the scenes before and after, and the effect and significance to the whole.

This kind of meticulous control is not enough to be described as perfect, it has reached a level that can be called abnormal.

A sufficiently moving story, a straightforward narrative style, simplified to the details of each shot, this should be Li Qian's directorial style.

According to Li Qian's style, there is really nothing controversial about this shot, and Zhou Xingchi has no objections, and he still admires it in his heart.

The group of guns and tongues that everyone had imagined did not happen, they just discussed their opinions, which disappointed some people who wanted to watch the excitement.

However, more people breathed a sigh of relief, everyone is eating together, just don't make any fools.

Li Qian didn't expect Zhou Xingchi to give up his idea in just a few words, it seems that he is not such a difficult person to get along with.

Then continue to shoot. Zhou Xingchi also stopped to guide Deng Chao's smile in this shot.

Comedy is indeed the type that requires the most talent, Li Qian is indeed not as good as Zhou Xingchi when it comes to how to perform.

In this scene, you need to smile from the heart, be sincere, contagious, and smile brightly, not that kind of funny smile.

Li Qian knows what effect is needed, but how to perform it is a difficult problem, and he is not a teacher of the acting department.

Now, with Zhou Xingchi, it is much easier to handle, this is his specialty.

After more than two hours of grinding, Deng Chao's face almost burst into laughter before he took this shot.

Seeing that Deng Chao kept patting his face, Li Qian couldn't help asking, "How about brother Chao, is it okay?"

"It's okay, but my face seems to be a little stiff." Deng Chao shook his head, rubbing his cheeks twice from left to right.

Zhou Xingchi suggested, "Change the plan. In the next scene where Truman locks his wife in the car, Truman has already realized something, and he needs to laugh like crazy."

"Alright." Li Qian nodded.

Then go back indoors first, and shoot the scene planned for the evening, the scene where Truman drove away with his wife and was sent back by the police halfway.

"Get ready, Wang Ou, you will have an interstitial advertisement later, it doesn't need to be so natural, just a little deliberate will do."

After a word of advice, half an hour later, I went back indoors to continue shooting.

"Scene 51, one shot at a time!"

"start!"