Millennium director

In the small auditorium.

Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen and others were preparing for the audition on the stage.

Wu Yuan was sitting in the center below the stage, holding the script and wondering where to start arranging it first.

The play "Romeo and Juliet" has five acts in total.

Of course Wu Yuan will not lay out all five acts. It will be a three-hour large-scale drama.

He was only planning to arrange the second and third acts.

The second act of "Romeo and Juliet" is considered to be the most lyrical and youthful scene in the whole play. In the garden under the moonlight, two young people confide their love and heartfelt feelings to each other.

In the third act, the plot of the play takes a turn for the worse due to Tybalt's death. Romeo is banished and Juliet is forced to marry. The lovers begin to fall into the abyss of pain.

Rehearsing these two scenes can test the acting skills of the male and female protagonists. They need to give two completely different emotions of sweetness and pain in the two scenes.

It not only trains actors, but also trains directors.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan planned to start with some heart-to-heart stories between Romeo and Juliet.

Just like making a movie, acting in scenes that require more emotional outbursts first can help the actors get into the mood as quickly as possible.

After closing the script and raising his head, Wu Yuan was about to call the actors to get ready when a small hand suddenly stretched out from his side.

This hand is very beautiful, fair and slender, with clear joints and pink nails.

A cup of isatis root contained in a disposable paper cup was held in the palm of this hand, and steam was still rising from the rim of the cup.

"Brother, let's have a cup of isatis root."

Liu Yifei's voice came from behind Wu Yuan: "The newspaper said that drinking more of this can prevent pneumonia."

Wu Yuan was stunned and reached out to take the cup of isatis root.

He really wanted to tell Liu Yifei that this rumor was a lie and that isatis root really could not prevent SARS.

Just facing her concerned gaze, Wu Yuan pursed his lips and thanked her: "Thank you, I understand."

After all, it was the little girl's kindness.

Picking up the cup of isatis root, Wu Yuan didn't mind it being hot, so he drank it all in one gulp. After putting the quilt aside casually, he stood up and shouted: "Everyone, get ready, let's start rehearsing!"

"Rehearse the first act first!"

"Romeo, do you love me?"

"I know, you will definitely answer, yes."

Liu Yifei, who was wearing a European-style dress, gazed affectionately at Zhu Yawen, who was facing her side, and said in the gentlest tone she could:

"And I will definitely believe what you say, but maybe the oath you swore is just a lie. People say that the gods laugh at lovers' breach of trust."

The lines are very beautiful.

But Wu Yuan, who was sitting under the stage, frowned so hard that he could pinch a fly to death.

Although Liu Yifei had just given him a cup of isatis root, which touched him a little, it did not mean that Wu Yuan would be tolerant of her performance.

"Stop!" He stretched out his hand to interrupt Liu Yifei's continued recitation, and Wu Yuan sighed: "Qianxi, the emotion of this recitation is not like this.

"What was Juliet's inner emotion like when she said this to Romeo?"

"It's not tenderness and infatuation, but expectation, do you understand?"

Liu Yifei looked confused.

To be honest, it is really difficult for her, a little girl who has never been in love, to experience the love between Romeo and Juliet.

Wu Yuan also understood this, so he tried his best to explain in a language Liu Yifei could understand: "When Juliet said this to Romeo, she was actually expecting Romeo to give her a firm response."

While speaking, Wu Yuan stood up, stood up, took the script and started reading:

"Oh! Gentle Romeo, if you really love me, please tell me sincerely. If you think I am too easy to surrender, I will also put on a scowl, pretend to be stubborn, and refuse your kindness. "

His tone was full of expectation, as if he expected the other party to respond enthusiastically in the next second, and his feelings were conveyed very clearly.

It is true that Wu Yuan has not acted much, he has only acted in one film, "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle", and he often humbles himself about his inability to act.

But he is a director!

His understanding of the script is absolutely unmatched by ordinary actors!

He can accurately find the emotion that every line in the script should express and the reaction that should be given.

He also clearly knows how to play these roles well, and tells the actors and guides them to try.

If you really want to talk about it, any director who is considered to be an excellent director will definitely not be bad at acting!

Wu Yuan is willing to teach, and Liu Yifei is also willing to study seriously. Even if she is stupid, she can still learn it bit by bit.

What's more, Liu Yifei is not stupid in terms of acting skills.

She often doesn't perform well in roles, mostly because she has never experienced these things herself.

She is more inclined to be an experiential actor, but she is relatively lacking in life experience. She grew up in a fine life and had little experience of the sufferings of the world. She joined a group and started acting at a young age, and her accumulation of life is not rich.

It is difficult for her to sympathize with the experiences of many characters.

Unless you have to live and experience the character according to the character's personality for several months before each filming, this is obviously unrealistic for Liu Yifei.

Therefore, actors like her are generally more suitable to follow the method route of the experiential school.

The experiential school means that actors must let themselves become the character. They should think about the character on the stage, think about the character's thoughts, work hard to enter the character, and then express the character's emotions.

When the camera is on, you are no longer acting, you are the character.

As for the method school, although the core idea is still that of the experiential school, it pays more attention to techniques.

If you can't keep your thoughts consistent with the character, it doesn't matter. You can use some tips. You don't have to directly put yourself into the character to figure out the character's mood. You can also achieve the effect by calling on your own inner emotions.

To put it simply, for example, if an actor needs to play a gay character, the experientialists really pretend to be gay and hypnotize themselves into being gay when performing.

Method actors, on the other hand, are not required to actually get into the role. They can imagine the opposite actor as their girlfriend or wife, and then put their own feelings into it.

Although the Method School also requires actors to embody emotions, at least they do not need to stand entirely from the character's perspective.

Methodism means that no matter what method you use, as long as it can give the emotion the character needs.

"If you really can't find this feeling of anticipation, I'll teach you a trick."

Wu Yuan chuckled and said with a teasing tone: "You can imagine Yawen as your favorite cat or dog."

"Every time you go home, you call their names and expect them to rush up to greet you, right?"

"Imagine that if you put this emotion into the performance, you will almost feel it."

Hearing what Wu Yuan said, Liu Yifei understood immediately.

But when she laid her eyes on Zhu Ya's tattoo and imagined him as a Doberman pinscher raised by her family, she immediately burst into laughter.

"Sorry." Liu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled while apologizing to Zhu Yawen.

Zhu Yawen also looked a little embarrassed, but he still nodded understandingly: "It's okay, it doesn't matter even if you think of me as a pug."

"As long as I can perform this play well, anything will do!"

On the other side, the other actors who had no part in the scene listened carefully and took Wu Yuan's words to heart.

This is the acting instruction given by top domestic directors, you must learn it!

"Okay." Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction and clapped his hands: "Xiqian, let's find a feeling and let's do it again!"

If your acting skills are not good, they can be taught. You have to believe in the ability of a great director.