Jiang Ying's performance was like a seed buried in Mei Zihan's heart.
During filming this time, Mei Zihan subconsciously borrowed Jiang Ying's acting style. It is for reference rather than imitation, because imitation cannot be imitated. Mei Zihan was very self-aware of herself.
In fact, being able to have such a performance has exceeded his expectations.
And what happened today was just like what Jiang Ying said, the director didn't see anything wrong.
Wang Xiaoman may have noticed something, but after all, there is only one scene, and she still has her own part to shoot, so it is impossible to fully concentrate on Mei Zihan. Maybe when the two of them have scenes with each other, Wang Xiaoman will feel more deeply.
With the smoothness and vigor of the first scene, Mei Zihan's filming of the next scenes went very smoothly, and the director was also smiling, praising Mei Zihan all the time, and hoped that he would continue to maintain it.
Screenwriter Zhang is writing and filming, which will inevitably be affected a little bit. At least the character "Xiao Wenwu" has a little "humanity", not just a simple buffoon.
However, Mei Zihan's joy and complacency only existed in the crew, and it was completely different after he got off work.
With more and more scripts and the fullness of the role of "Xiao Wenwu", Jiang Ying's "teaching" of Mei Zihan has also officially started the schedule.
Mei Zihan did not come from a major. The way he entered the entertainment circle can only be said to be a bit of luck, but luck is really limited. Although I have been making films for so many years, I haven't gotten anything famous at all.
He also had an agent, but he was unilaterally "fired" by the agent.
After Mei Zihan lost his agent, not only did he not feel that he had no future, but he also felt that it was great not to have an agent to dictate what to do, and he got more money, so he just stayed idle.
In other words, Mei Zihan's current acting skills are all honed by filming thunder dramas, which are more fragile than bubbles. If it weren't for his good personality, making a few good friends, and his own talent, he probably wouldn't even be able to receive Lei drama now.
After Jiang Ying thoroughly understood Mei Zihan's "ability", she once felt that this would be the biggest challenge he encountered.
First of all, Mei Zihan is not young. The older he is, the worse his learning ability is. This is obvious to all, not to mention that Mei Zihan still has a job, so it is impossible to focus all his attention on his studies. Second, it was Jiang Ying's own problem.
He is a man with a clear distinction between public and private.
Before class, he could chat with Mei Zihan, and even make some intimate moves, but once he started teaching Mei Zihan, he would unconsciously become serious. The helpless Mei Zihan always spends more time on his face than on textbooks and movies.
But Mei Zihan is not without his advantages.
He doesn't learn fast, but he can apply what he has learned, practice at night, and use the knowledge he has learned in the crew during the day. What needs to be worried is whether Mei Zihan can always adapt to this situation of working in two shifts. Secondly, once Mei Zihan entered the state of learning, he would be particularly focused.
This probably has something to do with Mei Zihan's background in a normal university.
Although Jiang Ying still doesn't know why Mei Zihan, who was admitted to the foreign language department of Capital Normal University, entered the entertainment circle, Mei Zihan didn't take the initiative to mention it, and he didn't ask.
His relationship with Mei Zihan was not close enough to share his family and privacy selflessly. It takes time between men and women to accept another person into their lives, especially between men and women.
Jiang Ying's first lesson to Mei Zihan was how to play a "woman".
Generally speaking, actors can be divided into expressive and experiential.
To put it simply, the experiential school is to experience the character through the actor himself, and express the behavior of the character correctly and logically. When performing, treat yourself as the character itself, and act accordingly. The advantage of this is that you can quickly enter the drama and perform well, but it requires a certain amount of talent, and there is also the danger that it is easy to enter the drama and difficult to get out of the drama.
Expressionism is different.
Through systematic study and repeated study of the script, they shape the character according to the idea of the character, so as to achieve a good performance. For example, people cry when they are sad, and their eyeballs move when they lie, etc. Some iconic small movements can well express the characters of these characters. At present, the major film and television academies are almost exactly the same.
Expressionists and experientialists can't say who is good and who is bad, but as an actor, at least you have to make some attempts.
To beat the drum requires a heavy hammer.
It was impossible for Mei Zihan to study systematically step by step. And Mei Zihan's own performance also shows that he is not an orthodox actor, he is more suitable to find out his own shortcomings through "performance".
In other words, Mei Zihan's previous performances were more expressive, but he was a rather strange "experience school" in his bones.
"For five minutes at will, you can say anything and do any action, as long as you convince me that you are a woman." Jiang Ying moved a stool and held a camera in his hand (I don't know when he bought it).
Actors are different from ordinary scholars. Scholars can enrich their knowledge through books, but actors must perform through behavior, language and certain practices.
Mei Zihan has never played a woman, the only similarity between him and a woman is that they are both male. But now that Jiang Ying asked him to act as a woman, he could only bite the bullet.
After the performance, Mei Zihan didn't even want to look at himself in the camera.
"You're not playing a woman, I think it's more like a neurotic who is posing." Jiang Ying said, covering her forehead, "I think, you can watch a few movies about women first, and you need to be in your The crew observes the behavior and movements of women. If it is not a sharp voice, it must be a woman."
Although Jiang Ying didn't show it clearly, Mei Zihan thought that Jiang Ying should be very disappointed in him.
Well, you can tell by the smell of dinner.
Damn, this dish is getting blander.
Mei Zihan fiddled with the vegetables in the bowl, and the bird faded out of his mouth.
When filming the next day, Wang Xiaoman found that Mei Zihan's gaze was fixed on her.
If she didn't know Mei Zihan, she would probably think that Mei Zihan had taken a fancy to her.
"Xiaomeizi, although we will act in a rivalry next, isn't it too early to start brewing emotions?" Wang Xiaoman asked tentatively.
She has seen Mei Zihan's performance these days, and she was pleasantly surprised to find that Mei Zihan has shown some signs of enlightenment.
She really felt sorry for Mei Zihan.
At such a good age, his life shouldn't revolve around such a drama.
But now that the debut artists are getting younger and younger, and Mei Zihan has been labeled as a "Leiju", which decent company is willing to take him? In comparison, there are so many newcomers with a blank sheet of paper, and they can be shaped at will.
Now that Mei Zihan is willing to make progress, she is very happy for Mei Zihan.
After giving birth, she probably really wants to quit the circle and become a full-time wife.
If you can't fulfill your dream, then if your good friend can fulfill it, it will be a great consolation.
"Sister Xiaoman, I'm doubting my life." Mei Zihan said quietly.
"What?"
"Sister Xiaoman, don't you think this kind of life is not good?" Mei Zihan looked at the food in her lunch box with a sad face, "We already earn more than ordinary white-collar workers, and we have free working hours. When the paparazzi come to take pictures of us, they don’t need to deliberately control their body shape. Even if they are really popular, no matter where they go, they don’t have their own private life, and you can get scolded for spitting, so why bother?”
Mei Zihan really thought so.
His life now is many times better than when he was a child, and he has no intention of being popular. He plays his own drama to earn his own money, buys a car and a house, and finds a boyfriend. It's too chic.
Those popular celebrities don't even have a private life, but Heizi recruited a lot. More people who want to be popular but can't be popular are even more bleak. Those who are in debt, bankrupt, have failed plastic surgery and have to go back and forth in and out of hospitals, and those who are infected with drugs abound.
Is it really worth paying so much for an illusory future
If you are content and happy, you can obviously live a good life.
He doesn't have that much ambition, he just wants to eat, drink and sleep with his boyfriend.
"Whether popular or not shouldn't be our concern." Wang Xiaoman took a deep look at Mei Zihan, "It's not just because of fame and fortune that this circle attracts so many people. You haven't been popular before, how can you You know it doesn't taste good to be red?"