[After-harvest]
"Did you feel a lot of pressure when you played under such circumstances?"
The young man in the spotlight was stunned for a moment, as if he had never thought about this problem at all.
The interviewer seemed stunned for a moment: "The former group was criticized so much... weren't you afraid at the time?"
The young man hesitated for a moment and whispered: "There was no time to react, and I went on stage before I even felt nervous."
He paused and said: "And..."
"and?"
He didn't say any more, but his ears turned slightly pink, looking extremely cute under the light.
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Jin Xiaochen and Zhao Dong were a little confused when they came on stage.
Although they knew that it would be their turn after the Fan School Group finished their performance, they did not expect to be so caught off guard... Wasn't this just half of the show? !
On the big screen, after the black characters on the white background faded away, the exact same scene reappeared in front of the audience.
The whole place fell silent.
At the instructor's table, Feng Wei, who had been silent all this time, suddenly laughed: "When Teacher Shen calls people on the stage like this, people who are not nervous will become nervous. Who will be responsible if they perform abnormally?"
Zhao Dong: "Well, a bit..."
Shen Tingyan just looked at the three of them with his arms folded, and asked, "Are you nervous?"
Xue Xiao: "Just follow the feeling during our rehearsal. Don't think about showing it to the audience with force. Just do it lightly and naturally. After all, this is a big screen performance, not a stage play."
Some people in the audience didn't seem to expect this group to bring them surprises. Some were talking in low voices, while others were staring into space in a daze.
After saying this, the three of them quickly turned around and walked towards the back of the stage, especially Xue Xiao, whose steps were so fast that it even seemed like he was running away.
He didn't know what he was thinking. Maybe it was to prove himself, or maybe he was about to face Shen Tingyan's scrutiny of his acting skills for the first time. Xue Xiao's mind twitched and he whispered: "I'm not very nervous..."
Jin Xiaochen: "After successfully performing this part, I will treat you to hot pot!!"
Zhao Dong and Jin Xiaochen also followed him.
Jin Xiaochen said: "I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous..."
Jin Xiaochen: "Tight, cough, a little nervous..."
Zhao Dong patted his head: "Didn't you hear Teacher Shen say you need to take a deep breath?!"
It was still the same very direct gaze as when they met in the corridor.
Before Xue Xiao could open his mouth, Shen Tingyan looked at him and said calmly: "If you are nervous, take a deep breath. After taking a deep breath and feel you are ready, go get ready. Sooner or later, you have to go on stage. Nervousness is an emotion that all actors must overcome. ”
Just like every previous scene, when switching groups, the staff must clear the venue, the camera operators must return to their positions, and the actors each have a few minutes to prepare.
Xue Xiao also took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
Xue Xiao subconsciously looked at the instructor's seat, not wanting to meet the man's eyes directly, and his heart skipped a beat.
After taking a deep breath, the three of them looked at each other.
Zhao Dong followed suit.
Chang Yun and Jiang Lianlian kept taking deep breaths and secretly praying that the performance would go smoothly. At first glance, they looked more nervous than the three people on stage.
His heartbeat was unusually fast.
He looked at Xue Xiao with interest, and Xue Xiao realized that his ears and cheeks were getting hot.
Xue Xiao stepped onto the stage, raised his head slightly, and met the eyes of Fan Xue beside Jiang Shen.
Everyone looked at him in shock.
Xue Xiao and Zhao Dong looked at him dumbfounded.
If you can't overcome it, you won't be able to conquer the set, let alone what kind of actor you want to be. It's all empty talk.
Five minutes later, the word "Mantis" appeared on the big screen again.
The latter lowered his head and looked sideways, his eyes secretly filled with resentment and hostility.
Among the actors, Wang Minghai and Hu Lang, who had temporarily returned to their seats, looked lost, while Fan Xueze stared at the big screen, clenching his fists tightly.
"If you can get through today smoothly, your brother Xue and I will treat you to hot pot!"
Straightforward and frank, like a sword cutting into the field of vision, full of aggression.
Shen Tingyan paused and smiled.
Jin Xiaochen immediately took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
Xue Xiao paused, calmly removed his eyes, and stood on the other side of Jiang Quan.
He regretted a little, and quickly bent down and bowed, saying loudly: "Thank you, teacher, we will perform well."
Zhao Dong: "That's right, don't worry if you forget the words. Think about what to say in this scene, just say something and take it over quickly."
These words sounded like a harsh and ruthless urging, but Xue Xiao thought it was more like a subtle reminder.
The studio fell silent.
Feng Wei glanced at Shen Tingyan, who had no expression on his face, as if he had completely transformed into an ordinary audience and was quietly waiting for the movie to start.
Look up at the camera.
On the second floor of the abandoned unfinished building, Jin Xiaochen was leaning in front of the railing.
He stared directly at the camera, as if he was staring at the dead body downstairs, his expression a bit gloomy and stiff.
A subordinate grabbed his hair and asked, "Captain Li, what should we do now?"
Jin Xiaochen didn't answer him immediately.
As if he was forcibly pulling himself away from the overwhelming emotions and returning to his job, after a second, the young man tilted his head and said in a low voice: "Whatever you do, just go down and clean it up!"
Offstage.
Su Shijin leaned aside and asked in a low voice: "If I remember correctly, is this Jin Xiaochen an amateur?"
Shen Tingyan nodded.
Su Shijin was thoughtful.
She is very young, and the nervous look on the stage where she didn't know where to put her hands and feet just now made her appear to be in her early twenties, and she may have just finished college.
But after entering the scene, there was no sense of inconsistency in his performance. That is, the 27-year-old Li Xueming gave people the impression of being mature and steady.
Of course, the amateur is not experienced enough and the emotions are in place, but the lines are still a bit jerky.
However, this can all be adjusted//taught slowly later. If you have a strong understanding, you can improve it quickly.
Su Shijin jotted down notes.
After his subordinate came downstairs, Jin Xiaochen clasped his hands together and squeezed them hard. The veins on the back of his hands were prominent, but his face remained calm.
Behind him, a figure suddenly approached.
This man was wearing a windbreaker, a white shirt and jeans inside. He had a mixed style and was very casual. At first glance, he didn't care about appearance.
At this moment, his clothes were still in a mess.
The windbreaker was not draped neatly on the shoulders, but seemed to have been pulled by someone. A large piece of shoulder was exposed on the left side, while the right side was almost stuck to the neck.
One button of the white shirt inside was also torn open, revealing a small piece of collarbone, looking bohemian.
The hair is even more messy.
Everyone was stunned.
—Xue Xiao was not like this when he appeared in front of them five minutes ago!
At that time, this young man was neatly dressed and his hair was smooth and fresh.
Did he deliberately make himself like this during those five minutes of preparation
But when Wang Minghai from Fan Xue's group played the role of reporter Zhang Yang just now, it was nothing special. Why did Xue Xiao...
At this moment, the audience suddenly remembered—
By the way, in the original work, before this plot happened, there was a fight between reporter Zhang Yang and the dead kidnapper downstairs!
He followed his own clues all the way to the construction site and accidentally got involved in this case. He arrived even earlier than the police, so he also experienced a series of life-and-death dangers.
Xue Xiao is based on the plot of the original work, completely restoring the state that reporter Zhang Yang should have at this moment!
At this moment, countless viewers at the scene finally regained a little bit of the feeling of watching "Mantis" in the cinema.
They finally got interested, sat up straight, put back their wandering thoughts, and became focused.
Unlike Wang Minghai in the scene just now, Xue Xiao walked to Jin Xiaochen normally, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, handed it over with his backhand, raised his chin back and said: "I'm going to see Chen Tao. "
Jin Xiaochen ignored him and he laughed, as if he couldn't understand his state at all - the criminal suspect had been caught anyway, so what if he died
Of course, at this time, he himself was too tired to bother talking to this guy.
He simply put the cigarette between Jin Xiaochen's fingers, took out another cigarette, bit it into his mouth, turned around and walked towards Chen Tao - he walked with a slight limp, but the young man didn't care. I didn't think it was a serious injury, and I walked very carelessly.
Shen Tingyan's eyes moved slightly.
Zhang Yang played by Xue Xiao is obviously a younger version. Zhang Yang in the original work is already in his thirties. He knows he is injured and walks very carefully, slowly and steadily.
Wang Minghai acted like this just now, but his acting skills were so bad that he walked like an old man.
Xue Xiao's acting style will surprise the audience, but it will not violate the rules -
If he is a young man, a young and flamboyant man, this is how he should behave.
At least if this plot is performed separately, his changes will not make the audience feel uncomfortable.
The same play, the plot progress is exactly the same.
However, the actors' performance status is different, the performance rhythm is different, and the intensity of reading lines is also different. All these differences are superimposed, making the two groups of plays look so different.
In the last scene, when Hu Lang realized that the kidnapper was not the serial murderer they had been looking for, the long list of lines he read was boring and without any ups and downs.
As an amateur, Jin Xiaochen perfectly brought the audience back to one of the most nerve-wracking moments in the cinema back then.
This is an important moment in the film when the identity of the serial murderer is revealed. The young man reasoned quickly, and his expressions of tension and astonishment were intertwined. The audience was gradually moved to the scene.
When the young man suddenly stopped because of his thinking, no one dared to even take a breath!
At this moment, the script has not yet specified the real murderer, but the audience has already vaguely noticed it.
It was like there was a layer of white paper in front of them, and the white paper was shining with light. They could vaguely see a blurry black shadow on the opposite side. They just wanted to stretch out their fingers and poke it lightly -
The camera pans to the rear.
Xue Xiao chewed a cigarette and worked with a police officer to untie Chen Tao.
In his field of vision, the feet were trembling slightly.
At some point, the trembling seemed to have changed its rhythm, but he didn't seem to notice it.
He heard a faint breath sound, the tone sounded a bit like choking, but it didn't seem like it, it was very weird.
He laughed and said, "You're still shaking. Seeing how courageous you are, you're actually not that bad."
The next second, the camera suddenly hit Zhao Dong's face.
This man's black hair was stuck to his forehead due to sweat. His forehead hair was so long that even his sight was somewhat blocked.
His whole body was curled up, as if he had retreated into a group of shadows, and in such a cold and sticky darkness, his eyes passed through his hair and stared directly at Jin Xiaochen's back not far away. .
He is laughing.
He keeps laughing!
That breathy sound was actually the laughter he couldn't help but let out! That kind of trembling was the trembling of pleasure that he couldn't help but feel!
When he noticed Xue Xiao's gaze, the man stopped breathing, rolled his eyes, and looked over.
All the spectators held their breath, their bodies stiffened to stone, and their hearts pounding.
Coming, coming, coming!
Zhao Dong's eyes and mouth suddenly curved greatly, just like the original paintings drawn by the most powerful horror cartoonist. At this moment, Zhao Dong's eyes and mouth were like three curved and thin moons. As far as cuteness is concerned, it's only weird, so weird that it makes one's scalp numb. It doesn't even look like an expression that a human being can make!
He used such a perfect smile to tear away all his pretense.
A small burst of screams broke out from the audience!
At the instructor's table, Guan Ruoying and Su Shijin leaned back suddenly on their chairs, looking like they had been hit hard from the front.
Su Shijin said in a daze: "This guy is more cruel than you were before."
Shen Ting smiled.
In the actors' booth, Wang Minghai, Hu Lang, and Fan Xue stared blankly at the three people on the screen. They always felt that the performance in front of them at this moment seemed to be the same as what they saw in the rehearsal room that day. It seems completely different.
Zhao Dong's performance method must have been changed a bit, but Jin Xiaochen and Xue Xiao didn't seem to have made any major changes, they just added some details...
Will just adding some details make it feel so different
Or because it was in that simple rehearsal room that day, under the scolding of the teacher, in a place without any other audience, in their eyes... Therefore, in their eyes, the performances of these three people seemed far away. Far inferior to them
On the big screen, the action scene begins.
The three people's positions were very accurate.
When Jin Xiaochen wanted to understand everything and suddenly turned around, Zhao Dong had stabbed the police officer and took Xue Xiao up the stairs.
He was like dragging a huge cloth bag, and he quickly disappeared from the camera with Xue Xiao in a rough and brute force.
Jin Xiaochen drew his gun and rushed forward with his subordinates. When they arrived on the third floor, Zhao Dong and Xue Xiao were already standing at the end of the corridor.
Behind them is nothingness, air, and cliffs.
Everyone watched with great immersion.
This is the most exciting scene in the original work. The audience clenched their fists unconsciously, dug their nails into their palms, sweated slightly, and their hearts beat wildly.
Their brows frowned instinctively, nervous and selfless.
Of course, there are also many smarter viewers who found a sense of inconsistency in this.
This sense of dissonance also appeared in the original work.
That was the second layer of truth that was about to be revealed to them after being beautifully foreshadowed by the script designer.
But because they were too involved at this time, it was difficult for them to rationally recall what happened in this section of the original work.
It was even difficult for them to recall how Fan Xue, Hu Lang, and Wang Minghai performed here just now.
At this moment, what Xue Xiao, Zhao Dong, and Jin Xiaochen presented to them was a completely different viewing experience.
They can only follow the plot from beginning to end to explore it just like they did in the movie theater.
Chen Tao couldn't just surrender, he had to continue playing. As long as he succeeded in committing suicide, he would still be the winner in the game.
He cannot choose to stab himself to death with a knife, because that may not lead to a complete death. Jumping off the building is the best way, and if he wants to jump off the building, he has to go to the third floor, because the only window on the second floor for him to jump to is the one by Li Xueming. Location, not there.
But why did he insist on taking reporter Zhang Yang upstairs
It is true that Zhang Yang, as a hostage, can be used to contain Li Xueming, but without Zhang Yang, Chen Tao can rush to the third floor as quickly as possible to implement his final plan.
So, why
At the instructor's table, Shen Tingyan looked at the screen quietly.
The mantis, orchid mantis, is an insect with excellent camouflage ability.
Insects may be annoying to many people, but orchid mantises are so pretty.
Just like Chen Tao and Zhang Yang, one is a seemingly brainless and violent gangster, and the other is a slick reporter who will do anything to grab the news. When both of them appear on the scene, they bring extremely bad things to the audience. However, as the plot progresses, Chen Tao shows his "innocence", "loyalty" and "speak the truth" straightforward side, and Zhang Yang shows his inner world of "letting go of his shame and doing everything he can to do what he wants to do" .
The audience's initial disgust and alienation towards the two of them will gradually transform into psychological closeness and understanding.
Coupled with an innocent look and a shameless character, in any suspense script, they will be the first ones to be excluded from suspicion because their images are too "plain".
So the orchid mantis lured its prey with its flower-like appearance and completed the perfect hunt.
Fan Xue and Wang Minghai just did not show any of this at all.
Especially Wang Minghai.
The secret line of Yang Yang, the mantis in the original work that has been dormant longer than Chen Tao and is more perfectly disguised than Chen Tao, was completely "swamped" by Wang Minghai's performance.
The dazzling sunlight shines in.
At the end of the third floor of the unfinished building, Chen Tao had already admitted what he had done, but Li Xueming still had questions.
Chen Tao killed six people in total. His killing style was so distinctive, brutal, bloody, and twisted, but the death scene of the fifth victim was very strange.
The killing techniques were exactly the same, but the scene was relatively clean. It was as if Chen Tao had suddenly restrained himself, or as if he had suddenly transformed from a violent butcher into an elegant bloodthirsty person.
Li Xueming has figured out all the other clues, but he still doesn't understand this point.
He thought it was not as simple as a sudden change in Chen Tao's mood, but more like there was something he hadn't discovered yet...
Then Chen Tao let go of Zhang Yang, took a step back, and fell down with his back facing out.
The last words he left were: "How can there be so many reasons, Captain Li."
With a bang, Li Xueming and his subordinates rushed forward.
The camera panned from the ground outside the unfinished building to the two of them and Zhang Yang who poked their heads out, just like Chen Tao's last look before his death.
When the perspective returned to the third floor, the subordinates cursed and Li Xueming hammered the wall so hard that his eyes were split.
In the hunting wind, in the corner of the camera.
A flamboyant profile appeared behind Li Xueming's subordinate.
Most of his face was blocked, and the audience could only see his nose and chin.
They finally remembered—
This is the most profound shot in the original work. This shot actually indicates everything one step ahead.
At this moment, Xue Xiao's performance made Guan Ruoying, Feng Wei and Su Shijin lean forward.
Shen Tingyan raised his eyebrows slightly.
(End of chapter)