After making up his mind to leave, Liang Sizhe lowered his head and continued to read the script.
He has gotten enough from Cao Ye, and now he wants to return this opportunity to Cao Ye as it is. Not only that, he hopes that he can complete the role of Xiaoman with Cao Ye.
After reading several professional books for a while, he probably has a certain understanding of the profession of an actor. To put it bluntly, the most important ability of an actor is the ability to understand. He has to use these thin pages of script to visualize a living in his mind. people.
According to Liang Sizhe's own understanding, the most important point of this is to base on the character's character and grasp the character's motivation for doing things. For example, Xiaoman is the son of Aunt Fang, the owner of the bathhouse. In addition to going to school and after school, he helps his mother to heat the water in the tub behind the guests. When closing time, Aunt Fang would loudly call out Xiao Man, who was busy doing homework in the bedroom, and let him play the violin in front of the guests.
Xiaoman was called out of the bedroom by Aunt Fang. What should he look like when he played the violin? It wasn't written in the script, but judging from his oppressed environment and his passive and negative reactions, he should be a boy who swallowed his voice, so the way he played the violin should probably be numbness with some imperceptible impatience.
Does Xiaoman like the violin? It seems that he doesn't like it or dislike it. He likes it very much when he takes the bus, because he likes the vain feeling when the passengers in the bus look at him; he got off the bus and walked down the alley of the bathhouse. I didn't like it when I was there, because there were a few thugs in the alley, who would always rudely surround him and ask him for money. "Sell your broken piano for money if you don't have any money." When Xiaoman curled up to protect the qin, he actually hated that qin.
And while Xiaoman was living this boring life day after day, a woman suddenly appeared in the bathroom one day. The alley is out of place... At this time, when Xiaoman carried a wooden barrel to heat water behind Peng Yin, and saw the naked body through the gap of the wooden board, what was he thinking
- It seems that every action the character makes has an emotion and motivation behind it.
The time of the movie is very short, mostly less than 120 minutes. If you want to tell the story through scene by scene during this time, you must sit until every scene cannot be wasted, and the actors are in these seemingly ordinary scenes, Complete the shaping of the character through every move.
Liang Sizhe thought that he could be of help a little bit. His comprehension ability is not bad. In the past, when playing the violin, the most important thing was to understand the composer's mood and emotion from the score. Empathize with the audience.
Most performers and performers have something in common, Liang Sizhe thought, it seems that the most important thing is understanding and empathy, and how to achieve empathy, Cao Xiuyuan should be able to teach Cao Ye hand-in-hand when he joins the crew, but at least now, He can help Cao Ye understand this step together.
Thinking of this, Liang Sizhe felt a sense of enlightenment. He had read a lot of professional books and movies before, but he always felt confused about how to play a role well. It was as if the second line of Ren and Du was suddenly opened up, and he had his own understanding of how to act.
A month ago, after learning that this rare screen opportunity would probably fail, Liang Sizhe would never have imagined that a month later, he would give up this opportunity with such a peaceful mind.
Liang Sizhe opened the script and made the next plan in his heart. He thought that he should pick a bright morning and quietly walk away before Cao Ye wakes up.
As for this time, just accompany him to understand Xiaoman's role well.
Maybe he will become an ordinary person in the future, but thinking of this summer when he was eighteen years old, he and Cao Ye completed the role of Xiaoman together, and then watched him become known to the audience all over the country because of this role, and the rest of his life. In the boring time of the movie, he had a lot of time to replay the movie and recall the summer of Yin Si, thinking about it, it seems that it is not so scary to be a mediocre ordinary person.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the sky outside the window was darkened, and the words on the script were too hard to read. Cao Ye still kept his sleeping position lying on the bed, motionless. Liang Sizhe put down the script in his hand, got out of bed and walked to the opposite side. Leaning down, he supported the edge of the bed with one hand, and patted Cao Ye's back with the other: "Are you still lying on your stomach?"
"...Huh?" Cao Ye replied in a daze, "What time is it?"
"It's past seven o'clock, did you really fall asleep?" Liang Sizhe reached out and rubbed his hair, feeling itchy when he saw it, he couldn't help it.
"Don't think I'll be numb when I fall asleep," Cao Ye raised his hand and pressed the back of his hand, "Don't move... Hey, it's over, I'm numb again, help me turn over..."
"Then let me go and let me touch two hands." Liang Sizhe teased him.
"No, I'm not tall, it's a matter of principle," Cao Ye took his hand away, gritted his teeth, and tried to turn over with one hand on the bed, "I can turn over myself..."
Liang Sizhe laughed a few times, but in the end he helped him and helped him sit up.
Cao Ye hissed inhalation, moved one shoulder, frowned and said, "Why do I always forget that I can't sleep on my stomach..."
He looked the same at the moment. Liang Sizhe knew that the air-conditioning issue had been turned over. Cao Ye always lost his anger very quickly. The last time when Cao Xiuyuan came over, he was also like this. When he woke up, he was full of blood.
When he went downstairs to eat, Cao Ye took the handheld camera again. He hooked Liang Sizhe's neck and said, "Why are you so nice, Liang Sizhe."
"Huh?" Liang Sizhe turned his face to look at him.
"Knowing that I'm afraid of heat, and secretly putting an air conditioner on me, you're better than Lin Yan to me."
"Really..." Liang Sizhe smiled.
"I have decided that I will also be the director in the future," Cao Ye said fiercely. "We will make a movie together, compare my dad, and let him slap the street fiercely."
The words "Pu Jie" were spoken in Cantonese, and the accent sounded a little joyous. Liang Sizhe was amused by him: "Really or not, don't you want to be a director?"
"Ah, yes," Cao Ye said quickly, "It will be very annoying to be a director, and he is a genius, I will definitely not be a better director than him... Then what if I am the one who hits the street? Wouldn't it be miserable?"
"It's pretty miserable." Liang Sizhe smiled.
"Then will you still act in my movie?"
"No way."
"How can you do this?" Cao Ye tightened the arm around his neck and threatened, "Are you acting?"
He was stern, but in fact he didn't use much energy in his hands, Liang Sizhe cooperated and said, "Okay, I'll play."
"Who's playing? Mine or my dad's?"
"Play yours," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "Let's rush together."
"Who said they would pounce?" Cao Ye turned to stare at him, "We won't pounce."
"Okay," Liang Sizhe followed him, "I won't pounce."
I don't know if it was because I set a deadline for my departure. After that, the time seemed to pass very quickly. The script was discussed in the blink of an eye, and only a few pages were left.
After Xiaoman finished his violin lesson, he went home with his violin on his back. When he passed the building where Peng Yan rented, he stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped up the stairs. He secretly followed Peng Yan here, but he didn't dare to follow her upstairs, so he didn't know where she lived.
He went from room to room, lying on the door listening to the movement inside, looking at the light leaking from the door through the small cat's eyes. On the second-to-last floor, he heard the screeching sound of the furniture upstairs rubbing against the floor. He trotted up, listening to the hysterical swearing of the woman inside the door, the gruff growling of the man, and the thumping of the weight on the wall.
The man was beating Peng Yan, Xiaoman realized this fact, and through a door, Peng Yan's intermittent cursing continued to come out, he panicked and thought that Peng Yan might be beaten to death.
He started to raise his hand and slammed the door vigorously, and the movement inside the door really stopped, followed by a man's rude voice: "Who is it?"
"Downstairs," Xiaoman tried his best to remain calm, he took the violin off his back and held it tightly in his hand, "Your house is leaking."
The man opened the door for him by swearing. Just after opening a crack, Peng Yan picked up the stool next to him and threw it at the back of his head. The man avoided him and hit him on the shoulder. Up, the enraged man tried to grab the stool and beat Peng Yun like he was irrational. At this time, Xiaoman squeezed in through the crack of the door, raised the violin in his hand, and smashed it hard on the back of his head. The violin hit his head. Shit, the man stumbled a bit, Xiaoman held the violin out of control, and smashed it hard at the back of his head...
Liang Sizhe remembered that they were discussing this scene on the rooftop that night. He was sitting on the edge of the rooftop, and Cao Ye was half-squatting on the side with his arms on his shoulders.
"Why do you think Xiaoman lost control?" Cao Ye looked up from the script and looked at Liang Sizhe, "It was obvious that the first few blows could knock the man unconscious, but he killed him in the end."
The tone of this script has always been obscure and oppressive. Everyone has their own story. Xiaoman's emotional changes are the dark lines of the script. It accumulates gradually and imperceptibly, and then explodes in the climax of the final scene.
The relationship between Xiaoman and Peng Yan is very vaguely written. At first glance, they seem to have nothing to do with each other. The few scenes in the script where they appear in the same frame cannot be said to have a deep intersection.
For example, when Peng Yan came out of the shower, Xiaoman secretly looked at her through the crack of the bedroom door. He hoped that his mother, Aunt Fang, could call him out and play a violin song for Peng Yan, but Aunt Fang did not despise Peng Yan. She was also jealous of Peng Yan, she never said a word to Peng Yan, nor let Xiaoman say a word to her.
For example, when Xiaoman went out to take out the garbage, when he came back, he saw Peng Yan sitting on the stairs in the corner, lighting a cigarette and smoking it slowly. He was stunned and stood there. Peng Yan beckoned him to come over. He sat down with her a little embarrassedly. Peng Yan was a very charming woman, but Xiaoman was just an ignorant teenager. After a puff of cigarettes, none of them spoke, just sitting there quietly blowing the wind.
The remaining large number of scenes are all peeping and stalking by Xiaoman unilaterally. The scene that appears the most in the script is that Xiaoman looks out from his cramped bedroom through a very thin door crack and looks at the wet man after taking a shower. Peng Yan.
Why did Xiaoman lose control? Liang Sizhe was also thinking about this issue. He always felt that if he didn't understand Xiaoman's feelings clearly, he would have no way to know the reason why he lost control... The domestic violence and rape of Peng Yan by a man was only the fuse that caused Xiaoman to lose control, but it was not that he accidentally murdered deep reasons.
He thought so, and Cao Ye asked another question: "What do you think... Xiaoman's feelings for Peng Yan?"
"It should be a little envious." Liang Sizhe said the most superficial reason. Xiaoman's initial curiosity about Peng Yan was because they seemed to live in completely different worlds. He was closed and repressed, but Peng Yan seemed to live indulgently and recklessly.
"Envy? It seems to be a little bit, and I should be grateful?" Cao Ye thought for a while and said.
There is a scene in the script, Xiaoman walks into the alley with a violin on his back, and is surrounded by the gangsters asking for money. That time, Peng Yan helped him out of the siege. She took out the money from her wallet and threw it on the gangsters' faces. The gangsters coveted Peng Yan, secretly lusted after her, and insulted her with words, but when Peng Yan threw the money in their faces, they didn't dare to say a word. That evening Xiaoman said thank you behind her. It was the longest chat between them. Xiaoman knew that her name was Peng Yan and that she was married. Peng Yan also knew that Xiaoman was learning the violin, but she didn't play much. it is good.
"Well, grateful, curious," Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "I'm wondering... Is there still love?"
"Ah?" Cao Ye was stunned, "Where did you see it? Peng Yan is married..."
"Unrequited love? Unrequited love is also a kind of love." Liang Sizhe said, looking into the distance. The five-story building of Lanyan is not too high, but it is enough to see the vehicles galloping like birds returning to their nests on the main road not far away.
Cao Ye said "Oh" with a vague understanding.
"There are still fantasies," Liang Sizhe continued, "Peng Yan is Xiaoman's best fantasy, so I think his out of control is actually because the moment his fantasy was shattered, he felt despair of life."
"Oh yes, fantasy..." Cao Ye nodded suddenly and said, "Xiaoman has been fantasizing that one day he will be like Peng Yan, living a life of indulgence, but the truth of Peng Yan's life has been revealed, and his fantasy has been shattered. It means that his thoughts of escaping his current life are also broken."
"Well, apart from that, there should be other fantasies..." Liang Sizhe said in a daze.
"Huh? What else?"
"Oh, no," Liang Sizhe said back to God, "You said it just now, and it's the same as what I thought."
And sexual fantasies. He had meant to say.
Director Cao will tell Cao Ye later, Liang Sizhe thought about it, but did not say the word "sexual fantasy".
In fact, Xiaoman's sexual fantasy about Peng Yan existed at the moment Peng Yan appeared, because the first time Peng Yan appeared, the violin song Xiaoman played that night was "Afternoon of the Faun", which was probably a subtle hint.
Sexual fantasy is the most wonderful fantasy of young Xiaoman about life. Peng Yan was raped by a man domestically, which broke Xiaoman's two-layered fantasies - his fantasy about life and his fantasy about sex. This is probably the main reason why he lost control.
Moreover, without sexual fantasies, it probably cannot be considered love... Liang Sizhe thought of an article he read before interpreting "Afternoon of the Faun", which said that sexual fantasies are the starting point of love.
So... Will I have sexual fantasies about Cao Ye? This thought involuntarily appeared in Liang Sizhe's mind, and then the thought startled him.
how is this possible? Lying on the bed with another teenager, their bodies entangled with each other without any gaps... Stop, what terrifying picture is this
"What do you think?" Cao Ye looked at him at this time.
"No..." Liang Sizhe said after returning to his senses.