The Greatest Showman

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It is not an easy task to play "Buried Alive"; it will be even more difficult to play "Gravity".

Alfonso Cuaron's script thoroughly implements a minimalist strategy, basically cutting off all the branches of the actor, leaving only the key information, and then leaving all the blanks for the actor to slowly fill.

In comparison, although "buried alive" was trapped in a small wooden box, there are actually many supporting points for the performance, and the emotional explosiveness and emotional turning points are clear at a glance; the current "gravity" is almost It is equivalent to dismantling all the performance brackets, relying entirely on the internal strength and basic skills of the actors to promote acting skills, and still requires full devotion.

what does that mean?

This means that actors must do their homework in advance, apply their acting skills in a method, and truly construct the mental journey of the entire character. Not only do they lie in the coffin and feel the pain of confinement as they did at the beginning, but they also need to conceive the background of the character. , history, and stories, it is almost equivalent to writing a biography of a character.

Then when you put it into performance, you must follow the director's conception and framework, guide it with expressive acting skills, and dedicate a more precise, more delicate, and more profound performance, which complements the storyline and the core of the theme, and then fully integrates the characters into the story. In the novel, the whole universe, the whole nature, and the whole life are told in a one-man show, making the audience forget the characters themselves.

To really play a role, you need to make this role disappear. Such contradictory remarks are the best interpretation of "gravity".

First, method acting, then expressive acting, and finally returning to method acting again, which can be seen as a theoretical sequence in the process of "gravity" performance. Of course, in the actual performance process, it is naturally impossible to distinguish them in such detail, but they are integrated, but it is a crucial preparation stage before putting into performance.

For Renly, this was not only a severe challenge to the extreme, but also an excellent opportunity to hone his acting skills again. Especially after the stage performance of "Les Miserables" just now, it is absolutely better to be involved in the performance of such a role now.

Otherwise, Renly wouldn't have just taken a week off from the stage play and then came to the UK non-stop, ready to take on the challenge.

Sandra Bullock in the last life gave the best performance of her career, even surpassing her posthumous work "Weakness", and really impressed people; in this life, Renly has to Another way to interpret a different character from a male perspective.

In the male version of Ryan Stone, it is certain that after the space disaster, the first and third stages are the same as the female version. The first stage is survival instinct/energy, and the dying struggle, and the third stage is awakening and reinvigorating.

The real difference should come in the second phase, breaking away from the gender label and further broadening the theme of the entire film.

Renly once thought about setting up a family for Ryan, such as a divorced wife, a daughter who was seriously ill, and even a daughter who passed away due to an accident. Parents, and so on, their estrangement and departure gradually cut off all of Ryan's fetters, and in despair, Ryan began to give up trying to survive.

But after much thought, Renly rejected such a plan.

Not because of borrowing other people's settings, but because of the special nature of the work "Gravity", simple and rude copy and paste will not work. The female perspective that applies to Sandra's version is placed on top of the male perspective, and the whole theme immediately begins to fall back.

If according to Renly's original idea, then it is the responsibility and the bond that revive Ryan's vitality, from his wife, from his parents, and from his children. This is feasible, but from a philosophical point of view, it has not reached the height of life and the universe, but has fallen behind.

The reason why Sandra's version of Ryan can sublimate the theme is that first of all, it takes advantage of the motherhood of women and builds the foundation with the bond between mother and daughter. In the sadness and numbness brought about by the passing of her daughter, she returned to the original meaning of life, reborn, and accepted the call of gravity.

So, cheer up and open up a path back.

But Renly's copy-pasted version turned responsibilities into obsessions in the opposite direction, using family and family as care and motivation to awaken the hope of survival, but this was inferior and rude.

Going a step further, simply applying Sandra's version of the story to Renly, but after the life-giving qualities possessed by women are missing from men, it magnifies the differences in life perception caused by "gender differences", interpreting them. The profound meaning of it also becomes thin and superficial.

Before, when Renly and Alfonso discussed the character conception of the entire film project, they brought up the work "The Tree of Life" and conceived the transformation of the male version of Ryan Stone, after missing the characteristics of women, And then give up the characteristics of masculinity in depth, blur the mystery of gender differences, and return to the origin of life purely——

The moment of the Big Bang.

In the midst of chaos, an explosion took place, slashing the world and giving birth to signs of life.

In other words, the male version of Ryan should symbolize the source of life, the pure and primitive power of survival. So Renly reinvented the idea and conceived of a purer dynamic:

From the family began to extend the origin,

Endows a person with social attributes, becomes the support and motivation of this person, encourages this person to start pursuing self; then further develops, enters this person's pursuit of self and id dream process, and gradually begins to cut off in the process of pursuit Social connection, becoming a pure living being, giving up all social attributes.

But at the moment of life and death, it returned to the whole process of life remodeling and promotion to advanced life forms.

As a child, Ryan Stone was a genius and a role model, perfect for mastering everything, from studies to sports, from manners to socializing, and even self-management of his life. With a happy and warm family, the care and support of his parents, and the admiration and admiration of his younger brother, they have always been Ryan's biggest supporters, and they supported Ryan in chasing his dreams bravely.

For Ryan, he yearns for the space universe and the unknown mystery. Therefore, he hopes to become a scientific researcher, leave the earth, study the entire huge galaxy in the universe, and chase the origin of mankind. With the support of his family, he began to fly towards his goal selflessly and realize his dream.

Ryan became an astronaut.

However, in the process of running, Ryan gradually became estranged from the family.

On the one hand, because flying to the universe is not an easy task, even if he tries his best, he may not be able to achieve it. He is completely immersed in his dreams, getting carried away, even forgetting his own existence, and even ignoring other all.

On the other hand, because he's a genius, he sees the world in a completely different way, like the nerd freaks in "The Big Bang Theory." The family simply couldn't keep up with his pace and rhythm, they didn't understand his world, and he didn't understand theirs.

Just like that, go further and further. Those expectations and concerns gradually became pressure, and fell heavily on Ryan's shoulders, so he began to learn to be independent and strong.

For ordinary men, society does not allow them to be vulnerable and sad, and it needs them to be strong and bear all the weight; but for Ryan, it is different, the attributes of gender come in the back, more from the difference in thinking between geniuses and ordinary people , stripped of gender, everything is arranged and combined in a numerical, logical, and regular way.

In the eyes of Sheldon Cooper from "The Big Bang Theory", gender is a social attribute that he does not possess.

As a result, Ryan became more and more indifferent, and the connection with his family became weaker and weaker. At the time of the accident in space, he had not been in contact with his family for many years, alone, and his social attributes gradually disappeared from him.

After the explosion, after the first stage of survival, the fear of death and loneliness in the limit of life severely smashed all the armor and defense lines, which made Ryan re-examine himself and the id, and accumulated twenty Years or even thirty years—the specific age setting needs to be further discussed with Alfonso—the social attributes reappeared, and negative emotions such as fear, worry, and despair began to erupt, so Ryan decided to give up.

Being in the environment of the space universe is like a womb/palace, and like a chaos at the beginning of the universe, Ryan has returned to the most primitive state, the state at the beginning of life.

Then, the entire long life is experienced again, like rebirth, but more like the process of the Big Bang.

In Renly's conception, the whole process of returning to the self and the id awakened the memory of the family, and further awakened the dream and motivation supported by the family, which gave Ryan the opportunity to examine himself again:

His dream is not to become an astronaut, but to study the universe, life, and the unknown after becoming an astronaut. But now, having finally become an astronaut, he has lost the original passion and the joy of success. It seems that everything is taken for granted.

Such a layer of unchanging days, after getting regular, will become numb. Habits are so terrible.

Now, after an accident broke the inertia, I looked back on my life again and found my goal again.

However, the problem is that "retrospecting life" cannot be done in the movie, because the time and space of the movie are limited; all the above thinking content will not appear in the movie, even It can't appear, it's just Renly's self-conception. So, what entry point should he choose to bring such a huge and magnificent idea into the film?

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