The Greatest Showman

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Everyone exchanged a glance, and there was a deep meaning in their eyes that only they could understand. Not just the cast, but the staff as well.

There are too many rumors about Renly in the industry, and there is too little information about Renly himself. The mystery brought by information asymmetry always makes people have more expectations and more critical.

Especially after winning the Oscar for best actor last year with a gesture of breaking the historical record, there are more and more nitpicking eyes. What's more, Vanity Fair has always been a circle full of jealousy and speculation. The higher you stand, the more pressure; the more attention, the more prejudice.

Just now, Ren Li's distraction and the calmness after being seen through, fell into the eyes of everyone and explained a different taste: arrogant and arrogant? Wild and uninhibited? absent-minded? opinionated? Or lose yourself?

According to industry rumors, Renly is an extremely dedicated actor, but his performance just now has nothing to do with dedication. Obviously, this is another "superstar" created by an agent and a publicist using rumors. Everyone's expressions reveal their own interpretations, joking and funny, sarcastic and profound.

But Renly didn't seem to notice these sights, and took the initiative to meet Joel's gaze, and lowered his chin gently, "Yes, in fact, I was thinking about this just now. The movie shows a circle. , Le Verne went around in a circle, trying to make changes, but in the end, he was helpless and returned to the starting point, it seemed that he had made many attempts, but in fact nothing changed."

The surrounding commotion gradually calmed down, and the eyes of the exchange gradually gathered. Everyone thought that Renly was talking about it, but now it seems that it is obviously not.

"Le Verne is in a predicament in life, he has been wandering, dazed and disorderly, he is trying to find a job to stabilize, but the restlessness and anxiety deep in his heart are still unable to stabilize; he tries to find a job to stabilize. I gave up on my dream, but in the end I got back to where I was."

"For film creation, he just goes around a circle and returns to the original point, but for performance, how the circle is circled, and what changes have occurred in the mentality during the circle process are all very important. Yes. I mean, are you more likely to communicate through music? Or through performance?"

Renly was really thinking, and after leaving the "Gravity" crew, he started to think, really into a new role.

Undoubtedly, this is one of the most special roles in all of Renly's acting experience: Because, LeVern-Davis is a character that doesn't change.

Even in desperate survival movies like "Buried Alive" and "Gravity" that are trapped in a day's time, the characters have an intense process of psychological ups and downs and mentality changes; this is even more the case in other works, as the story develops In the context, the state of the character is constantly changing, which also presents a curve that connects the actor's performance context.

It's like in the ninth episode of "War in the Pacific," where Eugene meets the baby first and then the dying corpse, it's a turning point, a turning point of mentality.

But "Drunk Town Folk Ballad" is not. Le Vern is always in the same state, turning around in the same place over and over again, going around or staying in the same place. From the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie, his state of mind, emotions, and state are just generated. There was a slight ups and downs, but there was no real change, just like a trapped beast.

And that's what the Coen brothers hope to present.

For actors, this is a serious challenge. It can simply be argued that there is no show crutch.

What is a performance crutch?

In fact, it is the emotional explosion point, or the performance borrowing point, anger, pain, happiness, joy, sadness, any violent ups and downs of emotions can become the explosion point, the cancer in the "anti-cancer me", "love crazy" parting in the midst of the cessation, death in the detachment, and so on.

For the Academy, what they like and appreciate most is this explosive moment. Above the awards ceremony every year, the nomination moments of the four major performance awards are always edited in such moments, which fully and prominently present the "performance power" of the actors.

Objectively speaking, this is also the favorite of the general public, because you can "see" the acting skills, just like dog blood, you can clearly see the powerful power that burst out in an instant, bringing shock and amazement.

But for actors, if they blindly pursue performance crutches, they will gradually fall into the shackles and fall into the rut of performance. Not only can they fail to break through, but they will slowly regress. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most famous representatives.

People have wondered why Leonardo has been working hard for so many years, but he has not been able to win the favor of the Academy? Even if he succeeded in reaching the top of the 88th Oscar later, it was more because the competitors still lacked the ability and capital to confront.

There are many reasons for this, the most important being two.

First, Leonardo's performance must have "Crutches", the mental retardation in "Different Sky", the rebellion in "Edge Diary", the madness in "Total Eclipse Love", and the spirit in "The Aviator" Divide, "The Departed" undercover... Every character has a more or less violent and outgoing publicity, including the desperate Avengers of "The Revenant".

Without a cane, he seems to be unable to act. In works such as "Titanic", "How to Get Away", "Inception", "The Great Gatsby" and other works, his performances were completely swallowed up. Character charisma comes from the actor's personal charisma, and

The acting is completely lost in the story and the characters.

Second, it is precisely because of his reliance on crutches that Leonardo's performance has fallen into a routine. It makes all the characters look the same, lacking novelty and depth.

The only breakthrough is that in "Django Unchained", Leonardo does burst out with a bit of evil spirit. But it is a pity that Quentin Tarantino is not a director who is good at tuning/teaching actors, and has not been able to carry it forward.

After winning the Oscar for Best Actor with "The Revenant" in 2015, Leonardo gradually turned behind the scenes and began to become a producer, while the actor's work has been slow.

Jennifer Lawrence, who became famous at a young age, has a similar problem in a sense.

For the audience, such a performance is explosive, because they can "see" the moment of the performance; but for the actors, such a performance lacks change and depth, because the emotional outbursts are more or less. similar characteristics.

The most simple and intuitive example is that in 2009 and 2010, Colin Firth received Oscar nominations for best actor for "Single Man" and "The King's Speech" before and after.

The former's performance is restrained, and Colin is constantly drawing in and pressing down, but it outlines the turbulent grandeur of the dark tide; the latter's performance is extroverted, and Colin needs to release more on the delicate level. , the setbacks and hardships of the character are presented.

Leaving aside the attribution of the Oscar statuettes, people in the industry prefer the former, while ordinary audiences prefer the latter.

Renly himself was no exception.

When I was a movie fan in my last life, I just liked movies and performances, and naturally I liked those external performances that I could understand; but in this life, after I started to learn performances, the transformation process from shallow to deep was gradually reflected in my passion for performance. On the basis of understanding and reading, you can gradually taste the taste of performance more deeply.

In fact, with crutches, acting is relatively easy, because the actor knows where the breaking point and leverage point are; but without crutches, acting is extremely difficult, because the actor has an inspiration for the character, the story, and even the creator. You must have a deep understanding of the concepts and concepts, and at the same time, the requirements for basic acting skills are also extremely strict.

A role similar to LeVern-Davis is very common in European films, such as "The Future", such as "Summer 1993". Renly was impressed by a French-Canadian collaboration called "The Son of John".

It tells about a thirty-five-year-old man who has never seen his father. His mother said that he was just an accidental result of a one-night stand, but one day, he received a strange call telling him that his father had died. . He decided to go to Canada for the funeral, and later found out that his biological father was not the one who died, but the man who called him.

The seemingly bloody and dramatic story is presented by the director in a very restrained and bland way. , through the eyes and aura, the sigh, loneliness, bitterness, alienation, kindness and anxiety are fully displayed.

This is precisely what European movies are best at. It hides all the stormy waves under the calm and calm, seemingly calm, but the gestures of the gestures and the intertwined eyes tell all the stories, and truly bring the reflection and the aftertaste together. Space is reserved for the audience.

Now, there are some similarities between the roles of LeVern-Davies and "Son of John."

In just a few days, I have experienced some stories. It seems that my life status has not changed, but my mentality and emotions are still different after all. The vicissitudes of life and the shattering of the sky are only understood by myself. This is a role that has no performance crutches at all, and can only rely on the actor's understanding of the story and the interpretation of his acting skills.

At the beginning of the film, it is sad and gloomy, bitter and dull; when the film turns, it is still the same; when the film ends, it is still the same.

In the same state, it was just that the breeze blew by, causing ripples, but it was fleeting, and it returned to its original appearance. It was maintained from beginning to end.

Because that's the character of that era, because that's the character of that wave.

In just seven days, the Coen brothers intercepted a fragment of LeVine's life. It was just like this, there was no earth-shaking change, and there was no hope of turning around from time to time. It started in anguish and ended in anguish. As a result, Renly ushered in the first role in his career that really didn't perform on crutches.

This is a breakthrough opportunity.

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