Chapter 236 Changes
Dong Xuan has always been a strong person.
She was born in a small county in the northeast. Her father was a soldier who had a job and her mother also worked within the system. Although neither of her parents were leaders, her family conditions were pretty good.
At that time, working within the system must respond to the national call, so Dong Xuan was the only child.
Her parents had high expectations for her and saved money. They tried to let her learn violin, piano and dance since she was a child.
What she likes and perseveres the most is dance.
Everyone said she had a talent for dancing.
She also believed in this and firmly believed that she was the best one.
In 1995, the Dance Department of Fengtian Conservatory of Music, which had not recruited students in Hei Province for ten years, gave Hei Province a quota. Dong Xuan lived up to expectations and became the only one.
Therefore, the more confident she became, the more she believed that she was the best one.
In school, although everyone is a top student who has been admitted from all over the country and has a very good dance foundation, she is still the best one.
The teacher is optimistic about her talent and hard work, and the classmates also envy and admire her... She is like a proud white swan, thinking that she will achieve amazing achievements in the future and will succeed.
The year after graduation, the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe came to recruit people.
Without any slight turmoil, and without any surprises, she became the only person in the school to be specially recruited into the group.
You must know that is the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe!
At this moment, she firmly believed that she had the best dance talent, and she also firmly believed that she would become the chief of the singing and dancing troupe, and she would!
However, after actually entering the singing and dancing troupe, the reality was somewhat different from what she imagined.
Where is this?
This is the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe.
All the dancers recruited here are selected from the best, all of whom are top students from various schools, and she found that she doesn't seem that "special".
This made her confidence a little shake.
In the group, she is no longer the special one, but like all newcomers, she starts with dancing.
A year later, the situation still did not improve. Everyone was excellent. She did not stand out because of her double-work.
She was very depressed and wanted to escape.
Some of her colleagues applied for the Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy. She wondered if she could give it a try?
Just as she was hesitating, her mother came.
My mother quit her job within the system and made a special trip to take care of her.
The arrival of her mother made her give up applying for the Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy. She knew that her mother was also a dancer before, but later she became pregnant because of marriage and pregnancy, so she had no choice but to work in a civilian job within the system.
Her mother regarded her as an extension of her dance, and she had very strict requirements on her, and she had comprehensive control over her life details, including dressing, diet and even cutting her nails, and also strictly restricted her social activities.
Whenever she raises an objection, her mother always says, "I'm all for your own good, for you to gain a foothold in the group, and for you to succeed, is it easy for me?
When I was a child, I gave up dancing for you. Now for you, I quit my job and gave up my career. Why don’t you understand..."
One year, two years, three years, four years...
As time goes by, her confidence disappears little by little, almost going from one extreme to the other, as her mother's day after day, "You're not good enough, not working hard enough."
On the surface, she seems to be a good girl in the group with a well-behaved, obedient, and hardworking and motivated personality.
In fact, she became restrained and cowardly, with limited emotional expression, always tense, and could not even naturally show the attractiveness of women, and often at a loss when encountering things.
She even sometimes feels trance, forgetfulness and indistinguishable from reality.
Until this day, Cao Yang, the famous stage play director in the group, was preparing to re-arrange a new version of "Swan Lake" and was preparing to choose a lead dancer to play the role of two roles: White Swan and Black Swan.
And she unexpectedly became the first candidate.
The pressure follows.
Her white swan danced perfectly, but the black swan couldn't find the feeling for a long time. Not to mention the director, she felt that she couldn't do it.
But she wanted to get this role too much!
She wants to be the leader!
She wants to succeed too much!
...
After all, Cao Yang was worried about Dong Xuan.
He has his own principles in filming. Generally speaking, he will not happen to the actress during filming, even people with close relationships such as Gao Yuanyuan, Li Xiaoran, Yu Feihong, Pang Bing and Dong Xuan will not do it.
But now it is not the case.
As the heroine of the movie, Dong Xuan lives in the hotel with the best rooms. These suites are on separate floors and are not on the same floor as other actors.
At five o'clock in the morning, Cao Yang stood outside Dong Xuan's room and kept explaining to himself. I was just worried that Dong Xuan would not happen when he entered. This is something a responsible man must do.
This does not violate the principles.
Then he took out the room card, swiped it, the door opened, he flashed and went in, closing the door with his backhand.
Don’t ask Cao Yang why he had Dong Xuan’s room card. The question was what Dong Xuan forced him to do.
Walking through the living room, Cao Yang walked to Dong Xuan's bedroom, put his hand on the door handle, hesitated for a moment, but twisted it for a while, but it didn't lock it.
"Who?"
Dong Xuan sat up from the bed, then pulled the quilt up, covered her chest, and turned on the light.
"Cao...Director Cao?"
Dong Xuan tightened the quilt with both hands and asked nervously: "How did you come in? I, I haven't figured it out yet, can you give me some more time?"
Um?
What's the meaning?
Cao Yang looked at Dong Xuan carefully, and his nervous expression didn't seem to be pretending.
This...
His heart skipped a beat.
If you don't want to play role play, things are indeed going in a bad direction.
However, according to past experience, even if there are sequelae, will it only occur at critical moments?
Also, the heroine in the movie has a somewhat "evil" second personality. Dong Xuan was influenced, shouldn't this be seen?
Why do you look a bit like a charming little white flower now?
"What do you mean?"
Cao Yang asked, he was a pun, and tried to say something ambiguous before he figured out the matter.
Dong Xuan was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said softly, "I am Dong Xuan, filming "Black Swan". I am the heroine, not a ballerina..."
After breathing a long breath, Dong Xuan lifted the quilt, got off the bed, jumped directly to Cao Yang, with his legs crossed around his waist.
Cao Yang held her butt with both hands and breathed a lot.
"I'm so scared. I just had a terrible dream. When I saw you come in, I couldn't tell the difference between the dream and the reality for a while."
Dong Xuan put his hands on Cao Yang's neck, looked at Cao Yang's face, and said with some fear.
"It's okay, I'm here." Cao Yang comforted.
"Yeah."
Dong Xuan nodded vigorously, looked at Cao Yang's face, and then said shyly, "I want to sleep with you very much now."
After saying that, he held Cao Yang's face in both hands and said directly.
"Don't... um..."
Cao Yang is a principled person and he really wants to refuse.
But after thinking about it, Dong Xuan was originally her own woman, not with other actresses, so this is not an exception.
Moreover, he was still a little worried about Dong Xuan and wanted to stay and stay with her to see what changes were going on.
Cao Yang held Dong Xuan's butt, walked a few steps forward, and placed her on the bed.
What is strange is that Cao Yangneng obviously felt that Dong Xuan seemed a little unfamiliar with kissing, completely different from before, and seemed to have changed his own.
"Slow, slow..."
Dong Xuan frowned, as if she was not used to it.
Cao Yang also discovered an abnormality.
If it weren't for the shape, it was still the same shape.
If it weren't for the road, it would be the same road.
If it weren't for the physiological reaction, it would be the same as before.
Cao Yang thought it was a substitution.
Even the sound of singing was suppressed, like a little girl who had never experienced it many times.
Especially when she reached a critical moment, she hugged Cao Yang tightly with her hands, and even if the sound in her throat rushed out, it was restrained.
Her current state is exactly the same as when she first met Cao Yang.
After gradually getting familiar with Cao Yang, she was no longer like this and no longer deliberately suppressed her voice.
According to her, if she doesn’t sing, her pleasure will be reduced by half. But now she doesn't fully speak up her singing.
After a long time, Dong Xuan lay in Cao Yang's arms, talking and laughing, as if she had recovered and could not see any difference.
Cao Yang sighed in his heart and observed it again.
The next day I continued to shoot, and the camera in the bedroom was basically finished, and the last scene was left, which was the passionate scene between the two heroines.
However, this one has to be filmed in the back. The film has just started filming, and the other heroine, Lu Yi, has not filmed a scene yet. It is impossible to shoot her passionate scene with Dong Xuan as soon as she comes.
What I want to shoot today is a scene in the dance practice room, where many plots in the movie take place.
As long as it is about the heroine sitting or curling up in the practice room, she will use a downward shot and use a downward vision to imply the heroine's suppressed living space and spiritual constraints.
The scenes of the heroine practicing dancing are almost always the camera slowly pushing her face or limbs, amplifying the audience's perception of the role's psychological alienation through the gradually approaching sense of oppression.
In the practice room, there are many rivalry between Huang Xiaoming and Dong Xuan.
Yesterday, Huang Xiaoming felt relieved when he saw Dong Xuan performing well.
He has a characteristic of filming, and his opponents need to inspire himself.
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The better the actors act in the opposite scene, the more they can inspire their competitive spirit, the better they can perform.
The more he wants to "pull" the opponent's actors act in a bad mood, the more he sometimes uses too much force.
The latter one was not recognized by him, but was reminded by Cui Ma, the head teacher of Beijing Electric.
However, although Huang Xiaoming respects Cui's mother very much, he disagrees with this point. He does not think that he will use too much force, but instead thinks that it is a manifestation of wholehearted dedication and can be more touching.
Of course, this has been verified by practice.
Sometimes, if he acts poorly against the actors, if he doesn't work hard, he will easily be brought into the "trend" and instead devote himself to it, maybe he can even pull his opponents over.
There is nothing wrong with it.
Huang Xiaoming believes that with Dong Xuan's acting skills, she still needs to use a little bit of strength, and she should not be as good as her.
Thinking of this being a director Cao’s movie, the heroine’s acting skills are not bad.
He believed that Dong Xuan's acting skills had not been shown yet, but this was a process of adaptation. It was impossible for a person's acting skills to be just right yesterday, but today I will be super amazing.
Huang Xiaoming is full of confidence. Dong Xuan's acting skills will improve, so won't he improve himself?
Cao taught such a long time since the drama, and he has long been memorizing the core and plot of the movie. As long as he adapts, he doesn’t believe that he can still be worse than Dong Xuan!
No matter what, I am still the male lead. Although I don’t have many roles, as long as I act well, I might win a big prize.
More importantly, we must let Director Cao see his potential, and it is best to become Director Cao’s official actor.
Come on, Huang Xiaoming, you can do it.
Then, reality gave Huang Xiaoming a big ear.
"Click!"
Cao Yang waved his hand and signaled Huang Xiaoming to come over.
"You are the director of the stage play who takes the initiative, not her little follower. You want to show the director's momentum, do you understand?"
This is the fourth time Huang Xiaoming has been overthrown.
"I'm sorry, Director Cao, my fault, give me ten... twenty minutes, I'll make some adjustments." Huang Xiaoming raised his hand and said that it was all his fault.
"Don't follow Dong Xuan's rhythm."
Cao Yang thought for a while and said, "You can add some invisible small movements yourself to divide the rhythm and not be taken away by the other party."
After thinking about it, Huang Xiaoming quickly smiled and said, "Okay, Director Cao, I understand, thank you, thank you."
Then, he folded his hands at the staff around him, "I'm sorry, everyone, I've caused trouble for everyone."
He walked to the place where he rested and sighed. He had performed well, but the other party was super magical. What should he do?
It was obvious that everyone should be on the same level yesterday, but why did it become like this today? Something went wrong?
Director Cao is indeed well-known and is quite awesome in training actors, especially actresses!
Huang Xiaoming couldn't describe the feeling when he was playing against Dong Xuan today. It seemed that the pressure was much greater than that with famous acting party scenes such as Chen Daoming and Wang Gang.
There are at least some traces to follow in powerful parties such as Chen Daoming and Wang Gang. As long as he finds the rhythm, he can keep up.
But what is going on with Dong Xuan?
It’s like playing herself, there is no trace of her performance. Her acting skills are natural, and she feels like there is no trace of performance, but you can feel that this is the most correct way to act.
It doesn't seem like she is acting, it seems like the characters in the movie are acting her own joys and sorrows!
"Are you a small invisible move?"
In other words, the added small actions cannot affect the plot and cannot separate the plot.
Huang Xiaoming carefully considered what he should do so that he could not follow the other party’s rhythm and get out of her rhythm.
Fortunately, Dong Xuan only has one, so others definitely don’t have her acting skills.
"It's coming again!"
Ning Hao and Lao Gu took advantage of Huang Xiaoming's time to think, and they sat together silently watching the sky.
This performance style that is particularly natural and completely integrated into the character is shocking no matter how many times you watch it.
How long has it been since I saw this phenomenon?
Lao Gu thought about it. Since Director Cao started shooting experimental movies, there has been no such "shocking" scene.
If you want to watch Director Cao use his true strength to train the actors, you should still be in a pure art film.
"You lost."
Lao Gu said calmly.
"I lost."
Ning Hao's tone was also calm.
"Didn't you and Lao Tian have been studying how Director Cao trains actors? Haven't you also filmed "Crazy Stones"? Is there any practice? How effective is it?"
Lao Gu suddenly asked, he didn't ask if the effect was like Director Cao, because there was only one Director Cao in the world, and countless people are learning from Director Cao now. As far as he knows, the small cannon has been used.
Old classmate Lao Tozi also deliberately strengthened the script reading session before the filming started, and this time was extended from about two weeks before to six weeks.
Poet Chen did not learn from his junior brother, but when he was filming "The Promise", he would deliberately talk to the actors without getting tired of it.
Before the filming of "Crazy Stone", Ning Hao took turns with Lao Tian and told the crew members a two-month drama.
When Ning Hao heard Lao Gu mention this, he grinned.
"The effect is OK. There is a young actor named Huang Bo. He has a unique understanding and a very distinctive role."
"Compared with this one..."
Old Gu asked, blinking his mouth towards Dong Xuan.
Ning Hao's grinning mouth twitched and glared at Old Gu fiercely.
This old guy is so shameless that he is really not a son of humanity.
How to compare this?
Ning Hao is sure that Director Cao's careful training of Dong Xuan's acting skills is obviously aimed at the three major European actress queens, and there is no comparison at all.
After twenty minutes of adjustment, the shooting started again.
After thinking about it, Huang Xiaoming came up with a good idea, which was also an invisible small action, which was to count three numbers in his mind before each time he spoke, and then talk about the lines.
The advantage of doing this is that after counting, you can get out of the other person's emotions and no longer be led by the rhythm.
The three numbers are the result of Huang Xiaoming's careful consideration. If there are too few, it will not be able to fully come out. If there are too many, it will make the plot seem to be divided.
This time the opponent's scene was obviously much better, at least I didn't follow Dong Xuan's rhythm, but it was not without problems, because counting three in my mind sometimes leads to emotional inconsistency, and it seems that the acting skills are getting higher and lower.
Cao Yang felt uncomfortable for him.
Especially in the practice room, there are not only scenes with Dong Xuan, but also scenes with Lu Yi.
Huang Xiaoming originally thought that Lu Yi could "treat" more easily, but he was overwhelmed again!
Lu Yi was originally a very confident person to dance. Cao Yang added two more experiences to her, which is even more amazing. Even if you don’t dance, just by going to that stop, you can feel the charm of confidence and women.
Huang Xiaoming had no choice but to deal with it by counting again.
Everyone can see that he acted in pain.
Cao Yang couldn't stand it anymore, so he would like to add an introductory experience to him at night.
In the afternoon, Cao Yang received a call from Hou Keming, asking him if he wanted to go to the Beijing College Student Awards Party held on the 14th.
His "Nine-tailed Fox" was sent to the Beijing College Student Film Festival in the name of Beidian.
Cao Yang originally refused, but soon he received another call.
This time it was called by the former old leader of Beijing Film Academy. He has now been transferred to Beijing Normal University, which is one of the founders and organizers of the Beijing University Student Film Festival.
The old leader directly said that his work was not easy to carry out and needed the support of Director Cao.
There is no way, I still have to give this face.
A few days ago, Lao Gu and Huang Xiaoming had already asked for leave and said they wanted to participate.
Just in time, let's go together.
(This chapter ends)