Chapter 523 True Status
The amount of information is too great!
For a while, Gus didn’t know where to start. Shock and shock, surprise and expectation, etc., all came flooding in.
My brain is a little stuck.
So.
The last thing that blurted out was what the eyes saw:
A head of blond hair.
Anson raised his eyes following Gus' line of sight and glanced at his hair.
“Ha, this is a wig.”
As he spoke, Anson took off the wig with a calm expression——
Gus was there stunned, his jaw dislocated, and he might not be able to return for a while.
"Isn't it like this in movies? Agents need a little disguise, maybe James Bond is the exception."
Leave Los Angeles quietly, quietly After arriving in Portland, Anson would naturally not be so naive and trust the paparazzi wholeheartedly. On the one hand, he would make a deal with him, and on the other hand, he would be prepared for both.
Who would have thought that Anson not only failed to keep a low profile, but also had a light bulb on his head?
Anyway, no one recognized Anson along the way.
Oh, Jack! Jack should be first.
Of course, this is not all.
"At the same time, I am also trying to go back to my middle school days and re-experience the mentality of young people."
Gus:...
Pause, Gus still doesn't Hold it back, "You are under twenty now, and middle school was only two years ago, right?"
"Ah", Anson opened his mouth. In fact, the memory of middle school is really very far away, but it doesn't matter. "Look, in your world, two years is one-twenty-fifth. God, it's just a short moment." That’s all; but in our world, two years is one tenth, a long and difficult tenth, just like the last century.”
The last century——
Strictly speaking, Anson is right, because his high school career did stay in the twentieth century.
A pun.
Gus couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing, "So, where's the hair?"
Anson shrugged lightly, "You know, we always make some stupid choices in adolescence to prove that we are different."
"For example, leaving an ugly tattoo, or dressing up weirdly He appeared in the graduation photo, for example, he thought he was cool and left some soul-stirring notes in his graduation album. "
" Or for example, he got a haircut that was so ugly. "
Anson threw away his wig. got up.
“Sometimes, we know why we do what we do; but more often than not, we have no idea at all. Maybe a friend instigates it, maybe we have a whim, and then things happen like this.”
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"God, we really have so much to figure out in adolescence, right?"
From Los Angeles to Portland, Anson has been trying to figure out the psychology of characters -
Although the same He is a middle school student, but this character is completely different from "Princess Diaries" and "Spider-Man". The ordinaryness of the latter two characters is relative, while the ordinaryness in "Elephant" is real.
In this character, there is no protagonist aura, everything is ordinary.
Just like...Jack.
Therefore, when shaping the first two characters, Anson was able to find the arc of the character and the foothold of the character. This is also the norm in movies; but this time it is different.
In movies, characters always have an arc, they grow and transform.
In reality, characters do not have an arc. They may not necessarily grow. They may be stuck in circles, they may not progress but retreat, and they may fail all the way to the end.
This also means that in "Elephant", Anson's performance should not be looking for an arc or a context, but should be looking for a state -
a real state. This is not an easy task.
People often think that "being yourself" is the simplest and easiest thing; but this is not the case. In real life, people often put on layer after layer of masks to strictly hide their true nature. .
Because truth often means vulnerability.
The same is true for actors. They are used to acting, in movies, on shows, and in daily life. Over time, even they themselves cannot take off the mask and cannot confirm where their true selves are hidden.
When an actor needs to take off his mask and show his true self on stage or in front of the camera, it is the most difficult.
No mask, no armor, a state of defenseless nakedness.
Anson recalled carefully what it was like in those years when the young man didn’t know how to feel sad. The dust of time covered up the original appearance of memory so much that he could not determine whether the memory was true or false.
He thought that those years were all happy. His father's career had not been disrupted, and his parents' marriage had not had any problems. His footsteps walking back and forth in the classroom corridor were dancing wantonly in the sunshine.
However, this is not the case.
Calm down, what comes to mind is not the happiness and beauty, but the trivial worries and indescribable confusion——
Operation. teacher. classmate. girl. Pocket money.
Every corner of my life is filled with worries. I am upset because I did not eat a popsicle during recess, but I am gloating because I saw my best friend deserting in class and was discovered by the teacher. I received a message on the way home from get out of class. The girl's confessional love letter became the object of ridicule among a group of friends.
It wasn’t until I grew up that I realized that those worries are also sweet.
The wig gave Anson an inspiration——
“I’m not sure, maybe I dyed it impulsively because I saw a performance by Justin Timberlake or Nick Carter. ”
"I thought that after dyeing my hair, I would be able to change my situation in school and talk to the girl I had a crush on; or maybe it was just a form of rebellion because I was dissatisfied with my father's alcoholism but was unable to resist."
"I, uh, I just wanted to change something, and then look forward to some changes in my life."
"But now, I find that I was wrong."
"Right?"
Confused, confused, sensitive.
In just a few words, Anson sketched out a vivid image of a young boy in front of Gus' eyes——
Who said Anson was a vase?
Who said that!
Gus couldn't believe it, could things be any more perfect?
What he worried about did not happen, and the fit between Anson and the character was far beyond imagination, and the sense of picture in the lens was overflowing.
Gus was a little excited.
Gus asked curiously, "Did you think all of this by yourself?"
Anson showed a smile, "Without the help of the script, I can only rely on myself. However, This is just an idea, not mature. After reading the script, we can slowly adjust it according to the character..."
"There is no script," Gus interrupted Anson.
Anson was stunned, "Huh?"
He told the truth, even though the memory of watching "Elephant" in his previous life still lingered in his mind, but since Gus wanted to choose ordinary students to perform, this also meant that the actor needed to bring a part of himself into the movie.
Anson is Anson. Naturally, this time the "elephant" will be different.
But Anson was counting on the script, and the result——
Gus repeated again, "There is no script."
"This is what I choose from here as much as possible. For ordinary students, I just use the camera to record what you are saying and doing.”
"No script required."
"Oh, by the way, all your characters in the movie also use your real names."
(End of this chapter)