Chapter 539 A Small Transformation
“Stuck.”
The shooting is over.
But there was still no movement at the scene. The seal was not released as usual. There was no sound or movement. Time seemed to still stay in the light and shadow.
Alicia stood in the corridor and saw Gus coming away from the monitor at a glance. She had no idea in her mind and nodded politely subconsciously.
In a trance, the boundaries on the set were broken, and fiction invaded reality——
Anson is still Anson, Gus is like the teacher. Alicia just left, and now the teacher appears. The scene in the movie is still not over, anyway. There is no script or plot, everything happens naturally and reasonably.
My gaze was still firmly locked on Ansen amid the roar of noisy thoughts.
Gus also noticed this, but he didn't point it out because this was the effect he was pursuing. Now it seems that the entire crew has entered the state.
The footsteps finally stopped beside Anson.
Gus raised his head and glanced at Harris:
Poor Harris, his body is like a hippopotamus, but now he has to stand on tiptoes like a red-crowned crane.
This made Gus smile, nodded slightly to Harris, and signaled with his eyes: the shooting was over.
Harris let out a long breath, leaned against the wall, slid all the way down, and finally fell to the ground, closed his knees, put the camera on the ground, finally began to breathe heavily, and took out his pocket He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his handkerchief.
Gus looked at Anson and could see the calmness in Anson's eyes at a glance.
In the shot just now, Anson never looked directly at the camera lens, either turning his face or chin, so that the camera did not capture the thrilling blue of Anson's eyes.
But now, Gus finally saw clearly. The depth beneath the calmness was just like in his imagination. The complicated and delicate thoughts were carefully hidden and cleverly covered up with a smile.
"Everything is fine."
Gus spoke.
In fact, far beyond imagination.
Gus had no way of knowing what happened during the short break when Anson left the set. However, the lonely soul sitting on the swing that he met for the first time reappeared in front of the camera. Everything was perfect, and even imagined in Gus' mind. The picture is taken to a whole new level.
Anson nodded slightly, but did not respond.
Gus was a little worried, "Is everything okay?"
Obviously they are two similar sentences, but they have completely different effects. The first sentence is in the movie, and the second sentence is It's in reality.
Anson noticed it, slightly twitching the corner of his mouth, revealing a slight smile.
Last time in the "Cat and Mouse Game", after being too deeply involved in the drama, I felt tired, deep tired, and the mental consumption and overdraft were really hard to describe.
But today, not really.
A burst of calmness, a burst of calmness, no catharsis or wanton release, everything is soothing and natural, like a gurgling stream.
He thought, he was learning.
Learn to act, learn to express, learn to accept your past and scars calmly, learn to vent your emotions through performance and art, learn to integrate your own reality into the character, learn to look back on yourself from the character and find reconciliation.
Embracing the character also embraces oneself, and at the same time slowly begins to embrace reality.
Art is originally a means of expression. Painting, music, sculpture, writing, etc. are all like this. You can mix your own experiences and emotions to express them, and finally become a way to review yourself, complete reconciliation, and Way to move on.
Method/experiential performance often means losing control in the end, making it impossible to live without going crazy, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion, and finally slipping into madness. Anson is unable to determine where he will go in the future. To be able to reach such a state, and whether it will go through such a process——
But at least, for now, everything is wonderful.
Anson needs this kind of reconciliation. Now, he finally officially stepped into the door of the performance world, using his true self as the key, taking a small step forward, but he ushered in his first important breakthrough.
The boundary between reality and illusion is broken. Immerse yourself in it, but you don’t feel the pain and struggle. What you feel more is a kind of relief and relaxation.
He seemed to be falling in love with acting.
Involuntarily, Anson recalled the starting point of this new life. Perhaps from the beginning, the God of Destiny had given a hint that this was the path that belonged to him.
Gus's question made Anson raise his head, with a faint twinkle in his eyes. He tried to raise the corners of his mouth to show a smile, but failed with great regret.
Anson said, "It just takes some time."
Slightly fragile.
Gus nodded slightly, trying to comfort Anson, but he couldn't kiss Anson on the cheek like Alicia did, and looked a little at a loss.
He raised his right hand and tried to pat Anson on the shoulder. Then he thought that such an action seemed inappropriate, so he put it down again; he raised his hands slightly again, hesitating whether he should give Anson a pat. Hug, but in the end just smiled at Anson and expressed affirmation with his eyes.
Such an action brought a smile to Anson's eyes. The dull and lost mood slightly cleared the clouds, and a ray of golden sunshine fell.
"Director, are you sure everything is fine?" Anson asked.
Gus was puzzled, "Okay. Of course. Everything is fine. Perfect. What's wrong?"
Words, incoherent, popping out one after another, like a toy spitting out gold coins, really It makes people laugh.
Anson's state once again shifted slightly towards reality, "No, I just feel that this scene is incomplete."
Gus, "I would like to hear the details."
Anson, "The emotional context is incomplete."
"I think that after Alicia's gentle kiss, the inner depression and confusion temporarily came to an end, and finally forced myself to cheer up again. Maybe I should show a smile, Cheer yourself up and bring an end to the entire emotional arc."
To put it simply, it means having a beginning and an end. Only in this way can the emotion of this scene be complete and its function in the entire movie be highlighted. come out.
Almost all movies are like this. A plot, a performance, and an emotion are arced throughout and finally complete a closed loop.
Gus raised his chin slightly, "But why didn't you do this?"
Anson shrugged, "I don't know, a gut feeling."
Pause.
“I just thought, maybe the emotion here needs to be incomplete.”
This is indeed the case for general movies, plots and performances. They need a closed loop, like Lego blocks, part by part to fit together. Together, they finally form a whole.
So, when the audience watches the movie, even though they don’t know what is happening or what is going on, they vaguely feel that they cannot be convinced, or that they are not immersed enough, and there is a high probability that the plot or performance is incomplete. Event——
Directors and screenwriters may both need to be responsible; similarly, actors are no exception.
But what about the "elephant"?
Vaguely, Anson believes that this movie is different. It is also the experience and lessons brought after fourteen NGs, an intuition that sounds the alarm.
So, this time, Anson did not continue to perform according to his familiar inertia.
(End of this chapter)