Chapter 131 Explosive Power
It was April 11th in a blink of an eye, and the crew's shooting was surprisingly smooth. Now all the scenes have been completed more than half. Under normal circumstances, the shooting can be completed in seven or eight days, which is far faster than expected.
What we are going to film is a scene where Chen Wei takes him to the band to participate in the competition. The male protagonist Zhou Xu is late and Chen Wei wants to replace Zhou Xu. This scene is a turning point in the movie and the beginning of the conflict between Zhou Xu and Chen Wei.
Now the entire band is waiting in the lounge, and two substitutes Huang Bo and Wang Yun are also sitting aside. The prop group has arranged the room, and the lighting group has arranged the light under the guidance of Zhao Fei.
The shooting officially begins.
The first shot of this scene was quite smooth. After taking three shots, Zhang Ran stood up and clapped his hands: "Okay, this shot has passed, and the next shot is ready!"
The crew members quickly moved and began to prepare for the next shot.
The shooting begins soon.
In the camera, Feng Yuan said indifferently: "The chief is mine, I will give it to anyone I want!" As he said that, he glanced at Zhou Jielun's bag: "And I won't give anyone who doesn't even have drumsticks on his face!"
Zhou Jielun took a look at his bag and found that his drumstick was not there. He thought for a while and understood what was going on. He immediately said, "I forgot to be in the car, I'll go find it right away!" After that, Zhou Jielun turned around and prepared to go back to find the drumsticks.
But Feng Yuan was stunned and did not give him a chance, and said coldly: "We have started to warm up!"
When Zhou Jielun heard this, he was a little angry: "Can't I use Li Ming's drumsticks?"
Feng Yuan said coldly: "Zhou Xu, you are no longer the chief!"
When Zhou Jielun heard this, he retorted loudly: "Why am I not the chief? You can't do this!"
Feng Yuan's face sank and raised his voice: "Can't you?"
Zhou Jielun shouted: "Yes, no!"
Feng Yuan was stunned. He was the leader of the band. The authority was beyond doubt. He shouted loudly: "Is your brain watered? When is it your turn to teach me a lesson? Who do you think you are? Believe it or not, I will tell you to get out immediately!"
In the original "Breaking Drummer", the devil teacher Fletcher swears a lot and runs three times at any time. If it is like the original version, the movie will definitely not pass the review. Therefore, Chen Wei is not a swear word, but a teacher who speaks particularly badly. He often ridicules students by saying "I found Darwin's theory of evolution wrong in you", and is the kind of teacher who can make people feel depressed and vomit blood.
However, there is one thing that Feng Yuanzai is the same as the original version, that is, explosive power. Feng Yuanzai himself is an actor with extremely strong explosive power, and he also presented his own particularly perfectly in this scene, so that many people on the scene were shocked.
Zhou Jielun was shocked by Feng Yuan's aura, and was obviously stunned, and then retorted loudly: "I won the chief!"
"Stop!" Zhang Ran called to stop. Zhou Xu had been with Chen Wei for so long, and he had long been used to Chen Wei's way of speaking. It would not be like this. This shot must be reshooted.
This was just a small mistake, and Zhang Ran didn't think it was in his heart, but he didn't expect it was just the beginning of the disaster.
"Jie Lun, the line is stressed wrong. Do it again!"
"Jie Lun, your chief position was obtained by sacrificing a lot of valuable things. Now you are going to be snatched away by others. Can you accept it? No. You have to question him loudly! Let's start over!"
"You have to question Chen Wei's decision. All those who want to take away your chief position are your enemies. Facing the enemy, your performance is too gentle. Let's start over!"
“Do it again.”
This shot was taken until 11:30. The life producer came to inform Zhang Ran that the dining car had arrived, but it still failed.
Zhang Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the crew members. Seeing that everyone was tired, he smiled and said, "I'll be here this morning, everyone will have dinner first!" Seeing that Zhou Jielun's face looked a little ugly, he went over to pat his shoulder and comforted him, "Don't take it to heart. Do you still remember the first day of shooting? We also took a lot of photos at that time, and we'll come back in the afternoon!"
Zhou Jielun's face looked a little better, and he forced a smile and said, "I'm fine. You're right, I'll definitely be able to perform well in the afternoon."
After lunch, Zhang Ran pulled Zhou Jie aside and discussed how to perform this scene.
In the morning, Zhang Ran had analyzed the psychology of the characters for Zhou Jielun many times, and Zhou Jielun's performance was also performed again as Zhang Ran said, but his performance was too dull and always gave people a feeling of being a breath.
This is related to Jay Chou's personality. He is introverted and calm, so he feels a bit warm and lacks strong emotions when acting. This is exactly the opposite of Nicholas Tseung. Nicholas Tseung is in a more intense mood, but he cannot control it. He releases his emotions and sometimes he can't take them back, which makes people feel overheard.
Zhang Ran looked at Zhou Jielun's slightly uneasy face: "Jielun, your performance is actually fine, mainly because your emotions are not in place. I need to see a force, a force, and a force that can do anything for the chief. Think about it, Zhou Xu gave up his girlfriend for the sake of playing the drums, and his relationship with others is also very bad. It can be said that music is everything to him. For such a person, whoever threatens his chief will be his enemy. This force is very important. Without this force, the character's behavior will not be trustworthy!"
Zhou Jielun nodded: "I know that I will give up my girlfriend and conflict with my family for the sake of the position of chief. So even if I face teacher Chen Wei, he dares to refute it. This part must be performed very powerfully!"
Zhang Ran said: "Yes, that's it. Each of us will have times when we are particularly intense, and even when we are out of control. Similarly, there will definitely be people we hate in our hearts, or even people we hate. You just put yourself into this scene and imagine that it is not Teacher Feng Yuanzai who stands in front of you, but the person you hate the most, and then release that emotion!"
Jay Chou smiled bitterly and said, "I know, I do it too."
Zhang Ran said: "But your emotions are not strong enough, which only means that you do not hate the person you are looking for. Think about it carefully and find a kind of person you really hate and want him to die from your heart."
Jay Chou nodded and began to think.
At 1:30 pm, the filming started again, but Jay Chou's performance was still not good. He had both expressions and emotions, and his voice was loud, but he was not emotional enough and lacked enough explosive power, which was too dull.
The so-called explosive power, simply put, is that emotions come from the scene. If an actor lacks explosive power in acting, the whole scene will be as bland as boiled water.
Almost all praised performances in film history are often inseparable from the explosive power of the actors. For example, Maggie Cheung’s crying scene in "Sweet Honey" and the laughter she encountered unexpectedly with Li Ming. The two scenes, one crying and one laughing, one joy and one sadness, all showed extremely strong explosive power.
Explosion power can be divided into two types: dynamic explosion and static explosion. Dynamic explosion has external ostentation, which is not difficult; the difficult thing is static explosion, no external action, not externalized, but the explosive power of inner emotions. For example, in a scene where the heroine Ada was cut off by her husband in "Piano Class", Ada was mute. After she was cut off her finger, she could not speak, without exaggerated movements, nor exaggerated expressions, but the audience could truly feel her inner anger and injustice through her eyes. This is the charm of static explosion, which is the power that comes from the heart.
The problem with Jay Chou’s current is that he is too calm and cannot release his inner emotions. The whole show lacks passion and is particularly warm.
The scene was filmed until it was almost dark, but it still never happened. When Zhang Ran announced that today's shooting ended, not only did Zhang Ran's expression be solemn, but everyone in the crew had a solemn expression.
Zhang Ran thought that after a good night's rest, the situation might improve, but he didn't expect that after taking pictures for a whole day the next day, the effect was still not ideal. Zhang Ran even found a bottle of Erguotou and asked Zhou Jielun to take a few sips, wanting him to let him go, but it still had no effect.
The situation still did not improve on the third day. After the filming, Jay Chou not only couldn't get out of mood, but the whole performance became more and more exaggerated. At the end of work, Jay Chou's assistant angrily asked Zhang Ran, "Jie Chou's performance was obviously very good, why can't he pass?" You are just tossing people!
Zhang Ran was annoyed that you could not pass the show. You, a little assistant, dared to point fingers at me, and he had the urge to curse. Fortunately, at this time, Jay Chou came over and said "I'm sorry" to Zhang Ran, and then pulled the assistant away, otherwise he might have a quarrel on the spot.
This time Zhang Ran really felt the pressure. The movie could not be shot as he wanted. What's even more terrifying is that he had no good solution. He knew that there would be no effect if he continued to shoot like this, so he announced that the crew would take a day off.
In the evening, Zhang Ran asked the director team to eat hot pot and called Feng Yuanzai. Feng Yuanzai has been acting for more than ten years and has a deeper understanding of performance than Zhang Ran. Maybe he can have any good suggestions.
Around the steaming hot pot, everyone was drinking and drinking, cheering and holding each other, and they were as enthusiastic as brothers and sisters.
After drinking for a while, the topic finally returned to the movie. Feng Yuan said in a daze: "Jay Chou is the problem of explosion. In fact, he can reach the limit of his body by practicing Grotowsky's kite, snake, tiger and other 32 warm-up movements. As long as a person can break through his physiological and psychological limits, explosive power will be relatively easy to come out."
Zhang Ran asked: "If training now allows him to show his explosive power well, how long will it take?"
"I can't say it's right, it's about half a month. If he only asked him to do tiger training, he would probably be quicker."
"Half a month is too long." Zhang Ran shook his head. It was not that he had no training methods. Using mask practice can open up the heart of Jay Chou and show explosive power, but it was almost half a month.
Feng Yuan said in a daze: "The main reason is that he is too introverted and is a very calm person. He hides many things deep in his heart and will not tell you. If he doesn't tell you, he will not be able to get many things at all. It is really difficult to train such people's explosive power!"
Zhang Ran sighed. He didn't expect that the problem of Jay Chou's round would be so serious. He thought that his emotions could be guided through the replacement method. If he had known this would be the case, he would have let Feng Yuan be stunned for the half month to focus on explosive training.
Feng Yuanzai had no better way, and others had no choice. Everyone present was silent. The film was halfway through, and it was impossible to change the starring role. If the film was filmed for fifteen days, the cost would increase a lot.
Things are really troublesome!
After being silent for a long time, Zhang Ran raised his head and said in a deep voice: "There is no other way. You can only open his heart in the most violent way, and then consolidate it with tiger practice!"
If there were other ways, Zhang Ran would not be willing to do this, but there was really no better way now.
Chapter completed!