Hort McCallany, a veteran actor who is 52 years old this year, has been in Hollywood for nearly 30 years and has never won his own shining moments. However, over time, he gradually polished his skills and is an indispensable blue-collar actor in the film industry.

In his early years of his career, Hort was more active on TV small screens, but even in TV series, he rarely won regular roles, and many of them were guest appearances or rotational performance opportunities, such as "Law and Order", "Crime Psychology", "Hero", "Crime Scene Investigation: Miami" and other series.

Small details can reveal the reason: most of the characters played by Hort are police detectives.

Because his facial features are too upright, he is considered to be a "born law enforcement officer" face. The lack of characteristics means limitations, which limits Hort's career as an actor.

In fact, in the actors and modeling industry, handsome, beautiful and other exquisite appearances do not have an advantage. Because of the lack of characteristics and the possibility of being able to carve the role, it is easy to cause the picture to be imbalanced because of the appearance too much, and these faces are often considered more suitable for vase characters.

After the golden age of Hollywood, those beautiful faces are no longer popular, such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc.; on the contrary, personal faces like Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, and Robert De Niro have won more support and love.

Daniel Day Lewis and Renly Hall should be very rare exceptions, but even they are types with more personal charm than handsome appearance.

The same is true for Hort. His facial features lacked characteristics when he was young, which made him stumbling through countless setbacks. From TV series to movies, he was unable to change the situation, either a detective or an officer, and all characters were mostly like this.

The figure of Hort can be seen in works such as "Three Kings of Gold", "Legend of Bandits", "Shocking Effect", "Strike Revenge in the Dark Night", "Detective Jack" and other works, playing similar roles, just like the "Harry Potter" iron triangle, Hort is also bound by this leather mask and cannot get rid of the breakthrough.

What is ridiculous is that the same is true for this "spirit hunter".

Hort is about to play the role of FBI agent Bill-tenh, who is the first member of the establishment of behavioral science (bsu). Horton and Wendy are both members he later recruited. They have truly established the actual application system of criminal psychology and initially established the systematic application of criminal psychology portraits, which has changed the modern scientific system of crime investigation Bill, an agent who is absolutely accused.

In fact, before the "Soul Hunter", Hort and David Finch had worked together many times, and David can even be said to be one of Hort's noble people.

In 1992, David, who was once directed his first career work in his career, "Alien 3", and Hort once played one of the roles; later, Hort appeared in the "Fighting Club" again, continuing his fate. Unfortunately, David's own production was not high, and he did not really help Hort's career as an actor. When he met again, it was nearly twenty years later.

Like most directors, David has certain ideas about the character image in his mind. They will hope to put forward their own requirements and opinions, and then cast the director to find the corresponding actors under the right symptoms; David's requirements for the protagonist are particularly clear, because his works often put all the flesh on the protagonist, and the protagonist's temperament, charm and performance are crucial to the quality of the finished product.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman of the "Seven Deadly Sins", Brad Pitt and Edward Norton of the "Fighting Club", Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield of the "Social Network", Jack Gyllenhaal of the "Zodiac", Rooney Mara of the "Girl with Dragon Tattoo", etc.

All the above actors were selected by David himself. The same is true for the "Soul Hunter". Lanley, Rooney and Hort were selected by David.

Objectively speaking, Hort has been in the industry for nearly 30 years, his image has basically been fixed, and the possibility of breaking the deadlock is gradually disappearing; but on the other hand, Hort has already struggled with the role of detectives and officers to make his own set of principles, and his mature and steady aura can often suppress the formation.

Just like John Goodman.

It is hard to imagine that in John Goodwin's long acting career for nearly 40 years, he has never won any Oscar nominations, but this veteran actor is one of the most favored and favorite actors in major Hollywood film projects. He is calm and can always stabilize the situation with his own performances, and at the same time he can control various works of different styles, regardless of business or art, the subject type.

Lanley and John collaborated on the "Drunk Country Folk Song", and he could indeed feel John's steady from the inside out, and he made adjustments without moving.

David hopes that Hort can become such a stabilizing needle, but whether Hort can shoulder such a heavy responsibility can only be known after he devotes himself to actual shooting.

"The Mind Hunter" is not a crime drama in the traditional sense, but a pseudo-documentary drama with sin as the background. Just like the "Zodiac" shows the process of detectives pursuing the killers of the Zodiac, the core significance of this series is also to show the beginning of the practical application of criminal psychology and psychological portraits, and find a combination point in theory and practice, hoping to open up a new field of crime investigation.

The so-called "psychological portrait" is the most famous representative drama "criminal psychology". A bau is established based on BSU. The members assist the police in pursuing serial killers through technology. However, the "criminal psychology" presents the story of the mature stage of the psychological portrait system, while the "spirit hunter" presents the entrepreneurial history of the predecessors of "criminal psychology".

After the "criminal psychology" became popular, the number of film and television works on psychological portraits gradually increased. "Don't lie to me" pushed this "mind reading technique" to the altar. To a certain extent, these film and television dramas have deified the exploration of psychological portraits, because in real life, this kind of investigation method can only provide a reference value, but in the absence of substantial evidence, it is difficult to convict the suspect and it is difficult to use it in court.

In the 1970s, criminal psychology had just emerged, and even the name of "serial killer" did not exist. People still don't know how to deal with these persistent, long-term, and coherent violent crimes, and traditional investigative methods seem to be unable to track down the murderer.

The situation where strangers kill strangers makes it easy for errors in the judgment of the motive of crime, and even criminal suspects are not easy to locate, which also makes the investigation deadlock, and the number of unsolved cases gradually increases, while local investigators are confused and do not know how to start.

It is in this context that the research on "criminal psychological portrait" has gradually emerged under the pressure of many obstacles, and the "spiritual hunter" tells such a story.

The two protagonists of "The Mind Hunter" Horton Ford and Bill Tanch have prototypes in real life. The whole story is adapted from the documentary of John Douglas and Mark Oshaker, "The Mind Hunter: The FBI's series of crimes solved."

Former FBI agent John Douglas is undoubtedly the core character. He has used him as a prototype to shape the character. Jake-rawford in "Silence of the Lambs" is a typical representative. Later, "criminal psychology" also referenced his experience and personality.

In the episode, Holden Ford corresponds to John Douglas, focusing more on John's image when he was young, but changes were made.

Compared with Bill Tanch, Wendy Carl can find the exact corresponding characters in real life. Horton's background and characteristics combine more of the image and personality of the FBI agent, and recreate according to the needs of the work, and complement the main and branch lines to build the entire story:

How to establish a system of the entire "criminal psychological portrait"; how to mix psychology with criminology; how to position it with systematic alienation; how to broaden individualized behavior and then narrow it down to individualization again so that the police can make judgments based on different cases?

And so on.

Compared with "criminal psychology", "Don't lie to me", "Mind Hunter" focuses more on the early stage of groping in the dark, which also makes the interaction and influence, growth and transformation between the three characters Horton, Bill and Wendy become the core content of the series.

In other words, characters are greater than cases, and psychological exploration is greater than suspense layout.

It is precisely because of this that "Mind Hunter" has been unable to find investors because it does not meet the definition of a popular drama, just like a boring documentary; and "criminal psychology" can always win justice, but "Mind Hunter" may make mistakes in the process of exploration, which makes it even more difficult to please the audience.

It is also because of this that "Mind Hunter" puts strict requirements on the actors of the main three characters, and the chemical reaction between them will determine the quality of the entire series; and, as Rooney said before, the role requires the actors to show delicate and rich changes on the psychological level, which is exactly what Renli is best at.

Now, everything is ready but the east wind is not available. Next, it depends on whether Lan Li can regain the simple mentality of the "Pacific War" period, put aside all skills and burdens, let himself return to his original intention, find the rhythm of the performance step by step, and more importantly, find the fun of the performance.

Judging from the actors' first meeting, David's choice proved wise.

"Should we read the script now? Or should we talk about the role?" Rarely, it was not Renly who took the initiative, but Hort.

He smiled at Renly and Rooney, and opened the conversation in an inquiring tone. The performance work of the TV series can begin now.
Chapter completed!