1061 role analysis
Starring in "Buried Alive" is not an easy task; starring in "Gravity" will be even more difficult..
Alfonso Cuaron's script thoroughly implements a minimalist strategy, basically cutting off all the branches of the actors, leaving only key information, and then leaving all the gaps for the actors to slowly fill in..
In comparison, although "Buried Alive" is trapped in a small wooden box, there are actually many supporting points for the performance, and the emotional explosiveness and emotional turning points are clear at a glance; now "Gravity", almost It is equivalent to removing all performance supports and relying entirely on the actor's internal and basic skills to promote acting, and it still requires full dedication..
what does that mean？
This means that actors must do their homework in advance, use method acting skills, and truly construct the entire character's mental journey. They not only need to lie down in the coffin and truly feel the pain of airtightness like they did at the beginning, but also need to conceive the background of the character. , history and stories, it is almost equivalent to writing a biography.
Then when you put into the performance, you must follow the director's conception and framework, guide it with expressionistic acting skills, and provide a more precise, more delicate, and more profound performance that complements the storyline and the core of the theme, and then fully integrates the character into the story. , telling the whole universe, the whole nature, and the whole life in a one-man show, making the audience forget about the character himself.
To truly play a character, you need to let the character disappear. Such contradictory remarks are the best interpretation of "Gravity".
First there is method acting, then expressionistic acting, and finally returning to method acting. This can be seen as the theoretical sequence in the performance of "Gravity". Of course, in the actual performance process, it is naturally impossible to distinguish in such detail , but integrated, but it is a crucial preparation stage before entering into the performance..
For Renly, this is not only an extremely demanding challenge, but also an excellent opportunity to polish his acting skills again. Especially after just experiencing the stage performance of "Les Misérables", now he is involved in the performance of such a role. , absolutely nothing better.
Otherwise, Renly would not have just rested for a week after finishing the stage play, and then came to England non-stop, ready to face the challenge..
In the last life, Sandra Bullock gave the best performance of her career, even surpassing her final work "Weakness", and truly left a deep impression on people; but in this life, Renly must Find a new way to interpret a different role from a male perspective.
For the male version of Ryan Stone, what is certain is that after encountering a space disaster, the first and third stages are consistent with the female version. The first stage is the survival instinct/ability and the dying struggle. The third stage is to wake up and get back on your feet.
The real difference should appear in the second stage, getting rid of the constraints of gender labels and further broadening the theme of the entire film.
Renly once thought about setting up a family for Ryan based on the story setting of Sandra in the previous life, such as a divorced wife, a seriously ill daughter, or even a daughter who passed away due to an accident, or an elderly Parents, etc., their alienation and departure gradually cut off all ties with Ryan. In despair, Ryan began to give up his attempt to survive..
But after much thought, Renly rejected such a plan..
It's not because I borrowed other people's settings, but because of the special nature of the work "Gravity". Simple and crude copy and paste will not work. It is suitable for Sandra's version of the female perspective, placed on top of the male perspective. The meaning of the entire theme suddenly began to fade away..
If we follow Renly's original idea, then what reawakens Ryan's vitality is responsibility and fetters, coming from his wife, parents, and children. This is feasible, but from a philosophical perspective, it does not reach the height of life and the universe. It's a poor grade.
The reason why Sandra's version of Ryan is able to sublimate the theme is first of all to use the maternal characteristics of women and establish a foundation with the bond between mother and daughter. After passing through the critical moment of life and death, she gave up the obsession with the bond and no longer immersed in it. In the sadness and numbness caused by the death of his daughter, he returned to the original meaning of life, took on a new life, and accepted the call from gravity..
So, cheer up and open up a way back.
But Renly's copy-pasted version goes in the opposite direction, turning responsibility into obsession, using family and family as concern and motivation to awaken the hope of survival. On the contrary, this is inferior and simple and crude..
Furthermore, simply applying Sandra's version of the story to Renly, but the life-giving qualities possessed by women are missing from men, instead amplifies the difference in life experience caused by "gender differences", interpreting The profound meaning of it becomes thin and superficial..
Previously, when Renly and Alfonso were discussing the character conception of the entire film project, they mentioned the work "The Tree of Life" and conceived the transformation of the male version of Ryan Stone. After losing the female characteristics, Then go further and give up the masculine characteristics, blur the mystery of gender differences, and purely return to the origin of life.——
The moment of the big bang.
In the midst of the chaos, an explosion occurred, opening up the world and giving birth to signs of life..
In other words, the male version of Ryan should symbolize the source of life, the pure and original power of survival. So, Renly re-opened his mind and conceived a more pure power.：
The origin is derived from the family, which gives a person social attributes, becomes the person's support and motivation, and encourages the person to start pursuing himself; and then further develops into the person's pursuit of self and self, and in the pursuit process , gradually began to cut off social ties and become a pure living being, giving up all social attributes.
But at the moment of life and death, it returns to the process of reshaping the entire life and promoting to a higher-level life form..
As a child, Ryan Stone was a genius and a model. He was good at everything, from study to sports, from politeness to social interaction, and even self-life management. He was perfect. He had a happy and warm family. , the love and support of his parents, the adoration and admiration of his younger brother, they have always been Ryan's biggest supporter, and they support Ryan to bravely pursue his dreams..
For Ryan, he yearns for the space universe and the unknown mystery. Therefore, he hopes to become a scientific researcher, leave the earth, study the entire huge galaxy in the universe, and pursue the origin of mankind. With the support of his family, Next, he began to rush towards his goal selflessly and realized his dream..
ryan became an astronaut.
However, in the process of continuous running, Ryan gradually became alienated from his family..
On the one hand, because flying into the universe is not an easy task, even if he tries his best, it may not be possible. He is completely immersed in his dream, forgetting everything, even forgetting his own existence, and ignoring other things. everyone.
On the other hand, because he is a genius, his way of looking at the world is completely different, just like the group of otaku geeks in "The Big Bang Theory". His family can't keep up with his pace and rhythm at all, and they don't understand him. world, and he doesn’t understand their world.
Just like that, they drifted away. Those expectations and care slowly turned into pressure, falling heavily on Ryan's shoulders. So, he began to learn to be independent and strong..
For ordinary men, society does not allow them to be fragile and sad, and requires them to be strong and bear all the weight; but for Ryan, it is different. The attributes of gender come at the back, and it is more about the difference in thinking between geniuses and ordinary people. , after stripping away gender, everything is arranged and combined in a numerical, logical, and regular manner..
“In the eyes of Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory", gender is a social attribute, a social attribute that he does not possess.
As a result, Ryan became more and more indifferent, and the connection with his family became weaker and weaker. When the accident in space happened, he had not contacted his family for many years. He was alone, and his social attributes gradually disappeared from him..
After the explosion, after the first stage of survival, the fear of death and loneliness at the limit of life severely defeated all armors and defenses. This made Ryan re-examine himself and his identity, and accumulated twenty The social attributes of many years or even thirty years - the specific age setting needs to be further discussed with Alfonso - reappeared, and negative emotions such as fear, worry, and despair began to erupt, so Ryan decided to give up.
Exposed to the environment of the space universe, like a womb, like the chaos at the beginning of the universe, Ryan returned to the most primitive state, the state at the beginning of life..
Then, the entire long life is experienced again, like rebirth, but more like the process of the Big Bang..
In Renly's conception, the whole process of returning to himself and his identity awakened the memory of his family, and further awakened the dreams and motivation under the support of his family, which gave Ryan the opportunity to look at himself again.：
His dream is not to become an astronaut, but to study the universe, life, and the unknown after becoming an astronaut. But now, he has finally become an astronaut, but he has lost his original passion, and at the same time, he has lost the hope after success. Joy, everything seems to be natural.
Such a layer of unchanging days will become numb after becoming regular. Habits are so terrible..
Now, after an accident broke the inertia, I looked back on my life and found my goal again..
However, the problem is that "looking back on life" cannot be done in movies, because the time and space of movies are limited; all the above-mentioned thinking contents will not appear in movies, and even It can't appear, it's just Renly's self-conception. So, what entry point should he choose to bring such a huge and magnificent thought into the movie?？
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