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As soon as they arrived on the set, without even having time to introduce themselves, Renly and Jessica had already started discussing their roles and performances. These two people truly explained what it means to be a drama fanatic. From this perspective, those who Not all the negative rumors about Renly are wrong..
The two little guys, Mackenzie and Timothy, both noticed this scene. Although they are underage and still belong to the category of children, they have begun to have their own ideas and thoughts about the performance. They are like sponges. As long as they encounter With correct guidance, potential can be tapped more.
After entering the cabin, Mackenzie secretly sat down on Jessica's side, just like a harmless baby, sitting quietly and listening - many times, when parents are talking or arguing, It is often easy to ignore the existence of children, this is the reason.
Timothy was wandering around the sofa near the door, looking like he was playing around, but his ears were always elongated, like a little mouse eavesdropping in the corner, and his constantly dodging eyes were completely deceiving— —Is it possible to become invisible without eye contact?？
Jessica noticed the melancholy and nervous look on Timothy's face from the corner of her eyes. After all, she couldn't hold it back and chuckled, "Timothy, come here and sit down. What we are discussing is not Trade secrets, you can come over if you want, just like MacKenzie.”
Mackenzie, who was sitting next to her, arched her back as hard as she could and stuffed herself into the sponge on the back of the sofa to hide her existence. But she suddenly realized that her whereabouts were no longer a secret, and she couldn't help but vomit. He stuck out his tongue and made a face, but quietly straightened his back and started to "eavesdrop" openly..
There was still some hesitation in Timothy's steps. After being exposed the trick, he scratched his head shyly and embarrassedly. He still had a bright smile on his face to cover up his shyness. He wandered near the door, his eyes secretly He glanced at Renly, and then saw the smile on the corner of Renly's mouth. After getting approval, he quickly walked over and sat down next to him..
In fact, Renly also noticed the strange movements of the two little guys, but he didn't take the initiative to bring it up. In this regard, women and men's perspectives and handling are still different after all..
Renly turned around and looked at Jessica again, "I'm considering reducing the branches of Cooper's character to make the performance more pure and focused..”
Jessica showed a curious look, "Why? In 'Gravity', Alfonso's direction is subtracting, and your performance is adding. Through the interweaving of performance and camera, the core is revealed. Sublimation of the theme, in my opinion, Chris and Alfonso’s intentions are essentially the same.”
“The similarity between Chris and Alfonso is that they both hope to reflect a grand and huge theme through human emotions." Renly nodded in agreement, and then further explained, "But different The point is that the final destinations of the two are completely different..”
In "Gravity", Alfonso used space survival to reflect the origin of life. According to the original script, there was no problem; but in the actual performance, Renly explored the two characters There is more content, giving the movie more philosophical thinking: Who am I? Where did it come from? where to go？
This is undoubtedly a further explanation of the origin of life and gives the movie a deeper meaning..
In "Interstellar", Christopher uses the time folding of wormholes to reflect human emotions. It can be simply understood as, is there an eternal eternity in the vicissitudes of life? The definition of emotion in the script is very intuitive and simple: the family relationship between Cooper and his two children, especially the bond between Cooper and Murphy, will this relationship become thinner with the passage of time, or even To dissipate? Furthermore, does faith die?？
In other words, the ending point of "Gravity" is life, while the ending point of "Interstellar" is emotion. The former can be given more philosophical interpretation, while the latter needs to be simpler and purer.
In fact, this is similar to the theme of "Inception".
“"Inception" discusses whether there are still bonds in reality that allow those dream builders to come back? And "Interstellar" discusses whether there are still bonds on the earth that allow those interstellar travelers to break time. The shackles return again？
In the Nolan brothers' script, the entire core idea revolves around the emotions between Cooper and Murphy, which does not require too many branches.——
Why are Cooper and Murphy so close? What happened between Cooper and his wife? How did Cooper and Tom become emotionally distant? Why is Murphy willing to believe in his father wholeheartedly? And what is the belief that makes the bond between Cooper and Murphy unbreakable? Why did Cooper still choose to come back? Why is Murphy waiting so hard?？
All of this is a burden.
family affection.
Just this answer is enough. It’s not that I am unwilling to explore and expand in depth, but because the script hopes to explore the most primitive emotional bonds of human beings, in contrast to the most primitive world structures such as time and space, which can be understood as the relationship between rationality and space. The collision and confrontation between sensibilities.
If things are complicated, for example, Murphy hates his mother, so he becomes bonded with his father; another example is that after Cooper lost his wife, he found the reflection of his wife in Murphy; another example is the relationship between Cooper and Murphy They have a common interest in science, which allows the two people to spend more time together... When reasons like this come out, things lose their original pure quality..
Cutting down branches is to further highlight the conflict between emotion and time. It is only fair to compare two most essential and pure things at the same time..
In addition, the director’s style is also a very important reference factor..
Although Alfonso is not a director who is good at training/coaching actors, his shots can always keenly present the emotions of characters and stories..
Whether it is "Children of Men" or "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", or even Alfonso's early films, he is always able to present the flow of emotions, loneliness, and sadness through the temperament and characteristics of the image. , despair, pain, etc. The construction of light and lens can leave more blanks and aftertaste for the audience to fill in..
Of course, the actor's performance is even more important.
Christopher is a different kind of director. He is good at presenting the diversity of stories through lens scheduling, rhythm control and editing..
In Christopher's movies, emotions and characters are relatively weak parts. What he presents is often a single emotion, the loneliness of "Inception", the struggle of "The Dark Knight", the sacrifice of "The Prestige", the "Following" Loneliness, etc., but once the emotions start to get complicated, he tends to lose control easily.
Therefore, Christopher must direct the script he wrote, because the characters, emotions, and stories can all be controlled; the overall quality of "White Nights" adapted from the script is obviously weak. Overall, Christopher is a good storyteller. director, but not a director who is good at talking about emotions.
Therefore, actors need to cooperate with Christopher's scheduling and integrate it with the story as much as possible. If the actor plays too much on his own, it will easily break the structure of the entire work; on the contrary, if the actor further deepens the emotion based on Christopher's settings, then The Joker in "The Dark Knight" will gain a wide range of opportunities to display himself. He has brought his craziness of both good and evil to the extreme. He has no superfluous emotions, but he is deeply involved..
There is no derogatory malice, but an objective statement: the actors' work is relatively simple when starring in works directed by Christopher. They only need to follow the framework of the script role, and this is enough. In fact, this is similar to Alfred H. Chi Keke has different approaches but the same purpose——
The master of horror movies likes expressionistic acting. Fear is fear, and panic is panic. He hopes that actors will have no extra thoughts of their own and follow their own settings, just like chess pieces, appearing in the right place at the right time, then Only his movies can achieve the desired effect. Therefore, Alfred has always scorned method acting..
In "Gravity," Renly needs to do addition; in "Interstellar," Renly needs to do subtraction..
What is subtraction?？
“Just focus on the family relationship. There is a bond of faith between Cooper and Murphy. He is trying to go home, and he wants to go home. This is the only thought. No reason, no story. The reason why Cooper Loves Murphy because Murphy is his daughter; and Murphy believes in Cooper because Cooper is her father. It’s that simple..”
Renly elaborated on his views and opinions.
Starring in "Interstellar" will be a new challenge. For the first time, Renly will use expressionistic acting skills to perform, reducing the branches of method acting skills as much as possible, showing emotional delicacy, moving and profound, which is enough.
In the last life, Matthew McConaughey's performance was not able to do this. He tried to add more details to the character, but these details were all submerged in Christopher's shots, and in the end it became useless. Instead, This makes Cooper, played by Matthew, outside the story and affects the connection between the audience and the movie..
It’s not that Matthew is not good enough, it’s just that the method is not suitable. Christopher is not good at training/teaching acting skills, and we can also get a glimpse of it from here: he did not realize that Matthew’s method was not suitable for this movie..
Of course, this is just Renly's personal opinion.
Renly's explanation had come to an end, and Jessica was lost in her own thoughts, savoring her words carefully, "You mean, we only need to show that emotion, and then in This emotion deepens step by step and continues to amplify the belief of longing and love, right?？”
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