The peak acting skills of the actor

Chapter 348 Who is 1990
Today, under a green screen, Duo Lei and Tang Ren, who is in charge of special effects, are constantly busy. In the green recording studio, there are also some real objects, such as seats and floors, which are mostly the product of the combination of real objects and green screen.

The purpose is to let the actors blend into the virtual picture constructed by special effects as much as possible.

Of course, there are also some live-action shots, which were taken outside the recording studio a few days ago, and the crew chose to shoot in the streets of the United States for a certain period of time.

The reason for shooting these shots is that Doley intends to use the perspective of the spectator to describe the experience of the protagonist of the film. This narrative technique will give people a sense of distance, and people will always have a feeling that they cannot get close to the protagonist of the story when watching. a feeling of.

Audiences are more like spectators than participants.

Duo Lei has already finished editing these shots, and Cheng Feng watched the entire clip on purpose a few days ago.

In the camera, late at night, on a damp staircase, there is a lonely person with tired eyes and a little messy brown windbreaker. This person is Max, a trumpet player who developed from Europe to the United States.

At this time, he was sitting on the steps on the ground, cleaning his trumpet. He used to play for travelers all over the world on the Virginia.

But after the war, people no longer liked jazz, so he had to sell his beloved Conn trumpet.

Reluctantly wiping his golden musical instrument, Max came to a musical instrument store. Inside the store was a stooped, gray-haired old man, looking at the trumpet that Max carefully cleaned.

He is the owner of this musical instrument store. Although the owner knows the goods, the price is extremely low.

Hearing this, Max felt helplessness in his eyes, and he couldn't accept it. After all, this trumpet, in a sense, represented Max's life of ups and downs.

But people are like this, most of the company in the world of mortals is involuntary, forced by the livelihood, he still reluctantly gave up, but before leaving, he asked again, and blew the trumpet for the last time.

The elderly musical instrument shop owner agreed.

Holding the golden trumpet high, Max blew it, and a melodious tune sounded.

At this moment, suddenly, the face of the owner of the musical instrument store beside him suddenly moved, and he looked at Max in surprise.

playing love...

This is the name of this piece of music. In the musical instrument store, when the boss heard it, he hurriedly turned around and found an old record.

Immediately afterwards, a beautiful melody came out from the phonograph, filling the entire musical instrument store.

Max, who was originally playing with passion, heard the music, and the piano piece on the phonograph record was exactly the same as the piece he played.

Max stopped playing music, but turned his head to look at the owner of the music store, with nostalgia and surprise in his eyes.

Few people in the world have heard of this record, and Max is one of them.

The owner of the music shop urgently asked, "Which pianist played this piece!"

With tears in his eyes, Max murmured in a low voice: "This is my secret..."

on the set.

Duo Lei looked at the green ship that was built, then at Tang Ren, and asked, "How is the screen debugging going?"

"Okay, the combination of actors and virtual reality is in place, and there is no problem anymore!" Tang Ren looked at the computer in his hand, and made an OK gesture while talking.

Doré nodded, then picked up the speaker and said, "Start shooting!"

Snapped!
There was a clattering sound.

Tang Ren stared intently at the screen from the laptop in his hand.

The Virginia, leaning against the pier, was filled with smoke. On the deck, European immigrants with American dreams in mind raised their hands and kept waving their hats.

Cheers are everywhere, this is the cruise ship carrying their American dream!

This is a ship full of rich people, tourists, poor people, immigrants.

Just at this moment, a poor European white youth was startled for a moment, and then pointed forward and shouted loudly: "America!"

Where he pointed his finger was the famous Statue of Liberty in the United States.

For a while, all the people on the deck of the cruise ship cheered happily, and their destination had arrived.

On the first day of 1900, the Virginia was docked at a pier in the United States.

And in this large cruise ship, it is in the first-class concert hall that is responsible for entertaining nobles and rich people.

A black man with a simple and honest face, he is Danny the boiler worker, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Danni carefully picked up a baby from the box placed on the only piano in the concert hall.

This is a little boy of Asian descent. No one knows who his biological parents are. There are too many people gathered on this cruise ship, and people of different skin colors have been on this ship before.

Perhaps some Asian couple, unable to raise the little boy, secretly sneaked into the first-class concert hall and put the newborn little boy on the piano while no one was prepared.

Outside the camera on the set, Cheng Feng stopped to watch the actor's performance of this scene.

Cheng Feng quietly saw this scene arranged in the plot, and thought about the future plot in his mind, and seemed to feel that the reason why director Dolei arranged the appearance of the protagonist on the piano actually had other deep meanings.

Rather than saying that the protagonist is a person, it is better to say that the protagonist is an anthropomorphic thing.

He is something born on the piano, and the name of this thing is - jazz!

At the shooting scene, the black actor who played the boy's father named the abandoned baby 1900.

This symbolic scene allowed Cheng Feng to confirm the thoughts in his mind.

Cheng Feng recalled that in 1900 in the plot, in an immigrant environment full of Europeans, Americans and blacks, he was raised by blacks and grew up at the bottom. He was enlightened by ragtime music and influenced by blues. Self-taught, he likes Improv on the piano, loved by everyone high and low, friends from New Orleans made him understand that what he plays is jazz...

During the 19th century, music was an important means for black slaves in plantations in the southern United States to express their lives and emotions.

From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, jazz, based on traditional British and American music, mixed with blues, ragtime and other music types, became popular.

It is a hybrid product of black American music culture and white music.

The year that jazz was born happened to be 1900!

That's why, in the plane of Cheng Feng in the previous life, a white baby in the film has a black father.

It is full of too many symbols, as for this plane, it became a little Chinese baby.

If you have to make a far-fetched point, it is the Asian ethnic group, which is a race between blacks and whites.

It well interprets the inexplicable hybrid state of jazz music.

All these symbols and metaphors conveyed, director Dorey, tried to tell people that 1900 is not a human being, he is the embodiment of jazz!

(End of this chapter)