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Chapter 160 Acting Bottleneck (Part [-])
No one can say for sure whether the drama "Zhong Shentong Wang Chongyang" can save itself and pull it back from the brink of being cut in half.

The current situation is very delicate, some people are waiting to see the joke, some people are frustrated, some people sigh, and some people have nothing to do with themselves...

In short, everyone has any attitude towards this drama.Rumors spread wildly inside and outside TVB, saying that this drama will be cut in half in the future, look, even the popular fried chicken Zhou Runfa can't save this drama, who can turn the tide?Alone? !In a word, there is no help!

Faced with the status quo of rumors flying all over the sky, Ren Dahua, Zhou Xingchi, Lan Jieying and others who starred in this film are inevitably depressed, but after director Zhao Zhenqiang returned to the crew, he only said one sentence: "Everyone work hard, we must finish filming !"

At that moment, the whole crew knew the meaning of it, no one spoke, everyone took a breath, yes, we must finish filming it!
With such a cohesive force, the next shooting process was more than twice as fast as before. Many shots that originally required N-camera were shot in one pass, especially Ren Dahua and Zhou Xingchi, who played the role of "The King of the Golden Kingdom" and "Old Urchin", both of which are deeply rooted in the three tastes, and the shooting is vivid and lifelike.

In contrast, due to Chen Xiaotang's busy learning to sing recently, and emotional entanglements, he was not as good at filming as Ren Zhou and the others.

In particular, he encountered the biggest bottleneck since he was acting. When filming the next scene, he unexpectedly got stuck.

This scene is about "Wang Chongyang" played by Chen Xiaotang, who is about to leave his lover "Lin Chaoying" who was practicing martial arts with him in the mountains.A breakup scene before the two parted ways.

Speaking of which, it should be easy to shoot this scene, break up, who wouldn't say goodbye?But the difficulty is that there is still a "kiss scene" in it!
How can there be a kiss scene? !
Chen Xiaotang was puzzled, it wasn't in the script he wrote!

what happened?Out of nowhere?

Fortunately, director Zhao Zhenqiang explained to him.It meant that, for the sake of the plot, to make the story develop smoothly, and to highlight the affectionate side of the hero and heroine, he researched it with others and felt that adding this kiss scene would make it more harmonious.

Chen Xiaotang couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Boss, even if you want to add a play, just say hello to me first."

"Everyone knows that I wrote this script, and now a kiss scene suddenly appeared, and the heroine Lan Jieying is the dream lover of many people, don't you think this makes people suspect that I have bad intentions?!"

Of course Zhao Zhenqiang understood his difficulties, so he could only pat him on the shoulder and comfort him: "Rumors stop at the wise, don't think so much, just shoot the scene well!"

Chen Xiaotang had no choice but to say: "I will do my best!"

"Do your best? Could it be...you haven't filmed a kissing scene?!" Zhao Zhenqiang opened his mouth wide.

Chen Xiaotang spread his hands: "What do you say?!"

...............

Speaking of which, Chen Xiaotang really didn't have a chance to shoot the kissing scene.In his first major work "Legend of the Condor Heroes", he plays Ouyang Ke, who is flirtatious and flirts with this beauty and that beauty, but in the end he is constantly being repaired by "Huang Rong" and "Mu Nianci".

In the second work "Xin Tian Long Ba Bu", he played the rebellious and suave Gusu "Murong Fu". "But you can't touch it. The reason is that the country has not been restored, so why marry a wife? !Not to mention pulling hands and touching her with a finger.

Then to "The Sword of Green Blood" that Chen Xiaotang finished filming, in which he played the supporting role "Golden Snake Lord", who is cold outside and hot inside, but also good and evil. Don't look at the evil appearance of "Golden Snake Lord" written in the book, but that It's all people's misunderstanding of him. During filming, he was made to look like a pure and innocent Sayuri. Occasionally, there was a bed scene that was over as soon as the candle was blown, and there was no actual action at all.

Therefore, in terms of experience in filming "kiss scenes", Chen Xiaotang is still a zero-ball "first brother".

But now that the director has been arranged, Chen Xiaotang has nothing to say, after all, the director is the biggest when it comes to filming.

Besides, when she heard that a kiss scene was going to be filmed, the heroine Lan Jieying's first reaction was—is Chen Xiaotang trying to take advantage of her? !You know, he wrote the script.

But soon she knew the truth of the matter, and she realized that she had misunderstood Chen Xiaotang, and she was quite embarrassed.

In fact, Lan Jieying graduated from TVB's acting training class, and she is much more professional in acting than Chen Xiaotang, a half-way monk.Especially during the training and study, there was a class where the teacher specifically talked about how to shoot "kiss scenes", and what to pay attention to when filming kiss scenes, etc.

Lan Jieying has always been a good student in the class, and she keeps in mind what these teachers teach, so now that she heard that there is a kiss scene to be filmed, although she is still a little nervous, she has adjusted her mood immediately after panicking for a while calmed down.

And Chen Xiaotang's mind was completely messed up, not to mention shooting kiss scenes, even filming general literary dramas, modestly speaking, he was just "peeping the way", the reason why he was able to "Ouyang Ke" earlier, "Murong Fu" and "Golden Snake Langjun" acted live, it was because he had watched too many versions, and he already had a vivid image of this character in his heart, not to mention that he was only a supporting role, so there was not much pressure; The drama is different, first of all he is the male lead, the whole drama is good or bad depends on his performance; secondly, he doesn't have too many versions to learn from.Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how difficult it is to shoot the most embarrassing kiss scene for artists

When performing, the more emotional the scene, the harder it is to perform. Anger, crying, and kissing are typical scenes. For experienced actors, they will find it difficult to control, let alone just now. Chen Xiaotang, who just became the leading actor.

When doing these performances, the grasp of emotions and the performance of movements are very particular.Especially the grasp of "degree" is very important. If the emotion is too high, it will be exaggerated. If the emotion is not enough, the shot will look without tension.

To give a simple example, they are also acting sad. Al Pacino's performance in "The Godfather" is called wonderful, but Taiwan's "Roaring Emperor" Ma Jingtao's crying scene looks very unappetizing. .

It's not that Ma Jingtao's acting skills are not good, but that his performance is more like a stage play style, which is really a bit exaggerated, so it makes people feel unnatural.

TV dramas can use facial close-ups to let the audience feel emotions directly through the expressions of the actors; the audience of stage dramas is far away from the actors, and the actors have no way to use expressions to infect the audience, so they can only work on voice and body movements , which led to the exaggerated volume and movements of the actors during the stage play.

Crying scenes are difficult to shoot, and kissing scenes are equally difficult to shoot, and not only the actors are difficult to grasp, but the feelings of the audience are also a major factor that makes kissing scenes difficult to shoot.

"Kissing" is an act of expressing goodwill between men and women. This is the most primitive instinct of human beings, and the more instinctive the behavior, the easier it is to arouse the emotional ups and downs of the audience.So when watching such a scene, the audience's reaction will be more intense than other times.

The so-called perfect acting skills are a very difficult challenge for all actors. The performances usually performed by actors are basically not up to that level.

In other words, there is generally a certain deviation between the actor's performance and the most perfect and ideal state. When shooting other shots, the deviation is slightly larger, which will not make the audience feel too much. , but if the same situation happened during the filming of the kiss scene, it would be difficult for the audience to accept it.

To put it bluntly, when watching other scenes, the audience would at most feel a little fake, but if they watched the kissing scene, they would not only give a "fake" evaluation.

In the case of relatively large emotional ups and downs, if you make an unacceptable choice, then what awaits the actors next will definitely be a storm of criticism. This is the second reason why the "kiss scene" is difficult to shoot. .

"Kiss scene?" Chen Xiaotang really had a headache for this scene. After all, he and Lan Jieying were friends. It would be easier if they were strangers, but it was difficult because they were friends. They acted too much and looked like themselves The self-control is too poor; the acting is too plain, and it seems that his acting skills are too poor. It is too difficult to grasp the "angle" in the middle.

"What's the matter? Ah Tang, you are hesitant, right?" Seeing Chen Xiaotang's embarrassment, the director Zhao Zhenqiang asked again with a smile before the filming started. The teasing expression on his face was already obvious.

"Hmm - I don't think it's necessary to shoot the kiss scene in a costume drama so carefully? Can we borrow seats to shoot?" Chen Xiaotang commented.

"Hehe, for a kiss scene with a beautiful woman like Lan Jieying, you should feel that the more real the better, why would you think of borrowing a seat?" Zhao Zhenqiang said with a smile, not only making fun of Chen Xiaotang, but also Lan Jieying on the Internet blushed a little after hearing this
After all, Zhao Zhenqiang is a great director, so even if Lan Jieying felt shy, she couldn't say something directly, so she just pushed Zhao Zhenqiang with a blushing face, telling him not to say any more

"Hehe, okay, okay, I just don't say anything!"

Although Zhao Zhenqiang didn't say anything more, the embarrassment between Chen Xiaotang and Lan Jieying had already formed, and now the two had subconsciously dared not look at each other. It seemed that this situation would not be able to recover for a while.

In fact, this embarrassing scene not only embarrassed Chen Xiaotang, but also embarrassed Lan Jieying.But there is no way, the director has already arranged, and also said a lot of reasons, any costume drama needs emotion to set off, and the children of the world also have a chivalrous and tender side.This film is to be filmed into an extraordinary martial arts film, with iron blood, tenderness, and not one of them!
The filming is about to start, and everyone obviously attaches great importance to this scene.

The camera has been set up next to it, and the prop master and other actors are fully prepared, after all, the next shot is a bit extraordinary.

This kind of work is generally carried out meticulously, and the kiss scene is different from other scenes.This is still a kind of torture for the actors, and there are all kinds of onlookers on both sides.There are very few people who can really make a kiss scene as tepid as other scenes.Unless these two actors are from Japan's professional AV background, "experienced in many battles" can be proud of the bed under the crowd's onlookers!

Chen Xiaotang himself was a bit uncertain, he felt that he was a bit uneasy about doing anything now.In the future, he will face a long, long career. If he can't pass this test, it will be a shame.He really can't show his timidity in front of everyone.

Chen Xiaotang would be really embarrassed if he acted coyly in front of everyone when filming such a scene.So he has been hiding a little uneasy mood, pretending not to care, as usual, helping everyone put the right equipment in the right place, so that many people can't see any flaws.

To say that many people may have thought about being the leading actor in some TV series or movie, and then taking advantage of the actress, but in fact, it is not the case to let people act.

With so many people around watching, he had to maintain an expression on his face and express a kind of intention.Just the audience around you staring at you covetously, an actor who is not a girlfriend or even an actor who has never met before, these two things are enough for you. expression?
Although I tried to slow down the speed of my work, and tried my best to brew in my heart the content of the next performance.

As time goes on, the shooting of this shot will start soon.

"Is the camera position ready?" Chen Xiaotang came to a cameraman and asked directly.

"Okay, okay. Hey, Ah Tang, this is the sixth time you've asked me this question today." The photographer was very surprised.The director Zhao Zhenqiang next to him smiled meaningfully.

"Be careful." Chen Xiaotang quickly said these words to cover up his slight panic, then he bravely came to Lan Jieying, and said, "Hey, just pay attention to the artistic conception later. "

Lan Jieying heard Chen Xiaotang's tone was a bit strange, and felt that it was really different from the confident Chen Xiaotang in the past, so she looked up in surprise.Immediately, he saw Chen Xiaotang's finger rubbing his palm, and knew in his heart that he was nervous.

To be honest, she was also very nervous when filming such a scene, but Lan Jieying was a little funny when she saw Chen Xiaotang being nervous while acting like she had nothing to do with herself.Xin said, although this guy is brilliant and cynical, he is quite funny sometimes.

(End of this chapter)