The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 2462 Baby toddler

Andy Rogers must admit that the decision to shoot “Mind Hunter” should be the wisest and most correct decision in two years, because Lan Li is back——

At least on the way back.

In the past two years, Lan Li has successively taken four commercial films including “Interstellar”, “Big Hero 6”, “Jurassic World” and “Rogue One”. Of course, there was also a “Lobster” during the period. But even including “Lobster”, the overall style of these works is relatively light and cheerful.

Simply put, it is more entertaining.

Different from “Drunk Country Folk Songs”, “Burst Drummers”, “Transcendence”, “Crazy Love”, “Buried Alive”, “Gravity”, etc., these works are sacrificed to varying degrees for commercial entertainment. The depth of movies and characters gives more space for “entertainment effects”, and naturally sacrifices the space for dedicated “story telling”.

Of course, all of the above-mentioned works have been approved by Lan Li. “Interstellar” and “Lobster” are even the performance opportunities obtained by Lan Li’s initiative to visit the director and actively participate in it. There is no doubt that Lan Li; but Lan Li Neither Andy anticipated that the power struggle within the crew and the struggle for interests between major Hollywood companies had consumed more energy invisibly.

That is an area that Lanly is not familiar with or interested in.

These power struggles outside of the “professional work of actors” will inevitably follow with the rise in reputation and status, but they have been further amplified because of the attributes of commercial films. Thomas Tour, Catherine Kennedy, The interference of top big names such as Ron Meyer and Kevin Tsujihara has become more and more obvious and serious.

Lan Li is not afraid of these fights-don’t forget his family background, those fights are originally one of the issues of social occasions and interpersonal relationships; on the contrary, Lan Li’s performance is not stage fright, even in the face of the top big players in the industry can still be able to With ease, there have been no mistakes so far.

But the problem is that these “fights” are the jobs of those big bosses, not Lan Li.

Lan Li is an actor, and this is his own job. When Lan Li is forced to spend more energy on these meticulous side work, his actor’s own job will inevitably be affected, which is the most deadly.

Things are no longer pure, so exhaustion begins to breed, just like work, like life, like… “grow up”, everything is like this.

Andy is very worried about Lan Li’s state, but he is not an actor, and he is not sure how to solve the problem and how long it will take to solve it. Besides giving Lan Li enough rest time and waiting quietly, Andy seems to be also There is nothing I can work on.

“Mind Hunter” has become a turning point.

During the shooting of this work, Lan Li was able to truly return to the level of performance, starting from the basic skills and slowly polishing himself; and in a relatively quiet and simple environment, he calmed down and worked a little bit. With adjustments, even if it is temporarily impossible to retrieve the state and rhythm 100%, you can start to enjoy the atmosphere of the crew and the life of the performance again, and return to the familiar daily life.

This is undoubtedly a good thing.

“Mind Hunter” is invested and produced by Sisyphus Pictures, and Andre Hamilton is a named producer, but he obviously will not interfere with the work of the crew; “Mind Hunter” is a TV series with far lower attention and attention. For the movie, and the shooting base was chosen in quiet Philadelphia, this also allowed the crew to win a rare clean. Even the paparazzi seemed to disappear, and the annoying flies did not continue to interfere.

In addition, David Fincher is like Lan Li, he is a dedicated and dedicated director, everything is about the work and only about the work, which makes daily communication can be maintained at a professional level, passively pulling Lan. Li returned to his familiar professional field without being distracted.

The small details in all aspects created a perfect working environment for Lan Li, “really regaining the feeling and atmosphere of filming at the beginning”.

The above sentence comes from the original words of Lan Li. It can be clearly felt that although Lan Li’s performance is still not at its best, he does begin to relax and try to let himself enjoy the work and life of the crew.

In just one month, Andy went to the “Mind Hunter” crew three times before and after three visits, and each time he noticed the change, Lan Li’s tight nerves were gradually relaxing, and at the same time, he was gradually adapting to the cheerful atmosphere of the TV crew.

Indeed, “Jurassic World” set a new record for the North American box office, broke the seemingly unattainable number of “Avatar”, and broke through the 800 million threshold in one go. This is a brand new medal for Andy’s career, and Hollywood has attracted attention. The line of sight can truly be a force in the industry.

But Andy still prefers the blue gift in the “Mind Hunter” crew, which is purer, simpler, and happier. Only when acting as an actor standing in front of the camera, the light on Lan Li’s body is the most dazzling moment, which is also his most charming and vivid moment.

Andy’s feeling is correct, and Renly is indeed very happy.

As David said, the role of Holden Hunter of the “Mind Hunter” is talented, and then grows up ignorantly while groping, until the end of the first season, he finally understands how Give full play to his talents and shine. At the same time, this also made him, young and energetic, start to become self-serving, self-sufficient, arrogant, and arrogant. The feeling of controlling the world made him condescendingly point the country.

But I did not expect that while “dancing with the devil”, I was slowly being eroded by the darkness, “when you are gazing at the abyss, the abyss is also gazing at you”, just when I thought I had peeped into the dark code of the abyss , But didn’t know that the abyss also awakened the darkness in his heart.

Then, he was lost in the darkness.

It cannot be said that Horton’s development context is completely in line with Lan Li, but it is true that Horton’s mentality changes and emotional growth, Lan Li can empathize in all aspects; more importantly, it also means that Lan Li starts from the beginning and returns to Starting from the starting point, following Horton’s own mental journey again, and even the distress and anxiety of “lost in the dark” at the end, it can also make Lan Li truly feel the erosion of reality.

For Lan Li’s state at this moment, Holden is a perfect challenge, impeccable.

Just like a baby learning to walk, starting from the basic skills, slowly looking for inspiration during the performance-as if the pace is not stable, not in a hurry to start running immediately, but to be patient and take every scene As a test, force yourself to calm down and polish it.

This is not easy.

Impulsive mentality and fatigue are not only easy to affect the state, but also easy to lack patience. The most important thing is the lack of excitement and motivation: it is easy to get distracted during preparation, tired during rehearsal practice, and easy to make mistakes during actual shooting. The state of stumbling and stumbling has a negative impact all the time, and then further affects the performance, also affects the opposite actors, and finally affects the entire crew.

This is the first time in Lan Li’s actor career; and the feeling of loss of control is totally unpredictable. It is like a woman’s mood during a holiday, intermittently causing damage, but there is no regularity or context. I don’t even know what to do.

But Lan Li is no longer a rookie after all.

Unable to control his irritability, but able to control his own thoughts, Lan Li can incorporate this impetuous and exhausted state into the performance, creating a confused and confused “frivolity” state, giving the character a subtle sensitivity , Penetrates into the temperament of Holden’s gestures.

This is not Lanly’s original creation—theatrical stage is always the case, because the West End and Broadway performances in London are staged every day, and the actors are all ordinary people. The state will inevitably go up and down, so they need to debug by themselves. Different actors have different methods. Lan What Li is trying is one of them.

Fortunately, Lan Li was able to carefully study the fun of performance in different performances. The entire process of research and exploration was full of novelties and difficulties, forcing Lan Li to spend more time reading the script and adjusting. In terms of state, unconsciously, there is less and less disturbance from the outside world.

Attention, it gradually concentrated. Although it is still easy to collapse, at least it is now possible to surround the performance, even if you wander, you will not go too far, you can pull back at any time, concentrate again, and devote yourself to the next round of thinking or work. This is a significant improvement.

So is on the Philadelphia studio. For Lan Li, every day is familiar, but at the same time, every day is also a challenge. This experience really makes Lan Li adjust little by little. , Came out of the trough, and once again awakened the familiar memories of the performance deep in my heart.

The life of filming without listening to things outside the window, and the trivial chat after dinner is also full of performances and art, either arguing with David about the shortcomings of “Alien 3”; or discussing with Rooney about the scale of character carving Take control; or discuss with Cameron and Hannah and others about the background information and meaning of each character in the “Mind Hunter”… The bustling debate can’t stop at all.

In this way, the memory returns to those years of the “Pacific War”, those years of life where there are only performances, those years of sadness and joy because of performances, those years of great dreams, it seems that even NG mistakes can be a week of conversation. , Everything is so simple.

In this way, Lan Li gradually became accustomed to the daily life of the “Mind Hunter”, and the passage of time became insignificant.

From summer to autumn, after another autumn rain, the cold current seems to have reached the east coast early. The streets of Philadelphia have become cold and wet, and the pace of winter seems to be not far away. Then, the “Mind Hunter” The filming work has finally reached the final stage in an orderly manner.