Chapter 58 Dispute with Zhang Yimou
"Director Zhang, do you think we should take another shot and let the 'Children' go around the school alone?" Lin Zhimo asked after following Zhang Yimou, who looked depressed.
Zhang Yimou stopped and asked with a gloomy face: "I think you want to increase your role!"
Lin Zhimo was not embarrassed at all when he heard this, shook his head and denied: "No, I just feel that based on the mental state of "giving a child" at that time, if he did nothing after his father passed away, he would just recall his parents' love simply, it would be a bit too thin. If this scene was added, the audience would have a deeper impression of the role of father."
Zhang Yimou suppressed his anger and held back his temper and said, "I just want to show my father and mother's love, and the others will disrupt the main line of the film!"
Lin Zhimo did not retreat and insisted: "Yes, what is the love between father and mother reflected? It is naturally expressed through 'giving a child'. Just imagine if the father educated his son to be an unfilial person, how can the love between father and mother be reflected?"
Zhang Yimou could no longer help but speak, saying sternly: "Why is he unfilial? Isn't he unfilial if he didn't go to school to remember his father?"
Lin Zhimo seemed to have not heard Zhang Yimou's scolding, his face remained unchanged, and his voice was still stable, and he said, "Isn't it? When we first took the filming, we had already said that "having a child" had not been home for two years. A child who had worked outside for two years, faced with the news of his father's death when he returned home, shouldn't he show his longing for his father?"
Zhang Yimou wanted to refute but felt that he couldn't explain it clearly. After all, Lin Zhimo was from the perspective of the character and he was from the perspective of the director. He had to say: "According to your opinion, this drama will have to increase by at least ten minutes, and time is not allowed."
Lin Zhimo was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay, but I think I should cry with me when my mother cries!"
The anger in Zhang Yimou's heart suddenly burst out, and he smashed the electric heater in his hand to the ground, shouting: "You are the director and I am the director!? I will shoot whatever you want you to shoot!"
Lin Zhimo was not angry when he heard this, and walked to the side with a helpless look on his face.
At this time, the staff next to him did not come forward to persuade him when they saw this. They all looked like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare. They have seen too many similar scenes these days.
Zhang Yimou, regardless of the staff's thoughts, had no place to vent his anger, and shouted at them: "What are you looking at? Have you finished your work?"
After saying that, he turned around and left angrily, took two steps and turned back, and picked up the electric heater he had just thrown off the ground with hatred.
This situation has been between Lin Zhimo and Zhang Yimou for several days. At first, everyone thought the two were really quarreling, so they came forward to persuade them. Later, they realized that they were having a role, but the form was somewhat... Well, special.
Time goes back a few days ago.
The reason is very simple, because Zhang Yimou is not satisfied with Lin Zhimo's performance. He believes that Lin Zhimo's performance still contains many deliberate elements.
"Zhimo, do you think you are a performanceist or an experientialist?" Zhang Yimou asked Lin Zhimo that day.
An actor generally has two performance methods in film and television works, expressionism and experience.
The "expressionist" is to properly close the actor's "true self" and the character's "fake self" and separate it appropriately, emphasizing the expressiveness and formal beauty of physical movements. Its creative process is a performance process that focuses on the outside and returns to the inside.
The "experience school" emphasizes the profound experience of the actor's inner emotions, integrating the actor's "true self" and the character's "false self". The performance creation process is an experience process that comes from the inside and is reflected outside.
Simply put, the expression school makes you calmly control your body expressions and "present" the character in full; the experience school requires you to completely devote yourself to the role, and you are the character you play.
In the drama "My Father and Mother", Zhang Yimou's request for Lin Zhimo was to make the audience forget Lin Zhimo, but just treat him as an ordinary rural son. This is undoubtedly a huge challenge for Lin Zhimo's acting skills, because when filming the filming of the bell, the director was just the opposite. Sun Shupei asked Lin Zhimo to try his best to perform his love for Ziwei in an exaggerated way.
In addition to the smooth shooting of the first scene, Lin Zhimo never satisfies Zhang Yimou afterwards, including this time.
Lin Zhimo was also troubled by NG again and again, especially when he saw that the entire crew was delaying the process for him.
Hearing Zhang Yimou's question, Lin Zhimo thought for a while and said, "I think I should belong to the experiential school. When I perform, I always imagine myself as 'giving a child', thinking about what reaction he will make at this time."
Zhang Yimou nodded and said thoughtfully: "So that's how it is."
He looked at Lin Zhimo with a depressed look on his face again, and Zhang Yimou said, "The biggest problem you have now is that you are too deliberate and always want to show yourself naturally, but the more you think like this, the more unnatural it will be... In this way, try the performance method of the Experimental School."
Lin Zhimo asked, "Experience School?"
Zhang Yimou replied: "Yes, I will give you up to two days, and you will do your best to turn yourself into a 'child'."
Lin Zhimo knew that this was Zhang Yimou's last ultimatum to him. If he couldn't satisfy him, he might have to leave the crew.
Thinking of this, Lin Zhimo suddenly felt unwilling to give in, and a spirit of unyieldingness emerged. He nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, director, I will definitely play the role of "giving a child."
So from that moment on, Lin Zhimo began to carefully think about the role of "Birth of a Son" he was going to play.
First of all, from the lines given in the script, he has not returned home for two years after having a child, and he has returned home two years later because of his father's death. Then he should feel extremely guilty about his father's death.
Lin Zhimo remembered the despair Wang Haidong described to him on the train that his coworkers felt when they heard his father's death.
Being an experiential actor is not something you can invest if you want to. You must have as much information about the role as possible to help you get into the role. Lin Zhimo found the original work of this movie "Memorial". After reading it, he found that the information about "bringing a child" in the original work is not as much as in the script.
There was no way Lin Zhimo had to find Zhang Yimou. Zhang Yimou naturally admired Lin Zhimo's actions, so he patiently explained his positioning of the role of "giving a child" to Lin Zhimo in detail.
However, Zhang Yimou did not expect that this was just the beginning. After that, Lin Zhimo often frowned and asked himself, sometimes about the character's heart, sometimes about the behavior, sometimes about the costume, and once Lin Zhimo asked whether he had a child or not hesitated.
As time goes by, Lin Zhimo asked more and more questions, and he understood more about having children, so he had more differences with Zhang Yimou. However, Zhang Yimou couldn't say anything, because the inferences made by Lin Zhimo were all deduced based on the conditions he told him.
Zhang Yimou now feels like he is bound by himself. He is even a little afraid of seeing Lin Zhimo now. Moreover, Lin Zhimo is a man from the northwest like him. His stubborn temper is also in line with his own lineage. Even if Zhang Yimou scolds Lin Zhimo and scolds Lin Zhimo, Lin Zhimo just laughs, asking what he should ask.
However, because Lin Zhimo was involved in the role, the shooting progress has accelerated a lot. Although Lin Zhimo and Zhang Yimou often quarreled over some actions of "giving a child", everyone felt that Zhang Yimou was not angry in his heart, and he still liked the actor Lin Zhimo very much.
Zhang Ziyi was also very envious of the intimate relationship between Lin Zhimo and Zhang Yimou, but she also knew that that kind of relationship was exclusively a special friendship between two men, and no matter how envy it, she couldn't envy it.
Since he heard Lin Zhimo's suggestion that day, Zhang Ziyi discussed the matter with his brother Zhang Zinan about the agent. Zhang Zinan also felt that he really couldn't do the job of an agent because he did not have the ability that an agent should have. Therefore, after considering it, he agreed to Zhang Ziyi's opinion.
Since Zhang Ziyi is filming, Huo Xiwen came to the crew to sign a contract with Zhang Ziyi, so Zhang Ziyi officially became Lin Zhimo's "little junior sister".
Huo Xiwen also likes Zhang Ziyi very much, not only because Zhang Ziyi is pure and beautiful, but also because of her tenacity and unyielding ends that make Huo Xiwen likes her very much. If an actor does not have this kind of perseverance, no matter how talented he is, he will not succeed.
"Huh, Sesame, I'll go back to Yanjing first. You'll always enjoy the beautiful snow scene here." Zhang Ziyi patted Lin Zhimo's shoulder and said gloatingly.
Lin Zhimo also smiled wickedly: "The capital in March is a season when wind and sand are everywhere and dust is everywhere. Girls must insist on taking a bath every day."
At this time, the sandstorm weather in Yanjing has begun to appear. Every spring, the female compatriots under the imperial city must consider what color of silk scarf to look better today before going out.
Zhang Ziyi curled her lips and said, "You can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour. Anyway, I don't stay in such places where I still feel cold in eight pairs of pants."
"Zhimo, come here!" A deputy director beside him shouted.
Lin Zhimo stood up and said, "You go, I won't go to give you a gift." Suddenly, Lin Zhimo changed his voice and said, "Before you leave, I'll give you a gift."
Before Zhang Ziyi could react, she felt that the area around her erect neck was cold. When she reached out to touch it, it was a snowball.
Lin Zhimo shouted: "Lin Zhimo! Stop for me!"
Lin Zhimo was already standing five meters away at this time. When he heard Zhang Ziyi's cry, Lin Zhimo smiled and said, "Do you like this gift?"
Zhang Ziyi grabbed a ball of snow from the ground in anger, then kneaded it into a snowball and threw it at Lin Zhimo, but it was obvious that her strength was really not enough for Lin Zhimo.
Lin Zhimo hid away with a smile, and then ran to the crew while instructing: "Be careful on the road, no one will help you fall!"
Zhang Ziyi stomped her feet hatefully and shouted at Lin Zhimo: "If you have the ability, don't go back to the company!"
Chapter completed!