When filming "The Man on the Moon", Xiaobai's main idea is to steal the stolen master!

He wanted to learn how Jim Carrey performed.

So, he was very serious. After each performance, he would discuss it with Jim Carrey and record what he found useful in the notebook.

After half a month, I gained a lot!

In fact, every actor has his own performance philosophy.

Now we are discussing acting skills, we will inevitably compare the peak age of Hollywood actors and the golden age of Hong Kong movies!

1967 to 1976 were the history of Hollywood movies. Let’s just talk about it, the most abundant era in the world.

The times create heroes, the new movie movement and the "Four Genius Directors and Actors" jointly made each other

Of course, Jack Nicholson, one of the four genius actors, has now embarked on the road of no return to prostitution...

Alas, old Jack...

During this period, American film professional academics rose, mainly New York University, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. Before, mainstream American directors had almost no academics and did not pay attention to this aspect of training!

Actors act and directors are good, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Alan Akin and Dennis Hopper, etc. create around the historical background of "Vietnam War and Watergate"!

European, especially British directors moved to the United States in large numbers. American movies of that era were very personal. European films and drama models also became nonsense. They can be said to be an era of extremely creative creativity, but the flaw is comedy. The four little Hollywood geniuses, including Martin, basically finished the comedy when they touched...

In the 1970s, the four kings jumped from their first appearance to their peak.

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman are all method-makers!

Their performance style has influenced to this day!

Of course, if you talk about methodology, the most awesome one is of course Marlon Brando!

It is said that in order to get into the psychology of paraplegia, Brando lay in the hospital bed for a full month.

And Daniel Day Lewis…

The most important thing about the method is that the actors really think on the stage. Emotions burst out by triggering their own experiences, rather than trying to keep their thoughts and roles consistent.

Compared with these people, the worst of the movie heroes in Hong Kong's golden age may be that they have not prepared for a movie for so long, which is what they often call desk work. It is also because Fa Ge's six movies a year, where does he get the time to prepare for it? Moreover, Hong Kong movies are used to live creation. For example, Adu, he often shoots movies for one day, waits for one month, and then shoots two more days...

But, me, why don’t we think they have poor acting skills?

The most important reason is explosive power!

The so-called explosive power, simply put, is that emotions come from the scene. If an actor lacks explosive power in acting, the whole scene will be as bland as boiled water.

Almost all praised performances in film history are often inseparable from the explosive power of the actors. For example, the crying scene of Manshen recognizing the corpse in "Sweet Honey" and the laughter that he accidentally encountered with Li Ming. The two scenes, one crying and one laughing, one joy and one sadness, all showed extremely strong explosive power.

Not to mention a person as awesome as Manshen, just talking about the recognized vase, they also have explosive performances, such as a passage in "Making a Head"...

There are two types of explosive power: dynamic explosion and static explosion.

Dynamic explosions are filled with external ostentation, which is not difficult;

All the male protagonists of Qiong Yao are very explosive!

The difficulty is the static explosion, no external actions, not externalized, but the explosive power of inner emotions.

For example, in a scene where the heroine Ada was cut off her finger by her husband in "Piano Class". Ada was mute. After she was cut off her finger, she could not speak. She had no exaggerated movements or exaggerated expressions. However, the audience could truly feel her inner anger and injustice through her eyes. This is the charm of a static explosion, and the power that comes from the heart.

In "The Man on the Moon", Xiaobai personally felt Jim Carrey's skills in dealing with these static explosive performances.

His desk work makes Xiaobai ashamed...

After hearing from him, he watched all Andy Kaufman's performance records on "Saturday Night Live" in half a year, and even arranged the producers of that year at home and chatted for several weeks.

Of course, he has this condition, Jim Carrey himself is a comedian who came out of "Saturday Night Live"...

Don’t think that Hollywood actors do not pay attention to desk work. In order to play "Lincoln", Danny Day Lewis studied Lincoln's handwritten works, biography and contemporary interpretations of him, and finally had that character that was amazing. Similarly, before Bell played "The Flowers of War", Bell spent two months studying the information of the Nanjing Massacre. So much so that when Zhang Yimou met with him, Zhang Yimou couldn’t answer many questions about this character that Bell raised about!

Lots of benefits!

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If the biopic is not a legendary great man, you can change it slightly to adapt it to the rhythm of commercial films.

The original "Men on the Moon" is not top-notch in both box office and reputation. The only benefit is probably that Jim Carrey bought another Golden Globe Best Actor, and he was not even nominated for the Oscar!

It was probably that year that Warner Bros. pushed all the PR resources to "The Green Miracle". As for "The Man on the Moon", the box office was too failed!

At that time, Jim Carrey was a 20 million club. The total box office of "The Man on the Moon" was 36 million, almost not enough to pay the movie...

Moreover, the "American Beauty" that year was so incredible. Sam Mendes won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Film with this movie...

But times are different!

According to the information that novices know, this year's film market is very...very ordinary. Except for American comics continuing to sweep the box office, there are almost no commendable film works.

This starts with Hollywood.

In fact, the Hollywood we know should have started in the 1980s!

Now when you mention these three words, most people will no longer think of it with art. Over time, it has spread to the entire United States - American movies have also become assembly line products with n styles lower than European movies, and their brand appearance is not as bright as Asian, African and Latin!

In fact, American movies were born different from Europe and the Soviet Union. European movies were originally something that elites could play. The Soviet Union has always controlled them. It can be said that it occupied all the high-quality resources. It was as proud as our model drama, but American movies were too democratic.

The dominant force of the United States is to overthrow the lower class people who have passed colonial rule, so the new art of film has become a popular culture that has been based on the taste of the working people.

——There was no Hollywood at that time, and American movies were despised by European filmmakers!

Because during World War II, Europe was exhausted, and the artwork reflected was full of pessimism and seemed more artistic. The things exported by the United States, which made a fortune, were much more entertaining. In fact, there were also many highly educated intellectuals who were filming these works, but they were quite conscious and never called themselves artists, but called professional entertainers.

Before this, American movies were already in short supply, and it was urgent to use a standardized system to improve efficiency - efficiency is money.

The standardization and predictability that followed were inevitable, but at first, I knew that if the box office wanted to make a sensation, it was still important to style. The originality and courageous producers always had the energy to open up a middle route and give rare talents the right to have their own power...

In the 1980s, there was a very far-reaching movie called "Jaws". How profound was it? It was the series of phenomena it caused that made the film market very shallow, and it has been shallow until now...

The 1990s was even more exaggerated. American movies have dominated the world, but at the same time, technology is at the forefront of development, special effects fees, advertising fees and celebrity labor fees, which have increased several times the cost. The film industry basically cannot collect the money invested on the set, so the most important task of Hollywood in Hollywood is to make money!

Localized things are not easy to make money because the cultural generation gap is not easy to make money, but focus on special effects, scenes, and weaken characters and themes. The whole world can understand them - movies have become McDonald's. There are fewer and fewer movies that have both the money-making function and the soul-cleaning function. In comparison, Little Golden Man is just a false reputation, and the reputation of Oscars can be eaten!

At that time, Hollywood had the lowest status and the least power, and became a high-energy writing machine. People were always divided by greed and ambitions. One screenwriter said: "They ruined your story, slaughtered your ideas, betrayed your art, trampled on your self-esteem, what do you get? A big fortune."

It has been affecting today!

With the Marvel series making a big profit, a group of studios began to become jealous, so comic-adapted movies became mainstream. There are only a few movies every year, just for the awards season!

Judging from the current known situation, it seems that there are only "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "A Man named Ovey Decided to Die" and "World News" that are a bit competitive, but Jim Carrey has never won an Oscar!

And his current image is very positive - he defeated depression and returned to the screen.

Lions Gate has already formulated some award-winning plans, and it is almost a foregone conclusion that the Oscar winner has!
Chapter completed!