Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 8 This doesn't look like acting
Cao Yang really had no choice. Li Xiaoran held him tightly and refused to let go. No matter what he said, it was useless. He just cried.

He vaguely felt that maybe there was something wrong with his experience of immersing himself in the play.
After much persuasion, Ding Jiali finally pulled them apart. Cao Yang asked her to send Li Xiaoran back to her room first, and then hinted that she should find out what was going on.

There is no way to shoot today.

What are you looking at? Call it a day!
In Cao Yang's suite, he and Tian Zhuangzhuang were smoking in boredom, waiting for news from Ding Jiali.

About an hour later, there was a knock on the door.

Cao Yang ran to open the door.

Ding Jiali came in and first glanced at Tian Zhuangzhuang, then at Cao Yang, with a somewhat intriguing expression.

"Sister Jiali, what's going on? Have you found out?"

Cao Yang asked impatiently.

Tian Zhuangzhuang also looked over curiously.

Ding Jiali first coughed softly, then glanced at Cao Yang, and said "Pooh" in his heart. He had never seen such a cruel director. Was that an experience of life?

How can you treat actors like this? You aren't even afraid of anything happening to them. You're not a human being.

"Director Cao, maybe you let her experience too much life before. She got too deeply into the role and couldn't get out of it."

Ding Jiali hesitated for a moment and originally wanted to denounce him directly, but after all, he was the director, so he gave him face.

"Hey, are you into the role?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang was a little confused. No wonder it was so abnormal.

Cao Yang was different. When he heard the word "immersion in the play", his heart skipped a beat and he thought of the experience of being immersed in the play.

Before the immersion experience was added, Li Xiaoran was already in a state of being unable to hold back, very sensitive and fragile. But in this state, I didn't know if I could shoot well, so I added the immersion experience to be on the safe side.

Is this because the patient was too weak and was given too strong a medicine? Is this a bit too much?

"What did she say?"

"From what I heard from her, she may have put herself in the shoes of the heroine. She felt that she had been waiting for you abroad, and now that she finally saw you, she was a little out of control."

Cao Yang thought about it, frowned and asked, "That's not right. She was too immersed in the role and became the heroine. She must like Lao Tian, ​​because Lao Tian is the actor who plays the director of the extramarital affair."

Ding Jiali opened his mouth, held it in for a long time, and said, "She may think that you are the director of this play, so she feels more involved, so she puts herself into your shoes."

If Tian Zhuangzhuang wasn't a great director, there was a sentence she almost blurted out: If she was into the role, comparing Tian Zhuangzhuang and Cao Yang, she would also substitute the younger and more handsome Cao Yang.

"Sister Jiali, please take her around Ludong Island in the next two days, meet more people, go to lively places, and play some amusement facilities. Also, tell her that this is acting, don't get too involved, and don't let her watch movies or listen to music."

"Okay, Director Cao."

Ding Jiali glanced at Cao Yang and felt a little strange. She had seen many people getting into a role, but it was rare to see someone so deeply into it and shouting "I love you" in public.

Did the two of them have any problems before?
When only Cao Yang and Tian Zhuangzhuang were left in the room, they both felt a little depressed.

"How many days do you plan to stop?" asked Lao Tian.

Cao Yang thought for a moment and said, "Let's set it for three days. There are a few empty shots for scenery. You can take some time to shoot them. I'll take a look at the situation over there."

Lao Tian nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "As a director, it is a good thing for actors to get into the role, so that the performance will be more natural and smooth. But some things are too much or too little, so you must grasp the right degree, otherwise it will be troublesome if something goes wrong."

"I understand, Senior Brother. I will pay attention to it."

This is a useless system. Who knew it was so powerful? It stunned me all of a sudden. Cao Yang actually knew that this was not caused by a single incident. If Li Xiaoran had only been allowed to experience it for a month without the following days, she would not have been so deeply involved in the play.

Oops, mistake. I will correct it next time.

Two days later, Cao Yang went to see Li Xiaoran. The latter was obviously much better. At least she saw that Cao Yang did not pounce on her, and she could communicate normally. However, there was sometimes an indescribable look in her eyes.

Before leaving, Cao Yang thought about it for a while and said, "Xiao Ran, I'm already married, forget about me."

Li Xiaoran trembled and her eyes began to turn red. Cao Yang quickly left, apparently still immersed in the role.

With Li Xiaoran's current state of being immersed in the role, she shouldn't think about coming out in the short term. If she can recover within half a year, it would be considered that she has strong willpower.

Now either we need to change the female lead or think of some solution and continue filming.

Cao Yang's solution is to not give Li Xiaoran any room for imagination. Although it is a bit harsh and cruel, it is better than doing nothing.

Another day passed and the filming resumed.

On the set, everyone gathered together, but couldn't help but feel worried.

In the past few days, they have roughly understood the cause of the incident. They have seen people who are more or less immersed in the drama, but it is rare to see someone so deeply immersed in it.

Everyone was still worried about whether the heroine would cause trouble again, but after a few shots, everyone's expression changed.

Li Xiaoran’s heroine is confused, helpless, sad, and full of expectations. The progressive changes, control, and restraint of so many emotions do not seem like acting at all. It feels like a documentary about the heroine.

In the following days, especially the scene between Li Xiaoran and Ding Jiali on the balcony, the emotional change was simply textbook-level.

After spending a few days together, both the crew members and the Beijing Film Academy students who came to the crew for practice, their attitude towards Li Xiaoran changed 180 degrees.

People with strength will be respected wherever they are.

Li Xiaoran is now that person with strength, and extraordinary strength.

Except for a few times that had to be retaken due to various accidents, most of Li Xiaoran's shots were shot in one take.

Now everyone in the crew secretly calls Li Xiaoran Li Yitiao.

Even Lao Tian privately grumbled to Cao Yang, "Cao Yang, I feel like I've been really enlightened these past few days. You don't know, I really don't understand, but I'm still shocked! Logically speaking, getting too deeply into a role is not a good thing, because she can't tell the difference, her sense of the camera is very poor, and her emotions are hard to control."

Perhaps he felt that his words were not expressive enough, so Lao Tian reorganized his words and continued, "Strictly speaking, immersing herself deeply in the role is a wrong expression. She just couldn't tell her role apart, because the movie was still being filmed, and she was immersed in the character instead of the plot.

This is totally different from the plot the director wanted to shoot. He was too immersed in the role and in most cases acted too hard. This is completely different from Li Xiaoran. "

Unable to resist, he patted his thigh and sighed, "Tsk tsk, this Li Xiaoran is so fucking weird. She looks like she walked out of a movie. She's exactly like the heroine we're going to film!"

Then, he looked like he didn't understand but was greatly shocked.

You didn't understand, and I didn't understand either!

At this time, Cao Yang seriously suspected that Li Xiaoran's so-called immersive experience was to let her experience a life scene similar to the plot of the movie.

Otherwise it wouldn't be so fitting.

When Li Xiaoran was at her most vulnerable mentally, she was forced to go through an experience that was similar to a movie plot. I guess anyone would remember it and would not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion.

This is too dangerous. Cao Yang reminded himself again that next time when making a movie, if he wants to add drama experience to the character, he must not make the character so mentally fragile that he almost collapses.

The combination of the two is simply too horrifying. Is there any better acting than the heroine playing herself?
(End of this chapter)