, "Actors, please take their place", the four directors began to exchange their works for adaptation and shooting, and staged the same director level PK.
Chen Kaige adapted and directed Guo Jingming's "Sadness Against the River" segment, and Guo Jingming adapted and directed Chen Kaige's "Devil Cat Biography" segment. Although the audience and professional judges voted, Guo Jingming won and Chen Kaige won, but the most meaningful and most due topic of the show should not be who wins, but let the audience see the working philosophy between top directors and popular commercial directors The difference and the style of the work are completely different.
Chen Kaige's adaptation of "Sorrowful River"
Regardless of how gorgeous and sentimental lines in "Sorrowful River" does not fit Chen Kaige's style, the actors and audience have a feeling of enlightenment when watching Chen Kaige's directed play. His every word is precious, every word is rich, and his daily scheduling work speech needs the audience to take a small book to record.
He analyzed the bullying campus girl played by Shen Mengchen and said: "Suffering from such a bullying situation, this girl should have an attitude that no one will forgive."
wakes up the dreamer with a single sentence, and was criticized by the director. The tearful Shen Mengchen suddenly entered the state, and the performance passed.
Chen Kaige’s evaluation is “there is no trace of acting, it becomes real when you take it all out.”
Chen Kaige’s adaptation of "A River of Sadness"
Chen Kaige evaluates Chen Ruoxuan, who is good at acting skills, with a single word of "false". He said to the actors, “Performance is always to show the power behind the shield. What is the shield is the story itself, what is behind the story, and emotion.”
may not be as tempting as the advanced performance theory in class, but one The most simple creative concept based on years of experience accumulated by a director with artistic pursuit.
is like many audiences like watching director's commentary films. With the guidance of top directors, audiences will see the meticulous artistic expression and artistic pursuit of the creators behind the film.
Guo Jingming's adaptation of "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
Chen Kaige only intercepted the clips of the heroine of "Sadness Against the River" who wanted to jump off the building for filming, while Guo Jingming fully told the story of Bailong and Danlong in "The Legend of the Demon Cat".
You can see that Chen Kaige’s short film has only one specific scene—the classroom. The plot is shot for ten minutes in a single scene. I believe that only a great director can have the confidence to shoot so that the audience does not suffer from aesthetic fatigue.
Chen Kaige finally "cut" a small classroom from multiple angles, creating multiple spaces that echo the plot and characters.
The movement of actors on the desk and under the desk and the scheduling of the camera make the space instantly enriched. In a short clip, Chen Kaige makes full use of light and shadow, a series of light and shadow changes in the windows, the sunset, the dusk shrouded in the dark classroom, and the contrast and metaphor of the darkness and light in the characters. The use of light makes the picture more poetic. . The artistic feature of
was specifically mentioned by Director Li Shaohong. She said, “This clip has been handled very differently. After the day gets dark, life has changed at this moment.” The most important thing is that the story of Chen Kaige is written by the actor. Continue to perform to drive the audience into the plot and feel the complexity of the characters.
Guo Jingming adapted "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
. The shooting scenes of Guo Jingming's short film changed frequently, from the yard when he was a child to Maweipo to the interior of Yang Guifei's coffin. There were so many scenes that the actors could not play in the same space. The clips directed by Chen Kaige used artistic lens language such as linear composition, triangular composition, horizontal composition, and Guo Jingming's short films are more of continuous flashback, large depth of field, macro close-up, slow motion, etc., which are constantly switched, plus the hostility The soundtrack looks gorgeous. It is a lively and full lens language that the audience likes. It's like mastering various technical things and you can't prove yourself without showing off.
Guo Jingming's short films and various rendering film and television techniques such as narration, close-ups, and music have taken away the attention of the audience. As for the performance of the actors, they are submerged in the rich and colorful film language.
Guo Jingming's adaptation of "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
Chen Kaige represents the most artistic and culturally creative style of Chinese films, while Guo Jingming represents the most popular and commercial creative ideas in film creation. What level and temperament of the top directors of
have been put on the table through short films, as long as the audience feels the inner meaning and tension of art with their heart, You can understand who is a competent creator. But what most audiences are willing to feel is whether the story's emotions are strong or not, whether the characters' explicit emotional expressions can pierce them, and whether the music has infected them and they want to cry. The greatest value of
"Actors in Place" is to present Chen Kaige's "Director's Statement", so that audiences who love film art can see the real way of good works. (Qilu Evening News, Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing)
