The Greatest Showman

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Andy Rogers must admit that taking on "Mind Hunter" should be the wisest and most correct decision in two years, because Renly is back--

At least on the way back.

In the past two years, Renly has successively filmed four commercial films including "Interstellar", "Super Marines", "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 "Drunken Country Ballads", "Booming Drummer", "Transcendence", "Love Crazy", "Buried Alive", "Gravity", etc., these works have sacrificed to varying degrees for commercial entertainment. The depth of the movie and the characters gives more space for "entertainment effects", and naturally sacrifices space to concentrate on "telling the story".

Of course, all of the above works have been approved by Renly. "Interstellar" and "The Lobster" are even the performance opportunities that Renly took the initiative to visit the director and actively participate in them. There is no doubt about it; but Renly Neither Andy nor Andy expected that the power struggle within the crew and the competition for interests among major Hollywood companies would consume more energy invisibly.

That was an area that Renly was neither familiar with nor interested in.

These power struggles outside the "professional work of actors" are bound to follow along with the rise of fame and status, but they are further magnified by the benefits of commercial films. Thomas Tour, Katherine Kennedy, The interference of top bigwigs such as Ron Mayer and Kevin Tsujihara is also becoming more and more obvious and serious.

Renly is not afraid of these fights - don't forget his family background, those fights are one of the topics of social occasions and relationships; on the contrary, Renly's performance is not stage fright, even in the face of the top bigwigs in the industry. Works well and has never made any mistakes so far.

But the problem is that these "fights" are the job of the bigwigs, not Renly's.

Renly is an actor, and this is his job. When Renly is forced to spend more energy on these meticulous side jobs, his job as an actor will inevitably be affected. This is the most fatal thing.

Things are no longer pure, so fatigue begins to breed, like work, like life, like... "growing up", all of which are like this.

Andy is very worried about Renly'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; in addition to giving Renly enough time to rest and wait quietly, Andy seems to also There is nothing to strive for.

"Mind Hunter" was the turning point.

During the filming of this work, Renly was able to return to the performance level in a down-to-earth manner, slowly polishing himself from the basic skills; and in a relatively quiet and relatively simple environment, calm down and break in a little bit. Adjustment, even if the state and rhythm cannot be recovered 100% for the time being, 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 named the producer, but he obviously won't interfere with the crew; "Mind Hunter" is a TV series with far less attention and attention. For the movie, and the filming base was chosen in the quiet Philadelphia, which also enabled the crew to win a rare cleanliness, even the paparazzi seemed to disappear, and the annoying flies did not continue to interfere.

In addition, David Fincher, like Renly, is a dedicated and devoted director, everything is about the work and just about the work, which keeps the daily communication on a professional level, passively pulling the blue Eli returns to her familiar area of ​​expertise without distraction.

It's the little details that create the perfect working environment for Renly, "really getting back the feel and vibe of filming in the first place".

The above sentence is from Renly's original words. It can be clearly felt that although Renly's performance is still not at its best, he does start to relax and try to let himself enjoy the working life of the crew.

In just one month, Andy visited the "Mind Hunter" crew three times before and after, and each time he could detect changes. Renly's tense nerves were gradually loosening, and he was gradually adapting to the cheerful atmosphere of the TV drama crew.

Indeed, "Jurassic World" set a new record at the North American box office, broke the seemingly unattainable figures of "Avatar", and broke through the threshold of 800 million in one go. This is a brand-new medal for Andy's career, and the entire Hollywood has cast its attention. Line of sight can really call the wind and call the rain within the industry and spread the beans into an army.

But Andy still prefers Renly from the "Mind Hunter" crew, purer, simpler, and happier. Only when he is performing in front of the camera as an actor, the light of Renly is the most dazzling moment, and that is also his most charming and vivid moment.

Andy felt right, and Renly was really happy.

As David said, the role of Horton Hunter in "Mind Hunter" has his own talent, and then he gradually grew up in groping, until the end of the first season, he finally understood how To give full play to his talent and shine, at the same time, it also made the young and arrogant him become self-willed, complacent, arrogant, and the feeling of controlling the world made him command the country from a high place.

But I didn't expect that while dancing with the "devil", I was slowly being eroded by the darkness. "When you are staring at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you", just when I thought that I had spied the dark code of the abyss. , but did not know that the abyss also awakened the darkness in his heart.

Then, he lost himself in the darkness.

It can't be said that Holden's development line is completely in line with Renly's, but it is true that Holden's mentality changes and emotional growth, Renly can empathize with in all aspects; more importantly, it also means that Renly starts from scratch and returns to Starting from the beginning, following Horton to walk through his own mental journey again, and even the distress and anxiety of "losing in the dark" at the end, can also make Renly feel the erosion of reality.

Holden was the perfect challenge for Renly's state at the moment, impeccable.

Just like a baby learning to walk, start with basic skills, and slowly look for inspiration during the performance - as if the pace is not steady, don't rush to start running immediately, but be patient and put every scene into play. As a test, force yourself to calm down and polish.

It's not easy.

The impetuousness and burnout of the mentality not only easily affects the state, but also easily lacks patience, and the most important thing is the lack of passion and motivation: it is easy to get distracted in the process of preparing for work, it is easy to get tired in the process of rehearsal and practice, and it is easy to make mistakes in the actual shooting process. The stumbling and stumbling state 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 was the first time in Renly's career as an actor; moreover, the feeling of being out of control was simply incomprehensible, like the mood of a woman during her period, causing intermittent disruptions, but without regularity or context, just like I don't even know what to do myself.

But Renly was no longer a rookie after all.

Unable to control his irritability, but able to control his thoughts, Renly was able to incorporate this impetuous and tired state into the performance, creating a confused and confused "frivolous" state, giving the character a subtle sensitivity , infiltrated in the temperament of Holden's gestures.

This is not an original creation of Renly - it's always the case on theatrical stage, because the West End and Broadway shows are on every day, and the actors are ordinary people. What Li is trying is also one of them.

Fortunately, Renly was able to figure out the fun of acting in different ways of acting. The whole process of research and exploration was full of novelties and dilemmas, forcing Renly to spend more time reading the script and adjusting. In terms of state, unconsciously, the external disturbances become less and less.

The attention gradually became more concentrated. Although it is still easy to break down, at least now I can surround myself around the performance. Even if I lose my mind, I won't go too far. I can pull back at any time, concentrate again, and devote myself to the next round of thinking or work. This is a significant progress.

So, being on the set in Philadelphia, for Renly, every day is familiar, but at the same time, every day is also a challenge. This experience really allows Renly to adjust bit by bit and get out of the trough. , once again awakening those familiar memories of performance deep in my heart.

The filming life of ignoring things outside the window, the trivia after dinner is also full of performance and art, or 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, Hannah and others about the background information and meaning of each character set in "Mind Hunter"... The bustling debate can't stop.

The memory just went back to those years of the "Pacific War", those years when there was only performance in life, those days when I was sad and happy because of performances, those years when I had big dreams, it seems that even mistakes can become a week's talk. , everything is so simple.

In this way, Renly gradually began to get used 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 wave seems to have arrived on the east coast early, the streets of Philadelphia have become cold and wet, and the footsteps of winter seem to be not far away, and then, "Soul Hunter" The filming work has finally moved to the finishing stage in an orderly manner.

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