Chapter 283: The most beautiful 2 minutes and 32 seconds

Chen Nuo didn't know that his clumsy performance caused discomfort for many amateur audience members, including Liu Liu Xiaoli.

One point that needs to be emphasized is that this discomfort didn't actually come from him.

It came from everyone's internal stereotypes about disabled people or those with unattractive appearances, as well as the subconscious guilt toward such thoughts, thereby producing a complex, uncomfortable psychological feeling.

This feeling is different from disgust or aversion.

Wanting to make the audience feel disgusted or averse is actually very simple.

For example, someone named Zhang Dada in later generations could do it as soon as he stepped on stage.

But wanting to make the audience achieve the kind of emotional discomfort similar to a conditioned reflex like this now,

what is needed is not just being ugly and acting weird.

However, even if Chen Nuo knew that some audience members in the hall were unhappy with him, he wouldn't take it to heart.

It wasn't like he forced these people to come and watch.

If you want to come yourself, and end up being fed shit, who can you blame?

Blame yourself for taking the wrong ticket, blame the director for not being human—anyway, you can't blame an actor who is just obediently acting.

Chen Nuo watched very seriously during the viewing process.

Before this, he counted on his fingers; this should be the fourth character he had fully interpreted since he started acting.

Or it could be said, it was the fourth character he considered to have vitality.

Now was the time to let it go.

Compared to the previous three—the mute, the clown, and Jeremy—Chen Nuo felt that the inner world of the character Lu Sang-woo was the most complex, even far more complex.

He spent a lot of effort on this, integrating many things he encountered and many insights he gained during that period into this character.

As for the final effect?

Chen Nuo gave himself 75 points and Kim Hye-ja 95 points.

Because when Chen Nuo was watching the big screen intently for a long time, he hadn't had much feeling about his own performance before his attention was drawn by Kim Hye-ja's acting.

When she found the golf ball left at the crime scene, thinking she could clear her son's name, she excitedly went to the police station.

Finally, she discovered it was just a misunderstanding.

Kim Hye-ja's expression for those few short seconds, from anticipation to disappointment, and then to regrouping—the clear triple emotional transition—made him feel admiration.

Chen Nuo bent down, glanced at Kim Hye-ja sitting on the other side of Bong Joon-ho, and then said to Bong Joon-ho, "Teacher Hye-ja acted really well. If I were a juror, I would vote for her."

No need to be afraid of disturbing Fatty Bong.

Chen Nuo sat with him and saw very clearly that the movie had played for almost half, and this person hadn't watched it peacefully for a single minute.

He was looking around the whole time, but the range of movement wasn't large, so it wasn't very noticeable.

Hearing Chen Nuo's words, Fatty Bong replied absent-mindedly, "Yes, Teacher Kim Hye-ja acted very well."

Chen Nuo knew what he was worried about and comforted him, "Don't think about it, it doesn't matter what score you get; anyway, the jurors don't look at that score."

Bong Joon-ho nodded slightly.

But his heart was still pounding.

Why couldn't he watch the movie peacefully, always looking around?

Because as soon as he looked at the screen, there was a number floating in front of his eyes,

the left eye was 2, the right eye was 6, and the nose in the middle was just a dot.

He was truly afraid he would get a 2.6.

When Bong Joon-ho contacted Song Kanghao yesterday, he heard him say that he accompanied Director Park to drink another round the next day, and he was even drunker than the first day, to the point that Park Chan-wook, a man nearly 50 years old, almost streaked on the street.

Fatty Bong laughed happily on the phone at the time, but sighed after hanging up. Everyone says they don't care about the score. But which director can really let it go?

It's his turn tomorrow.

What will the result be?

He wasn't optimistic about this right now.

The entire Lumière Theatre was divided into two levels, and they, as the main creators of the film, sat in the middle of the first row of the upper level, which was also the center position of the entire hall.

Sitting here, one only needed to straighten their body slightly to observe the reactions of the audience on the lower level.

He had been watching for a long time just now and found that many of the people on the lower level were whispering to each other while watching.

For a movie, this is undoubtedly the most terrifying situation.

Especially for a non-comedy drama film.

How could this let Bong Joon-ho watch the movie peacefully?

On one hand, Bong Joon-ho felt he had nothing to fear; he edited the final cut himself, he knew the final effect presented, and with the actors acting like that, what else did he need to fear?

But on the other hand, he felt, what if? What if these audience members, film critics, media, and directors didn't understand his metaphors?

Regardless of whether the audience's senses were good or bad,

and regardless of how Chen Nuo was immersed in Teacher Kim Hye-ja's exquisite acting and couldn't extricate himself,

or how Fatty Bong continued to sit uneasily, looking around, hoping to find some positive signals from the backs of the audience in the hall.

The plot on the screen continued to advance second by second.

Lu Sang-woo fought with his cellmates in prison because of their bullying.

Beaten black and blue, he explained to Kim Hye-ja, who came to visit, "You said, if someone scolds me, I have to hit them. If someone hits me once, I have to hit them twice."

After Kim Hye-ja got angry and calmed down, she sighed and said, "Then does it still hurt now?"

Chen Nuo didn't answer; he rubbed his forehead and said, "After I was beaten, I remembered some things. Some very strange things."

Kim Hye-ja said, "What did you remember?"

Chen Nuo covered his bruised face with his hands, his black and white eyes peeking out from between his fingers, and said, "Something very important related to you."

Kim Hye-ja said, "What is it?"

Chen Nuo's muscles twitched, like an almost invisible smile: "I remembered, you wanted to kill me."

Then he lowered his hands, revealing his whole face, and said, "When I was five years old, right? You took a wine bottle containing insecticide and told me to drink it."

"Mom, did you want to kill me back then, or did you want to... save me?"

This scene was an important turning point in the whole film, revealing another layer of the relationship between mother and son, and also opening the dark prelude to the second half of the film.

The dialogue on the screen was like a storm, and the acting collision between Chen Nuo and Kim Hye-ja hadn't ended. The entire audience, including Liu Liu Xiaoli, watched intently, mesmerized by this unexpected twist.

Chen Nuo also felt he acted well at the time,

but at this moment, just when Kim Hye-ja's expression collapsed because of her son's unexpected questioning,

Chen Nuo asked Bong Joon-ho in a low voice, "Director, my lines were said like this, why didn't you remind me?"

This dense Korean dialogue, although Chen Nuo memorized it for a long time and practiced it many times before filming, and he felt he said it very well at the time, but now it sounded...

It was like "Naotao" (a famous mispronunciation of "Not Alone").

At that time, a certain Huang Xiaoming must have also thought he had a standard American accent.

Chen Nuo didn't know what Huang Xiaoming thought afterward, whether he wanted to go back to the past and plug his mouth with a smelly sock. However, he really wanted to pull the plug now.

Chen Nuo also admired Kim Hye-ja even more; she didn't laugh after hearing such an accent, and could still act with him normally and with full emotion?

If such acting can't win a Cannes Best Actress, then what kind can?

Others might not know, but Chen Nuo could guarantee that at least Emma Stone would definitely not be able to hold back her laughter if she heard someone say "Naotao."

Bong Joon-ho listened to his complaints and explained very seriously, "I think it's normal for a fool to not speak Korean well. I'm actually more surprised that you only think your lines are not up to standard now. But don't worry, my brother, in this hall, not many people understand Korean."

Bong Joon-ho was very right.

Cannes hadn't become South Korea's yet.

And he wasn't saying "Naotao," so there were only a few audience members on-site who laughed dumbly at his awkward Korean and were taken out of the scene.

Most of the other Koreans, including Park Chan-wook and Song Kanghao, even if they heard the awkwardness of Chen Nuo's accent, none of them laughed.

Except for a bitter smile hanging on the corner of Song Kanghao's mouth.

Although the Chinese and Koreans have similar hair, everything else is different, and it was even more impossible for them to laugh.

Americans were the same.

When Liu Qi Yifei watched this scene, she not only didn't want to laugh, but her heart was filled with questions.

Liu Qi Yifei forgot how many times she had watched Chen Nuo's performance in the cinema.

Twice for the mute, twice for Blueberry, once for The Dark Knight, three times for Twilight.

That's right, Liu Qi Yifei really had gained some skills.

No hiding, no avoiding, and no more sneaking out in the middle of the night.

Just before the Golden Horse Awards last year, in the first three days after Twilight was just released in China,

she walked into the cinema openly, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a mask, and watched this Hollywood blockbuster that was very much to her taste three times.

At that time, she felt that those film critics on the internet who spoke ill of Twilight were all ill-intentioned.

Such a good and moving movie was actually described by them as worthless.

It was simply unreasonable to the extreme.

Later, she made up her mind to get involved in Director Zhang's play, and there were also factors in this regard.

It's just that at the time, she thought that her good friend's love scene was acted really well and sweetly, and she wanted to go and learn.

Later, she realized that she wanted to act with Chen Nuo, which had nothing to do with friends, nothing to do with the play, and even less to do with learning.

It only had to do with love.

She had lived for 22 years and wanted to fall in love for the first time.

Liu Qi Yifei didn't know what it felt like to fall in love with Chen Nuo.

Just like until today, she hadn't figured out whether Wen Wen Yongshan and he had broken up or not.

What exactly did he mean by her?

Don't know, don't know.

Liu Qi Yifei had tried every method—matching names and birthdays, tarot cards, tearing flower petals, crystal balls,

and even secretly found a fortune-telling master on Sina blog who said in the comments that he was very accurate, to calculate who her true love was.

After the other party asked her the name of the boy she had a crush on,

he told her very definitely that her true love's surname was Chen.

He also advised her that this person shared the same name as a big star and was destined to have peach blossom luck in his life.

You cannot force it, yet you cannot not seek it. You need to go with the flow, but also actively strive for it. So I advise you to cherish the fate, unless it is a bad fate.

After Su Sisi finished reading, she felt the master was very accurate and transferred 5,000 yuan in fortune-telling fees to the master.

After the master checked the account and found the money had arrived, he told her on QQ again, "Your true love, Mr. Chen, has recently had his peach blossom luck stirred, and there might be a vixen forcing her way in at any time. It's best to come and calculate once every week from now on to ensure nothing goes wrong."

Liu Qi Yifei was leveling up in Northrend at the time, and after seeing the QQ message, she replied "Okay."

Fortunately, the 61-level Undead Mage Li Jing timely exposed the true face of this charlatan. Otherwise, the nearly 80-level female Orc Warrior would have been cheated out of more pocket money by a 1st-level charlatan who couldn't even summon a ghost and at most raised a QQ pet.

Love is really too complicated; Su Sisi can't understand it.

Fortunately, this movie "Mother" is very simple, not that complicated, and she doesn't need to keep focusing on the subtitles like Liu Liu Xiaoli.

The reason, actually, is because Chen Nuo spoiled it for her.

"Hahaha, didn't expect it, right? Actually, Lu Sang-woo is the culprit! Come here, you lost. You said it yourself, do you want it light or heavy."

". Light."

Liu Qi Yifei remembered that she clearly told him to be light at the time, but he was still so heavy, making her hurt so much.

Hmph hmph, so annoying.

Liu Qi Yifei sat in the Lumière Theatre of the Film Festival Palace, looking at Chen Nuo's foolish appearance on the screen,

and remembered when they were in Hubei,

the two lived together, itching all day, with nothing to do except sunbathing, so they talked about everything.

When she told him that when she filmed Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils before, she felt Lin Zhiying seemed to have some interest in her, which scared her to death, he rolled on the floor laughing on the spot,

and then, before she could flip out,

he had no professional ethics at all and told her the plot of "Mother" directly, and even made a bet with her halfway through, saying she couldn't guess who the culprit was.

That day they talked about this movie for an afternoon, although she was hit twice on the arm at the end, very heavy.

But because of this, she could ignore the subtitles that advanced the plot and focus on the actors' performances.

Liu Qi Yifei knew she definitely wasn't the first to feel this way—that Lu Sang-woo and the mute really had many similarities at first glance.

It wasn't that he deliberately made a different look, but that kind of demeanor in his bones.

Liu Qi Yifei didn't know which other actor could interpret this kind of vulnerable group so vividly.

But what's magical is that he is clearly a very unreasonable and fierce person in his daily life.

How exactly does such a person interpret such delicate inner character?

The screen in the Lumière Theatre is really big,

so big that every movement on the actor's face is like being under a microscope,

so big that when Chen Nuo questioned Kim Hye-ja, the strands of emotion in his eyes were so clear and distinct.

It even makes people feel like they could be used to knit a sweater.

Liu Qi Yifei was truly a bit confused after watching it to the end.

No matter what others say, she is also an actor, and she doesn't believe that anyone can separate reality and acting so clearly.

The careless Chen Nuo and the meticulous Chen Nuo, one of them must be fake.

So which one is it?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 284 =====