Chapter 105: Niche Film

For Cao Yang, the graduation thesis is relatively easy to write. What is the thing spreading everywhere outside?

Cao Yang is good at coaching actors!

Then what is there to hesitate, definitely choose this.

"A Brief Discussion on How Actors Get into Character Quickly"?

It has a preaching flavor, and because of the different identities, it is easy for others to imitate. Don't lead people into the ditch.

"A Brief Discussion on Two or Three Things About Actors Getting into Character"?

This is good, without a preaching flavor, and it is just a "brief discussion", which belongs to stopping at the surface. If you can't learn it, you can't blame me, and it won't lead people into the ditch.

In fact, writing it out is nothing more than those tricks. Gather all the male and female leads together, talk to them about the film every day, talk about the main theme of this film, talk about the content the film wants to express, and talk about how they should interpret it.

Every day, let the actors talk about their views, whether they can understand, and every day, take time to answer their questions. Finally, according to different people, use different methods to guide them into character when shooting.

Take these contents as the main theme, and then expand the word count around them.

In the thesis, take out the three films shot, and how to guide Li Xiaoran, Yu Feihong, and Gao Yuanyuan into character respectively.

With these Best Actresses who won the three major European film festivals as examples, the gold content of this thesis was suddenly raised to a height that did not belong to it.

Even if there are directors who refer to the methods in the thesis in the future, it is only good. As long as these can be done, the actors at least have a spectrum in their hearts, and it is no longer a formulaic performance.

It depends on whether the director and actors have this patience.

Old Situ read Cao Yang's thesis and praised it highly.

"Your thesis is well written, with substance, and the three examples cited are all based on facts. They all won Best Actress, which is very convincing."

Then Old Situ sighed: "The directors of the past could still shoot films seriously. For example, to shoot 'Dream of the Red Chamber' well, in '84, they specially organized two sessions of Red Drama actor training classes in the Old Summer Palace, letting them study the original work, analyze characters, and at the same time learn piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting to cultivate their sentiments."

Shaking his head, Old Situ continued: "Now directors are too eager for quick success and instant benefits. Where is there such a spirit of putting in effort."

Teacher, you don't know, directors now are actually still okay. At least many people are willing to lecture actors, and actors are also willing to learn.

Wait for a few more years, with the continuous invasion of capital, not only directors, but even actors are not willing to study the script. Time is money, which is absolutely true for them.

Scheduling clashes, reading lines as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, digital face-swapping...

Who has the patience to study what the script is about.

"Actually, I also learned the method from the older generation, plus my own understanding and summary. Actors are also obedient and can calm down to learn. The only problem is that actors don't know how to adjust after getting into character, and it takes a period of time to get out of character."

Old Situ waved his hand, "The method is right. What does it have to do with you that actors can't get out of character? It's that they don't know how to adjust themselves. Isn't it normal for actors to get into character?"

Teacher, you don't know, it really has something to do with me that they get into character.

But these are not in the topic of discussion.

Since Old Situ feels that the thesis is no problem, then let it be. Just wait for the final defense.

The Director Department has a graduation short film task. Cao Yang directly used "Secret Sunshine", this film that won Best Director and Best Actress, as a graduation work, which feels a bit bullying.

In the following time, Cao Yang began to prepare the script for the first film to go to Hollywood.

When in Cannes, Cao Yang actually had an idea. There is an old American film that is not reconciled with himself from beginning to end and is sad to the bone, which once won the Oscar for Best Actor.

At first, Cao Yang wanted to shoot this one. The film's title looks very romantic, called "Manchester by the Sea".

Manchester by the Sea is the name of an old American small city. It is called this name, not Manchester by the sea in the UK.

But after careful consideration during this period, he first broke into Hollywood, and he was unfamiliar with the place. His only connections were Sony Classics and Bellman. To be honest, even if the actors performed particularly well, better than the original, but just relying on Bellman and Sony Classics, can they operate successfully at the Oscars?

As long as the film quality reaches a certain standard, what is compared is no longer the film itself, but connections and operations.

Cao Yang estimated that perhaps it is not difficult to get an Oscar nomination, but wanting to win an award, the uncertainty is too great.

To increase the probability of winning, we still have to find ways in other aspects.

For example, political correctness, for example, biography films that are easy to win awards, etc.

Now the political correctness version of the old Americans still belongs to the primary version, and has not evolved to the crazy point later. Women, homosexuals, and satirizing politicians all belong to political correctness.

In terms of biography films, as long as it is a well-known figure, especially a figure with controversy, the probability of winning an award will be particularly high.

Is there a biography film that is both politically correct and has a prototype figure to shoot?

There really is such a film, and Cao Yang thought of one.

It's just that shooting this film is a bit sorry for Ang Lee.

If this film participates in the Oscars and can win an award, as a film of the same type, "Brokeback Mountain", which will be released in two years, will be very difficult to gain anything at the Oscars.

!

After all, the time interval is so close, the Oscars should not award major awards to niche films of the same type again.

Well, perhaps the Oscars are not necessarily violating the convention, who knows.

Since he decided to shoot a biography film, Cao Yang didn't know the laws of the old Americans and didn't know whether he needed the authorization of the person concerned or his descendants, so he called Bellman. He should know these.

"Bellman, I already have a clue about the film. I want to shoot a biography film."

Cao Yang said straight to the point.

"Biography film? That's not easy to shoot, it's easy to cause trouble."

Bellman had some concerns. Biography films are easy to win awards if shot well, but if not shot well, one is that it will cause controversy, and the other is that it will be sued by the person himself or his descendants. This kind of lawsuit is endless.

"I understand. What I want to know now is, what are the regulations on biography films in the United States? Do I need the authorization of the person concerned or his descendants?"

Cao Yang asked. This is the purpose of his call today. Only by understanding these and the troubles that need to be dealt with can he decide whether to start this project.

For this question, Bellman obviously knew. He explained: "In the United States, there is no clear legal provision that biography films must obtain the authorization of the person concerned. This is based on the principles of freedom of speech and reflecting the true historical situation.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and publication. Film artistic creation is regarded as a form of expression of freedom of speech. As long as it can be loyal to the facts, biography films will be protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution."

With Bellman's explanation, Cao Yang understood. That is to say, shooting biography films in the old America does not need to obtain the authorization of the person concerned or his descendants.

I shoot you as a film, which is also my freedom of speech, which is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Shooting you as a film, what does it have to do with you.

Thanks to "katagiria", "Wu Ma Wei Yang", "I am my persistence", "Little Pig Tongtong's younger brother" for the above rewards, thank you very much!

Thanks to the brothers for their monthly tickets and recommendation support, thank you.

Today, I will update two chapters first. I am not satisfied with the other chapter after looking at it, so I will rewrite it.

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