Chapter 493: This Method, It's Amazing!

Du Bin's eye acting in the final segment, along with some small movements and the sound of his breathing, were truly too detailed.

Good acting adds points to emotional resonance.

In a performance like this, after singing that line of Opera that was repeated throughout the entire short film, many audience members were truly moved to tears.

All the ridiculous content beforehand was just to make his younger self want to learn something else, and it even pre-buried the trope of "sacrificing the small self to achieve the great self."

And every attempt at change spoke to how rare it is to remain true to one's original intention in the end.

Because the preceding content was laid out so well, in the final scene, Du Bin only needed to raise the key of his singing to make it higher and better for the audience to grasp the meaning within.

This represented the youth practicing day after day, even more diligently and harder than before.

It makes one recall Du Bin returning to the past, recounting his own failures; the youth was not only unwilling to learn something else, but his first reaction was—blame my mind for not being calm!

I must calm my mind and pour everything into the Opera!

The more loudly you laughed at the youth's "chuunibyou" words earlier, the more moving the final sublimation becomes.

"Beijing Opera is the love of my life; how can I give it up lightly?"

"No, it is passion!"

When these two lines were spoken by the youth played by Chen Cai, the whole room laughed. Because his expression and demeanor were so spot-on; that feeling of a "little adult" was too strong.

At the very end of the entire "Ten Years of Work Offstage," the screen switched for a few seconds, cutting back to the small room where the youth was.

The sun was setting, and the dim, yellow light shone into this bedroom that looked like an Opera stage.

The youth was practicing his Basic Skills all alone.

Wang Rong watched this scene, and as the entire short film came to a close, he glanced at Luo Mo with slightly reddened eyes.

In the performance just now, Du Bin's eyes had changed several times in the final few dozen seconds.

Wang Rong understood some of these changes immediately.

But there were some changes he only realized after all the content had ended.

"One look was relief," Wang Rong thought.

He had wanted to change, he had wanted to stop learning Opera, but when he had the chance to meet his younger self again, no matter how he tried to persuade him, the youth refused to change.

He was relieved.

He understood how obsessed his former self had been.

That was what made that final line of Opera sound so sonorous and powerful!

"The script is brilliant, and the directing is also brilliant!" Wang Rong evaluated in his heart.

In his view, the story structure of the entire "Ten Years of Work Offstage" was actually very simple.

"It wins on rhythm, it wins on foreshadowing, it wins on progression, it wins on emotional release!"

In any case, from such a small short film, he actually developed a sense of admiration for Luo Mo.

This was a feeling he hadn't had for many years.

In the past, it was only when he was an Actor working with famous directors that he would have this feeling.

However, Wang Rong's acting career was incredibly successful.

His cumulative personal box office could rank in the top ten among male Actors.

He had worked with too many famous directors in the industry.

In recent years, he hadn't encountered any impressive directors, so he didn't have this feeling anymore, which led to a new thought—I could do it too!

Immediately after, he started working as a director.

Wang Rong turned his head to look at the five hundred audience members at the scene; many had red eyes, and they were all clapping vigorously, as if they were going to clap their hands raw.

This enthusiastic applause surpassed the previous three short films.

The host began to take the stage, and Du Bin and Chen Cai also walked out from behind the curtain.

Du Bin's eyes were still red, as if he hadn't completely detached from the character yet.

Honestly, he had acted in several movies and had even been the male lead.

But no script or director had ever given him the feeling he had today.

A feeling of being deeply immersed in a character and unable to come out.

"Ten Years of Work Offstage" gave the audience an intuitive emotional progression, so as a performer, this emotional progression would be even more intense!

Next was the audience voting session; only after the votes were locked would it be the four directors' turn to comment.

Wang Rong was the first to pick up the microphone, launching into a flurry of praise, even saying half-jokingly and half-seriously: "After watching this play, I really want to collaborate with Director Luo once; I want to be an Actor for you."

Luo Mo laughed and said: "Well, Sister Dan, don't edit out this line from Director Wang; put it in the final cut and broadcast it, let the national audience be a witness for the two of us."

The interaction between the two maxed out the variety show effect, but everyone present didn't take it seriously, including... Wang Rong himself.

He only felt that Luo Mo was quick-witted and good at creating effects; no wonder the variety shows he was in had more highlights.

Li Dongliang squinted as he watched the two banter, then picked up the microphone and began his critique.

"In the entire short film, I think the essence starts from—the 【Instant Butterfly Effect】."

"The story structure is actually very simple, very, very simple."

"From the loser character established at the beginning, to the time travel, to meeting his younger self."

"Then, the first 【Instant Butterfly Effect】 appears; the youth becomes slack and lazy, and Du Bin can no longer sing that line of Opera well."

"If this were filmed by an ordinary director, it might just be filming this creative idea step-by-step."

"But Luo Mo is very clever with many details here. Du Bin immediately starts whipping the youth, questioning him if he has become slack; this is an instinctive reaction."

"It is something engraved in his bones."

"Or rather, it is how his master's generation educated him since he was small."

"At the same time, this detail shows that while the frustrations of reality make him want to change the past, his love for Opera in his bones has always been there, and the character setting is established once again."

"One 【Instant Butterfly Effect】 after another, changing the 【small self】 of the past can immediately change the 【great self】 of the future; from learning to sing to learning Yueqi, everyone finds it very funny."

"In this process, a nail is actually being driven into the hearts of the audience."

"The young man truly loves Opera."

"For example, the segment performed within it: As long as you wish, I will do Singing. As long as you wish, I will play Yueqi. As long as you wish, I won't have to perform Opera anymore!"

"When the 'Greater Self' says the preceding content, the 'Smaller Self' is joyful and high-spirited, but the moment the last sentence comes out, the expression changes immediately."

"You can do Singing, you can play Yueqi, but—you cannot stop performing Opera!"

"And sometimes, many things are very wondrous. If one were filming something about dreams and passion in a very serious and earnest way, many viewers actually wouldn't buy it; they would find it fake, grand, and empty."

"But because it is a Comedy, and it contains a lot of nonsense and absurdity, everyone believes it instead."

"The gradual progression and sublimation here are all carried out without the audience even realizing it."

"Being funny and interesting is the best outer garment."

"The audience is convinced by all these settings in their hearts, but because the punchlines are dense enough, they ignore it during the viewing process."

"At the same time, in many places, I thought it was going to get sentimental. Just when the 'Smaller Self' discovers that the 'Greater Self' has been deceiving him—that he just wanted to try a different way of life—and he speaks of his failed life due to studying Opera, I think many viewers, like me, felt it was time for the sentimental part that elevates the value."

"However, the 'Smaller Self' says: 'My fault, my heart is not at peace.'"

"I saw everyone laugh again, and it was a big laugh at that."

"This technique follows an unexpected path, which is what is called a Reversal of tropes, but the emotion actually continues to accumulate, and the vent is blocked again."

"In this way, the final small Reversal—on the talk show stage, when Du Bin sings that line of Opera, he doesn't need any extra lines; he just needs to sing the words he sang several times in the short film once more, and it pours out like a landslide..."

Li Dongliang patted the tabletop in front of him and remarked with emotion: "Everything falls into place naturally, and the emotions surge into one's heart in an instant, leaving one filled with deep reflection!"

"It's like a reservoir; it's already full in the front, but everyone is busy watching the excitement and the jokes, so they don't realize it—or rather, the director intentionally doesn't let you realize it."

"Then, when the water inside overflows, everyone's first reaction is immense surprise—'Ah, the water is so massive!'"

(PS: First update, requesting monthly tickets! By the way, just because I didn't split the chapters yesterday doesn't mean I didn't write more.)

I can already predict what you all will say in the Chapter Discussion regarding the last sentence of this chapter.)

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