Chapter 1156 I Fell in Love with a Drama Madman (Part 1)

The thin and evenly thick pages carried a volume of information that was not consistent with their weight. Xie Qingyan read, thought, and recalled. When she turned to the last page and confirmed that the content of this interview ended here, her first reaction was not the sudden realization that her questions were answered, nor the satisfaction of reading the detailed materials, but the unspeakable helplessness.

"Someone has learned bad things, I won't say who it is." Xie Qingyan stared at the single-person picture of Qin Jue on the inside page of the magazine and muttered quietly, "This is the first time I have seen an actor who avoids the main point and focuses on the trivial."

To be fair, Xu Congbai, the chief reporter of "A Century of Light and Shadow", has excellent writing skills. Qin Jue's answer is also interesting and profound while being sincere. Even readers who are not interested in this magazine and this actor will feel that the content is worth reading if they accidentally turn to this character interview.

However, only Xie Qingyan and other friends who really understand Qin Jue and have accompanied her all the way can see that this guy is not telling the truth.

You kid, you really don't mention the hard work of filming.

Xie Qingyan was angry as Qingqing, but it can't be said that she didn't mention it at all. It's just that the style of this answer is too Qin Jue's. The classic "no hardship is too hard" and "why is it hard to tell whether it's hard or not in your job" is that the actors she likes are so harsh and cold to her that it's hard to describe. In the article, all the self-narrations related to filming, Qin Jue's tone is cold, more like using God's perspective to analyze the mood and state at the time, without caring how much damage such a cold narration combined with the matter itself will cause to those who really care about her and feel sorry for her.

But being angry, Xie Qingyan had to admit that as an ordinary audience, she was really attracted by Qin Jue's attitude and style, and admired the personality charm of this actor from the bottom of her heart, and admired her character from the bottom of her heart.

"... Crazy."

After a while, Xie Qingyan's complicated mood turned into a light complaint. She sighed and clicked on the draft of the analysis titled "A Brief Analysis of Qin Jue's 'Immersive' Acting Style - Taking "Daytime Rain" as an Example". After reading it for a long time, she finally deleted this line and typed a new title with strong subjective meaning and strong emotional color.

"I Fell in Love with a Drama Maniac"

...

People who like me often ask me if I can write an article like "Qin Jue's Guide to Entering the Pit" or "Let You Know Qin Jue" so that they can sell it to passers-by.

But in fact, as long as you write it yourself (type on the keyboard), you will definitely understand that feeling, the confusion of not knowing where to start, not knowing how to introduce Qin Jue in a comprehensive and detailed manner, and the relief of thinking that there is still something missing, and writing it down.

So every time, I delete and revise, go around in circles, and finally I can only say:

"Qin Jue, he is an actor."

If you want to know more, please watch his works. If you want more, please watch the shooting highlights, daily recordings, etc.

Because after a deeper understanding, you will find that it is difficult to describe Qin Jue. He does not have a so-called "personality". He will not speak or act according to certain logic or certain people's expectations. He is a living and complex person. His state, emotions, and strength are changing. He has different principles and criteria for different things.

Say he is handsome? Yes and no, because whether it is Mossen in "Daytime Rain" or the middle-aged father in the sketch "Father and Son", they are not good-looking in an objective sense. Whenever he takes a role that is either fat or ugly, I have no doubt that I can soon see a completely unhandsome or even "terrible" Qin Jue.

Say he is dedicated? Yes, it is, but what is the standard of dedication? In the eyes of some people, arriving on the set on time, memorizing the lines, and acting in person are already dedicated. So, when he plays a role, he must have a personal analysis, thinking and compilation of the character's biography, he lost weight and muscle for the role without caring about his health, he learned sign language from the basics to proficiency in two weeks, he played a deaf-mute and shouted his voice so hard that he almost lost his voice, he hung on wires for a long time to do aerial trapeze, bleached his real hair completely white and dyed it back in one or two days, and did a cliff fall scene without a double and repeatedly jumped face down. What kind of dedication is Qin Jue?

Do you say he pampers his fans? Yes, he has never collected a single payment point from fans since his debut. He picks up and drops off fans at his own expense and hires a car to pick them up and drop them off offline. He also pays for annual membership cards for fans at the game center. He doesn't want the fan ecosystem to be disturbed by unnecessary quarrels and fights from the outside world, so he personally built a website and an APP with all the functions. He even provides clear regulations on how to tag and avoid spoilers when fans write CP fan fiction, and how to calculate copyright and authorization when printing peripherals. However, he has so far stopped any fan guidance, firmly resisted fans from brushing data to urge notices, and strictly prohibited fans from privately building websites to raise funds and follow the machine offline. Whenever fans point fingers and express dissatisfaction, he will roll his eyes and start to fight?

He said he has a good personality and is caring? This brings up the standard again. What does it mean to be "caring"? Are you just handing someone a bottle of water, or working silently behind the scenes on the set, doing everything from camera work to action direction, coordinating the crew, negotiating external cooperation, and leading the team, to preparing anti-heat supplies at your own expense, cleaning up equipment with the workers, and treating the entire crew to meals, massages and rest after wrapping? In short, you do whatever you can to help and do your best without hesitation?

So it’s okay to say that he is versatile and versatile, right? He can do literary and martial arts, pseudo-voice change, camera lighting, dialects and foreign languages, singing and dancing, composing and arranging lyrics, playing piano, guitar and drums, programming and coding to assemble drones. He is even proficient in it, but it’s funny that he himself doesn’t I admit it, the only profession I have recognized is being an actor. I complimented him a few times and he said, "Don't make trouble. What is omnipotence? It's an insult to omnipotence. Don't brag to the sky."

So Qin Jue is really complicated. There is no way to introduce him to a completely unaware passerby with just a few words, and there is no way to quickly establish his true, vivid and three-dimensional image.

After all, Qin Jue has no label on him.

You can hastily use some marketing descriptions to create an impression in your mind of a "good-looking", "powerful", and "old father", but these are obviously not enough to summarize Qin Jue.

Even what I am going to say next is only part of what I understand about Qin Jue.

In my mind, Qin Jue is a stubborn old man.

You rarely see people like him at his age: steady in work, mature in temperament, paranoid in character, seemingly good-tempered, but actually very stinky.

The last person I met like this was my grandfather.

The old man in my family is very fond of collecting, especially stamps and commemorative coins. If you reach out and touch him or say a few words, he will immediately start blowing his beard and staring at you. It’s nothing more than his love.

The same goes for Qin Jue. If you talk to him about acting, he will chat with you from day to night. When you try to persuade him to stop acting so hard, he will respond with "Who are you?", "I'm happy", and "Can you care? ? "Three companies.

This person is like this, both likeable and angry.

He has many double standards, including but not limited to the fact that he cares and loves his fans, but the fans feel sorry for him, but he says it is not necessary, or when he is in poor condition, he eagerly goes home to find fans to post, but does not allow the fans to comfort him when they are sad. You have to say less and just stay with him, or something happened to him outside, and he was wronged, cheated, or misunderstood. The fans were anxious to death. He said, don't be anxious first, be patient, and don't be impatient. We agreed that if you have something to do, I'll come first. You just stay here and don't worry about it.

This man can be quite annoying sometimes.

I don’t know where the machismo comes from. I regard gritting my teeth and carrying it as a medal of my manhood.

(Crossed out) Sister-in-law, look at him! (cross out)

Therefore, it is not recommended to chase Qin Jue when chasing stars here.

The best and most comfortable thing is to just be a fan of his. If you have a movie, watch it. If there is no movie, just wait for the official release of the next movie. Anyway, he personally promised that he hopes that when everyone watches his works, "you won't feel... It’s not worth the price of admission or a waste of time.” This sentence has been tested many times so far and is worthy of belief.

So, let’s talk about “Daytime Rain”.

First of all, congratulations to Mr. Qin Jue for winning the "Best Actor" award at the 82nd Venazzola International Film Festival and becoming the first Longzhou "Pearl of the Sea" actor in thirty years. Your strength is well-known and your achievements are widely expected. I look forward to your future works.

Secondly, "Daytime Rain" is still being released, and there is currently no complete film source. All analyzes in this article rely on the author's personal records of watching the movie and popular film reviews on certain platforms, Vblog and other platforms. Errors and omissions cannot be ruled out. Please Look at it dialectically and never believe everything.

In addition, this article takes the plot development of the film as the main axis, focusing on the experiences of the character Mo Sen and his actor Qin Jue on and off the screen. It is occasionally mixed with anecdotes. It is quite long and includes videos and pictures. Please read it as appropriate.

【·Drama Face·】

Mo Sen's first appearance was outside the cafe where Qiu Xue worked.

Before close-ups of faces, close-ups of hands appeared. It was a hand that was too thin to shape. The palm and back of the hand were very thin, and there was not much flesh visible. The joints and blood vessels were obviously protruding, and it was very hideous. Although the skin color was too white, Mawson did not have the albino appearance in many works. This kind of ethereal and elegant beauty is only sick, unhealthy and abnormal.

Then came the real appearance. Messy and frowning eyebrows, cheeks so thin that the cheekbones protrude, and two deep lip arcs.

There is no need to elaborate on the level of makeup in "Daytime Rain", but before the makeup was created, Qin Jue himself looked like this.

This is a still from "The Cage" [picture.jpg], with wheat-colored skin, thick eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and a thin but well-proportioned figure.

This is a screenshot of the V blog recording from early November to late November last year [Picture 1.jpg] [Picture 2.jpg] [Picture 3.jpg]. The audition for the role of "Daytime Rain" was on November 27 last year. No. Within a month, you can clearly see that Qin Jue's personal appearance has changed from "Young Chi Na" to "Mo Sen", and this is just preparation for the audition.

This is the final makeup photo of "Rain in the Day" [picture.jpg]. Her eyes are bulging and swollen, with dark circles, her limbs are as thin as a junior high school student, her shoulders are hunched, her complexion and temperament are completely opposite to those before, and she is like two different people.

Here are some screenshots taken after "Daytime Rain". From left to right are "A Day of Overtime", "Father and Son", "Empty Monument", "The Melting Pot", "Feiyan", "Who is the Detective", "FROZEN" and "Heart Shadow Link".

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"The roles I have to play are different, so of course I have to be different too. Isn't that what actors do?" - Excerpt from Qin Jue's "A Hundred Years of Light and Shadow".

Qin Jue is the face of the drama.

Even if judged by the strictest standards, there is no doubt that he is an actor with dramatic face.

In terms of attitude, he is conscious; in terms of temperament, he has acting skills; in terms of appearance, he has almost pathological perseverance.

None of these three elements can be missing.

Moreover, at this stage, there is no medical beauty, medicine, fitness, or dieting method that can make a person change from [V blog recording screenshot.jpg] to ["Daytime Rain" makeup photo.jpg] in about 20 days.

One conclusion is obvious: Qin Jue's approach to achieve his goal is very extreme.

Given that he quickly recovered after the filming of the movie, I will not comment on it here. I can only say that I hope all actors and teachers will not adopt a vegetable salad every day, drink only water, force themselves to stay up late and waste their minds, and use more unknown methods to lose weight.

Although I know very well that Qin Jue will not listen.

He didn't even listen to Director He.

[Text quote: At the "Daytime Rain" release conference, Qin Jue said that he was holding on during the filming, and was accused by He Xu of "this is damaging your career life". In response, Qin Jue said that he would dare to do it next time. ——"Film and Television Weekly"]

I didn't reflect on it afterwards. ("Daytime Rain" was finished in early March, and "The Crucible" was filmed in early June)

[Video reference: "The Crucible" filming highlights Qin Jue's white voice audition + "The Crucible" feature film court performance clip + "The Crucible" commentary session Qin Jue subconsciously signed and raised the microphone but couldn't make a sound.flv]

It is often said that if you are not crazy, you can't live. Perhaps it is this extreme pursuit of roles and performances that is not understood by others that makes Qin Jue interpret the role of Mossen so vividly and perfectly. As a passerby, I am shocked and admired; as a fan, I am grateful and appreciative; as a fan, I am proud and sigh.

[·Voice and lines·]

"I think actors should have a spirit of self-sacrifice. When performing, everything about you belongs to the role. Your body, emotions, voice... everything, does not belong to you."-Excerpt from Qin Jue's "A Hundred Years of Light and Shadow"

Qin Jue has many practical and eye-catching skills, but he always hides them and only shows them unexpectedly when acting, such as switching voice lines.

Strictly speaking, "voice line" or "voice" is not fixed. A person's timbre depends on the part of his or her voice and the cavity of resonance. As long as they master the skills, most people can make their voices higher or lower.

However, there are still a few actors like Qin Jue who have an overly wide range of voices and can make good use of them.

So far, all of Qin Jue's works have been recorded with his original voice.

For works that allow, the original sound is recorded on the spot. For works that do not allow, Qin Jue will also dub himself later.

The original novel of "Daytime Rain" mentioned that "(Mosen) speaks in a low and hoarse voice with a sweet taste". Qin Jue restored this voice to the greatest extent in the movie. Whether during the filming or during the time preparing for the audition, he maintained this voice line.

It's not just Mossen, the rough male voice of the father in "Father and Son", the young voice of Qin's younger brother in "Empty Monument", the hoarse and white voice of the deaf-mute boy Qin in "The Crucible", the magnetic bass of Qin Feng in "Who is the Detective" and even the standard female voice when performing cross-gender performances. Qin Jue, as he said, devotes everything to the role, including the voice.

[Video Quote: Shocking! This voice is actually made by him? ! | Qin Jue's Voice Line Collection | Continuously Updated.flv]

And the lines, which are equally important in the four basic skills of "voice, stage, shape and performance" of actors.

[Video Quote: Qin Jue Practices Line Recitation | Daily Recording Slices.flv]

"The lines are the same. You have to open your voice first, exercise your vocal cords, tongue, and mouth, first make sure that the hardware does not drag down and make yourself articulate, and then you can exercise your soft power, that is, give emotions, add appropriate pauses and breaths." - Excerpt from Qin Jue's "RayE/Miaoying Collection"

"During the script reading, he (Qin Jue) carried three notebooks with him. The black one was Mo Sen's character biography, and the blue one was marked with the rhyme, intonation, breath, and corresponding emotions and mentality of the characters..." - Excerpt from Wang Ming's interview with "Camera Tracking".

Qin Jue played the young man Chi Na in "The Cage" without any lines, but in "Daytime Rain", taking the restaurant conversation between Mo Sen and Tian Gang as an example, he was professional enough in controlling the voice and lines, not only with the right emotions, but also with clear pronunciation and no omission of details.

For example, Mo Sen has been smoking and rarely drinks water, so Qin Jue's voice has become more hoarse on the basis of low hoarseness, and there is a sense of intermittent dryness, which makes the role more realistic.

Another example is the memory killing in the woods on a rainy night. The young Mo Sen instigated Cao Hao to hit He Ye. His calm tone at that time, the ending tone that suddenly rose due to excitement, and the soft tone that fell when instigating, and even the impatient cursing when he saw Cao Hao shrinking, all reflect Qin Jue's superb control of the lines. While the emotions are full, the rhythm and tension are also handled very well.

As for Mo Sen's heavy breathing, the movement of swallowing saliva with difficulty, and the loud roar in a crazy state when he committed murder, considering that Qin Jue was still an actor who mainly used immersive acting at the time, this article will not analyze and appreciate it from the perspective of line skills.

[·Immersive School·]

[Text Quote: For his debut as a leading actor, Qin Jue, who had little acting experience at the time, said that in order to successfully play Mo Sen, he could only keep hypnotizing himself "You are Mo Sen". ——"Movie Review"]

Immersive acting, in Qin Jue's own words, is "non-professional" and "wild".

"I am a latecomer. From the beginning, I was exposed to "acting as myself". Then the life experience of the second role (Mosen) is very similar to my own. It can be said that I became an "immersive" actor naturally."

"My approach is to let myself empathize with the role completely. If there are similarities, I let the role cover myself. If there are completely different places, I will throw away my own personality and let myself completely become him. In this "complete immersion" situation, I am one with the role, just like "being possessed", so some subconscious thoughts and behaviors are actually made by the role. When I am acting, I don't even know why I do this."

-Excerpt from Qin Jue's "RayE/Miaoyinghui".

Qin Jue always says that his method is a trick. He is right. There are many incredible details in "Daytime Rain", but they are reasonable when you think about it carefully.

One of them is the clip where Mosen calls Cao Hao in the kitchen and asks him to come over to help kill Tian Gang. At that time, Mosen tilted his head to hold the phone, freeing his hands to wipe the kitchen knife. Judging from the range of his movements, he was not wiping carefully and meticulously, nor was he too perfunctory. What really caught my attention was a small detail: Mosen's hand holding the rag would pause from time to time. Although the wiping had stopped, his fingers seemed to be still moving.

I couldn't figure it out at first, and thought it was a manifestation of his anxiety and irritability, so he had this kind of ADHD-like behavior. Later, when I picked up the kitchen knife to cook, I realized that this small action was to scratch the blade with my fingernails.

It was oil spots, vegetable foam or other stains. Because the owner did not take good care of the knife, it stuck to the surface of the blade and was not discovered until the next time it was used. Mosen was just scratching them off with his fingernails at that time.

I don't think Director He would go into such details when talking about the play.

So I boldly speculated that this might be what Qin Jue said, that it was something that the character "possessed" the actor and did spontaneously.

Similar scenes, such as the one repeatedly mentioned by other film critics, are "Mossen killed the employee who just returned home with a knife, and sat back at the table to eat noodles without changing his expression".

"Watching Qin Jue's performance, you can see a lot of surprises and scares. When he is in an immersed state, that is, what we commonly call the state of being in the play, many of his actions are never arranged in the script. One of them is that in the murder scene, after killing someone, Qin Jue walked back with a knife, went to the kitchen to find food for himself, and started to cook noodles. It was very sudden, and no one expected him to do this out of the blue. After shouting 'cut', I asked him what he thought and why he added this scene. As a result, he was more confused than those of us sitting behind the monitor, and just told me: 'Because I was hungry at the time. I was hungry, so I had to eat.'"

- Excerpt from He Xu's "A Hundred Years of Light and Shadow".

Whether reading Director He's description or recalling the plot and scenes in the film, this scene is creepy.

At the same time, it also proves that it is actually difficult to comment on Qin Jue's acting in "Daytime Rain", because a large part of what he did and performed can only be described as "natural", which is a kind of improvisation, a natural and mysterious "feeling", rather than an interpretation with a clear purpose.

It does sound magical, as if the Ren and Du meridians have been opened, and you can enter the "natural state" without much effort and present a wonderful performance.

But as the classic saying goes, "All gifts given by fate have been secretly marked with a price", there is no free lunch in the world, immersive acting certainly has its advantages, but it must be said that this method of entering the play is very extreme. Many immersive actors live in the shadow of the role all their lives, shrouded by the life experience of the role, and influenced by the three views and emotions of the role, so that they lose themselves and continue to suffer and torture.

... In fact, Qin Jue was definitely not in a normal state during the time when he played Mossen and filmed "Daytime Rain".

6100+, I didn't finish writing last night because of the word limit, so I just updated 6.1~6.3 in one. (But I still didn't finish it)

Tomorrow, 6.4 will be a single day off, no update for the main text, I will update materials.