sovbooks Chapter 12 Liu! Yi! Fei!
Chapter 12 Liu! Yi! Fei!
On the same night, at the film crew's hotel.
The light was still on in Liu Yifei's room.
She sat on the bed, the copy of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" that Lin Hao had given her spread out on her lap, turning the pages over and over, her brows furrowing more and more tightly.
"How did he figure these things out...?"
He muttered to himself, his fingers tracing lines on the pages of the book.
She had read the part about Yang Guo's first entry into the Ancient Tomb at least three times before, but every time she read it, she felt that "Yang Guo is so pitiful and Xiaolongnu is so kind."
Now, looking at it again according to Lin Hao's line of thinking, the taste is completely different.
"Little Dragon Girl wouldn't let Yang Guo leave the Ancient Tomb..."
"Little Dragon Girl forbade Yang Guo from having any contact with outsiders..."
"Little Dragon Girl decides everything about Yang Guo... what he eats, what martial arts he practices, when he sleeps..."
The more I looked at it, the more horrifying it became.
This isn't taking on apprentices; it's practically raising pets!
Liu Yifei closed the book, looked at herself in the full-length mirror in the room, and took a deep breath.
She remembered what Lin Hao had said when he was lecturing on acting theory.
Experience-based learning involves immersing oneself in the role.
Methodology, role-playing.
Since the director wanted a "not so kind" Little Dragon Girl, she decided to try to embody that gray-hearted Little Dragon Girl.
"Liu Yifei!" she said to herself in the mirror, "You are now Little Dragon Girl. You are a pervert who grew up in an ancient tomb, knows nothing about the outside world, and has a controlling nature at your core."
She tried to adjust her facial expression, making her eyes colder, deeper, and more imposing.
As for the effect...
How to put it? A seventeen-year-old girl trying hard to act "perverted" in front of the mirror—the scene is somewhat comical.
But she was very serious.
"Not enough, not enough."
She recalled a detail from when Lin Hao played Zhen Zhibing: secretly smelling the small porcelain bottle, using the scent of the object to imagine that the other person was right beside her.
Yes, that's the feeling!
The kind of immersion, obsession, and inability to extricate oneself.
Liu Yifei looked around, her gaze finally settling on the copy of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" on the bed.
This was given to her by Lin Hao.
Without saying a word, she picked up the book, brought it to her nose, and took a deep sniff.
The smell of ink from the book pages mingled with a faint smell of sweat.
The latter was probably left behind by Lin Hao after flipping through too many books.
She closed her eyes, trying to immerse herself in the role.
To be honest, she had never tried this kind of practice method before.
In the past, when filming, she would just act according to the director's instructions.
She cries when the director tells her to cry, and laughs when the director tells her to laugh.
As for what the characters are thinking or why they behave in a certain way, she rarely thinks about it in depth.
But Lin Hao told her that a good actor cannot just be a puppet of the director.
You have to understand the character yourself, even better than the director.
Because ultimately, the person standing in front of the camera is you, not the director.
She thought what he said made a lot of sense.
So now, she is seriously trying to understand Xiaolongnu using the methods Lin Hao taught her.
Smell, touch, immersion...
She leaned closer to the book and took a deep breath.
The smell of ink from the paper, mixed with a faint, other odor.
She didn't know what it smelled like, but it smelled... kind of nice.
Perhaps the book has been read so many times that it has acquired the scent of the person who read it.
She closed her eyes and muttered something unconsciously to herself.
"Lin Hao... Lin Hao..."
and many more.
She pronounced "Lin Hao" instead of "Yang Guo".
But at that moment, she didn't realize the difference.
Because in her mind, the person who taught her this method was Lin Hao, so when she put herself into the role, the first name that popped into her mind was naturally him.
At least that's how she convinced herself.
And just as she was engrossed in smelling it...
"Click."
The door opened.
Liu Xiaoli stood at the door with her keys in her hand and a glass of milk in her other hand.
I originally wanted to bring my daughter some late-night snacks.
When they opened the door, they found...
Her seventeen-year-old daughter sat on the bed, holding a book in both hands, sniffing it affectionately, and murmuring a man's name.
Liu Xiaoli's hand trembled, and she almost dropped the milk.
She saw the book clearly.
The Return of the Condor Heroes.
It was given to me by Lin Hao.
Liu Yifei also saw her mother.
She reacted quickly; the book fell to the floor with a thud, and she sprang up from the bed.
Liu Xiaoli's facial muscles were twitching.
She spoke slowly and deliberately, in a tone that would make Lin Hao tremble.
"Liu! Yi! Fei!"
"What are you going to do?!"
"No! Mom! Let me explain!"
"What's there to explain! You were smelling a book a man gave you, and you were calling out his name! Explain yourself to me!"
"I was practicing my acting! Really! It was his method!"
"It's precisely because of this method he taught you that I'm even more worried!"
"Mom, calm down!"
"I'm very calm! I'm perfectly calm!"
boom.
The door was closed.
The staff in the next room heard the commotion and exchanged glances.
"What's wrong now?"
"I don't know, it seems Liu Yifei got scolded by her mother."
"What are you scolding me for?"
"Who knows? It seems to be related to that kid who played Zhen Zhibing."
"It's him again?"
"That's right. This kid has only been on set for a few days, and he's already turned the mother-daughter relationship upside down."
"He's quite a talent."
"Do you think he even knows what he's done?"
"I don't think he knows. Look at him normally, he's like a clueless idiot except when he's acting, he's like a complete naiveté."
"That's terrifying. Unconsciously bewitching a young girl, that kind of person is the most dangerous."
"Alright, alright, stop gossiping and go to sleep."
Inside the room, a "mother-daughter battle" was underway.
Liu Xiaoli confiscated the copy of "The Return of the Condor Heroes".
"You're not allowed to look at anything this person gives you from now on!"
"Mom, you're being unreasonable! That's a book written by Jin Yong! It's not like he wrote it!"
"You can't read Jin Yong's books by smelling them! Normal people read with their eyes!"
"I'm practicing my acting! It's the method acting training method!"
"What kind of method is this! It's a heretical and crooked approach!"
The mother and daughter talked back and forth for almost half an hour before finally calming down.
The final result was that Liu Yifei's book was confiscated and she was asked to "keep her distance from Lin Hao in the future".
Liu Yifei verbally agreed, but only she knows what she was really thinking.
She lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, her mind not on Little Dragon Girl or Yang Guo.
It's not a problem.
The methods Lin Hao taught were truly effective.
She could sense that by understanding the character according to his line of thought, her entire feeling about Xiaolongnu changed.
If I can't ask you in person, then I can only...
She quietly reached under her pillow and touched the note with her QQ number written on it.
Fortunately, this wasn't discovered.
She carefully unfolded the note and glanced at the numbers on it in the dim light of the bedside lamp.
She secretly wrote down a string of QQ numbers during the day when Liu Xiaoli was not around.
She found herself quite funny when she thought about it.
She's a well-established actress who has been in the industry for several years, has acted in many films and television series, and has witnessed many grand occasions.
As a result, exchanging contact information with someone now has to be done secretly, like doing underground work.
It's because her mother thinks that person is a bad person.
But she doesn't think so.
The things Lin Hao taught her, whether they were about acting theory or character understanding, were things she had never heard from other film crews or other senior actors.
The feeling was like a door being pushed open, revealing a landscape she had never known existed before.
She wanted to keep going.
The person who could guide her forward is now on her mother's blacklist.
So she had no choice but to take the underground route.
Fold the note back up and put it back under the pillow.
Liu Yifei closed her eyes, looking forward to tomorrow.