Divine Lucky Star
Chapter 416 - Chapter 416 Chapter 415 Do You Know the 100 Ways to Die as a

Chapter 416: Chapter 415: Do You Know the 100 Ways to Die as a Corpse? Chapter 416: Chapter 415: Do You Know the 100 Ways to Die as a Corpse? “You? Study acting?” Wang Hao’s eyes bulged out, he stared blankly at Lv Junyou for a while, then suddenly burst into laughter, “With your attitude full of grievances and dissatisfaction, you also want to study acting? Do you even know what actor’s self-cultivation is?”

“Act… actor’s what?” Hearing Wang Hao’s mention of actor’s self-cultivation, Lv Junyou was also puzzled, “Self-cultivation? Do actors really need that stuff? I thought actors just needed the script!”

“You obviously have no future!” Wang Hao said scornfully, “Do you know why some people can be a hit in one movie but flop in another? Do you know what it means to lack experience and authenticity, and to mechanically repeat external forms? Do you know how to maintain the emotional experience and fervor for each performance?”

“What nonsense are you talking about!” Lv Junyou replied anxiously, “What actors need is the script! Without a script what the hell are you talking about?!”

“The script, huh?” Wang Hao sized up Lv Junyou with a smile and said, “With your ability, if I gave you a script, could you perform well? If I gave you a heavyweight role right now, could you avoid being influenced by any external conditions of time or emotion, not rely on the inspiration of a natural state, but instead consciously study and analyze your subjective mental state to control it, master it, maintain it? For example, if I asked you to play a corpse, how would your performance as a corpse be better than someone else’s? Can you tell me?”

“Isn’t it just playing a corpse?!” Lv Junyou also got fired up, “You just wait, I don’t believe I can’t handle this after studying acting for so many years. Just you wait!”

He said this and quickly cleared a spot on the ground, then said, “Tell me, how should I die?”

“In a martial heroes film, it’s obviously being stabbed by a sword,” replied Wang Hao, “Let me see you play it!”

“Just being stabbed by a sword, right,” Lv Junyou casually picked up a branch, then thrust it against his own chest, shouting “Ah–I died!” and then fell straight to the ground!

Wang Hao: “…”

Chen Li: “…”

Holy shit, is this what you call playing dead?! Are you fucking kidding me?

“You call this acting?!” Wang Hao swore in anger, his face full of frustration, “What you’re doing is playing a weight! Where did you get stabbed? The fucking stomach! The stomach! Does someone who’s been stabbed in the stomach die stiff as a board immediately?!”

Covered in metaphorical dog’s blood from Wang Hao’s scolding, Lv Junyou argued back, “If I don’t die, should I still be alive?!”

“Bullshit!” Wang Hao said, “When you play a corpse, at the very least you have to understand the basics of what kills and what’s a superficial wound! Let me tell you, there are many fatal points on the body, for instance, the temple–if you’re heavily hit there, you’d definitely fall down on the spot even if you don’t die. The throat–if you get stabbed there, you’d have to act as if you’re trying to speak but can’t, with a face full of fear, and then slowly breathe your last! The heart–if that’s stabbed, you’d certainly die on the spot, fall, and not move!”

Wang Hao pointed to the students and asked, “Do you all understand this, huh?! Do you think becoming an actor is easy? Do you know the internal techniques of acting?!”

Everyone was left stunned by his words, shaking their heads in unison, “We don’t know…”

“Internal skills include concentration, communication, emotional memory, imagination, belief and a sense of truth, action with intent, and so on,” Wang Hao continued to ask, “And do you know the external skills?”

The crowd continued to look bewildered, shaking their heads together, “We don’t know…”

“External skills include development of physical expressiveness, costuming, voice training and enunciation, language and syntax, speed and rhythm, control and refinement, as well as characterization, stage charm, and moral discipline,” Wang Hao exclaimed with spit flying, “You don’t even know these and you dare to call yourselves actors? Have the nerve to say a hundred bucks a day is too cheap and unworthy? An actor can never replicate the sense of self they have in real life within the fictional space of the stage unless they think, act, and feel logically according to real life, and only then can they create a vivid character! What do you have, huh?!”

Everyone was left speechless, “Nothing…”

Finally, Lv Junyou came to his senses, “But, but you’re only asking us to play extras, and even corpses!”

“So what about playing extras?” Wang Hao snorted, “Which actor do you see starting off directly with leading roles? Didn’t they all start with playing extras? With you guys at this level, could you play leading roles? Let’s not even talk about leads–I’m talking about corpses. Do you think being a corpse is just lying on the ground? Do you know a hundred ways to die as a corpse? How can you die with uniqueness, how can you die creatively, how can you die in a way that catches the eye?”

Lv Junyou was again dumbfounded!

His head shake was like a tambourine, “I don’t, I don’t, I don’t know…”

“That’s the end of it, isn’t it?” Wang Hao took out a cigarette, took a drag, and said, “Do you know, I started off as a temp worker and became part of the core of the film crew in a few months, why? Because I’m diligent! Never consider myself above others! You guys spend your days thinking you’re celebrities even before you become famous, putting on airs; what film crew would dare to hire you?!”

At the end, Wang Hao exhaled a ring of smoke, his eyes filled with a yearning for art, “Performing arts, that is art! Do you understand art? For the pursuit of art, who cares if the pay is little, even if there’s no pay at all, what does it matter? Opportunity! The opportunity to perform is the most important!”

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