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Chapter 61 The So-called Method School
Chapter 61 The So-called Method School
Ronald waited at the door of the room for a long time, feeling very remorseful, not insisting that Meg go to Stella Adler's acting studio recommended by Julia.
Julia is a professional in the industry, and Meg's sister is a young actress who hasn't entered the industry yet, so she should stick to it.
But who knew that Lee Strasberg's acting training class could torture people like this?
Ronald bangs his head against the wall angrily.
"Hey, doesn't your head hurt? The wall won't take your hit."
A man's voice sounded, "I've been watching you here for a long time, and I didn't want to take care of your business, but you hit the wall with a bang, and the wall is made of wood, so it can't withstand too much impact."
Ronald looked back, and there was a small man sitting in the meeting room opposite, with his hair spread to the sides and wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses.
"Sorry Sir, I just blame myself a little bit." Ronald was even more embarrassed when he thought of his embarrassment being seen.
"It's okay, you don't have to be embarrassed, I often do stupid things, and I am very embarrassed afterwards. For this, the psychiatrist made a lot of dollars from me. In order to treat myself, I started to make movies. Every time I make a movie, it is one time A process of self-healing."
The smaller man approached slowly, but his eyes were averted, as if he was watching Ronald rather than talking to him.
Ronald felt even more embarrassed. He deliberately avoided this strange man, and was worried about Meg's situation, so he couldn't leave too far away, so he could only perfunctory this little man.
"I've told you a lot about my troubles, why don't you try to tell me about your troubles? I usually don't talk much, but I can have a chat with the right person."
Ronald looked at him, behind the thick glasses, a pair of blistered eyes, with a look of concern, suddenly there was a desire to talk in his heart.
"...The situation is roughly like this. I don't know what happened. I just feel that she is crying too much."
After hearing what Ronald said, the visitor snorted:
"It's the problem caused by the method school again. Their methods have their advantages, but acting should be a natural thing. You stand there and bang your head against the wall. This is not something that any emotional memory can perform. At that time, that The location, your mood, you just do it, that's the natural reaction."
"I'm sorry, sir, what is emotional memory?" Ronald saw his conversation, he seemed to know how to act, and began to ask for advice.
"Emotional memory is to extract a memory that is impressive to you, and this memory is associated with a strong emotion.
You were afraid of spiders when you were a child. Emotional memory uses the hypnotic method of psychologist Freud to let you return to the memory at that point in time, completely reproduce the emotion you were afraid of at that time, and lay an anchor in that memory. point.
In this way, you need to show fear when filming, and you extract this memory of spiders, and you immediately feel the fear of spiders when you were a child. "
"But the disadvantage of this method is that if some people's memories are too horrible and embarrassing, the brain will automatically seal them up. And the emotional memory method will extract those memories again and again, which will cause psychological damage to the actors."
"Is there a solution?" Ronald asked eagerly.
Then the door opened, and Julia and Irene came out, helping Meg.
Ronald stepped forward to the door and took Meg, who looked much better.
"Ronnie, I'm a little weak. Irene said I'll be fine after a while." Meg finally spoke, and Ronald breathed a sigh of relief.
Irene signaled Ronald to go to the room with him to talk, Ronald settled Meg on the sofa and followed Irene in.
Julia is greeting the man "Hey Woody, are you chatting with Ronald?"
"Oh, yes, we are exchanging some opinions on method. I think he is very talented, and his acting skills are natural and smooth. What role would you let him play?"
"Hahaha, Woody, don't look at Ronnie the way you observe the audition actors. Ronnie is our photographer and takes the audition portraits."
"No, no, I'm serious, his acting skills are very natural, and he hit the wall just now very well."
"Okay okay, are you busy with the premiere of 'Manhattan'? Is it time to start casting 'Stardust' again?"
"Ah yes, I need to talk to you about my new movie?"
Erin closed the door and explained to Ronald why Meg was crying so much.
Just like what Woody said, the so-called method school's emotional memory method actually contains great risks.A person's particularly painful memories, the brain tends to forget, this is a human self-protection mechanism.
Repeating the memory of crying over and over again is a great harm even to professional actors.In fact, except for Lee Strasberg, few acting coaches recommend this.
There is also a public case involved in the actor's studio.
Back then, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler were the main players in the actor's studio.Lee Strasberg learned the performance method of the actor's studio from the Russian performance master Stanislavsky, and then taught it to Stella and others.
Stella Adler became more and more suspicious of Lee Strasberg's emotional memory method after teaching practice.
So she went to see Stanislavsky, and Stanislav told her that the emotional memory method had long been abandoned by him, and now he was using a more advanced method of combining imagination and external details.
Shocked, Stella returned to the actor's studio, and told the original words of Stanislav to several other officials in the studio.In the end, several go-getters defected from the actor's studio and established themselves.Lee Strasberg was also forced to resign from the position of director, and since then he can only hold classes in his own name.
"I'm Stella's disciple, so I won't comment on Lee Strasberg's method. It's just that you have to remind Meg not to use the emotional memory method. Just don't retrieve the passage that caused her to cry in the future memory, it will not cause too many psychological problems."
Irene finally explained the way to Ronald.
"However, today's memory has caused her a lot of harm. Is there a way to completely eradicate hidden dangers in the future?"
Irene looked at Ronald for a long time, and finally nodded:
"The problem with the emotional memory method is that the extracted memories are very personal, and they may be the deepest privacy in a person's heart. It is actually very simple to eradicate this hidden danger. As long as you tell this privacy to others, then the emotions it contains The power will be greatly dissipated."
"You mean, let Meg tell me what her painful memories are?"
Irene smiled, staring into Ronald's eyes and said: "Don't worry, Meg has told me the root memory that caused her to cry, but because of my promise to her, I can't tell you. I can only say that the time bomb has As long as you don’t recall this anchor point in the future, you won’t have such a strong reaction again.”
"Thank God, then I'm relieved. I'll cancel the course over there, and then bring Ms. Megliestella to sign up here." Ronald breathed a sigh of relief.
"If they won't refund, remember to mention the FTC's name."
After speaking, Irene signaled to Ronald to comfort Meg, and she went out to find Julia herself.
"It's not him?" Julia asked.
"No." Erin replied, "Generally speaking, such a strong reaction usually has two possibilities. The first is domestic violence, and the second is indecent assault by adult men when I was a child."
"The memory that Meg spoke of was the latter. I tested Ronald again. After hearing Meg tell the memory, his first reaction was to relax, not to be nervous, so it shouldn't be him."
Ronald found Meg, sent her back to the apartment, carried her into the room, put her on the bed, tucked in the blanket, turned off the light, and sat on the sofa looking at Meg.
When Meg fell into a deep sleep, Ronald who looked at Meg fell asleep after a while.
Ask for a recommendation ticket, thank you everyone.
(End of this chapter)
Ronald waited at the door of the room for a long time, feeling very remorseful, not insisting that Meg go to Stella Adler's acting studio recommended by Julia.
Julia is a professional in the industry, and Meg's sister is a young actress who hasn't entered the industry yet, so she should stick to it.
But who knew that Lee Strasberg's acting training class could torture people like this?
Ronald bangs his head against the wall angrily.
"Hey, doesn't your head hurt? The wall won't take your hit."
A man's voice sounded, "I've been watching you here for a long time, and I didn't want to take care of your business, but you hit the wall with a bang, and the wall is made of wood, so it can't withstand too much impact."
Ronald looked back, and there was a small man sitting in the meeting room opposite, with his hair spread to the sides and wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses.
"Sorry Sir, I just blame myself a little bit." Ronald was even more embarrassed when he thought of his embarrassment being seen.
"It's okay, you don't have to be embarrassed, I often do stupid things, and I am very embarrassed afterwards. For this, the psychiatrist made a lot of dollars from me. In order to treat myself, I started to make movies. Every time I make a movie, it is one time A process of self-healing."
The smaller man approached slowly, but his eyes were averted, as if he was watching Ronald rather than talking to him.
Ronald felt even more embarrassed. He deliberately avoided this strange man, and was worried about Meg's situation, so he couldn't leave too far away, so he could only perfunctory this little man.
"I've told you a lot about my troubles, why don't you try to tell me about your troubles? I usually don't talk much, but I can have a chat with the right person."
Ronald looked at him, behind the thick glasses, a pair of blistered eyes, with a look of concern, suddenly there was a desire to talk in his heart.
"...The situation is roughly like this. I don't know what happened. I just feel that she is crying too much."
After hearing what Ronald said, the visitor snorted:
"It's the problem caused by the method school again. Their methods have their advantages, but acting should be a natural thing. You stand there and bang your head against the wall. This is not something that any emotional memory can perform. At that time, that The location, your mood, you just do it, that's the natural reaction."
"I'm sorry, sir, what is emotional memory?" Ronald saw his conversation, he seemed to know how to act, and began to ask for advice.
"Emotional memory is to extract a memory that is impressive to you, and this memory is associated with a strong emotion.
You were afraid of spiders when you were a child. Emotional memory uses the hypnotic method of psychologist Freud to let you return to the memory at that point in time, completely reproduce the emotion you were afraid of at that time, and lay an anchor in that memory. point.
In this way, you need to show fear when filming, and you extract this memory of spiders, and you immediately feel the fear of spiders when you were a child. "
"But the disadvantage of this method is that if some people's memories are too horrible and embarrassing, the brain will automatically seal them up. And the emotional memory method will extract those memories again and again, which will cause psychological damage to the actors."
"Is there a solution?" Ronald asked eagerly.
Then the door opened, and Julia and Irene came out, helping Meg.
Ronald stepped forward to the door and took Meg, who looked much better.
"Ronnie, I'm a little weak. Irene said I'll be fine after a while." Meg finally spoke, and Ronald breathed a sigh of relief.
Irene signaled Ronald to go to the room with him to talk, Ronald settled Meg on the sofa and followed Irene in.
Julia is greeting the man "Hey Woody, are you chatting with Ronald?"
"Oh, yes, we are exchanging some opinions on method. I think he is very talented, and his acting skills are natural and smooth. What role would you let him play?"
"Hahaha, Woody, don't look at Ronnie the way you observe the audition actors. Ronnie is our photographer and takes the audition portraits."
"No, no, I'm serious, his acting skills are very natural, and he hit the wall just now very well."
"Okay okay, are you busy with the premiere of 'Manhattan'? Is it time to start casting 'Stardust' again?"
"Ah yes, I need to talk to you about my new movie?"
Erin closed the door and explained to Ronald why Meg was crying so much.
Just like what Woody said, the so-called method school's emotional memory method actually contains great risks.A person's particularly painful memories, the brain tends to forget, this is a human self-protection mechanism.
Repeating the memory of crying over and over again is a great harm even to professional actors.In fact, except for Lee Strasberg, few acting coaches recommend this.
There is also a public case involved in the actor's studio.
Back then, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler were the main players in the actor's studio.Lee Strasberg learned the performance method of the actor's studio from the Russian performance master Stanislavsky, and then taught it to Stella and others.
Stella Adler became more and more suspicious of Lee Strasberg's emotional memory method after teaching practice.
So she went to see Stanislavsky, and Stanislav told her that the emotional memory method had long been abandoned by him, and now he was using a more advanced method of combining imagination and external details.
Shocked, Stella returned to the actor's studio, and told the original words of Stanislav to several other officials in the studio.In the end, several go-getters defected from the actor's studio and established themselves.Lee Strasberg was also forced to resign from the position of director, and since then he can only hold classes in his own name.
"I'm Stella's disciple, so I won't comment on Lee Strasberg's method. It's just that you have to remind Meg not to use the emotional memory method. Just don't retrieve the passage that caused her to cry in the future memory, it will not cause too many psychological problems."
Irene finally explained the way to Ronald.
"However, today's memory has caused her a lot of harm. Is there a way to completely eradicate hidden dangers in the future?"
Irene looked at Ronald for a long time, and finally nodded:
"The problem with the emotional memory method is that the extracted memories are very personal, and they may be the deepest privacy in a person's heart. It is actually very simple to eradicate this hidden danger. As long as you tell this privacy to others, then the emotions it contains The power will be greatly dissipated."
"You mean, let Meg tell me what her painful memories are?"
Irene smiled, staring into Ronald's eyes and said: "Don't worry, Meg has told me the root memory that caused her to cry, but because of my promise to her, I can't tell you. I can only say that the time bomb has As long as you don’t recall this anchor point in the future, you won’t have such a strong reaction again.”
"Thank God, then I'm relieved. I'll cancel the course over there, and then bring Ms. Megliestella to sign up here." Ronald breathed a sigh of relief.
"If they won't refund, remember to mention the FTC's name."
After speaking, Irene signaled to Ronald to comfort Meg, and she went out to find Julia herself.
"It's not him?" Julia asked.
"No." Erin replied, "Generally speaking, such a strong reaction usually has two possibilities. The first is domestic violence, and the second is indecent assault by adult men when I was a child."
"The memory that Meg spoke of was the latter. I tested Ronald again. After hearing Meg tell the memory, his first reaction was to relax, not to be nervous, so it shouldn't be him."
Ronald found Meg, sent her back to the apartment, carried her into the room, put her on the bed, tucked in the blanket, turned off the light, and sat on the sofa looking at Meg.
When Meg fell into a deep sleep, Ronald who looked at Meg fell asleep after a while.
Ask for a recommendation ticket, thank you everyone.
(End of this chapter)
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