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This year's Oscars gave us a different movie emperor.
He was a passerby face.
Or a facial paralysis performance - lost to the extreme, and can't cry.
At that time, poison tongue intern reporter in North America @ Xiduo called this "top acting".
It's Cassie Affleck, whose film Manchester by the Sea landed in theaters today at the National Alliance for Theatrical Film Screenings.
Prior to that, @Sido interviewed cassie, whom he had in mind.
This time he said that the emperor of the shadow is the emperor of the film.
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This chat with the new Oscar-winning actor Cassie Affleck can be described as a twist and turn.
The previously finalized interview schedule has been changed many times. Finally, the agent sent an email saying that Cassie was on vacation with the children, so he had to cut off the interview time again...
All right! Looking at the faces of the children of the Shadow Emperor, I was embarrassed to be angry.
And this short 10-minute telephone interview is actually very informative.
I'm all underneath the tickling, oh no, material dividing line
Before this year's Oscars, perhaps many people did not know that "Batman" Ben Affleck had a younger brother Cassie who was also an actor.
But in "Manchester by the Sea", it is a perfect interpretation, so that he has won more than 30 best actor awards such as the Golden Globe Award, the American Film Critics Association Award, the British Film Institute Award, etc., and finally became the 89th Oscar without suspense.
Affectionate hug with his brother Daben before receiving the award
After nearly 30 years of debut, shrouded in the shadow of his brother Big Ben and his good friend Matt Damon, Cassie finally waited for his peak.
In "The Seaside", Cassie uses the Affleck family's "family heirloom facial paralysis deduction" to write about the loneliness, grief and despair of the protagonist Lee Chandler under the long-term self-isolation through a seemingly empty and quiet face.
Even after winning the Oscar, there are still voices questioning the gold content of the film emperor, thinking that Cassie won the award this time, to a certain extent, he still took advantage of the role -
Lee Chandler, who is dead-hearted, is very close to this "facial paralysis" performance itself.
So, after answering the phone, I asked the first question with bad intentions:
Do you think there are any similarities between you and Lee?
Unexpectedly, Cassie replied mercilessly: No.
Just when I didn't know how to answer the phone, he explained that the most challenging part of the film for him was to portray a character with such a terrible experience.
I asked, what is the most difficult thing?
He replied: The most difficult thing is to take in such a sad character for such a long time.
enter.
I think that this is the reason why Cassie dedicated this top performance: he did not "play" Lee, but "lived" to become Lee.
In an interview with director Kenneth Ronagan by Film Review magazine, he said that while he and Cassie were working on the role together, Cassie "asked countless questions and wanted to learn everything about the character like a tireless detective.".
Before "acting", Cassie first enters the heart of the character.
It is precisely because of this that we can be infected by his mood and sad for his experience through his simple and plain performance.
There are many impressive scenes in, such as Lee trying to pull out a gun and kill himself after a police interrogation, or dreaming of his daughter in his sleep, which are heartbreaking.
I asked Cassie: What is your favorite scene?
He thought about it for a moment and gave a rather unexpected answer:
My favorite is the scene at the end of the movie where Lee and his nephew Patrick walk slowly up the hill together. The scene is humorous and sad, and at the same time very real.
It's also a great summary of the movie.
The reason why the movie is so moving is actually because of its reality.
When those chicken soup stories keep telling us how to cross the pain of the past, how to move towards the light of the future.
Heyman sincerely says: I can't beat it.
However, this is the most real life: not everyone can overcome the past, and not every scar will heal silently.
Instead of roaring hysterically, it carefully folded up all the sadness, even wrapped it up with some shallow humor.
The temperament of the film condenses in this last scene of Cassie's favorite.
Well, the shadow emperor's own choice is indeed advanced.
Of course, I won't miss the scene where Lee and his ex-wife Randy (Michelle Williams) meet on the street.
In the eyes of many people (including me), this scene is the most intense emotional conflict in the whole film, and it is also the most tear-inducing scene.
I asked Cassie: Was the filming process for this scene difficult?
Of course it's hard, Cassie said.
It's a very difficult scenario, it's very real, it's technical, and at the same time the emotional conflict is very intense. But the most difficult thing is that the two actors need to speak at the same time, and the director and screenwriter Kenneth asks to perform verbatim with the dialogue in the script.
Just as I sighed to myself, his words turned sharply: but we shot very fast and didn't spend much time on this scene.
My expression at that time was as follows:
amazed
Well, the emperor said, it was particularly difficult, but I got it all at once.
In addition to the Oscars, ask something else.
What was the biggest takeaway from playing this role?
Cassie replied, of course, that he could work with these talented partners.
From left: Cassie, director Kenneth Ronagen, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hutches, Kyle Chandler, producer Matt Damon
The team achieved great results at this year's Oscars.
Cassie won the film emperor, Kenneth won the best original screenplay award and the best director award, Michelle nominated for best supporting actress, Lucas nominated best supporting actor, and the film was also nominated for best picture.
Cassie commented on his partner in the role:
Michelle is not only talented, but also a very hard-working actress. She understands her character and the structure of the film as a whole, so she does a very good job.
Then, playing my nephew Patrick, 21-year-old Lucas, I asked Cassie: Does he remind you of yourself in your early 20s?
Cassie laughed: No, no, no, he was much stronger than I was then. He is not only professional, but also extremely talented, can easily control different genres such as feature films and comedies, and the future must be brighter than mine.
Hahaha, I can't help but laugh when I say it.
But Cassie's highest rating is director and screenwriter Kenneth Ronagan.
In last year's Variety magazine show "Actors on Actors", in an interview with Nicole Kidman, Cassie said that a very important reason why he chose to star in "Heyman" was that he wanted to cooperate with Kenneth.
Then he started blowing up the director.
In Cassie's view, Kenneth was "one of the greatest film writers alive."
His understanding of language and acting is particularly special and exceptional (Cassie uses 3 realities here), so he can perfectly use the actor's performance to present his textual content.
He designs each scene delicately, but also makes them very, very close to reality (Cassie uses 2 viy here).
Kenneth and Cassie on the set of Heyman
Okay, feel your love for the director.
I literally felt the blank stares from producer Mada and my brother Big Ben.
From left: Cassie, Big Ben, Dumb Meng, 3 are good friends who have known each other for more than 30 years (Image source: Time Network)
Of course, the final outstanding presentation of "Heyman", in addition to Cassie's perfect interpretation, is indeed inseparable from the accurate restoration of the temperament of the screenwriter and director Kenneth to his own work.
For the producer Mada, missing the director and starring positions of this film successively due to scheduling problems can also be regarded as a blessing in disguise.
And Cassie, whose acting skills are a blockbuster, in fact, there are many more identities for him.
In 2002, he starred in the experimental film "Gary", and he also participated in the screenwriting and editing of the film.
In 2010, as producer, director, screenwriter and editor, he co-created the pseudo-documentary i'm still here: the lost year of joaquin phoenix with his friend Jacqueline Phoenix.
There are also two films in which Cassie is both a director and an actor, which will meet the audience next year (Far Bright Star and Light of My Life, Chinese the translation is undecided).
Now that Cassie has won an Oscar, the next film should continue to be made.
Cassie replied: I still like acting. Because as an actor, in the process of participating in the film, it is the most direct and interactive.
Well, we're also looking forward to seeing more of the new emperor's work.
Finally, I asked Cassie to recommend a previous work of his own to the Chinese audience, and he chose "The Death of the Sharpshooter".
Cassie competed with Brad Pitt in the film, pitt won the Venice film emperor of the year, and Cassie was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
In that case, the weekend arrangement was so happily decided—
Go to the cinema to feel the top acting skills in Cassie's "Heyman", go home and watch "Death of the Sharpshooter" again to find the lurking movie emperor.
Look how thoughtful I am, lol.
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