The Film Emperor Asks For Divorce Every Day

Chapter 37

Translated by Neirith

Ling Qing encouraged him. "You got this!"

Zhong Huan looked at his calm demeanor and felt he'd been cheated, but was unable to muster up any anger. He was just going to beat Ling Qing on the stage. Teach him how to behave!

Having already memorized tomorrow's lines, he took a few glances before tossing the script aside, beginning to play against Ling Qing.

Seeing that his performance wasn't natural enough, Ling Qing had him repeat it a few times.

Under his guidance, Zhong Han's expressions and actions gradually became more natural.

By the end of the scene, Zhong Huan was emboldened. "I did well."

"You really didn't set the bar very high."

"You say that like you set the bar very high."

"Well, higher than yours."

Ling Qing sat on the couch as he commented, "You take too long to get into it, and your expressions are sometimes pretty fake. Your movements are really stiff, and..."

Ling Qing asked curiously, "Before, were you always dubbing?"

"Don't you always dub after the filming is finished?"

Zhong Huan sat down on the other end of the couch and ruminated over his prior evaluation and said enigmatically, "Oh, I forgot. You're a newcomer, you wouldn't understand."

"You don't understand and you still have the gall to criticize me." He said disdainfully.

"Not every show uses dubbing."

Ling Qing said with extreme calmness, "Only actors whose voices don't match need to be dubbed." He glanced over at Zhong Huan. "You have a good voice that matches your character, but your dialogue isn't up to standard. It's not enough to delay things, but sometimes the emotions aren't precise enough. If you have any plans on going to the big screen in the future, you'd better start practicing."

Zhong Huan was blind sided and knit his brows in confusion. "What do you mean my emotions aren't precise?"

"It's not that they aren't precise, it's that they aren't precise enough." Ling Qing swallowed. "The meaning is that it's not as if you're not embodying the character, but that you're not embodying them enough."

Thinking about it, he continued, "I'll give you an example."

"In the line, 'she misses you very much,' who is she? She is Zhao Anning, the person you like. Why do I say this? Because you've tried every which way to treat her well, but she still holds He Chaoyang in her heart. So, when you came across He Chaoyang, your heart was in turmoil. However, out of your fondness of Zhao Anning, you still told him this line."

"At this time, your emotions are a mess and you're unwilling to admit defeat, but you have no alternatives. Rather than being dull, you're sorrowful. When you said this line, there was no pause and you said it very fluidly. However, the paragraph in the book had a pause ——."

"Just like that, Qiu Peng opened his mouth to repress the helplessness in his heart. His expression is complex. Obviously, this is a very simple phrase, but it holds a lot of meaning. 'You should go see her,' He says. Then he says, 'She...' with a pause, in order to muster up some courage. Then, he lowers his eyelashes and says with a indistinct voice, 'misses you very much.'"

"In this scene, you should be emotional, but do you think you portrayed it accurately? You only portrayed his sadness, sadness out of a sense of gloom. But other than that, there's nothing else. It can't be said that you didn't portray the emotions, but you didn't portray enough emotions. You can do better."