The Greatest Showman - Chapter 2490

[Two thousand four hundred and fifty-three]

Holt-McCallany, the 52-year-old veteran actor, has been rolling in Hollywood for nearly 30 years. He has never won his own shining moment, but he has gradually polished his skills over time. He is an indispensable blue-collar actor in the film industry.

In the early years of his career, Holt was more active on the small TV screen, but even in TV series, he rarely won regular roles, many of which were cameo or rotating performance opportunities, “Law & Order”, “Criminal Minds”, “Heroes”. “, “CSI: Miami” and other series can be seen in his figure.

Small details can reveal why: Most of the characters Hult plays are police detectives.

Because the facial features are too upright, they are considered to be “born as a law enforcement officer”. The lack of features means limitations, which limits Hult’s career as an actor.

In fact, in the actor and model industry, handsome, beautiful and other delicate looks are not dominant. Because of the lack of characteristics and the lack of the possibility to carve the role, it is easy to cause the picture to be unbalanced because the appearance is too much to steal the show. These faces are also often Considered more suitable for the vase role.

After the golden age of Hollywood, those pretty faces are no longer in demand, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc., all of them; on the contrary, May Personal faces like Lil Streep, Jack Nicholson, and Robert De Niro have won more support and love.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Renly Hall, should be very few exceptions, but even they are more personal than handsome types.

So did Holt.

The lack of features in his youthful features caused him to stumble through countless setbacks, switching from TV dramas to movies, and he couldn’t change the situation – either a police detective or an officer, which is probably the case for all roles.

“Three Kings of Gold”, “The Legend of the Gangster”, “Shock Effect”, “Vengeance in the Night”, “Jack Reacher” and so on can all be seen in the figure of Holt, playing a similar role, just like “Harry” -Potter is like an iron triangle, and Holt is also bound by this skin mask, unable to get rid of the breakthrough.

What makes people laugh and cry is that the same is true for this “Mind Hunter”.

Hort is about to play FBI agent Bill-Tench, one of the original members of Behavioral Sciences (BSU), Horton and Wendy, both of whom he later recruited, who really built the crime The practical application system of psychology, and the systematic application of criminal psychological portraits was initially established, which in turn changed the scientific system of modern criminal investigation – Bill, an out-and-out detective.

In fact, before “Mind Hunter”, Holt and David Finch had cooperated many times, and David could even be said to be one of Holt’s nobles.

In 1992,

David, who was a music video director, directed his first work in his career, “Alien 3”, and Holt once played one of the roles; later, Holt appeared in “Fight Club”. Fate continued.

Unfortunately, the number of David’s own productions is not high, and he has not been able to really help Hult’s actor career. When we meet again, it has been nearly 20 years later.

Like most directors, David has certain ideas about the character image in his mind. They will want to put forward their own requirements and opinions, and then the casting director will find the corresponding actor according to the right medicine; His requirements are particularly clear, because his works often put all the drama on the protagonist, and the protagonist’s temperament, charm and performance are very important to the quality of the finished product.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman from The Seven Deadly Sins, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton from Fight Club, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield from The Social Network, Jake Gyllenhaal from Zodiac, Rooney Mara from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and more.

All the actors mentioned above were hand-picked by David.

The same goes for Mindhunter, Renly, Rooney, and Holt, hand-picked by David.

Objectively speaking, Hult has been rolling around in the industry for nearly 30 years, his image has basically been fixed, and the possibility of wanting to break the deadlock is gradually disappearing; but on the other hand, Hult has already climbed above the roles of police detectives and officers Gun has developed his own set of principles, and his mature and stable aura can often be overwhelmed.

Just like John Goodman.

It is hard to imagine that in John Goodwin’s nearly 40-year long acting career, he has not won any Oscar nominations, but this veteran actor is one of the most popular and favorite actors in Hollywood’s major film projects. First, calm and easy-to-follow performances can always stabilize the situation, and at the same time can control various styles of works, regardless of business or art, there is no limit to the type of subject matter.

Renly and John collaborated on “Drunken Country Ballads”, and I can really feel John’s stability from the inside out, and complete the adjustment quietly.

David expects that Hult can become such a needle of the sea, but whether Hult can shoulder such a heavy responsibility can only be known after the actual shooting.

“Mind Hunter” is not a crime drama in the traditional sense, but a pseudo-documentary drama with crime as the background, just like “Zodiac” shows the process of police detectives chasing the Zodiac killer. The core significance of the collection is also to show the beginning of criminal psychology and psychological portraits being put into practical use, to find a combination between theory and practice, and hope to open up a new field of crime investigation.

The so-called “psychological portrait”, the most famous representative drama is “criminal psychology”, a BAU is established based on BSU, the members assist the police to hunt down serial killers through technology, but “criminal psychology” presents psychological portraits The story of the mature stage of the system, and “Mind Hunter” presents the entrepreneurial history of the predecessors of “Criminal Minds”.

After the popularity of “Criminal Minds”, the number of film and television works about psychological portraits gradually increased. “Don’t Lie to Me” even promoted this “mind reading” to the altar. To a certain extent, these film and television dramas made psychological portraits The exploration is deified, because in real life, this kind of investigative method can only provide a reference value, but in the absence of substantial evidence, it is difficult to convict the suspect, and it is difficult to apply it in court.

In the 1970s, criminal psychology was just emerging, and the name “serial killer” didn’t even exist. People still didn’t know how to deal with these persistent, long-term, and coherent violent crimes. Traditional investigative methods also seem unable to track down the murderer.

The situation of strangers killing strangers makes it easy to make mistakes in the judgment of criminal motives, and even the criminal suspects are not easy to locate. Don’t know how to start either.

It is against this background that the study of “criminal mental portrait” has slowly emerged under the heavy resistance. “Mind Hunter” tells such a story.

Mindhunter’s two protagonists, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, have real-life prototypes, and the entire story is based on a non-fiction novel by John-Douglas and Mark-Olshaker , “Mindhunter: The FBI Serial Crime Solving Secrets”.

Former FBI agent John Douglas is undoubtedly the core character. He has been used as a prototype in many film and television works to shape the character image. Jake-Crawford in “Silence of the Lambs” is a typical representative. Later “Criminal Minds” also referred to his experience and personality.

In the series, Holden Ford corresponds to John Douglas, focusing more on the image of John when he was young, but still made changes.

Compared with Bill Tench and Wendy Carr, who can find exact corresponding roles in real life, Horton’s background and characteristics incorporate more FBI agents’ images and characters, according to the needs of the work. , re-creating, and complementing the main line and the branch to build the whole story:

how to build the entire system of “criminal mental portraits”; how to mix psychology and criminology; how to use systematic alienation for positioning; Generalizing behavior, then narrowing it down to individualization again, allowing the police to make judgments on a case-by-case basis?

and so on.

Compared with the magical psychological profiles in “Criminal Minds” and “Don’t Lie to Me”, “Mind Hunter” focuses more on the early stage of groping in the dark, which also makes the three roles of Horton, Bill and Wendy. The interaction and influence, growth and transformation between them have become the core content of the series.

In other words, the characters are greater than the case, and the psychological exploration is greater than the suspenseful layout.

It is precisely because of this that UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com “Mind Hunter” has been unable to find investors, because it does not meet the definition of a popular drama at all, just like a boring documentary; moreover, “Criminal Minds” always It is possible for justice to win, but “Mind Hunter” may keep making mistakes during the exploration process, which makes it even more difficult to please the audience.

Also because of this, “Mind Hunter” has strict requirements on the actors of the main three characters, and the chemistry between them will determine the quality of the whole series; and, as Rooney said before, the role requires actors Showing delicate and rich changes at the psychological level is precisely what Renly is best at.

Now, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Next, let’s see if Renly can regain the simple mentality of the “Pacific War” period, put aside all the skills and burdens, let himself return to the original intention, step by step to find the rhythm of the performance, and more importantly, find the fun of performance. .

David’s choice proved wise, at least from the actor’s first meeting.

“Should we read the script now? Or should we talk about the characters?” Rarely, it wasn’t Renly who took the initiative, it was Holt.

He smiled at Renly and Rooney, opened the conversation with a questioning tone, and the acting work on the TV series could now begin.

[End of this Chapter]