Global Film Emperor

Chapter 484 Fuck you, Lu Ze
As a professional book with a relatively high price, Lu Ze's works are not widely purchased, not only in Europe but also in China. The vast majority of buyers are professionals in the performing arts, with only a very small number being purchased by die-hard fans for collection and display purposes.

Those in the performing arts who read this book, just like the professor, threw the book on the table just three hours later, staring intently at the cover and lost in thought...

There was only one question on my mind.

"Is Lu Ze trying to frame me?"

No one would treat this book as an actor's bible, at least not a normal person with a sense of crisis. Those who truly understand acting are even more terrified of it, fearing that Lu Ze will break their mental state.

Many readers, after reading half of the book, will have the same thought: Is Lu Ze just trying to make money? Did he never intend to write a proper book? Is he just using some classic theories to pad the content and stuffing in some fabricated, delusional training methods to fool his admirers?
Then I thought about it again and realized it was unlikely. After all, if he really wanted to make money, wouldn't it be better to write an autobiography or a reflection on life? Wouldn't fans go crazy buying it? How many copies could he sell by selling actors?

No one could come up with an answer, and they were all baffled. Some said that Lu Ze wanted to enter the literary circle, but he was only a high school graduate and his acting skills were unorthodox, so he could only write a book to get by.

Some people say that Lu Ze never intended to reveal his training methods, but he was afraid that people would dig deeper into them. In order to cover his tracks, he hid his unique training methods and kept them to himself, which caused the problem.

As various conspiracies surfaced and opinions swirled, the book was gradually confirmed to be a fraud, no different from the books of self-help gurus. No one was willing to believe that the contents of the book were true.

Because it's too difficult, it's not a task that the human brain can handle, and the risk factor is extremely high. If you make any mistake, it's very easy to explode your mental state and create a sense of confusion between reality and the script.

Let's talk about bringing a character back to life. It's not as simple as writing an autobiography or a short biography. It requires you to understand the character's historical background, family background, personality traits, life experiences, education, and even the character's social circle.

These things aren't in the script. The production team will only provide you with a story, but not a complete character life. This requires you not only to perfect the character himself, but also to create friends out of thin air, filling in the character's friends and relatives one by one. For example, if there are no parents in the script, you still have to construct the character's parents, whether their personalities are good or bad, whether they understand the philosophy of life, whether their appearance is ordinary, and even whether his father has rosacea or whether his mother has knife cuts on her hands.

And this is still based on the real world. If it's the future world... well, you'll have to fill in a gap in world history.

At the same time, all the characters and events must be well-developed and meticulously crafted; otherwise, you simply cannot build up the characters. Once they conflict with the script, bam! The characters fall apart and become untenable.

Once established, the character becomes your confidant. You know everything about him, including his habits and how his friends relate to you. When you bring all of this to life, then congratulations, you will definitely believe that he is your real, tangible, and soul-connected friend.

If you understand him, you will naturally understand the script. But understanding the script is only the first step. Even if you live in the script, you are not him. You can't act him when you stand in front of the camera. When you act him, you will feel as awkward as imitating a friend in front of a friend. How can you act well in this state?
So, the next step, which is the most dangerous part of Lu Ze's training method, is... to realize that you are him, and to make friends with a completely different version of yourself.

This overlaps somewhat with traditional method acting. You are the character, and the character is you, but this conflicts with the initial psychological understanding you developed, because in the beginning, you considered him your friend. If you can successfully blur yet clearly define the boundaries between friend and self, then you've successfully learned Lu Ze's acting style. This is what you often see: Lu Ze can instantly enter a character's state and instantly detach himself from it after filming, even going so far as to correct script flaws. This incredible ability is the fundamental reason why he can achieve this.

And the consequences of failure... without medication and long-term psychological counseling, you may have the same question for the rest of your life.

"Who am I?"

And this is just the impact of one play. Do actors only act in one play for their entire lives? In the end, you will have more and more friends, and the more diverse the roles you take on, the more dangerous your "friends" will become. You might see it then.

When I wake up in the early morning, the moon is right in front of me.

This is Lu Ze's training method, which is both mentally taxing and psychologically devastating. Can you understand the readers' horror now?
Without the help of a system, he probably wouldn't have been able to complete this kind of mentally destructive training, so why did he write down this training method?
Although it is incredibly difficult, it has been proven by Lu Ze that it can indeed be completed by someone without a system.

It truly exists.

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Perhaps because of Lu Ze's background in China, no one has dared to be the first to criticize Lu Ze's training methods as unrealistic. But foreign readers are not so apprehensive, even if they have only read half of the book and have not seen the later part about how to destroy the "friendship" you have built after filming.

Just spray it and that's it.

A professor from the performing arts department of a well-known German university was the first to step forward, calling on his friends to launch a coordinated attack on Lu Ze and destroy his "bad book" in one fell swoop.

First, he posted the extremely low ratings on various book websites and filmed a video, which he then posted on Facebook. In the video, his face was very flushed, and it was unclear whether he was angry or had been drinking.

"First of all, I must acknowledge Lu Ze's acting talent. As an actor, he is top-notch, without a doubt, one of the best. And I don't object to actors making money by publishing books, as long as their books are readable! I'm utterly fed up with your nonsense about Lu Ze! I've had enough! You can make money, you can even make dirty money! But stop misleading young people! You're ruining the next generation of excellent actors! Please! Don't harm them! They are innocent; they won't steal your place in history. Look at your heart, is it black? This kind of behavior won't build you a throne, it will only make you a despised black history! You can do..." "You deserve to be number one, you're absolutely qualified, you're fully capable of becoming the best performing artist of the new century, before you start hurting these kids who are passionate about acting! You'll send them all to mental hospitals, you bastard! Here, I want to advise those kids who plan to learn acting from this bullshit book, 'Acting, My Life,' to stop now, don't hurt yourselves. I've given this book bad reviews on all websites. So, you can dislike me, Lu Ze, you're more capable than me, you're a better actor than me, but... you're not a person with a conscience like me. Lastly... fuck you, Lu Ze."

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(End of this chapter)