I think Cheng Lei is the most expressive actor among this new generation of Chinese actors. His gaze is incredibly powerful. I’ve only watched the first episode so far, and there’s an impressive scene where he looks straight into the camera, almost as if he were breaking the fourth wall.
do you really need chatgpt for that?? you know there are real resources out there if you want to learn about directing…
It’s good that you’re a film student and will profit from the subject. Since I’m not, and I won’t make money from it, I have no reason to flatter directors and artists by studying with a book on the topic.
your a fcking loser for using chatgpt for anything 🙄
Well, you’re going to have to get used to Google and artificial intelligence; we’re not going back to the Stone Age, polished or chipped, and communicating through smoke signals. I like to “talk” with ChatGPT because it “speaks” about things I hadn’t thought of. A really good director can extract a performance from actors that others cannot, unlike New, who is mediocre and makes the actors perform worse than they actually can.
do you really need chatgpt for that?? you know there are real resources out there if you want to learn about directing…
Well, you’re going to have to get used to Google and artificial intelligence; we’re not going back to the Stone Age, polished or chipped, and communicating through smoke signals. I like to “talk” with ChatGPT because it “speaks” about things I hadn’t thought of. A really good director can extract a performance from actors that others cannot, unlike New, who is mediocre and makes the actors perform worse than they actually can.
I do have to praise Gemini’s acting. The other day I was messing around on ChatGPT, and it was telling me about how a director can really elevate an actor’s performance if they’re truly exceptional and Aof definitely is. He manages to draw out strong performances from people you wouldn’t expect. But I feel like Fourth is coming across a bit muted.
I’m kinda disappointed. I thought they were going to dive into religious dogmas, but so far it’s just another school BL… with all those tired K‑drama clichés like bullying and students tearing each other apart.
Rarely does a scene or a dialogue get stuck in my memory. I don’t know if it was Sammon who wrote it, but that rooftop cigarette dialogue is brilliant 'Keep the change'
Director Aof is one of the few who does something different today at GMMTV, in the good sense of the word. It already starts with the opening music — I found that chant, that choir, which sounds Gregorian, very beautiful.
If I were to analyze it with my Western perspective, I would give it a score of -1: these are dramas without social critique, no criticism of the government, the couple is so distant it hardly feels like romance, they don’t even kiss. Now, making an analysis that takes into account their limitations, I would give it an 8 for now. The problem is that most of these C-dramas drag on too much a lot could be cut out.