Split Personality Acting

The second scene took place in the hospital.

After the male protagonist was revived, he found an uncle smoking a cigarette sitting by his bedside.

A nurse came over and reprimanded the male protagonist for smoking.

The male protagonist realized, with a turn of his head, that the cigarette was in his hand.

Because of this invisible uncle, the doctors treated the male protagonist as mentally ill.

They were about to ask if he had any other invisible friends when the male protagonist suddenly heard crying.

The crying came from a delicate-looking woman.

Naturally, the doctors couldn't see this woman either.

Logically, the doctors considered the male protagonist to be truly mentally ill.

His imaginary friends had gone from one to two.

In the middle of the night, the male protagonist had to urinate and went to the restroom.

He found an old man in a floral shirt squatting by the service desk, blowing files onto the floor.

While the nurse was picking up the files.

The old man admired the nurse's ample backside.

And so, the ghosts clinging to the male protagonist became three.

The next day, the male protagonist woke up, thinking it was just a dream.

He asked the medical staff on rounds about the little boy jumping on the bed next to him.

The medical staff turned to look, only to see an empty hospital bed with no one on it.

The smoking uncle was, of course, played by Lin Chuan's counselor, Ma Wei.

As expected of someone who studied acting, his performance was solid.

As for the delicate woman, she was played by art teacher Xu Xiu.

This role didn't have much screen time, and Teacher Xu Xiu's acting was more than sufficient.

Even less screen time than her was the little boy.

Lin Chuan, playing the male protagonist, portrayed the panic and confusion of encountering ghosts with vivid realism.

Especially the feeling of being unable to explain himself, that sense of frustration when only he could see ghosts, was hilariously depicted.

However, the most outstanding performance was by Director Hou, who played the lecherous old man.

It could be said that every wrinkle on Director Hou's face had acting in it.

His lecherous gaze had reached a level of perfection.

In the movie, there was a shot of Director Hou staring at the nurse's backside.

This backside was played by a man.

Firstly, many men's physical conditions are actually better than women's, and even their butts are perkier than women's.

Secondly, no actress was willing to play the nurse bending over to pick up files.

Originally, Director Hou was, after all, a director at the film academy.

There were no shortage of female actors looking for shortcuts, willing to do anything for advancement.

However, Director Hou's gaze was so lewd that it gave people a sense of being defiled.

This spiritual defilement was perhaps harder to bear than physical defilement.

But one had to admire the veteran actor.

To stare at a man's fake butt with such a lecherous look was truly a model for us all.

The second scene was quickly wrapped up.

Everyone performed well, with only occasional reshoots of one or two scenes.

Soon, it was time to shoot the third scene.

According to normal plot logic.

The male protagonist would be discharged from the hospital and go to the Great Immortal to inquire about the situation.

He would learn from the Great Immortal that due to his near-death experience, a door had been opened in his body.

He could see ghosts, and ghosts could possess him and control his physical body.

Until their obsessions were satisfied and they were sent away, the male protagonist wouldn't be able to commit suicide.

The third scene took place after the male protagonist sought out the charlatan.

It depicted the male protagonist's daily life interacting with the ghosts.

After bringing the four ghosts home.

The four ghosts took turns possessing the male protagonist.

When the perverted grandfather possessed the male protagonist, he started drinking and flirting with the aunt next door who was sunning her quilt.

When the child possessed the male protagonist, he began to eat and drink ravenously, devouring cake like crazy.

When the smoking uncle possessed the male protagonist, his home was like it had been hit by a smoke bomb.

When the crying older sister possessed the male protagonist, he became a weeping mess during a resident meeting.

This scene, though simple to describe, was not easy to perform.

Lin Chuan had to portray the characteristics of four different characters simultaneously, allowing the audience to immediately tell who had possessed the male protagonist.

The first scene Lin Chuan acted was when he was possessed by the perverted grandfather, played by Director Hou.

He poked his head out the window and leered at the aunt next door sunning her quilt.

The aunt first yelled angrily, then her expression turned shy, and she touched her cheek with the back of her hand.

She felt as if she had become young again.

The scale of this scene was very difficult to manage.

After all, as a seasoned philosopher once said, even seasoned perverts have different tastes.

Even if they like mature women or young girls, they each have their own preferences.

How to make the audience immediately realize that Lin Chuan was possessed by the perverted grandfather.

And to do so without appearing greasy, vulgar, or repulsive required superb acting skills and a complete understanding of the character.

Lin Chuan's solution was to add a fondness for alcohol to the perverted grandfather's character.

After getting drunk, his face flushed red, he poked his head out the window and leered at the aunt next door sunning her floral quilt.

The aunt was startled, her grip on the quilt loosened, and it fell to the ground.

She pointed at Lin Chuan, "What... are you doing now?"

Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow, his comically expressive eyebrows wiggling.

Through the target of his flirting and the character's setting.

He minimized the audience's potential revulsion towards a perverted ghost.

The second scene was the little boy possessing the male protagonist and eating ravenously.

Lin Chuan not only had to portray the innocence and purity of a child.

But also the instinctive resistance of an adult who wants to lose weight towards food.

This was also reasonable within the script, as a child is just a child.

With weak mental power, they couldn't control the protagonist like the other ghosts.

Lin Chuan's transition between the two personalities was incredibly smooth.

His gaze towards the cake shifted from longing to fear.

His expression alternated between satisfaction and utter misery.

The little boy, the uncle, the crying elder sister – after several scenes.

Lin Chuan's performance was as if he had truly been possessed.

During the filming of this scene, it wasn't Lin Chuan who had to retake it, but the actor he was imitating.

And the expressions of everyone on set were uniformly the same.

Their eyes were wide, their mouths hung open in an 'O' shape, and their expressions were vacant.

Stunned, everyone was completely amazed.

Lin Chuan's acting was simply too brilliant.

He was practically inhuman!

When imitating the perverted grandfather, Director Hou felt as if Lin Chuan was playing himself.

He couldn't help but wonder if he and Lin Chuan had some kind of blood relation.

Could Lin Chuan possibly be a child he'd left out of wedlock?

Of course, if Lin Chuan knew, he would have scoffed.

Although Director Hou's portrayal of perversion was spot-on, his looks were clearly not on the same level as Lin Chuan's.

Lin Chuan's counselor, Teacher Ma Wei, was already questioning his own life.

He felt unworthy of being Lin Chuan's teacher.

Not to mention imitating the other roles.

Each of them felt like they were looking in a mirror.

This phenomenon was most pronounced in the young actor playing the child.

He even thought he had mastered some kind of "spiritual power."

It allowed Lin Chuan to make the same moves as him.

It took the cast and crew a lot of effort to finally explain it to the young actor.

Three main scenes were filmed in one day.

Lin Chuan was very satisfied with the crew's progress.

At this rate, "Happy Family" would be completed in about a month.

Lin Chuan took the movie "Happy Family" very seriously.

The reason was simple: after "Balloon" was released, audiences generally believed that Lin Chuan only knew how to direct horror movies.

After all, from "Spoon Killer Demon" to "Hide-and-Seek" and then "Balloon," Lin Chuan had only made horror films.

Lin Chuan didn't want the audience to misunderstand that he could only make horror movies.

After all, in the directing world, directors who only made horror films were held in lower regard than other directors.

And there were two ways to prove himself.

One was to continue making horror films, but elevate them to an entirely new level.

Becoming a founding master like Hitchcock.

The other was to try other genres of films.

Lin Chuan's choice was, "I want them all."

First, he would try other genres to prove to the audience that he wasn't limited to horror films.

Then, he would make some horror thrillers that would blow the audience's minds.

"The Usual Suspects," "Saw," "Fight Club," "Se7en."

These would definitely change the audience's perception.

"Happy Family" was actually a lighthearted, comedic, and healing movie disguised as a horror film.

Its appeal wasn't through suspense and terror, but through warmth, humor, and healing.

To change the audience's rigid impression of him, the quality of this film was undoubtedly crucial.