Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 1 Li Tang
In [-], January.

A strong cold air from Siberia moved southward, and the temperature in Shanghai suddenly approached the freezing point.The sycamore trees on Anfu Road have long lost their summer luxuriance, standing bare on both sides of the road.

There were very few pedestrians on the road in the afternoon, and occasionally I saw one or two, all of them tightened their necks and walked in a hurry.

It used to belong to the French Concession, and it was originally a place where garden houses and villas gathered.After decades of ups and downs, most of the buildings still maintain their original appearance. Only the [-]-storey drama center building just completed two years ago stands out from the crowd.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li, the stock market is not going up when it's just going down. It's too late for everyone to escape. Why are you chasing down?"

"The most basic common sense of stocks is that there are ups and downs, how can they only go down but not up..."

At this time, the last rehearsal of the drama "The Color of Stock" is going on in the theater on the first floor of the drama center.Because it is a new year's drama that will be performed after the Spring Festival, the main creators behind the scenes and the leaders of the center are sitting in the audience to observe.

Sitting in the crowd in the back row, Li Tang watched with relish the hard-working performances of the actors on stage, with a bit of novelty in his envious eyes.

He is the B corner of a small role. In layman's terms, he is a substitute player. He rarely has the opportunity to rotate on stage, and more often he is rehearsing.As a new actor who has just stepped out of the theater school, rehearsal is not only a job but also a kind of experience.

For example, Xu Zheng, the main character who is wearing a suit and leather shoes and a wig on the stage, looks like a dog.That was a senior who was three years older than Li Tang. He had been a prominent figure since he was in school, and he was a famous figure in the school.But after entering the drama center, he still started from acting out and playing small roles, and after more than two years of eating carrots and rice, he walked step by step to the center of today's stage.

In contrast, as a newcomer with mediocre graduation grades and just entered the drama center for half a year, he was able to participate in a big drama, even if he was a supporting role B, he was lucky enough.

Among them, in addition to the center's emphasis on and training young actors, of course, human sophistication is also indispensable.

It's just that at this time, Li Tang's young body is filled with the soul from later generations.

In his previous life, he was a second-generation Chinese who had been on Broadway.Both parents are high-achieving students from top universities in China. They were the first batch of students to study in the United States after the reform and opening up.

In the era when there was a huge gap between home and abroad, and the moon abroad was rounder than that at home, studying abroad, permanent residence, and naturalization were the choices of many top students and elites.

Elite parents created a favorable family environment for him, but he did not inherit the genes of his parents, but became obsessed with drama performances.

But in the United States, whether it is on Broadway or Hollywood, the profession of actor is not friendly to Chinese Americans. It is difficult for a yellow-skinned Asian actor to be accepted by the general mainstream.

In Hollywood, there are only a few routes that Chinese-American actors can take: one is "Chinese Kung Fu" action movies, such as Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, which are rare and extremely difficult. A big star, even Li Lianlian can only be regarded as a second-tier.

Second, low-budget independent films have a limited audience, no awards, and most of the characters are suspected of being beautiful and discrediting the current regime.

Finally, there is the need for so-called "political correctness" in commercial blockbusters to show up as a foil.

Even here, the competition is fierce.And not only Chinese, but also many Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and other competition.

The competition on Broadway is relatively less intense than in Hollywood, and the income is meager, but professionalism is more important.After Li Tang failed to break into Hollywood, he did well on Broadway, and occasionally played a few serious roles with heavy roles.

It's a pity that he died in an accident, and then he was reborn strangely in Shanghai in 1997, becoming a young man who just graduated from the acting department of Shanghai Opera.

This young man, also named Li Tang, was quite unlucky to say the least.That day he had dinner with his college girlfriend at a restaurant near the school.

Like most college romances, graduation means breaking up, and that meal is their breakup meal.

As a classmate, his girlfriend is much better than him. When she was a sophomore, she acted as the third female lead in the hit spy drama "No Regrets Tracking". She cooperated with Wang Zhiwen, Liu Peiqi and other big names, and went well after graduation. He was admitted to the Experimental Drama Troupe in Beijing and signed an agent.

Long-distance relationship, coupled with the gap in career development, this relationship naturally came to an end.

But while eating, someone at the next table started a fight.One side is a social idler, and the other side is a junior in the 96 acting class of Shanghai Opera.Li Tang got up to persuade the fight, he didn't want to be knocked out by someone with a bottle of wine in the chaos.

The following is the fixed routine of all rebirth novels. The soul of the dead Li Tang in the United States seized the opportunity and inherited all the memories of the original body. After a set of procedures, the new Li Tang woke up in the hospital.

Li Tang who woke up was terrified at first. After all, he was in the United States in his previous life, and he was still very unfamiliar with such things as rebirth.But coming back from the dead and starting a new life made him ecstatic and novel.

What's even more amazing is that the first face he saw when he woke up was Ada Wang from "Resident Evil 5".Although the face was much younger than the one in the movie, he still recognized it at first sight.

It's a pity that Ada Wang didn't stay with him for too long. After making sure that he was fine, he left in a hurry, watching the other person's back, and the past tense flashed in his mind: classmate, girlfriend; present tense: classmate, former Girlfriend; future tense: Ada Wang.

Ada Wang is the second female lead in Hollywood commercial blockbusters. She is very beautiful and capable of fighting.Like Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh, Chinese female stars cannot escape the stereotyped label of beating women in Hollywood.

From the moment Li Tang recognized her, he was sure that his hardworking classmate and ex-girlfriend would become a big star in the future.Now that his girlfriend has become an ex-girlfriend, although Li Tang has regrets, he is not disappointed. After all, he does not want to last forever, but to have what he once had.The past few years of getting along still left him with good memories.

The fight was quite a big deal, the police came forward, and the social idlers who made trouble first were detained administratively.The only victim, Li Tang, was not implicated because he was a brawler, and he also received 96 yuan in compensation for medical expenses.

After the rebirth, Li Tang was cautious at first, for fear of showing his feet.Fortunately, the two Li Tangs in the past and present have similar personalities, and with the addition of professional counterparts, everything will be as usual after half a year.

The only change is probably that he was once unknown, and he barely "admitted" to the drama center by relying on the greetings of the old leaders. In the first internal assessment, he impresses people with a set of mature performances, and also makes the person who greeted him The old leader was very relieved, so he successfully joined the creative team of the opening drama "The Color of Stocks".

"Wow wow wow..."

The rehearsal was very successful, and the leaders of the center spoke highly of it, and also praised the main creative team.

After the leader left, Li Tang joined a group of staff members on stage to help tidy up props, carry tables and stools, and he was extremely proficient.He is a newcomer, and he was suspected of "opening the back door" at the beginning, so he is very knowledgeable, and will take the initiative to lend his hand to various chores and rough jobs.

After finishing his work, it was time to get off work. He got out of the central building and pushed out a brand new Happiness 90 from the shed. It had a high handle and looked like a miniature version of Harley, commonly known as the "Prince's Car".

Just as he put on his helmet and was about to start the car, the car sank, and a marinated egg stepped onto the back seat, muttering: "Hitch, ride. Why don't you just want to slip away without saying hello?"

Li Tang looked helpless: "Boss, I'm going back to the countryside today, and it's not on my way."

Xu Guangtou was very oblivious: "Oh, let's go around and kick the accelerator. I have some good news for you."

"What's the matter?"

Li Tang had no choice but to start the motorcycle, slowly drove out of the center gate and turned east.

Xu Guangtou's home is on Changshu Road not far from the Drama Center, a 15-minute walk.Because it was on the way, Li Tang took him twice after buying the motorcycle, so the habit became natural.

Xu bald head put his hands on Li Tang's shoulders, and said mysteriously: "I heard from Mr. Wei that Shanghai Film Studio is going to shoot a tribute film for the [-]th anniversary of Shanghai's liberation, and has already started casting."

"Do you want to try it?"

Mr. Wei is an old mage in the drama center. He has played Sima Yi in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Gao Qiu in "Water Margin".For people of Li Tang's age group, the most impressive thing is the old lady in "San Mao Congjun Ji".

This time he and Guangtou Xu co-starred in the drama "The Color of Stocks", playing a pair of father and son, which can be regarded as bringing the old to the new.

"I would like to, but how can I walk away in this situation?"

There was a strong taste of showing off in this guy's tone, and he continued: "I mean you can try it!"

"Uh... I won't bother with this trouble, they are not alone." Li Tang shook his head
Shanghai Film Studio has its own troupe of actors, which is much larger than the Drama Center, and several of them are there this year.Everyone is of the same type, not to mention that if the fat and water don't flow to outsiders, he feels that there is no hope at all.

"Go and try what's the matter, touch the forehead. If you have time, even if you have some tricks, it would be nice to earn some extra money."

Li Tang understood what Xu Guangtou meant, and he was idle when he was idle, to try his luck and find something to do.

He hesitated, "Do you know what the movie is about?"

"It seems to be telling the story of Shanghai Jiefang Chenguang. You can find out the details yourself. Oh, by the way, I heard that the director is Peng Xiaolian, who just came back from the United States."

The name Peng Xiaolian is no stranger to her. She used to be a famous female director of Shanghai Film Studio. She went to the United States for further studies at the end of the 80s, but she had already returned to China.

While speaking, he arrived at the entrance of Lane 188, Changshu Road. Guangtou Xu got out of the car and said with a smile, "Go and ask, take a look, if it doesn't work, it's a chance."

"Okay, bye!"

　The new book is released, everyone cheers!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)