Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 110 The Unchanging Is Love
Li Tang likes to perform, very pure kind, but he has no wenqing disease and never pretends to be an artist.And he is very winky, knowing how to adapt to this society, to adapt to various explicit or hidden rules.

In the past, he may have looked down on TV dramas to some extent, but since "Returning the Pearl II" became popular and he himself received bonuses for it, his views on TV dramas have changed.

The current situation in China is special. In the extremely sluggish film market, TV dramas are the mainstream.If you want to be recognized by the mainstream of society, you must keep up with the mainstream instead of pursuing those illusory things.

People often say that actors should keep a distance from the audience and have a sense of mystery, so that the audience can buy tickets to see you.But this has a premise, the premise is that you are popular enough and the audience wants to watch you.If you fucking don't even know who you are, the audience doesn't know, and you still maintain a sense of mystery.

And if you really love acting, you have to have money first, at least you won't be bothered by chai rice sauce vinegar tea.Movies are a luxury art. If you want to go to a higher level and choose your favorite characters as you like, then enough popularity and enough money are necessary conditions, and they are indispensable.

In Hollywood, superstars such as Tom Cruise, Little Plum, and Matt Damon are not only stars but also capital themselves, so they can create various classic roles.

Maybe some people want to be a pure actor like Daniel Day Lewis, rather than a so-called superstar.But don't forget that Day Lewis's ancestors were British nobles, who had plenty of money. They could wait four or five years for a role, or take seven or eight years to make a movie. Can ordinary people do it?

Li Tang is just a small star now. He wants to be popular and become a big star. Now that TV dramas are the mainstream, he must work hard on TV dramas.

When he becomes famous, when the film market is brilliant again, it is not too late to talk about keeping a distance from the audience and maintaining a sense of mystery!

Or when he, like Tom Cruise, Xiao Lizi, etc., is both a superstar and capital itself, then you can create the character you want to create as you like.

Only in this way can I have the conditions to build myself into a real performing artist, instead of pretending to be an artist.

The next day, Li Tang received the script sent by Jiang Xuerou.The script is quite thick, with a total of [-] episodes. Li Tang said hello to the unit and took the script home to read.

The unit is like this, as long as you have made achievements, won honors, and won glory for the unit, then everything is easy to talk about.Li Tang is very free now, basically he can come and go back whenever he wants.

In fact, the income of the drama center is linked to the performance. If there is a drama, then rehearsal subsidies and performance fees will be arranged. If there is no drama, then you can only receive dead salary.Fortunately, the big guys don't live on their wages. Even if they can't get a movie, they usually shoot commercials, dub a voice, or go to various private acting training classes. These are all extra money.

Anyway, each has its own way.

It took Li Tang two days to finish reading the script, and Xing Zhengyang, the fourth male lead he was going to play, didn't appear until episode No.18.Fortunately, it is not a soy sauce character. As Jiang Xuerou introduced before, this character has an independent emotional line with the daughter of the number one female, Xiu Yun.

This is a drama with a major heroine, and the lead actress is actually a pair of mother and daughter. The whole drama is divided into two parts according to their roles.The first half is about the emotional entanglements between the first woman and the second woman and the first and second men. It is roughly that the first woman and the second woman fall in love with the first man at the same time. The first man and the first woman are in love, but they cannot be together for some reason. The female one is also pregnant with the male one's child.

In the end, the first male had to marry the second female who he didn't love but was rich and powerful.As for the two families to which the first male and the second male belong, they are hostile. The second male also fell in love with the first female, but they couldn't love each other.

The female one was pregnant with the male one's child, and she found the third male who had always had a crush on her to be her successor, and gave birth to a daughter.But the male one and the male two had a conflict, and the female one was also involved. The male third went mad and wanted to kill the male one, but the female one was accidentally killed by the male third in order to save the male one.

Then the third man was sent to the frontier for murder, and the second man, who loved the first woman deeply, angered the first man because of the death of the first woman.

Such a complicated relationship paved the way for a more complicated plot in the second half.

In the second half, the daughters of the first girl and the first boy have grown up, and they look almost exactly the same as the first girl back then. Because the adoptive father and the second boy can't forget the first girl, they always have a special and subtle feeling for their adopted daughter, which arouses the boy The second wife was dissatisfied, but the biological son of the second man fell in love with the daughter of the first woman.

But female one's daughter and male fourth grew up as childhood sweethearts, and they are in love with each other.As a result, a series of emotional entanglements similar to that of the female [-] years ago was triggered again. Fortunately, the daughter of the female [-] did not follow in the footsteps of the female [-]. After all efforts, she finally married the lover of the male [-].

When Li Tang finished reading the script, he let out a long sigh of relief. This is the most complicated story of emotional entanglement among all the scripts he has seen. It is an exaggeration. Be careful to get the relationship between the characters wrong.

According to Jiang Xuerou's introduction, it is the new generation of Qiong girl-Shui Ling who plays the first female lead and the first female lead daughter.Li Tang has seen "Tears in Heaven" starring her, and she is indeed as the name suggests, as clear as water, and beautiful and moving.

Martial arts actor Zhao Wenzhuo, who was also known as "Li Lianlian's second", played the male lead, and the second male was a former Hong Kong singer and actor Liu Ximing.

It is precisely because of the joining of Zhao Wenzhuo that compared with the old version of "Yijianmei", there are many more martial arts scenes.

As for the second female played by Gege Wang Yan, she is a tragic character.First of all, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't fall in love with. Even if I didn't get the love of my husband, I still had no complaints or regrets.

To be honest, no matter whether the script or the characters are good, in Li Tang's opinion, although it is not perfect, it is at least better than "Returning the Pearl II".

Since he was idle during this period of time, he didn't put up too much airs, and directly told Naian that he accepted the play, and left the rest of the matter to Naian.

As for Naian, in fact, Jiang Xuerou had already contacted her earlier, and was waiting for Li Tang's reply so that they could start contract negotiations. This also showed from the side that Hainan Zhouyi attached great importance to Li Tang.

The negotiation went smoothly, the male number four had a total of [-] episodes, and each episode was paid [-] yuan.As far as this salary is concerned, Li Tang has already reached the ranks of third-tier stars.

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After more than a year of hard work, "Suzhou Creek" was finally completed.

He is looking forward to this movie more than his debut "Shanghai Chronicle".Maybe it's more energy spent, maybe it's because the collision with Zhou Xun is more emotional.

Naian also rushed back from the capital today, she is ready to get married.In her words: at the dawn of the new century, she has to change her identity and start over.

In a screening room of the Shangying Technology Factory in Zhabei Baotong Road, Li Tang and Naian sat together and chatted for a few words, mainly about work. "New Plum Blossom" will be launched in November, because Li Tang's role is relatively late, and he will join the group in late December.Moreover, most of his scenes were filmed in Shengqiang Film and Television City in the suburbs of Shanghai, which is only half an hour's drive from his hometown in the suburbs, which is very convenient.

After Lou Ye fiddled with the projector behind him, the screening finally started.

The lights dimmed, but the screen did not turn on.

After a while, there was a thin, broken sound, which was very vague and couldn't make out what it was.Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xun's hoarse and iconic voice came:

"If I leave one day in the future, will you look for me?"

"Yes!"

"Will you keep looking for it?"

"Yes!"

"Will you always find death?"

"Yes!"

The conversation ended, and layers of fluctuations began to appear on the screen.

It was as if a stone had been thrown into it. As the fluctuation unfolded, the screen finally began to light up slowly, becoming clearer and clearer, and it could be seen that it was the fluctuation of the water surface.

Finally, a piece of black and green river water appeared.

The camera moves from the surface of the water, facing the old buildings demolished into empty houses on the shore, from west to east, accompanied by melodious music, sweeping the towering chimneys, dull pedestrians, mottled ferries...

The camera is set up on a boat, sliding slowly with the current, recording everything it can see.

Lou Ye sat on the side and helped him explain in a low voice. It is said that he used expired film at the beginning. The rough grains and mottled colors on the screen, together with the slightly magnetic narration he himself dubbed, made the film more vivid. The decadence, decay, sadness, and hypocrisy are vividly displayed.

This opening shocked Li Tang. To be honest, this may be the worst opening of a movie he has ever seen in his two lifetimes.

Immediately after the feature film begins, the camera shakes, and the subjective perspective advances the plot. At the beginning, it is Zhou Xun's one-man show, makeup, chewing gum, smoking, and shopping.The familiar emerald green skirt and black stockings brought Li Tang back to the shooting scene more than a year ago.

When shooting, according to the director's intention, it was repeated over and over again, the logic was chaotic, and the plot could not be connected, but the finished film seen at this time was completely different.

The structure of the movie is actually very westernized, with messy editing and various messy elements mixed together. Lou Ye's narration promotes the plot simply and clearly.

Although the photography style is very different, Li Tang has the feeling of watching "Pulp Fiction" for the first time in a previous life.His Ma Da has few lines and is always cool, and the emotions are mostly conveyed through the eyes. Although Naian whispered her surprise in his ear at the wonderful point, there are some scenes where he feels that he should be better.

For example, when he gets drunk at the mermaid bar, if he does a dance like Vincent in "Pulp Fiction", it may increase the tension of the character even more.

Compared with his plain and restrained, Zhou Xun, who plays two roles, is undoubtedly bright and flamboyant, dazzling. Although she is thin and shriveled, she can perform as sexy as Uma Thurman.

At the end of the movie, the camera is still facing the black and green Suzhou Creek, and the ferry in the distance is undulating, and the afterglow of the twilight.

Lou Ye's narration sounded again: "In this city, some people leave, some people decay, nothing lasts forever, only love remains the same..."

When the subtitles began to scroll on the screen, Li Tang and Naian unconsciously clapped their hands.Lou Ye undoubtedly brought them another surprise.

"Maybe it can be better." Li Tang said to himself while clapping his hands.

His applause was given to the director, and even more so to Zhou Xun. Only he couldn't avoid some regrets.

"what?"

Lou Ye, who was sitting next to him, had sharp ears.

Li Tang turned around and said frankly: "I think I can do better."

"How to say?"

Li Tang told Lou Ye what he thought just now.

Lou Ye lit a cigarette, thought for a long time, and finally shook his head regretfully, "It's too late."

Because the film will be sent to the Netherlands to participate in the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival in December.

"How about the review?" Li Tanglin asked again.

Lou Ye and Nai'an looked at each other and smiled wryly. It turned out that the finished film had already been submitted for review, but like the previous two times, there was no news of it.

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