Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 12 Naian
More than a week passed, and there was no reply from Lou Ye, and Li Tang no longer had any hope.

At this time, the half-month script reading was coming to an end, and his opponents in the play were mainly concentrated on four people, the underground party fiancée, the cousin who ran a small business, the fruit party spy classmate and the American consul.

Except for Yuan Quan, the cousins ​​and classmates are all senior actors from Shanghai Film Studio, and they are all familiar faces that can often be seen in film and television dramas. The American consul is played by a foreign actor.

The reading of the script is also the process of the actors getting in touch before the shooting starts. Everyone weighs each other.

Lines are the soul of performance. Listening to an actor's lines can basically judge whether the actor's acting skills are good or bad.

For example, later generations often found on Douyin that a certain empress had an ugly face after losing the Magnolia Award. Because the TV series was popular and the character was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the audience complained for her, thinking that there was a shady scene.In fact, this empress is not the original voice in the TV series but the dubbing, which greatly discounts her acting skills.

After the script reading officially started, as soon as Li Tang opened his mouth, the doubts about him in the crew disappeared a lot.Years of stage play training have made his lines far beyond everyone's perception of young actors.

The dialogue between him and the American Consul is a large number of English lines. When the script was read, he no longer showed off his New York accent, and replaced it with American English with a slight Chinese accent.

The reason is very simple, because the background of the story took place in the autumn of 1948, during the issuance of golden round coupons and Xiao Jiang's "fighting the tiger" in Shanghai.The character Guo Shaobai is 25 and [-] years old. He has classmates and lovers in Shanghai. Most likely, he immigrated to the United States after the end of World War II, because the transportation lines between China and the United States were cut off by the Japanese army throughout World War II.

From this, it can be inferred that he was educated in China. Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, there were church schools founded by Americans in Shanghai, such as the famous St. John’s University.

Therefore, it is impossible for such a character to appear full of New York accent, which is quite satisfactory, and it is most appropriate to have a Chinese accent.

Accents are important in shaping a character.The United States is a country of immigrants, and the characters in stage plays are also diversified. According to the country, there are British accents, Mexican accents, German accents, and Russian accents.There are also East Coast New York accents, cowboy western accents, and rustic southern accents in China.

Accent is a label that indicates the regionalization of a character. For example, Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" has an authentic southern accent.

It is impossible for you to ask Forrest Gump to speak with a tall British accent, which does not fit the character setting at all.

In his previous life, Li Tang watched a war movie that was said to be very popular in China at the time. The protagonist in it—a veteran from Shandong actually talked about an authentic Beijing movie, and he was drunk thinking about it.

In the final analysis, wanting to create a successful character is often determined by these details.

In contrast, Yuan Quan's lines are much immature.But it is also understandable, after all, he is only a sophomore.And the little girl worked very hard. When she came to Shanghai, she didn't mean to go shopping. On the contrary, she just stayed in the guest house and studied hard after the reading meeting every day.

The reading session ended this afternoon, and Yuan Quan approached Li Tang again with the script.

"Brother Li, I don't quite understand Li Huirong's psychology here..."

Apart from the director, Li Tang was the first person she got to know in the crew. In addition, the age difference between the two was not too big, so it was easier to communicate with each other. The little girl would often find him to ask various questions.

The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful, he plays a pair of lovers in the play, and he is the only young actor in the crew who does not have a family. Every time everyone sees this scene, they often smile knowingly.

Today, before leaving, the Shanghai opera senior who played the spy of the Guo Party, who was six years older than Li Tang, patted him on the shoulder, winked, and had an expression of "seize the opportunity".

Li Tang was very helpless, although the beautiful little girl was admirable, but it was far from that.In his previous life, he had seen countless people, so why didn't he try white, yellow, and black ones?

He's not going to think about that when he sees a pretty little girl.

Yuan Quan seems to be slow to respond to everything around him, full of thirst for knowledge.

Li Tang had no choice but to take the script and asked, "Where is it, let me see..."

The role of Li Huirong is actually not difficult to understand. As he told Yuan Quan at the beginning, the underground party has firm beliefs, as long as it follows this path, everything can be easily solved.

In contrast, the character of Guo Shaobai is much more complicated. The character is floating, without firm beliefs, passively accepting all kinds of things instilled by his cousin, classmates, and fiancee, drifting with the flow and very contradictory.Although he chose to follow the faith of his fiancée, he returned to the United States after his fiancée died.

This is probably what Mao Zedong said about the so-called bourgeois weakness.How to grasp the scale is very delicate, if you don't pay attention, it may become facial makeup.

After finally dealing with Yuan Quan, he went downstairs to go home.Just when I got on the motorcycle, the phone in my pocket rang.

These days, a mobile phone is just a mobile phone function, and it doesn't even have a text message function, so it's dead in your pocket.

"Hey?"

"Li Tang, let's have old wine together tonight, all the young ladies from the good times are back." Baldy Xu's excited voice came from the phone.

"Don't go."

"Tsk, last time you said you wanted a treat, don't count your words..."

"No time, bye."

Li Tang refused very simply, and hung up the phone before he finished speaking. The shooting was about to start, and he didn't want to be distracted.And you can't talk too much with that guy, or you will get entangled endlessly.

Just as he hung up the phone and was about to kick the car to leave, the phone rang again like a reminder.

It's not over yet, he didn't even look at it, he just covered his head and said: "I told you that I don't have time, but I just don't have time! Don't fight, and then..."

"Uh... Li Tang, I'm Lou Ye."

"Ah? Oh, sorry, Brother Ye, I thought it was my colleague. So what, is there any news?"

It's not easy, it's almost ten days old, and I finally got a call.

"Do you have time right now?"

"Free, free."

"I'm with a friend, come over and talk."

"Okay, Brother Ye, where are you?"

"we are at……"

After asking for the address, Li Tang hurried to a cafe on Xiangyang Road on a motorcycle.

A cafe that looks very bourgeois from the outside, there are not many customers coming in, and Lou Ye sitting by the window can be seen at a glance.I haven't seen him for half a month. Brother Ye looks a little haggard, with tired eyes.

When he saw Li Tang enter the door, he quickly raised his hand to greet him.

Sitting opposite him was a woman with shawl and long hair. Seeing Lou Ye waving, she also looked back. In her 30s, she is very beautiful, with sharp eyes and a unique temperament.

"This is my partner Naian! Li Tang!" Lou Ye introduced.

"Li Tang, hello!" Naian stood up with a smile and shook hands.

"Nai... Sister An, hello!"

Li Tang knew Nai'an, and Lou Ye had this name in the producer column of the previous two films.And when he saw Naian, he also immediately recognized this face, which often appeared in film and television dramas, including his good performances in Lou Ye's two movies.

A producer, and an actor, and he's doing a great job.

It's just that no one has the surname Nai. Nai'an sounds like a stage name. Li Tang doesn't know how to call her, but it's definitely right to call her sister anyway.

"My surname is Lu, call me Sister An, I've heard Lou Ye talk about you a long time ago..."

Compared to Lou Ye's reticence, Naian is obviously very talkative.

During the exchange between the two, Li Tang learned that Nai'an was not only an alumnus of his acting, but also almost became his colleague.

In her early years, she was admitted to the Acting Department of Shanghai Opera and was a student of Mrs. Lou's mother. Later, she felt that her ambition was not here, and after dropping out, she re-entered the Department of Chinese Opera Directing.After graduation, he was assigned to Shanghai Renyi, the predecessor of the drama center.But she chose to give up again, opened her own company called Dream Art Company, and became an independent producer.

From this, it can be seen that she and Lou Ye are the same kind of people, they both love movies.

Of course, making a movie requires money, and the producer also needs to eat.Her acting skills are not bad, and her appearance is very good, so she became an actress again.

It’s quite interesting to say that a person who doesn’t like being an actor but aspires to be a director, dropped out of acting and re-entered the Department of Directing of Chinese Opera, finally turned around and became an actor again.

"It's a pity that I don't have the talent to be a director, so I had to choose to help Lou Ye and help him with some affairs. I can be regarded as a manager." Nai'an finally said.

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