Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 281 Feelings
"Okay, no problem!"

The ex-girlfriend didn't expect Li Tang to be so forthright. Surprised, she couldn't help but said anxiously: "It's true or not, you're not kidding me, are you?"

Seeing Li Tang smiled slightly, looking at the wonderful expression of his ex-girlfriend, he said: "Didn't you joke with me first?"

"Uh……"

The ex-girlfriend was speechless for a while, and at the same time secretly relieved, she was inevitably disappointed.

If everything had been according to her own wishes, she would not have taken the initiative to break up back then. Maybe the two are already married now, and even have children.

But everything is not going well, especially for a child from an ordinary family like her who came out of a small northeastern county, with no background, no backing, and no backing, she has come to today step by step through her own efforts.She felt that her original choice was correct.

It is said that fish and bear's paws cannot be had at the same time. Although I am famous and rich now, some things are long gone, so why should I be demanding?What's more, if Li Tang is really willing to get back together, how should he choose?To be honest, she was really not reconciled.

It was precisely because of this ambivalence that the ex-girlfriend hummed and gave Li Tang a blank look, and said without confidence: "You know how to bully me!"

Li Tang smiled and stopped bickering with her.

In fact, from Li Tang's point of view, he still understands his ex-girlfriend quite well.If you want to be in this line of work, you have to be a leader, not everything can be done as you like.

At this time, the waiter brought up the siphon coffee machine, fruit plate and a small square of cream.When the coffee boiled, without Li Tang's hands, the ex-girlfriend quickly took a cup for him and added milk and sugar cubes.

Then she took a small spoon to dig the small piece of fresh milk and ate it. She likes to eat the white cream on top, but she is reluctant to eat it all at once. She carefully digs the soft cake under the cream, always wanting to eat it. Save the goodies for last.

Li Tang took a sip of his coffee, he couldn't bear to see this scene, or he couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help but said, "Would you like some more whipped cream?"

Whipped cream is pure whipped cream.

"No, a small square of cream is enough."

The ex-girlfriend looked up at Li Tang and said, "Actually, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I ate this kind of cream cake for the first time after I came to school here. The taste... Really, I will never forget it in my life."

He said with a smile: "I still remember the first time I ate this kind of fresh milk cake and you bought it for me!"

"Really? I don't even remember."

"Of course, I remember it clearly. It was a ruby ​​milk square with a red cherry on top. I remember that when I bit it down, I didn't know how to describe the feeling. I finally knew The cream cakes that I ate at home during Chinese New Year are all fake."

"So what you are eating now is not cream cake, but feelings!"

The ex-girlfriend's eyes lit up, she nodded sharply and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it's feelings!"

In fact, Li Tang was also deeply touched by the fake cream cake that his ex-girlfriend ate during the Chinese New Year.When I was young, when I visited relatives and friends during festivals, the most stylish (and most face-to-face) souvenir was a big cream cake.

The earliest big cream cake is called Butter Cream Cake. Butter is a transliteration of Butter. In fact, it is not real butter, but fake butter made with egg white and sugar. It tastes hard and is also called hard cream. .

Later, it gradually evolved into the yellow margarine cream cake, which is a bit more advanced than butter cream, but it is also fake butter.

It wasn't until the early 90s that real whipped cream cakes became popular in Shanghai.Li Tang still clearly remembers the first time when he celebrated his ex-girlfriend's birthday, he specially ordered a [-]-inch fresh milk cake at the boss's room, which cost more than [-] yuan in [-].And the ruby ​​fresh milk Xiaofang in the mouth of the ex-girlfriend is very small, and the amount of two or three mouthfuls at most costs two yuan and fifty cents a piece, which is equivalent to a meal with a large row.

After expressing his emotions for a while, the ex-girlfriend asked again: "By the way, how does it feel to work with director Zhang Yimou this time?"

"It's pretty good, but the requirements are too high and there are too many ideas. It took almost a month to shoot a fight scene."

But the ex-girlfriend said enviously: "He is a great director, of course he must strive for excellence!"

As she said that, she looked at Li Tang and asked tentatively, "Director Lou Ye is going to make a new movie, do you know?"

As an ex-girlfriend, she was too aware of the relationship between Li Tang and Lou Ye.

Maybe it was because the two were too familiar, Li Tang immediately sensed what his ex-girlfriend was planning, and said naturally, "I know, the preparations have been almost half a year away."

The ex-girlfriend hurriedly asked again: "What new movie is it, have you read the script?"

"Well, I've seen it, it's about anti-Japanese themes."

"what?"

Because Lou Ye's previous works were all about urban love, but this time it was about anti-Japanese. The ex-girlfriend was quite surprised, and then said, "So you can still play the lead role this time?"

"Not necessarily, this time he said that he will have an open audition."

"Is that so... Hey, so are there many female roles? Uh... Is there any suitable role for me?" The ex-girlfriend finally got to the point.

This time, Lou Ye cooperated with Shanghai Film Studio, and it was a big investment. It is estimated that it has already spread in the circle. The purpose of his ex-girlfriend looking for him today is because of this matter.

When his ex-girlfriend just mentioned this topic, Li Tang quickly went through the characters in "Purple Butterfly".Lou Ye's consistent style is that there are very few characters in the movie, and all the plots revolve around three or four people, and all of them are heroines, or the plot always revolves around female characters. This is true of "Suzhou Creek", and "Purple Butterfly" is no exception.

The most important characters in "Purple Butterfly" are naturally Hidehiko Itami's lover Ding Hui and Xin Xia, a member of the resistance organization. These two names are actually the same person, a bit similar to Meimei and Peony played by Zhou Xun in "Suzhou Creek" .

For such an important role, the ex-girlfriend naturally has no hope. Lou Ye must choose an actress who is both well-known and talented, and the age must not be too old.

Apart from the famous actresses from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Li Tang from the Mainland thinks that Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun are the only ones who can meet the requirements. not on.Of course, this is a conventional guess, and it depends on the actual situation. After all, Lou Ye sometimes plays cards that do not follow common sense.

However, there is also the role of Situ's girlfriend in it. Li Tang thinks it is quite suitable for his ex-girlfriend. This role does not have many roles, and he is killed by Xin Xia by mistake, which involves the entanglement between Situ and Xin Xia.

Originally, Li Tang wanted to let Xiaopang try this role, but now that his ex-girlfriend brought it up first, uh... first come, first served.Besides, Xiaopang has already acted in "The Third Man" before, and a bowl of water must be level.

"There is a role that you may be suitable for, the second female lead, but you don't have too many roles in the script, you..."

Before Li Tang finished speaking, his ex-girlfriend said excitedly, "It's okay, even if it's just a small supporting role, I'm willing."

The ex-girlfriend is very self-aware, and she never expected to be number one from the very beginning.In recent years, apart from winning the best actress at the Singapore International Film Festival last year, I have never had the chance to get a big screen.

Don't look at her success in TV dramas in the past two years, and she has also become the female lead, but most of them are vase roles.Although Sister Hua has already reached a cooperation with Huayi Brothers, who are currently developing in the film field, they are limited to coffee positions, and Huayi Brothers also dare not bet on her, and they can't even play a supporting role.

This time, when she heard that Lou Ye was cooperating with Shanghai Film Studio to make a big-budget film, she immediately thought of her ex-boyfriend, and took advantage of this opportunity of filming in Shanghai to find out.

Li Tang didn't make a fuss, just pondered for a while, and then said: "I can recommend it for you, but it depends on your own ability and luck, I can't guarantee it, after all, my own role is still It didn't land."

The ex-girlfriend nodded again and again: "I understand this, as long as I have a chance, I will do it."

In addition to being excited, she stood up and leaned over half of the table, kissed Li Tang heavily on the face, and said with a flushed face, "Thank you!"

Along the way, she knows that opportunities are too important. Shangxi, Zhongxi, Nortel, and those half-way monks pop up one after another every year. There are too many actors who don’t even have the opportunity to audition. No.

On the one hand, there are endless threats from newcomers, and on the other hand, there is a bottleneck in his upward development facing a breakthrough.What's more important is that she is about to turn [-] soon. Strictly speaking, the Chinese New Year is one month away, and she should be [-] according to her age.It is said that women who are [-] tofu dregs may have fewer and fewer opportunities in the future.

After drinking coffee, eating, and talking about business, the next step is of course to relive old dreams.

The ex-girlfriend is still very thin, and she is still sure, and her experience is definitely not as good as that of the small-boned and fleshy sister Nianci,

……

During the intermission, Li Tang was smoking a cigarette, and picked up the script of the new play that his ex-girlfriend was about to star in to read, but when he turned to the first page, he couldn't help but sneered after reading a few lines: "What? The book, this is a nonsense fabrication!"

"What's the matter, there's no way to make it up. I think this book is very well written. Otherwise, director Wu Tiange wouldn't be able to direct it himself."

The ex-girlfriend came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and wiping her hair. After being moisturized from the inside, her little face was flushed with steam from the outside, and she looked very good. When we knew each other, they looked like they were in their early twenties.

"Besides, this is Huo Xin's book. Don't talk nonsense, okay?"

"Is it?"

Li Tang turned to the cover, and sure enough, Huo Xin's name was written in the screenwriter column, but he didn't notice it just now.Huo Xin is also an acquaintance, the girlfriend of his old classmate Liao Fan, the screenwriter of the hit drama "Carrying Love Through to the End".

As for the director Wu Tiange just mentioned, he graduated from the Directing Department of Shanghai Film Studio and was once a famous young director of Shanghai Film Studio. When he first debuted in the mid-90s, he independently directed and shot many films produced by Shanghai Film Studio with good response.It's just that now that major film studios have reformed their systems, films are no longer public funding, unified purchase and sales, but have embarked on the road of marketization.Wu Tiange, a famous young film director who was once famous for a while, now has to be reduced to the situation of making TV series.

Coupled with the addition of Lu Yi, Ren Zhenquan, Geng Le and other popular niche players joining in, this [-]-episode TV series can be described as a strong lineup.

"However, I'm not talking nonsense."

Li Tang opened the script and argued with his ex-girlfriend: "You see, the background of this drama is Shanghai in the 30s, and the four of them actually set up some kind of jazz band, isn't it taken for granted!"

The ex-girlfriend was puzzled: "Is there any problem with starting a jazz band?"

"Of course there is a problem. Jazz is African-American music. It really became popular in American society in the 40s. How could it be possible that in the 30s, four young people in Shanghai formed some kind of jazz band?"

"Hey, you know that too?"

"Of course I know. If you don't believe me, you can check it online."

Now is the Internet age, and it is convenient to check anything.

The ex-girlfriend valued this drama very much, and still insisted: "You also said just now that jazz became popular in the United States in the 40s and [-]s. Shanghai was already very western at the time, and there were so many leases. It seems like it can be passed on. It's not surprising."

"Well, you can think so if you want."

Li Tang didn't even bother to break up with her. Throughout the 30s, the so-called leases in Shanghai were dominated by the British and the French. The presence of the Americans was very low, not even as good as the days when they lived in Hongkou.No matter how fashionable the young people in Shanghai were at that time, they admired British and French culture, and Laomei was still synonymous with bumpkins among foreigners.

It’s just that old beauty is extremely powerful now. Out of the psychology of admiration, many novels and scripts now often highlight old beauty when describing foreigners and foreign culture.For example, when many TV dramas are shooting the Republic of China dramas in the 30s and [-]s, they always use American or US dollars. You must know that the British pound was the world currency in that era.

Li Tang is a little detail-oriented, especially when it comes to scripts. Seeing such scripts that are taken for granted and have obvious loopholes makes him feel uncomfortable.

What is the name "In the Mood for Love"? Obviously, it is to catch the popularity of "In the Mood for Love" by Wang Sunglasses.

In fact, whether it is on Broadway or Hollywood, the control of such details is very strict. From props to costumes, they must conform to the characteristics of the age. Occasional negligence will directly affect the quality of the entire play.

As a man in two lifetimes, he deeply felt the weakness of the Chinese film industry.

This is why, as a Chinese-American in my previous life, I knew almost nothing about Chinese films of this era. To put it bluntly, it was because the presence of Chinese films overseas was too low, and they were even inferior to the Bollywood films of Ah San’s next door.

From the 80s to the early 21st century, Japanese films have always been the representative of Asian films.That's why there are so many directors in Hollywood who worship Kurosawa.

Although there was Bruce Lee's short-lived flash in the pan, and now Cheng Long and Li Lian's success in Hollywood, all of these have created Lao Mei's stereotyped impression that Chinese movies are all kung fu movies, just like the musicals of Ah San's next door.

After entering the 21s, with the rise of stick movies, it gradually replaced Japanese movies as the representative of Asian movies.And throughout that period, the so-called Chinese movies that Li Tang can recall are probably only "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou and "The Wandering Earth" with Lieutenant Colonel Liu Peiqiang.

(End of this chapter)