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Chapter 109 Can I Treat You To A Movie? (Please subscribe!)

Inside the small auditorium of the Beijing Film Academy.

A carefully rehearsed "Romeo and Juliet" is being staged.

Under the stage, all the professors from the directing department were sitting and watching attentively.

The play has come to an end.

Zhu Yawen, who was wearing a gorgeous costume from the Middle Ages, was looking affectionately at Liu Yifei who was lying in the center of the stage, as if she was just asleep.

"Juliet, why are you still so beautiful?"

"Death may have drained your sweet breath, but it cannot take away your beauty."

"I believe this is a conspiracy of his. Death also loves you. Did he take you to be his mistress?"

Zhu Yawen's tone and expression were all in place, acting as a soul for a person who was deeply in love with her to the extreme.

Professor Xie Xiaojing, who was sitting under the stage, showed a satisfied smile on his face, "Xiao Wu, the actor taught you well."

How could Xie Xiaojing, who has taught at Nortel for decades, not know what the acting skills of freshmen are?

Obviously, most of the credit for Zhu Yawen's performance is due to director Wu Yuan.

Facing Xie Xiaojing's praise, Wu Yuan looked at Zhu Yawen on the stage thoughtfully and said nothing.

"I want to be with you! From this dark night in the palace, we will never be apart again."

"Seeing you for the last time, giving you the last hug, lips, the door of breath, sealed forever with a kiss of righteous indignation."

Looking at Zhu Yawen's performance on the stage, which was obviously beyond normal, Wu Yuan felt something was wrong.

He frowned, looked at Zhu Yawen's eyes staring straight at Liu Yifei with undisguised admiration, and muttered in his heart.

In those eyes of his, what Wu Yuan sees are all emotions, without any skill.
He didn't believe that Zhu Yawen's acting skills were so superb that he was so smooth that even he, the director, couldn't see through.

This kid won't rehearse too much, he's too involved in the drama, he really likes Liu Yifei, right?
New actors can easily make this mistake.

Especially when you are acting in your first romantic drama, it is easy to take this performance opportunity too seriously and devote yourself wholeheartedly to the filming, resulting in being too deeply involved in the drama and really falling in love with the opposite actor.

This kind of situation is really not uncommon in the circle, and most of the actor couples develop in this way.

Of course, there are more people who didn't make it to the end after being in love because of the drama.
Before Wu Yuan could think about it, the performance on stage was already over.

Juliet did not really die in this scene, she was just pretending to die.

When she heard Romeo's true confession, she couldn't help waking up, and hugged Romeo, and the curtain on the stage fell slowly at this tender moment.

In fact, this scene should have ended with a kiss, which is a famous scene in the third act of "Romeo and Juliet".

It's just that Wu Yuan felt that it was inappropriate for Liu Yifei, a 16-year-old girl, to sacrifice so much just to rehearse Wu Yuan's doctoral assignment.

Liu Yifei herself is not very willing to shoot such "large-scale" scenes.

So Wu Yuan made a modification, and the hero and heroine just hugged each other and wept in the end.

The professors of the directing department are certainly not superficial people, and they don't think it's a problem to remove this kiss scene.

After the curtain came down, they proudly stood up and applauded.

"Xiao Wu, you did a good job!"

"These actors can be trained well. I think their acting skills are good enough even if they are released directly to act in a movie, right?"

"You can teach students to this level in half a year. You can teach students better than many teachers in the acting department."

Several professors praised Wu Yuan without hesitation.

"Where is it?" Wu Yuan replied humbly: "This scene has been rehearsed for half a year, and it's just a targeted practice of such a play, no matter how well it can be rehearsed."

He really didn't think he was so powerful.

For any good director, give them half a year to rehearse a play in a targeted manner, and the effect will not be bad.

This is different from the situation when a movie crew goes on stage.

When filming a movie, actors usually only go through the scene a few times and then go straight to the actual filming. How can I give you half a year to polish it bit by bit?
Most of the professors' compliments are just good things to say.

But it is undeniable that Wu Yuan's drama has a high degree of completion, and finally showed an excellent performance.

Several actors who participated in the drama performance all walked out from behind the scenes, stood in the small auditorium and bowed to take the curtain call.

Xie Xiaojing looked at the group of young people with a smile.

"You all acted very well."

"Being able to participate in this "Romeo and Juliet" drama performance, I believe it will be a lifelong study and practice for you."

"Your teacher Jinsong, I will also tell him about your excellent performance!"

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone, you can go back to the dormitory to rest first."

Luo Jin, Zhou Yang, Zhu Yawen and others all showed joy on their faces. It is the happiest thing for a student to be praised and rewarded by the teacher.

Not to mention that they are also familiar with the great director Wu Yuan, and they have exchanged contact information.

Participating in the drama rehearsal this time is really worth it for them!

Only Liu Yifei, when he heard Professor Xie Xiaojing let them go, showed a hesitant look on his face.

She glanced at Wu Yuan with a somewhat vain gaze, and opened her mouth to say something, but seeing Wu Yuan surrounded by professors from the directing department, she closed her mouth again.

Sighing a little disappointed, Liu Yifei followed Luo Jin and walked slowly towards the auditorium gate.

She didn't know that all her movements and expressions were captured by Zhu Yawen standing beside her.

I don't know if it's because he hasn't played yet, or if he doesn't want to, but seeing Liu Yifei's gaze and expression on Wu Yuan, Zhu Yawen's expression was bitter.

He looked back at the empty stage, feeling very sad.

How I wish this drama would never end and go on forever
Offstage, Wu Yuan naturally didn't know that his hero and heroine had so many inner dramas, so he only cared about chatting with a few professors.

"Xiao Wu, you are going to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in two days, right?"

Director Tian Zhuangzhuang, who was transferred back to the director department of Nortel last year, smiled and patted Wu Yuan on the shoulder, "Teacher here wishes your new movie a big hit at the box office!"

"I hope you will be more successful in Hollywood too!"

"Much for our Nortel to win glory in the world!"

Today you are proud of your alma mater, tomorrow your alma mater will be proud of you.

This statement is not a joke.

Although Wu Yuan is still studying for a Ph.D., his photo has appeared in the latest version of the Nortel alumni album, and it is ranked very high.
Several professors came together to wish Wu Yuan well.

They are definitely the group of people in the world who most hope that Wu Yuan will become more successful and his film results will get better and better.

More than ten minutes later, after chatting with several professors and supervisors and completing his doctoral homework, Wu Yuan left the small auditorium alone.

Wu Yuan, who was just about to go home and pack his luggage, hadn't even left the school gate when his cell phone rang and a text message came.

He took out his mobile phone and saw that it was from the little girl Liu Yifei.

"Brother, thank you for choosing me to play Juliet."

"I also thank you for patiently and meticulously teaching me how to be a qualified actor."

"To express my gratitude, I would like to invite you to watch a movie. "Stealing Hearts" is very popular recently. I wonder if you have time."

Wu Yuan laughed and shook his head. He quickly typed a text message with both hands and replied: "You don't have to be so polite. I'm going to the United States tomorrow and don't have time to watch movies."

"I invite you to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean" when it is released in China."

After replying the message, Wu Yuan put his phone back in his pocket and strode towards the school gate.

Behind a landscape tree not far behind him, Liu Yifei, wearing a fluttering white dress, poked her head out, biting her lips with her silver teeth, looking at Wu Yuan's retreating back, her gaze unwavering for a long time.

And behind her, behind a landscape tree farther away, Zhu Yawen, who was also watching her back, held the landscape tree's hand and almost buckled the bark.
(End of this chapter)