King of soft rice

Chapter 52 – Controversy is the box office
After Xu Xian, Zhai Nan, finished singing, the boatman should continue singing.

It's just that after Xu Xian, Zhai Nan's big voice, opened his mouth, Teacher Wei, who played the role of the boatman, was a little dazed and didn't continue singing.

Seeing this, the young people in the surrounding crew were a little puzzled.

"Why don't you sing?"

"Yeah, why is it gone? Isn't that great!"

"keep going!"

"How can you finish singing two lines?"

A young assistant director standing next to Director Sun couldn't help asking: "Director Sun, isn't this a good song?"

Director Sun frowned slightly, and asked back: "Do you think the singing is good?"

The assistant director couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, not understanding what Director Sun meant, and hesitantly replied: "It's pretty good... isn't it?"

Director Sun snorted, "Is that good or not?"

The assistant director was also helpless. After thinking for a while, he said, "Director Sun, I'm not a fan of Peking opera. I don't know much about it, so I can't tell whether it's good or bad. Why don't you ask the older ones."

Director Sun didn't pay attention to the assistant director after hearing this, because he knew he couldn't ask anything.Then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's do this first. Let's talk about it first, how do you think this newcomer sings?"

After everyone looked at each other, an old old fancier said directly: "This man's singing is not bad, it seems that he must have practiced it. It's just that I can't get used to the Xu Xian he sang, and I haven't seen it before." Sing like that."

After the old fancier finished speaking, someone immediately echoed: "That's right, Xu Xian is a young student, how could he sing like that."

"I'm an out-and-out native of the capital. It's the first time I've heard Xu Xian sing like that."

"Even if you force people into the crew, you have to find someone who is similar."

"Xu Xian is a niche, this is common sense!"

Amidst the doubts, Director Sun looked at Zhai Nan and said, "Have you heard everything?"

Zhai Nan chuckled lightly.

Mr. Li Shaochun's big voice, Xu Xian, is different from the usual Xiaosheng, but it has a special charm.Although these people were all against it, they didn't say it was bad, it was just that it was difficult for them to accept this way of singing for a while.

Zhai Nan asked back with a smile: "Director Sun, after you have finished asking, can you let me ask?"

Director Sun was taken aback for a moment, then spread his hands and said, "You can ask."

Zhai Nan pointed directly at a young man and asked, "What do you think of what I sang just now?"

The young man was slightly taken aback, thought for a while and said, "I don't know much about Beijing opera, but I think it's pretty good."

Zhai Nan asked again: "How do you think it sounds good? How is it different from Xu Xian in the past?"

But the young man said awkwardly: "I have never heard of Peking Opera before, and I don't know what other people's singing Xu Xian looks like. It's just that after listening to your singing, I think it sounds good, but I can't say how good it sounds. "

After the young man finished speaking, someone immediately laughed and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about."

"That is, a layman knows what sounds good and what doesn't sound good."

"I don't understand anything at all."

Hearing these people's sarcasm, the young man also blushed, and Director Sun put on an expression of 'you see'.

Zhai Nan chuckled, pointed to another young man, and asked, "What do you think?"

The man was obviously taken aback, scratched his head and said, "I don't really understand this, so I can't say..."

But Zhai Nan said: "It's okay, just say it boldly. If you don't understand, you just don't understand. It's better than pretending to understand."

The young man chuckled and said, "Then I'll just say it, and please bear with me if I made a mistake." After finishing speaking, he looked at the people around him, and no one spoke, and then continued, "Actually, I've heard it before. In Beijing opera, I have always felt that Xiaosheng sang babbling, like a bitch, and it didn't feel interesting."

When the man said this, someone's face was already ugly.

But this man was obviously heartless, he didn't notice those unkind eyes at all, and said to himself: "So when I watch Peking Opera, I usually watch Wusheng's plays. The ones with copper hammers and painted faces feel imposing, and I think That's what the old man sang."

When he said this, there were quite a few people present who nodded slightly, quite agreeing with this point of view.

Zhai Nan then asked: "Then what do you think of the niche I sang?"

The man smiled honestly and said: "It's very different. It's not like the ones I've heard before. I think it sounds good. Although people who understand Peking opera think that your singing is wrong. But I think it's not bad. If you sing like you, I will sing it well." I'd love to see it."

Zhai Nan nodded, then looked at Director Sun, "Director Sun, have you heard everything?"

Director Sun frowned slightly, "This is just his personal opinion."

After Director Sun finished speaking, the young man quickly said, "Yes, yes, the above views are my own!"

But when he said this, everyone burst into laughter, saying that he was too cowardly.

Zhai Nan looked at Director Sun and asked directly, "Director Sun, don't you understand?"

Director Sun said suspiciously: "What do you understand? You just don't respect tradition."

But after Director Sun finished speaking, Teacher Wei, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Young man, I understand what you mean."

Teacher Zhang, who played Xiaoqing, also nodded slightly, "Our current understanding of Peking Opera is indeed a bit narrow."

As soon as the two finished speaking, Director Sun was stunned. He didn't know why these two suddenly broke the stage.

Zhai Nan said directly: "Director Sun, what I want to express is actually very simple, even if you are not used to something, it may not necessarily be bad. You think there is a problem with my singing, not because I sing badly, but because It’s because you think it’s different from your impression. You heard it just now. Even if someone questioned me, they still said that my singing is fine, and even said that I have practiced it. In fact, I have never studied Peking Opera. Today is also the first time I sang in front of so many people."

Director Sun was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he became thoughtful.

Teacher Wei nodded and said, "That's right. The things passed down by the ancestors are indeed to be passed on. But it doesn't have to be static. Thinking back to the time when all kinds of Peking Opera genres flourished, now people can only inherit and have nothing that belongs to them at all. Little brother , I have been taught, can you add a WeChat account?"

When Zhai Nan heard this, he was almost not happy.

Seeing that Mr. Wei speaks half-literately, and finally added WeChat, I didn't expect that at such an age, he is quite trendy.

Zhai Nan immediately smiled and said, "Okay!" After speaking, he took out his mobile phone.

Teacher Zhang next to him also came forward, holding his mobile phone and said, "Add me too, let's communicate more when we have time."

Zhai Nan said quickly: "I dare not talk about communication, I still need to learn from you two."

Teacher Wei added WeChat, and said with a smile: "It's about learning from each other. You, Xu Xian, with a big voice, have indeed broken the tradition, but as you said, things that break the tradition are not necessarily bad. Wait a minute. Record a section for me, and I will show it to my old friends when I go back.”

"It's all right." Zhai Nan said with a smile.

Director Sun hesitated a little, walked over, and asked Teacher Wei: "Mr. Wei, do you really think this is okay?"

Teacher Wei said without hesitation: "Whether there is a problem or not depends on whether the audience can accept it. Maybe you think it is not good, but some people think it is good, so that people will discuss it. Only when everyone expresses their opinions can they see what is wrong with it. Good or bad. If you blindly suppress, that is the worst."

Director Sun rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "Controversy? That means there is news, that means there is box office!"

Thinking of this, Director Sun said directly to Zhai Nan: "Zhai Nan, I decided to add a play to you."

Zhai Nan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "That will cost more!"

(End of this chapter)