More than a week passed, and Lou Ye had no reply for a long time, and Li Tang no longer had any hope.
At this time, the half-month script reading was coming to an end. His opponents in the play were mainly concentrated on four people, the underground party fiancée, the cousin who was in a small business, the Gorge party spy classmate and the US consul.
In addition to Yuan Quan, the person who plays his cousin and classmates is a veteran actor from Shanghai Film Studio, and they are familiar faces that can be seen in film and television dramas, while the person who plays the American Consul is a foreign actor.
The script reading is also a process of running-in between actors before filming. Let’s consider each other.
Lines are the soul of performance. Listening to an actor's lines, you can basically judge the actor's acting skills.
For example, in later generations, a certain Empress was often seen on Douyin after losing the Magnolia Award. Because the TV series was popular and the role was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the audience complained about her and thought there was a shady scene. In fact, this Empress was not in the TV series.
The original soundtrack is a dubbing, which gives a great discount on her acting skills.
After the script reading officially began, Li Tang's speech made the noise of doubts about him disappear a lot. Years of training in stage plays made his line level far exceed everyone's understanding of young actors.
The dialogue between him and the American Consul was a long English line. When he was reading the script, he no longer showed his New York accent, but instead he was in American language with a slightly Chinese accent.
The reason is very simple, because the story background took place in the autumn of 1948, during the issuance of Jinyuan Coupons and the "tiger" of Xiao Jiang in Shanghai. The character of Guo Shaobai was 25 or 26 years old. He had classmates and lovers in Shanghai, and it is likely that he would immigrate after the end of World War II.
I went to the United States because the transportation lines between China and the United States were cut off by the Japanese army during World War II.
From this we infer that he received education 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, whose academic qualifications were recognized by the United States, which matched Guo Shaobai's American journalist status.
Therefore, it is impossible for such a character to have a New York accent, which is just a bit of a Chinese accent. It is the most appropriate to have a Chinese accent.
Accent is very important for shaping characters. The United States is an immigrant country, and the characters in the stage play are also diversified. From the country, they are divided into British accents, Mexican accents, German accents, Russian accents, etc. There are also New York accents on the East Coast in China and cowboys.
The western accent is divided into rustic southern accents.
The accent is a label that indicates the regionalization of the character. Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks has a genuine southern accent.
You can't say that Forrest Gump has a tall British accent, which is completely inconsistent with the character setting.
In his previous life, Li Tang watched a war movie that was said to be very popular in China at that time. The protagonist, a Shandong veteran, actually spoke an authentic Beijing movie, and he was drunk when he thought about it.
After all, it is often determined by these details that want to create a successful role.
In contrast, Yuan Quan's lines seem much more immature. But it is understandable, after all, they are just a sophomore. And the little girl worked very hard and came to Shanghai. She didn't mean to go around, but she finished reading every day.
If you stay in the guesthouse, you will study hard.
The afternoon of the afternoon, Yuan Quan came to Li Tang with the script again.
"Brother Li, I don't quite understand Li Huirong's psychology here..."
In addition to the director, Li Tang was the first person she knew in the crew. In addition, the two were not very different in age and were easier to communicate with. The little girl often found him and asked various questions.
The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful. He plays a couple in the play, and is also the only two young actors in the crew who have not got married. Every time everyone sees this scene, they often smile knowingly.
Today, the senior Shanghai Opera, who played the role of the spy of the Fruit Party, sixth class higher than Li Tang, patted his shoulders before leaving, winked, and looked like "seizing the opportunity well".
Li Tang was helpless. Although the beautiful little girl is appreciated, she is far from that. In his previous life, he had seen countless people. He had never tried the white, yellow, and black ones?
He wouldn't think of anything when he saw a beautiful little girl.
Yuan Quan seemed to react very slowly to everything around him and was full of curiosity.
Li Tang had 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 and as long as he follows this path, everything can be solved.
In contrast, the character Guo Shaobai is much more complicated. The character is floating and has no firm belief. He passively accepts all kinds of things instilled by his cousin, classmates, and fiancée. It is very contradictory to go with the flow. Although he chooses to follow his fiancée's belief,
After his fiancée died, she returned to the United States.
This is probably what Grandpa Mao said about the weakness of the bourgeoisie. How to master the scale is very subtle, and it is possible to make it stereotyped if you are not careful.
After finally dealing with Yuan Quan, he went downstairs to go home. As soon as he got on the motorcycle, the ringtone in his pocket rang.
Nowadays, mobile phones are just mobile phone functions, and they don’t even have the SMS function, so they are dead in their pockets.
"Hello?"
"Li Tang, go have old wine together tonight, and the ladies from the good times are back." Xu bald man's excited voice came from the phone.
"Don't go."
"Tsk, you said you wanted to treat me last time, don't keep your word..."
"Not available, goodbye."
Li Tang refused very simply. Before he could finish speaking, he hung up the phone and started filming, so he didn't want to be distracted. And you can't talk too much with him, otherwise you'll get married.
As soon as I hung up my phone, I was about to kick the car and leave, my phone rang out like a death-seeking moment.
This is endless. He didn't even look at it and said to himself: "I told you that I don't have time, but I don't have time! Stop hitting, again..."
"Uh... Li Tang, I'm Lou Ye."
"Ah? Oh, sorry, Brother Ye, I thought it was my colleague. So, is there any news?"
It's not easy. It's almost ten days old, and I finally got a call.
"Are you available now?"
“Has time, time.”
"I'm with a friend, come and have a chat."
"Okay, Brother Ye, where are you?"
“We are…”
After asking for the address clearly, Li Tang hurried to a cafe on Xiangyang Road on his motorcycle.
There weren't many customers in the outside, and I saw Lou Ye sitting by the window at a glance. I haven't seen him for half a month. Brother Ye looked a little haggard and his eyebrows were exhausted.
When he saw Li Tang entering the door, he quickly raised his hand to greet him.
Sitting opposite him was a woman with long hair shawls. When she saw Lou Ye wave her hand, she also looked back. She looked in her thirties, she looked very beautiful, with sharp eyes and unique temperament.
"This is my partner Naian! Li Tang!" Lou Ye introduced.
"Hello, Li Tang!" Naian stood up with a smile and shook hands.
"Na...Sister An, hello!"
Li Tang knew Naian. Lou Ye had this name on the column of the producers of the two films. And when he saw Naian, he immediately recognized this face and often appeared in film and television dramas, including Lou Ye
There are also good performances in the two movies.
The producer is also an actor, and he also acts very well.
But no one has the surname Nai. Nai'an sounds like a stage name. Li Tang doesn't know what to call him, but he must be called sister anyway.
"My surname is Lu, please call me Sister An. I have heard Lou Ye talk about you a long time ago..."
Compared to Lou Ye's taciturnness, Naian was obviously very talkative.
During the exchange between the two, Li Tang learned that Naian was not only an alumnus in Shanghai Theater Academy, but also almost became his colleague.
She was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Performance Department in her early years and was a student of Mr. Lou's wife. Later, she felt that she had no intention of being here. After dropping out of school, she was admitted to the Director Department of the Central Academy of Drama. After graduation, she was assigned to the Shanghai People's Art Theater, the predecessor of the drama center. And she
But he chose to give up again, opened his own company called Dream Art Company, and became an independent producer.
It can be seen from this that she and Lou Ye are the same type of people, both of whom love movies.
Of course, it takes money to make a movie, and the producers also have to eat. Her acting skills are not bad, and her appearance is very good, so she became an actor again.
It sounds interesting. A person who doesn't like to be an actor, is determined to be a director, and does not hesitate to drop out of Shanghai Opera and gets admitted to the director department of the Central Academy of Drama. Finally, he became an actor again after going around in circles.
"It's a pity that I don't have the talent to be a director, so I have to choose to help Lou Ye and help him handle some affairs. I'm considered an agent." Naian said in the end.