Many times, the butt determines the head, and the identity determines the stance.
Take Luo Mingyou, for example, he is a rich young man who likes to play with new trends. After the Star Company's "Song Girl Red Peony" was released and became a sensation, he also clamored to make a talkie movie and even said that he would import the most advanced American movies.
Sound film equipment.
Luo Mingyou said this absolutely sincerely and was not deceiving others. But why didn't sound film equipment be imported until the collapse of Lianhua Pictures?
It's simple, because sound movies need sound theaters to play them. And Luo Mingyou's stall was too big. At first there were dozens, and then hundreds of theaters. It cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars to install sound playback equipment.
Even making a movie requires raising money everywhere, and Luo Mingyou simply cannot spend that much money to upgrade the theater.
As a result, Luo Mingyou later became a staunch "anti-talkie" figure, which greatly hindered the development of Chinese talkies. On the contrary, the Shaw Brothers, the upstarts in the film industry, actively promoted talkies very early because their boats were easy to turn around.
Decision making gives them the last laugh.
If someone is willing to invest money to upgrade theater equipment, with Luo Mingyou's character, he will definitely vigorously develop sound films.
Luo Mingyou didn't think about it for too long and couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Zhou is really willing to invest in cinemas?"
Zhou Hexuan nodded and said: "Of course, but there is a prerequisite. The theater's finances must be independent from Lianhua Pictures."
"Of course," Luo Mingyou asked with a smile, "How much is Mr. Zhou prepared to invest?"
"Not much, 200,000." Zhou Hexuan said.
"Okay, I'll have someone sort out the financial statements later," Luo Mingyou couldn't wait, stood up and shook hands, "That's all for today. I'm very much looking forward to cooperating with Mr. Zhou."
Sun Yu then said: "Then I will go back and prepare for the filming of "The Goddess"."
If you want to make a sound film, one of the big problems is sound recording. China doesn't even have a sound engineer, so everything depends on improvisation. As a director, Sun Yu is under great pressure.
When Ruan Lingyu saw that the two of them were about to leave, she hesitated and said, "Mr. Zhou, you speak Mandarin so well, can you teach me? I'm going to make a talkie movie this time, and I don't want to find someone else to dub it."
"Okay, you can come back tomorrow." Zhou Hexuan nodded.
Luo Mingyou smiled evilly and winked at Sun Yu. Sun Yu immediately understood and felt that Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Hexuan were having an affair.
Ruan Lingyu walked out of Zhou's mansion with her head lowered and took a rickshaw back home. Before she could close the door, her adoptive mother He Aying asked: "How is it going with Mr. Zhou?"
"I'm going to Zhou Mansion tomorrow to learn how to speak Mandarin." Ruan Lingyu said.
He Aying beamed: "That's good, that's good! Ah Ruan, you must seize this opportunity."
"Yeah." Ruan Lingyu responded softly.
To be honest, Ruan Lingyu has very complicated feelings towards Zhou Hexuan. The first is gratitude, because Zhou Hexuan helped her drive away Zhang Damin; the second is fear, because Zhou Hexuan's tactics are a bit scary; the third is admiration, whether it is Zhou Hexuan's reputation as a great scholar or "The Goddess"
"The brilliance of the script made her sincerely admire her; there was also resistance. Her mother always asked her to hook up with Zhou Hexuan, which made Ruan Lingyu feel a sense of resistance to Zhou Hexuan from the bottom of her heart.
Finally, it is a vague liking, a normal woman's liking for an excellent man.
Ruan Lingyu took the initiative to learn Chinese from Zhou Hexuan, mainly because she obeyed her mother's orders. She was a good girl and was used to being obedient. After being encouraged by her adoptive mother countless times, she began to think that being Zhou Hexuan's concubine would be a good idea, and she was even a little worried that Zhou Hexuan would not agree.
Accept her.
This woman's character is really tragic and she has no independent opinion at all.
God is fair. Although Ruan Lingyu is extremely weak in life, her artistic attainments have become more and more sophisticated. After she gradually became popular, she was very independent when making movies. As long as she liked the role, even if the company boss thought
Even if it's not suitable, Ruan Lingyu must fight for it.
Life is bad and she is persistent in art. Ruan Lingyu seems to be born for movies.
The next morning, Ruan Lingyu took a rickshaw to Zhou's mansion and was led into the study by a servant.
"Mr. Zhou, are you practicing calligraphy so early?" Ruan Lingyu admired him sincerely. She felt that Mr. Zhou was too diligent.
"Well, practice," Zhou Hexuan nodded and said, "You sit down first and wait until I finish copying this Wei stele."
Ruan Lingyu did not sit down, but came to Zhou Hexuan and watched him practice calligraphy in silence. As she watched, Ruan Lingyu couldn't help but admire: "Mr. Zhou's calligraphy is so beautiful."
Zhou Hexuan put away his pen and laughed: "Haha, you are the first person to say that my handwriting is beautiful and I have a good eye for it!"
Ruan Lingyu didn't flatter anyone and lie. After a long period of hard training, Zhou Hexuan's regular script was already good. But it was only regular script. If he switched to other running script, official script, or cursive script, Zhou Hexuan would be blinded immediately.
After Zhou Hexuan finished copying a piece of Wei stele, he washed his brush and asked, "Have you ever learned the Mandarin romaji pinyin?"
"No," Ruan Lingyu shook her head and explained, "I used to go to a missionary girls' school. The teachers taught in English and almost no one spoke Mandarin."
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "It's fine if you haven't learned it before."
"Ah?" Ruan Lingyu didn't understand. Why is it better if you haven't learned it before?
"I'll teach you a simpler set of Pinyin," Zhou Hexuan took out the pre-written Mandarin textbook from his desk drawer and explained, "My Pinyin textbook uses English letters, but their pronunciation is a little different.
"
Ruan Lingyu looked down and saw letters such as "a, o, e, i, u" written on it. They were indeed all English letters.
Zhou Hexuan elaborated: "The entire set of Pinyin consists of initial consonants, finals and tones. You are the first learner. As long as you learn this set of Pinyin, there should be no problem in Mandarin, as long as you don't say strings when speaking."
"Oh." Ruan Lingyu didn't understand.
"Let's learn the finals first. 'a' is pronounced as 'ah'." Zhou Hexuan said.
"Ah?" Ruan Lingyu was confused.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Very good, what you just pronounced was the three sounds of 'a'."
Ruan Lingyu is not stupid, but she has two major difficulties in learning Pinyin for the first time. One is confusing the pronunciation of Pinyin letters and English letters, and the other is having to speak Shanghai dialect without knowing it.
Promoting Mandarin is really important!
From morning to afternoon, Ruan Lingyu basically memorized the rhymes and four tones by heart. She looked at Zhou Hexuan who was teaching seriously and couldn't help but think to herself: Mr. Zhou is a decent person, and he didn't do anything against me. It's not like what his mother said.
Ruan Lingyu was a little worried about gains and losses. She was happy because of Zhou Hexuan's decent conduct, but she was also afraid that Zhou Hexuan would not be interested in her at all.
At this time, Zhang Xueliang came to visit with his new girlfriend. When they met, he said: "Mingcheng, why have you stayed at home these days? You won't attend the dance, and you don't want to come to play. You must go with us tonight.
Dance!"
Fourth Miss Jiang secretly tugged on Zhang Xueliang's sleeve and reminded: "There is a female guest at Mr. Zhou's house."
Only then did Zhang Xueliang see Ruan Lingyu, and he immediately smiled and said: "No wonder, no wonder."
Zhou Hexuan introduced: "Sixth Commander, this is Miss Ruan Lingyu Ruan."
"The name seems a bit familiar." Zhang Xueliang said.
Miss Jiang Si smiled and said: "Ms. Ruan is a movie star, and she starred in "Spring Dream in the Old City"."
"Oh, I remembered it," Zhang Xueliang immediately recalled it and said with a smile, "That's just right. Mingcheng will take Miss Ruan to the dance tonight. Don't refuse again!"
