Chapter 481 93 Performance Class

Huo Jianqi not only did well at Yan Dian, but also at Zhongxi.

Zhou Yan drove the car to the entrance of the Central Theater. Huo Jianqi got out from the passenger seat and handed a cigarette to the guard. After saying a few words, the guard let them in without even registering.

The Chinese Opera is located in Nanluogu Lane and is very small.

It is said that their Yangyin is small in area, but if compared with Zhongxi, Yangyin is considered big.

The campus is square and square, about 200 meters long and 60 to 70 meters wide. The total area is only about 20 acres. The playgrounds of many universities are larger than those of China National Theater.

If you walk quickly, it only takes about five or six minutes to walk around Zhongxi.

If it weren't for the sign hanging at the school entrance, most people would never think of this place as a university. Even a slightly larger primary school would be bigger than this place.

After entering the school, Zhou Yan found a place to park the car, and the three of them walked towards the teaching building.

Huo Jianqi took Zhou Yan and Xiao Can to an office on the second floor.

When he arrived at the door of the office, Huo Jianqi raised his hand and knocked on the door.

At this moment, there were three people in the office, two men and one woman. They all raised their heads when they heard the knock on the door. Huo Jianqi greeted them one by one, "Teacher Tian, ​​Teacher Huang, Teacher Chang."

"Director Huo, why did you want to come to our school today?" Tian Youliang, who was sitting outside, asked with a smile.

"I'm not here to visit you."

"You have a new movie, right..." Tian Youliang said halfway when he suddenly saw Zhou Yan's face clearly and said unexpectedly, "This is."

"Oh, this is Director Zhou Yanzhou, and Director Xiao Canxiao." Huo Jianqi introduced them.

The three teachers present were a little surprised when they heard it was Zhou Yan. They didn't expect Huo Jianqi to bring Zhou Yan.

Although Zhou Yan has been in the film industry for many years, he had little contact with the China Theater Company before. Even Zhou Yan's movies used very few actors who graduated from the China Theater Company.

At least until now, none of the protagonists in Zhou Yan's four feature films graduated from the Chinese Theater Academy. The role with the most roles is probably the protagonist played by Li Naiwen.

Of course, from the Yanjing Film Academy, Zhou Yan was used very rarely, and the main role was the former Yu Feihong.

However, Zhou Yan still has a close relationship with Chinese Opera, and it can even be said that his performance is a direct result of the Chinese Opera.

At that time, on the set of "Raise the Red Lantern", Zhou Yan had two teachers when he was learning to act. One was deputy director and performance coach Gao Jinwen, and the other was Gong Li.

As for these two people, one is a professor of Chinese Opera and the other is a student of Chinese Opera.

Later, Gao Jinwen served as acting coach for Zhou Yan's several movies. Even if he didn't play a role in the movie, he would often consult Gao Jinwen to learn acting when he found time.

Zhou Yan smiled and said hello, "Hello, teachers."

"Hello, hello." Chang Li, who was sitting in the back, said with a smile, "Yesterday I praised your acting skills in the new movie to the students and your rapid progress. Today I met you in person."

"Teacher Chang is laughing at me. I became a monk halfway and still need to study more."

"Don't be too modest. You did a really good job this time. Of course, more importantly, the role suits you better. You haven't played a few roles in total. It's already very impressive to be able to improve so quickly. There are a lot of special learning may not be able to compare with you.”

Huang Dingyu on the other side took over the conversation, "But having said that, Wang Zuxian surprised me this time. I have never seen her play this type of role before, and I didn't expect her performance to be very good this time."

"The script this time is also very suitable for Joey Wong, and I have always said that in a movie, the actors themselves can't really decide whether the performance is good or bad. The bigger part depends on the level of the entire team, especially the director. level." Tian Youliang said.

Chang Li squinted her eyes and said, "Don't let the students hear this, otherwise they will have an excuse for not performing well in the future."

In fact, everyone knows that actors can decide less than ordinary people think.

When a play comes out, the audience always says that this performance is good and that performance is not good. Many times, it is not the actor's problem. Even the actors don't know how they are performing when they are acting, and they have to listen to the director.

Especially in today's era, when filming, the director cannot see the actor's performance in the camera. The photographer can see some, and many times he can only rely on experience.

The same actor, in the hands of different directors, may perform completely different things.

No matter how good the actor is, if the director is not good and the script is not good, there is no way to make the movie good.

"Those bastards in our class, how can I tell them now that they all have their own things to do now." After saying that, Tian Youliang smiled and said to Zhou Yan, "Especially Li Naiwen, since he After the director and crew came back, they had so many ideas.”

Li Naiwen graduated from the Performance Department in 1993, and Tian Youliang was Li Naiwen's class teacher.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Naiwen's acting skills are very good, and he is also down-to-earth. It can be seen that Teacher Tian has paid much attention to him and trained him very well."

"Director Zhou, please stop praising me. How can I not understand my own students? This kid is very irritable. Do you know, this kid has a nickname in school, called Drama Killer, as long as he participates in the drama , in the end it was not successful.”

This was the first time Zhou Yan heard that Li Naiwen had this nickname. He joked, "Naiwen also has this nickname. Teacher Gao didn't tell me about it. I will have to ask Teacher Gao later why I didn't follow him earlier." I said, if "Space Traveler" does not perform well, I have to put the blame on Naiwen."

Of course Tian Youliang could tell that Zhou Yan was joking. He laughed and said, "You don't have a chance, Director Zhou. I heard that the box office performance of "Time Traveler" was very good. They couldn't buy tickets a few days ago. Arrived."

"So, Naiwen's reputation as a drama killer can be taken off. It's not worthy of the name."

"Hey, everyone is just joking. The main reason is that this kid is really unlucky. Every time he participates in a play, it is stopped for various reasons. The matter has nothing to do with him, but it happened several times in a row, and he himself Murmured."

"It's better now, the knot in my heart is gone." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

"Yes, his tail has been raised to the sky recently."

"Time Traveler" is very popular now. Although Li Naiwen's role is not particularly large, it is still an important role after all, and it has brought him a lot of fame. During this time, he has become a celebrity in school. .

Of the three teachers, Tian Youliang was the most proactive, not only because of Li Naiwen's relationship, but also because he was teaching the graduating class.

China National Theater has strict management on students. In principle, freshmen and sophomores are not allowed to take roles, and the management is even stricter now than later. Basically, anyone who accepts a role can only drop out or suspend school.

However, in the third and fourth years of college, the school becomes much more relaxed about students, and even encourages students to get in touch with more good works, because practice is very important at this time.

Therefore, the homeroom teachers of freshmen and sophomores have very different attitudes towards the director coming to school to learn roles.

Huang Dingyu is a little better. He is a level 94 student. He is just a junior in college and can already start taking roles.

But Chang Li is leading freshmen from the 96th grade who just entered school this year. It is impossible for these students to be let out to act now.

So Chang Li was even a little wary when she saw Zhou Yan and the others. She was worried that the students wouldn't be able to resist the temptation.

After all, with a great director like Zhou Yan in front of him, as long as he acts in one of his movies, it basically means he can become famous, and ordinary students can't resist at all.

Zhou Yan and Tian Youliang chatted for a while, and Huo Jianqi looked at the opportunity to tell them the purpose of their trip.

Sure enough, after hearing their purpose, the three teachers had different reactions.

Tian Youliang was very positive and said with a smile: "They are at the Experimental Theater right now. If you want to see them, I will take you there later."

Huang Dingyu said, "Students in our class are in class right now. You can wait until recess or after school to have a look."

Only Chang Li shook her head and said, "It's not like you don't know the rules of our school. In principle, freshmen and sophomores are not allowed to take roles. There are many good talents in grades 93 and 94. You can go and see them. The ones in 93 are like their monitors Wang Qianyuan, Li Naiwen, and Xin Baiqing. Among the girls, you should all know Zhu Yuanyuan. There is also Liu Mintao, who acted before she was in school. "

Zhou Yan really knew all the people she mentioned.

Needless to say, Zhu Yuanyuan became famous early and has always been famous.

As for Liu Mintao, Wang Qianyuan and Xin Baiqing, these are all late bloomers... Zhou Yan suddenly remembered that Li Naiwen was also a late bloomer.

In this way, these students in Class 93 are really late bloomers.

In fact, they are late bloomers and generally do not look good-looking, which also shows that the overall appearance of the 93rd class of China National Drama Theater is not good.

Even Zhu Yuanyuan, who became famous relatively early, is not the type of beauty.

Compared with students from other classes, the image of this class of students is indeed quite different.

Zhou Yan came over mainly because he wanted to see the students in Grade 96. After hearing what Chang Li said, he said, "Teacher Chang, although students cannot take on roles in their freshman and sophomore years, filming during the holidays shouldn't affect it, right?"

"That doesn't matter, but usually, we can't finish filming during the holidays."

China National Opera requires students not to take roles in their freshman and sophomore years, mainly because they do not want students to waste time in class and affect their studies.

If the students can complete the shooting during the holidays, the school will naturally not care.

Moreover, if the students can really find a job to complete during the summer, the school will be very happy, because in this way the students will also practice.

"Director Xiao's film has just begun preparations, and it is expected to start filming next year. The specific time has not been set, but if we really like your 96-year-old students, we can definitely adjust the time and let the students have summer vacation. time to complete the filming of the movie.”

Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Chang Li was also a little shaken. When Huo Jianqi explained their purpose just now, he had already said that the character they were looking for would not be the protagonist.

Since he is not the protagonist, Zhou Yan's words are more credible. The shooting time of ordinary characters is indeed not very long.

It would also be a good thing for the students if they can go for a short-term practice next summer.

The key is that the opportunity is rare.

Although the director of the new movie is not Zhou Yan, Xiao Can is the director of Yanjing Studio and has collaborated with Zhou Yan on "Spring of the Cowherd Class", so he must be trustworthy.

For Chang Li and others, "Spring of the Cowherd Class" is extremely valuable.

It is an actor's dream to be able to act in a movie like "The Chorus".

Seeing Chang Li's expression relax, Huo Jianqi said, "We will just take a look today. It won't take too long."

Chang Li hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay, the next class is Teacher Gao's class. Director Zhou will take up some of his time. He shouldn't mind."

Gao Jinwen has a good relationship with Zhou Yan, and Chang Li naturally knows that.

After dealing with the three class teachers, Zhou Yan and his team did not waste time and went directly to find the students.

The first stop was the Experimental Theater, where they found the students of Class 93.

The students of Class 93 were gathering together to discuss the performance, and suddenly saw the three class teachers coming in with three people, and they all stopped discussing.

Li Naiwen was the first to recognize Zhou Yan and his team.

"Director Zhou, Director Xiao." He shouted in surprise.

Hearing Li Naiwen calling Director Zhou and Director Xiao, some students had already reacted and knew that Zhou Yan had come.

The students who had been quiet started to mutter again.

Tian Youliang walked up and clapped his hands, "Everyone stop for a moment, let me say a few words. Next to me are Director Zhou, Director Huo and Director Xiao. They are here to select the cast for Director Xiao's new movie. Director Xiao will tell you about the general requirements of the role in a while. If you are interested, you can communicate with Director Xiao and them on the spot."

When the students heard that Zhou Yan and his team were here to select the cast, they were very excited. They were about to graduate and were confused about the future.

Many students in this class have not acted in a movie seriously. Now it depends on whether they can be assigned to a good unit and then work hard for a few years to get ahead.

If they are chosen by Zhou Yan and his team to act in a movie at this time, they will have one more possibility.

Many students set their sights on Zhou Yan. They are quite curious about Zhou Yan. After all, Zhou Yan is already a legend in the film industry at a young age.

Although it is generally believed that Zhou Yan's achievements and influence in music far exceed those in film.

But in the eyes of these students in the Central Academy of Drama, Zhou Yan's achievements in film are more shocking.

Because they are studying acting, they know more about movies than most people, so they can better understand the value of Zhou Yan's movies.

Many students exclaimed that it was outrageous when they saw Zhou Yan's "The Chorus". They didn't believe that this was shot by a director in his twenties. (End of this chapter)