OBS Chapter 224: The top script delivered to your door
Chapter 224: The top script delivered to your door
Shang Yun, with dark circles under his eyes from a week of anxiety, stared at his ringing email with resentment.
Can you please stop showing red spots!!
Just when he was about to go crazy, the baby that his agent had been thinking about for a long time finally showed up safely in the studio.
Seeing Lu Rong's energetic appearance, Shang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the boss still knew his limits.
After being in Yunshiji for so long, he is no longer the timid agent he used to be. Now he looks at Chairman Jing like a big-tailed wolf who kidnapped his artists.
Everyone knew what Sima Zhao was thinking. The news had spread throughout the company's small group, and several girls kept asking him about it.
Fortunately, the young boss has a business mind. Shang Yun suddenly patted his chest with relief.
There are too many things like this in the entertainment industry. Many stars suddenly announce their love affairs when their careers are at their peak, or are willing to retire for love, and then divorce and make a comeback a few years later when they are almost forgotten by everyone.
Regardless of whether they have achieved happiness after making the choice or whether they regretted their decisiveness, Shang Yun is sure that the agent behind them is definitely the most devastated one.
However, Shang Yun was not worried about this. After all, no matter whether they were the big boss or the small boss, their personalities did not seem to be impulsive and ostentatious, but their family backgrounds were quite outstanding!
Shang Yun is not afraid of them falling in love, but he is afraid that once the young boss's enthusiasm for experiencing life is gone, he will retire from the circle in a carefree manner.
Where can he find an artist who is so trouble-free and has similar aesthetic tastes as him a second time?
The inexplicably anxious agent didn't care about his physical fatigue. He quickly started a face-to-face meeting with Lu Rong and pushed all the suitable scripts to Lu Rong.
Unexpectedly, Lu Rong just picked it up and gently put it down, and waved in Shang Yun's stunned eyes: "Brother Shang, go to sleep first. I'll call you after you finish reading these seven or eight scripts."
"you really……"
Shang Yun looked at Lu Rong, who was acting as if he would not read the script until he went to sleep, and shook his head in amusement, at the same time, he felt an unprecedented sense of relief in his heart.
There is a kind of happiness that an empty-nest old father finally feels cared for by his own children...
"Okay, okay, we're not in a hurry. We can do the work anytime." Shang Yun nodded repeatedly and walked cooperatively to the folding chair against the wall.
Originally, he planned to close his eyes and rest for a while, and then pretend to wake up after the young boss finished reading. However, as soon as he lay down, faint snoring came out rhythmically through his nose.
Lu Rong was silent for a moment, turned off the lights in the conference room, and went to the office to read the script.
After Shang Yun's screening, there are a total of six scripts, two of which are TV series and the remaining four are movies.
Although the subject matter and plot of the TV series are very good, Lu Rong still put it aside.
Lu Rong can frankly admit that his current goal is to win the title of Best Actor, break free from the constraints of seniority and gain recognition from authority.
On the one hand, the original owner's obsession was indeed like this. On the other hand, he really loved the film and television industry. With a goal to pursue, he could make further progress in line with his interests.
Among the four scripts left, two of them are centered around the protagonist's love story. It has to be said that Shang Yun has a good vision.
The emotional line between the male and female protagonists is very delicate. It tells the story of pure secret crush and first love in student days. Many viewers can find the shadow of their lives in it.
The other shows a realistic love story struggling with the dilemmas of love and life.
When the male and female protagonists face each other's illnesses, work pressures, and social concepts, there are conflicts and contradictions, but also mutual support.
It is a film that truly presents the complexity of love.
Lu Rong hesitated for a while, but decided to exclude it.
It's not that he looks down on love themes, quite the contrary, although the phenomenon of concentrated love themes in films is now rampant and widely complained by the audience.
But we have to admit that love is one of the eternal themes of mankind.
Almost everyone can relate to love stories.
From the longing for love in adolescence, to the management of love in adults, to the memories of past love in the elderly, audiences of different ages have a certain demand for love-themed films.
Moreover, the production costs and risks of romance films are relatively controllable, the threshold for creation is low, and they have advantages in dissemination, making them the favorites of commercial producers.
Precisely because more and more people are following the trend and using it, the differences become more and more obvious, which gives people a bad impression of being rampant.
Lu Rong's way of getting into a role has always been the most risky type of immersion, which is very emotionally draining.
Although he had a seemingly secret crush on someone, he had never actually experienced this kind of mutual emotional fusion, that is, he had never had a relationship.
Forget about the previous "Rose Passion" and "Daisy", he can handle abnormal love, but he is afraid of these normal loves.
In this way, even if he imitates others very similarly, it is not the result of his own psychological thinking.
Maybe he could fool the audience, the actors he was acting opposite, and even the director, but he still had a knot in his heart.
Unfortunately, Lu Rong had to give up these two excellent scripts.
He sorted out the rest and focused on reading the remaining two books.
Lu Rong was stunned at the first sight, because the character introduction, shooting schedule, etc. of this script were all presented in pure English.
An invitation from an international director?
Lu Rong's English was not very good, but it was not to the point where he couldn't understand it. After reading the script, he roughly knew what was going on.
This director is indeed a truly international director, and the theme of the film is a magical special effects blockbuster.
The continent is composed of dwarves, centaurs, orcs, goblins, and dragons. It tells the story of the adventures of human warriors under the values of classic heroism.
Speaking of which, this movie is considered a relatively old and classic IP.
It has now developed to the fourth part, which is the plot point where the elven realm Alfheim is opened to the public for the first time.
In the setting, Alfheim is located between Asgard and Midgard (the human world), but judging from the location of the movie, it is exactly in the east.
So the director wanted to find some Oriental people with exquisite looks to play the role of the light elves, and many well-known Asian movie stars received invitations.
Yes, it was just a small supporting role, but even so, the Hollywood name was enough to attract many Chinese people.
How many movie stars are eager to enter the world market? I am afraid no one can refuse such an opportunity that is so close at hand, and it doesn't take too much time.
Lu Rong frowned. He actually had no interest in a role like this that had few lines, but he understood Shang Yun's meaning and put the script on the table for the time being.
The other book was obviously much thicker. The moment Lu Rong saw the director's name, he took a deep breath.
Lian Xuguo!
This director and Uncle Chen are from the same era. He is a talented person who has been working as a director since the era of open-air movies. His existence is almost a living development history of Chinese film and television!
He also frequently appeared in the courses they taught, and Lu Rong was purely familiar with him.
The titles of the partners are also frighteningly high.
Produced by Yunshiji with special guidance from the Network Audiovisual Department of the State Administration of Radio and Television, special thanks from the Secretariat of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and special cooperation from provincial veterans affairs departments.
It can be said that this is a film shot in collaboration with the official.
Lu Rong rubbed his dry eyes and looked down impatiently.
The story takes place during World War II, after the Liutiaohu Incident, which was the fuse of the September 18th Incident.
The Japanese Kwantung Army deliberately blew up the tracks of the South Manchuria Railway and used this as an excuse to launch an attack on Beidaying in Shenyang in three directions.
Zhang Xueliang had previously received an order from the Nanjing National Government to "not resist." After reporting to the National Government that night and not receiving a reply, he ordered not to resist.
The Northeast Army soldiers stationed in Beidaying were caught off guard. Although they put up some resistance, they were eventually forced to retreat. Shenyang fell, and soon other areas in the Northeast were also occupied by the Japanese army.
The puppet regime of Manchukuo began 14 years of colonial rule and enslavement of the people of Northeast China.
Among them, the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and the Northeast Anti-Japanese General Association all launched fierce resistance.
The camera was focused on the women's association of the mass organization in the anti-Japanese guerrilla base area.
Before the fall of Shenyang, the people in the town lived a stable and ordinary life. There was a small theater in the town, where an old man in his fifties lived.
No one knew the old man's name, everyone called him Uncle Lin. They knew that he had been a small actor in the palace opera troupe in the late Qing Dynasty and that he was a kind and upright person.
He is proficient in various opera performance forms, whether it is Peking Opera, Ping Opera or shadow play, he can talk about it fluently, and he is also good at playing multiple musical instruments. He is a well-deserved pillar of the small theater.
With the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Bo traveled all the way to a small theater in Shenyang, where he sang Errenzhuan, adhering to the inheritance of traditional opera.
During the Republic of China period, warlords fought each other and the city of Shenyang was also devastated by war.
When Lin Bo was out buying supplies, he saw several girls who had lost their loved ones and were displaced. He couldn't bear it, so he brought them back to the small theater and trained them like his disciples.
People in the village heard about this. Some families who were struggling to make ends meet and could not afford to raise the children decided to put them in a tattered basket and quietly leave it at the door of the theater in the middle of the night.
Gradually, in just three years, Uncle Lin took in nearly thirteen children, and the protagonist was the youngest one.
Seeing this, Lu Rong was startled, then turned back to look, and was completely stunned.
The invitation that director Lian Xuguo sent him turned out to be the male lead of this drama!
To be precise, it is the male protagonist when he grows up.
The first fifth of the story was performed by child actors.
The protagonist's name is Xier, and she changed her name to Lin Xi after Lin Bo's death.
Lin Xi was different from her sisters in that she was not abandoned because of the war, but was forced to wander because she lost her parents in a plague.
By chance, she received a gift from Uncle Lin and often ran to the theater to peek at their rehearsals. At that time, Lin Xi was five years old and her youngest sister was seven years old.
After being discovered by Lin Bo, although Lin Xi was in tattered clothes, there was a cleverness in his eyes.
Thinking that Lin Xi was a talented person with great potential, he decided to take him in and planned to train him to become the 13th successor of the small theater and inherit the art of opera.
Because the little dumpling didn't like to laugh, Uncle Lin gave him a nickname "Xi'er", which means that he has a lively and cheerful personality and can face life with an optimistic and positive attitude.
Over the years, Uncle Lin has taken care of thirteen children at the same time. Although life is poor and supplies are scarce, fortunately the children are all smart and precocious, and do not cause Uncle Lin to worry too much.
Their small theater performs plays every week, and from time to time, theater troupes from other places come to rent the stage, which also provides a stable income.
In addition, the parents who had abandoned their children survived the famine and felt guilty about their abandoned children, so they would often secretly send them food and clothing as compensation.
In this way, the clothes that the eldest sister couldn't wear were given to the second sister, the second sister gave them to the third sister, and finally to Lin Xi. The bumpy childhood passed by in a lively manner.
If that were the case, then they probably would have had plenty of happiness besides poverty, but fate played a trick on them...
Lu Rong read carefully along the line of fate, as if he had read about the lonely but wonderful life of a wandering soul in a war-torn era with internal and external troubles.
The corners of his eyes were slightly moist, with tears quietly gathering. His eyelashes trembled slightly, and he blinked restrainedly.
Small characters embody great emotions, and Lu Rong sees the integrity of the Chinese nation in every character.
This is undoubtedly an excellent script. There are many angles to the War of Resistance, but the director chose to use a small and even inconspicuous group among the masses as a microcosm to show inheritance and perseverance.
At the same time, the suffering that happened was too close to life.
Although there are no large-scale war scenes, the suffering of the times still breaks through the boundaries of words and penetrates into the heart along with the characters' joys, sorrows, anger and happiness, creating a heavy resonance.
Lu Rong also understood that director Lian Xuguo would choose him.
Firstly, it is because of age. The character of Lin Xi was never over 19 years old from beginning to end.
Secondly, the small theater serves as the initial background, so not only does the young actor need training, but he also needs to learn the skills of Errenzhuan.
Perhaps the director knew from somewhere that he had a foundation in Peking Opera and Shanxi Opera, and as a plus point that fits the character's background, it doesn't seem particularly surprising that he was chosen.
Lu Rong turned on the computer and began to look up information about Errenzhuan.
Errenzhuan has a history of nearly 300 years. It originated from the Northeastern Yangge and Hebei's Lianhualuo.
From the end of the Kangxi reign to the beginning of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, Yangge was quite popular in Northeast China.
Folk artists at that time absorbed the characteristics of other rap arts such as Lianhualuo on the basis of Dayangge, and gradually formed the art form of Errenzhuan.
In the beginning, it was mainly performed in fields.
As time went by, Errenzhuan's performances became more diverse in content and form, and its scope of spread gradually expanded from rural areas to urban areas.
Common forms include a duet of singing and dancing between a clown and a male lead, a solo performance by one person, and a play performed by many people.
During the few years when Uncle Lin was still in good health, he played the clown and sang duets with the sisters. Later, the sisters began to try to perform solo and lead Lin Xi in a play.
Different from the type of drama that Lu Rong studied, Errenzhuan is known for its "nine tunes, eighteen tunes, and seventy-two variations."
The main accents include Huhu accent, Laba Paizi, Wen Keke, Wu Keke, etc.
Huhuqiang has a melodious melody and is often used for the opening or to express a grand scene.
The horn brand has a distinct rhythm, which is suitable for expressing cheerful emotions or marching scenes;
Wenkeke is softer and suitable for expressing delicate emotions, while Wukeke is more powerful and is used to emphasize key plot points or the excited emotions of characters.
It not only has its own unique accent, but also absorbs various musical elements such as Northeastern folk songs, Yangge, and Northeastern drums.
This absorption and fusion makes the singing style of Errenzhuan both have strong local characteristics and strong expressiveness.
If Lu Rong wants to learn Errenzhuan, he also needs to have superb handkerchief and fan skills.
Fans are used to simulate various objects, such as knives, swords, or the fan itself to express the emotions and actions of the characters.
Let’s put it this way, Longjiang Opera was born in the 20s and is one of the youngest opera genres in China. The origin of Longjiang Opera is Errenzhuan.
In the background of the film, Longjiang Opera has not even been formally formed and is still in its infancy. It represents inheritance in the entire film!
For this reason alone, Lu Rong needed to make preparations in advance, and it was also why he was determined to get this script.