Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 292 Character Biography
Cheng Er has yet to go to work, and a "The Third Man" is enough for him to earn money for several years.The key point is that he is quite calm. It doesn't mean that if the first feature film is a success, it is necessary to strike while the iron is hot.On the contrary, he rejected the olive branches thrown by many film companies.In his words, he just wants to make his own movie, but he doesn't have any inspiration for a while.

The preparatory team for "Purple Butterfly" was on the second floor of another small building, which Li Tang is very familiar with. When filming "Shanghai Chronicle", auditions and script readings were all on the second floor of this small building.

Shanghai Film Studio attaches great importance to this cooperation with Lou Ye.Ever since Mr. Xie Jin officially announced his retirement after filming "The Opium War", the Shanghai Film Studio has faced a situation where there are not enough directors.The so-called fifth-generation directors Peng Xiaolian, Zhang Jianya, and others have been proved to be close.

The only ones left are Zhang Yimou, Chen Dadao, and Feng Xiaogang, who came out of the sky with the help of Lunar New Year films, but these people have basically "got their names".Zhang Yimou is deeply bound to the new picture, Chen Dadao is a member of China Film Group, and Feng Xiaogang has long been the signature of Huayi Brothers.

Shanghai Film Studio can only pick and choose from the sixth generation of directors.At the beginning, they fell in love with Director Jia, and they also carried out a series of good cooperation. Unfortunately, Director Jia's second feature film "Platform" was rejected by the Film Bureau during the preliminary script review stage and failed.The cooperation can only be aborted, and Chief Jia continues to follow his path of underground movies.

Then the Shanghai Film Studio aimed at Lou Ye again, and it hit it off like a hit, but it took a long time. The script of "The Summer Palace" that Lou Ye presented for the first time didn't even need to be submitted for review, and the internal review in the factory gave it a pass. .Involving sensitive events, this is a high-voltage red line that cannot be touched.

Fortunately, Lou Ye took out the script of "Purple Butterfly" again, the anti-Japanese theme, although the faction was blurred, but it was still positive, and passed the script's preliminary review without any risk.

The investment of more than 3000 million yuan, although part of it is the investment of France [-] TV, but it is obvious that Shanghai Film Studio has placed a heavy bet on Lou Ye this time.

"Hey, Miss Zhang, happy new year!"

As soon as Li Tang went up to the second floor, he bumped into Lou Ye's assistant Zhang Rong.This girl is one year younger than Li Tang. She failed the exam for two years in the Directing Department of Nortel, and later took a refresher class in the Directing Department.As a director's assistant, I filmed the unfinished documentary "Digital City" with Lou Ye.Later, I spent several years in the capital without much improvement, but this time I was summoned to the banner again by Lou Ye.

"Brother Li, happy new year!"

Seeing that there was no one in the corridor, Li Tang took out a beautiful blue box from his satchel and handed it over.

"Wow, Lancome!"

Even the roughest girls can't resist the temptation of perfume.

"I'm borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, you understand!" Li Tang smiled and winked at her.

This bottle of perfume was prepared by my ex-girlfriend. It's not very valuable, it's only a few hundred dollars, so it won't be abrupt.Always express your gratitude when asking for help, even if it doesn't work, you can form a good relationship.

Zhang Rong understood, put the perfume into his pocket happily, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have already given my resume to the director, and the director didn't say anything for now."

"Okay, thank you! Oh, is the director here?"

"Yes, Sister Naian and Sister Ma are both here."

Lou Ye got married last year, and his wife is the sister Ma that Zhang Rong talked about.The two are about the same age. They are the children of the capital courtyard. They graduated from Beiguang, which is now the director department of the Communication University. Later, they went to study film directing at the University of Berlin in Germany. After returning to China, they made several documentaries.

Lou Ye's previous "Summer Palace" book was originally conceived by her.It can be regarded as like-minded.

"Brother Ye, Sister An, sister-in-law, happy new year!"

Li Tang pushed open the door of the conference room, and the air conditioner was turned on inside, making it very warm.The three of them sat around a solid wood conference table, the script was open, and there were a few scattered sketches of the shots, which looked like Lou Ye's handwriting.

Li Tang has always admired these people who can draw, because they can always show the text on the script vividly with pictures, so that people can understand it at a glance.It's not that you clearly have a picture in your mind, but you have to spend a long time explaining it to others.

"Happy New Year!"

As usual, Lou Ye cherished words like gold, and nodded towards him with a warm smile.

"Li Tang is here, happy new year!"

Sister Ma is very enthusiastic. She knows that the two families are family friends and the relationship is different.Moreover, when she and Lou Ye got married, they didn't make any big arrangements. They just got together with relatives and friends, and her in-laws even specially invited Li Tang's father, Li Guoqing.

She got up and started to make tea for Li Tang.

Naian, as always, looked at him with a smile and said: "How is the boss doing? I heard that you are now big!"

"No, I just rented more because the house at 798 was cheaper. If you can't get along in the future, you can still be the second landlord."

"Are you not afraid of demolition in the future?"

"Don't be afraid, there is not much money anyway. Besides, even if the house is demolished, there will be some compensation, right? It won't hurt." Li Tang laughed.

At the same time, Zhao Naian blinked, indicating how the situation is going?
Naian gave him a helpless look in return, it was obvious that Lou Ye was still undecided at least in the number one male candidate.

Lou Ye was lowering his head to dot something on the paper, but Sister Ma came over with a teacup and saw the eyebrows and eyes of the two. She didn't point it out, but smiled slightly: "Li Tang, drink tea!"

"Oh, thank you sister-in-law!"

Li Tang hurriedly stood up to pick it up.

Speaking of which, he is not familiar with this Miss Ma. He just met him once when he went upstairs to his uncle's house to deliver New Year's goods. She has a square face, high cheekbones, and thin lips. At first glance, she seems to be quite powerful. With a bit of meanness.But he is very warm and polite in his dealings with people, and he speaks a Beijing movie and speaks nicely.

Without further ado, Li Tang took out a stack of manuscript paper from his satchel and handed it over, saying, "Brother Ye, this is a short biography of a character I wrote, please take a look first, is it suitable?"

It is actually the most appropriate to use words when dealing with Lou Ye, otherwise it will be embarrassing if you talk for a long time and he doesn't respond at all except to keep a warm smile.

The manuscript paper is quite thick, there are more than a dozen sheets, and there are at least tens of thousands of words.When he saw the script and decided to fight for the role of Situ, he had already started to think about this character, and wrote a lot of experiences intermittently. Xiao Chuan sorted it out, and it was still handwritten, even though his handwriting was still a bit unreadable.

Lou Ye read it very carefully, and read more than 1 words for about [-] minutes.

"Why do you emphasize that Situ went to a private school when he was a child?"

"This is determined by the background of the times and the family environment. Of course, it is also combined with what Situ experienced later..."

Li Tang talked eloquently.

The reason is simple, his understanding of the character Situ is that he was born in a landlord family around Shanghai, and more or less has the meaning of a scholarly family.In this point, he took Yuanben's grandfather as a reference object, because of the scholarly family, he would return to the tradition of reading.

Situ was obviously better than the original grandfather. Later, he went to a new middle school and probably a university in Shanghai. He could speak English, so he could find a decent job in a foreign company and be able to wear a suit and tie.

And being born in a landlord family at least shows that the family is in a good position. After all, studying requires money, and more importantly, it coincides with the fact that the characters in the script can afford to live in a high-end apartment with a bathroom and a flush toilet.

At the same time, referring to the background of the times, Situ should have been born around [-], when he reached the age of entering school, and the Republic of China was only a few years old. There are few new-style primary schools, and most of them are private schools.The reason for emphasizing the private school is that Situ did not choose to be a traitor but resolutely resisted in various subsequent incidents. Although there was a lot of helplessness in it, the more important thing was that he still had family and country feelings in his heart, and he had loyalty, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness.And these are the traditions of Confucian private school education.

Regarding Situ's melancholy character in the plot, of course he was hit by the death of his beloved girlfriend in front of him.In addition, Li Tang also designed the character of Situ who lost his mother when he was young, and his father continued Hyun later.

Children who grow up in this background are generally sensitive, and at the same time choose to study hard in order to get rid of their original family.In those days, going to a new-style middle school was no different from being admitted to a scholar; being admitted to a university was almost the same as being admitted to a Juren.

Most of the children with a good life are rarely able to endure such hardships.After all, the imperial examination system has long since died out, and reading is no longer the only way to become an official.This was the case with the original body's grandfather. He was already very good after graduating from middle school, but in the end he could only inherit the family business and continue to be a landlord.

Those who can venture into Shanghai and get a decent job in a foreign company are promising people.

It is precisely because he lost his biological mother when he was very young, and he was not close to his stepmother, which made him yearn for love very much. He often loves the one he loves more deeply and knows how to cherish it.

This can also be understood from it, why the murder of his girlfriend hit him so hard, and he would even be desperate for revenge.

The biography of a character is like this. What is shown in the script may be a short section of the character's life course.The character of the character, including his love and life in the plot, his psychological changes when encountering things, and the choices he makes are all closely related to the environment in which he grew up from childhood, the education he received, etc. .

Only by fully exploring the growth process of the character can the character be shown vividly, instead of just following the script after reading the script.

Lou Ye was watching very seriously just now, but now he is listening very seriously.As a director, what he valued was not so-called acting skills. There were a lot of actors with acting skills. What he valued more was the actors' understanding of the characters.

After all, "Purple Butterfly" is not the previous "Suzhou River", he can shoot as he likes without giving the actors a script in advance.A project with such a large investment must have a complete script and be filmed according to the normal process.

Li Tang was finally able to get the moon first, and before others saw the script, he had already grasped the characters thoroughly.

On Lou Ye's face, it's hard to see the changes in his expression, only the occasional flashes of light in his eyes can reveal his surprise at the wonderfulness of Li Tang's character analysis.

As soon as Li Tang's voice fell, Sister Ma clapped her hands first, and said in surprise, "Li Tang, the analysis is too good. You have shown a vivid Situ, and I can feel the picture when I hear it."

Although "Purple Butterfly" was Lou Ye's early screenwriting work, since she joined the creative team, she and Lou Ye have repeatedly revised the script. She has a deep understanding of the script and resonates with her.

Although Naian clapped along with Sister Ma, she was used to Li Tang's behavior.After all, as Li Tang's former manager, she watched him step by step to where he is today, and she was even full of pride.

While clapping her hands, she looked at Lou Ye provocatively, with obvious meaning, as if to say: I picked the right person, right?
Lou Ye smiled shyly, probably as a kind of approval.

Li Tang, who said his mouth was parched, drank the warm tea in small sips, not to mention that the tea was good.

He has full confidence in this short biography, including the understanding of the characters just explained.On the one hand, he has a good understanding of the era Situ lived in, including his background. In Yuanshen's memory, when he was a child, Lao Li often told him stories about the grandfather he had never met.

For Lao Li, it is also a kind of nostalgia. After all, his ancestors were rich, but he was born at an untimely time, never enjoyed it, and was even implicated by it. He has suffered a lot since he became sensible. It's been more than ten years since the bastard's hat was buckled.

It is also from this kind of memory that makes his setting of Situ's growth experience and character development more reasonable and convincing.

In fact, when Lou Ye was writing this script, maybe he didn't have too many associations at the beginning, he just wanted to write about such a character, but if you study carefully, you will find that his description of this character is actually derived from Lou Ye himself understanding of that era.Because counting from Uncle Lou, their Lou family was not from a good background. After all, only the children of wealthy families could go to college in those days, and they would be able to like extravagant art.

"How do you understand Yi Ling?" Lou Ye asked again.

Yi Ling is the second female lead in the script and the girlfriend of the first male lead, Situ.

Li Tang had already recommended his ex-girlfriend to Lou Ye through Zhang Rong before, and when he heard Lou Ye's question, his eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly said, "I think Yi Ling should be a girl from Shanghai, her family background is pretty good. Not very rich, but above average. Her family should live in a Shikumen house in the rented area, the kind of single family. She is very smart, has a good memory, and her education level should be a middle school graduate, or read She went to a missionary school and can communicate in simple English or French. She has an older brother or a close classmate whose family’s relatives may be from the same school as Situ, and there may have been some incidents with Situ who met at their class reunion The little episode brought the two young men together..."

The reason why he can come up with these analyzes is entirely because Yi Ling's occupation in the script is an operator of the telephone company.

Because the telephone company was definitely considered a high-tech company in that era, and such companies in Shanghai were often monopolized by foreigners. There is no doubt that the company's address was found in the French Concession and the Public Concession.As a human operator, you must know some foreign languages. Smartness and a good memory are the qualities that a human operator must possess.

Moreover, in that era when women rarely had suitable jobs, telephone company operators were definitely gold-collar workers, more popular than nurses who served medicine and injections, which also determined the family environment of the character Yi Ling.

This time Lou Ye nodded frequently, and after listening to it, he rarely joked with Li Tang: "That's why you recommend who... Oh, Li Binbin to play the role of Yi Ling?"

"That's right! If I were to play Situ, of course I would like her to play the role of Yi Ling." Li Tang hurriedly followed.

The role of Yi Ling should be said to be the opposite character of the male lead Situ who gave the most emotion, and everything Situ did after that was based on his emotion for Yi Ling.

Hearing his unabashed words, Lou Ye pondered for a moment, then said: "Then if it's convenient, you can bring her over to have a look."

"Convenient, Ken convenient!"

(End of this chapter)