The literary era since 1979

Chapter 112 This wave of reading comprehension is full score
The 10-minute Q&A session stole the limelight from the entire recitation and almost turned it into Fangyan’s personal literature lecture.

Most of the people present, after shouting "Long live love" as if they were injected with chicken blood, seemed to have entered sage mode. They felt that all the passion in their bodies had been drained and they could not muster any interest for the time being.

Even after the recitation was over, this state remained.

Students left the venue one after another, looking back every time, reluctantly looking towards the front row, looking for Fangyan's figure.

Fortunately, Fangyan had anticipated this. He was worried that the students would be too crazy and would rush forward. Blocking them would be a small matter, but a stampede would be disastrous. So, he followed the teachers from Yanda and left the scene together.

Come in through the side door, and leave through the side door.

"Thank you, Mr. Xie, I'm sorry for offending you just now."

Dialects are very conscious, and we should give them the necessary steps.

After all, although Yenching University is not so strict as to expel students for dating, it does repeatedly prohibit dating.

"Not really, not really, but..."

Xie Mian knew that he was talking about the farce of "Long Live Love", but he was not annoyed. Instead, he was happy to see it happen.

Fangyan asked: "Just?"

"However, your poem only has one part, see or not see, think or not think, what's next?"

Xie Mian expressed his anticipation: "It really whetted my appetite. It caused me to be distracted several times during the recitation."

Fang Yan laughed and said, "This is not the right situation. I'm afraid that after I finish reading the whole poem, other teachers will blame me for inciting students to fall in love."

“My colleagues, ah~”

Xie Mian waved his hand, sincerely hoping that he could complete the poem and publish it in Poetry Exploration.

Fangyan knew that this person was sincere and had always been open-minded.

Otherwise, he would not have stood up to support Misty Poetry when the poetry world rejected it, and even let "Poetry Exploration" accept Misty Poetry. At the same time, when "Love Life" set off a wave of colloquial poetry, he was the first to seriously study this new style of poetry.

Naturally, I would not refuse such a gentleman who was devoted to poetry. I took out the pen from my chest and wrote the whole poem on paper.

"Should you still use 'Iwako' as your pen name?"

Xie Mian asked seriously.

Fangyan nodded, shook hands with him, watched his back as he left, and then heard a voice behind him.

"Teacher Fang!"

Bai Ruoxue was standing in front of them with two women and one man.

Behind him, there were more than a dozen members of the drama troupe.

Fangyan took a closer look and recognized Su Ya and Tang Shengnan, as well as the chubby man. Wasn't this Yingda?
Song Dandan's ex-husband, the director of sitcoms such as "Underground Traffic Station", "A Northeastern Family", "Idle Ma Sister", and "I Love My Family".

"This is the captain of our drama team."

Bai Ruoxue gave a brief introduction.

"Teacher Fang, what you just said was really great!"

Yingda said excitedly: "Especially the three regrets of love."

Fang Hong grinned when she saw how they admired her brother, until Su Ya's light cough reminded her, and then she covered her mouth.

"Cough cough."

This light cough also brought Yingda back to his senses: "I lost my composure, I lost my composure, Teacher Fang, I made a fool of myself."

Fang Yan disagreed, "Su Ya has already told me that you want to adapt "Under the Hawthorn Tree" into a play, right?"

Bai Ruoxue nodded, "We hope to take "Under the Hawthorn Tree" to participate in the National College Students' Drama Art Festival."

Fang Yan asked, "I heard that Yanda University is going to hold a tryout on campus first. Are you so sure you can win?"

"I'm not so sure."

Yingda, Tang Shengnan and others looked at each other, lacking confidence.

Bai Ruoxue met Fangyan's gaze and explained that the biggest competitor was the history department's drama team, which was rehearsing one of the four famous Greek tragedies, "Oedipus Rex".

How famous is it?
"Thunderstorm" was influenced by "Oedipus Rex" and is an innovative masterpiece created on the basis of its reference.

Fang Yan pursed his lips. If he agreed to Bai Ruoxue's request for adaptation and used "Under the Hawthorn Tree" to compete with "Oedipus Rex", and Wan Jiabao was his "one-word teacher", it would be equivalent to him, the disciple, competing with the grandmaster.

Does this still need to be compared?
Thinking of this, he frowned, "If it's "Dark War", maybe there's still a chance of winning, but if it's "Under the Hawthorn Tree", I'm afraid you don't even have a chance of winning..."

"No! Teacher Fang, I think it's just the opposite!"

Bai Ruoxue said it with absolute certainty.

Fangyan asked with interest: "Why do you say that?"

"Originally I thought we didn't have much of a chance of winning, but just now at the poetry reading, I saw so many people asking questions about Under the Hawthorn Tree, so many people speaking up for the love between Lao San and Jing Qiu, and so many people shouting 'Long Live Love'. I became more confident and convinced that we have a chance to win!"

Bai Ruoxue said with a firm look in her eyes.

Fangyan became more interested and let her continue talking.

"Teacher Fang, love is a taboo in literature, and the same is true in drama. I dare not say that Under the Hawthorn Tree will win, but I believe it will move those students and audiences, because we are one of them, and we feel the same way."

Bai Ruoxue said: "This era calls for love!"

Fangyan originally thought that they just wanted to take advantage of the popularity of "Under the Hawthorn Tree" to win by chance, but he didn't expect that they had such a big ambition.

Seeing that he seemed indifferent, Yingda said anxiously, "Teacher Fang, we didn't choose "Under the Hawthorn Tree" just because it was popular, but Ruoxue said that if we can get good results in the National Drama Art Festival, or even perform in the Great Hall of the People, we might be able to contribute to the liberation of love in terms of concept and literature."

Bai Ruoxue looked straight out, "Isn't this the original intention of Teacher Fang to write a romance novel?"

You got full marks for reading comprehension!
I have made you understand everything!
Fangyan felt that he didn't understand Under the Hawthorn Tree as well as they did, and smiled, "It seems that you are very motivated." Yingda smiled, "We didn't have much confidence at first, because our biggest competitor was Oedipus Rex, but Ruoxue gave us a thorough analysis, and we think it makes a lot of sense!"

Bai Ruoxue cleared her throat and repeated it.

The script of a drama is important, but the actors are also important.

Although the script of "Oedipus Rex" is top-notch, the greater the work, the more it tests the acting skills. The students of Yanda are just amateur actors with awkward acting skills. If they don't perform well, it will be a disaster.

Destroy the classics!
"You do make sense."

When Fangyan heard this, it was hard not to give a thumbs up.

In my previous life, I watched variety shows like "Actors Please Take Your Place" and "Infinite Beyond Class" when I had nothing to do. Those actors performed classic movies and TV series in a way that was so disgusting that it was hard to believe they were actors!
Not to mention the remakes of Jin Yong's martial arts dramas, the worst is always the next version!
"It is because we have rehearsed 'Infernal Affairs' that we know how important actors and acting skills are to a play."

Bai Ruoxue said seriously.

“Under the Hawthorn Tree is not that easy to act.”

Before Fang Yan could speak, Fang Hong stepped forward to remind him.

Ying replied: "That's right, but we also have our advantages. Like Jingqiu and Lao San, we are all educated youth who have been sent to the countryside. We can act with a sense of substitution and even play ourselves!"

“You are still the experience-oriented ones.”

Fangyan said in a joking tone.

"Experience-oriented?"

Bai Ruoxue, Yingda and others looked at each other in bewilderment, having never heard of such a thing.
Fangyan casually mentioned the three schools of performance, method school, experiential school and expressionist school, and he spoke very clearly.

"Method actors are usually drama actors, because the plays need to be rehearsed a lot, or toured, and drama is a live stage art, which is a huge test of the actors' physical strength, energy, and emotions. Therefore, drama actors will use some methods, such as emotional memory, emotional substitution, physical stimulation..."

"Teacher Fang, did you come up with all these?"

Bai Ruoxue, Yingda and the others were all surprised and delighted, as if they had received guidance from a hermit master and obtained a unique secret manual.

"I just summarized these theories."

Fangyan felt that their reaction was a bit exaggerated.

"I think this can be written into a paper and published in drama theory journals such as People's Drama."

There was a hint of excitement in Yingda's tone.

Fangyan was inevitably surprised. Just as he was thinking about it, Bai Ruoxue suddenly got to the point, which was the adaptation fee of "Under the Hawthorn Tree".

The funding for the entire drama troupe was contributed by 1 yuan each among the more than ten people. No one asked for money from their families, and most of the money was squeezed out from their own scholarships and living expenses like toothpaste.

Currently, the most that can be taken out of the funds is 10 yuan, which is a big unity.

Fang Hong and Su Ya kept exchanging glances, and out of the corner of their eyes they saw that Tang Shengnan, Yingda and others looked embarrassed and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"For your attitude and enthusiasm, I don't need 10 yuan."

Fangyan held up a finger and said, "One cent."

"penny?!"

Yingda, Suya and others thought they had heard it wrong, and asked again and again before they were sure that there was nothing wrong with their ears.

Bai Ruoxue suddenly realized, "I understand. Teacher Fang's doing this is both an encouragement to us and a respect for copyright."

"I knew Teacher Fang was generous!"

"Thank you, Teacher Fang!"

"Long live Teacher Fang!"

Tang Shengnan and others were very excited, and the drama team was fighting over the one-cent adaptation fee, all of which were eager to pay for it.

After all, this is a beautiful story!

Fangyan said that they could just take the money from the drama troupe's funds, and then, saying that it was getting late, he called Fang Hong and said goodbye to them.

Bai Ruoxue waved excitedly until they disappeared from her sight, and then immediately asked Yingda and the others to start adapting the script. The competition would start in September, so they had to make full use of this summer vacation.

"Ruoxue, where are you going?"

Tang Shengnan saw her heading in the opposite direction and asked.

"Teacher Fang's poem is with Teacher Xie!"

Bai Ruoxue ran excitedly to the editorial office of Poetry Exploration.

As soon as I reached the door, I heard a recitation from inside the house:
"Whether you see me or not, I will be there, neither sad nor happy."

"Whether you miss me or not, the love is there, it doesn't come or go."

"Whether you love me or not, love is there, it will never increase or decrease."

"Whether you follow me or not, my hand will remain in yours and I will never let go."

"Come to my arms, or let me live in your heart. Silently, lovingly, quietly, joyfully."

He stood there blankly, feeling as if struck by lightning.

Although this song "See or Not See" is less plain and more straightforward than "Life Was Slow In The Past", it has stronger emotions.

It was written into her heart, and her eyes were blurred.

Her remaining rationality told her that once this poem was published, the literary love storm set off by "Under the Hawthorn Tree" would definitely become more lasting, more violent, and more devastating.

Perhaps, their hard work in rehearsing the drama may not be as powerful as this poem! It is no less powerful than a hydrogen bomb!

Teacher Fang, is all this within your expectations? !
(End of this chapter)