Chinese entertainment, from radio love songs to superstars

Chapter 88, It's Hard for Him
The August sun was scorching the earth, and the sky above Yanjing was bright and cloudless.

"Take a fifteen-minute break. Here are some drinks and ice cream prepared by Brother Lang. Come and get them."

Due to the hot weather, Ning Hao planned to suspend the filming so that everyone could replenish water and avoid heatstroke.

As the boss, the leading male role, and a famous singer, Shen Lang would pay for everyone's performances out of his own pocket from time to time.

"Thank you, Brother Lang!"

"Brother Lang is mighty!"

"Brother Lang, I love you!"

A group of actors thanked Shen Lang with a smile.

They play high school students in the play.

This is another person that Ning Hao found at Beijing Film Academy. He is a freshman in the acting department this year.

I just graduated from high school, so I don’t have to act hard. I can just show my usual state.

"Brother Lang, you are different from what I imagined."

"Really? What do you imagine me to be like?"

"When I first heard your songs "Lonely Sandbar", "Angel's Wings" and "Prose Poem for My Father" on the radio, I only heard your voice but didn't see you. I had an image in my mind of you being a 30-year-old man with a lot of injuries. Later, I saw your photo in a magazine and learned that you were only 22 years old. My image suddenly became that of a genius in the class. Now that I've met you face to face, I realize that you don't have the airs of a star. You are approachable and a passionate young man like us."

Shen Lang laughed and said, "Liang, you make me look younger and younger the more you talk."

That’s right, this passionate young man was none other than Jia Yuliang, whose wife in the original time and space went to get her hair done.

He is from the 2001 class of Beijing Film Academy's acting class.

Other famous classmates include Huang Shengyi and Wang Luodan, both of whom are here.

At this moment, he was holding an ice cream, eating it while listening to their conversation, and his eyes were always fixed on Shen Lang's face.

Young, handsome and talented, girls around 18 years old are irresistible to such a singer.

Just like that, Shen Lang gained two more little fans in the crew.

Fifteen minutes later, Ning Hao shouted into the megaphone, "Okay, get ready to shoot."

This scene is about Lan Feilin, played by Yan Danchen, who runs away from home because of her parents' divorce. The next day, she thinks it through and decides to go to Guangzhou with her parents. When she is talking to her good friend Wang Chen, played by Huang Shengyi, by the river, she runs into Gu Yuetao, the class teacher played by Shen Lang.

"Lan Feilin!"

Shen Lang entered the scene and walked towards the two people.

"Teacher Gu."

The two greeted each other.

Shen Lang walked up to Yan Danchen, sighed, and said, "I'm sorry, last night..."

Yan Danchen interrupted, "It's my fault. I left without telling you where I was going, and made everyone worried."

Shen Lang raised his hand to interrupt her and said, "No, something happened to you and I had no idea. As your teacher, I have a responsibility."

Yan Danchen said quickly: "This is not the teacher's fault, and I feel that you have always been with us. I remember you once told us that every tomorrow starts from today, so what kind of future we hope for, what kind of effort we should make today. This sentence accompanied me all night yesterday."

At this time, Ling Xiaosu, who was watching from a distance, couldn't help but ask Zhang Songwen beside him: "Teacher Zhang, what you said before, 'pursuing others and saying it's acting like it', is it this kind of performance by Brother Lang?"

Zhang Songwen heard this and said thoughtfully: "No, he has reached a higher level. It is no longer an external performance, but from the inside out. In this state, he is a true teacher."

Zeng Lai sighed: "It's hard to imagine that he has never studied acting seriously."

Dong Xuan exclaimed: "Musical genius, performing genius, Brother Lang is invincible."

Zhang Songwen couldn't understand how Shen Lang did it.

This level of performance requires not only theoretical knowledge to support, but also a lot of life experience to assist. Shen Lang is only 22 years old, but his experience feels like he is 32, or even 42 or 52 years old, which is obviously beyond his actual age.

This is not how precocity manifests itself.

Is he really a performing genius?

Zhang Songwen must be unable to figure out that the soul living in this body is from 2024.

When this soul was alive, it was a teacher. Although it taught music, its behavior was no different.

So Shen Lang plays the role of Gu Yuetao in his true colors.

Of course, he also has a high talent for acting.

When all these are added together, we have the current effect.

At this time, Gao Yuanyuan, who was not far from Zhang Songwen, Ling Xiaosu and others, felt very happy when she heard her boyfriend being praised.

have lunch.

Shen Lang finished work a little late and chatted with Ning Hao about some minor issues regarding the plot. When he arrived in the classroom, everyone was eating.

He took his lunch box and sat opposite Zhang Songwen at the next table under Gao Yuanyuan's sweet gaze.

Gao Yuanyuan pursed her lips, then picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into her mouth, biting it hard as if it were Shen Lang.

"Teacher Zhang, I personally always think that good acting is when one acts truly."

Shen Lang chose to sit here, naturally to ask questions: "However, in real life, some performances are more exaggerated, while others are very calm. When it comes to movies and TV shows, most of the time, there is less sense of reality and more sense of art. So I wonder, is it that on the basis of acting realistically, a slight deviation towards the film and television aspect can make the audience feel that the acting is good and realistic?"

Zhang Songwen put down his chopsticks, looked at him, and said slowly: "This is a good question. To put it bluntly, acting is about shaping a character, recreating the fictional life in the story, and passing the experience on to the audience."

"Performance still needs artistic processing. It cannot be divorced from life, nor can it be completely lifelike. Moreover, being completely lifelike is a false concept in itself. There are so many people in the world, and everyone is a different individual with a different personality and different ways of expression. There is no unified standard model at all."

"But good acting can resonate with people..."

Zhang Songwen is really good at speaking. His speech speed is neither too fast nor too slow, his logic is clear, and his word choice is accurate.

This allows the listener to get the main point immediately.

It's very comfortable to listen to him speak, he can really grab your attention.

Shen Lang felt that Zhang Songwen became famous a little late, but for someone who is so passionate about acting, it is inevitable that he will become famous.

He learned a lot in these twenty days.

Acting is easy, but acting well is hard.

After chatting for a long time, there were only a few people left in the classroom.

Shen Lang let Zhang Songwen go, took his lunch box and sat next to Gao Yuanyuan, and whispered, "Who made our teacher Pei unhappy?"

Gao Yuanyuan was not the kind of petty and unreasonable person. She smiled lightly, pushed the chicken leg left for him, and said, "Eat it quickly. You're the only one left."

Shen Lang picked up the chicken leg and ate it clean in three bites. He smiled at her and said, "Don't always leave the meat dishes for me. You should eat more oil. It won't look good if you are too skinny."

Gao Yuanyuan saw him looking at her chest, and she spat, saying, "That's not meat, it's papaya."

Shen Lang was stunned for a moment, he didn't mean that, then he burst into laughter.

Gao Yuanyuan's face turned red. She raised her fist as if to hit him and glared at him fiercely.

The filming lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon. After saying goodbye to Ning Hao, Shen Lang and Gao Yuanyuan left.

Today, the 31st, the Workers' Stadium will host Anita Mui's first Yanjing concert in the evening.

(End of this chapter)