Chapter 2 Liu Ling
"What?"
Wang Dalun was wondering when he saw Zhang Yuan staring at him for no reason. What was wrong with this person? Suddenly he heard him say, "Do you want to make a movie?" The person was stunned and even wondered if he had heard it wrong.
Who doesn’t want to make movies in the film school? Everyone talks the most about movies in school, and they often argue about movies. The final result is that they are dissatisfied with each other, but now they can’t produce their works for the moment, so they use past alumni to help. There are many stars who graduated from the Performance Department. The director Kai, who has been in the director all day, talks about it. The photography department also has a director Zhang, which is the hardest part of the literature department, but it is said that they set up a Youth Film Experiment Group.
When Wang Dalun saw Ran, he was naturally very impressed by the high-end things like making movies, but these days there are too few opportunities to make movies, and there are not many TV series. There are very few people who have filmed acting, not to mention their college class that is already inferior to others.
He had never dreamed of a celebrity, and he was thinking about how to stay in the city. Now someone came out to ask himself if he wanted to make a movie? Why does this matter sound so weird!
"Do you want to make a movie?" Zhang Yuan repeated it again, but saw that Wang Dalun had no reaction and explained: "Uh... that's it. Recently, I'm preparing for a movie. I'm the director and producer. I feel that you are quite suitable for a character. I wonder if you are interested?"
If you are interested, of course you are interested. How could Wang Dalun not be interested in making movies? But why does it feel like a pie falling from the sky? You just meet someone who is an alumni, and then you enthusiastically ask if you want to make a movie, do you have to pay for clothing, introduction fees, and photo fees? He suffered such a loss when he was working in his previous life.
"Do you charge?" Wang Dalun asked suspiciously.
"Charge? What's the charge..." Zhang Yuan was stunned at first, and after thinking about it, he immediately smiled and said, "Haha, don't you think I'm a liar, right? Don't worry, I will never charge. Not only will I not charge, I will have to pay you to make a movie."
It sounded like it was true, Wang Dalun was a little embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "Of course I am interested in making a movie. May I ask the director, what kind of movie is it?"
Zhang Yuandao: "It is a very good movie with a pioneering theme. Well, let's put it this way, it is a movie that describes the marginal people and underground life of contemporary China. It is adapted from the novel of Mr. Wang Xiaobo. You know, the famous writer Mr. Wang Xiaobo, right?"
What kind of marginal people, underground life, Wang Dalun didn't understand what it meant, and he had never heard of who Wang Xiaobo was. He just saw Zhang Yuan talking seriously and nodded in confusion.
"So what, is there a script?"
"I didn't bring the script with you today. Please leave a contact information. I'll bring the script another day. Let's talk about it later." Zhang Yuan said.
The only contact information that Wang Dalun can stay is the public telephone downstairs of the dormitory.
"The phone number during the holiday is not available for the time being. You can call it after school starts in one week." Wang Dalun explained.
Zhang Yuan left him a pager number, thought for a while and said, "So, call me the day after tomorrow, let's find some time to touch it."
After breaking up with Wang Dalun, Zhang Yuan got up with the idea of lobbying the actor who had previously been trying to give up. Thinking of what Wang Dalun told him about the tire wear, he simply found a car repair shop to change the tires.
Zhang Yuan's home is actually not far from the Film Academy. It is an old house, not big, and a two-bedroom apartment. However, it is well organized. There are editing machines, film boxes, fax machines and open computers on the table against the wall. It is better to say that the home is like a factory or office than a factory.
Instead of sitting in front of the computer typing like usual, his wife was working in the kitchen. His wife and he were classmates from Beijing Film Academy, but they were five years older than him, but this did not affect their love.
"I'm back, I'm going to give you a paging." His wife Ning Dai walked out of the kitchen with the dishes.
"What day is today?" Zhang Yuan looked at the dishes that had been prepared on the table and couldn't help but want to use his hands to taste them.
"Bang!" Ning Dai patted the fat hand that was intended to steal food, "Wash your hands!"
"Today is the Lantern Festival, and Ning Ying will come to have dinner later. Hey, didn't you say you went to Beijing Film Studio today? Didn't you meet Ning Ying?"
"No, after finishing my work, I went to talk to Hu Jun, but I didn't go to find her." Zhang Yuan said.
Ning Ying is Zhang Yuan's sister-in-law, one year younger than Ning Dai and four years older than Zhang Yuan, but the senior sister of the couple. When they were admitted to the Film Academy in 1985, Ning Ying had already graduated from the Film Academy and was sent to Italy to study. After returning to China, she worked as a director at the Beijing Film Studio.
"Then how did you talk to Hu Jun today? Do he still have any concerns?" Ning Dai knew very well how much the drama that was about to start filming was in her husband's heart. Now that the actors have problems one after another, she was also very concerned.
"I didn't go to talk to him at all." Zhang Yuan sat down at the table, couldn't wait to grab a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and threw them into his mouth.
"What are you asking?" Ning Dai said in surprise.
"Because I met a more suitable one today." After Zhang Yuan finished gnawing on the ribs, he took a tissue and wiped his hands while telling her what he had known about Wang Dalun.
"I have a 94-level college class in the Performance Department? I have never taught this class, and I don't know this person." Ning Dai taught Western film history in the Film Academy. She had no impression of the Wang Dalun mentioned by her husband. She was worried and said, "Are you sure he can play Xiaoshi well?"
"There is absolutely no problem with the image. As for acting skills, he is a student in the acting department after all, and he must have a foundation." Zhang Yuan pondered, but when he thought of Hu Jun's case, he still scratched his head a little. "I am worried now whether he will have any concerns after reading the script."
Will Wang Dalun have any concerns? He certainly had no concerns before he saw the script, and was very excited, and even a little nervous. Since the director Zhang said so seriously, he was definitely not a small role who played supporting roles, Wang Dalun probably would have to be a test show at that time.
In order not to lose the chain at critical moments, although he had not seen the script yet, after returning to the dormitory, he rummaged through the cabinet and bought the book "Actor's Self-cultivation", which he had not finished reading for more than a year, and read it seriously. As the saying goes, it's better to sharpen the gun in the face of battle, and it's too easy to do it!
Just as he was lying on the bed studying the essence of the master's thoughts, the sound of "dong, dong, dong" knocking on the door suddenly came.
He originally thought it was Mahjong again, but at this time he had no intention of playing mahjong, and shouted at the door: "I'm not available today!"
"Wang Dalun, open the door quickly."
Oh, hey! Why is this aunt here?
Wang Dalun quickly jumped out of the bed and ran over to open the door.
There were tall girls standing at the door, with willow-leaf eyebrows, big eyes, very white skin, and long black hair stuck into a bunch of ponytails, which was very beautiful! Especially the big mouth, it gave people a cheerful feeling.
In fact, Wang Dalun recognized her at first sight. Isn’t this Jiang Dehua? Now she should be the young version of Jiang Dehua, with longer hair, thinner waist, and more fashionable clothes than Jiang Dehua in "Parents' Love". There is no change in everything else, and even her personality and temper are similar. I believe that she should play Jiang Dehua with her true character.
Jiang Dehua, Oh no, Liu Ling, she is a student in the 93 undergraduate class of the Department of Performance, and is one level higher than Wang Dalun. She is definitely a sensational figure in the Film Academy. She made a movie when she was in high school. She co-starred with Leslie Cheung, Wu Qianlian and other Hong Kong and Taiwan stars in her freshman year, which caused a sensation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions.
One is a star who has emerged, and an unknown college student. The two had no intersection, but the car accident two months ago changed all this.
Coincidentally, the person who caused the car accident in which Wang Dalun encountered was Liu Ling's father. Let's not mention who was wrong with the car accident. Rebirth was definitely an unexpected surprise for the dead Wang Dalun. Moreover, he didn't insist on staying in the hospital for two days and asked the old Liu and his wife to take over the daughter of a big star to serve him. Wang Dalun was reluctant to go there, let alone extort money.
The old Liu family was originally trembling, but unexpectedly, the young man was righteous and not only did not want to compensate, but also took the initiative to expel Lao Liu who caused the accident in front of the police. The young man's image rose rapidly in the mind of the old Liu family. After a deep communication, he found that the young man and his daughter were classmates, which made him even more enthusiastic.
The Liu family is grateful and thankful to the fact that it is not easy for the young man to come to Beijing from the distant rural areas of Jiangnan to go to college. On weekends, his daughter often asked his daughter to come to the house to improve the food. After a while, the two of them had a scandal at school, and the male and female protagonists refuted the rumors on different occasions.
In fact, Wang Dalun didn't dream of Notting Mountain at all, mainly because he had a deep impression of Jiang Dehua in his heart. Of course, this did not prevent the two from becoming friends. Liu Ling's cheerful, generous, straightforward and unpretentious personality of a big girl in the capital, he still admired her, although she still had a little bit of a small personality, after all, the flaws did not hide the merits.
"Sister Ling, why are you free to come to me today? Is there anything wrong?"
In fact, Wang Dalun and Liu Ling were both in the same age as 1974, but Liu Ling was more than a month older than him, so he could only call her "Sister Ling", although he really wanted to call her "Sister Dehua".
"Of course there is something wrong. Today is the Lantern Festival. My parents insisted that I come over and notify you and go home to have dinner together. You said you can't even get a phone call here." Liu Ling complained while entering the door.
She didn't live with her parents. She filmed two TV series last year, both of which were heroines. It is said that she made a lot of money. She moved out of her home and rented a house outside, of course not too far from the film school.
"Uncle, auntie is so polite. Actually, it doesn't need to, it really doesn't need to."
Wang Dalun forgot that today was the Lantern Festival, and he couldn't stand it. He had spent the Chinese New Year before at Old Liu's house. Unexpectedly, the old couple was still thinking about the Lantern Festival. To be honest, he was quite moved, especially since he was an orphan in his previous life and never received the warmth of his family during the holidays.
"You're so kind! I have to take a break first. I've been here all the way, and I haven't even hit the car."
There is a bed in Wang Dalun's bed in the dormitory. Although there are signs of lying on it, the sheets, quilts and pillow towels look quite clean at first glance, and there is no unique smell like a boy's dormitory.
Humph, I love to be clean, I am a man! Liu Ling, who had just sat down by the bed, muttered in her heart, and simply leaned on the quilt and put two small legs on the table beside the bed. Well, this is how comfortable it is.
Hey, there is a book on the bed. She will know what book it is when she looks at the cover.
"Wang Dalun, I didn't realize that you love studying. You are planning to take the junior college entrance examination, right?"
Wang Dalun was used to seeing Miss Liu's carefree appearance. Sister Dehua really looked reserved, implicit and shy, and she felt uncomfortable.
"No, actually, someone asked me to make a movie today. I was afraid that I was unsure, so I just flipped through it."
"What, making a movie? Looking for you?" Liu Ling sat up from the bed in surprise.
"What's wrong with looking for me? Can't I make a movie?" Wang Dalun was a little unhappy.
Liu Ling also felt the ambiguity in her words and waved her hand and said, "I don't mean that, I mean, why would anyone ask you to make a movie? Hey, no, yes..."
Miss Liu couldn't explain it clearly for a moment. Wang Dalun saw that she was unintentional and said, "Actually, this is quite a coincidence. When I went out for lunch, I met someone at the entrance of the Beijing Film Studio..."
Wang Dalunbalabala told the story, "By the way, this director is Zhang Yuan, who graduated from the 1985th Department of Photography. Do you know him?"
"Zhang Yuan, the director who asked you to make a movie is Zhang Yuan?" Liu Ling said with wide eyes.
Seeing that Miss Liu reacted very well, Wang Dalun was surprised and said, "Is it very famous? But I have never heard of it."
"Tsk, you are not from this circle. I tell you that Zhang Yuan is very good. He has filmed two movies before and won awards abroad. But I heard that he was banned by his superiors a few years ago. If the ban was not lifted, the film he made would not pass the review at all." Liu Ling said.
"Shots are forbidden? He is shooting ****?"
"No, what are you thinking about?" Liu Ling gave him a blank look and thought: "It is said that he took it abroad to participate in the exhibition privately. Yes, that's it. I heard that the superiors have posted a special article for this."
"Then...then, if you can't pass the review, why are you going to shoot!"
Although Wang Dalun has been studying in the Film Academy for more than a year, the entertainment industry, oh, there is no such thing as the entertainment industry these days, so it has to be called the literary and artistic circle. This literary and artistic circle is quite noble to him, and the things in it are just heard and only a little understanding.
Compared with Wang Dalun, Liu Ling is definitely an old driver and explained: "I guess this must be an underground movie. If it cannot be screened in China, it will be sold abroad. There are quite a few people doing this now."
"Underground movie?" Wang Dalun felt as if he was shameless when he heard it, and he couldn't help but worry: "Then I won't have anything to do when I make such a movie, right?"
"Tsk, what does this have to do with the actors? Let me tell you, there are too many such things in the circle. Besides, even if you are in trouble, you will be trouble for the director, and it has nothing to do with the actors." Miss Liu looked very disapproving.
Chapter completed!