Chapter 425 New Year(1/2)
Author: I'm Red
In previous years, I spent the Spring Festival in the village. Every day on the first day of the Lunar New Year, at about three or four o'clock in the morning, Xu Rong would be awakened by the continuous sound of firecrackers.
When he was young, he was looking forward to the New Year. Even though it was dark outside, when he heard his neighbors fired fire, he would immediately get up from the bed, smell the faint smell of sulfur in the air, and go to greet the New Year from house to house.
Of course, the more important purpose is to pick up the unexploded squid cannons, wait for a bag to break them apart and pour out the gunpowder. You can remake the firecrackers or use them as small fireworks to set off.
As we grow older, our expectations for the New Year gradually weaken a lot, and we no longer have the urge to pick up cannons, leaving only the human relationships that had to go around.
Just like today, he hasn't stopped since he has eaten breakfast. As for how many places he has traveled, he can't remember clearly.
Sitting in the living room of Zhang Heping's house, Xu Rong picked up a newspaper while gnawing an apple.
He had just returned with Zhang Heping and was planning to have lunch. Unfortunately, Zhang Heping's lover and child went to visit him.
The newspaper also published is the 2011 China Film Market Report.
"The mainstream film market is popular, small and medium-sized and cost-effective performance is gratifying, theater construction has reached a climax, public welfare service capabilities have been enhanced, and new contradictions, new pressures, new topics, and the film quality strategy will be more in-depth."
Xu Rong's meaningful gaze swept through multiple titles. In fact, he had already become familiar with this sentence, but every time he thought of it, he could not help but feel mixed feelings.
Jin Fangfang always says that data can reflect all the business results and management results of a company. Even if the data is faked, the more information it reflects, because the fraud is not true after all, it will inevitably leave clues, follow the clues, follow the clues, and follow the clues. In comparison, it is easier to find out the problems of the company.
The report has a similar nature. As a regulatory department, the national annual report reveals huge information in every word. After stating the main data of the domestic film and television industry last year, the report first pointed out the "mainstream film market hot screening", which means that at the top, "mainstream" is above everything else, whether it is box office or economy, it is located below the "mainstream". Therefore, the first item of the report is "mainstream film market hot screening".
The second item in the report was unexpected by Xu Rong. According to the market development status, he thought the second item should be a summary like "work hard and fast", but he did not expect that the focus would eventually fall on "production ratio". The words "small and medium-sized cost" and "performance" also reflect the overall orientation of supervision.
However, after thinking about it, he quickly understood the starting point of the orientation. The domestic film industry is still in its infancy. Controlling costs and steady development are the long-term ways. Of course, there is a greater chance of producing high-quality products, but once the box office fails, it will be a irreversible blow to most small and medium-sized film and television production companies.
As for the "new contradictions" he valued, "high-quality products" were placed behind the main theme represented by "mainstream" and the economy represented by "small and medium-sized cost performance" and "cinema construction".
This also reflects the primary and secondary relationship between the senior management and the primary and secondary relationships in all aspects of the development of the film and television industry. The main theme is the fundamental, the development is the main tone, and the others are both taken into account.
Holding the newspaper, he focused his attention on "mainstream" and "performance".
As the deputy captain of the actors team, he admires Yuan Yu the most because she has the strongest business ability and is in the People's Art Theater, but in terms of personal emotions, he likes Xin Yue the most, although she and him basically have no intersection.
He doesn't like someone eating in the rehearsal hall, and there is a faint smell of rice everywhere all day long.
Xin Yue never ate in the rehearsal hall since he said this.
He doesn't like to press the clock to go to work. Since Xin Yue said that, she usually arrives in the yard one hour in advance.
He believed that the actors should have an experience, so Xin Yue rented a house to experience life in the urban village.
He is planning to win Xin Yue a place to join the party and go back and train it well.
Putting the newspaper gently on the coffee table, Xu Rong was not sure if another "Xu Rong" noticed his "Xin Yue".
But joining the People's Art Theater is an unintentional act. It's better to have it, and it's nothing to have it. There is no harm in following the general trend to accept scripts, at least you won't encounter review risks.
Just before, he followed Zhang Heping to visit two leaders.
At first he didn't understand what was going on, but at this moment, he came back and Zhang Heping was ready to retreat.
The 60th anniversary of the People's Art Theater is June 12, 2012. Zhang Heping has passed the retirement age, so it is hard to say whether he can last until the end of the year.
Taking him to pay New Year's greetings is probably to recognize the door. What he will do in the future depends on his ability.
A serious master leads you into the door and practices in person.
He was thinking about the plan for the next year, when Zhang Heping walked out of the bathroom and said, "Actually, what the leader said was that I only found out last night. A friend from abroad called me and said that Beijing Electric has cultivated an amazing talent, a master's degree, and the papers published have caused a great sensation in the academic world abroad."
The cause of the incident was that the two of them went to pay New Year's greetings before. A leader mentioned that a master's degree from Beijing Electronics published a very substantial paper in an important foreign journal.
It is encouragement and criticism, because the People's Art Theater has never been good at performing theory in the past, but now, the People's Art Theater, which has always claimed to be a "scholar actor", has no movement. The reactionary is the Beijing TV series, which is not good at performing, has made a big splash.
Hearing Zhang Heping's words, he was stunned for a moment and asked, "I'm studying for a master's degree, causing a sensation?"
When the leader mentioned it, he just evaluated it as "good", but unexpectedly, Zhang Heping's mouth turned into a "sensation".
The master's degree in his current study made him even more curious. He knew the level of the Beijing Film Academy teacher. Not to mention causing a sensation, not many people can act.
Zhang Heping sat opposite him and said with a smile: "Don't judge everything with an inherent perspective. When Xiao Pu recommended you to me three years ago, I also felt it was impossible. The facts proved that my judgment was wrong."
"We have to start early for such talents."
Xu Rong did not hesitate to say that the People's Art Theater lacked good scripts, but compared to good scripts, they lacked good actors. An actor who has breakthrough innovation in performance theory will naturally not be much worse.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Zhang Heping smiled, "Too much is not enough. Use inherent thinking to see the wrong evaluation of people, but you cannot go to another extreme and trust others' statements. If you look back and have time, go to contact this person, and see if you are a theoretical person or a scholar-type actor."
"As for the others, you can control it yourself."
Xu Rong understood the purpose of Zhang Heping's words. In the People's Art Theater, he was the deepest part of his friendship with Beijing Film Academy, because in the past, Beijing Film Academy and the People's Art Theater have always been in trouble.
If the criteria for selecting talents in the institute are met, he can immediately start ideological work after contact, so that the other party can firmly apply for the People's Art Theater.
"By the way, Dean, is there any paper I published?"
"Oh, my friend took a photo for me, all in English, and I don't know each other. Look at what is it written?" Zhang Heping said, picking up his phone, pulling out a photo and handing it to Xu Rong. "This child is really careful and has a good paper. There are so many journals and magazines in China, why do you have to publish abroad?"
After Xu Rong took it, he only glanced, smiled a little embarrassedly, and said, "Director, turn the photo back and turn it over to me, I'll go back to study it."
Not only are all in English, but there are only a few words he looks familiar with, but more are strange words he has never seen before.
As for why it is published in foreign journals, he can understand that the atmosphere in the domestic academic community has always been not very good, and Beijing Film Academy is a negative example in the domestic education industry. A master's degree is still a tutor who wants to do whatever he wants?!
After leaving Zhang Heping's house, Xu Rong did not go home immediately. It was only half past ten. While lunch was still a little time away, he was going to travel to Ren Ming's house first.
As for the paper, he temporarily put it behind his mind. He couldn't see anything in an incomplete photo. He was going to see this student when school started. It would be better to watch him perform a play. If he was really a rare talent, he would naturally not let it go.
"You're just a coincidence. If you weren't afraid that you would come here, I would have stayed at Teacher Zhu's house for dinner just now."
Ren Ming, who met Xu Rong at the entrance of the community, brought Xu Rong into the house and said, "How is the family? Is the old man still healthy?"
"Okay, Xiao Zhang just took him to have a physical examination before the New Year. Except for his poor ears, everything else is very good."
"Haha, I'm older, I'm convinced if I don't have good ears."
Xu Rong smiled and put the small gift he brought by the door, changing his shoes, and said, "Ren Yuan, I am here to greet you today. Secondly, I will report to you."
He did not deal with Ren Ming once or twice. He knew that Ren Ming was not Zhang Heping or Pu Cunxi, so he preferred to go straight.
Seeing that his appearance was not like a joke, Ren Ming poured him a glass of water and placed it on the table, saying, "Sit down and say, are you really planning to be a director?"
"Yes, if you want to change it."
Ren Ming didn't believe in this at all. His first drama directed by the People's Art Theater was starring Mr. Lin Liankun. Over the years, he has worked with countless big names and is very clear about the common points of these actors with high professional skills.
I can watch bad shows, but I can't watch good shows.
If the actors act badly, they will guide and correct them, but they will never be interested in actively participating. But if they act well, the more they watch, the more they become anxious and the more they feel uncomfortable.
Xu Rong's skills are outstanding in the younger generation, which is also recognized in China, although he has not won any awards or honors in drama.
Because there are no special awards in the drama industry, those so-called Golden Lion Awards and other messy awards have no value at all.
For dramas, perhaps the reputation of the market is the greatest honor, and Xu Rong not only shouldered "Thunderstorm" with Pu Cunxi and Yu Mingjia, but also starred in "Home" last year, caused a huge sensation in the industry.
Such a top actor would be willing to watch a group of old seniors compete on the same stage and become an assistant director after finishing up?
When Xu Rong sat down, Ren Ming looked at him with a smile: "Tell me honestly, what do you want to do?"
"Actually, I didn't plan to do anything."
Xu Rong and Ren Ming looked at each other and said, "So many old seniors are old, so they can't accompany us to rehearse all the time, right?"
Xu Rong slapped his hands and said, "Then someone has to help you with the position, right?"
Ren Ming looked at him in confusion, touched him for about four or five seconds, and a sudden light of inspiration flashed through his mind, thinking of a possibility: "You don't want to"
"Are you fighting with so many old seniors?"
"I admit, that's what I planned."
Since he was exposed, Xu Rong didn't hide it. He spent 10 million to tinker, making himself look like a sucker, and he was not rich.
Ren Ming stared at Xu Rong blankly. Xu Rong's thought was too ignorant. But then, his thinking came to an abrupt end, and he suddenly remembered "Home".
The performances of Lan Tianye and Zhu Xu were at the pinnacle. After ten performances, Xu Rong was suppressed nine times.
But in one incident, Xu Rong miraculously formed a stance to compete with the two old men.
It seems that it is not completely impossible.
After leaving Ren Ming's house, sitting in the car, looking at the brilliant sun in the sky, Xu Rong sighed lightly.
A busy year has begun.
The reason why I chose to be an assistant director rather than play a fixed role is also due to many considerations.
Before leaving home, he opened the system interface.
Acting training system
Name: Xu Rong
Expression: A
Line: A
Limbs:A
Eyes: A
To be continued...