Chapter 522 High mountains and flowing water
Faced with the question of selecting experts, Ren Yuqin took a breath and said lightly and sincerely:
"How come I don't like teaching literature? I just think that reading thousands of books requires traveling thousands of miles. I am very grateful for myself for catching up with the good era when the country has just resumed the college entrance examination.
However, during the years when I was studying, the country was in poor conditions, and a lot of ancient culture research could only be written. When I was at Beijing Normal University, I often liked to study some details from teachers. They only had text-level insights and couldn't answer them.
So I always had an opportunity to observe and understand the literary and artistic life of ancient people at close range. This time I accidentally learned that the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" did not choose acting skills and acting qualifications, so I wanted to give it a try."
She said this and took a little slow down. Just as she was about to follow up, an expert inserted a question.
"If you choose it, after filming this "Dream of Red Mansions", how do you plan your subsequent life?"
Ren Yuqin subconsciously pondered: "This... to be honest, I didn't think too much about it. Time can change a person a lot. I don't know if I am suitable for acting. If I perform well this time, I will prove that I have this talent.
If there are suitable and professional scripts in the future, I certainly don’t rule out trying them. If there is no script that integrates with my interests, maybe I will focus on teaching and research. Perhaps, my mentality is not a dedicated actor, and I don’t think I can play anything like anything. I can only say that there are roles like me, so I will try it out and act it.”
This answer is actually very risky.
If the people on stage today are all selected by China Film and CCTV Department, with this "unprofessional" answer, they will be finished immediately.
So far, no candidate girl has said that.
People who are born as actors use "let me challenge any role to play well" as a symbol of dedication and honor.
Just like those Hollywood big names, they all have to claim that they have the experience of "geting weight to play fat and losing weight to play thin people", so as to demonstrate their dedication and sacrifice.
Even Aamir Khan from Ah Sanguo had to emphasize that he was "first filming the thinnest part of the plot, then the fattest part, and finally the moderate weight and the strongest part."
When asked by the media, "Then why don't you take pictures from thin to fat, save some trouble", he also answered correctly: "Because I'm afraid that I will put the fat part in the last shot, and I'm afraid that I won't have the perseverance to lose weight again."
As for the 2019 Oscar-winning movie "Green Book", there are actually similar jokes - the guy who plays a poor white supporting role in the bottom Latino Latino is actually Prince Aragon, a muscular man in "Lord of the Rings" 20 years ago.
But they just want to take on this self-destructive image of "big belly and big appetite" to gain weight, showing how much they are willing to sacrifice for their careers.
It cannot be said that this spirit is wrong, but in the values of non-show entertainment people, this spirit is a bit perverted.
Just like Zhou Jielun's "who looks like a person, he is tailor-made to create a protagonist who has the same personality as his own without having to play", it may not be bad.
Why do actors have to torment themselves and take pride in challenging people who are not like themselves? It is also very true to play a character that is consistent with your own world for the rest of your life.
Ren Yuqin's words just now actually meant this:
I am born with Lin Daiyu's delicate and spiritual temperament, appearance and temperament. If I play this role, then I will play it. Even if I think I can't do it, my sister will not challenge it for challenges in the future. If there is no role like me, then I will stop here and go back and continue teaching.
These words were deeply rooted in the hearts of several experts from the Writers Association on stage.
In the cultural circle, there is also a chain of contempt. People from the Writers Association always look down at others.
Although the Film Association makes a lot of money and has a much greater social influence, it seems to have become a common thing in the eyes of those poor but arrogant literary masters.
But the cultural departments only take this trick. Leadership positions have always been produced among literary masters or propaganda cadres, at least they are playwrights and musicians. People who make movies and TV will not be allowed to be the leader.
"This little girl is good, her values are very correct. Literature and literature are the most correct way of art." An expert couldn't help but think so.
Then everyone exchanged their eyes and the expert led the lead spoke, and improvised the topic: "See that your resume is from Gusu, and Lin Daiyu is from Gusu. I will give you a chance to recite "The Song of Burial Flowers" in ancient pronunciation to see how you have a good foundation in ancient Chinese pronunciation."
The pronunciation of ancient Chinese is different from that of modern Mandarin, but is closer to that between Cantonese and Wu. Therefore, modern people need to study phonological and exegesis when trying to figure out ancient poetry and literature.
To give the simplest example, the pronunciation of ing and eng in Mandarin is different, but the pronunciation of the same in Cantonese, so there are so many Tang poems that can be suppressed in Cantonese into ing/eng in the same rhyme.
The u/v in Mandarin also has completely different rhymes, but in some Wu language areas south of Kuaiji, it can be read as the same rhymes. For example, the word "reading" in some Wu languages is "reading (xu)". In this way, the "bamboo, silk, smoke, and smoke will eliminate the emperor's career... Liu Xiang did not read books" will rhyme.
In the poem "The Song of Burial Flowers", there are several sinister different rhymes in ancient and modern times, and there is also a typical problem of "the same rhyme in ancient Wu language".
For example, the three rhymes of "Sweet Spring/Don't Release/Return/Return" in the second verse: "Sweet Spring/Don't Release/Return/Return" should be quarrels, but in Mandarin "Don't Release" are all rhymes of u, while "Go" is the rhyme of v. This requires the use of the above-mentioned "Emperor's Ancestors/Don't Read" to read the u/v same rhymes as "Emperor's Ancestors/Don't Read" to avoid it.
After all, Cao Xueqin is a great master of his generation. When he wrote that Lin Daiyu was from Gusu, he would naturally make the "Song of Burial Flowers" created by Lin Daiyu also conform to the rules of rhyming in ancient Wu language.
In the early 1980s, because most poor students did not have recorders, and those who could afford to buy a recorder had no chance to go to the first-level literary research institute of Beijing Normal University to study this question, which seemed very difficult. If you are a Northern candidate who is born to not understand the Gusu dialect, it would be even more difficult.
However, after Ren Yuqin heard the question, she breathed a sigh of relief.
This happened to her major. It seemed that the expert just wanted to see if she was studying hard in college.
She cleared her throat and recited "The Song of Burial Flowers" with a soft Wu dialect that had been studied and slightly slightly the ancient Chinese and Qing dynasties.
"Is that how do you read?" An expert on the stage actually asked a question softly. Obviously, no one can read the experts.
"That's it, your skills are very good. Being able to read all the three rhymes of the couplet "Sweet Spring Down/No Release/Returning" correctly means that your skills are already very extraordinary in daily cultivation." The questioner nodded slightly, and he was a little proud.
As the saying goes, experts will know if there is any one. When a top master of Redology can read the soft and ancient Chinese pronunciation of Wunong in "The Song of Burial Flowers", you don't need to read the others.
A group of examiners then examined ancient etiquette, divided the games of Cao Sheduo and these ancient literati, and nodded frequently.
Finally, there was an examiner who was not from the Writers Association and was invited to accompany the last class today to give a question.
This examiner is from the film and television industry. He just saw Ren Yuqin admiring literary and suppressing his feelings, but he was actually a little unhappy inside. However, the chief officials who talked about the matter were from the literary and he couldn't make trouble.
It was the turn to set the questions at this moment. He also knew that it was impossible to take the film and television acting skills. Other examiners definitely refused, so they acted on the spot and prepared to make things difficult from a different angle.
"Let's do this, the role of Lin Daiyu is different from other characters. He is the only one in the play who plays the piano. I wonder if this classmate has the talent for music attainments? Of course, it doesn't matter if he doesn't. In the 'Daiyu plays the piano', you can be a substitute."
This problem was definitely very difficult in 1984. Because in history, when Miss Chen played Lin Daiyu, she made up for two days and practiced her fingering posture correctly, and then she did not use the use of a substitute.
Otherwise, this kind of shot should be completed by a "hand substitute" without showing his face.
But even though Ms. Chen learned the fingering posture, the effect of picking the Yin in her play was far from enough, so when shooting, she did not actually record the same sound from her, but instead recorded a track played by a master in advance to replace it.
After listening to this test question, several other examiners from the Writers Association thought it was a bit like a big deal.
After all, even if you can't play the piano, you can still be a substitute, which should not affect the decision to select people.
"I can give it a try, but I don't know many songs." Ren Yuqin didn't know the inner activities of the examiners, so she could only bite the bullet.
At this moment, she was a little grateful for having so many opportunities to practice expensive music skills when she was having sex with Senior Gu. When she was studying in 1980, if she hadn't been using so many aristocratic educational equipment from the diplomatic college, she wouldn't have been able to practice these expensive skills.
I should also thank Senior Gu for his several troubles of "I can only hum and don't know how to record the score" and he practiced Ren Yuqin.
"Do you still play the piano?" Several other experts from the Writers Association were slightly surprised.
A few minutes later, according to Ren Yuqin's request, the crew got a guzheng. Ren Yuqin debugged it for a while, then thought about it and began to play the "Love the Country and Love Beauties" that Gu Ao asked her to help record.
There is no way. She usually practices more guitar and plays less guzheng, so she has never practiced any real ancient songs.
However, this kind of slightly prosperous and easy to convey emotions is more prominent in the ears of non-musical professionals. After all, everyone is a layman watching the fun.
"Hiss... This is Lin Daiyu made by nature."
"Student, what's the name of this song?"
"It was written by a friend of mine, and I don't have a name for the time being. It's not convenient for me to disclose the author."
"It was actually written by contemporary people? I was ashamed of it. I thought I was ignorant and didn't know about ancient songs. I didn't expect that there were such experts among your friends. Birds of birds of feathers gathered together."
"You have passed, prepare for it in the next few days, and then prepare to participate in the actor training class."
Chapter completed!