1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 153: Black Cat Sheriff Adapted Animation

In March 83, the third issue of "Mass Television" published the news of the nationwide casting for "Dream of Red Mansions" - "How to Select the Actors for Bao, Dai and Chai".

The news in the newspaper had already attracted a lot of attention.

The previous trial episode of "Journey to the West", "Exorcising the Demons in the Black Chicken Kingdom", received a very strong response.

Now that "Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four great classics, is about to start filming, it is naturally even more exciting.

And now we are talking about how to select actors!
Who hasn’t fantasized about seeing themselves on the big screen or on television?
Not long after, the crew of Red Mansions announced that they would not use celebrities for the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, and would select newcomers from all over the country.

This has aroused the public's interest.

It’s quite rare to even watch TV series these days, let alone act in one.

Before, everyone just fantasized about it, but now they have to choose actors from newcomers with no acting skills. Isn’t this a chance for dreams to come true? !

Then, countless self-recommendation letters were sent to the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" every day.

There were hundreds of letters a day, and Xia Tian helped to open them for two days, but then she refused - it was really too funny!

"Don't miss this opportunity! Take a plane and come see me. I'm the needle you're trying to find in the ocean..."

"I look like a girl, and I especially like to play with girls. I also like girls' things, and sometimes I like to wear lipstick... I am the real Jia Baoyu."

This is much funnier than my own readers!
If you read too many letters like this, you will easily laugh to death!
However, he also admired Director Wang and the others. Even so, they insisted on opening every letter.

And there is indeed a serious cover letter, which talks about one's physical condition, academic experience, and even includes a photo.

That’s very clear!
This is the earliest audition.
However, many people are still not optimistic about this "civilian audition" method.

For example, a comment in the Xinmin Evening News: Flowers baked with fire cannot withstand close scrutiny.

What this means is that choosing newcomers with no acting experience to play in the famous novel Dream of the Red Chamber is simply not feasible!

That's a newcomer with no acting experience!

What are you doing? You're just playing the piano!

No matter how enthusiastic the masses were or how some media poured cold water on them, Director Wang and his team still persisted.

At the same time, the crew adopted the form of open auditions to select actors from all over the country, looking for actors in theater troupes, schools, factories and other places where girls gather.

Although we don't need celebrities, if we want to find good talents, we still have to go to song and dance troupes, art troupes, and drama troupes in various places.

The standard set by Wang Dao at the time was: must look like ancient people, cannot be tall and strong, cannot be over 23 years old, and must have classical beauty.

He emphasized: "I am not afraid if you can't act, the key is that you have to be like this character."

Later, many big directors liked to choose newcomers to act in movies, such as Zhang Yimou, because they were looking for the right role, and a blank sheet of paper was easy to paint on.

……

Xia Tian did not participate in the auditions or "read letters", but he received an "ancient book" yesterday.

It's hand-copied and feels like it's from the Republic of China period.

"Xiang Ji Tong Shu", which talks about Yin and Yang and numerology, is not something very profound, but it was considered a secret book in the past.

After all, information transmission was not well developed at that time, unlike later, when you can basically find anything you want to learn on the Internet. Many videos teach in pieces.

Many years ago, this was considered a "secret" and the disciples had to wait until they were too old to do it before they could teach it.

For example, Xiao Liuren is recorded in this book "Xiang Ji Tong Shu".

Xia Tian's first reaction was: Is this also a secret book? I have read it on the B-station University Hall, I don't know how many times.

If this is also considered a secret book, then isn't Station B the treasure house of the Emperor of Heaven? !
Disappointed~
……

At school, Xia Tian was having fun with his classmates.

It is now the second semester of the second year of high school, and the college entrance examination is in July, so everyone is working very hard.

After all, the teaching materials are in place, and Lao Miao has made money from them. After moving to a new house, his family is harmonious, and he has tried his best to tutor everyone, so that everyone can have a good future.

Especially Xia Tian and An Jing, Lao Miao is counting on them to get into Peking University and Tsinghua University!

The students are having lunch now, so they can relax, listen to Xia Tian’s jokes and unwind.

Xia Tian: "Zeng Zi said, I examine myself three times a day. I often examine myself three times a day - can I not do it? Can I do it tomorrow? Can someone else do it!"

"Poof~" A classmate spat out the food in his mouth.

Xia Tian ignored him and asked Da Chun, "Da Chun, what about you?"

Dachun was stunned, hesitated for a few seconds, and said: "I examine myself three times a day - I am not wrong!"

"Pfft~~~"

Several students who were eating vomited, and one of them almost choked to death!
Everyone in the classroom was laughing. Miao Wanqiu suddenly appeared at the back window like a ghost, scaring many students - Old Miao would not come at noon!
This is the tacit understanding between teachers and students!
The one-hour lunch break at noon is a time for students to relax and unwind.

Why did you break the contract?!
Lao Miao said: "Xia Tian, ​​come to my office..." Everyone else breathed a sigh of relief and watched Xia Tian leave.

If someone else was called away, they would probably be in trouble.

But it was normal for Xia Tian to be called away. Lao Miao couldn't do anything to him~
At this time, Wang Hai noticed that Dachun was staring at the slogan on the blackboard and asked, "What are you looking at?"

The slogan is: Strive to surpass and defeat yourself.

Dachun said: "I was just thinking... If I defeat myself, am I winning or losing?"

Wang Hai put down his chopsticks: Damn... Could this be something Lu Xun said?!
For a moment he couldn't tell whether Dachun was a fool who appeared wise... or a wise man who appeared foolish!
……

Xia Tian arrived at Lao Miao's office. Several other teachers were also there, all of them secretly staring at one person.

A man in his forties or fifties, he doesn't look like a northerner in summer.

"Hello, Xia Tian, ​​I am a staff member of the Magic City Art Studio, and this is my work permit..."

Several teachers obviously knew this person's identity. They were curious but too embarrassed to stare at him, so they just took a few peeks at him through their books.

Xia Tian was stunned: Magic Film Studio wants me to make a movie? !

As a result, he realized that they were not looking for him to make a movie, but Magic Film Studio wanted to adapt "Black Cat Sheriff" into an animation!

Xia Tian said: "This is a good thing. In principle, I agree..."

He stunned the other person, who said: Ah, this young comrade is also a leader? Why does this sound so familiar?
Xia Tian was naturally happy about it and didn't care much about the royalties.

The two parties reached a preliminary agreement and soon a phone call came, and it was confirmed in just one afternoon.

Xia Tian received 500 yuan, and Magic Film Studio obtained the five-year animation adaptation rights for the first part of "Black Cat Sheriff".

Xia Tian deliberately added a time limit. If it exceeds five years, it will be invalid.

For this purpose, he also donated a theme song "Aha! Black Cat Sheriff" as a gift - Ahaha~ This is Black Cat Sheriff~
The other party also asked about Xia Tian's information and wanted to invite him to sing in person.

The recording of the theme song was completed on China Radio in the summer.

In fact, Xia Tian thinks that works like "Black Cat Sheriff" would be better made into TV animation. There are fewer opportunities for film animation to be shown.

……

Just after signing Black Cat Sheriff to Magic Films in the summer, he discovered a hot book.

Sanlian Publishing House has just published "The Third Wave" under the name of "internal distribution"!
It is said that the first print run was only 3000 copies. The new book was in short supply and at one point only two copies could be purchased with a ministerial letter of introduction.

I borrowed it from Uncle Wu in the summer.

As I mentioned before, at the beginning of the year, American writer Alvin Toffler came to our place to give a "lecture" and also played his documentary "The Third Wave".

The shock and impact this lecture had on us was extremely huge!
In 1980, he published The Third Wave, predicting cloning, big data, consumerism, working from home, etc. decades in advance...

It shows that there are always people whose vision transcends their times.

According to the information from Apocalypse:
By the end of this year, "The Third Wave" will have an additional print run of 100,000 copies, and millions of copies will be distributed in the following years, becoming the best-selling book besides Deng Xiaoping Theory.

A few years later, we established the Future Society, the Science Society, and the Talent Society in one go, and the People's Daily mentioned the "new technological revolution" hundreds of times in one year.

In 86, four scientists wrote to the chief designer to discuss the third wave, which eventually led to the birth of the 4 Plan.

After 00, domestic middle school history textbooks began to divide the history of human development into agricultural civilization, industrial civilization and information society according to Alvin Toffler's classification!

In 06, the central media named Alvin Toffler one of the foreigners who changed China.

In the same year, he published his last book, The Revolution of Wealth.

In his book, he worries about the spread of the virus, the economic depression, and even more worried that the seemingly prosperous and stable globalization is facing the risk of disintegration - "the world is crumbling."

In the summer of 16, Toffler died in his sleep in his old house in Los Angeles.

There are only a few reports from China, hidden deep within the website's information.

One of the passages ends with:

In a sense, the world's loss of Toffler would be an irreparable loss.

Because he is unique, one-of-a-kind and cannot be replicated.

The world needs Toffler much more urgently than it needs ten or a hundred geeks, science fiction writers, or Hollywood directors.

It was not until Adong came to power that netizens dug out his old work "Transfer of Power".

On page 91 of that old book published by DX Publishing House in 31, it says: Like Donald Trump... or someone who has been arranged to be nominated as a potential candidate for the presidency...

To call him a legend is no exaggeration!
Anyway, I read "The Third Wave" from the perspective of a latecomer in the summer, and I had mixed feelings.

And this month there is another thing related to the "entertainment industry" - on March 3, the 21st China TV Golden Eagle Awards established by "Massive TV" was held in Kuncheng.

(End of this chapter)