1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 179 Red Mansion Training Class

The person who came was a girl of medium height, with a round face and a quiet appearance. She had two pigtails, wore a military green jacket and a military cap without any insignia on it.

Xiaoxu looked at her and said, "You are here for the training class as well. We are just about to go there. My name is Chen Xiaoxu, and he..."

Chen Xiaoxu glanced at Xia Tian and said, "His name is Xia Tian."

Xia Tian was stunned: "How did you know?"

Chen Xiaoxu rolled his eyes and said, "I watched the Spring Festival Gala!"

"Hello, my name is Zhang Li, I'm from Sichuan Province, I also watched the Spring Festival Gala~"

"Haha, let me show you my ugliness~" Xia Tian was a little proud.

It's great to be on the Spring Festival Gala~
National reputation +50!

Unlike Chen Xiaoxu, the "child of destiny" chosen from countless letters, Zhang Li was a former art soldier and was selected by the crew's casting staff Ou Chuansheng.

In fact, she was just accompanying her friend to the interview and just thought of it as a trip for fun. Another classic scene~
No matter what the casting staff asked her, she smiled and her answer was either "Yeah!" or "Hmm?"

Then I was selected~
Among the actors and actresses later confirmed by the Red Mansions crew, some had acting experience, and more were members of performance groups, art groups, and opera groups from all over the country.

There are very few pure amateurs like Chen Xiaoxu.

Xia Tian took Chai Dai to the guesthouse.

As lunch time got closer, Xiatian stopped picking people up - the sign should be enough.

Not long after, another girl came over, "Hello, I'm Zhang Jinglin. You must be Xia Tian!"

She immediately identified Xia Tian!
Chen Xiaoxu on the side smiled and said, "You watched the Spring Festival Gala too?"

Zhang Jinglin nodded: "I have seen him, but I would know him even if I didn't see him."

She looked at Xia Tian and said, "You are about to overturn the Peking Opera circle in Beijing and Tianjin."

She was born in a pure "Beijing Opera School" and is now a star of some size. She also has a good family background and came to the crew for fun.

Compared to the Red Mansion, summer is more curious.

Xia Tian doesn't have much idea about the Peking Opera circle.

What kind of Peking Opera circle is this? There are only a few people who cling to the old ways. There will be fewer and fewer young people who like Peking Opera in the future, and it won’t last many more years.

Another person who came later was Dongfang Wenying, who was the girlfriend of cameraman Zhou Yaozong.

Originally, he was called in as a script writer, but because of his good image, he was also selected as an actor.

Then an acquaintance of Xia Tian came!
"Zhang Yuping!" Xia Tian shouted.

"Xia Tian? Are you also in this Red Mansion training class?" The girl was a little excited.

"Yes!"

This Zhang Yuping is a classmate of Yandian Performance Amateur Class in 80!
It's been three years!

Zhang Yuping laughed: "Ha, I watched your film "The Transformation" many times! The fool acted really well~"

Xia Tian said: "I also watched your 82 film Rainbow, and your acting was also very good~"

……

Other actors followed suit, such as Hu Zehong who played Xichun, Chen Jianyue who played Xiangling/Zhen Yinglian, Shen Lin who played Ping'er, Sun Mengquan who played Li Wan, Cheng Mei who played Yuanchun...

Li Honghong, the actress who played Xing Xiuyan, even came to report holding a small birthday cake. She just turned 17 today.

There is even a singer personally chosen by Wang Liping, Chen Li!

There are also several male actors among them - Jia Lian, Jia Rong, Xue Pan, and Ming Yan.

There are 32 people in the total training class, not counting the summer.

During the meal, Xia Tian couldn’t even sit at a table with several men!
but……

In the summer, I use chopsticks to pick up the rice in the bowl - wow, the food is almost as good as it was in the 1970s!
The food is really bad. It can only be said that the treatment is slightly better than that of the inland actors in Li Heizi's crew.

I haven’t eaten this much in the summer for several years—five bowls, and the bowls were relatively small.

This has attracted everyone's attention.

We are all performers, who dares to eat so freely? !

"Oh, if this food can only last for two or three years, it will be ruined~" Xia Tian's words touched everyone's heart.

It's just that we just arrived, and no one will say anything except Xia Tian.

Chen Xiaoxu laughed at him: "You ate five bowls of this food. If the food was better, wouldn't you bankrupt the crew?"

Xia Tian was happy: "Oh, you're counting for me!"

In the afternoon, several assistant directors and acting teachers showed up, but they still had a lot of things to deal with, so they usually said, "Xia Tian, ​​take everyone to get familiar with the show."

Everyone was curious: Aren’t you an actor?

Xia Tian: Because I am familiar with it~
They are all young people, so it is easy to get to know each other in an unfamiliar environment. For example, Deng Jie is very mature, and her temperament is more stable and generous than these young girls.

Yuan Mei, who sang Huangmei Opera, was unexpectedly generous and magnanimous, and quite manly.

Zhang Jinglin is a bit arrogant and doesn't like to talk much.

Chen Xiaoxu has a sharp tongue and loves to joke, but he has a good size.

I don’t know if it’s her personality or because she’s not good at speaking Mandarin, but Zhang Li is a quiet person. She usually doesn’t talk much and just looks at everyone with a smile on her face.

Dongfang Wenying is very heroic and gives people a boyish feeling. She also said that she likes martial arts and her idol is Bruce Lee!
His ambition is to become a hero, he deserves to be called Dongfang!

Xia Tian: "I also know a man named Dongfang, his name is Bubai! He is very proficient in sewing, superb~"

"You think I haven't watched 'Swordsman', right?" Dongfang Wenying said.

Xia Tian immediately bowed and said, "Oh, my apologies! I'm sorry! Let's talk more in the future!"

Dongfang Wenying even recommended a martial arts novel to Xia Tian: "By the way, have you read Kunlun?"

Xia Tian touched his face and nodded: "Yeah, I saw it!" He could hardly hold back his laughter!
Chen Xiaoxu on the side saw it at a glance: "Dongfang, look at his expression, he must be holding back something bad~"

Zhang Jinglin on the side laughed first: "Don't you know who Teacher Jing Hongke is?"

Dongfang immediately perked up: "Do you know Teacher Jinghongke?"

"Yes, I know you. Didn't we just meet?"

Many people were confused: We just met...

……

It was evening, and Xia Tian said goodbye to everyone: "See you tomorrow, everyone!"

"Wait! How can you leave?" Zhang Jinglin asked.

"That's right, isn't it a closed training and we are not allowed to leave except on weekends?" Xiao Xu questioned.

Xia Tian smiled: "Ah, yes. But that's the requirement for actors. I'm not an actor~ I'm a crew member~ Bye~"

When they arrived at "home" in the evening, Xia Tian told Milan about today's training class.

“They are all young people from all over the world. It’s very interesting!”

"Looking at your expression, there are a lot of girls, right?"

Can you still be afraid of this in summer?
"Well, most of them are girls, all of them are very beautiful and intelligent. After all, they were carefully selected from all over the country."

Sure enough, Milan’s expression became very "rogue"!
Xia Tian smiled and said, "I'll take you to meet him tomorrow, okay?!"

Unexpectedly, Milan shook his head!

"No rush! Get familiar with it first, and then introduce it to me..."

Xia Tian is very good at figuring out people's personalities and thoughts, but it doesn't work for Milan.

She has her own ideas~
I can only say that he is definitely not an ordinary person!
The next day, Xia Tian went to Yandian for classes. In the morning, he had a lines class in the acting department and a class in audio-visual languages ​​in the directing department. After the classes, Xia Tian said goodbye to his classmates and left on his bicycle.

I had already obtained contracts for the crew's assistants and actors from director Wang Fulin, so the school had given the green light.

Originally, Xia Tian "didn't follow the class rules". He was haphazard in class and attended whatever class he liked.

But he has good grades, and he ranks among the top in both classes. All teachers like him very much. What else can I say?
If you can't compare with anyone else, what should you compare with him?
In the summer, I rode my bike at lightning speed all the way from Zhuxinzhuang Yandian to Yuanmingyuan, which is 7 kilometers away. I arrived here just in time for dinner.

"Hey~ I came just in time!"

"Yes, just in time for dinner!" Chen Xiaoxu said to the person next to him, "Quickly notify the chef and tell him that summer is coming and to make an extra pot of rice!"

"Hahahaha!" Everyone was laughing so hard that they fell backwards.

"What did you do this morning?" Xia Tian asked.

Deng Jie brought a big bowl of rice to Xia Tian and said, "At 6:8, I went running, practiced my posture, memorized my lines, and did some body training. At :, I met with the members of the preparatory group and the teachers who trained us. Today, Teacher Hu Wenbin gave a talk on the general situation of Redology research at home and abroad..."

This training class was taught by many Redologists, and was designed to allow the actors to study the original novel, analyze the characters, learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and finally finalize their roles.

The advisory group includes a number of big names such as Cao Yu, Shen Congwen, Zhou Ruchang, and Qi Gong.

These expert consultants teach for free, and only provide one meal at noon!

After breakfast in the morning, the consultants went to the Old Summer Palace Ruins Park and other places to give lectures; they took a break at noon; and after the lectures in the afternoon, they went home~
From the ancients' ways of walking, sitting, lying down, manners, etiquette, clothing, speech, to music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and literature, the students' artistic accomplishment will be enhanced!

For example, folklore expert Deng Yunxiang followed the crew from beginning to end to ensure that the props, scenes, costumes, etiquette, etc. in the play were all in compliance with the regulations.

That’s right, actors also have to learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting!

Is this training an actor? It's like training a lady from a noble family!
In the afternoon, Xia Tian attended a class given by Mr. Zhu Jiahui on "Northern Living Customs in A Dream of Red Mansions."

It can be considered as knowledge about the folk customs of the Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)