Chapter 27 Hand in homework
While discussing with Li Yang how to identify a good script, Li Yixiang, who had changed his clothes, came out from the inner room - it was obvious that he had just taken off his clothes to sleep, which showed that he really did not treat Xu Kun and Baoqiang as outsiders.
"Director Li."
Li Yixiang nodded to Li Yang, then walked over and picked up the imitation biographies of Xu Kun and Bao Qiang and looked through them. The more he read, the more he frowned.
Baoqiang was like a poor student whose homework was being corrected by the teacher, his palms were full of sweat due to nervousness.
Xu Kun was quite calm about it. As a free-spirited person who came from a group of performers, he could not compare with those who had received training in theoretical knowledge, not to mention that he had only been in the industry for more than three months.
"Hmm, uh, well..."
After reading the two people's "homework", Li Yixiang hesitated for a long time before he squeezed out a dry sentence: "Just practice more."
Obviously, the things the two of them copied from others were not up to his standards for the time being.
Li Yang took it and flipped through it. He was quite satisfied. Putting aside the level of their work, at least both of them wrote it very seriously, and it was obvious that they both put some thought into it.
He returned the two drafts to Xu Kun and Bao Qiang, and said with a smile: "Don't listen to Yixiang. Even his classmates who graduated from Beijing Film Academy, not all of them can write good biographies."
After that, the four of them sat together and began to discuss the script. Li Yang and Li Yixiang mainly discussed the changes in details, Xu Kun also expressed his opinions from time to time, and Bao Qiang played the role of the best listener.
In the evening, Li Yang invited the three of them to dinner again.
During the dinner, Li Yang mainly explained two things. One was that he hoped Li Yixiang could spend more time with Xu Kun and Bao Qiang before going to Shanxi. The second was that he wanted Xu Kun to think more about how to show his youthful and flamboyant side from Tang Chaoyang's perspective.
This counts as giving Xu Kun homework individually.
In the following days, Li Yang was running around to assemble a crew and rent equipment, and after Xu Kun, Bao Qiang and Li Yixiang became familiar with each other, they simply moved into his small courtyard and slept on the floor.
During the day they either rehearsed a play or pondered over the biographies of the characters, and at night they were also quiet. The three of them closed the doors and windows, turned off all the lights, and put flashlights on their heads as if they had gone down into a mine.
Li Yixiang is a drama fanatic. Although he is careless about other things, he is very clear about acting. The two of them followed him and learned from him for a week, and they felt that it was more useful than taking dozens of acting classes.
During this period, Xu Kun also released the first formal biography after repeated revisions, and in this biography, he gave his own answer to the homework left by Li Yang.
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"Tell me, where are you going to start?"
Li Yang, who had already booked a bus and was ready to set off early tomorrow morning, heard that Xu Kun had come up with a solution, so he hurried to Li Yixiang's house to hear what he thought.
Although he didn't show it, the person he was most worried about was Xu Kun - Baoqiang was acting in his true colors, and Li Yixiang's level was there, but not everyone could have Tang Chaoyang's experience and personality.
That's why he assigned Xu Kun a separate assignment, so that Xu Kun could understand the role as thoroughly as possible.
Xu Kun was not stage-frightened. He took an excerpt from the script and showed it to Li Yang: "I think the plot of this massage parlor can be extended further."
The plot he mentioned was that Song Jinming felt sorry for Yuan Fengming because he had never even touched a woman, and it would be too unfair for him to die like this, so Tang Chaoyang took Yuan Fengming to a prostitute before proposing to take action.
Li Yang looked at the script and nodded slightly, motioning Xu Kun to continue.
So Xu Kun continued to talk nonstop: "Look, the script says that when Yuan Fengming and Xiaohong were upstairs, Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming were sitting downstairs talking with the proprietress and a few young ladies.
I was thinking whether we could change it to two people hugging a woman and singing KTV downstairs. Now in the small shops in the county town below, it is very common to set up a color TV and DVD player to sing KTV. And after the two people killed someone to defraud insurance, they went to KTV to sing for fun, which can be regarded as a beginning and an end.
Because Song Jinming is a man who values his family and has a lot on his mind, he would just hug the young lady and sing absentmindedly without any extra movements.
Tang Chaoyang, on the other hand, was unscrupulous in his behavior towards the young lady around him.
This behavior aroused Song Jinming's dissatisfaction, who said that the store was right on the street and could be seen from the outside, so Tang Chaoyang should not cause any trouble. However, Tang Chaoyang not only did not restrain himself, but despite Song Jinming's dissatisfaction, he became even more aggressive.
The young lady couldn't stand Tang Chaoyang's rudeness, so she stood up cursing and didn't want to do business with him anymore. At this time, Tang Chaoyang grabbed the young lady's hair and pulled her back into his arms.
He first stuffed a few bills into her underwear and asked if it was enough. Seeing that the lady had a stern face and didn't say anything, he stuffed a few more bills into her underwear. Then he pushed the lady's head down and forced her to serve him. For the sake of the money, the lady finally agreed reluctantly.
So Tang Zhaoyang said to Song Jinming proudly: In this world, making money is the most important thing, everything else is bullshit! Old Song, don’t you think this is true?
Faced with Tang Chaoyang's blatant provocation, Song Jinming finally chose to turn around silently and continue singing.
Tang Chaoyang sneered at Song Jinming's back, then put his arms on the sofa, raised his head and put on an arrogant look.
After listening to it, Li Yang stroked the stubble on his chin and pondered for a while, then nodded and praised: "Not bad, not bad, the plot design is very good, but the details need to be polished and adjusted."
I wouldn't say that this plot is ingeniously designed, but it fits the revised Tang Chaoyang very well, does not violate Song Jinming's character, and can even echo Yuan Fengming's coming-of-age ceremony upstairs.
Li Yang even thought of the scene, Tang Chaoyang's cold and vicious gaze penetrated the ceiling, and then switched to the scene where Yuan Fengming and Xiaohong finally got together.
However, this plot also has some problems. For example, singing K downstairs in a massage parlor is somewhat abrupt, and Li Yang hopes that the tone of this film can be more "simple" and not so "domineering".
But putting all that aside, Xu Kun's performance has already exceeded Li Yang's expectations, which shows how much he has put into this role.
This made Li Yang feel much relieved. As for the remaining half, he would have to wait until he went to Shanxi and watched Xu Kun's live performance to be sure.
In the following time, he also pulled Xu Kun and Li Yixiang to supplement this plot.
For example, singing KTV should be suggested by the boss lady, and the lines are tentatively planned to be:
Lady Boss: Would you two like to sing a song and relax for a while?
Tang Chaoyang: Can you sing in this massage parlor?
Lady boss: Business has been good recently. If you sing karaoke while waiting in line, the bosses won’t be so angry.
[Here, she winked and asked the two ladies to come forward and solicit customers. ]
Tang Chaoyang hugged one of the ladies and teased: I think the more you sing, the angrier you get.
Song Jinming refused: We won’t do this.
The proprietress persisted: Since you are here - don't worry, singing here is free.
Song Jinming wanted to refuse, but Tang Chaoyang rushed to accept it.
This scene was inserted after Yuan Fengming went upstairs for the first time and before he ran downstairs in fright, and was controlled within one minute.
The confrontation between Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming was placed after Yuan Fengming went upstairs for the second time and was controlled within three minutes.
After sorting out these roughly, it was almost evening. More detailed modifications could only be discussed after we went to Shanxi.
The four of them were just about to go to a nearby restaurant to fill their stomachs when Xu Kun's cell phone suddenly rang.
Xu Kun took out his cell phone and saw that the caller was: Big Mouth Movie Queen.
(End of this chapter)
