Literary Master 1983

Chapter 147: Wearing the Yellow Robe (Dream of Red Mansions Crew)

That morning, Yu Qie sent Zhang Li and Chen Xiaoxu to the crew. Wang Fulin asked Yu Qie to stay for a while, invited him into the small room, and formally put forward his request.

"CCTV has a program to visit the crew. Yu Qie, can you serve as a consultant for the crew and be interviewed with us?"

Yu Qi was stunned: My goodness, I am not a Redologist.

"Director Wang, I am willing to cooperate with you, but I am a writer, is this appropriate?"

Wang Fulin said, "This is what the people who make the show want, because you rarely appear on the show, and your novel is very popular. If we really talk about fame, you are more famous than anyone in our crew."

"You are especially popular among young people. The reason why we filmed the Four Great Classics is to make young people pay attention to our classics."

Originally I came here to take advantage of the popularity.

This also happened in the 1980s.

Because Zhang Li was on the set, Yu Qie agreed to the request. When the crew came to interview him, he also became one of the crew's literary consultants and stayed on the set.

Wang Fulin thought about it again and asked Yu Qie to wear ancient costumes so as not to destroy the ancient atmosphere of the crew. The TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" was originally going to film the emperor, but since the original novel did not verify which emperor it was, this person was finally hidden and left to the audience to guess.

So the crew was left with an unused yellow robe, and Yu Qie wore it as a coat. He didn't shave his head or put on makeup, he just wore the robe to create an atmosphere.

As soon as he came out, oh, Emperor Yu came.

Wang Fulin slapped his thigh fiercely: "Yu Qie, you have such a good image. It's a pity that you are not an actor."

That being said, when Yu Qie was wearing a yellow robe and leaning on a motorcycle eating a popsicle, the scene was quite abstract: the situation was as hilarious as Tang Monk wearing a cassock and dancing in a bar.

Chen Xiaoxu dressed up, tied her hair into a big braid and wore a red dress. The actors all put on makeup and changed into costumes. The whole process took several hours. As soon as Chen Xiaoxu came out, people kept praising her for her beautiful dress: "Xiaoxu, you look so beautiful today. You are so charming."

She was just boasting to herself: "That's all."

As soon as he saw Yu Qie, Chen Xiaoxu couldn't stop laughing: "Why are you dressed like this? Where's Zhang Li? Did she allow you to dress like this?"

Yu Qie said: "She can't control me. I was the one who promoted her (Xue Baochai) uncle Wang Ziteng. If she opposes me, the whole Xue family will be in trouble...Lin Daiyu, you too!"

Everyone laughed.

Chen Xiaoxu was dressed up as Lin Daiyu, and the actors and characters corresponded one to one. However, some roles were played by several people at the same time, and they have not been decided yet.

Xue Baochai is of course one of them, and You Sanjie is also one of them. In addition, Wang Xifeng has not actually been decided at this time. This is all related to an actress named "Le Yun". She was recognized as the most beautiful person in the crew at that time. She had a pair of phoenix eyes, and director Wang Fulin liked her image very much.

However, Le Yun's mind was full of dreams of going abroad, and the time she stayed in the country was not enough to complete a whole TV series.

Wang Fulin had to reduce the weight of the roles she was given, but he was reluctant to give up her beautiful image, so he finally agreed, "You stay here and play whatever roles are available."

It is indeed unfair to not be as good-looking as others, and you will suffer losses in everything you do.

In the morning, the CCTV program crew came, and the female host smiled at the camera: "Dear viewers, can you guess where this is? I think you must have figured it out. This is the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. This morning, the children who practiced here are neither students from an amateur sports school nor students from any opera academy. They are some young actors from the crew of Dream of Red Mansions..."

"Today, we will introduce you to some information about the crew of Dream of Red Mansions."

"Now, the young actors who have been selected from all over the country are being trained in the closed training base in Yuanmingyuan. There are hundreds of actors in the Red Mansion crew, and everyone hopes to show their best performance."

The actors showed up one after another, and after being trained in the training courses, most of them were in particularly good shape.

As soon as the reporter came in, it was like entering the "Grand View Garden", with so many flowers that it was dazzling and so many beautiful girls that he couldn't see them all.

Chen Xiaoxu's role as Lin Daiyu is already set in stone. She deliberately shows off her sisterhood with Zhang Li, and the two of them lean against each other and cuddle up to each other.

The reporter asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Chen Xiaoxu."

"Chen Xiaoxu, where are you from?"

"Ancheng Drama Troupe." Then he asked Zhang Li next to him: "What about you?"

"My name is Zhang Li, and I'm from the Chengdu Battle Flag Song and Dance Troupe."

"Oh, from the Battle Flag Song and Dance Troupe!"

Chen Xiaoxu emphasized: "After we came to the crew, our relationship has always been very good. We eat and live together every day. We have already become sisters."

The host then asked other people, men and women, from all over the place.

Yu Qie was waiting here specifically. There was nothing he could do about it since CCTV had contacted him in advance.

"What's your name?"

"I am Yu Qie."

"Yu Qie, isn't that the writer? Are you that writer?"

Shit, this reporter really can't be a supporting actor, what he did was too obvious.

Yu Qie said: "Yes, I am the writer. Zhang Li and I are... uh, this... good friends. I came to the crew to visit and learn from them during this period."

"Teacher Yu Qie, why are you wearing the yellow robe of a feudal emperor?"

"Feudal emperor? I am using this robe critically. This robe belongs to the Red Mansion crew and the public. Today I only have the right to use this robe for 24 hours."

"A group of lovely young people, originally the new generation of the 1980s, now have to play the roles of young ladies and maids in the feudal era. For a moment, I couldn't imagine what kind of rough road they had to go through to complete this cross-century journey..."

The host spoke fondly of the difficulties the crew faced in filming the drama, describing it as "playing the role of young ladies and maids in feudal times."

"Some writers participated in the preparation of the crew for free, just to make the presentation better... Yanjing has been in turmoil recently, with some heartbreaking and shocking cases. Writer Yu Qie has to travel between the crew and the school every day, voluntarily protecting the safety of some actors on this road that is more than ten kilometers long."

Where the camera couldn't find the angle, Yu Qie, who was running around, leaned on a Japanese motorcycle and ate a popsicle.

Hisssssssssssss~
Really delicious.

Facing this CCTV interview, Chen Xiaoxu and Yu Qie each tried their best to get Zhang Li to the forefront.

Chen Xiaoxu and Zhang Li are always together, giving people the feeling that they are a pair of female protagonists, a natural couple. There is a saying in "Dream of Red Mansions" that "Chai and Dai are one body", which means that although these two people have very different personalities, they are actually two sides of the same coin.

The female host asked the two people: "How do you evaluate each other?"

Zhang Li said: "We love playing around the most." Chen Xiaoxu lay on top of her and was very affectionate.

Then he asked Deng Jie (Wang Xifeng): "Which actor do you admire most in the play?"

This person used to have the best relationship with Zhang Li. She talked about Zhang Li directly: "Zhang Li studied very hard and often asked the Redology teachers about the things in Dream of the Red Chamber. The teachers also had a high recognition of her."

So, as a writer, how does Yu Qie evaluate the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions"?

Yu Qie said: "This crew is at the highest level of domestic TV dramas in terms of literary level. With limited conditions, they have tried their best to make the best preparations... Many writers have participated in the TV dramas behind the scenes, with little or no pay."

"But why do people still do this? It's because they are moved by the actors' behavior and the sincerity of the crew... This kind of crew will definitely be able to give everyone good works."

Yu Qie spoke eloquently in front of the camera. Wang Fulin liked Yu Qie's answer the most, as it just hit the spot.

The interview with CCTV was quite successful, and then there was an interview with the magazine "Popular TV". In this magazine, according to the fans' request, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" gradually unveiled the mysterious veil of the actors and made them correspond to the characters.

The matter of deciding on the roles cannot be delayed any longer.

So a small meeting was held within the crew, without any actors attending.

(End of this chapter)