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Chapter 197: No flower can be as beautiful as you (Guaranteed -in-)

"You can write novels, compose songs, draw pictures, and perform?" Zhu Lin was a little skeptical.

Wei Ming: "I can already write novels, compose songs, and draw pictures, so it wouldn't be strange if I could perform."

Zhu Lin thought about it and thought that this seemed to make sense: "Then tell me about it."

So in the Moscow restaurant, while eating a Russian meal, Wei Ming and Zhu Lin talked about Stanislavsky.

"You know this guy, don't you?"

Zhu Lin shook his head in confusion.

It's not her fault that she didn't prepare adequately. The channels for acquiring knowledge are too narrow these days. Even serious science and cultural books can't be printed enough, let alone performance books.

At that time, those who wanted to learn acting could only learn by themselves through movies and dramas, and then practice facial expressions in front of the mirror, so she asked Wei Ming to watch the movie so that she could learn while watching.

Wei Mingdao: "Konstantin Stanislavsky is an acting theorist who was born in the United States in the last century. He has a very famous book about acting called "An Actor's Work on Themselves". The acting school he advocated is called the experiential school. In addition, the experiential school has also extended to the expressionist school and the method school..."

"How come you even know this?"

"Don't I have a classmate at the Beijing Film Academy?" Wei Ming said perfunctorily. In fact, it was a girl he knew from the Film Academy in his previous life. She often released her nature in front of him and did not treat herself as a human being.

Then Wei Ming told her what experientialism, expressionism and methodism are, and gave examples.

"If in a love scene, the director asks you to express your deep love for the male lead, then the experience group will try to really fall in love with the male lead and like him from the bottom of their hearts."

"Ah!" Zhu Lin was surprised, "What should we do after filming?"

"Just try your best to get over it. Of course, some people can't, which is what we call fake becomes real. The high remarriage rate in our literary and art circles may be due to this." Wei Mingdao said that the entertainment industry in later generations has no bottom line, and the bottom line of the current literary and art circles is much lower than what the public knows, but the media channels are narrow and ordinary people don't know about it.

"So the experience school is very stressful. Good acting can really move people, but there are some things that cannot be experienced, such as murder and other illegal things."

Wei Ming went on to talk about the method school: "The method school is that you look at the male lead, think about the man you once loved, and then mobilize your feelings for that man and use them on the male actor. This applies to emotional scenes, happy things, and sad things. The advantage of this is that you can withdraw in time. The disadvantage is that if you don't have enough personal experience and don't have that many emotional templates to use, you will be at a loss, and it is easy to become stereotyped."

Zhu Lin nodded, regretting not bringing paper and pen. This kid seemed to really understand. He had never heard of these theories before.

She then asked, "What about Expressionism?"

"It is to use tone, expression, body language and other means to make the audience feel that you like him very much. Relatively speaking, the Expressionists are closer to the Methodists. They emphasize that the actor should control the role, master the role, express the role, and transcend the role, while the Experientialists want to become the role."

Zhu Lin: "I feel that the experience school is more powerful. Isn't becoming the role itself the highest evaluation of an actor?"

Wei Ming: "Unless you plan to play only one role for your whole life, if you want to create more classic roles, you must avoid getting too deeply involved in one role."

There are many negative examples in this regard.

After talking about these theoretical things, Wei Ming said: "In fact, as an actor, you don't have to classify yourself into any school. You can use whichever is most useful when performing. They are just tools for actors. The most important thing is to lay a solid foundation for basic skills. Acting requires four subjects. Do you know which four subjects they are?"

"Sing, recite, act and fight?"

"Talk, learn, amuse and sing."

Zhu Lin: "Ah? You are kidding."

Wei Ming: "You were the first to open it, and you sang, recited, and acted like a fighter. Do you think this is a play?"

Under the table, Zhu Lin kicked him lightly with her calf. This time she was wearing leather shoes with a little heel.

Sister Lin also wanted to feel better when dancing tango. He said that it is better to wear high heels when dancing tango, but he has to watch a movie today, so he probably can't dance.

Wei Ming: "Actually, what you said about singing, reciting, acting and fighting are not much different, it's about voice, stage, shape and performance..."

Then he explained them one by one, saying that in the future, when Sister Lin was admitted to Beijing Film Academy, she would probably study these things, and he could teach her. However, the connections at Beijing Film Academy were also very important, even if it was just an amateur class, the students were still people from Beijing Film Academy.

"Well, are you convinced?" After finishing his talk and eating, Wei Ming wiped his mouth and leaned back.

Zhu Lin: "I'm convinced. From now on I'll call you Teacher Wei."

"Since you call me teacher, come to my house on Sunday and I will teach you systematically." Wei Ming made the invitation, sacrificing his own time writing novels to make money to cultivate her.

"I don't think it's necessary," Zhu Lin was afraid of delaying his work, "I can sing, I can recite lines, and I'm not bad at speaking. Not to mention my body shape, I used to be a dancer, and I can even do the splits now."

Wei Ming really wanted her to chop him off right there and then.

"As for the performance, I think I can just practice in front of the mirror."

"That won't work. In addition to voice, stage, and performance, there are also seven powers and four senses, as well as the liberation of nature. You don't understand these."

"Ah, what are these?"

Wei Ming checked the time and said, "Oh, it's time to go to the movies. Come to my house on Sunday and I'll teach you. There's a lot to learn here."

Zhu Lin pouted and didn't object. She decided to go. She was mainly thinking about those romance novels.

Because I bought tickets for the second show, it was already 10 o'clock when I finished watching the movie.

"Oh, it's a bit late, but the movie is quite good and the acting is good." Zhu Lin said.

"The acting is indeed good, but you should be aware that their acting style is actually a bit outdated and not realistic enough. When you go to school, learn from your teacher seriously. It is better not to learn too much about acting in movies."

"Ah, very outdated?"

Wei Ming thinks that Xie Jin's several works from the 80s can be regarded as a watershed in Chinese-language films. They are excellent old films that can be accepted by later generations. Like many excellent films of the same period, they have a deep imprint of the times. They are the kind that you can praise to the sky by watching a few clips on TikTok, but you can't finish watching the whole film.

The fifth generation of directors after Xie Jin had a completely different style in terms of audio-visual language and performance style.

"If I have a chance to show you some movies out there, you'll understand. Acting is still too formal nowadays. It feels like you have to recite quotes at any time."

Zhu Lin chuckled. This evaluation was quite fair.

Zhu Lin did not go to Wei Ming's house for the next two days. He had other things to do and it was impossible for him to bring the girl home to train her every day.

Early on Friday morning, Wei Ming rode a motorcycle and took Yang Hao to the CPPCC auditorium.

Today, the third film "Hundred Flowers Awards" ceremony will be held here after a hiatus of 17 years.

Wei Ming and Yang Hao attended as media representatives. They could take photos and had to write articles when they returned.

In addition, Master Liu and others from the school fleet also brought two large trucks of Peking University students to participate as student representatives.

The auditorium was packed today. In addition to people from the literary, art and film circles, there were lively Young Pioneers, enthusiastic middle school and college students, national model workers, representatives of workers and farmers, and representatives of soldiers who had made meritorious services in the counterattack, a total of more than 1500 people.

Oh, there were about 40 foreign journalists stationed in Beijing, and Wei Ming and Yang Hao sat with them.

Yang Hao was extremely envious when listening to Wei Ming communicating with a foreigner in English. He was worthy of being the one who had a foreign girlfriend!
Yang Hao also pointed diagonally in front of him: "Hey, look, Zhang Binggui!"

As a nationally renowned model worker, it is normal for him to be invited here.

It was the first time that Wei Ming met him in person. He had wanted to find him every time he went to Wangfujing Department Store before, but his stall was always full and he couldn't squeeze in.

In addition, Wei Ming also saw Director Wang of the Beijing Film Studio and Director Xu Sangchu of the Shanghai Film Studio, whom he had only met once. Their seats were relatively close to the front.

Behind them are the actors, all familiar faces. They will have to say something to Liu Xiaoqing later. No matter what, he has agreed to star in "Niu and Niu Er".

The award ceremony officially began at 9:30 in the morning, hosted by Lin Bin, editor-in-chief of Popular Movies, and presented by Zhou Yang.

Right at the beginning, Kaizi Ge’s father, Director Chen Huaiai, won an award. The Peking Opera film "Iron Bow Fate" directed by him won the Best Opera Film Award.

He is considered one of the top domestic directors when it comes to this type of film, so he played a very important role in the Peking Opera segment of Farewell My Concubine; he is a true expert.

Then there were animated films. There were two winning works, one was the animated feature film "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" and the other was the animated drama "Avanti". However, Wang Shuchen was still in Cannes, and the awards were received by directors Yan Dingxian and Xu Jingda.

Among the latter awards, the movie "Little Flower" can be said to be the biggest winner, having won two technical awards, Best Music and Best Photography.

There are still many awards in the current Hundred Flowers Awards, but when the Golden Rooster Awards come out next year, only the major awards will be retained. After all, it is biased to let the audience evaluate these technical aspects.

Then Chen Chong, who is the same age as Wei Ming, won the Best Actress award for her role in "Little Flower".

Another leading actress in "Little Flower", Liu Xiaoqing, won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in "Look at This Family".

I guess Qingnai is not feeling very good. Out of the five nominations for Best Actress, she took two seats for "Little Flower" and "Wedding". But this will easily split the votes, alas!

But Grandma Qing knows how to comfort herself, at least she is better than Li Xiuming. She and Zhang Jinling, the three golden flowers of the Beijing Film Studio, were both nominated for Best Actress, but she was the only one who got zero.

As for the male lead of "Little Flower", Tang Guoqiang, he is currently basking in the sun in Cannes.

Three films won the final award for Best Feature Film, namely "Little Flower", "Ji Hongchang" and "Tears". It is obviously impossible that they had the same number of votes, and no first place was chosen, which is in line with Chinese philosophy.

In addition, the leading actor of "Tears" Li Rentang also won the Best Actor award. He has won all the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards in mainland China.

"Traces of Tears" is less well-known than the other two, but its director is very famous, his name is Li Wenhua.

This year, the Beijing Film Studio won a great victory with two award-winning films, "Little Flower" and "Traces of Tears". Director Wang couldn't hide his pride when looking at Director Xu's expression.

Director Xu Sangchu smiled calmly. Things change. This year, Shanghai Film Studio's "The Shepherd" will be released. There is also a very special "Lush Mountain Love". It is hard to predict the outcome of next year's Hundred Flowers Awards.

The awards were presented all at once, and then actor Chen Chong and screenwriter Chen Lide were selected from among the winners to give speeches.

After the award ceremony, there were various tea parties and activities that lasted until the evening.

Wei Ming and Liu Xiaoqing were talking about their experience in filming a martial arts scene. Wei Ming is still filming. She rushed back from Sichuan knowing that she would win an award. She will leave by train early tomorrow morning. She is really hardworking.

However, after the two chatted for just a few words, Wei Ming was called away by Director Wang.

Liu Xiaoqing was a little depressed. I won’t eat him, she swallowed her saliva. But he is really handsome, better than Tang Guoqiang, and the key is that he is a talented man!
Director Wang was reporting the good news to Wei Ming.

"I just spoke to Xia Meng on the phone this morning. She will bring the director over next Monday to discuss cooperation."

Wei Mingxi said happily: "Finally you are here!"

If it doesn't happen again, I'd like to do another co-production project, but I don't know if it's still directed by the original director. The original director Mou Dunfu is also a well-known director, but his strengths are heavy-taste movies, and martial arts are not his main focus, so this movie is relatively average.

After finishing the Hundred Flowers Awards event and sending Yang Hao back home, it was already past ten when Wei Ming got home. He had to write today's Hundred Flowers Awards manuscript while it was still hot. "In May, the flowers are red, the willows are green, and the flowers are in full bloom. In this beautiful season, the third..."

Early the next morning, just as Wei Ming was about to go out, the phone rang.

"Hello, who is this?" I love the feeling of receiving a phone call!

"it's me."

Wei Ming's expression lit up: "Sister Xue, why are you calling me so early? I'm really flattered."

"I was just passing by the post office and remembered that you had a telephone at home, so I called to try." Gong Xing said in a low voice.

"Oh, oh, oh," Wei Ming asked again, "Has your new movie started shooting?"

"Not yet. The shoot will start next week. Our photographer is going to Yanjing to attend the Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony."

"Haha, what a coincidence! I was at the Hundred Flowers Awards the whole day yesterday."

"You were also invited to participate?" Gong Xing asked in surprise.

"It's not really an invitation. I went there to work, representing the Peking University magazine. I also had two meals and met a few famous actors."

Gong Xing: "Who did you meet?"

"Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong, Zhang Jinling..." Wei Ming reported a string of young actresses' names, which made Gong Qiang feel jealous.

“These actresses are all very beautiful.”

Wei Ming: "It's just average, not as good as you. No flower can be as beautiful as you."

Gong Xing covered her mouth and chuckled, but she was already used to Wei Ming's direct compliments. If another man said such words, it would be frivolous.

Wei Ming then talked about the main winners of the Hundred Flowers Awards, which have not yet been disseminated.

When Gong Xing heard that Chen Chong won the Best Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Awards, she couldn't help but feel envious. It was really amazing that she had achieved such an achievement at the age of 19. She didn't know if she had any hope before she turned 30.

Wei Ming finally told her about the mounting of Purple Grapes: "I went to Liulichang specially to ask the best mounting master there to do it."

"You, I just drew it for fun, it's a joke." She was so anxious that she wanted to stamp her feet.

Wei Ming: "It's not a joke, but Mr. Wu Zuoren said after seeing it that you still need to practice."

"Ah!" Gong Xing almost shouted out.

Wei Ming: "But Mr. Wu said that if you want to improve, you can communicate with his wife. Mrs. Xiao is good at flowers."

Gong Xing's emotions were like a roller coaster, her eyes were bright and round. Not to mention studying, she benefited a lot from listening to a few words of instruction from the master.

"I'll visit you two gentlemen next time I'm at your house."

Wei Ming: "Okay, then I'll show you the album of Qi Baishi's flowers and insects that I bought. There are eighteen paintings in total, all kinds of insects and plants."

"Really!"

Gong Xing became very interested, but unfortunately he was afraid that he would not have the chance to go to Yanjing during the filming, as the film would take at least two or three months.

"Really? Let's write to each other and talk about it in detail when the time comes." Although he hadn't got the painting yet, Gong Xing would not come to Beijing in the short term, so he was still very confident.

Today, many media outlets across the country began reporting on the restart of the Hundred Flowers Awards. As the winner of the Best Actress award, Chen Chong once again attracted the attention of the whole country, and was the talk of the town, receiving endless praise.

There were no Golden Rooster and Huabiao awards at that time, and the Hundred Flowers Award was the highest award for mainland films. The best actresses in the first and second awards were Zhu Xijuan and Zhang Ruifang respectively, both of whom were among the "Twenty-two Great Superstars". Chen Chong was the third Hundred Flowers Award winner, which shows how popular she was among movie fans across the country at that time.

As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the more painful it will be when you are hurt.

After receiving the trophy, Chen Chong went to the Yanjing Hotel to visit the set of "The Shepherd". He wanted director Xie Jin to praise him, but also wanted to make him regret it: Humph, I told you not to choose me to play in "The Shepherd".

As the first winner of the Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Director and Best Feature Film, Director Xie smiled faintly and did not feel that his work needed a new Hundred Flowers Film Queen to enhance its luster.

Xiao Gong’s acting was quite good. As a minor character, he did not fight or compete, and completed his functional tasks perfectly. If it was Chen Chong with a strong personality, he would have to compete with Zhu Shimao for a sense of existence.

This time, Chen Chong came here hoping that Director Xie would treat him to a big meal at the Yanjing Hotel, but in the end they had to eat outside, and the meal was very ordinary.

Seeing the foreigners coming in and out of the Yanjing Hotel and enjoying the best treatment made her more determined to go abroad.

~
Sunday.

Wei Ming came to the intersection of Zhu Lin's dormitory and waited for her with familiarity.

Seeing Zhu Lin changed into a long dress and short high heels, Wei Ming's eyes lit up, so beautiful!

It’s the end of May, summer is coming!

Although you can't see her thighs on the street, her fluttering skirt is still beautiful.

But what we are going to learn today is to liberate our nature. Wearing a skirt may be inconvenient.

Wei Ming threw the helmet to Zhu Lin, and she got into the car directly and held Wei Ming's waist, but she used to sit astride the car, but today she sat sideways.

Since Wei Ming bought a motorcycle, Zhu Lin should be the girl who rides with him the second most often, after Yan Zi. Biaozi has often borrowed his motorcycle to take his girlfriend for a ride.

When Zhu Lin arrived at Wei Ming's house, who hadn't been there for a few days, he immediately noticed that something was different at home.

First of all, there is a shoe cabinet at the door, a standing clothes rack in the living room, and a large blanket on the coffee table. It must be very comfortable to step on it barefoot.

Wei Ming said: "I went to a few stores yesterday, and I also changed my bed. Do you want to take a look?"

"Fuck you, why am I looking at that?"

However, the bedroom door was open, and Zhu Lin could see that the new bed was much bigger, and it must be very comfortable to sleep on.

Wei Ming said: "Once the summer vacation is over, my sister and her family will probably move in. If we don't buy a bed, where will we live?"

There are also grandma and cousin. If they all move in, I can only get a single bed for Lao Wei in the study.

I didn’t expect that such a large four-person room was still not enough, so the only solution was to buy a few more sets.

Zhu Lin was thinking that his family would come during the summer vacation and he might not be able to come here casually. There was only about a month left.

"Come on, Sister Lin," Wei Ming interrupted Zhu Lin's thoughts, "Come and help."

He asked Zhu Lin to move the coffee table away to expose the entire blanket.

"Take off your shoes and sit on it."

"Why?"

"Just listen to me. I've washed this blanket."

Zhu Lin took off her shoes, revealing her nylon socks. Seeing Wei Ming sitting cross-legged, she regretted her decision to wear a skirt today.

"Take off your socks too."

Zhu Lin took off her socks angrily, but she always felt that this boy wanted to take off her clothes. If he dared to ask her to take off one more piece of clothes, she would leave.

Wei Ming: "An important purpose of training to liberate one's nature is to eliminate one's sense of shame. For example, if you need to take off your socks, you have to take off your clothes for some performances."

That's exactly what he thought!

Zhu Lin snorted, "Then I'd rather not act."

"You're right to think so. There are plenty of dramas. If you don't like it or can't accept it, then don't act. Having fun is the most important thing."

The two sat face to face, and Wei Ming chatted with her casually: "Have you heard about the Hundred Flowers Awards recently?"

"I heard about it. I even voted."

"Who did you vote for Best Actress?"

Zhu Lin smiled and said, "Chen Chong, it is my contribution that she was chosen."

Wei Ming: "I was also at the Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony and took a few photos of the event."

"Ah, so you met Chen Chong?"

"seen."

"She's really pretty in real life."

Wei Ming: "Normally, the little girl is nothing special, she is far inferior to you."

"Stop it."

"Honestly, none of the actresses who attended the award ceremony yesterday could compare to you. Even though all flowers are beautiful, they are not as beautiful as you."

Zhu Lin was a little shy. She lowered her head and changed the subject: "Didn't you say to liberate your nature? Why haven't you started yet?"

Wei Ming: "It has already started. Saying things that you normally wouldn't dare to say, even things that go beyond the line, is also a way of liberating your nature."

Zhu Lin felt that what he just said was not fair to Wei Ming, as that was his usual speaking style.

"Don't worry about me. You're the one who's going to apply to the film academy, and you're the one who's training. Now it's your turn. Tell me what you want to say. Tell me your deepest thoughts."

The two of them sat on the soft and comfortable blanket. The atmosphere was very relaxed. Wei Ming's words were indeed very tempting. Zhu Lin took a deep breath.

Seeing her courageous look, Wei Ming thought she was going to say something to tease him. Come on, you female hooligan!
In the end, she said after a long pause: "Have you ever done that with your foreign ex-girlfriend?"

(End of this chapter)