Huayu 1999: Starting with nothing but getting something for nothing

7:1 AM on January 22

Gao Yuanyuan looked at the ringing phone on the coffee table, paused for a moment, and then answered it.

"Brother, I wish you good luck on your exam!"

Gao Yuanyuan smiled slightly and said in a serious tone, "I'm your sister-in-law, and I thank you on behalf of your brother."

"Pah, are you trying to get yourself killed? I'm finding you increasingly shameless! Give him the phone."

Gao Yuanyuan didn't take it seriously, and even when she heard Gao Yuanyuan's angry voice, she was quite smug: "He's in the bathroom."

"Does taking a dump interfere with talking?"

"Fan Bingbing! You're so vulgar."

"Hurry up, I'll get my makeup done and start shooting right away."

"Call me sister-in-law."

"roll!"

Little Fatty died instantly.

Gao Yuanyuan covered her mouth and laughed for a while before pushing open the bathroom door, pinching her nose and handing over the phone: "Your sister called you, but then hung up."

Yang Che took the phone and raised an eyebrow. In this respect, she really wasn't as carefree as Little Fatty.

Afterwards, I called Xiaopang. Besides sending her blessings, she also said, "My aunt called me and said she bought all 500 wall calendars with my picture printed on them in the mall to give to her clients. Hehe, my aunt is so cute."

Yang Che couldn't help but smile; his mother had already figured out a marketing strategy for retaining customers.

When customers come to pick up their celebrity wall calendars, they can naturally take a look at the new products that have just arrived at the store. It's the end of the year, the time when people are most willing to spend money.

In fact, Yang Che overestimated his mother's abilities. Wang Weiqing just saw the Little Fatty calendar while shopping at the mall and liked it no matter how she looked at it. She thought that the bank had recently given her rice, flour, oil, fruit, ribbonfish, and calendars, so she thought she would give them to her clients as well.

Of course, when customers later came to pick up their orders, Wang Weiqing did conclude that this was indeed a very good marketing method.

So this became a tradition. Every year at the end of the year, Wang Weiqing's shop would contact customers who left their contact information and send them small gifts.

After ending his phone call with Xiao Pang, Yang Che prepared to leave.

Gao Yuanyuan handed over the glucose...

At 8:10, Yang Che arrived at the Beijing Film Academy's Directing Department building on his golden deer. The more than sixty people at the entrance turned their heads to look at him. Some of them were students from the tutoring class, but most of them were unfamiliar faces. At that moment, they began to whisper among themselves.

"Is that Yang Che?"

"Yes, look at that big golden deer, who else could it be but him?"

"Are you crazy? 'My Sassy Girl' was such a hit, why do we still need to take the exam?"

"I want to be a director."

"Sigh! I don't even want to take the exam anymore. There are 60 people and only 6 spots. It's obvious that one of them is already decided."

"Don't talk nonsense. The more this is the case, the less likely it is to be predetermined."

"You believe that?"

"I believe you!"

"Tch, do you think the Beijing Film Academy will let him off the hook? Even if he gets a zero on the exam, they'll still admit him, you believe me?"

"With your level of understanding, I think you should just go home. It would be a miracle if you passed the exam."

"What the hell did you say?"

Keep your mouth clean.

"......"

As Yang Che approached, he curled his lip in disdain. "Old Beijing is such a coward. How can someone who doesn't even dare to fight get into the entertainment industry?"

The land of Yan and Zhao is full of generous and tragic heroes, but this does not include people from the capital. The older the people in the capital, the more timid they are.

Just like how people from Northeast China are ruthless, but the ruthlessness is actually only seen in Jilin. They don't brag much, but they do what they say they will do.

"Little Li".

Li Chen, who was trying to hide in the crowd, rolled her eyes. This guy was really something, calling her that in front of so many people.

Sure enough, following Yang Che's gaze and shouts, people all looked towards Li Chen in the crowd.

This shout also interrupted many people's thoughts of greeting Yang Che, after all, the youngest of the people here was twenty-two or twenty-three years old.

Yang Che did it on purpose; he couldn't be bothered to deal with it, knowing that he wouldn't be taking his phone out with him for the next few days.

I didn't talk much with Li Chen, and two or three minutes later I went into the building to prepare for the exam.

The directing department has a total of 3 examination rooms, and Yang Che is in examination room number 2.

The first exam is English, from 8:30 to 11:30.

The exam format is English 1, which is standard academic English, not a professional one.

The question types are vocabulary multiple choice, cloze test, reading comprehension, English to Chinese translation, and short essay writing. There is no listening comprehension section; that's for the retest.

This lesson left Yang Che completely bewildered. Take the cloze test, for example; he knew the answers, but just couldn't write them down...

Fortunately, the English-to-Chinese translation and short essay writing helped him regain some confidence. He figured passing shouldn't be a problem. Hmm, out of 100, he got 38...

After the exam, no one greeted me; I rode my Golden Deer home.

"Honey, you've worked so hard."

"You must have worked really hard. Here's a hug."

Gao Yuanyuan smiled and hugged him: "Okay, hurry up and wash your hands and eat."

When Yang Che returned to the dining table, he saw that there was quinoa brown rice, braised chicken legs with mushrooms, garlic spinach, and seaweed and egg drop soup.

"Isn't this supposed to be Zhajiangmian (noodles with soybean paste)? This is way too vegetarian."

"It's easy to get confused when eating noodles. Where's the vegetarian part? There's a chicken leg here."

"The chicken skin has all been peeled off..."

Gao Yuanyuan's expression changed: "Yang Che, are you going to eat or not?"

"Eat, eat, eat! Thank you, my little piggy bank! I'm so happy!"

Gao Yuanyuan pouted: "As long as you don't make me nervous."

"Glucose is a bit too sweet... cough, let's eat."

Gao Yuanyuan didn't ask her boyfriend how well he did on the exam. She just repeatedly told him to eat a full meal and kept urging him to take a nap after lunch. And she wouldn't sleep with him.

The political exam is in the afternoon, from 2 pm to 5 pm.

Marxist philosophy, political economy, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and current affairs.

The question types are: single choice, multiple choice, analytical, material analysis, and essay.

Yang Che had a blast doing this problem; it was like he got it for free.

For example, the multiple-choice question "Consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but also creates the objective world" illustrates that consciousness possesses ____ (A. decisiveness, B. foresight, C. initiative, D. proactivity).

The emergence of state monopoly capitalism is fundamentally a result of _____ (A. intensified domestic market competition, B. intensified international competition, C. strengthened monopoly rule, D. the development of the contradiction between the socialization of production and private monopoly).

(Please write your comments in the answer)

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As Yang Che answered the questions fluently, a proctor from some school watched with great interest, nodding repeatedly. "This kid is born to do publicity!"

The exam lasted three hours on the morning of January 23rd, covering literary theory and film theory.

Exam questions may include: Who came up with the idea of ​​"montage"?

What works are considered representative of modernist literature?

What effect do long takes in movies typically serve?

.........

The afternoon session lasted three hours and consisted of a test on directing creation and theory.

Unlike literary and artistic theory and film theory, the directing theory exam has four types of questions, all of which do not require rote memorization.

1. Definition: What is ideology?

2. Short answer questions, such as explaining what montage is and giving examples of its role in film;

3. Discuss and analyze the film "King of the Children," explaining how the director applied creative theories to achieve his artistic goals;

4. Case study: Select a familiar film and analyze the director's creative concept and artistic features in the film.

Yang Che was naturally analyzing "My Sassy Girl" and Cheng Er.

The exam on January 24th was only half a day long, and it was a film script writing assignment, which also lasted three hours.

You only need to complete one of the two questions.

The first step is to fully adapt Wang Zengqi's "Seeking Rain" into a film storyboard, and write a director's statement to cover the camera style, actor coordination, regional atmosphere, and overall control approach.

A short story of 1300 words would be acceptable.

The second task was to write the script and storyboard for the short film for the Olympic bid exhibition tour.