Monday, March 1, 2004.
Spring in Yanjing came very suddenly. A sudden rise in temperature on Sunday made people mistakenly think that summer is coming, but that was just an anomaly. It was still chilly when I woke up on Monday morning, and the gloomy weather seemed to bring people back to winter. .
Judging from the schedule of the Olympic babies, they are considered to be on their own. There is no training mission on Sunday, but they still have to ask for leave from the two team leaders when they leave the training base.
After breakfast at 7:35 in the morning, the babies came to the training base and started to change clothes. In fact, it was easy for them to change clothes. Once they took off their thick coats or down jackets, they would wear tight-fitting training clothes. Since the first few weeks were all about basic training, there was no special requirement. The colors of their uniforms and pantyhose are not uniform either. Most of them wear white exercise uniforms with white socks, while some wear black tights with white socks. Only Tang Xiaoyuan wears a folk dance long-sleeved top and loose silk pants.
[Hey, when did Xiaoyuan come back? Has the piece directed by Sun passed the review of the directing team? 】
Tang Xiaoyuan, "Ah! Ah? How did I know? When a group of them were having a meeting, I stayed in the dressing room behind us and waited. I stayed there for more than an hour before someone asked me to take my instrument to the second floor and sit there. Director Sun asked me to play. Within five minutes, the staff took me away as soon as the sound of the flute stopped. I have no idea how they studied it. "
[Oh, I thought you might have some accurate information. 】
[Xiaoyuan, why are you dressed like this today? 】
"Auntie is here."
[Hahaha, then you might as well ask for leave. Our sister Dan asked for leave directly. 】
Tang Xiaoyuan pouted, "How dare you! Director Sun told me that the 25 of us still have to be screened. In the future, we will separate the first team, the substitute team, and some other performance groups and performance groups..."
【What? 】
【What's going on? Is there anyone among us who is going to be eliminated? 】
[Xiao Tang, is the news accurate? 】
[Why would Director Sun tell you this? 】
【……】
25 people, if they are boys, may get along well, but 25 girls will be divided into many small cliques, and it is very common for someone in the middle to dislike each other.
The person who has the best relationship with Tang Xiaoyuan is her roommate Wu Ruolan. Wu Ruolan is also from Yanjing Conservatory of Music, but she is a native of Yanjing and just came here this morning, so Tang Xiaoyuan's information is released for the first time.
They heard that they were going to be sorted and eliminated. Regardless of whether they were close or distant, the girls all participated in the discussion and asked questions.
Wu Ruolan, "Who are you talking to? Why would Director Sun say this to Xiaoyuan? If any of you can read the score once and play it, Director Sun will also take you to perform for the director team. It's not a secret. Let's chat on the way. Let’s just chat.”
【Don’t you mean that? 】
"What do you mean?"
Tang Xiaoyuan, "Okay, okay, Sister Lan, it's really not a secret. Director Sun said that he originally planned to choose more than a dozen people, and half of them will be substitutes."
If she had nothing to do with Sun Tao, Tang Xiaoyuan would have exploded a long time ago. Now she feels a little guilty because she heard all this news at Sun Tao's house and cannot withstand further investigation.
Fortunately, no one was willing to ask her about the interactions she had with Sun Tao at this time. Normally, she would just be a mass gossip. Now that it involves her own interests, no one is willing to delay business for the sake of gossip.
……
Tang Xiaoyuan only relayed it and did not explain it clearly. Everyone was anxiously looking forward to Sun Tao's appearance as soon as possible.
According to the last experience, Sun Tao would arrive at the training base after 11 o'clock, but Sun Tao didn't come until they finished lunch.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, just when the girls thought that the day's training was coming to an end, Sun Tao appeared in a white casual suit (Armani, 18,000 a set, Qi Jinhua bought it for him.)
Sun Tao, who usually wears down jackets, leather jackets, and military coats, instantly makes people's eyes shine when he puts on formal attire. When Sun Tao came in, the girl had just played "Jasmine" again. The girls were relaxing after dancing. Li Jiang and Wang Kai were discussing something...
Seeing Sun Tao, the two walked over quickly.
Wang Kai, "Director Sun!"
Li Jiang, "Director Sun, why are you here? The girls have been waiting for you all day, and they are all distracted from training."
Wang Kai was still cautious as usual, and Li Jiang still criticized and complained when he first came up, but Sun Tao clearly saw the difference. Wang Kai was less submissive in his caution, and Li Jiang was less hostile in his complaints.
Society is very realistic. Put aside the fetters of emotions and what remains is naked interest entanglement.
Parents see how good their children are, but what outsiders see is whether this person can bring me any benefit or whether I can hug his lap. In other words, can you bring him short-term benefits or long-term benefits? If he thinks that future generations can follow you to enjoy glory and wealth, then you should be careful to find in the belly of the fish that there are foxes in the wilderness of notes speaking human words.
Sun Tao can write novels, Sun Tao can do variety shows, Sun Tao can write lyrics and music, Sun Tao can make movies... But in the eyes of Li Jiang, Wang Kai, Zhang Qin and Wu Yuanying, these things are of no help to the preparations of the Olympic babies. On the contrary, this Young people have a bad reputation. Once he ruins the atmosphere here, these four people will have to eat melon together...
That day Sun Tao took out "The Elephant King's Journey". As soon as Tang Xiaoyuan finished playing, Sun Tao changed from a shit stirrer to a golden cudgel in the eyes of the four coaches!
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With the cooperation of four senior dancers and a group of super-positive Olympic babies, the arrangement of "The Elephant King" was unanimously affirmed by the director team on Wednesday, and the chief director Zhang Yimou also agreed to use "The Elephant King" as the first plan. Jasmine" became an alternative.
On Friday, when Zhang Yimou and Chen Weiya accompanied the leaders of Yanjing City and the organizing committee for an inspection, they also watched the results of the girls’ two weeks of training. (Everyone knows that they are here to watch the performance of "The Elephant King", but they must say that they are here to inspect and watch the performance just by the way. Sun Tao has never understood the mystery.)
Sun Tao has conquered everyone in the field of arrangement, but the choreography is even more surprising. I heard that Sun Tao knows nothing about many terms of choreography, but the dance moves he proposed are very effective in rehearsing them. In Li Jiang's words: Sun Tao The director looked confused, but the opinions he gave were the finishing touch.
The leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and the Olympic Organizing Committee all smiled happily after watching "Jasmine" and "The King of Elephants", but no one expressed their opinion on the spot which one was better and more in line with their wishes.
[Everyone is fine, everything is fine. Thank you all for your hard work. Director Zhang, your ability to advance the program to this level in such a short period of time far exceeded our expectations! 】
[That is, we thought that the show was a bit promising but it was not released after May Day. 】
[We estimate it will be two months, but you will hand in the paper in two weeks. 】
Zhang Yimou waved his hands repeatedly, "In terms of credit, Sun Tao has to be the one who deserves the most credit."
Sun Tao, "Haha, the four coaches worked harder than me, and the girls also devoted themselves to the program adjustment process."
[Hahaha, you still deserve the greatest credit! 】
Sun Tao, "The credit belongs to everyone..."
……
Although the leaders did not express their stance on the spot, everyone knew that having no attitude was just an attitude.
After the matter was settled, Sun Tao also emptied his inventory, and he had revealed everything related to "The Journey of the Elephant King".
In the next two weeks, Sun Tao also participated in the costume design work and continued to listen to Li Jiang and others studying the choreography but rarely gave any opinions.
Li Jiang and Wang Kai were very grateful to Sun Tao. They knew that Director Sun was giving them a chance to show off and did not want one person to take all the credit.
By the end of March, "The Elephant King" basically met the requirements after several reviews, and the only thing left was to practice together with other programs.
According to Sun Tao, the girls would be able to disband after practicing this. He thought about it, but he didn't dare to say it out loud because everyone from Chen Weiya, Li Jiang, Zhang Qin to the 25 Olympic babies were treated like chickens. The movements must be neat and uniform, the expressions, postures, and even how to maintain the folds of the clothes are carefully studied.
Sun Tao became a bored spectator at the training base, with nothing to do except look at beautiful women every day. (End of chapter)