Chapter 573: Grasping the core connotation
“Grand Duke Wesson invites you to his house?”
Everyone in the Phila City delegation looked at Ludovico in surprise, as if they were the first It was like knowing him for the first time.
People started asking him all kinds of questions.
“Do you have any business to hide from us?”
"Did you do anything bad when you went to the Principality of Wesson last year?"
"Do you have a beautiful older sister?"
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Ludovi Ke also wondered that he and Grand Duke Weisen had no intersection at all. Why was he looking for him?
Because of this, he arranged the meeting at afternoon tea time the next day, so that he could have a good memory and have enough time to run away if it was something bad.
"Uh..." Ludovico suddenly thought of something, "I seem to know why he invited me."
Everyone looked at him. If there is really a big business, then they will order soup.
Ludovico promised that the guys all had green eyes, like wolves trying to eat people. He swallowed and said: "Archduke Weisen is a student of Ms. Qingju. Ms. Qingju and I We have been pen pals for many years. Although we have not met in person, we often discuss poetry in letters.”
Many officials in the Kingdom of Sardinia have a background in law and literature. Read some literature.
They knew that Ludovico was a great poet, but they didn't expect that he was actually related to another famous female poet.
Just as Ludovico thought, when he came to Frederick's residence the next day, Frederick really came to him to talk about literature.
Frederick soon brought the topic to drama, and Ludovico couldn't help but complain.
Ludovico shook his head and said: "Tragedy is very popular in the Kingdom of Sardinia now. The more it hurts people's hearts and makes people shed more tears, then it is a good drama."
"These The tragic scenery is gorgeous, the scenes are grand, the actors' monologues are so long that it makes people sleepy, and the lyrics are boring and preachy, which is boring."
"Life is already so depressing, why do you still have to watch a play? Shedding tears, wouldn’t it be better to laugh more?”
"Besides, if you want to preach, drama can also preach."
"Last year, I went to Weissenburg with the Phila City Government to participate in the World Expo. I fell ill there, and when I recovered, I had already begun to Snow, I went to the theater every day throughout the winter.”
“At first I thought the farce was just for fun, but it wasn’t until I watched it for the third time that I realized there was something preachy about it.”< br>
Frederick asked with great interest: "Which scene is it?"
Ludovico said: "There is a sign saying 'The road ahead for bridge construction is blocked'," Many people didn't believe it, so they made excuses to continue walking. When they found out that the bridge in front of them could not be walked, they came back in despair and complained to each other. Then they found the words 'Believe it, fool' behind the sign."
"I work in the city government of Fira City. I used to write notices a lot, and there were many people who didn't read the notices."
"I suddenly discovered that day that this farce was telling the audience in a way that they would not read the notices." There will be no good outcome if you read the notice.”
Frederick just smiled, thinking that what he said made sense, but this scene came from real life.
Ludovico continued: "In fact, the comedy is not very good. The content is the same. It is either a misunderstanding or an affair. In the past two years, it has been popular for lost children to recognize their relatives when they grow up. In the end, With the help of noble people, the audience will know the content of the story as soon as they see the name of the play. The only highlights are the actors' performance and adapted lines. Some theater companies also add acrobatics and actresses to attract the audience. Things like wearing clothes and dancing.”
"Now there is a new kind of pastoral drama. It is for city people to watch. The story is set in a rural pastoral. The main musical instrument is the reed flute, and the characters are farmers and shepherdesses." Then he said with a smile. : "Last month, when a troupe there performed a pastoral drama, they brought a real cow on stage. As a result, the cow pooped a big poop on the stage, and the audience burst into laughter."
"Later, when the show was performed again, it was so awesome that the audience was still dissatisfied."
Frederick laughed, and the audience was watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.
After he finished laughing, he said: "It seems that many of your plays here are about ordinary people. Are there any about the aristocratic court?"
Ludovico replied: "Of course, but those are mostly big plays in big theaters. Citizens prefer to go to small theaters to watch small plays by ordinary people."
"I prefer to write about ordinary people. In big plays, the lyrics need to follow the rhythm, which is a headache, but small plays are not so particular.”
“And there are more small theaters, and the income from selling scripts is higher.”
Frederick nodded and said: "It seems that although the market for short plays is large, the content and themes are still the same, without many major breakthroughs."
Ludovico nodded and said: "Indeed So, I’m actually tired of it.”
"But I found a new direction. When I was in Weissenburg, I read a collection of your essays on art work. It mentioned that art comes from life, and creators should get inspiration from life."
< br>“There was an exhibition of the ‘Wesson School’ at that time. I went to see it. The themes were all about field work and workers in factories. There were many people watching and buying.”
“This I was greatly inspired and began to try to collect materials around me. At this time, I met an interesting person from the Kingdom of Gaul. "
Frederick had some knowledge of the Wesson school of painting.
Nowadays, there are many painters in Weissenburg. In order to sell their paintings, some people began to break through the limitations of the original subject matter. At first, they succeeded in painting tractors, and then some people began to paint workers in the ironworks.
The size of these paintings is not large, usually 80×60 cm in large size and 40×30 cm in small size. The price is not expensive and many people can afford it.
After printmakers entered this field, this type of paintings began to appear on postcards and stamps, and spread throughout the Rhine League through the initially established postal system.
The same is true for drama. Frederick had long advocated that creators write more dramas about working life. However, it was not very popular after leaving the Duchy of Wesson. Works with military themes were quite popular.
Frederick asked Ludovico: "Did you meet the Gaulish oyster seller?"
Ludovico immediately replied: "Yes, his surname is Daffron. She, I wrote a play based on his story after I came back in the spring. Do you know him too?”
Frederick said: "I have heard of him."
"I watched the play you wrote yesterday and I was a little dissatisfied, so I wanted to talk to you."
Lu Dovico suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He never expected that he was summoned because the play he wrote angered Archduke Wesson. If he had known this, he would have run away last night.
Frederick smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, I am not here to accuse."
"I think you have not grasped the core connotation of Da Franche's experience. Your script is actually It’s just that the old content has been given a new skin, and it’s not fundamentally different from other reskinned dramas.”
Ludovico was relieved to see that he was not guilty, but he felt uncomfortable hearing him criticize his script.
(End of this chapter)