Chapter 14 A personal trainer was sent over
Not long after Zhang Yimou left, deputy director Gao Jinwen walked into Zhou Yan and his dormitory holding a plastic box.
"Xiao Zhou, here to receive the goods." Gao Jinwen shouted to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan looked at the box in his hand with a puzzled look on his face, "Director Gao, what is in this box?"
Gao Jinwen said with a smile, "You won't know if you open it. ”
Seeing that Gao Jinwen was cheating, Zhou Yan went to take the box.
The quality of this box is very poor. There are burrs on the edges. It is very uncomfortable to touch. It doesn’t look like it is packed with anything.
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows in surprise when he opened the zipper and saw what was inside.
There are more than a dozen bamboo flutes placed in the box, long and short, with various tunes, but they are all the same as the bamboo flute Zhang Yimou gave to Zhou Yan before.
Each flute is tied with a cassette. There is an empty cassette on the edge. It is estimated that the flute Zhang Yimou gave to Zhou Yan before came from here, and it was placed there with the empty cassette.
Zhou Yan couldn't help but secretly exclaim, "Good guy, I didn't realize that this piece of garbage is actually a suit."
"Director Gao, this..."
"Didn't you take the role of Chen Feipu? Director Zhang said that these are all your props." Gao Jinwen said.
Zhou Yan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, showing an indescribable expression, "It doesn't need so much..."
Gao Jinwen laughed, "It was given by someone else anyway, don't need it..." Don't worry about taking the money. If you don't take it, no one else will use the flute. There are only two flute players on the set and they are in your room."
Zhou Yan smiled to himself. With He Wuming's urine, there was no way he would want this kind of industrial waste.
"Okay, I'll keep it, and I'll return it after the filming is over."
Gao Jinwen waved his hand, "No need to return it, you can keep it yourself. You put the things away first." Okay, I have something else to tell you?”
“Oh, okay.”
Zhou Yan pulled the box up again and threw it onto the empty bed on his upper bunk.
Gao Jinwen smiled at Zhou Yan's action. It was obvious that Zhou Yan didn't like the gift from the director.
"Okay, let's talk about something serious. I probably know a little bit about your situation. The top students at Yangyin have never been exposed to acting."
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "The suspended student , a suspended student."
"A top student who is suspended from school." Gao Jinwen laughed, "Although the role of Chen Feipu does not have many roles, it is still a bit difficult for someone who has never been exposed to acting, so Director Zhang asked me to do it. I’m here to give you some training and guidance so that you can understand the character and become familiar with the performance as soon as possible before the filming of the movie begins.”
Zhou Yan sighed to himself, what is supposed to come has to come, this is right. How could Zhang Yimou let him appear on the scene with zero knowledge, so he sent him a personal trainer.
And this personal trainer is still Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan is really making money.
Gao Jinwen is not only the assistant director, but also the performance director of the crew. He graduated from the Chinese Opera and later stayed at the Chinese Opera to teach. He has been teaching in the Chinese Opera for more than ten years. This film The heroine of the movie, Gong Li, was once his student.
Before Zhou Yan traveled through time, he had been a teacher for more than ten years. He had not been a student for a long time. He had always been on leave from school at Yangyin. He was really nervous when this suddenly happened to him.
"Teacher Gao, should we start now?" Zhou Yan rubbed his hands and said.
Gao Jinwen nodded, "If you have time now, we will start." "We have time."
"Okay, let me first tell you about our course design..." At this point, Gao Jinwen coughed lightly, "Ahem, you can't talk about course design now, and we don't have time. Not much. It’s impossible to start from the basics and go step by step, so we have to focus on the character Chen Feipu. You must have read the book "Wives and Concubines""
Zhou Yan is not ashamed. Gao Jinwen smiled and said, "You just have to read it. Then you probably know the characteristics of Chen Feipu. Although the movie script is different from the novel, there are still many The common points. I don’t have a script at hand, so I’ll give you a brief description.”
……
There are indeed very few scenes involving Chen Feipu in the movie script, and Gao Jinwen finished it in less than three minutes. However, there are still some differences between Chen Feipu's scenes in the script and Zhou Yan's impression of Chen Feipu's scenes in the final film.
Comparatively speaking, there are more scenes in the script than in the movie.
After finishing the script, Gao Jinwen continued, "I won't tell you any theoretical knowledge. Let's go directly to the real scene."
"How to enter the real scene?" Zhou Yan asked doubtfully.
Gao Jinwen waved, "Follow me and bring the flute."
Then Gao Jinwen went out first, followed the stairs to the second floor, turned right from the stairs, walked through a walkway, and then went to an attic. It was empty inside. There were a few windows on the wall, but there were no windows.
Zhou Yan followed all the way over and felt that this room was very familiar to him. Gao Jinwen said, "This is the place where Songlian first met Chen Feipu."
He walked first At the second window, half of his butt was sitting on the window sill, with his back facing the direction of the door. "Come on, come on, sit like me and pretend to play the flute."
Zhou Yan listened to him. After running over and sitting down, pretending to be playing the flute, Gao Jinwen ran to the door again, looked at it, and then said, "Go forward and sit on the third window sill."
Then Zhou Yan ran over again On the third window sill, sit down in the same position.
"It's almost done now." Gao Jinwen said with a smile, "In the play, Songlian stood at this doorway, watching Chen Feipu play the flute. Chen Feipu is in your current posture."
"Then what should I do now?" Zhou Yan asked.
"What you have to do now is very simple. From now on, come here to play the flute twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, for half an hour each time. First, feel the atmosphere."
Zhou Yan He said in surprise, "That's it?"
"Well, that's it. Don't underestimate this. It will be very helpful for you to integrate into the character. After you have played for a few days, let's talk about the next step. After Chen Feipu finishes playing, The play where the flute turns around."
Zhou Yan finally understood. Gao Jinwen wanted him to go through the plot of the play first. There were only a few scenes anyway, and ten days and a half to rehearse each scene was nothing.
"Then...should I start now?"
Gao Jinwen nodded with a smile, "You can start now."
Zhou Yan sat sideways on the windowsill and adjusted his posture , first looked at the distance, thinking about what to play. After a while, he took a deep breath and started playing.
After the flute sounded, Gao Jinwen slowly backed away until he entered the door, and stood there looking at Zhou Yan's back.
Needless to say, this scene is really interesting, but it's a pity that it's cloudy today. If it were sunny, in the evening, with the dim sunlight shining in from the west, it would be great.
(End of this chapter)