Bright Era of China Entertainment

Hearing the sound of the fading away outside, Liu Xiaoli walked to the door and looked out. There was no one at the end of the corridor. Presumably, the two children had already gone downstairs to set off for the set.

She closed the door and turned back to the living room.

"Did Xiaoxuan say nothing?" Wang Jinhua's voice came from the computer video on the coffee table.

"You don't know about him?" Liu Xiaoli smoothed her skirt, sat down gracefully, looked at Wang Jinhua in the video and said, "It's like nothing happened, I went to the set."

Wang Jinhua in the video smiled slightly: "Xiaoxuan's mentality is really good, which makes people feel at ease."

"There shouldn't be anything wrong, right?" Liu Xiaoli asked, Chu Xuan didn't take it seriously, she was still worried about her son-in-law as a mother-in-law.

It is incredible to her that just recording a variety show can generate public opinion, and the direction of public opinion is still academic.

The black fans and those experts and professors are also very funny. They don't pay attention to the focus of variety shows and entertainment, and come here specifically to find fault with Chu Xuan, the teaching assistant.

She was really popular, and she could only use this to let go of her feelings.

"It's not something outrageous or against moral character. What's the matter? The next episode of the program will cause a new topic, and this matter will be dismissed. It's okay." Wang Jinhua didn't take it seriously, after all It's really not a big deal.

There have been many debates about artistic thought in the past few decades, and there is no conclusion from the beginning to the end.

It's just that Chu Xuan's popularity is high, and the media have brought something that should have been debated in private or in academic newspapers to the Internet to arouse public opinion.

If the core character is not Chu Xuan, the audience will not be interested in paying attention at all. When a new topic arises and sparks heated discussions, the matter will naturally end.

"Don't worry about it, we'll see the situation in a few days." Wang Jinhua said to Director Xiao of the marketing department.

"Okay." Director Xiao nodded, turned and left.

This incident happened suddenly, because Chu Xuan's high popularity also spread quickly.

Debates on the Internet are not called debates, but discussions at most. After all, most of the audience's perception of performances is one-sided. It would be a bit embarrassing for them to say something. Just eat melons.

But for the professional students of various colleges and universities, the performance theory that Chu Xuan expounded in the variety show had a great influence on them.

——Academy of Chinese Opera.

"Dinglingling——" the sound of the get out of class bell rang.

"Okay, that's it for this class, get out of class is over." Liu Tianchi put away his textbooks and walked out.

"Teacher Liu!" Suddenly a classmate shouted.

On the way to the door, Liu Tianchi heard the reputation, only to hear the student ask: "Is what Chu Xuan said right?"

Yesterday was Friday, and they watched the current episode at home.

If it was another variety show, acting students like them might not be interested, but "I Am an Actor" is the first show about actors, which is very attractive to them.

Among them, the occasional teaching by Chen Daoming, Zhang Guoli and others, including the teaching of their teacher Liu Tianchi, also allowed them to learn something.

But Chuxuan...

The three performance systems mentioned by Chu Xuan are included in this textbook, so there is no problem.

But what kind of three-act performance framework did Chu Xuan talk about?Not in the textbook either.

They admitted that Chu Xuan was indeed excellent, but he was not a few years older than them. Seeing Chu Xuan eloquently talk about performances, they doubted whether it was something they hadn't learned.

Chu Xuan is excellent, but in terms of qualifications, performance experience, academic experience, etc., he can't compare with teachers like Chen Daoming, but what he said sounds more professional than these teachers.

This made them subconsciously deny it, and they really wanted to ask the teacher for an answer in today's vacation make-up class.

"Is it right? Try it yourself. If you think it works, then it's right. If it doesn't work, you can't say it's wrong. You can only say that the method Chu Xuan said is not suitable for you." Liu Tianchi said such a sentence, and walked away go out.

The teacher left, and the students in the classroom looked at each other in blank dismay.

Either it's right or it's not for us?

What the teacher said...

Obviously, in Teacher Liu Tianchi's heart, what Chu Xuan said was right.

This answer made them feel entangled. They hoped that the teacher would deny Chu Xuan. Chu Xuan is already very good. If he has made some achievements in acting, they are not willing to worry about the lack of balance. Believe and admit.

——Commercial housing in the community, a duplex building on the top floor.

"Teacher Huang." Huang Lei was cooking in the kitchen wearing an apron. When he received a call from a student, he turned off the stove to avoid noise and let the voice of the phone be heard more clearly: "What's wrong?"

The female student on the phone asked: "Is the three-act performance framework mentioned by Senior Brother Chu Xuan practical and applicable? Although I have never heard of it, I think it makes sense. I want to think about it in private, but I don't know. Will there be a conflict with existing performance theories."

"No." Huang Lei shook his head: "Go and think about it, starting from next semester, you have learned."

The female student on the phone fell silent, did we learn from next semester?

She didn't understand what Huang Lei's words meant, so she followed her own words and asked, "Oh, okay, then during the summer vacation, I'll be thinking about Brother Chu Xuan's theory, and if I don't understand, can I ask the teacher?"

"Yes, but try to send text messages." Huang Lei said.

After hanging up the phone, Huang Lei turned on the stove and continued cooking: "This kid is a talent."

Compared with Chu Xuan's graduation thesis last year, what Chu Xuan said in the program yesterday was not the essence.

After a year of research by the school, they have also found the practical feasibility of the three-act performance method that Chu Xuan said.

"It's a pity not to be a teacher." Huang Lei smiled, and raised his hand skillfully to shake the pot.

——Bright Times Film and Television Company.

Wen Muye was sitting on the office chair, clacking and typing on the keyboard with both hands.

He frowned slightly, looking in a bad mood.

He had successfully graduated last month. With the sci-fi micro-movie "Hope" as his representative work, it would be no problem for him to win an outstanding graduate in directing.

After graduating, he went home and spent a few days with his family, and then he returned to the director team of "Hope", which is an important part of the review department for the company's screenwriter industrialization.

He is very concerned about this matter, it is related to the progress of "Hope" filming a big movie, and it is also related to the speed of directing a big movie for the first time in his life.

This is an opportunity given to him by senior brother Chu Xuan. He has been very serious in the past few months in the company, and he is afraid that he will let down the trust of senior brother and teacher Liu Yi.

He has also been very passionate about this work for several months.

It's just that he encountered some troubles today, which made him not in a good mood.

[The script has a three-act structure, and the shots have a three-act editing method, so the performance cannot have a three-act framework?Negating without any practical application, is this your behavioral cognition in art? 】

Wen Muye entered such a passage on Weiyu. This is the official homepage of the Beijing Film Academy. Because of the reactions caused by Chu Xuan's teaching incident in the program, people from various academies such as Chinese Opera and Shanghai Opera came to visit. Beiying's official Weibo account confirmed Chu Xuan's statement.

Chu Xuan is not only his senior brother, but also his idol, not an idol in terms of celebrities, but an idol in terms of artistic thought and artistic pursuit.

He was able to share the same goals with senior brother Chu Xuan, and it was Chu Xuan who brought him on the road.

He can have such a clear artistic direction today, Chu Xuan, a good teacher and helpful friend, plays a very important role in his life.

Seeing many people attacking senior brother Chu Xuan from a professional point of view, Wen Muye had no choice but to fight back.

【Performance should not be bound. Only by obeying the laws of nature can the nature of the characters be performed. It is a fallacy to define a framework for the performance. Well, thanks to you Wen Muye, you are still a director with well-known works. You don’t understand this? 】

[The three-act performance framework proposed by Chu Xuan must restrict the performance?Have you practiced it?Have you thought about it carefully?Attacking theory with theory is a wrong way, the most important thing is practice if the theory is right or not! 】

After typing this text, Wen Muye picked up the water glass and took a sip of water.

Now these college students are really too self-righteous, which set of theories attacks another set of theories?It doesn't make sense at all.

You have the ability to express your true feelings through practice. You don’t have any practical statements, so what are you copying directly from the textbook?
What's more, these college students probably don't know the logic at the bottom of basic knowledge.

Wen Muye put down the water glass and began to "educate" these ignorant college students.

[Do you know what a three-act scene is? 】

【You think I'm stupid?It is not just a logical closed loop composed of three elements: start-process-result. 】

[Then do you know how the three-act scene came about? 】

Seeing that the other party didn't reply for a long time, Wen Muye suddenly laughed, probably this kid was looking up information on the Internet.

However, the details of this information cannot be found online, only theoretical things can be found.

Boy, go to the library and read more books.

[Why should the linear structure of the script follow the three-act formula?In general, why should there be a structure of beginning-process-result?
In our humanistic society, under normal circumstances, do you start by getting up, brushing your teeth, washing your face and having breakfast every day, then go to work for a day as the process, and go home to sleep as the end of the day as the result?

Art comes from life. Based on this real social situation, we have the definition of the three-act script.

The three-act act is a straight line, and the plot goes straight along this straight line, so there is a saying of linear structure.

With the theory of linear structure, we began to follow this theory to create scripts and design dramatic conflicts. Often many dramatic conflicts do not conform to reality, but they conform to the background of the script.

This is called art higher than life.

At the beginning of the [-]th century, the montage theory was widely used, and the three-act editing method was also integrated into the film and television system, which was embodied in the post-editing.

Generally, the story in a plot is the beginning, the character's reaction is the process, and the character's behavior is the result.

The above is the application of the three-act style in script creation and film and television editing.

The three-act performance framework proposed by Chu Xuan, first of all, is in line with the laws of humanistic society proposed by people at first, and the laws of humanistic society are the laws of nature.

So, why do you say that Chu Xuan's theory does not obey the natural laws of performance? 】

Wen Muye went over in one breath. Seeing that the number of likes for his speech soared, he also knew that it was the fellow students of Beijing Film Academy who were supporting him in front of the screen, so he smiled.

Seeing that the other party didn't speak for a long time, he shook his head, comparing professionalism with me?You are still young.

[There is no specific definition of any performance style, any performance method is an artistic presentation, and there is no absolute good or bad.

It is precisely because of the ambiguity in performance and those floating academic theories that major colleges do not have a specific and single teaching method for performance teaching.

For example, in mathematics, 1+1=2, it tells you clearly that it is equal to 2.

But how to play a character?Did your textbook tell you clearly?Must act like this?Still have to act how?Are there such words as must and affirmation?no.

Now that Chu Xuan has proposed a performance theory with a specific direction, why don't you give it a try?How do you know if it works if you don't try it?If you don't try it, how do you know that this will definitely restrict the actor's acting instinct? 】

Wen Muye finished typing this passage, and saw a large number of juniors and juniors speak out, "You're right, you'll know if it works after you try it", "Yes, if you haven't tried it, just say what it looks like" and other supportive words. if.

"Senior Brother's influence in Beijing Film Academy is huge, and there are a large number of fanboys and girls." He said.

[I'm going to think about Chu Xuan's theory, and fight again in the future. 】

Seeing this reply, Wen Muye was startled, and then laughed.

You think about it?If it doesn't work out, if you meet Chu Xuan in the future, you must be sincere and call the teacher.

……

"Crack."

In the afternoon, Hengcheng Film and Television City, the set of "Legend of Red Flame".

The scene is the dirt official road outside the ancient city gate, Chu Xuan is riding a horse and leading "hundreds" of guards composed of dozens of performers to prepare for the expedition.

There are small hills lined with trees on both sides. Concubine Liu Yi rode a bay red horse to see Chu Xuan off on the right hillside, but she was unlucky and her hair was caught by the branches.

"Are you okay?" Chu Xuan was about to get off his horse and look at the situation.

"Don't come, it's okay." Concubine Liu Yi lowered her head and tilted her head slightly, Zeng Ni was taking the branch out of her hair for her.

Hearing this, Chu Xuan stopped dismounting, returned to the horse and looked up.

"Okay." Zeng Ni said, and the crew broke off the twigs that stretched out, so as not to affect the filming.

Concubine Liu Yi touched her head, lowered her head and made an "OK" gesture to Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan nodded, and each made new preparations.

The scene is marked, and the shooting begins.

On the official road, facing the setting sun, Chu Xuan rode slowly.

In the script, the Northern Army suddenly increased its troops, and Lin Xie, the commander of the Red Flame Army, was afraid of a change and asked the imperial court to send troops for reinforcements.

A Red Flame Army controlled by Lin Shu just came in handy, and was ordered to send troops to his father Lin Xie's battlefield in the northwest.

Why did Bei Rong suddenly increase its troops?
Lin Shu's Red Flame Army was the last of the Red Flame Army, and it was a coincidence that the entire army was dispatched.

Who issued the order?

Did the emperor do it himself, or was someone persuaded?

All of this is the starting point of the entire story line of "Legend of Red Flame", and it will also be the beginning of the annihilation of the Red Flame Army. This is also the place where Princess Nihuang saw her fiancé Lin Shu for the last time.

"Young commander." A personal guard called out.

Chu Xuan immediately turned his head, looked at the eyes of the guard and glanced to the side: "The Princess is here."

Chu Xuan followed his gaze to the right, looked up, and his eyes collided with Concubine Liu Yi on the hillside path.

Concubine Liu Yi smiled sweetly, and the corners of Chu Xuan's mouth curled up.

"You go first." He said concisely.

"Wei." The leading guard bowed his head and accepted the order.

In the army, military orders are like mountains, and when facing superior officials, they must be the leader.

In Liu Yi's thinking, the Chi Yan Army is unparalleled in loyalty, and may have regarded the coach or the Lin family as the only objects of loyalty.

In order to distinguish the difference between the Chiyan Army and other armies, in this play, soldiers in other armies call "yes" when they take orders, and "only" in the Chiyan Army.

Chu Xuan rode away from the team, and his subordinates passed him and continued on.

Chu Xuan rode forward against the hillside, and Concubine Liu Yi walked parallel to him on the trail on the hillside.

Walking to the lower part of the hillside, Chu Xuan jumped up on the horse, Liu Yifei reined in the horse and stopped the horse, and the two met.

"Why are you here?" Chu Xuan asked gently.

"Send you off." Concubine Liu Yi said softly.

There was only this one sentence in the conversation, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.

As an ancient general, Chu Xuan is cold on the outside and hot on the inside when it comes to his feelings, and he is not good at expressing.

After a while, he said: "Aren't you afraid of being shot as a spy?"

"Would you?" Concubine Liu Yi asked back, looking at Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan smiled, lowered his head slightly and didn't know what to say, as if thinking of something, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Concubine Liu Yi: "I won't be able to attend your birthday this year, and I will make it up for you next year."

"Okay." Concubine Liu Yi said softly and authentically. For two people who love each other deeply, this is just a trivial matter. Just a word "good" can express thousands of expectations.

Chu Xuan struggled with the topic again, but he couldn't think of what to say for a long time, so he turned his head to look at the marching team that was gone, and looked back at Concubine Liu Yi with a little reluctance, and then disappeared his reluctance. :"I'm leaving."

Concubine Liu Yi nodded gently, and the horse moved under her crotch, causing her body to sway from side to side, but she still kept her eyes on Chu Xuan turning the horse's head.

Chu Xuan leaped down the hillside, looked up at Concubine Liu Yi again at the bottom of the hillside, then turned his head decisively and shouted "Drive!", and galloped away.

Until Chu Xuan disappeared without a trace, Concubine Liu Yi couldn't recover for a long time.

"Crack!"

"Pass!"

Hearing this, Concubine Liu Yi got off the horse by herself and landed on the ground cleanly with both feet.

The crew brought the horse back, and Concubine Liu Yi walked down the hillside.

When they came to the bottom of the hill, the sound of horseshoes could be heard, and the figure of Chu Xuan galloping back appeared from the corner, stopped the horse one or two meters in front of Concubine Liu Yi, and jumped off the horse with one hand.

"Handsome." Concubine Liu Yi raised two thumbs up and looked at him charmingly.

Chu Xuan took a few steps forward and walked back side by side with her, patted the ashes on his hands from reining in the horse, and said, "Is it almost finished?"

"That's right." Concubine Liu Yi came to her senses, thought about the filming plan for her part, and said, "My film should be finished in ten and a half months."

Chu Xuan nodded. Although the main heroine had a lot of roles, after adjusting the tricks, the roles were basically concentrated on her alone. It was a bit tiring, but the efficiency was very fast.

It's only been over a month, and Concubine Liu Yi's role is almost done.

"I'm going to America at the end of the month." Concubine Liu Yi took Chu Xuan's hand, clasped her fingers tightly, and pressed them tighter to Chu Xuan's arm.

She had just parted with Chu Xuan in the play, and the emotions had not dissipated in reality, and she remembered that she would really be separated from Chu Xuan soon, which made her very depressed.

"There's still a birthday." She said suddenly, her birthday is 20 days away, and grandma, aunt, and others will all come, which makes her happy again.

Suddenly, Concubine Liu Yi didn't know what to think of, shaking the hand she held with Chu Xuan, she showed her face and said, "Brother Lin Shu can't appear on my birthday this year, and he can make it up next year, what about you?"

Her tone was full of mischief.

Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing, I don't know why, after several years of filming with Concubine Liu Yi, I always encountered the same things in and out of the film, which is really interesting.

"I haven't prepared any presents, just like Lin Shu, I'll make up for you next year, okay?" he said.

Concubine Liu Yi's coming-of-age ceremony can be said to have burned out his brain cells. He racked his brains to come up with all kinds of surprises, and they are all unique and cannot be copied by others, which is very meaningful.

Today is Concubine Liu Yi's 20th birthday, probably because her brain cells are still charging, he really can't think of what unique gift to prepare.

Some time ago, when I went shopping with my mother-in-law, I discussed it with my mother-in-law, and my mother-in-law said that all the surprises for him will be put in next year.

Hearing what his mother-in-law said, he also felt that it was feasible, so he did it.

"No!" Concubine Liu Yi refused.

Chu Xuan was startled and looked at her.

"Lin Shu will die as soon as he leaves, so there's no next year, you can't be like him!" Concubine Liu Yi spoke plausibly, with a playful smile in her eyes.

Chu Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, the way of thinking of this demon girl was so clear that he never expected it.

"To be honest, there are a lot of things going on this year, and I really don't have any surprises planned. I'll go shopping with you on your birthday," he said.

"Again, I said it earlier, gifts are not important, am I such a superficial person?" Concubine Liu Yi pretended to be dissatisfied, and raised her eyebrows at Chu Xuan again: "You are my biggest surprise, understand."

Chu Xuan was silent for a while, although he was moved, he still said: "It's so disgusting."

Concubine Liu Yi was startled, and saw Chu Xuan shake off her hand and run away.

She laughed angrily, and pointed at Chu Xuan: "I said that to make you feel at ease, you give me this? Chu Xuan, believe it or not, I will beat you to death!"

Chu Xuan smiled, walked back, and allowed Concubine Liu Yi to twist his waist unhappily.

He took Concubine Liu Yi's hand and continued walking forward.

"I'll make up a surprise for you next year."

"I don't want it, just live a normal life, why pay so much attention to it."

Chu Xuan smiled without saying a word, got into the commercial vehicle with Concubine Liu Yi, and headed towards the hotel. (end of this chapter)