The graduation drama of the Acting Department of Yenching Film Academy is a graduation performance, and the performance venue is in the school's theater, which is an on-campus activity, mainly for the school's teachers and students. However, although this kind of performance is not a ticketed performance, it is not forbidden for non-university personnel to enter the venue.

There are many relatives and friends who came to see Zhao Rui's graduation performance this time. Four of the five families have people who are actors, except for Lin Shaohua and his wife, who are far away in Shencheng, and Xiao Siqi and Zhou Lixing, two elders who are not interested in acting at all, the others are basically all here. But such a large group of people did not sit together.

This is a graduation report performance, and the leaders and teachers of the school have specially arranged seats, and they are arranged in a better position in the middle and front rows. Sun Zhihao is Yandian's teacher, and the seats are arranged. Others don't have this treatment, so they can only find free seats on both sides and in the back.

When they entered the venue, there were already many students sitting in the audience, except for the back row, which had a very bad sight, there were no more empty seats in front of them, and the group had to divide into two groups. Today is Zhao Rui's graduation show, and Zhao Rui's sister Zhao Ru is also here. Zhao Ru is already in her thirties, and she sat with Zhao Tao and his wife, Ye Jiaying and Hu Xuena, who were of the older generation, and Xiao Yao, Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan, Nina Aiyiguli, Zhou Zhihao and Zhu Zitong, several young people in their twenties, sat in another group.

After entering the venue, Sun Zhihao gave Xiao Yao and the others a few simple explanations, and watched them find their positions before going to their seats.

At this time, the performance had not yet started, and after Xiao Yao and the others found their seats, they had nothing to do, so they sat on the seats and chatted casually.

Everyone was mainly discussing how Zhao Rui would behave tonight, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao even proposed to let Sun Tingting and Nina, two girls, help them occupy their seats, and a few of them sneaked backstage to see Zhao Rui who was preparing for the performance.

Xiao Yao was also very excited about this proposal, but before a few people could make the trip, they were interrupted by an accident.

"Bayi!" Sun Tingting patted Xiao Yao's shoulder, pointed behind him and whispered, "My dad is here!"

Xiao Yao, who was meeting with Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao to discuss whether to sneak back to find Zhao Rui, looked back and found that Sun Zhihao came over with an old man with gray hair but good spirits.

"Xiao Yao, this is the vice president of our acting academy, Shen Hongshu Shen Lao. I heard that you are here, so I came to see you!" Walking up to a few little guys, Sun Zhihao introduced the old man beside him to Xiao Yao.

Every year, the school attaches great importance to the graduation drama. Today, not only the leaders and teachers of the School of Acting were present, but even the leaders of the School of Film were present in the theater. Sun Zhihao is a teacher in the acting department of the Film Academy, and the current students are in the same class as Xiao Yao, and they have just finished their junior year. Although the students he brought for this graduation performance were not his students, because he was not only famous in the circle, but also had deep qualifications and prestige in the school, the location of this graduation performance was also quite good, not far from the seats of the acting academy and school leaders.

Sun Zhihao's position was next to this old dean Shen, and the two chatted a few words before the performance, and inadvertently talked about Xiao Yao. Hearing Sun Zhihao say that Xiao Yao is also here today, this old Shen courtyard proposed to come and see this legendary little demon on a whim. Sun Zhihao was a student of Shen Lao back then, and the teacher wanted to see Xiao Yao, of course Sun Zhihao didn't say anything, so he immediately got up to call Xiao Yao over, but Shen Lao waved his hand and asked them to go over by themselves.

"Hello Shen Lao!" Xiao Yao quickly stood up, took off the hat on his head, and bowed to the old man.

"Hello Shen Lao!" Sun Tingting, Lin Qisan, Nina, Zhou Zhihao and Zhu Zitong also stood up and bowed and said hello.

Although Shen Hongshu is now the vice president, he is not good at administrative work. A few decades ago, he was also a very well-known film director in Huaxia, and he has been a teacher in Yandian for many years, bringing out a group of star students such as Sun Zhihao, who belongs to the kind of artists who are obsessed with academics and devote themselves to the film career.

Four of these six people are studying acting and have already become actors, Sun Tingting plans to be an actor in the future, and she also knows that the teacher in front of her is her father, and even Zhou Zhihao is thinking about mixing in the form of cameos in his brothers' film and television works in the future. In the face of such an old-timer in the entertainment industry, several people even have a sense of sincerity and fear in addition to respect.

"Hello!" Shen Hongshu waved his hand with a smile, "Don't be so nervous." It is said that it is better to be famous than to meet, and I just came to see the young genius who has been famous for a long time. ”

"It's still Bayi Niu!" the vice presidents of Yandian all came over to see him!" Lin Qisan muttered quietly. Everyone knows who Shen Hongshu's "young genius" refers to.

"I can't afford you to say that. Xiao Yao hurriedly bent down and said, "I have been famous for you for a long time, I should go to see you!"

"Why can't you afford it?" Shen Hongshu said with a smile, "Your animated movie has a box office of almost 900 million, right? A student of the acting department who has not yet graduated, and made an animated movie with a box office of one billion yuan and a reputation of more than 8 o'clock, can't he still be worthy of the title of a genius?"

"Robot Wall-E" was released last Thursday, and the box office in the first four days was more than 300 million. In the early days of the movie's release, it was normal for the box office on Monday to drop by half compared to Sunday. The next two days, Monday and Tuesday, should be the two days when the box office fell sharply. However, due to the box office explosion of the first weekend, the good reputation of the movie spread more rapidly, the theater further increased the film schedule, and some schools began to have summer vacation this week, and there was such a new force in the film market, and the film market actually maintained a box office similar to the first two days of the first weekend.

By Wednesday, the single-day box office of the movie finally had a certain decline, but the decline was not very large, and it only fell by about 20% month-on-month. On Thursday, it continued to fall by more than 10 percent, but on Friday, the box office reversed and reached Wednesday's level. After all, the first nine days of the release of this movie are indeed close to 900 million. There are still more than two weeks to go, and judging from this trend, it will definitely not be a problem to break one billion.

"You've won the prize!" Xiao Yao smiled, "That's everyone's credit!"

"Grandpa Shen, sit down!" Sun Tingting let go of her seat and said, "Sit down and talk!"

"Okay!" Shen Hongshu nodded to Sun Tingting with a smile, waved his hand, and said, "Sit down!"

Xiao Yao: There are no other vacant seats near them. Sun Tingting gave up her seat to Shen Hongshu, and Zhu Zitong gave up her seat to Sun Zhihao, who came with her, and stood next to her like Sun Tingting. This is the Yanjing Film Academy, Zhu Zitong is the master, and Sun Zhihao took them to that class, even if he didn't bring her class, he was also her teacher.

"The success of a movie is indeed the credit of everyone," after sitting down, Shen Hongshu looked at Xiao Yao again, "But I heard that the planning, producer, director, and screenwriter of that movie are all you, and even the character image is designed by you, if you want to count the credit, it must be your greatest credit." ”

"Hehe!" Xiao Yao scratched his head with a smile and stopped talking.

"I haven't heard Lao Xiao mention you," Shen Hongshu continued, "I've always praised you for being a genius!"

"My grandfather, what grandfather doesn't boast about his grandson?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Since I lived with him when I was a child, he took me to show off in front of the old man when he had nothing to do!"

"Later, I heard Zhihao mention you, and they all praised you!" Shen Hongshu said with a smile.

"Uncle Sun, this is my future father-in-law, of course I have to praise him," Xiao Yao smiled, "Otherwise, doesn't it mean that his daughter has a problem with her vision?

"Hey~ you kid!" Sun Zhihao glared at Xiao Yao.

"Future father-in-law?" Shen Hongshu looked at Sun Zhihao and Sun Tingting who was standing aside, hehe, "It should be generous, not bad!"

"To be honest, I didn't think much of Lao Xiao's words at first. It's been a little while, and I've seen a lot of it. Shen Hongshu continued, "A few years ago, when you acted in a TV series and won an award, my eyes lit up. It's a pity that you went to sing again. Singing is good, but it has little to do with our films, and I don't pay much attention to it. Later, you took the top prize in the Shen Opera exam, and then made a short film and won an award in France, and Zhihao also began to talk about you from time to time, and I was very interested in you!"

"The movie you acted in last year was very good," Shen Hongshu continued, "Although the director is your mother, it can be seen that you have worked hard! I heard that in order to make that movie, you lived with the prototype character for several months, locked yourself in the studio and starved yourself for two days during the filming, and even went into the small dark room to find the character's emotions before the filming started." After watching that movie, I believe that those things are true, and I'm sure you'll be a good actor!"

"Thank you Shen Lao for the compliment!" Xiao Yao said cautiously, "Although you are my grandfather's friend, I don't know why you praise me so much." ”

"Because you are indeed worthy of praise!" Shen Hongshu said with a smile.

"Thank you!" Xiao Yao thanked him again, and then secretly glanced at Sun Zhihao on the side.

After the old man came over, he praised him violently, and Xiao Yao was very puzzled in his heart. Although he did a good job, he shouldn't be worthy of this respected old-timer coming to praise him like this, even if he was a friend of his grandfather! Xiao Yao didn't want to ask directly, so he wanted to get some hints from Sun Zhihao.

Sun Zhihao's face had no expression, and Xiao Yao didn't see any clues. However, Shen Hongshu said his own intention.

"I feel a little regretful that you are such a good film actor and that you are not from our film school. Shen Hongshu said, "You are already studying in Shenju, and you will definitely not be able to come to our film academy to study for an undergraduate degree, but you can still be a graduate student." After watching "127 Hours", I had an idea, I plan to come out next year to take graduate students, and I want you to study as a graduate student in my acting department!"

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said in surprise.

"I'll go, is this a mess of generations?" Zhou Zhihao whispered in Lin Qisan's ear, "I heard that this Shen Lao is Uncle Sun's teacher, if Bayi becomes Shen Lao's student, wouldn't it be Weng Son-in-law to become a classmate?"

"What are you talking about?" Lin Qisan glared at Zhou Zhihao and said, "Is this so?"

"But after watching that animated movie of yours, I was a little shaken. Shen Hongshu said, "You won an award for a short film, and now you have made such a high-rated animated movie, I don't know if you are most suitable for being an actor or a director, whether it is a live-action film or an animated film." ”

"Why can't they all fit it?" Xiao Yao smiled confidently.

"After thinking about it, I think so too!" Shen Hongshu nodded and said with a smile, "Fortunately, I have both the qualifications to lead graduate students in the directing department and the qualifications to lead graduate students in the acting department." You come to our school for graduate students, the directing department and the acting department take the exam together, as long as you have passed the cultural courses of both majors, I will be your graduate tutor for both majors at the same time. When the time comes, you will be a double degree master in directing and acting!"

"Wow~" An exclamation sounded around Xiao Yao. These voices did not only come from Sun Tingting and Lin Qisan, but also from the students in the seats next to them.

Sun Zhihao and Shen Hongshu are both famous teachers and celebrities in Yandian Performance Academy, and it is impossible for the two of them to walk into the seats of the student group without attracting the attention of the students. The quality and arrogance of the film school students are extraordinary, even if Xiao Yao in the audience was discovered by these two people, no one came to disturb them. However, the students didn't come to disturb, but it didn't prevent Xiao Yao's group of people from listening to their conversation with curious ears.

Getting into graduate school is hard. In addition to the basic condition that you must pass the cultural course, whether you can go to graduate school mainly depends on the tutor chosen by the student, and the initiative is not completely in the hands of the student. Generally speaking, many of the graduate students who take the tutor exam are undergraduate students who are more familiar with and have feelings for the tutor, so it is usually easier to be in the same school, but it is more difficult to cross schools.

It is difficult to take the postgraduate examination, and it is even more difficult to take the cross-university examination for graduate students, and it is even more difficult for graduate students to take the cross-university examination for double degrees. And the most difficult thing is to let Shen Hongshu, a deputy dean and professor-level figure who can take doctoral students, lead master's students, and he is a master's student with a double degree.

This Shen Hongshu has not come out to take students for many years. This time, I not only fell in love with a student from a foreign school, and I wanted to go out of the mountains to take a master's degree for a student from a foreign school, but also took him a graduate student in two majors at the same time, so that he could study a double degree master's degree in directing and acting, which is definitely not something that any star can do just by virtue of fame.

Hearing this news, the surprise and envy in the hearts of the students of Yandian School next to them can be imagined, and it is no wonder that they can't help but exclaim.

Although the people next to him all cast envious glances, Xiao Yao was not too excited about Shen Hongshu's proposal, but seemed a little hesitant.

The written test of the cultural class or something, it will definitely not be a problem for Xiao Yao, and Shen Hongshu offered to let Xiao Yao go to his graduate school, so there should be no problem with the interview. Xiao Yao's hesitation was not whether he could pass the test, but whether he hesitated to read.

It's pretty awesome to say that a master's degree is out. There are fewer graduate students in art colleges and universities than in ordinary universities, let alone master's students with double degrees, and graduate school is also an experience that Xiao Yao has not experienced in his previous life, and this proposal does have something to make Xiao Yao excited.

But at present, Xiao Yao has a lot of plans. In addition to the parkour movie that will be filmed in the United States soon, Xiao Yao also plans to go to the casino to gamble with several former teammates of the Olympiad training team who are now at MIT, and he also wants to make related movies in the future. Before graduating next year, I will set up a film and television production company, and I will start filming TV series before and after graduation.

If these plans are too much affected by graduate school, Xiao Yao has some concerns. After all, graduate school is just an experience, and a degree is just a decoration on the resume, and Xiao Yao doesn't think it's something he has to complete.

Therefore, Xiao Yao did not agree immediately, but tentatively discussed with Shen Hongshu whether he could have some autonomy in the specific courses and study schedules in the future if he really studied under him. To put it simply, it is whether or not Shen Hongshu can be on his time.

In the school, students have always been on the tutor's time, and I have never heard of a tutor taking the student's time, let alone a student who has not even taken the exam at all, and is not sure whether he can pass the exam, is actually there to bargain with the future tutor before the exam? Although Xiao Yao's language is more tactful, showing respect for Shen Hongshu, many students who heard Xiao Yao's meaning, including Lin Qisan and others, rolled their eyes in their hearts.

However, to the great surprise of many students, Shen Hongshu not only was not dissatisfied at all, but discussed with Xiao Yao about the future courses and study schedules. The meaning of those words is that he really promised Xiao Yao's time!