Chapter 173: Four Women
"The blue-faced Dou Erdun steals the royal horse, the red-faced Guan Gongzhan Changsha, the yellow-faced Dian Wei, the white-faced Cao Cao, and the black-faced Zhang Fei are called Chirp......"
After a few days of recuperation, the fatigue in Liao Liao's voice quickly disappeared, and the kind of high notes unique to Peking Opera hung high, and even the two Peking Opera masters present listened to it.
Of course, after finishing this trial recording, Fang Shaobai, who finally found time to spare time, couldn't help but point out from a professional point of view: "Brother and sister, your singing style is very good, but to be honest, it's too meaty, if you end it once, or sing it three or five times, then it's probably no problem, but if you keep recording like this, you have to pull out this high-pitched voice, I guess you won't be able to hold it!"
As he spoke, Old Man Cheng couldn't stop nodding. Then, the old man couldn't help but point: " Girl, the pronunciation of the singing tone of Peking Opera, I told you, especially this paragraph, Xiao Qian's song, it is pure Beijing Opera in the old singing tone of the ga, this tone is very high, not to mention that there are many people who sing opera who are not as good as you, there is, singing a scene a day, he doesn't dare to play like this, so, the skill I taught you is a generation of ancestors through the accumulation of experience, summed up a more voice-saving singing method, purely relying on the flesh voice, but can sing broken sound, then it will not be ten days and a half months can be raisedοΌβ
Liao Liao nodded first when she heard this, and then she couldn't help but look at Li Qian with a little embarrassment.
Since the old man accepted Li Qian's disciple, he didn't plan to hide his secrets, except that Li Qian really couldn't go to the school, basically two big classes a week, teaching solid skills, and when Liao Liao wanted to record Peking Opera works, the old man was even more stingy to guide, and passed the ability to press the bottom of the box directly to the apprentice's daughter-in-law, but, how to say, Peking Opera actors' vocal skills, luck skills and special control of the voice, it takes many years of hard training to come up with "work" come, don't say that Liao Liao went into battle in a hurry, it is Li Qian, who has been studying with the old man for two years now, and he gets up every morning without moving, and he doesn't dare to say how high his level is.
But on the contrary, the recording rhythm of this record is very rushed.
Time no longer allows Liao Liao to seriously master the vocal skills of Peking Opera.
So, according to the score, she quickly studied a set of skills for singing the last part of the song, and then, yes, it is indeed very good, but the shortcomings of this very throat-eating are also very obvious.
Because...... Well, considering Liao Liao's voice advantage, Li Qian raised her by half a K on the original K of this song, so, well, in fact, the last Ga tune, it is really not easy for ordinary people to sing so calmly and chic at this height.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Qian first looked at Liao Liao and said, "Or...... Drop half a K?"
Liao Liao shook his head in opposition at the first time, "No! It's good to listen to this half K, if it goes down, my voice will suddenly seem a little deeper, and it won't be so loud." β
Li Qian grabbed his chin, thought for a moment, then slapped the table, turned his head and said to Fang Shaobai: "Senior brother, let's do it, time is too tight, Liao Liao feels that using the luck method taught by the master in a hurry will be timid, so ...... Let's just record "Hairpin Phoenix" first, that song is not too much pressure on your voice for you and Liao Liao, and when the song is finished, turn around, let her sing it according to this method, sing it again and again, just record it three or four times, and then, choose the best one, how about it?"
After hesitating for a moment, Fang Shaobai turned his head and glanced at Old Man Cheng, and in the end, both of them looked over and nodded, Fang Shaobai said, "It's okay...... For the time being, this is the best way! Anyway, there is only one song left, and even if the voice is broken, it will not delay things. β
After a pause, he also smiled and said to Liao Liao: "Brother and sister, since you say so, then don't be afraid, our master has passed down a secret recipe for raising your voice, even if your voice is broken, I will give you a few pairs of decoction, and you will be back as before!"
Liao Liao smiled when he heard this, "Thank you, senior brother." β
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After Li Qian came back from Tianshui Mansion, he couldn't even take care of the company, the first thing was to find Fang Shaobai to practice singing, after the two of them went through it, Fang Shaobai corrected his singing method slightly, and he could already make Li Qian quite satisfied.
As the top spot of the old Peking Opera students in China, his level as a disciple of Chengmen is not a joke, even if it breaks the inherent board eye of Peking Opera, it will make him sing a little jerky at the beginning, but after practicing, the high note is fluttering and flickering, and the words can be so fine that they are like whispers in their ears, and they can be high-pitched and high-pitched enough to make people's scalps explode and their hairs are shrugging.
And Liao Liao is not to mention, in the Peking Opera style of this duet, the requirements for female voices are the most familiar to Liao Liao.
So, it was recorded.
Still in this recording studio, when Fang Shaobai's trademark high tone was thrown up, but Liao Liao was able to use his extremely textured voice to take it steadily, even Old Man Cheng listened with emotion.
Listening to the recordings of the two of them, for the person in charge of the recording, basically every time is a pleasure.
The word love is too painful.
The heartfelt complaints between the two lovers, Lu You and Tang Wan, are naturally affectionate and crying.
At the beginning, there were some slight flaws in the undertaking between the two, but after Li Qian slightly adjusted the discrepancies, the cooperation between the two people quickly became smooth, and they were recorded seven or eight times together.
After the recording, everyone briefly discussed, because the next song "Rap Face" will be more vocal, so it was finally decided to let Liao Liao rest for an afternoon and wait for tomorrow morning to record.
Moreover, in order to protect Liao Liao's throat from injury as much as possible, he must strive to end it within five times.
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Li Qian at the beginning of May was really busy hitting the back of his head.
Although he has been thinking about it in his heart, he really can't spare much effort, and finally completed the recording of a song again, anyway, Liao Liao also needs to rest, and Li Qian remembers "The Love of Green Onions" again.
During the period when he, Liao Liao and Xie Mingyuan went to Los Angeles to do the soundtrack and Liao Liao's new album, Cao Zhan wrote the soundtrack for "The Love of Green Onions" three times before and after, and then finally satisfied himself, and when the things arrived at Yu Bojun, he had nothing to say.
So, in mid-April, "The Love of Green Onions" was finally announced to be completely completed after a production cycle of nearly a year - the investor, the producer, and the future publicity and theater chain must have been completed by Yu Bojun himself, so his edited version must be the final release version. Unlike other directors, who often need to cut out a version for release according to the producer's requirements, and their favorite version has to be named "Director's Cut Version".
Since the two sides met, Yu Bojun naturally had nothing to say to Li Qian, especially when Li Qian was preparing to shoot "The Legend of the New White Lady", it was definitely full support, so although he provided script support, Li Qian has always felt guilty that he has not been able to give any help for such a long time from the filming of "The Love of Green Onions" to the later stage.
Therefore, after finishing the recording of "Hairpin Phoenix", he sent Liao Liao back to rest, but he made an appointment with Yu Bojun and Cao Zhan on the phone, and then drove over directly, and the three of them met in Yu Bojun's studio in Shuntianfu, and Yu Bojun took Li Qian to the viewing room to watch the final edited version of the movie.
As for Cao Zhan, he waved his hand directly, "I've watched this film more than fifty times before and after, and I've vomited, I'm not like Bojun, my own child, how good it looks, I can't stand it! You go in and see, I'm still smoking a cigarette outside! When you're done, let's find a place to have a few drinks." β
Li Qian laughed, and Yu Bojun also laughed.
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The play "Love of Green Onions" seems to be a story of love and hatred in troubled times at first glance, but in the final analysis, it is about human nature.
The final cut version given by Yu Bojun, plus the end of the film, is more than 140 minutes long, even if the more than five minutes of credits at the end of the final film is removed, it means that the audience who buys a ticket to enter the cinema in the future will need to sit for more than two hours.
Therefore, it is not easy for this kind of extremely entertaining art film to capture the audience, to keep the audience sitting in the chair and not leaving the scene early - this is the biggest problem of niche films, and the only way to solve this problem is to be yourself, and then "wait" for your own part of the audience.
Still, it's okay...... The heroine is more beautiful.
Moreover, Jin Han's photography level is not covered, and the picture of the lens comes out, with an indescribable bright and bright taste, which is relatively rare in the current domestic film industry.
After watching it for less than ten minutes, Li Qian couldn't help but sigh in his heart again: When I look back, I must pull Jinhan to shoot a commercial film for myself first! At least earn back the millions he spent first!
Compared with Li Qian's previous first cut version, Yu Bojun has made a lot of changes to this version of the editing.
Yu Bojun, who had been filming urban commercial films for so many years, didn't know if he suddenly understood, or subconsciously believed in Li Qian and Cao Zhan's judgment, in short, he still made adjustments and wrote Li Qian and Cao Zhan into the script and re-cut it.
In this way, of course, the whole story will seem more mellow and accessible, but at the cost of the whole movie, it seems to feel more verbose.
After watching the whole film, Yu Bojun couldn't wait to turn on the lights and asked, "How about it?"
Li Qian smiled and said, "You've all made the final cut, and I'm still evaluating a fart, so let's do it! I just think the picture is very beautiful, my senior sister ...... It's beautiful!"
Yu Bojun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly laughed.
When they went out to meet Cao Zhan, everyone went out to find a place to drink and have a small party, and talked about the future release plan, Li Qian suddenly understood why Yu Bojun was so smiling - it turned out that Cao Zhan had also said this before.
That's right, literary films, even if they are literary films made by directors like Yu Bojun who have a cinema chain at home, if you want to buy a box office that is not too street-topping, you must find the gimmick during the publicity period!
Therefore, Cao Zhan and Li Qian invariably said to Yu Bojun: The heroine is very beautiful!
The first play in which Peking Opera Mingdan starred in? I'm sorry, this doesn't work! At least for the vast majority of audiences, especially those who have little interest in or understanding of Peking Opera, this propaganda plan is very bad.
Considering that the previous performance contract was particularly strict in many aspects, coupled with the relationship between Cheng Suhua and Li Qian, Yu Bojun certainly couldn't do some publicity planning that would have an impact on Cheng Suhua's personal life and reputation for the sake of the box office.
Otherwise, to be honest, it's true or false anyway, in fact, the crew can make some news, for example, this drama was killed several times in the script stage because the scale was too large, and then it was filmed, and some exciting scenes were forced to be deleted before it could be finally released...... In short, how to seduce hormones and how to say to create news hotspots.
But now, this method can't be used, so the easiest way is: the heroine is beautiful!
Put out the amazing makeup photos taken in advance, including her beautiful Peking Opera Hua Dan makeup photos, and also choose the right time to release them, first fry them on the Internet where the influence is becoming more and more influential, and then put the trailer when it is almost over, and push it down step by step, when it is released, it will also be released on a small scale first, accumulate the reputation of the niche audience, and then strive for as many theaters as possible - this is also the plan given by the gang of people under Yu Bojun.
It's just a pity that Yu Bojun has always taken the route of low-cost urban romance films, and he really has no influence in the art film industry, so he didn't catch up with Cannes, and on the Venice Film Festival, although he said that he sent it to the exhibition, after review, the organizers of the film festival only gave a place in the screening unit, and was finally rejected by Yu Bojun, as for the Berlin Film Festival...... It's impossible for this film to wait until then.
Therefore, Yu Bojun has decided to take this film out to test the water and save word of mouth first, and as for the film festival, he decided not to mix it.
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Because he drank alcohol, in the end, it was Liao Liao who drove over to pick him up.
On the way back, looking at the trees, lights, and pedestrians on both sides of the road, looking at the blurry urban color, Li Qian somehow suddenly thought of the pure smile of the movie mileage bottle.
Flipping out of his phone, he took the initiative to dial it.
The phone was connected, and he smiled: "Sister, it's me, didn't you sleep?"
Cheng Suhua's voice was more or less tired, slightly hoarse, "Well, no, I'm watching a TV series with my little sister! A Japanese romance movie...... Something?"
Li Qian blinked his eyes - the time he had been learning to sing with the old man was not too short, but he didn't know that Cheng Subei still had a "little sister", but he didn't inquire much, just said: "Your voice ......"
"Oh, it's okay, I rushed two games in the afternoon, my throat is a little tired, and I'll be fine after a night's rest. She explained slowly.
"Oh, that's good. Li Qian nodded, and then said, "I went to find Brother Yu in the afternoon and watched the final cut of that play...... You should have seen it too, right?"
On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suhua said "um", and then said with a smile: "After completing the final editing, Director Yu called a few of us, and it happened that I was free at the time, so I went over to watch it, I don't know if it was inexperienced, anyway, I watched the film quite well, and I felt that I was okay...... Why, you wouldn't have called me to compliment me, would you?"
That's exactly what it means!
Li Qian smiled slightly embarrassedly, reacted on the spot, and said, "That's not it, but, indeed, as an actor acting in a movie for the first time, your performance is really remarkable." β
On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suhua laughed softly when she heard this, and then before she could speak, a girl's voice suddenly said next to her: "Oh, okay, it's not a boyfriend, where is there so much to say, if you want to say it, don't disturb me watching TV!"
Li Qian was stunned.
On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suhua said helplessly: "Okay, okay, this is what you said, I won't accompany you to see it!"
Then, there was no extra sound over there.
After a while, Cheng Suhua spoke again: "No way, my little sister is such a spoiled temper." Well, where did you just go? You called on purpose, something?"
"Uh......" Li Qian hesitated for a moment, smiled helplessly, and said, "There's really nothing else, let you guess it, I just want to praise your performance!"
Cheng Suhua chuckled when he heard this.
After a while, she said slowly, as always: "Okay, your sister knows your intentions." β
Li Qian touched his nose, and then said, "That's okay, then you can sleep, I'll hang up!"
On the other end of the phone, Cheng Suhua responded lightly, "Well, good night." Don't always keep yourself too busy, when you have time, come to the house for a meal, the old man and the old lady are talking to you all day long, saying that you have been too busy lately, and you haven't been here for a long time. β
Li Qian was silent for a moment when he heard this, then agreed, and said, "I'll go back." β
"Well, good. Cheng Suhua said: "Remember to call before coming, and my sister will go back to cook for you." β
Li Qian smiled, promised again, and waited for the other side to hang up the phone first, then hung up and put away the phone.
Liao Liao, who was driving, couldn't help but turn his head to look over at this time, and when he saw Li Qian's melancholy look, he couldn't help but sneer, "Hey, uncle, can you give some face!
Listening to this yin and yang strange tone, Li Qian couldn't help but lean back on his seat and laugh.
"Don't you say I almost forgot, get up and go to Sheepfold Alley!"
"Let me drive you over there...... Dreaming!"
Li Qian laughed when he heard this, and soon, he couldn't help but complain, "Your driving skills...... What a scum!"
Liao Liao smiled disdainfully at that time, "Be content, brother, it's good to be able to learn! I studied for more than three months last year!"
Li Qian laughed again when he heard this.
If being with Wang Jinglu will make him feel like he is in love with each other, then Xie Bing can really make him, a person who is used to the small man and big woman in another time and space becoming a social trend, and really feel a sense of accomplishment of a big husband with three wives and four concubines in this time and space. When I got to Zhou Yan, the feeling was a little difficult to describe, and it seemed a little ...... As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win countless feelings in the world.
And Liao Liao ...... Whenever he is with her, when the two of them subconsciously quarrel with each other, he will always unconsciously pull back the thoughts in his head that he doesn't know where he has run back in an instant.
She made him realize that I was now truly living in this plane.
My name is Li Qian.
Drama is like life, life, but it is not necessarily a drama.
All you have to do is reach out and you can touch everything that is real in front of you!
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After a while, Liao Liao couldn't help but say, "Oh, okay, it's tickling...... Brother, I'm driving the car, I can touch it as much as you want when I go back, okay, okay, stop it......
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I feel like I'm running out of time every day!
When the idea is stuck, I hope to have more time to clear up the idea, and when the idea is smooth, I hope to have more time for me to write a little more, or revise it more, and write this chapter to the best I can.
However, it must be updated before twelve o'clock, this is a red line of mine that must never be crossed!
So, sometimes more, sometimes less, but the effort I put into the daily updates is never compromised. (To be continued.) )