Gu Biao didn't know that at the same time that he went to Qiushuangzhai under construction, he was catching up with Director Liu and a group of graduate students of the Academy of Fine Arts, inspecting and condoling.

The preparatory experts of the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" happened to lead a group of second-round candidates to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, which has been preliminarily completed, for trial fitting and interviews.

I have to admit that the filming of the drama "Dream of Red Mansions" in history is still very refreshing and very distracting in the film and television industry.

Because it broke the previous industry practice of only using mature actors from major studios to directly take over the play, during the primary selection, it was uncharacteristically not looking at acting skills and showbiz experience, but purely selecting young people with the right image and temperament from the society.

As long as your temperament, image, cultural accomplishment, and conversation connotation are in line, even if you have no acting experience and acting skills, you can be selected.

After being selected, I will not finalize the role for you first, but let you live in the Grand View Garden for a year and a half, and the eating utensils and daily dressing are all antique, so that you can figure out the character atmosphere in the ancient environment that is really examined.

Then the daily homework is to give a class to the experts of red studies or ancient culture experts from the relevant cultural departments, so that everyone can really learn such as the ancients' division of Cao and shoot over, thumb battle flowers, poetry couplets and other aristocratic literati entertainment methods, so as to improve literary accomplishment. After learning about it, I finally decided on the role and opened the scene.

"Dream of Red Mansions", which began to be filmed in 84, was finally released in 87, but the real filming was only about 86 a year. In 84 years, it was in the selection of sites to build gardens and select people, and in 85 years, it was all about cultivating these selected people, and finally started shooting.

Of course, the cost of this approach is very high, and in the later era of the market economy, if you want to make money, you can hardly copy it - this is also one of the advantages of the state-owned enterprise planning era and the operation of film and television. Because state-owned enterprises add plans, although it is easy to waste, at least it will not cut corners.

The world has only seen the products of state-owned enterprises because of inefficiency and waste in process and design, resulting in a lack of market competitiveness in product prices, but at least they will not see state-owned enterprises with brands cutting corners.

After all, it is all money that can be reimbursed in a grand manner, so why should the clerk save money for the state? The profits saved are not yours.

However, after the private boss invests in, a drama reports a 50 million investment and actually receives 20 million, and he has to work with the director, screenwriter and producer to make accounts together, or give the idol fresh meat a high salary and actually return it to the investor through another channel...... And so on.

Anyway, the private boss will divide the dirt for the clerks, and if you help him save money, the way he will repay you is much more flexible, and he is gradually approaching the realm of no tricks to win.

There is nothing to question about the two fundamental characteristics of a market, which is efficient and prone to cutting corners, and planning inefficient and sufficient.

A discerning person with insight can always see that various systems have specific advantages and disadvantages, and cannot be completely denied or affirmed. The pros and cons of the market's plan, according to conscience, open it in eighty-two.

When "Dream of Red Mansions" was remade again decades later, it claimed to have inherited this supposed excellent cultural tradition, but it only inherited the "audition" and did not inherit the follow-up edification training, which led to the final battle between the children's family background and financial resources and the investment in talent training from an early age, and could not explore the true potential of poor but literary lovers.

Unlike the 87th edition, you can also select a few poor people who originally had no foundation in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and poetry, but were trained because of their learning ability, literary love and talent. After these people finished acting in "Dream of Red Mansions", many of them have made achievements in all walks of life, but they are not all obsessed with acting all their lives, which shows that some of them really love ancient literature, rather than wanting to be full-time actors.

And it's a pity that the children decades later are too sophisticated, too dusty at a young age, and even more utilitarian philistines who dream of becoming stars when they grow up before they are ten years old. Therefore, in the 2010s, the version of the "Dream of Red Mansions" audition, pretending to "love literature and art" pretended to be very similar, but in fact, he regarded the selection as a springboard to the showbiz in the future. In the end, there are a few ugly laces.

However, this is all a historical necessity, only when there is still a gap in some fields and everyone is groping, can there be a chance for class jump, and after everything is complete, the upward channel is sealed, which is the common feature of any society.

It is undeniable that the United States will only be more closed than China. The Chinese's sense of pain in this regard is temporarily more intense, but the previous generation of Chinese still enjoyed the pleasure of "suddenly being able to make a class jump", so there is a gap in this generation.

And the Americans themselves have long been solidified in the generation at the end of World War II, two generations earlier than the Chinese, so they are not numb to pain.

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It is precisely because of the default selection setting of "not looking at acting skills and acting qualifications" that the composition of the personnel selected this time is completely different from the film and television projects that Gu Biao has been in contact with before.

In addition to some elderly supporting roles, they are well-known actors in mature major studios.

In other films, the candidates for young roles in their 20s or 10s are not graduates of film and television colleges, and there are no experienced film and television studio actors, which is almost a conventional rule.

After all, in the preparatory group for "Dream of Red Mansions" led by the relevant cultural departments, the most authoritative people are all red scholars and experts in ancient literature research, and the right to speak in the film and television industry has been suppressed.

In this case, the most outstanding ability of the main role candidate is undoubtedly literary accomplishment and conversational temperament.

Those students who have just graduated from high school and have achieved outstanding results in the college entrance examination have quite an advantage. As for the young female college students who are engaged in the study of ancient literature, it is better, if there is some other classical talent, it is perfect.

"Lin Daiyu group, the fifth candidate, Ren Yuqin, prepare. ”

In a room in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, a member of the expert group from the relevant cultural department was the judge, and the staff of the preparatory team let the candidates who passed the first round of the primary selection try on makeup one by one according to the list.

Today's selection is the second round. Because the first round is in the provinces and localities, the relevant departments will first select one and eliminate it unreliable at first glance, and at the same time, because of the cost, the first round does not need to wear ancient costumes.

Only in today's second round will everyone be pulled to Qiantang to try out ancient costumes in real life. This is not an audition, because there is no need to shoot, just to see if the image and temperament of the costume are passed.

Today's selection will also eliminate about 90% of the people, and those who pass this round will be able to enter the "Dream of Red Mansions" actor training class", and then live and study in the Grand View Garden for a year.

The final assessment will determine who will play who will be held after one year, and the group set at the time of selection is only the training direction, which does not mean that the final role is determined.

At that time, a small number of really bad learning results will be eliminated - but most of them can stay, after all, the state will pay you to study for a year, and you can't waste it in vain. If you can't do it, you can change the role to a lower one, or run around in ancient costumes.

When Ren Yuqin walked into the study room of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, she saw the previous candidate girl leaving with a sad expression, as if she was not performing well and had problems with the answer and conversation in ancient texts, and was disgusted by experts.

Ren Yuqin was also slightly apprehensive in her heart, but quickly forced herself to calm down.

"I'm a little bit worse than my age, I'm more than poetry and songs, how can I be afraid! I'm a professional!" she silently cheered herself up in her heart, and then she sat down delicately and smartly in her water-sleeved skirt, waiting for a question.

As everyone knows, the experts on the opposite side are also taking a quick glance at the candidate's resume materials.

"Hmm...... The School of Literature of Beijing Normal University, majoring in ancient Chinese literature, this major is very suitable, no wonder just going there, the ancient etiquette is very in line with the evidence, and the temperament is also good. ”

"Hmm? I'm not a student, I have been working for more than a year after graduation? But the age must be a little over, we are generally recruiting girls under the age of 20 today, and there are just girls in college, and there is a female teacher in college......

But why is he only 22 years old? It doesn't seem to be too much, I should have just resumed the college entrance examination when I caught up with a good time, and I went to college at a very young age. Since you're only over two years old, let's give it a chance. ”

Several primary and secondary experts thought so in their hearts, and they didn't forget to look at Ren Yuqin's appearance. It's true that the face is quite young, and no one will refute it if it is 18 years old, so don't care about the real age.

Talent is rare.

In addition, the "Jiangnan Provincial Normal College" written on the resume is actually a university in Gusu City, and not all universities with the prefix of "Jiangnan Province" are in Jinling, the provincial capital.

When Ren Yuqin graduated, it was also a good time, firstly, the college entrance examination had just been resumed, and talents were scarce, and even Ma Feng's "junior college students graduated to become teachers in undergraduates" can happen.

Second, Ren Yuqin just caught up with the good time, because within a few months after she was assigned to the school, Jiangnan Provincial Teachers College was renamed "Gusu University", and the grade was upgraded a little, which can be regarded as a restoration of the old concept of "Soochow University" in the Republic of China. If Ren Yuqin graduated a year later, when Jiangnan Normal College changed back to Gusu University, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get into the university if she wants to come here to be a university teacher because of the undergraduate signboard of Beijing Normal University.

(In the university market, there seems to be a special case for Jinling's universities, that is, they all like to name "Jinling XX University", and in contrast, the prefix of "Jiangnan Province" is lower than the prefix of Jinling.) So much so that "a certain university in Jiangnan Province" was robbed by the cities of Gusu, Xizhou, and Lanling.

This is in stark contrast to the bitter Wuyue Province next door, where the signboard of "Wuyue XX University" is far more valuable than "Qiantang XX University". ）

After smoothing out the relationship, the examiner threw out a question that seemed fatal for the time being:

Ren Yuqin is the same ...... Classmate, why did you apply for the role of Lin Daiyu? Judging from your resume, you are already a literature teacher in college. What is your motivation? Don't you like to teach literature and want to pursue a career in film and television?"

After all, the expert is a generation or two older than her, so although Ren Yuqin is already a university teacher, she can only be called "classmate" in terms of title.