Chapter 43: A Disastrous Performance
On an autumn night, the cool breeze is slow, and there is occasionally a pair of lovers sneaking through the small alley of the Chinese opera holding hands under the street lamp.
In this era, even art schools with more avant-garde concepts than ordinary universities do not have the problem of dying if they don't show affection in later generations.
At most, it is a sneaky date, holding hands, and if you can't hold back, you may go to a small hotel to open a room or share a room outside the school.
This kind of is indeed a very small number, and basically the old fritters of the third and fourth years dare to do this.
For the first-year students of Chinese opera, there is really not much time, and the time every day is eager to be broken into two, and the strict review of weekly homework makes them dare not have a trace of slackness.
Not only the acting department, but also the drama department, the directing department, and the stage art department, in addition to sleeping lazily in the morning, the rest of the time is also eager to bury themselves in books.
The strictness of the Chinese opera teachers is not only unique to the teachers of the acting department, but also the whole style of the school.
If you compare comprehensively, in the most stringent Chinese opera in art education management, the acting major is definitely the hardest major and the most 'terrible' major.
Who is the first to wake up and the last to sleep in the school?
Who is the school that is often scarred and has no time to rest? Or the acting students.
Every day, I have to get up at five o'clock, and at six o'clock, I have to go out of the morning exercises, warm up and open my voice, practice my lines, practice my breath and grind my mouth, in every morning.
The rehearsal room is always the last classroom to turn off the lights, and sometimes there are even people there until two or three o'clock, even the big security guard at the school's gate has learned to fight wits and courage with these students, and some people have learned to enter the classroom through the window in order to avoid inspection.
In the third rehearsal room, Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi were in the middle, Zhou Bai and Qin Hao were next to them, and in the other corner, Yuan Yang and Tian Cheng were discussing their homework in a whisper.
The rehearsal room is too sought-after, and it is a luxury for two people to use a rehearsal room, but as long as there is space left, they will make full use of it, and no one will be hypocritical at this time.
"I don't have anything to say to you, my hair grows like a hooligan, I don't speak politely, and girls are blind to look at you. Zhang Ziyi said angrily.
"You're no better, you're brutal and willful, you talk like a machine gun, which man can take a fancy to you?" Liu Ye fought back with a grin.
Don't get me wrong, they're not arguing, they're rehearsing a performance sketch, which is a line they designed themselves.
"It's really a chaotic performance, these two people who have achieved the highest achievements after the 96 acting class, it is also a wonder to perform a sketch like this, if their fans in later generations can see the current situation, I am afraid that their eyes will burst out. Zhou Bai thought in his heart, no one who witnessed it with his own eyes didn't know that the performance could be so miserable.
Liu Ye's performance is very dry, whether it is the lines or the body, there is a lingering sense of detachment, and Zhang Ziyi's performance is even worse, it is completely like the scene of a car accident.
If you want to evaluate it from the appearance, Zhang Ziyi can't even rank in the top three in the 96 class at this time, her facial features can only be said to be delicate and even simple and not perfect and amazing, and her slender figure that has become slender after studying dance for a long time does not have too many curves, just like a little girl next door.
Even after more than ten years, Zhang Ziyi is still not as good as Fan Ye in terms of demons, and her sexy atmosphere is not as good as Gonghuang, but no one can deny that she is a big beauty with a radiant charm on her body, the reason is that her eyes are the most amazing, although they are not big, but their eyes are very sharp and soul-snatching.
But now Zhang Ziyi is still too tender, for performing arts, she has not yet opened her mind, her unique weapons have not shown a trace of edge, and she is still a cute girl.
"Hey, what do you say they do, don't say that Chang Ma can't get through such a sketch performance, if I want to evaluate it, I will also beat it down directly. Qin Hao touched Zhou Bai, who was watching with his arms and said.
"Yezi didn't have any acting experience before, these times just to make up for the foundation, he is still in the adaptation period, and the choreography of sketches is really not what they are good at, so it's like this. Zhou Bai turned his head and said, he was more aware of Liu Ye's situation.
Qin Hao nodded in understanding, "You said that the 'Little Steel Cannon' dances so well, why is the sketch performance like a different person." He couldn't watch it anymore now, and complained: "Like a puppet, these two people are really half-hearted, and there are too many problems." ”
"She's also in the adaptation period, and she used to dance, but dancing and acting are two different things. Zhou Bai understood Zhang Ziyi's situation very well, touched his chin and analyzed: "In the past, it was a very simple thing for the 'little steel cannon' to dance, and she didn't blink her eyes for two hundred kicks, but acting is another matter, and she has no way to relax at all. ”
The so-called relaxation does not mean that the performance shows a kind of exaggeration that does not care about anything is relaxed, but that there is no tension during the performance, whether it is body language or facial expressions are natural and smooth.
For example, a character should show panic and fear in a certain scene, but if the actor is very nervous at the time, the stiffness he shows will still have a feeling that the character is completely out of taste, and it will make people feel very deliberate.
Qin Hao smacked his mouth and stopped talking, now everyone is under a lot of pressure, but his own foundation is much better than these two people to deal with it, but it is also quite a bit like walking on thin ice, God knows which time he will be beaten back by Chang Ma.
Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi were also tormented in the performance, the more they performed, the more awkward they became, their minds became more and more chaotic, and the two of them did not feel like they were in the play at all, even the interaction between the two would make people feel dry, and finally ended the performance, but the two of them were very bitter in their hearts, knowing that this sketch failed so much that they could no longer fail.
The two of them didn't say a word after the performance, and they were silent in the rehearsal room, and although they were here, they felt like they were going to run away from everything.
"Bang, bang!" Zhou Bai walked over and slapped his face, waking up the two people who were silent there, "You can't do it in this state, if you have a problem, solve it, what kind of thing is this feeling of self-abandonment." ”
Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi raised their heads, and their eyes opened with Zhou Bai, making Zhou Bai feel that both of them had a depression in their hearts that they couldn't vent, and they were both competing with themselves and sulking.
"Okay, don't hold it back, drink saliva and rest for a while, and we'll discuss it later. Seeing that the state of these two people was obviously wrong, Zhou Bai also took back a lot of words at once, and now it will not help these two people.
"Good. Liu Ye sighed, made eye contact with Zhang Ziyi, and silently walked over to the side of the rehearsal room to get water to drink.
Qin Hao patted Zhou Bai on the shoulder and didn't say anything.
Although Yuan Xiang and Tian Cheng were discussing the issue of homework, they also paid attention to Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi's rehearsal, and also came over, everyone was in the same class, and discussing homework could not be avoided.
After Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye finished drinking water, everyone sat down in a circle in the rehearsal room.
"Yezi, the theme of your sketch for this assignment is a blind date, and the story you arranged is also ten minutes long, how do you feel about this rehearsal?" Zhou Bai said first.
"I think it's very bad, it's stumbling when performing, it's hard to describe that it's unspeakably uncomfortable. Liu Ye touched his head and said distressedly, after resting for a while, his mentality calmed down a lot.
"Ziyi, how does it feel for you to perform. ”
"Me too, I don't know why, I feel inexplicably nervous and feel very awkward. Heck, this assignment will definitely not pass. Zhang Ziyi said that after almost a month, at least she understood what kind of level her performance was.
"Well, I also feel so awkward watching the performance of the two of you, the interaction between the two of you is unfamiliar, I just feel very wrong. Yuan Yang said, everyone is very familiar with each other, and they all have something to say.
Qin Hao and Tian Cheng also expressed their opinions, Tian Cheng felt that the story was too simple, the line design was unreasonable, and the performance was too tense, in short, it was not good, and Qin Hao was similar to this.
"Brother, what do you think is the biggest problem? What should we do?" Liu Ye and Zhang Ziyi were not angry because everyone gave a bad evaluation, and the two of them also knew that there were many problems, Liu Ye couldn't help but ask Zhou Bai.
It's not that Zhou Bai is much higher than Liu Ye in terms of performance, he is also new to acting now, but he is better than Liu Ye in terms of his feelings about acting.
He is a bystander, and he is definitely higher than everyone else in terms of appreciation and vision, after all, he is not on the same level at all because of the information edification of later generations.
"There are too many problems with the sketches you designed this time, but I think the biggest problem is your own performance, if you want me to say that you are just playing at home, not acting. ”
Zhou Bai's words were quite ruthless, and even Yuan Yan felt that it was a bit excessive.
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"A person who can't show his true colors can't make a great deal. —"General Patton"