Chapter 374 of the text is deliberately provocative

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A Coaster slowly entered Nortel and stopped in front of the school building. The people waiting in front of the building were shocked to know that the Japanese and Korean delegations were coming.

When the car stopped, Chen Jianfeng walked over. Japan and South Korea are the deans of the acting department who led the team to visit, so it is natural that he, the dean of the acting department, should receive them. The reception pays attention to the principle of reciprocity, and it is impossible for Zhang Huijun to receive a department head from Japan.

The car door opened, and Chen Gang, director of the Chinese Opera Performance Department, got out of the car, saw Chen Jianfeng, and laughed: "Lao Chen, you are making such a big posture, I am so scared that I don't dare to get out of the car." ”

Chen Jianfeng and Chen Gang are old friends, and when they heard him say this, they also smiled and said: "I heard that Director Chen is coming, where do I dare to slack off, you see that I specially asked the students to clean the road!"

Soon the people in the car got down, Nihon University had ten students, plus five teachers including the head of the department, Yuan Yiping, a total of fifteen people, while South Korea's Chung-Ang University had no students, only three teachers, and four teachers of Chinese opera, including Bai Fanping of the 01 grade.

Chen Jianfeng originally planned to take the WÈN delegation to Nortel for a visit, but he didn't want Yuan Yiping, the director of the Japanese University, to propose to watch Zhang Ran's class first. Chen Jianfeng didn't say much, and walked towards the table guide building with the visiting group.

When the group walked into the small theater, Zhang Ran was rehearsing three fools for the students of the guidance group. When he saw a group of people coming in, he knew that it was the Japanese and Korean delegations coming, so he immediately stopped and walked over to them.

After a brief acquaintance with the teachers of the three schools, a young and beautiful figure flashed out of the crowd, bowed to Zhang Ran, and said, "Mr. Zhang, we meet again!"

Zhang Ran looked at it, this is not the Beichuan Jingzi, and smiled: "Miss Jingzi, hello." I didn't expect you to come to our school to communicate!"

Kitagawa Keiko smiled: "I heard that I was going to visit Nortel for an exchange, so I applied to the school!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "Since you have come to China, I must invite you to dinner." Are you free for the evening?"

Keiko Kitagawa is a fan of Zhang Ran, and when she heard that the idol invited her to dinner, her face suddenly showed a blush of excitement: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, I have time!"

The Japanese are very disciplined, and the team leader just said hello, and they lined up to walk to the third row of the crew and sat down neatly. They sat up straight and looked very serious, as if they were ready to watch a live performance.

Seeing that the people of the Japanese and South Korean delegations were all seated, Zhang Ran called Cao Bingkun and Zhao Ke over and asked them to send the script to the delegation. He was worried that the delegation could not read Chinese, so he specially prepared an English script. After the delegation got the script, Zhang Ran re-instructed the students to rehearse.

Zhang Ran: They are now rehearsing a scene in the movie where Pia and her fiancé are buying a watch in a store and meet Lancher.

Jia Niliang has no problem playing Lan Che, this kid is a bit of a ghost and elf, and it is very suitable to play this role. However, Guo Zhen, who plays Pia, seems a little restrained and not explosive enough.

Zhang Ran stopped, and she called over: "Little confused, you have been a little worried in the past two days." If you have any questions and difficulties, you can tell Mr. Zhang, and I will definitely help you. But when acting, you have to put distractions aside, this is the basic essence of an actor, you know?"

Guo Zhen bit her lip and nodded, "I know, Teacher Zhang!"

In the next performance, Guo Zhen was really much more serious, and the whole performance was completed in one go, and the cooperation with Jia Niliang gradually improved.

After a large part of the performance was completed, the teachers present nodded secretly, but I didn't expect Zhang Ran, the film director, to guide the students very well, and the level of these students is quite high!

Soon the bell rang for the end of class, and Zhang Ran announced a ten-minute break before continuing.

Among the leading teachers at Nihon University, a man in his thirties stood up and said in Chinese that he was not fluent in: "Mr. Zhang, hello, I am Kenpei Numata, an acting teacher at Nihon University, and after watching the rehearsal just now, I found that the students in your class have very strong strength. They're supposed to be trained by the Stella School, right?"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Yes, it's Stella's training method." I wonder how Mr. Kenhei Numata saw it?"

Numata Kenhei laughs, "I was trained in the Stella School when I was studying in the United States, but when I returned to Japan, I met Mr. Tadashi Suzuki and found that his training methods were more suitable for Orientals, and I became a member of the Suzuki School. ”

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "It turns out that Mr. Numata is from the Suzuki School, and the Suzuki School is very distinctive in actor training, I hope I can communicate when I have time!"

Numata Kenpei glanced at the Chinese opera people, then looked at Zhang Ran, and said: "Mr. Zhang, in the past two days, we have visited the Chinese opera and your Nortel, and I found that you all adopt the training method of the Stanley system in teaching. Chinese theatre culture has a long history, and there have been many great masters, but why don't you inherit the tradition and perform completely like the West?"

As soon as these words came out, not only the faces of the teachers and students present at Nortel changed, but even the faces of the Chinese opera people also changed, and the Koreans were gloating, anyway, it was not a big deal to watch the excitement.

Zhang Ran looked at Numata Kenpei in surprise, is this guy deliberately provocative?

The Asian Theatre Education and Research Center is an institution led by three schools: Chinese Theatre, Nihon University, and Chung-Ang University in South Korea. All three schools wanted to have their headquarters in their own universities, and the location of this center meant that the school was at the forefront of Asian theatre studies and represented the highest honor.

Among the three schools, Chung-Ang University in South Korea is the weakest, they have neither cultivated world-class stars, nor have they made achievements in theory, although there is no theoretical creation of Chinese opera, but it has cultivated actors such as Gong Li, Jiang Wen, and Zhang Ziyi, and has a strong strength in student education, although Japanese universities do not have superstars like Gong Li, but they are stronger than Chinese opera in drama theory. Therefore, the battle for headquarters is between Chinese opera and Japanese universities.

Numata Kenpei's remarks seem to be aimed at Zhang Ran, but they are actually pointing to Chinese opera, saying that Chinese opera does not have much of its own in drama theory. As for why you don't directly attack the Chinese opera, the reason is very simple. There are many high-level students in Chinese opera, and if Numata Kenpei says that the theoretical study of Chinese opera is not good, and Chinese opera can refute the theory, it is useless to teach excellent students, or let our students compare? In this case, Numata Kenpei and they can only be slapped in the face.

Zhang Ran didn't know the reason for this, and said with a smile: "The Stanley system is practical, since it is practical, why can't we use it?"

Numata Kenhei said, "But it's not your theory after all. What about your own theory of acting?"

Zhang Ran was convinced that Numata Kenpei was provoking, stared at him for a few seconds, and suddenly smiled: "Mr. Numata, I don't know if you have a business card?

Numata Kenpei didn't know what Zhang Ran meant, but he still took one and handed it to Zhang Ran, and then asked, "Mr. Zhang, you haven't answered my question yet!"

Zhang Ran glanced at the text on the business card, held it up, and showed it to everyone: "Mr. Numata, you Japanese can use Chinese characters as names, why can't we Chinese performance students use Stanley for training?"

01 The students of Omoto burst into laughter, and they were upset to hear Kenhei Numata say that China did not inherit the tradition. The other party is more here to visit, and Chen Jianfeng is also there, if they retort loudly, it will seem that Nortel's students are very rude.

Now Zhang Ran's words simply smashed Numata Kenpei's face, does it matter if there are words in the performance? Your names are all in Chinese characters! They were extremely happy in their hearts, and they shouted loudly: "Teacher Zhang, what you said is so good!"

"What's so good about Japan is there, don't use kanji if you have a kind!"

"That's it, self-righteous, Yoro arrogant!"

Numata Kenhei didn't expect Zhang Ran to say this, and coughed and said: "We Japanese are good at learning from other countries, but we have never lost our own traditions. Mr. Suzuki developed the Suzuki School by drawing on traditional Japanese performance and creating the Suzuki Training Method. And your Chinese theater tradition is stronger than that of Japan, and there have been artists like Mei Lanfang. But now? Have you developed your own theories of theatre, have you developed your own training methods? Why don't you want to pass on the good culture of your ancestors?"

Although Zhang Ran didn't want to admit it, what Numata Kenpei said was indeed the truth, otherwise there would not be such a thing as the Dragon Boat Festival being declared a World Heritage Site by South Korea: "You are right, there are many people in our country who abandon traditional culture like a piece of paper, for example, the training methods of Peking Opera are very strong and perfect, and Grotowski has absorbed a lot of training skills from Peking Opera." It is a pity that the masters of the West are learning from traditional Chinese theatre, but we have not been able to inherit it properly. But you would be ignorant to say that we have not developed our own theories of drama. Mr. Jiao Juyin began to experiment in the 50s, combining traditional Chinese opera aesthetics and traditional performance methods with Western drama, and finally he created the theory of mental imagery and created the Beiping Renyi School of Drama, a performance genre belonging to the Chinese!"

Numata Kenpei knows that Beiping Renyi is powerful, but Zhang Ran's words are not impeccable: "Can you show us the training methods of the Beiping Renyi Drama School!"

Combining the Stanley system with Chinese tradition, Mr. Jiao Juyin founded the Mental Imagery Theory in the early 60s, creating a genre of performance belonging to the Chinese. It's a pity that within a few years, Jiao Juyin was overthrown as a reactionary academic authority, and finally died of illness in 75, so he did not develop a corresponding training method. However, his students did a lot of exploration on the basis of practice in combination with the theory of mental imagery.

It is a pity that in the 80s, there was an anti-traditional trend of thought in the theater world, which called for reform and innovation, and the original intention was good, but this trend of thought was too extreme, and there was a strict tendency towards reverse nationalism. In short, he thinks that China is not good, denies the past, praises European and American performance methods, and even believes that only by fully following European and American performance methods can Chinese theater be saved. Some people claim that there is nothing left in the history of Chinese drama, and there is nothing to learn from. As for the things of human art, many people think that they are outdated, have lost the continuity of art, and even the Stanley system is doubted, alienated and resisted.

Under the circumstance that the tradition of national drama has been denied, the theory and training methods of Renyi have not been effectively inherited and developed, and many people who study performance in China do not even know about the school of Renyi drama.

Zhang Ran didn't know about these at first, but he only knew about them after knowing Hu Jun and Feng Yuan, and he laughed: "The things of the Renyi Drama School are too deep and thick, and people with reckless qualifications like me can't grasp it." However, I can show our class the training method of combining traditional Chinese performance methods with Western drama!"

Numata Kenhei was stunned: "Aren't you from the Stella School?"

Zhang Ran said lightly: "Didn't you also learn the Stella training method before? Now don't you also learn the Suzuki school! We Chinese have never given up and injected drama into the soul of China." Contemptible people are not talented, and they can't open a school of doctrine like Mr. Jiao Juyin, but they have also followed the footsteps of their ancestors and made some explorations in training techniques!