1. Chapter 1 Market Performers
Ten thousand hanging down the green silk, the spring breeze in February is like scissors.
Just after the Spring Festival, Xiaotong Lane next to Yanjing Film Academy ushered in the most lively season of the year.
The short alleys are packed with thousands of men and women, and are in no way inferior to the popular spots on holidays.
Although after the Spring Festival, migrant workers and students from all over the country have not returned to Yanjing City, but the annual art examination has detonated its popularity in advance.
One of the reasons for this is that three months ago, that is, in the 2005 Chinese New Year, the two major domestic directors Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou respectively launched "Wuji" and "Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone", which detonated the film market, making the total annual box office of domestic films break through to a staggering 4.8 billion.
This unprecedented prosperity of the film industry has made more people with star dreams join the art examination army this year.
Two days later, it was the day of the Yanying art exam, and handsome guys and beautiful women from all over the country came to Yanying in advance, which also made this night market snack street particularly pleasing to the eye.
On the entire alley street with a width of 5 meters, in addition to the food stalls, fortune telling; Rental of costumes; The makeup stalls are also in full swing, all of which are for the service of this art test tide.
These days are undoubtedly the most sought-after business opportunities of the year for the small traders here.
Gu Xiaofan, who was silently setting up an advertising light box on the street, looked up at these art candidates who were hurrying to practice sound and prepare for the exam when eating, and couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment.
No, no......
Looking at the dress, the economic situation of this year's candidates seems to be not as good as last year's...... I really don't know if the money he made this time is enough for him to pay off the rent he owes......
Alas, this god is really unfair~ These idiot art candidates are all handsome and beautiful, and they still have unjust money to come to Yanjing City for the exam, but they still have to worry about the rent......
Gu Xiaofan shook his head depressedly, there was no way, although they all relied on "acting (flickering)" to eat, but he and these candidates were not from the same world at all......
After Gu Xiaofan sighed, he hung up the lightbox signboard.
Turn on the switch, and the eye-catching red characters on the light box "Free Consultation for Art Examination" immediately lit up.
The art candidates and parents who passed by couldn't help but stop, and even the few candidates who were stretching out their hands to ask the blind old man about the luck of the exam at the fortune-telling booth next door also turned their heads to look at this side, their eyes full of curiosity.
Seeing that people's attention was attracted, Gu Xiaofan was about to speak, but he looked down and saw the tear on the sleeve of his old suit, and quickly rolled up the sleeve, and then took a deep breath and entered the state of "performance (flickering)", Lang shouted:
"Eh~~Uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters~~Look over~Look over~~Free Yan Ying Art Exam consulted~Free Yan Ying Art Exam consulted~~"
These shouts immediately attracted the attention of everyone around them.
What are these art candidates from all over the world most worried about now? Isn't it just that I don't know the bottom of Yan Ying's art test~?
At this time, there is a free "art examination consultation"? Whether it's true or not, everyone doesn't want to miss it.
In less than a few minutes, Gu Xiaofan's booth was surrounded by art candidates and parents, with three layers inside and three layers outside.
Gu Xiaofan, who was in the center of the crowd, bowed to the curious onlookers around him, and introduced himself with a smile:
"Uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters~~ I am here to do art examination consultation, not to deceive, not to deceive~ just to give you a preparation class for the art examination and share a little bit of my personal art examination experience~
Everyone comes from all over the country and lets their children learn all kinds of talents since they were young, don't you just hope that your children can enter the art palace of Chinese opera Yanying and contribute to our socialist cultural cause? How can you fall on this last hurdle?
Today, I will provide you with information and be an art examination staff officer for you~~"
Dozens of art candidates and parents looked at this young man wearing a dirty old suit and a big back with a big back, and no one came up to consult, just gathered around to see the excitement.
One parent couldn't help but laugh and said:
"Young man, seeing that you are young, you are also here to take the Yanying exam, right? What can you consult? Isn't the first round of art exams self-selected? ”
"Eh~ You asked the point when you said this~" Gu Xiaofan clapped his hands and pointed at the man:
"The first attempt is indeed a self-selected topic, so you have carefully prepared your talents, but I found a problem ~ a serious problem ~ that is, everyone doesn't know what the focus of the art exam is? Do you know what's the point? ”
The man was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Isn't it just a wonderful talent?" That's what most of the people here think.
"Of course not~!" Gu Xiaofan suddenly raised his voice and said: "The focus of the first round of art exams is not at all what you perform, but what the examiner is keen on~."
For example, if the examiner loves Beethoven, and you want to sing "Auspicious Three Treasures", then no matter how well you sing, you will definitely not be able to choose~"
Many art candidates and parents present suddenly jumped in their hearts when they heard this.
Broken~~!? What I'm going to prepare is this year's hit song "Auspicious Three Treasures"!? Why don't the examiners like this song!?
Gu Xiaofan deliberately paused for a moment, until he saw that the people around him finally became a little nervous from the laughing looks, then he put away his smile, looked at everyone and asked:
"To be honest, at my level, I can also give ideas to the first art examination students, I ask three questions, if anyone present can answer, don't laugh at me Xiaogu, you go out of the alley and turn right, go directly to Yanying to report~"
As he spoke, Gu Xiaofan glanced at the crowd, stretched out three fingers and asked loudly:
"Do you know who your examiners are?
What talent projects does he like?
In previous years, what talents were the easiest to try through Yanying? ”
Does anyone know ......? Everyone at the scene looked at each other, and no one answered.
Gu Xiaofan's face was not shocked, he had long expected them to react, and the people who came to step on the point were all freshmen from other places who came to the art examination for the first time, and those veterans who had applied for the pre-exam training class nearby would not come to Xiaotong Lane to join in the excitement at all.
At this time, I heard a female student in the crowd shouting unconvinced:
"Then we don't know, do you know? Are you the son of Principal Yanying? ”
The scene immediately burst into laughter, yes, even if we don't know, it's not your turn to guide the maze, what kind of expert are you~
"Right~ I just know." In the face of everyone's ridicule, Gu Xiaofan was not angry or annoyed, but pointed his finger at his nose and said with a smile:
"In the three major circles of literature and art in Yanjing City, Gao Xiaosong is the most widely connected in the music circle, Feng Xiaogang is the strongest in the entertainment industry, and the most people I know in the art examination circle are my Xiaogu and Gu Xiaofan~"
Saying this, Gu Xiaofan turned around and ripped off the curtain on the wall behind him, and the poster photos were immediately presented in front of everyone, and everyone was stunned when they looked at it, and then there were bursts of soft shouts.
It turned out that the posters were all photos of Gu Xiaofan with Tian Zhuangzhuang, Wang Zhiwen, and Li Baotian, famous professors of Yanying Chinese opera, from childhood to adulthood......