Chapter 43: Handsome and Strong
To be handsome, you also need to have a certain hardware foundation or software foundation.
Hardware foundation, Song Pingguo feels that she doesn't have it, she is medium in height, medium in size, medium in appearance, and even medium in hair length, if she goes to the entertainment industry, it is estimated that she will be in the same awkward position as Lei Chu, and she will ponder plastic surgery because she can't brush her face, and regret it for life because she can't have plastic surgery.
However, there is still something that can be done on the software foundation.
Song Pingguo thinks that when she was in the back kitchen, she was still a very chic handle-level character, wearing a well-fitting white dress and a handsome black turban, and leading the kitchen to command the overall situation while playing with the fire and waving a spoon. Of course, she experienced this kind of life during Song Yong's trip around the world - but no matter what, she also experienced it, didn't she?
Song Pingguo is actually a person who doesn't like to be the focus of the crowd. She prefers to do some behind-the-scenes work, and it's the kind of behind-the-scenes work that is crucial. When she expounded her ideals, Song Yong listened to this passage, and after thinking about it for a long time with a edamame on her chopsticks, she asked her daughter seriously: "Do you mean that you want to go to the construction site to screw it?" â
At present, it seems that Song Pingguo's future career plan has been realized for the most part, whether it is a chef or a stage manager, it is a standard "vital behind-the-scenes work".
Raichu had been in the troupe before, and to be honest, she had hardly admired anyone when it came to acting, and that bit of pride in her bones made her know exactly how much potential she had left, and where her limits were, even if some of her seniors were more skilled in acting than her at the time, she was sure that she could surpass each other in a certain period of time.
And judging from her later appearance, her prediction was not wrong at all.
In the troupe, the person Raichu admires most is the stage manager.
Liu Nan's troupe is not big, and it is not even a completely professional troupe, many of the people in the troupe are amateurs, and there is often a shortage of manpower. However, compared with some of his more miserable peers, Liu Nan at least managed to achieve a stable income in the troupe and did not owe everyone wages, because he carefully planned the respective time of the amateur actors, although there was often a shortage of people, but he did not have any mistakes in important rehearsals and performances, the only small problem was the lack of stage managers.
There are more and more actors in the troupe, but the stage managers come and go one by one, and they can't stay alive or dead, if it weren't for Lei Qiu to introduce Jian Liang this time, this play would have to be delayed for a while before the rehearsal can begin.
No matter what kind of work, leader, coordinator, commander, this type of occupation is a laborious and laborious technical work.
The stage manager, the schedule of everyone in the troupe is in his charge, the actors' interpretation of the details during rehearsals is in his hands, the positioning points on the stage are in his hands, and the props that need to be prepared in advance are still in his hands...... When Rachu first joined the troupe, she didn't know the responsibilities of the stage manager, so the troupe leader gave her a simple and easy-to-understand explanation: Oops, it's the director and the universal handyman.
Along the way, Song Pingguo was immersed in studying Jian Liang's densely written little notebook, and Lei Qiu intimately used a mobile phone flashlight to give her a beam of light: "Aren't you afraid of motion sickness?" â
"Someone like me who has a great sense of balance never gets motion sickness." Song Pingguo flipped through the schedule book in her hand, "Raise the flashlight a little more." â
Lei Qiu told Liu Nan on the phone, "Jian Liang is anemic and fainted, and he can't go at home for a while", but he didn't say that Song Pingguo wanted to temporarily replace Jian Liang's position. After all, when she was on the phone, she didn't expect Song Pingguo to be so brave in challenging life and discovering new possibilities in life.
So when they walked into the theater, after Lei Qiu pulled Liu Nan to the side and told him about it, Liu Nan glared at Lei Qiu in shock: "Your girlfriend is studying stage management?!" Then why didn't you introduce her sooner? Raichu, you're not true like this, I'll tell you......"
Lei Qiu reluctantly pushed Liu Nan back from the corner: "Okay, okay, help organize rehearsals, do you want to grind all night?" â
Song Pingguo also admired herself at this time, as a person who forgot all her high school knowledge three days after the college entrance examination, she could still remember the professional courses she studied in four years of college. Fortunately, Jian Liang is a very "neat" person, not only the words are neatly written, but the content is also well organized, so that people don't know where to start reading for a long time, and the only problem now is that she is really not familiar with the script...... Liu Nan handed over a spare script in a timely manner.
It's alive now.
Although it should be classified as medium according to the classification of appearance, Song Pingguo's eyebrows are full of heroism, usually fine, and when the headscarf is tied neatly, it looks very similar - to be honest, Lei Qiu thinks that as long as Song Pingguo is tied with a headscarf, he is more like a mixed underworld than a cook.
The actors didn't know that Song Pingguo was Lei Qiu's girlfriend, and they didn't know that she was officially acting as a stage manager for the first time today, and they thought that this was a strong foreign aid that Liu Nan pulled from somewhere. After all, the temporary OEM roles that were made when the stage manager was not there were good roles.
However, this group of actors is really not stupid. In this regard, everyone present is more experienced than Song Pingguo, and everyone can be regarded as Song Pingguo's seniors, and they soon noticed that this young man was working very hard to control the scene, in fact, she did a good job, but it was too rusty.
It was so unfamiliar that everyone felt awkward, and they were uncomfortable all over their bodies. It's like when jumping a long rope, the person in charge of throwing the rope suddenly slows too fast or too slow, and everyone will be disrupted.
Drama is the art of actors to bring their acting skills to the extreme, but it also requires the actors to cooperate with each other, if the stage manager does not control the rhythm during the rehearsal, the performance will stumble and not go on, and after several consecutive performances, finally someone gets impatient, stops and starts to complain about other people's expressions.
The whole stage was noisy in an instant, and the actors were wearing props with particularly exaggerated colors and designs, Song Pingguo stood on the side of the stage, feeling flustered and at a loss, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
Liu Nan was not worried at all, he had long been accustomed to the fact that most of the people in the troupe were ...... Most of them have very good personalities, and they immediately start arguing when they don't agree with each other, and they quickly reconcile after less than five minutes after the quarrel, as if nothing had happened just now.
Now on the stage, the small animals in the big forest are quarreling, this kind of scene is actually nothing, the last time Hamlet and Ophelia fought in the classic series of Shakespeare, and the last time they played the thunderstorm, the actor who played Zhou Puyuan was angry, and snorted coldly and scolded in a drama tone: "You and your mother don't know where your illness is!" â
Of course, the consequence was that all the people involved in the quarrel burst into laughter and threw themselves into the rehearsal.
Usually at this time, Jian Liang would be fine if he went up to persuade her, but Song Pingguo obviously couldn't persuade this group of actors who were not very familiar with her, Lei Qiu, who was leaning on the front seat to read the script leisurely, put down the script, supported the edge of the stage, and jumped up.
"Everyone, everyone." Rachu clapped her hands at the front of the stage, raising her voice to attract the attention of others, and her singing voice was loud and loud, covering up all the noise on the stage, "Give me face, this is my girlfriend." â
In general, stage management is a particularly continuous job, and only by following up from the beginning can you clearly understand the situation of each actor and know how to coordinate their cooperation. Song Pingguo came to the era class based on the content written by Jian Liang alone, which was indeed a little reluctant, but everyone really gave Lei Qiu a lot of face, and they tried their best to cooperate with her, so that the rehearsal went smoothly.
Song Pingguo's psychological activities at the moment are very complicated, on the one hand, she is glad that this is the penultimate rehearsal before taking the stage, and the role of the stage manager is not as great as the previous times, on the one hand, she is thinking about why she does not have this diamond diamond, why she is biased in this porcelain job, and on the other hand, she is so embarrassed that she is annoyed that she has robbed Lei Qiu of the limelight again.
The play rehearsed this time is called "Snow Boy". To be honest, this can also be regarded as a classic play, because it is a musical children's play, so many people have been taken by parents to watch it and watched it with the school organization...... For example, Song Pingguo herself actually watched this drama during the spring outing in elementary school.
Because it is a fairy tale drama for children, the plot is not very complicated, a group of small animals built a snowman and gave it to grandma, grandpa and snow mother, and then snow mother gave this snowman life and named her Snow Boy, Snow Child was spoiled more and more arrogant and willful, and then ...... Then she was touched by the love of Mother Xue.
This kind of script that seems to be full of twists and turns, if you think about it carefully, it is a standard plot in life, just like Song Pingguo was full of ambition to say that she wanted to replace Jian Liang's class, and then encountered trouble and chaos that she couldn't handle, and then it was Lei Qiu who had to come to relieve her in person.
Sure enough, a handsome player who does not have sufficient hardware and software conditions is called reckless.
After the rehearsal, Song Pingguo just lifted the curtain leading to the backstage, and was stunned in place.
In the background, among the debris piled up on the ground, sits a tiger.
The tiger raised its paws to take his head away, revealing Leiqiu's bright smiling face, and Song Pingguo realized that it was just props piled up in the backstage of the theater.
"If you want to be comforted, just say it."
The corners of Song Pingguo's mouth twitched, she didn't know whether to deny that she wanted someone to comfort her first, or to laugh first.
Raichu closed the hood of the tiger's suit, seemed to curl up with one hand to fasten some kind of buckle on the inside, and then stretched out his hand and placed it inside one of the tiger's front paws. The costumes of this prop are not realistic, after all, the stage performance does not have such strict requirements for the appearance of the props, and the tiger is such a distinctive animal that people can recognize at a glance.
However, under Raichu's interpretation, the tiger seems to have really come to life, and it has jumped into a raging fire in the small and crowded backstage, and the only fly in the ointment is probably the tail, which hangs softly behind it because it can't shake.
Then, Song Pingguo followed Lei Qiu to the empty stage covered with white lights after the rehearsal. The tiger jumped even harder, as if it was going to pounce on something in the air, and then landed firmly on the ground, skillfully turning around with its four paws, facing Song Pingguo.
"Whew!" Raichu clumsily learned the tiger's call, "Woo-woo-"
Song Pingguo, who had been gloomy all the time, walked up with a smile, rubbed her head, touched the seams of the tiger hood and clothes, and suddenly noticed that something was wrong.
The tiger's front and hind paws are about the same length - but the length of the arms and legs is so different that it is absolutely impossible to wear this tiger costume directly.
Finding Song Pingguo's gaze, Lei Qiu sat down in a human posture with some embarrassment, took off the tiger clothes on his body, and showed Song Pingguo the mechanism hidden under the clothes.
Before putting on the tiger prop suit, Raichu tied his thighs and calves together with several belts, and walked on the ground on his knees, and from the outside, the length of the tiger's front and hind paws was about the same.
She loosened the buckle of the belt and stretched her legs for a lazy waist: "Alas...... It's enough, I feel back pain every time I finish a performance. â
ââŚâŚ Have you always acted like this? â
"At first, when they called me to help, it wasn't, and then it was like that."
Song Pingguo was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to react, opened her mouth and finally didn't say anything comforting, and after a while she reached over and rubbed the bruises on Lei Qiu's knees.
She remembered that when Raichu was somersaulting on the stage in a tiger coat, the tiger collided with the hard wooden stage on all fours, making a heavy muffled sound.
Lei Qiu has played the tiger on stage more than once, and it is not only the tiger who needs to use her body to pave the way for the performance effect, Song Pingguo believes that every time she does this, she is greeted by thunderous applause from the audience.
This is Raichu's dignity and pride, this is her lifelong pursuit, and this is the fire in her heart.
There's no denying that it definitely hurts.
Raichu loves acting, she is willing to pay for acting, she is willing to endure these pains for the best delay effect, but no one can deny the existence of these pains.
She shines brightly in front of the stage, and bumps and bumps behind the scenes, covered in scars. However, it is undeniable that every moment of Raichu's life exudes brilliance. Whether his posture is elegant or wolf, as an actor, Lei Chu, who is "not distinctive", is actually always the focus of everyone's attention and always the darling favored by fate.
Song Pingguo is accustomed to the chic and sincere Leiqiu who is as childlike as a child, relying on the lover who will suddenly become reliable and mature in love, and also admiring and longing for the omnipotent actor on the stage.
She can use her eyes and voice to interpret the truth that does not exist in zĂ i, and she can also restore the joys, sorrows and sorrows that everyone has with a smile, she can be a desperate lonely hero, or a proud monarch of the spring breeze. She doesn't have a "specialty" that can be praised, but that is her characteristic in itself.
It's not that Raichu has no ego, and it's not that he has a full personality through the characters only on the stage, but these roles are intertwined to create the current Raichu.
There were props scattered on and off the stage, and only the lights above the curtain lit up in the entire theater, illuminating Raichu's dark eyes.
Song Pingguo felt that she was unconsciously pulled into a new life by Lei Qiu and stepped onto the same stage as Lei Qiu.
She was apprehensive and excited. She had lived in her twenties in this world, but only now did she discover the breadth and subtlety.
For the rest of my life, I have to ask Rachu Duoduo for advice.