Chapter 24: Learning to Act
But at Stolko's suggestion, Zhou Nan deliberately controlled his discourse and transformed it into a real administrative power.
Zhou Nan has a vision and analytical ability that far surpasses ordinary people, and this view of the overall situation has been recognized by the National Assembly and government departments at all levels, and even recognized by the world.
But the overall situation and the ability to control the details are two different things, in short, Zhou Nan's execution ability is poor, and the adaptability is poor. He's like a designer who can design beautiful buildings, but he doesn't have the ability to build them himself.
Since he aroused strong repercussions in society in March last year, the attention of all sectors of society to him has never decreased. In addition to the media, many professional organizations are also evaluating Zhou Nan's whole person from various angles.
Arranging this special adviser position for Zhou Nan is the position that best reflects Zhou Nan's ability.
However, others didn't know what Zhou Nan was thinking and were a little worried that Zhou Nan was not satisfied with the position. This is because this position is not within the existing system of Swiss politics, and although it is ostensibly high-level, it does not have any real power.
A councillor can also represent the electorate of the state and have the ability to intervene administratively in all aspects of society. But what about Zhou Nan, the Federation Council listens to his opinion, and his opinion is useful, and he himself does not have any power channel that can turn his proposal into a policy measure.
After realizing Zhou Nan's ability, the rest of the Swiss political circles attached great importance to Zhou Nan, but they did not dare to give him too much power.
However, if he is not given power, he is afraid that he will have opinions in his heart, which will dampen his enthusiasm for participating in politics. What's more, other countries have been repeatedly extending olive branches to him.
Stolko was the first to realize the entanglement in this regard, and had an open and honest in-depth discussion with Zhou Nan to understand Zhou Nan's true thoughts.
Does Zhou Nan value power? No, not at all.
If it weren't for the original mistake, she was expelled from Meghan, and was recommended to the Liberal Democratic Party by Entlebuch as a treasure, and became a scholar who can influence the whole of Europe under the promotion of the party. What he prefers to do is stay on his family's farm, write books, grow vegetables, and enjoy a leisurely life.
Now that he is half-involved in politics, he already finds it a little difficult. If he really devotes himself to politics completely, regardless of whether he can do it well or not, at least he doesn't like this kind of life.
If at the beginning, Stolko also hoped to realize his political ambitions through Zhou Nan, but after more than half a year of contact, he has completely seen it clearly.
Zhou Nan is not a politician in essence, he is just a literati. The most suitable position for a person like him is what he is now, outside the rectification circle, but maintaining a certain degree of political influence.
Therefore, he carefully analyzed the expansion and limitations of Zhou Nan's personal ability in the political arena with Zhou Nan, and told Zhou Nan that not only could not ask for more power, but even stayed away from politics than before.
Staying away from politics is not about not participating in politics, but about maintaining one's independence and detachment, and not getting bogged down in complicated power struggles and administrative affairs.
Zhou Nan accepted Storko's suggestion and, at its regular meeting in the second week of February, formally rejected the proposal of the Federal Council for the administrative level of the post of adviser.
His adviser is currently a temporary position, and this year coincides with the Swiss general election, which will be formally voted on in June, when a new term of MPs is elected.
If the official administrative level is determined, then Zhou Nan's status in the future will be restricted. Although this consultant is in a high position, it also depends on how much this position helps Zhou Nan.
At present, it seems that this position will help Zhou Nan more than the limit, but if it becomes a formal position, the constraints on Zhou Nan will become greater in the future. For Zhou Nan, a person who wants to sneak around a foreign country from time to time, the restrictions are too great and there is no benefit.
His offer not to formalize the administrative level of the consultant was a good thing.
Congress does not have to vote unanimously for this position, which avoids a multi-party contest for this position. And he himself can avoid getting caught up in this power struggle and be outside the system.
The only bad thing is that Zhou Nan will lack direct intervention in politics because of this, but this is something that Zhou Nan doesn't care about.
After solving the cumbersome political affairs, Zhou Nan can devote all his energy to his interests.
Now that the "General History of the World" has been completed, what he needs to do now is to collect information on the political and economic changes after World War II, and prepare to write a post-World War II history book in the future.
But his assistants help him collect them, and he just needs to look at them every day.
Then it takes a lot of effort for him to pay close attention to the big things that happen in the world every day, and then make his voice heard in the media.
During the day, he carves out a small plot of land in the vegetable garden where the snow has not yet melted safely, and this year he is ready to plant even more vegetables.
There is also rice wine, this time when Marita met, she loaded ten large pots and left, and one large pot of twenty catties was loaded with two hundred catties and left. There is almost no rice wine left at home, only a little cider.
Zhou Nan started brewing again, and this time the number of brewing was even more.
However, the place where he is most interested is Audrey's acting training, and watching Audrey learn to perform every night is the greatest pleasure in his life.
When it comes to acting, Audrey is talented. In the memories of later generations, she was at the peak as soon as she debuted, and she won the Oscar for Best Actress in the first movie with her as the protagonist.
Her role as Princess Anne conquered fans all over the world at once, and it is not an exaggeration to describe her as an angel descending to Hollywood.
Audrey conquered the discerning American audience and opened a path to godhood with her youthful elegance. And this also established Audrey's public image.
"My Fair Lady", "Tiffany's Breakfast", "Stealing the Dragon and Turning the Phoenix", "Paris Holiday", although the character settings are different in one way or another, Hepburn on the screen is all the same playful and cute, elegant and charming.
Although the roles she plays are all the same, even playing a few girls is so pure. But these are not because of her, but because audiences all over the world need such a perfect image of her.
In her acting career, almost all the roles she can remember are similar, so much so that although she has won an Oscar five times, no one has ever taken the initiative to talk about how good her acting skills are when talking about Hollywood golden actresses in the 50s.
People talk about her beauty, her temperament, the public welfare she does at the United Nations, even her hairstyle and dress, but never about her acting skills.
Speaking of her works, it is always the fledgling "Roman Holiday" and the large-scale commercial "Tiffany's Breakfast" invested by Givenchy.
But does she really have no acting skills at all? Of course not, on the contrary, she has an acting talent that ordinary people can't match.
In "Blind Girl Psycho", the blind girl she played conquered audiences all over the world, but people don't want to see her play such a role, and prefer to see her show her charm all the time.
In the fifties and sixties, the economy of Europe and the United States developed rapidly, and the National Happiness Index was the highest, and after World War II, the United States, as the victorious country, became the world's largest economy and the richest country in the world.
The European economy is picking up, and citizens have a lot of time to go for perfection, better cars, better houses, better ways to play, and better women.
The appearance of Audrey Hepburn coincided with the American quest for perfection in the fifties and sixties. She is impeccable in appearance, elegant and charming, with the mystery of a declining aristocracy, but also kind, approachable, and even loves family.
It's all so perfect that she becomes a perfect symbol. Men aspire to have such a perfect woman, and women aspire to be such a perfect woman.
So almost no one likes Hepburn's "Blind Girl", because the audience doesn't need such Hepburn. Just like the audience can't accept that Shirley Temple has changed from a little angel child star to a young woman who falls in love with a man, and can't accept that the sexy but innocent screen Monroe is really involved with Kennedy, and claims to be a homosexual.
The acting teacher sent by Paramount to Switzerland is Paramount's contracted movie star Marlene Dietrich, who is the first sexy goddess in the history of cinema and a woman with a strong sense of self.
Marlene Dietrich will play Anne's mother in this film, and it is she who offers to train Audrey after watching Audrey's commercial film.
Paramount can't ask for this, they don't need Audrey's good acting skills, but they need to give Audrey her unique temperament.
Audrey's life was filled all at once. When I get up in the morning, I have to practice with Zhou Nan, and then go to school to complete my homework on time.
In the evening, she has to receive physical training, voice training, and acting skills from Marlene Dietrich.
In terms of shape, thanks to the guidance of several fashion masters, Audrey has been doing very well in this regard.
In terms of vocalization, although Audrey has a London accent that is most popular in the United States. But the speech in the movie is very different from the speech in real life.
Because the weight of the words in each sentence in the movie needs to be expressed with their own emotions, which is very different from what they say in reality.
Acting training is Zhou Nan's favorite show to watch. Audrey went from being embarrassed to perform at the beginning, afraid of damaging her image, to playing all kinds of animals and various characters in the end.
The perfect image of Audrey fixed in his own heart, compared with the image of playing a kitten on the floor, on all fours, and twisting her ass to be coquettish, always gave him a sense of absurdity like in a dream.