Time flies, February 9 is the Spring Festival of 2005, the most important festival of the Ye family throughout the year, Ye Wei, who spent in Toronto in late January, returned to Los Angeles one day earlier, reunited with his family for the New Year, everyone was dressed in new clothes, and Toto also put on the blessing word infrared jacket to pray for happiness this year, and the blossoms who received red envelopes laughed loudly.

Festivals are always one after another, there are public festivals and private festivals, and the next day on the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, Emma's birthday also arrived. However, this year, the 10th is a Thursday, and the Spring Festival and birthday are not federal or California holidays, so I will go to school and work as usual.

It's really boring to work in the New Year, but as the filming date of "Little Sunshine Beauty" is getting closer and closer, Ye Wei's free time is getting less and less.

Even if it's a movie, all kinds of meetings are never-ending, some meetings are necessary, and some meetings Ye Weizhen feels that they are a waste of time, but he can't get some decisions if he doesn't open them, it's not that he can't make up his mind, it's that he needs to persuade and coordinate all parties.

He really tasted the pain of the producers and directors in Hollywood, who had shallow experience and qualifications, and was too young, so there were more problems, which is called "the less power, the more meetings", if the 6 million budget is all his investment...... The downside is that the risks are huge, and the advantage is that there are no useless meetings, which not only saves time, but also benefits physical and mental health.

Whenever the meeting is depressed, Ye Wei thinks about John Woo and thinks about what he said, "I had a meeting for 8 months before the filming of "Changing Face", what a waste of time!"

In addition to the conference, the substantive work is also underway, and today we will do a tech-scout, but only the second alternate site is the first alternate site in New Orleans, Louisiana, where there are tax incentives. Only in a very bad situation, if you don't make it in Toronto or New Orleans, will you divert back to Los Angeles.

Although it is convenient for anyone to shoot in Los Angeles, but the tax is high and the labor cost is high, if this happens, you will either increase the budget or shorten the daily control budget, and then it will really be a big one.

Early this morning, followed by the heads of various departments of the crew, Ye Wei began a day's inspection work.

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At 9:25 a.m., the half-hour activity time arrived on time, and the whole campus set off a wave, and students either went to their club activities or hung out and chatted.

As a school with 20% Asian students, the Chinese New Year is highly valued here, although there is no holiday, but the school has a corresponding speech to celebrate, yesterday on the first day of the new year, the Asian + American Cultural Club and other clubs also organized celebrations.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the excitement did not lessen much, because today was the activity day of the Dream League Club, and a group of young people who took over the power did not lose their traditions, and if it were not for the teachers to stop it, they would almost have set off firecrackers in front of the academic center.

Many clubs are also active, in a typical classroom on the second floor of the academic center, on the front blackboard, with beautiful English "journalism-" written in colored chalk, below is a line of "happy-ese-new-year", around which some festive firecracker patterns are drawn, and a square line of Chinese simplified Chinese characters "Happy New Year".

This is the place where the Journalism Society is active.

In the middle of the classroom, a dozen desks formed a small circle in a semicircle, and more than a dozen young male and female students sat on the desk, and the desk in front of the semicircle was the chair position, and a girl in a red and black plaid jacket, a white wide T-shirt and light blue jeans stood at the table, and there was a stack of Wen Jiàn on the table.

"Maggie, Finn, everyone, Happy Chinese New Year!" Lily smiled at the start of the event, and the two Asian members and everyone else laughed, Lily looked back at the blackboard, "I didn't make a typo, did I? ”

"Nope. Maggie shook her head, and everyone chuckled, and Lily laughed too.

In fact, she has taken Chinese in the subject of "World Languages" since last year, and she has accumulated a lot, so she writes quite well, isn't it? Lily turned around, knocked on the text on the table, and said: "I made a plan to create an annual publication of our society, and this year is the first issue. ”

"Okay!", "Support!" Everyone was very excited when they heard this, and they had already wished to join the Journalism Society.

Lily distributed the stack of plans, and in the end there was only one in her hand, and she half-leaned on the president's desk, flipping through the plans while saying her thoughts: "Now there are five student publications in the middle school and high school, including two weekly magazines, two monthly magazines, and only one yearbook, which is the Yearbook. ”

Everyone nodded slightly, she glanced around everyone, and said: "The Yearbook is a cooperation with the school official, and the content is very formal, our photos, achievements, testimonials, etc., but it is very lacking in our daily life, so my founding idea is that we will fill in the gaps in this area, and the content will be more casual, which can be interesting or gossip." ”

She turned around and walked to the blackboard, picked up the white chalk and wrote amusement, gossip, the pen stopped, she circled the gossip, and turned back to the crowd: "I know you want to see the gossip between me and Ye Wei in the yearbook, the answer is no." She gestured with both hands, "That guy is already on the blacklist of this publication." ”

"Hahaha!" the crowd laughed without hesitation, for Lily was clearly joking.

"Haha. Lily smiled crookedly, and said seriously: "There can be gossip, but the length is very small, it can only be healthy gossip, you can't mess around for the sake of attracting attention, and you can't hurt anyone." This is not only the case with gossip, but also with all other news materials, which is one of the purposes of our yearbook. ”

One of the members, Tryste, asked, "Wouldn't that be much different from the Yearbook?"

"Good point!" Lily pointed to her friend and said confidently, "The Yearbook is actually a display and record, but we are ...... 'interesting'!"

Da she wrote "fun" on the blackboard.

"That's what we're all about!"

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The Wexford School of the Arts in Toronto, too, has no Lunar New Year break, and both Asians and non-Asians go to school as usual.

Since falling in love with Yonik and then starring in "The Exorcism Video", Nina has been more interested in the performing arts than other arts, so she only studied comprehensive arts for one fall semester, and in the winter semester, she applied to change to the performing arts-drama major.

Learning acting was fun, and the most interesting thing was training with Yunik, rehearsing together, and acting in the school stage play together, and she and he did a play "Romeo and Juliet" together in late January, which was very fun.

Nina found herself quite advantageous in acting, and the hard work since childhood finally paid off, and all the body movement courses, such as muscle relaxation and control, dynamic stretching, etc., were not difficult for her, because she began to practice Laban movements at a few years old to learn dance.

However, acting is not just about the body, there are too many things to learn, such as the details of expressions, on the set of "Exorcism Video", this is the biggest reason for her ng, sometimes less, sometimes more, sometimes too life-like, sometimes too dramatic.

In the empty performance room, there were more than twenty students sitting on the floor, Teacher Rochelle was lecturing the class, and Nina was listening intently, while taking notes into the brown notebook in her hand with a ballpoint pen.

Now she really puts a lot of effort into her studies and studies, and a stupid person can't be Yunik's girlfriend!

"We often say that if you put real life on the stage, no one will believe it. Because the extraordinary things that happen in life, once presented to the audience, they will feel unbelievable, 'This can't happen!' even though life is always more dramatic than drama, and no one will believe it. ”

Mr. Rochelle paused, so that the few students who were writing the notes could write and let everyone digest them.

"But when you use the magical word 'what if' in the form of a drama to sue them. Even if the audience still won't believe that what you're performing will happen in life, they will still enjoy the story on stage and screen. 'What if' is the key, and if it is possible, the credibility and persuasiveness of what we say.

How can we present a convincing performance? It's ironic, it's precisely to avoid being overly life-like, and it's more real to not be life-like than life-like!"

Looking at the smiling faces of the students, Mr. Rochelle continued to smile: "We need to use some interpretations, reactions, and details that we will not have in life to build the credibility that the audience needs." ”

The students were amused and thoughtful, and Nina nodded approvingly, which caught Ms. Rochelle's attention, "Nina, what do you think?"

"I think ......" Nina was asked a little suddenly, and replied while thinking: "It's like being unhappy, we may be expressionless and in a daze in life, but then the audience can't see it, so we have to show that we are unhappy." She frowned and glared, "Release the love in your heart so that the audience can understand it." That's what Yunik said.

"That's the truth. The teacher clapped his hands and praised, "We have to release the emotions of the characters, and when we perform, we don't ask, 'What will I do in this situation?', but 'What will my character do in this situation?', but this is still a life-like expression, and there is a way that is more non-life-like." ”

The teacher's words made everyone stunned, and Nina wrote notes again and again, what's the matter?

"Contrasting performances! We are not happy, but we are smiling, we are happy, but we are expressionless. This form of performance has a larger performance space.

Today, we are going to do a role exercise, when you think the character should say or feel something, act out the opposite words and feelings, and bury the character's real words and feelings in the bottom of your heart, which can make you understand the character's subtext and motivation more.

If you ask questions from a reasonable angle, there will be infinite possibilities for answers, and there will be infinite performance space. This way, you can shape your character according to your interpretation, a villain may be full of endearing charm, and a fierce-looking person may be just shy.

Now divide into two teams, one team is happy but not laughing, the other is unhappy but laughing, two people, let's perform!"

After Mr. Rochelle's words, everyone took action, and Nina was placed in the happy but not smiling group.

Before the performance, she thought that she was indeed very happy, why didn't she show it with a smile......

Nina flattened her mouth slightly, rolled her eyes, looked relaxed and angry, and shook her head a little, as if she was humming, triumphant.

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"Happy Birthday!"

On the evening of the 10th, Ye Wei attended Emma's 14th birthday party held at home, whether personally or at work, he had to go to this party, Julia Roberts's family of course attended, the two big fat babies were very healthy, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the babies are healthy and not sick, Roberts will not suddenly quit, and the shooting will be smooth.

Today's protagonist is Emma, and in recent months, Emma's enthusiasm for him has obviously decreased, there are fewer calls and texts, less and less, and one of the "Mermaids" starring her is about to start filming, and she didn't ask him any character building questions.

Maybe you're dating some boy, Ye Wei really loosened his shoulders, little girl, just don't make trouble like this, I don't want to kick it in front of the door.

However, as if something was wrong, just as he grimaced and teased the two babies, causing them to giggle, and in full view, Emma grabbed him and said, "Follow me", and pulled him from the hall to her room on the second floor, and he didn't want to go in......

"Don't you look at my collection?" Emma grinned, puberty grew so fast, only a few months, her figure and face were becoming more and more mature, now dressed in a lake-blue semi-formal evening dress, with blonde hair coiled up, and the demeanor of a little girl turned into a little beauty.

"Uh, ok. Ye Wei didn't want to look wary of anything, she walked into her boudoir like a normal friend, bright, neat, and all kinds of girls' things were not messy, they should have been sorted out first, several rows of bookshelves stood against the wall, full of all kinds of books, mostly novels, and most of the girls' novels.

He glanced at it a few times and praised, "Yes, more than mine." ”

"There's still one in the study. Emma followed, smiling, and suddenly said, "Only, I want another birthday present, a kiss from you." She pursed her lips, not joking.

"That's for you. Ye Wei shrugged, a kiss was nothing, and he was going to kiss her left cheek.

Emma nodded her lips with pink lipstick, "Here." ”

"Haha!" Ye Wei looked around with a smile, "There are no paparazzi hiding in the room, right?" Emma suddenly opened her eyes, "No, no!" Ye Wei leaned into her expectant face, or kissed her left cheek in a ceremonial manner, although it was a snort, but in fact, it barely touched the skin, "Happy birthday." ”

"It's not a ......" Emma was helpless and anxious, remembering the lesson from the last time, she didn't do anything, and walked to the desk over there with a fist, "In a few days, you must be in Toronto, right?"

Ye Wei nodded and continued to beat her enthusiasm, "Of course, I've lived with Nina." He raised the corners of his mouth, "Nina has prepared a lot of celebrations...... Hey. ”

"I don't want to hear it, this is my chocolate for you, 'friend' love!" Emma picked up a box of beautifully packaged chocolates and smiled sweetly, "I made it myself, I want to eat it that day, don't give it to others, you have to eat it all yourself." ”

"Oh...... All right. Ye Wei took the big box in his hand, he was afraid that there was a pound, "I can't eat it alone...... Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, I'll eat!"

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February 14th, Valentine Day, is a day of the year when a large amount of chocolate is eaten around the world.

This year's day is Monday, Ye Wei, who has returned to Toronto, has been treated like a superstar at school, almost every classmate will congratulate him, men and women have greeting cards, and girls will also send chocolates and flowers, this year in Harvard-Westlake, this year in Wexford, really happy and lucky,

"If I were a dog, I would have to die many times today. Ye Wei nibbled on the endless chocolate while initiating this strange emotion.

Before going to school early this morning, on the lawn of the house, Ye Wei and Nina had already exchanged greeting cards, the love of lovers, Nina's greeting card read: "I originally wanted to write a lot of words, but I thought about it, and the most sincere words I could think of were, I love you! I love you, I love you!"

Three I love you, one in English, one in Bulgarian, and one in Chinese, he couldn't help but smile: "I love you too, this hand is written in Chinese well, talented." ”

"I have practice. Nina proudly said that she began to learn Chinese this year, in fact, she grew up in Toronto and Scarborough, and she is no stranger to Chinese, but she has not studied systematically before, and now she is very interested, Yunic also finds time to learn Bulgarian, how can she not learn Chinese.

Interracial love is about learning from each other's cultural backgrounds.

Nina opened the greeting card he sent and saw that it read: "You have 100 million reasons for me to say I love you, only one reason for me to say I hate you, I hate you you you love me more than I love you, in this regard, I will be an eternal loser, thank you, I love you!"

"Haha!" she couldn't help laughing, and she threw herself over and hugged him, kissing him emotionally.

The sweetness of this day is destined to be all-weather, after school during the day and after the morning exercise training on Monday, the two will drive out on a date and enjoy a wonderful Valentine's Day night.

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Los Angeles, Brentwood, still in the late afternoon, the sky is dusk orange-red.

At a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard, Lily got off the school bus and walked in the direction of home, she rummaged through the handbag she was holding, which contained the greeting cards and gifts she received today, which was full of them, she took out a few greeting cards at random and looked at them and put them back, and took out a square piece of chocolate at random, opened the handmade wrapping paper, and took a bite to eat.

"Hmm...... So sweet, nice chocolate. She wanted to look at the brand, but there was no writing on the wrapping paper, like homemade chocolate, and she praised it even more: "Who gave it? "Look at the name that isn't written on it, strange!

At this time, the mobile phone rang suddenly, she took it out and looked at it, and connected: "Hi...... I'm free, "The Enemy of Love" seems to be interesting, no need, wait in the theater, okay, wait for the meeting. ”

The phone was put back in the bag, and she looked at the chocolate in her hand again and walked forward