Chapter 29: The First Beauty of Huangmei Opera
The operas in the world are all connected.
The four skills and five methods in Peking Opera - singing, chanting, doing, fighting, hand, eye, body and steps, are also basic skills in Yue Opera.
Mother Zhao Mingli is a sword and horse actor, and Tang Qin has practiced various basic skills of waist, legs, hands, arms, head, and neck since he was a child, which made Zhang Yunming feel surprised.
However, the students of Yue Opera are different from Peking Opera, and the students of Yue Opera are divided into doll students, poor students, fan students, yarn hat students, and Lingzi students......
Combined with the characteristics of Tang Qin, Zhang Zhiming asked Tang Qin to specialize in fan students, first practicing how to sit, how to stand, how to walk, T-shaped steps to pull three arms, left and right cloud hands, various steps, and then tutorial-style routine combinations......
The program is generated and the source of life, that is, the daily life movements, after pondering, refining, exaggerating, and beautifying to form the rhythm of dance, and then the hands, eyes, and body are coherently driven, combined with singing, chanting, and fighting, so every move, every move, voice, face, and smile are in line with the law of beauty.
These opera programs are the crystallization of the wisdom and creativity of generations of artists, through which the art of opera has been passed down to the present day.
"Sister Lin fell from the sky, like a light cloud just coming out. It's just that he is reckless and frivolous in his belly, but it turns out that his bones are strange and unconventional......"
In the room of the guest house, there were four bunk beds in one room, the weather was getting hotter, everyone didn't stay in the room, Tang Qin lit a stick of incense, hummed, and stared at the light of the stars in the darkness without blinking.
"Hey, where are you hiding here, okay, you don't have to hide in the future, I'm afraid you'll have to be idle forever in the future."
The door was suddenly pushed open, Li Chengru walked in, followed by the two scene reporters Qiu Peining and Yu Hong, and soon, Zhang Jinlai also walked in, in the crew, where there is Yu Hong, there is him.
"What's going on?" Tang Qin stood up with a smile and snuffed out the incense with his hand.
"The investigation team is coming." Zhang Jinlai is weak, and he is not the appearance of Monkey King on the screen at all.
The investigation team naturally investigated the Journey to the West crew, or director Yang Jie.
It is precisely because of this live-action shooting method advocated by Yang Jie that this episode has to run eight scenic spots, and there are many voices within China Television.
They thought that Yang Jie's filming progress was extremely slow, and she took the crew to run around all day long, so they specially sent an investigation team to the crew to check.
The investigation team came, if Journey to the West couldn't be filmed, Zhang Jinlai, the protagonist, would be yellow, and he was panicked now.
"Check it, in less than half a month, they will say good things to us." Tang Qin didn't care.
"You're so relieved?" Zhang Jinlai was surprised and said that Tang Qin was also the protagonist.
In fact, the people in the crew are very worried, if Journey to the West is not filmed, the crew will be disbanded, and everyone will have to go back to their own homes and find their own mothers, and they will not be stars.
"Let them come and eat half a month's worth of green vegetable steamed buns and unload the car for a week, he you see what they say." Tang Qin said with a smile.
Sure enough, in less than half a month, the members of the investigation team said that they couldn't stand the hardships here, and they sighed strongly that it was not easy for the crew.
Before leaving, Li Chengru also deliberately took the clip of Tang Qin picking up pig's trotters from the trash can filmed by Wang Chongqiu to show the investigation team......
A smile relieves a thousand sorrows!
The investigation team's return to China Television not only calmed down the turmoil, but also said a lot of good things for the crew!
But this incident touched Director Yang Jie a lot.
The crew really can't just bow their heads to pull the car, they have to look up at the road.
It turned out that during the filming process, every place she went, she gave the crew a "dead rule"-
Don't talk big, don't give interviews to the media, and don't disturb the local people, if you need to, contact the staff of the attraction and remember that everything should be kept low-key.
Such a director and crew, compared with later generations, often at the beginning of the preparation of a drama, whether it is an actor or an investment, they will try their best to promote it, for fear that the audience will not know, where is the original intention of pursuing art back then?
However, now, Director Yang Jie took the initiative to contact a reporter from Popular TV to come for an interview, and the interview was conducted in Shaoxing.
Director Yang Jie introduced the filming process of this episode, the hard work of the crew, these actors not only have to play their own roles well, but also often make guest appearances in other small roles in the play.
"The next scene, Director Yang, where are you going to shoot?" The reporter is very sympathetic and concerned about Journey to the West, and TV viewers across the country are also concerned about Journey to the West.
"In the next scene, we are going to Zhenjiang to shoot a scene of Chen Guangrui going to Shenjiang on the river, Comrade Ma Lan, in our play, plays Yin Wenjiao, the daughter of Yin Kaishan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, also known as Mantang Jiao......"
O Malan!
The reporter suddenly raised his head, "Is it Comrade Ma Lan from the Huangmei Drama Theater in AH Province?" ”
"It's Comrade Ma Lan of the Huangmei Theater." Speaking of Ma Lan, Director Yang Jie smiled.
Speaking of Ma Lan, when director Yang Jie recorded "The Female Concubine", he liked Ma Lan's image and performance very much, and felt that she "looks good, has a good demeanor, and looks good in men's clothes", and it is very in line with the appearance of a beauty in the Tang Dynasty.
But when Yang Jie and Ma Lan agreed, she was still one of the five golden flowers that were famous, and in the Spring Festival Gala of 1984, Ma Lan's song "The Female Horse" made a stunning appearance and became one of the focuses of this Spring Festival Gala.
Later, the movie "Dragon Girl" starring Ma Lan was released, and her appearance in the film shocked the audience again.
By the middle of 1984, she was already a big star, and she was the pillar of the Huangmei Drama Theater in AH Province.
Last year, she participated in the TV "Yan Fengying", and also won the Feitian Outstanding Actress Award and the Golden Eagle Best Actress Award!
In the words of later generations, this is a film and television star, or the kind that has been recognized by major awards.
"There is a kind of classical beauty in her, the nobility of beauty, the purity of beauty, and the beauty of love." As if Ma Lan was standing in front of him, Director Yang Jie continued, "The time is right, she has to be!" ”
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Director Yang Jie's interview was quickly reprinted by the national media once it was published on popular television, and Director Wang Lijuan of Huangmei Theater still saw Director Yang Jie's interview from newspapers in this province.
Although there was an excerpt in the newspaper, the paragraph about Malan was published in its original form.
At this time, Ma Lan's rehearsal of the stage play "Dragon Lady Love" was being performed all over the country, and the venue was full.
"This Yang Jie, isn't this using Ma Lan's reputation to promote the Journey to the West crew?" Wang Lijuan looked dissatisfied, called China TV, and found the phone number of the Journey to the West crew in the Shaoxing Guest House, and she directly asked Director Yang Jie to answer the phone.
Director Yang Jie worked as a director of the opera group in the Art Department of China Television before filming "Journey to the West", she has worked in this position for more than ten years, and is very familiar with well-known troupes and actors across the country, and Wang Lijuan is no stranger.
At this time, TV dramas are still an emerging industry, but movies and operas are just popular, and most movie actors and some opera actors can't look at starring in TV series, even "Journey to the West".
As a Huangmei Opera actor, Wang Lijuan's voice is very good, like singing, "Director Yang, I watched your interview and was very moved by the hard work of the crew, you are indeed not easy...... Still, we hope you'll take this story back. ”
Director Yang Jie was surprised.
"Director Yang, listen to me tell you, I can understand your feelings for this TV series as a director, but empathy, you can also understand my feelings for Ma Lan, I don't want someone to use her to promote Journey to the West......"
Publicize? Director Yang Jie still doesn't understand, why did she use Ma Lan to promote Journey to the West?
"Ma Lan is the pillar of our theater, every word and deed, every move, the whole country opera audiences are watching." Wang Lijuan continued to speak and smile gently, without the slightest appearance of being angry, and her tone was also soft, but the more she was like this, the more Director Yang, who had always been in a hurry, couldn't speak.
"Our crew, Mr. Zheng Rong of BJ Renyi, Zuo Daxue of Hunan Theater of HUN Province, and Yang Chunxia who plays the white bone spirit...... All of them are pillars! ”
"Have they ever acted in a movie? Is there a song that is loud all over the country? Has the TV series won an award? Wang Lijuan smiled on the other side of the phone.
She understands Yang Jie's thoughts very well, the figure of the opera actor fluttering back and forth on the stage, driving the beautiful dress, and the feeling of fluttering fairy is in place, which is also the natural advantage of opera actors over movie actors.
Even now, many actors who graduated from film schools can't wear a lot of costumes, especially skirts.
The opera actors also have acting experience, their bodies are relatively upright, their eyes are very bright, and they look very energetic. This is the result of tempering on the stage of opera, and ten years of work on and off the stage are not in vain.
"We all take a step back from each other, and in the future, don't have reports about Malan and Journey to the West, so can you see it?" Wang Lijuan thought that she had given Yang Dao face.
"The crew's publicity is my business, and you Huangmei Theater can't control it here." Director Yang Jie was really angry, and her tone was very bad.
"Then tell me, do you want to play with the actor who plays Tang Qin in your Zhenjiang play? I heard that he is a stage set, and now he is acting in a TV series with you......" Wang Lijuan smiled, "I think, if the audience across the country knew that Tang Seng was played by such a person, what would they think?" ”
Speaking of Tang Qin, Director Yang Jie was stunned, and after being stunned, she suddenly felt that she wanted to drop the phone.
She is a director, and she looks after young actors like a mother in the crew, and now some people say that her child is not, and she is angry.
She looked at the courtyard, Tang Qin, who was learning drama with Zhang Zhiming, and exhaled heavily.
At this time, there is no such thing as a coffee position, but Director Yang understands what Wang Lijuan means, and Tang Qin is not worthy of playing with Ma Lan.
"No, Director Yang, don't be angry, I don't mean anything else, I don't want to threaten you, I just want to have a good chat with you, they are all literary and artistic workers, they are all family, Ma Lan is performing all over the country, I'm afraid the TV series will not be done, or you will find someone else, you are familiar with the opera actors all over the country, and this is not a big deal for you...... Take care......"
Hearing that the phone was hung up, Director Yang Jie only said a sentence for a while-
"If Ma Lan doesn't come to participate, it doesn't matter if this drama is not filmed!"
However, at this time, Ma Lan was in the limelight, and the schedule was full, so he couldn't spare time at all.
Director Yang Jie took great pains and finally confirmed Ma Lan's participation with the approval of the senior management of the AH Provincial Department of Culture.
A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen.
The drama manager Li Chengru offended too many people, and someone took the opportunity to sue Director Yang Jie, who was angry and wanted to kick him out of the crew in a fit of anger.
"Xiao Tang, you know Ma Lan, you are all young, Zhenjiang's play, you have to compare with her, show your skills, let them see." Director Yang Jie is still angry, her anger is not against Tang Qin, nor at Ma Lan, let alone Li Chengru who left BJ, but at Ma Lan's leader Wang Lijuan.
"How, no faith?"
"Have faith, but how can you compare, but what if you can't compare?"
"It's comparable, you make a request, and I will solve everything I can." Director Yang Jie put down his words.
"I want to come back." Tang Qin didn't hide it.
At the beginning, after it was decided to play Tang Seng, it was Li Chengru who picked him up at the door of China TV Station, and he was "practicing" in the temple, and Li Chengru was the first to come to visit him.
Moreover, Li Chengru's ability to move is very strong, and taking Li Chengru away is like cutting off one of Director Yang Jie's hands, and many things for the crew are not smooth.
"You're righteous, this thing...... I'll talk about this later......" Director Yang Jie didn't answer, and answered ambiguously, it is estimated that she promised Tang Qin now, and she couldn't wipe her face herself, "This is the first time you play against a lesbian, haven't you learned a lot of skills, then let's see your ability to press the bottom of the box!" ”
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