At noon, after Chen Li read the two-page script of "Donkey Gets Water" before the dinner, he never forgot the follow-up development of this story. Even when he accompanied Qian Lele to go shopping in the afternoon, he was also thinking about the plot of this play in his mind, and after being passionate with Qian Lele in the evening, he finally couldn't help but come to the study and read the script.

Zhou Cheng buried too many hilarious film episodes in it, and many homophonic stalks that have not yet become popular make Chen Li, who thinks he has a high laughing point, can't help laughing.

If it was just to make Chen Li laugh, Chen Li would only think that it was a good comedy, but after watching it, Chen Li's smile gradually disappeared, but it was a little heavy.

This story is very simple, a rural school during the Republic of China takes place, the background of the story is almost just a classroom converted from a temple, and the main characters of the film are several four volunteer teachers with educational dreams and a "donkey gets water" teacher. Among them, the "donkey gets water" teacher was reported by the principal as an English teacher in order to strive for more teacher subsidies.

However, not long after, the excellent Donkey Deshui teacher attracted the attention of the above, and arranged for a special commissioner to go to the countryside to investigate and visit, and asked to meet the Donkey Deshui teacher by name. In desperation, an illiterate coppersmith was temporarily taken as a substitute, and a series of oolongs followed.

What the principal wants is for the school to develop for the better, Zhang Yiman wants unfettered freedom, Zhou Tienan wants love, Pei Kuishan wants money, and the coppersmith wants to change his fate.

After the farce of lies, the school gains fame and fortune as it wishes, and what is lost never comes again. Everyone has changed, lust, greed, hypocrisy, selfishness gnaws away at everyone's heart.

In the end, with Zhang Yiman's suicide and the slaughter of the donkey, the plateau seemed to be calm again, but it became dead silence.

It is said that the core of comedy is tragedy, and only comedy that can show this core will make people laugh with tears and remember it in their hearts, just like Xing Ye's "Journey to the West".

It's just that this degree is easy to say, but it's not so easy to control.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many comedies for the sake of sensationalism, and that blunt twist is like if I want to squeak you if you don't laugh, it's embarrassing.

Chen Li found that Zhou Cheng's "Donkey Gets Water" was different, and its extremely absurd plots were all to tell a cruel reality. It feels like you're smiling and laughing and then you're silent. This play exposes the essence of everyone in laughter, and pokes at the pain points of human nature in silence.

Tragedy is to tear up beautiful things to show you, so that you know that all the beauty and absurdity are appearances, and it wants to make you cry in its bones.

"It's definitely the best absurdist comedy." In addition to being excited, Chen Li defined it, regardless of whether this statement was appropriate or not.

Chen Li couldn't bear to put down the script for a long time, although this is a movie script, it can be adapted into an excellent stage play. And the energy that can burst out of this stage play is definitely stronger and more evocative than the play I am preparing now.

"I must direct this play! If I miss it, I'll definitely regret it for the rest of my life! ”

Chen Li put the script on his desk, next to a play he had been preparing: "Butterflies Are Free".

"Butterflies Are Free" is an adaptation of the famous Broadway play "Butterfly Spring". It tells the story of a blind young Donard, who grew up under the careful care of his mother, who resolutely left home to live independently for freedom and ideals, and met his neighbor Geo, who has a cheerful personality but lacks confidence in love and marriage.

When the show first performed in 1970, it received critical acclaim and was nominated three times for the Tony Award, the highest award in American theater and drama that year. After being adapted into the movie "Miss Butterfly", it was nominated for an Oscar.

So when Vice President Feng proposed to create a new play, he thought of this drama. I hope that Chen Li will be able to present this drama perfectly as a New Year gift in the Spring Festival of 2008.

Chen Li was also exhausted after taking over the task assigned by the leader.

In order to make this drama closer to the Chinese audience, Chen Li not only invited Chu Ran, the best student of the Nortel Literature Department, to help revise the script, but even invited Zhang Xian, a famous professor of the Department of Drama and Literature of Chinese Opera, to help guide him.

In addition to selecting a few outstanding students from the school students in accordance with the requirements of Yanjing Renyi, the actors are also ready to invite several old actors who are still famous to help take the lead.

If it weren't for the fact that the results of his wife's competition were undecided, Chen Li would have already begun to gather the actors for rehearsals now.

However, it was because of this delay that he found that he had a better choice. Chen Li knew that he had encountered a more suitable script than the play "Butterfly Time is Free".

The drama "Butterfly is Free" is excellent, but the European and American values and love concepts expressed in it are inconsistent with Chinese tradition. In other words, in layman's terms, it is too petty bourgeoisie and not grounded.

Take the famous love tragedies "Romeo and Juliet" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" at home and abroad to compare, the love expressed in the former story will move the audience at the scene, but it is only the compassion of the bystanders. On the contrary, it is not as impressive as the latter to impress Chinese audiences, although the former is more famous in the world than the latter. This is also the reason why "Teahouse" and "Thunderstorm" can be endured on the domestic drama stage.

As an excellent graduate of Nortel's directing department, Chen Li also has his own ambitions. He doesn't just want to be at ease after taking the personal art test, but wants to be able to enter the "Beijing circle" with more abundant resources after he has the identity of human art, and that is the time for him to show his strengths.

In the domestic entertainment circle, there have always been the sayings "Beijing Circle", "Shanghai Circle", "Hong Kong and Taiwan Circle" and "Northwest Circle", and among them, the "Beijing Circle" is the most mysterious and has the most resources.

However, when you really enter this circle, you will find that in fact, the so-called "Beijing circle" is not a real whole, and there are different factions in it. There are the children of high-ranking cadres who first entered this industry with the help of the privileges of their fathers, the school of music association and Manchu and Mongolian cultural studies, and the academic school composed of Chinese opera, Nortel and human arts.

In addition to being able to solve the problem of his Yanjing hukou, Chen Li joined Renyi more because he wanted to integrate into this faction. Chen Li wants to let these academic bigwigs realize their abilities through the directing of dramas, and then they really have the opportunity to pick up the director's microphone, which is a shortcut for Chen Li to become famous as soon as possible.

In this circle, there are not too many other shortcuts, otherwise you will only have to die and follow other directors to get their qualifications. Even if they are students who graduated from Nortel's directing department, many of them go to shoot commercials, MVs, and even *****.

Domestic film and television production is not a producer-responsible system like Hollywood, but a director-centered system. The director's hands hold the success or failure of a play.

In this society that pursues the supremacy of profit, no one dares to put a large amount of money into your hands without proving yourself.

Chen Li also doesn't want to go through the mode of shooting literary films to become famous, and then looking for opportunities to get in touch with commercial films. There are too many literary films, in addition to the box office is not obvious, it is also easy to be given by the outside world, but it is not easy to transform.

"Husband, why haven't you rested yet?" Qian Lele's voice came from the bedroom, interrupting Chen Li's thoughts.

"Oh, right away." Chen Li looked at the clock on the wall, it was already past four o'clock. I didn't expect that I would be addicted to a script for so long. Chen Li walked into the bedroom. Even lying on the comfortable bed, his mind still couldn't calm down, and all he thought about was the things of this script.

Chen Li has already made up his mind, tomorrow... No, it should be today, no matter what, we must seek the consent of the leaders in the theater to buy the copyright of this excellent script.