"Director Wang Wei's audition is really weird!"

This is Zhou Qiming's first and only feeling.

At this time, Zhou Qiming was in a very spacious rehearsal room in Dunhuang, and there were two people sitting behind the table, both of whom were big men in his eyes.

One is Xu Daoxing, the assistant director who is not well-known outside the circle, but is known as Wang Wei's left arm and right arm in the circle, and the other is Wang Wei, who came to audition in person.

It was precisely Wang Wei's request that almost didn't torture Zhou Qiming crazy.

Don't give the plot, many times it's a seemingly simple request.

Like, laugh.

There is no antecedent, no consequences, only "from laughter to pathetic laughter".

That's it, but the problem is that Wang Wei is like an addiction, a "laugh", and he has changed his tricks to let Zhou Qiming act more than ten times.

There are also "fake crying", "swearing", and even asking to sing rap!

"Do it again."

"Let's do it another way."

"Repeat."

Zhou Qiming once thought that Wang Wei was torturing him for fun.

But soon he didn't.

To put it mildly, the other person's time is worth more than his; tortured him for fun, and I don't know who lost.

Therefore, despite falling clouds, he still patiently played over and over again.

Slowly, the feeling of being constrained was gone, and he seemed to understand that Wang Wei was not torturing him, but looking for a style of performance.

And as the improvisation became more and more relaxed, Zhou Qiming also vaguely figured out what style the other party wanted - it seems to be an exaggerated and even indulgent funny style.

"It's called talent!" Seeing this, Wang Wei couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

And he finally nodded, "Well, okay, let's do it for now!" ”

Then he suddenly asked, "If I asked you to become a comedian in the future, would you be willing?" ”

Zhou Qiming was stunned when he heard this.

He first felt that the other party looked up to him too much - I am a little dragon trick, and I don't play any role if I am not given any role, where is it willing to do it?

However, then he understood what the other party really meant by saying this-

This time the role should not have run away, and even, there may be more roles to be given to him in the future, well, it should be a comedy role.

If he has just debuted, Zhou Qiming may need to think about it for a while.

After all, when an actor fantasizes about becoming a big star, even if he is not from a professional background, he is also influenced by "orthodox filmmakers" and feels that comedians are not very good.

Now, compared to the embarrassment and blows of being continuously rejected by the crew, these are trivial things.

So, without hesitation, he nodded: "I do." ”

Wang Wei smiled and continued: "Okay, then sign a contract with the crew first, and then, well, you need to read a lot of films, and the crew will help you prepare the materials." ”

"At the same time, you are a non-major, right, make up for the acting class, don't worry about the cost, the crew will arrange it for you."

Zhou Qiming continued to be stunned.

It's easy to understand the make-up acting class, but what the hell is a lot of reading?

Wang Wei didn't give a specific explanation, only one sentence, "You watch the film yourself and comprehend it!" ”

To tell the truth, it's not that he can't see the other party's confusion.

But Wang Wei was also a little distressed in his heart.

There are some things that cannot be explained by speaking.

For example – what exactly is nonsensical style?

He was very impressed that in another time and space, as a representative figure of nonsense, Xing Ye and his partner Uncle Da have said in different interviews, "Until now, I don't fully understand what nonsense means." ”

Wang Wei doesn't think they are unwilling to say, but their success does not come from familiarity with theories and concepts, but from experience, instinct and talent.

Wang Wei even believes that if you really have to act according to the so-called theories and definitions, you can't play a real nonsensical style.

Therefore, he knows what kind of style he wants for this movie, but he can't guide Zhou Qiming how to act with one hand and one foot, but more on his own understanding.

This is easier said than done.

It's easy because Zhou Qiming has started after all, what he has to do now is to completely change his thinking, to see that layer of window paper, and then puncture it!

It's hard to say because, as a style of comedy performance, the concept of nonsense has not yet been officially refined.

Of course, just because there is no refinement does not mean that it does not appear.

The current mainstream style of Chinese comedy—which Wang Wei personally calls the "Northern School"—originated from dramas and sketches, leaning towards "stories" and "jokes", relying on the control of plot and character characteristics, and full of black humor.

The representative of this faction, Shen Yan is counted as one.

And where there is the north, there is the south.

The "Southern School" style in Wang Wei's eyes is biased towards the nonsensical spoofs developed by European and American counterparts that are more mature.

It's just that this time and space does not have the "over-the-top and crazy" environment of Hong Kong Island, which is both Chinese and Western, so this style has not been explored to the extreme in a very short period of time.

So, will this style make the domestic audience accept incompetence?

At least Wang Wei's answer is, no!

On the one hand, judging from the information collected, some nonsensical comedies are also very good at the box office; It's just that it's still in a relatively rudimentary stage, and all of them are small productions, and no one has analyzed and defined them.

On the other hand, it's even more interesting, the era of the Internet has arrived!

In the age of the Internet, what is the most on the web?

Wang Wei, who has experienced the baptism of the Internet, knows that it is not a handsome little brother or a young lady, nor is it a well-known five-mao licking dog pink, but a sand sculpture netizen incarnated by countless people, and sand sculpture is the dominant species that occupies the entire Internet, and it is the gene at the bottom of the Internet.

In the eyes of sand sculpture, authority and seriousness can be deconstructed, and everything can be presented in a funny and playful way, and then the sand sculpture culture is formed.

And the anti-logical, anti-elite, anti-sublime nonsense is naturally the nutritional ingredient of sand sculpture culture.

So Wang Wei has always had a groundless conjecture - it's a pity that the era in which Xing Ye lived at the peak of his creativity was not the Internet era, otherwise, he would definitely be the most popular "Internet celebrity" among sand sculpture netizens, or, "walking emoji".

Hey, it looks like we can verify it now.

Wang Wei's gaze couldn't help but fall on Zhou Qiming, and he smiled meaningfully.

Zhou Qiming: "......"

I'm so hard!

The audition requirements are strange, the signing requirements are strange, and even the director's gaze is strange...... Is this crew really reliable?

When Zhou Qiming was taken out, Xu Daoxing, who noticed that the other party's heart was a little broken, couldn't help laughing: "I kind of understand why you take a fancy to him." ”

There was a scene just now - he sang a rap, the degree of broken sound, pierced the soul, Xu Daoxing felt that the goosebumps fell to the ground, but he looked intoxicated, and finally made a gesture to thank the air, as if there were thousands of people cheering for him, and the big guy's temperament was properly handled.

This realm of "how embarrassing Ren Er, I am comfortable performing" is really in line with this spoof movie that ignores tradition, abandons established concepts, and achieves a certain state of freedom.

Wang Wei also felt that he had enough comprehension ability, and he should be able to look forward to the next.

But—

"I can't rely on him alone, I also need a group of supporting characters who speak with the same voice and can play a ridiculous and funny spirit."

Hearing this request, Lao Xu smiled more easily: "I don't dare to say anything else, but we in Dunhuang want to pick actors, and the circle is really lined up to send them to the door." We've made so many people popular this year! ”

"There are so many people for you to choose, are you still afraid that you won't be able to pick the right one?"

……

Lao Xu is right.

Dunhuang has two billion-level movies this year, not to mention the protagonists and directors, and the supporting roles among them have also risen sharply.

This is not the most popular.

During this time, a TV series stole all the limelight -

The martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which was co-filmed by Dunhuang and director Tang Yigong, was finally completed and premiered on Huaxia TV.

When it first started, because of Tang Yigong + the signboard of martial arts dramas, the ratings broke 5 - this is the standard for popular dramas.

When Guo Jing returned to the Central Plains and met Huang Rong, the real-time ratings peak of the day broke 10.

Since then, the ratings have been rising, broadcasting to one-third, and the average rating has broken 15, tying the record of the highest average rating of domestic TV dramas in the past ten years.

You must know that now that there are more and more entertainment projects, TV ratings are declining every year, and it is already a phenomenon for TV series ratings to break ten in previous years.

This year's new drama king "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be described as a hit among the hits.

Ratings only count the number of viewers, and another indicator calculated by the survey, the target audience, can better illustrate its popularity-

Among the viewing families, nearly 80% of the male protagonists who are usually busy with work or socializing and do not watch TV have sat back in front of the TV because of this TV series.

A piece of news corroborates this very well -

In a mahjong parlor somewhere, at the same time as "Shooting the Condor", the number of people playing mahjong was almost halved; In order to bring people back, the boss moved the TV to the hall to play "Shooting the Condor", but I didn't expect the rest of the people to enter the pit, and they couldn't watch TV at home one by one, and the mahjong parlor became crowded......

The attraction of this martial arts drama can be seen.

Anyway, even the Wang and Shen families also entered the pit.

Everyone watched the last episode on TV, and they didn't feel happy, so Shen Zhenyi went directly to Dunhuang to "urge the change".

Then, she took the "dailies" home from the company, and the whole family watched the rest of the episodes in one go, bubbling coolly.

However, the rest of the audience was not so happy.

They couldn't bear the twenty-minute ad between the episodes, which advertisers screamed and ranched about, and they were impatient about the follow-up.

Then, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the series had also published a book.

The number of people who are still willing to read books in this era is definitely less than that in the late seventies and early eighties, when martial arts reached its peak.

In particular, as the older generation of famous artists have withered, there is no longer a hard-to-find martial arts.

Until the appearance of the book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Orders from all over the world are flying like snowflakes!

Dunhuang and related publishing houses were all happy, but the audience who got the book scolded -

It's actually published in separate volumes.,The content that is currently published is the content that has been broadcast.,It's too TM profiteer!

It's just that the denunciation of the "profiteers" doesn't stop the book from continuing to sell well - it's good to revisit it, and there are more details in the book.

This degree of popularity naturally brings silver from white flowers.

Before the TV series was broadcast, other TV stations that bought the second round of screening rights came in; Huaxia TV wants to buy all the broadcast rights in China, but what about Lao Wang's offer......

benefited, of course, a number of main and supporting actors.

The characters in the play, from Guo Jing and Huang Rong to the old naughty boy Huang Yaoshi Hong Qigong, quickly became popular one by one.

Especially the actor of Huang Rong, who is just a newcomer, is now an instant hit and has become a well-known little flower girl in the country!

- It is conceivable how many actors in the circle are now eager to fight in order to grab a role in Dunhuang.

In short, starting from June, a martial arts wind has risen again, blowing this summer's more hot.

Many martial arts masters in the past have said that "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has led martial arts culture to a new peak.

Film and television companies, large and small, have stepped up the establishment of martial arts film and television projects.

Because it is rumored to be created collectively, everyone has set their attention on director Tang Yigong, the shaper of martial arts trends-

And then he rejected them!

The reason is that he is ready to retire.

Well, after all, the old man is over sixty years old, and the rapid retreat is not a kind of wisdom, and everyone can understand it.

However, without waiting for everyone to send out their blessings, he "repented" again-

He is ready to continue to cooperate with Dunhuang to produce two martial arts dramas!

“……”

The company that invited him couldn't help but scold - this TM is called retirement? Dunhuang is a nursing home, right?

As everyone knows, Tang Yigong is also bitter in his heart-

He was really planning to retire.

However, Wang Wei's kid was too cunning, and before he could say it, he took out two new ones - "The Condor Heroes" and "Heaven and Dragon Slayer".

Tang Yigong, a hardcore martial arts fan, took a look, I went, it was actually the follow-up to the world of "Shooting the Condor", and there was nothing to say about the excitement.

- Ahem, am I, Tang Yigong, the kind of person who does things without a beginning or an end? Since I have "created" this river and lake, it is naturally my responsibility not to let this river and lake collapse.

In this way, the old man postponed his retirement plan slipperily.

Lao Xu, who is also a TV producer, applauded Wang Wei's "fishing technique" - "Bound to Tang Yigong, in the vertical category of martial arts dramas, Dunhuang can maintain its glory for at least ten years." ”

Wang Wei said: "It is too cruel for him to bind the old man for ten years. ”

Not to be cruel because you can't retire, but -

Judging from the current situation, martial arts dramas can have a glorious period of five years, which is good.

As mentioned earlier, the Internet era has arrived, and in this era of "rampant" sand sculptures, the young audience faced by TV dramas has changed a lot compared with before.

It can be seen from the audience of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" this time - almost half of the audience is middle-aged people born in the golden age of martial arts, to a certain extent, they watch "Condor Shooting", it is "Ye Qinghui".

But it is impossible for martial arts dramas to maintain their glory by "gnawing the old" all the time.

When the sand sculpture culture of young people catches up with the traditional martial arts culture, those who witness the "serious martial arts hero growth road" are still there, but the rivers and lakes are not the same rivers and lakes.

What young people like to watch may be the "heroic growth road" of anti-routines and sand sculptures.

is not only martial arts dramas, many traditional genre themes need to go through the pain of being deconstructed.

After all, times change so fast!

……

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(End of chapter)