Chapter 11 Brokers
Seeing Li Tang's appearance of being kind and good, most people showed puzzlement, although you have very fine details, but it is useless to get an answer.
Only a small number of people who reacted quickly saw that Li Tang's eyes changed differently, and said secretly: This guy is smart enough, and he can easily take the initiative into his own hands.
It's no wonder that many actors' thinking has been relatively solidified these years, and they are used to following the director's baton, and they can act whatever the director tells them to do. However, the director is often based on the camera on the scene, and is not very willing to deduct the scene, so the actor needs to bear the loss and risk.
To take the simplest example, there is a lot of controversy and bad reviews about an actor's performance, not necessarily because the actor's acting skills are not good, but the problem is precisely with the director.
At this time, Li Tang didn't seem to get an answer from the director, but in fact, he got the right to interpret and understand the role, which can completely avoid the losses and risks in the filming process to the greatest extent, and even play further.
After thinking about this, it is not difficult to understand that Ancestor Liu Qiong looked at Li Tang with full approval.
The meeting ended at noon, and there was a two-hour lunch break, Li Tang packed up and was about to go home, Yuan Quan came over with a notebook: "Brother Li, can you tell me how you understand the role specifically?" ”
The half-day script reading meeting was like opening a window for her, and many things could not be learned in school. For example, the questions asked by Li Tang were unheard of by her, and she couldn't imagine that someone would deduct the role to such an extent.
"Understand the role? How much you want to think about it! Didn't the director ask to write a short biography of the character, you have to think divergently, you imagine the life experience of the character from childhood to adulthood, and how the character is developed? By the way, and how did the character of Li Huirong as you play embark on the road of revolution......"
"Yes...... But I don't know if I'm right. ”
Looking at the embarrassed look of the little girl, Li Tang could understand that she had just turned twenty and was just a sophomore.
What can you learn in the sophomore year, the most basic performance theory, Chinese dance, Western dance, vocal music, basic line training, a prototype of the so-called voice table table.
Acting requires skills, but skills are only a threshold for performance, just a shape. If you want to catch God, you need the actor to have enough knowledge accumulation, because in this way, you can feel the life tension behind the character through the simple lines in the script, and feel the character characteristics of the character, so as to deduce God.
But if you want to get to this level, it doesn't matter if you have skills or not, as long as you feel right, everything is right. This is a bit like the sword without a sword described in martial arts novels.
Li Tang came over like this in his last life, acting with skills at first, and then after continuous accumulation, he gradually entered the realm of no sword is better than a sword.
Of course, this is not a realm that cats and dogs can achieve, you need to read more books and reserve more knowledge in order to have cross-cultural understanding.
To sum up, it is that a person's cultural heritage is profound, and his understanding of the world is profound.
This also depends on the fact that his parents in his previous life were both scholars and elites, and the genes of the scholars and the elite education since he was a child made him engage in this industry, and most of the actors have a deeper cultural foundation and deeper understanding.
In fact, many things can't be explained just by speaking, and you mainly have to rely on your own comprehension. Li Tang could only bite the bullet and say: "You have to choose to believe first, and you have to believe in the role you want to perform." Only by believing can you understand the character from the perspective of the character, so that your understanding can not be biased......"
The little girl was about to be dizzy by his flickering in the clouds, her face was confused, and her mouth kept muttering: "To believe, to understand......"
"Well, you try to understand like this first, and we'll talk about it next time if there's any problem."
Before the little girl could react, the goods hurriedly left.
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Li Tang's salary is 30,000, of course, this figure cannot be compared with the sky-high salary of tens of millions or hundreds of millions in later generations, but it is already quite good for a fledgling young actor this year.
There is an old mage in their drama center, who is currently playing Lin Chong in CCTV's hit "Water Margin", this TV series was filmed from March 94 to April 97, and it took three years to get a total of more than 100,000 salaries.
It's just that when signing the contract, Li Tang found a lot of problems. For example, the filming postponement contract only states that the actor is obliged to cooperate with the filming, and appropriate subsidies will be given according to the situation, but the specific amount is not specified. In addition, there are box office incentives, cooperation with publicity, insurance, etc., the terms in the contract are very vague, and the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of actors is seriously insufficient.
In a sense, this is a very non-standard overlord contract.
But he noticed that almost all of them signed without even looking at it, and as a newcomer, he didn't have much to say, so he could only pinch his nose and follow the sign.
After signing the contract, I realized that I should find a broker.
It's a terrible thing to have no agent, and actors in the United States can't do without agents. Even if not, there is a strong actors' union, as long as you pay the dues, the union will send a lawyer to help you avoid risks when signing a contract, and protect your interests to a minimum extent.
In these years, the agent industry is still a new thing in China, and many actors in the drama center, including the actors who worked together in "Shanghai Chronicle" this time, do not seem to have agents. is like his ex-girlfriend who filmed "No Regrets Tracking" back then, and only after he became famous did his agent take the initiative to contact him.
Li Tang is not short of money, he saves the living expenses sent by his mother every year, and his father will stuff some to him every once in a while, plus salary and bonuses, which is enough to live.
But of course, the more money, the better, for example, this time he is not good to say anything, but if there is an agent, then he can help himself to fight for the maximum benefit.
Many things, such as taking on dramas, endorsements, commercial performances and other affairs, are not easy for them to come forward, so they can all be handed over to the agent to be responsible, and they just need to act well.
However, it is precisely because the relationship between the agent and the actor is very close, which is both mutually beneficial and a double-edged sword at the same time. A reliable agent can take an actor from nobody to superstar. But once you turn against each other, the backlash from the agent will also cause great harm to the actors.
Speaking of his ex-girlfriend's agent, Sister Hua, is not bad, but she is far away in the capital, and this is far away from quenching her thirst. And he doesn't want to sign the same agent with his ex-girlfriend in his heart, some things will be very embarrassing.
"Brother Ye, do you know a reliable agent?"
It's not that there are no brokerage companies in Shanghai, but if you want to find a good broker, you must know the roots. Li Tangsi could only ask Lou Ye for help after thinking about it, after all, people have been in this circle for more than ten years, and the profession of director will definitely come into contact with many agents, and the most important thing is that the friendship between the two families is there, and trust is very important.
“……”
The phone was on, but there was no sound on the other end.
When Li Tang's patience was about to run out and he couldn't help but want to "hey", an unhurried voice came: "I have a partner, and her company's business scope seems to have an actor agency, I can help you ask." ”
"Uh......"
What does it mean that there seems to be such an item in the scope of business, Li Tang felt that it was unreliable no matter how he heard it, so he had to say: "Then I'm sorry for you, Brother Ye." ”
"Well, goodbye!"
Brother Ye is always concise and to the point.