More than a week has passed, and there has been no response from Lou Ye's side, and Li Tang has lost much hope.

At this time, the half-month reading of the script is also coming to an end, and his rivalry in the play mainly focuses on four people, the fiancée of the underground party, the cousin who does a small business, the classmate of the fruit party spy and the American consul.

In addition to Yuan Quan, the cousins and classmates are all senior actors from Shanghai Film Studio, all of whom are familiar faces that can often be seen in film and television dramas, and the American consul is a foreign actor.

The reading of the script is also the process of running in with the actors before the start of filming, and everyone weighs each other.

Lines are the soul of performance, and listening to an actor's lines can basically judge whether the actor's acting skills are good or bad.

For example, in later generations, I often swiped a certain lady on Douyin and her face was ugly after losing the Magnolia Award, because the TV series was popular and the role was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the audience cried out for her, thinking that there was a shady scene. In fact, this lady is not the original voice but dubbing in the TV series, which greatly discounts the evaluation of her acting skills.

After the script reading officially began, as soon as Li Tang opened his mouth, the noise in the crew questioning him disappeared a lot. The perennial stage drama training has made his line level far beyond everyone's perception of young actors.

The dialogue between him and the American consul was long lines in English, and he stopped showing off his New York accent when the script was read, but replaced it with a slightly Chinese-accented American language.

The reason is very simple, because the story is set in the autumn of 1948, during the issuance of the Golden Yuan Coupon and Xiao Jiang's "fight against the tiger" in Shanghai. Guo Shaobai is twenty-five or sixteen years old, he has classmates and lovers in Shanghai, and it is likely that he immigrated to the United States after World War II, because the transportation lines between China and the United States were cut off by the Japanese army during the entire World War II.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were church schools founded by Americans in Shanghai, such as the famous St. John's University, whose academic qualifications were recognized by the United States, so that Guo Shaobai's status as an American journalist matched.

Therefore, it is impossible for such a character to appear full of New York accent, decent, and it is most appropriate to piggyback on a Chinese accent.

Accents are important for character building. The United States is a country of immigrants, and the characters in the stage play are also diverse, with British accents, Mexican accents, German accents, Russian accents, and so on. There are also East Coast New York accents, cowboy western accents, and rustic southern accents.

The accent is a label that indicates the regionalization of the character, such as Tom in Forrest Gump. Hanks has an authentic southern accent.

You can't say that Forrest Gump speaks with a tall British accent, which is completely out of line with the character's setting.

In his previous life, Li Tang watched a war movie that was said to be very popular in China at that time, and the protagonist in it, a veteran from Shandong, actually spoke an authentic Beijing film, and he was drunk when he thought about it.

In the final analysis, if you want to create a successful character, it is often determined by these details.

In contrast, Yuan Quan's lines are much more immature. But it's understandable, after all, it's just a sophomore. And the little girl worked very hard, and when she came to Shanghai, she didn't mean to go shopping, but on the contrary, she stayed in the guest house after the reading meeting every day to study.

At the end of the reading meeting that afternoon, Yuan Quan found Li Tang with the script again.

"Brother Li, I don't understand Li Huirong's psychology here......"

In addition to the director in the crew, Li Tang is the first person she is familiar with, and the age difference between the two is not big, it is easier to communicate, and the little girl often finds him to ask for various questions.

The man is handsome, the woman is beautiful, he plays a pair of lovers in the play, and he is the only two young actors in the crew who have not started a family.

Today, the senior who played the agent of the Guo Party, who was six years higher than Li Tang, deliberately patted him on the shoulder, squeezed his eyebrows, and had an expression of "seize the opportunity" before leaving.

Li Tang was very helpless, although the beautiful little girl was admirable, but it was far from that. In his previous life, he was counted as reading countless people, what white, yellow, and black ones have not been tried?

He didn't think anything about a pretty little girl.

Yuan Quan seems to be very slow to respond to everything around him, full of curiosity.

Li Tang had to take the script and asked, "Where is it, I'll take a look at ......"

The role of Li Huirong is actually not difficult to understand, as he told Yuan Quan at the beginning, the underground party has firm beliefs, as long as you follow this path, everything can be solved.

In contrast, Guo Shaobai's character is much more complicated, the character is floating, has no firm beliefs, passively accepts all kinds of things instilled by his cousin, classmates, and fiancée, and is very contradictory. Although he chose to follow his fiancée's faith, he returned to the United States after his fiancée's death.

This is probably the so-called weakness of the bourgeoisie that Grandpa Mao said. How to grasp the scale is very subtle, and if you are not careful, you may be face-painted.

After finally dealing with Yuan Quan, he went downstairs to prepare to go home. I had just gotten on the motorcycle, when the mobile phone in my pocket rang.

In recent years, the mobile phone is a mobile phone function, and it doesn't even have a text message function, so it is dead in your pocket.

"Hello?"

"Li Tang, let's eat old wine together in the evening, and the young ladies from the good times are back." Xu Guangtou's excited voice came from the phone.

"No, no."

"Tsk, you said you wanted to treat you last time, but don't talk and don't count......"

"No time, goodbye."

Li Tang refused very simply, and hung up the phone directly without waiting for him to finish speaking, the shooting was about to start, and he didn't want to be distracted. And you can't talk too much about that goods, otherwise the entanglement will not be over.

As soon as I hung up the phone, I was about to kick the car away, and the phone rang again as if urging.

This is not endless, he didn't even look at it and said directly: "I told you that I was not available, but I was not available!" Don't fight, ...... again"

"Uh...... Li Tang, I'm Lou Ye. ”

"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry, Brother Ye, I thought it was my colleague. What, is there any news? ”

It's not easy, it's almost ten days younger, and it's finally called.

"Are you free now?"

"Free, free."

"I'm with a friend, let's come and talk."

"Okay, Brother Ye, where are you?"

"We're ......"

After asking the address, Li Tang hurried to a café on Xiangyang Road on a motorcycle.

A café that looks petty on the outside, there are not many customers entering the door, and I saw Lou Ye sitting by the window at a glance. I haven't seen him for half a month, Brother Ye looks a little haggard, and his eyebrows and eyes are tired.

When he saw Li Tang enter the door, he hurriedly raised his hand to greet him.

Sitting opposite him was a woman with long hair in a shawl, and when she saw Lou Ye waving her hand, she also looked back. The appearance of a man in his thirties, very beautiful, sharp-eyed, and the kind with a unique temperament.

"This is my partner Neyan! Li Tang! Lou Ye introduced.

"Li Tang, hello!" Ney smiled and stood up to shake hands.

"Nai...... Sister An, hello! ”

Li Tang knew that Nai'an, Lou Ye's previous two films, producers, had this name on the column. And when he saw Nai An, he also recognized this face for the first time, and he often appeared in film and television dramas, including Lou Ye's two movies, and also had good performances.

The producer, or the actor, and he acted very well.

It's just that someone has the surname Nai, Nai An sounds like a stage name, Li Tang doesn't know what to call it, anyway, it's right to call her sister.

"My surname is Lu, call me Sister An, I've heard Lou Ye talk about you for a long time......"

Compared with Lou Ye's taciturnity, Ney An is obviously very talkative.

During the communication between the two, Li Tang learned that Naian was not only an alumnus of his play, but also almost became his colleague.

In her early years, she was admitted to the Department of Drama Performance, and was a student of Mrs. Lou's mother, but later felt that her ambition was not here, and she was re-admitted to the Department of Chinese Opera Directing after dropping out. After graduation, he was assigned to Shanghai Renyi, the predecessor of the Drama Center. But she chose to give up again, opened her own company called Dream Art, and became an independent producer.

It can be seen that she and Lou Ye are the same kind of people, both of whom love movies.

Of course, making a movie requires money, and the producer also needs to eat. Her acting skills are not bad, and her appearance is very good, so she became an actress again.

It's quite interesting to say, a person who doesn't like to be an actor and aspires to be a director, so he didn't hesitate to drop out of school and re-enter the Chinese opera directing department, and finally went around and around and became an actor again.

"It's a pity that I don't have the talent to be a director, so I have to choose to help Lou Ye and help him deal with some affairs, which can be regarded as an agent." Ney finally said.