Li Tang likes to perform, very pure kind, but he has no literary youth and never pretends to be an artist. And he has a good eye for how to adapt to this society, to adapt to all kinds of explicit or latent rules.

In the past, he may have been a little contemptuous of TV series, but since "Returning the Pearl II" became popular and he himself received dividends because of this, his opinion of TV series has changed.

China is currently in a special situation, and in the case of an extremely sluggish film market, TV dramas are the mainstream. If you want to be recognized by the mainstream of society, you must follow the mainstream and not pursue those illusory things.

It is often said that actors should keep their distance from the audience and have a sense of mystery so that the audience can buy tickets to see you. But there is a premise for this, and the premise is that you are popular enough for the audience to want to watch you. If you don't even know who you are, the audience doesn't know it, and you still maintain a sense of mystery.

And if you really love acting, you have to have money first, at least you won't be bothered by chai rice sauce and vinegar tea. Movies are extravagant arts, and if you want to take it to the next level and pick your favorite characters as you like, then being popular enough and rich enough are necessary conditions, both of which are indispensable.

In Hollywood, Tom, Little Plum, Matt. Damon and other superstars, they are not only stars but also capital themselves, so they can create all kinds of classic roles.

Maybe there are people who want to be Daniel more. Wear. Lewis is a pure actor, not a so-called superstar. But don't forget to wear it. Lewis's ancestors were British aristocrats, and they had money, so they could wait four or five years for a role, or seven or eight years before making a movie, could ordinary people?

Li Tang is just a little star now, he wants to be popular and become a big star, now that TV dramas are the mainstream, he must work hard in TV dramas.

When he becomes famous, when the film market is brilliant again, it is not too late to talk about keeping a distance from the audience and maintaining a sense of mystery!

Or when he, like Tom, Xiao Lizi and others, is both a superstar and the capital itself, then you can shape the role you want to create as you like.

In this way, you can have the conditions to build yourself into a real performing artist, instead of pretending to be an artist.

The next day, Li Tang received the script sent by Jiang Xuerou. The script is quite thick, a total of thirty episodes, Li Tang said hello to the unit and went home with the script.

The unit is like this, as long as you have made achievements, won honors, and won glory for the unit, then everything is easy to say. Li Tang is very free now, and he can basically come and go back whenever he wants.

In fact, the income of the drama center is linked to the performance, if you want to rehearse the drama, then the rehearsal subsidy and performance fee will be arranged, if you don't rehearse the drama, then you can only receive a dead salary. Fortunately, the big guys don't live on their salaries, even if they can't receive dramas, they usually shoot an advertisement, dub a voice, or go to various private acting training classes to take a class, these are all extra money.

Anyway, each has its own way.

It took Li Tang two days to finish reading the script, and the male No. 4 Xing Zhengyang he wanted to play did not appear until the eighteenth episode. Fortunately, it is not a soy sauce character, as Jiang Xuerou introduced before, this character has an independent emotional line with the female number one daughter Xiuyun.

This is a big heroine drama, and the role of the female number one is actually a mother and daughter, and the whole play is divided into two parts according to their respective roles. The first half is the emotional entanglement between the first and second women and the first and second men, roughly because the first woman and the second woman fall in love with the first man at the same time, and the first man and the first woman are in love with each other, but they can't be together for some reason, and the first woman is pregnant with the first man's child.

And the first male had to marry the second female who he didn't love but was rich and powerful. As for the two families to which the male one and the male two belong are hostile, the second male is also in love with the female one, but he can't love it.

The first woman was pregnant with the first man's child, and found the third male who had always had a crush on her as a pick-up man, and gave birth to a daughter. But the male and the male and the second had a conflict, and the female one was also involved, and the third male wanted to kill the male one, but the female one was killed by the third male in order to save the male one.

Then the third male was assigned to the frontier for murder, and the second male who loved the first female was angry with the male one because of the death of the first female, and vowed to be inseparable from the male who indirectly killed the female one, and at the same time adopted the daughter of the female one.

Such a complex relationship lays the groundwork for a more complex plot in the second half.

In the second half, the daughter of the first female and the first male grew up, almost exactly the same as the female one of the years, and the adoptive father and the second male always had a special subtle feeling for their adopted daughter because they could not forget the female one, which caused the dissatisfaction of the second male wife, and the biological son of the second male fell in love with the daughter of the first female one.

But the daughter of the first female and the fourth male grew up as childhood sweethearts, and they are happy with each other. So it once again triggered a series of emotional entanglements similar to those of the female one more than ten years ago, but fortunately, the first female daughter did not follow in the footsteps of the female one, and after the efforts of all parties, she finally became a family with the fourth male lover.

When Li Tang read the script, he breathed a long sigh of relief, this is the most complicated story of emotional entanglements among all the scripts he has seen, to say it exaggeratedly, he has to draw a character relationship diagram while reading, for fear that he will make a mistake in the relationship between the characters if he is not careful.

According to Jiang Xuerou's introduction, the role of the first female and the first female daughter is a new generation of Qiong girl-Shui Ling. Li Tang has watched "Tears in the Sky" starring her, and sure enough, she is as good as her name, the water is as clear and jade, and she is beautiful and moving.

The male lead is played by martial arts actor Zhao Wentai, who was also called "Li Lian's second", and the second male is Hong Kong singer and actor Liu Ximing.

It is precisely because of the joining of Zhao Wentable that compared with the old version of "One Cut Plum", there are many more martial arts scenes.

As for the second female played by Qinggege Wang Yan, she is a tragic character. first fell in love with someone who shouldn't have fallen in love, even though he couldn't get her husband's love even if she posted it upside down, she still had no regrets.

To be honest, whether it is the script or the characters, although this drama is not wonderful in Li Tang's opinion, it is at least better than "Returning the Pearl II".

Since he was idle during this time, he didn't build too much of a fight, and directly told Neyan that he took the play, and left the rest of the things to Neyan to deal with.

On Nai'an's side, in fact, Jiang Xuerou had already contacted her one step earlier, and was waiting for Li Tang's reply to start contract negotiations, which also showed from the side that Hainan Zhouyi attached great importance to Li Tang.

The negotiation went smoothly, and the male number four had a total of fourteen episodes, with a salary of 8,000 per episode. As far as this salary is concerned, Li Tang has reached the ranks of third-tier stars.

……

After more than a year of hard work, "Suzhou River" was finally completed.

Compared with his debut film "Shanghai Chronicle", he is looking forward to this movie more. Maybe it's more energy, maybe it's more like the collision with Zhouxun.

Nai An also rushed back from the capital today, and she was already preparing to get married. In her words: at the dawn of the new century, she will start again with a different identity.

In a screening room of the Film Technology Factory on Baotong Road in Zhabei, Li Tang and Nai An sat together and chatted a few words, mainly about work. "New Plum Cut" was launched in November, because Li Tang's role was relatively late, and he would not join the group until late December. And most of his scenes are concentrated in Shengqiang Film and Television City in the suburbs of Shanghai, which is only half an hour's drive away from his hometown in the suburbs, which is particularly convenient.

After Lou Ye fiddled with the projector behind him, he finally started to show it.

The lights were dim, but the screen didn't light up for a long time.

After a while, there was a small and fragmented sound, very faint, and I couldn't make out what it was. Immediately after, Zhou Xun's hoarse signature voice came:

"If one day I'm gone, will you look for me?"

"Yes!"

"Will you keep looking?"

"Yes!"

"Will you always find death?"

"Yes!"

The conversation ended, and layers of fluctuations began to appear on the screen.

It was as if a stone had been thrown into it, and as the fluctuations unfolded, the screen finally began to slowly light up, becoming clearer and clearer, and it could be seen that it was the fluctuations of the water surface.

Finally, a black-green river was revealed.

The camera pans from the water to the old buildings on the shore that have been demolished into empty houses, from west to east, accompanied by melodious music, sweeping over towering chimneys, dull pedestrians, and mottled ferries......

The camera is set up in a boat and slowly glides with the current, recording everything it can see.

Lou Ye sat aside and helped explain in a whisper, it is said that at the beginning of this he used expired film, the rough grains on the picture, the mottled colors, and the slightly magnetic narration dubbed by him himself, showed the decadence, decay, sadness, and hypocrisy to the fullest.

This beginning shocked Li Tang, to be honest, this may be the most dick movie opening he has ever seen in two lifetimes combined.

Immediately after the start of the feature film, the shaky camera, the subjective perspective advances the plot, and at the beginning it is a one-man show of Zhou Xun, applying makeup, chewing gum, smoking, and shopping. The familiar emerald green short skirt and black stockings made Li Tang suddenly return to the shooting scene more than a year ago.

When filming, according to the director's intentions, it was repeated over and over again, the logic was confused, and the plot could not be connected, but the finished film seen at this time was completely different things.

The structure of the movie is actually very Westernized, messy editing, all kinds of messy elements are mixed together, and Lou Ye's narration advances the plot simply and clearly.

Although the photography styles are very different, Li Tang has a feeling when he first watched "Vulgar" in his previous life. He plays a motor with few lines, always cool, and emotions are mostly conveyed through his eyes, although to the highlights, Ney whispers her surprise in his ear, but in some episodes he feels he should be better.

For example, when he was drunk at a mermaid bar, if he had a dance like Vincent in "Vulgar", he might be able to increase the tension of the characters even more.

Compared with his plain and introverted, Zhou Xun, who plays two roles, is undoubtedly bright and dazzling, although she is thin and shriveled, she can deduce not inferior to Uma. Thurman's sexy.

At the end of the movie, the camera is still facing the black-green Suzhou Creek, and the ferry in the distance is undulating, and the twilight is still in the twilight.

Lou Ye's narration sounded again: "In this city, some people leave, some people decay, everything will not last forever, only love ...... the same"

When the subtitles began to roll on the screen, Li Tang and Nai An unconsciously clapped their hands. Lou Ye undoubtedly surprised them again.

"Maybe it could be better." Li Tang clapped his hands and muttered to himself.

His applause was given to the director, and even more to Zhou Xun, only he inevitably had some regrets.

"What?"

Lou Ye, who was sitting next to him, had very sharp ears.

Li Tang turned around and said frankly: "I think I can be better." ”

"How?"

Li Tang told Lou Ye what he had just thought.

Lou Ye lit a cigarette, thought for a long time, and finally shook his head regretfully: "It's too late." ”

Because the film will be sent to the Netherlands in December to participate in the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival.

"How's the censorship?" Li Tang asked again.

Lou Ye and Nai An looked at each other and smiled bitterly, it turned out that the finished film had already been submitted for review, but like the previous two times, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news.

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