Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

At noon, after Chen Li read two pages of the script of "The Donkey Gets Water" before the dinner, he couldn't forget the subsequent development of the story. Even when he went shopping with Qian Lele in the afternoon, he was thinking about this movie in his mind.

After having a passionate relationship with Qian Lele at night, he finally couldn't help but come to the study room and read the script.

Zhou Cheng has buried too many hilarious scenes in it, including many homophonic jokes that have not become popular yet, which even made Chen Li, who considers himself very funny, unable to help laughing.

If it only made Chen Li laugh, Chen Li would only think it was a good comedy. However, after watching it, Chen Li's smile gradually disappeared and became a little heavy.

The story is very simple. It takes place in a rural school during the Republic of China. The background of the story is almost just a classroom transformed from a temple. The main characters of the film are four supporting teachers with educational dreams and a "donkey gets water"

"Teacher. Among them, this "Donkey Gets Water" teacher was registered by the principal as an English teacher in order to obtain more teacher subsidies.

However, not long after, the outstanding teacher Lv Deshui attracted the attention of the superiors, and a special commissioner was arranged to go to the countryside to investigate and visit, and asked to see Teacher Lv Deshui by name. In desperation, an illiterate coppersmith was temporarily arrested as a substitute.

, a series of oolongs followed.

What the principal wants is the good development of the school, what Zhang Yiman wants is unfettered freedom, what Zhou Tienan wants is love, what Pei Kuishan wants is money, and what the coppersmith wants is to change his destiny.

After the farce of lies, the school gained fame and fortune as it wished, but what was lost will never come back. Everyone has changed, and lust, greed, hypocrisy, and selfishness are eating away at everyone's hearts.

Finally, with Zhang Yiman's suicide, the donkey was slaughtered, and the plateau seemed to be calm again, but it became dead silence.

It is said that the core of comedy is tragedy. Only comedy that can express this core will make people laugh with tears and remember it in their hearts, just like Xingye's "Westward Journey".

It's just that this speed is easy to say but not so easy to control.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many comedies nowadays that are sensational for the sake of sensationalism. The abrupt twist, as if I’m going to laugh at you even if you don’t laugh, is embarrassing.

Chen Li found that Zhou Cheng's "The Donkey Gets Water" is different. Its extremely absurd plots are all designed to tell a cruel reality. It feels like you are laughing and then become silent. This play is full of laughter.

It reveals the essence of everyone and pokes the pain points of human nature in silence.

Tragedy is tearing up beautiful things and showing them to you, letting you know that all the beauty and absurdity are just appearances, and deep down it wants to make you cry.

"This is definitely the best absurd comedy." Excited, Chen Li defined it, regardless of whether this statement was appropriate or not.

Chen Li held the script for a long time and couldn't bear to put it down. Even though it was a movie script, it could be adapted into an excellent stage play. And the energy that this stage play could unleash was definitely more powerful than what he was preparing now.

The repertoire is more intense and more evocative.

"I must direct this play! If I miss it, I will 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 adapted from the famous Broadway play "Butterfly Love". It tells the story of Donald, a blind young man who grew up under the careful care of his mother. For the sake of freedom and ideals, he left home and lived independently.

A beautiful love story about Gio, a neighbor who lacks confidence in love and marriage.

When this play was first performed in 1970, it received many praises and won three nominations for the Tony Award, the highest award in the American drama and drama industry that year. After being adapted into the movie "Miss Butterfly", it even won

Nominated for an Oscar.

So when Vice President Feng proposed to create a new play, he thought of this play. I hope Chen Li can perfectly present this play as a New Year gift during the 2008 Spring Festival.

Chen Li also worked hard after taking over the tasks assigned by his leaders.

In order to make the play more relevant to the Chinese audience, Chen Li not only invited Chu Ran, the best student in the Department of Literature of Nortel, to help revise the script, but also invited Zhang Xian, a famous professor of the Department of Drama and Literature of China National Theater, to help guide.

As for the actors, they have also put a lot of thought into it. In addition to selecting a few outstanding students from among the current students in accordance with the requirements of Yanjing People's Art, they are also preparing to invite several veteran actors who are still famous in the People's Art to help with the leading roles.

If it weren't for the pending result of his wife's recruitment, Chen Li would have already started gathering actors for rehearsals.

However, it was because of this delay that he discovered that he had a better choice. Chen Li knew that he had encountered a drama script that was more suitable for him than "Free as a Butterfly".

The play "Butterflies Are Free" is certainly excellent, but the European and American values ​​and views on love expressed in it are inconsistent with Chinese tradition. In other words, in layman's terms, it is too bourgeois and not down-to-earth.

Compare the famous love tragedies "Romeo and Juliet" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" at home and abroad. The love expressed in the former story will make the audience moved, but it is only the sympathy of the onlookers.

. On the contrary, the latter is not more capable of impressing the Chinese audience, although the former is more famous worldwide than the latter. This is why "Teahouse" and "Thunderstorm" can endure on the domestic drama stage for a long time.

As an outstanding director graduate from Nortel, Chen Li also has his own ambitions. He doesn’t just want to take the exam and just live with the situation, but he also wants to be able to make his own career after becoming an artist.

Once you can enter the "Beijing Circle" with more abundant resources, that's when you can show off your strengths.

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

However, when you actually enter this circle, you will find that the so-called "Beijing circle" is not really a complete entity. There are also different factions in it. There are the high-ranking cadres' descendants who first entered this industry with the help of their father's privileges.

, there are the Music Association, the Manchu and Mongolian cultural research school, and the academic school composed of Chinese Opera, Beidian and Humanities.

Chen Li joined Renyi not only to solve his Yanjing household registration problem, but also because he wanted to integrate into this faction. Chen Li wanted to make these academic leaders realize his abilities through directing plays.

Only then did he really have the opportunity to pick up the director's microphone. This was a shortcut for Chen Li to become famous as quickly as possible.

In this circle, there are not many other shortcuts, otherwise you will have to die and follow other directors to get qualifications. Even students who graduated from Nortel's directing department, there are many who go to shoot commercials, shoot music videos, and even shoot ***

**of.

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

In today's society that pursues profit first, no one dares to invest a large amount of money in your hands until you have proven yourself.

Chen Li also doesn't want to follow the model of making a literary film to become famous and then looking for opportunities to contact commercial films. If he shoots too many literary films, in addition to not showing up at the box office, he is also easily stereotyped by the outside world, which makes it difficult to transform.

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

"Oh, I'll be here soon." Chen Li looked at the clock on the wall. It was already past four o'clock. He didn't expect that he would be obsessed with a script for such a long time. Chen Li walked into the bedroom. Even lying on the comfortable bed, he

My thoughts still couldn't calm down, and all I could think about was this script.

Chen Li has already made up his mind. Tomorrow...no, it shouldn't be today. No matter what, he will get the consent of the theater leaders to purchase the copyright of this excellent script.