Tan Yiming's knowledge of musicals is close to nothing, but because he often dubs movies, he has seen many musical movies.
In recent years, many music movies have been introduced in China. Even in the animated movies made for children, the protagonists have to sing and dance. It's a pity that Tan Yiming was born with five tones. Every time he plays this kind of movie, he needs a special singer to accompany him and is responsible for singing for the protagonist.
After he learned that Xiang Gu is actually a musical actor, Tan Yiming felt quite unexpected.
But looking back on the details of his chat with Guess five years ago, in fact, all this is traceable.
At that time, Guess was a "pop song insulator". Every time he sang a song at a concert, it was a very small musical soundtrack. If it wasn't related to his career, he would not be so familiar with it.
It's just that Tan Yiming was too careless at that time and didn't notice the truth that the boy tried so hard to hide.
Tan Yiming had too many questions and too much curiosity about Xiang Guess.
He was eager to get to know him, to understand the bits and pieces of Xiang Guai's experience alone in the past five years.
Think of it as... as a friend.
Relying on himself as the boss, he blatantly deserted during working hours.
He went to search for the musical that Xiang Guai starred in when he was 20 years old - "Letters from Fans".
It is a pity that there is no full version of the official photo on the Internet. He can only piece together the appearance of the 20-year-old Xiang Guai through a few press releases and a few behind-the-scenes interviews.
This is a work that came out of a small theater in Korea. It received excellent reviews when it was in Korea. After it was remade into a Chinese version, it attracted the excitement of countless musical actors.
It is also interesting to say that Xiang Guai can stand out from so many candidates.
Although the musical industry is also a part of the entertainment industry, its operation is still very different from the entertainment industry.
Unlike ordinary artists, most musical actors have not signed a brokerage company, and naturally there is no broker or publicity team to manage the work for him. Most of them work alone, and when they see a certain musical crew openly recruiting actors, they submit their resumes to audition. After passing the audition, it takes several months of rehearsal before going on stage.
If the cooperation goes well and the performance is diligent, the actor will "hang up" in the hearts of the director and the producer. When there is a good book and a good role next time, they will be asked to audition first.
Twenty-year-old Xiang Guai is just a freshman who has just entered the university. After learning about the selection from his teacher, he submitted his resume to audition.
Who would have thought that it was so coincidental that the producer of this musical was actually Director Tang Fengyu, whom he once had a relationship with!
In front of the computer, Tan Yiming opened an interview with the director published by a certain media—
— "Director Tang Fengyu once directed the Chinese version of "Leap Out of My World", when he talked about Xiang Chai, who was the leading actor for the first time, his tone was full of admiration.
"Actually, I met Xiang Guai when he was seventeen years old, and at that time I felt that this child was very spiritual. I didn't expect that three years later, his growth would bring me such a big surprise. After he came to the audition, I immediately decided that he would play Sehun.
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Originally, the investors firmly disagreed, thinking that Xiang Guai was too young and did not have a complete work, and was worried that he would lose the chain when he came to power.
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I also called Lao Song and asked him to speak good words for me. During that time, Lao Song was in poor health and was resting at home. He was not the producer of the show, and this matter had nothing to do with him, but as soon as he heard Xiang Gu's name, he immediately agreed.
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This work has been performed hundreds of times in South Korea. The copyright owner flew over from South Korea to watch the premiere of the Chinese version. After watching it, everyone was moved by Xiang Gu's performance.
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Xiang Guai's performance was very exciting. He showed all the emotions of fans when facing idols.
At the beginning, he wanted to get close to his idols, which was just pure worship and infatuation; later, in order to get closer, he decided to lie; in the later stage, he struggled with guilt after being repeatedly tortured by lies...
Sometimes I don't think he's playing a character, he's playing himself.
…””
Seeing this, Tan Yiming's hand that rolled the mouse paused, and his heart felt sour.
He read several long audience reviews one after another, and finally pieced together the plot of this work.
The musical "Letters from Fans" tells the story of a entanglement between fans and idols: a young boy admiring a novelist, so he made up a female identity and wrote letters to the novelist. In the process, the novelist unknowingly fell in love with this false but perfect woman, the boy fell into the lie, tried to confess many times, but stopped because of cowardice.
In the end, the truth was revealed, and the boy admitted his lie in pain. The writer also passed away in grief because of tuberculosis.
Before his death, the writer left a letter to the male fan, in which he wrote:
— "No matter who the owner of these letters is, I can't help but fall in love with him."
- "We will eventually indulge in different forms of love."
Tan Yiming was moved by the story of the 100 turns and 1000 times, and wanted to watch this musical, but unfortunately there was no official filming resource for the whole show on the Internet. Rice shoot.
Cameras are not allowed in the theater, so the audience did not know what method they used to secretly record the last song sung by the male lead.
The camera shakes, the boy looks haggard, and appears alone at the writer's funeral.
Standing in the middle of the empty house, he silently opened a letter.
The spotlight from the top of the stage was pouring on him, and he stood under the only bright light source, the sadness on his face was moving.
The boy unfolded the letter and sang in a nostalgic voice—
- "Even if no one blesses,
Spring is still beautiful.
on broken hearts,
Covered with warm sunlight.
Everyone said that after the passage of time,
everything will be fine,
But why, I still can't get over that wound.
Everyone said that after the passage of time,
Just forget it,
But no matter how hard I try, I can't forget you. "
What is the boy paying homage to is more than his idol
What he paid homage to was the love that was deeply hidden in his heart, and he couldn't say it out in the end.
The music reaches its climax, and the piano and strings together bring the atmosphere to the climax.
"I'm like living in the cracks,
The grass that lives in admiration of the sun.
When my love is gone,
My youth also passed away.
…
Now,
I can finally follow my spring,
- Goodbye. "
The camera has been pulled to the nearest point, and the tears in Xiang Gu's eyes are clearly visible.
A small sobbing sound appeared in the background sound, and the hands of the person who secretly recorded the video were shaking until they cried.
Xiang Gues acted and sang too well, his sadness was not exposed, but tightly locked in his slender body. His shoulders were shaking, but the tears in his eyes did not fall, only the cry in the singing revealed his sadness.
Xiang Chai is an excellent actor. He moved every audience in the theater—and moved. Years later, he clicked on this video and silently appreciated Tan Yiming.
Tan Yiming sat in front of the computer, every word sung to Guess echoing in his ears.
On the computer screen, after the video finishes playing, it automatically jumps to the next one.
The second video is a behind-the-scenes interview with "Letters from Fans".
In the camera, the boy is sitting cautiously on the sofa, holding a microphone with a big logo in his hand, and he is still wearing the costume from the play.
He looked very shy, and every time he answered a reporter's question, he glanced at the camera quickly, then quickly turned his gaze back, staring at the water glass in front of him, like a timid animal.
The female reporter is older than him, speaks fast, is experienced, and has been firmly in control of the rhythm. Fortunately, she didn't ask any questions that were too difficult to answer. The boy wiped the sweat from his forehead and stared at her wetly with moist eyes.
"Oh," the female reporter joked, "Xiang Gu, don't look at me with such pitiful eyes anymore. The interview time hasn't come yet. ... Now, there's one last question left. After answering, I'll let you go back."
Xiang Gu begged for mercy: "Next time I have an interview, I'd better go to Director Tang directly. I really don't know what to say."
"This question is related to Director Tang."
"what?"
The female reporter flipped through the inscription card in her hand and read out the questions above: "When we interviewed Director Tang earlier, Director Tang commented on you - 'Xiang Guai is a very spiritual and hardworking young actor. He He played this role very vividly. Sometimes I feel that he is not playing a role, but playing himself'. What do you think of this evaluation?"
"..." The boy's expression suddenly froze.
Even Tan Yiming off-screen can clearly capture the loneliness that flashed through Xiang Gu's eyes.
Xiang Chai is too young, he was only 20 years old when he starred in this musical, and he has no experience in dealing with the media at all. He appeared alone in the camera, and no one could even help him stop such a menacing question.
Tan Yiming watched Xiang Guai on the screen anxiously, wishing to travel back a few years and come to the boy's side to defend him from harm.
… After a few seconds, or a dozen or so seconds, Xiang Guai finally spoke up in the camera.
"Director Tang is right." He smiled, a smile of sudden nostalgia, "because I am indeed playing myself."
"I used to be like the characters on the show, and I did something stupid because I worshipped an unreachable idol.
"In the beginning, I just thought that I could pass on my voice to him; but after I passed it on, I wanted to get to know him again; after I got to know him, I was not satisfied and wanted to be friends with him...
"But I'm too small. I'm just like the song. I'm a little grass that grows in the corner and absorbs sunlight. I have to make up one lie after another to make myself worthy of it. He, being able to stand by his side and be his friend."
No - no!
Tan Yiming wanted to tell him loudly that in his heart, guess was never a little grass. He was a proud little swan. If there is one person in this world who can touch the sun, it must be him who spreads his wings.
He didn't understand where Xiang Gu's inferiority complex came from, obviously he was such an excellent person.
The interview on the camera continued, but the female reporter did not expect that a simple question would get such an unexpected answer.
The female reporter asked, "What about now? How is your relationship with your idol now?"
Xiang Gu smirked with relief in his eyes: "I haven't been in touch with him for a long time."
"Don't you regret it?"
"I must regret it." Xiang Guai said, "I was young at that time, and I felt that I was not good here and there, and I didn't deserve to be friends with idols. But now that I have grown up, I realize that I am not as good as I imagined. Unbearable, I'm also very good - otherwise Director Tang wouldn't have asked me to be a man, right?"
Xiang Guai laughed: "But the past is over. Although I still miss him now, who can say what will happen in two or three years?"
"If one day in the future, I can meet him again, I hope—" the boy under the camera ended the interview with a lyric, "—I can say goodbye to my spring."
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Tan Yiming sat in front of the computer with the screen dimmed, and fell into an indescribable depression.
He found-
When he missed Xiangchai's spring, Xiangchai had already found a new summer.
The author has something to say: this is a story about Xiangchaihe Tan Yiming, and even if there are many twists and turns in the middle, this is still their story after all.
Will not change the cp.
If there are readers who really can't accept Gu Guai interacting with other people, I also respect your emotional cleanliness, and thank you for your company along the way.
Also: Because there is no Chinese musical for "Letters From Fans", the lyrics in the text are modified based on the translation of Taiwan youtuber (@光).
The Chinese translation of the two songs of "Letters from Fans" can be found on station B.
A song called "Letter from Haizhen"
A song called "When I Die" (the one that Guess sang)
Giant tearjerker.