During this time, Yang Can also had a general understanding of the situation in Los Angeles. In the United States, the world's entertainment and cultural center, tens of thousands of people come to Los Angeles to invent Star Dreams every year, whether it is from home country or from other parts of the world. Of course, very few of them have succeeded.
For the cultivation of celebrities, Americans want to have a routine. Many websites such as backstage introduce ways to become celebrities, and columnists will also give various suggestions.
And if your star dream is to be a movie actor, then you must participate in formal performance training. After all, it’s no longer what it was in the 50s to find some pretty girls on the street to audition and give her a role. "In the age of, the increasingly professional film and television industry drives tens of billions of wealth every year, and it is undoubtedly difficult to mix and eat in it.
In the United States, except for those who actually graduated from the performance departments of major colleges and universities, most people want to join the industry. There are usually two types of training institutions that can participate, one type of professional training school specially set up to train young actors.
For example, the "Professional Performing Arts School" in New York, Jesse Eisenberg of "Social Network", attended such a school when he was ten years old, and Chloe Murray, the "Super Killer Girl" in "King of the Sea". I enrolled in this school at the age of 4 and was taken to Hollywood by his parents after two years of professional training.
Usually these professional training schools are the focus of Hollywood brokers. Whether in Los Angeles or New York, there are many small-scale brokerage companies that specifically select many potential children, and these brokers They are generally very professional, and there are few missed fish.
In other words, it is very difficult for Yang Can to find any treasures in such a school, which is mainly aimed at young actors.
The other is the adult amateur performance training class. This type of training is less formal than that. You can find this kind of training classes almost everywhere in Los Angeles, ranging in scale, some of which are personally famous Hollywood actors. Classes are taught, and some are taught by acting teachers in major colleges and universities in their spare time.
This variety of adult training schools is a mixed bag, and there are also masters in it. Yang Can weighed these training schools into his main scope of consideration.
In the face of these institutions, it is not enough to just check the information. Yang Can intends to conduct a field investigation. He just looked for information on the Internet and found at least 90 related schools. The information is extremely exaggerated. It's always about the senior photographers of Fox, and the actors who have been shortlisted for the Directors Guild Awards several times. Unfortunately, Yang Can has never heard of their names.
On Wednesday afternoon, Yang Can called Zhu Huaicheng to translate Xu Xiaoxiao, and went to a local acting school in Los Angeles with Le Kai.
On the road, Le Kai grinned and patted his chest: "This question is just right for you to ask me. We are not bragging. Although we don't know much about Los Angeles, I can'touch' this performance training school very well.. "
During Le Kai's endless talk, Zhu Huaicheng looked at the Beijinger with considerable suspicion. Based on his understanding of Beijingers, there is usually a little spectrum of things, and they would describe the "chaotic" falling of the sky and the sky.
But Yang Can knew in his heart that this guy Le Kai didn't brag about it. The money he made during his years in Los Angeles has been tribute to the so-called performance training schools, and he should have gained experience when he suffered a loss.
Lucky brought them to an acting school called "caa". According to Lucky, caa is one of the five most famous performance training schools in the hearts of amateur actors in Los Angeles. He has also studied here for less than a year. Time, it's half of his alma mater.
Yang Can drove to the outskirts of the city according to Lucky’s guidance. He drove on the expressway for about 15 minutes before reaching caa. The western scenery along the road, although not prosperous, has a special flavor. Many campuses are built, large and small. It seems that this area has already formed a certain scale, and they are all engaged in this.
Zhu Huaicheng sighed while listening to Xu Xiaoxiao's translation of the famous brands of buildings on the roadside:
"I thought the United States is more advanced, isn't it the same as in China? There are still some fooling training schools everywhere, but the Tsinghua Chef School was changed to Harvard Acting School. The specialization projects are different~"
In fact, it’s no wonder that it’s the same everywhere. If there is a demand, there will be corresponding institutions. If a child wants to become a star in China, parents with a clearer mind will know to persuade and stop, but the American environment is different. What family education here emphasizes is that parents after the age of eighteen have no right to interfere.
Many parents even cut off their children's financial resources when their children are 18 years old, and let them be self-reliant. Many young people can do whatever they want. In a word, dreams are the most important thing!
Of all dreams, Hollywood is undoubtedly the most attractive place with numerous halo blessings.
The huge film industry not only produces stars, but also other careers that shine. You can't be a star actor. You can also be a director, photographer, soundtrack, lighting artist, makeup artist, and set designer. .
Picking one of these professions at will, young people's comments are indispensable for the word "cool". Compared with those on the market, supermarket employees, insurance employees, and car repairers are undoubtedly more fanciful.
And as long as you can get these skills training, Hollywood can satisfy you. It is like learning Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, French cuisine, Western cuisine, Japanese sushi according to your own talent in a Chinese chef school. , In short, if you want to mix in the kitchen, there are so many things.
The campus of caa is not too big, probably slightly larger than the high school in Nanshi. I stopped to enter the school gate and just met the time for the end of get out of class. The students who came along the road were all students who came to study. There were males and females, and they were all ages. Between eighteen and forty years old.
Zhu Huaicheng saw a few blonde and big-breasted beauties passing by with straight eyes, but in a blink of an eye he saw a forty-year-old chubby black housewife "wife" was shocked and couldn't help but be surprised:
"At this age, I still come to learn this. It's too inspirational."
"Old Zhu, don't laugh, she is here to take a comedy acting class, maybe tomorrow's American Got Talent show will be popular." Le Kai hummed next to him, obviously quite dissatisfied with Zhu Huaicheng's irony. Our actor has dignity and can't tolerate you being trampled on by a fat man.
Yang Can probably observed that the actors here are all with a little more than 200 energy, and very few of them are above 300. Obviously they are not the material for being a star. Fortunately, he does not expect to come here to find potential stars, but to Look for candidates with high acting skills.
The amount of acting skills can only be seen when acting, just like Yan Shangyun's reason is that only when he is singing can his highest energy burst out.
Of course, these actors who are still in training do not have TV works for him to watch directly, so he can only go to the scene to investigate. Fortunately, these related schools in the United States have their own stages, and daily public performance classes will be held. Held at a fixed time.
It is also for the purpose of propaganda. The participating students and professors are all carefully selected people in the school, so Yang Can only needs to measure their performance awareness on the spot to have a good idea.
A few people came directly to the performance building, and they sat in a row in the auditorium. The auditorium could accommodate hundreds of people. There were only a few dozen people. The classic stage play "Hamlet" was being rehearsed on the stage. .
Le Kai laughed and took out the popcorn he had bought in the supermarket and handed it to the three of them: "Look carefully, this is a repertoire arranged by Professor Wright from CAA. It is very classic."
"Why is it ancient costume... isn't it the type of Moulin Rouge?" Zhu Huaicheng wailed. Fortunately, no one around could understand Chinese, or everyone could not help but come up to teach this vulgar fat man.
"Survival or destruction, this is a must-answer question:
Should we silently endure the ruthless blow of the rugged fate,
Still should fight against the boundless suffering as deep as the sea,
And overcome it.
Which of these two choices is more noble?"
Following the monologue of the white actor on the stage, the performance officially began, and various actors appeared on stage one after another. The insider Le Kai continued to explain that the segment was very exciting, showing the inner activities of the characters, those of Shakespeare. What are the metaphors of classic lines and so on.
Xu Xiaoxiao, who is still a college student, is very eager to learn, and listens with great gusto. Zhu Huaicheng yawns again and again. Yang Can just records the highest conscious energy curves of the actors above. Of course, he is not just recording actors. , There are also those set designers, prop artists, and even the two professors who are responsible for the production.
The more I recorded, the deeper my brow furrowed, a little disappointed, and the energy was ordinary.
When I was bored, I found an interesting thing. Whenever the beautiful brown-haired girl who played the maid appeared, Le Kai would not say anything, watching her intently, and it could even be described as affectionate.
Inadvertently glanced at the consciousness on his head, it was not bad, Le Kai had a crush on this girl named Nataya at all.
This kid has a good vision, but Nataya doesn't pay much attention to Lucky, who is usually humble. It seems that Lucky, although usually slick, is in front of the person he loves.
After all, Chinese male "sex" has a deep-rooted inferiority complex in American society. After all, the social environment is different, and there is a fixed pattern of Chinese male "sex" perception, which makes Chinese males "sex" not consciously think of themselves. Lower one's head.
In the middle of the performance, Zhu Huaicheng finally couldn't help but fell asleep. He snored unknowingly. It was okay at the beginning, but it was snoring like thunder in the back. Everyone on the stage clearly heard this. The melodious voice made his face look ugly.
Xu Xiaoxiao blushed and gently pushed Zhu Huaicheng to wake up, but Zhu Huaicheng seemed to dream of falling from a high altitude, a Ji Ling fell from a chair to the ground, and a scream of "Ah" was extremely sad.
Both onstage and offstage were speechless on the spot. The old professor in charge of the rehearsal finally couldn't bear to throw his manuscript to the ground. He jumped up and shouted: "Which one? No? Do you know you need to be quiet when you perform?"
Looking around the auditorium angrily, he quickly locked the target. It was not very good at first. When he saw Lucky, the professor Wright seemed to light a dynamite bag and roared: "Kyle~ ! It's you again! You came back deliberately this time *** right!?"
Hearing the word "you" in the words, Zhu Huaicheng and Yang Can couldn't help but look at each other, and they were all muttering in their hearts. It seems that this kid Le Kai has caused some trouble here. This old professor still has a grudge against him.
Yang Can squinted his eyes to observe the old professor’s consciousness, and got a little understanding of the situation. It turned out that the old professor was Le Kai’s teacher. The relationship between the two was originally good, but Wright, like some Americans, likes to take other countries’ Just kidding, I especially like the sensitive topic of switching to China. Once in class, the slide projector broke down. He thought he said humorously, "I will never buy made in China anymore."
As a result, Le Kai, a passionate young man, quarreled with him at the time. As soon as Beijingers became slurred, Americans were no opponents. Later, the old professor had a high blood pressure. The school nearly sued Le Kai for this, so he had to drop out. Up.
At this time, when Professor Wright saw that Le Kai had brought a group of Chinese people here, and he did something in the audience, he naturally misunderstood that he was intentional.
The caa actors on the stage looked at this side with contempt, especially when they were misunderstood by the favorite Natasha, Le Kai was very anxious, but couldn't hold back any explanation.
Today, I was originally taking Yang Can and these buddies to visit my alma mater. It was unexpected that such a thing would happen.
The most important thing for a Chinese like Le Kai to study in the United States is face, for fear that his friends will look down on him and be misunderstood by his former classmates. I feel so depressed. I really want to take out my heart to prove his innocence to these old beauties.
At this moment, I saw Yang Can closing the notebook and standing up calmly, looking at the Professor Wright to explain in a calm tone:
"Sorry, Professor Wright, we are rude, but I can guarantee that things are not what you think. I am a producer. This time I want to choose some suitable actors for my movie. Lucky thinks that Caa is the best in Los Angeles. The school brought me here to investigate."
Le Kai, who didn't know Yang Can's details, looked at him in astonishment, his heart beating wildly, this old Yang looked honestly at ordinary times, this is too good to break, and the producer came to pick the actors.
All the actors on the stage lifted their spirits when they heard the term producer. Professor Wright couldn't help but lift his reading glasses and looked over in surprise. He looked at Yang Can and the others, but couldn't help but sneered:
"Really? You said it was a producer? Come pick the actors?" His tone was full of suspicion.
It’s not to blame Wright for not believing that Yang Can, two men and a woman, are both in their twenties. Originally, the face of the East seemed very immature to him and seemed unconvincing. What is the most important thing about the casting producer? Of course it's vision? The vision is all based on the accumulation of experience.
There are thousands of producers in Los Angeles, large and small, but almost no one is under 30.
Coupled with Zhu Huaicheng's snoring and shouting for no reason just now, people have to doubt the authenticity of Yang Can's words.
The white man who played Hamlet finally couldn't help but "cut in" and asked:
"Then what is the name of your movie? Have you chosen a few "colors"? Can we consider that our hair is not too long? (Insinusualizing Qing Dynasty braids)." There was a strong sarcasm in his tone.
There was a slight laughter in the performance hall, making Le Kai and Xu Xiaoxiao unconsciously flushed. Even Zhu Huaicheng's sullen face could not sit still, and secretly cursed: "Mother, I knew it. McDougal is here, just train these grandsons who don't have a price for vision."
Yang Can calmly shook his head slightly disappointed: "Sorry, this movie is an oriental mythological theme. It needs a role. I haven't found anyone who has performed adequately."
Professor Wright was still smiling hehe. Hearing Yang Can's words, he naturally thought that he was brave. Looking at him, he asked in an exaggerated tone:
"Then, Mr. Producer, can you give us some guidance? Let me remind you what are the shortcomings of my students that can be strengthened."
As everyone watched with a good show, Le Kai couldn't help but scold his mother secretly. This old man Wright is also irrational and unforgiving. He has to be happy if he can't get off the stage. Look at Nata. Sha looked at him with a rather disappointed expression, she felt discouraged, and secretly pulled Yang Can's clothes to signal that she was not babbling. This panic was not enough.
Yang Can ignored him. Instead, he took out the little book and talked freely according to the record of energy fluctuations above:
"Then let me talk about Hamlet first. The line at the beginning is what makes him the most brilliant. I want to come to him to practice for a long time, but his expression is obviously a little stiff, especially when it comes to Claudius, it's not natural at all. It's not that I was thinking about the happy hour of a certain chick last night, that is the sequelae of his plastic surgery.
Claudius is not much better. His lines are weak and vague. He usually drank a lot of bars. Although he wanted to use body language to make up for his lack of expressiveness, his eyes were lost when he saw Polonius’s scene. I don’t know where his focus is. Maybe he has some disagreement with the actor Polonius, which can explain all this.
Fortunately, Huolaxu is the most brilliant in this scene, holding the scene, I think he should be Professor Wright's most proud student, but unfortunately, his role is arranged incorrectly. If it were me, it would be Let him play Hamlet, I think that would be more suitable..."
Although Yang Can’s speech speed is unpleasant, every time he clicks on the name of a character, he can accurately point out his problem. All the actors who play are alternately blue and white. What is even more incredible is that Yang Can sees it. It seems to be joking that their mental activities during the performance are completely true portrayals of their hearts..