After asking this question, Chang Yun was still a little worried, fearing that he would hear Xue Xiao's answer, "The deadline will be up when this program ends." However, Xue Xiao's answer was quite normal.
Three years.
"Three years..." Chang Yun thought about it, "Has it been more than a year since you entered the industry? Then there is only more than a year left!"
Think about it this way, if you can't make a name for yourself through the show "Superstar" and continue to play small roles, what improvement can you make in the remaining year
Chang Yun couldn't help but murmured: "Three years is still too short..."
"It's a bit," Xue Xiao didn't deny it, "but when my parents said 'make something famous', they didn't mean that I had to become a big star, but that it would be okay even if the road ahead was just a little clearer. , Brother Chang, do you understand what I mean?"
"I understand, I understand."
You don’t have to be a big star, but if you can sign a serious contract with a company and play some roles other than a minor role, that would be great too.
Chang Yun smiled bitterly and said, "It's normal for your parents to be worried. When I resigned from my job and said I wanted to be an actor, my dad almost broke my legs."
"And me, well, I was a little confused at that time. I didn't have the concept of saving money in my mind. I spent my monthly salary on food and drinks. Before I went to the film and television city, I only had a thousand yuan in my pocket. I My parents won’t help me, they just say that if you want to choose this path, you have to do it on your own, and I think that’s the way it should be.”
Chang Yun was slightly startled.
Jiang Quan took a step back, stretched out his left arm, directed towards the door of the choice room that all students are familiar with, and said: "Please enter the choice room to make a choice!"
Zhao Dong, who had just come out of the shower, was stunned by Chang Yun's yelling and asked Gu Ling, "Is he mad or arrogant?"
"Then it doesn't matter if I do it all once. By the way, did the camera in our dormitory record it?" Chang Yun moved the balcony door and shouted inside, "I, Chang Yun, don't care if I do it all. The crew can come to me anytime if they need it. Don’t cut this sentence, directors!”
The night sky here is always beautiful, with so many stars every day.
After finishing laughing, Chang Yun puffed up his cigarette and looked at the sky outside, saying nothing for a while.
The students wailed, and Jiang Quan suppressed his laughter and said, "Then let's not talk much and let's move on to the repertoire selection."
He was really seen through by Xue Xiao.
Chang Yunyan almost forgot to smoke: "Good guy, then you are more ruthless than me. Do you know what I wanted to act most at that time? It was the kind of drama where you were out of the industry, and you had to be naked, so that was the subsidy. There are so many, but it’s a pity that they don’t want me!”
There was crackling applause in the studio. In the midst of everyone's attention, Gu Ling, dressed coldly, stood up.
"Although the ranking of more than 20 is dangerous, the chance of advancing to the next round is not small at all. Brother Chang, it is still a bit too early for you to think about going home now."
Chang Yun's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but tighten his hands.
"Every student should have received a letter from the program team yesterday and understood the rules of this round of competition. I have one more thing to add here -"
Zhao Dong: “Otherwise?”
Gu Ling spread his hands and said that he had no idea what was happening on the balcony.
Xue Xiao turned his head, smiled at him softly, and said, "But before we get to that step, how do you know, Brother Chang, whether you will succeed or fail?"
Chang Yun raised his chin towards Xue Xiao, asking for advice: "Xue Xiao, what about you?"
This is indeed an issue that I have not considered before.
Jin Xiaochen tilted his head and said: "But there is strength in numbers. If you encounter a problem, it may be easily solved if we discuss it. If there are only two people in a group and the instructor does not have enough time to provide guidance, then if you encounter a problem, it will be easy to solve it." Isn’t the problem easy to get stuck in?”
Chang Yun was speechless.
"It was just a bit difficult at the beginning. If you have ever done a group performance, you should know. At that time, it didn't matter if it was bad luck to play the role of a corpse. It would be nice to get an extra dollar in red envelopes."
"-Does that mean you have an urge to work harder and harder?"
Jiang Quan was still dressed in a suit and was in high spirits.
*
At seven o'clock the next morning, the entire camp gradually woke up.
At eight o'clock sharp, all the students returned to the studio where the program was recorded, and host Jiang Quan met them there.
Xue Xiao replied simply: "I never think about what the outcome will be."
But how could they stay with this beautiful scenery forever
"Being depressed because of failed fantasies is completely emotional internal friction," Xue laughed. "If it's the other way around, Brother Chang, try to think about it. If you work hard and successfully advance to the next level -"
"If you always fantasize about failure, you will become very boring. You like acting and you want to be an actor, but no matter how ambitious you are, if you fantasize about what will happen if you fail in just a moment, If you go home empty-handed like this, will acting become boring?"
"Let us invite the first student to choose a play - Gu Ling!"
Chang Yun turned around and got into a ball with Xue Xiaoxiao.
Xue Xiao couldn't help laughing: "It was just that time. Later, a crew approached me, but they asked for full sex. I thought about it but didn't agree. I don't want to become a professional sex actor."
After Gu led him in, Jiang Lianlian came over and asked, "Did you think about how many people should be selected for the play yesterday? Or should you just go in and see which one you like?"
Xue Xiaoshen nodded in agreement and whispered: "Scenes where you're exposed to rain, scenes where you're beaten, wearing mourning clothes or being put into a black and white photo frame, it doesn't matter as long as you get more subsidies."
Xue Xiao stayed by his side, quietly.
Even if there is a heavy rain at night, when the rain stops, the stars will come out again.
Xue Xiao's gentle voice seemed to contain some kind of magic, some kind of power.
Jiang Lianlian cast a look of disdain and said: "This round, there are five people in the play and four people in the play. The complexity of this kind of multi-player play will be relatively large. If there are more members, they will not be able to get along well with each other." , isn’t it easy to overturn?”
"What you will face in this round is still a blind audition. After entering the selection room, you can only see which plays and roles have been chosen, but you have no way of knowing who the students will be who will choose these plays and roles. All students please combine Consider many aspects and make your choice carefully.”
Chang Yun asked in a low voice: "Xiao, how can I be positive like you every day?"
It seems that as long as they are here for a day, this beautiful scenery will always be waiting for them here, meeting them every day.
Xue Xiao thought for a while and said, "I might just decide which role I want to play."
Dou Mingjian joked: "If there are other works by Teacher Shen this time, will you give priority to them?"
Xue Xiao nodded without hesitation: "Yes, Mr. Shen's movies and characters are very repetitive, and there are all kinds. If I have the chance, I would like to try them all."
In the front row, Fan Xue pricked up his ears and took in these words.
Gu Ling didn't take too long to finish the selection in three minutes, and replaced Dou Mingjian.
After Dou Mingjian, there were four students with the same score. They entered the selection room in order of age.
After half an hour passed, it was finally Xue Xiao's turn.
Stepping into this huge choice room again, Xue Xiao still felt relaxed and happy.
All around are posters of various movies and TV series, which is dazzling.
Among these fifteen plays, he instantly found a movie that Shen Tingyan had starred in. The familiar profile on the poster made his eyes light up.
Come on, come on, the little light bulb turns on!
The cameraman quickly turned around and pointed the camera at Xue Xiao's face.
But Xue Xiao took a step excitedly, and his eyes were suddenly attracted by another movie next to him, and his step stopped abruptly.
Cameraman: "?"
Xue Xiao cautiously retracted his foot and hesitated on the spot.
The cameraman walked up to him with a puzzled look on his face. Seeing that Xue Xiao was deep in thought, he couldn't help but shake the camera to call back his soul without saying anything to give him some material.
Xue Xiao came to his senses and said hesitantly: "Well, there is Teacher Shen's movie." The cameraman continued to shake the camera: Yes, yes, you don't want to choose
Xue Xiao: "But, there is another movie that I really like..."
Cameraman:
Xue Xiao bent his elbows, put his fist to his lips, his eyes flickered, and he fell into an unprecedented tangle.
After ten minutes passed, Lao Gao, who was staring at the camera in another room, wondered: "Why is he stuck there motionless? He hasn't thought about it yet?"
"Oh, it finally happened. He is finally going to choose Lao Shen—huh?"
In another studio, the six people who had made their choices were already sitting there waiting. When they saw Xue Xiao coming in, they all booed: "Did you choose Teacher Shen's film?"
"Definitely is!"
"And the role played by Teacher Shen this time is quite suitable for you. We all resisted and didn't choose it! I gave it to you specially!"
Xue Xiao: "..."
A feeling of guilt arose in his heart.
Noticing Xue Xiao's expression, the six people were slightly stunned: "Huh???"
Three and a half hours later, Fan Xue, as the last student to make a selection, entered the studio with an expressionless face.
It was him who was stupid.
He had previously thought that he must avoid Xue Xiao in this round, but he forgot that as the last student, he had no right to choose at all and could only pick up what the forty-nine people in front of him didn't want!
That character was also quite outrageous. He didn't understand why the program team would prepare such a character for a group of students with an average age of less than thirty. Who made the plan? Didn’t Director Zhang check it?
Simply puzzling!
Forget it, at least that character is not from Shen Tingyan's movie. At least he can avoid bumping into Xue Xiao again. Both of them left a big psychological shadow on him...
Half an hour later, Jiang Quan walked in and said: "Your choices have been tallied. Now let's get to know your new round of teammates!"
A cast list appeared on the screen, and everyone craned their necks to take a closer look.
"Wow, Lao Yang, I'm going to be with you this time! We have some kind of understanding!"
"We are actually a group. Let me come over and let's sit together!"
"I'm looking forward to your combination, hahaha!"
"Hey, Xue Xiao didn't choose Teacher Shen's play?"
"Yes, I was chosen for the role of Teacher Shen. I was quite surprised when I went in and saw that the role was still vacant!"
"Then Xiaoxiao, which one did you choose? Oh, "Spring Garden", it turned out to be this one?"
"Hey, the group "Spring Garden"..."
"Fuck..."
Everyone was shocked when they saw clearly the staff configuration of the play "Spring Garden".
This is one of two sets of five-person repertoire.
Character No. 1 is a terminal cancer patient who has been pronounced dead by the doctor, a male college student who has not yet graduated from college.
Character No. 2, the father of Character No. 1, is a desperate middle-aged man.
Character No. 3 is a depressed young man whose wife has died two years ago.
Character No. 4, a father who lost his son.
Character No. 5, an eighty-one-year-old man with white hair, approaching his twilight years.
Role No. 1 is played by Xue Xiao.
In fact, Xue Xiao was a little surprised when he found out that role No. 1 was still vacant.
The original movie has four parallel story lines, interspersed with "present" and "past", telling the story of four families, each family has a similar role.
However, if one section is to be cut out and condensed and adapted into a short play of a few minutes on stage, the arrangement of the characters and scenes will be somewhat changed.
According to the serial number arrangement of the characters by the program team, it is not difficult to infer that the male college student with cancer may be the one who has relatively more roles, and the roles of characters No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 will decrease in order.
But before Xue Xiao, it was clearly shown on the tablet that two people had chosen this play, but neither of them chose the No. 1 role.
One person chose character No. 2—Xue Xiao had already guessed that it was Dou Mingjian based on the character’s age, and the fact was as he expected.
The No. 2 character is played by Dou Mingjian.
Another person chose role No. 3—
Xue Xiao knew the answer immediately after entering the studio just now—the role No. 3 was actually chosen by Gu Ling.
His reason is simple: "I just want to play this role more."
Gu Ling, Dou Mingjian, and Xue Xiao, the 1st, 2nd, and 7th players in the first round of the competition gathered together in this play. How could the other students not be amazed, this group configuration is quite awesome!
However, looking further down, the cheers they were about to shout were stuck in their throats.
Character No. 4, a student ranked low in the first round, is not the problem.
The problem is character No. 5, the white-haired old man...
Fan Xue stared at the cast list, shocked, stiff, suffocated, and crazy.
As the No. 5 character actor, he turned around and asked hysterically: "Xue Xiao, didn't you say you wanted to choose Shen Tingyan's play??!"
Xue Xiao: "..."
Everyone: “…”
This mentality is too obvious, right
But then again—
Everyone and all the cameras turned towards Xue Xiao, and the dozens of meaningful glances said the same sentence:
Yes, I still have to ask, classmate Xue Xiao, where is your love for Teacher Shen? ?
Where has the love gone? Love is gone!
Why is it that this time, all the suitable roles were placed in front of you, but you didn’t choose them
Please answer carefully, Teacher Shen will also see this scene by then!
When Xue Xiao received everyone's gaze, his guilt instantly exploded, as if Shen Tingyan was really looking at him.
He quickly stirred up his brain and whispered: "Well, actually..."
"that… "
"—The No. 2 role in this play was played by Teacher Shen Jingyang in the original work!"
After saying the last sentence quickly, he sat upright, looking at his eyes, nose and heart.
Everyone thought about it carefully and suddenly realized.
Yes, that's right, this movie is a classic by Shen Tingyan's father, the famous veteran actor Shen Jingyang.
Think about it this way, if you choose Teacher Shen Jingyang’s movie, you won’t choose Teacher Shen—
They suddenly woke up and complained to the camera:
"—Good guy, Teacher Shen, listen to what he said!"
(End of chapter)