Back to the Republic of China as a director

The name "Golden Immortal" has been heard in Shanghai for a long time.

It is better to be famous than to meet, and it is better to be famous when you meet. Nowadays, there are gossips saying that Jinque's makeup is mediocre, but she is actually shaped into a beauty by her unique makeup and hair, and Ji Shuangyu's light and shadow skills.

The audience in Shanghai, who can appreciate all the beauties, was also amazed when they saw her true face.That is, the makeup can be transformed, but the immortal energy all over the body cannot be transformed.I don't know if it's an illusion, but the "Luo Jinping" played by Jinque looks more elegant even in a dress than others.

——This, of course, depends on Ji Shuangyu asking the tailor to change the original seven or eight pleats into four or five pleats when making the outfit, which makes it look more so-called immortal.

Luo Jinping was also depressed after being abandoned by the flirtatious man, but let her meet the petty officials who were greedy for ink, and the victims of the disaster were bullied. Luo Jinping, who was holding a breath in her heart, was a swordsman and a swordsman, sobering up, this is a more meaningful life.

She was born with a beautiful and weak appearance, and she said "I don't dare" and "Oh, it's terrible", but every time she backhanded the cannon fodder, and the little officer who escorted the grain and grass was also molested by her.

The atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, and this style, combined with healthy and vigorous skills, was more in line with the current aesthetics.

The audience saw the fairy-like Luo Jinping tearing up cannon fodder and beating corrupt officials, which was really cute in contrast.

The stage art also contributed a lot.

Scenes of concise and aesthetically pleasing freehand brushstrokes make those who have imagined "should be old-fashioned" deeply cast aside their previous ideas.The poetic flavor of mountains and mist created by the cloud lamp shows that the set designer is proficient in lighting layout, and skillfully integrated the advanced scientific settings loved by Shanghai people.

As long as you are a Chinese, how can you not understand the essence of every tree and every brick.As long as you have eyes, how can you not be moved by such dance beauty.Golden Sparrow and "Luoyang Spring" let Shanghai audiences see another possibility of opera and stage beauty.

Take freehand brushwork as the god, reasonably learn from western technology, and integrate into one.

After watching such a play, there may not be any exciting mechanism, but it is so eye-catching!This is another ultimate treat!

Audiences in Shanghai love all kinds of beauty, and such a stage makes them want to stop.

In the final climax, when Luo Jinping captures corrupt officials, the accompaniment is also ingenious, mainly based on the pipa, a popular musical instrument in Tang Dynasty, and uses techniques such as breaking strings and twisting strings that are still very novel to audiences nowadays.Ji Shuangyu was inspired by the very famous pipa song "House of Flying Daggers" in his own time and space, and invited musicians to reorganize the pipa song to make it more intense.

It turned out to be very successful. A piece of pipa martial arts was played with the sound of Jin Ge, showing its sharpness, and the hearts of the audience were hooked.Between sword and sword, Luo Jinping's skirt fluttered, every movement and music, she raised her sword and beheaded her head, just like a fairy cutting a yellow dragon!

At this time, the audience who had held back for a long time burst into applause.

OK!What a beautiful scenery, what a pipa of gold and iron horses, what a canary that sings and reads well, and is unstoppable in civil and martial arts!

Amazement and applause also appeared on another stage——

Although "Rickshaw" has only one act, it has a complete story, like most one-act plays. It tells a rickshaw driver who thinks he is kind enough to help customers, but inadvertently interrupts a crime, causing the criminals to go their own way invisibly. Such a deflated little story.

In addition to opera skills, the actor seems to have also learned the clown's funny skills-rehearsing together for a long time, the people of Chunlei Drama Club have indeed learned a lot from the actors of Hanxi class.

It stands to reason that a one-act play is just an appetizer, but the one-act play brought by Chunlei Drama Club today is of great significance to the students who like new plays in the audience. It is just like eating a delicacy in just one act.

If it weren't for impoliteness, many people would want to express their opinions at length at once.It turns out that freehand brushwork can also be integrated so well with vernacular dramas. Such a repertoire must be both new and old. Only those who have a deep understanding of Chinese traditional culture can come up with it!

After the curtain fell, today's dinner was "Beautiful Beauty", which showed the audience another new play of another style.It tells the story on the land of China, and achieves the ultimate in realism, with a strong flavor of the capital.

The turntable makes it easy to change scenes.

The crisp bell rang, and in an instant, people came from the alleys in Shanghai to the alleys of the ancient capital.

Because all the students, teachers, and even overseas experts like Victor who are familiar with the new play are sitting under the stage of the premiere. Their eyes are different when they watch "Beautiful Beauty", but their appreciation is no less than that of the performance in Beijing. !

The more detailed sets and props than the one-act play just now made the students unable to restrain themselves.

"This is what the newspapers in the capital said, the setting that can reflect the physical properties? It can really do this!"

"I can't believe it's all fake..."

Drama cannot be expressed in words alone. What you see in newspapers or imagined is different from what you see with your own eyes. Only when you really watch it off-stage can you feel the real shock.

Some students have never been to the capital, but from this stage, they can feel the capital composed of elements carefully refined by the set designer!

As the performance continued, they were even more amazed at the real and natural acting skills of these students from the capital.

Nowadays, many well-known new drama actors in Shanghai rely on imitating the roles in Western movies to perform, but they are Westerners after all, and their habits are fundamentally different from those of Chinese people.

The imitated acting skills always make people feel a little bit of disobedience, and they can feel that this is a play.

But there is no way, at this time, no one knows how to perform the "China New Drama" best.

The students of the Chunlei Drama Club were taught by Ji Shuangyu, and their acting skills may not be perfect, and in Victor's eyes, there are even many flaws.

However, what is shown through hard training is definitely a very natural and suitable performance method for Chinese people!

"It turns out that you can act like this..."

"Can you also borrow props to perform such an effect?"

Watching performances with peers is different from watching performances as pure audiences. When everyone appreciates it, they often have a feeling of enlightenment, learning something, and pay more attention to details, including props, lighting, etc. to set off the plot and metaphor.

The more I watched it, the more I felt, no, I have to watch it again!

Victor needs a translator to watch, but it does not prevent him from understanding other parts.It's quite different from the feeling of watching Shanghai's new dramas a few days ago. Sure enough, China's territory is too big. Do you think the level is only limited to Shanghai's new dramas?

No, it turns out that in another city in the north, their capital, there are still people who have already discharged such a drama.Moreover, it is a diversified development. It not only implements the realistic style, but also has a mature style that is not inferior to Oxie, and even has a style that is superior in stage design.There are also styles that incorporate more local freehand style.

The acting skills of these actors, Victor faintly noticed the traces of other mature foreign performance systems, but they were not completely integrated, and they were obviously integrated with localization.

When the plot began to enter the explosive node of the relationship between the characters, the translation began to sweat crazily.

He himself was a bit confused about these characters, and he had to translate them for Victor. Why did these two people embrace the wrong one? Those two people were originally relatives but fell in love again, and what’s more, the eastern and western names for relatives are different. too same...

Translation: Let me die! !

In the end, Victor, who was also very tired from listening, was also sweating, "Forget it, forget it, and read it."

The audience of family dramas is indeed wide, and its bloody entanglements can stand the test of time. Although the students always perform Occidental repertoires in English and French, they honestly plunged into the mature rehearsal of "Beautiful Beauty".

After seeing the back, most of the students actually didn't bother to analyze the technique here, and were completely attracted by the plot.

In particular, this is not pure dog blood, the protagonist has grown up, and his thinking is in line with the trend of the times.

When the curtain finally came to an end, the applause rang out for 5 minutes.

When the actors came out to take the curtain call, the applause was repeated again.

The students of the drama clubs of Shanghai colleges and universities stood up and shouted: "Good job! This should be our new play!"

"Write the reality of China and tell social stories!"

"The opening one-act play just rightly incorporates the characteristics of freehand brushwork and opera skills, and it is also worth learning——"

"Students, shall we perform this play next month?"

It was also the first time for Wei Kesheng to read it. He had a lot of communication with his junior and knew the content of the script, but when he actually saw the reenactment on stage, the effect was still very different, which involved factors such as the way the actors performed and the beauty of the dance.

Wei Kesheng was so excited that he completely ignored Victor, and rushed down the stage by himself, shouting at Yu Jianqing who was on the stage: "Jianqing, you must stay for a few more days, let us learn from each other!"

Chunlei Drama Club originally planned to perform for only five days, but Wei Kesheng felt it at the first glance, this is not good, five days is not enough at all.

Seeing that the audience in Shanghai was also conquered, Yu Jianqing felt that it was unexpected and reasonable. After they finished the performance in the capital, the various theater clubs also went to study, and then they arranged according to the schedule, and they were also working hard to study This new style.

And today, they brought a one-act play that combines freehand brushwork to Shanghai!

With so many new things, five days may not be enough to digest.

Yu Jianqing laughed loudly on the stage: "Okay, brother! I'll just say it!"

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After this night, Victor couldn't wait to go to the Tiangong Theater and watch "Luoyang Spring".

He originally thought that he had already been greatly stimulated by watching so many Chinese operas in Shanghai, and he encountered the very admirable Chinese-style drama "Beautiful Color" last night, and it was difficult to be particularly emotional.

Who knows, he was still amazed on the second night.

After the end, Victor was still thinking about it. He was still thinking about it yesterday. After watching this play, he will spend a few more days rewatching "Beautiful Beauty" to get a clear understanding of the relationship between the characters in it, as well as look at the space layout, lighting design, etc. Clever trick.

Now, he doesn't even know how to distribute it, and he wants to watch "Luoyang Spring" several times again!

“Stunning work of art!”

Some of the stage reminded Victor of the minimalist style, but the freehand style has more oriental charm, there is no mechanism for opening and closing, and every place just makes people feel extremely elegant.

Such a stage makes Chinese opera, which combines poetry, singing and dancing, even more beautiful!

It turned out that it could be even more beautiful.

Over the past few days, Victor already has an understanding of the basics of Chinese opera, and he has read the introduction of the plot before the performance. He is intoxicated by this oriental art. He only feels that the bottleneck that has been persistent for a long time has been loosened, and his inspiration is surging. .

He already had a new idea about the drama to be rehearsed after returning home.

After the eighth day of the eighth day, the entertainment section of Shanghai newspapers has been occupied by Chunlei Drama Club and Jinque.

【Set the fastest record!Less than five days after its opening, tickets for "Luoyang Spring" have been sold for two months! 】

[The two dramas directed by Ji Shuangyu are both works of genius, showing the beauty of freehand brushwork and realism respectively. All are based on beauty, and only make appropriate designs! 】

[The beauty of art cannot be added.Restoring the scenery and stories of the ancient capital from one stage is another groundbreaking breakthrough in realism. 】

[Victor, an expert in Western theater, watched "Beautiful Beauty" and "Luoyang Spring", and said that it is very beneficial. My Chinese opera has really refreshed the Western theater that has been stuck in the bottleneck of development. It can be learned from the mirror! 】

[The beauty of the stage of "Luoyang Spring" is as beautiful as the gardens of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the beauty of the gorse is as beautiful as the fairy of Luoshen, and it lives up to the name of "Golden Immortal". 】

[From "Beautiful Beauty" and the one-act play before the play, the author sees the direction of the continuation of the new play.Even European and Western experts praised the beauty of Chinese opera, so why don't my Chinese children imitate and learn from it? 】

There are too many comments, just the long comments with more than a thousand words, hundreds of them were posted in the first three days!

The entire Shanghai drama circle was like still water smashing into a boulder, stirring up waves that could not stop for a long time. What they talked about, what they watched, revolved around these two plays.

The absolute freedom of time and space on the Chinese opera stage has been criticized by fans of new dramas during the debate between old and new dramas.But now everyone can see that this is not a disadvantage, on the contrary, this is a distinctive feature of China, which is enough to shine in any art form!

The success of "Luoyang Spring" and the praise of European and Western scholars have given rise to national self-confidence, and thus more confidence in "Peerless Beauty".The freehand elements and local customs borrowed from "Beautiful Color" and the one-act play also in turn make people want to watch "Luoyang Spring" even more.

In this inclusive city, the audience is happy to see the new beauty, and the drama clubs are also happy, oh, there is another art that makes money, we have to learn it!

——However, the most exciting thing is the folks in the capital.

They looked forward to the news of victory from Shanghai, and many people have been paying attention to the public opinion throughout the process, which is unprecedented.

When Shanghai's box office and word-of-mouth came out, Beijing newspapers reprinted a large number of Shanghai drama reviews immediately.

[This newspaper reposts the drama reviews of Shanghai's No. [-] best-selling newspaper as follows. Jinque and Chunlei Drama Club brought "Luoyang Spring" and "Beautiful Colors" to popularity in Shanghai, and the audience in Shanghai felt like a treasure! 】

[The Beijing school style swept across Shanghai, and the golden bird became a hot name. 】

[Ji Shuangyu's flag was successfully held, and all walks of life in Shanghai requested Chunlei Drama Club and Jinque to extend the performance time.Oxi theater experts praised this art that any scholar must be touched after reading it! 】

If you don't read the content carefully, you will think that you are living in Shanghai. Why are all the content of Shanghai newspapers?

This also shows that Ji Shuangyu is really like a treasure in the palm of the people of the capital now... even his colleagues love him very much.

Although at the beginning, everyone had competition, but later, the high-quality content created by Ji Shuangyu stimulated the audience and directly expanded the market.He didn't hesitate to teach him, and took in several apprentices from big troupes.

Not to mention the new dramas, they were all in decline, and the student drama clubs were also neglected, and this one brought them all back.

As long as the theater troupes and theater clubs are willing to make progress together, in the long run, such changes will be beneficial and harmless.

Even now, seeing the success in Shanghai, the other wharves also extended an olive branch to the troupe in the capital, inviting those who followed Fengchunlei Drama Club and Hanxi Troupe to perform there.

With such a good performance, how can the colleagues hold back and not praise the director?I just hate Xu Xinyue's luck in robbing such a talent - when they tried to imitate themselves, they discovered that it is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but hard to find a general.

I'm really blind, I heard that Xu Xinyue still feels distressed to buy a spotlight!

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After "Beautiful Beauty" and "Luoyang Spring" achieved great success in Shanghai, Ji Shuangyu was dragged by his peers in Shanghai to ask for advice every day. Among them, several theater owners came to poach people, hoping that he could stay in Shanghai.

After knowing that Ji Shuangyu would definitely not stay, these people turned their attention to Liu Liang——

Good guy, only now did Liu Liang realize that having his name printed on a poster has a greater impact than he imagined.Isn't there only one word difference between the assistant director and the director?He's still Ji Shuangyu's big apprentice, if he can't hire himself, he'll pay the assistant director with a high salary.

Given the richness of the bosses in Shanghai, they gave Liu Liang up to [-] a month and lived in a small bungalow.

The dream treatment was right in front of him, Liu Liang was dizzy for a long time, and finally he refused, making Chen Zhongxiang and the other two disciples so envious.

Ji Shuangyu was a little surprised. After all, compared with Liuliang's current salary, this price is one sky high and one bottom earth.

Liu Liang firmly said: "I don't think I've learned enough. I'll continue to learn by your side and earn more in the future!"

"Hahahahahaha, as expected of my apprentice, very simple." Ji Shuangyu patted six taels.

Money touches people's hearts, and it's not easy to refuse.From being a field inspector who just puts on fire, to actively learning when he was playing, and then apprenticed to a teacher to learn other skills, and he also took on the role as an assistant director.

In fact, Liuliang is still a little learned, but Ji Shuangyu feels that he is very motivated, and he can be steadfast when he is tempted. He has a long-term vision and will definitely achieve great things in the future.

On Wei Kesheng's side, the people who organized the drama club in Shanghai, together with Victor, discussed with Ji Shuangyu several times.It seemed that the scholar who came to teach and guide was not Victor, but Ji Shuangyu.

Victor, as the only professional talent other than Ji Shuangyu, had the deepest communication with Ji Shuangyu.

"I really want to introduce the art of Chinese opera to Europe for performances. Only when I see it for real can I understand it better." Victor thought that it was not enough for him alone.

This excited the others.

Only Ji Shuangyu was quite relaxed, and lazily said: "Going to perform overseas is not an easy task. After you get through the joints, please contact our actors. At that time, you will definitely cooperate with us."

In a word, he asked people to talk to him after the preliminary work was completed. It can't be said that his attitude is bad, but he really can't be called eager...

Yu Jianqing wiped off his sweat and glanced at Jinque, who was also present, and found that Ms. Jinque was calmer than them, exactly the same as Ji Shuangyu, as if going to an overseas performance was nothing particularly exciting.

Jinque is indeed very calm, not pretending, after all, Ji Shuangyu has spread this idea before, and she has even learned English and French...

Now that Jinque is thrown abroad alone, she can also communicate with people in a simple way, and she can do it by performing on the street to earn a living. You must have the spirit of director Ji to apply for a job.With ability and self-confidence, you really won't panic.

"Mr. Ji, do you really know how to hold the whip in Shanghai? I heard that many people want you to stay in Shanghai." Victor said with emotion, "China has beautiful art and talents like you. I think next time I come, I will see a more mature drama world.

"I'm also curious. It is said that Mr. Ji has not had any professional training, so how did you integrate these arts? Do you have any teachers, or who are you influenced by?"

Others also looked at Ji Shuangyu, and they were also very curious. Ji Shuangyu claimed to be self-taught, but he must have been influenced by something, how did he grow up, and where did this unique beauty come from?Inspired by what art?

Facing this realistic question, I saw Ji Shuangyu leisurely gave a very Chinese freehand answer: "Teach me from the five mountains and three mountains, and ask for 5000 years!"

Everyone is in awe, has a deep understanding of traditional culture, and can integrate Chinese and Western cultures. Is this a genius?

Wei Kesheng once again reflected in his heart, why he blindly admired Western learning and ignored the accumulation of thousands of years.

Victor has a feeling of "the East is so mysterious".

Ji Shuangyu continued to smile.

... Just kidding, can I tell you that I graduated from the No. 20 Department of Directing of Huaxia Drama University established 60 years later? ?