Back to the Republic of China as a director

Ji Shuangyu walked into the Changle Theater wearing a hat, and any regular customers who recognized him would smile and say hello to prevent him from being surrounded by fans.

The preparations for tomorrow's filming are finished. He came here in order to gain trust. His current address cannot be disclosed to the public. Therefore, if anyone wants to contact him, he will send it to Changle.

Ji Shuangyu glanced at it. At this time, there was no opera singing on the stage, but some people were talking about cross talk.

The theater is not always singing operas. Many folk arts can be performed on the same stage. It all depends on how the boss chooses to give the audience a change of taste.

Xu Xinyue took out a stack of letters, which were sent to Shanghai by overseas directors who wanted to know him, and colleagues in Shanghai forwarded them to him.

Ji Shuangyu lowered her head and checked where it was sent from, then she heard Xu Xinyue say triumphantly: "I recruited a new cross talker, surnamed Qi, to be the finale for Ying Xiaonong. He is also very satisfied, how is it?"

Ji Shuangyu has been busy with filming recently, and I don't know when he recruited him. He said without raising his head, "It's good, but I don't know when you started to appreciate cross talk. I didn't think they were lively enough before."

Just as I was talking, I heard the cross talk actor on the stage say: "...Well, when the kung fu lights are on, the whole capital is illuminated white. Light it up!"

Ji Shuangyu: "..."

"How is it? Excellent? Hahahahahaha!" Xu Xinyue laughed wildly, why did she suddenly appreciate it?Of course it's because the actors on stage are good-looking, not to mention excellent in business...and they often make fun of Ji Shuangyu!

Ah Ji is probably just interested in this... Ji Shuangyu glanced at him speechlessly, opened a new letter, and began to read.

When Ji Shuangyu came to this universe, he also watched a lot of works by domestic and foreign masters, and had a better understanding of the world theater environment.

Aside from technical differences, each director has his own aesthetic direction, level, and ideas, and an art work is not composed of only one part.

Students like Xu Yunru and the others can produce excellent works after receiving a little instruction, because they are already excellent.Even if Ji Shuangyu didn't have his own thoughts and came back with a full stomach of theories, he couldn't make a masterpiece.

So in the face of these letters, even though there were mistakes, Ji Shuangyu read them carefully, replied on the spot, communicated, and answered questions one by one.This is also the beginning of letting the Huaxia theater world enter the world and gain the right to speak, and he will be the bridge builder.

I just saw that several directors wanted to give him reference books, he laughed and wrote back, thank you, there is no shortage, my best friend is the owner of the bookstore, and has collected a lot of scientific books...

The one thing I didn't say was: And I confessed all of them!

——Ji Shuangyu won a group of overseas pen pals, and the accumulated popularity led to many guest professors, master lectures, and open classes for Chinese opera.

After Ji Shuangyu finished writing the reply, he handed it back to Xu Xinyue and asked him to send it back on his behalf.

When I was leaving, I passed by and just heard the last part of the cross talk. Coincidentally, for some reason, the fans on the stage were in a daze and didn’t answer the conversation, and the audience noticed it and started booing.

Ji Shuangyu paused with great interest, but saw that the funny actor was not in a panic, and hung up now: "It was intentional, it was intentional, Boss Chicken gave too little, we have to deduct a few words."

His relaxed attitude made everyone willing to buy it even if they could tell that he was making amends. The booing suddenly turned into laughter. When they turned their heads and saw Xu Xinyue standing next to him, the laughter became even louder, and tears were about to flow. come out.

Xu Xinyue: "..."

Ji Shuangyu patted Xu Xinyue's shoulder, "Boss, I found that you have mediocre aesthetics, but you are very lucky. How come you always meet such excellent migrant workers."

Xu Xinyue: "..."

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Zhou Siyin was also very busy, so busy that he didn't even have time to scold the book and talk nonsense - this guy became famous all over the world in an instant because of the hit of "The Ancient Capital", and the book was being imported by many countries, and it was being translated. He said that he would personally supervise the translation , will not be updated for the time being.

Zhou Siyin didn't have time to talk to him, because the domestic sound projector he funded before finally succeeded.

He hurried to check it out, and after confirming it, he invested a sum of money so that they could mass-produce it.

This price is less than one-third of that of the Oxi machine. As a result, the popularity of sound film screenings in China has also been accelerated. Within a year or two, the theaters in major cities in China have basically completed the replacement.

These projectors can not only be equipped in China, but also sold to Southeast Asia and other places.

Moreover, the replacement in these places is partly thanks to Ji Shuangyu's film——

At the beginning of the sale, some small theaters such as two-wheel and three-wheel theaters were reluctant, because even if it was cheaper than Western machines, it was still a lot of money, and they thought they could last for a few more years.Most of the bosses are as virtuous as Xu Xinyue.

But there are always theaters that can't help it. As a result, once the equipment is installed, it is usually okay to say that when Ji Shuangyu's film is shown, it is crushed in the same theater. The audience would rather go to the sound theater to watch Ji Shuangyu several times, and not waste time in other theaters.

Because his films must, must be watched with sound, and the level of excitement will be doubled. The newspapers have said that it is audio-visual art!

Under such competition, what else can other theaters do, they have to grit their teeth and replace the machine.

They bluntly said that without sound projection equipment, we would not be able to show Ji Shuangyu's film, and the audience would not come in.And Ji Shuangyu's films usually last a very long time, this account must be settled!

In addition, Ji Shuangyu's use of sound has also inspired countless directors at home and abroad, so that they no longer insist that silent films are more artistic, and instead try to shoot sound films.

Originally because of the persistence of these directors and the backwardness of projection equipment, silent films may still occupy the market for several years.

Now, it can be said that Ji Shuangyu's works have pushed the silent film down the stage of history in advance!

Speaking of Nanyang, because of the large number of Chinese, it has always been a big ticket warehouse for Huaxia Film Production Company. Zhou Siyin decided that he needed to master Nanyang's screening channels.

This time, "Ancient Capital" and "Ask the Blue Sky" will naturally also be screened in Nanyang and Dongyang.

Moreover, unlike the land of Oxy, along with the copy to these places, there are also advertisements for Hanxing fountain pens.

——Zhou Hanque is going to sell pens to Nanyang and Dongyang, including Ji Shuangyu's copybooks. Of course, his own people will put up an advertisement.

This is a natural thing.

Neighboring countries are greatly influenced by Chinese culture, and there is no obstacle to cultural acceptance.In terms of writing, they are all Chinese characters, which naturally fits the user group of Hanxing fountain pen.

Just like the sound projectors, they used to be more expensive in Western machines and Western fountain pens. Once the Hanxing fountain pen came out, the commercials with high fashion value and the slogans they typed out were indeed more suitable for writing Chinese characters. It ate up a lot of the market.

Therefore, Ji Shuangyu also reaped a large dividend from pen sales.

"So much money, I don't have anything to spend it on." Ji Shuangyu's previous income was enough for him to live on and buy property for his younger siblings. In addition to his salary, he also received movie theater dividends every year and a steady stream of copybook royalties.

Ji Shuangyu didn't have anything to spend money on at the moment. After consideration, he simply followed Zhou Siyin's example of sponsoring domestic manufacturers of sound projectors, and searched for those technicians who intend to manufacture local cameras, printers, tape recorders and other equipment, and funded their research.

In this way, it can not only promote the improvement of China's film hardware facilities, but also provide jobs for these units set up for research.

And this kind of people, now there are, but few.After all, sound projectors can still save a lot of cost, but some technology and materials are also considered by their own people to be more cost-effective to import.

Fortunately, China is so big, there are always people who have the same ideas as Ji Shuangyu.

Ji Shuangyu didn't have a deep understanding of purely technical matters, so she could only give them some vague directions, but these directions were all correct, which already saved the cost of trial and error.

It is these technicians, after receiving Ji Shuangyu's funding, they are immersed in the direction he said, on the basis of referring to the latest foreign technology, they persevere in exploring, and establish their own technology from scratch, so that all kinds of local The first film factory and machinery factory were born, and we mastered our own recording technology and photosensitive materials... In the end, we achieved a breakthrough in technology.

As for Ji Shuangyu's shooting of sci-fi films, the whole of China knew about it, but he wasn't as worried as Anatole at all.

Just because they don't know much about scientific knowledge, these audiences are not worried, they just look forward to it. For them, watching science fiction movies is like watching ghost movies.

If you want to say that the sci-fi-themed movies that everyone is more familiar with recently are the robot movies shown in China, and some themes such as shrinking people and making people transparent can also be counted among them.

Whether the story is good or not is another matter. Everyone is still very interested in discussing the shooting method and the fantasy in it.People made by machines can act like people, isn't this just like the puppets in ancient legends?

Sure enough, it's just like our fairy tales, gods and monsters films—although these Western films still use some powerful-sounding nouns.Some fantasies about the future have also somewhat aroused discussion among the audience.

Now they are only curious, what is Ji Shuangyu's fantasy world like?

Ji Shuangyu herself is currently climbing a mountain...

Climb Miaogan Mountain.

He checked the scene and felt that this place was very suitable for shooting exterior scenes, so he came up with the crew.

There is still a distance between the capital and Miaogan Mountain, and it takes about a day and a half to reach the top of the mountain.The people on the production team have been talking about it for a long time, and the director has to go to the mountains to shoot science films. Western science fiction films seem to be set by themselves, which looks more like "future".

Ji Shuangyu said that the combination of fiction and reality is the best. Besides, the time and cost of completely setting up the scene can't bear it. He has worked hard enough to make props, models, and pictures.

Zhou Siyin was also there. He led the line and found the address. It was a little far from the village where the pilgrims usually stayed. He had donated money to the mountain, and after discussing it, he lived in the temple.

The priests in the temple also have a requirement that they are not allowed to take pictures of the temple inside, and only the outside can be used for framing.That's not a problem, anyway, Ji Shuangyu doesn't need to take pictures of the inside, basically he takes pictures of the outside, and more often he takes pictures of the mountain scenery.

It was tiring to climb the mountain with the machine, and there was no cable car. Ji Shuangyu was already paralyzed when he reached the mountain, and lay down on the grass to rest.

After lying down for an unknown amount of time, Ji Shuangyu woke up and still closed his eyes to rest his mind. He realized that someone was sitting beside him, and without opening his eyes, he knew it was Zhou Siyin: "Where did you go?"

"Since we're here, let's go to the Rose Valley to pick some flowers and make wine later." Zhou Siyin gently pulled Ji Shuangyu's finger, "I want to go inside to burn incense..."

Ji Shuangyu asked suspiciously: "Didn't you pay homage to your mother as soon as you arrived? At home, there are three sticks of incense in the morning and evening."

"That's worshiping the empress, and there is more than one temple," Zhou Siyin said confidently. He worshiped all the religions in the capital during the Chinese New Year, and he usually pays attention to the festivals of famous gods and Buddhas all over the sky. "And I want to I want you to go with me... because you must be there."

Ji Shuangyu sat up and said solemnly: "I don't even sacrifice a pig's head when I turn it on, I won't go to worship the patriarch! I don't need you to beg for me, as the principal, how can I break the ban with my body!"

Zhou Siyin: "..."

——Miaogan Mountain is dedicated to gods from all walks of life, not to mention Buddhism and Taoism. Confucianism and secular gods are also enshrined, including the patriarch of Liyuanxing, which is the Temple of Joy.

It was one thing for Ji Shuangyu to agree not to go into the temple for filming. It was a matter of respecting the master, but there were also express regulations in Huaxi Opera that students were not allowed to worship the ancestors.

It is really because there are so many taboos in the backstage of Liyuan, which not only belong to the feudal ideology, but sometimes have affected the operation of the troupe and the life of the actors. Under what circumstances, they cannot act, actresses cannot sit on the suitcase, and they are fined if they say something wrong... …such as.

To get rid of such a habit, of course, it is necessary to prohibit them from worshiping gods, and to teach them scientific knowledge.

Zhou Siyin was speechless when he heard the words.

He was silent for three seconds, and suddenly said angrily: "What kind of patriarch do I worship, do you still need me to worship the patriarch for your box office? You are pretending to be stupid!!"

Ji Shuangyu burst out laughing: "Hahahahahahahaha, you found out."

"What do you want to worship, and I have to be there?" He asked.

He always ignored Zhou Siyin's principled superstition, but he didn't know why this time Zhou Siyin was uncharacteristically and took him with him, knowing that he didn't do these things.

Zhou Siyin: "Of course it's Old Yue!"

"..." Ji Shuangyu felt unexpectedly speechless, "...Yuelao."

Zhou Siyin saw him pondering, and nervously said: "Aren't you afraid to go! You dare not be responsible to me again!"

Ji Shuangyu: "..."

Ji Shuangyu: "...Stop talking nonsense! Be responsible, be old!"

He dared to be aggressive, he grabbed Zhou Siyin's ear and started a domestic violence.

Zhou Siyin couldn't figure it out, so he stuck his neck and said, "Is it wrong to want to go to the Yuelao Temple? Could it be that you want to go to the Temple of the God of Wealth?"

"Speak up the second half of the sentence if you have the ability to see if you get beaten." Ji Shuangyu said with a smile, "I'm resting, I don't have the strength to engage in superstition with you."

"Go, go, just stay with me. You don't need to do anything. I have to show Yuelao who you are before he can recognize you! Your household registration may not be with us!" Zhou Siyin hugged Ji Shuangyu's waist The big dog started whining.

Good guy, quite logical....

And Ji Shuangyu couldn't stand his hug, lazily said: "Okay, but I'm a little tired now, I don't want to move, I will go after lying down for a while."

"Lie down, I'll go." Zhou Siyin lifted Ji Shuangyu up.

Ji Shuangyu: "!!!"

Ji Shuangyu glanced to the side in horror, it's not good to be so blatant.

As a result, the students in the film crew saw it and received his gaze, and they all applauded: "Wow, the principal's taking advantage of him is so powerful!"

Ji Shuangyu: "..."

Zhou Siyin: "..."

Ji Shuangyu was carried into the temple by Zhou Siyin. Because of the new year and festivals, there were not as many pilgrims on the mountain as there were during the temple fair. Even if she saw them, she couldn't recognize them from a distance. She thought they were friends playing.

Zhou Siyin carried Ji Shuangyu to the Yuelao Hall before putting him down.

Ji Shuangyu sat on the edge of the threshold, watching Zhou Siyin go to burn incense and worship God.

Zhou Siyin was chanting, and then turned to look at Ji Shuangyu, seeing him sitting on the ground leaning against the door with his knees hugged and looking over him quietly.

It was the wish he would make in every temple and temple he visited after he and Ji Shuangyu were together. If Ji Shuangyu heard it, he would not know whether he would laugh at the wish mixed with science and metaphysics.

If the parallel universe brings back the Year of the Crane one day, I hope that the gods and Buddhas will not keep anyone, but send me along.