[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

Both children have entered the palace, let alone go home every day, it is not sure whether they can go home once in five days.Under such circumstances, how could Lin Mu, who is interested in self-filming, refuse to train voice actors?

But after she took over, did she end up hiring beggars on the street for training——

Those beggars will be reduced to that point, partly because they are ugly or disabled, and partly because they are lazy and unwilling to rely on their own ability to earn money to support themselves, but other than that, a large part of them are unwilling to sell their bodies To the big family.

But to Lin's mother, these people who are not willing to sell themselves are completely untrustworthy.

Moreover, it costs extra money to hire them, but if you directly find those maidservants who usually have nothing to do in the Lin family, or the servants on the head of the Lin family village to train, you will not only hold their contracts of sale in your hands, but you will not worry about betrayal. And Moon Silver will not change much.

Maybe some people don't want to do publicity work, but dubbing is more behind-the-scenes, and there will be many more people who can accept it.

When Jia Shu remembered this and went to ask Mother Lin about the situation, she found that Mother Lin had trained nearly a hundred voice actors.

Before picking a candidate, Jia Shu once said that the voice must be nice and distinctive.

After seeing the unexpected number of actors, Jia Shu made people read his lines one by one in astonishment, and his voice was really good——

There are loli voices, royal sister voices, and goddess voices...

There are juvenile voices, black belly voices, and male god voices...

Jia Shu was surprised: "Mom, how did you find so many people with completely different voices?"

Mother Lin glanced at her, even more strange than her: "In order to make a living, it's just to make my voice more distinctive, what's so difficult about it?"

Jia Shu suddenly realized that the top voice actors in modern times can indeed make false voices through various techniques, and it is easy for one person to play dozens of roles in a whole play.

"What's more, in order to make the self-image more attractive, I asked people to find all the ventriloquist in the capital."

Mother Lin dropped a big killer abruptly, causing Jia Shu's eyes to widen in shock.

Ventriloquism?

"I didn't realize it at first, but the wood spirit reminded me." Mother Lin smiled, "No matter how good the voice actor you mentioned is, it can only be the sound of people talking, like horses neighing, wind, thunder and rain. Sounds like electricity, babies crying, etc., there is no master who brings them in front, and there is no one who has accumulated for several years, even if they are trained by themselves, there is no way to match them."

Jia Shu couldn't help giving Lin's mother a thumbs up: "It's still my mother who is thoughtful."

Because there was no electricity, Jia Shu couldn’t get Huang Lu to make something like a phonograph. She could think of dubbing because she still wanted to build a drama theater, but subconsciously she didn’t compare animation with modern movies. I never thought that self-screening pictures could have ambient sounds.

But Mother Lin thought of this.

Jia Shu could have guessed that if Mother Lin trained all these dubbing actors, coupled with the ventriloquist performances that have not yet declined in this era, self-screening will definitely cause a greater sensation in Daxia.

The only regret is that self-screening is still only a pastime for the upper class in the Xia Dynasty, and ordinary people only know its name, and have never really entered the theater.

Because metal minerals are controlled by the state, most of the materials used to make self-screening machines are wood.This has led to the use of a story machine that plays a dozen times a day, and it will be scrapped within two years.

Moreover, the stories drawn are not only exquisite and cumbersome, but also require a huge number of pictures, at least tens of thousands of pictures are required for a story——

If the printing workshop hadn't overcome the problem of coloring before, these pictures would have to be hand-painted.

But even if there is a printing workshop to print, because it is all pictures, it can only rely on engraving and overprinting...

Those pictures are pulled back and forth in the machine every day, and the wear rate is much higher than that of machines made of wood.

The combination of various reasons has led to the fact that there is no way to reduce the cost of self-screening, and there is no way to make self-screening like modern movies. As long as you have some spare money, you can go to the cinema to watch a movie.

After the sound problem is solved, the cost of self-screening will increase, and it will be even more hopeless for ordinary people to go to the cinema to watch a self-screening.

So Jia Shu thought of drama again.

Modern actors are valuable, and the ticket price of a drama is actually many times higher than that of a movie.

But in ancient times, opera actors were only called opera actors, and they were not respected by others. Actors were not worth much at all.

What's more, according to Lin's mother's way of training actors, go directly to the tooth shop to buy some good-looking and talented servants-in this era, the most expensive maid is only a few taels of silver, and the cheapest is as low as a few tens of pennies. money.

But the most expensive ones are mostly those with professional skills such as cooking, embroidery, and housekeeping. They are simply good-looking but have no talents.

It only takes one month's profit from the Lin family bookstore to buy hundreds of maids with good looks and good voices.

The cost of labor is reduced, and only one theater is needed, so the cost of drama is much lower.

Everyone can afford the fare, and the people's leisure life is more abundant, so the Lin family will naturally earn more money.

Jia Shu told Lin Mu this idea.

Mother Lin was stunned for a long time, and her tone hesitated: "I haven't figured out the self-image yet, and you want to make this drama again..."

Jia Shu laughed: "Mother, my daughter-in-law just has this idea, and I don't have the energy to put it into action yet. At least I have to wait until the dubbing training of the self-image, and then spread the reputation to Jiangnan, so that the Academy of Film and Television will be stationed in Jiangnan. Only when you have a firm foothold and make a lot of money will you start thinking about drama.”

Jiangnan has been a land of prosperity since ancient times, and there are countless wealthy businessmen. If expensive entertainment such as movie theaters is opened to Jiangnan, the profits must be considerable compared to the capital.

"then you……"

Jia Shu explained: "The daughter-in-law just wants her mother to be able to train a group of people who can act in public and make people unable to tell the truth when she is training for dubbing."

Mother Lin was stunned for a moment: "Actor?"

Jia Shu shook his head: "There are so many opera troupes in the capital, why should the Lin family meddle? My daughter-in-law's drama performance is different from opera. The actors may be more exaggerated than ordinary people when they stand on the stage, but their lines and actions are just like ordinary people's life. , it will not make people feel false, and the audience who join the audience will only be there after watching it, as if the actor has really experienced that period of life."

Mother Lin didn't quite understand: "Isn't opera just..."

"But we usually don't know the libretto of opera." Jia Shu explained seriously, "The performance of the drama, the lines are just like what we say at this moment, and the body is exactly what we are doing at this moment."

Mother Lin realized it, but hesitated: "Will anyone be willing to watch it?"

"If someone really arranged such a play, would mother go to see it?" Jia Shu tilted his head and asked earnestly.

Mother Lin fell into deep thought, and shook her head after a long time: "I'm not sure. It doesn't sound attractive, but I'm curious."

Maybe she will go to see it when it opens, but after that, she may choose to self-screen.

But the result has not come out, everything is uncertain.

Jia Shu thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Why don't my daughter-in-law come up with a short story script, and ask someone to come up with the repertoire for my mother to review. If my mother thinks there is a possibility of starting a drama, how about preparing to train actors?"

Mother Lin nodded: "That's not a problem."

After getting Lin's mother's words, Jia Shu went back to his study and wrote a sketch script according to the script of the opera.

If Mother Lin wants to see the results in a short period of time, it is naturally impossible for her to write a long script that takes several hours to perform, and she can perform a complete work with the beginning, development, climax and ending in a few minutes. The characters are simple and the lines are funny , the story also has a story of succession and transition, which became her best choice.

But the script was available, but no suitable actor could be found.

Jia Shu wanted Xue Fu Shuang Ling to play the role, but after she spoke, the two of them knelt down and begged her for mercy, thinking that she was going to sell the two maids to the theater troupe.

Jia Shu had no choice but to find Mother Lin and select a few actors from the dubbing she had trained.

But the thing about acting is not that if the lines are well spoken, the performance is fine.

Besides, acting is not the biggest problem.

The biggest problem is that those actors can't read at all.

Jia Shu arranged the roles and lines of the skit, and several actors selected by her stared at the lines book and were stunned.

For a long time, several people looked at each other in blank dismay, their expressions flustered, but no one spoke for a long time.

Jia Shu frowned: "What's going on?"

One of the girls who looked calmer stood up: "Mrs. Hui, slaves and others... are illiterate."

Jia Shu: "..."

"But didn't you all read the lines from the movie scripts quite smoothly before?" In this era, pens, ink, paper and inkstones are expensive, and ordinary people can't afford to read books or bear words. Jia Shu has long known.But when she called these voiceovers one by one to listen to their line skills, they recited the lines perfectly and smoothly, and they didn't seem to be illiterate at all.

She froze for a moment, "How did you do it?"

The girl looked embarrassed: "Return to Madam, the old lady assigned the roles and lines to the servants and others, so she specially asked someone to read the lines to the servants and others one by one, each line will be recited ten times until we remember it. until."

Jia Shu: "... How many characters' lines have you memorized now?"

Although Mother Lin's approach is currently the best way, but the Film and Television Academy will publish several picture books of stories almost every month. Is it like this once a month?In order for these voiceovers to dub self-images, they must also be assigned a person who reads the lines?

The girl bowed her head: "Go back to Madam, the old Madam has assigned five roles to the servants."

Jia Shu: "...Memorize all the lines?" How long has it been since she memorized the lines of five characters without knowing the big characters?

"I've memorized it all," she paused, "everyone has memorized it."

Jia Shu waved his hand: "Who was the person who read the lines to you before? Call me over."

Surprisingly, the person who came was someone Jia Shu knew——

Lin Ruhai's former book boy, some ink.

Not two years after holding the book to get married, Dianmo also married a servant girl in the mansion, and now she has both children.It's just because of his age that he can no longer serve Lin Ruhai personally.

I just remember that not long after getting married, Dianmo was like holding a book, and took a position of steward to be busy in the outer courtyard.

When Mo Mo got up, Jia Shu couldn't help being curious: "The job you're given now is to read the lines for them to memorize, or do you have another job in hand?"

Holding the book and cupping his hands: "Mrs. Hui, these people are under the control of the younger ones now."

Seeing that there was no resignation on his face, Jia Shu thought that he was not transferred here by Lin's mother against his will, so he didn't ask any more questions.

"This is the content of the script of the story. It's up to you to read it to them. Get the repertoire out as soon as possible. When the time comes, you need to let them perform in front of the old lady."

Dianmo solemnly agreed, and Jia Shu left.

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After a few days, Jia Shu was checking the ledger in his room, when Xue Fu came to report, and some ink came to look for it.

"What's the matter?"

"Go back to Madam, the sketch that Madam said has already been arranged in a decent way, please ask Madam to go over and see if there is anything wrong, so that the little ones can revise it in advance."

After all, it is a person who eats crabs, and there is no way to make it perfect in many places.

Jia Shu didn't hesitate, and quickly finished the things in his hands, and left Lin's mansion directly, and went to the yard where the actors were rehearsing.

Jia Shu herself is not a person who knows how to make up stories, otherwise, as early as when the Linjiashusi launched the essay competition, she would have put on a vest and contributed to the "Story Collection". The solicitation of essays is easier to open the minds of those scholars, and then write more exciting and more imaginative stories, and can also provide more stable and high-quality contributions to Linjia Shusi.

Unfortunately, she won't.

Therefore, the story of this skit is completely imitated and greatly adapted from the popular "Not Bad Money" in the Spring Festival Gala that year. Write down the essence of "Bad Money".

But fortunately, Jia Shu wanted to release this skit, originally not to let them make money by performing, but just to let Lin's mother see a similar way of performing, whether Lin's mother can accept it.

But the end result...

Even if it is Jia Shu, there is no way to say that it is good-looking against the conscience——

The script is poor, the actors are unfamiliar and shy, they can't let go at all, there is no director, and the walking on stage is messy...

What made Jia Shu vomit blood the most was that the only laughing point in the whole sketch was that two actors didn't pay attention when they were walking, and they bumped into each other directly, and then they both fell on the stage.

For something like this, don't let Mother Lin watch it, even she can't say anything that she is willing to support their performance.

Jia Shu hesitated, whether to shelve the plan of the drama "Butterfly" and concentrate on developing his own film.

It's just that although there are many people in the capital, there are very few people who are really willing to pay for tickets, and it is impossible for them to spend money every day to watch their own movies at the cinema.The most important thing is that because only the Lin family made the self-image, and making a story is time-consuming and labor-intensive, they have no way to launch a new self-image in time after the freshness of a story disappears.

Even if the tickets for self-screening are very expensive, the money you make in the end is not too much.

On the contrary, since the filming machine and the picture book of the story began to be sold, the Lin family made a lot of money on these two things——

People who are really willing to spend time in movie theaters every now and then are not short of money.But since it's not bad, they would naturally prefer to buy a machine by themselves, and then buy a picture book of the story at the Lin's house and play it slowly at home, watching it whenever they want.

Even if they have a new picture book in the future, they only need to buy the newly released self-movie picture book home, and there is no need to queue up with other people.

Even the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent people to the Lin's shop to buy several self-screening machines, and several picture books for the story.

Although there are only a small number of people who buy machines, there are very few people at home who are able to buy tickets for movie theaters. Once these people leave, the monthly profit of movie theaters will naturally decrease.

Now that it has been several months since the launch of the self-image, although the popularity of the self-image has not dropped, the business has actually been affected——

Opening a movie theater, but selling her own movie machines and picture books, no matter how you look at it, she feels like she is trying to die.

However, there is no way. In ancient times, there was no intellectual property protection law. Although the machine for self-imagery was novel when it was made, and the film theater made a lot of money by relying on it, these artisans who spent their entire lives in the same craft in ancient times were It's amazing, even if they are not as good as yellow shoes in terms of creation, they can quickly create self-image machines through imitation.

Jia Shu also thought about hiding the self-image machine so that no one would find out, so other generals would not be able to imitate it.

But only those nobles in the palace who knew about the existence of self-images, but could not leave the palace at any time, would have great opinions.But if the self-image machine is sent to the palace...

The craftsmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Industry are the top batch in the whole of Daxia, and they are inextricably linked with the powerful families.

As long as the machine falls into the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Ministry of Industry, it will be over. It is no different from the Lin family spreading the machine blueprints of their own paintings everywhere for free. It is better to sell them by the Lin family and make a fortune.

The emergence of dubbing and ventriloquist, on the contrary, has become a new feature of the cinema.Jia Shu could imagine that those rich and powerful who bought the machine would be willing to spend a little money to enter the cinema to enjoy an audio-visual feast between "silent movies" and "talkies".

No matter how you look at it, I think self-filming is better than drama.

Seeing that Jia Shu was frowning, Shuangling suddenly said, "Madam, why don't you ask the theater troupe master to teach them? Although opera is different from drama, there shouldn't be much difference in positioning and performance."

Jia Shu laughed: "Why, opera and drama are two completely different things..."

She paused for a moment and realized that although opera and drama are two different things, they are both stage performances. Even though the performance forms are different, the movements on the stage, the emotions of the actors, and the experience of stage performances are all the same. Opera actors may not really be able to help drama actors.

Thinking of this, Jia Shu couldn't sit still, and turned to Xuefu and said, "You send someone to invite the troupe master of the troupe who bought the story of "Actor's Complaint" before, and just say that I have something to ask him for help."

Xuefu smiled and nodded: "Madam has something to ask him, it's too late for the troupe master to flatter him, why is Madam so polite?"

Even so, she quickly went to call the troupe master and followed Jia's attitude, treating him very politely.

When the troupe owner saw Jia Shu, he was still a little apprehensive.

However, because of the repertoire adapted from the stories in "Story Collection", their troupe quickly became famous in the capital. He is very grateful to Jia Shu, a generous nobleman.

"Mrs. Lin, if you have any orders, as long as the untouchables can do it, they will definitely go through fire and water."

Jia Shu waved his hand: "It's not that serious. I'm going to rehearse a show here, which is not quite the same as an opera, but both require actors to perform on stage. I thought you should know better than us laymen, so I invited you over."

"Leader, don't worry, the Lin family won't let you work for nothing."

The troupe leader quickly shook his head: "Mrs. Lin was joking, we are like duckweed, everyone can be contemptuous of people who can get in touch with the Marquis Wen'an Mansion, I don't know how many people envy them, how can the untouchables ask for rewards from the Lin family."

Jia Shu didn't argue with him about these useless things, and directly brought the troupe master to the actors: "Team master, these are the actors who will be on stage."

The theater troupe owner didn't notice the word "actor" until then, and he couldn't help showing a puzzled look: "Mrs. Lin, can you clear up the confusion for the untouchables?"

Jia Shu raised his eyebrows: "Are you asking?"

"What does the word 'actor' mean?"

"It's a new term to mean 'people who show their skills in public'," Jia Shu said helplessly, "otherwise I can't call a group of people who are not opera singers 'operators'?"

The theater troupe owner hurriedly cupped his hands: "Thank you Madam for clarifying the confusion."

Jia Shu didn't care, raised his chin slightly, and looked at the selected actors: "Perform the repertoire in front of the troupe master, and let him see if there is anything that can be changed."

The theater troupe leader immediately became serious, with a serious tone: "When we opera singers can perform on stage, we rely on the boring training that repeats on a daily basis, as well as the strictness and seriousness of the off-stage training, without making any mistakes."

He looked at several people, "Although I don't know how you perform, at least you can't make mistakes!"

Several actors immediately shook their heads, and became more cautious about the next performance.

It's just that after the skit was over, the troupe owner's expression was rather indescribable: "Mrs. Lin, are you sure that these people can really go on stage at their current level?"

Jia Shu shook his head: "I just want them to perform in front of the old lady once, and let her see if this kind of performance is acceptable." She glanced at a few people who were blushed by what the troupe master said, "If you can Accept it, and we will start training actors in this area."

The theater troupe leader was stunned for a moment, and became more cautious about the performances of the actors just now.

If the old lady can accept this kind of performance, the Lin family will probably launch a place similar to Liyuan in the near future, and then let them perform on stage.

In all fairness, how well did these guys perform?

The theater troupe owner can feel his conscience and say, it's bad!If such a person were placed in his theater troupe, he would definitely use a cane to whip people's calves, buttocks and other places to pieces every day.

But is this way of acting acceptable?

Excluding the poor performance level of these actors, the script that is not brilliant at all, and the lines that can be called eye-catching, the way Jia Shu let her watch the performance itself is still very attractive.

The troupe owner thought that if he changed the script and handed it over to the people in his troupe, and performed according to Jia Shu's ideas, the show would definitely be popular, and it might be comparable to previous shows such as "Actor's Complaint" and so on. When the repertoire is compiled, it will be more popular, and their troupe will definitely be able to improve to a higher level.

But this method of performance was proposed by Jia Shu, and has nothing to do with their troupe; and these actors simply don't have enough strength.

But after hesitating, he still told Jia Shu the truth: "Mrs. Lin, although these actors are not very talented, most people will definitely accept such an unheard of performance."

He paused and sighed, "In the future, I will gain fame, and it will be even more popular than drama."

Jia Shu looked at the troupe owner and was a little surprised. In modern times, aren’t dramas more popular with audiences than traditional operas?But a theater troupe leader with limited knowledge had such a forward-looking vision, which really surprised her.

But thinking that "Story Collection" became a big hit in the teahouse, the troupe owner thought of asking someone to find her and wanted to buy the adaptation of the stories in it. It seems that it is not surprising that he can say such a thing now.

After all, the ancients were not stupid, so it's not normal to have a few people with outstanding business vision.

Jia Shu looked at the troupe master for a long time, then chuckled lightly: "Since the troupe master has anticipated the future, do you have any plans to change course?"

Looking at the troupe's performance just now, it seems that the opera actors in his troupe must be able to express the content of the script, and they must perform better than these actors.If she could buy all the troupe master and all the actors in his troupe to the Lin family, at least the first batch of actors in the drama would not have to worry.

The troupe owner's heart beat faster, but after a while, he sighed faintly: "Thank you Mrs. Lin for your kindness, it's just that those of us who have been dealing with opera for most of our lives want to change the way of performing halfway and discard opera completely..."

"Mrs. Lin, the untouchables can't stand it just thinking about it."

"Although the untouchables feel that this way of expression will definitely be very popular, but if the children of the theater troupe who have learned opera since childhood turn to learn the drama spoken by their husband, it is good if they are talented, and stay in the property under the name of the Lin family. It's better than wandering outside; but if you study for a long time, but find that you have no talent..."

"Ms. Lin, Chinese opera is a basic skill. If you don't practice for a day, your performance will be very different. If those children go to learn drama, but in the end they find that they have no talent, this opera has been discarded. It can’t be picked up either.”

Jia Shu looked at the troupe master, pondered for a while, and said, "This drama is different from opera, and there are only a few characters. If this drama is written longer, the more important characters will be more than twenty. Opera requires more actors. There should not be more than one hundred opera performers or learners in your troupe?"

"If there are opera actors who want to join in the future, I can't guarantee the ending, but if you join, the people in your troupe will be the first batch of actors. Whether they are talented or not, the ending will be the same."

The troupe owner's originally stable heart became restless again——

These days, if there are other choices, who wants to be an actor who can be bullied by anyone?

There are more than a dozen theater troupes, large and small, in the capital city, but those who really joined the troupe because they like to sing can't count on one hand.Most of the people in the troupe just entered the troupe to beg for a living because they couldn't survive.

Although this drama actor sounds similar to an actor, if he agrees, their entire troupe will really have a relationship with the Lin family, and no one will bully their troupe in the future.

But in the end, he still refused: "Thank you Mrs. Lin for your kindness, it's just..."

"only?"

"The theater troupe is doing very well now, and they have already registered with many dignitaries. The days to come will not be too bad." The troupe owner made a decision, but his expression was relaxed. Good thing."

If they can't get used to it, the theater troupe is gone, and those children may not even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.