"Come on, come on," the on-site staff greeted the two of them, "I'll take a group photo for you."
This was a normal thing, but for some reason, Zhang Yuanjun took a quick look at Liu's mother, who was standing not far across the way.
She seemed to think it was normal for the two of them to take a photo together and just smiled.
"Come on, you two stand closer. We are classmates. We may even act in a play together in the future. How can we get along with each other? Yes, look at the camera and smile."
Click!
The photographer showed the camera to Liu's mother and said with a smile: "What a perfect match. These are Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu."
Liu Xiaoli looked at the photo and smiled: "It's quite beautiful."
After a few more jokes, the staff from the front came to urge the actors to enter and prepare for the official audition.
In order to ease the slightly awkward atmosphere just now, Zhang Yuanjun said gently: "Auntie, please."
Liu Yifei smiled and said: "Please come over."
"Auntie, please come again."
"Please come back later."
The two chatted and laughed and went to audition, leaving the staff and Liu's mother smiling bitterly.
"Two living treasures." Liu's mother laughed and scolded.
On-site auditions usually include literary dramas and rarely action dramas.
The script Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei were assigned was a confrontation between Yang Guo and Ouyang Feng when they returned from learning martial arts after Xiao Longnu was defiled by Zhen Zhibing. Xiao Longnu mistakenly thought that it was Yang Guo who was touching her.
When she got this script, Zhang Yuanjun was lucky, but Liu Yifei was in trouble. She hadn't thought about this scene before. It didn't matter that she had never been in love. She had read many romance novels, and she had never eaten pork before and she had seen pigs running away.
What she didn't understand was why Jin Yong wrote this paragraph and why he wanted Xiao Longnu to be defiled.
Liu Yifei is a typical academic actor. When she gets a role, she has to sort out the logic of the character. Now she doesn't understand this fundamental thing, so the things she performs can only be specious.
When she rehearsed this scene, she basically learned how to handle it from the 1996 version of Li Ruotong.
During rehearsal, Zhang Yuanjun noticed Liu Yifei's difficulties and asked her: "What's wrong?"
Liu Yifei didn't want to ask Zhang Yuanjun for help. He was only 2 years older than her and didn't know much about love.
And today is Yang Guo's audition. It doesn't matter whether she performs well or not, but if Zhang Yuanjun's performance is delayed because of her own advice, then she will be guilty of a big sin.
But she had been holding back this question for too long. She knew that Zhang Yuanjun was a fan of martial arts, and he had always had his own understanding of the scripts and characters. This had long been praised by the teacher, so she put aside the question that had puzzled her for months. He came out and said, "Tell me, why did Jin Yong let Zhen Zhibing defile the little dragon girl?"
Zhang Yuanjun was not surprised at all that Liu Yifei asked this question. He already had the answer in his mind and patiently told her:
"You know the original name of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is "The End of the World".
"I know." Liu Yifei's homework was not in vain, "Then why do you want to write that the two of them are incompatible with each other? Wouldn't it be better for the two of them to be together well? Even if you have to set up obstacles and tests for their love, what else can you do? Is it not good."
She also knows that love stories need twists and turns to attract readers.
Zhang Yuanjun covered the script and continued: "This is the brilliance of Jin Yong.
""The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is actually a love story cloaked in martial arts. The whole story is about how Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu overcame difficulties and finally got married.
"Okay, in order to achieve this goal, Jin Yong set three tests for the couple. Each test is as difficult as climbing to the sky. The first one is ethics. They are a master-disciple relationship. Now the master wants to marry the apprentice, and the apprentice wants to marry the master. , this is not allowed by the world. The examiners for this level are Guo Jing and Huang Rong. As Yang Guo's closest elders in the worldly sense, they strongly oppose the union of the two. When did Yang Guo pass this level? In the Jueqing Valley, such a person It was a heartless place. From then on, the world would no longer kidnap the two of them in the name of master and disciple.
"The second level is Zhen Zhibing's level of chastity. Not to mention in the Song Dynasty, even now, many people can't pass it, but Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv are different. Yang Guo will not abandon Xiao Longnv because she loses her integrity. Xiao Longnv They didn't feel inferior because of this. They still loved each other and even got married in a place like Chongyang Palace.
"The third level is the critical point of life and death. This level was set by Guo Fu. People may not be afraid of ethics and chastity, but no one is not afraid of death. However, after Yang Guo's sixteen-year appointment, he still jumped off the cliff and chose to die for his love. .
"The love between master and disciple is a test for them by the world; breaking an arm and losing a joint is a test for each other.
"After these three major hurdles have been crossed, no one or anything in the world can stop them from being together.
"And readers will be truly moved by their love when they see the two people go through such a difficult journey and finally achieve success."
Zhang Yuanjun finally concluded: "If we put aside the martial arts filter and the protagonist filter and look at the two people, you will find that the couple Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv are too real and ordinary. When they went to see Master Yideng for medical treatment, they were The most ordinary couple in the world - the wife is seriously ill and the husband is disabled.
"This is the meaning of Yang Guo's broken arm and Xiao Longnu's loss of integrity. Jin Yong wants to use these incompatible lovers to tell the world that love has nothing to do with ethics, chastity, or even life and death."
"So that's it." Liu Yifei understood a little bit, "You don't have a girlfriend, how can you explain it so clearly?"
"I haven't seen pigs running before I've eaten pork." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.
Liu Yifei smiled again and said: "Who knows if your explanation is correct? I guess Jin Yong didn't think so much when he wrote it."
"Maybe." Zhang Yuanjun did not deny this statement, "Do you know the 'author is dead' theory?"
"I don't know." Liu Yifei shook her head.
"You took the literary theory class in vain. 'The author is dead' means that after a work is completed, the author no longer has the complete right to interpret the work, and readers should be allowed to make various changes to the work. Such interpretation. Of course, the influence of the author's views and wishes on readers' interpretation of the work cannot be ignored.
"As actors, we get one character in a work. We are creating a second time and have to interpret our own meaning. Anyway, this is how I interpret the relationship between Yang and Long. It may not be correct, but it is always from the same perspective. I also used this angle to create my own version of Yang Guo’s Little Dragon Girl.”
Looking back on Liu Yifei's understanding and handling of Xiao Longnu, it seems now that she is imitating Cheng Yulian and Li Ruotong in many places and has her own understanding, but most of the time she relies on this top-notch look to get through.
Of course it is good, she is the best little dragon girl.
Zhang Yuanjun has talked so much that there is not enough time to prepare.
"Nie Yuan is almost finished. Get ready." The staff informed them.
Zhang and Liu stopped talking and quickly read the script.
