Chapter 147: The Sharp Mouth
Hou Yong suggested: "If that doesn't work, use eye drops."
Tian Zhuangzhuang sighed and said, "If it really doesn't work, this is the only way."
His eyes suddenly glanced at Lin Weimin standing beside him, and he asked for help: "Teacher Lin, what do you think we should do in this situation?"
Lin Weimin spread his hands, "What else can we do? Your female lead obviously doesn't have enough emotions. Either use physical methods to make her cry, or have someone break her apart and break her into pieces to make this scene clear."
Tian Zhuangzhuang immediately said, "Teacher Lin, why don't you explain the play to Zhu Lin? You are the one who directed the script, so you should be the best at this kind of thing."
Lin Weimin glanced at Tian Zhuangzhuang and said, "You kid are putting me on the fire!"
Fortunately, Lin Weimin was prepared and said, "Okay, I'll give it a try."
The students were overjoyed. They felt relieved that Lin Weimin had taken action.
Teacher Lin is so talented, shouldn’t it be easy for him to tell a play to Zhu Lin?
After agreeing to Tian Zhuangzhuang, Lin Weimin walked into the room and Zhu Lin was looking at him with a wronged expression.
Lin Weimin gave her what he thought was a kind smile, then turned around and said, "You two should go out for a while."
The students were confused. Go out?
Tian Zhuangzhuang immediately understood what Teacher Lin meant. Why did Zhu Lin perform so poorly just now? It must be because she was nervous. Why was she nervous? How could she not be nervous with so many people watching?
Teacher Lin grasped the key to the problem right away. Tian Zhuangzhuang couldn't help but feel admiration in his heart. Teacher Lin is really good. Why didn't he think of this?
"Everyone get out! Everyone get out!"
Tian Zhuangzhuang took the initiative to drive everyone out for Lin Weimin, and finally walked out himself. Then he gave Lin Weimin an encouraging look and closed the door.
Lin Weimin slowly turned around and looked at Zhu Lin. At this moment, she had a confused look on her face, not knowing what she would face.
"Don't you just have a pretty face but no brains at all?"
"Script! Script, don't you even want to read the script?"
"Do you understand what a character is? Look at your performance just now, is that a performance? I only saw a woman being pretentious!"
"Do you know how many times I helped them revise this script? Are you just going to act like this? Do you think so many people are playing house with you?"
"Any random girl on the street can act better than you! And you still dare to say that you graduated from Yanying? Would your teachers be ashamed if they told others about it?"
"You're an actor after all, but you can't even do the most basic crying scene. Don't you blush when people ask you to use eye drops? Isn't it enough that you've wasted film? Do you want to waste eye drops too?"
"Are you worthy of being an actor? You are bringing shame to the acting industry! With your appearance, at best you can be a vase in front of the camera."
"What are you looking at? I told you that you are wrong. Don't think I will go easy on you just because you are a lesbian. I am a person who only cares about the matter, not the person!"
"Why are you crying? What's there to cry about? Are you embarrassed now? What were you doing before? A group of people have been waiting for you for a whole day, don't you know that?"
…
In the room, Lin Weimin's voice was like a machine gun firing wildly. After a while, Zhu Lin's miserable cry was heard from the room.
Outside the room, Tian Zhuangzhuang and his group looked at each other in shock.
A group of students listened to the merciless cursing of the man and the weak crying of the woman in the room, and looked at each other in silence.
After waiting for a long time, Cui Xiaoqin asked quietly, "Han Zhuangzhuang, does Teacher Lin not have a wife?"
Han Zhuangzhuang was surprised and asked, "How do you know? Not only does my uncle not have a wife, he doesn't even have a girlfriend."
The students looked at each other, and then they met.
Han Zhuangzhuang saw that everyone seemed to have suddenly understood, and touched his head. What did Cui Xiaoqin mean by that question just now?
When everyone is discussing.
With a creaking sound, the old door was opened from the inside, and the students subconsciously dodged to the back.
Lin Weimin, who was standing at the door, had an aura as strong as two meters and eighty centimeters, making people afraid to approach.
His face was calm and composed, and he said to Tian Zhuangzhuang: "Okay, go ahead and shoot!"
After saying this, he gently pushed the door open, then made way and stood behind the camera, with an unrestrained manner, as if he was leaving after the work is done, hiding his achievements and fame.
Inside the room, facing the direction of the camera, the female lead Zhu Lin, who had been as stiff as a log just now, now had tears on her face and was about to cry.
All the male compatriots present couldn't help but feel pity for Teacher Lin. How could he bear to curse like that?
Tian Zhuangzhuang looked at Zhu Lin, who was crying bitterly in the house, with unfocused eyes.
At this moment, he seemed to understand!
I’m the director!
What does a director do?
The actor's living father, the actor is disobedient? The acting is not good?
Just talk about the play and that’s it.
It seems that I didn't talk about the play too lightly just now. Look at Teacher Lin, he was also talking about the play, but it took him less than five minutes to make the heroine cry.
How efficient and powerful! This will save a lot of film!
Teacher Lin, a role model for our generation!
The silence lasted less than ten seconds before the students took action.
Zhu Lin finally managed to cry, she couldn't miss such a good opportunity.
At Tian Zhuangzhuang's shout of "start", the camera started running and the film was burning.
Twenty seconds later, Tian Zhuangzhuang shouted, "Okay!"
After shooting this scene, he still felt unsatisfied. Seeing that Zhu Lin had not yet come out of her emotions, he couldn't help but praise her as a good actor.
"Come on, let's take another close-up shot."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a voice, "What a close-up shot, is it in the script?"
Tian Zhuangzhuang was furious when his creative inspiration was interrupted. He had just realized the true meaning of being a director and was planning to enjoy it. Who was so blind as to speak?
Turning around, it was Lin Weimin.
Tian Zhuangzhuang shrank his neck and coughed, "Well, we must not shoot any scenes that are not written in the script! We have to save every roll of film for the academy."
Coincidentally, at this time, the instructor Xie Fei came into the yard. When he heard Tian Zhuangzhuang's words, he nodded approvingly.
Zhuangzhuang is good. He knows how to save film just after becoming a director. He has a bright future!
Tian Zhuangzhuang pretended not to notice the look in Lin Weimin's eyes and shrank his neck to prepare for the next shot.
Lin Weimin muttered, "I hate these people who change the script on the spot the most. They don't even treat us screenwriters as human beings."
Cui Xiaoqin and Xie Xiaojing gave Lin Weimin a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Lin, thanks to your presence. Otherwise, we really can't control Zhuang Zhuang and waste film at every turn, shooting things that are not in the script."
Before Lin Weimin could say anything, he heard a burst of hearty laughter.
"I was wondering why Zhuangzhuang was able to save film today? It turns out that you, Teacher Lin, are here."
Lin Weimin smiled and greeted Xie Fei, "Hello, Teacher Xie!"
"What's wrong? I heard you were in trouble just now?" Xie Fei asked with a smile.
Before Lin Weimin could speak, Xie Xiaojing rushed to say, "Thanks to Teacher Lin's help, it was solved in a few minutes."
"Really? That's great!" Xie Fei was very happy and said to Tian Zhuangzhuang, "You have to learn more from Teacher Lin!"
Cui Xiaoqin nodded on the surface, but she was complaining in her heart, learning from him? What should I learn from him? Should I learn from his lack of understanding of romance, or his harsh words that would destroy a flower?
She felt sorry for Zhu Lin just thinking about it. It was really terrible to have to deal with such a group of directors, screenwriters and instructors.
Xie Fei chatted with Lin Weimin for a while, then went to Tian Zhuangzhuang to check on the progress.
At this time, the filming progress of the crew was very smooth, except that the actress needed some help from the makeup artist.
The classmate who was acting as a makeup artist said as she was retouching Zhu Lin's makeup: "Can you stop crying? I've retouched this makeup several times."
Zhu Lin sobbed and said, "I know, I just can't control it."
The female classmate complained: "That teacher Lin is the same, how can he curse people like that, he doesn't know how to be gentle with women at all!"
"You can't blame him entirely. Who made me unable to cry?"
The female classmate teased, "Hey, you're getting emotional after being scolded?"
Zhu Lin defended herself, "No, I was just afraid that it would delay the progress of the filming and make everyone suffer with me. You don't know, I'm afraid of him now."
"Who isn't scared? We were all scared when we heard it outside just now." The female classmate said with lingering fear.
On the other side, Lin Weimin was chatting enthusiastically with a skinny boy, unaware that his actions just now had made him an obsession in the king's heart.
"I really admire you. I have never seen Kaige being humiliated in front of anyone in school. You are the first one." Xie Yuan complimented Lin Weimin with a smile.
Xie Yuan was a student of the Acting Department of the Class of 1978. He came here today to watch the fun. Before that, he had attended Lin Weimin's lectures to the amateur acting class of the Class of 1980. Lin Weimin recognized at a glance this actor who was later known for his comedic talent.
"It's not a matter of being humiliated. We were just communicating normally. Your classmate Cheng Kaige is a little too highbrow and a little stubborn!" Lin Weimin said with a smile.
Xie Yuan said sarcastically, "He is not only stubborn, but also arrogant. However, he has the right to be arrogant. Two years ago, the Today magazine was posted in front of all the major units and universities in Beijing. Our Yanying was posted by Kaige."
It may be difficult for those who have not experienced it to imagine the influence of Today, a folk magazine founded by a few young people, in Yenching in the early 1980s. In Yenching, anyone or anything that had anything to do with Today would immediately become the object of admiration among the young people around, especially the college students.
Lin Weimin had been in Yenching for more than a year and was still active in the literary world, so he naturally knew a lot of anecdotes about Today.
He nodded slightly and said meaningfully: "No wonder!"
Poetry is extremely attractive to young people, especially the Misty Poetry that has become popular in recent years, which seems to have become a weapon for young people to rebel against tradition and authority.
"Teacher Lin, I'm not saying bad things about Kaige behind his back." Xie Yuan probably felt that he had said too much, so he added.
Lin Weimin smiled nonchalantly and said, "How could that be? We were just chatting."
(End of this chapter)
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