When the quiz session ended, the two opponents next to me looked at me with deep and speechless confusion.
If it were an ordinary primary school student of this era, he would probably shudder at the sight of such a compelling gaze. But who is Su Yun? In the later era of information explosion, people are not as shameless as they are now. Su Yun is even interested in live broadcasts and shamelessly goes around the streets to collect materials for video post-production. The death gazes of these two primary school students cannot move her at all.
For the next music project, Su Yun, who did not want to expose her ability to speak Mandarin, had to carefully select an old English song "500 Miles" released in 1961, taking into account that Cantonese songs had not yet officially become the representative works of this region at that time, but Mandarin and English songs were popular. It was quite fitting to match her mood of being reborn in a foreign world and wandering in a foreign land.
She has a very good voice, but because it is still a child's voice, she referred to the adapted version of this old song in the later movie "Inside Llewyn Davis" and added her own understanding. As a result, this old folk song with a sense of wandering has a fresh and natural children's song feeling in this solo version.
Although the number of slackers in the music field is not as high as in the science and technology fields, there are still many cheaters. Even in famous and strong universities, there are beginners who have learned musical instruments just to make up the number for the competition. The judges had just been tortured by many slackers, and suddenly their ears were baptized without any psychological preparation, and their eyes brightened immediately.
Although it is not as beautiful and melodious as most cover versions, it is refreshing after the adaptation. It is as clear and pure as a spring you accidentally see in the mountains and forests during a tiring journey. It has a unique flavor - this was the final unanimous evaluation given by the teachers, and they gave it a high score of 29 points.
Su Yun was very satisfied with her performance, but she was a little depressed to find that she didn't get full marks.
But no matter how depressed she was, Su Yun sighed in her heart, but on the surface she still thanked the judges with a well-behaved look on her face.
When she stepped aside and returned to the line, the bespectacled scholar next to her who was about to leave the line suddenly glared at her with a determined look.
Su Yun didn't understand why he was like that at first, until the nerd with glasses went up to the teachers, bowed and introduced himself, and then said that he had prepared a song of his own, then Su Yun began to understand what the nerd's eyes just now meant.
"Is there any difference between original songs and cover songs?" Su Yun quietly poked back at the handsome boy Luo Jiayang standing next to her - this kid also has a straightforward personality. Knowing that he had no hope in the rematch, he simply kept a calm mind and watched Su Yun and the glasses academic master compete. So when Su Yun came back just now, he quietly poked her and praised her for her beautiful singing.
Luo Jiayang, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, looked like a handsome young man. Moreover, the compliment came from his rival, so Su Yun was in a good mood to receive the compliment.
"It seems that in order to encourage our creative ability, original songs, whether we write the lyrics or compose the music, will get a lot of extra points. No matter how good the cover is, we can't get full marks." Luo Jiayang thought for a moment and replied.
Su Yun suddenly realized: So that's why, no wonder she didn't get the full 30 points even though she performed so well just now, it turns out 29 points is already the upper limit for a cover!
But isn't this too much? Asking elementary school students to create their own songs is really too much of a stretch.
"It's just talk, but most of the songs were written by adults. Many teachers are concerned about their reputation and cannot publish songs or lyrics under their real names, so they took the opportunity of the competition to be on TV to let the teachers show off their skills." Luo Jiayang looked at the man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and didn't expect him to be a gossipy person. When Su Yun asked, he started talking to Su Yun nonstop. "Our teacher also prepared a song for the best overall scorer in our team to use in the semi-finals, but now it seems... it seems that none of the three people in our school can enter the semi-finals."
While listening to Luo Jiayang gossiping, Su Yun kept an eye on the nerd with glasses, and finally understood the meaning of the nerd's eyes: it turned out that because he didn't get a single point in the question-answering session just now, the nerd with glasses had to take out his trump card in advance and strive for a full score in the music subject.
The top 30 teams in the semi-finals will be selected. Sometimes a difference of 1 point means the difference between qualifying for the finals and not qualifying, so you have to fight hard.
However, in Su Yun's opinion, there was basically nothing memorable about this so-called "self-composed song" by "Glasses Scholar". It was only by relying on the advantage of being a self-composed song that it won the first full score in the music event of this preliminary competition.
In order to save time, the next technology project was done by a group of three people working simultaneously, just like the quiz.
Seeing the nerd with glasses and Zhou Xinheng bringing up a large radio that was already impressive for an elementary school student to be repaired, Su Yun laughed inwardly and turned around to ask his sir Zheng Guoguang to help bring up the super large black-and-white TV that was sponsored by Zhou's second-hand appliance store.
Seeing that his opponent's things were getting bigger and bigger, Luo Jiayang, who was holding a small toy to repair, would have given up his power on the spot if his own teachers, deans, and principals were not still watching...
Seeing Luo Jiayang's weak, pitiful and helpless appearance, Su Yun suddenly remembered where the sense of familiarity with him came from before.
Isn't this the undisputed number one "Luo Jia" who won the first TBB Best Actor award for his role as Qi Ge, and has won multiple awards since then, becoming the first person to win the Best Actor award three times!
In order to confirm her guess, Su Yun quickly used the system to check the information again. When she found that the name was indeed on the list of famous alumni of Sham Shui Po Neighborhood Welfare Association Primary School, Su Yun nodded secretly: If it weren't for the huge difference in age and the familiar image on the screen, she should have recognized this star with distinctive personal characteristics at a glance.
However, there are indeed too many outstanding figures of this era. In addition, Hong Kong is a small place with a large population. If you walk anywhere, you might find that the places are full of young stars who will be familiar to you in the future.
Oh, by the way, although people commonly call them "stars", the practitioners here and most people treat singing, acting and other careers as a profession, and the corresponding self-proclaimed title is "artist".
Artist Artist is a person who displays and sells "talent".
This term, which has a similar definition to the standard term "cultural and artistic worker", made Su Yun very curious and interested when she first learned about it.
After all, due to her previous career, she had also taken on some video post-production tasks.
The new generation of so-called stars that emerged under the baptism of capital impact are more skilled than one another in hyping up popularity and selling personas, but they are at a loss when they enter the shooting state. During the post-production of the video, watching the group of filled faces that seemed to be processed, copied and pasted on an assembly line, staring at the black holes of the beauty contact lenses, and performing the whole play with a single expression, Su Yun had the urge to drop the work in hand and run a few laps on the balcony to calm down many times...
Do these people know that as audiences, what they want to see is not how perfect your private life is or how complete your personality is, but the business capabilities you demonstrate on the screen?
As long as it does not involve issues of principle, professional ability is the absolute criterion for the audience to evaluate an artist's career.
Haven’t you seen how many artists who were surrounded by negative news were able to clear themselves of their reputation and regain audience favor through a role that they played with full sincerity and put in a lot of effort?
Therefore, Su Yun deeply understood that she was both lucky and unfortunate to be engaged in entertainment in this era.
Every era and every industry has its light and dark sides. She is lucky that the current trend is not as distorted as it will be in the future, and professional ability is still the highest standard in the industry. She is unfortunate that now is not a "good" time for heroes to become famous, and if she wants to make a name for herself, she must work very hard.
Because of these reasons, Su Yun's current plan for herself is to use this knowledge competition that can be broadcast on TV as the first step. On the one hand, she can earn money to treat Grandma Su's illness, and on the other hand, she can use it as a springboard to gain a reputation as a filial and academic master.
The final will be broadcast in the middle of TBB's classic program "Happy Tonight", which is a prime time when most TV viewers in Hong Kong gather together. It is also a great opportunity for an amateur to gain fame and attract audience favor.
If nothing unexpected happens, her path will be a steady four-step process of "debuting with a positive and excellent image in a knowledge competition - signing a contract with TBB to become a child star, further consolidating her fame through filming variety shows and TV series - transferring internally to Zhao Studios to make movies - being obedient and being appreciated by senior management, and gradually becoming a leading actress and a behind-the-scenes player". This is also the easiest and most stable path.
Although the saying goes that it is better to become famous early, she was really too "early". The appearance of little Lolita at the age of eight or nine could not wait for the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant nearly ten years later, so she could only choose to be a child star.
Anyway, she is still young enough. If the child star route fails, she can try to invest in stocks and become a child prodigy, making money to tailor a role for herself. If that doesn’t work, she can work hard on writing and plagiarizing, and take the route of a talented woman counterattacking the entertainment industry. Writers are still very popular these days. If none of these work out, she still has the Miss Hong Kong pageant and artist training classes as a backup…
With this amazing plug-in, as long as Su Yun doesn't do anything stupid, her beauty, health and talent will be taken care of by the system and will only get better and better. She doesn't have to worry about the tragedy of the cute little Mei Loli losing all her spiritual energy when she grows up and becoming insignificant to everyone.
It is all thanks to the care of the system that Su Yun, whose frail body was born with deficiencies and poor nutrition, has gradually become more radiant and brighter in the satisfied eyes of the neighbors who say, "The child has grown up." With her already beautiful facial features, she occasionally receives compliments from pretty girls when she sets up shop.
Pulling his wandering thoughts back to his original state, Su Yun looked up at his own name at the top of the scoreboard, then glanced at the row of new names that were catching up with him because they had scored full marks in all music categories by creating all kinds of "original music". He could not help but fall into deep thought again.
How could this be possible? She, a real plagiarist, was still fighting with her real strength, but ended up meeting such a group of unreasonable adults and elementary school students who were fake plagiarists...
In the next round of semi-finals, it’s time for you to see what a real plagiarist is!