Chapter 183
Currently, the youngest winner of the three major awards in the domestic entertainment industry is the Chu Ci and Bauhinia Film Awards for Best Actress. She was only 24 years old when she won the award, and that was more than ten years ago. Now at the age of 37, she is already one of the four major actresses in the circle and has unlimited resources. After Chu Ci, there was another Sun Chen, who won the Pegasus Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 25 and had a smooth career since then.
"Stockholm Lovers" will start filming in July and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Including post-production, it will definitely be released next year at the latest, and by then it will be able to catch up with the Bauhinia Film Awards. If he really wins the award, Jing Ling is only 21 years old, and he is truly the youngest actor to win the award.
But this is just a hypothesis. It is not so easy to win the three major prizes. When the topic was finally discussed, it unsurprisingly turned into a battle between fans and haters, with the fans just watching the show.
After Chen Ze finished browsing the forum, he became extremely excited. He looked at Jing Ling with shining eyes, "Jing Ling, if you can do better and win a Best Actor trophy, I will wake up laughing in my dreams!"
Jing Ling rolled her eyes at him and said, "The film is still shooting, and you're just thinking about next year. I'll give you a holiday, so you can have a good rest for a few days. It's a good time to dream."
Chen Ze: "...Shut up, I want to rest, I can rest without you taking a holiday!"
On July 1, "Stockholm Lovers" started filming in Qincheng, Yizhou. The filming location chosen was Yizhou Jiaotong University where Jing Ling studied. The exterior location was also coincidentally near the Changchuling Mountains.
The plan is to shoot the campus part first, which is the beginning of the plot. This part is not much, after all, the focus is on what happened during the travel. According to the script given by Li Yu at the beginning, there was originally a part about returning to campus, but Director Gu later changed it. The male protagonist Zhou Xiao, played by Jing Ling, finally died in the mountains and never came back.
Yilan Jiaotong University is Jing Ling's base camp. When the filming started, it was so lively, with crowds of people surrounding it. There were also many people from other schools who came to watch the fun.
The first scene we shot was a basketball game. The venue was the indoor stadium of Yitong University. There was no need to invite extras specially, students from the school were enough to join in the fun. When they were cheering for the performance, it was a real frenzy. Of course, it is not without its shortcomings. For example, when Jing Ling scored a goal, they subconsciously shouted the name "Jing Ling".
"Ahhhhhhh Jingbao is so handsome!"
“Jing Ling! Jing Ling! Jing Ling!”
"Come on, Jing Ling!"
As for the male lead Zhou Xiao, who is he?
Fortunately, after being reminded several times, everyone basically remembered it. And there aren’t many shots of the audience, only a few seconds in total.
In fact, in order to save costs, quite a number of TV dramas and movies now either randomly find a few extras to fool around when shooting big scenes, or use ctrl+c and then ctrl+v to copy and paste the special effects in post-production. A more obvious example is the earth-shaking battle between good and evil in a fairy tale drama, but it turns out that one side has more than a dozen people and the other side also has more than a dozen people. It is not as exciting as a gunfight between gangsters in a remote area in the middle of the night, and it looks quite embarrassing.
However, Director Gu is different, or rather, all the big directors in the circle are similar. Not to mention Director Gu who has always performed very stably, even other big directors who occasionally fail still have people rushing to invest in them. They have no shortage of money, so there is no need to save on the expenses for extras.
So the students who were watching the fun and also joining in the fun as extras in the indoor gymnasium of Yijiao University received two bottles of drinks of a certain brand after the shooting of the basketball court scene was completed. Needless to say, this certain brand is naturally a sponsor.
After the basketball court scenes were filmed, a day had passed. The second day's filming was of classroom scenes. The crew negotiated with the school and borrowed a classroom with a better location. The teaching facilities and desks and chairs were all newly replaced. From the window, one could see Pingwu Lake, a famous attraction of Yijiao University, and the corridors on the lake. An octagonal pavilion in the center of the lake connected to the corridors on all sides. The lotus leaves in the lake were endless and green, and the lotus flowers were particularly red in the sun.
A gentle breeze blew by, carrying with it whiffs of lotus fragrance.
The extras are still ready-made, they are all students at school, and they act in their true colors, which does not require much acting skills.
This class is a brief history of world literature. Different from other majors, when teaching common language courses, teachers will take care of students by mixing Chinese with English, and even worse, translate while speaking. I am in my third year of college majoring in lingua franca. When the teacher gives lectures, he uses lingua franca throughout the lectures, with little or no translation.
According to the original plan, we were going to find someone to take the photos, but there were so many coincidences that the classroom next to that place was holding a course on a brief history of world literature. Director Gu thought about it for a while, obtained the consent of the teachers and students, moved the equipment to the next door, set it up, prepared the lights, props and actors, and started filming.
In a large class where classes one, two and three of the general language major are combined, when the number of students exceeds a certain limit, discipline is inevitably a little chaotic, and even a school like Yilan Jiaotong University is no exception. Usually, the teacher would always give a few words of advice after teaching for a while, but today was different. It might be because everyone was exposed under the camera and had to be more self-disciplined. But that's not entirely true. There are always some more active ones who turn around from time to time to glance at where Jing Ling is.
Some people are born to be the center of attention, and Jing Ling is one of them. Even if she is not filming, that face and that temperament alone are enough to attract people's attention. The envious or jealous eyes of the boys and the obsessed or admiring eyes of the girls were all recorded by the high-definition camera.
These are the three classes with the strongest comprehensive strength in the General Language major at Yilan University, and they are filled with all kinds of top students and talented people. Excellent people are generally much more competitive than ordinary people. Let them pretend to be ignorant to highlight Jing Ling's excellence? Sorry, even though you are a big star and have countless fans willing to cheer and scream for you, we are not one of them, capital A and bold NO! willing! meaning!
So this class became particularly lively. The top students are usually very active, and now they are even more active as if they have been injected with chicken blood. Almost as soon as the teacher asks a question, several voices give answers one after another.
This was obviously not what the crew expected. The staff member frowned slightly, came close to Director Gu, and asked in a low voice whether he wanted to continue.
Director Gu kept his eyes fixed on the surveillance screen and replied without thinking, "Why not? This is good enough."
Again, if the acting is not realistic enough, it cannot be compared with the real performance.
Director Gu was also very curious. Everyone said Jing Ling was a top student. He could get first place in the department even without attending classes. How good was he?
So the people in the classroom saw what a true academic master is, or it would be more appropriate to call him a genius.
The teacher of the Brief History of World Literature was a middle-aged man, wearing a suit and tie, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He spoke in a very gentle and refined manner, giving off the air of a Western gentleman. He comes from a well-off family and began traveling around the world during middle school. To date, after so many years, he has visited most of the countries in the five continents that are not too remote. The desolate Arctic ice field, the war-torn land of Middle-earth, as well as the famous tourist country, the romantic country and the capital of gentlemen, etc.
In addition to his major in common languages, he also knows several languages, including some minor ones.
All the students he has taught know that whenever he teaches a part of the brief history of world literature, he will get particularly excited and subconsciously talk about minority languages. That was the story of how he met his wife, both romantic and exciting. After he spoke it once in a small language, he would translate it again, and the students were happy to listen to the teacher's stories. Over time, this has become a tradition of the general language major at Yilan University.
Today's class happens to be about that part.
There are so many students here, and many of them like gossip. When I heard the teacher suddenly speak a language I couldn’t understand, I was stunned for a moment and then I knew that tradition was coming. They either received scientific knowledge from senior students or saw related posts on the forum and roughly knew the content of the story, but they did not understand what the sentence was saying. The top students had been well prepared and had studied this minor language. Even though they didn't master it, at least they knew it well enough to speak a few sentences, and they were just waiting to show off their talents in class.
Before they could speak, a pleasant voice suddenly took over the teacher's words. Without looking, you can tell that the person speaking is Jing Ling just by the voice. At first it was just a simple conversation, and the top students could almost guess what was being said. They couldn't help but feel that Jing Ling was trying to steal the limelight, and they felt a little disdainful of it. However, as time went on, the conversation between the two became more and more complex, completely beyond the scope of rote memorization. It was impossible for the teacher to act with Jing Ling in front of so many people, and judging from her expression, she didn't seem to be really excited, as if she had found a confidant. Apart from this, there is only one possibility left, that is, Jing Ling knows this foreign language.
To say that this language is a minor language is an understatement. Among the many foreign language colleges and universities in the country, only a handful of them offer this course. For example, the Foreign Languages Department of Yitong University does not have one. Because the base is small, there is very little information available online.
Jing Ling couldn't have known in advance that this day would be useful, which meant that he had been learning this foreign language since a long time ago.
What is the concept?
He has been in the entertainment industry since his freshman year in college. Although he does not attend various activities as frequently as other stars, he is definitely not idle. He even has to take leave to come back for exams. There is no doubt that he has mastered the knowledge of this major very well. After all, the first place in the department could not have been given to him by the school.
A person who is good-looking, has a good figure, a good personality, excellent grades, beautiful handwriting, can play basketball, and has good acting skills... all these added together are already amazing, but now he has to add one more thing. What does this mean?
The term "academic nerd" is not enough to describe him, only the term "academic genius" can match it!
The whole classroom was in an uproar, and the expressions on the students' faces looked like the kind of surprise and admiration that were deliberately exaggerated in idol dramas, yet surprisingly not exaggerated.
Director Gu looked at the monitor and was speechless for a moment. It is rare to find someone who can turn an art film into an idol drama.
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