Chapter 81: Good Morning, Sir (4)
In Hong Kong, male teachers are often addressed with the English word "Sir," which corresponds to the "Miss" address for female teachers.
Generally speaking, these two English titles can be used to refer to teachers of the corresponding genders. However, if we want to further distinguish them based on their surnames, teachers of different genders, such as Li Tiansheng and Sun Xinru, would be called "Li Sir" and "Miss Sun" respectively.
As for the title "Mr.", which can be used for teachers of all genders, it is actually a rather old-fashioned title that is rarely seen now. Even if it is used, it is mostly used to address highly respected and elderly teachers.
However, in this scene, the screenwriter set up Yi Sang to use it to address Li Tiansheng because the word "先生" (xiānsheng) not only means "teacher" but also "husband".
In the past, wives addressed their husbands as "先生" (xiānsheng), which has the same meaning as "老公" (lǎogōng) today.
The pronunciation of "先生" (xiānsheng) is similar to that of "天生" (shēntiān), and when Li Sishi said this sentence, the last syllable had a slightly rising tone, which made it sound not only youthful and crisp but also a little bit coquettish.
The quality of recording equipment has improved significantly in this era. Dubbing is no longer used unless absolutely necessary, whether for indoor or outdoor scenes. Unlike in the past, when the recording equipment had issues that forced us to use the original sound for indoor scenes and dubbing for outdoor scenes.
Therefore, TBL now has relatively strict requirements for the original voice acting skills of its artists. Unless the character setting requires the use of a different accent, they must deliver their original voice acting with clear pronunciation and full emotion. This also leads to the audience having high expectations. Considering the artist's acting skills and voice acting skills, if the voice acting is poor, even if the acting skills are good, there will not be many positive reviews.
Li Sishi studied singing with Yue Yun for almost a year, and Yue Yun is known as one of the people in Hong Kong who speaks Cantonese the most standard and clear. Therefore, Li Sishi has basically no problem with Cantonese pronunciation and dialogue delivery.
However, considering the character's personality, she added a touch of lazy pronunciation, which is common among young people today, when delivering her lines. This not only highlights Yi Sang's spoiled and coquettish personality, which hasn't experienced many setbacks, but also complements the double meaning of the word "sir".
When the school scenes, which were mostly filmed on location, began to appear, the new actors who joined the cast also made their appearances one after another. As expected, this year's Miss Hong Kong third runner-up, Lu Yutong, got the role of the third female lead, playing the mischievous and quirky female student Tongtong in high school.
After Yi Shuangshuang, using the alias Yi Sang, transferred to our school, the fifth grade (
1) The title of class beauty instantly shifted to Yi Sang. The former class beauty, Tong Tong, was so angry that she brought a few of her girls to the cafeteria to make trouble for Yi Sang. However, the two became friends after their fight. In the boys' and girls' group competition in physical education class, they temporarily cooperated to win and eventually became friends.
Young girls' love and hate always come and go quickly and are extremely intense. Ever since she became friends with Yi Sang, Tongtong has treated Yi Sang, who looks like a good student, as her little sister and protected her from being disturbed while studying.
Yi Sang had a good impression of Tong Tong, so he used his experience to advise her to study hard. Tong Tong said yes, yes, but she couldn't stand it after listening to half a math class: "What's the use of a handsome officer if you can't understand it?"
"But at least it will prevent you from falling asleep so easily. Yi Sang was tutored by Li Tiansheng using his beauty back then, so she can understand the mentality of female students at this age to some extent."
Then she received a "You actually dared to try and teach me!" from Tongtong.
His eyes.
Lu Yutong has a rare sweet appearance among female artists in Hong Kong, and she has been raised in a sweet and charming style since childhood.
Having grown up abroad, she has developed a cheerful and straightforward personality, much like a Western girl. Although she sometimes seems to only half-understand what others are saying, she is open-minded and quick to respond to jokes—even if she can't, she can use her unique way of thinking to create a new joke for you.
Just like on the night of the Miss Hong Kong finals, she was clearly confused by the question, but she was able to use her own thinking to understand the meaning and direction, and then, in a way that was somewhat like a child's innocent and uninhibited speech, she answered irrelevantly, yet still spoke with such confidence and fluency...
Unlike Shang Hanyou, who deliberately adjusts his demeanor when performing comedy, making people laugh just by looking at his face and actions, Lü Yutong is naturally cute and adorable no matter what, making people smile like an auntie when they see her, just like seeing a child.
Therefore, her portrayal of the quirky female student Tongtong was practically a natural performance. In her daily scenes with Li Sishi, she would only have to do NGs due to her lack of filming experience, and she rarely had a problem getting into character.
If it weren't for encountering an exceptional "genius" like Li Sishi, who benefited from her rebirth and diligently spent a year building a solid foundation, Lü Yutong's performance in her first acting role would definitely qualify her as a promising actress with some talent.
After their relationship transitioned from friends to close friends, Tongtong first noticed Yi Shuangshuang's excessive attention to Li Tiansheng. Therefore, Yi Shuangshuang could only explain that she was the younger sister of Li Tiansheng's wife.
She transferred here to investigate the truth behind Li Tiansheng's alleged wrongdoing towards her sister.
Upon hearing that Li Tiansheng's wife had broken up with him and they were separated because of a love letter, Tongtong was immediately devastated.
When this scene was filmed, Lü Yutong's stunned expression, where she dropped her potato chips in fright, was so lifelike that Li Sishi, who was acting opposite her, couldn't help but add a third point of emphasis: "Could it be... that you know who wrote the love letter?!"
Feeling guilty, Tongtong quickly waved her hands: "I don't know... but I will definitely help you find out!"
Seeing Tongtong's expression, Yi Sang revealed a thoughtful look: she really does know something.
That's all for this scene. The inner monologue and the scene where Tongtong guiltily looks away will be added in post-production: Tongtong failed a math test, and Li Tiansheng informed her parents at the parent-teacher meeting, causing her to lose her allowance for three months.
Therefore, Tongtong, who harbored resentment over this incident, secretly wrote a love letter and slipped it into Li Tiansheng's pocket when she discovered that Li Tiansheng was going to a flower shop near the school to buy flowers for his "girlfriend." Then, she deliberately distracted Li Tiansheng by asking him questions, and had her subordinate open Li Tiansheng's locker, adding some "evidence" to his shirt as well...
Tongtong was terrified that Li Tiansheng had gotten married so early. She had only intended to play a prank and had no intention of causing him to get a divorce. In addition, "Yi Shuangshuang" was a new friend of hers, so for a moment, she really didn't dare to tell the truth.
Regarding this plot setup, which is full of misunderstandings but allows the audience outside the story to know the truth about "cheating" early on, Li Sishi thought that it was probably because the fans in the early morning were too fierce. If he really played the role of a cheating scumbag for ten or so episodes, the number of complaint letters received by the TV station would probably be enough to host a large-scale BBQ...
Although he has played many slightly philandering and scumbag roles before midnight, the difference between a playboy and a cheating scumbag is so great that housewives and female students can stand on the same side and join forces to resist him.
After filming her scenes with Lü Yutong, Li Sishi no longer needed to film the "secret rendezvous" scene in the tea restaurant. Instead, she could directly use the pretext of a student asking a teacher a question to film a scene in the tea restaurant.
In a protective manner, she exchanges information with her best friend Sun Xinru, played by Sun Yuan, at school.
After exchanging information, Sun Xinru told her cousin Ken about his situation: Ken, who has multiple doctoral degrees, was originally full of confidence when he applied for a chemistry professorship at the university.
The teacher's job was suddenly snatched away by a distant nephew of a certain director, Gu Zhancai, so he could only apply for the position of male school worker at the school.
In addition to working part-time as a shop assistant at the school store during lunch breaks, keeping the school clean is also a major part of the male school janitor's daily work. So, after reporting for duty in the morning, Ken's first task is to clean the men's restroom, which is inconvenient for the female school janitor to clean...
This character is mostly the comedic relief. Li Dewen, who plays this role, is also someone who can let go of his inhibitions. Not only did he do a great job in the funny and tragic scenes in the drama, but he also lived up to part of the character's personality in his daily life. Together with Lü Yutong, they became the two biggest sources of joy on set.
As for Luo Xuan, who failed to audition for Yang An and then took over the role of Gu Zhancai, he has a lot of lines to memorize recently, so he doesn't have much time to play around. Of course, after memorizing the lines, he already knows almost all the main and supporting actors in the crew, except for Lü Yutong, because he used to be a manager of MV models. His network of connections is the most extensive in the crew.
A group of young actors gathered together to film for a long time.
Their friendship progressed rapidly, and before long, the group almost emptied the beverage and snack counters in the convenience store. During this period, the filming schedule was a bit tight, and those of them with heavy roles often missed mealtimes. Once the lunchboxes got cold, they tasted incredibly oily and greasy.
In TBL dramas, aside from the hot pot, most of the other dishes in the eating scenes are props. That's why the actors in many TBL dramas are so enthusiastic about serving food to others in the eating scenes – it's out of a "selfish" mentality…
This is her first leading role in a drama, and everyone else has gone through the same thing, so Li Sishi naturally can't do anything special. Even the most difficult old lady, Madam Li, who came to visit the set, had to put in a lot of effort to persuade her not to send any nourishing soups or stews, as she felt sorry for her granddaughter who had suffered so much. Otherwise, people would easily say that she was being arrogant.
“Look, even Leo, the biggest star in our crew, is eating a boxed lunch!” Li Sishi vividly recounted the old story of how Ling Chen was accused of being a diva, which finally dissuaded Old Madam Li from sending someone over to take care of her 24 hours a day.
If, jokingly, the old lady actually sent someone to take care of her 24/7 (and spy on her), then her next scene wouldn't be so easy to film.
In this scene, Yi Sang, Sun Xinru, A-Ken, and others didn't uncover much. However, Li Tiansheng, the once exceptionally shrewd and calculating top actuary, while simultaneously cultivating a relationship with the director's nephew, Gu Zhancai, gradually...
They discovered something unusual about "Yi Shuangshuang".
Yi Sang was naturally wary of him, and with the help of Sun Xinru and A Ken, she narrowly escaped Li Tiansheng's probing several times—but at the same time, it also made Li Tiansheng even more suspicious.
It wasn't until this outdoor scene, where the whole class went on a picnic to Nanwa Island, that Yi Sang, who had mistakenly eaten a lot of chocolate-covered liquors, got drunk in the corner of the holiday home's balcony and missed the boat back.
Li Tiansheng, who had been secretly watching her, noticed the problem immediately. However, he did not tell Sun Xinru, who was another team leader, but secretly went back off the ship. After searching for a while, he finally found Yi Sang drunk in the corner of the balcony in the last rays of the setting sun.
This charming and innocent appearance, exactly like his wife's when she was drunk, finally confirmed to him that "Yi Shuangshuang," who claimed to be his wife's sister, was actually his wife "Yi Sang," whose appearance had reverted to that of her younger self.
According to the script, this scene should include a passionate kiss.
However, after filming began, considering that the drama was positioned more as a youth drama, the director planned to film an additional version without kissing scenes, just in case.
The two quickly received a new version of the script without kissing scenes. There weren't many parts that needed to be changed, but their relationship became much more subtle and restrained.
However, the version that was filmed first was definitely the one that was originally planned to have a kissing scene.
Considering that this was Li Sishi's first time filming a kissing scene, the director generously allowed some time for the male and female leads to develop their relationship.
"You don't seem nervous at all." Originally, I wanted to come over and comfort Li Sishi as a senior, but when I sat down closer and saw that Li Sishi was still studying the script, I was a little surprised.
"Actually, there is a little bit," Li Sishi said, closing the script. "However, I am a professional actress."
"Really?" Ling Chen smiled. "Your words are actually making me a little nervous."
"What? Aren't you very experienced?" Li Sishi turned her head to look at him. "Look at the people you've worked with before, like Vivian, Lawei, Jiali... they're all great beauties, so I trust you completely."
Unexpectedly, Li Sishi began recounting his "past" in front of him. He was somewhat dazed at one o'clock in the morning, and it took him a while to find his voice, which was barely audible: "No, it's different..."
After saying that sentence unconsciously, he was also somewhat shocked: It's different?
Different...what?
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