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- Time flies. February 9th is the Spring Festival of 205, the most important festival of the year for the Ye family. Ye Wei, who spent late January in Toronto, returned to Los Angeles a day earlier to reunite with his family for the New Year. Everyone was dressed in new clothes. Toto She also put on a red coat with the word "Fu" to pray for good luck this year. Duoduo received a lot of red envelopes and laughed loudly.
Holidays always come one after another, there are public holidays and private holidays. The next day, the 10th, the second day of the Lunar New Year, Emma¡¯s birthday also arrived. However, this year the 10th is a Thursday, and neither the Spring Festival nor my birthday are federal or California holidays, so I go to school and work as usual.
Working during the New Year is really boring, but as the filming date of "Little Miss Sunlight" is getting closer and closer, Ye Wei has less and less free time.
Even if it is an independent film, various meetings are still endless. Some meetings are necessary, and some meetings are a waste of time. However, if they are not held, some decisions cannot be made. It is not that he cannot make up his mind, but that he needs persuasion and Coordinate all parties.
He has really experienced the pain of producers and directors in the Hollywood machine. Originally, they had little experience and qualifications, and they were too young, so there were even more problems. This is called "the less power, the more meetings." If 600,000 The entire budget is his investment The disadvantage is that the risk is huge, but the advantage is that there are no useless meetings, which not only saves time, but is also beneficial to physical and mental health.
Whenever a meeting gets depressing, Ye Wei thinks about John Woo and what he said, "I held meetings for B months before the filming of "Face/Off". It was a waste of time."
In addition to the meeting, substantive work is also in progress. Today we will do a scene survey (FCH-COHT), but the survey is only the second candidate site. The first candidate is in New Orleans, Louisiana, where there are tax incentives. Only when a very bad situation happens and the film cannot be filmed in Toronto or New Orleans will the film be diverted back to Los Angeles.
Although it is convenient for everyone to shoot in Los Angeles, the taxes and labor costs are high. If this happens, we will either have to increase the budget or shorten the shooting day to control the budget. Then it will really be a big problem.
Early that morning, followed by the heads of various departments of the crew, Ye Wei began a day of inspection work.
Harvard-West Lake Junior High School, at 9:2 in the morning, the half-hour activity time came on time, and the whole campus was like a wave. Students either went to their club activities, or wandered and chatted.
As a school where Asian students account for 2%, Chinese New Year is very important here. Although there is no holiday, the school has corresponding speeches to celebrate. Yesterday, on the first day of the new year, the Asian American Cultural Club and other societies also organized celebrations.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the excitement has not eased much, because today is the activity day of the Dream Chaser League Club. A group of young people who have taken over the power have not lost their tradition. If the teachers had not stopped them, they would almost have set off firecrackers in front of the academic center.
Many clubs are also active. In a typical classroom on the second floor of the academic center, on the blackboard in front, the beautiful English "uruaIItttuv" is written in colored chalk, followed by a line of "HauteNr", and some festive firecracker patterns are drawn around it. There is a square line of simplified Chinese characters "Happy New Year".
This is the venue for the Journalism Society¡¯s activities.
There are more than a dozen desks in a small semicircle in the middle of the classroom, and there are about a dozen young male and female students sitting there. The desk in front of the semicircle is the president's seat, and there is a man wearing a red and black plaid jacket and a white wide T-shirt. The girl in light blue jeans was standing at the table, with a stack of documents on the table.
At the beginning of the "Happy Chinese New Year, Maggie, Finn, everyone" activity, Lily congratulated her with a smile. The two Asian members and everyone else laughed and congratulated her. Lily looked back at the blackboard and said, "I didn't make a typo, right?" ? It¡¯s too difficult to write new characters.¡±
"No." Maggie shook her head, everyone chuckled, and Lily also laughed.
In fact, she has taken Chinese as an elective in the "World Languages" course since last year, and has accumulated a lot of experience, so she can write pretty well, right? Lily turned back, knocked on the documents on the table, and said, "I made a plan about creating an annual publication for our society. This year is the first issue."
"Okay" and "Support" everyone was very excited after hearing this. It was their wish to join the Journalism Society.
Lily distributed the stack of plan books, and finally only one was left in her hand. She was half leaning on the president's desk, flipping through the plan books, and talking about her thoughts: "There are now a total of five student publications in the junior high school and high school. , including two weekly magazines, two monthly magazines, and only one annual magazine, which is the "Yearbook."
Everyone nodded slightly, she glanced around everyone, and then said: "The "Yearbook" is officially cooperated with the school. The content is very formal, including our photos, achievements, testimonials, etc., but it is very lacking in our daily life. So my idea for the publication was that we would fill the gap in this area and the content would be more casual, which could be interesting stories or gossip.¡±
She turned around and walked to the blackboard, picked up the white chalk and wrote Ameut and In. She stopped writing, circled the gossip, turned around and said to everyone: "I know you really want to see the gossip about me and Ye Wei in the yearbook." "The answer is no."He made a bunny ear gesture with his hand, "That guy has been blacklisted by this publication."
"Hahaha" everyone laughed without scruples, because Lily was obviously joking.
"Haha." Lily curled her lips and smiled crookedly, and said seriously: "Gossip can exist, but the length is very small. It can only be healthy gossip. You can't do it randomly just to gain attention, and you can't hurt anyone. No. It¡¯s just gossip, all other news selections should be like this, this is one of the purposes of our annual magazine.¡±
Trieste, one of the members, asked: "Would that be the same as the "Yearbook"?"
"Good point." Lily pointed to her best friend and said confidently: "The "Yearbook" is actually a display and record, but as for us, 'interesting,"
Ta da da da, she wrote "Puu" on the blackboard.
"This is also our purpose"
Toronto and Wexford School of the Arts also have no Spring Festival holiday, and both Asians and non-Asians go to school as usual.
After falling in love with Yunique and then starring in "The Exorcism Video", Nina became more interested in performing arts than other arts, so she only studied comprehensive arts for one fall semester. In the winter semester, she applied to switch to performing arts - Theater major.
Learning acting is fun. The most interesting thing is training with Yunique, rehearsing together, and starring in the school stage play together. In late January, she and he teamed up to perform "Romeo and Juliet", which was very fun.
Nina found that she had quite an advantage in performance, and her hard work since childhood finally paid off. All body movement courses, such as muscle relaxation and control, dynamic stretching, etc., were not difficult for her, because how old was she when learning dance? I started practicing laban movements when I was young.
But acting is not just about the body. There is so much to learn, such as the details of expressions. On the set of "Exorcism Video", this was the biggest reason why she was NG. Sometimes it was less, sometimes it was more, sometimes it was too life-like, and sometimes it was too Dramatic.
There was a live performance class taking place. In the empty performance room, there were more than twenty students sitting on the floor. Teacher Rochelle was giving a lecture. Nina listened attentively while using a ballpoint pen to write down the brown leather in her hand. The notebook contains notes, written densely.
Now she is really putting a lot of effort into studying and studying. An idiot can't be Yunique's girlfriend.
"We often say that if you put real life on the stage, no one will believe it. Why? Because extraordinary things that happen in life, once presented in front of the audience, they will feel unbelievable, this can't happen , although life is always more dramatic than drama, no one will believe it
Teacher Rochelle paused to allow the students who were writing notes to write and for everyone to digest.
"But when you use the magic word to tell them in the form of drama, even if the audience still doesn't believe that what you perform will happen in life, they will still enjoy the story on stage and screen. It's one of the The key is if it has the possibility, we are talking about credibility and persuasiveness.
How can we present a persuasive performance? It¡¯s very ironic. It¡¯s precisely to avoid being too life-oriented. Not living life makes people feel more real than living life.¡±
Looking at the smiling faces of the students, Teacher Rochelle continued with a smile: "We have to use some interpretations, reactions and details that we will not have in life to build the credibility that the audience needs."
The students were both interested and thoughtful. Nina nodded in agreement, which attracted Teacher Rochelle's attention, "Nina, what do you think?"
"I think" Nina was asked a bit suddenly, and replied while thinking: "Just like when we are unhappy, we may be expressionless and in a daze in life, but then the audience will not be able to see it, so we have to show "Unhappy." She frowned and stared, "Let the audience see clearly her inner emotions." That's what Yunick said.
"That's the truth." The teacher clapped his hands and praised, "We have to release the emotions of the characters. When performing, don't ask 'What would I do in this situation?', but ask 'What would I do in this situation? , What will my character do? , But this is still a life-like performance, and there is a way that is even less life-like.¡±
The teacher¡¯s words made everyone startled. Nina kept writing notes. What¡¯s wrong?
¡°In a contrasting performance, we are not happy, but we have a smile on our face; we are happy, but our face is expressionless. This form of performance has a larger performance space.
Today we are going to do a role practice method. When you think the character should say something or feel something, act out the opposite words and feelings, and bury the character's true words and feelings deep in your heart. This can help you understand more Character subtext and motivations.
If the angle of your question is reasonable, there will be infinite possible answers and infinite performance space. This way you can shape your character according to your interpretation. A villain may be full of?Endearing charm. A person who looks fierce may actually be shy.
"Now we are divided into two teams, one team is made up of people who are happy but not smiling, and the other team is made up of people who are unhappy but smiling. In pairs, let's perform."
After Teacher Rochelle¡¯s words, everyone took action, and Nina was assigned to the team that was happy but not smiling.
Before the performance, she thought, she was indeed very happy, why didn't she show it with a smile? Contrast, the other way around
Nina slightly pursed her mouth and rolled her eyes, looking relaxed and angry at the same time. She shook her head a little, as if she was humming a song, triumphantly.
"Happy birthday"
On the night of the 10th, Ye Wei attended Emma's 14th birthday party at home. From a personal and professional perspective, he had to go to this party. Of course, Julia Roberts and her family attended, with two big fat babies. They were very healthy, which made him secretly relieved. The babies were healthy and not sick, so Roberts would not quit suddenly and the filming would go smoothly.
Today's protagonist is Emma. In recent months, Emma's enthusiasm for him has obviously declined. There are fewer phone calls and text messages, and they are getting less and less. The filming of "Mermaid" in which she is one of the leading actors is about to start, and there are no Ask him what character building questions he has.
"Maybe she is dating some boy. Ye Wei's shoulders are really relaxed. Little girl, just be obedient and don't make trouble. I don't want to kick him away."
However, something seemed to be wrong. Just as he was making faces and teasing the two babies, making them giggle, in full view of everyone, Emma grabbed him and said "Follow me" and pulled him from the hall to her room on the second floor. , he didn¡¯t want to go in
"Don't you want to take a look at my collection of books?" Emma grinned. She grew up so quickly during puberty. In just a few months, her figure and face had become more mature. She was now wearing a lake blue semi-formal evening dress. With her blond hair tied up, the little girl becomes a little beauty.
"Uh, OK." Ye Wei didn't want to appear to be wary of anything. He walked into her boudoir like a normal friend. It was bright and tidy, and there were many girls' things but not cluttered. They should have been sorted out first. There were several rows of bookshelves next to each other. The walls are lined with books of all kinds, mostly novels and mostly girls' novels.
He glanced at it a few times and praised: "Not bad, there are more than mine."
"There are still some in the study." Emma followed, smiled, and suddenly said: "Wei, I want another birthday gift, a kiss from you." She pouted, not joking.
"Here's it for you." Ye Wei shrugged, a kiss was nothing, so he went to kiss her left cheek.
Emma tapped her pink lipsticked lips, "Here."
"Haha" Ye Wei looked around with a smile, "There are no paparazzi hiding in the room, right?" Emma opened her eyes immediately, "No, no" Ye Wei leaned towards her expectant face and gave her a ceremonial virtual kiss. She slapped her left cheek, and although she made a popping sound, it actually barely touched her skin, "Happy birthday.
"This doesn't count" Emma felt helpless and impatient, remembering the lesson from last time that she didn't do anything, and walked towards the desk over there with clenched fists, "You must be spending Valentine's Day in Toronto in a few days, right? ¡±
Ye Wei nodded and continued to dampen her enthusiasm, "Of course, Nina and I spent it together." He raised the corner of his mouth, "Nina has prepared a lot of celebrationshehe."
"I don't want to hear it. This is the chocolate I gave you, my love." Emma picked up a box of beautifully packaged chocolates with a sweet smile. "I made this myself. I want to eat it that day. Don't give it to others." Eat, you have to eat it all yourself.¡±
"OhOkay." Ye Wei took it in his hand, a big heavy box, probably weighing one pound, "I can't eat it by myselfOkay, okay, I'm afraid of you, I will eat it."
February 14th is Valentine¡¯s Day. On this day every year, a large amount of chocolate must be eaten around the world.
This year it is a Monday. Ye Wei, who has returned to Toronto, is treated like a superstar at school. Almost every classmate will congratulate him. Both men and women have greeting cards. The girls will also send chocolates and flowers. Last year at Harvard-Westlake, it was In this way, it is also like this in Wexford this year, so happy and lucky,
"If I were a dog, I would die many times today." Ye Wei made this weird sigh while chewing on the endless chocolate.
This morning before going to school, Ye Wei and Nina had already exchanged greeting cards on the lawn of the house. The love of lovers. Nina's greeting card said: "I originally wanted to write a lot of words, but after thinking about it, I can think of nothing." The most sincere words are, I love you, I love you, I love you."
There were three I love yous, one written in English, one in Bulgarian, and one in Chinese. He couldn't help but smile when he saw it: "I love you too. This handwriting is good and talented."
"I have practiced." Nina said proudly. She started learning Chinese this year. In fact, she grew up in Toronto and Scarborough and is no stranger to Chinese. However, she had not studied it systematically before, but now she is very interested. Yunik still finds timeAs for learning Bulgarian, how could she not learn Chinese.
Cross-ethnic love involves learning from each other¡¯s culture.
Nina opened the greeting card he sent and saw what it said: "You have 100 million reasons for me to say I love you, but only one reason for me to say I hate you. I hate you. You love me more than I love you." More, I will be a forever loser in this regard, thank you and I love you¡±
"Haha" she couldn't help laughing, she rushed over and hugged him tightly, kissing him passionately.
The sweetness of this day is destined to be all-day. After school during the day and gymnastics training on Monday, the two drove out for a date and enjoyed a wonderful Valentine's Day night.
Los Angeles, Brentwood, it is still late in the afternoon, the sky is orange-red at dusk.
At a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard, Lily got off the school bus and walked towards home. She flipped through the handbag she was holding. It contained greeting cards, gifts, etc. she received today. It was full. She took out a few at random. He looked at the greeting card and put it back. He took out a square piece of chocolate at random, opened the handmade wrapping paper, took a bite and started eating.
"Hmm so sweet, nice chocolate." She wanted to see the brand, but there was nothing written on the wrapping paper. It looked like homemade chocolate, and she praised her even more: "Who gave it to me? The craftsmanship is good." Look again and see if it's there. The name is written on it, which is strange
At this time, her cell phone suddenly rang. She took it out and looked at it and answered the call: "Hi I'm free. "Rivals"? Haha, it seems interesting. No need. Let's wait in the theater. Okay, I'll see you later. ¡±
Putting the phone back into the bag, she looked at the chocolate in her hand thoughtfully and walked forward. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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