Global Movie Emperor

"Daze, the proposal for the new phase is good. The first three meetings, including this one, have set the tone for the future development of grassroots actors. We decided to use your opinions to conduct pilot basic training for extras and charge a nominal fee. Fees and a training certificate will also be issued at the end of the training, which is a good proposal.”

On the other side of the phone, the old man's voice was steady, and he analyzed Lu Ze point by point. He glanced at the screen and saw that the two had been chatting for nearly half an hour, and the topic of discussion only revolved around Lu Ze's autumn report in 2024.

Looking at the screen was not because he was impatient, it was just a subconscious action of vibrating the phone. When he saw that the battery was only 15%, he returned to the bar and charged the phone. His other hand was not idle, and he slowly recorded. Following the old man’s instructions.

"Master, please continue."

"Because it is a pilot, there are only two classes, with a total number of about 60 people. Teachers from professional schools take turns teaching, once a year, with 15 classes each. The pilot school is set at the Hengdian Actors Guild In the office of Hengdian Film and Television Base, students are also selected from the Hengdian Film and Television Base. The requirements are that they must have been in the industry for less than two years and be under the age of 35. The Hengdian Actors Guild submits student information for selection, and is selected and approved by the Film and TV Association, and finally the students are awarded. The certificate, the specific process is these, of course, these have nothing to do with you, your main job is to teach the first class after the pilot school starts."

"Should I be a lecturer?"

"Yes, considering that you are an extra and have high popularity among the grassroots actors. Many actors regard you as their life goal, so the first lesson of the first semester will be taught by you. After careful It's very appropriate to consider it. Of course, your time must also be taken into consideration. If it doesn't conflict with your schedule, I hope you can go."

"I understand, Master, when will the first class start?"

"December 1st, first class, then one class every week."

After recording the date, he threw the pen aside, opened his palms, passed through his hair, combed the hanging hair back to the top of his head, and did not forget to scratch it twice when he stroked the back of his head.

Actor training classes are nothing new. Grassroots actor training classes were established as early as the last century, and they are not limited to Hong Kong. Training classes are also established every year in the mainland. There are even a handful of well-known artists who have graduated from training classes.

This is a good network for grassroots actors. Not only can you learn knowledge, but if you build a relationship with the training class teacher, he will at least give you a few words of advice and guide you on the road. Therefore, major majors The number of applicants for the school’s training courses is quite large.

Students come from all walks of life, such as resident singers, dance teachers, people behind the scenes in the industry, and even industries completely unrelated to the entertainment industry. As long as you have a heart that wants to be an actor, and have free time and a reasonably good background, If you have financial strength, you can sign up to participate.

But the strange thing is that in the class that is full of students every time, it is difficult to find those extras who have been on camera many times and can barely be called actors.

Maybe this can't be called weird, because Lu Ze never thought of attending any training classes when he was working as an extra Systematic learning is necessary. Even if you have to bear the pain and spend money to take classes, you will still get a half-day show that costs 180 yuan.

There is no way out if you learn something, there really is no way out. It doesn’t matter what you have studied, no one cares at all. The crew only asks you to be like a human being, or to meet their needs and make yourself less like a human being. That’s enough, bullshit. If Stanilavsky plays a trick, he will only be beaten out.

When people go to Hengdian, it won't take long for them to become numb, as if they were buried in the mud. They will become rotten and smelly within two days. As long as you go to that place, the ambition in your heart when you first get off the train is like being a grassroots artist. Make a lot of money, become a big star, and you will be woken up by the two-eared melon seeds very quickly, or you don't need to be beaten at all, just follow the old oil people, and you will wake up naturally.

Go home to work? I was too lazy to work a 9-to-5 job, and I was too embarrassed to go home. Although I woke up from the dream, I couldn't bear the feeling of being laughed at when I went home.

In order to seek a kind of self-awareness and dignity, we slowly erode people's bones and make them feel, oh, if they want to get up and start working every day, they can just sleep at home if they don't want to. They have dealt with four to five thousand in a month. It’s good to have enough money to spend on your own.

Then the person who had the dream disappeared and turned into a person who started working to earn some money when he had no money. When he had money, he lost all his money playing cards. He had three meals a day and mixed it with the crew's box lunch. I thought the thugs and guns were uncomfortable, so I scrolled through the WeChat group all night, hoping to find a cost-effective *** who would save as much money as possible and have good looks. Finally, I got tired and found myself in the dark and smelly of sweat. Sleeping under the comfort of quilts and pillows, the bad guy has another day of confusion.

That's right, he's a bad guy.

Even Lu Ze was like that back then. Even though he didn't play cards because his family was in a hurry for money, he was still that bad boy who was hungry and thirsty in the middle of the night and rummaged through his cell phone to find cheap girls. He even moved to the opposite side of Yang Dan. He got interested in sex, but it didn't take long before he met a woman who was willing to live with him. The two slept in the same bed for several months. When the woman ran away and he and Yang Dan got acquainted, they left. No matter how embarrassed you are to do it.

Where are there so many coincidences that a handsome guy and a beautiful girl happen to be neighbors? This is the case even in Hengdian. There are not many really beautiful people who work as extras. Why can't they make money faster than doing extras?

Lu Ze knew those old guys too well. None of them had a serious path. Because of this, he was actually not very satisfied with the pilot training class's requirement of entering the industry within two years. It was too long. It was difficult for someone who had stayed in Hengdian for two years. No more gumption.

His original proposal was within a year, but now that the electricity agreement is over, he can't say anything more. This is not Lu Ze's intention to kill the donkey. He started his own business in Hengdian, and after he became prosperous, he began to discriminate against group performers. .

If he really discriminates against extra performers, there is no need for him to propose an official training course for extra performers to find a way out. What if a talent really stands out from it? Who doesn't know that myth is still the only good thing? He made the decision with his original intention and an anxious desire.

The horizontal comparison between European and American grassroots actors and domestic grassroots actors reveals the impatience of domestic grassroots actors who are extremely lacking in professional quality and the desire for domestic grassroots actors to grow rapidly.

Since becoming a member of the Electrical Association, he has been looking forward to making some contributions to the domestic film industry, not for achievements or promotion, but just to give an explanation to the unwillingness in his heart. Let me give you an explanation of the reluctance that comes from sitting in this position and understanding what cultural export really means.

The domestic industry is very chaotic, not that kind of chaos, but the industry regulations are still very chaotic. Compared with the entertainment industry in cultural exporting countries, it is very chaotic, so he has to learn, learn from work abroad, and then apply what he has learned , apply domestic industry standards and apply them to the domestic market.

Even if he alone can't make a big splash, the Electrical Industry Association can't change the entire industry, especially those capital tycoons who make profits from the entertainment industry. No one will lose their own money by cooperating with an association that can't forcefully change the rules of the industry. Benefit.

But he can influence the grassroots, a class that has been abandoned by capital and cannot squeeze out any profit at all, but is essentially crucial to the film.

At the grassroots level, this is his first step. He has not taken too big a step, has not acted too hastily, and has only affected 60 people. But in the future, he believes that the people he will influence will definitely be more than these poor 60 people.

But if changes are to be made, someone will be hurt, and most of the people who are hurt are extras. This is also a kind of helplessness. After all, Lu Ze has ideals and is in a high position. Lu Ze will eventually have to abandon some people. , these old oilmen who have made no contribution to the industry.

Although he has his original intention, his original intention cannot embrace everyone. For those who are holding back, he can only abandon these people. Perhaps he will harm tens of thousands of people, or even more people lose their jobs that do not contain any metal content. I will be scolded for my ancestral graves, but as a person who has the ability to climb to the top of the mountain with some followers in the industry.

Facing the grassroots, we must not discriminate, but we should look down...

And this training class is not used to cultivate big stars. The teacher's course will not teach you how to become a big star, but will only teach you how to be a qualified grassroots person.

If one day you become successful through the training class, it will only mean that you are lucky and will get ahead on your own, and it will not have much to do with this training class.

It simply teaches you some basic filming knowledge that you need to learn as a grassroots actor, and you can learn and apply it on the crew, enhance your line skills, and change your stiff limbs. You will not be stuck in a stiff pose like most group actors. , and then quit after reading his lines without any expression, just like the extras in "Happy Planet".

It is a grassroots hematopoietic system that will transport grassroots components of high quality in the future, making the image of film and television works more substantial, without making the audience feel uncomfortable, and it will not force the crew to invite veteran actors because no one is available. Play some more important small roles.

Good steel should be used on the cutting edge, and so should good actors. Old actors who are good at acting should lead the younger generation and talented young actors on the road, so as to prevent domestic actors from being out of work and being out of work.

"Okay, let me just say this, Daze, the first class is very important. You must make the grassroots actors think that they have learned something, so that they can be willing to take the class. You must make a good start, and the documents must also be released. You must repeatedly emphasize that in the future, students holding graduation certificates will have three priority audition places for each crew, and the characters must have at least five lines or more. However, three directors in a row were dissatisfied with their performances and gave them poor grades. If the score is negative, the completion certificate will be revoked and retakes will not be allowed within three years.”

This was something Lu Ze didn't consider in his proposal. It's not surprising that the Electrical Industry Association made supplements to the proposal. After all, Lu Ze can't change a group of people with one brain.

In this way, this training class is very attractive to group actors. After all, you only need to pay a very low tuition fee. After fifteen weeks of study, you can get an audition opportunity with a prominent role, and the income can be as high as Much taller than before.

Moreover, the certificate can be revoked, which greatly enhances the sense of crisis among graduates. Others are making progress, but you are standing still, which means you have regressed. In this way, the director who chooses you to film will naturally feel disadvantaged. , hiring a rookie for the same price, naturally you will not be happy. Then you can only say goodbye to your graduation certificate, and the goodbye will be at least three years. During these three years, you can only look at others. Make a lot of money, but barely make ends meet.

This will, to a certain extent, change the Buddhist status of group acting and turn it into a highly competitive profession that is crowded with people. The stronger you are, the more you earn, the better you act, the more work the union will arrange for you. In the future, there may even be extra performers earning 100,000 yuan a month. This kind of healthy competition is not only what the Electronic Arts Association hopes to see, but also what the crew hopes to see. After all... if you are a director and watch the extras recite their lines dryly, he will not make a fuss. Heart?

A very good extra actor and an incompetent extra actor are placed here. If you were the director, which one would you choose? For the crew, the little trouble is just that after the extras have finished filming, they take out their mobile phones to rate the certified extras as excellent, good, or bad on the union website, and then stamp the extras' resumes. , nothing more.

With just one phone call, through the Actors Guild, trained professional extras who fit the character's image can be sent to your crew, with their number plates and small boxes, calling the boss, waiting for you to choose. This solves the problem of many directors. Urgent need? How much more can it add color to the work? Naturally it goes without saying.

This will even lead to a shortage of graduation certificates and become a hot commodity, sought after by group performers. At that time, the admission conditions of the training class will be stuck, and the number of group admissions throughout the year will be used as the selection criterion, and only the top few hundred in the industry will be admitted. If you are famous as an extra, the enthusiasm of the entire industry may be mobilized.

Going a step further, if a leading actor with poor acting skills is outperformed by a group special... Whether or not he will cause trouble is another matter. Do you think the leading actor can keep it on his face? Once there are more people with good performances like this, will you be able to find trouble? Even if you can find him, the Screen Actors Guild is not there for the taking.

If the union personnel who introduce the group evolution group are allowed to draw a fixed commission, after reporting it, it will be impossible to say who will cause trouble to whom.

Lu Ze doesn't need to know how many gray industrial chains this will create. He can just destroy them as soon as they are discovered. This kind of thing cannot be banned. He can only ensure that they will not be allowed to become too rampant.

There is no need to go further. All in all, group performances may seem inconspicuous, but they are actually the cornerstone of most works. Once the structure of the cornerstone changes, the superstructure must also change to avoid the collapse of the building. Therefore, It is said that to change something, there is no need to start with the most difficult step. Often, the difficulty will be solved by removing the supporting pillars below.

"Okay, Master, should I hang up first?"

"Well, by the way, this year's national actor selection has begun. You have never been very active in this aspect, so I took the initiative and proposed it for you. The meeting has already passed. The certificate will be in my hands. When will I be free? , remember to come and pick it up.”

The certificate can be mailed to Lu Hua. Of course, it is best to pick it up by yourself, which shows that you value this honor. However, given the relationship between the second brother Lu Ze and his own achievements, he will not pick it up in person. It doesn't matter.

Mr. Chen is also a person who doesn't want to show his face. Usually, there is only an old couple and a nanny at home. Maybe he felt that the house was deserted, so he thought about deducting the certificate in order to find a reason for Lu Ze to come over.

It is said that the people love Yao'er, and Mr. Chen is naturally no exception. He will more or less prefer his younger apprentice, and this younger apprentice suits his temperament and has excellent talents. He can be called the number one young man in the generation. It can be regarded as a complete and undisguised display of this preference.

Now everyone in the circle knows that, except for the deceased eldest disciple, Mr. Chen likes Lao Jiu the most among the eight disciples. He is closer to Lao Jiu than to his own son. As long as it concerns Lao Jiu, he will care about everything. Lu Ze also heard the hint, exhaled with a smile, and nodded to the old man through the phone.

"Okay, Master, I will go over to see you in a few days."

"That's pretty much it. OK, hang up."

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Mr. Chen hung up so quickly that even Lu Ze didn't react. He put the phone aside and returned to the guest seat outside the bar. He sat in front of his laptop and thought about it. The connection was disconnected due to the phone call. I lost my train of thought, occasionally thinking hard, and occasionally writing line after line of text with my fingers quickly.

This is not writing a new quarterly report, nor is it writing storyboards for Fatini's script "Atonement". What he wrote this time is completely his own, but... it is still not a script.

He is unwilling to accept the fact that the Chinese market can still only accept cultural input, so he hopes to gain the support of others as much as possible, so as to start changes from within until it causes a qualitative change in the industry. However, relying only on his master and a few senior brothers is not enough. After all, they The family can only be regarded as very important in the circle, and they are not at all close to one hand covering the sky.

Therefore, winning the support of other academies and capital parties with plans for the future industry is the top priority in formulating industry regulations in the future. However, in this way, it is not enough to be an actor and a member of the Electronic Arts Association. He still needs someone. These achievements can enhance your reputation and make others willing to support you in reforming industry rules and unspoken rules.

The previously agreed-upon "Voice Film Volunteer Organization" is also part of it, and so is the work we are currently busy with.

Lu Ze had been thinking hard for a long time about how he could make some achievements that were recognized both at home and abroad. This could not be accomplished by making a few classic movies. After thinking over and over for a long time, he finally had an idea.

Everything has to start with the system...

After so many years in the system, he has learned more than just the acting skills he has shown so far. It can be said that the talents he has shown now are just the tip of the iceberg of his own acting abilities. No matter how awesome he is, Even the best scripts can't squeeze him to full vitality. As long as he wants to, as long as the script requires it, he can reach a higher level of recklessness again. No matter how necessary, how reckless, how necessary, how reckless, no matter what effect you want, he will do it. It's even a bit inhuman to be able to take it out.

It can be said that Lu Ze is the most suitable for any role in any script written by any screenwriter in the world. This sounds a bit like bragging, or even if it is not suitable, wait a few hours and wait. He comes out of the system simulation biographies and he fits the bill.

But having said that, although the script cannot show all Lu Ze's abilities, there is still a book that can do it. The author of this book cannot be anyone else but Lu Ze himself, which is what Lu Ze is doing now.

He will write all he has learned in his life into the book, whether it is what others can learn, or what others cannot learn, or even what others feel after reading Lu Ze is not human, he will write it all in the book. From Stanislavs Based on the experiential performance method proposed in Key's "The Actor's Self-Cultivation", he found a new way and wrote his own unique performance method into the book.

Yes, he wanted to create something other than the three major performance systems of drama...

The fourth largest drama performance system.

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