Chapter 721 What is Art
Liu Chen finally knew why Wang Chunlai was so polite to him. It turned out that he had made a decision for a long time to talk about his purpose. Tianlai Novel | 2
Wang Chunlai still has the ability to appreciate the good tea made by Ni Bu. He kept praising the good tea. Wang Chen, who came to visit with Wang Chunlai, seemed listless and hardly spoke much.
Wang Chunlai had a very eyebrow. Seeing that Liu Chen's attitude was not very enthusiastic, he chatted for a while before leaving. The purpose of this came was simply mentioned and he didn't say it again. He was a businessman, so he naturally knew that you should not be too hasty when dealing with people, otherwise it would only cause disgust.
On the way back, Wang Chunlai explained: "Xiaochen, Liu Chen is very important to his father. Since you have known each other, if you have the chance, you will be more likely to get along with him."
Wang Chen was extremely depressed and said dissatisfied: "Dad, you just called me one by one, and they called me Liu Chen's nephew."
Wang Chunlai couldn't help but slap him, "It's just a verbal name. You little beast, you know how to mess around all day long. You can't learn something well with a woman who is not a good person. I have to give you such a big family business in the future. How can I rest assured?"
"I understand." Wang Chen was scolded by me so much that he had no temper at all.
A pure heart and elegant building.
Jin Dong'er smiled and said, "I really didn't expect that Wang Chen, who had been pestering Xiao Nian, was Wang Chunlai's son. Wang Chunlai asked Liu Chen again. Xiao Nian. It seems that Wang Chen will not dare to pester you anymore in the future, so you tell him that you are Liu Chen's girlfriend."
Zhang Nian's face turned red, and she couldn't help but look at Liu Chen. She was very shy, but a sense of sweetness appeared in her heart.
Xiao Guoping looked at Zhang Nian vigilantly and said dissatisfiedly: "Sister Dong'er, how can a boyfriend and girlfriend talk nonsense?"
Jin Dong'er smiled and said, "What do you know about movies? Brother Liu Chen is a passionate seed. I wonder how many girlfriends you have, one more or one less or less."
The more I talked, the more I became more and more distorted. Liu Chen said, "Sister Dong'er, you are damaging my reputation."
Dong'er glared at me, "What, you still want to sue me in the court."
"That's not. I want to say that you are worse than being my girlfriend. Anyway, you don't think you have more."
"You little brat, you dare to even make a joke with your sister." Dong'er's stinginess came up again today, which made everyone laugh.
Liu Chen quickly announced his study plan. Xiao Guoping was the first to respond, saying that she was also very interested in art and studied with her. Jin Dong'er said that she only understood music, movie appreciation, etc., and Zhang Nian was good at it, so she was tutoring her.
The reason why academic masters are academic masters.
The reason why academic masters can achieve many incredible results when they usually watch it.
That is because the top students have mastered the ultimate method of learning.
What is the ultimate method?
That's a habit.
The brain is always a habit of thinking efficiently without being tired.
For example, if you keep studying difficult math problems, you will be exhausted at most for a day, and your brain will start to repel it after persisting for a few days, and you will want to vomit when you see it, and you will be tired after a few minutes, and you will not be able to concentrate. The subconscious mind will resist it. That will definitely not be efficient. No matter how long it takes, it will be a waste.
If you read thirty minutes, read ancient poems, memorize words, do math problems for an hour and then thirty minutes, and intersperse various subjects, you can keep your brain in a state of untiring excitement.
This is the way to be a top student.
Liu Chen understands, and Xiao Guoping understands too.
Zhang Nian doesn't understand very much.
Jin Dong'er was free to flow.
Liu Chen arranged his study time and exercised after getting up at seven o'clock every day. He wanted to be energetic, running, pressing his legs, and turning the parallel bars. This is not a waste of time.
"Introduction to Montage", "Movie Morphology", "Nonlinear Thinking of Film Art", "Introduction to the Stani System", "The Application of the Brecht System in Today's Drama"...
After returning from training, I started reading these obscure books, and of course I couldn’t read them all the time.
Xiao Guoping sat aside and looked at Xianshu, giggling, as if she was very happy to see Liu Chen working hard. Hey, you have today too, read it very well.
This girl dressed very casually.
Zhang Nian was wearing a white silk long skirt with elegant flowers embroidered on her chest.
Xiao Guoping was still very careful about her. He looked at the romance novels and kept staring at them from time to time.
After watching it for an hour, Zhang Nian started online. She said: "The performance department exam focuses on the four aspects of sound, stage, shape, and expression. Voice is vocal music, shape is form, stage is line, and expression is performance. If vocal music, dance, and lines can also be learned by some non-professional experience accumulated in daily life, then performance is purely a highly professional assessment."
Xiao Guoping sneered: "How difficult it is? Who hasn't watched a TV series yet?"
Zhang Nian glanced at her and said, "Average laymen have only obtained a little superficial information based on their experience in watching TV and movies. They simply think that performance is to make movements and expressions based on the plot, and think that performance is to make false design actions."
"So every year when taking the theater academy, there are always some students who perform good sketches at school entertainment evenings. Another type of student who imitates the so-called acting skills of celebrities from the Hong Kong movies and TV series, come to take the performance exam."
"There are all kinds of ugly things in the exam room, and the invigilator was stunned."
Xiao Guoping curled his lips unhappily, hum, he was talking about me on purpose, hum, he knew that pretending to be good in front of Brother Liu Chen, but he was actually scheming.
A woman’s enemies are always women.
Xiao Guoping snorted: "Brother, you really have to prepare as much as the candidates who apply for the Drama Academy. You are the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Huizhou Province, the top scorer in Jianghai University, and the candidates who take the Drama Academy will dance and sing when they can't learn well."
"Pingping, your statement is a bit biased." Liu Chen also saw that the two were not very harmonious. Guoping was his beloved sister. Uncle Xiao handed over with confidence, so he naturally had to take care of him. Zhang Nian was helping, so he naturally couldn't say anything. Liu Chen tried to balance as much as possible. Fortunately, Zhang Nian was very sensible, and often it was Guoping who was provoked.
"Every industry and every industry have a lot of interesting knowledge, so it's not bad to understand it. Since you have to learn it, of course you have to learn it thoroughly, and it's not in vain." Liu Chen has always been this point of view.
Zhang Nian can no longer agree.
Anyway, she thought it made sense what Liu Chen said.
"Teacher Zhang, let's appreciate the movie."
Zhang Nian calmed down and finally got the opportunity. She had to perform well. Only in the course of film appreciation can she know more than Liu Chen. If it were other aspects, she would not be able to catch up even if she was left ten streets.
He works so hard and motivated. He is so rich and can still maintain his interest in learning. He is really charming.
Zhang Nian said: "Mr. Liu, then I'll show off my skills."
"I'm your student, just call my name."
Zhang Nian was embarrassed to call Liu Chen, and felt too disrespectful.
"First use a movie to talk about it, the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Liu Chen calmed down and said that this movie is so famous. Who doesn’t know? This is the opening work of Mr. Xu Ligong, director of Li An, formed by Mr. Xu Ligong, who formed Zongheng International, and won the Oscar Little Golden Man in one fell swoop. This is a very famous Chinese film. He nodded and added, "The fun is a bit poor. I finally finished watching it with a hard time."
"I can't find out if I find a few movie reviews." Xiao Guoping curled his lips.
Zhang Nian forced himself to show the most professional attitude and said patiently: "There is a very strange phenomenon in our Chinese film industry. Many people who don't know the profession, or those who don't know how to understand, can't tell the difference between the analysis of the film and the viewing experience. Many people on the market expressed a few reviews in newspapers or media, scolding directors and actors, and then sighed about the story content of the film or talked about it from a corner of the story, and thought they were very profound and called themselves a film critic or film critic. I guess you were misled."
Xiao Guoping was dissatisfied.
Liu Chen smiled and said, "To be honest, the one who impressed her most after watching it was Yang Ziqiong. The scenes of the brother and the others hanging their wires were too fake, which was very different from previous martial arts films. They didn't think they were good-looking."
Speaking of his professional field, Zhang Nian was somewhat confident, and was like a warm spring breeze for Liu Chen, saying: "Maybe Mr. Liu is busy with study, scientific research, watching movies is just relaxing and adjusting, so he naturally won't think about it too much. This is very normal. This movie is simply a pseudo-martial arts film with fighting scenes, but it is purely an art film with humanistic thoughts. The most important thing is its ideological nature."
Seeing Liu Chen's confused expression, Zhang Nian took out the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to show it. She was afraid that Liu Chen would have ideas, and her attitude was softer and said while watching: "It's not surprising that you have such an idea. It would be fine if ordinary audiences pay attention to these irrelevant corners. Those so-called film critics acted like experts and were pointing fingers. These people's level was worse than those who took the theater academy."
This is the first time Liu Chen saw Zhang Nian showing such an angry young woman. She was always shy and even timid. Well, everyone has their own personality.
Under Zhang Nian's guidance, Liu Chen quickly jumped out of the perspective of an onlooker and an ordinary audience, and watched a movie from the perspective of being a director of the movie.
Zhang Nian started to talk about it in conjunction with the stage screening of the movie, meticulously.
"The composition of a movie requires cooperation from six basic departments: editor, director, acting, photographing, sound, and beauty. The director department of the Film Academy also sets courses based on six directions. I will comment on these six directions one by one."
"A movie first looks at the style. This movie, whether it is the alternating photography techniques of fixed camera photography and computer production or the art design with the traditional Chinese ink painting concept. Whether it is the natural performance of Ge and Zhang Ziyi or the sound design focused on the traditional national instrumental music of the genius composer Tan Dun combined with the symphony concept, it is remarkable and very clever."
Zhang Nian's achievements in film are indeed good. From the explanations of the filming and production of the film, Liu Chen suddenly realized and nodded frequently.
Halfway through, Xiao Guoping left the boredom and went to see Ni Bu Yanghua.
Zhang Nian admired Liu Chen's serious attitude and continued: "If a movie cannot express certain ideas, it is not a good movie. Director Li An is one of the few directors who can subtly integrate thinking into the movie, which is amazing."
Liu Chen didn't quite understand.
"Analyzing a movie, it is best to have a better understanding of the director's growth background so that he can better know what ideas he wants to express in the end. Director Li An was born and grew up in Huaxia Baodao. He went to the United States to study at the age of 24 and graduated at the age of 30. His graduation work "Division Line" has shown outstanding talent. However, because he is in the United States, he has been idle for 6 years since then, relying entirely on his wife to support his family. He took care of all the housework. He read, watch movies, and write scripts in his spare time, and mainly thought deeply. There is an old Chinese saying that accumulates strength. I think without these 6 years, Li An would not have been able to form his directorial style."
Liu Chen nodded before Zhang Nian continued to speak.
"Finally, several of his scripts won awards on Baodao. With the support of Mr. Xu Ligong, the first movie was "Wedding Banquet" and the second one was "Food Men and Women". Both movies were related to eating. I think it was probably related to his cooking for 6 New Year's Eve dinner at home, and he expressed his thoughts through familiar eating."
Liu Chen has really watched these two movies, and he has indeed impressed with the crab roe soup buns, jade wings, yellow croaker juice, pearl fresh abalone... and so on.
"Does this have any deep meaning?"
Zhang Nianxian poured Liu Chen a cup of tea, and then said softly: "As a second- and third-tier director in Hollywood, Li An has been depressed for many years and has not been recognized by the upper class of American society. Li An himself is a Chinese with very profound Chinese studies. He has good ancient Chinese skills, is good at writing calligraphy, and knows antiques in gold and stone. Such a person has a strong oriental atmosphere in his works, so it is difficult for Westerners to accept it."
"So his movies often have a strong humanistic meaning of conflict and integration between East and West cultures. For example, "Food and Men" is a typical story of food as a medium that tells a conflict and inclusive story between East and West cultures, modern culture and traditional culture."
After hearing what Zhang Nian said, Liu Chen thought about it now, and thought about it carefully.
"Well, Teacher Zhang, please continue."
Zhang Nian smiled happily, "A director's style and film language generally will not change much, except for pure commercial considerations. In the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", director Li An naturally wants to convey the proposition of conflicts between the East and the West. Whether it is a commercial or artistic film, the most basic criterion for whether a movie is successful is the director's vocabulary. In the movie, the words the director wants to tell the audience from the front or indirection is the soul of the entire movie."
While listening to Zhang Nian's explanation and playing the movie, Liu Chen also began to think about it. It seemed that he had thought about the movie a bit simple in the past.
Chapter completed!