Chapter 43 A great "Thunderstorm"
Lin Zixuan took it for granted about audio movies.
Even if you purchase movie shooting equipment, someone must understand this shooting technology. I am afraid that foreign technicians will need to help with the shooting, and there is also the problem of updating cinema equipment.
In short, the process of shooting audio movies will never be smooth.
Warner Bros. Entertainment later made audio movies because the company was about to go bankrupt, so they had to give it a try.
However, once successful, the benefits will be huge. Warner Bros. Entertainment has become one of the six major Hollywood film companies in later generations.
In September, Ouyang Yuqian rehearsed the drama "Thunderstorm" on the new stage in Shanghai, and he was invited to watch it.
Feng Chengcheng was not involved in the end.
Shanghai Hujiang University is a church school and has strict management of student attendance, so she has no time to participate in rehearsals.
Coupled with Feng Jingyao's opposition, Feng Chengcheng and Lu Sifeng passed by, but this did not affect her enthusiasm for watching the show.
Ouyang Yuqian is a senior in the drama industry. Not to mention that he was raising his arms and responding, but it was still okay to just bring a troupe to perform.
This time he cooperated with Shanghai's new stage and was preparing to make a comeback.
Shanghai New Stage is the first theater in modern China with new equipment and a performance group engaged in opera improvement.
In July 1908, Peking Opera actors Pan Yueqiao, Xia Yuerun, Xia Yueshan and Shen Manyun, who was an assistant director of Shanghai Xincheng Bank and formerly a Tongmenghui officer, raised funds to create a new stage theater in Shiliupu, Nanshi, Shanghai.
He mainly compiled and performed Peking Opera, and there were also civilized opera performances.
In order to improve the status of artists, Shanghai's new stage changed the name of actors as artists. He refused to sing the party, and actors would not use their stage names but their real names.
The new stage has been moved many times, but it has always insisted on not performing in the concession.
After the glory of civilized dramas, starting from 1917, the new stage began to decline.
Later, it transformed into a performance venue that specialized in funny gimmicks and institutional sets, and became a third-rate theater.
In October 1920, Wang Youyou performed the famous British drama "Madam Warren's Profession" on the new stage, but suffered a crushing defeat.
"Thunderstorm" rehearsed by Ouyang Yuqian this time is a turning point in Shanghai's new stage reorganization, and success or failure is here.
The new stage boss Pan Yueqiao attaches great importance to this. He not only invited famous artists from the drama industry to help, but also published advertisements on "Shenbao" to promote it with great fanfare.
Zheng Zhenduo, Chen Dabei and others from the People's Drama Club also shook flags and shouted in newspapers and magazines, calling "Thunderstorm" a shocking masterpiece, a brand new drama.
For a time, a large scale of momentum was formed.
Lin Zixuan did not come alone. In addition to Feng Chengcheng and his sister Lin Xiaoling, there were also a group of subordinates, Ping Jinya, Zheng Zhengqiu, Zhou Jianyun and others.
The boss, please watch the drama, which is considered as an employee benefit.
Zheng Zhengqiu used to be in the drama circle and left after the Minming Club closed down and was familiar with most people in the theater.
From this, Lin Zixuan realized that the reason why the first performance of "Thunderstorm" tonight was full is that half of the people made a living in the drama circle, and the other half were the real audience.
This is the support.
These people are also here to see the market. The drama industry is in a downturn and everyone has a hard time. Many actors have to go back to perform, and some simply change their careers.
This time, Shanghai's new stage was mobilized, and a senior like Ouyang Yuqian personally took action to rehearse a new drama.
This seems to be a sign of the prosperity of the drama!
If "Thunderstorm" really becomes popular and brings up a wave of people watching dramas, everyone can live a good life with them. If they fail, they will not lose much and do whatever they should do.
Amidst the chaos, the curtain of "Thunderstorm" has been brought to mind.
With the appearance of one character after another and the plot unfolds, the audience is trapped in the grudges and hatreds of Zhou and Lu families for thirty years.
The actors on the stage are all powerful dramatists, and Ouyang Yuqian personally invited them to perform.
This time it was another key battle related to whether the drama could be revived. The actors naturally worked very hard, and they were all full of emotions and fully exerted the dramatic conflicts.
Especially the actor who plays Fan Yi, the distorted psychology and neurotic characteristics of the characters in the play are suppressed and pathological.
Zheng Zhengqiu kept praising the actor's superb acting skills.
The so-called expert looks at the tricks, while the layman watches the fun.
The audience is attracted by the fate of the characters in the play, and half of the audience are practitioners of dramas under the stage.
What they see is something else.
"Thunderstorm" is a mature work, from character settings to dramatic conflicts, from stage sets to actors' lines, and can even be said to be perfect.
Its conflict is set in its own characteristics to the extreme, and it successfully creates a full and complex character in the play.
"Thunderstorm" also has a poetic beauty.
This not only refers to the beauty of the words, but also comes from the poetic character of the characters in the play.
Or it can be said that all of this, including stage prompts and character analysis, has a unique temperament and taste, which is completely different from previous new dramas.
Perhaps this is the future of the new drama.
The drama practitioners in the audience were thinking, while the audience was immersed in the plot.
With a sudden big thunderstorm, everyone is heading for destruction, and the sinful and beautiful things come to an end on this thunderstorm night.
The audience was a little overwhelmed.
This is different from the dramas they watched in the past. They feel refreshed, but they also feel pitiful and lamentable. It seems that something in their hearts is touched and awakened.
This is the power of drama and the power of tragedy.
The drama practitioners in the audience stood up and applauded. They saw an excellent drama and the future of drama.
The audience also stood up and applauded, and things that could touch the heart were always good.
Maybe they will forget it soon, but at this moment, they can feel different.
Ouyang Yuqian took the actors to the stage to end the curtain call. He knew that he had succeeded and "Thunderstorm" was successful.
He saw Lin Zixuan in the audience.
The success of "Thunderstorm" is the credit of the actors and the script. A mature script is the basis for the success of the drama.
Ouyang Yuqian did not bring Lin Zixuan to the stage. He knew that Lin Zixuan was unwilling to show up, but he would still ask this young master Lin for the script in the future.
On the second day, many newspapers reported on the grand occasion of "Thunderstorm" and gave high praise.
They distinguish "Thunderstorm" from the vulgar and shallow civilized dramas in the past, and called them new dramas, that is, dramas.
Compared with famous foreign dramas, he believes that local dramas from Mr. Cao Yu are no less artistic than works by masters such as Ibsen, Shaw Shaw.
Chapter completed!