Xu Jinglei is a native of Beijing, and her father opened a small processing factory that makes neon lights, and her family is okay.
She studied calligraphy, later learned to paint, and wanted to be admitted to the Beijing Drama Academy's Stage Art Department and Arts and Crafts Academy, but they all failed.
At the gate of the Drama Academy, she was mistaken for a candidate for the acting department, which gave Xu Jinglei the idea of going to the acting department, and then she took the exam for the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy and was really admitted.
However, after entering film school, she found that she had no desire to act.
Maybe it's because the female classmates in the acting department are prettier than her, which makes her feel a little inferior, or maybe it's because she's afraid of performing in front of other people, and she doesn't want to recite and rehearse sketches every day.
She always felt that she was out of place in the atmosphere of the acting department.
During her studies at film school, she was more offbeat, unsociable, did not wear makeup, did not wear bright clothes, and most of the time wore a pair of suspenders, walking alone on campus with her head down.
In the eyes of both teachers and classmates, she is very ordinary, and her studies are also ordinary.
There is no vivid performance, nor can she dance beautifully, her face is yellow and thin, and she looks sick, which is different from the girls in the performance department who have bright and moist skin.
It's more like a little transparent in the class, and even she wonders if she has chosen the wrong major.
In the third year, there are already classmates in the class who have gone out to pick up the film, and when they come back from filming, they always talk about how hard the filming is and how fierce the director is, which is actually a kind of showing off.
Xu Jinglei listened quietly, feeling a little confused.
There are also crews looking for actors in the school, most of them choose fourth grade, or beautiful girls, she mustered up the courage to audition several times, but to no avail.
So when she heard that someone was looking for her to make a movie, she was extremely surprised.
She knows that Lin Xiaoling, the person of the year in the director department, although everyone is not very familiar with each other, but they are all students of the first year, meetings, group activities of the school, and often meet in the girls' dormitory.
"You asked me to make a movie," Xu Jinglei doubted.
"yes, I think you're a good fit for the heroine of my script, and I'm making a graduation short film."
Lin Xiaoling confirmed.
Saying this, Xu Jinglei was relieved.
Graduation short films are generally made by the students of the school themselves, not official films, most of them are one or twenty minutes long, and she has seen many films made by previous students, which are not very good.
Moreover, there is no remuneration for making this kind of short film, it is to accumulate experience, and classmates help each other.
Since people have found her, she can't refuse, she can't say that her acting skills are poor, this reason is a bit unspeakable, not to mention that it's just a short film, it shouldn't be difficult.
"Okay, call me then."
Xu Jinglei agreed.
"Don't be in a hurry to leave, this is the script, you watch it here first, and we'll study it when I'm done eating."
Lin Xiaoling stuffed the script to Xu Jinglei and walked towards the cafeteria.
Xu Jinglei had just come out of the cafeteria, there were quite a lot of people, she didn't want to go in again, so she sat on the grass on the side of the road and read the script.
As a student of the acting department, it is common to read the script, she thought it was a short film, but she didn't expect it to be very formal, and there are various annotations on it, and it is the comments of the school teacher at first glance.
This is what Lin Xiaoling just took from Zheng Dongtian, and the annotations are all written by Zheng Dongtian.
Looking at it, Xu Jinglei felt that this script was not quite the same as the book she had read before, it was very real, life-like, and not exaggerated.
She used to learn to paint, and she often rode a bicycle around the capital, and she had to walk a long way, although she did not live in a rented house, but she had this experience among the students who studied painting with her.
The whole plot is very simple, it is the rivalry between the old lady and the girl, it is very pure, there are no messy emotional scenes, she likes this pure feeling.
Can I play it well, Xu Jinglei asked herself in her heart.
Anyway, it's just a graduation film, everyone is a student, and they won't be scolded by the director like outside, so why not try it.
She gave herself a reason, and like her life in the acting department in the past two years, she was not confident in her performance.
Every time I have to take acting classes, I have to try to convince myself, and when I perform, I also hide behind and drag it out if I can.
"I think it's okay, but Professor Zheng criticized me and asked me to revise it."
Lin Xiaoling walked over and said depressedly.
"This is Professor Zheng's annotation," Xu Jinglei said in surprise.
Zheng Dongtian is quite prestigious in the film school, has trained many young directors, he is more open-minded, as a teacher, he will not be biased, and supports both the fifth generation of directors and the sixth generation of directors.
He even thinks that film schools should study entertainment films and make entertainment films more artistic.
Xu Jinglei heard that Lin Xiaoling was Zheng Dongtian's proud disciple, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.
"yes, what do you think, let's talk."
Lin Xiaoling sat down on the grass on the side and asked.
"This character is a girl from out of town, I'm from Beijing, I'm afraid it's not suitable," Xu Jinglei worried.
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"Your acting department doesn't require you to play something like something, it's just a role change, it's not difficult, it should be easy for you."
Lin Xiaoling said as a matter of course.
Xiaoling is the first time to make a feature film, and in the past, all the documentaries were filmed, and the documentaries did not require the performance of actors, as long as the stories that happened were faithfully recorded.
Besides, the actors she came into contact with were Jiang Wen and Ge You, whose performances were close to the full level, and the next ones were also very talented in acting, so she felt that there was nothing difficult to change roles.
A good actor does act like something, but it is a bit excessive to ask film school students to use this standard.
That's when you don't know what I was like in the class.
Xu Jinglei is quite helpless, but she is also a little stubborn, since Lin Xiaoling thinks she can do it, then try it.
The filming of this film is planned to take two years, and it needs to be filmed every quarter, leaving her a lot of time to prepare, which is suitable for her current state.
Thinking so, she didn't mention the topic of whether she could act well, but discussed the script with Lin Xiaoling.
Xu Jinglei has learned to draw, and can give opinions on the setting of the girl characters in the script, what should a girl who likes to draw look like, what are her little habits, and how the room will be arranged.
The walls of a girl's room can't be empty, there must be prints of famous paintings and graffiti of yourself.
She also adjusts the dialogue in the script to her personality to make it more in line with the character's setting.
In this way, the scripts of the two of us were gradually enriched and improved.
Two girls sat on the grass of the school, discussing with each other, and from time to time let out crisp laughter, scattered in the autumn sun. t1706231537: