Chapter 428
"The drama "Three Fools" directed by Zhang Ran was grandly premiered at the Poly Theater last night. Celebrities such as Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi, and Zhang Jingchu came to congratulate. The whole drama reflects the deep social and educational problems through interesting stories among classmates, confusion in learning, pressure from parents and teachers, etc., which made the audience empathize, but they don't feel preached at all, and they can't help laughing, moving, and even crying with the characters in the play. The audience said that the three hours passed without realizing it as the protagonists cried and laughed, and there was still a feeling of not being finished at all. The audience also summarized that they laughed nearly a hundred times, moved ten times, and cried once during the movie watching process."
As a supporter of Zhang Ran, Tang Jia reported on this matter as soon as possible. Other media were not willing to fall behind. They all reported that the premiere of "Three Fools" was a big success and had a huge reputation.
"Three Fools" uses laughter to fight cruel education, and tears of joy and tears benefit people a lot! Peking Daily
"Three Fools" is crazy and ironic. Teachers and students should read it! China Youth Daily
"Three Fools" premiered, with stars gathered and a huge reputation! West China Metropolis Daily
The evening performance was scheduled, the scene was as hot as ever, and the audience truly felt the feelings depicted by the newspaper. During the watching process, they were like riding a roller coaster: they laughed and cried, but they continued to laugh before they could dry their tears, and cried after laughing.
The next day, Zhang Ran received a notice from the school's personnel department that several troupes, including the People's Art Theater and Guodian, had decided to recruit people from Zhang Ran's class and gave Zhang Ran the assessment time. The leaders of these troupes knew that "Three Fools" would be performed eight shows, and in order not to affect the students' performance, the assessment time was set at early April.
Although the leaders of various theater troupes thought it was good after watching the performances of the students in Zhang Ran class, they had to pass the assessment if they wanted to actually join these theater troupes. This assessment was similar to the art exams of Beijing Film Academy. The performance clips, recitations, singing, and dancing were decided by the candidates themselves, and then the examiners voted to decide whether to stay or not.
The National Art Theater Troupes only have one round of examinations, and the People's Art Theater is particularly perverted, and there are three rounds of examinations. The first round is composed of in-service actors as examiners. These 7 to 9 examiners must be national first-class actors, winners of the Plum Blossom Award, Yang Lixin, Song Dandan, and He Bing, as long as they were in Peking at that time, they would come to participate. The examiner voted for each candidate, and those who had more than half of the votes were qualified to enter the second round. The second round of re-examination was checked by veteran artists of the People's Art Theater, Lan Tianye, Zheng Rong, Zhu Xu, Lu Zhong and others. After the performance, the examiner would ask questions improvised to understand the candidates' cultural literacy, personality and hobbies. If the votes exceeded half, they could enter the next round. The examiner of the third round of examinations was composed of leaders of the People's Art Theater Academy, and still decided to stay or leave with more than half of the votes.
After hearing this news, Zhang Ran smiled with relief. Isn’t it just for this purpose that he has done such a big battle and spent so much energy? I hope that the students have a good future. Even if they cannot become famous, at least they must have a play after graduation. They cannot lose their jobs as soon as they graduate and waste four years of time.
As for which student to go to which troupe, this is not something Zhang Ran considered. If you want to join, you will take the exam by yourself. Anyway, the quota is 01, so you can compete and speak by your own skills.
The students were very excited after learning the news. The stage of the People's Art Theatre Chinese dialect is a dream for all actors who have aspirations. Now the opportunity is right in front of them. They were so excited that they affected the performance. There were many flaws in the fourth performance. Although it was just a small flaw, it did affect the quality of the entire performance.
Zhang Ran was very angry. When the performance ended, he angrily pushed open the door of the dressing room, called everyone out, and scolded him in surprise: "What the hell are you acting like? Forget Ci, Forget Ci, say the wrong one, say the wrong one, do you still look like a professional actor? I won't tell you the big truth. The audience spends money to go to the theater to watch the performance. You should have at least professional ethics! What are you acting today? Who are you worthy of?"
The students all bowed their heads and didn't say anything. They did not perform well today and had a lot of mistakes.
Zhang Ran continued to curse: "You are actors. No matter what difficulties you encounter or what ideas you have, when you stand on the stage, you should forget everything! As for your performance today, don't say that you are in the People's Art Theater, Chinese dialect, and actors are not worthy, because for real actors, the drama is bigger than the sky!"
After being scolded, the students really put aside their other thoughts and devoted their energy to the play. They performed at a normal level during the performance at night and won a lot of prizes.
As performances go on, there are more and more discussions about "Three Fools" online, which are completely one-sided praise and praise!
"This drama is about education and life. In the director's relaxed and humorous joke, he couldn't stop laughing. Of course, after laughing, he was more thoughtful. This drama should be the first class for freshmen from Tianchao University!"
"I watched "Three Fools" today and almost burst into tears. The whole story is full of positive energy, no hypocrisy, and true feelings. All the positive energy plots in the story contain human nature, family, friendship, and truth. This is the essence of this drama. This drama also shows the true educational significance, which is highly recommended!"
"I think this drama has surpassed "Breaking Drummer", which is the opposite of "Breaking Drummer". During the movie, I couldn't help but sigh that I was the kind of person who was institutionalized by society and was educated for profit and had no idea what I really wanted to do. I tried to try to recall that point in time, the ambition of the child who had not been institutionalized, but found that I could not remember it. I felt extremely sad!"
"The best work to criticize cramming education is not a serious or dull theme that reflects the shortcomings of the current education system, nor is it a sarcastic story after being sarcastic, but a sarcastic move to express the director's thoughts in the most humorous way. In addition to being happy, you can obey and not blindly follow. We strongly look forward to the movie version!"
The domestic drama market is in a downturn. Few dramas can attract such high attention and even cause a wave of storms on the Internet. Some wonderful lines from "Three Fools" have begun to circulate on the Internet, such as "If your friend fails the exam, you feel bad; if your friend takes the first place in the exam, you feel worse", "As soon as you are born, someone told us that life is a race, and if you don't run faster, you will be tragically ravaged. Even if you are born, we have to race against 300 million sperm." and so on.
Zhang Ran has many fans, and now the media and audience praise it. Many people even say that this drama has surpassed "The Breaking Drummer". People who have never watched it are naturally extremely expecting it and have been enchanted. However, the tickets for "Three Fools" have been sold out long ago and they can't buy tickets at all.
Fans not only posted on Zhang Ran’s post bar and requested additional events, but even went to Zhang Jingchu’s post bar and forum to post. They knew that Zhang Jingchu was an idyllic girl and liked to go online. After Zhang Jingchu saw the post asking for additional events, she would definitely tell Zhang Ran.
After the seven performances, Zhang Ran and the students in his class walked out of the theater and were stunned by the scene in front of him.
I saw about a hundred people surrounded the entrance of the theater. They were holding various slogans with slogans such as "We want to read "Three Fools"" and "please add to the scene".
After a girl in the crowd raised the support card for the extra game in her hand, the people around her received a signal and began to shout in unison: "Add the game! Add the game!"
These days, audiences who have not been able to buy tickets have been stopped outside the theater for a long time. When Zhang Ran and the others came out to ask for additional events, Zhang Ran also heard Zhang Jingchu say that netizens left her a message to request additional events. However, additional events involve venues and various arrangements, and it is not just that additions can be added. He has never expressed his opinion. But he did not expect that fans would organize themselves to express their demands in this way.
The students looked at the noisy scene in front of them and were dumbfounded, but they were very moved and looked at Zhang Ran with prayers, hoping to add.
Zhang Ran pondered for a moment and nodded, "You can add the show, but you need to wait a few days. The schedule of the Poly Theater is over. After our eight shows, other troupes will perform here. This cannot be changed. We need to contact the theater again, and it will take time. When we get in touch, we will tell you!"
A burst of cheers suddenly broke out in the crowd. Everyone's efforts were not in vain. Finally, I had the chance to see "Three Fools" in the theater!
After chatting with the fans, Zhang Ran took the students onto the bus and ordered the driver to drive. After the bus started, Zhang Ran called the person in charge of the National Drama Theater. The National Drama Theater has performed in recent days. Afterwards, he contacted the Capital Theater of the People's Art Theater and there were also performances. He asked several theaters in a row, and finally the matter was finalized after contacting the People's Liberation Army Opera House.
Compared with Poly, the PLA Opera House is much smaller, with only 800 seats. However, because the performances are relatively small, the venue and tickets are relatively cheap, it is a good place to give back to the audience's support. Happy Twist likes to perform here.
When the eight performances of "Three Fools" ended in Poly, tickets for the second round of performances at the PLA Opera began to be sold, and six performances were performed this time. Ticket sales were still hot. In less than half a day, tickets for the six performances were sold out again.
On this day, Zhang Ran received an invitation from the Mocheng Performing Arts Corporation, hoping that "Three Fools" could perform five shows in the Mocheng. Immediately afterwards, performance companies from several provinces sent invitations to Zhang Ran, hoping that "Three Fools" could perform locally, including state-owned companies and private enterprises.
Zhang Ran was not very familiar with the drama market. He specifically asked Meng Jinghui and went to Guodian to ask several directors, including Tian Qinxin. After understanding the drama markets in their respective cities and the reputation of each performance company, Zhang Ran selected eight cities to tour, and the time was set on April 25.
After learning the news, the students were all excited and were really going to tour the country!
However, Zhang Ran did not forget to pour cold water on them: "This national tour is much more difficult than you think. Do you know where you perform in the Magic City performance? The Magic City Grand Theater is probably the most difficult theater in the country. This theater is larger than the Poly Theater, with 1,800 seats! Two days ago, I went to ask Meng Jinghui for advice and asked if "Amber" was carrying a microphone in the Magic City Grand Theater? He said that if he brought it, he would not be afraid of affecting the quality of the performance. My requirement for you is still not to use a microphone! A 1,800-seat theater without a microphone, and there will be five performances. This is a huge test! Can you do it?"
The students said in unison: "Let's do it!"
Zhang Ran laughed: "I believe you can do it too!"
It was already the end of March, and the time for the movie version of "Three Fools" was approaching. Zhao Fei and Ding Sheng and others had arrived in Xiamen half a month ago to prepare for the start of the filming. Zhang Ran really had no time to take care of the drama performance, and handed over all the work to Li Xinyue and Zhou Zheng, and prepared to fly directly to Xiamen.
Zhang Ran dragged his suitcase and just sat down in the waiting hall. A phone call from Han Shanping caught him off guard: "Zhang Ran, where are you? The country has a task for you!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!