Chapter 52 Drama Script
After finishing his meal and parting with Qin Hao, Liu Zhou was still thinking about the drama.

He might have said it casually because he was depressed, but it served as a reminder to Liu Zhou.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, although the film industry seemed to be in a dark period, the drama market was thriving.

It's hard to say about the National Theatre of China, but the dramas performed by the Beijing People's Art Theatre are almost always sold out. If they are classic plays like "Teahouse", "Thunderstorm" or "The World's No. 1 Restaurant", tickets are even harder to get.

Even Liu Zhou's senior brother Meng Jinhui set up his own drama studio and is living a comfortable life.

Anyway, I'm a junior now and have a lot of free time, so I can try to do drama to see if I can make it.

He did what he said. When he returned to the courtyard at night, Liu Zhou started thinking about what kind of drama he should put on.

The drama market in later generations is very active, but it is a niche art category after all, and the only relatively well-known one is the Happy Twist Theater.

The reason why Happy Twist is well-known is that they later switched to the film industry, and almost all the movies they made were big hits, which made them widely known.

You know, many of the movies they make are adapted from dramas.

Liu Zhou naturally turned his attention to the Happy Twist Troupe, mainly because he was not familiar with the others.

Compared to the hilarious comedies of Happy Twist, another ironic movie came to Liu Zhou's mind.

"The Donkey Gets Water"!
This is the only thought-provoking film produced by Happy Twist. Although the box office was not high, the word of mouth was very good and it caused a huge discussion at one time.

This film "Duds" can be said to be a collection of ugly stories about lies, human nature, education, love, hatred, cowardice and so on.

No one dares to look directly at any of the characters or stories.

The louder it makes people laugh in the early stages, the more it makes people cry and feel depressed in the later stages.

After some thought, Liu Zhou also began to write.

Liu Zhou has not seen the play "Duds", but has seen the movie several times.

So this time when he wrote the drama script, he also wrote it according to the plot of the movie.

It took Liu Zhou three days to write the script, and then he spent nearly a week polishing it.

Looking at the not very thick notebook in front of him, this is what Liu Zhou gained from his retreat.

After stretching, Liu Zhou took the notebook and went to the head teacher's office.

Huang Weiruo was there at that time. He knocked on the door and Liu Zhou walked in.

Seeing that the person coming was Liu Zhou, Huang Weiruo put down his pen and said with a smile:

"Great writer, how come you have time to come to my small office today?"

"Isn't it to make your small office more glorious?"

"Hey, my small office is full of great scholars and no ordinary people come and go."

"Okay, teacher, I admit defeat. I am here to ask for your advice."

Huang Weiruo stopped joking and said:
"What's the matter? And I asked you to come here in person."

"I wrote a play script and I want you to review it."

"Oh, bring it here for me to see."

Ever since reading Liu Zhou's short film script "The Tuner" and the skit he made, Huang Weiruo has been looking forward to him creating more excellent scripts.

But after that, Liu Zhou seemed to focus all his energy on novels and he was not seen writing new scripts.

It's a rare opportunity now that Liu Zhou has come up with a drama script, which makes him a little excited.

Huang Weiruo opened the script Liu Zhou handed over and read it attentively. After nearly two hours, Huang Weiruo closed the script and slowly exhaled.

Liu Zhou did not disappoint him!
It’s a good book!
When Liu Zhou saw Huang Weiruo looking up, he knew that he had finished reading, so he put back the "Introduction to Aesthetics" that he had taken from his desk.

"Teacher, how is it?"

"Not bad!"

Before Liu Zhou's smile could fully unfold, Huang Weiruo continued:

"But your script has some zz metaphors, which is a bit difficult to handle. I don't know if I can act it out."

When Liu Zhou heard what he said, he knew that Lao Huang was still quite capable.

He didn't know whether the original author deliberately wrote these metaphors into the script when he created it, but seeing that he named the primary school Sanmin Primary School, he thought that the author did it on purpose.

Each of these protagonists represents his or her own camp, and when they come together, the various conflicts that break out also somewhat reflect the situation at the time.

I heard that the movie was rejected when it was submitted for review after it was finished, and it was only passed after the ending was revised.

The ending we saw was that in the end, Principal Sun’s youngest daughter did not go abroad, but went to Yan’an to find her elder brother.

This sentence confines all the metaphors in the movie to four or five years ago, and points out that Jia Jia, the only person in the movie who did nothing wrong, went to Yan'an to join the eldest brother.

In addition to what has been mentioned before, Jia Jia also has a second sister who lives in the mountain city. It is self-evident what she and her elder brother represent.

Jia Jia represents the neutral group. After experiencing the farce, she chose to go to Yan'an.

It can be said that the original production and directing team was really amazing. They used a humorous metaphor to express such a sensitive topic under such strict film review conditions at the time.

Although Liu Zhou also did the same thing in the script, zz is very difficult to grasp.

If the situation now is different from that of more than ten years later, it will be troublesome if we make a mistake.

So it’s always a good idea to ask a teacher for advice, as they have a more accurate grasp of this aspect.

"Teacher, didn't I take care of it in the end? It should be okay, right?"

"Your handling of this is indeed very beautiful, but you should know that in some current anti-Japanese war dramas, the images of the opposing sides are all stereotyped. The authorities are very sensitive about the relationship between the two sides now."

"What should I do?"

"Don't worry, I'll show it to Dean Xu and see what he says. If he says there's no problem, then there's no problem. If there is, we'll try to modify it."

"All right!"

President Xu is the former president of the Central Academy of Drama. He has served as the president of the Central Academy of Drama since 1983 and will retire next year.

He is the biggest supporter and backer of the teachers and students of the Central Academy of Drama. If he says there is a problem, then there is nothing we can do but change the play.

He didn't want to make any changes. Instead of changing it beyond recognition now, it would be better to leave it as it is and stage the play later.

After leaving the head teacher's office, Liu Zhou couldn't help but sigh.

Now he also understands a little bit the suffering of Jia Zhangke and other sixth-generation directors. It is really painful to watch their hard work fail.

In the next few days, Liu Zhou was always worried about something. Zeng Li also noticed his condition and thought he was worried about something.

Zeng Li finally felt relieved after explaining it to her.

Just when Liu Zhou was getting impatient and wanted to find Lao Huang to find out what was going on, Lao Huang found him first and simply said three words:
"Don't worry!"

(End of this chapter)