Chapter 414 Graduation Drama
In the blink of an eye, Jin Qixuan has been filming in Daejeon Image Filming Park for more than half a month.
During the past half month, the crew has been filming intensively every day, rain or shine.
Jin Qixuan was very satisfied with this fulfilling life, and after a long period of abstinence, his temperament became even stronger.
……
July 15th.
clear.
The maximum temperature is 32 degrees.
in the afternoon.
Filming location.
Round lighthouse building with a glass factory inside.
Under the arrangement of the staff, this place has been transformed into a giant one-two-three wooden man game venue.
Restroom.
Hwang Dong Hyuk is explaining the scene to Jung Ho Yeon.
Jin Qixuan was also there with him.
On the surface, he kept nodding his head, looking like he was listening attentively, but in reality, he was just rubbing the parasol...
Since Jung Ho-yeon is a new actress, NG is a common thing for her.
However, Huang Donghe was not angry about this.
After all, she is a newcomer and we need to give her time to grow.
If it were actors who have been in the industry for many years and behaved like this, he would not be so polite.
After the play was explained, the stage manager also informed us that the shooting location had been set up.
So, the group headed to the filming location under the scorching sun.
"Are you all ready?"
Huang Donghe looked at the more than 200 extras crowded at the starting line and asked loudly with a megaphone.
"Ready!"
The assistant director quickly replied.
"Okay, all units in position."
"Action!"
Following Huang Donghe's order, the camera was pushed over from behind.
Follow the script.
At this time, the actor playing the wooden man should have turned his head, and then everyone started running forward.
However, when the "wooden man" was halfway turning, one of the extras, perhaps out of nervousness or something, started running straight away.
Then, the herd mentality came into play, and the rest of the extras actually started running.
Huang Donghe: “…”
"Kakaka!"
"Again!"
Huang Donghe looked at the noisy crowd and rubbed his swollen temples.
In fact, this plot is quite simple. As long as the extras follow their prior rehearsal and run when they should run and stop when they should stop, there will be absolutely no problem.
However, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Because there are too many people, there will always be a few groups that make mistakes.
In addition, the weather was already hot, and the extras were crowded together, so the smell of sweat and body odor came out, and the smell was very overpowering.
After seven or eight takes, none of them met Huang Dong Hyuk's expectations.
Although he knew that these extras were not professional actors, it was normal for this situation to occur when shooting a large group of people.
But understanding is one thing, but irritability is really irritability.
At this time, Huang Donghe discovered a serious problem.
As the weather was so hot, many extras looked listless, and some even had dull eyes.
This can't go on like this!
Huang Donghe thought about it in his heart, then turned to the assistant director behind him and said:
"Go talk to the props team and ask them to bring out the fans. Also, ask the stagehands to buy some iced drinks."
The assistant director was stunned for a moment and said, "But if that's the case, the budget might..."
“No buts.” Huang Donghe interrupted him, “If the progress is delayed for one day, the loss will be greater.”
The assistant director thought so too, nodded, and hurried to notify them.
A few minutes later.
The props team brought over several large fans, and the stage crew quickly drove to a nearby convenience store to buy iced drinks.
After the fans and iced drinks were in place, Hwang Dong Hyuk asked everyone to rest for ten minutes before resuming filming.
Finally, after several attempts, Huang Donghe finally took a satisfactory picture.
"pass!"
"Change the venue for the next play."
Hearing this, Jin Qixuan also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the large fans made the temperature slightly cooler, the sweat and body odor from other extras were inevitably blown over.
The taste is simply amazing!
……
After filming the scene where Jiang Xiao slipped and Cheng Qixun heroically saved the girl, Huang Donghe announced that he had called time to film the scene where everyone played games tomorrow.
After the filming, Kim Ki-hyeon returned to the hotel and met Lee Ji-eun who came to visit him.
The main purpose of her visit was to talk about Jin Qixuan's desire to cancel the evening video call.
Sometimes when Jin Qixuan was shooting night scenes, it would be three or four in the morning when he finished filming.
As a result, Li Zhien was still awake waiting for him...
One or two days is fine.
But in the long run, Jin Qixuan was worried that her body wouldn't be able to bear it.
After all, Kim Ki-hyun has resumed work, and so has Lee Ji-eun.
Given her current situation, there is no need for her to work as hard as she did when she was young and only sleep three or four hours a day.
But Lee Ji-eun doesn't think so.
She feels that she is fully capable of balancing career and love.
So, the two of them had a disagreement over this matter.
That's why there was a scene where she attacked Jin Qixuan at night.
"Ah! What? How long after getting married have you already started to dislike me?"
Lee Ji-eun sat on the sofa with her arms folded and her eyebrows raised.
"Don't dare."
"Are you afraid or have you already given up?"
"What are you talking about?" Jin Qixuan took off his coat and sat next to her. "I'm just concerned about your health. You can have videos, but there's no need to do it every day."
Hearing this, Li Zhien's expression relaxed a little and said, "But I just want to see you every day..."
“It’s the same when you look at photos.”
"Do you not love me anymore?"
Jin Qixuan: “?”
No, isn't this turn of topic a bit abrupt?
Seeing that Lee Ji-eun was showing signs of being able to argue even if she was wrong, Jin Qixuan knew that it would be futile to say anything now.
Only if you feed her, she can talk to you properly...
Thinking of this, Jin Qixuan executed her on the spot.
Three quarters of an hour later.
Li Zhien's little face was flushed as she lay on Jin Qixuan's chest, drawing circles on his chest with her fingers.
"My finishing time is not fixed every day, so I will video call you early after finishing the filming, okay? No video calls in the early morning or later."
"I understand..."
Li Zhien pouted and responded reluctantly.
After the two of them stayed together for a while, Lee Ji-eun put on her clothes and left.
Due to epidemic prevention reasons, coupled with the fact that she has to prepare new songs recently, take on new endorsements, and run offline activities, she does not have much free time.
So, I only stayed for more than an hour and then left.
The next day.
Jin Qixuan arrived at the crew early.
Today, they are going to film everyone playing the game.
There were more people in this scene than yesterday.
In addition to the players, there were also people betting and watching the fun. There were about three or four hundred people in total.
As the progress was much slower than expected, Huang Donghe had to change the originally planned five-day shooting time for game scenes to eight days.
As a result, there is very little time left for everyone to shoot transition scenes.
You know, although the game scenes are of paramount importance in this play, the transition scenes between games are also very important.
If the transition scenes are deleted, the plot will become incoherent, which will affect the viewing experience.
This is something Huang Donghe cannot accept.
Therefore, in order to speed up the progress, Hwang Dong Hyuk changed the original nine-hour shooting time to twelve hours a day.
Time passed slowly during the shooting.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of July.
On this day, Jin Qixuan had to ask for leave from director Huang Donghe.
He has to go back to school to take the graduation exam and defense.
Naturally, Huang Donghe would not refuse to approve such a fake.
But in this way, Jin Qixuan's role will have to be moved back.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of shooting, the progress has not only caught up, but is even faster than expected.
After getting permission, Jin Qixuan returned to school.
The play he chose for his graduation was Oedipus Rex.
This work is a model of ancient Greek tragedy and is known as the "perfect tragedy". It has had a profound impact on the development of Western drama.
Its theme is the conflict between human will and destiny.
Oedipus was cursed after he was born, saying that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
So his father nailed his ankles with nails and had the servant in charge throw him into a desolate mountain.
As a result, the servant couldn't bear it and gave it to a shepherd in Corinth.
The king of Corinth took Oedipus in because he had no son.
When Oedipus grew up, he learned of the oracle and fled from Corinth to avoid its fulfillment.
As a result, while wandering, he got into a conflict with an old man due to his youthful vigor and accidentally killed him.
And this old man was his biological father.
Later, he answered the riddle correctly, got rid of the monster, and was crowned king by the people of Thebes.
He married the former queen, his biological mother, and had two children with her.
Finally, Oedipus learned the truth. Unable to accept the reality, he blinded himself and went into self-exile.
In order to play this scene well, Jin Qixuan started researching it a year ago.
I even went to the musical theater to watch Hwang Jung-min’s version of Oedipus Rex.
The clip chosen by Jin Qixuan is a monologue after Oedipus learns the truth.
Although this play does not have much content, the emotions are extremely complex and it is not easy to act well.
Because this requires the actor to express Oedipus's shock, anger, shame, despair, sadness, madness and many other emotions after he knows the truth in just a few minutes.
This difficult performance segment is a big challenge even for Jin Qixuan.
In the blink of an eye, the day of the exam arrived.
Jin Qixuan stood quietly on the stage, lowered his eyes slightly, adjusted his breathing, and brewed his emotions.
After a moment, he slowly raised his head and began his performance.
When he learned the truth that was like a bolt from the blue, his eyes instantly widened, as if his eyeballs were about to burst out of their sockets, and a storm of shock and despair raged wildly in his eyes.
His face was as pale as paper, completely bloodless, and his lips kept trembling like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
Then, Jin Qixuan staggered back a few steps, raised his hands helplessly, his fingers trembling slightly.
"Oh, oh! Everything has come true! Light of day, I am looking at you for the last time! I have become the son of parents who should not have given birth to me, married a mother who should not have married, and killed a father who should not have been killed."
As the voice fell, two lines of hot tears slid down his cheeks just right, his chest rose and fell violently, and his breathing became as rapid as the drumbeats in the wind.
Gradually, a look of madness emerged in his eyes, and that madness was like a burning flame, hot and dangerous. Then he suddenly squatted down, tearing his hair with both hands, and shouted hysterically:
"I am a person abandoned by God. My fate is determined. I will endure endless pain and torture."
Perhaps to people who don't know much about it, Jin Qixuan's performance may seem like a psychopath.
But in the eyes of insiders, his performance was full of tension, rich in emotions and progressive in layers.
Especially when learning the truth, the change in expression from disbelief to anger and then to pain and despair is very natural.
The school's graders below the stage couldn't stop nodding, with admiration in their eyes.
At this time, the performance on stage was still going on.
Jin Qixuan was groping his way towards the props, murmuring in a tearful voice:
"My eyes, you must never see the ugliness and misery of this world again. I am willing to exchange your darkness for inner peace."
At this time, the stage lights were completely focused on the props in Jin Qixuan's hands, making them sparkle and increasing the visual impact.
At the same time, the background music also reached its climax, and the plaintive melody echoed in the theater, moving people.
After saying that, Jin Qixuan stabbed his own eyes fiercely with the prop.
Of course, it's not a real stab, it's just an act.
In order to further enhance the visual effect, when the prop is about to pierce his eyes, Jin Qixuan will tilt his head back sharply to show the body's instinctive reaction to pain.
At the same time, there will be light and shadow rendering and smoke effects on the stage to make the scene more realistic.
After his eyes were "blinded", Jin Qixuan's body was unable to stand due to the great pain. He staggered and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
Afterwards, he lay prone on the ground, gripping the ground tightly with both hands. His fingers turned white from exertion, veins bulged on his arms, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
After a long while, Jin Qixuan stood up with trembling hands on the ground, groped his way forward, and began his self-exile.
"Let my fate take me wherever it takes me. I will no longer resist or struggle. I will accept all the punishments..."
Jin Qixuan's voice became smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely.
And his figure disappeared in the fog and dim lights on the stage.
This darkness and silence were completely different from before the performance.
Before the performance, the darkness and silence on the stage were dead and empty.
But now, the darkness and silence on the stage are filled with endless sorrow and despair, making people feel extremely depressed and suffocated.
After a moment, the stage lights came back on, illuminating the entire stage.
Jin Qixuan, who was in the center of the stage, was bowing to the judges.
At this moment, he could clearly hear the applause and cheers coming from the younger students who came to the stage to watch Jin Qixuan's graduation drama.
"Wow, you are worthy of being a senior. The performance was great."
"Yes, it can be regarded as a textbook version. He portrayed Oedipus's struggle and helplessness in the face of fate so realistically."
"That's right, I cried. What about you?"
"I...Is it okay for me to cry now?"
"..."
Hearing these praises and applause, Jin Qixuan did not become complacent.
Because he didn't know how much of the applause and cheers came from the heart, and how much was given because of his status.
Below the stage, the raters were whispering to each other as they gave Jin Qixuan's performance scores based on their own standards.
Each scorer is responsible for scoring in a different direction.
They are: performance skills, dialogue expression, body language, emotional involvement, interpretation of works, and stage coordination.
Jin Qixuan's mentor, Professor Lin, saw that the dean only gave him an 80 for his performance and couldn't help but argue:
"Dean, it's not good to give 80 points. His child has won three Best Actor awards. Wouldn't it be a bit ridiculous if it got out?"
Upon hearing this, the dean glanced at him calmly and said:
"It's because he won three Best Actor awards that I gave him 80 points."
"In the history of our college, there are only a few people who have won the Best Actor Award during their studies. They are all extremely talented. What does a few minutes of monologue mean to them?"
"Jin Qixuan's performance today was indeed good, but it has not yet deviated from the framework of Oedipus Rex, and the traces of performance are also a bit heavy."
"If we put aside his status as an award-winning actor, I would give him 95 points."
"But people's expectations of him are more than just 95 points. He must do better than 95 points to meet people's expectations of him."
"You should also understand that if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, right?"
Hearing this, Professor Lin opened his mouth, swallowed the words back, and sighed helplessly.
Although he was only given 80 points for performance skills, Jin Qixuan's graduation drama score still reached a high score of 93 points after taking all six subjects into consideration.
After the results were announced, the graduation defense began.
The paper prepared by Jin Qixuan is "The Practice and Research of Experiential Performance System in Performance".
The PPT not only lists performance clips of many experiential performance masters, but also combines his own performance experience. He elaborates on his own views and insights from multiple aspects, including the theoretical explanation of the experiential performance system, specific practice, effect evaluation, and comparison with other performance systems.
The thesis defense went smoothly.
Jin Qixuan has clear logic and quick thinking, and can answer questions raised by professors fluently.
At this point, Jin Qixuan successfully obtained a doctorate degree in arts.
I am just waiting for school to start in September to attend the graduation ceremony and receive my degree certificate and graduation certificate.
Afterwards, Jin Qixuan's plan to stay at National Central University as an assistant professor was also put on the agenda.
(End of this chapter)
In the blink of an eye, Jin Qixuan has been filming in Daejeon Image Filming Park for more than half a month.
During the past half month, the crew has been filming intensively every day, rain or shine.
Jin Qixuan was very satisfied with this fulfilling life, and after a long period of abstinence, his temperament became even stronger.
……
July 15th.
clear.
The maximum temperature is 32 degrees.
in the afternoon.
Filming location.
Round lighthouse building with a glass factory inside.
Under the arrangement of the staff, this place has been transformed into a giant one-two-three wooden man game venue.
Restroom.
Hwang Dong Hyuk is explaining the scene to Jung Ho Yeon.
Jin Qixuan was also there with him.
On the surface, he kept nodding his head, looking like he was listening attentively, but in reality, he was just rubbing the parasol...
Since Jung Ho-yeon is a new actress, NG is a common thing for her.
However, Huang Donghe was not angry about this.
After all, she is a newcomer and we need to give her time to grow.
If it were actors who have been in the industry for many years and behaved like this, he would not be so polite.
After the play was explained, the stage manager also informed us that the shooting location had been set up.
So, the group headed to the filming location under the scorching sun.
"Are you all ready?"
Huang Donghe looked at the more than 200 extras crowded at the starting line and asked loudly with a megaphone.
"Ready!"
The assistant director quickly replied.
"Okay, all units in position."
"Action!"
Following Huang Donghe's order, the camera was pushed over from behind.
Follow the script.
At this time, the actor playing the wooden man should have turned his head, and then everyone started running forward.
However, when the "wooden man" was halfway turning, one of the extras, perhaps out of nervousness or something, started running straight away.
Then, the herd mentality came into play, and the rest of the extras actually started running.
Huang Donghe: “…”
"Kakaka!"
"Again!"
Huang Donghe looked at the noisy crowd and rubbed his swollen temples.
In fact, this plot is quite simple. As long as the extras follow their prior rehearsal and run when they should run and stop when they should stop, there will be absolutely no problem.
However, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Because there are too many people, there will always be a few groups that make mistakes.
In addition, the weather was already hot, and the extras were crowded together, so the smell of sweat and body odor came out, and the smell was very overpowering.
After seven or eight takes, none of them met Huang Dong Hyuk's expectations.
Although he knew that these extras were not professional actors, it was normal for this situation to occur when shooting a large group of people.
But understanding is one thing, but irritability is really irritability.
At this time, Huang Donghe discovered a serious problem.
As the weather was so hot, many extras looked listless, and some even had dull eyes.
This can't go on like this!
Huang Donghe thought about it in his heart, then turned to the assistant director behind him and said:
"Go talk to the props team and ask them to bring out the fans. Also, ask the stagehands to buy some iced drinks."
The assistant director was stunned for a moment and said, "But if that's the case, the budget might..."
“No buts.” Huang Donghe interrupted him, “If the progress is delayed for one day, the loss will be greater.”
The assistant director thought so too, nodded, and hurried to notify them.
A few minutes later.
The props team brought over several large fans, and the stage crew quickly drove to a nearby convenience store to buy iced drinks.
After the fans and iced drinks were in place, Hwang Dong Hyuk asked everyone to rest for ten minutes before resuming filming.
Finally, after several attempts, Huang Donghe finally took a satisfactory picture.
"pass!"
"Change the venue for the next play."
Hearing this, Jin Qixuan also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the large fans made the temperature slightly cooler, the sweat and body odor from other extras were inevitably blown over.
The taste is simply amazing!
……
After filming the scene where Jiang Xiao slipped and Cheng Qixun heroically saved the girl, Huang Donghe announced that he had called time to film the scene where everyone played games tomorrow.
After the filming, Kim Ki-hyeon returned to the hotel and met Lee Ji-eun who came to visit him.
The main purpose of her visit was to talk about Jin Qixuan's desire to cancel the evening video call.
Sometimes when Jin Qixuan was shooting night scenes, it would be three or four in the morning when he finished filming.
As a result, Li Zhien was still awake waiting for him...
One or two days is fine.
But in the long run, Jin Qixuan was worried that her body wouldn't be able to bear it.
After all, Kim Ki-hyun has resumed work, and so has Lee Ji-eun.
Given her current situation, there is no need for her to work as hard as she did when she was young and only sleep three or four hours a day.
But Lee Ji-eun doesn't think so.
She feels that she is fully capable of balancing career and love.
So, the two of them had a disagreement over this matter.
That's why there was a scene where she attacked Jin Qixuan at night.
"Ah! What? How long after getting married have you already started to dislike me?"
Lee Ji-eun sat on the sofa with her arms folded and her eyebrows raised.
"Don't dare."
"Are you afraid or have you already given up?"
"What are you talking about?" Jin Qixuan took off his coat and sat next to her. "I'm just concerned about your health. You can have videos, but there's no need to do it every day."
Hearing this, Li Zhien's expression relaxed a little and said, "But I just want to see you every day..."
“It’s the same when you look at photos.”
"Do you not love me anymore?"
Jin Qixuan: “?”
No, isn't this turn of topic a bit abrupt?
Seeing that Lee Ji-eun was showing signs of being able to argue even if she was wrong, Jin Qixuan knew that it would be futile to say anything now.
Only if you feed her, she can talk to you properly...
Thinking of this, Jin Qixuan executed her on the spot.
Three quarters of an hour later.
Li Zhien's little face was flushed as she lay on Jin Qixuan's chest, drawing circles on his chest with her fingers.
"My finishing time is not fixed every day, so I will video call you early after finishing the filming, okay? No video calls in the early morning or later."
"I understand..."
Li Zhien pouted and responded reluctantly.
After the two of them stayed together for a while, Lee Ji-eun put on her clothes and left.
Due to epidemic prevention reasons, coupled with the fact that she has to prepare new songs recently, take on new endorsements, and run offline activities, she does not have much free time.
So, I only stayed for more than an hour and then left.
The next day.
Jin Qixuan arrived at the crew early.
Today, they are going to film everyone playing the game.
There were more people in this scene than yesterday.
In addition to the players, there were also people betting and watching the fun. There were about three or four hundred people in total.
As the progress was much slower than expected, Huang Donghe had to change the originally planned five-day shooting time for game scenes to eight days.
As a result, there is very little time left for everyone to shoot transition scenes.
You know, although the game scenes are of paramount importance in this play, the transition scenes between games are also very important.
If the transition scenes are deleted, the plot will become incoherent, which will affect the viewing experience.
This is something Huang Donghe cannot accept.
Therefore, in order to speed up the progress, Hwang Dong Hyuk changed the original nine-hour shooting time to twelve hours a day.
Time passed slowly during the shooting.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of July.
On this day, Jin Qixuan had to ask for leave from director Huang Donghe.
He has to go back to school to take the graduation exam and defense.
Naturally, Huang Donghe would not refuse to approve such a fake.
But in this way, Jin Qixuan's role will have to be moved back.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of shooting, the progress has not only caught up, but is even faster than expected.
After getting permission, Jin Qixuan returned to school.
The play he chose for his graduation was Oedipus Rex.
This work is a model of ancient Greek tragedy and is known as the "perfect tragedy". It has had a profound impact on the development of Western drama.
Its theme is the conflict between human will and destiny.
Oedipus was cursed after he was born, saying that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
So his father nailed his ankles with nails and had the servant in charge throw him into a desolate mountain.
As a result, the servant couldn't bear it and gave it to a shepherd in Corinth.
The king of Corinth took Oedipus in because he had no son.
When Oedipus grew up, he learned of the oracle and fled from Corinth to avoid its fulfillment.
As a result, while wandering, he got into a conflict with an old man due to his youthful vigor and accidentally killed him.
And this old man was his biological father.
Later, he answered the riddle correctly, got rid of the monster, and was crowned king by the people of Thebes.
He married the former queen, his biological mother, and had two children with her.
Finally, Oedipus learned the truth. Unable to accept the reality, he blinded himself and went into self-exile.
In order to play this scene well, Jin Qixuan started researching it a year ago.
I even went to the musical theater to watch Hwang Jung-min’s version of Oedipus Rex.
The clip chosen by Jin Qixuan is a monologue after Oedipus learns the truth.
Although this play does not have much content, the emotions are extremely complex and it is not easy to act well.
Because this requires the actor to express Oedipus's shock, anger, shame, despair, sadness, madness and many other emotions after he knows the truth in just a few minutes.
This difficult performance segment is a big challenge even for Jin Qixuan.
In the blink of an eye, the day of the exam arrived.
Jin Qixuan stood quietly on the stage, lowered his eyes slightly, adjusted his breathing, and brewed his emotions.
After a moment, he slowly raised his head and began his performance.
When he learned the truth that was like a bolt from the blue, his eyes instantly widened, as if his eyeballs were about to burst out of their sockets, and a storm of shock and despair raged wildly in his eyes.
His face was as pale as paper, completely bloodless, and his lips kept trembling like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
Then, Jin Qixuan staggered back a few steps, raised his hands helplessly, his fingers trembling slightly.
"Oh, oh! Everything has come true! Light of day, I am looking at you for the last time! I have become the son of parents who should not have given birth to me, married a mother who should not have married, and killed a father who should not have been killed."
As the voice fell, two lines of hot tears slid down his cheeks just right, his chest rose and fell violently, and his breathing became as rapid as the drumbeats in the wind.
Gradually, a look of madness emerged in his eyes, and that madness was like a burning flame, hot and dangerous. Then he suddenly squatted down, tearing his hair with both hands, and shouted hysterically:
"I am a person abandoned by God. My fate is determined. I will endure endless pain and torture."
Perhaps to people who don't know much about it, Jin Qixuan's performance may seem like a psychopath.
But in the eyes of insiders, his performance was full of tension, rich in emotions and progressive in layers.
Especially when learning the truth, the change in expression from disbelief to anger and then to pain and despair is very natural.
The school's graders below the stage couldn't stop nodding, with admiration in their eyes.
At this time, the performance on stage was still going on.
Jin Qixuan was groping his way towards the props, murmuring in a tearful voice:
"My eyes, you must never see the ugliness and misery of this world again. I am willing to exchange your darkness for inner peace."
At this time, the stage lights were completely focused on the props in Jin Qixuan's hands, making them sparkle and increasing the visual impact.
At the same time, the background music also reached its climax, and the plaintive melody echoed in the theater, moving people.
After saying that, Jin Qixuan stabbed his own eyes fiercely with the prop.
Of course, it's not a real stab, it's just an act.
In order to further enhance the visual effect, when the prop is about to pierce his eyes, Jin Qixuan will tilt his head back sharply to show the body's instinctive reaction to pain.
At the same time, there will be light and shadow rendering and smoke effects on the stage to make the scene more realistic.
After his eyes were "blinded", Jin Qixuan's body was unable to stand due to the great pain. He staggered and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
Afterwards, he lay prone on the ground, gripping the ground tightly with both hands. His fingers turned white from exertion, veins bulged on his arms, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
After a long while, Jin Qixuan stood up with trembling hands on the ground, groped his way forward, and began his self-exile.
"Let my fate take me wherever it takes me. I will no longer resist or struggle. I will accept all the punishments..."
Jin Qixuan's voice became smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely.
And his figure disappeared in the fog and dim lights on the stage.
This darkness and silence were completely different from before the performance.
Before the performance, the darkness and silence on the stage were dead and empty.
But now, the darkness and silence on the stage are filled with endless sorrow and despair, making people feel extremely depressed and suffocated.
After a moment, the stage lights came back on, illuminating the entire stage.
Jin Qixuan, who was in the center of the stage, was bowing to the judges.
At this moment, he could clearly hear the applause and cheers coming from the younger students who came to the stage to watch Jin Qixuan's graduation drama.
"Wow, you are worthy of being a senior. The performance was great."
"Yes, it can be regarded as a textbook version. He portrayed Oedipus's struggle and helplessness in the face of fate so realistically."
"That's right, I cried. What about you?"
"I...Is it okay for me to cry now?"
"..."
Hearing these praises and applause, Jin Qixuan did not become complacent.
Because he didn't know how much of the applause and cheers came from the heart, and how much was given because of his status.
Below the stage, the raters were whispering to each other as they gave Jin Qixuan's performance scores based on their own standards.
Each scorer is responsible for scoring in a different direction.
They are: performance skills, dialogue expression, body language, emotional involvement, interpretation of works, and stage coordination.
Jin Qixuan's mentor, Professor Lin, saw that the dean only gave him an 80 for his performance and couldn't help but argue:
"Dean, it's not good to give 80 points. His child has won three Best Actor awards. Wouldn't it be a bit ridiculous if it got out?"
Upon hearing this, the dean glanced at him calmly and said:
"It's because he won three Best Actor awards that I gave him 80 points."
"In the history of our college, there are only a few people who have won the Best Actor Award during their studies. They are all extremely talented. What does a few minutes of monologue mean to them?"
"Jin Qixuan's performance today was indeed good, but it has not yet deviated from the framework of Oedipus Rex, and the traces of performance are also a bit heavy."
"If we put aside his status as an award-winning actor, I would give him 95 points."
"But people's expectations of him are more than just 95 points. He must do better than 95 points to meet people's expectations of him."
"You should also understand that if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight, right?"
Hearing this, Professor Lin opened his mouth, swallowed the words back, and sighed helplessly.
Although he was only given 80 points for performance skills, Jin Qixuan's graduation drama score still reached a high score of 93 points after taking all six subjects into consideration.
After the results were announced, the graduation defense began.
The paper prepared by Jin Qixuan is "The Practice and Research of Experiential Performance System in Performance".
The PPT not only lists performance clips of many experiential performance masters, but also combines his own performance experience. He elaborates on his own views and insights from multiple aspects, including the theoretical explanation of the experiential performance system, specific practice, effect evaluation, and comparison with other performance systems.
The thesis defense went smoothly.
Jin Qixuan has clear logic and quick thinking, and can answer questions raised by professors fluently.
At this point, Jin Qixuan successfully obtained a doctorate degree in arts.
I am just waiting for school to start in September to attend the graduation ceremony and receive my degree certificate and graduation certificate.
Afterwards, Jin Qixuan's plan to stay at National Central University as an assistant professor was also put on the agenda.
(End of this chapter)
