Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 184: Each One Enters the Play

Depp began to adjust his shirt and clipped the mini microphone to his shirt pocket.

"Crack!"

Cao Yang shouted and said to Depp: "Depp, don't be expressionless. What you are performing now is recording a voice and picture. Although this is a pseudo-documentary method, you have to give a slightly nervous and a little excited expression."

Depp gave an OK sign.

"Okay, all departments, take note, let's do it again."

Field recorder.

Depp's dull face showed a hint of nervousness. He clipped the mini microphone on his shirt pocket and then sat down.

"This is great, isn't it? A great background, with my colleagues behind me, it seems even more real..."

This is said to the camera, and is also a self-narration like a pseudo-documentary.

"Crack!"

Cao Yang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Depp is a somewhat introverted person, so if you ask him to play a gloomy or weird role, he can perform very well.

He looked a little gloomy and shy.

Just like in "Mean Milk", Milk is a gloomy character, and he plays it particularly well.

If you ask him to play a normal person, it would be difficult for him to adjust.

In the script of "District 9", the protagonist is an ordinary person. Before he was promoted, he would joke and play with his colleagues. After he was promoted, he was eager to show off, but he was still a timid person at heart.

"Depp, just think of yourself as an ordinary person. He will be nervous and a little excited when he is on camera. You can't just show your nervousness. You have to have the desire to perform of an ordinary person. You have to be a little excited. Do you understand?"

"Okay, Director, give me five minutes, I'll make some adjustments."

Five minutes later, the filming started again and the script supervisor clapped the clapboard.

Depp smiled a little this time, but it was not natural.

But in comparison, there has been great progress.

"…We are at MNU headquarters, the Alien Affairs Department, I am…"

These days, the filming has been bumpy and progress has been slow.

During this process, Cao Yang specially adjusted the shooting order, and almost all important characters appeared in the first few days.

Cao Yang's goal is to make these people make more NGs. Even if the performance looks okay, he will still call "cut" and do it again.

It gives people the feeling that he has very high demands, but the actors have never been able to meet his requirements.

Moreover, to outsiders, it seemed that Cao Yang was always explaining the play to the actors. He would explain it every time there was a NG, and would also extend his explanation to the character's inner thoughts and combine it with the background of the story.

Does this scene look familiar?
Everyone in the crew who has followed Cao Yang knows that Director Cao is going to use some big moves, so everyone just has to wait for these actors to perform beyond their levels.

No matter how many times they have watched it, they still feel that Director Cao is awesome when it comes to training actors, which is something that other directors find difficult to do.

In terms of acting, among several important actors, Cao Yang felt that the bald Samuel L. Jackson performed well and played the role of a perverted gangster boss very well.

Maybe it’s because he played gangster bosses in Pulp Fiction and Dangerous Liaisons?

Ten days or so passed like this, and Cao Yang felt that it was almost ready. He had talked about it for so many days before the filming and continued to talk about it during the filming, so it was natural that the actors started to perform well.

When he got home at night, he turned on the system.

After thinking about it, I redeemed four immersive experiences at one time.

Cao Yang has now figured out what the immersion experience is for. It is to help actors perform better. If a movie can invest in four immersion experiences and the box office revenue can bring four immersion experiences, then it is definitely worth investing in.

The box office of "Despicable Milk" can reward 50 reputation, which is five immersion experiences. Cao Yang believes that the box office of "District " will not be too bad.

Then investing four into the play experience can only bring benefits.

Cao Yang added one each to Depp, Duan Yihong, Wu Qihua, and Ian McKellen, but not to Muir L. Jackson, who played the gangster boss.

This is because after ten days of filming, Cao Yang found that Muir L. Jackson was fully capable of playing the role of a gangster boss.

Furthermore, this role itself does not require much expressiveness, and the role is not that significant, so there is no need to join in the drama experience.

After Depp fell asleep at night, his mind seemed unusually clear.

He felt as if he had become the protagonist, from an ordinary MNU staff member to the person in charge of alien migration.

Many of those stupid and violent alien prawns don't cooperate.

At least he maintained a considerable degree of patience when communicating with the aliens.

The reason why he remained patient was just to complete the task better. It didn't mean that he liked these aliens. In fact, he also hated these aliens who were difficult to communicate with.

He also personally burned a whole house of alien eggs, and did not think it was an infringement on life at all. He was even excited about the results of his work.

This also represents the view of almost any earthling on aliens. Humans and aliens isolate each other, despise each other, and refuse to communicate, which is also a major reason for the deterioration of inter-racial relations.

The soldiers and mercenaries sent to assist had no patience with these big shrimps. They would shoot at the slightest disagreement and did not treat the aliens as human beings at all.

During an operation to raid an alien residence, he accidentally had a "fluid" in a cylindrical can sprayed onto his face, and his body has continued to experience abnormalities ever since.

He had black nosebleeds, loose fingernails, and vomiting. Finally, after a coma, he was sent to the hospital. When the bandage on his injured left hand was removed, the hand turned into the hand of an alien shrimp...

……

It's similar to Depp's situation, except that Duan Yihong, Wu Qihua and Ian McKellen have different experiences.

Duan Yihong took on the role of commander.

He always held the view that since these alien shrimps could come to Earth on interstellar spacecraft, it proved that they were extremely dangerous to Earth, which could also be seen from their advanced weapons.

Fortunately, for some unknown reason, these alien shrimps that came to Earth all had low intelligence and did not understand or know how to use these weapons.

But he firmly believed that there would be alien shrimps awakening and alien shrimps that could use these weapons would appear.

Those who are not of our race must have different hearts, so we should destroy all these alien shrimps as soon as possible...

Wu Qihua turned into an alien.

He has a son, and they have been secretly collecting energy so that they can start the spacecraft and leave the earth as soon as possible.

He had a bad impression of the humans here. They were arrogant, violent, and twisted in character. They also discriminated against aliens like them who came to Earth.

Just as he was quietly collecting energy, the arrival of a stupid human disrupted everything.

This stupid human has also been infected by energy and is undergoing a mutation...

Ian McKellen became one of the leaders of MNU.

His mission is to study and collect alien weapons and find ways to use them.

But over the past twenty years, every method has been tried at the base, but nothing works.

Until one day, his son-in-law mutated for unknown reasons and was able to use those advanced alien weapons without any hindrance, which surprised him greatly.

In order to find a way to use the weapon, he mercilessly ordered the base to study his son-in-law, including dissection and slice research...

(End of this chapter)