back to innocence

When he first arrived at the training place, Meng Lanxi, who consciously participated in the audition reluctantly for the sake of international influence, was less dissatisfied with the producer.

For training, Estar simply leased a private castle directly.Although it is only a month, it must cost a lot.The castle itself is very antique, but after wandering around the interior among competitors of different races, Meng Lanxi found that the content of the castle is really amazing.

Upon arrival at the castle, a thin booklet was distributed to everyone who arrived.The cover of the booklet has the logos of Estar and Huafeng, but the thickness is too thin for a script.

But if it's just an instruction manual, everyone's booklets obviously have subtle differences in the number of pages.Moreover, each brochure indicated the name of the distribution target and the role to be recruited, and it was printed directly. If it was an instruction manual or training rules, there was obviously no need to do this.

Meng Lanxi opened her handbook and found that it turned out to be a witch's handbook.

... No, it's not just as simple as a human manual.Because when she continued to read, she found that what she saw was an independent novel with ups and downs.

This is—a biography of a witch?

Meng Lanxi was a little startled.

To be precise, this thin booklet is divided into three parts.The first part is naturally the character design of the witch.The character setting part is not long, but it is very detailed, and each item has its own reasons.

For example, the witch's name is Erica Fanci, and the brackets behind it read: Before Angelina Fanci gave birth, I saw a rich lady who came to Van Monka to play on the street.Another lady called Erica.So when Erica was born, Angelina thought that only the name Erica was suitable for her daughter-she hoped that her daughter could live as happily as a beautiful rich lady.

In terms of other human settings, there are similar marks.For example, in the favorite pet, the mouse is marked-the reason is that Erica lived in the sewer for a year after her mother died, where she lived with the mice in the sewer and shared food. residue.After that, Erica considered the mouse her friend.

After the character design, it is the longest part of the whole booklet, but it is a medium-length independent novel, which tells the life of a witch from birth to death.

Meng Lanxi read on.

It's almost a biographical story in its own right—Erica's birth, growth, doubts, changes, and, finally, death.In the process of reading, Meng Lanxi slowly began to understand the character she was about to play.Here, she is not a templated witch, but a girl with a humble birth, a rough childhood, but a strong and resilient personality. In order to seek herself and explore the unknown, she gradually immersed herself in the occult, and finally died for it.

Meng Lanxi, who was immersed in the storyline, could not perceive the passage of time. When she woke up, she had already read dozens of pages of the novella in the booklet.

Then she saw the last section of the manual—an excerpt from the part of the script that belonged to her character.

She was stunned.

The witch scene is very, very short.

In the story, the witch is still the witch without any name.She doesn't even have a line, but just a shadow flickering in the protagonist's eyes.

The only paragraph in it, which is a description of the witch's performance, is a description of actions.

Anil met the witch's eyes.

——How come, only this shot! ?

Meng Lanxi re-read the previous independent story in disbelief—she was almost completely addicted to it when reading the biographies, seeing Erica clenching her teeth with tears in the sewer, seeing her clumsily learning from the wizard Obsessed with the content of mysticism, fascinated by the chemical reaction of unknown materials mixed in pottery... And finally, she wore a robe and walked in the night, with domesticated mice running around neatly under her feet, making the She became the nameless king of the night.

Van Monka was once known as "Witch's Land" - at another time, it was "Poet's Burial Ground".Fei Yizhen just adjusted the time slightly so that the era of the witch coincided with the era of the story.

Anyway, that was the time when witch hunting was the most intensive.

This is a very dangerous and magnificent era.

At the end of the Middle Ages, on the eve of the Renaissance, the Black Death is like the god of death walking in the world, and the wide-open eyes of the "witches" when they die seem to be the last curse for this era.

Meng Lanxi finally turned to the part where the witch was burned to death.

—the raging fire climbed up her ankles, but the pain was no more terrible than fear.She struggled, but the tight ropes refused to let her go.The shaking cross, the stench of flesh that was gradually being burned and began to melt, the knowledge of mysticism could no longer help her on this day.

- But this will not be the end.

——She saw the mocking and contemptuous eyes of the knights of the order under the stake.That group of rotten Christians, they dared to use the blood-stained cross in the name of the so-called gods to burn everything that hindered their existence like the Romans burned Jesus: saints, scholars or pagans...

——She saw a young priest in the distance, wearing a black robe, standing motionless in the street.

— This is not the end.

This entire thirty-odd page novel is just to explain such a scene—how free is their producer, screenwriter, and director?

But for some reason, Meng Lanxi became curious about other people's manuals, and wanted to see what was different about other people's manuals. Are they all such wonderful, vivid and ups and downs?

Unfortunately, there are all kinds of actors participating in the training, and many of them have difficulty communicating with each other. Even the character book is divided into two versions, Chinese and English.And the most troublesome thing is that many of the so-called "actors" who come to participate in the training are not well-known at all, and they have never even heard of their names, let alone their works.

Under such circumstances, everyone is a competitor, and Meng Lanxi felt that there was little hope in striking up a conversation.

And after Shi Nian really dispelled her idea, Fei Yizhen announced the matter.

"Everyone here is here for the movie "Night of Asmodeus". Maybe everyone here is not the best or the most successful, but I hope you can express yourself to the best of your ability. "

"This is my first directing feature, and I don't know if it's going to be a starting point or one of the stepping stones to every success in the far future, but it doesn't matter because in either case, I'm here to do my best. My greatest strength is to shoot it well. Every time I move forward, there will always be a day when I meet success."

Then he said the passage again in English.

Meng Lanxi originally thought that this young and famous director would be crazy, but he was unexpectedly down-to-earth.

Then he said: "The budget of "Night of Asmodeus" is actually not high, but this does not prevent us from shooting it to the best. Most people here may still be unknown, but since If you can pass the first selection and appear here, it means that you are at least talented. Now what we have to do is to turn this talent into a great performance and show it on the screen."

Then he announced the rules for this training.

As is currently the case with everyone placed in groups, the training itself is a secondary audition process.Before the training, everyone will be issued a human set manual for the role they should choose.

According to the characters, there are 34 manuals with different contents, with a total of 652 pages and a text volume of at least 30.Regardless of the language version.

All of them were typed down word by word by Fei Yizhen himself.

In terms of the drama and viewability of each person's story, almost every booklet can be shot as a long or short short play.But for Fei Yizhen, it was just a derivative content when writing the script.

For a fantasy author like Fei Yizhen, the text itself represents a living world, and he habitually pryes into the self and story of each character in his works.Sometimes he even felt that he did not create this world, these people, but these people themselves showed themselves to him.

When the thoughts suddenly move, countless pictures are naturally displayed in front of the eyes.

The booklet handed over to the interviewer is the life of the character Fei Yi really wants the other party to perform.But that's not to say their roles have been decided.Because by the end of the training, if no one in a certain role group can meet Fei Yizhen's requirements, then it is also possible to dispatch actors from other candidates who performed well.

As for the actors themselves, if they have different insights during the training process, they can also re-select for the last time before the last interview, and choose the role they want to play or think is more suitable for them.

This is equivalent to saying that not only people who should be selected for the same role as oneself are elected opponents, but even excellent performers who should be selected for other roles may become the final enemy.

For this reason, everyone began to keep their character handbooks tightly covered.

This also includes Meng Lanxi.

To be honest, although the role of witches is pitifully small, Meng Lanxi's favorability towards witches has skyrocketed since she watched the entire character story.At present, she is very satisfied with the role she plays, but she is still a little hesitant about the specific performance method.

The character of the witch has gradually become full in her mind, but the lens of that eye is too weak - can she use one eye to show the projection of the witch's life?

Meng Lanxi found that he did not have this confidence.

Then at this time, she received a notice from the director's assistant, asking her to go to a temporary conference room with several other actors.