back to innocence

It was a very difficult and almost impossible task for Liang Qing to play an ascetic priest who was full of reverence for the gods.

Even if he has always been very arrogant and thinks he is omnipotent, he doesn't really think he is omnipotent.

Fei Yizhen hadn't thought of asking him to act in this play, so when he saw him looking sleepy because he couldn't act, he immediately felt a little funny.

It would be very suitable for Liang Qing to play the role of the devil or something.Strong personality, self-centered, executive, loyal to his own desire.But it would be too difficult for him to play a completely ascetic priest.He simply doesn't understand why people restrain their desires and make themselves feel uncomfortable because of those vain and irrational beliefs, rules, and teachings.

If this is to play the role of a priest, bishop, priest, Cardinal Caesar Borgia or his father, Alexander VI is more suitable for his role.

Then Liang Qing said: "I think this character is quite similar to you."

Fei Yizhen was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "I don't believe in religion, and I'm not pious..."

"But the degree of self-abuse is quite similar. I always get entangled in this entanglement, always draw invisible circles for myself. I always care too much about things that I don't need to care about."

Fei Yizhen smiled at him.

When Fei Yizhen writes stories, he also writes about various people.In a sense, Liang Qing who was by his side was a good subject of material.He is a completely different kind of person from Fei Yizhen.

Strange to say, they have the same physical structure, but as human beings, they have many completely different personalities.Some people are under heavy shackles, and they are always unavoidably checked and balanced by the things around them, such as conscience, responsibility, morality, feelings... while others are always able to cope with it, as if all the shackles in the world are just props for him to climb and play.

Fei Yizhen himself is the former, so he is particularly envious of the latter.

Liang Qing received some non-existent hint from Fei Yizhen's smile, so he moved his head towards him at once, rubbed comfortably on his body, and found the "knee pillow" on his own initiative.

After lying down, he asked, "Why is it in English?"

"Originally, the background of the story is Fan Mengka. Would it be strange if it was written in Chinese? Besides, the Xinbai community has gained a firm foothold now, but the market share there is still relatively limited..."

Liang Qing asked: "Do you want to take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"

Fei Yizhen let out a "huh".

"If that's the case...actors..."

Fei Yizhen paused for a moment, and then said: "Some domestic actors are selected, and some foreign actors are used. But even domestic actors must change their facial contours through makeup, so that their appearance looks as Western as possible."

After thinking for a while, Liang Qing understood Fei Yi's true meaning.Because Xinbai Community has just opened up markets abroad, Fei Yizhen has at least a basic distribution channel overseas.Although the influence of the virtual cinema is definitely not as good as the numerous and well-established foreign cinemas, it doesn't matter to Fei Yizhen even if he loses money on investment.

The most important thing is that on the one hand, let the Xinbai community have their own works, on the one hand, they can promote their own actors to the international market, and finally, Fei Yizhen probably wants to practice.

Judging from the content of the script, the budget of the film itself should not be very high, even if it loses money, it is not a big deal to Fei Yizhen.

Liang Qing lay on his knees, looked up at his white chin, reached out and touched Fei Yizhen's hair on the back of his neck, and said, "Is it all right? I really hate it... There are pictures in the media like It was you who had run out of talent, or who had stumbled, or something like that who attacked."

Fei Yizhen rolled his eyes at him: "...I am ready to suffer the consequences of failure."

Not counting victory, counting defeat first, this is Fei Yizhen's character.

Liang Qing smiled lightly: "Hey, you have no fighting spirit."

"No, I am full of fighting spirit now. The worst is failure. In fact, it is nothing to be ridiculed by the media. The important thing is whether I can go further during the filming of this film... Actually, to be honest, I want to start now Directing a movie is indeed too impatient, but I really can’t think of anyone to direct this movie. It’s hard to hire an excellent director, and I can’t afford it. Worried about ruining the script." In the end, Fei Yizhen smiled and made a gesture of spreading his hands, "So, it is better for me to ruin it for others than to destroy it myself. Maybe it will be a blessing to the soul? And from various aspects, now I can afford to fail."

Liang Qing looked at his eyes that reflected the light as if reflecting stars, suddenly pulled his head down, and kissed him viciously.

He complained again: "There's no role for me."

...The first film I directed didn't even have my role.

Fei Yi really felt helpless, thought for a while, and said, "How about I arrange a role for you?"

Liang Qing immediately sat up, pulled his shoulders, and asked, "What role?"

"Asmodeus."

Liang Qing thought about it several times, but he still didn't remember Asmodeus' appearance.

After a long while, he reached out to grab the script, closed the page, and discovered the origin of the name.

Because the name of this script is called "Night of Asmodeus".

Asmodeus is the representative devil among the legendary seven original sins.But even though this script is named after Asmodeus, it doesn't have the character of Asmodeus.

Asmodeus, more of a symbolic meaning.On the one hand, it represents being lured by the evil demon, on the other hand, it represents the uncontrollable emotion caused by too strong love.

"Satan..." Liang Qing looked at the title thoughtfully, but laughed with great interest.

His lover's face was distorted with a smile, perverted and terrifying, and he didn't know what anti-social and anti-human content he was thinking, Fei Yizhen suddenly felt goosebumps, and wanted to hide in another room.

In fact, the role of Asmodeus is originally a character between existence and non-existence in the script.After all, this is not a magical and supernatural script, so Asmodeus itself is just an illusion that exists in the protagonist's heart, representing his own desire and uncontrollable love.

From the perspective of the script, it is just a narration, or background dubbing.

This is also natural, although Liang Qing pretends to be a rogue and cutely asks Fei Yizhen for a role, but he is actually much busier than Fei Yizhen.This guy is born to be more scheming than others, and he has a very thorough understanding of the point of "the man who works hard to rule people". That's why he can push a lot of things to others, and waste time every day playing coquettishly, acting cute, and hindering Fei Yi from doing real things. .

But even so, there are still many things that Liang Qing has to do by himself.If you don't put in the corresponding energy, no matter how big the family property is, it will be defeated in his hands sooner or later.

Liang Qing would be in big trouble if he really went to film for a few months.In the past year, he only took on a very lovable supporting role in a blockbuster movie, which is considered to have a sense of presence, but he really didn't take on the main role of a large-scale TV series.

It doesn't take much time to dub, but the lines in the movie are very flavorful, in fact, it is the most suitable for Liang Qing.

The next day Fei Yizhen showed He Qingqun the script.Although He Qingqun also recognized Fei Yizhen's creative ability, and personally thought the script was excellent, but...

"Xinbai Virtual Cinema is almost becoming a disruptive cinema. Do you know that our target audience has already left in a tricky way?" He put down the script and said helplessly, "Let's not go back now." Talking about the issue of sexual orientation, as for the issue of the ending...can't you take care of the whole script of happy reunion? It's like "New Hundred Schools of Controversy" or "Legend of Heart Jade"."

Fei Yizhen replied: "It depends on the mood. I don't have any inspiration at the moment."

He said it easily.

He Qingqun flipped through it again, and asked, "Only the script? What about the proposal?"

Fei Yizhen took out the proposal and gave it to him.

In fact, his enthusiasm for making proposals is much smaller than that of writing scripts and drawing storyboards, but anyway, this is also part of the job, so he can only follow the rules.

After a few days like this, although He Qingqun put on a bad face, he finally approved the shooting plan of "Night of Asmodeus", and the next step was the preliminary preparation and casting.

Casting was carried out successively in Estar headquarters and Dongqing City.To be precise, Fei Yizhen will first conduct a casting within Huafeng Entertainment, then conduct a second selection at Estar Headquarters, and finally fly to Dongqing City for a third casting.

The reason for doing this is obviously very simple, just want to flatter one's own people.

The scale of the audition is not large, and the most important thing is that there are not many characters in this movie, mainly the teachers and classmates of the protagonist in the seminary, the confessors and believers in the monastery, and some roles related to the second hero .

But although there are not many roles, the requirements are not low.Due to the background of the whole story, the overall style of the whole movie is actually weird and dark, and the era it is in also has its particularity, so the requirements for acting skills are extremely high.

For Orientals to act as Western people at the end of the Middle Ages, necessary training is indispensable.Not only in terms of acting skills, but also the understanding of the social background at that time and the experience of the overall atmosphere.

Fei Yizhen's plan included a month-long pre-shooting training.

A one-month fully enclosed training experience in a castle built in the eighteenth century.Before the training begins, each actor will be given their own character settings.The main content of the training is the living habits, social background, ideas and concepts at that time, as well as some relevant knowledge that the respective roles must understand.

In addition, some social news of the time will be intermittently circulated in some ancient ways, so that the actors can feel more clearly what kind of undercurrent is brewing in the era they "live".

Huafeng's screening was as expected, and the effect was not good, and the selected ones were only some small supporting roles.In the past two years, Huafeng Entertainment has indeed produced many idol stars, but they are only idols.

Acting skills, although there are also talents and true performances, but most of the works ultimately need performers with experience and accumulation.And "Night of Asmodeus" is undoubtedly such a work, which requires more acting skills and accumulation than talent.

The background of this story is probably extremely unfamiliar to most actors who have been exposed to this drama, and everything in that era is very different from today.As for the protagonist in the story, the establishment of his own personality is closely related to his unique social background. Therefore, compared with a talented actor who naturally fits a certain type of role, Fei Yizhen feels that he can figure out the character's personality as quickly as possible. The performers who form the personality and show it with excellent acting skills are the most suitable actors for this script.

In this case, it is very difficult to find suitable actors.

It is impossible for an actor who meets Fei Yizhen's requirements to remain unknown, and his net worth must not be low; while an actor whose net worth is suitable for this movie may not have the required acting skills.

Even so, not all roles in a play require excellent acting skills.

Theoretically, in "Night of Asmodeus", there are actually many very distinctive characters. Although some characters only occupy a few shots, if the performer's emotions are in place, they can also be very brilliant.

Of course, many people interviewing don't even know what kind of role they're interviewing for.What they applied for was often just one role: Confessor A, a 42-year-old German man with a strict personality and a military temperament.

They would not know that this man of German origin was originally a color-blind Holy Emperor*. In the autumn of his 39th year, he was arrested for assassinating an innocent nobleman as a prisoner while chasing down the prisoner. Dismissed from military service.For several years after that, he always insisted that what the other party was wearing at that time was the criminal's characteristics conveyed by his colleagues.

This is a very proud soldier, he is very proud of his work, and full of enthusiasm.He felt pain for the crimes he committed, but he was also resentful about his own ending.

And this year, it was three centuries before John Dalton discovered the existence of color blindness.

In this era, the Holy See is still hunting witches crazily and unscrupulously, but the horn of the Renaissance has sounded behind them.The existence of the Black Death is threatening the entire continent of Europe. However, the church, obsessed with the desire for power that has ruled the continent for nearly ten centuries, does not know that alchemy and its creators are starting to Metamorphosis, after several years, it evolved into a belief that they could not compete with.

And this is just the last darkness before the dawn, or the last calm before the storm.

However, even if they don’t know what kind of role they are applying for, under the aura of Estar’s virtual theater, with the release of advertisements, the number of famous or unknown actors who intend to get the role is also increasing.

A young woman sits in the passenger seat of a sports car and reads the harsh casting requirements from Estar on the PDA: "...the initially selected actors need to participate in a month of special training, mainly during the filming process. Among them, the basic qualities and skills that actors need to possess. During the training period, the training results of the participants will be evaluated to a certain extent, and the training party is qualified to eliminate the unqualified participants. Only after the training is completed, the actors can participate in the formal shooting... ..."

After reading, the stylish woman wearing sunglasses snapped the PDA shut, leaned back on the chair, and said tirelessly, "Such strict requirements... who do they think they are?"

The agent who was in charge of driving in the driver's seat said with a serious expression: "You'd better look at the request carefully—because you will participate in the next role selection at the Estar headquarters."

The woman froze for a moment, then sat up straight, and asked in disbelief, "Me!?"

The man's tone is very sure: "You."

The woman murmured in dissatisfaction, then reopened the PDA with a frown, opened the relevant information interface again, and frowned more and more.After a long time, she put down her handheld computer and asked the manager who was driving: "Hey, you really don't want to sign such a slave contract for me, do you?"

The man ignored her complaints and said, "You are applying for the role of No. 20 and No. [-] witch. The female roles in this film are not very important, so I can only choose a relative for you." Relatively heavy…”

The woman gritted her teeth and said, "With dozens of seconds of footage, you asked me to train for a month... What kind of benefits did you receive from Estar?"

"It's because they have to train for a month, so I pay more attention to Estar's casting this time. And if you don't want to go, there are still a lot of people who want to go. Estar is currently the largest virtual theater in the world. Online channel providers... In fact, they are currently in a monopoly position. Fei Yizhen's own works have always been very popular. Now his first self-written and directed film will definitely be supported by Estar at least in the distribution channel. Fully support... Think about Mo Hanxue's current popularity at home and abroad, do you have any motivation?"

Mo Hanxue is Fei Yi's real sister, which is basically a semi-public news.Although there has never been any press conference to publicly release this news, everyone in the industry knows that this is indeed true, and the spread of news on the Internet has never disappeared.

Needless to say, Mo Hanxue's popularity in the country, but after "Legend of Heart Jade", even in Dongqing City, there are many people who know her.Mo Hanxue's facial features are not the kind of delicate standard beauties, but temperamental and delicate models, but now in the English-speaking countries covered by the Cenbest virtual community, boys and girls and even the parents of boys and girls talk about Oriental beauty. When it comes to beautiful women, most of them think of "Hurst Mo".

When "Legend of Heart Jade" just ended, the short-style Hanfu worn by Mo Hanxue in the film was almost sold out all over the world, and the sales of other peripherals were also very eye-catching. Estar even produced a lot of limited edition peripherals for her - such as body pillows, dress version figures that did not appear in the movie, etc.

Although Mo Hanxue has not yet been able to act as the first heroine in the influential works of Dongqing City, but she has played many guest roles with outstanding personalities, and the heroine is only a matter of time.In fact, it is more likely that Mo Hanxue has already received invitations from some heroines to participate in the role, but she refused due to various considerations, such as dissatisfaction with the role or the script.

For Mo Hanxue's current popularity, women feel a little envious and jealous.

So she did become more motivated, turned on the PDA and read the introduction about Witch No. 23 again.

Unfortunately, the introduction of the role of the witch in the audition notice is really limited. I don’t know if it’s because the producer doesn’t want to reveal too much about the content of the script or because they want to know more directly about the auditionee without any preparation. real level.

Therefore, the preparations that women can make are very limited.We can only take one step at a time.

The public audition conducted by Estar headquarters was more successful than the internal audition of Huafeng, which was expected, after all, the number of people in the two auditions was basically different.

After finishing the audition here, Fei Yizhen immediately turned to Dongqing City.

The venue in Holly City is also located in the Estar branch.About a week ago, Estar issued an audition notice through the trade union—this is much more convenient and effective than in China. It can be seen that there is still a certain gap between domestic development and Dongqing City in terms of system.

This audition will basically determine the final candidate for training.

As the largest star-making factory in the world, Dongqing City gathers young men and women from all over the world who dream of becoming famous overnight.In fact, their status is no different from that of Beidiao in China, but due to cultural and distance issues, many people have a big gap in their understanding of them.

Nowhere is the Garden of Eden.

Whether in China or Dongqing City, the competition for the protagonist is the fiercest.Although it is a gay-oriented film that deviates from the mainstream and seems to have some religious meaning, it cannot resist the great momentum gradually shown by the Xinbai community in the whole world.

Compared with those who have seized the opportunity and began to hesitate in choosing, those who are still hovering outside the door of the goddess of fortune, willing to desperately seize any opportunity, will always be more.

Especially when the applicants saw the short explanation on the selection notice: there is no performance qualification requirement, but the actors are required to have certain performance experience.If you're good at giving emotive and powerful presentations, or you're always scaring your co-workers with scary stories, or you feel like you're always living life under a mask...well, you might belong here.

And this time the selection was even more grand than the previous two.It's not just because the number of candidates has increased, but also because the performing arts and entertainment industry here is more prosperous than the place where the Estar headquarters is located.

And in this audition meeting, it is not uncommon for people to shine in their performances.

Although the first-time testers cannot see the script, the basic time background, movie type, and role identity will still be marked on the interview notice.And according to this label, at least a caring person can do a lot of homework.

Some of them really impressed Fei Yizhen.

For example, one of them was a 27-year-old blonde man named Gore Sandridge.When asked about his vision for the characterization—a pious priest living in the late Middle Ages—Gore's response was spot on.

"Using the time point of the end of the Middle Ages as the standard, I think he did not live in the early fifteenth century, but in the middle and lower fourteenth century, because since Alexander VI became Pope through bribery in 1492, the entire religious history has been rotten. The smell is almost unbearable even for the most devout believers. In addition, he should not live in some large parishes, because even in the early fourteenth century, the entire European religion abused faith and excluded dissidents. Cover up."

"He should be a very young or old priest. Only at this age, a young priest's faith will be relatively pure, while an old priest is not easily disturbed by foreign objects, so his will is stronger. And such a person is obviously more suitable for the word 'pious'."

In the performance session, the candidate's acting skills are also very good.His performance tends to be restrained and delicate, but very textured.No matter whether it is the performance style specially practiced in this audition, Fei Yizhen is more optimistic.

And there was a 30-year-old man named Roach Kania—he wasn't even an actor.This is a lecturer who teaches European history at a university. He simply left his resume and signed up for the 28-day training in the European castle on a whim.He is very clear about European history during that period of the Middle Ages, and has very unique insights.Or because of the American's overly casual and adventurous attitude towards life, he regarded this audition as a rare lottery, and the prize was a summer camp boarding experience completely imitating the Middle Ages.

His performance is not refined, even a bit rough, but it is rare that the other party understands the mentality and social background of the character itself.Especially in terms of details, this is an unknown archaeologist... He is very familiar with many customs at that time, as well as some characteristics of the unique characters of the era.

However, no matter what the purpose of the audition is, with the end of the three-day selection process, Fei Yizhen has basically completed the initial selection.