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Chapter 327 No one knows "The Thirteenth Floor" better than me

Chen Yiming and Xie Tianfang met very late. They chatted until midnight when they first met. The old man couldn't wait to show off his skills.

So much so that when he learned that Chen Yiming had to stay in Shanghai until the weekend because of the audition, he couldn't wait to rush to Chongqing to inspect the location on the spot.

Chen Yiming had no choice but to send Lao Xie and his young son away, and he would first take care of things in the Magic City.

However, the man's audition, which I thought would take a lot of hesitation, turned out to be surprisingly smooth.

In fact, the three actors who participated in the audition, Chen Kun, Liu Yijun, Pan Yueming, and Chen Yiming, are all planned to be retained. The only difference lies in the roles they play.

Therefore, the audition process is also quite special. The three of them do not play one part, but three parts for each role. After that, the final candidate is decided based on the actor's wishes and Chen Yiming's evaluation.

A week before the audition, the complete character script had been sent to the three actors (with confidentiality agreements signed, of course), giving them enough time and information to prepare.

The probability of a mistake being made is very high.

Either Chen Yiming thinks it's suitable, but the actor doesn't want to act, so let's focus on Chen Kunbiao. This person is well-known in the circle for his willfulness.

As the exploration of virtual space gradually crossed the line, the evil side of the husband's nature began to spread unchecked, and the good-tempered and meek otaku he once was was gone forever.

The huge contrast between the extraordinary God in the virtual space and the powerless otaku in real life finally completely defeated the husband's control, and he began to build his own virtual empire wholeheartedly.

It has to be said that the first meeting between Chen Yiming and Chen Kun was not harmonious. Perhaps because they came with drama, Kun brother gave Chen Yiming a very gloomy feeling, and even had the illusion of being offended.

He is a person with a rare innocent heart, innocent, enthusiastic, and good-tempered, but he is just a child with a playful nature.

Anyway, Chen Yiming didn't know how to act, and he himself hoped to get some inspiration from the actors.

He left the male lead but focused on the third male lead. He was really willful, but he also had a lot of room for performance.

Either the results after the assignment were unsatisfactory. For example, according to Chen Yiming's consideration, Liu Yijun was not particularly suitable to play the male lead, and Pan Yueming's role as a policeman was also not interesting.

All his scenes are either flashbacks or interludes, and the timeline is completely disrupted, which tests the actor's "modeling" ability.

However, the female scientist backfired. Her husband indeed stopped playing games and became addicted to real-life role-playing.

Otherwise, he would not have started a family with a more serious-tempered female scientist for many years. The knot between the two of them is probably that her husband is addicted to games and does not want to make progress.

It's just that the time flow rate between the real world and the virtual space is inconsistent, which makes the husband become an urban legend in the conscious space.

More importantly, the character's behavioral motivations completely need to be designed by the actors themselves, and Chen Yiming did not refer to the answers here.

In short, it is to figure out the thoughts of a madman while making his actions understandable to a normal audience.

It is precisely because of this that after a female scientist developed an "immersive virtual online game", the first internal test player was her husband who is a game fan.

The hobbies that Chen Yiming arranged for the male protagonist are closer to the current young Chinese men, rather than the night geek who likes to collect horror movies in the original version.

The first person to audition was Chen Kun. As soon as he came in, he told Chen Yiming directly that he planned to perform the part of the heroine's husband, and he only prepared this part.

This character is considered a semi-finished product, because when the story begins in the script, he is already dead. The female scientist has completed the first step of murdering her husband and is undergoing the second step of consciousness transplantation.

In Chen Yiming's magically modified version, the heroine's husband is not a born-and-death otaku as in the original version, and is hopeless from beginning to end.

What he pursues in the virtual space, what kind of depravity he feels when controlling the virtual empire, what he was thinking before being unplugged, how he defines what his wife does, these all need to be figured out by the actor himself.

Then there was a question before the performance, "Director Chen, when my husband first entered the consciousness space, he repeatedly jumped between multiple NPCs and had a great time cosplaying. This does not make sense logically."

After all, her original intention of research and development was not to become a game tycoon, but to explore a more efficient way of learning, not only using sleep time for in-depth learning, but also for further subtle personality "correction".

When Chen Yiming heard this, he realized that Brother Kun had been doing a lot of research in private. COSPLAY was the perfect word here, so he raised the corner of his mouth and asked, "What doesn't make sense?"

Chen Kun replied expressionlessly, "Since this is a world where reality is hard to distinguish from reality at a glance, it is impossible for all NPCs to look the same. I prefer a more natural performance than adding special effects in the later stage."

Chen Yiming heard Chen Kun's subtext. This scene should not be the husband's part, but the husband's incarnation part. He did not approve of the special effects face-changing operation.

This is a matter of understanding the script. Chen Yiming ignored the implicit provocation in the second half of Chen Kun's sentence and answered directly, "The basis for program AI to identify each other is not appearance but ID.

You can understand it this way, in a stand-alone game, no matter who the player is, to the NPC, they are fireflies in the dark, with no way to hide.

For a programmed AI that has not yet developed autonomous consciousness, what it looks like is meaningless. Do you think a newborn baby will protest to its mother because of a birthmark on its body? "

Chen Kun fell into silence thoughtfully, and continued after a while, "Okay, I accept this explanation, then can I reason from this that what my husband is obsessed with is not only controlling the world, but also dominating others." Chen Yiming said to Chen Kun appreciated it even more. He immediately grasped the theme of "Hackers from Another Dimension".

Domination and counter-domination!

No matter how fun a single-player game is, there is a limit. The addition of autonomous AI and real players is the real reason why my husband is addicted and degenerated.

Fool others, influence others, drive others, dominate others...

Fighting with others is endless fun!
Chen Yiming nodded and shook his head, "How you understand it is up to you. What I can say is that the script given to you is to ensure that you will appear in all the scenes in real life. There will be no face changes or special effects."

Chen Kun nodded and began to lower his head to prepare. After 15 minutes, he performed the very passage where he first raised questions. The husband, who had just entered the consciousness space, played various NPCs with concentration and piety.

I heard that the weekly homework of the Imperial Opera Acting Class is to first observe the characters and then do imitation sketches, and pay attention to the act of acting like each other.

As a top student of the Imperial Opera, Chen Kun gave Chen Yiming a live demonstration of the three realms of COSPLAY.

His performance sequence strictly follows the script. The first time he comes is a Yucheng Bangbang, that is, a porter.

Chen Yiming could tell at a glance that the Kun version of Bangbang was following suit, indicating that he was imitating it seriously but poorly.

At the same time, his manner and tone of voice reflect his consistent kindness, even when facing programmed NPCs.

The second COS was a melon vendor. At this time, he was already very skilled, and every move he made showed no signs of being an otaku.

The person who came down next to COS was an office white-collar worker. He was facing an autonomous AI that he had noticed. His gestures were still professional, but there was a faint, meaningful and sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth, which somewhat exposed his true intentions.

Finally, there is the last identity of the husband in the script, the chief scientist of the 13th floor of the consciousness space. Although he is not a scientific researcher in reality, his style and aura are the same as his wife.

The smile at the corner of his mouth was still there, but the taste was completely different from the previous white-collar worker. Chen Yiming didn't know how to describe it, so let's call it Mona Lisa's smile.

First, the skin looks like flesh but not like flesh, then the skin looks like flesh but not like flesh, then the skin looks like flesh but looks like bones, and finally the skin and flesh look alike.

The short 10-minute performance clearly presented the entire process of his husband's alienation as he understood it.

Sure enough, screenwriting and performance complement each other. Chen Yiming was not aware of the third aspect of Chen Kun's design when he wrote the script.

In the eyes of the husband, what does the AI ​​that has awakened its autonomous consciousness mean to him?
Is it just an object of one's control like a real player, or is it a child who has awakened by injecting his own wisdom?

While Chen Yiming was still deep in thought, Chen Kun had already stepped forward to hand back the script, bowed slightly and turned around to go out.

The auditions for the other two roles were simply given up.

Chen Yiming didn't care either. Good actors insist on something. Brother Kun's reaction was considered mild and harmless.

The second person to audition was Liu Yijun. This guy looked particularly energetic today. He was slicked up from head to toe and looked more than ten years younger.

He didn't do anything stupid. He honestly followed Chen Yiming's request and played a part in each of the three roles.

However, it can be seen from his appearance today that his top priority is to fight for the male lead.

The specific performance was quite satisfactory, in line with Chen Yiming's expectations, but there were not many eye-catching performances.

Chen Yiming's inner preference for the second male police officer role, Liu Yijun's performance is slightly mediocre. What is worthy of praise is that it does not bring out the inner personality of the webmaster in spy war dramas, which is in stark contrast with his own "evil" temperament. distinguish.

This shows that he understood the role thoroughly and did not understand it in a formulaic way and then perform it in a formulaic way.

Just in case, Chen Yiming asked one more question before the audition ended.

"Teacher Liu, how do you understand these three characters? Please tell me the story briefly."

Liu Yijun thought for a moment and then answered, "The protagonist is a self-deceived protester. He has actually known his destination for a long time, but he just stubbornly refuses to believe it, that is, he will not give up until he reaches the Yellow River.

The police pretended to be stupid until they took him seriously. The female player once made him start to face his heart, but in the end he still did not take the step of being a male protagonist because he had convinced himself that he was free now. .

The husband was actually brain-dead because of taking part in the test. The purpose of the female scientist was not to kill him, but to find his memory fragments in the consciousness space and then resurrect him. The male protagonist was just a transitional consciousness container. "

Chen Yiming was shocked. How did he come up with this understanding? It turned out that the script he had modified could be so round?
Is there really no one who knows "The Thirteenth Floor" better than me?

(End of this chapter)