Chapter 217: Quietness

"Are you ready?" In a neat hotel room, Wang Yang and Jessica stood in front of the sofa in the living room. This was her room. As for the suite that seemed to have been looted, they packed up some sensitive things and asked hotel service. Jessica nodded seriously: "Let's start." She asked to try what changes in the performance after the unbearable experience.

Wang Yang looked at her eyes and did not think about anything else for the time being. He further explained the rehearsal scene. Andrea was "suddenly" told by her boyfriend to break up. She looked confused and painful on the street. He said: "You know Andrea is very at a loss. She loves her family and boyfriend very much. She always feels that there is no problem. She is so busy that she can't participate in any anniversary activities. It's because of her work and future. She only needs to endure for a year. Everyone will forgive her..."

He paused, and suddenly he became more aware of Andrea's mentality at that time. He continued: "So she was dumped. She was angry, unable to understand, powerless, painful...you feel it yourself." Jessica said with a ummy voice, closing her eyes and said, "I'm feeling..." She thought about the scene last night, and her heart ached, and she really wanted to forget it...

"Jessica." Wang Yang's voice was soft and seeing her frowning, he said hypnotically: "You have to learn to get into the show. Feeling the emotional atmosphere just helps you get into the show more easily, but you need to get into that role, do you understand? You have to let go of yourself completely and don't be wary of any kind. You are not facing this story as Jessica, these stories, you are the character."

"There are no nude scenes, no kiss scenes, no things you are reluctant to act here. I am the director, and I will protect you! You don't need to be wary, just like animal simulation classes, liberate your nature! Show your heart! You won't lose yourself, you won't lose all this. Just relax, feel those emotions, imagine those stories, forget your happiness, smile and your life, and then there is someone in front of you who looks exactly like you, but it's not you, she's very distressed, that's Andrea, go and hug her! Hug her with confidence..."

Wang Yang paid attention to Jessica's pursed lips, as if she was struggling inside. This was the problem he discovered last night. When he understood that acting was just behind her, he understood what she really pursued, understood that the recognition she wanted was "the most beautiful bride in the world" rather than "The Best Actress in the Oscar", and also understood why she was so difficult to get into the role.

It’s not a matter of talent, it’s because she has a lot of resistance in her heart, as if she is afraid of entering the role, as if it’s a shameful act.

In fact, every outstanding actor is willing to become others. Their nature has long been liberated. They can "divided" into roles without reservation on the set. Some people are very comfortable getting into the play, while others are unable to extricate themselves for a long time. In any case, Jessica is not. She resisted and vigilant. She always reminded herself that she is Jessica, so how can she act?

So he suddenly understood, no wonder in the film and television library in his mind, others accumulate acting experience and life experience and prepare for acting skills to explode, and she is getting worse and worse. As she gets older and experiences more and more titles on her shoulders, she becomes less and less unable to become someone else, leaving only one Jessica, because she always cares about her and makes her unable to give up more things.

This is a person's deep-rooted concept and personality. It is impossible to change it all at once. He doesn't feel that he has the right to change now, nor does he think that it's good to change it, because that's not Jessica.

However, facing him, she could do better without wishing and easier. Even if she was not an Oscar, she could become an excellent actor. As long as he eliminated her inner vigilance and resistance, even if it was just a little lowered, plus the emotion that made her easily enter the role...

"I am the director!" Listening to Jessica's breathing heavier, Wang Yang continued to say hypnoticly: "I am the director, I am the director! You can give yourself to me with confidence and 100% of it, just me, just my voice, trust me and rely on me! I say action, you only have the emotions and stories in the script, you are Andrea; I say cut, you are Jessica."

"Then I'll make dozens of sounds, and then we start performing this segment. 1, 2, 3...8, 9, 10!"

As he said, Jessica only felt her heart calmer and calmer. He was a bastard, please give him, but he... a passage appeared in front of her. At the end of the passage full of light, a figure stood. With the counting, she ran over quickly and got closer and closer. The figure turned out to be her appearance!... It was Andrea!

Wang Yang looked at her and suddenly opened her eyes, shouting: "action!"

This is a close-up shot, so the performance is focused on the upper body and face. After being dumped, Andrea's first reaction was when she stood on the street.

Jessica stayed silent for a second, and gradually showed a complex expression of laughter and crying, her head tilted slightly, her eyes were already red, she blinked helplessly, and reached out to wipe the wet corners of her eyes; her sad pretty face slowly tensed up, and the corners of her mouth twitched. She twitched her nose with sadness, and a blank look flashed with determination, and suddenly turned around and walked away silently.

"cut! Wow—!" Wang Yang couldn't help but exclaim, stepped forward and hugged her shoulder and kissed her, looked at her smiling face, nodded and smiled: "The acting is great! Incredible! The acting is great!"

Before filming this scene on the set, she just looked expressionless, and then rolled her eyes and pursed her lips. The small expressions and small movements were the same. The calm she showed was completely incomparable to the trembling feeling she had just now. The emotions she experienced gave her the capital to enter the show, and letting go of some of her wariness made her break through that door.

Although it is not as amazing as a high-talented actor, it has reached a new level for her, with her performances being at a higher level than when she was active. Perhaps she has finally learned to get into the role and finally knows how to interpret the emotions of the role.

"That's not a performance." Jessica was revived by this performance again. Tears surged from the edge of her eyes. She smiled and said, "You're satisfied." Wang Yang reached out and wiped her tears silently, then lowered his head and kissed her eyes a few times. The tears were salty. He hugged her tightly with both hands and said, "Baby, I'm very sorry, I...I don't have any excuses, I'm very sorry."

Jessica leaned against his chest and shoulders. The two of them were quiet for a while. She suddenly raised her face and a sweet and bright smile: "Did I perform really well?" Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "It's really good! It's your highest level." Jessica seemed to have regained her head and said excitedly: "I felt it too! I seemed to be out of control just now, and I didn't know what was pushing the performance. I didn't even think whether I was Andrea or Jessica..."

"Great." Wang Yang smiled and kissed her forehead again, not saying that it was emotions that pushed you. But it was emotions, just like Will Smith's interpretation of Chris Gardner's toilet in the subway station, and Robert Downey Jr.'s interpretation of abandoned part, all require emotions and inclusion.

Next, the two of them tried several scene shots. Jessica's performance was very good. If she had changed several locations on the set, she had already shot it. After the test results, the two tacitly ignored it and left it for the set!

Taking advantage of Sunday, the two went out for shopping. Jessica frantically bought a lot of things, buying almost whatever she saw, without the genetic nature of women who had to carefully choose. Although she was laughing all day long, she seemed a little deserted compared to before. It seemed that there was a very low and thin wall between them. She could see each other, and her hands could be held together, but she was still separated by the wall.

Wang Yang wanted to stay with Jessica forever, not leaving her a step away, but at night, because he had already made an appointment with Joss Weden to meet in the cafe and talk about "Fireflies". Seeing Jessica laughing, Wang Yang went to the agreed place as promised.

Jos Weiden is middle-aged and has a 178cm figure, with a slightly fat face that is round and has no contours, deep eyes, and a bald head in front of him, which looks quite cute. He is wearing a white coat and black pants today. He is sitting next to an elegant position in the cafe, stirring coffee with a coffee spoon, looking at Wang Yang who is reading a thick script opposite the table.

Wang Yangrui took a sip of the coffee cup, looked at the scripts full of English without moving, and occasionally there were some simple Chinese lines, such as "Fuck.", "Take death!", "Sorry.", "Do you understand?", "Be honest.", etc., and some new slang words, such as "shiny" that replaced "cool"...

There are many characters and content clues, depicting a life picture of the "Interstellar Cowboy" at the edge of the star, sports, dances, bars, gangsters... The lines are very interesting, and the characters are also charming.

However, these are all content suitable for TV series. Movies can selectively express some details, but they cannot use an episode like "Dance Party" as the theme. Similarly, other content clues are also used, "robbery" can become a focus.

"Well, it's very interesting!" Wang Yang put down the script in his hand. After browsing and carefully reading most of the content, he already had an impression, which was vast and beautiful, humorous and interesting. Technology is not as developed as other interstellar movies, but it can be very distinctive and cool... He looked at the smiling Joss Weiden and nodded, "The setting of this world is very interesting and bright, and the people on the boat are also impressive."

Jos Whedon took the coffee spoon, took a sip of the coffee, and smiled and said, "Thank you, the cowboy and China have given me a lot of inspiration." He asked with interest, "I'm not writing Chinese wrong, right?"

"No, but it's almost all swear words." Wang Yang smiled and patted the two big words "Qing" on the cover of the script. In Joss Weiden's laughter, he said: "I think it's better to add something fun, such as Captain Marl's ancient Chinese poems, the bright moonlight in front of the bed... he was joking." He shook his head and smiled, and continued to look at the outline plan of the movie script that Joss Weiden wrote in the past few days.

The world setting of "Firefly" or "Tranquility" is the human society five hundred years later. The people on Earth are not that great. They just explored and discovered a "new solar system" with dozens of planets and hundreds of satellites. So the population on Earth that had already exploded moved out to explore the new solar system. The process of transforming the land of each planet to habitable will take decades. The story only takes place within the scope of this new solar system. There are no aliens, only humans and creatures that are the same as the Earth.

At that time, there were only two superpowers left, the United States and China, which formed the federal government, namely the Interstellar Alliance, which controlled the central planetary group of the new solar system. The two cultures were integrated with each other and the technology was very developed; the planets and satellites at the edge of the new solar system were pioneered by the "Interstellar Cowboys" to establish new small governments, but they lacked high-tech civilization facilities and were very deserted.

Then the war broke out, and the "independence faction" composed of the small government naturally lost to the Star Covenant. Marl, who served as an army sergeant in the "Journal of Serenity", bought a firefly spacecraft, named Ning Jing. He is a hard-mouthed guy. Although he is doing a business of robbing houses, he is very righteous. However, he likes to act like a ruthless rogue. He often has humorous words and is a very rebellious and charming cowboy captain.

His identity seems a bit unfathomable, and it seems like he grew up on a ranch, but Joss Whedon's script is not clearly written, probably depending on the plot development.

The main crew members include "Zoe". She is a black woman with a certain combat power and knowledge. She was a subordinate of Marl during the war. She has always followed Marl loyally, but the two have no relationship. Her white husband Wash is the pilot of the Serenity. She is a bit timid and a "geek". She likes to wear Hawaiian-style clothes and collect dinosaur models. Her driving skills are very good. Although the Serenity is a broken spaceship that can drop unknown parts at any time and explode at any time.

Jenny is not a beauty, but a big muscular man with low IQ and EQ. She joined the spaceship as a mercenary and is a "main gunman" at work. She has a strong combat power, but she is a complete fool in life. Jos Whedon noted: "He is the kind of person who always asks stupid questions."

Kyle is a spacecraft repairman, but he has not received formal training. With his intuition and talent for mechanical equipment, she is a carefree and innocent girl with a secret crush on her brother and sister Simon, a doctor, Simon, who is a first-class trauma surgeon. He tries to escape his emotional desires, because he thinks the most important thing is to take good care of his sister Ruiva.

Ruiva became like a psychopath because of the secret research of the Star Alliance. She was weird all day long, expressionless and taciturn. However, in terms of combat effectiveness, she was the strongest man in the entire spacecraft and even invincible in the entire new solar system. She knew how to fight with multiple kung fu, and generally did not use guns.

In addition, there are priests, traveling girls and others on the spaceship, as well as various characters who Joss Whedon proposed to imagine but did not arrange them into the story...

However, in the new solar system, in addition to the star alliance and the exiled independent faction, there is another force, that is, the terrible predators, who are also humans, and they come from nowhere and like to float in space with the structure of a fleet of ships. They have no human nature, and like to make their faces dirty and bloody. The combat power of each predator is very terrifying, and they are driving spaceships around the edge of the star, slaughtering, cannibalizing, and destroying...

The plunderers are ordinary people, merchant spacecraft, military spacecraft... all of them are terrified of death and destruction wherever they go.

"Well..." Wang Yang looked at the outline of the movie script and opened the settings of the TV script and started reading. Tens of millions of plunderers were actually normal humans. They were people participating in a "Purification Project" of Star Covenant.

The Star Covenant wanted to create a "beautiful world", a new world without struggle, no ugliness, only joy and kindness, and then promote it to the entire new solar system. So the Star Covenant selected a planet, sent tens of millions of people over, and put a substance that could "eliminate human fighting hearts" into the air of that planet. Then it failed, and the humans participating in the experiment turned into extremely cruel plunderers, which also became a secret of the Star Covenant.

Ruiva's super feeling made her hear the screams and screams from the Raider Planet. She was the one who might have leaked the secret. So after she was rescued by her brother Simon from the laboratory and smuggled on the Ningjing, the Covenant sent a secret policeman named "Blue Gloves" to track and search for their brother and sister.

After Ruiva sensed the signal coordinates again, Ning Jing decided to sail to that planet and also obtained the secret of the plunderers. Mar naturally decided to make this secret public and head to a place where the CDs with secrets could be received by more than a dozen planets around him. The Covenant would not sit idly by and act as an obstruction. After a struggle, Mar and others finally sent the signal out, and the Ning Jing continued to set sail.

Looking at these, Wang Yang gradually frowned and thought of something. He was silent for a long time before taking a sip of coffee, looking at Jos Whedon, and said, "Jos Whedon, I'm very sure I'm interested in shooting it." Jos Whedon was very happy when he heard this, and Wang Yang said, "How about this? You can organize the script of this movie first and then hand it over to me. I need to add my ideas."

"Okay, no problem!" Jos Whedon didn't hesitate. He handed over "Firefly" to a boss + producer + director like Shenqiyang, and if he was the best director of the Oscar, the screenwriter would have no say. It was common for the script to be modified and the director to create it after it was understood. He handed over the script of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to Fox, and it was a mess, and he could only feel heartbroken.

Fortunately, I later had the opportunity to bring "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to the small screen, which washed away the failure of the movie version; and now he handed the script to Fanqi Young, what would happen? Joss Weden continued to ask: "Yang, are you talking about your thoughts now? How are you going to shoot?"

"This world is cool, and the people on this ship are cool. Are there other independent soldiers? The technological appearance of the central planetary group? More interesting elements after the integration of culture?" Wang Yang imagined the world and said a few words. Joss Weiden nodded. These are all directions to expand the world. Wang Yang paused and shrugged and said, "A movie will definitely not be finished, but we can make it into a long series, 3, 4... The first one is very critical."

Joss Wedden's eyes lit up immediately. The goal is the new Star Wars and the new Star Trek!

"Joss." Wang Yang smiled and invited sincerely: "If the first part starts filming, how about you become a co-producer? If there is a second part, I don't know if I still shoot... You know I want to try more subjects while I'm young, and you become a director in the second part."

"Ok! Of course." Jos Whedon couldn't help but show the excitement and joy in his heart, nodding and laughing, "Ok, OK! To be honest, I just look forward to this." Both of them laughed a few times. Jos Whedon was looking forward to this sentence. He wanted to enter the movie circle, and not those low-cost B-level movies, but he had no chance. Although he has achieved remarkable achievements on the small screen and has a large number of die-hard fans.

But that is a small screen. The distance between it and the big screen is sometimes very far away. He has never been a producer of a movie or a director of a movie. He still needs to learn because in terms of lens design, he is deeply influenced by the small screen, resulting in the conceiving of any picture. If "Firefly" is made into a movie, it should be a very broad and western film. If he becomes a co-producer, he can learn the magical lensing techniques; if there is a second one, he will still be a director...

"This is really shining!" Jos Whedon said with a smile, his deep eyes narrowed, and he drank coffee very happily. Fortunately, he read the newspaper and made the phone call.

"My mind is very confused now. I really need to think about what I want to shoot." Wang Yang then answered the question just now. He looked a little overjoyed and said, "How to tell this story, how to turn these elements into a good movie... In any case, I can be sure that its investment will be very large. Also, I want to add Chinese characters. Don't you think it's inappropriate now?"

He spread his hands and smiled, "Under this background setting, the United States and China form a Star Covenant, with a similar population, and the two cultures are integrated, and there are no Chinese in the script." He shrugged again and smiled, "The Chinese live in the central planetary group? It's amazing! But please, why am I here? I have to introduce you to my grandfather, who is a gold digger, a strong man with adventure and pioneering spirit flowing in his blood."

"Haha!" Jos Whedon smiled a little self-deprecatingly, saying, "Yang, you know that I designed these characters in this way because of market considerations. I really hope that there is a Chinese face. If you come and shoot, I believe you have a way to let the market accept it."

Wang Yang nodded, knowing that this is a fact. Joss Wedden's writing of such a setting has already shown his favorable impression of Chinese culture and Chinese, which is one of the reasons why he liked this script at a glance. Wang Yang thought carefully and said, "No need to add characters for the time being, just change the skin color. Anyway, the culture and personality are all integrated, right? Change Jenny to Chinese?"

"I have no objection to this." Jos Whedon nodded without any attention. He knew that magical Yang had his own sense and arrangement. Jane's change was indeed an irrelevant thing, but he asked with a smile: "Yang, am I wrong? Do you want to act?"

"Stop kidding, I should be a guest star, but the starring role..." Wang Yang shook his head and smiled, and then said: "I want to find an actor who is really good at kung fu. Maybe you know Daniel Wu, the leading actor of my new movie "mit-21-team". I think he is very suitable for Jane, interesting. After playing a genius, he will play a fool and muscular man..."

Jos Whedon also had a full understanding of Wang Yang. When he heard Daniel Wu, he remembered who it was. He was a little confused: "But Daniel Wu's body is not strong enough."

"Yes, so if he is interested, I need him to gain weight and become big." Wang Yang took a sip of coffee, imagined Daniel Wu with a rumbling muscle, and said seriously: "If he can't gain weight or is not physically fit enough, then Jenny is still a white man; design a new Chinese crew member."

"Ok." Jos Whedon nodded naturally and agreed. Wang Yang glanced at the two Chinese characters "Qingjing" in the script, and said, "I think the picture of this movie should be very beautiful and artistic. I want to combine western and eastern classical classics." As soon as I heard the beautiful picture, Jos Whedon was a little excited and said, "Oh, yes! I often want a large group of horses running on the ranch, and then the spacecraft flies over the sky."

Wang Yang nodded with a smile. This is a typical western-style shot, just like "Dancing with Wolves". He thought and said, "Josi, what I want is not just the west. Imagine the rivers of China. There are mountains on both sides, and the endless Liaokuan River. The sunset hangs in the sky, which makes the whole picture look pale yellow and red. The quiet roar flies over the river. This is called the fishing boat singing evening."

"Oh I know!" Jos Weden's eyes lit up and he touched his forehead. He had seen such photography and couldn't help but praise: "Very beautiful."

"Or think about it again, it is a mountain range that cannot be seen at the end. Those green peaks are towering one after another, and there is fog everywhere. Then the quiet name flies through the fog. This is called the fog sea and mountains." Wang Yang smiled and spread his hands again. In "Avatar", this artistic conception was used, using many beautiful pictures of oriental aesthetics. He thought, "I was just thinking about how to combine the two. It doesn't need too much, even if there are only one or two shots that combine naturally and perfectly, it's fine."

Jos Whedon was a little immersed in the artistic conception of foggy seas and mountains. Compared with the vast and deserted western style, this was a scene full of mysterious alien sense. He frowned and smiled: "I can't think of how to do it, someone has to tell me."

"Okay, I think hard." Wang Yang chuckled. This was one of his goals. It was also a factor that directly affects the success or failure of the movie. If it was combined poorly, it became a four-dimensional character; if it was combined perfectly, it was good-looking. Thinking of it, Wang Yang filmed those few pages of the movie script outline and smiled and said, "I'm waiting for your complete script, and I have an idea that I will definitely use. The secret experiment of the Star Covenant is not just the Planet of the Predator..."

"What do you mean?" Jos Whedon was stunned, looking very confused. Such changes will directly affect the entire world pattern and story.

Wang Yang tasted the bitter coffee, and his mouth was a little ridiculed, saying, "There are many planets on the list of the Purification Project, and they try different experimental methods. The Predator Planet is just one of them, the most failed and out of control; but perhaps, there are successful ones, or those with flaws, successful ones."

The two discussed some issues and finalized some new settings and details of the world. After the filming of "The Demon in Prada", Joss Whedon promised to hand over the integrated film script to Wang Yang and let him modify and add it to the co-screenwriter, especially the part of Chinese culture. After this pleasant interview, Wang Yang immediately rushed back to the hotel with the TV script and stayed with Jessica.

"Yang, I just thought about it and found that I no longer like you." On the sofa, Jessica's face calmed down and her voice was cold: "Let's break up. I feel very uncomfortable when I see you now. What else do you mean by telling me?"

"What..." Wang Yang looked at her in confusion and asked, "Aren't we okay? You know that I was not malicious to you, and the result is very good now!" Jessica was full of anger and hatred, and scolded louder and louder: "It's not good at all. You play with me like playing with a toy. You treat me as a white mouse for experiments. You watch movies more important than me. I trust you so much, but you hurt me!"

Wang Yang only felt his heart trembling with pain and said angrily: "What's wrong with you? I don't think that movies are more important than you, I want to help you! I don't know what you really think, you haven't told me! I just want to help you! I know it's so uncomfortable, please, Jessica! Why don't you forgive me?" Jessica sneered a few times, without a good face at all, her eyes were red as if she was going to kill: "Get out! fuck you! I will never forgive you, fuck you!!"

"You bastard, go to death!" She rushed over and opened her mouth and bit her face.

"Oh my God!" Wang Yang suddenly opened his eyes, and he was in the ceiling of the hotel room. His forehead and back were soaked in cold sweat, and he was panting quickly: "Huhhh..." He looked to the left of the pillow and saw that Jessica was still sleeping beside him. Her right hand grabbed his left arm, and her brow seemed to be slightly frowning, as if she was also having some nightmare.

After having such a nightmare, Wang Yang was already sleepless and looked at her face silently with the dim light. He smiled slightly, and the way she smiled was really beautiful; the way she cried... Wang Yang sighed softly and thought about her.

Is this right or wrong? Why is it right? Why is it right? Why is it wrong? Don’t tell me whether he knows her pursuit. His original starting point is that he really wants her to be happy and wants to help her complete his pursuit. Even if she is treated angryly, he just thought she would not be angry, but can he blame her? Wang Yang shook his head slightly and stroked her palm. It was because she loved him deeply, just like in a nightmare, that she was hurt by the person she trusted the most. Why not get angry?

Is his approach different from the Star Covenant and the present United States? Star Covenant also wants to create a beautiful world and make all mankind happy, even if tens of millions of people will be sacrificed; the United States is nominally going to lift the Saddam government, make the Americans safe, and let the Iraqi people live a good life, even if they endure temporary war and chaos; this is just an injection!

What if the injected venom? Is that good medicine or venom? The answer is to look at the reaction of the injected person, and the person who injected is standing next to him. Success or failure, things may get better and worse, or they may get worse. What if Jessica was sad and could not act? There were predators, and the rebuilt Iraq was in a more chaotic situation...

The question is what qualifications he takes for her? What qualifications are the Star Covenant taking for humans? What qualifications are the United States taking for Iraqis? To give this shot, let her, let humans, and let Iraqis taste all kinds of harms? The identity of boyfriends? The identity of bosses? The identity of directors? He chose the identity of boyfriends, but...

Do you hurt her because you love her? In order to motivate her to reach a new level? Is this his own wish or her wish? Can you impose your own ideas on others like this? Even if you think it is right, it will make people happy.

If you know you will be really happy? Why can’t you bear this pain? Be tolerant and considerate to each other... No, Star Alliance leads the new solar system under the banner of freedom and conducts experiments with the pursuit of a beautiful new world. Is it freedom to choose for others?

If there is a well, a group of frogs living in poor and thought it was beautiful; if the frogs on the well want to pull them up, they think that it is a beautiful new world, but the process of pulling them may fall down and die. Will the frogs in the well choose to go up? Can the frogs on the well "give you freedom and beauty" force them up, they may also be dragged down and die, and the frogs on both sides will cry.
To be continued...