PFC Chapter 3659 Movie Plan (2)
Chapter 3659 Movie Plan (2)
Chapter 3659 Movie Plan (XII)
Schiller sighed as he looked at the script in his hand. Unexpectedly, Chris got straight to the point: "Dr. Schiller, I think you have split personality... I mean, dissociative disorder. And you should be able to control this ability, right?"
"Not quite," Schiller said. "We are not separate personalities, just different personality traits."
"Oh? Tell me in detail?"
"We are the same person, with the same memories and basically the same abilities. It's just that one trait is more prominent in one personality trait."
"Which trait of yours stands out the most?"
"greedy."
"What about yesterday's one? I mean, the one that was filmed in one take."
"My personality is divided into a normal side and a pathological side. The one that came out yesterday was the pathological side. The pathological side is not so clearly divided. Yesterday's might have been manipulation. He is better at acting."
"That's really interesting." Chris exclaimed, "No wonder you can be friends with so many superheroes. You're just as weird as them."
"I'm much weirder than them." Schiller said with a smile. Actually, he felt quite strange now, because he had a series of superhero friends, but no one asked him so directly, so that they might not really understand what he was all about until now.
"Okay, I think this is a very interesting setting. It can help us create a very unique and three-dimensional character. Are you willing to cooperate with us?"
"I just want to know what's going on. Is Mephisto behind this? Then why is the first movie about vampires?"
"In the background story, Mephisto has always wanted to invade the earth. However, due to the existence of the magic defense network, he has never succeeded. So he made a deal with Cain, the ancestor of the blood clan, who can enter and leave the earth freely..."
Chris began to tell Schiller the detailed background story, which was not written in anyone's script, mainly because he was afraid that they would spoil the story. However, he seemed to think that Schiller was tight-lipped, so he did not hide it any more.
The plot is similar to what Schiller thought. After all, this is a school-themed movie. It is impossible to rush into hell and kill Mephisto in the end. That would be a bit too extreme. Therefore, all kinds of struggles remain at the level of agents.
In the magic world set by the director and screenwriter, the most dangerous and powerful is the black magician. And the final villain of this series of movies is a black magician named Saphir.
In the setting, he is evil, powerful, cunning, cruel, and does all kinds of evil. He once set off waves of bloody storms in the magic world. However, many years ago, he was defeated and sealed by the Supreme Master who just inherited his mantle. But he never gave up his goal of conquering the magic world.
Many years ago, he reached an agreement with Mephisto, the king of hell, and the two launched a war together. Unfortunately, they failed, but he also became a terrifying demon king that people were afraid of.
Anyway, the basic story is similar to that of Voldemort, except there is no blood curse or savior. He was simply defeated and sealed by the Sorcerer Supreme, and now he has come out again.
As for Schiller, it is not that Saphir controlled Schiller's body, nor that the two of them cooperated, but that Saphir created a body for himself in order to successfully sneak into Ilvermorny and defeat his old rival. However, he was worried that he could not deceive the Supreme Sorcerer, so he molded a kind school doctor personality for himself.
In other words, the black magician is the real person, and the school doctor's personality is fabricated. Schiller is Saphir.
Schiller originally thought that the subsequent plot would be that the school doctor who had been helping the protagonists all the way and was the most trusted by the protagonists suddenly turned into a terrifying demon king, and then the protagonists would use their intelligence to defeat the demon king and win the victory.
Chris told him that it was too old-fashioned and the audience was tired of seeing this kind of twist. So he wanted to do a twist of twist.
It turns out that the good personality of the school doctor played by Schiller is the real Supreme Sorcerer. In order to completely defeat and seal the powerful black magician Saphir, the Supreme Sorcerer chose to let his soul leave his body and enter Saphir's body to fight him. In the end, he successfully turned Saphir's body into his own cage, and he became the jailer guarding the prisoners.
The Supreme Sorcerer outside was a puppet created by Mephisto who took advantage of the situation and controlled the body of the soulless Supreme Sorcerer.
Under his management, Ilvermorny was full of loopholes: the first-year vampires invaded, the second-year New York Temple was attacked, the third-year magic defense network had problems, and the fourth-year fire dragon went out of control...
The school doctor returned to Ilvermorny to defeat this imposter and thwart Mephisto's plot once again. But after entering the school, he found that the Saphir sealed in his body was gradually out of control. So in addition to facing the conspiracy of Mephisto, the king of hell, the most evil black magician is about to return...
After reading the entire script, Schiller couldn't help but sigh: "This director and screenwriter are really good at writing."
This is the benefit of not understanding magic and relying on pure fantasy. Who among the real wizards could have imagined that the Supreme Wizard had to leave his soul and enter the body of a black magician on Earth to barely seal him. And before he could seal him, the other party escaped?
Anyone who has seen the heroic figure of Ancient One beating up Mephisto would never be able to imagine such a plot in his life.
But Schiller still had a question. He asked Chris on the phone, "So the reason why Eldridge acted so cold and impatient during the Sorting Ceremony was because Sapphire was controlling the body?"
"No." Chris said, "Aldridge was pretending because he knew that Saphir was very dangerous. And now he was gradually getting out of control, so he had to act very aggressive to keep the little wizards away from him. And he succeeded."
"Oh, I see. There is a twist here. The Sorcerer Supreme who has always been nice to them is a fake. But the real Sorcerer Supreme is hidden inside the seemingly cold and crazy Aldridge."
"That's right. And we will also use some shots to show that although Aldridge appears to be very indifferent, he has actually been secretly helping the young wizards. We will just use some ambiguous plots to blur Aldridge's actions, so that the protagonist and the audience can't tell whether he is helping the protagonist or harming the protagonist. In this way, when the suspense is revealed in the end, the audience will feel surprised."
Schiller nodded, thinking of the scene in the Quidditch match when Snape cast a spell. That was a typical way of blurring the vision - Snape cast a spell and Harry fell down. It looked like Snape had done it. But when the truth was finally revealed, people would realize that he was not harming people but saving them. This can actually be regarded as a classic narrative trick.
"Besides, it's not entirely a disguise." Chris said, "The Supreme Sorcerer found himself being gradually eroded by Saphir. He began to lose his emotions and became as cold as the evil black magician. He knew that if he was assimilated by Saphir, he would become more powerful. So in the end..."
Chris didn't finish, but Schiller already understood. After all, the movie still has to create some tear-jerking moments, and the sacrifice of the real Sorcerer Supreme is a good plot.
But the biggest problem now is that he can't act it out, Schiller thought. He is not a professional actor and the character is too complicated. He is afraid that the performance will not go smoothly.
"It's okay." Chris said, "How about this, tell me all your personality traits, or just ask them to come out and talk to me, then I can roughly grasp what kind of people they are. Then you can cut whatever I ask you to cut, and with the post-production editing, I guarantee that you will look like an Oscar-winning actor."
Schiller was also impressed. Chris Columbus can be regarded as a typical representative of "how daring humans can be in order to make art".
Stark is still dealing with Hydra 1 and Hydra 2, while the others are still avoiding questions and keeping silent. Chris has already started preparing to use the differences in personality traits to film the show.
But it is also true, who can be more suitable than Schiller to play such a character who is both good and evil? Others rely on acting skills to play multiple personalities, while Schiller relies mainly on life to play multiple personalities.
And the key is that the audience does not know that he actually has many personality traits. They will think that a psychologist must be mentally healthy, so this acting is simply amazing!
Schiller was relieved. Now he didn't have to worry about his acting being criticized. This was the first time a magician had made a movie. Even if the movie was only average, it would definitely sell well with this gimmick. He didn't want to leave a black history in the history of movies.
But Schiller actually had his doubts. He mainly doubted whether Chris could really grasp the differences between his different personality traits and use them to shape the characters. It felt like this was not something a normal person could do.
But Schiller soon found that his worries were unnecessary. There is indeed a fine line between being a genius and being crazy in art. Chris met Schiller's multiple personality traits very enthusiastically in the director's lounge and had a good chat with them.
He even wrote a profile for each personality, which Schiller found to be quite accurate after reading it. If he had studied psychology back then... forget it, the world would have lost a great director today.
It can be seen that Chris is a complete pragmatist. He doesn't care how this strange state was caused, whether there is any danger, whether it is a taboo topic that cannot be touched, etc. He is pure and can use everything that can be used. Don't be idle, and contribute to art. In essence, it is also very similar to greed.
The first film in the entire series mainly introduces the world view and shows the character of the protagonist. It does not involve many main storylines, mainly fighting vampires, with only a little foreshadowing of Mephisto.
After the initial adjustment, the whole shooting process became very fast. Because there was no need to worry about the various props and special effects, as long as it could be described, the magician could do it.
The young actors are acting more and more smoothly, becoming more and more familiar with each other, and their relationships are getting better and better, which is more and more in line with the theme of the first part, which makes the presented effect even better.
The filming of the movie was completed very quickly. It was originally expected to take about nine months, but in fact it was completed in four months. The post-production adjustments took less than a month, and even if the publicity and promotion work is included, it took less than half a year for the movie to be ready for release.
Before the release, there is a preview screening, where internal staff and film critics are invited to watch the movie first and give their reviews, and then promote it on social media, and adjust the publicity and marketing strategy based on their reviews.
In addition to inviting people from the film industry, this preview also invited friends of Strange and Schiller - the entire Avengers came.
The real viewing body