Chapter 3644: Film Project (Part 8)

Later that evening, Wei En returned to New York. Then, while eating dinner, he received the audition content sent by the crew.

Wei En actually rarely saw himself in the lens. He basically didn't watch the videos of him taken by passersby; and there was no himself in the videos he took himself. So sometimes he was quite curious about what he looked like in the lens.

But clearly, movie lenses and short video lenses were completely different. Most people looked plain in short video lenses, and even many actors looked very different in short videos compared to movies. On one hand, the atmosphere was different, and on the other hand, the lens distortion brought by the two different lenses was also different.

Wei En marveled at how he looked completely like another person in the movie lens.

He could be considered to understand a little bit why Ke Lisi wanted the protagonist trio to misunderstand him. This couldn't be blamed on the children for having prejudices; his temperament in the movie lens was really too unique.

During the audition, the scene in the school infirmary was set up in the studio. Wei En felt it was quite ordinary when he looked at it at the time, but in fact, the light during filming was carefully debugged and designed, and the influence of light on a person's appearance was very large.

The three children were relatively young, the baby fat on their faces hadn't faded, and the details of their performance weren't as good as adults. So in order to highlight their expressions, the light of the lens was mainly designed around shaping the details of the facial features. For children, this was just right, which could make their facial features look very three-dimensional, making their expressions and demeanor very obvious, which could give the audience a stronger sense of immersion.

But for adults, especially for Wei En, this kind of light made his facial features too sharp. The folding degree of his face almost reached the extreme, and the shadow under the brow bone covered the entire eyes. Looking up from the bottom, the gray of the pupils became deeper, and the emotions were also more gloomy and unclear. Under this reinforcement, the lens of the monocle couldn't play any covering role, and his whole body revealed a kind of neurotic indifference.

Even when standing there without moving, it was still okay, but when he moved and started to say his lines, the whole person had a kind of indescribable weirdness.

After all, facing three very small children, Wei En's tone was very kind when saying his lines. But it was precisely this soft tone that intensified the conflict of contradiction on him, making people feel creepy.

Especially there was a lens, which was shot behind the three little mages, just like imitating the first perspective of the three.

The three children were already short, and looking over from their angle, they could completely see the eyes under Wei En's brow bone. When those gray eyeballs turned over, the cameraman seemed to be stunned for a moment, and it took several seconds before he remembered to tilt the lens down.

"This is malicious editing! Pure malicious editing!" Wei En sent a message in the crew group, followed by a series of angry little red faces.

"What's wrong?" Wang Da replied. "Is there any problem with your test shoot? Doctor? My side is filmed quite well."

After speaking, she sent a video file. Wei En clicked it open, and very coincidentally, one of Wang Da's personal scenes was also filmed in the school infirmary, which was Wang Da coming to visit the heroine as a professor after she was injured.

In the lens of Wang Da's audition, she was truly kind and amiable, revealing a gentle and intellectual temperament all over. A long, lustrous red hair made her look truly like a goddess from some mythology. When she hugged the heroine, it could simply be painted as a picture of the Virgin's descent.

Wei En was speechless at once. It seemed that it was indeed his own problem.

Each of them seemed to have only received their own audition lens. Strange also sent his up. Although the school infirmary set set up temporarily was very simple, it could also fully reflect his wisdom and majesty. The crew staff were also very supportive, praising their good image and acting skills one after another below.

Others also sent their lenses one after another, and the atmosphere in the group became lively. Then this Ke Lisi seemed to be afraid that the world wouldn't be chaotic enough, @Wei En in the group, asking him to send his audition lens up too.

Wei En was ten thousand times unwilling, but everyone else sent it, and others in the crew were encouraging him. Wei En really had no choice, so he could only send the video file up.

The large group was quiet for a full three minutes.

But the small group of the director and screenwriter's creative team was probably scrolling the screen at a speed of five messages per second.

"Change the script." Strange also circled the director and said, "Why not let our Dr. Wei En be the final villain."

"We are considering it." Ke Lisi replied, "However, the screenwriter and I agree that Dr. Wei En's image is more suitable for long-term creation. Just being the villain of one movie is a bit of a waste, why not make a little foreshadowing in the first one, and then leave enough suspense until the last few to reveal..."

The group was discussing hotly, Wei En could only sigh and turn off his phone, lamenting his subsequent public opinion fate.

Although he already had some fame on the short video platform, it was actually the popularity brought by superheroes. As an ordinary person mixed in a pile of superheroes in the eyes of the audience, his image was still relatively positive. Many netizens were substituting themselves, and even if there was ridicule, it was all harmless jokes.

But judging from his image in this movie, he was afraid that his public opinion evaluation would plummet. Wei En had already started to consider canceling his short video platform account.

After resting for a night, the next day was originally supposed to be the producer gathering everyone to go to Massachusetts. The actors went to the hotel to stay, adjust their state and memorize lines; the staff made final preparations for the start of filming.

But by the time Wei En's plane landed and the shuttle bus was almost at the hotel entrance, the producer notified them that they didn't need to go to the filming site.

It rained a little today, and Wei En stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel waiting for news. He originally thought it was because of the weather that work was postponed, but the rain had stopped for more than two hours, and there was no notice of resumption of work. Wei En instinctively felt something was wrong.

It wasn't that he was very active about filming, the key was that this was related to the subsequent magic school plan, it was best not to have any problems.

Waiting and waiting, Wei En still decided to call Strange at the filming site. As a result, he heard bad news on the phone:

"At 6 o'clock this morning, a group of environmentalists suddenly came to demonstrate near the castle. The producer couldn't talk to them, and the local police didn't work, so they could only temporarily postpone filming."

"Environmentalists? Didn't you show them the geological survey and energy analysis results?"

"Do you think they can understand that?"

"Oh, I see. You mean that group of people who care least about environmental protection, right?"

"That's right. The producer told me that they might have been brought by that senator."

"But now Congress has basically compromised, why does he still want to sing the opposite? He wouldn't want money, right?"

"I'm afraid so. About half an hour ago, the producer received a call, there was a local entertainment company in Massachusetts, called what... I forgot, anyway, it's a small company, saying they wanted to invest in this movie and take box office dividends."

"Investing is investing." Wei En said.

"The problem is that the investment ratio is unreasonable." Strange said with some helplessness. "They only want to spend a little money, and then take away most of the profits. And they also want to stuff people into the movie, it seems to be the senator's niece, an eighteenth-line little star."

Strange sighed and continued: "If we don't agree to their lion's opening, they will continue to harass us with environmental problems, and even say they want to expose us for polluting the environment of the local nature reserve."

"Sounds like a very mature industrial chain."

"Yes, quite mature. Let alone movie companies, even Harvard and MIT in Massachusetts have been troubled by them. Those professors who specialize in environmental analysis and geology can't do anything about them. Now our producer is trying hard to coordinate, but I don't see much hope."

"Your primary task now is to look after the mages, especially the little mages." Wei En emphasized. "Once they can't help but want to take action against that group of environmentalists, then it will really cause a big mess."

Strange gasped and hung up the phone in a hurry. Wei En heard a commotion over there, but he couldn't be sure what was going on. After hanging up the phone, he felt uneasy. Anyway, the rain had stopped, so Wei En flew over there directly with the gray mist.

When he arrived, he found that it was a mess here. A group of people surrounded the castle gate, two ambulances were parked on the side of the road, and there were faint sounds of dispute.

Wei En's heart kept sinking, so much so that when he walked over and found that the person lying on the stretcher was a red-haired figure, he was a bit confused.

Wait, why is Wang Da lying here? Did Eternity invade???

Strange, who was standing on the side, gave him a wink, and the two went around to the other side of the castle together. Strange lowered his voice and said: "Take a video with your phone later and send it to your account."

"What exactly is going on?" Wei En asked.

"What are we here for?"

"Filming?"

Strange clapped his hands and said: "That's right! Good actors start performing long before filming starts!"

Just as he finished speaking, a car on the side of the road stopped with a sudden brake, and Jarvis ran toward this side in a hurry. And immediately after, several other cars also stopped on the side, and the people who pushed open the car doors carried long guns and short cannons, instantly surrounding Wang Da tightly.

Wei En faintly heard Wang Da's voice coming from there:

"I really... I really can't believe it... just because I'm a mutant... this is simply too terrible... I miss my two children very much now..."

Then Wei En learned from Strange what exactly happened just now.

Simply put, when Wei En was worried about changes in the hotel, Wang Da had already driven to the scene to check because she was too worried.

When Wang Da arrived, that group of environmentalists didn't know which nerve was wrong, and insisted on rushing into the castle while a group of mages blocked the door. The mages didn't dare to use magic on them, and the situation was already precarious.

Wang Da rushed over in a hurry and drank everyone back with one voice. But that group of people seemed to have grasped that they didn't dare to take action, rolling and crawling outside, scolding as ugly as they could.

Could Wang Da's temper tolerate them? Miss Witch was so angry that her eyes were spraying fire, fortunately, she was pulled by Strange, otherwise everyone present would have to see Chaos.

However, at this time, the director and producer who retreated from the front line found the two of them. They formulated a plan, which was to touch porcelain.

Wanda and Jarvis's couple account is being managed very well. She has gained a group of loyal mutant and mutant-sympathizer fans, and her volume has even reached the level of a top influencer. If Wanda were to get injured, with the spread by Wanda's fans, the focus of the matter would no longer be about environmental protection, but would certainly be steered back into the realm of mutant discrimination.

So Wang Da deliberately stood forward two steps, and in the pushing and shoving, the Scarlet Witch had a gorgeous fall, directly pulling the opposite side into her most proficient field, preparing to use rich experience to defeat them.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3645 =====