Chapter 3646: Film Project (Part 10)

Wei En flipped through the script sent by the director several times, always feeling that something was wrong.

The name of the school doctor he played was Eldritch Buslatwolo Terrence Barton. From such a long name, it could be seen that this was unlikely to be a bit-part character. And "Eldritch" meant "King of the Forest" in English. Wei En didn't believe that the screenwriter and director didn't play any word games with this name.

Wei En didn't not want to play a villain. Actually, logically speaking, villains are easier to play; anyway, it's just a straight face, no expression from beginning to end, and after being defeated by the protagonist, say a few harsh words, and then successfully exit and kill the scene. Being scolded twice on the internet won't lose a piece of meat, at worst, don't brush short videos.

What he was more worried about was that the director group wanted a reversal of the reversal—from a good person to a bad person and then to a good person. Wei En wasn't any professional actor, letting him play such a complex character, his acting skills would definitely be sprayed!

But as the saying goes, come all come. The audition had already been filmed, and it was too late to not want to act now. And almost everyone on Earth who had anything to do with magic had come, the Sorcerer Supreme had personally taken the field, and they hadn't acted either, weren't they all gathered together to memorize lines with a red face? Wei En really had no reason not to act.

With the mentality of taking one step at a time, Wei En first memorized the scene at the beginning.

Actually, filming a movie wasn't filmed in the order of the plot, maybe the ending was filmed first, then the beginning, and finally the middle, combined together by post-production.

But this movie couldn't. On one hand, most of the protagonists were children, if you let them act the ending first and then the beginning, they would be confused, not knowing what the plot was about, and couldn't substitute themselves. Plus, most people weren't professional actors and couldn't enter a certain scene and immediately invest in it. In order to increase everyone's sense of substitution, they could only film in order.

Then there was the season problem. Because of the existence of magic, the filming process would definitely be fast. If you finished filming the ending in the autumn, you definitely couldn't wait a year until the next autumn to film the scene at the same time as the ending, that would drag the time too long. It was better to start in the autumn and end in the summer of next year, so the order of the four seasons was exactly the same as the order of the four seasons in the plot, which was also more in line with the order of school opening and holidays in the United States.

On the third day, the second floor of the castle and the auditorium had been built. The crew held an official opening ceremony on the grass in front of the castle.

Because the incident of Wang Da being attacked and the video of mages building the castle spread very widely on the internet, the opening ceremony received a lot of attention. Many uninvited media also came to film spontaneously, the scene was very big and lively, and basically everyone received interviews.

"Yes, I play the school doctor in this play. The name cannot be disclosed for the time being, but this is a good character, and there are many interactions with the little protagonists, which is very interesting. You can fully look forward to it." Wei En said a few scene words symbolically.

The media didn't pay much attention to him either, because the Wei En they understood was just an ordinary person. They felt that since the theme of this movie was magic, then mages must be the main event, and ordinary people probably just played a guest role casually.

All the reporters swarmed to interview Strange. Strange didn't specifically announce his identity as the Sorcerer Supreme, but because reporters and nearby residents had been squatting at the filming site to film recently, they heard the group of mages and little mages calling Strange "Sorcerer Supreme," and were very curious about this identity, finally finding an opportunity to interview him, wishing they could stuff the microphone into his mouth.

In order to prevent the little mages from spoiling, Wei En took them to the filming base before the reporters could block the little mages under the direction of the producer. Wang Da hadn't returned from the hospital yet, and the job of bringing children was basically done by Wei En and the Hippo Goddess together.

Like sheepdogs, they drove the children into the filming base, and the little mages giggled, not afraid of Wei En at all. The kind Hippo Goddess had much more majesty than him, and after roaring, she drove all the little mages into the lounge to do homework.

Logically speaking, there should be a process of mutual familiarity and running-in between actors after the start of filming, and the crew would generally choose to go to group building to eliminate the strangeness between actors. However, this was a familiar game, the actors were a bit too familiar, so this link was canceled, and after the opening ceremony in the morning, filming started immediately.

The venue had also been set up long ago. The mages used magic to transport a train, but it wasn't an ordinary train, but a special train of the aerial transport system—that was the kind of train that could fly in the sky. It was built from the factory and hadn't been running yet, so it was moved here and used as a filming prop for the first scene.

The little mages went to the train to film, and the headmaster and professors couldn't be idle either. They were rehearsing the walking position of the sorting ceremony later in the auditorium.

When Wei En walked into the auditorium, he was also shocked. This was different from the empty auditorium built by the mages, the floor was covered with deep red gold-woven carpets, mysterious magic patterns could be seen everywhere, the blue-gray stone walls were hung with bright silk, using the representative colors of the four colleges.

The auditorium and restaurant of the magic castle were separate, the auditorium was only used for holding ceremonies and major activities, so there were no tables, only chairs. The way of arrangement was a bit like a church, the chairs all faced the preaching platform, divided into eight rows from left to right, two rows for each college.

The dome of the entire auditorium was cast with star magic, and when looking up, one could see the beautiful galaxy. In the center floated the sun, the star of the solar system, and eight planets revolved around the sun, each emitting a faint light, the starlight was brilliant, very beautiful.

The preaching platform at the very front had an arc-shaped long table, and the chairs behind it were also star-patterned. Above hung golden bead curtains in the style of stars, and behind was a huge Gothic colored glass window, the main color was blue-purple, and the patterns were not religious patterns, but magic patterns and natural elements—patterns like wind, fire, thunder, electricity, etc.

The fantasy style of the auditorium was very strong, the colors were also very intense, and all kinds of decorations were full of fantasy elements. Compared with Hogwarts in the movie, it had a few less solemnity and gravity of traditional British castles, and a few more fairy-tale vitality.

Stars and celestial bodies were very important decorative elements because the four colleges were named after four planets, which were Mercury College, Venus College, Saturn College, and Neptune College.

And these names were also the names of gods in Roman mythology: Mercury was the god of communication and commerce, Venus was the goddess of love and beauty, Saturn was the god of agriculture and land, and Neptune was the god of the sea and storms.

This was actually closer to the magic setting of Marvel. Most powerful demons possessed some kind of concept, and except for some extremely powerful self-contained demons, most were related to basic cosmic elements. For humans, they were the source of simple belief in natural elements, such as wind, fire, sky, earth, etc.

And the so-called mage talent was the affinity for these elements. Some people were born close to fire, then he was very suitable for contracting with some demons possessing the concept of "fire"; while some people were close to water, although it was also a mage talent, but if he was asked to contract with the fire god, that was eight poles away, and both sides were very uncomfortable.

And fire could be subdivided into different flames—some flames symbolized vitality, while some flames represented death and destruction. A certain mage might also be close to one of these two. Just like this, subdivided down, everyone's magic talent was different.

It was not easy to find the power that best suited you. But conversely, it was not easy for demons to find a good spokesperson. And the purpose of sorting was to roughly sort the elements that everyone was close to, so that it would be more convenient to sense power and contract in the future.

Looking at it this way, actually only three colleges should be divided: one was the sky, one was the earth, and one was the intermediate natural elements. But for the sake of movie filming, a few better-sounding names were still found, which was also convenient for the audience to remember.

Although it was like this, there was still one college that was out of place, and that was Mercury College. The meaning of this college's existence was: if you really couldn't find the elements you were close to, but you were eloquent, possessed a three-inch tongue, and were particularly good at doing business—to put it bluntly, you were good at "cheating and attacking," then we were also very welcome for you to join the magic big family.

After all, no matter what, the magic power of Marvel couldn't escape lending. If you could fool demons with your own ability, then no one would care if you contracted ten or eight. These colleges were left for those "greedy high disciples."

Mercury College liked smart people who were agile and changeable. Just having a high IQ wasn't enough, but having a business mind, knowing how to adapt to changes, having a bright brain, and having a good eloquence, was the reserve army of the backbone employees of the Sanctum Sanctorum in the future.

Venus College liked those who were rich in artistic and philosophical thinking. This was actually very important, because there must always be mysterious scholars who study theory. And for scholars of mysticism, inspiration and passion were very important, and a sensible artistic brain was their sharp weapon for dissecting chaos. Such people generally entered the Kamar-Taj Research Institute and engaged in theoretical research work.

Saturn College were all practical people with stability like the earth. They were also the main force in maintaining the magic defense network in the future, so they required stable contract connections and abundant energy, the key was stability—themselves and the contracted demons couldn't just strike, but had to stand up at every critical moment. Their employment direction in the future was mostly the sanctums around the world.

Neptune College was like a fierce storm on the ocean. They pursued extreme power, and the ultimate goal was to beat the universe invincible like Gu Yi—"beat the demons down, then I don't have to look at anyone's face," which could be said to be the sharp sword of the magic world, mainly used for military deterrence against demons, and was the personal guard of the Sorcerer Supreme.

To summarize, it was: liars, scholars, workers, and guards. Basically, it could be said to cover all aspects of the magic world, and after uniting, it could give any demon a head-on blow, ensuring the stable operation of the Earth's magic power system.

Marvel didn't have things like the Sorting Hat. Mages were also very repulsive to props that could directly read minds, they thought that was unreliable. Even if Professor X came, he might not be able to understand the mysterious judgment standard of mages. So they changed a way to sort.

In order to ensure the accuracy of sorting, Strange spent a lot of effort, made a large pile of test questions, even longer than Wei En's psychological assessment questionnaire, and had already given them to the little mages in advance. That was to say, they had already sorted, and the screenwriter was arranging the plot on this basis.

And while the little mages were acting out the first encounter plot, the professors also had to finish this set of questions and sort themselves. But this actually had no impact, just adding to the richness of the professors' background. Most people just filled it out casually.

And very unfortunately, Wei En didn't even need to fill it out, directly sent to Mercury College. Because in the setting, this college produced many black mages, a bit of that taste of doing whatever it takes for power, and the outside world had a very serious stereotype about the students of this college.

And because Wei En was the object of misunderstanding in the early stage, he came from this college, which could make it more reasonable for the protagonist group to have a bad impression of him.

Although Wei En felt that, judging from his performance during the audition, it seemed that which college he came from wasn't very important. Even if he came from the Neptune College, which was known as the most righteous, as long as his eyes weren't blind, it wasn't very likely to treat himself as a good person.

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