Chapter 3648: Film Project (Part 12)

Looking at the script in his hand, Wei En sighed long. Unexpectedly, Ke Lisi opened the door and said: "Dr. Wei En, I think you should have personality split... I mean, dissociative something something disorder. And you should be able to control this ability of yours, right?"

"Not entirely correct." Wei En said, "We are not independent personalities, just different personality traits."

"Oh? Tell me in detail?"

"We are the same person, possessing the same memories, and basically have the same abilities. It's just that a certain trait on a certain personality trait will be more prominent."

"Then which trait on you is more prominent?"

"Greed."

"Then what about the one yesterday? I mean, the one that passed in one take when filming?"

"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 divided so clearly. The one yesterday might be manipulation, he is better at acting."

"It's really interesting." Ke Lisi sighed, "No wonder you can be friends with so many superheroes. You are as weird as them."

"I am much weirder than them." Wei En smiled and said. Actually, he felt quite wonderful now, because he had a series of superhero friends, but no one had asked him so directly, so they might not have figured out what was going on with him until now.

"Alright, I think this kind of setting is very interesting. This can help us shape 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 the mastermind? Then why is the first part about vampires?"

"In the background story setting, Mephisto has always wanted to invade Earth. However, because of the existence of the magic defense network, he has never succeeded. So he reached a deal with the vampire ancestor Cain, who can freely enter and exit Earth..."

Ke Lisi began to tell Wei En the specific background story, this part was not written on anyone's script, mainly because he was afraid they would spoil it. However, it seemed that he felt Wei En's mouth was relatively tight, so he didn't hide it anymore.

The plot was about the same as Wei En thought. After all, this was a school-themed movie, and it was impossible to rush into hell to kill Mephisto at the end, that would be a bit too outrageous. So all kinds of fighting stayed at the level of agents.

And in the magic world set by the director and screenwriter, the most dangerous and powerful was the black wizard. And the final villain of this series of movies was a black wizard named Saphir.

In the setting, he was evil, powerful, cunning, cruel, and did all kinds of evil, once setting off one bloody storm after another in the magic world. However, many years ago, he was defeated and sealed by the Sorcerer Supreme who had just inherited the mantle. But he never gave up the goal of conquering the magic world.

Many years ago, he once reached an agreement with the King of Hell Mephisto, and the two launched a war together. It was a pity that it failed, but it also became a terrifying demon king that people talked about.

Anyway, the basic story was about the same as Voldemort, except there was no blood curse and savior set, just simply defeated and sealed by the Sorcerer Supreme, and then ran out again now.

And regarding Wei En's setting, it wasn't that Saphir controlled Wei En's body, nor were they cooperating, but that Saphir, in order to successfully mix into Ilvermorny and defeat his old rival, shaped a body for himself. But worried that he couldn't fool the Sorcerer Supreme, he molded a kind school doctor personality.

That was to say, the black wizard was the main body, and the school doctor personality was molded. Wei En was Saphir.

Wei En originally thought the subsequent plot was that the school doctor who had been helping the protagonist group all the way, who was also the most trusted by the protagonist group, suddenly turned into a terrifying demon king, and then it was the story of the protagonists using their intelligence to defeat the demon king and achieve victory.

As a result, Ke Lisi told him that it was too old-fashioned, and the audience had long been tired of this kind of reversal. So he wanted a reversal of the reversal.

It turned out that the good personality in the school doctor played by Wei En was the real Sorcerer Supreme. In order to completely defeat and seal the black wizard Saphir who possessed powerful power, the Sorcerer Supreme chose to let his soul leave the body and enter Saphir's body to fight him. Finally, he successfully turned Saphir's body into his own cage, while he himself became the jailer watching the prisoner.

And the Sorcerer Supreme outside was a puppet created by Mephisto who took advantage of the situation and controlled the body of the Sorcerer Supreme without a soul.

Under his management, Ilvermorny was full of loopholes: vampire invasion in the first year, New York Sanctum attacked in the second year, magic defense network problems in the third year, fire dragon out of control in the fourth year...

The school doctor returned to Ilvermorny just to defeat this imposter and once again thwart Mephisto's conspiracy. But after entering the school, he found that Saphir, who was sealed in his body, was gradually out of control. So in addition to facing Mephisto's conspiracy, the most evil black wizard was about to return...

After reading the whole script, Wei En couldn't help but sigh: "This director and screenwriter can really write."

This was the benefit of not understanding magic and relying purely on fantasy creation. Who among the real mages could think that the Sorcerer Supreme had to leave his soul to fight a black wizard on Earth, enter the other party's body, to barely seal the other party. And then didn't seal it, letting the other party run out?

Anyone who had seen Gu Yi beat Mephisto with their own eyes wouldn't be able to think of this kind of plot in their lifetime.

However, Wei En still had a question. He asked Ke Lisi on the phone: "So Eldritch performed so coldly and impatiently at the sorting ceremony because Saphir controlled the body?"

"No." Ke Lisi said, "Eldritch is pretending, because he knows Saphir is very dangerous. And now he is gradually out of control, so he has to appear very irritable to let the little wizards stay away from him. And he succeeded."

"Oh, I see, there is another reversal in this. That is, the Sorcerer Supreme who looks good to them is an imposter, but the real Sorcerer Supreme is hidden in the body of Eldritch who looks very cold and crazy."

"That's right. And we will also use some lenses to show that although Eldritch appears very cold, he has actually been helping the little wizards in secret. It's just that we will use some ambiguous plots to blur Eldritch's actions, making the protagonist and the audience unable to tell whether he is helping the protagonist or harming the protagonist. Only then will the audience feel surprised when the suspense is revealed at the end."

Wei En nodded, he thought of the scene where Snape chanted in the Quidditch match. That was a typical way to blur the line of sight—Snape chanted, Harry fell down. It looked very much like Snape harmed him. But when the truth was revealed at the end, people would react that he wasn't harming people at that time but saving people. This could actually be considered a classic narrative trick.

"And, it's not entirely a disguise." Ke Lisi said, "The Sorcerer Supreme discovered that he was gradually being eroded by Saphir. He began to gradually lose his emotions and become as cold as the evil black wizard. He knew that if he was assimilated by Saphir, then he would become more powerful. So finally..."

Ke Lisi didn't finish, but Wei En already understood. After all, the movie still had to create some tear points, and the sacrifice of the real Sorcerer Supreme was a good plot.

But the biggest problem now was that he couldn't act it out, Wei En thought, he wasn't a professional actor, this character was really too complex, I'm afraid the performance wouldn't be very smooth.

"It doesn't matter." Ke Lisi said, "How about this, you tell me all the personality traits you have, or you just let them come out and talk to me, and I will roughly grasp what kind of people they are. When the time comes, I will let you switch to whoever you switch to, and then cooperate with post-production editing, ensuring you look like an Oscar winner."

Wei En was also convinced. Ke Lisi Columbus could be called a typical representative of "how bold humans can be for the sake of art."

Stark was still Hydra 1, Hydra 2, others were still avoiding the problem and not talking about it, Ke Lisi had already started preparing to use the differences between personality traits to film.

But then again, who could be more suitable than Wei En to play this kind of character who is both good and evil? Others playing multiple personalities rely on acting skills, Wei En playing multiple personalities mainly relies on life.

And the key was that the audience didn't know he really had many personality traits. They would think the psychologist's psychology must be healthy, then this acting skill was simply amazing!

Wei En also breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't have to worry about his acting skills being sprayed. Mages filming movies was the first time, even if this movie was only of average level, with this gimmick, it would definitely sell well. He didn't want to leave his black history in movie history.

However, Wei En actually had doubts. He mainly doubted whether Ke Lisi could really grasp the difference between his different personality traits and use the difference to shape the character? It felt like this wasn't something a normal person could do.

But soon Wei En found that his worry was a bit redundant. Those who engage in art are indeed geniuses and lunatics on the same line. Ke Lisi met Wei En's multiple personality traits very enthusiastically in the director's lounge, and chatted quite happily with all of them.

He even wrote a profile for each personality, Wei En found it quite accurate after reading it, if he had studied psychology back then... forget it, then the world would have lost a great director today.

It could be seen that Ke Lisi was a complete pragmatist. He didn't care at all about how this strange state was caused, whether there would be any danger, whether it was a taboo topic that couldn't be touched. He was purely using what could be used, and all had to contribute to art. Essentially, it was very similar to greed.

The first part of the entire series of movies was mainly to introduce the worldview, plus show the protagonist's personality, the main plot involved was not particularly much, mainly fighting vampires, only giving a little foreshadowing of Mephisto.

After the initial running-in, the entire filming process became very fast. Because there was no need to worry about all kinds of props and special effects, as long as it could be described, mages could do it.

The little actors were also acting more and more smoothly, becoming more and more familiar with each other, their feelings were getting better and better, and they were more and more in line with the theme of the first part, which made the presented effect better.

The filming work of the movie was completed very quickly. Originally, it was expected to take about nine months, but in fact, the filming work ended in four months. Post-production adjustments took less than a month, and even if all the publicity work was counted, it was less than half a year, and the movie was ready to be released.

Before the release, there was a screening, which was to invite internal personnel and various film critics to watch the movie first and give evaluations, let them promote on social media, and adjust the publicity strategy according to their evaluations.

This screening, in addition to inviting practitioners in the film industry, also invited Strange and Wei En's friends—the entire Avengers came.

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