Chapter 184: Each Person

Depp started to tidy up his jacket, clipping the mini microphone onto the pocket of his jacket.

"Cut!"

Cao Yang shouted and said to Depp: "Depp, don't be expressionless. You are currently performing the recording of a voice and picture. Although this is a mockumentary method, you need to give an expression that is slightly nervous and a little excited."

Depp made an OK gesture.

"Alright, all departments pay attention, let's do it again."

The clapperboard hit.

Depp's wooden face was slightly nervous, he clipped the mini microphone onto his jacket pocket, and then sat down.

"This is very good, isn't it? A very good background, with colleagues behind, it makes it look even more real..."

This was said to the camera, and also as a self-narration like a mockumentary.

"Cut!"

Cao Yang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Depp is a bit introverted. If you let him play a gloomy role or a strange role, he can have a very good performance.

He just has a look that seems a bit gloomy and shy.

Just like *Milk*, Milk is a gloomy role, and he can perform it particularly well.

If you let him play a normal person, it's really not very easy to adjust.

In the script of *District 9*, the male protagonist's persona is an ordinary person. He didn't get a promotion, so he could joke and play with colleagues. After the promotion, he had a desire for expression, but deep down he was still a timid person.

"Depp, just treat yourself as an ordinary person. He will be nervous when on camera, and also a bit excited. You can't just show nervousness; you need to have a bit of an ordinary person's desire for expression. You need to be a bit excited, understand?"

"Alright, Director, give me five minutes, I'll adjust."

Five minutes later, filming again, the clapperboard hit.

Depp had a bit of a smile this time, not very natural.

However, by comparison, there was already a big improvement.

"... We are at the MNU headquarters, Alien Affairs Department, I am..."

These past few days, the filming has been bumpy, and the progress has been very slow.

Among them, Cao Yang specifically adjusted the filming order. Almost all important roles appeared in the first few days.

Cao Yang's purpose was to let these people NG a few more times first. Even if it looked like the performance was okay, he would still shout "Cut" and do it again.

The feeling given to people was that he had high requirements, and the actors were always unable to meet his requirements.

Moreover, in the eyes of outsiders, Cao Yang has been lecturing the actors on the play. NG once, he lectures once, and he will also extend to the inner heart of the role and combine it with the background of the story to lecture.

Is this scene familiar?

Those in the crew who have followed Cao Yang know that Cao Dao is going to use a big move, and everyone is waiting for these actors to perform above their level.

No matter how many times they have seen it, they still feel that in terms of training actors, Cao Dao is awesome, and this is a point that is very difficult for other directors to do.

In terms of acting skills, among several important actors, Cao Yang felt that the bald egg Samuel L. Jackson performed well, playing the perversion of a gang boss very well.

Probably because he played a gang boss in *Pulp Fiction* and *Jackie Brown*?

It passed like this for ten days or so. Cao Yang felt it was almost there. It was only natural that the actors started to perform well after lecturing for so many days before filming and continuing to lecture during filming.

Returning at night, he opened the system.

Thinking about it, he exchanged for four immersion experiences at once.

Cao Yang has figured it out now. What is the immersion experience for? It is to let the actors have a better performance. If a film invests four immersion experiences, and the box office income can bring four immersion experiences, then it is absolutely worth investing.

The box office of *Milk* can reward 500,000 prestige, which is five immersion experiences. Cao Yang believes that the box office of *District 9* will not be bad either.

Then investing four immersion experiences, there are only benefits.

Cao Yang added one to Depp, Duan Yihong, Wu Qihua, and Ian McKellen in one breath, but didn't give one to Samuel L. Jackson, who played the gang boss.

This is because after these ten days of filming, Cao Yang found that Samuel L. Jackson was fully capable of playing the gang boss well.

Moreover, this role itself doesn't need too much expressiveness, and the part is not so sufficient, so there is no need to add an immersion experience.

After Depp fell asleep at night, his brain seemed exceptionally clear.

He felt that he seemed to have transformed into the male protagonist, changing from an ordinary MNU staff member to the person in charge of the alien migration work.

Many of those stupid and violent alien Prawns didn't cooperate.

When he communicated with the aliens, he at least maintained a considerable degree of patience.

The reason for maintaining patience was just to complete the task better, and it couldn't represent that he liked these aliens; he was actually equally disgusted with these aliens who were difficult to communicate with.

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He had also personally burned down the eggs of aliens in a whole house, and didn't think at all that this was an infringement on life, and was even excited about his work results.

This also represented the view of almost any earthling on aliens. Humans and aliens are isolated from each other, despise each other, and refuse to communicate, which is also a major reason leading to the deterioration of relations between races.

Those sergeants and mercenaries sent to assist had no patience for these Prawns, and would open fire if they didn't agree, not treating aliens as people at all.

In an action to raid the aliens' residence, he accidentally let the "fluid" contained in a cylindrical tank spray onto his face. From then on, his body continued to have abnormalities.

Black nosebleeds, loose fingernails, vomiting, and finally after a coma, he was sent to the hospital. When the bandage on his injured left hand was removed, that hand actually turned into the hand of an alien Prawn...

Similar to Depp's situation, except that Duan Yihong, Wu Qihua, and Ian McKellen each had different experiences.

Duan Yihong became the commander's role.

He always insisted on one point of view: since these alien Prawns could come to Earth by starship, it proved that they were a very dangerous existence to Earth, which could also be seen from their advanced weapons.

Fortunately, these alien Prawns who came to Earth, for some reason, were all low in intelligence and didn't understand or know how to use these weapons.

But he firmly believed that there would definitely be alien Prawns who would awaken, and there would definitely be alien Prawns who could use these weapons.

Non-my-race, their hearts must be different; they should be wiped out as soon as possible...

Wu Qihua became an alien.

He had a son, and they had been privately collecting energy in order to start the spaceship and leave Earth as soon as possible.

He had a very bad impression of the humans here. These people were arrogant, violent, and had twisted personalities, and also discriminated against them, these aliens who came to Earth.

Just when he was silently collecting energy, the arrival of a stupid human disrupted all of this.

This stupid human was also infected by energy and was undergoing mutation...

Ian McKellen became one of the people in charge of MNU.

His task was to study and collect alien weapons and find ways to use them.

But for twenty years, at the base, no method had worked.

Until one day, his son-in-law mutated for unknown reasons and could use those advanced alien weapons without any hindrance, which greatly surprised him.

In order to find a way to use the weapons, he mercilessly ordered the base to study his son-in-law, um, including dissection and slicing research...

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