Chapter 268: This is Unscientific

Cao Yang selected five exterior locations for *Inception*. Ludong Island is one, Beijing is another, and there are also Paris, France, Tangier, Morocco, and Montreal, Canada.

Ludong Island was filmed very smoothly. It took eight days to film all the scenes by the sea.

Next, according to the principle of proximity, go to Beijing to film first.

When leaving, the Ludong Island official was still a bit reluctant. They felt the influence of Cao Yang and *Inception* very definitely. That unique opening press conference made Ludong Island appear in the news all over the world.

The Olympic Sailing Center was also known by many people.

Moreover, many European and American foreigners also saw the skyscrapers faintly appearing in the distance through the pictures or videos of the press conference, and were surprised that China actually had such modern cities.

In their impression, whether it was reports from their own media or reports from well-known European and American media, China was a poor and backward world, with ignorant people, backward cities, politics...

At this moment, at least it let quite a few "high and mighty" Europeans and Americans know that China also has skyscrapers.

This city called Ludong Island must be the best city in China ranked first, right?

Elite education is just like this.

A small number of elite people of course know what the world is like, but besides them, the masses who occupy the majority under happy education, the information they receive is all instilled in them by the upper class, what they want them to know.

Don't talk about them, even the Hollywood staff and individual actors of the *Inception* crew were subverted in their cognition after coming to China.

Although China is not yet taking off at the current stage, this stage is exactly the time for accumulation, and the city has also begun to recover, at least much better than what their media reported.

Compared to these people, the one who felt the most shocked and also the most lost was Claire Danes, the actress who played the male lead's wife in *Inception*.

Claire Danes suddenly "opened up" on the day of the official filming, and had always thought that she was one of the actresses most in tune with Director Cao Yang.

This feeling reached its peak after she filmed opposite scenes with Depp.

That is Depp, the Oscar-winning actor for two consecutive terms. How his acting skills are, there is no need to say more.

Especially Claire Danes saw with her own eyes in the crew these days that Depp's performance was called relaxed, and his acting was called natural. If you didn't know, you would think he was fooling around.

However, as long as you watched Depp's performance, you definitely wouldn't think so.

Depp's acting didn't look like acting. It was like he himself was the male lead in the movie. Many times he didn't even need to memorize the lines seriously. As long as it was filmed, even very long lines were spoken naturally.

Claire Danes didn't believe it at first, thinking Depp was joking, and he must have memorized the lines extremely seriously in private.

Until Claire Danes filmed opposite scenes with Depp, she didn't remember many lines firmly.

But as long as the camera was running, as long as it was officially filmed, she didn't need to think. What lines or not, it was like talking very normally, and she just connected it when she opened her mouth.

This made Claire Danes confirm once again that she, like Depp, is the "most suitable" person for Director Cao Yang.

Therefore, her self-confidence expanded extremely, and there was always a feeling in her heart that she couldn't spit it out, and she always wanted to find someone to confide in.

She first found Little Li Zi, whom she hated the most. This was also because she was most familiar with Little Li Zi, and she could "show off" her sense of superiority in front of the person she hated the most.

"Leo, have you collaborated with Director Cao Yang before?"

"Although I haven't collaborated with Director Cao Yang before, he is one of the directors I have always wanted to collaborate with most."

Little Li Zi's scenes were not many. To the outside world, of course, he claimed to have a good relationship with Director Cao Yang, so he came to guest star in a role.

"Is that so? You also participated in the training before filming. I don't know if you have a deeper understanding of the role of Fischer you are going to play?"

Claire Danes asked as if unintentionally.

At this moment, Little Li Zi wished he could slap his thigh. Claire's question was too timely.

Since the day official filming started, Little Li Zi discovered that he slept and had a dream, and suddenly he had a deeper understanding of the role of Fischer by countless layers, as if he had resonated with the character.

With his many years of acting experience, that moment made him incomparably confident that no one understood Fischer better than him.

He, like Claire Danes, very much wanted to find someone to confide in this feeling he had never had before. Acting could actually be so easy? The key is that it was so easy and could still act the role well!

However, Little Li Zi is an international superstar, of course he couldn't be so "shallow." Finding someone to confide in is not something a person of his status can do. Simply put, he had an idol burden.

Ha, didn't Claire Danes just hit the gun? I can't find someone to say it, but someone came over and asked such a question, it was simply, simply too great!

"Claire, you know, because of some work reasons, I participated in the training a bit late, so regarding the role, especially the role of Fischer I am going to play, there might be some insufficiency in cognition."

Little Li Zi grinned, very much wanting to laugh out loud, but still restrained himself, but couldn't help but "modestly" a little.

Claire Danes also grinned, very much wanting to laugh out loud, but also restrained herself. Isn't this exactly what she wanted?

"Regarding the role of Fischer, I think it should be viewed from two aspects. This is also the power of Director Cao Yang. He can always look at problems from different angles and let actors understand the role.

Fischer is on the one hand a psychological appeal. He wants to seek his father's recognition and self-worth confirmation.

He longs to get rid of the shackles of the successor label. He has long been shrouded in the shadow of his father's business empire, and his subconscious longs to prove his own ability through independent achievement, rather than passively accepting the inheritance.

This can be seen from the third layer of dreams. When he faced his dying father and found the childhood windmill in the safe, he realized that his father really hoped he wouldn't be another himself, which triggered his decision to give up the inheritance.

The reconciliation scene with his father in the dream symbolizes his inner turn from commercial confrontation to emotional redemption, which is also the second aspect I want to talk about.

The second aspect is behavioral choice, reconstructing life path to complete self-redemption.

Fischer finally chose to dissolve his father's company. On the surface, it seems to be manipulated by implanted dreams, but in fact, it is the awakening of his self-consciousness. He realized that the right of inheritance is a shackle on individual creativity, and instead pursued an independent career.

The act of dissolving the company is not only a commercial decision, but also a rebellion against family authority and a declaration of individual independence..."

Claire Danes was a bit dumbfounded. Looking at Little Li Zi who was still talking endlessly, she really wanted to slap him and ask this damn fickle man, is this your "insufficiency" in understanding the role?

Damn!

Bullshit!

Liar!

She was right to reject this fickle man at the beginning. This is a big liar full of lies!

Fine, this liar can have his current status. Having a white face is one thing, and it definitely can't be separated from his acting skills. His acting skills are still okay. Didn't he even deceive herself?

Claire Danes comforted herself that maybe Little Li Zi is also a talented actor, so he can fully understand the content of Director Cao Yang's explanation.

So, in order to verify her idea, she decided to find someone else to verify it.

Mark Ruffalo definitely won't work. This guy has collaborated with Director Cao Yang, and also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by virtue of Director Cao Yang's *Mean Milk*.

Right, just find another small character Tom Hardy. This guy is so old and still has no fame. He is definitely not a talented player.

"Hi, Hardy, you participated in the training before Director Cao Yang filmed the whole process. I don't know what insights you have about the role you are going to play?"

Then, Claire Danes seemed to see the excitement on Tom Hardy's face flash by.

"Hello Danes, I play the impersonator Eames. After Director Cao Yang's explanation before filming, I have a good understanding of this role."

Claire Danes nodded on the surface, but she didn't quite believe it in her heart.

The role of the impersonator Eames is a member of the protagonist group, and his scenes are very sufficient. Like the other two members of the protagonist group, he almost runs through the entire movie.

She didn't believe that a small character like Tom Hardy could be as thorough as Depp and Little Li Zi in his understanding of the role.

"Eames, as an assistant invited by Cobb, as a famous 'impersonator' in the industry, his professional mission is to promote the implanted dream mission through disguise technology.

This can be seen from his ability to adopt different disguise strategies according to different situations at critical moments in different environments and dreams.

For example, in the second layer of dreams, the hotel scene, he disguised himself as Fischer's godfather Peters, and guided his trust in the false narrative designed by the team through forged dialogue.

For example, in the third layer of snow fortress, he disguised himself as an armed guard, used his dual identity to infiltrate the enemy's defense line, and when Fischer's subconscious projection posed a threat to the dream, Eames needed to adjust his disguise strategy to resolve the crisis.

In the snow fortress raid, he created chaos by detonating the building structure, creating an opportunity for the team to approach Fischer.

When the client, the Chinese tycoon, was dying, causing the mission to fail, he took the initiative to propose accelerating the progress of the plan, using explosions to synchronize the awakening of members in multiple layers of dreams...

Moreover, besides his professional mission, Eames also has personal appeals, that is, breaking through technical boundaries and consolidating professional value.

Eames regards high-difficulty tasks as an experimental field to verify his ability. In the fourth layer of dreams, the subconscious world of Cobb and Mal, he tried to disguise himself as Mal to test the tolerance threshold of the deep subconscious for identity cognition..."

Looking at Tom Hardy who was talking endlessly and getting more and more excited, Claire Danes fell into deep self-doubt.

After Director Cao Yang's directing, why did everyone become so excellent? Why could everyone understand the role so clearly?

Could it be that she is not the so-called "most in tune" person?

Could it be that every actor who participated in Director Cao Yang's directing would become the "most in tune" person?

How is this possible?

This is unscientific!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 269 =====