Chapter 327: Comparison

In a daze, Eva Green felt she was standing on the deck, surrounded by the vast ocean.

For a moment, she really wanted to express her feelings; this vast sea, this boundless ocean, seemed to be her true home.

Then, she discovered a little boy floating in the sea, so she quickly explained to her governor father, letting the soldiers rescue the little boy.

Eva Green was the first to go over to check and found a pirate gold coin around the little boy's neck. Out of the purpose of saving him, she secretly took the coin off, lest the little boy be treated as a pirate and thrown back into the sea.

In the blink of an eye, Eva Green grew into a young woman, and the little boy also settled down in the blacksmith shop, becoming a handsome young blacksmith.

This day, her governor father gave her a piece of the most popular noble clothing of the time; as long as you put it on and tighten the ropes, you could highlight an extremely good figure.

Eva Green didn't like this kind of clothing too much; what she longed for was the sea, adventure, and passion, not the life of a noble.

However, in order not to live up to her father's good intentions, she still put on this clothing that made her unable to breathe with the help of her maid, and went to see that annoying fiancé.

She didn't like being bound, nor did she like her fiancé, Commodore Norrington, and she didn't like the political marriage her governor father had set up under the guise of being good for her.

Then, while talking to Norrington, she accidentally fell into the water because her clothes made her unable to breathe, and was saved by a neurotic guy who had just come ashore.

Unexpectedly, this guy, who was eccentric, unkempt, and dressed in a weird way, was actually a pirate.

Eva Green was very curious; how could such a weird person be a pirate? She had gained some insight.

At night, a group of pirates entered Port Royal and attacked the town. Before Eva Green could figure out what was going on, she was kidnapped by this group of pirates.

Eva Green gave this group of people a fake name, using the surname Turner. Unexpectedly, that pirate leader named Barbossa seemed very excited when he heard she was surnamed Turner.

Then, Eva Green finally fulfilled her pirate dream, riding a pirate ship and sailing on the sea for quite a long time.

It's just that she was being held by the pirates.

The moon came out, and the terrifying thing happened to Eva Green: these pirates, one by one, all turned into immortal skeleton monsters...

Eva Green was terrified; no one told her that there were really immortal monsters on the sea.

The pirate leader Barbossa told her that because they took the gold coins, they were cursed. Every full moon night, Barbossa and the other crew members on the "Black Pearl" would turn into skeletons.

The most terrible thing was lifelong abstinence; they couldn't enjoy sex or delicious food, and couldn't even walk normally—this was the price of immortality.

The pirate gold coin in her hand was the source of all curses. Only by returning all the gold coins and washing them with her blood could the curse be lifted.

The pirates took her to a place called Dead Man's Island. This was the beginning of everything, and Barbossa hoped this would also be the end of everything.

Cao Yang checked the system.

Host: Cao Yang

Current Reputation: 7,008,865

Available Reputation: 3,808,865

Immersion Experience: +3

Film being filmed: "New Pirates of the Caribbean"

Male leads: Johnny Depp, Jude Law

Female lead: Eva Green

Supporting actors: Duan Yihong, Casey Affleck

Cao Yang had just redeemed 6 immersion experiences.

He first added an immersion experience for Duan Yihong. Sure enough, Old Duan only needed one immersion experience, no need for more; Old Duan's acting was still very good.

He also added an immersion experience for Eva Green, who performed the worst. After all, she had asked for acting guidance so hard, it wouldn't be right not to increase the intensity for her.

Unexpectedly, Eva Green only needed one immersion experience. Perhaps this role didn't require too much explosive power, and the character was a bit "flat."

However, after consideration, Cao Yang still added two immersion experiences to Eva Green in a row. Dong Xuan's experience was still fresh in his memory, and Cao Yang thought about whether adding two could produce some better chemical reactions.

Well, Cao Yang had no selfish motives; everything was for the sake of the film, and everything was for the sake of Eva Green. After all, Eva Green was such a sexy and cute little girl, and she was almost driven to autism today.

Depp, Jude Law, and Duan Yihong were all true acting powerhouses; he couldn't hit a little girl who had just debuted for a few years too hard.

In addition, Cao Yang also wanted to try adding two immersion experiences to Eva Green first, without adding them to Depp and Jude Law, to see if Eva Green could match Jude Law or Depp in acting.

This could also compare to what level Depp and Jude Law's acting had reached now.

This was not Cao Yang being stingy with immersion experiences.

Look at this period of time, with the awards and box office of "Juno," and the global box office of over 900 million US dollars for "Inception," reputation points were rolling in.

Cao Yang didn't know how the system calculated it, but his total reputation had risen to over seven million, and his available reputation had also risen to over 4.4 million.

Even if he had just redeemed six immersion experiences, there was still over 3.8 million in available reputation.

That is to say, even if he had just spent 600,000 to redeem six immersion experiences, the remaining available reputation could still redeem 38 more immersion experiences.

Cao Yang had originally thought that with the increase in his box office and the significant rise in his reputation, there might be "inflation" in reputation points, and redeeming immersion experiences might cost more.

However, this kind of thinking to maintain balance was obviously just Cao Yang's own wishful thinking as a human.

The system was not human and didn't have the human desire to maintain balance.

The price of immersion experiences had remained unchanged, and the increase in reputation points seemed to have remained unchanged; it didn't deliberately increase the difficulty of obtaining reputation as Cao Yang's box office increased.

Therefore, this resulted in the fact that as Cao Yang's fame grew and his box office became higher, the acquisition of reputation points became more and more, and immersion experiences couldn't be used up at all.

The system did this point very well, not deliberately creating a sense of urgency for people.

Therefore, when adding immersion experiences to actors, Cao Yang wouldn't be stingy.

With his understanding of the system, Cao Yang at least knew a "sequela" after adding an immersion experience, which was that the actor's acting would be increased and also expanded to be more comprehensive.

That is to say, adding an immersion experience might let the actor experience a different life, and every actor who had added an immersion experience would have varying degrees of increase in their acting.

Even non-professional personnel like Gao Yuanyuan, whose acting was poor, after being added so many immersion experiences, her acting now could go back and forth with those acting powerhouses.

At least since winning the Cannes Best Actress award, Gao Yuanyuan had been questioned for not acting seriously, but she had never been questioned for poor acting.

In addition, Cao Yang also discovered a sequela that didn't count as a sequela.

That is, as long as it was an actor who had added an immersion experience, even if the influence of the "sequela" after adding the immersion experience faded over time, the good feelings toward him would not disappear.

The good feelings of young female actors often evolved into dependence and love, while the good feelings of male actors were expressed as respect.

Fine, it seems to be like this.

Cao Yang wanted to know more about the system's capabilities, so he wanted to see who had better acting: Depp, who hadn't added an immersion experience, or Eva Green, who had added two.

Jude Law was working with Cao Yang for the first time, and he had heard quite a few "legends" about Cao Yang before.

In his formed inherent impression, Cao Yang should be a director who was very good at training actors. Such directors were often more patient, good at communicating with people, and generally very willing to express themselves.

However, from the time Cao Yang gathered them in Jingcheng, China, to conduct acting guidance, as time passed, Jude Law's inherent impression of Cao Yang changed quite a bit.

He discovered that Cao Yang was not a person who was good at communicating with people, nor was he the kind of person who loved to express himself very much.

And the so-called acting guidance was similar to what some Hollywood directors did before filming, the so-called script reading.

Jude Law had experienced many script readings.

Most Hollywood art-house films would have this step, where main actors, investment and production teams, as well as department heads such as cinematographers, art designers, and costume designers would all attend the meeting together.

Usually, a member of the director or production team would read the action lines and dialogue for minor roles.

This was the first opportunity for the production and creative team to gather together, and it also allowed the main actors to comment on the script.

But these were also different from Cao Yang's acting guidance.

Cao Yang's acting guidance would analyze the core of the film with the actors, as well as what he wanted to express, without the rehearsals and character dialogue in script reading.

Jude Law was also experiencing this form of "script reading" for the first time. He felt that Director Cao Yang's purpose was to let the actors understand what the film wanted to express, as well as the actors' understanding and analysis of their own roles.

He couldn't say which was better, doing this or Hollywood's script reading, but undoubtedly, he didn't feel Director Cao Yang's magical aspect.

Hollywood's script reading had rehearsals and character dialogue practice, which undoubtedly could also achieve the purpose of letting actors understand their roles.

However, Jude Law didn't slack off in the slightest, and in private, he would also combine Cao Yang's explanations with his own analysis to understand the role he was going to play more deeply.

Not only that, he would also analyze the roles of the several main actors he had scenes with, in order to understand this film more deeply.

Before filming began, Jude Law believed that he was already very familiar with the little blacksmith Will Turner he was going to play, and he could definitely make Director Cao Yang recognize him anew.

Then, on the first day of filming, Jude Law remained calm on the surface, but his heart was already shaking. The situation seemed to be a bit different from what he had imagined.

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