Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 327 Comparison
In a daze, Eva Green found herself standing on the deck, surrounded by the vast ocean.

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

Then she discovered a little boy floating in the sea, so she quickly told her governor father and had the soldiers rescue the little boy.

Eva Green was the first to check on the boy and found that he was wearing a pirate's gold coin around his neck. In order to save him, she secretly took the coin off so that the boy would not be mistaken for 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 settled down in the blacksmith's shop, becoming a handsome young blacksmith.

On this day, her father, the governor, gave her a piece of the most fashionable aristocratic clothing at the time. As long as she wore it and tightened the ropes, it would accentuate her perfect figure.

Eva Green didn't particularly like this kind of clothing; she longed for the sea, adventure, and passion, not the life of an aristocrat.

However, not wanting to disappoint her father's good intentions, she still put on the tight dress that made it hard for her to breathe, with the help of her maid, and went to see her annoying fiancé.

She disliked being bound by constraints, disliked her fiancé Brigadier General Norrington, and disliked the political marriage arranged by her governor father under the guise of doing what was best for her.

Then, while talking to Norrington, she accidentally fell into the water because her clothes were too tight and she couldn't breathe. She was rescued by a crazy guy who had just come ashore.

Who would have thought that this strangely behaving, unkempt, and flamboyantly dressed fellow was actually a pirate?

Eva Green was very curious; how could such an odd person be a pirate? She had learned something new.

That night, a group of pirates entered Port Royal and attacked the town. Eva Green was kidnapped by the pirates before she could even understand what was happening.

Eva Green gave the group a fake name, using the surname Turner. Unexpectedly, the pirate captain named Barbossa became very excited when he heard that his surname was Turner.

Then, Eva Green finally fulfilled her pirate dream, sailing on the sea for quite some time aboard a pirate ship.

However, she was being carried along by the pirates.

The moon rose, and something terrifying happened to Eva Green: the pirates had all turned into undead skeletal monsters...

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

Pirate captain Barbossa told her that they were cursed because they took the gold coins, and that every full moon, Barbossa and the other crew members of the Black Pearl would turn into skeletons.

The most terrifying thing is lifelong abstinence, being unable to enjoy sex and food, or even being able to walk normally—this is the price of immortality.

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

The pirates took her to a place called Death Island, where it all began, and Barbossa hoped it would also be the end.

……

Cao Yang glanced at the system.

Host: Cao Yang

Current Reputation: 7008865
Available Reputation: 3808865
Immersion experience: +3
Filming: Pirates of the Caribbean

Male leads: Johnny Depp, Jude Law

Lead actress: Eva Green
Supporting Actor: Duan Yihong, Casey Affleck
……

Cao Yang just redeemed 6 immersion experiences.

He first added an immersion experience for Duan Yihong. Sure enough, Duan only needed one immersion experience, no need to add more. Duan's acting skills are still very good.

He also added an immersive experience for Eva Green, who had the worst performance. After all, she had worked so hard to learn throat techniques, so it wouldn't be right not to give her some intensity.

Surprisingly, Eva Green only needed to get into character, probably because the role didn't require much explosive power and was a bit "flat".

However, after considering it, Cao Yang still added two more immersive experiences for Eva Green. The last experience with Dong Xuan was still fresh in his mind, and Cao Yang thought that adding two more might create a better chemistry.

Yes, Cao Yang had no selfish motives; everything he did was for the sake of the film and for Eva Green. After all, Eva Green is such a sexy and lovely girl, and she was almost driven to despair by this today.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Duan Yihong are all true acting talents; we shouldn't be too harsh on this young girl who has only been in the industry for a few years.

In addition, Cao Yang also wanted to try adding two role-playing experiences to Eva Green first, but not to Depp and Jude Law, to see if Eva Green could match Jude Law or Depp in terms of acting skills.

This also allows us to compare the current level of acting skills of Depp and Jude Law.

This is not because Cao Yang is stingy with his immersive experience.

Look at this period of time, with the awards and box office success of "Juno" and the super high box office of "Inception" with over $9 million worldwide, the reputation is rolling in.

Cao Yang didn't know how the system calculated it, but his total reputation had risen to over seven million, and his usable reputation had risen to over four million four hundred thousand. Even after just exchanging for six immersive experiences, he still had over three million eight hundred thousand usable reputation.

In other words, even if you just spent 600,000 to exchange for six immersive experiences, you can still exchange the remaining reputation for another 38 immersive experiences.

Cao Yang originally thought that as his box office increased and his reputation rose significantly, his reputation points might experience a wave of "inflation," and he might have to pay more to redeem the immersive experience.

However, this idea of ​​maintaining balance is clearly just Cao Yang's own self-righteousness.

The system is not a person, and it does not have the human desire to maintain balance.

The price of the immersive experience has remained unchanged, and the increase in reputation points also seems to have remained the same. There has been no deliberate increase in the difficulty of gaining reputation points as Cao Yang's box office has increased.

Therefore, as Cao Yang's fame grows and his box office returns increase, he also gains more and more reputation points, which he can never fully utilize for his immersive acting experience.

The system does this very well; it doesn't deliberately create a sense of urgency.

Therefore, Cao Yang is not stingy when it comes to giving actors the experience of the role.

As Cao Yang gained a better understanding of the system, he learned at least one "side effect" of adding the immersive experience: the actors' acting skills would be enhanced and expanded more comprehensively.

In other words, adding the experience of immersion in a role can allow actors to experience different lives, and every actor who has done so will see their acting skills improve to varying degrees.

Even a non-professional like Gao Yuanyuan, whose acting skills were lacking, has now become comparable to those of established actors after receiving so much immersion in the role.

Since winning the Cannes Best Actress award, Gao Yuanyuan has been questioned about whether she takes acting seriously, but she has never been criticized for her poor acting skills.

In addition, Cao Yang discovered a sequela that is not considered a sequela.

That is, as long as an actor has gone through the process of immersing themselves in a role, even if they have gotten rid of the "aftereffects" of that experience over time, the positive feelings they have towards themselves will not disappear.

Young actresses' affections often evolve into dependence and love, while male actors' affections are expressed as respect.

Okay, that seems to be the case.

Cao Yang wanted to learn more about the system's capabilities, so he wanted to see who had the better acting skills: Johnny Depp, who hadn't gone through the role-playing process, or Eva Green, who had gone through two role-playing processes.

This is Jude Law's first time working with Cao Yang, and he had heard a lot of "legends" about Cao Yang before.

In his preconceived notion, Cao Yang should be a director who is very good at directing actors. Such directors are usually patient, good at communicating with people, and generally very eager to perform.

However, from the moment Cao Yang summoned them to Beijing for a drama discussion, Jude Law's preconceived notions about Cao Yang changed considerably over time.

He discovered that Cao Yang was not a good communicator, nor was he the type to show off.

The so-called "drama reading" is similar to the script readings that some Hollywood directors conduct before filming begins.

Jude Law went through many script readings.

Most Hollywood arthouse films have this step, where the main actors, investors, production team, and heads of departments such as the director of photography, production designer, and costume designer all attend the meeting.

Typically, a member of the director or production team will read out the action lines and dialogue for minor supporting characters.

This was the first time the production and creative team had come together, and the main actors were also allowed to comment on the script.

However, these differ from Cao Yang's approach to acting.

Cao Yang's acting coaching involves analyzing the core of the film with the actors and what he wants to express, without the rehearsals and character dialogues typical of script readings.

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

He couldn't say whether this approach was better than Hollywood script readings, but he certainly didn't feel anything magical about director Cao Yang.

Hollywood script readings, rehearsals, and character dialogue practice undoubtedly help actors understand their roles.

However, Jude Law did not slack off at all, and privately he would use his own analysis, combined with Cao Yang's explanations, to gain a deeper understanding of the role he was going to play.

That's not all; he also analyzes the roles of the main actors he has scenes with in order to gain a deeper understanding of the film.

Before filming began, Jude Law believed that he was already very familiar with the blacksmith Will Turner he was going to play, and that he would definitely be able to make director Cao Yang see him in a new light.

On the first day of filming, Jude Law appeared outwardly calm, but inwardly he was deeply shaken, as the situation seemed to be somewhat different from what he had imagined.

(End of this chapter)