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Chapter 302 Acting Skills
In the original novel of Twilight, the mysterious Eastern exorcist occupies a very short section, less than one-seventh of the entire book.

From a narrative perspective, this character is essentially just a tool to advance the main love story between the male and female protagonists, used to highlight their unwavering love even in the face of life and death.

In the original work, this character is portrayed as rather thin: he appears in tattered clothes like a beggar, has a stubborn and rigid personality, and behaves like a mechanical NPC in a game. He will relentlessly pursue and hunt down vampires as soon as he senses their presence.

The plot is also very simple: he tracks the vampire all the way to the gloomy town and begins to hunt down the male protagonist's family members who adhere to "vegetarianism".

Because these vampires had not drunk human blood for a long time, their combat strength was mediocre. They suffered heavy losses under his attack, and most of the members, including the male protagonist, were seriously injured.

At this critical moment, another group of lurking vampires seized the opportunity to attack, attempting to take over the protagonist's family.

When the male and female protagonists were in dire straits, the Eastern exorcist witnessed their steadfast love and was deeply moved. In the end, he sacrificed himself through a ritualistic sacrifice, giving his life to save the male and female protagonists.

After that, the character completely disappeared from the story.

……

In the screening room.

The lights flickered on and off.

On the screen.

The gentle drizzle, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, washed over the depths of everyone's hearts...

In fact, the first half of the movie uses the plot to emphasize the protagonist's loneliness.

For example, his detachment from family during school lunches: when no family members were with him, he would always sit alone in a corner with an untouched plate in front of him.

For example, the taboo of touching: In the dodgeball game in physical education class, he moved through the crowd like a ghost, but was never hit by the ball. It was not because he was agile, but because everyone subconsciously avoided physical contact with him.

For example, the musical metaphor in his entrance: he often listened to jazz from the 1920s, and while everyone else was discussing modern singers, he remained silent, not uttering a word...

for example……

……

This series carefully builds up the male protagonist's sense of loneliness through its plot, and the foreshadowing is not abrupt.

However, when the mysterious Eastern exorcist appeared, the entire style of the film suddenly changed.

It seemed to be a battle of acting skills...

On the screen, in the rain.

The figure in the rain resembled a blurred painting.

Unlike the bright and shiny clothes of the male and female protagonists, he seemed to be filthy, covered in mud under his tattered dark robe in the rain, and every step he took seemed to be struggling to break free from something...

The streetlights stretched and shattered his shadow, and as he passed the stained-glass windows of the church, the refracted light fell on his bandages wrapped with runes...

The fabric around his left eye was already soaked with blood, forming a dark red scab, as if telling the story of the brutality of countless battles!
In the rain, several drunkards bumped into his shoulder while laughing, but stumbled and missed as if passing through fog. Then, as if they had seen a ghost, they stared at him with wide eyes, and then took several steps back in fear.

And at that moment, the camera gave him a close-up look...

……

Screening room.

In the screening room, Elena stared blankly at the screen.

She had never seen such a look in her eyes before...

Those were empty eyes, like stagnant water, devoid of ripples, reflections, and any of the emotions that only a "living person" would possess, like a shell ripped from its soul...

No lines needed, no unnecessary movements, just his incongruous gait and the look in his eyes beneath the brim of his hat...

It made her feel like a soul banished by the world!

It was a loneliness that seeped into the very marrow of one's bones, blending seamlessly with the rainy night. It was far more poignant and infectious than the pale aloofness of a vampire.

She stared at the figure on the screen, feeling a strange tremor in her heart.

At that moment, after a brief close-up, the camera slowly switched to a wide-angle close-up.

The figure in the rain suddenly stopped.

He slowly raised his head and stared into the distance. The moment the distant bells rang, the bronze compass at his waist suddenly emitted a piercing buzz.

"I found you..."

His voice, mixed with the sound of rain, was very hoarse and dry.

On camera, he pulled out a revolver covered in talismans, loaded it with bullets engraved with Sanskrit characters, and after a moment, with a flick of his wrist, the cylinder spun and produced a string of ghostly blue flames.

Then, the camera switched to the drunkards' perspective, who saw it in horror.

In a close-up shot, the moment this Asian man took a step, the puddles on the ground suddenly froze into ice, and raindrops hung suspended in mid-air like a curtain of crystal beads.

As his leather boots rolled across the ice, talismans ignited at the hem of his dark red robe, their ashes leaving a blood-red trail behind him...

"boom!"

The moment the gun fired, all the hovering raindrops burst into mist.

One shot!
Two shots!

Three shots...

……

In the rain, each shot shattered the void, piercing the shadow of the distant clock tower.

The vampire's screams resonated with the tolling of bells...

In the rain, he swung the gun barrel, sparks flying onto his bandaged face, leaving a burn mark, but he paid no heed, his gaze fixed on the distance…

His eyes were no longer as empty as before; they seemed to have gained some vitality, and a hint of vengeful ripples...

However, when the screams stopped, he casually put away his gun, his eyes returning to their previous emptiness.

Then, step by step, following the rain, I walked towards the distance...

His figure seemed completely out of place in the world, as if the one who had just hunted the supernatural creature was merely a down-on-his-luck traveler passing by a tavern.

As the camera zooms out, his figure gradually disappears into the thick fog... like an unfinished requiem, cruel yet elegant.

……

Loneliness, suffocation, elegance, sorrow, cruelty...

In just one short scene, Elena saw so many qualities embodied in this mysterious Eastern exorcist.

Many girls who have been protected and raised in a greenhouse since childhood cannot resist that unique temperament of "mystery", "rebellion" and "loneliness"...

The image of Zhou Yang, playing a mysterious Eastern exorcist, disappearing into the darkness remained vivid in Elena's mind, lingering for a long time, leaving her with an indescribable feeling of wanting more.

When the camera switches back to the male and female perspectives once more...

For some reason, Elena felt an indescribable sense of disconnection, a strange feeling of emptiness.

The following plot of the movie depicts the return of all members of the protagonist Edward's family to the family, all on high alert to deal with the crisis brought about by the exorcists, including the "werewolf" family.

Then, the werewolf initially disliked the female protagonist, but later, inexplicably, he began to develop a strange "feeling" for her as he spent time with her.

The film featured a short scene where the male lead and the second male lead pursued the female lead, a common trope in romantic movies.

however……

The exciting plot of the original novel, when adapted into the film, inexplicably left Elena somewhat disappointed…

Perhaps it was due to the acting skills of the male and female leads, but she couldn't find the sweet yet dangerous feeling in the novel at all; instead, she felt a little embarrassed.

After nearly 10 minutes of romantic scenes, the film shifts back to a sense of crisis, as the mysterious Eastern exorcist reappears...

The movie follows the original story and is the most exciting battle between the Edward family and the mysterious exorcists from the East...

She saw in the camera's lens the ancient castle corridor on a rainy night, where talismans burned to ashes on the bluestone floor.

Zhou Yang, playing an exorcist, drags a blood-stained bandage into the shadows, the barrel of his revolver still emitting smoke.

The severed limbs of vampire servants hung on the stained glass window, blood dripping down the rose pattern.

In the close-up shot, he leans against the bas-relief pillar, bandaging his wound.

When the bandages were removed, half of his disfigured face was revealed. Despite the numerous scars, strangely, instead of being ugly, it gave people a strange charm of "taboo" and "danger".

Then, the camera pans across the yellowed photograph hidden in her bosom: a young girl in a wedding dress lying in a pool of blood...

Half of his face, visible beneath the bandages, flickered in the candlelight as his trembling fingers traced the yellowed photograph.

The camera slowly zooms in, revealing a young woman in a wedding dress smiling brightly in the photo. Before her red veil has been lifted, blood has already soaked through the mandarin duck embroidery on her chest.

His gaze suddenly softened, as if amber frozen for centuries had melted, and the scarlet of his right eye faded to the orange hue of the sunset.

But the next second, tears washed away the scabs that had formed on her left eye, carving a glistening mark on the disfigured scar.

The audience can clearly see the old times reflected in his pupils: the wedding night with the candles burning brightly, the talisman suddenly igniting, and him rushing towards the bride like a madman but only grabbing a handful of ashes.

He smiled slightly at the photo, the curve of his lips exactly the same as when he lifted the veil years ago, but tears shattered the last trace of blood in the photo.

Then, he slowly put the photos away...

“You shouldn’t…touch the soul under the sunlight…” The hoarse voice was mixed with coughing up blood.

When he looked up, his right eye was bloodshot like a demon's, while his left eye was so clear it sent chills down one's spine.

The moonlight was suddenly obscured by bat wings!
The vampire patriarch descended from the sky, his claws piercing through his shoulder in an instant...

A gasp of surprise erupted from the audience in the screening room.

He laughed, and then, wielding his silver sword, he pierced the vampire patriarch's chest with a single strike...

........................

In the eerie hall of the ancient castle, countless vampires surged in from all directions like a tide.

The mysterious Eastern exorcist stood in the center of the spiral staircase, his tattered dark red robe fluttering in the eerie wind.

He bit his finger and drew a blood talisman in the air. In an instant, hundreds of yellow talismans shot out from his sleeve, igniting a ghostly blue flame in the darkness and forcing the approaching vampire back several steps.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The revolver fired silver bullets engraved with Sanskrit in the darkness, each bullet piercing the vampire's heart with precision, kicking up plumes of foul-smelling blood mist.

When the spent cartridges hit the ground, they automatically arranged themselves into a Bagua (Eight Trigrams) formation, scorching black lines on the ground.

The moment the last chamber emptied, he suddenly plunged the barrel into the bluestone floor, formed hand seals, and roared: "Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Lie, Qian, Xing!"

The entire castle trembled violently, and all the spent cartridge cases simultaneously burst into a blinding golden light.

The audience watched as the charred lines suddenly came to life, spreading wildly across the ground like living vines, and in the blink of an eye, they intertwined into a massive Eastern formation.

As the vampire patriarch swooped down, a giant Eastern dragon made of talismanic fire suddenly rose from the center of the formation, opening its burning maw to devour the patriarch.

The ragged exorcist seized the opportunity to leap up, his blood-stained bandages spreading in the air. His right hand clashed with the chieftain's claws, sparks flying, while his left hand suddenly produced a blood-red talisman, which was imprinted on the chieftain's brow.

"Break!" With this hoarse roar, the clan chief screamed as he was knocked back more than ten meters, crashing through the stained glass window and falling into the night.

When the exorcist knelt on one knee, panting, the audience could clearly see the fresh blood seeping from under the bandage of his left eye, which looked shockingly red in the moonlight.

……

In the original novel, this mysterious Eastern exorcist was originally a tyrannical and unreasonable villain. He attacked the Edward family without any reason, plunging the protagonist's Edward family into crisis, which should have made people grit their teeth.

However, when the audience saw the exorcist fighting a bloody battle on the screen, the moment the bandages fell off and blood soaked half of his face, everyone's heart trembled involuntarily.

This contrast may stem from Zhou Yang's performance: his blood-stained face is both broken and sacred under the moonlight, and the scars do not appear ferocious, but rather add a touch of forbidden charm to the character.

When the camera zoomed in on the bandage around his left eye, which was bleeding...

Elena felt a sudden tremor in her heart!

She seemed to see behind this attack a broken yet still persistent soul.

he!
The meaning of life!

It's all for revenge!

(End of this chapter)