It took Du Lin a whole morning to find many excellent actors. Although as soldiers from the Southern Territory, they had never had any acting experience, Du Lin believed that with the help of suggestion magic, they would be able to get into the state quickly and perform their roles perfectly.
Of course, although he interviewed for many roles, Du Lin never let anyone audition for the most crucial role of the leading actor and the villain who played opposite him. The reason was very simple, because he already had the candidates.
…
"Eh? Let me audition?"
Captain Brando, who had just come to see the audition, was startled when he heard what Du Lin suddenly said.
And Du Lin didn't just mention him. He also asked Warrant Officer Qiao Sen, a non-commissioned officer, to audition.
"Acting?"
Warrant Officer Qiao Sen was much calmer in response to this request. It was obvious that he had the desire to act in his heart.
On the other hand, although Brando was extremely reluctant, Durin had anticipated this and sent Daphne, who had already colluded with him in private, to make a request to the other party.
At his sister's request, Brando hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed to the idea of auditioning.
"But if it's not suitable, then definitely don't choose me. I have no interest in acting."
After hearing Captain Brando's words, Durin did not make any response, but just smiled faintly, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Soon, the audition for these two people officially began.
"First, Warrant Officer Qiao Sen. What is your background, Warrant Officer?"
Warrant Officer Qiao Sen was stunned for a moment by Du Lin's sudden question, and finally answered hesitantly:
"My background? I was born in an ordinary merchant family in the southern border. My family has been doing business with various nobles. Until my generation, it has always been a merchant family. It's just that I don't like too much interpersonal communication, so I decisively chose to join the army after I became an adult."
"I see. No wonder you give me such an elegant and gentlemanly feeling."
"Haha, Director Du Lin, you flatter me."
Du Lin smiled back at Qiao Sen's smile and handed him the character script that he had prepared long ago.
"You are auditioning for the protagonist of this movie, Jonathan Joestar. He has a nickname called JOJO. He has the pride of being a noble, and a straightforward and gentlemanly character. In the early days of the movie, he was bullied by the villain Dio Brando because of his straightforwardness, but he eventually grew up strong. Now I hope you can show Jonathan's different personalities in two different time periods."
"Different personalities in two time periods?"
Looking at the contents of the script, Warrant Officer Qiao Sen hesitated for a moment and then nodded slowly.
Soon, Warrant Officer Qiao Sen, who was well prepared, began to perform the contents of the script.
After performing only a few paragraphs, Du Lin smiled and nodded:
"Very good, I think that's OK."
"Is it OK?"
Warrant Officer Qiao Sen couldn't help but feel a little surprised that he passed the audition so easily.
When Captain Brando saw that Warrant Officer Johnson was selected so easily, he felt a little uncomfortable. After all, the other party was nominally his direct subordinate, and he naturally felt unwilling to fall behind.
So he came out immediately and said:
"Director Du Lin, do you want me to audition for a role?"
"Well, of course. Here, this is your script."
Hearing Durin's words, Captain Brando quickly took the script, but after taking a few glances at it, he was stunned and stood there.
"Excuse me, what role is this script for?"
"The script for the film's villain, Dio Brando."
"The big villain?"
"Um."
"I'll act?"
"Um."
"Depend on!!!"
Facing the foul language of the captain of the border guards and the son of the Duke, Du Lin quickly dodged the opponent's first round of attack and shouted:
"Don't worry, although it's a villain role, in a sense, it's a role that's more important than the protagonist. Believe me, as long as you can perform the essence of Dio, you will definitely gain countless fans!"
"Is this... true or false?"
"Of course it's true. Don't worry. As a director who has made so many popular movies, how could I lie to you?"
"Then...then I'll try..."
Seeing Captain Brando's persuaded look, Du Lin once again felt that his eloquence was getting better and better. At the same time, he immediately waited for the other party to perform the contents of the script.
Under everyone's expectant gaze, Captain Brando finally straightened his mind and said loudly with an almost exaggerated gesture:
"JOJO, human ability has its limits."
"I have learned one thing in this short life."
"The more scheming a person is, the more likely he is to fall into unexpected difficulties and lose all his previous efforts, unless he surpasses humans..."
"I'm not a human anymore, JOJO!"
In an instant, with a series of expressions and exaggerated movements, Captain Brando showed nearly perfect acting skills.
However, precisely because it was too perfect, the people watching couldn't help but raise their lips.
"Hey, hey, hey, you guys are laughing, right? You guys are laughing at me, right!?"
Facing Captain Brando's red-faced words, Durin immediately turned his head away and tried his best to suppress his smile.
As a subordinate, Warrant Officer Qiao Sen tried his best not to be disrespectful to his superior, but he still couldn't help but smile.
Daphne couldn't control her expression any longer, she held her stomach and said:
"I really... I didn't expect that my brother could actually do this. It's so weird, but I always think that this weirdness is just right..."
"… "
Captain Brando's expression suddenly became interesting in response to his sister's comments.
Fortunately, this is a closed camp. If he had done this in front of so many soldiers, he would probably have wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Of course, although he felt extremely ashamed after acting, when he was playing the role, Captain Brando did not feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, he really felt immersed in the role...
Chapter 237: Filming of "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" begins!
Chapter 237
When Du Lin had completed the audition at the Southern Border Guard and was preparing to film "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", many changes gradually took place in the entire empire.
The first is the Imperial Magic Academy. After experiencing the baptism of "Steins;Gate", more and more magicians have devoted themselves to the research of magical alchemy. Among them, there are many magicians who have achieved certain achievements and left their names in the newly established patent system.
In addition, the influence of "Steins;Gate" also made the Imperial Magic Academy pay more attention to the research of basic magic. The magicians whose main research direction was originally to develop stronger and bigger magic gradually calmed down and turned their research direction to some more basic and more important research fields.
At the same time, Dean Hohenheim and Scar also integrated magical alchemy into the basic courses of all subjects, requiring all college students to learn magical alchemy to a certain extent.
Finally, Dean Hohenheim also began preparations for the admission of ordinary people. Since these things were too groundbreaking and violated common sense, even he had to be cautious and thoughtful, and was ready to officially announce the news during the next year's enrollment season.
Under the influence of these movies, big or small, the magic world of the entire empire has undergone tremendous changes and ushered in a new era.
On the other hand, after returning to the royal city, King Hubbard personally issued a lifting of the ban on movies, announcing that the film industry could be released outside the South.
Of course, due to various reasons, the areas that can be deployed at present are only the east and west borders, excluding the imperial capital and the north border which is farthest from the south border.
Although this aroused reactions from some people, the backlash was not strong because it did not include the main area of the imperial capital. At least the church has not yet noticed this cultural product that has gradually had a huge impact among the people.
Therefore, King Hubbard did not say much and instead focused his attention on building hospitals throughout the empire.
In order to reduce the influence of the church, King Hubbard decided to take back the important power of healing the people from the church pastors.
Although this was destined to be a difficult battle, King Hubbard, who had experienced various wars of all sizes in his life, was obviously not afraid of it, and even enjoyed it.
For the sake of this human kingdom, the old king who is about to abdicate decides to do one last thing for the country before he abdicates.
…
At the same time as these things were happening, the film promotion activities personally planned by Viscount Banil were gradually unfolding in the east and west of the empire.
These include but are not limited to various posters posted in towns, flyers handed out on the roadside, and personal accounts from people who have seen the movie…
Regardless of the method, the only fact is that the new term "movie" has gradually reached the ears of people in both the East and the West.
Although no one knew what the so-called movies were, due to the extreme lack of entertainment in this world, most people in the East and West instinctively looked forward to movies.
…
Southland, Northrick.
Although the Frost Film Festival has ended, the popularity of the cinemas and TV pubs is still beyond imagination. Astonishing flow of people gather on both sides day and night, as if countless flowing gold coins are pouring into the pockets of the owners behind these industries.
Faced with this scene, Viscount Rainier frowned tightly.
As an old noble in the South, he inherited the family theater just like Viscount Banil. He originally wanted to make a lot of money and live a luxurious life. However, he did not expect that due to the emergence of movies, the theater completely closed down in less than a year.
Viscount Rainier suffered a great shock after the theater went bankrupt. Not only did he lose a large amount of wealth, but the development of his family itself was also greatly affected. This is in stark contrast to Viscount Banir, who is now almost at the peak of his career in the South.
Therefore, after the theater went bankrupt, Viscount Rainier tried his best to think of ways to reverse the decline of his family's fortunes.
Eventually, he found many nobles and theater troupes who were also impacted by the film industry, and they united and determined to make a perfect movie and defeat the enemy with the enemy's weapons!
To this end, he bet almost everything he had on this movie.
The best theater troupe in the South, the most popular script in the history of stage plays, a magic photographer hired at a high price, and a large number of like-minded film partners...
Viscount Rainier believed that such a nearly perfect team would be able to make a perfect movie and reap huge box office revenue.
He seemed to have already seen the lively scene before his eyes appearing a month later, with countless audiences cheering for the movie he had made!
"Hehe, Dulin Edward, Barnier, don't think that you are the only ones who can make money from movies. Since you have created such a wonderful era, what's wrong with letting us enjoy the dividends of the era?"
With this, Viscount Rainier laughed confidently, and the low-quality wine in the glass in his hand seemed to become delicious at this moment.
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Time passes by little by little.
Ever since Du Lin arrived at the camp of the Southern Border Guards and completed the auditions of the actors, he immediately gathered the members of the studio to start filming the new movie.
Due to the film's scene requirements, he bought a castle in the South as the main scene for filming.
Moreover, after Captain Brando and Warrant Officer Johnson were transformed into teenagers through various kinds of makeup and even magical means, the filming was finally ready.
At this moment, facing the actors gathered here, the group of idle guys from the studio, and some villagers from nearby villages who heard that a movie was about to start shooting and came to join in the fun, Du Lin said loudly without any concern:
"Then, the filming of the first part of JOJO's Bizarre Adventure officially begins!"
As Du Lin finished speaking, the filming officially began.
Although the entire movie contains a lot of content, the scenes throughout are very simple and there is almost no need to change scenes frequently, so the filming process can be said to be quite smooth.
The only thing that didn't go smoothly was that a certain army captain was so absorbed in playing the villain that he didn't pay any attention during the process. But when he finally noticed what he had done, he would probably stay indoors for a long time out of shame.
Of course, no matter how embarrassing it was afterwards, when he entered the role, he completely performed the essence of Dio, which made Durin wonder whether the Duke's family in the South Territory really had no vampire blood.
Chapter 238: The filming of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" is completed!
Chapter 238
The cold winter gradually passed. Since the seasonal changes in this world almost coincided with the months, when the new year came, the entire empire had warmed up again.
For most people in the empire, the new year actually has no special meaning. After all, apart from the imperial capital, there are almost no grand activities in other parts of the empire.
Under such circumstances, the cinemas that quietly spread to the east and west quickly attracted the attention of the locals, allowing them to know the news of the next movie several days in advance.
"Have you heard that there is something called a movie theater in the South Territory? It has now opened in our area."
"A movie theater? What is that?"
"I'm not sure either. It seems to be something like a stage play, where people perform a story."
"What? Isn't that boring?"
"That's not the case. I heard from those who have seen it that the movie and the stage play are completely different. Not only is the performance style completely different, but the story is also very interesting. It doesn't make people feel bored at all after watching it."
"Is this true? Is it that powerful?"
"If it's true, I will definitely go see the movie when it comes out."