Chapter 423, Script
In this era, after work is over, people have few entertainment options. In addition to drinking and chatting, they also listen to books.
However, the storyteller's stories are limited after all, and there are only a few that can be told over and over again.
And Luo Ji himself was busy with everything. As the supreme ruler of all civilizations, how could he have the spare time to help the storyteller come up with stories every day?
But let them think for themselves. Their brains are not flexible enough and they lack those wild and unconstrained thoughts. Most of the stories they come up with are boring and the guests don't really buy them.
I have no choice but to continue telling the original stories.
But no matter how good the story is, after listening to it so many times in a row, you should get tired of it.
Therefore, in recent times, the treatment of storytellers has also declined in the civilization of all worlds.
The treatment I received in the beginning, like stars holding the moon, is completely gone.
Under such circumstances, what would happen if Luo Ji launched an 'opera'?
No need to think about it, it will definitely be an unprecedented event!
Therefore, what Luo Ji wants to do now is to use the channel of opera to let the people take the initiative to understand the culture of the orcs in the process of 'entertainment', and finally change their views on the orcs and accept them.
As for what is performed in this almost historic first opera, is there any need to say? Of course it is "Beauty and the Beast"!
There are both orcs and humans, isn't that just right?
The story of "Beauty and the Beast" was also very famous in the original real world, at least among his generation.
Even Luo Ji, who doesn't like watching movies very much, watched the animated movie "Beauty and the Beast" when he was a child, which can be regarded as a famous IP.
In the past two years, it seems that a big live-action movie was filmed, and it was quite popular, but he didn't go to see that big movie.
Luo Ji actually didn't remember the plot of this animated movie very clearly, after all, so many years had passed.
I just vaguely remember that the plot seems to be about a prince who was cursed and turned into an orc monster that looked like a lion.
The heroine's father was imprisoned in the castle by the monster. In order to save her father, the heroine risked herself and exchanged herself for her father, while she stayed in the castle.
The final ending seems to be that the monster turned back into a human and then lived happily with the heroine, which can be regarded as a consistent routine in animated movies.
After racking my brains for a long time, I ended up writing something like an outline, with only a few words put together.
As for the specific details and lines, Luo Ji's mind was blank. It had been so long that he really couldn't remember these details.
If you want to perform an opera, you definitely need detailed scenery and lines, otherwise it would be a bit empty.
"It seems like I have to go back to the real world this time."
This opera is very important to Luo Ji. Whether it can break the current deadlock between the human race and the orc race basically depends on this hand, so he will never allow mistakes.
At this point, Luo Ji simply spent some more civilization points, considering that he did not have the protection of a battle-free card, and chose to pause the time of his civilization of all realms, and then decisively logged off.
Luo Ji returned to the real world and appeared directly in his room. He quickly turned on his computer and searched for the keywords 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'script'.
Sure enough, he found the script, and the props, characters, and lines for each scene were clearly written.
Under this premise, Luo Ji naturally started his "endorsement cause" directly.
But at the same time, he didn't forget to read out the movie "Beauty and the Beast" and take a look at it. Combining the movie and the script would make it easier for him to remember and make him more aware.
After watching the movie several times and memorizing the script thoroughly, Luo Ji decided to go online again.
Time continued to pass, and Luo Ji, who was sitting at his desk, quickly threw away the quill in his hand, picked up the charcoal pen next to him, which was faster and more convenient for writing, and started writing furiously.
The script of "Beauty and the Beast" actually doesn't have much content.
Because it is different from the movie. In the movie, a castle scene may need to be shot from several angles, and even a 360-degree high-altitude bird's-eye view to show off the castle or scene special effects.
But in the script, there are basically only a few words left, and that is 'set board - castle'.
Under this premise, what Luo Ji needed to remember most was the lines.
It took him about ten minutes to write the script, which was extremely sloppy.
After quickly checking the content, I made sure there were no errors.
Luo Ji then calmly picked up the quill beside him and used regular handwriting, intending to write the script again.
At the same time, the content also needs to be slightly changed, such as the setting of a prince who was cursed and turned into an orc, and finally lifted the curse and turned back into a human.
You definitely can't write it like this. From beginning to end, it is directly set to be an orc.
Otherwise, wouldn’t he be a human being? According to this setting, half of the concept he wanted to convey through this opera was suddenly lost.
The scrawled handwriting was because he was worried that he would forget the content over time, so he wrote it in such a sloppy way.
And now this copy with correct handwriting is going to be taken to the printing house and asked to be printed.
Since we are going to do an opera, why do we need more than ten or twenty copies of this script?
The interviews before that will probably require more.
After all, in this era, there is no profession of opera singer. You cannot ask them to come up, take the script and start performing directly.
The script must be distributed first so that they can follow the script and practice more in advance.
After finishing writing, Luo Ji quickly called the director of the printing factory over, and then ordered, "Print thirty copies of this entire content for me first..."
After saying that, Luo Ji, who seemed to have thought of something, quickly stretched out his hand, "By the way, there is also this one, the one marked 'Act 1', please print five thousand copies of this one for me.
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Those 5,000 copies were obviously used for interviews and promotions.
The content of the script for the interview does not need to be much. Basically, you only need to send out the plot of the first act.
If the entire book is distributed, once it is spread, the entire civilization of the world will know about it.
The opera has been spoiled before it starts, so when it officially starts, the effect will be one or two levels worse.
But even so, Luo Ji didn't think he could completely recreate the drama "Beauty and the Beast".
Because the conditions of his time were too limited, let’s take music as an example. He definitely couldn’t create a lot of background music, but he could get someone to knock on some simple sound effects.
But it doesn’t matter. People of this era have never been exposed to opera before.
This is like showing people who have never seen a movie before. Is it necessary to show them a Hollywood blockbuster right away? There is no need at all.
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Chapter completed!