Chapter 39: Why Don't You Dare
"Man in the Box"!
This is the name of the script sent by Xie Baoju, a very strange name.
For this script, Mu Ye did not have great expectations.
After all, it is a student short film, and it is normal to have limitations and flaws.
With such a mentality, Mu Ye clicked on this script!
At the beginning of the script, the main character, Han Sung, is working in a laboratory and is suddenly knocked unconscious by someone behind him holding a baseball bat.
When he woke up, he found himself locked in a coffin-like metal box.
He took out a flashlight to observe his environment, but found that the box could not be opened, so he began to shout for help.
Mu Ye was originally careless, but he was interested when he saw this.
Whether it is the creation of suspense or the highlight of the story, it is clear all of a sudden!
Mu Ye settled down and continued to read the script.
Due to being in a small space, Han Cheng had some difficulty breathing, and then he was bitten by a centipede.
When he was about to despair, he found a mobile phone inside the box, and he seemed to see hope......
She desperately called for help and called the police on her mobile phone, but the police never found her.
Seeing this, Mu Ye was full of suspicions, if the protagonist was really kidnapped and put in the coffin, how did the sealed coffin get such abundant oxygen?
Why is there a cell phone in the box? What are the sounds outside?
Mu Ye couldn't wait to look down...... In the end, he was stunned.
"That's how it is...... That's how it is!" Mu Ye is going crazy!
He never imagined that the script of a short film would be so exciting, nor did he expect this script to have such a subversive ending!
It turned out that from the beginning to the end, Han Cheng was just knocked unconscious by a stick and became a vegetative person, and everything that happened before was his mental activity.
The brain is deceptive, it transforms sensations into familiar images, and these images are based on the current environment, and everything is solvable and allegorical.
Difficulty breathing in the coffin is due to the treatment of the laryngoscope inserted!
I felt a bite from an insect in the box, but it was actually the pain caused by the injection!
The box moves in space but no sound can be heard, in fact, it is the stretcher of the heroine in the outside world who is transferred in the hospital room!
The loud organ noise I heard in the box was actually the sound of a machine when I did a brain CT!
Calling for help from the police through the mobile phone symbolizes the hope that you can wake up, and the phone gradually runs out of battery and the rescue has not been successful, which means that the hope of awakening is getting slimmer and smaller!
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Every detail is subverted at the last moment!
Mu Ye watched it over and over again, and every time he couldn't stop being shocked in his heart...... Even heart palpitations.
The protagonist can hear his girlfriend's cries, but he can't respond physically except desperately in the inner world.
This pale sense of powerlessness, this devastating despair, made Mu Ye tremble unconsciously!
"The Man in the Box" feels too real and desperate for Mu Ye.
Mu Ye thus developed a lot of sympathy for the group of vegetative people - experiencing the horror of being sent to a coffin alive, isn't this the inner world of vegetative people?
In the TV series, the pictures of vegetative people that Mu Ye sees are often too understated, so that people can't feel the pain of vegetative people at all.
One could only see him lying in bed, day after day, year after year, maybe forever.
Maybe one day, the vegetative person will suddenly wake up, and these scenes are even accustomed to us, because they have been modeled and conceptualized.
But after watching "Man in the Box", Mu Ye was shocked and shocked, this script uniquely chose to start from the inner world of vegetative people's minds, so that the audience can truly experience their despair and helplessness.
Yes, if you can't empathize with their pain, you can't naturally experience the joy of their lucky awakening!
In fact, that's the real one who came back from the ghost gate, and that's the real ...... Every step of the way!
"Being confined in a small, dark space is probably one of the common fears that humans have!"
This meaningful and long ending sentence left a particularly deep impression on Mu Ye!
In a successful thriller, the most terrifying thing is not the figurative ghosts, but the dark secret rooms, the strange sounds, and the sense of despair that repeats the cycle......
In fact, these are all from the fear of claustrophobic, dark places deep in the brain, the fear of the unknown that does not know the source, and the impatience of monotonous repetitive events!
From this point of view alone, the idea of this "Man in the Box" is half the success!
It took a long time for Mu Ye to recover from that shocking and palpitating emotion.
The next thing to consider is the most realistic question, which role he wants to play.
From Xie Baoju's attitude, Mu Ye knew that it was not the protagonist Han Cheng who he invited to play.
Mu Ye couldn't help but smile bitterly, he thought that the two were not close, why did Xie Baoju invite him to act, and he didn't even need to audition.
If nothing else, Xie Baoju wants to play the colleagues who surrounded the protagonist when Han Cheng woke up in the script.
Some even just missed a face, and didn't even have a line......
As a one-man show script, it doesn't make much difference who plays such a role!
But!
Mu Ye's eyes burned as he stared at the script on the computer.
Such an amazing script, such a character with expressive tension...... Why can't it be him who plays it!
If you don't see this script, it's fine, but if you see it, you can't get it, Mu Ye is unwilling!
Mu Ye pondered for a moment and dialed Xie Baoju's phone.
"How is it, Ono, this script is good, right?" Xie Baoju was a little proud on the other end of the phone!
"It's amazing, it's shocking!" Mu Ye said sincerely.
"Are you interested in playing, I'll give you a role with lines!" Xie Baoju said with a smile.
Mu Ye smiled and asked softly, "Is it the one with the most lines?"
Xie Baoju was obviously a little stunned, he didn't expect Mu Ye to have such great ambitions and take a fancy to the protagonist!
After a moment of silence, Xie Baoju said with emotion: "Xiao Ye, your name is really not wrong!
"Give me a chance...... Senior, I won't let you down!" Mu Ye said loudly.
If he doesn't even believe in himself, then how can he make others believe in you!
"So confident?" said Xie Baoju.
"Confidence comes from strength!" Mu Ye responded.
"Originally, I wanted to find Lao An from the same acting department to play ......this role," Xie Baoju groaned.
Mu Ye was silent, waiting for his final decision.
"But for the sake of the love of the same bedroom...... I'll give you a chance to play fair!" Xie Baoju said.
Mu Ye's heart was excited...... This thing has really come to pass!
"Compete with juniors at the same school...... Do you dare?"
"Why don't you dare!"