Chapter 7: The Intention Behind the Characters
While they were talking, Kate Beckinsale suddenly exclaimed.
"I remember who you are! You're Jude Locke! ”
Jude lowered his head and cursed secretly, using the action of drinking a drink to resolve his embarrassment.
"I'm sure you're not a fan of mine!"
"Of course...... But I still like your movies before you were ten years old. Kate Beckinsale smiled nonchalantly.
The expression on Jude's face was a little better.
"So, did you continue to decide that you wanted to join the film?" He asked, slightly hesitant.
"To be honest, just now, I did hesitate a little bit, because I just stumbled across the news about you in the newspaper yesterday." Kate Beckinsale paused to consider the wording, "Everybody can have a bad time in their life, at least you didn't give up, and it makes perfect sense to explain your motivation for wanting to make this movie well, so I still want to give it a try!" ”
Jude looked up and gave Kate a serious look.
"Thank you!"
Kate shrugged and said it was nothing.
"I propose, a toast to Kate's joining!" Tony was the first to raise the coffee in his hand.
The proposal was met with a positive response from others in the room, who welcomed Kate's decision.
After putting down the cup, Jeff couldn't wait to ask Jude, "You just talked about the content of the script, can you talk to us about everyone's role positioning in detail?" ”
"Why not?" Jude took a sip of Coke and put down his glass, "Everyone here is set to be a professor at Harvard University, and you play a student except Kate. ”
"I didn't think I'd be able to become a professor one day, that sounds great, doesn't it?" Loew munched on the beef burger in his hand and sighed in a slurred tone.
Following Loew's words, Jude gives a more detailed introduction to his role in the play: "You are a psychology professor who has just lost his wife, is very depressed, and has a strong skepticism about the hero's claim to be a caveman who has lived for 14,000 years, and thinks that the hero's mental problems are wrong. ”
Loew stopped to eat and looked up at Jude: "In other words, the character I play is actually a villain?" ”
"It's understandable, because your character is at odds with the protagonist from beginning to end, but there's an unexpected reversal at the end of the film." Jude patiently explained.
"Sounds good!" Loew nodded in satisfaction and continued to destroy the food in his hand.
The other people next to him were a little speechless, and if it were them, they would definitely continue to ask what the reversal of the ending was.
Loew didn't ask, Jude didn't say, and everyone's appetite was hung up.
"What about me?" Jeff pointed to himself with two fingers.
"You're an archaeologist, and you also think the hero is crazy." Jude replied succinctly.
"That's it?" Jeff spread his hands a little puzzled, "For example, the character, hobbies, family background, etc., are there none?" ”
"You are free to play in terms of personality, as for family background, bachelors don't have this option, oh, forgot to mention, you have a beautiful schoolgirl and she's sitting in front of you right now." Jude raised his right hand and pointed at Kate beside him.
"I love it!" Jeff rubbed his hands excitedly, saying he was fine.
Jude turned his head, "Then it's your turn, Kate, your role is relatively simple, that is, simply playing a curious student, who neither completely contradicts but does not believe all of the male protagonist's words." ”
Katten nodded in acknowledgment.
"Muller, I've already talked a lot about your role, so I won't waste any more time here."
"Tony, you're playing an anthropologist in this play, and you don't reject the story told by the male lead, and you're even very fascinated by it."
"Han Lin, your character is a biology professor who first doubted the male protagonist, and then gradually was persuaded by him, and began to believe that what he said was true."
"Maggie, you play an art professor who is also a devout Christian, and at first you didn't have a clear position on the hero's story, but when the hero revealed that he was the prototype of Jesus, he said it was difficult to accept it."
"Petty, you play a history professor who is in love with the male protagonist and has been his staunch supporter from start to finish."
Jude introduces all the characters one by one, and the others are pondering their own roles, but Kate notices the deep meaning behind these character arrangements.
Political correctness in Hollywood movies is basically reflected in Jude's role arrangement just now.
Minorities can't be offended, so Tony's and Han Lin's characters are actually biased towards the side that supports the protagonist;
You can't offend women, so the characters played by Maggie, Petty, and Kate are all in a neutral position;
You can't offend different faiths or politicians, so Mueller's male protagonist provokes a backlash from his peers after he declares himself to be Jesus, and finally has to be pressured to say that it was all a story he made up.
As for the article that homosexuality cannot be offended, it is negligible because the content of the film does not deal with this aspect.
These arrangements are enough to show Jude's intentions in the design of the film's characters, and they also prove that he is not a casual joke about this movie.
"Sit down for a while, I'll print out a copy of the script, and you'd better remember your lines for a week!"
Jude stood up as he spoke, and Tony stopped him, offering to come with him to make a copy.
The two walked out of the dining room side by side, and Tony was about to ask about Kate, only to notice that Jude was looking at the front of him with something wrong.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Jude retracted his gaze and pouted.
Tony looked over curiously, only to see a handsome-looking curly-haired man walking across the street, and it was obvious that Jude was looking at this person just now.
The curly-haired man passed past the two and finally pushed the door into the restaurant.
Tony retracted his gaze and turned to Jude to ask, "Do you know him?" ”
"I don't know." Jude flatly denied it.
Tony always felt that Jude was lying, but there was no evidence, so he had to give up.
The two went to a nearby fast printing shop and spent less than ten minutes getting the printed script, during which Tony tried to get a word from Jude several times, but Jude fooled him.
On the way out, Tony followed Jude and complained, "You must know that guy, don't you?" Whether you admit it or not, I have a hunch that we'll meet that guy again soon! ”
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