Global Film Emperor

Chapter 197 Script Character Analysis
In the dimly lit room, the keyboard clattered away, and the cigarette, burning under the lamp, emitted pale blue smoke. He picked it up, took a drag, and typed the final period.

After receiving the script around 5 p.m., Lu Ze immediately started working without even having dinner, refining the plot of the new script and the character settings of the main characters.

It must be said that Zhuang Yu is very good at writing stories, but the character settings are a bit lacking, and some parts are even a bit vague. This is something that Lu Ze needs to improve and fill in.

He rubbed his eyes, got up and stretched his limbs. After getting back to work, he felt very relaxed and not tired at all. It was a big difference from the heavy feeling in his body and the sluggishness in his mind that he had felt before. Lu Ze didn't know if this was just his imagination or if it was really as he had guessed.

He switched the computer to the monitoring page, got up and left the study. He opened the refrigerator and glanced at it. He had already finished the beer inside. Somewhat disappointed, he closed the refrigerator door.

This was a bad habit he developed himself. During the two-month treatment period, the illness caused him tremendous psychological stress and insecurity. However, he was unable or afraid to go out, so he began to seek external help to relieve this stress. That's right, it was alcohol.

However, he wasn't an alcoholic. He wouldn't drink himself into a stupor every day. He would stop drinking as soon as he felt slightly tipsy and his head started to spin. In this state, he could stay sober and release his stress. His favorite thing to do every day was to stare at the ceiling in this state.

But it's fine if it's not available today.

He turned on the TV and watched a variety show for a while, hoping it would bring him joy, even if it was just a moment of laughter, though it didn't really have much of an effect.

I kept watching until I got a little sleepy, then I went to the bathroom to wash up and lay down on the bed to go to sleep.

"Host detected to be in rest mode. New script received. Teaching space activated. Preparing to enter teaching mode. Welcome back."

The teaching mode, which hadn't been activated for a long time, was restarted. Lu Ze wasn't surprised at all, since this system always liked to hide quietly, yet knew everything.

Instantly, Lu Ze fell asleep, his breathing became slow and steady, and his consciousness returned to a familiar place—this vast, white space.

Speaking of Lu Ze's feelings towards the system now, they are really complicated. According to Lu Ze's guess, he does indeed hate the system. However, if Lu Ze wants to complete ten works with a score of 8.0 or higher, at least for now, he still needs it.

Moreover, it's impossible for Lu Ze to enter the system space without engaging in teaching, because the system space is essentially like a dream, where time is infinitely extended; one night outside is equivalent to several years inside the system space.

Leaving aside the fact that Lu Ze would be punished for exceeding the course time limit, just the thought of Lu Ze being stuck here for several years, with no one to talk to and everything just white, would be unbearable for anyone, let alone Lu Ze.

Putting aside this feeling of frustration, Lu Ze reached out and opened the import function, scrolled down, and selected "Import the script of Lin Qin from 'To Live'".

"Extracting the script of 'Living'. 1% 50% 100%, starting automatic matching of the first stage of the course. Please assemble it manually."

After flipping through the sub-items in the first stage of the course, Lu Ze began to think. He now had a basic understanding of Lin Qin, but due to Zhuang Yu's mediocre character design, the character's features were blurred. Although Lu Ze had begun to improve Lin Qin's biography, he hadn't written much yet.

First of all, it can be confirmed that Lin Qin is a high-end office worker with a good income. Although buying a house in Beijing is a pipe dream, his standard of living is still very good.

Therefore, Lu Ze first selected the income category of the gold-collar worker Lu Ze, and then combined it with the age of the white-collar worker Lu Ze, and the huge 0% at the top jumped to 27%.

Secondly, Lin Qin has cancer, but her will to live is so strong that it's almost irrational. So Lu Ze then chose the cancer Lu Ze sub-category, and the match rate jumped to 64% again.

Furthermore, before his illness, Lin Qin was a seasoned womanizer with a good appearance. He frequently went to bars to hook up with beautiful women, and he would spend a night with a new girl he met every few days. However, some women would eventually fall in love with him.

So, Lu Ze extracted the "heartless and ruthless" attribute of "scumbag Lu Ze" and the "warm-hearted man" attribute of "interior designer Lu Ze", and the match score rose to 71.

These two sub-items only increased the matching rate by seven percent, which puzzled Lu Ze. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that Lin Qin fell in love with the female lead, Shen Mengxi, later on, and their relationship was a tearjerker in the later stages.

So Lu Ze added the concept of "Lu Ze the interior designer" to his love life, which boosted the compatibility to 87%.

This made Lu Ze a little interested in the character of Lin Qin. After all, once a man has been flirting with women for a long time, it is indeed difficult for him to fall in love with someone seriously again. But Lin Qin is different. It seems that while he was "playing around," he still preserved a pure land for his love. When a woman he truly loved came in, he still treated his girlfriend with the same love as his first love. This is really rare.

In fact, this character is not as nuanced as Jia Helong. After all, Jia Helong was a real big shot who actually existed, and the entire script spans a very long period of time, more than twenty years, and describes in detail the changes in Jia Helong's mentality over those twenty years. Therefore, Jia Helong is also alive in the script, and it is very difficult to fully understand him.

The time span of "To Live" is not large, only a few years, and the characters are fictional, resulting in a weak framework for supporting the characters, which Lu Ze had to fill in himself. How could such a character compare to Jia Helong?

But simplicity doesn't necessarily make acting easy. Just like playing a fool, it's not enough to just have empty eyes, a silly grin, and drool dripping from your mouth to bring the fool to life. If you really want to act well, you also need to understand his family environment, why he's foolish, what the cause of his illness is, what kind of stimulation he's experienced, what his daily habits are, and what his episodes are like. You have to consider all of these things. Pursuing complexity within simplicity and transforming the simple into the diverse is a challenge, and this kind of challenge is often what Lu Ze likes.

Lin Qin is a character who seems simple but is actually quite complex to portray. In Lu Ze's opinion, he won't be much easier to play than Jia Helong.

Finally, regarding Lin Qin's family, the script did not mention any family members, so Lu Ze added the setting of an orphan, and the final matching rate reached 93%.

Lu Ze couldn't think of anything else to add. Maybe after writing his autobiography for a few more days, he would have some new ideas, but for now, Lu Ze felt there was nothing more to add.

"Character and scene modeling in progress. 0.01% to 0.02% loaded. Estimated loading time is eight hours and twenty minutes. Please wait patiently. Exiting the system space. Please rest, host. Good night."

Perhaps he was really sleepy tonight. After exiting the system space, Lu Ze simply turned over and fell asleep again. In his dream, he came to a city.
The city was still so cold, still gray, and devoid of any life. The wind howled between the two tall buildings, sounding like weeping.

Lu Ze walked down the street. There were many people on the street. Some looked at Lu Ze indifferently, while others had ill intentions. But this time was different from the past. Lu Ze could see their faces and hear their voices.

"Woo-la-la-la! Rua! Hahahaha~" Laughter that seemed out of place came from not far away. A "Lu Ze" that Lu Ze knew very well was carrying a long-haired girl with an ordinary appearance but big eyes, who ran by.

The girl held a paper windmill high in her hand, and as "Lu Ze" ran, the windmill spun and made a rustling sound.

She ran right up to Lu Ze, their eyes met, and "Lu Ze" smiled, nodded at her, wiped the sweat from his brow, hoisted the girl higher on his back, and ran away. Her melodious, bell-like laughter faded into the distance.

"Why are you here again?"

Lu Ze turned his head and saw a "Lu Ze" with a thick beard. Just like the "Lu Ze" who had run past earlier, he was a rare "Lu Ze" who did not show any hostility towards Lu Ze.

"If you can send me a set of renderings, can't I just come and browse around here?"

At this moment, Lu Ze knew where he was and who he had encountered. He looked at the bearded man expressionlessly and asked a question.

"But you're useless too. Never mind, this isn't the place to talk. Come with me. No one will die here, but just like in the system space, you'll still feel pain. Be careful, or you might run into a tough nut that will skin you alive."

"So you were all kept by the system to torture me?"

“I told you, come with me. And I really hate the word ‘domesticated’ that you used. I understand you, but that doesn’t mean I won’t beat you up.”

Lu Ze and the bearded man exchanged a glance, their eyes meeting. Perhaps the only difference between them was their clothes and beards. In the end, Lu Ze followed him to the rooftop of a building.

Only the two of them remained. The bearded man offered Lu Ze a cigarette, and after taking out his cigarette case, Lu Ze noticed that the empty space had been filled with new cigarettes.

"So how is Lu Nan doing? Is she dating someone?"

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

"She is also my sister."

"Your sister started junior high at fifteen, and my sister started junior high at thirteen."

"Perhaps."

Lu Ze remained silent, walked to the railing on the rooftop, where the wind was stronger, making their hair disheveled. Lu Ze took a drag of his cigarette and looked into the distance.

Is it cold here?

"It's quite cold, and the wind is strong."

Lu Ze walked over to him, also leaned on the railing and looked down, responding with a comment.

"We've been blown around here for so long, I've completely lost track of time."

"What does that have to do with me?"

The bearded man turned to look at Lu Ze with a serious expression. Lu Ze showed no fear, and the two stared at each other until the bearded man grinned and threw his cigarette butt down.

“I know you hate us, so we hate you too, but ‘we’ doesn’t include me or other rational people. I’m trying not to hate you, so please give me a good impression.”

Lu Ze was really angry. He was a normal person with a great body and a good appetite, but he had been tormented to the point of almost dying in the past few months. Who wouldn't be resentful?

"I just want to live a normal life, is that wrong? I don't want to become mentally ill, is that wrong? Who the hell says I have to be mentally ill! The system brought you out to mess with me, and I have to greet you with a smile?"

"That's right, we were created by the system, but have you considered your own problems?"

"my question?"

"Haven't you realized your problem, Lu Ze? Then we have nothing to talk about. We're not dogs kept by the system, so we're not following orders to harm you. We just hate you. Forget it, let's not talk anymore. You should go. No, finally, as a friend, I'll give you some advice."

The wind tousled Lu Ze's hair. He straightened it and glanced behind him. Suddenly, the rooftop door opened, and a group of people rushed in. The leader of the group was holding a knife and staring at the two of them.

"That's right, this city was built by the system, but you're the one who made it into what it is."

After saying "Lu Ze," he bent down, grabbed Lu Ze's legs, and threw him off the rooftop. Then he lit a cigarette, turned around, smiled at the group of people, and raised his hands.

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(End of this chapter)