Chapter 82: The Adapted Stage Play
Clythia stepped off the stage, the lights went out again, and it was pitch black in the theater, but the ladies adapted this time and there was no confusion.
Suddenly, a soft and melodious melody echoed in the theater, and the elegant female voice gently hummed this very beautiful and epic melody.
"It's beautiful!"
"Is this the latest way to perform on the stage in Imprint City? Is it an opera or a musical? β
"Shhhh Don't speak. β
"Good ......"
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With the accompaniment of the melody, a beam of light shot out from the large wooden box that had been brought in earlier, and the huge white curtain on the stage reflected the scenery of the port of Ascatla, which was quickly recognized by the residents of the city of Ascatla, although the picture was somewhat rough and blurry.
They exclaimed.
"It's amazing to see the view of the harbor in the theater, is this the latest gnome technology creation?"
"Oh my God, if you look closely, it's moving, it's not just a static projection."
"Isn't this the scene of the fleet leaving the port? The same was true when I sent my husband on a voyage...... It's a nostalgic sight. β
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On the screen, sailors and merchant shipowners stand on the side of the ship and wave goodbye to the crowd, and many women in the harbor watch their lovers and husbands embark on a journey full of danger and opportunity.
Then, the picture turns again, changing to the sea in the dark, the waves are gentle, and a line emerges: the play was inspired by the legend of the living sculpture Io, combined with Am's frequent shipwrecks, adapted and starred by Bredrow.
At the beginning of the plot, there is a shipwreck salvage site, and the salvage workers have scooped up a statue, which is "Io, the one who looks at love from afar, the immortal man for ten thousand years".
The audience in the audience can see that except for Io, who is very real and should be played by actors, the other characters are illusions of blurred light and shadow, and they can probably see the outline clearly and distinguish their identities, but they are not real actors.
Hiding in a large box disguised as a projector, Kara casts a background image onto a white screen at the back of the stage, using illusion to create a 3D projection of the characters on stage, allowing them to interact with the only real actor.
As a gifted illusionist, Kara has experience creating lifelike illusion worlds, and it is not difficult to project illusion characters and virtual scenes on stage.
A gray-haired aristocratic old woman approached the head of the salvage group and told him that the sculpture they had salvaged was actually her former lover, and the members of the salvage group did not believe it at all, thinking that the old woman was crazy.
However, one of the erudite scholars in the salvage group found clues in the historical records after looking through the classics, so he found the old woman and told her the story of the statue.
The first act of the play ends, and the theater is dark, and after a few moments, the next act begins.
The illusion set on the stage has been completely changed, from a salvage ship to the Poseidon's Pride Tavern in the port of Ascatla.
Io, played by Luo Feng, is a young and talented painter who, in order to make a difference, wins a low-class ticket to Waterdeep City through a gamble in a tavern.
He boarded a large Goblin Tech cruise ship and planned to depart from the port of Ascatra to Waterwater, where the social climate was more open and free.
On this ship, he meets a noble girl, Rose, a melancholy and sullen beautiful girl.
Rose didn't care at first that Io was standing on the lower deck looking at her, and even felt offended by the civilians.
The teenage Rose is a first-class passenger with her mother and fiancΓ© Carl, and Rose is tired of the hypocritical life of high society and refuses to marry Carl, so she wants to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea, but is rescued by Io.
Io stood beside Rose, facing the waves, and said to her, "If you jump, I will jump too!" β
Rose saw that he was serious, so she dispelled the idea of committing suicide by jumping into the sea.
The seeds of love between a noble girl who is lively but suppressed by an unfortunate marriage contract and a versatile, handsome and cheerful pauper boy Io germinate in this way.
Io spits in the sea with Rose on the ship, attends the ball of the commoners in the lower class, and paints her portrait......
The most classic scene is that he takes her to the bow of the cruise ship, hugs her, and makes her open her arms to the sea, and Rose exclaims in surprise "I'm flying!" β
At that moment, a couple fell in love with a kiss.
It was a beautiful scene of great freedom and romance.
The aristocratic women in the audience empathize, and they are bound by their identity and family to death, and they also yearn for this kind of freedom and romance, instead of being trapped in the vulgar and boring social atmosphere of "everything looks at money" and "money is everything" in the gold coin capital of Askatra, marrying a man they don't love at all, and living a vulgar and boring life.
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The audience in the audience was completely attracted by the plot, they held their breath and refused to discuss half a sentence.
Where is this watching a stage play, it is simply entering a beautiful love dream! It is the sweetest dream of every noble woman of Ascatra in her midnight sleep.
In the past, the stage plays enjoyed by the nobles of Faeron were set up with one or two cardboards, and the background of this time is completely flowing and gorgeous, although it is somewhat blurred and blurred, but it is also shocking enough.
What's more, almost every scene of this stage play has a beautiful soundtrack that fits the plot very well, which makes people deeply immersed and their emotions fluctuate with the plot.
The soundtrack of a movie is very important, just like a horror movie with cheerful background music, no matter how timid people watch it, they will not be afraid.
And movies with classic soundtracks, even if the plot is a little flawed, the audience will still remember it and deeply remember the plot of that soundtrack.
Luo Feng's stage play soundtrack is basically plagiarized from the original soundtrack, every note fits the plot just right, and the lines of other plot characters in it are all copied by Ai Ou from the original movie and translated into the Lingua franca of Faeron (the lingua franca of Faeron seems to be English).
Although the heroines are illusions of light and shadow with blurred faces, the audience does not mind, they themselves are a group of aristocratic women, all of whom have come from the period of aristocratic girls, and the heroines with blurred faces are just right for them to substitute themselves, imagine that face as their own face, and fantasize that they have experienced such a dreamlike love.
When women watch movies, their focus is often completely different from that of male audiences, and one of the very important plus points is that the male protagonist must be handsome, must be handsome, and must be particularly handsome.
There is only one actor in the whole play, and that is Io played by Luo Feng, a handsome performer from Imprint City who conquered all the female audiences with his superb acting skills trained by traveling through the heavens and worlds.
Even if the heroine playing with him was a phantom, the tenderness in his eyes when he looked at the phantom girl was like a sea holding up a huge ship, flooding and drowning the earth.
Even Luo Feng's team members, who were watching and learning from the sidelines, were shocked, the captain's acting skills were really good, and the Ai Ou he played could almost fight with Jack of Xiao Li Zi in the original movie.
Zhang Daniu couldn't help but whisper: "If the captain is not an investigator, he will probably be able to mix well when he returns to the real world to be a little fresh meat actor." β
Tang Xiaotian's face was red, and his eyes were burning at Luo Feng, who was performing unwillingly on stage, but his mouth was quite disdainful: "The captain is usually a drama master, and he has practiced his acting skills to this extent, and I don't know how many plot characters he fooled when he was doing tasks in the infinite world before." β
Zhang Daniu disapplauded: "Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills." Haven't you read the captain's profile? This is his style of completing the task, and there are powerful investigators in the senior main god investigators, who are good at hard work, and there are also acting skills, such as our captain, who is good at disguise and layout. β
The plot continues to develop, and when the two people who love each other are entangled because of their very different identities, the audience is also entangled with the entanglement of the plot characters, not knowing whether Rose will choose to escape marriage and be with Io, or return to the original cage-like aristocratic family.
Rose finally made a choice to leave everything behind and run towards love and freedom with Io, and the audience breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the story would have a happy ending.
However!
At this time, the big turning point opened, due to the consistent unreliability of ancient goblin technology and the fatal mistake made by the captain, the cruise ship actually hit an iceberg and was about to sink, and the budding love of the two protagonists faced the test of life and death!
Under the disaster, the scenes were full of people and thrilling scenes, forcing the audience to almost breathe.
The old couple who hugged each other and died happily before sinking, the mother who comforted the children not to be afraid, the mother who held the child and waited quietly for death to come, the bard who played music silently until he sank to the bottom of the sea, and the shameless rich businessman who dressed up as a woman and mixed with the lifeboat......
Io put Rose on the lifeboat, stayed on the boat, and watched her leave affectionately, but Rose secretly ran back and said to Io, "Remember, you jump, I will jump too." β
The audience sighed and moved, and also deeply worried about the sincere lovers, not knowing how they would escape.
The two support each other, share weal and woe, and fight to the death against natural and man-made disasters that are difficult to compete with manpower......
When the final moment came, Io and Rose made their final confession in the sea of ice: "You have to do me a favor. Promise me to live......"
Rose: "Io, I love you. β
Io: "Listen to me, Rose. You're going to get out of here. You have to live, have many children, and watch them grow up. You will live in peace in your old age, resting in a warm bed. And not here tonight, not to die like this. Do you understand? β
Rose: "I'm so cold, I'm unconscious." β
Io: "Winning a ticket is the luckiest thing of my life, and I know you, thank the gods...... I...... Can I know you,...... It's my luck, Rose...... I'm satisfied. β
He paused with difficulty, then plucked up his strength and continued, "...... I still have ...... There is one more wish...... You have to say yes, you want to live...... No...... Never give up,...... Whatever happens, no matter how little hope there is, promise me, Rose,...... Promise me that I will do ,......"
"I promise," Rose burst into tears, .......
"I must do it......" Io's voice grew weaker.
Rose cried and replied, "I'll do it, Io...... Be sure to do ......"
Moments before Io lost his breath, a rescue boat paddled close to the plank where Rose was staying......
The stage illusion set switches back to the salvage boat, and the gray-haired old woman caresses the lifelike face of the living sculpture Io, and mutters, "Io, I have always kept my promise to live a happy life, and you have been looking at me from afar, right?" β
The old woman smiled contentedly and hugged Io's sculpture and jumped with him into the sea of the rolling black waves!
Time and space change, and Rose, who has become a young girl again, finds herself standing at the bottom of the spiral staircase in the grand banquet hall of the cruise ship, and Io is standing on the stairs, smiling at her.
Rose lifted the corner of her skirt and ran briskly up the stairs, threw herself into Io's arms, and kissed him affectionately......
The golden light blurred the stage, the melodious soundtrack sounded again, and this love dream stage play across time and space finally came to an end.
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The stage play ended, but the needles were still heard in the theater, and hundreds of wealthy nobles and ladies sat quietly, staring at the curtain with no background picture of the plot and only a blank picture with noise.