"Beautiful Juliet, you don't look very happy. Isn't today a wonderful day? "
Count Paris appeared in front of Juliet with a glass of wine in his hand.
He looked like a well-mannered young nobleman with a tall and slender figure. His exquisite, luxurious clothes were lined with gold, and every inch of his clothes showed his noble status.
The smile on his face was like a spring breeze, but if someone magnified his expression ten times and slowed it down a hundred times, they would be able to see the pride and desire hidden in the depths of his eyes.
The actor who played the role of Count Paris did not know how perfect his performance was today. Perhaps only when he looked back at the recording would he truly realize how perfect his performance was today.
Count Paris was a junior of Prince Escalus, the King of Verona. He had a noble status, and he was Juliet's newly engaged fiancé.
Tonight's dance party was held to celebrate Juliet's engagement with Count Paris, and many nobles in Verona were invited.
Of course, the Capulet family's mortal enemy, the Montague family, was an exception.
However, Juliet did not like Count Paris at all. She even felt that he was the most hypocritical person she had ever met.
She had heard many bad rumors about Count Paris, but she did not have any say in her marriage.
"It's nothing, Count Paris. I'm just a little tired."
"Oh, my dear Juliet, I'm already your fiancé. You should call me by my name."
"I'm not used to this suddenly. Count Paris, someone seems to be calling you over there."
"Okay, I'll go and greet them."
After finally sending Count Paris away, Juliet had a short moment of peace.
Do I really have to spend the rest of my life with such a man?
How pitiful!
Just as Juliet was thinking about this, two young men wearing masks suddenly burst into the banquet hall.
The two seemed a little frivolous and impetuous, but their clothes were also in line with noble etiquette. She did not know which family they were from.
However, this was not important. They were unimportant people, Juliet thought.
Romeo and his friend wandered aimlessly through the crowd, whispering to each other.
"Romeo, forget about Rosalan. Look at all the lively and cute girls in this banquet hall. Every one of them suits you better than Rosalan!"
Romeo's friend advised him.
"Impossible! You have no idea how perfect Rosalan is! She was so kind and beautiful! "
"Alright, alright, but she's not interested in you. You're the heir of the Montague family! Why waste your precious life on someone who doesn't even like you? "
Romeo, played by Chen Guang, was whispering to his friend Benvolio.
Of course, with the help of the hidden microphone, the TV, computer, and the live audience could hear their whispers clearly. Only the other actors on the stage were in the dark.
If there were still people who could maintain their rationality, they would be amazed at the performance of the other actors. It was impossible not to hear Romeo and his friend chatting, but they did not show any flaws on the stage.
Their performance was perfect and impeccable.
In fact, no one knew that the actors on the stage did not even know that they were acting.
They also could not hear the whispers of Romeo and Benvolio that everyone else could hear!
They were only separated by the edge of the stage, but the stage and the stage were completely separated into two different worlds.
On the inside, it was the city of Verona from hundreds of years ago. On the outside, it was the modern world.
It was not only the three-dimensional space that was separated, but also time!
Finally, as the lights in the banquet hall in the first scene dimmed, Romeo and Juliet reluctantly said goodbye.
The two young people who met for the first time quickly fell into the river of love. They almost turned back after every step, and when they waved goodbye, their hearts felt like it was being cut by a knife.
It was unknown whether it was Chen Guang and Irma or the real Romeo and Juliet standing on the stage. The two of them vividly portrayed the feeling of missing each other to the point that they couldn't breathe even though they were facing each other.
When the stage fell into complete darkness, the TV, computer, live audience, and the Oscar judges suddenly woke up.
The first scene was over?
What just happened?
No, nothing happened just now.
We only watched the first scene of "Romeo and Juliet", but why did it feel like our time was stolen?
Looking around the world, there were about a hundred million people watching this scene at the same time. Almost all of them took a deep breath, and the same thought appeared in their minds.
Were we watching a stage play just now?
But I clearly felt like I had returned to medieval Italy, and I even stood in the banquet hall where Romeo and Juliet met.
It seemed like we had also become a part of this play. Maybe we were a bystander, or maybe we were an insignificant character in the banquet hall, or maybe we were just a fairy floating in the air and an invisible god, watching this pair of doomed acquaintances.
Everyone's personality and life experience were different, and everyone had a different sense of existence when watching this stage play.
For example, professional actors like Big Beard Deng and Jin Jiang, or Liz, or William Jones and Bent Afulett who were hiding in the crowd under the stage, what appeared in their minds was an entire stage, an entire world. They were the incarnations of invisible gods. They could see the existence of this world, as if it was within their reach, but they had forgotten their own reality.
For ordinary art lovers, what appeared in their minds was the scene in front of them, and they became bystanders who had no sense of existence, but still stood on the stage. Even the flickering candlelight would leave an imprint in their eyes and minds.
As for ordinary people, they even had feelings of resistance at first. After all, the stage play was relatively small, and the performance was "Romeo and Juliet" that they had heard so many times before. At first, they thought this was a boring program that would make people sleepy.
But in the end, they did not change the channel. Instead, they unconsciously followed their emotions and the people in the play into the play.
But what was particularly strange was that even though everyone knew that these two people were destined to end tragically, they did not realize this at all.
They forgot time, forgot the story, forgot the ending, and forgot the inevitable tragedy in the fate of these two young people.
Now, when the first act finally ended, they suddenly came to a realization, and their minds began to recall the countless details on the stage just now.
Those who knew performing arts, such as Liz who was far away in London, and President Fred who was sitting under the stage, were all terrified when they thought about it.
They did not understand why, and even more did not understand how Romeo did it.
It was as if the moment Romeo appeared on the stage, the stage play had completely sublimated.
Every actor on the stage became full of spirituality.
Every little gesture, every expression, every line, and tone of voice became impeccable.
What was even more difficult to understand was that even the stage scenery and props became more real.
No, even the virtual background played on the digital screen, now that they thought about it, was directly playing the background of the musical version of Paris, France in the year 2000. But just a minute ago, they clearly saw the infinitely real scene with the naked eye!
What the hell is going on?
Are our consciousnesses confused?
Or are we really pulled into the world of the play?
Chen Guang's world-class acting, the more knowledgeable people were, the deeper they fell into it. Whether it was the live audience or the live broadcast audience in front of the TV, they all fell into it.
As for those who did not understand, they could only say that they did not understand, but they could only say that they did not understand.
Although they did not know how to describe it, in any case, it was very amazing. Anyway, at that time, they could not remember anything.
But one thing was for sure, before Romeo appeared on the stage, everything on the stage looked very sloppy, even rough. But as soon as he appeared on the stage, everything in the play seemed to come to life, and everything in the play seemed to have a fresh life.
So, the one who brought this change could only be that Romeo!
Who the hell was he?
Why had they never heard of such a great actor in the Princeton Drama Troupe before? This kind of character should have been famous long ago, but no one had any impression of him.
After giving everyone a five-minute break, accompanied by Romeo hiding in the corner of the garden of Capulet's garden and Juliet calling from the balcony, the second act of Chen Guang's version of Romeo and Zhu began.
In fact, today's script of Romeo and Zhu was a little different from the past. There were many temporary adjustments and compression.
There were also some changes to the main dialogue, slightly different from the original classic, and the narrative structure was not the commonly used flashback technique in the previous stage plays.
The story did not start from the graves of Romeo and Juliet next to each other, nor did it directly skip the foreshadowing and the story background. Instead, it directly started from Romeo arriving at Capulet's house and seeing Juliet for the first time.
As for the previous story, the background of the story about Romeo and another girl, Rosalan, was simply explained through the dialogue between Romeo and his friend Benvolio, supplemented by a simple narration.
This was a play that everyone was familiar with. In order to be able to finish in more than two hours, the director made a very simple and crude adaptation of the script.
Although every line in Shakespeare's original version was classic, and every detail was very important, the fundamental purpose of today's "Romeo and Juliet" was to show off Chen Guang's acting skills.
So when Old James called Captain Gold last night, he emphasized that only the core parts related to Romeo would be retained, and the rest would be reflected in a simple narration.
They had to use the shortest time, the least number of scenes, and tell the whole story from Romeo's point of view.
As a professional drama leader, Gold Cameron was actually quite distressed by such an adaptation.
Originally, in order to make a good play, manpower and material resources needed to work together. But with such a change in the script, the story was simplified and compressed to the extreme. To put it nicely, it was called an adaptation, but to put it bluntly, it was called destroying a classic. It was extremely difficult to achieve the desired effect.
There were only two ways to save such a lousy script. Either poke the eyes of the audience blind, or hope that Romeo could really support the whole play by himself.
But the latter was impossible. There was no such actor in the world.
If this was just an inconspicuous stage play, it would not matter even if it was messed up. But then it became the focus of the world, which made Captain Gold panic.
But now that the first act was over, Leader Jin Te immediately calmed down.
Although he did not know where this Mr. Blake came from or who he was, it did not matter at all!
He was simply a living god!
The performance on the stage continued. The audience who had not yet digested the story of the first act were instantly pulled into a new story.
They could not resist the attraction of the play at all. It was simply a magical whirlpool.
Even in China, the old man who had never watched a European stage play and only liked to listen to Western clappers, had accidentally clicked on the drama channel when he wanted to watch the morning news. He had only accidentally glanced at the TV in the process of quickly changing the channel, and then he couldn't move his eyes away.
Even those who did not understand English could see the subtitles in their eyes, but did not know that they were looking at the subtitles. When the actors in the play began to speak, they would subconsciously link the subtitles with the actors' lines seamlessly.
This kind of stage play could even cross the barriers of language and skin color, time and space, and break through the barriers of interests and hobbies to completely pull the audience in.
Chen Guang's domineering acting field did not only cover the three hundred acres of land in Eaton Manor, but also completely swept through every inch of the world through the technology of modern live streaming and TV broadcast!
When Prince Escalus read the last line in an impassioned yet sorrowful voice, the spotlight on the stage finally fell into complete darkness. This "Romeo and Juliet" that belonged only to Chen Guang finally came to an end.
At that moment, the entire Eaton Manor was silent. Not a single person stood up and applauded.
Gradually, the first sob was heard, as if the first fire had been lit on the dry grassland.
Sobs came from all directions. Even the senior members of the Oscar committee, even though they had seen "Romeo and Juliet" no less than ten times, could not hide the pain in their hearts.
They could not control their emotions at all.
Not only the live audience, but the countless viewers around the world in front of their TV and computers were not any better.
The tragedy affected the emotions of every audience. Sobs echoed in almost every corner of the world.
If the Earth had feelings, it would probably be crying softly at that moment.
Chen Guang stood quietly backstage. At that moment, he had already left the state of international performing arts, but the others backstage were also crying bitterly.
The aura of a Martial Sage told Chen Guang that at that moment, the whole world was crying because of the tragedy he had just performed!
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