"You actually wrote the final ending as a tragedy."
The Venerated Skeleton sat on the long table in the hall angrily, looking at Josiah, who was busy editing.
The Venerated Skeleton should have been angry that those despicable humans had stepped into his territory, but when he finished watching the complete sample of "Beauty and the Demon," two tiny soul fires overflowed from the eye sockets of the skeleton that had no eyeballs for a long time. Then, he felt a little sad for a while.
It was just that the Venerated Skeleton was not sad for long. He remembered that the screenwriter of this movie was next to him! So, the Venerated Skeleton hurried over to send a razor blade to Josiah on the spot.
"Sir Duke, if you are not satisfied, you can personally write this script into a perfect ending."
Josiah was holding a charcoal pen in his hand, sketching the shape of a sphere. He answered the Venerated Skeleton without raising his head.
"Your Highness, do you think I can change the ending?"
The Venerated Skeleton's unfriendly tone seemed to indicate that as long as Josiah gave his permission, he really intended to change the ending forcibly.
"I mean, you can write a story you want based on the template of this story. It doesn't matter who it is."
The creative method Josiah mentioned was called adaptation on Earth, and the minority was called doujinshi.
The movies of "Beauty and the Beast" seen by future generations were basically adaptations from the original work. Whether it was the Disney version or the French version, they were all called movie adaptations instead of the original work. The same was true for Josiah.
Josiah was not opposed to people in this world adapting "Beauty and the Beast" and even encouraged them to adapt it.
Because there were so many different versions of the story, this story had spread far and wide …
Josiah only had one requirement for these adapters, that was to add the original author after the work: Jean Marie Le Prance Beaumont. Madame Beaumont was the original author of "Beauty and the Beast", a French female writer.
This was also Josiah's requirement for himself. Josiah never intended to take these works as his own in another world. After all, Josiah came to this world to spread Earth's culture, not plagiarize Earth's culture in this world.
As a qualified disseminator of culture, this was the most basic requirement.
"I haven't reached the point where I would humiliate myself like that."
The Venerated Skeleton thought for a while and gave up this idea. He really didn't have any creative cells.
"Duke, may I ask … Can you tell me your full name?"
Josiah stopped the brush in his hand. Since signing a contract with the Venerated Skeleton, Josiah only knew the Venerated Skeleton's name, but he didn't know the Venerated Skeleton's surname.
"Your Highness, what's the point of asking this?"
"Because I want to tell the audience who composed the soundtrack for this movie."
Josiah completely blackened a long enough piece of paper. He wrote the final cast list with white paint on the paper. The first was, of course, the original author of Beauty and the Beast, Madame Beaumont. The second was the lead actress, Ino, who played Belle, and Zenas, who played the prince. Josiah also recorded the names of the ghosts who played the moving furniture one by one, including several guest villagers and Hiri. Leuder.
"My surname doesn't matter. Your Highness, you only need to write down my name, and I will be satisfied."
The Venerated Skeleton seemed to be particularly repulsed by his surname, but since it was the Venerated Skeleton's request, Josiah finally only wrote the Venerated Skeleton's name with the accompaniment of Veronica.
In the end, a series of Josiah's name, director, planner, script, prop provider, scene, camera, editing, and so on were all Josiah. Arnold.
After spending so much effort to make the movie, Josiah certainly wasn't polite about promoting himself.
When Josiah completed the production of the ending, all that was left was the production of the opening title.
The opening title was nothing more than showing the logo of a certain film studio. Josiah pondered for a while and finally drew an Earth logo on the white paper. Under the Earth, he wrote 'Produced by Earth Film Studio' in both Chinese and English.
Although it looked a bit stupid, this constantly rotating blue planet was the logo that Josiah would use in the future. After all, these movies, novels, and games came from Earth.
The rotating effect was made by Josiah in the simplest way of flipping comic books. Josiah hadn't figured out how to input the pictures into the program he wrote.
"Done."
After Josiah completed the opening and ending, he recorded them into the raw crystal respectively, announcing the successful production of the final product of "Beauty and the Demon."
"Duke, this is a souvenir for you."
Josiah took out an empty raw crystal, made a copy, and handed it to the Venerated Skeleton.
A total of more than one hundred raw crystals were used in this movie shooting. After learning the white magic taught by Hiri, Josiah could also reuse these raw crystals, so he didn't actually consume much.
"Your Highness, are you going to the human world to show this movie next?"
The Venerated Skeleton took the raw crystal that Josiah handed over. He had already heard about Josiah's ambition. Josiah would not stop at letting one or two hundred people watch this movie. Josiah's ambition was the world!
"Of course, the first stop is the Magic Capital, Noland," said Josiah.
However, Josiah hadn't thought about the screening location yet. He would ask Hiri when the time came. Hiri was more familiar with the human world than Josiah.
At this time, a ghost suddenly floated to Josiah's side. He was the butler of the Venerated Skeleton and played the role of Teacup in the movie.
The butler put a badge on the table next to Josiah's hand and disappeared.
Josiah picked up the badge. The engraved mark on it was exquisite, like a bouquet of flowers. The badge also contained an indescribable magic.
As for the surface of the badge, it seemed to have been around for some time. There were many traces of wear and tear on it.
"This is …"
"It's a very old thing. It's no longer useful to me. Your Highness, you can take this badge to find the human with the surname Darke for help. If I'm not mistaken, this family should be doing the theater business now," said the Venerated Skeleton.
"I see."
The Venerated Skeleton's badge undoubtedly helped Josiah open a new door, but Josiah didn't ask much. The Venerated Skeleton hated his surname so much. There must be a past that he didn't want to mention.
"Then I will say goodbye for the time being. The next time Sir Duke visits, I will definitely invite you to perform in a theater. Here is the music score I have sorted out."
Josiah packed up the things on the table and pushed a thick music score to the Venerated Skeleton, which recorded some of the works of music masters on Earth.
"Performing … I don't expect this almost impossible thing to happen, but Your Highness … If you have made the next movie, you must give it to me in advance."
The Venerated Skeleton seemed to have found a treasure. He carefully put away the music score that Josiah gave him and then said to Josiah.
Are you addicted to watching movies? This kind of entertainment was indeed too novel for the residents of this world.
"Of course."
After Josiah agreed to this request, he carried his suitcase all the way to the gate of the Duke's castle.
Hiri had been waiting outside the castle for a long time.
"You are going back to the human world soon. Are you excited?"
Josiah walked down the stairs and came to Hiri's side.
"Go back to the human world? Wait … Don't worry about this. Hurry up and play another game of Ping-Pong with me! "
Hiri sent a challenge to Josiah. Since the end of the movie, Hiri and Josiah had been playing Ping-Pong. Of course, the final result was Josiah's tragic ten-game winning streak.
This completely aroused Hiri's competitiveness.
"Can we play after we get in the carriage?"
"Okay."
Josiah originally thought that the gameplay of this little game was not high. For Josiah, it was not even the time to play. After all, Josiah was tired of playing all kinds of Triple-A masterpieces on Earth.
But the essence of video games was to bring fun to players. Ping-Pong brought great fun to Hiri, no matter how simple the game was.
Hiri immediately ran to the carriage driven by Zenas, then patted the seat next to her, signaling Josiah to sit quickly.
"…"
Josiah could already imagine what Hiri would be like when the Internet era really came.
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