Lu Zhiyao was speechless.
The script for Mission and Choice was originally given in sections. Director Zhu Xiaoce had said that he wanted Lu Zhiyao to "figure out every plot well and not affect his current performance because he knew the ending in advance."
Director Zhu Xiaoce's goal had been achieved.
Lu Zhiyao had indeed brought himself into the role of Captain Qin Yi when he acted in every plot. He did not know what would happen in the future, so he acted closer to Qin Yi's true state in the movie.
However, this also brought about a problem. Lu Zhiyao was cut off so badly that he wished he was dead.
Every time he was given the script, he would only be given a short paragraph. Yet, the development of the plot was especially tortuous. Every time Lu Zhiyao wanted to know the next part of the plot, he would be cut off.
Now that he had finally gotten the script for the ending of the movie, he did not expect it to still be cut off. There was still no plot after that!
That made Lu Zhiyao collapse and despair.
Of course, he also understood that the entire story was already complete based on the current content. There were both ups and downs. It was more than enough to be a movie.
Even Huang Sibo and Director Zhu Xiaoce had not thought about the rest of the plot. They had just left such an ending to leave suspense for the next series of works.
However, even though Lu Zhiyao knew this very well, he could not help but scold them for being a 'cliffhanger'.
After calming himself down, Lu Zhiyao began to re-examine the last part of the plot.
Previously, his acting skills had been tested from all angles. He had thought that he had been through hundreds of battles and was fearless.
However, Lu Zhiyao realized that the real difficulty was at the end when he saw the last part of the script!
There were still many reversals in the final ending. Qin Yi's emotions first collapsed from despair. Then, he found a chance of survival in despair. Then, he used an impassioned speech to boost the morale of all the warriors and successfully let humans see the dawn of victory.
If the script ended here, it would be a standard popcorn movie with a very orthodox and hot-blooded ending.
However, just as Qin Yi was about to see the dawn of victory, the plot took a sharp turn.
After fainting, Qin Yi realized that he had the consciousness of the Zergs. The consciousness of the Zergs allowed him to naturally think from the standpoint of the Zergs and empathize with them. Qin Yi realized that humans were the first to attack the Zergs. Strictly speaking, the Zergs were the ones being invaded.
After waking up, Qin Yi gave all the soldiers the order to cease fire, forcing the war between humans and Zergs to stop.
If the script ended here, with the humans and the insectoids shaking hands and building a beautiful universe together, that would be a standard Western politically correct ending.
However, Qin Yi did not want to shake hands with the Zergs and make peace. Instead, he deceived the Zergs while using the consciousness of the Zergs to find the location of the Zerg Queen and all the secondary empresses. He then continued to carry out the decapitation operation.
Qin Yi deceived the Zergs for the sake of humans, but he was also deceived and abandoned. In the end, Qin Yi became the leader of all the Zergs by accident because all the Zerg Empresses and secondary empresses were destroyed. He was carried by the Leviathan Beast and floated into the endless universe.
Qin Yi's emotions still changed drastically in this plot.
There was an uplifting passion, surprise at learning the truth, cold-blooded at deceiving the Zergs, anger at being betrayed …
Especially in the last scene, when Qin Yi woke up in the incubation pool in the Leviathan Beast's body, there would be a close-up. Lu Zhiyao had to use one look to show Qin Yi's various complicated emotions.
Obviously, this plot was a level more difficult for Lu Zhiyao to perform than the previous script!
What's more, just as Lu Zhiyao knew from the beginning, the reason why Qin Yi's role tested his acting skills and was difficult to act was because his character was set to be an iron-blooded soldier.
Under most circumstances, Qin Yi did not have any emotions. Even if he did, he would be very reserved and reserved.
However, in this script, Qin Yi's fate was too complicated. He was always facing extreme despair or extreme pain. That made it difficult for Lu Zhiyao to find a balance.
If he used a little more strength, Qin Yi's persona would easily collapse. An iron-blooded warrior flying into a rage or having a mental breakdown would not fit the persona. If he did not use enough strength, the audience would feel that Lu Zhiyao did not have acting skills and could not express his emotions well.
In comparison, young characters were easier to act because the emotions of such characters were often very simple. Happiness was happiness, anger was anger. It was not that complicated, and the degree was also very loose.
On the other hand, it was the most difficult for someone with a strong will like Captain Qin Yi to act out his emotions.
Lu Zhiyao sighed softly. It looked like he would be busy for the next period of time.
He had to continue staying in the hotel room, figure out the plot in front of the mirror, adjust his acting skills and expression, and perfectly perform the last part of the plot.
However, before that, Lu Zhiyao gathered all the scripts together and read them from the beginning to the end. He analyzed the story from his own perspective.
The deepest impression this story left on Lu Zhiyao was its "cultural angle".
As an actor, Lu Zhiyao had naturally seen many movies. He had seen movies from various countries and genres.
The story of 'Mission and Choice' was actually not special compared to many traditional sci-fi movies if it was broken down and stuck to a small plot.
Of course, that was normal.
After all, the theme of 'Zergs' had existed in sci-fi movies for decades. Various seniors had already used various angles and methods to elaborate on many different concepts. There was not much left for future generations to innovate.
With so many classic works in front of them, it was impossible to make every plot in the story subvert tradition.
However, in Lu Zhiyao's opinion, the biggest breakthrough of 'Mission and Choice' was actually to combine China's cultural perspective with sci-fi themes. This was something that had never happened before.
Sci-fi movies were very rare in China. That was because sci-fi movies required too much investment. They required a lot of professional props, special effects, and staff. Without accumulation, it would be very easy to make it neither look like anything.
Thus, even in the domestic film market, people would first think of European and American sci-fi movies when it came to sci-fi movies.
The problem was that almost all the popular sci-fi works that could be seen at the moment were interpreted from a Western cultural perspective.
This caused many domestic audiences to have doubts about the values and orientation of these sci-fi movies, as well as a sense of fragmentation. Something that Westerners were used to was completely unacceptable to domestic audiences.
The idea for the story 'Mission and Choice' was actually written by a famous foreign sci-fi writer as early as 1985. It had even won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. It was an eternal sci-fi classic.
However, in that story, the commander was a child. He felt very guilty after destroying the Zergs, so he brought the young Zerg Queen to the universe to find a new home, hoping to atone for his sins.
This was standard Western thinking. Just like many people in Western animal protection organizations, they called for humans to be vegetarian and let animals enjoy the same rights as humans …
To people who lived in Western culture, perhaps this was a natural form of political correctness and kindness.
However, to people who lived in Chinese culture, this was a form of complete stupidity and hypocrisy. It was a manifestation of the overflow of the Virgin Mary's heart.
Westerners shouted politically correct slogans and even fought for the rights of animals. At the end of the day, it was because their lives were too rich and comfortable. Because they had too many resources, they still had the energy to spread their excess sympathy everywhere while squandering.
The source of Westerners' wealth and ease was the exploitation, plundering, and bloody killing of the entire world hundreds of years ago by their ancestors.
While the Westerners were shouting "animals also have rights", they never looked back at the indigenous people who were slaughtered by their ancestors. They never thought that the reason why they were able to obtain such rich material wealth so easily was because their own country was robbing and exploiting other countries in the world.
While these Westerners were compassionately seeking for the rights of animals, their countries were bullying, oppressing, and exploiting other countries in the world. They were constantly spreading wars, famines, and plagues, making their fellow humans live in purgatory on earth.
Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese culture, it was a very stupid and hypocritical act for humans to sympathize with the Zergs.
If Westerners treated other races and people of other countries with half of the compassion they had for animals, the world would be a much better place.
In terms of settings, the Zergs were a race that existed in the universe that posed an extreme threat to all life. They had a strong collective consciousness, the ability to share information efficiently, and the ability to mutate. The only meaning of the existence of such a race was to continuously expand and reproduce in the universe, exterminating all other races.
Even if the Zerg Queen really had the intention to coexist peacefully with humans, their race's life form was still an extreme threat to human survival.
On the other hand, humans sympathizing with the Zergs and letting them off was actually raising a tiger. How could they determine that the Zerg Queen was not lying? How could they determine if the Zerg Queen's future thoughts would change?
Under such circumstances, completely exterminating the Zergs was the most rational decision for humans.
Sympathizing with the Zergs and protecting them would put humans in great danger.
'Mission and Choice' completely adopted the perspective of Chinese culture on this theme.
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