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Chapter 74. We Love War the Most
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Having seen how Shinbo Akiyuki trained Nobuo Tobita and having personally heard from Shinbo Akiyuki about his training methods for Nobuo Tobita, Pucci now understands that immediately mastering all of Shinbo Akiyuki's techniques and applying them better than Shinbo Akiyuki himself would be unrealistic.
If Pucci had a system, it would be a different story. He could simply add points to the newly learned skills. Unfortunately, Pucci does not have such a convenient system.
Naturally, Pucci's knowledge of Shinbo Akiyuki's skills means he is only aware of their existence. To truly master and apply these skills at the level of Shinbo Akiyuki, Pucci must take it step by step, training and growing... if he were just an ordinary person.
Though lacking such a convenient system, Pucci's greatest advantage as a traveler is the knowledge he brings from another world. Especially within the skills demonstrated by Shinbo Akiyuki, there is one skill that allows him to maximize his traveler abilities—
—Substitution Method!
To make an analogy, it's kind of like Lü Xiucai from 'My Own Swordsman'. When the director first explained the script to Yu Entai, he was told to play a scholar well-versed in literature. So, to prepare for this role, Yu Entai bought a stack of literary masterpieces to enhance his literary knowledge.
But when it came time to shoot, the director told him that the books he read were actually of no use...
In an instant, the feeling of being an underappreciated talent emerged from Yu Entai!
...But this is the traditional substitution method.
For full-dive shooting, the application of the substitution method is much simpler.
"By using the actor's subconscious, it is possible to achieve growth characteristics through full-dive shooting. This method creates a special script space different from the original script, allowing the actor to immerse themselves and find their feelings."
"In short, it's a method that is tasteless and regrettable to discard."
Pucci, who chose this method, surprisingly rated it quite low. This is understandable. If one is looking for the right feeling, wouldn't entering the original script world be a better choice?
Why expend extra resources to create a new script world? Even if repeatedly filming a scene causes the actor's subconscious to resist, leading them to realize it's a false world, resulting in uncontrollable issues, the substitution method isn't limited to just this.
By reviewing each actor's background and finding suitable subconscious actors, similar effects can be achieved without specialized substitution methods.
Therefore, this method is called tasteless.
If Nobuo Tobita were not impervious to any method, Shinbo Akiyuki would not have resorted to such measures.
Although it was ultimately proven to be ineffective, it does not mean Pucci is incapable. With an abundance of scripts in his mind and having found numerous chosen actors through years of development, Pucci's constraints have never been other issues but rather a lack of financial resources.
This is why Pucci chose to film "Phantom Blood" and "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure". Not only was it his boss, Jolyne Cujoh, who mentioned it, but compared to other high-budget works, "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" is truly one of the best-selling low-cost productions, even outperforming many high-budget works.
Even though Jolyne Cujoh's subsequent funding increase did not reflect the cost-saving effect, it does not mean it was absent.
So what about the substitution method?
Unlike filming an entire story script, this method requires only a segment of a story to be created into a script space. This allows Pucci to film one or two segments in advance without needing too much funding, awakening the chosen actors ahead of time!
Just like now...
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"Mr. Speedwagon, your lack of cooperation is quite troubling."
Calmly cutting his steak and putting it in his mouth, the German major spoke to the rescued and uncooperative Speedwagon: "If the Allies gain knowledge and weapons we don't have, isn't there a chance Germany could be defeated?"
"Our war could end because of this, right?"
"I won't allow such a thing to happen."
"So please, tell us everything you know, Mr. Speedwagon." The major continued politely, "Everything."
"No, it's impossible! You don't understand anything..." Speedwagon, trembling and looking at the Pillar Man statue displayed with him, shouted, "You have no idea what consequences awakening it will bring!?"
Despite the seemingly harmless scene and the fact that the German medical technology had saved his life, the Germans did not overly restrict his movements. Instead, they even set an empty seat at the dining table, seemingly welcoming him to join them for lunch.
It felt as if he was merely a guest invited by the Germans, if not for the Pillar Man statue...
Because of this, Speedwagon, unable to ignore the Pillar Man statue, felt something truly horrifying from the major. It was a fear more terrifying than being bound by the Germans and forced to confess everything under truth serum!
It wasn't that Speedwagon was too old to handle such stimulation. In fact, his willpower was among the top in the world, having ventured alone and penniless to Texas, discovering an oil field, and becoming a key player in the global economy.
But this was the first time he felt true fear from a human, a fear he had not experienced even from the vampire DIO. It wasn't about power, but an incomprehensible and terrifying sense of horror in behavioral logic!
"You are putting not just us but Germany and even the whole world in danger!!"
"Isn't that great?"
"...?!"
"After all, we..." The major, finishing his steak and grinning with his mouth smeared with red sauce, said, "Love war the most!"
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A/N:
Alright, it's time to clear up the confusion. There are many Chinese terms, so I'll explain them again.
"My Own Swordsman" is a quite famous Chinese sitcom. Lü Xiucai is a character in this sitcom, played by the actor Yu Entai.
Here, the original author wants to illustrate the substitution method through this example.
The actor Yu Entai was told to prepare for the character Lü Xiucai, a scholar well-versed in literature. However, after spending time learning about literature, the director told Yu Entai during shooting that the books he studied were useless.
So, Yu Entai felt underappreciated, just like the character Lü Xiucai, creating a parallel between the actor and the character.
This is known as the substitution method in acting.