Joshua took out a source crystal stone marked ‘1’ with the inscription and infused his magic power into it. And then the images stored in the source crystal stone were projected into the air. Joshua moved the projection to one of the smooth walls of the castle.
The theater-level quality that could be only enjoyed on earth, at this moment has appeared in this castle.
At the moment the light was turned off, and only the pictures projected from the source crystal were emitting light. Joshua fixed the source crystal on a table, and then returned to his “audience seat” that had been temporarily set up in back with a few chairs.
The shooting of “Beauty and the beast” was 70 percent completed, the remaining part of the story was Gaston leading the town people to attack the castle.
For this part of the plot, even if Joshua had made a contract with the Skeleton Duke, he must first need to report to the Skeleton Duke.
After all, things like bringing a group of people to someone’s door to smash the scene, even if it was just a performance, it must be needed to inform the owner first.
For this reason, Joshua used an extraordinary method to explain his intention to the Skeleton Duke.
Therefore, the Skeleton Duke has become a glorious audience of the world’s first movie’s test screening, not only the Skeleton Duke but also a group of ghost servants under her command.
The movie was playing as Joshua had planned. Whether it was the camera shots or scenes portraying or even the lightning, Joshua was satisfied with it. The soundtrack of the movie was played by the friendly Skeleton Duke.
At this moment the entire castle was extremely quiet, and only the dialogues of the character in the scene could be heard.
Many of the scenes in the movie were of the castles which Skeleton Duke was familiar with, and the village part, Ciri had been watching it the whole time from the side.
However, both the Skeleton Duke and Ciri with full concentration were watching the development in the movie. When the key plot came, Joshua even heard the sound of someone holding the breath.
The same scene using different camera shots could create different feelings, and the movie’s story rhythm and dialogues were not available in real life.
Joshua believes that the greatest charm of the movie was to tell the audience that ‘There are so many beautiful things in the world’. Of course, other adjectives could be used to replace the word ‘beautiful’.
The essence of the movie was to let the audience experience different lives. Any intelligent creature always yearns for the life they never had.
As the shooting of the movie was not fully completed, the screen suddenly disappeared when the plot was halfway through.
“What is next? Why did it stop?”
Even before Ciri could speak anything, the voice of Skeleton Duke sounded in the dark hall. The soul fire in her eyes kept pulsating and looked at Joshua.
“Duke, the movie shooting is not completed yet….”
Joshua initially had the idea of just showing Skeleton Duke what a movie was, so he put the source crystal in front of the Skeleton duke and showed him the unfinished version of “Beauty and the beast.”
“When will the shooting finish?”
The Skeleton Duke had to admit that she had begun to look forward to the following storyline. When the movie was at its climax scene, the screen suddenly turned black, Skeleton Duke thought there was some problem with Joshua’s source crystal, but the reply Joshua gave to Skeleton Duke was ‘shooting was not complete’.
This was the second time that Joshua succeeded in arousing the urge of Skeleton Duke to roll up her sleeves and beat him up.
“If the duke allows those humans to enter into your castle for a small walk…. then, I can finish the movie in two days,” said Joshua.
“…”
The Skeleton Duke pondered for a while, her bone fingers kept on tapping on the handle of the chair, it seemed as if she was hesitant about this matter.
“Your highness. Are you really serious about wanting me to perform in the human world?”
The pulsating soul fire in her eyes socket calmed down. She had signed a contract with Joshua in order to obtain Joshua’s music sheet, and Joshua wanted her to perform a concert in the human world, which Skeleton Duke thought of it just as a joke.
As a moving natural disaster, she would go to human cities? The Skeleton Duke hasn’t heard a more terrible joke than this.
However the movie “Beauty and the Beast ” has touched her, and made the Skeleton Duke a little convinced that perhaps Joshua could really change the way humans see them.
“I am serious. Furthermore, I am going to put your name in the end credits of the movie. Then everyone who has finished watching the movie will know that all the beautiful soundtracks in it were made by you.” said Joshua.
“Then, your highness, you continue with it. I look forward to the ending of the movie.”
Joshua’s answer made Skeleton Duke make this final decision.
Obtaining permission, Joshua was prepared to start the shooting of the last part, but the Skeleton duke took Joshua’s hand.
“Your highness, could you tell me the ending of the movie in advance? Both… Belle and the prince are going to be together?”
The Skeleton Duke’s curiosity which was silent for hundred years was completely aroused by Joshua. She originally thought to hold for the conclusion until the movie shooting was completed and released, but Skeleton Duke found that she couldn’t bear till that time.
When the Skeleton Duke asked this question, even the rest of the audience, Ciri and the ghost’s servants looked at Joshua, as if eager to know the ending of the movie.
“Uh…”
Joshua was being stared by so many eyes and immediately felt great pressure, but in the end, Joshua told the final result.
“No.”
“What?!”
“In the end the demon prince in order to protect Belle sacrifices himself, um… he collapses in Belle’s arms and dies.”
Joshua suddenly felt his whole body becoming cold, especially when he was started by the soul fire that kept pulsating, and even got an illusion that his life might be in danger.
“Are you serious?!”
Joshua heard the most frightening question since he met Skeleton Duke. Although before Skeleton Duke didn’t have a good impression, she at least would maintain basic etiquette as a subject.
However, now the Skeleton Suke was completely like “If you dare to write the ending as tragedy, believe it or not, I will explode you by twisting” kind of attitude.
Joshua remembered that on earth some screenwriters who wrote tragedy which was so brilliant that would make audiences move to tears, and the audience finally would decide to send kgs of razor blades to the screenwriters as a gesture of friendship.
“Duke, this is a fictional story, and…This also for the purpose of the story effect.”
The “Beauty and the beast” has undergone countless adaptations on earth, the most famous was the Disney version and the French version.
And Joshua made this movie to change the way humans think of demons.
Therefore, Joshua gave the setting of the beast as a prince having half-human blood and half-demon blood. The prince was cursed, so he could only maintain a demon form for the rest of his life. Only when he and someone could love each other sincerely then could he become human again.
In the end, Josua chose to turn it into tragedy, that was, in order to protect Belle, the demon falls in Belle’s arms and dies.
Sometimes the tragedy was more profound than comedy, wasn’t it?
However, seeing the reaction of Skeleton Duke let Joshua think that it was necessary to change it into the final curse release failed, but the demon prince happily lived a shameless and impetuous life with Belle in the castle.
What really surprised Joshua was that Lord Lich also had a fragile girlish heart.
