Chatty Hollywood

"If the birth of a baby is the infusion of life force, then death is the loss of life force."

While sorting out the thoughts in her mind, Charlotte spoke to Charlize quickly,

"So what does it mean if a person is constantly dying and being reborn?"

"Is life force constantly draining away?"

Charlize was still a little confused when she was suddenly interrupted while watching the movie. She looked at Charlotte who seemed to be thinking nervously, not knowing what the other party meant.

"That's just for death."

Charlotte's words seemed to be refuting Charlize's answer, but also seemed to be talking to herself,

"But for the new student, it is the injection of life force - that is to say, the life force will continue to be injected into and drained from his physical body. In this process, part of the life force will overflow, and part of it will naturally settle down. "

At this point, he suddenly laughed and said,

"Sally, tell Alexis that I have found a way to effectively transfer the newfound life force to her."

"What's the solution?"

Seeing the blonde girl suddenly throw herself in front of him, with her red lips just a stone's throw away from him, Charlotte immediately realized that the other party had already made a switch.

"Alexis!?"

"it's me."

The girl shook her head,

"As soon as Sally heard what you said, she immediately handed over control of her body to me. So, just tell me directly!"

"Ahem, okay!"

Charlotte twisted her neck unnaturally before continuing,

"The short answer is, you need to make another movie with Sally!"

"What!?"

Although she had seen the weirdness of Charlotte's spell, Alexis still couldn't imagine how the transfer of life force was connected with making a movie.

"Let's put it this way! Although I can directly transfer the life force I took from the ghost tiger to you, as a ghost, your cultivation time is too short, and you cannot take on this huge life force in normal ways."

Charlotte gave an analogy,

"This is just like a newborn python that has no ability to swallow an adult hippopotamus - I said before that if you want to live like a living person, you need enough vitality. Now that you have vitality, But how to let you absorb it becomes a problem."

"Then you have thought of a solution now?"

Alexis looked at Charlotte expectantly;

"Can this problem be solved by making a movie!?"

"That's right!"

Charlotte nodded,

"But it can't be an ordinary movie, it has to be a movie where you are constantly being killed and then resurrected! Just like Groundhog Day!"

"...Do you still have this hobby?"

Alexis licked her red lips with the tip of her tongue,

"It doesn't matter that I'm a ghost. But you can't do that to Sally!"

"...If you misinterpret my meaning again, you will go back to your subconscious mind!"

Charlotte glanced at the girl in front of her with a dark face. Seeing that she was no longer causing trouble, she continued,

"As I explained before, through constant death and resurrection, the life force I delivered will continue to precipitate in your and Sally's bodies. As a living person, Sally, this extra life force is useless to her—— "

"So the life force will be naturally absorbed by me, the ghost possessing her?"

Alexis understood,

"But doing this won't have any adverse effects on Sally, right?"

"Won't."

Charlotte glanced at Alexis in surprise.

"Have you ever seen an actor who actually turned into a corpse just because he played a corpse?"

"Yes, I have!"

Alexis pointed to the tip of her nose,

"The last role I played before committing suicide was that of a corpse."

"...Well, that's a sad story!"

Charlotte scratched her head helplessly,

"In short, through this method, you can absorb the life force I sent over with a very high efficiency - speaking of it, it is very much like an animal."

"animal?"

"Cat! A cat with nine lives!"

After glancing at Alexis who was a little curious, Charlotte simply entered the story time.

"In Eastern and Western legends, it is said that cats have nine lives. But in fact, normal cats do not have this ability. Those with nine lives are cat monsters!"

"Is it because the cat demon is a more powerful monster that it has nine lives?"

Alexis thought logically.

"On the contrary, it's because you have nine lives that you can become a monster!"

Charlotte's conclusions are always different,

"The person who taught me magic once said that no matter whether an era can provide enough spiritual energy, cats can practice. As long as they can survive nine times of near-death but not death, they can become cat monsters! This is also Origin of the saying that cats have nine lives.”

"Near death but not dead?"

Alexis suddenly paused,

"Isn't this a Super Saiyan! - Ah, this is what Sally said."

"...In addition to American superheroes, has she now also started to dabble in Japanese "Dragon Ball"?"

Charlotte muttered,

"This understanding is not wrong! Although the cat demon does not have second or third stage transformation."

"But then, shouldn't there be many cat demons in the world?"

Alexis still felt something was wrong;

"But why have I never seen it before?"

"What do you think is the possibility of trying to commit suicide nine times in a row, putting your life on the line, and yet still being able to avoid danger?"

Charlotte gave her an annoyed look;

"If you don't seek death, you won't die. On the other hand, cats' practice of seeking death will basically end in death. Besides, do you think they know this kind of practice? It's just instinct."

"Anyway, this time it's the same as in "Fatal Turn", you still need to perform with Sally, but——"

Charlotte frowned, with a look of distress on her face,

"This time, you two must make the audience think that you are the same person, but at the same time clearly feel that you are different. This requirement is higher than that in "Fatal Turn"!"

"Isn't it okay to have a split personality?"

Alexis proposes a plan.

"Is this how you two are now?"

Charlotte shook her head;

"No! In the minds of most viewers, they will naturally think that split personality is two people."

"But that's not how it is defined in psychology!"

Alexis retorted.

Ever since Charlotte said that her and Charlize's state was very similar to split personality, they actually read some psychology books about split personality when they were bored, and they could be considered professionals in this regard. However--

"For magic, the psychological definition is completely meaningless. What the public thinks is the most important!"

Charlotte responded rudely to Alexis’s knowledge,

"It's just like language. Even if it's a typo, as long as there are enough people using it, they can conventionally use it as the correct one, and sometimes they can even force linguists to modify the dictionary."

——In fact, the Chinese characters Tongjia are basically this kind of thing.

Of course, it is not Chinese class time at this time. Charlotte did not continue to explain the details in this regard. He waved his hand to Alexis.

"I'll try to solve the problem from the perspective of the script first! Maybe it can be set so that the contrast between the performance of a character before and after is very big, and then you two can play a part."

"But how do we make the transition?"

Alexis also became serious when it came to acting. In this regard, she is as serious as Charlize. In other words, Charlize still learned from her.

"If it can't be handled well, it will definitely lead to the separation of the front and the back, and it will become a bad movie! And a bad movie——"

Alexis stared at Charlotte,

"——It's useless to you, right?"

"yes!"

Charlotte smiled bitterly,

"Bad movies are useless. Only good movies can be beneficial to our career development and can resonate with the audience and make the magic effective."

He picked up the remote control and replayed over and over again the various scenes in "Groundhog Day" in which the protagonist Phil - Bill Murray - seeks his own death.

"What kind of story do you want?"

Charlotte recalled in her mind the various movies she had watched before traveling through time, and her head felt a little heavy for a moment——

Film and television works of the infinite loop type are not very common. Apart from "Groundhog Day" which was released in 1992, the only one he can think of is "Terror Cruise", but that movie...

Charlotte felt that the tragic story of endless cycles of killing and being killed did not seem to fully meet the needs of the spell he wanted to construct.

He hopes that the script can have a happy ending, just like "Groundhog Day", otherwise it always feels like it will set some ominous consequences for Charlize and Alexis.

But besides "Terror Cruise", what else?

There's no way he could have used the episode "Endless August" from the "Haruhi Suzumiya" series! ?

Not to mention the cultural differences between Japan and the United States, it would have been impossible for him to tell the story of "Endless August" clearly in a movie without the support of the original work of the "Haruhi Suzumiya" series.

Um, by the way, there’s also Edge of Tomorrow!

But the essence of that movie is actually Tom Cruise saving the world again. Besides, it was only the male protagonist who was recycled in the film!

No matter how good Charlize and Alexis are at acting, they can't play a man! These two are both blond beauties, not Hilary Swank!

"If you can't think of it, stop thinking about it."

A pair of slightly cold, slender hands pressed Charlotte's forehead and kneaded it gently.

"We still have time."

"Sally?"

Charlotte naturally felt the change in the girl, who smiled gently at him,

"You should take a rest first! Maybe it will be better to take a nap."

"Get some sleep!?"

Charlize's words flashed like a bolt of lightning,

"I thought of it!!!"

Charlotte excitedly grabbed Charlize's hand on his forehead and kissed him directly. The girl wanted to hide for a moment, but finally gave in to his wishes.

"Our new movie is called "Happy Death Day"!"