Chapter 282 The magically modified version of "Battle of Two Cities"

Compared to ten days ago, Ogesha already has a deeper understanding of the Wind Leader.

And the more she knew, the more she became afraid of the leader.

And fear brought her endless confusion.

Will they really end up well in the future against an opponent with almost no flaws?

"Well" Mrs. Ogesha rubbed her eyes with a headache.

She didn't dare to think deeply about it. Even after thinking deeply, she couldn't think of any solution. It would only increase her fear.

She tried to calm down and continued writing information.

"Zun's Economic Situation"

"Zun's technological situation"

"The Military Power of Zaun"

Ogesha wrote down everything she saw and heard in Zaun.

Compared with the "sage politics" of the leaders that she feared the most, the leaders' economic achievements, technological inventions, and military construction seemed less important.

After all, the economic and technological levels of the Twin Cities are already developed enough. It is normal for the leader to take over Piltover's business and achieve achievements in the economic and technological fields.

To be honest, the military strength of the Wind Leader, leaving aside the "nuclear weapon" of the goddess Janna, is just a small pond in the Twin Cities. No matter how well the conventional military strength is built, it is simply not enough to stand up to an established power like Demacia.

of.

Therefore, Ogesha's writing style is always relatively relaxed when writing about economic, technological and military aspects.

What worries her is yet to come:

"culture--"

“The threat posed by leaders in the cultural field makes people have to be vigilant.”

Ogesha directly used the word "threat" in the letter to express her concerns about the cultural achievements of the leader.

"Dear His Majesty King Jarvan, you may be wondering, can the illusory art culture, novels, music and drama that are only used for entertainment and entertainment, really be so lethal?"

"My answer is, yes."

"In fact, according to my observations these days, culture and the ideas that accompany the viral spread of cultural works are the most terrifying 'weapons' of leaders."

Writing this, Mrs. Ogesha couldn't help but think of her reaction after joining members of the German mission and attending the main melody musical "Slave Labor of Zaun" at the official invitation of the Leader.

The plot of this musical is entirely based on the personal experiences of slave workers in Zaun, and the focus of the plot is to restore reality.

It stands to reason that this kind of realistic story that reflects the suffering of the lower class should not have much appeal to a time-tested feudalist warrior like Ogesha. Even if you read it, you will not be too touched.

But no matter what, the music in this musical is all world-class famous songs that Levi borrowed from his "Earth Music Library".

The song is a famous song handed down from generation to generation, and it is the star singer Seraphine who lends her voice to the tune.

As a result, Ogesha burst into tears while watching this musical.

When Saito Takeda, who represented the old forces in the play, was eliminated by the Wind Leader, some people in their diplomatic corps, composed entirely of Demacian nobles, could not help but applaud and stand up.

"The role of cultural works in transforming and infiltrating people's thoughts can be seen from this." Recalling the involuntary touching in her heart at that time, Ogesha became more and more frightened.

"And the most terrifying thing is that the leaders are not only good at promoting their ideas through serious cultural works such as main theme musicals."

"In addition to being a talented composer, our President Levi seems to be also a brilliant writer of popular novels."

"He is very good at mixing serious themes into popular literary and artistic works that pursue entertainment, and in this way, he quietly exports the leader's political correctness to readers."

"For example"

For example, Zuan recently released a comic, and a live-action movie based on the comic was simultaneously released.

(Yes, there is a movie in Zaun. Don’t ask, ask Hex Technology)

The name of the movie is "The Battle of Two Cities".

The content of the story is a world without a leader, and the story of Zaun's "future".

The script was written by Li Wei himself, and the actors came from the friendship of Leader cadres.

Among them, Jinx plays Jinx, Vi plays Vi, Caitlin plays Caitlin, Hilko plays Hilko, Victor plays Victor, and Mel plays Mel.

"Parallel world, future Zu'an, plot deduction based on real people and true events."

"With such a novel and interesting story theme that is full of entertainment, I think even a ten-year-old child who has no interest in serious political themes will be interested in watching it."

This is exactly the case.

Compared with the main theme of the musical "Zuan's Slave", this commercial-oriented "Battle of Two Cities" obviously has a wider audience.

Although this generation of Zaun people have personal experience of suffering, they actually prefer the realistic "Zuan Slave Labor".

But children, Piltover people, and outsiders are all obviously more accepting of the more entertaining "Battle of Two Cities".

"The Battle of Two Cities" looks like a pure entertainment work without politics, but in fact, the ideology of the leader is quietly hidden in every detail of the story - it not only exists, but also

Everywhere.”

This version of "The Battle of Two Cities" is actually slightly adapted by Li Wei, and it is very different from the original version.

The original version said it was "The Battle of Two Cities", but its real name is actually "Arcana". This name is more appropriate.

After all, Zaun and Piltover are industrial cities where workers account for the vast majority of the population, but not a single worker appears in the entire film. This can hardly be called "The Battle of Two Cities", it can only be called "Jinx's Search for a Family"

A Storm in Two Cities".

As the adopted daughter of the two previous bosses of Zaun, Jinx is a real little princess of Zaun. Her personal experience is actually difficult to truly reflect the suffering of the bottom class of Zaun.

Li Wei understands this.

Because regardless of the political correctness of the leader, for ordinary viewers who just want to have fun, the story of the prince and princess is more interesting than the story of the mud-legged man.

Ordinary people are tired from daily life, and they just want to have fun by pretending to be princes and princesses.

If the protagonist of "The Battle of Two Cities" was not Jinx, but an inconspicuous Zaun worker——

Then there is a 1% chance that this work will become a handed down classic, and the other 99% chance that it will be sold directly in the entertainment-oriented cultural market.

And when it comes to creating classics that truly reflect the suffering of the grassroots and at the same time attract the vast majority of audiences, how can ordinary authors reach that level?

Anyway, Levi doesn't have this ability.

He couldn't even write a work like "Iron Man", let alone "How Steel Was Tempered".

What's more, these days, not many people have watched "How the Steel Was Tempered".

Therefore, in order to expand the audience and to exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses, Levi did not change the main story line of "The Battle of Two Cities".

The protagonist is still a heroic character like Jinx.

He just added more details into the story, allowing workers, slave laborers, and ditch orphans who truly represented the bottom class of Zaun to appear inadvertently beside the protagonist in the form of supporting characters.

That's enough.

It only takes a few scenes to make people deeply feel the despair that old Zuan brings to people.

The output of ideology sometimes only requires a few scenes hidden in pornographic music.

There is no need to preach directly. After seeing what the situation in old Zaun was like in the world without the Wind Leader, the audience will naturally be interested in understanding the theory of the Wind Leader and how Janna's thoughts gave this land

bring about change.

certainly

In addition to adding these details, Levi also made many changes to the script for various complex reasons.

For example, Mr. Jess raised strong objections to the script.

He felt that he was not that obsessed with officialdom, so he had to ask Levi to delete the line "Please call me Senator Tallis" before he was willing to make a cameo appearance.

Another example

Miss Meyer is now the number three leader, a high-ranking official with dignity.

As the president of the association, Li Wei is of course not in a position to describe the love and action scenes of the subordinates he spends day and night with in his "created" literary and artistic works——

Otherwise, forget about Mel, the entire association will probably think he is a pervert.

Therefore, in order to take care of the cadre image of the leader, Levi made some serious modifications to the script at the beginning of the adaptation, changing the all-night communication between Mel and Jess into an all-night conversation.

Naturally, Mrs. Ogesha didn’t know much about these behind-the-scenes details.

And she wasn't interested in paying attention to this.

She only saw: "A series of popular literary and artistic works launched by the leader, represented by "The Battle of Two Cities", have been obtained in Zaun, Piltover, and even more distant Noxus.

A huge commercial success."

"They are exporting their ideology to the world in this silent way."

“Audiences of the Vanguard’s literary and artistic works will naturally become admirers of the Vanguard’s ideology. And admirers can easily accept the propaganda of Janna’s thoughts by the leadership’s political workers out of admiration.”

"And the leader's propaganda of Janna's ideas."
To be continued...