Chapter 45: With Bread, a Circus Is Needed
A week later, the second race on the Sparrow Plains entered the preparation stage and a large number of tourists began to pour into Tanalis.
Gakisen gave tourists more shock than three months ago. Because of the previous visit to Senarius, the desert city is now full of flowers and plants, and even attracts some birds from the Thousand Needle Stone Forest.
Nowadays, Gakison can be called Tanalis's miracle city.
The goblin tourists enjoyed the intense competition on the Glitter Plain while enjoying the comfortable environment of Gakison. And during the ten days of the competition going on, the goblin tourists discovered that one day when they entered the field, they also received a flyer with the ticket to the game.
On the flyer is printed with a propaganda poster of the Gakisen Grand Theater. The picture shows a giant fighting a giant monster. In the middle of both the good and the evil, the name of the play is written in eye-catching large characters: [The Fall of Tyre].
Looking at the past and present, there are two core expressions of art when it was born: courtship and priests.
Either to attract the opposite sex by showing one's strength and beauty, or to create a god as a spiritual sustenance.
Among these two routes, Li De chose the latter. Although the former is undoubtedly more convenient to make money, it is difficult to have a unified aesthetic standard on gender issues in the Hanhai Protector with a diverse population. If it is not well grasped, it is likely to breed a erotic industry, which is contrary to Li De's bottom line in life.
What's more, rehearsing dramas, making money is secondary, mainly to enrich cultural construction and ensure balance between income and expenditure. Li De was very satisfied.
The rehearsal of "The Fall of Tyr", simply put, Li De wants to create a god.
The history of the Titan Guardian period is vague in the mortal world. Even Zandala has no definite records. It is more about archaeological discoveries, plus some conjectures.
But Tyre's story did begin to spread as early as ancient times. In ancient times, Loken, among the guardians of Titans, was bewitched and depraved by the ancient gods, causing internal struggles among the guardians.
Among them, Tyr and two other guardians fled from Odul in the north of the continent with a group of Titan creations such as the dwarf ancestors, dwarf ancestors and human ancestors.
During this process, the faceless ancient god's minions who colluded with Loken launched a pursuit of Tyr and others. In order to cover the safe evacuation of their comrades and the large army, Tyr left alone to resist the pursuit.
In the end, Tyre killed a strong enemy and defeated another strong enemy. But he also died with great strength, leaving only a huge silver hand standing on the ground.
Later, the Vicuts, the ancestors of the human race who escaped their lives, returned to the place where Tyr died. They worshiped the silver hand and spread the story of Tyr.
It can be said that Tyr's sacrifice had a huge impact on the Vicu people. This race that rarely records history seriously only carved Tyr's noble spirit deep in his soul.
Moreover, Tyr created far more than this in shaping the human race. The place where Tyr sacrificed was later the land of Tyrish Fallin, which was the real place where the human race really emerged.
As for the silver hand left by Tyre, it is regarded as a symbol of noble qualities such as courage and sacrifice. The "Knights of Silver Hands" that appeared in later generations came from this.
Such a great guardian who is well-known can be said to be the most suitable for artistic creation.
In the choreography of this drama, Li De signaled that William could blur other characters, as long as it could reflect the evil of the villain, the danger of the mortals and the greatness of Tyre.
This is the unique charm of drama art. Objective restoration of truth is not necessary compared to it. Just create characters and classic lines that are deeply rooted in people's hearts on the window-like stage, which is enough to touch people.
Such details of Loken's fall, the Noganon disc, the endings of other guardians... these history are still in the dust, and it is not appropriate to appear in the mortal world now. And there is no need to pile them up to add a burden to the audience's understanding.
Even in order to impress the audience more, the mortal characters who followed Tyre in the story were symbolized and trolls and goblins were added.
Takshiro once expressed dissatisfaction with this, and he believed that Li De was distorting history.
Li De admitted this calmly, but at the same time his reasons were very sufficient: from a macro perspective, Tyre's original sacrifice cannot be regarded as one-sided as a kindness to those Titan creatures, but for the peace of the world.
Li De was really aimless about this. In the battle to protect the origin of the dragon, when the twisted ancestor dragon Galakron endangered the world, Tyr was the first to stand up and lead the five ancestor dragons to protect the safety of the world. It was in that battle that Tyr's hand was bitten off by Galkron, and then he created a prosthetic limb after the war, which was the famous silver hand.
Moreover, Li De told Takshiro more frankly that drama is not history, and its main purpose is to spread a value. If drama is not excellent enough and the value of communication cannot be accepted by the world, it will naturally disappear in time.
Or if this work is excellent enough to be passed down to future generations, then the fallacies in historical details can be generously pointed out for everyone to criticize and discuss.
And in the process of constant discussion, the truth of history will naturally be explained, and this work of art can also be evaluated fairly.
By then, these will become part of culture and art and part of civilization.
Li De's words finally convinced Takshiro, but then other different voices appeared. For example, like Nogferg and Anggagu, they all believed that the drama was false and had no use except for fun.
Nibuer did not make any statement because he was a disciple of Li De, out of affection. However, acquiesced to Angegagu's statement of such a statement can also show his true thoughts.
In Niebull's view, it is the critical stage of preparation, and the teacher should focus more on important matters rather than irrelevant dramas.
Everyone thought this thing was useless, and Li De said it was useful.
Only Li De knew that in another time and space, this thing developed a mature narrative structure, was named "soft power", and became part of the peaceful evolution strategy.
Li De did not make too many refutations, but just waited for the actual effect when it was released.
In this way, under the vigorous publicity and operation of the Hanhai Protector, on the fifth day of the competition, the drama [The Fall of Tyr] officially began its first performance, and the theater was full.
Other characters in the story are blurred. Many guardians do not use their real names, but use synonyms such as "Storm Guardian", "Forged Guardian" and "Stone Giant".
Their main role in the story is to show the power of the Guardian and its important role on Azeroth in the three-minute "Genesis" chapter.
I have to say that William is really a talent. With the strong support of Li De, he used wood and animal skin to create a very beautiful and atmospheric leather prop. Combined with the fireworks of the goblins, he created a shocking stage effect.
After the audience's understanding of the guardians was established, the "wisdom protects" Loken's depravity seemed particularly dazzling. When Loken colluded with the ancient god's minions and chased Tyre, many viewers were so angry that their teeth were itchy.
The leather case of the two ancient god's minions, Zakaki and Kishiks, was also carefully designed. Although Li De didn't know what they looked like, as long as they were shaped, the purpose would be achieved.
In the last scene of the drama, Tyr sacrificed his life for justice, killed Zachakki, and severely injured Kirshks. At this time, the stage went black and all three leather cases ended. Then a huge silver hand prop slowly rose from the mechanism of the stage, marking the fall of Tyr.
The human race, symbolizing mortals, trolls and goblins walked onto the stage, walking slowly around the silver hand, commemorating the heroes and ushering in peace. The goblin fireworks also lit up the entire stage in this instant, and the drama officially ended.
And as the lights above the audience lighted up, thunderous applause rang out in the entire theater!
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Chapter completed!