PL actors AU: Curious Village
Here I go again, going crazy of talking random AUs I made.
- St. Mystere was filmed at a village in Western Europe. After the movie became popular the village became a famous tourist attraction.
- However, places like the inside of the Reinhold Manor and the tower were filmed at a set in UK. And the outside of St. Mystere was filmed at another village.
- The mansion which became the outside of the Reinhold Manor does exist though. But the inside wasn't what the director had thought in mind, so the inside was filmed at a set.
- The abandoned park actually exists at the local village. It was abandoned in real life too, and as the village became a tourist attraction the park has re-opened.
- The portraits of Baron Reinhold and Flora Reinhold was drawn by Professor Layton's actor. He drew them at some free time, let the director use them for filming, then gave them to the actors as a gift.
- The concpet of Luke talking to animals came from Luke's actor, who can handle any animal very well. He said that he has the ability to "talk with animals", and the director instantly gave Luke that concept and fixed some of the plot.
- Claudia was quite a reckless cat, not listening to many of the staffs and the actors. The only few people who could handle him was his owner, Luke's actor, and Lady Dahlia's actor. But Lady Dahlia's actor had to go through several exhausting hours to handle him.
- Flora hugging Professor Layton after excaping the tower was Flora's actor's improvision. Precisely, she misheard a cut signal, then hugged Professor Layton's actor. This was her last shot for Curious Village. The director found this better than what he intended, so he decided to use this scene and went through extra filmings.
- Professor Layton's actor was kinda awkward wearing the top hat during filming. He asked if this hat is a special gift from Professor Layton's past lover as a joke, and the director and the script writer smiled as if this gave them an idea.
- Luke's actor is American. The director was thinking of hiring a British actor for Luke, but as he saw Luke's actor he shouted out like "He's the one I've been finding!" And so Luke's actor was hired for Luke.
- The first scene of Professor Layton and Luke in the Laytonmobile had several improvisions. The director allowed the actors to make improvisions if they want.
- Some of those improvisions were "What a perplexing individual. I wish I could have met him while he was still alive." "It certainly sounds like you two would've gotten along, Professor!"
- At some scenes of Lady Dahlia being angry, her actor was really annoyed. The director went filming the same scene over and over, annoying Lady Dahlia's actor and making the scene look so real.
- Luke saying "Sullen expression, check!" when he found Claudia was his actor's improvision. Claudia was actually doing a sullen expression at the site. But he got better when Luke's actor petted him after getting a cut signal.
- Chelmey's actor made Chelmey look rude as possible, since he heard he's actually Don Paolo in disguise. It was quite hard for the actor to act rude though, since he is actually a good and kind person.
- Also, like Chelmey(Don Paolo), sweets aren't Chelmey's actor's preference. But he'll have sweets if someone gives it as a gift.
- At the scene of Professor Layton and Luke chasing Bruno, Luke's actor tripped and rolled down the alley. He wasn't injured bad, but the staff had to finish the filming for the day.
- When Luke's actor read the notepapers, he imitated an old man's voice while reading at the first shot. But then he realized this makes no sense, since Luke doesn't know who wrote this, so he read them with his usual voice from the second shot.
- A ferris wheel replica was used for Professor Layton and Luke being chased. But only for the ferris wheel falling to the ground, the ferris wheel rolling and chasing was CGI.
- At free time Luke's actor and other young actors played at the park. They played games like hide an seek, or did some role-plays with various situations, or had some chats, having seats on the ferris wheel.
- Luke's actor is actually younger than Luke, who is 13 years old. So is Professor Layton's actor.
- There is a deleted scene where Flora says good bye to Lady Dahlia, with no dialogues and only gestures. The deleted scene is added as an extra in the DVD with other deleted scenes.
- In the director's cut version of the DVD, scenes of Luke packing stuff on the Laytonmobile and Flora arriving at London were added. These were filmed while filming Diabolical Box.
Hmm...anything else you think would have happened?
Kat channelled Alfendi for a second when she threatened to stab Inspector Hastings‘ eye…
Do you think Hastings and Chelmey brag about how much they love their wives, and about whose wife bakes the best cakes? (Bearing in mind, Chelmey would be like 60 at this point…)
And then meanwhile, poor Grosky is just crying over his lovely estranged wife?
“There’s no greater thrill in the life of a detective than accusing a guilty party in front of a crowd.”
I may be laughing at Chelmey but this is exactly what Layton does every time- gather all the suspects together and point at the true perpetrator. Maybe Layton and Chelmey aren’t so different after all…
Professor Layton was my childhood, man
This took ages to make, I rarely draw ensemble pieces
It’s so frustrating and implausible how it’s implied that, before Kat, NO ONE had a clue about how the professor and Lukes’ disappearance.
I have no problem believing that the police failed to investigate the disappearance. From the prequel games to the LMJ time, we see that Scotland Yard is incompetent at best and corrupt at worst. You have some good officers like Inspector Grosky, Inspector Chelmey and Barton (who has become Commissioner by the time of Mystery Room), but even they depended on the professor for help with their cases.
Then you have the bad ones... Detective Bloom (Targent mole), Justin Lawson (helped a serial killer, brainwashed Alfendi) and that Inspector Britannias (I’ve probably spelt his name wrong) who tried to frame Kat.
Scotland Yard was still corrupt during the LMJ time period, and it’s very likely that they sabotaged/forged any evidence linked to Layton and Luke’s disappearance. My main bet is that Justin Lawson was concerned that if Professor Layton returned he would uncover his crimes. Or maybe Justin just wanted to distract Alfendi with the hopeless search for his father.
It’s never confirmed in LMJ, but we can assume that Emmy, Flora, Randall and ESPECIALLY Desmond were investigating behind the scenes. Maybe they would have found Layton and Luke sooner … if only the police had been more helpful.
Sweet Tooth
Happy Valentines day guys! Whether you’re gonna celebrate it with some romance or platonic love, I hope you have a nice day uvu!!