hunt hollywood

Hunting for Hollywood by Just Du

The mainland director who came from many years later unexpectedly returned to Hollywood in 1986, and since then began his legendary journey to control the world's largest film and television industry center step by step.

Chapter 001 Westeros (Revised)

After tidying up briefly, the light gray rucksack contained a few clothes, two manuscripts, and a pen, and he didn't plan to take the rest away.Picking up the bag and slung it over his shoulder, he glanced at the small room for the last time, without any nostalgia in his heart.

After all, this is a mental hospital

The head nurse at the door looked at the handsome boy who was slightly dazed in front of him, feeling a little regretful, but also a little happy, and said softly, "Simon, do you want to say goodbye to everyone?"

His name is now Simon, Simon Westeros.

The name has not changed.

The surname was changed a month ago.

Because I don't like the original surname of this body, I also look forward to a brand new start.

I happened to be watching "Game of Thrones" before I was reborn, and I was fascinated by the turmoil on the continent of Westeros, and I had such a fantastic experience now, so I chose "Westeros" as the title on a whim. new surname.

Counting from now, the novel version of "Game of Thrones" will not be released until 1996, ten years later. As for how the old Martin will name his new continent in the future, that is not what he cares about.

Hearing what the head nurse said, Simon came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "It's still not necessary."

The two left the ward and came to the office of Dr. Henry Chapman, who was Simon's attending physician, a nice middle-aged man.There is also a middle-aged white man wearing glasses in the office. He introduced himself as John and is from Stanford University. The other party came to assist Simon in the discharge procedures.

Simon was admitted to the mental hospital nine months ago.

At the time, this incident caused a small sensation.

The inspirational teenager who grew up in a children's welfare home was admitted to Stanford University at the age of 17 and received a full scholarship.Then, less than two months after entering school, he suddenly went crazy.

Severe violent schizophrenia.

This was Dr. Chapman's diagnosis in Simon's medical record.

The truth is, twelve souls suddenly appeared in the young body, how could it not go crazy.

In the broken memory picture, the young people under the conflict of consciousness frantically destroyed an entire reading room in the Stanford University library, and injured several people, and were finally tied up and sent to this mental hospital in the southern suburbs of San Francisco.

Continue backtracking forward.

Now he is actually a director from the other side of the ocean. He has just completed his first film in his life, and the box office is good.The company planned to negotiate a cooperation with Universal Pictures, one of the six major Hollywood film companies. In order to win him over, the boss included him in the negotiating team heading to Los Angeles, which was regarded as a public trip.

The prosperity of the mainland film market has attracted the whole Hollywood, and the business has naturally been very successful.

After the cooperation was reached, the executives of Universal Pictures invited the company team to a media industry gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho. There were also many other Hollywood film practitioners. More than 20 people took off from Los Angeles on a Boeing 737.

However, less than half an hour after takeoff, the Boeing 737's engine failed, and then it crashed during an emergency landing at San Francisco Airport.

Conscious again, although still in the San Francisco County area, he has returned to 1985, and seems to be bound in a young body with many other consciousnesses, followed by nine long months in a mental hospital .

I don't know how I got control of this body.

Or, because he was the only 'foreigner' in those consciousnesses.Before the crash, he happened to leave the luxurious front cabin where Universal's top executives and the company team were located, and went to the back cabin of the plane to discuss film production with a group of Hollywood colleagues.

Or, because of dissatisfaction.During the nine long months, he could feel the strong reluctance of a young man, and after growing up with such difficulty, he never thought that his life would fall into ruin just as he was about to set sail.He was also unwilling. After so many years of wasting, he finally started to stand out, and everything disappeared in a blink of an eye.

In any case, he finally became the master of this body, and the other dozen or so consciousnesses all fell into deep silence.

However, although the consciousness is gone, the memories of those people remain.

Although those memories were all scattered, he also realized that the remaining fragments of memory were a huge fortune to him.

You know, the people in the back cabin of the plane at that time were all the elites of the Hollywood film industry, top screenwriters, photographers, editors, soundtrack musicians, etc., these people were actually crew members of a box office blockbuster under Universal Pictures , the director and leading actor of the crew were also on the plane, but they were invited to the front cabin, and they didn't know if they survived.

After completing the discharge procedures, Simon bid farewell to Dr. Chapman and others, and then got into John's car with simple luggage.

It could be seen that John didn't like today's errand very much. He sent Simon outside the bus station in nearby Watsonville, fulfilled the last obligation due to Stanford University, and drove away in a hurry.

More than a month before being discharged from the hospital, Dr. Chapman talked with Simon many times and asked him about his future plans.

It is naturally possible to return to Stanford. Simon’s major is still Stanford’s most popular computer science. After more than 30 years, he knows how many fascinating miracles of wealth have been created by the students of Stanford’s computer department in the coming Internet wave.

However, Simon chose to drop out without much hesitation.

He is a director, and he has more than a dozen memories of Hollywood elites in his mind. It can be said that he is now a top-level film crew. With so many resources, there is no reason not to go to Hollywood.

As for the Internet wave in the future, it is not Simon's character to look at the opportunities that can be seen everywhere and slip away at will.If you can stand out, you will naturally be able to participate in the feast of wealth brought about by this technological revolution as an investor.

Of course, at this moment, standing outside the bus station in the small town of Watsonville near California Highway [-], Simon knew that he was destined to have a long way to go.

He is just a penniless poor boy now, and he is still a little thankful that his personal situation can enjoy the free federal medical insurance.Otherwise, for nine months of treatment, Simon would definitely have to bear a sky-high medical bill that would make him doubt his life.

In the United States, it is an absolute disaster for ordinary people to see a doctor without health insurance.

After buying a long-distance bus ticket to Los Angeles, Simon checked his wallet while waiting for the bus, and there was still $198 left, which was the money 'he' earned from a summer job before entering school last year.

Some time ago, I spent more than 200 dollars in the process of changing my name, mainly to publish a name change announcement in a small newspaper in Watsonville, which is a necessary procedure for Americans to change their name, and then there is the cost of reapplying for a driver’s license .A driver's license in the United States is equivalent to an ID card, and it is very cheap to test, only costing tens of dollars.So, even though he couldn't afford a car, Simon got his driver's license at the age of 16.

According to the price information in my mind, the remaining money in my hand can last for about a week if the most basic food and housing are guaranteed.

That's enough.

It is easy to find a job that is enough to make ends meet in Los Angeles in a week. The former owner of this body has been doing various odd jobs since he was 13 years old, and the relevant skill points are almost full.

Thinking of this, Simon even felt a little sad.Although his memory is not complete, he can feel the awe-inspiring tenacity of the original child.The "Simon" in my memory was sent to a children's welfare home in San Jose at the age of six, but the little child was like a stubborn little beast, stubbornly rejecting the adoption applications of many foster families, and began to be self-reliant at the age of 13.

Thinking of this, Simon couldn't help but go back to his memories before he was six years old, but there were only some more broken pictures, which couldn't be pieced together anyway.

then.

Waking up from wandering thoughts.

Simon was surprised to find that tears were rolling down his face unconsciously.

A pair of mother and son who were also waiting for the bus next to him were looking at him with strange eyes, and the young mother pulled her four or five-year-old son a little further away.

Wiping the tears off his face in embarrassment, Simon realized that even though a certain ill-fated soul had completely lost control of this body, it still stubbornly refused to recall certain experiences, so stubborn that even if it completely lost Consciousness, still obstinately shut its door to prevent strangers from prying.

Then forget about it.

Moreover, since I have obtained this body, I will definitely live this life more radiantly than anyone else, for sure.

Simon silently assured a soul in this way.

The consciousness in the dark may have heard his voice, and Simon found that his mood gradually calmed down.

After waiting in front of the crude platform for about half an hour, a bus finally stopped on the side of the road. It was a passing bus from downtown San Francisco.

Simon turned sideways to let the mother and child beside him get into the car first, and then followed.

The bus was almost full of passengers. Simon walked backwards along the aisle, and finally found a vacant seat in the penultimate row. A woman in a plaid shirt was already sitting inside the seat for the two of them. Her long brown hair covered most of her face. , looking down at a thick manuscript bound on A4 paper, holding a pen in his hand.

Stuffing the backpack onto the luggage rack, Simon sat down on the empty seat near the aisle.

Sensing movement around her, the woman looked up, politely nodded to Simon, and looked back again.

Simon also nodded, but his expression was a little surprised. He knew each other.

To be precise, Simon knew the woman in front of him, but it was obviously impossible for the other party to know him.

Catherine Bigelow.

The first female director in Hollywood history to win the Oscar for Best Director.Just this achievement is enough to make her an existence recorded in film history.

Chapter 002 The Butterfly Effect

Simon first met Catherine Bigelow, a Hollywood female director, after "The Hurt Locker" successfully won the Oscar in 2010.

Speaking of which, his first impression of Catherine Bigelow was her appearance.

At the 2010 Oscars, Catherine Bigelow, who was tall and tall in a linen silk long dress, looked only 30 years old, and her figure and temperament were enough to crush most of the actresses on the red carpet that year.

But in reality, Katherine Bigelow was born in 1951.Even now in 1986, she is 35 years old.

Simon can only lament that there is never a shortage of goblins in this world who can resist the erosion of time.

Then there is the work of the other party.

After the Oscars that year, Simon intentionally watched several films by Catherine Bigelow.

In all fairness, most of the films directed by Catherine Bigelow can only be said to be mediocre, but the roughness of the works of the other party is impressive like the totem of ancient stone pillars. The masculine camera language tells the audience in front of the screen that what men can do, I can do, and what men cannot do, I can still do.

Simon even felt that Kathryn Bigelow's gendered dominance through her work was already a bit obsessed.

The bus started again and headed south along California Highway [-].

After Catherine Bigelow made a slight gesture just now, she focused all her attention on the manuscript in front of her. Simon glanced at it curiously. Judging from the format of the text on the paper, the woman should have a script in her hand, and then she didn't bother.

After more than an hour, it wasn't until Catherine finished reading the last page of the manuscript that Simon asked in good time, "Is this a script?"

A woman's sixth sense is always very keen. Just when she was reading the script, Catherine felt that the young man beside her would look at her from time to time.As a beautiful woman, she never lacked chatterers around her, and she was used to this kind of thing.

However, the other party didn't bother her for more than an hour just now, and she didn't speak until she finished reading the script. This also made Catherine feel a little more favorable in her heart, so she smiled and nodded at Simon and said: "Yes .”

Although she responded, Catherine was reluctant to talk to Simon too much.

Although the young man in front of him has a handsome face with sharp edges and corners, and his temperament is more mature than his peers, but no matter what, he is obviously just a big boy under 20 years old.If my friends knew that they were accosted by such a boy, they would definitely be laughed to death.

Just as she was about to turn her gaze out of the car window to make a gesture of rejection, Catherine heard the young man beside her continue: "Actually, I also have a script. If we change the time to pass the time, it will take several hours to get to Los Angeles." .”

Having said that, Simon got up quickly, took the backpack from the luggage rack above his head, picked out one of the two manuscripts and showed it to Catherine.

Catherine felt a little surprised that Simon took out a script at random, but she still classified Simon's actions as strike-up.She planned to refuse clearly, but after glancing at the title of the script in Simon's hand, she couldn't help being curious, and subconsciously asked, "Butterfly Effect, what does this mean?"

"This is an assumption made by Edward Lorenz, a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to explain his theory," Simon said, handing the script to Catherine, and continued: "Professor Lorenz hypothesized that South America A butterfly in the Amazon Basin flapped its wings occasionally, and the impact of the wing flapping on the surrounding airflow continued to spread, causing a series of chain reactions, which eventually formed a terrifying tornado in Texas."

After listening to Simon's explanation carefully, Catherine couldn't help shaking her head: "How is it possible for a butterfly to flap its wings and cause a tornado?"

Simon said: "Professor Lorenz is using this to describe the huge impact that a small variable may have on the entire system. Moreover, I think it is very possible, but we cannot prove it."

Catherine hummed lightly, and did not argue with Simon. She is not a person who likes to argue with others.I found that I had taken over the script called "The Butterfly Effect" without knowing it, so I opened it curiously.

Then, feeling that the young man beside him was still looking at him, he remembered what he said just now.

After hesitating for a while, he still handed over his own script.

Anyway, as he said, it's just to pass the time.

She opened the script in her hand and glanced at it. After realizing something, she skipped and flipped through a few pages before Catherine was finally sure.

It turned out that, including the title on the cover, the entire script was handwritten in a neat English font similar to print, which made her look again at the young man beside her who had already turned her attention to her own script.

In this era, typewriters are already a very common office tool. It is very rare for a young man who is willing to write all the scripts of more than 100 pages by hand and write them so beautifully.

Simon didn't know about Catherine's mental activities. In fact, he had no choice but to write the script by hand. He lived in a mental hospital, and even if the doctor allowed him to have a typewriter, he couldn't afford it.

Flipping Catherine's script on his knees, Simon recognized that this should be Catherine's first theatrical feature film "Blood Corpse Night".After "The Hurt Locker" won the award, he read the introduction of the film out of curiosity when he checked Catherine's information, but he didn't take the time to watch the film.

With the deepening of reading, Simon quickly sorted out the general context of the story in his hand.

Kalebo, a farm youth in Oklahoma, met a girl named Mei and fell in love with her at first sight, but Mei was actually a vampire, and she transformed Kalebo into a vampire on impulse.

Kalebo was then taken away by May's fellow vampires and forced to wander the world.

Although he has the ability of immortality, after several twists and turns, Kalebo found that this is not the life he wanted, so he wanted to get away from these vampires. At the same time, Kalebo's father and sister were also with him. After disappearing, he tirelessly embarked on the road to find his relatives.

On the other side, I don't know how long after reading the last page of the script, Catherine looked up and found that Simon was still flipping through her script slowly, but suddenly there was a small urge to snatch the script from him.

Although I don't really like the overly pessimistic and gloomy tone of "Butterfly Effect", but after reading the whole story, Catherine has to admit that "Butterfly Effect" with exquisite and novel plots is better than "Blood Corpse Night" too much.

In the final analysis, "Blood Corpse Night" is just a simple romance film in a vampire's coat, and there are some script loopholes that even she herself is helpless.

Waiting quietly for Simon to finish the script, Catherine involuntarily asked in a questioning tone that she didn't realize: "How is it?"

Simon thought for a while, and said: "I really like the scene where Kalebo kneels in front of Mei and sucks the blood from her wrist. It has a sense of immorality that transcends ethics. This should be inspired by the phenomenon of lamb suckling." , the future shots will definitely touch people’s hearts.”

Catherine did not expect that Simon would express his feelings based on a certain point in the script. Although the script of "Blood Corpse Night" was not entirely written by her, the picture Simon described at this time was precisely written by her.

Many movie fans will make excessive deconstructions that completely exceed the director's intention after watching the movie, but Simon's understanding at this time coincides with her mind.She is an art student, so she will habitually add some symbolic shots to the script.

"So," after a moment of hesitation, Catherine asked bluntly: "Do you think there is anything that can be improved in this script?"

Hearing the woman's question, Simon was a little surprised, but he quickly said: "Perhaps, the farm can be changed into a pasture. I see that there are many scenes of farms in the script, but no matter what state the farm is in, there is absolutely no paving. A pasture with a green meadow is more visually appealing."

Catherine thought for a while, nodded, and asked again: "The last plot is the setting of Kalebo and Mei turning back into humans. Do you think there is any better way to deal with it?"