Hollywood Director 1992

"He's here!"

Link dropped Quentin and went to the entertainment room to play Texas Hold'em with the others.

Hollywood has many famous gamblers, such as Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, and director Martin Scorsese.

Today, there are two here.

Ben and Nicolas Cage not only frequent Las Vegas for gambling but are also members of Hollywood's largest poker club.

Whenever they attend parties, they take out poker cards and invite friends to play a few hands.

Keanu Reeves, Depp, Matt Damon, and Joaquin Phoenix play less often, but they are also good at it, holding cigarettes while playing, squinting their eyes, and posing in various profound ways, like a group of gods of gambling.

Only Link is a novice, and his card skills are very average. He lost more than two thousand dollars in less than half an hour.

Seeing him lose money, everyone was very happy, feeling a sense of robbing the rich to help the poor. Even Quentin couldn't help but join in, preparing to earn some pocket money from him.

The more players there are in a game like Texas Hold'em, the more lively it is. Link doesn't mind others joining in to earn his money.

"Link, you're quite boring. Besides making movies, you don't know any other recreational activities. I suggest you participate in more of these activities, otherwise, it's meaningless to earn so much money."

Ben Affleck, with a cigarette in his mouth, shuffled and dealt the cards with a cool look.

Seeing his cool appearance, Link regretted not suppressing him more when filming "Seven." Let him, like Leonardo, be unable to get out of the role for a week after filming.

"Link plays tennis and golf. He's not as boring as you say."

Sofia Coppola said, holding her cards.

"Link is indeed good at tennis. I've played with him a few times and was almost crushed to death."

Jim Carrey also sat at the poker table, looking at his cards more often than calling, focusing on participation.

"Link also knows how to swim, box, Chinese Kung Fu, and cook. He's almost a superman," Sofia Coppola said.

Ben Affleck curled his lips, "Golf? Tennis? Cooking? What are those things? They sound boring. Link, don't you have any interesting hobbies?"

"You're talking about improper and unhealthy hobbies, right?" Johnny Depp said, smoking a cigarette.

Everyone laughed.

"Link likes beautiful women," Nicolas Cage said.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"That's right. That counts as a hobby, and a very improper one," Ben Affleck laughed, slapping the table.

"Focus on playing cards. Don't talk nonsense," Sofia glared at her cousin Nicolas Cage.

Nicolas Cage shrugged and put 50 dollars into the pot.

Link looked at his cards and also bet 50 dollars, "Cage, I heard director Scorsese is planning to make a gambling movie with you. When will filming start?"

"It's not a gambling movie. It's a love movie set in Las Vegas, a very good love movie, but director Scorsese is still revising the script. It hasn't been finalized yet. Filming will probably have to wait until after August," Nicolas said, picking up his cards to look at them.

"I heard director Scorsese is slow at filming. Each movie often takes more than a year from project approval to completion," Jim Carrey said.

"That's normal. Director Scorsese puts a lot of effort into filming, meticulously crafting each scene, and the quality is very high," Sofia Coppola said, looking at her cards and throwing them on the table.

"That's right. Good movies are meticulously crafted and take a long time. Only bad movies don't take time to film. Some movies are filmed in a few dozen days, with three or four movies a year," Quentin said, curling his lips, implying something.

Link shook his head, "Do you feel uncomfortable if you don't mock me?"

"Look, someone confessed without being forced, admitting that they make bad movies," Quentin laughed.

"What's so funny? Link filmed 'Paranormal Activity' in about seven days, grossing over six hundred million worldwide, averaging one hundred million a day. You spent more than a year filming 'Pulp Fiction,' grossing over one hundred million. Don't you feel sad?" Sofia mocked.

"Hmph!" Quentin said with a dark face, "High box office doesn't mean the movie is good."

"'Seven' only took more than three months from project approval to completion, but this movie won the Palme d'Or. Dare you say Link's movie isn't good?" Sofia retorted.

"We haven't seen this movie. Who knows if it's good or not," Quentin said.

"This movie is really good."

Hearing them talk about "Seven," Ben Affleck, as the male lead, couldn't help but open the conversation, "Let me tell you, the design of this movie's plot—"

"No spoilers!" Sofia knocked on the table.

"Alright!"

Ben Affleck shrugged, "Not talking about the plot, let's talk about my performance. In this movie, my acting reached a very high level. I never thought my acting would be so good. Every time after filming, when I looked back at the footage, I felt like it wasn't the level I could perform. It was so cool. Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Connelly were also good, not much worse than me."

"It's because Link directed well," Sofia reminded him.

"Also because I have good talent. If I were an actor without talent, Link's direction wouldn't be useful," Ben Affleck chuckled.

Jim Carrey laughed, "Link, when will we collaborate once? You can direct me too."

"I'm not good at comedy. I can't direct it," Link said.

Jim Carrey shrugged, "Actually, my ideal is to become a Broadway drama actor, not a comedy actor. If there's a suitable script, I also want to make serious movies."

"That's possible," Link smiled.

"Can we stop talking about movies? If you want to play cards, focus on playing cards. Talking about movies ruins the mood," Quentin said, throwing his cards on the table unhappily after losing money in this hand.

"We're all filmmakers. What else would we talk about besides movies? You're so annoying," Sofia said.

Quentin curled his lips, "You're protecting Link so much. Anyone who didn't know would think you were Link's wife."

"What did you say?!"

Sofia slammed the table and stood up.

"Alright, alright, why are you arguing?"

Link quickly pulled Sofia back, telling Quentin to say less.

Sofia also stopped playing cards and left the entertainment room, going to the living room outside to chat with Monica, Renée, and the female companions of Cage and Keanu.

"Sofia has a really bad temper," Quentin asked.

"You better not provoke her. She even hits me when she gets angry," Nicolas Cage shrugged.

Quentin glanced at Link, "I'm very curious, Sofia has such a bad temper, how do you control her?"

"We appreciate each other."

"Hmph! I understand women less and less. Good men like us who are dedicated are ignored, while scumbags like Link are becoming more and more popular. Isn't this a case of reverse Gresham's law?"

"It is!"

Ben Affleck nodded.

Link looked at his cards, a heart A and a diamond A. There was a spade A among the community cards, a pair of 10s. The biggest hand could be three As and a pair, considered the biggest full house. As long as he didn't run into a four-of-a-kind or a straight flush, the probability of winning was high.

Link called for three rounds, betting 1200 dollars, and finally compared cards with Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves. As a result, Ben Affleck had a four-of-a-kind of 10s, and Keanu Reeves had a heart Q, J, 10, 9, 8 straight flush.

Keanu Reeves won a complete victory.

Link and Ben Affleck lost more than a thousand in this hand.

"Link, I recently received some bad news related to you. Do you want to hear it?" Nicolas Cage said while looking at his cards.