I’m in Hollywood

At the moment of waking up, he felt that a stone had been stuffed into his head, and he shook it a few times. Eric subconsciously reached out to touch the phone beside the pillow. He quickly understood his situation again, smiled, and sat up. More than nine in the morning.

This is Eric's bedroom on the second floor of the Williams family's house. The blazing sunshine in summer pours into the bedroom unscrupulously through the floor-to-ceiling glass door of the south balcony. It's already August, and it feels like Los Angeles before noon. sultry.

For more than half a month after being reborn, Eric has been busy with various things, and his whole heart is floating in the air. I didn't even have time to look at the brand new world I was in. Now that everything was off to a good start, my whole heart fell into my heart.

The bedroom is very large, more than 30 square meters. After putting in the big bed, wardrobe, desk, museum rack and other messy things, it still looks empty.

In my memory, Ralph once thought of dividing the bedroom into two rooms, but in the end he didn't implement it, because there were only their father and son in this family, and there were enough rooms, and there was no use for another one. This seemingly bleak reason had made Ralph depressed for many days, but until his death, Ralph did not have any move to find a wife.

I don't know if every alcoholic man has such a heart-wrenching past behind him.

After walking down the second floor, it took half an hour to tidy up the messy living room after the party. After breakfast, Eric drove out of the house.

It took a few hours to go to the store to order a Strauss piano, and after leaving the address to the deliveryman, Eric went to the bookstore to select a thick stack of books on music arrangement.

Eric didn't want to become a singer on a whim. He did this just to prepare for the soundtrack of future movies. There are so many classic movies in his mind. If you want to restore it perfectly, you must know some basic knowledge of arrangement, at least To the extent that you can write the music you already have in your mind into staves, or else you can't hum it in front of those professional movie soundtracks in the future, don't make trouble.

Hollywood is different from the eastern mainland entertainment circle. Many directors in mainland China usually find a soundtrack when preparing a movie and prepare the soundtrack. The soundtracker looks at the raw film and provides some songs.

And the music in Hollywood movies is a very important part, so the production is constantly improving, not to mention the background music, just the theme song has emerged countless classics, and many classic movie episodes are even famous all over the world, such as Human Ghost Love Unrestrained Melody from Titanic, My Heart Will Go On, Transformers New Divide, The Great Gatsby Young and Beautiful, Frozen Letitgo, The good songs in Juno can fill an album even more.

He came home with the books, and soon the deliveryman brought the piano over. Eric instructed to carry the piano into the study on the west side of the living room. He said it was a study. In fact, there were no bookshelves, only a large desk and other miscellaneous items. thing. Eric's books are all upstairs in his bedroom, and Ralph has no habit of reading books at all.

After the piano is set up, as usual, we have to try the sound. Eric sat in front of the piano and put his hands on the keys, and then, under the horrified and contemptuous eyes of several deliverymen, the goods played a song HappyBirthday which was a little out of tune. . Eric slanted a sideways glance at a few dumbfounded delivery men, sighing that he was frightened. Even at the level of my brother, in the past life circle, it is barely considered a double-hearted virtue and art.

In order to punish several deliverymen for their contempt for themselves,

Eric directly halved the tip he planned to pay. But a few delivery men obviously didn't notice this, until when they got into the car, the tall and thin white man was still mumbling Strauss, Strauss, that's more than 20,000 dollars. Trauss, the tone is full of a sense of collapse that a 28-year-old girl is married to an 82-year-old grandpa. Eric feels a little embarrassed, but he is helpless, he can't Go up and tell him: Lao Yang, don't worry, I will take good care of Xi'er.

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What, audition? Eric asked suspiciously, Penny, isn't my role already set?

After staying at home for a few days, spending every day studying music, practicing basketball and acting, Eric thought this situation might continue until the filming started, but only three days later, he received a call from director Penny Marshall.

Of course, Eric. I mean you're going to audition for other roles. You're a screenwriter after all, so you can provide some input on character selection, right?

Eric's slander is estimated to only be able to offer some opinions, and nothing can be decided. However, Eric readily agreed to Penny Marshall, who originally wanted to participate in the production of the film to gain some experience.

Drive to Fox's photography base. Seeing Penny Marshall and James Brooks, the casting of the movie is a big deal. Of course, the director and producer must be present. It is still the same room where he auditioned a few days ago. There are several other staff members involved in the casting, but Only Eric is a young man.

More than ten minutes before the audition began, Penny Marshall took the initiative to chat with Eric about the preparations for Return to Seventeen.

The success of Future has given 20th Century Fox confidence in our film and a budget of $20 million. But we hope that we can finish it as soon as possible and release it during Thanksgiving, so we have to do it in two weeks Complete the preparations within, and finish filming the scenes in the school before the end of the summer vacation.”

Eric took the audition list handed over by the staff and said thank you, and heard Penny Marshall's words: As long as the shooting goes well, three months is enough for this movie, and there are only a few simple special effects in the movie. Shots, it won’t take long in post.”

Penny Marshall nodded: It is true, but there will be a period of time for publicity.

By the way, Penny, which roles are we interviewing for today? Eric asked.

It's like this, coming of age Mike O'Donnell and Scarlett O'Donnell, we've got Dan Aykroyd and Susan Sarandon, respectively, and Ned's adult character James recommended him A friend of mine, today we are mainly interviewing Mike's sons and daughters, as well as some other young actors in the film, so I think you should come and see.

Although Eric already knew that his screenwriter was destined to have no say in the choice of other actors, he was a little depressed when he heard that several actors had been decided without his knowledge. Fortunately, Penny Marshall The two actors mentioned are very much in line with Eric's expectations. As for the role of Ned, James Brooks will never take the investment of 20 million US dollars as a joke, presumably the actor will not be too bad.

However, Eric was still a little unwilling, and secretly vowed that he must master the right to speak in his movies in the future. This feeling of being marginalized is really bad.

Depressed, Eric was not in the mood to chat with Penny Marshall again. Penny Marshall did not see Eric's strangeness, and turned to the other side to discuss something with James Brooks in a low voice.

Boringly opened the list of audition actors, all the actors in front of him, the little fresh meat in the photo showed his youthful vigor, after flipping through seven or eight, Eric finally found an acquaintance: Brad pete. And the role of the audition turned out to be Alex. The image of Alex in the original movie was that kind of weak and weak. Eric felt that the original version was a bit too weak, and that small body was swaying on the basketball court. It's a bit inconsistent to shine freely.

According to his analysis, the reason why he chose the thin boy instead of a slightly taller and more handsome male voice, in addition to the needs of the plot, the director must also worry that this supporting role will suppress the protagonist Zac Efron, because Zac Eve Long is only 1.75 meters tall. This height is considered very short among Westerners, especially Western actors. The audience who watched the movie in the previous life can obviously feel this.

Looking at Pitt, who is 25 years old and still looks like a high school student in the photo, Eric suddenly felt that it would be good for Pitt to play the role of being tall and strong but being bullied everywhere. , and, Eric is also fully confident that his performance will not be suppressed by Brad Pitt. After Pitt became famous, people found out that he played Eric Williams' son, which is very interesting, isn't it?

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and Eric went over the list, and then he didn't find any actor he was familiar with in his previous life.

Next is a thick profile of a dozen actresses. When I saw the first audition profile for actresses, Eric's jaw almost dropped, Angelina Jolie, the family is here today. Looking back, Eric found that Jolie should have just graduated from acting school this year, and was preparing to go to high school. She will start her modeling career next year. She doesn't know why she appeared on Maggie's audition list.

European and American women develop very early. The thirteen-year-old Julie in the photo is already slim, blond and blue-eyed, with her iconic sexy lips, and the whole person has begun to exude a touch of wildness. Eric is not optimistic about Jolie's audition results, and his ability to participate in the audition may be the result of the influence of his actor father.

Continuing to read, Eric found another very interesting girl.

Hey, Penny, Eric turned his head with the document and asked, What happened to Drew Ballymore, the bad things she's done in the past two years... You know, maybe not. It's too suitable for our school comedy, right?

Penny Marshall glanced at it and smiled helplessly: Stephen recommended it, the woman begged him stubbornly, and he was very troublesome to recommend it. But Stephen also hinted that we don't have to consider his factors at all, so you understand .

Stephen Spielberg?

Penny Marshall nodded: Yes, you know, Stephen is Drew's godfather.

Eric snorted, then the woman with disgust in Penny's tone should be Drew's greedy mother. In just a few short minutes, through the clues that Eric heard and saw, he found that Hollywood's selection of actresses was not as fair and transparent as the media said. various games.

Just as he was about to flip through the list, Penny Marshall patted Eric and said, Okay Eric, let's sort it out, the audition begins.

Eric had to put the cast list in order and wait for the next audition.

I thought that I would become a decoration, providing at most one or two optional opinions, and asking a few questions symbolically. Unexpectedly, the first young actor came in. After answering a few questions, the performance stage began. Penny Marshall smiled and said to Eric: Eric, go up and play with Mr. Walson. rivalry.

Eric shrugged, looked at the script, and stepped forward.

...

The fifth actor walked out of the audition room, Eric sat back in his seat, and complained jokingly: Penny, I thought you called me to be the referee, but I didn't expect it to be a basketball on the court.

Hehe, it's an interesting analogy, don't complain, Eric. It was James' idea. He complained that I canceled your acting class, and finally negotiated this method for you to practice your acting skills.

Eric pretended to look angrily at James Brooks, who had nothing to do with it, and complained, Then why don't you explain it directly?

Don't you know now? Penny Marshall smiled.

Okay. Eric spread his hands silently.