The moment he woke up, he felt a stone was stuffed into his head, and he shook it vigorously a few times. Eric subconsciously reached out to touch the cell phone next to the pillow, and soon understood his situation. He smiled and sat up. It was past nine in the morning.
This is Eric’s bedroom on the second floor of the Williams house. The blazing sun in summer pours unscrupulously through the French doors of the south balcony into the bedroom. It’s already August, and it feels like Los Angeles before noon. the sweltering heat.
After being reborn for more than half a month, 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 has made a good start, my whole heart has fallen into my atrium.
The bedroom is huge, more than 30 square meters. After putting in the big bed, wardrobe, desk, museum shelf and other messy things, it still looks empty.
In his memory, Ralph once wanted to divide the bedroom into two rooms, but in the end he didn't implement it, because there were only his father and son in this house, and there were enough rooms, and he didn't know what to do with another room. This seemingly bleak reason made Ralph depressed for many days, but until his death, Ralph did not make any move to find a wife.
I don't know if every alcoholic man has such a heart-piercing past behind him.
Walking down the second floor, it took half an hour to tidy up the messy living room after the party. After breakfast, Eric drove away from the house.
It took a few hours to order a Strauss piano at the specialty store, and after leaving the address for the deliveryman, Eric went to the bookstore to pick out a thick stack of books on music arrangement.
Eric didn't want to become a singer on a whim. He did these things just to prepare for the soundtrack of movies in the future. There are so many classic movies in his mind. Reach the level of being able to write the existing tunes in your mind into staves, otherwise you will not be able to hum them in front of those professional film soundtracks in the future, stop making trouble.
Hollywood is different from the entertainment industry in the eastern mainland. Many directors in mainland China usually find a soundtrack artist when preparing the soundtrack for a film. The soundtrack artist looks at the rough film and provides some songs.
Music is a very important part of Hollywood movies, so they are made with excellence, not to mention the background music, just the theme song has emerged countless classics, and many classic movie episodes are even more famous all over the world, such as "The Love of Ghosts" "Unrestrained Melody" from "Titanic", "My Heart Will Go On", "Newdivide" from "Transformers", "young and beautiful" from "The Great Gatsby", "letitgo" from "Frozen", The good songs in "Juno" can fill an album even more.
Carrying the books back home, the deliveryman brought the piano over soon, and Eric commanded the piano to be carried into the study on the west side of the living room. He said it was a study, but in fact there was no bookshelf, only a large desk and other miscellaneous items. thing. Eric's books were all upstairs in his bedroom, and Ralph had no habit of reading at all.
After the piano is installed, it is customary to test the sound. Eric sat in front of the piano and put his hands on the keys in style, and then, under the horror and contempt eyes of several deliverymen, this guy played a somewhat out-of-tune "happy birthday" ". Eric glanced sideways at the stunned deliverymen next to him, and sighed secretly that he must be scared. At my brother's level, in the previous life circle, I can barely be regarded as a combination of virtue and art.
In order to punish several deliverymen for their contempt for him, Eric directly halved the tip he planned to pay. However, several deliverymen obviously didn't notice this until when they got into the car, the tall and thin white man was still muttering Strauss, Strauss, that's more than 20,000 dollars. Trauss, his tone is full of a sense of collapse of marrying a twenty-eight-year-old girl to an eighty-two-year-old grandfather, which makes Eric feel a little embarrassed, but he is very 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, an audition?" Eric asked suspiciously, "Penny, isn't my role already decided?"
After staying at home for a few days, he spent every day studying music, practicing basketball and acting. Eric thought that 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 to ask you to audition for other roles. After all, you are a screenwriter, so you can provide some advice on role selection, can't you?"
Eric's slander can only give some opinions, and he can't decide anything. However, Eric still readily agreed to Penny Marshall. He 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 a film 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 involved in the casting, but Only Eric was a young man.
There were still more than ten minutes before the audition began, and Penny Marshall took the initiative to chat with Eric about the preparations for "Return to Seventeen".
"The success of "Flying to the Future" made Twentieth Century Fox very confident in our movie, and opened a budget of 20 million US dollars. But I hope we can finish the production as soon as possible and release it during Thanksgiving, so we have to do it in two weeks. The preparations will be completed within a few days, and the school scenes will be filmed before the end of the summer vacation."
Eric took the list of audition actors handed over by the staff and said thank you, and heard what Penny Marshall said: "As long as the shooting goes well, three months is enough for this movie. There are only a few simple special effects in the movie. The lens, the post-production doesn’t take long.”
Penny Marshall nodded: "That's true, but we still need to reserve a period of time for publicity."
"By the way, Penny, which roles are we interviewing today?" Eric asked.
"Well, the adult Mike O'Donnell and Scarlett O'Donnell, we've got Dan Aykroyd and Susan Sarandon respectively, Ned's adult character James recommended him A friend of mine, today we are mainly interviewing Mike’s children, as well as some other young actors in the movie, so I think I should let you take a look.”
Although Eric already knew that he, the screenwriter, was doomed to have no say in the selection of other actors, but he was still a little depressed to hear that several actors had been cast without his knowledge. Fortunately, Penny Marshall The two actors mentioned are in line with Eric's expectations. As for the role of Ned, James Brooks will definitely not play with an investment of 20 million US dollars, and the actor must not be too bad.
However, Eric was still a little unwilling, and secretly vowed that he must control the right to speak in his own movies in the future. This feeling of being marginalized is really bad.
Depressed, Eric was not in the mood to chat with Penny Marshall anymore, and Penny Marshall didn't see Eric's strangeness, and turned to the other side to discuss something with James Brooks in a low voice.
Boringly flipping through the list of audition actors, the ones in front of them are all male actors, and the little fresh meat in the photos shows his youthful vitality. After looking through seven or eight copies, 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 is that kind of weak and weak, Eric thinks the original version is a bit too weak, that small body is swaying on the basketball court Ziroom's splendor is somewhat contrary to harmony.
According to his analysis, the reason why he chose the skinny 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 Efron Long is only 1.75 meters tall, which is considered very short among Westerners, especially among Western actors. The audience who watched that movie in the previous life can clearly feel this.
Looking at the twenty-five-year-old Pete who still looks like a high school student in the photo, Eric suddenly felt that it would be nice to cast Pete as a tall and strong character who is bullied everywhere, and finally a reverse character who shines on the basketball court is not bad. , Moreover, 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 were slightly raised, and Eric continued to flip through the list, and then he did not find any familiar actors from his previous life.
What follows is a dozen thick actress profiles. When I saw the first audition actress profile, Eric's jaw almost dropped. Angelina Jolie, the whole family is here today. Looking back, Eric found that Julie should have just graduated from acting school this year and was about to go to high school. She will start her modeling career next year. I don't know why she appeared in Maggie's audition list.
European and American women develop very early. In the photo, the thirteen-year-old Julie is already slim, blond and blue-eyed, with iconic sexy lips. The whole person has begun to exude a touch of wildness. Eric is not optimistic about the results of Julie's audition, and maybe being able 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 and asked while holding the document, "What's going on with Drew Barrymore, the bad things she's done in the past two years... You know it, maybe not Is it suitable for our school comedy?"
Penny Marshall looked at it, and said with a helpless smile: "Stephen recommended it. The woman begged him with a stern face, and he recommended it after too much trouble. But Stephen also hinted that we don't need to consider his factors at all, so, you understand .”
"Steven Spielberg?"
Penny Marshall nodded: "Yes, you know, Stephen is Drew's godfather."
Eric snorted, so the woman in Penny's tone full of disgust should be Drew's greedy mother. It's just that in just a few minutes, through the clues Eric heard and saw, he found that Hollywood's selection of actresses was not as fair and transparent as the media said, and it was still full of various human relationships and full of emotions. Various games.
Just about to look through the list, Penny Marshall patted Eric and said, "Alright Eric, tidy up, the audition has started."
Eric had to line up the cast list in order and wait for the next audition.
I thought I would become a display, offering at most one or two dispensable opinions and asking a few symbolic questions. Unexpectedly, the first young male actor came in. After answering a few questions, the performance began. Penny Marshall smiled at Eric and said, "Eric, go up and play with Mr. Walson." Rivalry."
Eric shrugged, looked at the shot script, and stepped forward.
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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 a referee, but I didn't expect it to be a basketball on the court."
"Hehe, it's an interesting metaphor. Don't complain, Eric. It was James' idea. He complained that I canceled your acting class, and finally discussed this method for you to exercise your acting skills."
Eric pretended to be annoyed and glared at James Brooks, who seemed nothing had happened, and complained: "Then why don't you just explain it directly?"
"Don't you know now?" Penny Marshall smiled.
"Okay." Eric spread his hands wordlessly.
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