The casting searchlight is on on the set of "Spider-Man".
The staff members guarded the lamp, feeling depressed but with nowhere to express their feelings, as if they were waiting for a story destined to be tragic.
The homeless people gathered not far from the crew, looking at these people like monkeys performing acrobatics.
From time to time, they pointed, ridiculed, whistled, and asked eagerly if more supplies could be sent to them. The weather was getting colder and colder, and they couldn't survive it.
Zhou Yang was also very tired, but he still sat and waited for people to come to his door.
At eight o'clock in the evening, a group of people came over from a distance...
They were all drunk, and there were a few who looked like drug addicts. After entering the crew, they eagerly asked what kind of movie was being made here, how much the salary was, and how much investment there was. Their eyes were full of greed and desire.
Some people even started shouting, which made people have headaches.
When Xu Mei saw these unreliable people, her first thought was to ask the security personnel to expel them.
She was very disappointed with today's casting. She felt that everyone was doing a useless job with Zhou Yang, and she even felt like a joke.
She was inevitably irritable.
But Zhou Yang waved his hand, saying that there was no need to be afraid of these drunkards. Instead, he invited these drunkards to sit down and asked the staff to make a few cups of tea for them.
Xu Mei frowned after seeing these people making a fuss in the audition room. She really couldn't stand the smell of alcohol, and finally turned around and left the room, going out to get some fresh air.
At first, these drunkards were so excited that Xu Mei outside the house felt her eardrums tingling...
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There are too many frustrated people in this world.
There are various reasons for them, and they can only sink in the end, like a soulless walking zombie.
Sam is thirty-five years old this year. He once worked for a newspaper in New York. Later, he accumulated some capital and connections to start his own media. However, in the cruel business competition, he finally couldn't bear the impact of bankruptcy. After the bankruptcy, he met his girlfriend
Leaving, his brother betrayed him, and he had no choice but to return to Delaware. After returning to Delaware, he wanted to struggle a little, but found that the debts had weighed him down and there was no hope of turning around, so he gradually lay down and started drinking...
…
Over the years, he has met many people.
There is a small director from Hollywood who lost countless capital and finally made a movie that failed at the box office. He was severely slapped by reality. Then he was forced to commit suicide by debt and barely survived by relying on state subsidies.
.
The director brought many actors, and these actors formed a small group. At first, they thought about making a comeback. After all, directors came to Delaware from outside every year. But in the end, as their hopes were shattered again and again, they began to
They also ate and waited to die, kept drinking, and some even became addicted to drugs. They entered drug rehabilitation centers several times, but failed to detoxify...
Over time, Sam also followed these people, joined some film crews, and played some indifferent roles...
This time, when they heard that Spider-Man was being cast, they came running over like a swarm.
I didn’t want to become famous through “Spider-Man”, but I wanted to rely on my previous acting qualifications to make some money, and then continue to have fun in the rest of my life.
When Sam met Zhou Yang, except that he thought the Chinese was slightly more handsome, he was no different from other directors in the past.
Without exception, they are all "full of confidence", "full of hope", "ridiculously energetic", and "at the same time inexplicably rigorous".
They walked into the audition room, bragging to the Chinese director about the movies they had participated in, talking about their past and so-called brilliance, and at the same time never leaving their paychecks...
In the noisy audition room, Sam himself didn't know what he was talking about, he only knew that he was bragging about his days in New York.
Bragging about being the president of the newspaper, how many people he manages, what major news reports he has participated in, and what he has experienced...
As I kept blowing, I began to have a big tongue, and unconsciously I took on the role of my former harsh boss...
After bragging, he also asked about his salary...
But no one would have thought...
Zhou Yang continued to write down everything he boasted about, and then stared at him for a long time. What was even more unexpected was that Zhou Yang actually offered him an astonishing salary of fifty thousand US dollars.
He suddenly sobered up from drinking.
This is a salary that has never been paid before.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but he followed his actor friends out of the audition room and returned to their bar.
This time's audition didn't seem to cause any disturbance in Sam's life. He was still hanging out with these people day after day.
I even felt that the $50,000 salary was just a joke, and even felt that it was a somewhat real dream.
Five days later…
December 6th.
Sam received a phone call.
"Mr. Sam..."
"็ Hello Who are you……"
"I'm Zhou Yang, we've met before..."
"Ah, hello."
"I want to see you again today and talk to you again..."
"..."
After receiving the call, Sam subconsciously put on a coat, stared at the cold weather and walked towards the "Spider-Man" set.
When he came to the "Spider-Man" crew, he found that there were some old acquaintances on the "Spider-Man" crew.
"Mr. Sam, wait here..."
He saw the director Barney dressed like a human being and walked out of the house, completely different from the drunken man before.
"Barney, why did you..."
"I think I want to help with the filming of Spider-Man."
"???"
Barney, who had mocked Zhou Yang, the director of "Spider-Man" as a rich fool two days ago, actually said these words at this moment.
"He is very attentive, really, extremely attentive. I have never seen such a sincere person..."
"Yesterday, I met Mr. Zhou Yang. I never dreamed that Mr. Zhou Yang had actually carefully watched the movies I had made before and talked about them with me..."
"After chatting with him, I realized that Mr. Zhou Yang is not the ignorant director I imagined. He knows a lot of things, and he understands me better..."
"..."
Barney is like a chatterbox.
I followed Sam and said many, many things.
These words are very exciting, as if a frustrated person has found an outlet, or like a lonely ship drifting on the ocean and has found a port to anchor.
After Barney left, another actor came out.
That actor's name is Kane...
When Barney came out, he was like a chatterbox, but when Kane came out, he was very silent. Sam came up to ask questions, but Kane kept silent and left.
Looking at Kane's leaving figure, Sam was a little confused...
Not long after, Sam was called into the office.
When Sam walked into the office, he saw a lot of movie CDs at first sight.
After seeing the movie CD, Sam's eyes widened and he had some ridiculous thoughts in his mind.
Has he watched all these movies?
Then he sat down.
When he sat down, Zhou Yang started chatting with him. They talked about things in the newspaper office. Zhou Yang seemed to be very curious about the newspaper office and asked many things about New York.
When he was drunk before, Sam felt that Zhou Yang seemed to be an ordinary director, nothing remarkable. But when he met Zhou Yang again today, he found that this Chinese director seemed to have a certain unique aura, which made Sam feel
Very comfortable.
Although he was asking, he didn't seem to be exploring anything, let alone any secrets. He was just asking about the current situation of the newspaper and how the editor-in-chief was doing...
Sam unconsciously started talking and talked about some things from his days in the newspaper office.
The chat this time was very pleasant, like an old friend whom I have known for many years.
After chatting for nearly an hour, he saw Zhou Yang actually handing him a $50,000 contract.
He was shocked when he saw the contract and suddenly felt a little embarrassed and felt inexplicably guilty.
Finally, he looked at Zhou Yang's sincere eyes and told the truth: "Actually, I made up a lie. I am the boss of the newspaper, but I am a loser. I have never succeeded. At that time, I and I
The scene you mentioned was something I boasted based on the template of my previous boss..."
"You didn't fail...your Daily News was just bad luck..."
"..."
When Zhou Yang talked to Sam again about the newspaper he once founded, Sam suddenly realized that Zhou Yang had not only watched the movies in which these actors had participated, but also knew clearly about his entrepreneurial experience.
He was horrified at first, but then gradually became embarrassed during Zhou Yang's chat.
Finally, for some reason, he found a sense of identity. He was obviously many years older than Zhou Yang, but his nose couldn't help but feel a little sour.
He seems to understand the hardships he has endured over the years, and seems to be completely different from the directors he has seen before.
"Even so, are you still willing to invest in me?"
"Yes, I will choose you as an actor this time. Maybe next time, I will invest in a newspaper and let you be the boss of the newspaper..."
"..."
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Xu Mei watched people coming in and leaving one after another.
My heart is very complicated.
In the past few days, Zhou Yang collected information on these people very comprehensively, and even stayed up late every day to watch the movies that each actor had filmed.
This is completely unnecessary, and Xu Mei also learned when collecting information that these people make third-rate bad movies, the kind that make people want to vomit...
What's outrageous is that, except for those drug addicts, Zhou Yang brought almost all of them to the office and signed a pretty good contract for them all.
But what made Xu Mei feel even more outrageous was that in the evening, Zhou Yang went to the nearby high school and randomly picked up a good-looking American girl with long legs, and actually announced that this girl was the star of "Spider-Man"
Heroine!
Then, the next day.
In this extremely inexplicable operation, "Spider-Man" was announced to be launched!