Chapter 4: Towards the Future(1/2)
Open the first page of [The First Step to Becoming a Actor Award].
The first page says time.
It was three years ago, 2229.
Turning to the second page, content began to appear.
Director Zhou looked over with curiosity.
[The movie #"One-Armed Knight 2" is simply trash. The character's motives are unknown. The hero's expressions are switched back and forth throughout the whole process; the heroine kisses like gnawing pig's trotter, with a hideous face; the male supporting actor is said to be a head-catcher, but it is better to say that he is a Caihua Thief; the female supporting actor...]
[Interview# After listening to XXX's interview, I was so eager to vomit. The host asked him how he felt his acting skills, and he was embarrassed to say that he was expected to win the Best Actor. Didn't anyone slap him and let him wake up? His proud performance was just a low-end version of XX, which was convincing in the context of ancient costumes. In modern times, this kind of acting style is just a way to turn around and not be enterprising...]
"Uh..." The content caught off guard was like a horse suddenly stepped into the lawn. Director Zhou immediately covered the camera lens beside him, "Grass, don't shoot, don't shoot first."
If these things are released, even if the ratings of the show rise, they will probably be scolded. Seasonal broadcasts that eat traffic may be able to take this path. But their "Tonight" is planned to be streamlined and it is really not suitable for this.
Guan Chen, who looked wild, didn't expect the things he wrote were so sharp and tricky. Director Zhou looked at the book with lingering fear, and then looked at Guan Chen, who was wrapping a screwdriver in a newspaper behind him.
"Don't take photos casually." Guan Chen put down the screwdriver wrapped in the newspaper.
"Don't worry, I have a question." Director Zhou put the [Step 1] notes, took out the [Step 2], and told the camera not to lift it up first.
As a result, the intensity of the second note was also high.
[Book # Can you publish a book at this level? If you want to make money, you can get some works. The experience in it is almost copied by Teacher Wang's description in "The Poetry of the Body". The only thing worthy of praise is that a few short stories are well compiled, enough to be published in the chicken soup section of "Confidant"...]
[Thoughts #I didn't watch movies today, nor did I read books. I saw a few news yesterday and wanted to encourage them to work hard. I hope they will work together to destroy Huaxia Film and Television. When the theaters are full of traffic like Wang Qingjun, let's just eat shit together...]
Go back a few pages to see other things. The content is similar, either criticizing a certain movie or mocking an actor.
Although each of the notes clearly points out the shortcomings of a certain movie or an actor, every sentence is targeted and accurately criticized, the arrogance in it cannot be covered up, and it cannot stand everything and is so vicious that even if something is reasonable, it is disgusting by such a cynical attitude, and good words can turn into bad words.
Director Zhou closed the [Second Step 2] notebook, and he didn't have to read the other books, and he could guess that it must be full of hostility and murderous aura. "If you only write such content, no matter how many steps you take, you can't become a movie emperor..."
"What are you talking about?" Guan Chen suddenly came over.
Director Zhou had a lot of things to say in his heart, but he couldn't say it in front of Guan Chen, so he could only hand over the notebook in his hand and complain with his eyes.
Guan Chen took the notes and turned to a certain page at will. He immediately laughed and clamored, "Hahaha, I'm so interesting!" He was not worried at all that the fans of the mentioned movies and actors would tear him away after the content of the notes were released.
[You will be interested if you say such words.]
Director Zhou looked at Guan Chen in front of him and recalled the nearly half hour they had been together. Guan Chen was generous and not pretentious or shy. Not only did he not feel inferior because of the surrounding environment, but he had a kind of heroic spirit like a big brother. He communicated happily, and at the same time he was delicate and not too heartless. He had read so many books, but he was not in a hurry to show off his knowledge and express himself. If he didn't ask, he would probably be like an ordinary person and would not say that he graduated from a prestigious university. Even though he was an unsuccessful actor, after hearing an interview from the TV station, he did not post it flatteringly to get any exposure opportunities. Even if he was given a chance to promote himself, he would not want it.
If the notes were not found, I wouldn't have known that he had such a sharp and mean side.
The two images inside and outside the notes are so contradictory. They look like two people.
"It's like two people." Director Zhou sighed without any concealment.
For Director Zhou, it was just a sigh, but for Guan Chen, it was an antivirus prompt.
【There are loopholes!】
Guan Chen put down his notebook and reflected on himself. Now is not the time to read the collection of Tucao.
He acts in a different style from his predecessor, and strangers will only have a small amount of suspicion, but people who are close to their predecessor will definitely feel strange.
Guan Chen is not worried about being caught and sliced after the matter is exposed. When relatives and friends feel strange, he can only move to another city to live. But moving requires money, and he has no money now.
So before he saves enough money to [abandon old social relations and welcomes life in the new world], the loopholes cannot break out. His style of conduct was different from his predecessors, and there must be a reasonable explanation.
"That's right." Guan Chen interrupted Director Zhou's imagination and lowered his head and pulled out a plastic bag from the ground.
Director Zhou saw blue handwriting printed on the white plastic bag: The Tenth People's Hospital of the Magic City.
"Seven days ago, I encountered a fire and was discharged from the hospital yesterday. The doctor said I was lucky and almost became a vegetative person and couldn't wake up." Guan Chen's tone slowed down: "During the coma, I had a dream, dreamed of many things, and dreamed of many people. These included some people I hate very much, and things I have always been unhappy with."
Although it was a bit sudden, Guan Chen's sudden confession still surprised Director Zhou. He quickly asked the guy to set up the camera and start working again.
Guan Chen instinctively adjusted the angle of his sitting position so that his face could be more photogenic: "I am not a major in acting in college, but after graduation, I suddenly wanted to try acting and be an actor. I lived here for three years and usually rely on odd jobs to maintain it. The rest of my time is buying books, writing things, and learning performances. I think I am very good and I don't like anything I see. So I have almost no friends now. Maybe no one will attend my funeral even if I die.
When people are about to die, there is no flash of the passing clouds and smoke. When I lay on the bed thinking about what I have, I find that I have nothing but hatred."
Self-reflection is not any kind of performance. It is the narrator poking his lung tube and dissecting his heart layer by layer as an onion. As Guan Chen said, he wanted to die of his lonely death in his previous life.
Director Zhou and the cameraman listened quietly.
After Guan Chen was silent for a moment, the topic suddenly changed, his eyes as bright as two newly polished knives: "I am lucky, I have saved my life and woke up after being unconscious for three days without any sequelae. After being discharged from the hospital, I thought about doing something different from before. For example, I want to make friends and make many friends. I want to leave this small house and go to other places."
After hearing Guan Chen's words, Director Zhou and the cameraman could understand the reasons for the huge changes in Guan Chen's past and afterwards.
This is probably because of the disaster, and there will be a blessing in the future. Director Zhou was happy for Guan Chen and felt that Guan Chen had a good mentality now. Guan Chen, who was cynical, gloomy and vicious in the past, would be good to let him stay in the past.
"Ah, wait, the fire seven days ago?" Director Zhou suddenly thought of something and asked Guan Chen anxiously: "Where did you encounter the fire?"
Guan Chen thought for a while: "The doctor told me that it was [Anping Apartment]."
"Anping Apartment!" The director clapped his hands with excitement. He knew the fire.
Seven days ago, I heard from a friend of the news department in Taiwan that a fire broke out in Anping Apartment, which was quite large. Because the fire broke out late at night, it burned and suffocated many people. But there was a young man who ran in and out before the fire truck arrived and rescued many people. Unfortunately, the enthusiastic young man must have lost his energy in the end. After rushing in for the last time, he did not come out for a long time. When the firefighters rescued him, the young man was already in a coma. It is said that the situation was very bad. He sucked a lot of poison gas. Even if he woke up, he might become a vegetative due to brain damage.
"You are the one who saved a lot of people?" Director Zhou looked at Guan Chen in shock.
Guan Chen nodded: "Yes."
Director Zhou took a deep breath and knew that this trip had gained a lot tonight.
He excitedly asked Guan Chen a few questions, such as "Why did he rush into the fire to save people?", "What is his mood when he is surrounded by the fire?"...
Guan Chen's answer was ordinary but great, "Actually, I don't remember what I thought at that time. It can be said that it was an instinctive reaction of the body." "In the mood, I would be very anxious at first, thinking about how I could die here. Later, I found that I couldn't change the result of death, so I thought, it turned out that death was like this."...
After listening to the fire accident, Director Zhou recalled Guan Chen, who had a strong contrast between inside and outside the notes, the dirty environment and neat bookcase, and some thoughts formed in his mind.
The content of the programs I made before always makes people feel "slightly" in terms of content. Now he knows a little bit what the difference is.
In the past, he went to passers-by to take pictures of materials, furniture, decorations, and tried to use the furnishings of the house as keys to unlock the character code of the owner.
Now Guan Chen proved that, in turn, he took the interviewees as the theme and used the story of the person as the key to unlock the password of the house.
Before encountering something, your life may be like this or that, but something that is either dull or unexpected happens suddenly, and your life changes from then on. The surrounding environment is the embodiment of personality, not the cause of personality.
Through this interview, Director Zhou felt that he had a different understanding of his work.
[I want to become an actor to experience life but encounter setbacks and become an isolated sect. One day I became an unknown hero, saved several people from a fire, and finally woke up after experiencing life and death, and gained a broader life.]
Director Zhou instantly titled the content that was filmed today. It was almost a standard inspirational movie with high intentions and high plots.
It was already two o'clock in the morning, but Director Zhou was not sleepy at all. Now he just wanted to cut out the materials for tonight as soon as possible. In addition, he also called the main creators to adjust the focus of the shooting after the program.
Director Zhou did not forget to buy books to support Guan Chen. After buying three books for 200 yuan, he said goodbye to Guan Chen with satisfaction with his full gains.
...
Guan Chen shot the money left by the director to buy books, but he was still not used to the appearance of the banknotes. He looked like fake banknotes, and he might be thrown away as waste paper at any time.
After sighing, Guan Chen carefully collected the money. He looked at the messy house and began to clean up.
Today's harvest is quite satisfactory. After selling three books, Guan Chen felt that he was one step closer to his goal.
And a loophole was also made up.
Guan Chen didn't know what the interpersonal relationships of his predecessors were, nor did he know if the other party would think he was different. He didn't plan to live like the ghost of his predecessors, so he used this interview to fix the statement "I have experienced a fire and have taken my life lightly from now on" and should be able to fool his predecessors' relatives and friends.
But it is not absolute. If the predecessor had troubles in interpersonal relationships and complicated family components, he would have to move in another family or change the city to live once and for all.
So he needs money. Moving requires money, and living in a city requires even more money. If he has no money, he can only sit and wait for death and can't do anything. Even collecting information about the world is difficult.
The predecessor did not buy a TV or a computer, and the mobile phone was lost at the scene of the fire, leaving Guan Chen with a window to understand the world, only the books full of books. He could not read books, so he could only exchange money to go to the Internet cafe, read animation, comics, movies, and have fun.
With such a plan, saving money to buy a computer is the most cost-effective.
Alas, there are so many things to buy.
Guan Chen sighed, but in fact he was not very anxious. Being able to plan the [future] leisurely is already a kind of happiness for him.
After putting Director Zhou’s business card into the drawer, Guan Chen began to clean up the room.
The process of tidying up the room is also a process for Guan Chen to understand some details about his predecessor. For example, from the invoice to understand where the predecessor often appears, you should be careful in which places you pass through in the future; those who have appeared in the graduation photo should remember to avoid it when you see it in the future; in the classmate’s record, you should be careful of who the predecessor has a good relationship with and who is a potential unexpected visitor, beware of...
As he was tidying up, Guan Chen was sweating profusely and his arms were sore.
This picture is still too weak. While Guan Chen was determined to exercise his body quickly, he complained that if it weren't for the fact that this picture is more handsome than the previous life and taller than the previous life, he would have been ruthlessly deleting the account and starting again.
[Eating meat is also costing money.] Guan Chen wrote down in his mind that there was another place that needed money.
Guan Chen rested and stopped, cleaned up the house, and then it was the entrance hall.
There are many shoes in the entrance hall, and there are more letters scattered on the ground. Most of these letters are advertisements and flyers, and Guan Chen stuffed them into the garbage bag.
As he picked it up, Guan Chen seemed to have caught a different letter and picked it up.
This different letter was sent last week. The recipient's information outside was written in hand and the handwriting was like a dog crawling.
Take it apart and take out a piece of paper, and the contents are printed:
【Dear Guan Chen
Your registration in "Xing Yan Performance Training Class" has been successful
Amount of charge: 12,600 Huaxia coins
Class starts at 7 pm on November 12th, and the address is No. XX Road, XX District
To be continued...