Hollywood Road

The greatest talent of human beings is the right to chase dreams, but before chasing dreams, you must fill your stomach first. If you can't even do the most basic survival, everything else is just an illusion.

He has been in this world for more than a year, and he spends almost all of his time in prison. The hardships involved can make Murphy understand a lot of truth. Before his Hollywood dream can be realized, he must first find a job that can support him. own work.

Although the body's ex was a douchebag, it also left some useful things behind, like this small apartment.

The apartment is located in a Latin community. Like most houses in downtown Los Angeles, it is a low-rise, very old building. The security situation here is worrying. There are many idle people living around, some similar to Ross. The guy who also haunts the community from time to time.

Maybe it's lucky enough, or maybe it's just too shabby and remote, this 'aunt' apartment hasn't been visited by thieves this year, the furniture and work that the idiot Murphy has always despised left here. The equipment is still alive, which really gave him a small surprise.

After finding the apartment based on his memory, Murphy carried out a thorough cleaning, and then took stock of what he now had at his disposal.

First of all, this is the house that he can live in temporarily. The United States is generally measured in English. According to Murphy's standard, the area of ​​the house is not small, about 50 square meters, excluding the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room In the room integrated with the balcony, there is also a small studio, which is the studio of the former freelance journalist.

Since the house under his name was forcibly confiscated as a fine and compensation, for a long time in the future, Murphy confirmed that he could only live here.

The furnishings in the house are very simple. Obviously, the Stanton family was just an ordinary member of the slum. The aunt who went to England left behind basic appliances such as old-fashioned color TVs, refrigerators and washing machines. The furniture is also simple. Two Chairs, a peeled-paint dining table and a washed whitish cloth sofa, and a foldable single bed.

In one day, Murphy returned from the state prison to downtown Los Angeles and cleaned the room again. His stomach was growling with hunger. He took out the only money and counted it carefully, two hundred and forty-three dollars.

Taking out a ten dollar bill and stuffing the other money into his close pocket, Murphy went out of the room and went to a nearby burger joint to buy a burger set for his own dinner.

Although the sky is dark and the security situation here is not good, Murphy has not encountered any bloody robbery. As he thinks about it, perhaps this strong body played a role. After all, he has experienced so much in prison. The whole person's temperament looks a bit fierce.

With dinner costing just five dollars, Murphy now has no source of income and must plan how every penny goes.

After passing the stairs that were far more dilapidated and messy than the room, with the strange eyes of the two black men, Murphy returned to his room, locked the door, and turned on the TV, but there was no program. It should have been unpaid for a long time. Being forced to cut off the signal, I had to turn off the TV and enjoy my dinner quietly.

Chewing the hamburger inexplicably in his mouth, Murphy's head kept turning, thinking about how he would make a living next.

stock market? Not to mention that he doesn't even have any capital, it's June 2000, and the stock market crash caused by Nasdaq is in full swing, and he used to be just a poor student at the end-of-the-line film school, and he didn't know anything about the operation of stocks...

invest? Who has no money to invest in? He still wants people to invest in him...

Swallowing the food in his mouth, and leaving the remaining half of the hamburger on the painted dining table, Murphy leaned back on the chair, propped up his head with one hand, and mobilized all brain cells to think of ways to quickly make a fortune.

Of course, it's not advisable to continue the ******* and illegal gun business as Ross did.

After much deliberation, Murphy returned to what he was best at, which was the work related to the film industry. Although he was only a student with little practical experience, he also analyzed countless classic Hollywood movies and scripts during his studies, and also Heard a lot of popular movie songs.

After changing to a more comfortable sitting position, Murphy first denied the song. Hearing it and writing a song are completely different. Let someone like him who has not received any professional study write songs and kill him. not.

Such unreliable thoughts will only make him starve to death...

The rest are movies and scripts. The film academy he attended is really not good, and the most basic teaching is still guaranteed. Moreover, he is also a relatively hard-working student. Time has also researched a lot of movies that I am interested in.

In an instant, an idea came to Murphy's head. He wrote a script for a future classic film and mailed it to major Hollywood companies. The relevant executives of the six major Hollywood companies flocked like travelers who saw water in the desert. Think of him as a super genius, and since then Murphy Stanton has embarked on a glorious avenue of money, power and beauty in Hollywood.

"Isn't the suffering this year not enough?" Murphy suddenly laughed and whispered in a self-deprecating tone, "You're not that naive student anymore. Don't have such low-level and stupid ideas again, okay?"

Even as an outsider, Murphy knows that Hollywood has never lacked scripts, let alone the current six major companies, even the second-tier film companies, the script library does not know how many scripts are lying there waiting to be covered with dust. .

For many non-adapted films in the future, the script has been lying in the script library of major companies for many years...

Murphy remembers very clearly that some of the scripts on the Hollywood script blacklist appeared as early as the 1980s and 1990s.

The chances of a newcomer’s script being picked by the film company are infinitely low, but this is a way to go. Even if the chances are outrageously low, there is always hope. Murphy intends to give it a try if he can find a job with a stable income. , just take a chance.

Thinking of this, Murphy stood up and walked to the window, looked through the window at the starry sky in the distance, then sighed, gave up those unrealistic thoughts, and turned to the most realistic things. It is to first find a job with legal income and solve their own livelihood problems.

It's his own right to chase his dreams, and Murphy can survive the frenzied, desperate life in prison, and even do some handyman work for it.

Of course, Murphy also has an option, and that is to continue doing the work of his predecessor.

He walked into the studio of his predecessor, which was also cleaned by him. There was no more dust on the simple workbench, wooden chairs and the back shelf, and a notebook was neatly placed on it. , a Canon camcorder and a vehicle-mounted Los Angeles police receiver.

These are the work gear of the predecessor.

Sitting in front of the workbench, Murphy opened his notebook and found some news videos shot by his ex. It is not difficult to find from the videos that the guy used to shoot videos of social and current affairs, such as car accidents, fires and robbery, etc. It was only after the temptation of a huge reward that he foolishly went to film Somer Redstone's personal privacy.

Not only the video, but also how to use the police receiver, the police code of the Los Angeles police, and the contact information of the news director of several Los Angeles local TV stations.

The other party's previous work was not complicated. Basically, he appeared in the streets and alleys of Los Angeles, rushing to take some news pictures of public concern, and then selling them to interested TV stations.

However, Murphy doesn't plan to continue working like this and is just interested in the devices, which can be exchanged for money to keep him alive after all.

Although giving up those stupid ideas, Murphy still has some plans. This is Hollywood, and there are countless people working in film-related jobs, which is also his first choice for finding a job.

First engage in work related to the film industry, even if it is the lowest level of chores, you can not only accumulate experience, but also look for opportunities...

In fact, all the film circles in the world are the same. Countless talented people have invested in it, but very few are successful. In many cases, opportunity is more important than talent.

As the night got darker, Ross called and asked Murphy what else he needed. Now the situation is better than others, Murphy couldn't care about other things, and bluntly said that he wanted to borrow a car temporarily so that he could go out to find a suitable job.

Early the next morning, a young black man delivered a fairly new Chevrolet to the three-way intersection. Ross was very careful, the car was obviously filled with new gas, and Murphy parked the car in an alley on the side of the apartment building. I bought breakfast and several newspapers, went back upstairs, and read the recruitment section of the newspaper while eating, trying to see if there was a suitable type for me.

With his current conditions, the requirements are really low, as long as he is engaged in the film-related industry and can settle the remuneration in time.

This is Los Angeles, where Hollywood is located. There are thousands of large and small film and television production companies and studios. Several crews start working every day, and similar job opportunities still exist.

After flipping through two newspapers, Murphy transcribed several interesting information one by one, and called him later. When I flipped through the last newspaper, a job advertisement that took up a lot of space appeared in In front of him, his eyes lit up instantly.

This huge crew has just started preparations, and it is openly recruiting artists, costumes, painters, assistants and many other staff members, and the name of this project is - "The Matrix"!

After just a few lines, Murphy understood that this was a job ad for the two-part sequel to the Wachowskis' "The Matrix," and it was a great opportunity.

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