Chapter 1803: 18.03 Thousands Gather

The heat wave in the midsummer of 1997 swept through, and "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" was staged shockingly, unveiling the grand curtain of this year's summer file in a mighty manner. At the box office, it strongly broke the historical record of 80 million US dollars in the three-day weekend created by last year's "Independence Day"!

Although it failed to break the box office data of 116 million U.S. dollars in the first four days of the premiere of "Independence Day", it was a pity that it did not become the second work in film history with a box office of over 100 million in a single week, but "Jurassic Park 2: "The Lost World" still created a new high in the opening weekend box office, which also followed the strong momentum of last year's "Independence Day", and truly set the tone of the blockbuster era.

"Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" has achieved such outstanding results, and the whole Hollywood is full of joy. Two "Independence Day" works that swept thousands of troops.

In the midst of this boiling heat, the streets of Los Angeles once again ushered in a grand occasion full of voices.

Hugo heads down in his new silver Jaguar E-Type lightweight retro convertible. The direction of the city is moving forward, but the distance is too low. There are still six streets in the city, and traffic control has already begun. This made Hugo frowned.

Today is the day when "L.A. Confidential" will be launched, and they have chosen the following location for the launch. The area past the poor street in the city, the old police in the 1950s. The police station is there, and it is still used as the Los Angeles branch, but the police force is not so concentrated. The crew had applied for the right to close the streets for filming half a month ago, but if Hugo remembered correctly, they only applied for the closure of three streets. So what's going on with the congestion in front of you?

Hugo slowly parked the car in front of the traffic light, looked around, the traffic was still running around here, but for some reason it was moving very slowly. Could it be that something happened because of the closure of the street? Although David-L-Wolper was in charge of the street closure, Hugo was unavoidably a little anxious-feeling the pressure of being a producer for the first time.

"Huh", a loud whistle came from the right side, turned his head, and saw a young man driving a Shelby Mustang GT500 classic retro car, with a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, and pulled down the sunglasses at this time La, looked at Hugo's car carefully, and whistled again. Then Hugo's eyes met his. He didn't say anything, but just gave a thumbs up to express his admiration.

Hugo couldn't help laughing, and the irritability just now eased a little. At this time, the traffic policeman who was keeping the crowd walking across the crosswalk in front of him came over. Hugo raised his right hand, wanting to ask about the road conditions ahead, but instead of the traffic policeman, he looked at the silver streamlined body first, and then joked with a smile on his face to, "Sir, what a pretty lady."

"I know, that's why I chose her." Hugo responded with a smile.

This Jaguar retro sports car is the most classic sports car from the 1960s to the early 1970s, and it has always been the sales champion of the sports car list for more than ten years. Although many competitors appeared later, the E-Type has always been a classic among the classics. The retro car that Hugo bought is the third series of E-Type, and it is also the rarest variety on the market. It can be said that it is a sports car with a price but no market.

Hugo took advantage of the situation and pointed to the car formation ahead like a snail, "What's the matter in front, your colleague has already been seen in the two streets behind."

The young traffic policeman raised his head and explained with a smile, "Today, a production team closed the street..." Then the traffic policeman saw Hugo who had taken off his sunglasses in front of him, and his eyes immediately became round, "Jesus Christ, what a hell! Already!" Then the traffic policeman realized that he had sweared, and giggled twice, "Sorry, Hugo. Oh, no, Mr. Lancaster."

Hugo smiled and waved his hands, indicating that he was fine, and then pointed to the traffic jam in front of him, and then the traffic policeman realized, "Yes, today is because..." The traffic policeman looked at Hugo, and suddenly realized, "Because your new work is going to be filmed. , The street was closed. However, there are too many people who come here to watch the excitement, and they have blocked the two nearby streets. Now the traffic has been completely paralyzed, so we have to come to help. You know, this area Law and order is always prone to problems."

Down. Because there are many ethnic minorities living in this part of the city, especially black Africans, the law and order is indeed relatively poor.

But Hugo couldn't help rubbing his temples. This was his first day as a producer, and he encountered a problem. When he was an actor before, these problems could be left to other people to deal with, but now he also needs to start facing troubles. Hugo took a deep breath, "Can I drive to a closed street?"

The traffic policeman shook his head in embarrassment, "This street has been completely blocked in the past, I still suggest you go around to the back street, find a place to park, and then walk over faster. But the parking lots near here are relatively... ..." The traffic policeman smiled wryly, but Hugo knew that the part he didn't say was that it was easier to lose a car, especially a retro car like Hugo. He probably turned around and left, and it was stolen immediately. "If you want, you can go a little further back..."

Hugo waved his hand and interrupted the traffic policeman, "It's okay, I know a place to park." Al's bar is two streets behind, and Hugo is not sure about the others, but he knows that Green Hill must be trustworthy . "But thank you for your help."

"No, it's my honor." The traffic policeman rubbed his hands nervously, then hesitated, "Mr. Lancaster, I really like your movies, I wonder if you can sign me one ?”

"Of course there is no problem." Hugo laughed, and planned to rummage in the drawer next to him to see if there was a pen, but at this moment, Hugo found that the red light had turned into a yellow light. Looking back at the long queue behind him, Hugo smiled awkwardly at the traffic policeman in front of him. The traffic policeman immediately realized the problem and took a half step back, "It's okay, it's okay."

Having said that, the traffic policeman still couldn't hide his annoyance and disappointment on his face. Hugo thought for a while, "I'm sorry, but if you don't mind trouble after your shift is over, you can go to the crew and find a man named Joseph Gibbs. I think he can help you a little." After finishing speaking, Hugo didn't have time to explain further, because the yellow light had turned into a green light, and the cars in the next lane had already set off, so he could only spread his right hand regretfully, "I'm really sorry."

The traffic policeman waved his hands again and again, with a smile on his face, signaling Hugo to leave quickly, and then he watched Hugo drive away, then he clenched his fists into his waist and shouted "Yeah!" But it still didn't feel good , shouted two times in succession, and then picked up the walkie-talkie on his left shoulder, "Call, call, guess who had a friendly conversation with Hugo Lancaster just now?" The proud expression could hardly be concealed .

Hugo naturally didn't know that just one kindness from him could make some people feel happy all day. After driving forward, the speed of the car slowed down quickly. Hugo was stuck here for a quarter of an hour on a street less than 300 yards away. Finally, he turned into another street, which was better. . After arriving at Al's Bar, Hugo skillfully parked the car in the open space in front of the warehouse at the back, which is a parking lot specially reserved for those underground bands who come to practice.

Hugo went into Al's Bar specifically to say hello, but unexpectedly excited the sporadic guests in the bar—it was only 9:30 in the morning. Hugo greeted briefly, then turned and left, heading towards the downtown police. The direction of the police station went over.

Along the way, the main street has been blocked by vehicles, and there are also a steady stream of people rushing in the same direction in the pedestrian street areas on both sides. Almost everyone has similar excitement on their faces, The discourse of discussion is also similar, keywords such as "Hugo", "work", "Theron, Spacey, Lancaster" are endless. This made Hugo help his sunglasses slightly, trying to pretend to be calm.

Although Hugo has now overcome the phobia of the crowd, to be honest, the feeling of being blocked by the crowd is really uncomfortable, and it is also prone to accidents. Therefore, Hugo still tried to keep a low profile. I didn't pretend to be deliberately, I just didn't want to be too conspicuous, I tried my best to blend myself into the crowd, and calmly deal with it, but it was not easy to be discovered.

Although today is the opening ceremony, Hugo did not dress up, a white round neck T-shirt with black jeans, a pair of black cowboy boots on his feet, a leather bracelet on his right wrist, and a pair of sunglasses at the end. There is nothing special about it.

However, unknowingly, people's eyes began to gather towards Hugo, one or two, more and more, and even heard "Is that so", "Isn't it", "Is it really?" There are so many discussions like that. Faced with such a situation, Hugo could only pretend to be calm, and always pretended that the other party was not talking about him. He even took the initiative to look at a woman who was boldly looking directly at him, raised his eyebrows, and seemed to express his doubts, "What do you have?" Is something wrong?" Such a calm gesture really dispelled the other party's doubts.

But Hugo also knows that this is not a long-term solution, it can only be as big as possible. However, when he turned into the closed main street, Hugo’s footsteps stopped involuntarily—not because he didn’t want to move forward, but because he couldn’t move forward at all:

The mighty crowd in front of me filled the entire street, there was hardly any space, and even the uniformed personnel maintaining order were completely submerged, not only one street, but the three streets around as far as the eye could see were completely surrounded It got stuck, and a truck carrying props got stuck on the main street, moving slowly at a snail's pace.

Hugo strongly suspected that even the snail was faster than the wagon.