Chapter 5 005 A New Beginning

Look out the window at palm trees and old record stores receding, colorful billboards gleaming in the sun, and posters for the movie "Wayne's. World" that bring 90s Hollywood to life The ground is presented in the sight, and the houses dyed golden yellow by the rising sun on the Sunset Boulevard (Sunset. Strip) beautifully constitute a beautiful picture in the sight, this boulevard that stretches from the city center to Hollywood The easiest way to tell Hugo: This is Los Angeles, a city that has attracted the attention of the world because of movies and music.

Hugo took a deep breath, and reluctantly took his eyes back from the beautiful scenery and landed on the script between his knees. He didn't have enough energy to read the script last night, and in his memory There are no fragments of the script, so he had to squeeze the limited time to complete the work. Otherwise, today's audition interview is estimated to be smashed.

Hugo hadn't seen the movie "Love in the Big River" before, but had only heard of its title. After Hugo decided to become an actor, he did not have enough funds to receive professional acting training, so he chose to watch classic movies to learn acting skills. Before crossing, Hugo had watched nearly a thousand movies. It's a little bit of my own experience.

In fact, Hugo once wanted to watch "Love in the River", but then watched "Legends. Of. The. Fall" with a similar theme but a better idea. Both films are picturesque nostalgic work, and Brad - Pitt (Brad. Pitt) has starred in both films, giving a wonderful performance. It can be said that Brad - Pitt relied on these two films to achieve a career breakthrough.

"River Love" tells the story of the Lefrent McCallion family, a pastor by the River Troit, Montana, before a war. The whole story is calm, there are not too many ups and downs, and it is more like a river flowing quietly, naturally and smoothly, integrating family, love and friendship into the beautiful nature and quietly infiltrating every picture. Like a flowing oil painting, it is also like a moving lyrical prose, heartbreakingly beautiful.

There are two main male characters in the story, the two children of the McCallion family, the eldest son Norman and the younger son Paul. Joseph told Hugo yesterday that he was auditioning for the role of first male lead Paul. Paul is the youngest son in the family. He is free, uninhibited, unrestrained, and alive. It is like a short-lived flower that accumulates infinite power and blooms in its most beautiful appearance in a short period of time, and then quickly withers.

Hugo can understand why Joseph found the role of Paul for himself, or the role of Paul found him. Hugo's appearance has such a free and easy temperament vaguely, although it does not completely fit the role. , but the melancholy classical temperament between the eyebrows can indeed add a lot of points. Therefore, Hugo's role as Paul can barely be regarded as a true performance.

After the fiasco of "The Eagles of the Hudson", it's definitely a safe bet to play a role like this. In addition, although the investment of "Big River Love" is less than 10 million, it is an absolutely small-cost independent production, but the reputation of director Robert Redford is enough to attract people.

As an actor, Robert Redford has appeared in "Out. Of. Africa", "The. Sting", "Butch. Cassidy. And. The. Sundance. Kid" )" and other works; as a director, his debut "Ordinary. People" won him the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture; and he also founded the world's most influential independent film exhibition" The Sundance Film Festival (Sundance. Institute)" can definitely be said to be the most influential top presence in Hollywood.

"Love in the Big River" is Robert Rayford's third directorial work after "Ordinary People" and "The. Milagro. Beanfield. War", and there are absolutely a lot of actors who want to play. Joseph won the audition for Hugo, and with the role of Paul, you could see he should be a great agent.

But in Hugo's view, playing Paul is not necessarily a true performance, because his uninhibited and unrestrained temperament is actually not obvious, and after the body's soul has changed, this temperament has changed even more. Therefore, in order to win the role of Paul, Hugo must show real strength, and Hugo has no absolute confidence in this.

After all, before time-travel, although Hugo had experience in acting, he was always just a role model and supporting role, and all his acting skills were only on paper. Now, after raising troops for thousands of days and using them for a while, Hugo deeply knew that the opportunity was already in front of him, and whether he could seize it depends on his own efforts. Therefore, Hugo was reading the script very seriously, and thinking about how he should play this role in his mind, he didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Joseph drove the car at a constant speed, bumping all the way to the Four. Seasons Hotel (Four. Seasons) at the intersection of Wilshire Avenue and Rodeo Avenue. Looking at Hugo sitting in the passenger seat reading the script carefully, he felt a little surprised.

Joseph took over Hugo's agent job from Ron. Meyer last year. Since Joseph is still a novice, everything is still just getting started, so he has very limited control over Hugo's situation. Joseph did not think Hugo was necessary to attend the Raspberry Awards this time, but Hugo asked Lang for his opinion, and finally listened to Lang's opinion. In the past less than a year, Joseph has seen all kinds of ugly Hugo, completely the male version of Drew - Barrymore (Drew. Barrymore).

Drew Barrymore, who was born in the famous Hollywood entertainment family Barrymore family, starred in "Alien E.T (E.T)", "Firestarter", "Stage (Irreconcilable. Differences)" and his career reached At the peak, the rapid rise to fame made Drew Barrymore, who was only nine years old, completely lost himself, drinking, smoking, and being big. Hemp can come again. Card. Because of, alcoholism, nightlife, directly into the bottom.

The same is true for Hugo Lancaster, who rose to prominence in 1989 with the role of student Neil Perry in the film "Dead. Poets. Society", which won four major Oscar nominations. The attention of the filmmakers, and then the career reached a small peak, first with Anthony Hopkins (Anthony. Hopkins), Mimi-Rogers (Mimi. Rogers) starred in Michael. Cimino (Michael. Cimino) Big Game Produced "Desperate. Hours"; followed by starred in the 40 million blockbuster movie "The. Adventures. Of. Ford. Fairlane", which made him one of the most high-profile actors in Hollywood Lines, lights, flowers, praise blowing.

But unfortunately, "Deadly Moment" failed miserably in both box office and word of mouth. This work won Hugo the first nomination for the worst actor in the golden raspberry; That's where the bad supporting actor nominations came from, which brought Hugo's budding actor career to a crawl.

After Joseph took over Hugo's agent job, he saw Hugo immersed in alcohol and drugs all day long. In the world of luxury, not even a serious car accident after drinking alcohol could make Hugo sober. After the "Hudson's Eagle", it can be seen that Hollywood studios still have hopes for Hugo, but unfortunately this work still fails.

However, after experiencing the struggle on the edge of life and death last night, Hugo seemed to have undergone a reborn change. Joseph couldn't say why, but he could feel that Hugo was different. It was as if Hugo was reading the script at the moment. Hugo must have read the script before, but today Joseph could feel Hugo's serious devotion at this moment, which he had never seen before; and It's just... that Hugo's impetuous temperament seems to be precipitating, and the sensual aura is gradually dissipating in those eyes.

Is this a good thing? Joseph is a little uncertain. He has not had many good memories of being Hugo's agent for nearly a year, but he is now a fledgling new agent and must be trained a little bit. Ron Mayer was willing to hand Hugo over to Joseph, just in the name of "training new people" - it is estimated that Lang is not optimistic about Hugo's prospects and that is the fundamental reason. In any case, Joseph still hopes that Hugo's work will improve.

However, remember this morning's "Los. Angeles. Times" news headline, "Breaking tears to receive the Golden Raspberry Award, 'Thanks, Dreams Come True' - Hugo Lancaster". Joseph couldn't help but lamented, smashed three movies in a row, and made such a big embarrassment at the Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony. Now Hugo's situation couldn't be worse.

"Here, get off." While thinking, he had already reached his destination, and Joseph woke Hugo who was reading the script. Hugo turned his head and saw that the retro sign of the Four Seasons Hotel was outlined by the sunlight with a shallow golden border, which was wonderful and dazzling.

The parking boy at the entrance of the hotel quickly ran over and opened the door for Hugo. Hugo left the passenger seat and stood on tiptoe nervously in place at the entrance of the hotel, watching the people coming and going at the gate, unable to move Take your own pace. It's only been twelve hours since the accident happened yesterday, and Hugo still can't fully adjust to his new identity.

At this moment, there was a figure walking in his direction. Hugo thought it was Joseph at first, but when he turned his head, he saw a strange yet familiar figure with short golden hair, sexy facial features and a bright smile. , this is Brad Pitt.

A character that he had only seen on the big screen of a movie suddenly appeared in front of him. This was the first time Hugo saw a "real character" appear after he woke up. Dreaming or reality becomes more and more difficult.

Brad showed a bright smile to Hugo. Hugo thought that the other party was a friendly gesture, and was about to respond with a smile, but heard Brad's words immediately followed, "Dreams come true. !" Then Brad gave Hugo a thumbs-up and walked quickly up the steps of the Four Seasons with a big smile on his face.

This, is this a provocation or a joke?