Best Actor

    "Hey, Jewish school trash."

    "What?"

    "Get up! Get the **** up for me! What the **** do you think you are! Do you think this is a **** test? Do you think God will use a sheep instead of you? ?!"

    "Help me..."

    Under the open space of the overpass, a young man with a shaved head and a brown shirt stopped a Jewish student with a little white hat, then punched him to the ground, He got kicked a few times.

    If you think this neo-Nazi is provocative, you are wrong, although it does have something to do with this.

    "Nice job, Sean." Henry Bean, the director behind the camera, applauded loudly after the call was stopped.

    "Are you sure? Or do it again?" After pulling up the actor who had been knocked down before, Sean wiped his face and took a deep breath before touching his bald head and asked road.

    "I'm sure, it's already fine." The 55-year-old director said with certainty, "Let's take a rest first."

    "Okay." Sean nodded, found a place to sit down, took the water bottle that Sanders handed over, and took a sip.

    "It doesn't feel good at all," he said. "I really seem to be a violent guy who wants to beat up guys who don't look good to express myself."

    "Am I not in it?" Sanders asked immediately.

    It's a pity that this bad joke is not funny, Sean rolled his eyes and didn't answer: "The worst thing is that I had to put in before I started shooting, and then struggled out of it after the shooting, I I don't know what it's like for insects like butterflies to wrap themselves in a cocoon and break free as the larvae develop, but I think it's about the same as I am now."

    "You brought it on yourself." Sanders shrugged, "You said you were taking a break before, and you were already taking a break, but you took the script and even invested 20 Wan, I think you're really developing towards masochism."

    Sean laughed dryly: "Henry and Mark both said that it can be completed in four weeks at most, just like "Death Illusion", plus I haven't been to New York for a long time, I want to come and see, So it's next."

    Indeed, although he came to New York when he was a child, he was not impressed, and he basically wandered around Manhattan Island. When filming "Genius Ripley" before, he was completely watching the flowers. As now, he not only walked around in various areas of New York County, but also stopped from time to time, allowing him to have sufficient time to observe.

      But the problem was that he couldn't find any good songs for a while, so he had nothing to do for a while, so he met two old men in the coffee shop, Henry Bean and Mark Jacobson.

    He had snacks and chatted with Galen and Sanders in the cafe that afternoon, and while talking, he talked about the "Death Illusion" that was still being staged at midnight at the Pioneer Theater in New York's East Village. above. Although the film was released after only four weeks of release, the cost was recovered in the end, and the video tapes and DVDs have been bought well, and the word of mouth is still quite good, and there are more diehards than before.

    "Independent films are after all a part of Hollywood's film industry, so even if film companies may lose money, independent films will continue to thrive." Sean commented later.

    "What is he trying to say?" Sanders turned to Galen.

    "What he means is that as long as there is a chance in the future, he will still invest in independent films and will still play roles in independent films." Galen spread his hands.

    "My parents are the ones who gave birth to me, and you are the ones who know me."

    "Here again." The two who couldn't understand rolled their eyes.

    Then, a voice came from the side: "Sorry, excuse me, is it Mr. Tang?"

    It was an old man at the next table, looking in his fifties, with a beard and a harmless smile. There is also a glasses, a bit like Billy Bob Thornton, Svenwen very temperament.

    "Yes, I am, what's the matter?" Sean asked curiously.

    "My name is Mark, Mark Jacobson, and that is my friend Henry Bean," the other party introduced, "one of us is a screenwriter, one is a director, and there are several Not bad work, and now we are discussing the script of an independent film, maybe you can give us some advice?"

    "Why are you looking for me?" Sean was a little surprised.

    "Because of what you said before." Jacobson said with a smile.

    "And we heard you have a good eye," Bean added.

    This sentence instinctively made Sean aware of something, but he couldn't say anything specific, so he still invited them to come and sit together. After that, they talked about the script in their hands. This is a somewhat interesting script. The story called "The Believer" was adapted from a real event.

    It is said that in the 1960s, there was a famous neo-Nazi in New York named Daniel Burns, who was very hostile to Jews and often promoted racism in public and attacked those Jews. One day, a reporter from The New York Times interviewed him and found that he was actually a Jew, so the news was published, and after his identity was made public, Burns committed suicide.

    Well, this is a bold subject. You must know that in Hollywood, where Jews are full of Jews, and in the United States, where the Jewish voice is not small, it does take courage to make a movie with this theme. There are quite a few movies about racism in Hollywood, Sean's "Dance on Death Row" a few weeks ago is one of them, but there are very few movies about racism, let alone Jews against Jews.

    Although there were countless examples of Jews persecuting Jews during World War II, Hitler's SS was not a minority of Jews, and there were even rumors that the SS leader Heinrich Himmler also had Jewish blood.

    In today's reflection on the persecution of Jews has become politically correct, and works such as "Schindler's List" that add points to Jews are widely circulated, making this kind of film is no compromise risky behavior. So these two have completed the script two years ago, but they have not been able to find anyone to invest. Last year, they had already made an agreement with an investor in the past few days, and the actors have already started to contact them, but they didn't know that it was going to happen in the middle. What happened, and it has been delayed until now.

    Sean doesn't have much to say about this already well-established script, although the script does have a bit of fun. But obviously, the minds of the two old men were not that simple, and their true colors were soon revealed.

    "I'm going to be the male lead?" Sean looked at them with wide eyes, as if it was a big joke.

    "Yes, your vision is really good, you can see the merits of the script, and you don't exclude independent films, and works like "Death Illusion", so why not try this What about a more challenging role?" asked Bean, who clearly had a good impression of Sean and tried to lobby.

    Xiao En was a bit dumbfounded, but he even talked about "Death Illusion"... There is no doubt that they had a premeditated plan, and I don't know if they planned it long ago, or found Xiao in a cafe On a temporary basis.

    "Because I have played roles in four or five movies in the first half of this year, and now I want to rest." We had a pleasant chat before, so Sean didn't want to refuse directly, he just said this tactfully .

    "I'll just say it straight, Sean, if possible, we really hope you can play the male lead." Jacobson and Bean exchanged opinions, then sincerely said, "I know it's risky, and we couldn't come up with better terms to invite you, we just wanted to make a movie, an impressive movie. For this movie we've already It has been planned for several years, although we don’t say that we have invested our entire net worth into it, but it has also cost us a lot of hard work, so we will never let it fail.”

    "Then we heard your conversation, and my intuition told me that you are a very thoughtful young man, so I insisted on inviting you, and I very much hope that you will consider it." Bean immediately added road.

      The story, but when you face it face to face, and the feeling of knowing is two different things.

    So, even though he was a little dissatisfied with their concealment, he finally nodded: "I hope to see the full script and reply to you within three days."

    Then, three days later, Sean gave them a positive answer, he was willing to play the male lead.

    Of course, both Sanders and Frederick expressed their disapproval. Needless to say, the agent hated his obsession with independent films. Sanders said, "It's not enough for you to shoot four or five movies in one go in the first half of the year?" I said before that I want to rest, and I have to release records at my own expense. Now I have another script. You are playing with us, right?

    "They said that although I'm going to New York to shoot, it can be done in four weeks at most. Since I have time and I can't adapt to it because I have too much free time, why not try it?" Sean said so.

    As for the main contradiction, the taboo theme of this script is not controversial. Because, after reading the entire script, to be precise, this is actually an alternative story of praising Jews. No matter how rebellious the hero is, no matter how much he hates his Jewish identity, he finally recognizes and accepts this identity, and in the When a neo-Nazi group was planning to blow up a synagogue, it rushed in and kicked out the people praying inside, but stayed inside.

    In short, the literary point of this story is that as much hate is as deep as love .