Hollywood Road

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

It’s been more than a year since I came to this world. Almost all of my time was spent in prison. The hardships also made Murphy understand a lot of truths. Before his Hollywood dream can be realized, he must first find something that can support him. Own work.

Although the body's predecessor was a fool, he also left some useful things, such as this small apartment.

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

Maybe it’s good luck, or maybe it’s too shabby and remote here. This "aunt" apartment has not been visited by thieves in this year. The furniture and work that Murphy has always despised is left here by the idiot. The equipment was still alive, which really gave him a small surprise.

After finding this apartment with the impression in his memory, Murphy conducted a thorough cleaning and then checked the family properties that he could now control.

The first is this house that he can live in temporarily. The British measurement is commonly used in the United States. According to Murphy’s previous standards, the house is not small in size, 50 square meters, excluding the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room. The room integrated with the balcony, there is also a small studio, that is, the former freelance reporter's workshop.

As 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 a very ordinary member of the slums. The aunt who went to the UK left behind basic appliances such as old-fashioned color TVs, refrigerators and washing machines. The furniture is equally simple. Chairs, a painted dining table and a washed white cloth sofa, as well as a foldable single bed.

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

Taking out a ten dollars from it, and stuffing the other money into his personal pocket, Murphy went out of the room, went to a nearby burger shop, and bought a burger set as his own dinner.

Although the sky is dark and the public security situation here is not good, Murphy has not encountered a dog-blood robbery. In his thoughts, perhaps this powerful body played a role. After all, he has experienced so much in prison. The whole person's temperament looks vaguely fierce.

Dinner only cost five dollars, Murphy has no source of income now, and must plan the use of every cent.

After passing the stairs far more run-down and messy than the room, with the strange look of two blacks, Murphy returned to his room, locked the door and turned on the TV, but there was no program. It should be a long time without payment. The signal was forcibly cut off, so I turned off the TV and enjoyed my dinner quietly.

Murphy's head kept turning, thinking about how he would make a living next as he chewed the burger in his mouth unconsciously.

stock market? Not to mention that he doesn't even have the capital. It is June 2000. The stock market crash caused by Nasdaq is in full swing, and he was just a poor student in the poor film academy, and he didn't know anything about the operation of stocks...

investment? Who has no money to invest in? He also wants people to invest in himself...

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

Of course, it is not advisable to continue to engage in *** and illegal firearms business like Ross did.

After much deliberation, Murphy returned to what she was best at, that was the work related to the film industry. Although she was just a student with little practical experience, she also analyzed countless Hollywood classic movies and scripts during her studies. I have heard a lot of popular movie songs.

After changing to a more comfortable sitting posture, Murphy first denied the song. Hearing and writing songs is a very different existence, let him write songs by people who have not received any professional study, and kill him as well. Less than.

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

The rest are movies and scripts. The film school he once attended is indeed not in the stream. The most basic teaching is guaranteed. He is also a hard-working student. Not only is he familiar with the classic art films analyzed in class, but also after class. Time has also studied many movies that interest me.

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

"Isn't the suffering this year enough?" Murphy suddenly laughed and whispered in a self-deprecating tone, "You are not that innocent student anymore, don't you have such low-level and stupid ideas again?"

Even if it is an outsider, Murphy also 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 filled with dust. .

For many non-adapted films in the future, the scripts don’t know how many years have been lying in the script libraries of major companies...

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

The chance of a newcomer’s script being photographed by a film company is infinitely low, but this is also a way. Even if the chance is low enough to make people outrageous, there is always some hope. Murphy plans to try it if he can find a job with stable income. , Just try your luck.

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

Chasing dreams is one's own power, and Murphy can survive the crazy desperate life in prison for this, and he does not hesitate to do some handyman work for this.

Of course, Murphy has another option, which is to continue to do the work of his predecessor.

He walked into the predecessor's studio, which was also cleaned up by him. There was no dust on the simple workbench, wooden chairs and the shelf behind, and a notebook was neatly placed on it. , A Canon camcorder and a car receiver for Los Angeles police.

These are the work equipment of the predecessor.

Sitting in front of the workbench, Murphy opened his laptop and found some news videos taken by his predecessor. It is not difficult to find from the videos that the guy used to shoot videos on social current affairs, such as car accidents, fires, and robberies. Later, I was tempted by huge rewards and stupidly went to photograph Summer Redstone's personal privacy.

There are not only videos, but also how to use the police receiver, the police code of the Los Angeles police, and the contact information of the news directors of several local TV stations in Los Angeles.

The other party's previous work was not complicated. Basically, it was haunting the streets of Los Angeles, grabbing some news pictures of public concern, and then selling them to interested TV stations.

However, Murphy does not intend to continue such work, but is only interested in these devices, after all, they can be exchanged for money to keep him living.

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

First engage in work related to the film industry, even the lowest-level chores. You can not only accumulate experience, but also look for opportunities...

In fact, all film circles in the world are the same. Countless talented people have invested in it. Few people have succeeded. In many cases, opportunities are more important than talents.

As the night got darker, Rose called and asked Murphy what else he needed. Now the situation is better than others, and Murphy can't care about other things. He 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 still-new Chevrolet to the three-way intersection. Rose was very careful. The car was obviously full of gas. Murphy parked the car in an alley on the side of the apartment building. I bought breakfast and several newspapers, went back upstairs, and looked through the newspaper’s recruitment section while eating, trying to see if there was a type that suits me.

With his current conditions, the requirements are really low, as long as he is engaged in a 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 work every day. Similar job opportunities are still available.

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

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

After just reading a few lines, Murphy understood that this is a job advertisement for the two consecutive sequels of the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix." This is undoubtedly a good opportunity.