"Miss Lindsey Beal, you sit here and wait. ”

Eva, the front desk of Shahai Entertainment, gestured to the bench near the door, and said to a girl with long blond brown hair, "I'll call you when I get to you." ”

Lindsay Beale put the handbag first, sat down and looked at the company, the company is not large, at most twenty people.

But she had heard of this Shahai Entertainment that there was a box office super hit "Human Removal Plan".

"Can you pass the interview?" Lindsay Beale muttered to herself, "If you don't succeed, you'll have to go home and ask your parents for help." ”

After graduating from college, there is no reason not to be independent, and the parents work very hard, so it is unfair for them to help pay off the student loans.

This road is more difficult than expected, maybe after graduation, you should go to a commercial company as an intern, instead of stupidly running to Hollywood as a screenwriter.

If there was a better option, Lindsay Beale wouldn't have gone down this path.

Even if you have good grades, you come from an ordinary family and don't have a master's degree, and most of the people who lack work experience have to start as interns.

Lindsay Beale found several jobs after graduation, and the income was so low that she could only make ends meet, and she couldn't pay off her student loans.

A friend from the College of Letters is going to come to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, and Lindsey Beale talked to him and decided to come to Hollywood.

The friend said that Hollywood has a lot of money as a screenwriter, and if an idea is favored by a Hollywood company, it can sell more than 100,000 US dollars or more, as long as you are talented, it is definitely not difficult, and the script is not only sold with copyright fees, but also from the box office after being made into a movie.

There is also a screenwriters' union to protect the rights and interests of screenwriters.

With the pressure of student loans and the hope of a bright future, she came to Los Angeles from Pennsylvania and found that what her friends said was a dream.

The rookie screenwriter was ignored, and he finally applied for a screenwriting team, but he could only give people a hand, let alone sign the script, and he had never even seen the chief screenwriter of the script.

In the three months she came to Hollywood, she found only two jobs, one with a salary of $220 a week to write a dialogue with college girls in a script, and the other with a salary of $300 a week to write scenes from college life.

Just these two jobs, in the words of her partner at work, she was so lucky!

It's normal for a rookie screenwriter to find a job for half a year.

The Screenwriters' Guild has a minimum salary rule, but she asked, and the Screenwriters' Guild has a high barrier to entry, and people like her may not be able to join for another two years.

Fortunately, I saved a little manuscript fee when I was in college, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to last for three months.

Recently, my good fortune ran out and I haven't found a job for more than a month.

"Miss Lindsay Beal, please come with me. ”

Hearing the words of the female receptionist, Lindsay Beale quickly stood up, followed forward, and sniffed in her hand, there was no peculiar smell.

Then, a woman much older than her came out of the front office, walked up to her, and nodded to the female receptionist.

Lindsay Beale took a deliberate look at her and vaguely smelled her peers.

Is this also a candidate? It seems that the face is not very good, and the interview has failed?

Failure is good.

It's a really bad job, and it's also a gunslinger, but it's what Lindsay Beal desperately needs.

If you can't find a job, you can only go back to your hometown to ask your parents for help, and if you find a job, you can stay.

Entering the office, Lindsay Beale was a little surprised to see the person sitting behind the desk, this is also too young, it seems to be younger than her own age, right?

Ronan pointed to the chair across from him and said, "Please take a seat." ”

Then, he couldn't help but look at the other party slightly.

This woman should not be twenty-five years old, dressed very simply, a cheap black suit, half-worn skinny blue jeans, gray flats with faded upper edges, a height of about one meter six or five, a goose egg face, a high nose bridge, and long curly blonde hair draped on both sides, revealing a delicate face with soft lines.

With a slender figure, delicate face, and delicate facial features, this woman is completely different from the traditional American girl, and this woman is more in line with the oriental aesthetics.

Ronan was a little surprised, is this here to apply for a gunslinger or an actor?

"Miss Lindsay-Beale?" Ronan asked.

The woman started to be a little cramped, quickly adjusted, laughed out two beautiful little rabbit teeth, and said, "Yes, I'm Lindsay Beale." ”

Ronan nodded slightly to her and introduced himself, "I'm Ronan Anderson, the president of Shahai Entertainment. ”

Lindsey Beale understands that this is the guy who is going to hire the gunslinger.

Ronan didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Have you been a screenwriter?"

"Yes. Lindsay-Beale told the truth: "I worked in two screenwriting groups, there was no authorship, there was a group leader who assigned the writing task, and then I completed it as required. ”

Ronan said strangely: "You graduated from business school, why did you want to be a screenwriter?"

Lindsay Beal, who has seen some scenes in Hollywood, has stabilized her mind and said, "Writing is my personal hobby. During my college years, I published more than 20 articles in the school magazine, most of them a short story in the science fiction magazine Analogue. ”

She took out a bound copy from her handbag and placed it on her desk: "This is an article I published. ”

It was these articles that allowed Lindsey Beale to get her first two jobs.

Ronan took it and looked through it slowly, giving Lindsay Beale another look, and the woman's initial crampedness seemed to disappear.

"It's not easy to publish science fiction on "Analogue", even if it's a short story. Ronan knows the weight of "Analogue" in science fiction literature: "Why don't you stay on the East Coast and become a literary writer and go to Hollywood instead?"

A lot of people who do literature look down on Hollywood screenwriters, especially those on the East Coast.

Hearing this question, Lindsay Beale immediately thought of the identity of the owner of Ronan Film Company, plus her own work as a Hollywood screenwriter, combined with her own personal feelings, said: "No matter how the elite writers on the East Coast squint at Hollywood screenwriters with disdain, I believe that I have gained a world that those families, poets, and stage playwrights cannot imagine - no respected serious writer can make his work move hundreds of millions of people at the same time, but film screenwriters can!"

When Ronan heard this, he became inexplicably interested, and it was not easy for a screenwriter to be able to say such things.

The role of money is the most obvious reason to attract screenwriters to stay in Hollywood, but there are also people who want to make a difference in a new medium because they have no place in the literary and theater circles.

Ronan added: "Film screenwriters have never been considered artists, and a screenwriter should get used to the role of an ordinary executor. ”

He wanted a gunman.

Lindsay-Beale felt it well and said, "I understand. ”

Ronan said directly: "You don't have the right of authorship for this job, and you don't have any copyrights. ”

Lindsey Beale certainly knows the Gunners' concept: "I get it. ”

Ronan found the pen and paper he had prepared and put it in front of Lindsay Beal: "Use the traditional Hollywood female character template, such as Julia Roberts's "Pretty Woman", and use women as the first point of view, write an essay about the male protagonist's infatuation with the female protagonist. ”

Lindsay Beale didn't speak, this is the current mainstream, there are actually quite a few of them on the market, and she also saw them when she was in school.

Ronan added a second request: "Part II." Write an independent heroine, this character has to take the initiative, she doesn't need a man to save, but to save a man. ”

"Alright, let's get started. Ronan glanced at the time: "You have half an hour." There is no limit to the number of words, and there is no limit to the specific background, write it to me. ”

Lindsay-Beale didn't say much, stepped forward and moved her chair closer to the desk, picked up the pen and began to think.

Ronan stopped caring about her for the time being, and watched the premiere process of "The Grim Reaper".

Just twenty minutes later, Lindsay Beale put down her pen and said, "Mr. Anderson, I'm done." ”

Ronan took the paper she handed and looked at it carefully, Mary Sue wrote well.

Mary Sue heroines are a popular trend now, the most typical is Julia Roberts, call girls can make the rich love crazy, more nonsense than Gray's fifty shades.

Lindsay Beal's ability in this regard is not a problem.

The independent heroine is somewhat jerky, probably due to the influence of the environment, and there are very few truly independent female characters in this era in movies and literature.

Overall, though, it's good.

Ronan was a little uneasy about the latter, and said, "How do you think you can create a great female character?"

Lindsay Beale thought for a moment and replied, "Characters should be more accessible and can have flaws, after all, perfection is a boring thing." Also, the character has to have a motive, and that motivation is not just for the sake of a man or a child. A male screenwriter I worked with, he said he could come up with 300 motives for his male protagonist, but the only thing he could come up with for the female protagonist was that she was going to save the child. ”

"This subconscious bias must be removed. Lindsay-Beale obviously has a lot of ideas, "And then there is a kind of bridge that must not appear, when the actor is going to terminate the nuclear weapons but stops to save his girlfriend first." And they succeeded! Of course, they would have prevented a nuclear bomb from exploding, but I always thought: Doesn't your girlfriend want you to save the city, or is she just a selfish person? And you're dating her, just like that?"

Ronan carefully read the two short passages written by Lindsey Beale again and said, "Miss Beale, you have been admitted. ”

Lindsay Beale breathed a sigh of relief and then asked, "What about my treatment?"

"The weekly salary is $1,000, and there is a reward for completing the book on time, and the bonus is calculated separately if it is published. Ronan didn't say anything: "You need to write three books according to the outline template I provided." After the first book is completed, your weekly salary will be doubled for the second book, and so on. ”

He threw out the bait: "If you can impress me with these three books, I will hire you as the screenwriter of Shahai Entertainment, the screenwriter with the right of authorship!"

"Really?" Lindsay Beale was tempted.

Ronan smiled and said, "If you have an agent or a lawyer, bring them over tomorrow to sign the contract." If not, I'm responsible for providing an endorsing lawyer. ”

Lindsey Beale immediately said, "Okay, we'll see you tomorrow." ”