The girl didn't recognize the person in front of her at all, it was Lan Li-Hall, who had been in the limelight for a while, taking curling steps, learning the demeanor of the street/prostitute/woman, showing off her sexuality/sensuality, and walking away.

In fact, no one will notice the man sitting cross-legged in the abandoned cruel doorway. This is an ordinary homeless person, countless homeless people in the streets and alleys of the Bronx, if you go under the bridge or near the garbage dump, then there are hundreds of homeless people, and there will be a bonfire party at night. It doesn't seem to make any difference.

Naturally, no one would associate this dirty and sloppy man with the man the news media rushed to cover it. However, even if the nearby residents know that this is Lan Li, it is not the person "Lan Li-Hall" that matters to them, but the monetary interests behind this familiar name. In their opinion, Lan Li should be a rich man.

However, at this moment, Lan Li is a complete vagabond.

He was dressed in a tattered T-shirt and a sackcloth jacket, with a pair of open black boots on his feet, revealing socks of unknown color inside, a fisherman's hat with an open mouth on his head, slimy hair protruding from the gaps, even his face was covered with all kinds of dust, his chin was a messy beard, and his facial features were almost unrecognizable, and the burlap bag at his hand was stuffed with all kinds of waste, including lamps, shoes, clothes, and books, as if he were a treasure bag.

Dirty, messy, sloppy, embarrassed, vicissitudes, downcast, such a homeless man, there is no flaw.

Ten days ago, Lan Li officially finished all the recording of the album, and then he met with Tony Kaye for a brief meeting. The "detached" filming location has been negotiated, and the crew has signed a two-month shooting deal with a high school, but they must wait for the high school students to finish their final exams before filming can begin. Therefore, the crew determined the start time, and after the final exams, filming started immediately, and there were still two full weeks before the meeting.

When he decided to take on this film, Lan Li had already decided on the direction of acting: this is a graduation test of expressionist acting, giving him a platform to really show what he has learned so far, especially the basic skills learned in the academy, as well as the things honed in London's West End and Broadway.

In the past three months, Lan Li has turned over the script of "detachment" more than 40 times, and the pages of the script have been turned out of the rough edges, and he has repeatedly and seriously pondered every character in the script. It's not just Henry, including every character who has and doesn't have rivalry, and then had many exchanges with screenwriter Carl Lund, understanding the background of each character's birth, and also understanding Carl's original intention and ideas for writing the script.

For expressionist acting, reading the script is the foundation of the whole performance, the most important thing.

These repeated readings and understandings have given Lan Li a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the sources of Tony and Carr's artistic ideas. He knew that expressive acting didn't need to be experienced or integrated, but he decided to explore the role further, albeit differently.

Lan Li did not figure out Henry's upbringing and life background, but decided to use Henry's perspective to observe the group of children mentioned in "Detachment", the group of children who were in deep despair, and the group of children who chose to give up. Strictly speaking, this is not Henry's point of view, but rather the perspective of Tony and Carl, or the perspective of a bystander.

Because Lan Li longs to find out, what is the real despair, what is the real walking dead, and their lives go on, but they stay where they are.

In the previous life, he first devoted himself to studying, and then he was trapped in a hospital bed, and the film pinned his dreams and yearnings, and in this life, he has always enriched himself, music, literature, art, performance, and even sports. But from beginning to end, he never gave up, nor did he really despair.

The difference between the two movies "Fighting Cancer" and "Detachment" is that Adam and Henry are both facing the abyss of despair, Adam tries to resist but has to leave his fate to the unknown, while Henry tries to resist but finally chooses to give up. This "despair" is abstract, and Lan Li can interpret it with expressionist performances, but he hopes to make the abstract concrete and rich.

As a result, Lan Li turned into a homeless man.

It's not about coming here during the day and then going back to your apartment at night to enjoy yourself, it's about living as a homeless person. From 10 days ago.

Lan Li thought he was a person who had endured hardship. Not to mention the injuries he was covered in during the filming of "Fast and Furious 5", the confrontation with Vin Diesel was not as light as it seemed on the surface, and the torture of the coffin before the filming of "Buried Alive" was mentally and physically overdrawn to the limit, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

But only after really experiencing it did he know that he was still too naïve.

As a human being in two lives, Lan Li has never really suffered hardship. In the previous life, Ding Yanan's wings were enough to shelter from the wind and rain, and his life was not rich, but he was not unfed and clothed; not to mention in this life, the life of the down-and-out nobles was still comparable to that of the middle class, and the living conditions were even better than in the previous life.

But in the past ten days, Lan Li has really been living on the streets, and it is extremely difficult to even find an eaves to shelter from the wind and rain, and she has learned the rules of the street in danger.

Now Lan Li vividly remembers the first day of the homeless man's experience of life, that night, he had no experience, he didn't know where to sleep, and he didn't know where to go to warm up. After nightfall, Lan Li really knew that the midsummer in New York could be so cold, so cold that the whole person shivered.

Eventually, he chose Central Park, which seemed like the right choice for the homeless to sleep out. He found a bench and slept in his clothes, closing his eyes and trying to summon sleepiness, but it was not an easy task.

Because I didn't take a shower, I was lying dirty, and the feeling of being slimy, wet, and cold made every inch of skin on my body uncomfortable, even on the first day, but under the psychological effect, I still felt itchy all over.

And the benches in Central Park are not the beds of a five-star hotel, not to mention the hard wooden strips, the ventilation on all sides is good, the point is that there will be people passing by all the time, making all kinds of strange sounds, and the danger signals are always lingering, Lan Li is simply tossing and turning, and he can't even close his eyes.

The whole person was in a state of high mental tension, but the worse was still to come, he just squinted, first expelled by the homeless man because he occupied someone else's territory, and then was chased by the police/inspectors, ran for most of the night, and finally found a vacant seat on the bench on the side of the road, and waited for the sunrise in a daze.

Sitting and sitting, I began to doze off unconsciously, and then I was awakened by the cold, looking at the boundless darkness around me, and re-energizing, but then my body began to heat and cold again, and the whole person shivered from the cold, and occasionally saw passers-by passing by, and I had to be fully vigilant, and I could vaguely see the drunks who were constantly cruising around the street corners, and the shadows of those probes seemed to be looking for a good opportunity to kill.

Such a scene reminds people of the era of Jack the Ripper.

To make matters worse, having not eaten anything for an afternoon, the stomach began to protest and gurgle. I was worried about bathing before, but now it seems that food and clothing are the top priority.

That night, he sat on a bench and waited quietly for the sunrise. When the sun comes out, the smell of danger dissipates like a tidal wave.

But compared to the Bronx, the previous embarrassment can only be regarded as sprinkling. At this moment, Lan Li can calmly squat on the corner of the street, observing everything here, which is all exercised by crawling on the street. Otherwise, it is estimated that the girl will go directly to Lan Li and let him taste what it is like to be a shrew.

Not only that, but he also became a qualified tramp.

When he wakes up in the morning, he has to find a place to brush his teeth, a sprinkler on the lawn of Central Park, and a toilet at the subway station, all of which are good options, and then go to the alms station to pick up some canned food, handmade sandwiches, or expired processed food from the supermarket, but even then, he must be careful or risk being kicked out of the line by unruly blacks or snatched by hungry homeless men.

The night is always difficult, the gathering place of the homeless under the bridge is a good place, there will be a bonfire, and there are a large number of "companions", so as not to lose their lives in the middle of sleeping, but the disadvantages are also obvious, here, whoever has the big fist is the king, not to say that you can survive by adhering to the principle of "wealth is not exposed", sometimes just the wrong place of sight can cause disputes. It's like the survival of the fittest in nature, and it's not easy to survive here.

Of course, some people are more cunning, avoiding the supervision of patrol officers, lying in the subway station or in a hidden place in Central Park, often able to sleep peacefully, and even some people sleep directly in the subway - as long as they can avoid the staff before leaving work, not only shelter from the wind and rain, but also relatively warm.

The perfect place is McDonald's. However, it is a prime location, not too early, if there are too many customers, the clerk will have to rush people, not too late, the place will be sold out quickly. As long as you can take a spot at McDonald's, then the night couldn't be better.

If that's all there is to it, it doesn't seem that difficult to survive on the streets. But in the Bronx, this is just a basic survival rule, after nightfall, how to avoid the area where the drug/traffickers do business, how to avoid the area where the gang deals with "private affairs", how to avoid the sensitive area where the gang meets, this is the most important thing.

Because, if one is not careful, then you will not be able to see the sun tomorrow.