Chapter 181: Beautiful Mistake
The name of the script is quite interesting, and the beautiful is deliberately misspelled.
Gan Jing breathed a sigh of relief, reclined on the bed and flipped through the script.
This turn is that most of the night passed, and he read the script directly, and the result was as he expected, these art films always have to talk about life and death, always talk about same-sex, and always reveal profoundness.
Set in Barcelona, Spain's second-largest city, the protagonist is a local snake who spends his days among illegal immigrants and stowaways, finding them jobs and hiding from the police, and a psychic who can communicate with the dead, and discovers that he has only two months left to live after a hospital check-up.
There are two children in the family, and his ex-wife is a perennial alcoholic and drug dependent.
He paid for the heating for the immigrants in the factory, but the heating accident killed 25 people.
A black friend who sells counterfeit leather bags for himself is arrested and has to bear the burden of his friend's family.
Cancer brings the shadow of death, and there is not much life left.
The conflict between life and death, how to settle the family, and how to face the imminent death is an extremely realistic and painful question for the protagonist.
After reading it, Gan Jing sighed, only hating himself for why he didn't finish work earlier today, and he had to run into the Mexican director Iñárritu at that point - reading through this script is too depressing, and it is not at all the same as his original intention of wanting to give people a relaxed and enjoyable life.
It's really unlucky.
Gan Jing casually put the script on the bedside table, saw that it was already 3:50 in the morning, and turned off the light.
It's just that, after turning over and over, he didn't feel sleepy at all, and his mind was full of the script story he had just read.
The tone of the story is very heavy and gloomy, which is a common problem of many art films.
But aside from this common problem, the protagonist in this script has to face too many problems - life and death, body and spirit, reality and falsehood, death and redemption.
It's very pathetic and very moving.
More challenging.
There are too many things he wants to show, the estrangement of his ex-wife, the generation gap of his daughter, life and death, noble and humble, and the situation of whites, blacks, and Chinese people in Barcelona in the script, and the protagonist needs to connect these factors.
This is a veritable protagonist and the absolute heart of the film.
For an actor, it's a one-man show, a challenge full of temptations, it's just ...... It's a bit overwhelming.
Fortunately, Gan Jing can pull out.
He thought about "Beautiful Mistake" for a while, and "The Social Network" for a while, and finally pulled himself out of the temptation of acting at six o'clock in the morning and fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept for a while, and a piercing bell woke Gan Jing from his tired sleep.
"Hey......" Gan Jing fumbled to the location of the phone, yawned and asked in a daze.
"Where's it? Come out?" a textured voice clearly came into Gan Jing's ears.
Gan Jing reacted after a few seconds, this was the voice of the eldest sister Da Zhou Xun, he briefly passed the name in his mind, and asked, "Where are you going?"
Zhou Xun was stunned: "Didn't you make an appointment for lunch today?"
Slowly waking up from his sleep, Gan Jing found that he had forgotten something.
A few days ago, Brother Xun came to the United States to do brand activities, and he hosted her and settled her down and then made an appointment for dinner, but he was busy for a few days in the middle, thinking about the script audition, and stayed up all night last night, completely forgetting about this matter.
Gan Jing was a little embarrassed, and he was in a hurry: "Brother Xun, I read the book all night yesterday, and I have a good script for you to share." Where are you? I'll pick you up and read the script!"
"I'm almost at your hotel. The two stayed at the hotel not far away, and Zhou Xun was walking on the road.
In foreign countries, she can walk on the street relatively easily, which is a rare relaxation time, and she is in a good mood, but she doesn't mind the excuse of being clumsy.
Hung up the phone, got up from the bed with exhaustion, Gan Jing glanced at the phone, it was just eleven o'clock, and he slept in a daze for more than four hours.
glanced at the script next to the bed hatefully, and when Gan Jing finished washing, Zhou Xun was already waiting in the hall on the first floor.
hurriedly went downstairs with the script, and he didn't say anything else, so he took the big star directly to the cafeteria.
"You entertained me like this?" Zhou Xun was dissatisfied, "You arranged for me to stay before, and I didn't see a ghost for a few days, what are you busy with?"
Gan Jing pointed to his dark circles: "I'm not lazy after all, look at my dark circles!"
"Where's the book?" Zhou Xun pouted in disgust, not believing what he said.
"Wow. Although the script was very exciting, Gan Jing was really not used to such a heavy story, so he handed over the script in his hand.
"It's a Mexican director who wants to go to Spain to make a movie, find someone from the United States, and identify two Chinese compatriots. Gan Jing said and suddenly felt very interesting, "Haha." Sounds funny. ”
Zhou Xun ignored him, ate a few pieces of fruit, and read the script seriously.
This look was like watching for an hour, and when she raised her head again, her gaze was a little complicated.
"It's a story that's not easy to navigate. This is Zhou Xun's first emotion after reading half of the script.
Gan Jing nodded.
"The main character is brilliantly set up. Zhou Xun groaned.
Gan Jing continued to nod.
"You don't have the skills to act, I'm pretty much the same. Zhou Xun raised his chin.
Gan Jing was just about to nod his head inertly, but suddenly stopped, and glared at Zhou Xun angrily: "Who do you look down on? Why can't I do it?"
"I've only seen half of it, and it's not aimed at you. Zhou Xun said leisurely, "There are few people who can play this role well, and the acting skills must explode." It's really hard. ”
Gan Jing didn't reply, of course he knew it was difficult, but it was as unbearable as a foodie starving at the keyboard in the dead of night when he saw a freshly baked roast leg of lamb.
"It's attractive, but I'm not going to act. I'm going to audition for a Colombian "The Social Network." Gan Jing said firmly.
Comparatively speaking, Oscar-winning films are more attractive.
At this time, the agent Andy called, asked where Gan Jing was and immediately hung up the phone.
"It's just right, Andy wait here, I'll introduce you, he is also from Warner. Gan Jing said to Zhou Xun very kindly.
"You're different. Zhou Xun sighed, "Everyone else is doing the domestic market first, but you really stepped out of the way abroad." Wonderful!"
Strange smiled slightly, looking even more strange.
Andy arrives quickly, and then brings bad news - "The Social Network" has set Jesse Eisenberg as the leading actor, and Gan Jing's campaign can be over before it has even begun, and the actors, including him, are all out.
After listening to the news, Gan Jing introduced Zhou Xun and Andy to each other without any expression, and then coincidentally put his eyes on the script on the table with Brother Xun.
- Beautiful mistake, beautiful mistake, if I played you, would it be a beautiful mistake?