The moment he woke up, he felt that a stone was stuffed in his head, and he shook it vigorously a few times, Eric subconsciously reached out to touch the mobile phone next to the pillow, and soon understood his situation again, smiled, sat up, and it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning.

This is Eric's bedroom on the second floor of Williams's house, and the blazing summer sun spills into the bedroom through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors of the south balcony unbridledly, and it is already August, and it is not yet noon to make people feel the sweltering heat of Los Angeles.

Reborn for more than half a month, Eric has been busy with all kinds of things, and his whole heart is floating in the air. I didn't even have time to look at this new world I was in, but now that I had a good start, my whole heart fell into my heart.

The bedroom is very large, more than 30 square meters, and it still looks empty after putting in the large bed, wardrobe, desk, museum shelf and other messy things.

In my memory, Ralph once thought about dividing the bedroom into two rooms, but in the end it was not implemented, because there were only two people in the family, father and son, and there were enough rooms, and I didn't know what to do with another one. This somewhat bleak reason had depressed Ralph for many days, but until his death, Ralph did not make any moves to find a wife.

I don't know if every alcoholic man has some heart-rending past behind him.

Walking down the second floor, it took half an hour to tidy up the messy living room after the pie, and after breakfast, Eric drove out of the house.

After spending a few hours ordering a Strauss piano at the store and leaving the address for the delivery man, Eric went to the bookstore to pick up a thick stack of books on music arrangement.

Eric doesn't want to become a singer on a whim, he just does this to prepare for future movie soundtracks, there are so many classic movies in his mind, if you want to restore them perfectly, you must know some basic arranging knowledge, at least to be able to write the songs in your mind into staves, otherwise you can't hum it in front of those professional movie soundtracks in the future, don't make trouble.

Hollywood is different from the entertainment industry in the Oriental mainland, many directors in the mainland usually find a soundtrack when they are making a movie and preparing a soundtrack, and the soundtrack will look at the film to provide some tunes.

Music is a very important part of Hollywood movies, so the production is refined, not to mention the background music, just the theme song has emerged countless classics, and many classic movie interludes are famous all over the world, such as "Unrestrained Melody" of "Ghost Love", "My Heart is Eternal" of "Titanic", "NewDivide" of "Transformers", "Youngandbeautiful" of "The Great Gatsby", "Letitgo" of "Frozen" , the good tunes in "Juno" can fill an album.

Carrying the books home, the delivery man soon delivered the piano, and Eric directed the piano to be carried into the study on the west side of the living room, saying that it was a study, but in fact there were no bookshelves, only a large desk and some other miscellaneous items. Eric's books are all upstairs in his bedroom, and Ralph has no habit of reading at all.

After the piano is set, you should try the sound as usual. Eric sat in front of the piano and put his hands on the keys in style, and then, under the horrified and disdainful gazes of several delivery men, the cargo played a somewhat out-of-tune "Happy Birthday" to himself. Eric glanced at the stunned delivery men next to him, and sighed that he was scared. At the level of my brother, in the circle of my previous life, I can barely be regarded as both moral and artistic.

In order to punish several delivery people for their disdain, Eric directly halved the tips he intended to pay. However, several delivery men obviously didn't notice this, until when they got into the car, the tall and thin white man was still muttering Strauss, Strauss, that's more than 20,000 dollars Strauss, and his tone was full of a sense of collapse of marrying a twenty-eight-year-old girl to an eighty-two-year-old grandfather, which made Eric feel a little embarrassed, but he was very helpless, and he couldn't go up and tell him: Old Yang, don't worry, I will take good care of Xi'er.

……

"What, audition?" Eric asked, confused, "Penny, isn't my role already decided?"

After a few days at home, spending every day studying music, practicing basketball, and acting, Eric thought that this situation might last until the film started, but only three days later, he received a call from director Penny Marshall.

"Of course, Eric. I mean, I want you to audition for other roles, you're a screenwriter after all, and you can give some input on character selection, don't you?"

Eric can only make some comments and can't decide anything. However, Eric readily agreed to Penny Marshall, who wanted to gain some experience in the production of films.

Drive to Fox's photography base. Meeting Penny Marshall and James Brooks, casting for a movie is a big deal, the director and producer are of course present, it is still the same room where he auditioned a few days ago, and there are several other staff members involved in the casting, but only Eric is a young man.

With more than ten minutes to go before the audition began, Penny Marshall took the initiative to talk to Eric about the preparations for "Seventeen Again."

"The success of Future Fly gave Twentieth Century Fox confidence in our film and put up a budget of $20 million. But hopefully we'll be able to finish the release on Thanksgiving, so we have to finish the preparations within two weeks and finish filming the school scenes before the end of the summer vacation. ”

Eric took the list of audition actors handed over by the staff and said thank you, and heard Penny Marshall's words: "As long as the shooting is smooth, three months is enough time for this movie, there are only a few simple special effects shots in the movie, and it won't take long in the post." ”

Penny Marshall nodded: "That's true, but it's going to take a while to get the word out." ”

"By the way, Penny, which roles are we interviewing for today?" asked Eric.

"Well, Mike O'Donnell and Scarlett O'Donnell as adults, we've had Dan Aykroyd and Susan Sarandon respectively, Ned has recommended a friend of his as an adult, and today we're mainly interviewing Mike's children and some of the other young actors in the film, so I thought I should let you take a look. ”

Although Eric already knows that his screenwriter is destined to have no say in the choice of other actors, he is still a little depressed when he hears that several actors have been set without his knowledge, fortunately the two actors that Penny Marshall said are very in line with Eric's expectations, as for Ned's role, James Brooks will definitely not take a $20 million investment as a child's play, and presumably the actor will not be too bad.

However, Eric is still a little unwilling, and secretly vows to control the discourse of his own movies in the future, this feeling of being marginalized is really bad.

Frustrated, Eric was in no mood to chat with Penny Marshall anymore, and Penny Marshall didn't see Eric's abnormality, so he turned to the other side and whispered something to James Brooks.

Bored to open the list of audition actors, all the actors in front of him showed his youthful vitality in the photos, and after flipping through seven or eight copies, Eric finally found an acquaintance: Brad Pitt. And the auditioning role turned out to be Alex, the image of Alex in the original movie is that kind of weak and weak, Eric feels that the weakness of the original version is a bit too much, and the small body is a bit out of place to shine on the basketball court.

According to his analysis, the reason why he chose the thin boy instead of a slightly taller and handsome male voice is that in addition to the needs of the plot, the director must also be worried that this supporting role will suppress the protagonist Zac Efron, because Zac Efron is only 1.75 meters tall, which is very short among Westerners, especially among Western actors, and the audience who watched that movie in the previous life can obviously feel this.

Looking at Pete, who is twenty-five years old in the photo and still looks like a high school student, Eric suddenly feels that it is not bad to let Pete play a role that is tall and strong but bullied everywhere, and finally has a reversal to shine on the basketball court, and Eric is also fully confident that his performance will not be suppressed by Brad Pitt. Later, when Pete became famous, people found out that he played the son of Eric Williams, which is very interesting, isn't it?

The corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and Eric continued to flip through the list, and then did not find the actor he was familiar with in his previous life.

Next is a thick dozen actress profiles, and when I saw the first audition actress profile, Eric's jaw almost dropped, Angelina Jolie, the family is here today. Thinking back, Eric found out that Julie should have just graduated from acting school this year, ready to go to high school, and only start her modeling career next year, and I don't know why she was on Maggie's audition list.

European and American women develop very early, and the thirteen-year-old Julie in the photo is already slim, blonde and blue-eyed, with iconic sexy lips, and the whole person has begun to exude a faint wild atmosphere. Eric is not optimistic about the results of Julie's audition, and it may be the result of the influence of his actor father to participate in the audition.

Continuing to flip through the pages, Eric found another very interesting girl.

"Hey, Penny," Eric asked, turning his head with the paper, "what's the matter with Drew Barrymore, all the terrible things she's been doing in the last two years...... You know, maybe it's not a good fit for our school comedy, right?"

Penny Marshall looked at it and smiled helplessly: "Stephen recommended it, and that woman begged him with a dead face, and he was so annoyed that he recommended it." But Stephen also hinted that we don't have to think about him at all, so, you get the idea. ”

"Steven Spielberg?"

Penny Marshall nodded, "Yes, you know, Stephen is Drew's godfather. ”

Eric sighed, and the woman in Penny's tone full of disgust should be Drew's greedy mother. It's just that in just a few minutes, Eric heard the clues he saw, and he found that Hollywood's selection of actresses was not as fair and transparent as the media said, and it was still full of all kinds of personal contacts and games.

Just as she was about to go through the list, Penny Marshall patted Eric and said, "Okay Eric, tidy up, the audition begins." ”

Eric had no choice but to arrange the cast in order and wait for the next audition.

I thought I would be an ornament, offering at most one or two dispensable opinions, and asking a few questions symbolically. Unexpectedly, the first young actor came in, and after answering a few questions, the performance began, and Penny Marshall said to Eric with a smile: "Eric, you go up and play a rivalry with Mr. Watson." ”

Eric shrugged, looked at the script of the shot, and stepped forward.

……

The fifth actor walked out of the audition room, and Eric sat back in his seat and jokingly complained, "Penny, I thought you called me to be a referee, but I didn't expect it to be a basketball on the court." ”

"Hehe, that's an interesting analogy, stop complaining, Eric. It was James's idea, and he complained that I canceled your acting class, and finally came up with this method for you to work on your acting skills. ”

Eric pretended to be angry and glared at James Brooks, who was nonchalant, and complained, "Then why don't you explain it directly?"

"Don't you know by now?" said Penny Marshall.

"Okay. Eric spread his hands speechlessly.

http://www.qidian.com

Biquge www.biquge.info Chinese www.qidian.com welcome the majority of book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest, and most popular serialized works are all original www.biquge.info Biquge!