128. Who is this guy?
That night, Theorod tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and when the morning dawned, he got up and ran around the beach before running back sweaty. This is the advantage of filming abroad, from the beginning of filming to the present, Theolod has encountered no more than five fingers of paparazzi, and only now can he enjoy a moment of quiet ordinary life.
He ran into the hotel lobby and was confronted by Bennett, who looked hurried. He got up early in the morning and knocked on Theorod's door as usual to remind him to eat breakfast on time, but no one answered after knocking for a long time, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered, and was just about to go out to look for it, but Theorod himself came back first.
"Gavin, I think Nat should tell you, sometimes I like to go out for a morning run. Looking at Bennett, who had a false alarm, Theolod smiled and comforted.
"yes, it looks like I'm going to remember. Theo, I'll make you hurry back to your room and take a shower now, it's only half an hour before the meeting time, and you haven't eaten breakfast yet. β
"It's okay, I can grab a sandwich and eat it on the road. β
ββ¦β¦ It's not good, it's not good for the stomach. β
Theolod looked at him, was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed quietly: "When Nat was my personal assistant...... He also likes to watch me eat breakfast on time, and occasionally he will cook his own food for me, which tastes good, so I am happy to listen to him. It's a coincidence that you like to stare at me for breakfast now, too, isn't it?Although I don't know what makes you so tacitly insistent, but maybe it's the tradition of my personal assistants?
"Uh...... Ha... Haha, that's right, it's a good idea, a great idea......" Bennett became nervous for some reason as he looked at Theorod's still gentle smile on his face.
"Oh, what do you think of one more?' The personal assistant must regularly report Theolod Lechte's actions to his superiors, such as Nathaniel Pope, every day. β
This sentence completely made Bennett feel like he was in an ice cellar, and his intuition told him that the man in front of him with a gentle and nice voice was angry, but he didn't know why, and he didn't know when Theolod knew that he was helping Natl spy on him. However, when Bennett tried to say something to save him, Theolod suddenly apologized to him and didn't target him, and walked to the elevator.
Bennett was confused, he didn't quite understand what was going on with Theolod lately, maybe...... Quarrel with Nattell? But you two quarrel and quarrel, why should you involve him, an innocent person who doesn't know the truth? Bennett's heart was a little apprehensive for a moment, and he wasn't sure if he should report Theolod's whereabouts to Nattel.
If not, the eldest of his family will definitely find someone to put a sack on him, if he continues...... Uh, why would he think Theorod was even more terrifying than Natle?
Theolod arrives on time for the set and finds Jude, who was supposed to leave for the airport, not left. Dressed in civilian clothes, he smiled and said that he was just here today to see if Theorod would have been so inspired without his company. As for catching a plane, it was afternoon, and he could leave in two hours.
Theolod didn't answer, just smiled silently and was dragged to the dressing room.
Now this scene is followed by the scene where Ripley kills Dickey in the boat, after the boat is scuttled and the body is sunk into the sea, Ripley rushes back to the hotel, but the receptionist recognizes him as Dickey, that is, from this time, Ripley discovers that he can disguise himself as Dickey and let "Dickey" continue to live, naturally, no one will know the fact that Dickey has long been dead.
In this era before forensic science was formed, Ripley could use this method to "postpone" Dickie's death and thus exonerate himself.
It's just that Theolod thinks that in addition to escaping himself from the law, Ripley should have other purposes.
Theolod looked at himself in the mirror, and in a trance he felt like he had seen another person. The hairstyle had been messed up by the stylist into a messy hairstyle between the middle and Dickey's back, the glasses on his face had been removed, and the makeup artist had taken into account that Ripley and Dickey had been together for the past few months, in addition to tanning, they were also healthy and nutritious, so they didn't add a sickly white to his face.
The person in the mirror is Ripley, not Ripley, Ripley is an inferiority boy who never dresses up, obviously the same face, the shape changes, immediately more handsome than the previous inferiority boy, plus the same blond hair, it is no wonder that the hotel front desk that receives hundreds of tourists every day will admit people to be mistaken.
However, a change in appearance alone can't turn Ripley into Dickie, after all, Theorod and Jude don't have much in common.
Jude stood aside, looking at Anthony after being busy, feeling a little relaxed and comfortable. In the past, Anthony would never allow him, a big idler, to stand on the sidelines and watch, but now it's different, his role is completely over, as long as he doesn't disturb the crew's work, he can stay aside and do nothing.
This is the first time he has been involved in the crew from another angle, he has not seen Theorod, he has not seen him since he walked into the dressing room, so Jude estimates that he is still in the dressing room, maybe something happened to the look that was set for him a long time ago, or he didn't want to be disturbed by the busy staff, so he simply stayed in the quieter dressing room to prepare for the role.
Jude thinks the latter is a bit more reliable, and he has more or less understood Theorod's personality and attitude towards work these days.
Sure enough, it wasn't until the filming was about to start that his assistant ran to inform him that Theolod pushed open the door to the dressing room, his look hadn't changed much from what had been agreed at the beginning, with messy blonde hair, a black T-shirt and white trousers, and it looked like he must be hiding in the dressing room to study the performance.
Jude came to Anthony's side, Anthony glanced at him and pointed to the chair next to him, Jude mistakenly thought that the other party was asking him to sit down, but as soon as his butt touched the chair, Anthony opened his mouth: "This is the assistant director's seat, if you want to watch closely, you just stand behind us, keep quiet, don't move, and don't accidentally get into the camera, okay?"
"......" Although Anthony said in a consultative tone, it ...... There is no room for negotiation at all. Jude had no choice but to get up and stand behind Anthony.
Just "goodbye" Dicky, Ripley strode in from outside in a trance, he was obviously worried, I don't know whether it was frightened or grief, his body was trembling slightly, but the gloomy look on his face was incompatible with his slightly trembling fragile body, as if his emotions had already stripped away from his **.
His eyes were empty and desperate, and he couldn't see any light.
Jude touched his chest, he felt the throbbing pain in this place for a moment, in this situation of knowing that the other party was acting, and there were so many other influences around, Theorod could still grab everyone's attention and use his acting skills to control everyone's emotional fluctuations, this is really ...... It's too domineering to say.
Ripley's time at this moment is heart-wrenching, even more painful than when he killed his lover by mistake on a small boat, because at this time, he has no hope.
He walked to the front desk and asked the waiter for the room key. The other party glanced at him and mistook him for Dickie, and Ripley reflexively tried to correct his mistake, but he was halfway through his words, and he himself froze in place.
In the original script, filming would have ended here. But for some reason Anthony didn't call a stop, and Theolod didn't try to stop for half a minute.
Because he was standing behind the director, Jude could see the change in the expression on Theorod's face up close, in fact they were no more than three meters apart, and Theorod could see him, see the director, see the cameraman - the camera was on the inside of the front desk - and even so, Jude could not see their presence in his eyes.
There was no one in his eyes, not even the reception desk standing across from him.
After a moment of stunnedness, Jude saw the strange look on Ripley's face, and Jude didn't know how to describe this complicated look, maybe crying or laughing, so he assumed that Ripley smiled. The smile lit up his eyes at that moment, and a flame of hope gradually ignited in those eyes, which had lost their vitality.
Then, the smile on the corner of his mouth widened, turning into a kind of arc that Jude was familiar with, but very unfamiliar.
He heard Anthony in front of him gasp, and Jude didn't guess what seemed to realize something, but soon, he understood, and it wasn't just a gasp.
"Of course!" Ripley said with a smile, repeating in Italian. He straightened his slender and perfect waist, one hand on the front desk, a cynical tease flashed in his blue and green eyes like the sea, his voice was no longer humble and pandering, but full of confidence, making his whole person exude a different kind of dazzling charm at that moment.
"Still, I think 'Dickey' is enough, and 'Mr. Greenleaf' is my old man in faraway America. He winked at the other. "I'm going to go back and take a hot shower, it's really cold at night, I'll go out again after changing my clothes. Hey, what do you think of the Brandau Bar? I heard that they have a great jazz drummer there, toot-too-toot-toot!"
Ripley chatted as if he had known the waiter for a long time, and at the end of the day, he took out the drumming position, tapped a tune on the table with his fingers, and puffed out his mouth to dub the sound with a spirit.
Jude was completely stupid, he thought he had already understood how good Theorod's acting skills were, but now he realized that he didn't know enough. If Ripley's imitation of Dickey's father was just god-like, then now, Ripley, who imitates Dickey, has an incredible resemblance in addition to being like!
It's incredible, Ripley and Dickey don't look the same, don't they, but look at the man in front of him, the cynical and uninhibited eyes, the smile as bright and flawless as the sun as if there was no sorrow, the casual but charming gestures, and the voice......
Yes, the voice that is not overly violent, deliberately thickened to the right amount of Cheng dΓΉ, the tail note that seems to have its own notes, and the clever accent details...... If Jude were to close his eyes at this moment, he would even think he was listening to a tape of his own voice!
He saw another Dicki in Ripley, and Ripley was no longer imitating Dickey at the moment, he was becoming Dickey!
No, it's not just Dickie......
There was still an indelible sadness under that perfect smile, just as there was a kind of desperate ...... hidden in the eyes that even the frowning curve and squinting Cheng DΓΉ were approaching Dickie's eyes Crazy.
That's right, Jude didn't expect to use this word again, and he didn't expect that Theolod could perfectly hide Ripley under Dickey's surface, what kind of acting skills and strength can do this?
At this moment, everyone on the set, even Anthony, was stunned by Theorod's sudden outburst of acting skills, unable to move, they didn't understand why they were so excited all of a sudden, just like they didn't understand why they had goosebumps.
If it weren't for this face that suddenly became particularly attractive, they would even think that it was Jude Law who was standing there performing!
Even Jude himself had this delusion. He stared blankly at the person in front of the camera, and a question gradually emerged in his heart-
Who is he? This guy ...... Who is it?
One...... A pathetic person who lives like a lover after his lover's death?