The greatest talent of human beings is the right to chase their dreams, but before chasing their dreams, they must first fill their stomachs, and if they can't survive even the most basic, everything else is just illusory.

After coming to this world for more than a year, he spent almost all of his time in prison, and the hardships made Murphy understand a lot of truths, and before his Hollywood dream could be realized, he had to find a job that could support himself.

Although the predecessor of this body is an idiot, there are also some useful things left behind, such as this small apartment.

The apartment is located in a Latin neighborhood, like most houses in downtown Los Angeles, a low, very old building, where security is worrying, and there are many idle people living around, and some guys who resemble Ross are often haunted by the community.

Perhaps it was luck enough, or perhaps it was so dilapidated and remote, that the 'aunt' apartment had not been visited by thieves for a year, and that the furniture and work equipment left by the idiot whom Murphy had always despised were still alive and well, and it was a big surprise to him.

After finding the apartment with the impression from his memory, Murphy did a thorough cleaning and then took stock of the possessions he now had at his disposal.

The first is the house that can be temporarily inhabited by him, the United States is generally used in the British measurement, according to Murphy's standards, the house is not small, full of 50 square meters, in addition to the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room and balcony in one, there is also a small studio, that is, the former freelance journalist's studio.

Due to the compulsory confiscation of the house in his name as a fine and compensation, Murphy confirmed that he could only live here for a long time to come.

The furnishings of the house were very simple, apparently the former Stanton family was just a very ordinary member of the slums, and the aunt who had left for England left behind basic appliances such as old-fashioned color televisions, refrigerators and washing machines, and the furniture was just as simple, with two chairs, a dining table with paint peeled and a white-washed cloth sofa, and a single bed that could be folded.

In the course of a day, Murphy returned from the state prison to downtown Los Angeles, cleaned his room again, and his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, and he took out the money he had, and counted it carefully, two hundred and forty-three dollars.

Taking out a ten-dollar sheet and stuffing the rest of the money into his pocket, Murphy left the room and went to a nearby burger joint to buy a burger set for his dinner.

Although the sky is already dark, and the security situation here is not good, Murphy has not encountered bloody robberies, in his mind, maybe this strong body has played a role, after all, he has experienced so many things in prison, and the whole person's temperament looks faintly fierce.

The dinner cost only five dollars, and Murphy now has no source of income and must plan what every penny is spent for.

After passing the dilapidated and dirty staircase far above the room, and facing the strange eyes of two black men, Murphy returned to his room, locked the door, turned on the TV, but there was no program, it should be that no one paid for a long time, and the signal was forcibly cut off, so he had to turn off the TV and enjoy his dinner quietly.

Munching on the burger in his mouth, Murphy's head kept spinning, wondering what he was going to do next.

Stock market? Not to mention that he didn't even have the capital, it was June 2000, the stock market crash caused by the NASDAQ was in full swing, and he was just a poor student in a low-end film school, and he didn't know anything about the operation of stocks......

Investment? Who is not the money to invest in? He also wants people to invest in himself......

Swallowing the food in his mouth, leaving the remaining half of the burger still on the painted table, Murphy leaned back in his chair and propped up his head with one hand, mobilizing all his brain cells to think of a way to make a quick fortune.

Of course, it is not advisable to intend to continue to do ****** and illegal gun business as Ross did.

After thinking about it, Murphy returned to what he does best, which is related to the film industry, although he is only a student with little practical experience, but during his studies, he has also analyzed countless classic Hollywood movies and scripts, and listened to many widely circulated movie songs.

Changing to a more comfortable sitting position, Murphy first denied the song, and it was a world of difference between listening to and writing the song, and letting someone like him write the song without any professional learning would not be able to kill him.

This unreliable thought will only starve him to death......

The rest is movies and scripts, the film school he once enrolled in is really not in the stream, the most basic teaching is still guaranteed, and he is also a relatively hard-working student, not only familiar with the classic art films analyzed in class, but also studied a lot of movies that he is interested in in his spare time.

In an instant, an idea welled up in Murphy's head, he wrote a script for a future classic film, mailed it to major Hollywood companies, and the relevant executives of the six Hollywood majors flocked to him like a traveler who saw a water source in the desert, treating him as a super genius, and since then Murphy Stanton has embarked on a glorious road of money, power and beauty in Hollywood.

"Isn't it enough to suffer in the past year?" Murphy suddenly laughed and whispered in a self-deprecating tone, "You're not that naïve student anymore, don't have such a low-level and stupid idea again, okay?" ”

Even if he is an outsider, Murphy knows that Hollywood has never lacked scripts, let alone the current big six companies, even second-tier film companies, and I don't know how many scripts are lying there waiting to accumulate dust in the script library.

For many non-adapted films in the future, I don't know how many years the scripts have been lying in the script libraries of major companies......

Murphy remembers very well that some of the scripts on the Hollywood script blacklist appeared as early as the ** decade.

The odds of a newcomer's script being picked up by a film company are infinitely low, but it's a path, even if the odds are outrageously low, there's always some hope, and Murphy plans to try it if he can find a job with a steady income.

Thinking of this, Murphy stood up and walked to the window, looked through the window at the starry sky in the distance, and then sighed, gave up those unrealistic thoughts, and turned his mind to the most realistic thing, that is, to find a job with a legal income first to solve his livelihood problems.

It's his right to chase his dreams, and Murphy can survive the insanely desperate life in prison for it, and he will not hesitate to do some handyman or something to do it.

Of course, Murphy has another option, which is to continue with his predecessor's work.

He walked into his predecessor's studio, which he had cleaned up as a new one, with a rudimentary workbench and wooden chair and a shelf behind it free of dust, on which a notebook, a Canon hand-held video camera, and an on-board Los Angeles police receiver were neatly placed.

These are the work gear of the predecessor.

Sitting at the workbench, Murphy opened his notebook and found some news videos shot by his ex, from which it is not difficult to find that the guy used to shoot videos of current affairs in society, such as car accidents, fires and robberies, etc., and then he was tempted by a huge remuneration to stupidly shoot Summer-Lei Shidong's personal **.

There are not only videos, but also how to use the police receiver, the police code for the Los Angeles Police, and the contact information for the heads of the press departments of several local Los Angeles television stations.

The other party's previous work was not complicated, basically haunting the streets and alleys of Los Angeles, snapping some news footage of public concern, and then selling it to interested TV stations.

However, Murphy does not intend to continue such work, but is only interested in these devices, after all, they can be exchanged for money to keep him going.

Although he gave up those stupid ideas, Murphy still has some plans, this is Hollywood, there are countless people who work in film, and this is also his first choice for finding work.

Career in the film industry first, even at the lowest level of odd jobs, is enough to gain experience and find opportunities......

In fact, all film circles around the world are the same, countless talented people are invested in it, and there are very few successful ones, and many times opportunity is more important than talent.

As the night wore on, Rose called and asked what else Murphy needed, and now that he was better than a human, Murphy couldn't care about anything else, and bluntly said that he wanted to borrow a car for the time being so that he could go out and find a suitable job.

Early the next morning, a young black man sent a new Chevrolet to the three-way intersection, Rose was very attentive, the car was obviously newly filled, Murphy parked the car in an alley on the side of the apartment building, bought breakfast and a number of newspapers, went back upstairs, and read the newspaper's recruitment section while eating, trying to see if there was a suitable type for him.

With his current conditions, the requirements are really low, as long as he is engaged in a film-related industry and can settle the remuneration in a timely manner.

This is Los Angeles, the seat of Hollywood, with thousands of large and small film and television production companies and studios, and several crews start work every day, and similar job opportunities are still available.

After flipping through the two newspapers, Murphy transcribed a few pieces of information of interest one by one, and called later, when he saw the last newspaper, a job advertisement that took up a lot of space appeared in front of him, and his eyes lit up instantly.

This huge crew has just begun to prepare, openly recruiting artists, costumes, painters, assistants and many other staff, and the name of this project is "The Matrix"!

It only took a few lines for Murphy to understand that this was a job advertisement for the Wachowski brothers' two-part sequel to The Matrix, and it was undoubtedly a good opportunity.