005 Dreams shattered
Gwyneth thought she wanted to get back together with her...... George thought he was best friends with him...... But George also knew that he and Ryan had a bitter enmity...... Formal and solemn occasions...... Mr. Reitz ......
Countless chaotic thoughts were rampaging in his brain, countless trivial information set off waves in his mind, and his panic just now had nothing to do with Gwyneth herself, but because of the inadvertent leakage of information in her words caused a chain reaction, making Lance suddenly realize that something seemed to be wrong.
The dream and the reality were completely confused, and he couldn't tell the difference at all now, Lance closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then took a deep breath again, forcing himself to calm down, ignore the traitor next to him for the time being, and grasp the situation clearly.
Opening his eyes again, Lance began to look around, this was clearly a cemetery, the rustic tombstones were scattered but orderly, the emerald green bushes were rolling at the end of the sight, the plane trees behind him were still luxuriant, and the air was wafting with the dry smell of midsummer.
About fifty yards ahead, black suits and black dresses were clustered together like small clouds, and in the center a light brown rectangular coffin could be faintly seen, surrounded by various bouquets of flowers...... The whispers of people are not noisy, but those small whispers are connected, but there is an indescribable depression and irritability, as if the heaviness of mourning can be felt between the eyebrows.
It's a funeral, obviously.
Looking down at your outfit, a proper black suit with an ivory white shirt, just a slight turn of the body can feel the soft fabric of the suit firmly wrap the muscles, tight shoulder line, obedient waistline, delicate line feet, etc. are all suggesting that this is a valuable Haute Couture handmade suit.
Turning his head to look at George standing next to him, he still had a look of scorn on his face, trying to make some innocuous jokes, to redeem the embarrassment and wolf bèi of the sudden situation just now, and he was naturally wearing a decent black suit; Looking at the distance, Ryan stood next to Barry-Meyer, the CEO of Warner Bros., both of whom looked heavy and depressed, but the conversation was very close; Not far away, Meryl-Streep and Jeremy-Irons clasped their hands in front of them and whispered to Betsy-Blair, Becky's face with calm mourning.
A light flashed in his brain, and Lance suddenly understood that this was a funeral, the funeral of the famous director Karel-Reisz, because Betsy was his widow!
However, Lance understood, but he was confused, how could he appear at this funeral? Carrel's funeral, although also in the summer of 2002, took place two weeks after he left Diorama Pictures. One moment, he was still at the door of the office building of Diorama Pictures, and the next moment he appeared at the funeral two weeks later? This......
Could this be another dream?
Lance genuinely felt that his second life was coming to an end. Recently, my dreams have become more and more frequent, sometimes dreaming of his life when he was Li Jin, busy in the editorial room with his colleagues until dawn at midnight, just to catch up with the deadline; From time to time, I dreamed of his life after he became Lancelot, sitting blankly in the empty seat of the New York subway and stepping on the moonlight in the early morning to return to his dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn......
Dreams became more frequent and more real, so much so that he couldn't tell what was real and what was illusory, as if he were in an Inception story.
However, it was the first time that I came to this funeral in a dream! For the first time! This is the place where he crossed / became Lancelot from Li Jin, and it is also the place where his two lives intersected and began to separate. Could it be that his life has really come to an end? The "legendary experience" of his two lives is about to come to an end here?
At the beginning, his name was Li Jin, a Chinese/Chinese with strong roots, a fanatic of film and music, and after graduating from university, he entered an online media, hoping to become an entertainment editor and wander in the world of movies, but he didn't want to be arranged to run social news. One hot summer, he found a little girl falling into the water during the collection of materials, and he immediately left his work behind and heroically saved people...... Then glory and righteousness.
When he thought that his life was over, and that he was about to have tea with God, he found that he had come to his senses, but when he came to his senses, he was no longer Li Jin, but Lancelot-Strello - Lance, who was attending Karel Reitz's funeral, and when he realized that he was wearing/crossing, he became one of the countless armies of wear/crosses in the novel, and the ecstasy overwhelmed him in an instant, almost making him lose control.
However, this is the end of the "legendary" part of the legendary experience.
The pie that gets a second chance to change his life smashes him unconscious, and he takes it for granted that after wearing/passing, he can use his prophetic abilities to show his strength, and then become the top storage in the world, and have supreme power in Hollywood, and become a big winner in life.
But the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. Harsh reality soon gave him a bucket of cold water - or rather ice water.
After the funeral, the memories of Lancelot in his mind never merged, and he still existed as Li Jin, in order to avoid exposing his details in front of his acquaintances, he fled Los Angeles in a hurry and went to New York, hoping to find a good opportunity to rise in Gotham City, and then create a era of his own.
But soon, Li Jin discovered the cruelty of reality, and his understanding of the entertainment industry was too one-sided and too superficial. It's not that you can write a script after watching a movie, you can't make your own movie after studying the movie repeatedly, and you can't take advantage of the magpie's nest if you know which movie can be successful...... Film art creation requires not only talent, but also foundation and knowledge, as well as opportunity and luck!
The fierce competition in the American film industry almost made him unable to find a gap to exploit the loopholes, and he was like a flat boat in a storm, and before he could think of a solution, he was drowned by one wave after another, completely losing himself.
What's even more terrifying is that whenever he gets some opportunities, he will lose his job for inexplicable reasons.
He once relied on his own efforts to reach the threshold of Broadway, but the opportunity quietly disappeared, and even suffered a blow of ruin, the most severe of which was when he was given the opportunity to direct an Off-Broadway play independently, only to be released three days before he was ready to take the stage, the behind-the-scenes investors decided to withdraw their investment, and the entire crew fell apart. Not only did he miss an opportunity, but more importantly, he gained notoriety for ruining an upcoming drama and has been in a state of collapse ever since.
He was forced to return to Off-Broadway step by step, and then to Off-Broadway, and finally even to audition on Off-Broadway, he still struggled to find an acting job for months, relying on a daytime café waiter and a job teaching acting classes in the evenings to make ends meet, struggling to pursue his dreams.
Originally, Li Jin thought that his luck had run out, and God had put all his good luck on the only time he wore it, and his dream would eventually be locked in the bustling and noisy neon shadow of New York; But when Li Jin understood the rules of operation of the American entertainment industry, when Li Jin fused Lancelot's memories, when Li Jin really adapted to this time and space, and when Li Jin and Lancelot really became the same person, he understood that the mastermind behind him was not fate or God, but Ryan Cavalauger.
But alas, he understood too late, and he had already missed too many opportunities.
After finishing work at about 3 o'clock this morning, his last memory is to take the early morning subway to Brooklyn, and then fall asleep on the subway vaguely, one dream after another made him struggle, and then ...... And then it's now.
So, what's going on? Is this a dream or reality?
"Hey, man, don't sue me, you're still suffering because of Gwyneth?" George's voice came intermittently from his ears, and with a "snap", George slapped Lance's shoulder hard, and teased with a smile, "Please, I really didn't mean to ...... just now"
But before the words fell, Lance's whole person fell straight back like a broken marionette, which directly stunned George.
Lance only felt a huge push from his shoulder, he didn't fight against this force, let gravity pull his body down, the fast and fierce falling feeling suddenly hit, his heart contracted fiercely, all the hairs on his body stood up, the illusory feeling of the dream faded like a tide in an instant, the reality of reality came to his face, and then he fell to the ground hard, the piercing pain swept along with gravity, making the muscles reflexively curl up.
It's real, it's not a dream! The whole dream was shattered like shattered glass, and the weight of reality pulled Lance to the bottom of the sea, and then suddenly let go, breaking through the water, and fresh air poured into his brain, and the sharp sting made everything wake up.
This is the reality.
He had thought countless times that his dream was just the tip of the iceberg of a mirage, and that the cruel reality and bloody betrayal had slowly, slowly, and slowly stifled the vitality of the dream; He had thought countless times that his journey through and over was just an ordinary member of the crowd in the bustling traffic of New York. He had thought countless times that that was all there was to it, his unwillingness, his anger, his remorse, his annoyance, his pain, his struggle...... is so tightly stuffed by the darkness and cruelty of society that there is not even a way to vent.
But now, he's back in 2002 and he's back www.biquge.info Fun Pavilion, and he's once again won the chance to take his destiny into his own hands! Once again, he won the chance to rematch with his "best friends"! Once again, he won the chance to rewrite all the history! But the difference is that he can clearly see the truth behind everyone's mask, he can also clearly grasp every context of future development, and most importantly, he is no longer the ignorant rookie.
This time, he wants to win back those qiē that belong to him!
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