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The day after he returned home, Duke temporarily packed his luggage, went to his mother's advertising agency, got a typewriter from the office, and packed up the empty room on the balcony on the second floor facing the sea as a temporary studio.

A long time has passed since the other world in his memory, he does not have a computer to store the normal brain, many things have long been blurred, even the Hollywood movies that he spent a lot of energy researching, even if he still remembers the main plot clearly, many details have almost been forgotten.

Especially those movies that have only been seen once or twice, basically only have a very faint impression, and if no one prompts them, they can't even remember them at all.

This limits the range of options available to him.

In addition, although the two worlds add up to more than 20 years of learning and accumulation, and he has also filmed two real films in the past few years, he has to admit that he has not directed any formal film projects independently, lacks real experience, and is a complete novice.

In this way, literary films must be excluded in the first place, and he has also studied films in this area, so he understands that he is not suitable for this genre now, otherwise even if he gets the opportunity to take charge of the director, he will be completely messed up.

There are also horror movies, which are typical of the small and big that often appear in North America, but unfortunately he is not a fan of horror movies and has seen extremely limited.

Gently buckling the armrest of the chair, Duke's mind gradually shifted to the present, movies are deeply influenced by the social environment, once successful films, even if they were shot at the original level, may hit the streets in the early nineties, and the films he chooses must be popular and acceptable to the majority of audiences.

What are the movies that are all the rage in Hollywood today? Romantic romance and fiery action movies!

The former can also be thrown away, while the latter ...... Duke's mind immediately remembered the names and general plots of several movies.

From the perspective of plot direction, lens language, actors' acting skills, lighting sets, post-editing, dubbing and dubbing, etc., these action movies that he has carefully studied are the most suitable choices.

After drinking the black tea in the cup, Duke walked out of the temporary studio, made a few appointment calls, went to the garage to drive his second-hand Chevrolet, drove away from Santa Monica, and went straight to the Screenwriters Guild's Western Association branch in Los Angeles.

It took a whole afternoon for Duke to finally determine that the scripts of several of the films he remembered were not filed with the Writers Guild, so the possibility of a crash would be much smaller.

Of course, it is also possible that the script is being written or has not been filed with the Writers Guild, but even if it crashes in the future, it will be a 'coincidence'.

The rest of the work today is to choose the most suitable one from these films.

It wasn't difficult, and by the time he drove back home, Duke had already made a decision, as the one with the least investment was certainly the most suitable.

His mother had dinner in the evening, and Duke had dinner alone, returned to the studio on the second floor, sat down in front of the typewriter, and tried to recall the film that had been studied as a model, and gradually sorted out his own thoughts.

The structure of this film is simple, the theme is also very simple, and even the name is only one word - "Speed"!

In fact, it can also be called differently, and that name is more familiar to Duke, that is "Speed of Life and Death"!

This is one of Hollywood's most classic action movies of the 90s, and Duke is distressed that the investment in the film is definitely not low, even if it is the least expensive action movie he is familiar with.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union has not collapsed, Bill Clinton has not yet taken office, and even though the dollar has been depreciating, it has not been as flat as it was a few years later.

Even so, it would be a movie with an investment of more than 10 million dollars.

"Looks like it's ...... unless there are dollar bills falling from the sky"

Shaking his head, Duke let out a long sigh and knocked down the first letter of the typewriter.

As he said, there is indeed little hope, but if you work hard, there may be a little possibility of success; If you don't, there's really no chance.

"Only people with a strong character can create extraordinary achievements!"

Duke thinks this statement makes perfect sense.

For more than a week, Duke put aside the financial burden and worries about the future, and put all his heart and energy into sorting out a detailed character setting and script outline.

In this way, Duke has a pre-made template, and then he only needs to fill the blanks of the template according to the three-stage structure of the script and the assembly line writing mode, and he can get a standard Hollywood-style commercial script.

Even if there are many details that he has forgotten, in this kind of assembly-line script writing, he can find suitable filling paragraphs.

If you want the already slim chance not to shrink, the script must conform to Hollywood's operating model and aesthetic standards.

By the middle of May 1991, Santa Monica was shrouded in the scorching sun, and only at night, the cool breeze from the sea could dispel the heat and dryness of the day.

On the balcony on the second floor of the villa, white lights sprinkled every corner, and in the center was a small round plastic table, Duke sat in the rattan chair next to the table, his brows in thought, he was engrossed, completely ignoring the occasional blood-sucking mosquito, when the cool sea breeze blew again in the west, his hands placed in front of the typewriter slowly lifted and landed on the keys engraved with letters.

As the typewriter sounded, the white paper with lines of letters printed on it slowly rolled out of the machine.

Scene I, Act I.

The security door of the elevator on the ground floor of the building was pushed open from the outside, and a security guard with a walkie-talkie walked in, followed the blurred figure and sound, walked forward, and found an elderly maintenance worker, repairing something.

"Hey, no entry here!" He walked over and asked routinely.

"I know." The elderly maintenance worker only showed half of his figure, "I was asked to come and repair the line." ”

"Why didn't you notify me?" The security guard was a little strange and asked alertly, "Show me your repair order." ”

"Wait a minute." The maintenance worker bent down to look for the slip in the bag, his left hand without a thumb, obviously disabled, "Found it." ”

He stood up slowly, hiding his right hand behind the slip, and while the security guard's attention was focused on the slip, the knife in his right hand stabbed neatly into the guard's ear.

"It's not a personal vendetta!"

With the template, Duke's writing speed has increased a lot, the film is not complicated, and most of the bridges are also the usual methods of Hollywood, but they are reinterpreted with the close connection of time, speed and life and death, and even many of them, Duke can find a model for reference from the videotapes he has watched in recent years.

Writing is not a smooth process, even if he has long-term learning and accumulation, he also has things that he is not good at, such as emotional dramas.

Fortunately, this film basically does not need to highlight emotional dramas, and the male and female protagonists just go through hardships and walk together, and most of the content in this regard can be brushed aside.

For weeks, Duke was mostly at home, he didn't have any good friends, he was completely incarnated as an otaku in the nineties, and only occasionally could he communicate with his mother when Lady Leah was not busy.

"You don't know how to write emotional dramas?"

At the dinner table, Mrs. Leah squinted at Duke, "I remember that you have made a lot of friends since you were fifteen, right?" ”

"Mom, my time is precious, and my time and energy will not be wasted on falling in love."

Probably because of the lack of communication with people during this time, Duke has been talking a little too much lately, and with his mother in front of him, some words jumped out without much thought, "I'm just playing with them." ”

As soon as he said that, Duke noticed a change in his mother's vision, and quickly said, "I'm full and I'm going to continue working." ”

Back upstairs and reading the finished script, Duke began to put the finishing touches, counting the outline and character setting, he had used up a full six weeks, and the script for "Life and Death" was almost finished.

The main plot of the script has not changed much, but he has added many side details, in addition, he also appended a general budget of his own estimate at the back of the script, although he is not a professional, he has been on many sets, and he is no stranger to today's Hollywood, and the estimated figures are not much worse, if absolutely inaccurate.

According to Duke's idea, he would have been able to get all the production done between $14 million and $15 million by removing a lot of unnecessary plots, renting most of the props, using scaled-down models for some of the expensive plots, plus he could shoot fewer shots.

But it's still a terrifying budget figure.

"No film company would put such a large amount of money on a new director."

After the script was completed, Mrs. Leah naturally became the first reader, and after reading the script, she first put forward her opinion on the budget figures that followed, "Even if Hollywood production companies have multiple financing channels and lose a lot of money from investors, but ......"

She paused, as if thinking about something, but finally shook her head and sighed softly, "A sane person would not make such a big gamble. ”

"That ......," Duke asked seriously, "Mom, do you think any film company will adopt this script?" ”

"In addition to limiting the danger to enclosed spaces like elevators and buses, it is a bit creative to let life race against time and speed." She shook her head directly, "Let's be honest, Duke, I've seen quite a few movie and commercial scripts, and this is only a mediocre level at best. ”