"Hey, Jewish school garbage."

"What?"

"Get up! You fucking get me up! What the fuck do you think you are! Do you think it's a fucking test? Do you think God will use the sheep all the time, not you?! ”

"Help me ......"

Beneath the clearing of the overpass, a young man with a shaved head and a brown shirt stopped a Jewish student in a small white hat, punched him to the ground, and kicked him several times.

It would be a mistake to think that this one neo-Nazi is provoking, although it does have something to do with it.

"Well done, Sean." Director Henry behind the camera? Bean, after calling a stop, clapped his hands loudly in praise.

"Are you sure? Or do it again? After pulling up the actor who had been knocked to the ground before, Sean wiped his face and took a deep breath before touching his almost bald head and asked.

"I'm sure, it's good." The old director, who is over 55 years old, affirmed, "Let's take a rest first." ”

"Okay." Sean nodded, found a random place to sit down, and then took the water bottle handed by Sanders, and took a sip of it.

"It doesn't feel good at all," he said, "and I really feel like I'm a violent guy who wants to blow myself out by beating up people who don't like me." ”

"I'm not supposed to be among them, am I?" Sanders then asked.

It's a pity that this cold joke is not funny, Sean rolled his eyes and did not answer: "The worst thing is that I had to put in before I started filming, and then struggle out of it after the shooting, I don't know what it feels like for an insect like a butterfly to include itself in a cocoon when the larvae are developing and then break free, but I think it should be similar to my current situation." ”

"You brought it on yourself." Sanders shrugged, "You said you wanted to rest before, and you are already resting, but you still took this script, and even invested 200,000, I think you are really developing towards masochism." ”

Sean suddenly laughed dryly: "Henry and Mark both said that it can be completed in four weeks at most, just like "Death Illusion", plus I haven't been to New York for a long time, and I want to come and see it, so I'll go next." ”

Indeed, although he visited New York as a child, he was not very impressed, and most of them were around Manhattan Island. When filming "The Genius Ripley" before, it was completely a sightseeing experience, which is like now, not only wandering around various areas of New York County, but also stopping and stopping from time to time, which can give him enough time to observe.

The whole thing started like this, after the cooperation with the record company was blocked, Sean did not give up the idea of releasing a single, anyway, it is not difficult to spend some money to record a song by himself. But the problem is that he can't find any good songs for a while, so he still has nothing to do for the time being, so he meets two old men in the café, Henry? Bean and Mark? Jacobson.

That afternoon, he ate snacks and chatted with Galen and Sanders at the café, talking about "Death Illusion," which was still playing at midnight at the Pioneer Theater in New York's East Village. Although the film was only released for four weeks before it was released, the cost was finally recovered, and the videotapes and DVDs have been bought well, the reputation is still quite good, and there are more diehards than before.

"Independent films are part of Hollywood's film industry after all, so even if studios may lose more than they can make a profit, independent films will still be alive and well." Sean said later.

"What the hell is he trying to say?" Sanders turned to Galen and asked.

"What he means is that in the future, as long as he has the opportunity, he will still invest in independent films, and he will still play roles in independent films." Galen spread his hands.

"The parents of those who gave birth to me, and you who know me." Sean immediately laughed and came to Chinese.

"Here we go again." The two of them who didn't understand rolled their eyes.

Then, a voice came from the side: "Sorry, excuse me, is it Mr. Tang?" ”

It was an old man at the next table, who looked to be in his fifties, with a beard and a harmless smile. And one with glasses, a bit like Billy? Bob? Thornton, Sven Wen is very temperamental.

"Yes, I am, may I ask what's the matter?" Sean then asked curiously.

"My name is Mark, Mark? Jacobson, that's my friend Henry? Bean," the other said, "one of us is a screenwriter and the other is a director, we have a few good works, and we are discussing the script of an independent film, maybe you can give us some advice?" ”

"Weishenme looking for me?" Sean was a little surprised.

"Because of what you said before." Jacobson said with a smile.

"And we've heard you have a good eye." Bean then added.

This sentence instinctively made Sean aware of something, but he couldn't say anything specific, so he invited them to come and sit together. After that, they talked about the script in their hands, which is a somewhat interesting script, and the story called "The Believer" is adapted from a true story.

It is said that in the 60s of the last century, there was a famous neo-Nazi in New York named Daniel? Burns, who was very hostile to Jews, often preached racism in public and attacked those Jews. One day, a New York Times reporter interviewed him and found out that he was actually a Jew, so the news was published, and after his identity was revealed, Burns committed suicide.

Well, it's a bold subject, and it takes courage to make a film about this kind of subject in Hollywood, where Jews are everywhere, and in the United States, where Jews have a lot of voice. There are quite a few films about racial discrimination in Hollywood, and Sean's "Dance on Death Row" a few weeks ago is one of them, but there are very few films about discrimination against Jews, let alone Jews against Jews.

Although there were countless examples of Jews persecuting Jews during World War II, there were not a few Jews in Hitler's SS, and there were even rumors that the SS leader Heinrich? Himmler also had Jewish ancestry.

In a world where reflection on the persecution of Jews has become politically correct, and "Schindler's List" is widely circulated for Jews, making such films is an out-and-out risk. So these two have completed the script two years ago, but they have not been able to find anyone to invest, and in the past few days last year, they had already agreed with an investor, and the actors had already begun to contact, but they didn't know what happened halfway, and it dragged on until now.

Sean doesn't have much to say about this already well-established script, although the script does have some interest. But apparently, the minds of these two old men were not so simple, and soon their true colors were revealed.

"I'm going to play the lead role?" Sean looked at them with wide eyes as if it were a big joke.

"Yes, you do have a good eye for the good things in the script, and you don't reject independent films, as well as works like 'Illusion of Death', so why don't Weishenme try this more challenging role?" Bean asked, and he clearly had a good impression of Sean and tried his best to lobby.

Sean couldn't laugh or cry, and even talked about "Death Hallucination...... There is no doubt that they were premeditated, and it is not known whether they had been planning it for a long time, or if they had improvised it after discovering Sean in the café.

"Because I've already played roles in four or five movies in the first half of this year, and now I want to take a break." The conversation was quite pleasant before, and Sean didn't refuse directly, so he just said so tactfully.

"I'll just get it straight, Sean, if we can, we really want you to play the leading role." After exchanging opinions, Jacobson and Bean immediately said sincerely, "I know it's risky, and we can't offer more conditions to invite you, we just want to make a movie, a movie that will make a great impression." We've been planning this film for years, and it's taken a lot of effort, not to say that we put all of our money into it, so we're not going to let it fail. ”

"Then we overheard your conversation, and my gut told me that you were a very thoughtful young man, which is why I insisted on inviting you, and I would very much like you to think about it." Bean then replied.

The latter few sentences moved Sean quite a lot, and he could hear whether they were true feelings, although the birth of every independent film is full of twists and turns, especially the controversial story of "The Believer", but when you face it, it is not the same as the feeling of knowing.

So, even though he was a little dissatisfied with their concealment, he finally nodded: "I hope to see the full script and get back to you in three days." ”

Then, three days later, Sean gave them an affirmative answer that he was willing to play the male lead.

Of course, both Sanders and Frederick unanimously objected, and needless to say, the agent hated his obsession with independent films. Sanders said, it's not enough for you to shoot four or five movies in one go in the first half of the year? I just said that I want to take a break, and I have to release a record at my own expense, and now I have another script, you are playing us, right?

"They said that although they are going to New York to shoot, it can be done in four weeks at most, since I have time, and I can't adapt to it because of too much leisure for a while, so can Weishenme try?" That's what Sean said.

As for the main contradiction, the taboo theme of this script is nothing to dispute. Because, after reading the whole script, to be exact, this is actually an alternative story of praising Jews, no matter how rebellious the male protagonist is, how much he hates his Jewish identity, he finally recognizes and accepts this identity, and when the neo-Nazi group plans to blow up a synagogue, he rushes in and kicks out the people who pray inside, but he stays inside.

Come to think of it, although those two old men are not well-known figures in Hollywood, they are people who have been mixed for many years after all, and they will definitely not touch the forbidden area casually.

In short, the literary and artistic expression of this story is that love is as deep as hatred, and it is this place that evokes the subtle emotions in Sean's heart and makes him agree.