Chapter 448: The Man Who Collects Eyeballs
The Best Actress trophy at this year's Saturn Awards goes to Naomi Watts of King Kong. Nina became a clapping accompaniment to congratulate the runners, and Ye Wei comforted her and said, "It's okay, work hard to play Carrie well, and come back next year to win the award." Nina quipped: "It's much better than last year, and next year will be better." ”
Christian Bale won Best Actor, Peter Jackson won Best Director, Star Wars Prequel 3 won Best Sci-Fi Film, and "Exorcism Video" beat "Emily Rose's Exorcism" and "Land of the Living Dead" to win Best Horror Film.
In the loud applause of the audience, under the excited and joyful gaze of Nina, Ye Wei took the stage to receive the golden trophy, stood behind the glass podium and looked at the guests and reporters, and said with difficulty: "What can I say? You know that I am a crow's mouth." ”
The auditorium burst into laughter, and guests such as Jodie Foster and Tom Cruise who attended the Golden Globe and Oscars were even more happy.
Ye Wei naturally refers to the gift package tax incident, recently the dust has settled, no one can fight the IRS, and they still have to pay taxes. AMPAS has announced the end of the giveaway system, this year is the last one, and the consolation prize will be gone from next year. On the side of the Golden Globe Awards, HFPA will help the stars pay the gift package taxes in the past two years, and this year's stars will pay it themselves.
"I'm grateful. "The Exorcism Video" is a miracle, but the miracle is based on the fact that we made a good movie. Thank you Andrew, Heck, they wrote a great story, thank you Michael, Julie, Mayes...... Everyone, thank you all for your concerted efforts. Thank you Nina. ”
Ye Wei looked at a place in the guest seat, looked at the delicate smiling face, and smiled: "Her amazing and incredible performance is the soul of the movie, thank you." Thank you Lionsgate for your outstanding launch, and you have to thank Yunnick Kuhler. ”
The audience burst into laughter again, but Nina was upset.
"What a passionate young man. Thank you, college, thank you. Ye Wei said and walked with the trophy.
The applause rang out, and Nina puffed her hands vigorously, as if she was a little stunned in addition to her joy, as if there was something she should think of, what should she think of?
This sorrow became more and more aggravated with the end of the award ceremony, there was no celebration party, she and Ye Wei returned backstage, did not go to the media exposure, he went to say hello to her mother and chatted a few words before leaving. Nina could see that he didn't mean to get together, he didn't want to.
It reminded her that the other main reason she broke up with him was "not suitable", four months ago and still is.
Reunion, long-distance relationship, every time we meet and quarrel, communication becomes a problem, and he finds other girls to fill the gap she can't give... Is that good? Not good.
He's too smart, he knows badly. The breakup is for everyone's good, he looks fine, what about her, the new life continues!
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After leaving the Universal Studios Hilton Hotel, Ye Wei and Dimberlake had a text message and phone call about the supermodel.
Timberlake has nothing to introduce, most of the old and famous are famous, and they are not interested in playing with him as a young man. Ye Wei is also not interested in playing with "old women", he likes people of the same age, and it is best not to be more than three years old in size.
Morgan Dubride? She's not in Los Angeles. Antti Muyce is a demure and traditional person, and after a few phone calls, he doesn't want to mess with her.
But he really needs a hot and funny lingerie model, not why, just need, lingerie models are like chocolate, they can be addictive.
There are a lot of model numbers in the mobile phone, and it doesn't have to be a Victoria's Secret model, who knows who will be in the future, just be hot and funny, and it's even better if you're talented.
Ye Wei didn't act tonight, because the desire to write was very strong, and the inspiration couldn't be closed!
Driving all the way back to his residence in Santa Monica, he made a few cups of tea, sat down in front of the computer in the studio, opened WORD and wrote the short story he had conceived earlier, ready to upload it to the blog when he was ready, and was too lazy to submit anything.
Looking at the computer screen, Ye Wei knocked down a question:
The-Collects-Eyeball-Man
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Before social networks, journalists wouldn't have had the job of refreshing websites such as blogs of celebrities. Although in the field of traditional media, this way of finding press releases from the Internet instead of public relations and issuing press releases and doing exclusive interviews has not yet been recognized by the mainstream, it is undoubtedly the trend of the times, let alone online media.
As one of the topic production machines, countless reporters and fans have the habit of brushing his blog.
This morning, AOL's entertainment reporter David Luquett checked the blogs of popular celebrities as usual, digging for news topics, and when he refreshed Ye Wei's blog, there was a new log! VIY updated his blog for four consecutive days, "The Man Who Collected Eyeballs"?
Lukett opened it suspiciously, it turned out to be a short story of tens of thousands of words, published on 5/3/2006-1:35am, that is, Ye Wei posted it after the Saturn Award last night.
There were already a lot of clicks and comments on the journal, full of "Wow, that's great!", "Keep writing!", Lukett immediately read it in amazement.
It's no surprise that VIY writes short stories, he is also a talented screenwriter, blogger and writer, and has been running a weekly column at LAT for more than two years, but his achievements are not as high as those of directors and are often overlooked, but he is often listed in the top ten teenage writers with Christopher Paolini and others.
Now it's a "final", I don't know how it was written?
Will he be ridiculed and ridiculed by his media peers, or will he once again show his outstanding literary brilliance? As soon as Lukett read the beginning, his eyes lit up, and he became very interested, and the more he watched, the more he became engaged, and he forgot to comment on it.
At the same time, "The Man Who Collects Eyeballs" was still read and circulated by many people, and the media began to report the news: VIY has written a novel!
This is a zombie-themed horror story, divided into three paragraphs.
The beginning of the first paragraph is interesting, at last night's Saturn Awards, there was a sudden zombie motle, a terrible mess, and the escape of the crowd was both thrilling and extremely ironic. In addition to Ye Wei herself being called Ye Wei, Nina Dubov is also called Nina Dubov, and other celebrities have used pseudonyms.
But because of the obvious image description, the fat man director "Ted McGed" with a beard fell behind shortly after the beginning because he was fat and couldn't run, and was torn in half by the zombies with his mouth and eaten alive, which is obviously Peter Jackson.
His death and his screams "My-Lord!" , fans who are familiar with PJ movies can see that this is a joke about "Zombies Play Across the Line": the classic mouth-tearing poster, Father McGed shouting to the zombies "I teach you on behalf of God!"
But Ye Wei doesn't seem to write this because of a grudge, George A. Romero was the first to die tragically, his chance encounter with Jodie Foster escaped from the hotel and saw a taxi coming on the side of the road, she hurriedly shouted "Taxi!", but she didn't expect the driver to be a semi-mutated zombie, and got out of the car and bit her to death.
If you don't know about Jodie Foster's famous "Taxi Driver" and the Hinckley incident, you can only feel nervous, and fans in the know face this serious black humor, cruel text, VIY details how "Iris Doster" was torn to pieces by the hordes of zombies that rushed in, which is really kind of weirdly creepy.
Ye Wei and Nina Dobrev also escaped from the hotel, but unfortunately encountered a group of zombies in the parking lot and were fighting. Dubov was bitten and eaten alive by zombies, and he didn't have time to say anything about dying, and Ye Wei, who was almost dead, could do nothing but scream and flee in grief.
In the second paragraph, Ye Wei is driving alone in Los Angeles at night, to rush back to Brentwood's home, the world has changed dramatically, screams, gunshots are everywhere, and the streets are filled with zombies and panicked people.
When Ye Wei returned home after all the hardships, he found that his family members were dead, and several neighbor zombies were eating the corpses of them and their puppy Toto.
At the end of the second paragraph, Ye Wei fled to his room and took a collection of mountain knives to kill the zombies. At the same time, the kitchen that caught fire turned into a whole house burning, Ye Wei sat on the sofa in the living room, looking at the corpses of his family in a pool of blood, his face expressionless.
The third paragraph reads:
[The sky is dark, and the faint morning light awakens the young couple Jay and Tarlene, and the terrible but safe silence still hangs over the woods along the road. Suddenly, they heard the roar of zombies hidden in the cold wind of Hulong, they did not roar often, only when they were killing.
The two men knew it was time to go, and that danger was imminent, so they picked up their humble bags and went out of the woods to continue on their way. They set out from Bakersfield to go to Nevada, which is a crowded southern california with a lot of people, but it's so sparsely populated that it would be easier to survive.
They don't have the faith, and the world now doesn't make sense, and it stands to reason that they've just entered a college campus, not eating what little cookie they have left.
They got the biscuits from a backpacker zombie, and luckily, they started with five packs.
Since the cataclysm three years ago, this has been Jay's luckiest one. Tarlene was better than him, she even had a hot pizza at the cost of eating a different man's champa, a team of five men and a woman, a merchant, a teacher, a cook, a cleaner, and a homeless man, who all died, she guessed, and they left her to flee for their lives.
Jay saved her as he drove by, like a Thunderbolt Ranger, and they missed the car, the 1997 Buick Regal, silvery-white, looking clean and bright, like new. It breaks down on the road after knocking over a small group of zombies, and they seem to be starting to run out of luck.
"A blanket!"
Taryn was suddenly surprised by a loud cry, and Jay saw a variegated plaid blanket spread out beside a large oak tree in front of her.
The two approached cautiously, the blanket was clean, only the corners were blackened with blood, Tarin picked it up, soft and warm, it felt great, she sniffed, there was not much fishy smell and musty smell, but there was a man's stinking sweat residue, someone had used it for a short time.
"Hell yes, your wish has come true. Jay happily said that since losing the Buick, Tarlene has been saying that she wants a blanket.
"yes, it looks like we're going to have good luck today. Tarin couldn't help but laugh.
There was a sudden sound in the woods that woke Meimeng, and the nerves of both of them tensed for a moment, and both of their right hands reached for the dagger pinned to their waists, and looked around.
"That's my blanket. ”
An emotionless voice rang out from behind the oak tree, and Jay and Tarin turned to see a tall, young Asian man, ragged, holding a bloody knife in his right hand and the head of an immobile blonde female zombie in his left.
Medium-length black hair pressed against his forehead, covering half of his face, but the corners of his mouth could still be seen slightly raised, with a hint of an inexplicable smile.
Seeing him approaching, both of them couldn't help but hold their breath, they had met countless people in the past three years, good people, bad people, good and bad people, what this man was, they couldn't tell.
"Friend, we have no ill intentions, this blanket ......" Jay looked at the blanket that was grabbed by Talin, there was no need to continue, the blanket was already theirs.
"Take it. The young man said, and he sat down on the side of the oak tree, put down his sword, and looked at the zombie head in both hands.
Jay and Tarin looked at each other, and when they saw each other's doubts, he didn't complain, which made them unable to convince themselves, and a sense of danger welled up in their hearts.
"Really?" asked Taryn.
The young man grinned, "Just a blanket." ”
His teeth were very white, and it was not common for him to have such white teeth now. He had black letters tattooed on the top of his ten fingers, and suddenly, he reached out and gouged out the left eyeball of the zombie's head, and the rotting and smelly black blood was staining the EVIL in his right hand.
THE TWO OF THEM TOOK A FEW STEPS BACK ALERTLY, WATCHING IN SILENCE AS HE GOUGED OUT THE RIGHT EYEBALL OF HIS SKULL, AND RUIN ON HIS LEFT HAND WAS COVERED IN SLIMY BLOOD.
"Look at these beautiful blue eyes. The head rolled to the side, and the young man clenched a bloodshot eyeball in each hand, the blue of the sky, and he said, "I used to be a film director, and I thought she could have been a Hollywood star, and I would have made her my heroine." Mara, her name is Mara. ”
As he spoke, he wiped his eyes on the tattered sleeve of his shirt and put it in his pocket, very gently.
Taryn's gaze lowered slightly, looking at the blanket in her hand, the black and hard blood clots in the corners......
"Let's go. Jay told her that there was no need to clash with this man.
Just as they were about to move on, they saw the young man remove a layer of fallen leaves next to him, revealing a gray rucksack hidden in a low depression, which looked full, and Jay and Taryn's eyes became feverish.
"What's in the backpack?" Jay leaned for the dagger at his waist again, keeping his eyes on the machete that lay on the ground.
Tarin gave him a calm look and said as kindly as she could, "We have no food, and if you could give us some, it would be appreciated." ”
With a pop, the young man unzipped the top of his backpack and opened it to them, "Some eyeballs." ”
Both of them suddenly saw that the backpack was full of white eyeballs, each of which was like marbles, Jay swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and Tarin's hand trembled a little.
They knew they should get out of here as soon as possible, away from this man, because to collect that bag of eyeballs, whether it was from a living person or a zombie's head, they shouldn't provoke this man. But they could not resist hunger, and they could not escape until then.
Jay drew his dagger, unconsciously narrowed his eyes, and asked, "Is it any use?"
"These eyeballs?" the young man grinned, "I have to feel that I am being noticed for the occupational diseases that I have left behind." ”
Taryn struggled to squeeze out a smile, and Jay asked, "What else?" ”
"You weren't a paparazzi before, were you?" the young man grabbed a handful of eyeballs from his backpack and looked like he was thinking, "Don't you think it's strange that the whole body is rotten everywhere you lose, and there are two places where you don't, one is the teeth, and the other is the eyeballs." Why?"
"They're alive......," Tarin whispered, but her voice changed at the thought of something unusual: "Why aren't those eyeballs rotting?"
"Because it's cooked. The young man's left hand picked up an eyeball from his right palm, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and stretched out his right palm to them, "Do you want some protein?"
The two of them watched him chew hard, chewing so loudly, they were both a little stupid, and they felt like vomiting, he was eating zombies... Eating the human eye......
Nervous, scared, stunned?
Restlessness all over my body.
There was bitter saliva at the bottom of the tongue, and there was no sound in the throat.
The young man looked like he was eating very well, and with a muffled sound, something was bitten to pieces, and he grinned and said again: "This guy is so strong, it is possible for both men and women." You know, I think the reason why their teeth and eyeballs aren't rotten is because zombies eat and see the same way as humans. ”
"Eat life, see death. He put another eyeball in his mouth and chewed it, shook his head and smiled: "Survival, competition and continuation, it has always been like this, and it continues to be like this." ”
He looked at the two of them, put the eyeball in his right hand on the ground, zipped up his backpack and lifted it, and picked up the mountain knife at the same time.
Both Jay and Tarin couldn't help but take a few steps back, a chill blowing up their scalps.
"It doesn't matter. The young man said, "The food has been given to you, and the means of getting it have been given to you, so enjoy it." ”
The two of them were silent, and watched as the young man walked away with his backpack and machete, disappearing into the shadows of the trees. Then they cautiously walked to the edge of the oak tree, and looked down at the small pile of eyeballs on the fallen leaves of the mud floor, and the head of the female zombie was lying on its back, and the eyeless eyes were two seemingly bottomless bloody holes.
Mara, she was sixteen or seventeen years old when she died.
The man just now was Ye Wei, they all remembered it, they knew him, and they used to like his "Little Sunshine Beauty" very much. ], there was a muffled sound, something was bitten to pieces, he grinned, and said again: "This guy is really strong, both men and women are possible." You know, I think the reason why their teeth and eyeballs aren't rotten is because zombies eat and see the same way as humans. ”
"Eat life, see death. He put another eyeball in his mouth and chewed it, shook his head and smiled: "Survival, competition and continuation, it has always been like this, and it continues to be like this." ”
He looked at the two of them, put the eyeball in his right hand on the ground, zipped up his backpack and lifted it, and picked up the mountain knife at the same time.
Both Jay and Tarin couldn't help but take a few steps back, a chill blowing up their scalps.
"It doesn't matter. The young man said, "The food has been given to you, and the means of getting it have been given to you, so enjoy it." ”
The two of them were silent, and watched as the young man walked away with his backpack and machete, disappearing into the shadows of the trees. Then they cautiously walked to the edge of the oak tree, and looked down at the small pile of eyeballs on the fallen leaves of the mud floor, and the head of the female zombie was lying on its back, and the eyeless eyes were two seemingly bottomless bloody holes.
Mara, she was sixteen or seventeen years old when she died.
The man just now was Ye Wei, they all remembered it, they knew him, and they used to like his "Little Sunshine Beauty" very much. 】