Chapter 4: Towards the Future

Turn the first page of [The First Step to Becoming an Actor].

The first page says the time.

It was three years ago, in 2229.

Turn to the second page, and the content starts to appear.

Director Zhou looked over with curiosity.

[Movie # "One-Armed Knights 2" is simply rubbish. I don't know what the motives of the characters are, and the male protagonist switches back and forth with several expressions throughout the process; The heroine's kissing is like gnawing on a pig's trotters, with a hideous face; The male partner said that it was a head catcher, but it was better to say that he was a flower thief; Supporting Actress ......】

[Interview # After listening to XXX's interview, I almost want to vomit.] The host asked him how he thought his acting skills were, and he was embarrassed to say that he was expected to win the best actor. Didn't anyone slap him to make him sober? His proud performance is just a low-profile version of XX, which is convincing in the context of ancient costumes, and in modern times, this set of acting methods is just that his brain can't turn around, and he doesn't want to make progress......]

"Uh......" The content that caught him off guard was like a fierce horse suddenly stepping into the lawn, and Director Zhou immediately covered the camera lens next to him, "Grass, don't shoot, don't shoot yet." ”

If these things are released, even if the ratings of the show rise, most of them will be scolded. Seasonal programs that eat traffic may be able to take this path. But their "Tonight" is intended to be a trickle of water, and it is really not suitable for such a thing.

Guan Chen, who looks like he has a wild style, didn't expect what he wrote to be so sharp and tricky. Director Zhou looked at the book with palpitations, and then looked at Guan Chen, who was wrapping a screwdriver in newspaper behind him.

"Don't shoot it casually." Guan Chen put down the screwdriver wrapped in newspaper.

"Don't worry, I've got it." Director Zhou put the [Step 1] notes away, took out the [Step 2], and asked the camera not to lift it up yet.

As a result, the intensity of the second notebook also increased.

[Book# can also publish a book at this level? If you want to make money, take some works. The experience in it is almost a copy of Mr. Wang's description in "The Poetry of the Body". The only thing that is commendable is that a few short stories are well written, enough to be published in the chicken soup section of "Confidant......]

[Impressions#I didn't watch a movie today, and I didn't read a book.] Yesterday I saw a couple of news pieces and wanted to encourage them to cheer them on. I hope they will make persistent efforts to work together to ruin Huaxia Film and Television. Wait until the theaters are full of Wang Qingjun's traffic, so let's just eat together......]

Turn a few pages back to see the rest. The content is much the same, either criticizing a certain movie or ridiculing a certain actor.

Although each item in the notes clearly points out the shortcomings of a certain movie or an actor, every sentence is targeted, and it is accurately criticized to the point, but the arrogant energy in it cannot be concealed, and he is not used to everything, and his mouth is so poisonous that he can't do it, even if it is a reasonable thing, it is disgusting to be said by such a cynical posture, and good words can become bad words.

Director Zhou closed the [Second Step] notebook, and he didn't need to look at the other books, he could guess that it must be full of anger and murderous spirit, "Only write such content, no matter how many steps you take, you can't be an actor......"

"What are you talking about?" Guan Chen suddenly came over.

Director Zhou had a lot of things to say in his heart, but he couldn't say it in front of Guan Chen, so he could only hand over the notebook in his hand and complain with his eyes.

Guan Chen took the note, flipped to a certain page at random, and immediately saw it with joy, and the case was amazing, "Hahaha, I'm really interesting!" "I'm not worried at all that fans of the movies and actors who are mentioned will tear him apart if the content of the notes is released.

[You're the one who says this kind of thing, right?] 】

Director Zhou looked at Guan Chen in front of him, thinking back to the nearly half an hour they had been together, Guan Chen's demeanor was generous, not pretentious, not twisted, not only did he not feel inferior because of the surrounding environment, but he had a big brother-like arrogance, which was very pleasant to communicate, and at the same time took into account the delicacy, not too heartless; Obviously he has read so many books, but he is not in a hurry to show off his knowledge at all, if he doesn't ask, he is probably like an ordinary person, and he will not say that he graduated from a prestigious university; Even if he is an unsuccessful actor, after hearing an interview from the TV station, he did not flatter and posted it in the hope of getting any opportunity to be exposed, even if he was given the opportunity to promote himself, he did not want it.

If it weren't for the notes being found, I wouldn't have known that he still had such a sharp and mean side.

Inside and outside the note, the two images are too contradictory. It's like two people.

"It's like two people." Director Zhou unabashedly sighed.

For Director Zhou, it was just a sigh, but for Guan Chen, it was an anti-virus prompt.

[There is a loophole! 】

Guan Chen put down his notebook and secretly reflected, now is really not the time to read the collection of complaints.

He has a very different style from his predecessor, and strangers will only have a small suspicion, but those who are close to his predecessor will definitely feel strange.

Guan Chen is not worried about being arrested and sliced after the matter is revealed. When relatives and friends feel strange, it's a big deal for him to move to another city to live. But he needed money to move, and he didn't have it now.

So until he has enough money to leave behind his old social connections and embrace life in the new world, the loophole can't explode. His style of acting is different from that of his predecessor, and there must be a reasonable explanation.

"That's right." Guan Chen opened his mouth to interrupt Director Zhou's conjecture, lowered his head and pulled out a plastic bag from the ground.

Director Zhou saw that the white plastic bag was printed with blue handwriting: The Tenth People's Hospital of Modu.

"Seven days ago, I was hit by a fire and was discharged from the hospital yesterday. The doctor said I was lucky enough to be in a vegetative state and couldn't wake up. Guan Chen's tone slowed down: "I had a dream during the coma, I dreamed of a lot of things, and I also dreamed of many people. These include some people I hate, and things that I don't like all along. ”

Although it was a little sudden, Guan Chen's sudden confession still surprised Director Zhou. Hurriedly beckoned the guy to set up the camera and get back to work.

Guan Chen instinctively adjusted the angle of his sitting posture, so that the light could be lowered and his face could be more photogenic: "I didn't major in acting in college, and after graduation, I suddenly wanted to try acting and become an actor." I lived here for three years, and I usually made ends meet by doing odd jobs, and the rest of the time I spent buying books, reading, writing, and learning to act. I feel like I'm so good that I don't like anything. So I don't have any friends anymore. Maybe no one will attend my funeral when I'm dead.

When people are dying, there is no flashback of the past. As I lay in bed thinking about what I had, I realized that I had nothing but hate. ”

Self-reflection is not any kind of performance, it is the narrator poking his own lung tubes and dissecting the heart as an onion. Guan Chen said and said, thinking about the lonely death of his previous life.

Director Zhou and the cameraman listened quietly.

After Guan Chen was silent for a moment, his words suddenly changed, and his eyes were as bright as two freshly sharpened knives: "I'm lucky, I can be regarded as picking up a rotten life, and I woke up after three days in a coma, and there are no sequelae." After I was discharged from the hospital, I thought about it, I was going to do something different. For example, I want to make friends, make a lot of friends. I want to get out of this room and go somewhere else. ”

After listening to Guan Chen's words, Director Zhou and the cameraman were able to understand the reason for Guan Chen's great changes before and after.

This is probably the great calamity that will not die, and there will be blessings in the future. Director Zhou was happy for Guan Chen, and felt that Guan Chen's current mentality was very good. The cynical, gloomy and vicious Guan Chen in the past, it would be good to let him stay in the past.

"Ah, wait, the fire seven days ago?" Director Zhou suddenly thought of something, and asked Guan Chen urgently: "Where did you encounter the fire?" ”

Guan Chen thought for a while: "The doctor told me that it was [Anping Apartment]. ”

"Anping Apartment!" The director clapped his hands with excitement, he knew about the fire.

Seven days ago, I heard from a friend from the Taili Information Department that there was a fire in the [Anping Apartment], and the scale was quite large, because the fire broke out in the middle of the night, and many people were burned to death and suffocated. It's just that there was a young man who ran in and out to save a lot of people before the fire truck arrived, but unfortunately, the enthusiastic young man should have lost his physical strength in the end, and after rushing in for the last time, he didn't come out for a long, long time. Later, when the firefighters rescued him, the young man had fallen into a coma, and it was said that he was in a bad condition, inhaled a lot of poisonous gas, and even if he woke up, he might become a vegetative state due to brain damage.

"You're the one who saved a lot of people?" Director Zhou looked at Guan Chen in shock.

Guan Chen nodded: "Yes." ”

Director Zhou took a deep breath, knowing that tonight's trip was a big gain.

He excitedly asked Guan Chen a few questions, such as "Why did you rush into the fire to save people?" "What is the feeling when you are surrounded by fire?" ”……

Guan Chen's answer was ordinary but great, "Actually, I don't remember what I thought at the time, it can be said that it was an instinctive reaction of the body." "In terms of mood, I will be very anxious at first, thinking about how I can die here. Later, I found out that I really couldn't change the outcome of death, so I thought, it turns out that death is like this. ”……

After listening to the before and after of the fire accident, Director Zhou recalled Guan Chen, the strong contrast between the inside and outside of the notes, the dirty environment and the neat bookcase, and vaguely some thoughts formed in his mind.

The previous episodes of the show always felt "a little worse" in terms of content. Now he kind of knows what that "point" is.

In the past, he went to passers-by's homes to shoot materials, and photographed furniture and decoration everywhere, trying to use the furnishings of the house as a key, so as to unlock the character code of the owner of the house.

Now Guan Chen has proved that, on the other hand, he uses the story of the person as the theme to unlock the code of the house with the theme of the interviewee.

Your life may have been like this or that before you encounter something, but something that is either ordinary or unexpected happens suddenly, and your life has changed since then. The surrounding environment is the embodiment of personality, not the cause of personality.

Through this interview, Director Zhou felt that he had a different understanding of his work.

[I wanted to become an actor to experience life but suffered setbacks, became an isolated house, and one day became an unknown hero, saved several people from a fire, and finally woke up after experiencing life and death, and got a broader life. 】

Director Zhou instantly gave a title to the content filmed today. It's almost a standard inspirational movie, with enough ambition and enough ups and downs in the plot.

The time has come to two o'clock in the morning, but Director Zhou is not sleepy at all, he just wants to cut out tonight's material as soon as possible. In addition, the main creator will be convened to adjust the shooting focus after the show.

Director Zhou didn't forget to buy books to fund Guan Chen, and after buying three books for two hundred yuan, he said goodbye to Guan Chen with a full harvest.

……

Guan Chen flicked the money left by the director to buy books, and he was still not used to the appearance of the banknotes, which became like this, looking like fake banknotes, maybe when he would lose them as waste paper.

With a sigh, Guan Chen carefully collected the money. I took a look at the messy room and started to clean up.

Today's harvest is quite satisfying, selling three books, Guan Chen feels that he is one step closer to his goal.

And it also closes a loophole.

Guan Chen didn't know what the interpersonal relationship of his predecessor was, and he didn't know if the other party would think that he was different. He didn't plan to live like the ghost of his predecessor, so he used this interview to fix the saying "I have experienced a fire, and I will look down on life from now on", which should be able to fool the relatives and friends of the predecessor.

But it's not absolute. In case of troublesome interpersonal relationships and complicated family composition, he still has to move or change cities to live in once and for all.

So he needs money. It takes money to move, and it takes even more money to live in a different city. If you don't have money, you can only sit and wait, you can't do anything, and it's difficult to even gather information about this world.

The predecessor did not buy a TV, nor did he buy a computer, and the mobile phone was lost at the scene of the fire, leaving Guan Chen with a window to understand the world, only the wall full of books. I can't read books, so I can only change money to go to Internet cafes, watch animations, watch comics, watch movies, and educate in fun.

With such a plan, it is most cost-effective to save money to buy a computer.

Alas, there's so much to buy.

Guan Chen sighed, but in fact, he was not very anxious. Being able to plan the future in a good way is already a blessing for him.

Putting Director Zhou's business card into the drawer, Guan Chen began to tidy up the room.

The process of tidying up the room is also the process of Guan Chen learning some details about his predecessor. For example, from the invoice to understand the predecessor often haunted the place, the future through those places should be more cautious; Those who have appeared in the graduation photo should remember to avoid it far away when they see it in the future; In the student directory, you should know who the predecessor has a good relationship with and who is a potential unexpected visitor, so you should beware of ......

Packing up, Guan Chen was sweating profusely and his arms were sore after a while.

This body is still too weak. Guan Chen made up his mind to get this body up quickly, and complained at the same time, if it weren't for the fact that the current picture was a little more handsome and taller than the previous life, otherwise he would have deleted the number and started again.

[It also costs money to exercise and eat meat.] Guan Chen wrote down in his heart that there was one more place where he needed money.

Guan Chen intermittently and intermittently tidied up the house, and then it was the turn of the entrance.

There are a lot of shoes in the hallway, and even more letters scattered on the floor. Most of the letters were advertisements and flyers, which Guan Chen stuffed into a garbage bag.

Picking it up, Guan Chen seemed to catch a glimpse of something different and picked it up.

The different letter had arrived last week, and the recipient's message on the outside was handwritten like a dog's crawl.

Take it apart and take out a piece of paper, the contents of which are printed:

[Dear Guan Chen

Your registration for the "Xing Yan Performance Training Course" has been successful

Amount collected: 12,600 Chinese dollars

The class starts at 7 p.m. on November 12 at No. XX, XX Road, XX District

Waiting for your arrival】

Then a thin invoice is attached.

After reading it, Guan Chen folded it back casually.

Wait, what is the amount charged?

Guan Chen opened the letter again abruptly, and counted the numbers on it with wide eyes.

100,000...... 12,600 Huaxia coins?!

He sells books......

About 250 copies to save this money!

[What a loser! How many meals can this be exchanged for! Guan Chen gritted his teeth and lowered his fingers.

November 12 was exactly the day after the fire broke out on the 11th.

In other words, the predecessor died before he had time to take this acting class.

Although he is a little sorry for his predecessor, Guan Chen feels that there is still something to be happy about this matter - as long as there is no class, there is still hope to get the money back.

Guan Chen took the letter paper and solemnly put it into the pocket of his sportswear.

Instead of wasting this 12,600 Huaxia coins in performance training classes, it is better to be used in more valuable places.

Guan Chen looked at the letter and invoice in his hand and swallowed. In a trance, he saw that the computer and the Chinese film industry have accumulated hundreds of years of movies, TV series, variety shows, games, animations...... and a jar of protein powder.