Chapter 248: Connecticut
On both sides of the road, lined with green trees, there was a treacherous white old man standing beside him, rubbing his hands, muttering something to Xing Xueming on the side, and finally "nononono"
Lin Yu was looking at the large, cathedral-style building, the whole building presents a right-angled C-shape, and there is a detached building, standing at the front.
A scrapped iron door, wrapped around and around with an iron lock.
The ropes were rusty.
The walls on both sides are crawling with thorns and shrubs.
The whole complex looks very large and mysterious.
This is the most hidden corner of the town, in this town is also considered deserted, this hospital also has a 'story', I heard that there was a fire here, after the fire, burned to death a ward of patients, the director was compensated for bankruptcy, and later assigned to the local city government, this place was abandoned.
"Damn, this white-skinned pig is really greedy." Xing Xueming walked over, scolding, and when he opened his mouth, he was very rude, not afraid that the person next to him would understand.
"Tell him to open the door and let us go in and have a look, and he said it would cost five hundred dollars."
", why didn't he grab it?"
"Ask him, is there an underground tunnel here?"
"Yes, no."
"Let's go, then." Lin Yu glanced at it and said without looking back.
"Ah, won't you go in and have a look?" Xing Xueming was suddenly a little dumbfounded.
"There's no need, this person is a doorman, if we go in, go directly to the city government to talk, otherwise, now this person who enters the door will charge us five hundred, and when we go back, we will arrange the site inside, weld iron bars, and I will even arrange a few rooms, this person will not kill me?"
"If you don't have a place to choose and you have to come here, let's go to the government here and talk directly and kick out this person."
"That's right." Xing Xueming shrugged his shoulders and got into the cab, "You're not old, do you think about a set?" Xing Xueming glanced at Lin Yu and took a puff of his cigarette.
"Let's go, go down."
Looking at the scenery outside the road, Lin Yu only felt that this trip would be more troublesome than he imagined, indeed, in a foreign country, with a strange skin, if you don't kill you, you have to be killed.
However, Xing Xueming's "compliment" Lin Yu didn't dare to take it seriously. I do have the memories of another person in my head, but in my bones, I am still just focusing on the life of a college student.
Not to mention, this Xing scientific name doesn't know how much he has pitted himself.
"But brother, I'll tell you the truth, do you have to have an underground tunnel in the hospital?"
He said confusedly, "I'll tell you the truth, your requirements are too harsh, under normal circumstances, where will there be this under the hospital, and most of the places we will go to next time will not be." ”
"It doesn't matter if you don't." Lin Yu said, "Then you can cut the tunnel scene and shoot it, anyway, the audience doesn't know that the two places are not together." ”
Including the plot of the elevator shaft designed by Lin Yu, it is the same way, shoot directly in a different location, and even if Lin Yu wants, each floor can be cut out and filmed.
Anyway, the audience can't see it.
"You've thought it through, it's best if you've thought about it." Xing Xueming nodded frequently for a while, and then took Lin Yu to another place to have a look, the doorman of the hospital was a gray-haired old man, very talkative, and opened the door after stuffing fifty dollars, and let Lin Yu go in to have a look.
The third one, a black brother is guarding the door, when Xing Xueming found him, this guy was all excited, and when he opened the abandoned mental hospital, Lin Yu was scared.
As soon as they saw Lin Yu and Xing Xueming, two yellow-skinned people coming in, some people even panicked and went to find a gun, and Xing Xueming, who was frightened, retreated all the way and shouted "sorry"
The forest fish can be regarded as a wave of exotic scenery.
But this part of Maine is really suitable for filming, the buildings are short, the style is very western and wild, the population is sparse, the trees are abundant, and two-thirds of the entire state is simply a primeval jungle.
And the whole economy is very backward.
After a few days in Maine, Lin Yu also visited the "Maine Town" described in the legendary horror, and visited some local places of interest, horror stories, and religious rumors.
Then I soaked in the local library, went to read some local religious books, and held my mobile phone to translate.
Half a month later, after studying in Maine, the satisfied forest fish left here and took a plane to the next stop, Connecticut.
Connecticut, taking off from Maine, it takes two or three hours to land, but the style of Connecticut is completely different.
Connecticut is adjacent to New York, but it is also the southernmost state of New Zealand, and once you land here, Linyu feels like you have arrived in the real rice country.
At the airport, Lin Yu looked up at the city, and couldn't help but secretly calculate in his heart.
Is it easy to make a movie here?
Because it seems too prosperous here, it is obvious that there is some incompatibility with the background color of the horror film that Lin Yu wants to make, but it is not entirely so, for example, "Joker" was also filmed in bustling New York, but the color filter of the bottom lens is used well, and the feeling of depression is still the same.
The feeling of loneliness is still depressed.
And, according to his script, the view on the street is almost completely absent, and less than ten minutes of the one-and-a-half-hour movie is outdoors, and the rest is all about everyone trapped in a mental hospital.
From this point of view, Connecticut also does not affect the filming of forest fish.
"Let's go, let's look at the state." Lin Yu didn't just inspect the mental hospital just because he only photographed the cemetery encounter, Lin Yu thought that they were all here anyway, and they happened to investigate the customs of the country.
Take a look around each place to prepare for writing your own material in the future.
The car drove down the bustling Connecticut Avenue, and Lin Yu looked at the pedestrians on both sides of the street.
Connecticut is one of the lowest states in the United States in terms of population and area, but it is very wealthy, and the average income is one of the highest in the state, which can be seen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
For example, the famous Yale University is located in Connecticut.
Xing Xueming first took Lin Yu to the city government, the Connecticut Film Association and other places to go around, and after coming out, Xing Xueming was scolded.
"Zhente Niang's can put on music, when I ask us if we are from China, there are no big companies to issue certificates, and we are not birds directly."
"Ask her ten words, and the girl is playing with her phone as if she didn't understand, and the buddies wonder if their English is broken,."
Obviously, Xing Xueming, who was ignored when he went in and touched his nose, was angry.
"Big cities are like this, don't worry, let's go to the scenic spots to investigate first, and then ask someone to talk about it." There are always 10,000 solutions to problems.
"Yes." Xing Xueming drove in the car and took himself all over Connecticut to find a mental hospital, and finally found one in the west of the city.
"How's it going here?"
Getting out of the car, Lin Yu made a sunshade movement on his forehead with both hands, and looked around for a while, this side was a suburb, inaccessible, and a mental hospital was abandoned on the side of the road.
The area is huge, and the entire hospital is dark red.
It is also a C right-angle building, but there is no separate building.
"It's a coincidence that there is really an underground tunnel here, saying that this hospital was built in 1900, when it was an underground passage to build a material reservoir, but it has been abandoned for a long time, just clean it up, what do you think?"
"Okay, let's go in and have a look." Lin Yu had a satisfied look on his face.
A thin woman dressed as a white housewife, smoking a cigarette, opened the lock with a key, and Xing paid her twenty dollars, then pushed open the door and went in to take a look.
There is finally no thing occupied by homeless people here, and I looked down on the third floor, and finally turned to the underground tunnel to take a look, although the underground tunnel was full of dust, but the forest fish was already very satisfied.
"This hall is just used as a play for admission, it's appropriate, it's very suitable." Back on the first floor, looking at the appearance of this building, Lin Yu's face was full of satisfaction.
"Who is in charge of this hospital?"
Xing Xueming immediately muttered to the woman for a while, then walked over and shrugged his shoulders, "As always, the property under the name of the city government, you want to rent it to be rebuilt, right?" ”
"Yes."
"Then you have to talk to someone, but it's not easy to find someone, this kind of building is abandoned here, and no one cares about it, go, go and try your luck."
Once you have a goal, it's simple, and the rest is what he should talk about.
After leaving this hospital and finding a target, Lin Yu felt relaxed.
Filming venues, scripts, actors, projects, this is not alive?
As long as you pull people here to start work, you can make a movie, right?
That's right, right??
Lin Yu summed it up several times, and always felt that something was wrong, yes, it was a problem with the script! After these days of hard thinking and meditation, Lin Yu probably discovered that there are indeed hidden dangers in this script.
For example, you want to decorate it here according to the script, right?
What about your script?
The script still needs to be changed, how do you decorate?
After pondering for a while, Lin Yu planned to put this question aside for the time being, and walked out with Xing Xueming, and before getting into the car, Lin Yu first grabbed his sleeve.
"Wait."
"You're saying that this hospital is under the management of a person in charge of a city government office, right?"
"Yes."
"What is your estimated rent?"
Xing Xueming glanced up and down, "Anyway, it's idle in this scrapped hospital, you shoot for three months, pay 10,000 US dollars a month, it's enough." ”
"But people are not short of this money, and it is still cumbersome to be busy, and we are not a big crew that can let them give us this face."
"In this way, let's have our own unique way of doing things."
"Ah, what kind of special way of doing things?" Xing's scientific name is a little dizzy.
"You go and inquire about who is in charge of this broken hospital, you make an appointment with him, let's give him 10,000 in private, let him leave this matter alone, just give us a shooting permit."
"Let's decorate and shoot, and after the shooting, we will restore him, and I don't know it, anyway, I won't come next time."
Xing Xueming looked at Lin Yu dumbfounded, "You are more punished than me!" ”
……
Under the investigation of Xing Xueming, Mi Guotong, it was quickly figured out that the person in charge of the psychiatric hospital in this department was a clerk. Lee".
Xing Xueming handed a business card to the secretary at the door, and then pulled a big tiger skin, saying that it was from the mysterious East, a very bullish film company, and a super super big crew.
Anyway, after all this nonsense, I asked to meet Louis. Lee, talk about a very, very big business.
I don't know if the secretary conveyed this "thought" correctly, anyway, Xing Xueming came over and waited with Lin Yu on the cold steel chair in the corridor.
"Let me tell you, that's how it is to run errands in a big city, I once ran a job for a crew, and I went to that hall seven times before and after, seven times!"
"God, I didn't see the hanging man in front of me, at first I thought the man was busy, but then I accidentally saw the man smoking in the office through the crack in the door."
Xing Xueming patted his hand on his knee, "Do you know, in front of me, I obviously know that he is the small clerk in the broken office, who doesn't understand bullshit, and he gets a month's salary, and I don't want to look at him." ”
"But he doesn't know how to pretend like that, and I have to smile like a grandson."
Xing Xueming crossed Erlang's legs, patted his knee with one hand, and said in silence for a while, "So I think a lot of times that the money I earn is selling my poor dignity." ”
"If one day, if I want to become a famous director, I must also be at my door, and I must wait for Lao Tzu for seven days and seven nights!"
Saying that, Xing Xueming smiled bitterly, "But I already knew that there was no such possibility." ”
But at this time, the faces of the two of them also darkened again.
Two hours later, an hour after the agreed time, Xing Xueming went to ask, and the secretary only casually said that Louis was busy and not in the office.
But the two of them clearly heard the laughter of a white man coming from the office.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, it was almost time to get off work, Xing Xueming couldn't bear it, and went forward to ask again, and got the same reply.
"Alright." Lin Yu grabbed Xing Xueming and couldn't help sighing, this is not Xing Xueming's fault, but that he is a little director who is not famous at all, and people are deliberately drying themselves.
At the end of the day, it's the fault of the weak.
Sitting there, Lin Yu thought and thought, that Louis may not be malicious, what discrimination, what, not necessarily.
But I deliberately want to give a dismount, and I am very accustomed to grasping the initiative, which is certain.
But understanding is one thing, and whether you can accept it is another.
"Xing Xueming, let's go."
"Ahh Xing Xueming on the side was stunned for a moment, "Where are you going?" ”
"Back to Maine."
"We can't afford to climb the ...... in Connecticut, and we'll be back someday, but not in the way we do today, in an office like that."
"I remember today's lesson."
(End of chapter)