Hollywood Director 1992

“Hehe, guys, guess what I just saw?”

On the other side of the 《蝴蝶效应》 (Butterfly Effect) set, Leonardo sat down with a plate in his hand, winking at the two supporting actors, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

“Aliens?”

Mark Wahlberg joked.

Leonardo looked left and right, lowering his voice and saying, “I saw Renée, she went to Link's office, alone!”

“So what? You've been to Link's office before.”

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Mark Wahlberg said.

The fat Philip Hoffman smiled while eating pizza.

“It's different. We go there to talk about work, but the newspapers say Renée is Link's girlfriend.”

Leonardo looked left and right again, adding, “One of them.”

“That's nothing, Director Link isn't married.”

Mark Wahlberg said.

Leonardo smiled, raising the corner of his mouth, and glanced at the fat Philip, “Fatty, don't forget we have kissing scenes with Renée. Will Link be angry with us because of this? I heard Chinese people care about this a lot.”

“Are you kidding? Link is a professional director, why would he care about this kind of thing?”

Mark Wahlberg said.

Leonardo thought for a moment, it seemed unlikely, he shrugged and buried himself in his food.

The lunch break ended, and everyone returned to the set to continue filming.

“Scene 137, Take 6, Action!”

In the dormitory, Evan lay on the bed, beginning to read his diary to the girl, reading about when he was thirteen, when the 'Little Devil' Tommy burned a pet dog in the junkyard, and he and the little fatty Lenny were beaten. While reading, he suddenly fainted.

This was Evan's first time traveling to the past.

After Evan woke up, he didn't bother with the date with the girl, and drove back to the place where he used to live, found the little fatty Lenny, and found that the little fatty was affected by his time travel, becoming an autistic patient.

And his first love, Kelly, became a very unsuccessful waitress, and committed suicide because of his visit.

After Evan returned to school, he continued reading the diary, preparing to change the bad past and save Kelly and Lenny.

The first time he traveled back to the year he was 7, Kelly's perverted father made him and Kelly film indecent movies. He sternly rebuked Kelly's perverted father, threatening to kill him if he dared to do it again.

After waking up, he found that Kelly had become his girlfriend, also studying at university, and the two were very affectionate, living a good life.

Only Kelly's brother, Tommy, was affected, becoming a violent criminal, just out of prison.

While Evan and Kelly were on a date, the Little Devil Tommy suddenly appeared, arguing with Evan, and Evan accidentally killed him and was arrested.

Because Evan looked delicate and had very low martial arts skills, he was quickly taken care of through the back door.

In order to change all this, Evan took back his diary and traveled to the past again, traveling to the junkyard, letting the little fatty Lenny kill the Little Devil Tommy in advance.

Affected by this incident, the little fatty Lenny was imprisoned in a hospital as a lunatic, and his first love, Kelly, became a prostitute because of disfigurement, living a life worse than death, even worse than the last time.

Seeing his little friends and first love in a miserable situation, Evan returned to the past again, back to the age of 13, when they pranked by putting firecrackers in the neighbor's mailbox, accidentally blowing up Mrs. Haben and her child.

This time, Evan bravely stood up to stop Mrs. Haben from approaching the mailbox, but when the firecracker exploded, he was too close and was injured, his hands and legs were blown off.

After waking up, he became a disabled person with all four limbs crippled, and his first love, Kelly, and the little fatty Lenny became a happy couple, showing affection in front of him.

The 'Little Devil' Tommy became a top student, and all three little friends were very good to him and took care of him.

Only his mother was affected by his disability, smoking for a long time, with terminal lung cancer, and was about to die.

Evan was not satisfied with the status quo, and returned to the past again, back to the age of 7, when filming indecent videos in the basement, he lit a firecracker to blow up Tommy and Kelly's perverted father, but accidentally blew up Kelly.

After waking up, he was locked in a hospital as a lunatic.

When he was about to travel through the diary again, the attending doctor told him that there was never a diary.

All the previous things were his fantasies, including going to university, going to prison, being disabled, etc., were all his fantasies. He wanted to escape the guilt of accidentally killing Kelly in this way.

Evan didn't believe it. He used the home video tape brought by his mother to travel to the moment before he was born. He committed suicide in his mother's womb by wrapping the umbilical cord around his neck.

There were originally two endings to the movie.

Another one was that Evan used the video tape to travel to the family gathering scene when he was a child, bullying Kelly, making Kelly hate him, and eventually Kelly and Tommy followed their mother to live, without being tortured by their perverted father.

Later, the two met again at university, passing by as strangers.

However, the version of suicide by umbilical cord is more classic, and the audience's evaluation is higher. Link also used this ending when filming.

“Cut!”

“Leonardo, bring in some emotion, you need to immerse yourself in the role, and regard yourself as Evan from the bottom of your heart, then you can play this role well.”

“Got it, director, I'm working hard.”

Leonardo shrugged and smiled.

“Leonardo, you are the most talented actor I have ever worked with, and I believe you can do better.”

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Link said seriously.

Leonardo's eyes lit up, nodded excitedly, and assured that he could play the role well.

The crew continued filming.

Evan returned to the dormitory, found all the diaries, and flipped through them one by one.

He took out the earliest one and opened it to read.

“Anyway, I didn't want to act in any movies. I'm cold, I want to wear clothes, but Mr. Miller took off my shirt.”

Leonardo frowned, his eyes fixed on the diary, and his expression became complicated.

Seeing Leonardo in front of the camera, Link couldn't help but think of his performances in 《禁闭岛》 (Shutter Island) and 《盗梦空间》 (Inception). His roles in the three movies were somewhat similar, all people with mental problems.

Although Leonardo's performance is still immature at this stage, not as good as more than ten years later, it is still remarkable, and looks more suitable than the original male lead.

Link estimated that using Leonardo as the male lead would increase the box office subsidy.

“What the hell are you doing?”

The fat classmate in the same dormitory asked.

“Shh! Be quiet, don't disturb me.”

Evan said.

“Are you stupid, buddy?”

The fat roommate came over and took the diary from his hand, “Maybe there's a reason why you actively forget that pervert made you wear little briefs. I suggest you don't continue to do this, it's possible that after you wake up, your condition will be worse than it is now.”

“Worse than it is now?”

Evan smiled mockingly, “Do you think you know me well? I don't even know myself.”

Evan snatched back the diary, stared at it, and thinking of his roommate's advice, he closed the diary heavily.

“Cut!”

“Leonardo, the emotional outburst in the back is not intense enough. Evan is a perfectionist. Before opening the diary, he thought his life was perfect. When he flipped through the diary and saw those bad things that he had almost forgotten, he was about to collapse. You need to experience Evan's emotions. If you can't experience it, you can think about the things you have experienced in the past that almost made you collapse.”

Link was guiding Leonardo into the scene.

Although letting actors into the scene can affect the actors' cognition, and some actors can't get out after taking on the role, this guiding method is very useful, and the filming will be more effective with less effort. This is also the reason why many directors are willing to let actors take on the role.

Leonardo nodded and began to adjust his emotions and perform again.