Producer [American Entertainment]

Within three days, the truth came out.

Wendy really lived up to her title of "little gossip expert".

Wendy, dressed in professional attire that has never changed for thousands of years: "...When did I have such an unlucky title?"

William looked up at the blue sky.

Winter in Staten Island is deserted and quiet, but the sky seems to be washed, clean and transparent.At the shooting site, it seems that you can still see the highest place in New York, which is Mount Todd on the island.The beginning of January is the coldest season in New York, the flora and fauna are in a state of seal, and everything seems so quiet.

As for what Wendy asked just now, William, who was trying to wrap himself up like a bear, said, I didn't hear it, I didn't hear it.

Wendy: ==Boss, don't pretend to be dead, do you think you are still a child? !

William, who has Germanic ancestry, has the most standard Germanic appearance, with blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. His complexion is so light that he can see capillaries, so he looks extraordinarily rosy.The loose and warm coat made William look slender and frail.From his furry neckline, he poked out a pair of big moist eyes, those blue eyes were like the sea of ​​harpsichords, making people want to drown in it.

Looking back on it afterwards, Wendy felt that there was only one word that could describe her feeling when she saw him - she was stunned at the time.

The corner of William's mouth, hidden in the woolen scarf, curled into a triumphant smile.This trick was tried and tested a hundred times, he didn't know how many times his father used it on his mother since he was a child.

Yes, that's right, his family is such a wonderful family, other families are rich and beautiful, only his father is more beautiful than mother.Every time his dad wanted to buy another sports car so that he could match his clothes, he would sacrifice his appearance, and then his mother... especially didn't insist on compromising.

After waiting for a while, William raised his hand, snapped his fingers in front of Wendy's eyes with his slender white hand, and summoned her back to reality.

Wendy shivered, shook her head, straightened her clothes, and tried her best to look professional: "Sorry, I was a little distracted just now, where are we talking?"

"It's okay, you need to pay more attention to rest in winter," William was very "considerate", "We just said that you have found the reason for the abnormal level of the cameraman."

"Oh, yes," Wendy expressed the main idea succinctly, "because he takes drugs."

...What the fuck? (What did you say?)

In the final analysis, all of this is actually caused by the crew's lack of money and contacts.

In terms of cameramen and machinery and equipment, director Armand is very clear that this must not be saved, and he did not save it.But for Samuel of MGM, the promised funds have not arrived for a long time. Who will work for the crew if they can’t get a weekly salary?

By the way, the director's car was sold at that time in order to pay the cameraman.

But even if the car is sold, it still doesn't help.

After leaving three professional cameramen before and after, the producer George finally made a move and contacted a friend of his at ASC (American Society of Cinematographers), who recommended a slightly "little" cameraman to the crew. problem", but the camera technique is absolutely top-notch, and the cameraman who is in arrears of wages is not considered.

That's who he is now, John.Schiller, 37 years old, debuted at a young age, became famous overnight, and finally fell...quickly.Now that his brain has been completely paralyzed by alcohol and drugs, he takes on any job in order to collect money to buy drugs.

There is no need to say much about the state of a person when drug addiction occurs.

After the Christmas holiday, when the film was first started, because William, an unidentified but unknowingly Mingli production assistant, was in the lineup, Schiller's remaining rationality was still able to persuade him not to touch drugs.But later seeing that William was too quiet, he once again had a solid state, struggling back and forth between being rich and having no money.

It has also formed the current state of good technology for a while and bad technology for a while.At times, Schiele would even yawn while working, too dazed to shoot.So, it can only be done by the cameraman assistant, and the picture is really "absolute".

William glanced at the director with a sneer: "No wonder you are so generous in hiring a camera assistant."

Director Armand knew he was wrong, and sat on the side with his neck curled up, not daring to speak.He actually knew about the cameraman's drug addiction problem, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.Schiller's technology is really good, and he has the advantage of being cheap. He just... greedy for petty gains will always suffer big losses. Schiller's waste of film is more expensive, which is simply killing Armand.That's why Armand's reaction was so big in the darkroom that day.

"What should we do now?" Wendy made a timely rescue.

Without changing the subject, the bodyguard pendants lined up behind William were about to swallow Armand alive with such a fierce expression.When they were sent to protect William, Don (the title of the godfather) only gave one order, and everything that made William unhappy would not be happy in the future!

"Give him drugs first, keep him in good shape and finish filming, and then send him away..." The captain of the bodyguard team came up with the idea. The girl is a red-haired beauty with a voluptuous appearance. She was nicknamed Medusa. .

"Go to the rehabilitation center." Wendy answered innocently.

Shirley looked up and down Wendy who had some small freckles on her face. She felt as if she saw the little girl next door in her imagination. She couldn't say how beautiful she was, but she definitely had a beautiful heart, warm and warm.Her expression softened unconsciously, and she smiled: "You have a good idea."

"Eh? Then where did you want to send him?" Wendy was taken aback.

"See God." Shirley replied very honestly.

"..."

Director Armand, who was watching, was already shaking, like jelly just taken out of the refrigerator, only shaking left.

"Shirley was joking." William comforted Armand.Although it has been 18 years since he traveled to Earth, he has never had a good understanding of his grandfather's professional nature. He just thinks that the threat is greater than the truth, "You are too timid."

Shirley stood behind William, staring at the director with penetrating eyes, and shook her head almost imperceptibly to him, the meaning was very clear, Bernstein never joked.

Shirley grew up without a family or a last name, and Bernstein was everything to her.Whatever old Bernstein asked her to do, she would do it without blinking an eye. Don said that she must not make Master William feel unhappy, then she will try her best to eliminate all sources of making Master William unhappy.

Armand looked at William with tears in his eyes, and dared not say a word when he was threatened.But he has already made an oath in his heart, no matter how good William is, he can go as far as he can in the future, and how far he can hide from him!

"Which shots were taken by the camera assistant and which were taken by Schiller?" William decided to watch the clips first before drawing conclusions.

Armand has a very good memory in this regard, and soon found the three most representative clips among the piles of film reels, and prepared everything for William personally, so that he can watch it directly. .One was taken when Schiller was not addicted, one was taken when he was, and there was a stable performance of the camera assistant.

It has to be said that under normal conditions, Schiller's pictures are very delicate, and he has a good grasp of the hidden tenderness and tenderness between the hero and heroine, which makes people feel the love of the hero for the heroine. , and vaguely feel the tension under the calm, paranoid and sick.If Schiller can maintain this level, sooner or later he will succeed. When William met Schiller for the first time, 2B250 commented that there was room for improvement, and he might be nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography in the future.

William has already entered all the Oscar winning information into 2B250. Based on this incomplete data sample as a reference, 2B250 has added a detection function for the probability of winning an Oscar.

William is waiting to verify the results. If the judgment of 2B250 is above 70.00%, then he will enter the history of all other awards into it one after another.

To put it simply, if Schiller is willing to quit drug addiction, he can still be saved.

But... At the moment when he was addicted to drugs, he was a mess, and the clips he took when he was addicted could not be watched at all.

The cameraman assistant gave William quite a surprise.

William had always thought that those amateur video clips that were not as good as home videos were shot by camera assistants, but it turned out that camera assistants with stable skills were much better than Schiller's roller coaster.Although the photographer assistant's shooting skills are still a little green, but the flaws are not concealed, and there are shining points everywhere.In front of his camera, both the male and female protagonists seem to look more beautiful. They are a pair of magical hands that can pursue the ultimate beauty in light and shadow.

"What's the name of the camera assistant?"

"His name is MiG, MiG. Beckett has black hair and yellow skin. He seems to be of Asian descent. He came to Hollywood before graduating from college. He was brought here by Schiller. He is very young."

"How small?"

"Just being able to go into a bar legally." The legal age for drinking alcohol in the United States is 21.

William nodded, and then said: "It's not too young, at least it's older than me."

"..." At that moment, Wendy and Armand felt that they had an auditory hallucination together.What kind of bomb did William drop lightly just now?He's not yet 21? !

Wendy remembered the glass of red wine in the office the first day she met William, she!guilty!Law!up!

"What? What are your expressions?" William frowned, he was a little unhappy, which is why he has been trying his best to avoid the age issue, "18 years old is legally an adult."

18 years old! ! !

The bodyguards were very calm, because they knew William's age from the very beginning.Some impulsive ones have already started to stare at director Armand. Is our young master very old?Why do you look like you can't believe it?

"Don't you look tender and small, but really tender and small?!"

William refused to answer this question. Being young was not what he wanted, and he also hoped that he could be as mature as Sabatino, but his parents' inheritance was not strong, what could he do?

"I've already graduated with a master's degree."

"Age has nothing to do with education!"

At that moment, Wendy felt as if she heard the sound of heartbreak.For the first time in more than 18 years, I mustered up the courage to try to like someone, but before I really started, I was urgently stopped by God, because the other party was only 18 years old! 18 years old! [-] years old!

The author has something to say: *Cameraman Schiller and cameraman assistant MiG are original creations of stupid authors, and there are no real people.

* There is a law in the United States called the "Uniform Drinking Age Act", which was introduced in 1984, but the stupid author didn't find out the previous legal age, so... it was brought forward.This law requires states to set the age at which alcohol can be purchased and held in public at 21 years old. Half of the states set the minimum drinking age at 21 years old. That is to say, before the age of 21, you cannot enter the bar, so In many R-rated movies, the main character and his friends make fake IDs and sneak into bars.

Chapter 13 No.13 Days to Earth: Poverty and cleanliness are never two words that cannot be equated.

mig.Beckett, a Chinese-American, from Philadelphia, 21 years old, a college dropout, has a timid personality, and is a student of the cameraman Schiller.

This is the general impression of MiG in the crew.

Someone once joked: "How to quickly identify who is MiG? It's very simple, the one with the least presence is him, even if he is actually tall, theoretically it should be very conspicuous."

Miguel was about 6'4" (190+), but he managed it anyway, and as long as he wasn't actively drawing attention, no one would see his amazing skills.

Like a ghost of the crew, with disheveled hair and skinny skin; wearing dangling clothes that can wrap himself tightly; he uses the black hair of the shawl to cover his entire appearance, as if he feels how shameful he is; Whether he was walking or sitting, he always hunched slightly, as if he was ready to curl up into a ball at any time.

Before meeting MiG, William would never have imagined that the talented videographer's assistant in the camera would look like this in reality.

Before William went to meet Miguel, the directors Armand and Wendy introduced Miguel to him: "He's not good at talking."

It's not surprising at all.William raised his eyebrows, looking at MiG who was restless on the chair in front of him.

Miguel looks very thin. Compared with his videographer teacher Schiller, he is obviously more like a drug addict, or in chronic malnutrition.

If William's grandfather was still alive, seeing MiG like this, he would definitely lose his temper.Because the old man has only believed in one sentence all his life, God only saves those who save themselves.All practical problems cannot be a reason for a person not to cherish himself.Starving himself so thin, if it is for the pursuit of model beauty, but he is not.

Under the education of his grandfather, William has always had no affection for those who don't cherish him.

But MiG was an exception. With the reminder of 2B250, William discovered some details about MiG that had never been noticed by others.

Although MiG is thin, the muscles hidden in his clothes are well-proportioned; he uses his hair in front of his face, but those black hairs are not greasy, but very refreshing; he always wears a set of clothes, but those clothes are always It is clean and tidy; the place he lives in is small, but it is well organized, and there are many notes on the desk. It seems that the owner who lives here seems to be studying something by himself.

From the thick calluses on MiG's hands, we can see how hard his life is, but we can also find from the details that although he has lived through hardships, he is trying his best to live within his ability. better.

William has watched a lot of TV dramas, in which when a person is poor, it is nothing more than portraying that person as sloppy, and the house is dirty, messy, dark and cramped.

But in reality, William once saw homeless people on the streets of London. When they got up from the bench in the park in the morning, the first thing they did was go to the lake to wash their hands and face, and clean their teeth by the way.

Poverty and cleanliness have never been two words that cannot be equated.

Suffering is God's choice; cleanliness is one's own choice.

The MiG clearly falls into the latter category.

Although Wendy didn't say it, it can be seen from her words and deeds that she likes MiG very much.As far as Wendy learned from other people in the crew, Miguel's current situation is very similar to her family's past experience. They all had a difficult life, but they never gave up on letting themselves live their lives!

So after getting William's consent, Wendy said straight to the point: "Don't be nervous, we are here this time mainly to ask you if you are willing to take over the filming of the rest of the movie."

"Myself?"

"Yes, you are alone. If you need an assistant, we can also consider arranging one for you. The main job is to finish the film and retake some places that Schiller made mistakes before. Please rest assured that the salary will be based on Schiller In the final credits of the movie, your name will be before Schiller. What do you think?"

For a newcomer with no previous work experience, Wendy felt that such a condition was already very generous.

"If you do a good job, we can also talk about the bonus issue." Out of goodwill for MiG, William added that the bonus can be divided directly from his salary without going to the crew.

A talented and hard-working person, William would not mind helping him out of poverty as soon as possible.

"That won't work!"

MiG gave an answer that was unexpected by everyone.He had been sitting there very quietly, listening to what Wendy and William had to say.But just after he learned about their purpose, he was in a hurry.He stood up abruptly, and in the small room, he even had to lower his head slightly to avoid hitting the ceiling.

MiG kept waving his hands to William, expressing his firmness in refusal, without any falsehood.He said: "Can you reconsider? No, I beg you, please don't make me do this."

"Why?" Wendy didn't express much surprise, because she never thought that she would succeed in persuading her once.People who are not confident in their personality will always deny themselves at the beginning of the opportunity. She is very experienced in this point, "If you are worried about your qualifications, please trust us, we don't mind, my boss insists I think you are the most suitable person."

William didn't speak, and Wendy was persuading him all the time, which was discussed before they came.William's incompatible sense of distance from the crew is really not suitable for persuasion work.

"Because he won't betray me!" Schiller, who was drunk and looked like mud, appeared in front of the door. He leaned against the backlight, and suddenly, a shadow like a mountain was brought to his face, and quickly evaporated into the whole room. The house stinks of wine.It felt very unpleasant, like something was broken, or decaying.

William turned around unhurriedly, looking at Schiller with his expression unchanged.

Schiller and Meag are a pair of contrasting control groups.They are all forced by life, but Schiller has just muddled through and rotted in the mud, but MiG still has vitality and an unlimited future.

Schiller is a big, reckless man with a full beard. His body is completely middle-aged, he has a beer belly, and his temper looks very irritable. At least he is no better than the old Samuel of MGM.He was holding a paper-wrapped wine bottle in one hand, and the other hand was drooping in front of his crotch like a punk, his posture was very ugly.

It was Wendy who spoke to MiG, but Schiller still looked at William accurately, because he knew that he was the one in charge.

Schiller inarticulately threatened: "Boy, do you want my people to betray me? You are still a little tender. Go back to your mother's arms and drink milk!"

William's expression remained the same, unmoved by Schiller's insult.

He didn't rush to answer Schiller's question, but finally got up, and methodically patted the dust that didn't exist on his body first. He carried the dust that had been rated as 2B250 in every move, and would definitely piss off all the MGM fans. The high-level aristocratic temperament fully expresses "I never put you in my eyes".

This is William's consistent external image, because 2B250 said that most human beings have a strange problem-bullying.Even the person who pretends to be powerful is not that powerful.

William said unhurriedly: "This is not a question of betrayal and betrayal, Mr. Schiller, but that you were fired."

"Me? You want to fire me?" Schiller was irritated. He shook his head like a golden lion in a zoo, waving his claws to frighten his enemies. Then, unexpectedly, Schiller held up the wine The bottle was thrown at William, "Boy, do you know who I am? John Schiller will never be fired!"

Facing the danger that was a head above his own, William didn't give in at all. He was unflappable in the face of danger, because...

He has bodyguards.

The two female bodyguards who had been standing by the door, trying to give William the most space, had already moved their hands when Schiller roared.So many years of experience are enough for them to judge how a person who is extremely popular and wants to do something will behave.With only one person, Schiller was subdued quickly and ruthlessly.When he grabbed Schiller with his backhand, he could clearly hear a click. Schiller's bones were twisted to the limit that a human cannot do, and it hurt to watch.

Schiller knelt on one knee, his hands were clasped, his head was pressed down, and only William's well-made calfskin shoes could be seen.

The quiet MiG made a miraculous move in this flash: like Wendy, he chose to stand in front of William.It wasn't to stop William's actions, but because he was afraid that Schiller would hurt William, so he subconsciously made a protective move for William.

Of course, now that MiG saw clearly that the bodyguards were moving faster and faster than him, he embarrassedly put down the very slender arm that was protecting William.

"Thank you." William was naturally grateful for MiG and Wendy's protection.

Shirley stared at MiG with menacing eyes, and instantly raised the gear by N. She would never admit that she was jealous. She was a bodyguard, and it was her job and her honor to protect Master William.She's just, just... With us here, do you want MiG to act, huh!

"You guys, Shirley, are doing very well." William continued.

The three female bodyguards who had just performed the role of Charlie's Angels immediately laughed like angels. If one of them didn't make Schiller so painful that he couldn't even make a sound, they might look a little more harmless.

Dou Da's cold sweat ran down Schiller's cheeks, tick tock, as if dehydrated.

The body of a drug addict is just tofu, no matter how powerful it looks.

It was only then that MiG realized that something was wrong with Schiller. If he didn't make a sound, it didn't mean he wasn't hurt.So, MiG hurriedly pleaded with William: "I apologize for Schiller, Mr. Serus, I apologize for him. He is now delirious and doesn't know what he is doing. If he is sober, he must regret it." .Please, please..."

MiG actually couldn't tell what he wanted to ask William.After all, it was Schiller who attacked first, and MiG didn't have the face to think that because the victim didn't suffer any harm, he could let go of those who intentionally caused him great harm.

only……

"Schiller is my teacher, I know him, he was really not that kind of person before, please believe me." Drugs can turn a saint into a devil, and can turn the closest relatives with swords, this is its terrible place .