The Best Entertainment Era

Miss Lindsay Bill, you sit here and wait.

Eva, the receptionist of Shahai Entertainment, gestured to the bench near the door, and said to a girl with long golden brown hair, I will call you when I arrive.

Lindsay-Bill put away the handbag first, then sat down and looked at the company. The company is not too big, it looks like there are twenty people at most.

But she had heard of the Shahai Entertainment, which had a super-best-selling Human Purge Project.

Can you pass the interview? Lindsay Bill muttered in her heart: If you don't succeed, you can only go home and ask your parents for help.

After graduating from college, there is no reason not to be independent anymore, and parents work very hard, so it is not fair to ask them to help pay off student loans.

This road is more difficult than expected. Maybe after graduation, I should go to a commercial company as an intern, instead of stupidly running to Hollywood to be a screenwriter.

Lindsay Beal wouldn't have gone that route if there were better options.

The university they attended was barely third-rate, and the business school was full of majors. Even if they had good grades, those who came from ordinary families without a master’s degree and lacked work experience, most of them had to start as interns.

Lindsay Bill found several jobs after graduation, but her income was so low that she could only maintain a basic life and could not repay her student loans at all.

A friend from the Faculty of Arts was planning to come to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. Lindsay Beal chatted with him and decided to come to Hollywood.

That friend said that there is a lot of money to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. If an idea is picked up by a Hollywood company, it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. As long as you are talented, it is definitely not difficult. , After it is made into a movie, it can still get a commission from the movie box office.

There is also the Screenwriters Union to protect the rights and interests of screenwriters.

The pressure of student loans, the expectation of a bright future, she came to Los Angeles from Pennsylvania, and then found that what her friends said was all a dream.

The new screenwriters were ignored, and they finally applied to join a screenwriting group, but they could only help others, not to mention signing the script, and they had never even met the chief screenwriter of the script.

After three months in Hollywood, she only found two jobs, one with a weekly salary of 220 US dollars, specializing in writing dialogues with college girls in a script; the other with a weekly salary of 300 US dollars, writing scenes of college life.

With just these two jobs, in the words of her working partner, she is so lucky!

It is normal for a new screenwriter to not be able to find a job for half a year.

The Screenwriters Guild has a minimum salary requirement, but she has asked about it. The Screenwriters Guild has a high barrier to entry. People like her may not be able to join after working for two years.

Fortunately, I had accumulated a little manuscript fee during college, otherwise I would not be able to persist in these three months.

Recently, my luck ran out and I haven't found a job for more than a month.

Miss Lindsay Bill, please follow me.

Hearing what the female receptionist said, Lindsay Bill quickly stood up, walked forward, breathed on her hand and smelled it, and there was no peculiar smell.

Then, a woman who was much older than her came out of the front office, walked towards her, and nodded to the female receptionist.

Lindsay-Bill took a special look at her, and vaguely smelled the smell of her colleagues.

Is this also an applicant? It seems that the complexion is not very good, the interview failed?

Fail well.

This job is really not very good, and it is also a gunman, but it is what Lindsay Bill desperately needs.

If I can't find a job, I can only go back to my hometown to ask my parents for help. If I can find a job, I can stay.

Entering the office, Lindsay Bill was a little surprised to see the person sitting behind the desk. He was too young, as if younger than himself, right?

Ronan pointed to the chair opposite and said, Please sit down.

Then, he couldn't help but sized him up a little.

This woman should not be twenty-five years old, and her dress is very simple, a cheap black suit, half-worn skinny blue jeans, gray flat shoes with faded upper edges, and a visual measurement of 1.6 meters About five in height, oval face, high nose bridge, curly long golden hair hanging on both sides, revealing a delicate face with soft lines.

With a slender figure, delicate face, and delicate features, this woman is completely different from the traditional American big girl. This woman is more in line with the oriental aesthetic.

Ronan was a little surprised, is this to apply for a gunner or an actor?

Miss Lindsay-Bill? Ronan asked.

The woman was a little embarrassed at first, she quickly adjusted, smiled with two beautiful little rabbit teeth, and said, Yes, I'm Lindsay Bill.

Ronan nodded slightly to her, and introduced himself: I am Ronan Anderson, the president of Sandsea Entertainment.

Lindsay Beale understood that this was the man who was going to hire the shooter.

Ronan didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: Have you ever been a screenwriter?

Yes. Lindsay-Bill said truthfully: I have worked in two screenwriting groups, without authorship, and the group leader assigned writing tasks, and then I completed them as required.

Ronan asked strangely: You are a business school graduate, why do you think of being a screenwriter?

Lindsay Bill has also seen some scenes in Hollywood, and she has stabilized her mind, saying: Writing is my personal hobby. During my college years, I published more than 20 articles in the school magazine, most of which were novels. A short story was published in the science fiction magazine Analogs.

She took out the bound copies from her handbag and put them on her desk: This is my published article.

It was these articles that allowed Lindsay Beal to get her first two jobs.

Ronan took it over, flipped through it slowly, and glanced at Lindsay Bill again during the process. The woman's initial embarrassment seemed to disappear.

It's not easy to publish a science fiction novel, even a short one, on Analogs. Ronan knew the importance of Analogs in science fiction literature: Why don't you stay on the East Coast and become a literary writer, instead go to Hollywood? gone?

Many literary people look down on Hollywood screenwriters, especially those on the East Coast.

Hearing this question, Lindsay Beal immediately thought of the identity of the owner of Ronan Films, and she had worked as a Hollywood screenwriter. Based on her own experience, she said, No matter how the elite writers on the east coast look at Hollywood screenwriters with contempt, , I believe that the world I have obtained is unimaginable to those novelists, poets, and stage playwrights—no serious writer with high morals can make his works impress hundreds of millions of people at the same time, but film screenwriters can!

When Ronan heard this, he became inexplicably interested. It is not easy for a screenwriter to say such a thing.

Money is the most obvious reason to keep screenwriters in Hollywood, but there is no shortage of people wanting to work in a new medium where they were otherwise underserved in literary and theatrical circles.

Ronan added: Film screenwriters are never considered artists, and a screenwriter should get used to the role of an ordinary performer.

What he wanted was a shooter.

Lindsay Bill had a deep understanding and said, I understand.

Ronan said directly: You don't have the right to authorize this work, nor do you have any copyright.

Lindsay Beal certainly knows the gunslinger concept: I get it.

Ronan took out the prepared pen and paper and put it in front of Lindsay Bill: Using the traditional Hollywood female character template, such as Julia Roberts' Pretty Woman, the female ’ As a first-person perspective, write an article in which the male protagonist is obsessed with the female protagonist.”

Lindsay-Bill did not speak, this is the current mainstream, there are actually quite a few such novels on the market, and she also read them when she was in school.

Ronan added the second requirement: The second part. Write an independent heroine. This character must take the initiative. She does not need a man to save her, but a man.

Okay, let's start. Ronan glanced at the time: You have half an hour. There is no limit to the number of words, and there is no limit to the specific background. Write it to me.

Lindsay Bill didn't say much, she stepped forward and moved her chair closer to the desk, picked up a pen and began to think.

Ronan ignored her for the time being and watched the premiere of Death Comes.

Just twenty minutes later, Lindsay Beal put down her pen and said, Mr. Anderson, I'm done.

Ronan took the paper she handed over and read it carefully. Mary Sue's writing was not bad.

Mary Sue heroine is a popular trend now, the most typical one is Julia Roberts, the call girl can make the rich and rich love crazy, which is more nonsense than Fifty Shades of Grey.

Lindsay Beal's ability in this area is not a problem.

The independent heroine is somewhat jerky, probably due to the influence of the environment. In this era, there are very few truly independent female characters in movies and literary works.

Overall, though, not bad.

Ronan was somewhat worried about the latter, and said, How do you think we can create an outstanding female character?

Lindsay-Bill thought for a while, and replied: The role should be close to the people, and it can also have shortcomings. After all, perfection is a very boring thing. Also, the character must have motivation. This motivation is not only Just for the man or the child. One male writer I worked with said he could think of 300 motives for his male lead, but the only thing he could think of for the female lead was that she was going to save the child.”

This kind of subconscious prejudice must be eliminated. Lindsay-Bill is obviously very thoughtful, there is also a kind of plot that must not appear. When the male protagonist intends to end nuclear weapons, he stops to save his girlfriend first. And it is also successful. Yes! Sure, they'd stop a nuke from going off, but I always wonder: Doesn't your girlfriend want you to save the city? Or is she just a selfish person? That's why you're still dating her ?”

Ronan carefully read the two short paragraphs written by Lindsay Bill again, and said, Miss Bill, you have been admitted.

Lindsay Bill breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, What about my treatment?

The weekly salary is 1,000 US dollars, and there will be rewards for finishing the book on time. If the book is published, the bonus will be calculated separately. Ronan did not lie: You need to write three novels according to the outline template I provided. After the first book is completed, The second book doubles your weekly salary, and so on.

He threw out the bait: If you can impress me with these three books, I will hire you as the screenwriter of Shahai Entertainment, a screenwriter with authorship rights!

Really? Lindsay Bill was tempted.

Ronan smiled and said, If you have an agent or a lawyer, bring them over to sign the contract tomorrow. If not, I will provide an endorsement lawyer.

Lindsay Bill immediately said, Okay, see you tomorrow.