Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 191 Lost youth, acting theory

   “With the 13th pickinthenineteenninety-sixNBAdraft, theCharlotteHornetsselectKobeBryantfromLowerMerionHighSchoolinPennsylvania…”

When Roland, with a beard, a toad mirror on his face, and a peaked cap, looked at the silver-haired Jewish old man shaking hands and smiling with the black guy in a black suit and a blue floral tie around his neck, the audience sitting in the auditorium He, with tears in his eyes.

  Following the other party's step-by-step process, he got into the backstage to accept the interview, just to witness Roland just a moment ago, he also stood up, put the hat on his head on the seat, and then left the draft conference with ease.

Holding Kate's hand, strolling on the streets of East Rutherford, for Roland, at the beginning of the journey, the biggest goal he set for himself in 1996 has been achieved, or in other words, he and Mike Mohamy watched the Lakers together Half of the wild words put down during the game have been completed, and the remaining half, of course, is to buy a No. 8 jersey and ask the other party to sign it for me.

  Of course, Kate actually doesn't understand what Roland's situation is now.

She thought that Roland was just joking before, what a young guy, what was the 13th pick, these were just his excuses for wanting to come to the draft, but she really thought that she had walked eight miles with Roland and got into the venue After sitting down to watch the ceremony, she realized that what Roland said was true, because among the previous twelve people, only the six-foot champion made him treat him differently.

   "You know him?" Looking at the smiling face, Kate thought Roland was happy for him.

   So he took the opportunity to say: "Charlotte is a good place, the air is much better than Los Angeles."

  What?

   Roland, who was immersed in the memory of his previous life, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then shook his head and said, "No, No, No..."

"I do not know him."

   "And he's not going to be in Charlotte, he's going to Los Angeles."

etc…

  Such words stunned Kate, who wanted to continue talking.

  You don't know him, so why did you make a special trip?

  You don't know him, so how do you know he's going to Los Angeles?

  Glanced with her head up, she caught the sparkle in the corner of Roland's eyes and slowly put a question mark in her heart.

  She felt that Roland had a problem.

  If Roland were to know what Kate was thinking, he would also generously admit that he had a problem.

  Focused on hacking for more than ten years, and actually developed feelings for hacking.

  This is really embarrassing!

  If movies are Roland’s favorite career in his previous life, games are his obsession after work.

  Then basketball is his relaxation after work.

He can't remember exactly which year he came into contact with basketball, but he knows that he started to black Kobe after Dayao entered the NBA, and the reason is very simple, he likes Duncan, hates the Lakers, Because the Lakers were the strongest at the time.

  In the barren era of the Internet, how many netizens who have the status of fans understand data and efficiency?

While others were praising Kobe, Roland, who had a computer at home, was swimming in the ocean of the Internet, playing "Fantasy Westward Journey", and understanding the meaning of various data there. Whenever he found that Kobe's efficiency was extremely low, it was simply When it was a cancerous tumor, he would go to school and slap those Kemi in the face as if he had picked up a treasure.

Not only that, in the era when YouTube was not blocked, he also did it himself, had enough food and clothing, learned how to make GIFs, and searched for various materials such as "Boss tried his best". His so-called grandma's career is all based on the talent tree he learned when he blacked Kobe back then.

  The dog-eat-like English was all chiseled out in the era when there was no machine translation, in order to hack Kobe from the Internet news.

He will be excited for the Spurs to beat the Lakers to the Western Conference finals, and he will be sad for Kobe to take away the spark. And lost.

  But when Roland watched the live broadcast of the Lakers playing the Warriors in his previous life, and saw Kobe on the screen clutching his ankle and falling to the ground in pain, checking after the end of the field and then going to the field for free throws, he suddenly felt his mind was empty.

   After he read the news about Kobe’s ruptured Achilles tendon, he suddenly discovered that over the years, he kept saying that he liked Duncan, but in the end, it was Kobe who watched the most games.

  Thinking, Duncan's classic picture has been blurred. Instead, Kobe hit Harden from a negative angle, riding a horse and archery lore to kill the Heat, and double-killing the Trail Blazers... These games that he sprayed as extremely inefficient back then are still fresh in his memory.

   In the scene where he was retired for 60 minutes, he even cried.

  Roland originally thought that Duncan was his youth, but in the end he realized that being handsome is a matter of a lifetime.

  60E's youth is Kobe Bryant, Roland's youth is Kobe Black, Mambaout, youth dies forever.

  Thinking of this, Roland suddenly laughed.

  Kate, who was on the road with him, glanced at him again with strange eyes. She felt that Roland's state was very wrong.

   "Do you have something on your mind?" Kate stopped with her fingers interlocked.

She felt that Roland seemed to be hiding something important from herself, "If you said before, you gave me the feeling that you were calm, mature, like the sun at noon, and your mental age was enough to crush a bunch of young people, but today, the feeling you gave me How do you look like an old man?"

   "Old man? How is that possible?" Roland also stopped in his tracks and took off his sunglasses. Although the corners of his eyes were red, his face was filled with happiness. "I just saw my lost youth, and I feel that I am full of energy now!"

   "Lost youth?"

When Kate heard Roland's words, she was full of question marks like Yang Shaoxia in "He forced him to be strong, I'm Nick Yang". She really wanted to reply, "You are three years younger than me, where are you from?" Can my youth pass away? '.

   But when she realized that Roland's eyes were clearer than ever before—

  The surprise in my heart was also suppressed, replaced by curiosity.

   "Okay, then I am honored to listen to the story of your youth?"

   Upon hearing this, Roland refused without thinking, "Uh...my story is boring, you won't be interested."

The more Roland said that, the brighter Kate's eyes became, and she straightened her nose. She was very dissatisfied with Roland's perfunctory, but she didn't force her, but asked instead: "Actually, I never knew, You like basketball..."

   "And I don't seem to have heard the rumor that you can play basketball before?"

   "Of course, if you feel embarrassed to talk about embarrassing things when you were a child, that's okay..."

   "Can I start by talking about my past twenty years..."

Eh!

  This can have!

As a star who would die if he didn't take advantage, after hearing such a strange request from Kate, Roland immediately nodded his head like a pile driver—Youth, you can recall it at any time, the girl's embarrassment, that's just missing this village. This store is gone!

That greedy behavior also made Kate extremely speechless, but she wanted to find out about Roland's story, so she didn't care too much about Roland's attitude. When she pulled him forward, the tide of memories also emerged. out.

  “I lived in Reading when I was a child. Every August, the largest music festival in the UK is held there. Even the Rolling Stones perform there, and David Bowie is a frequent visitor there…”

   "David Bowie? The one who sang "Change"?" As soon as Kate spoke, Roland interrupted her narration.

   "Yes, you know him?" Kate replied unexpectedly: "But when we get along, you don't listen to his songs very much!"

"Of course I know him. During the audition for "Home Alone", I still impressed John Hughes by playing and singing "Change"! He even praised me for playing well!" There is no need to hide it.

   "But I remember when you played the Red Bones song at the Golden Globes, it was a disaster..."

  Kate didn't save Roland any face at all.

   "Don't talk nonsense, I was obviously a sensation in the United States!" Roland repeatedly denied.

   "Really? Then tell me, why did you give up the guitar later?" Kate didn't believe it at all.

   "I just don't like guitars anymore!" Roland said stubbornly.

   "Then you don't play basketball because you don't like basketball anymore?" Kate changed the topic to something she was interested in.

   "Of course not!" Roland was at a loss for words.

   "Because you are too busy filming?" Kate gave Roland another reason.

   "I am recognized as the most idle A+list in the world, how can I be busy!"

   Roland was embarrassed to use this excuse, "I was still playing in 1990."

   "That was six years ago... just when you first entered the industry?" Kate asked the third question in a nostalgic tone.

   Hearing what she said, Roland also felt a little nostalgic. In the blink of an eye, it has been more than six years!

   "Yeah... it's been six years... I've been in the industry... it's been six years..."

   "And the opponent last time should be a spiritual guy now..."

  In fact, whether a person is willing to share the past with another person depends entirely on whether there is resistance in his heart.

If it was Ronald Perelman's private dinner, Roland and Kate would never talk about these things. Now, they won't talk about things like time travel and rebirth. Other innocuous content, the two exchanged a few words. Seven seven eight eight.

  Of course, no matter how Kate asked, Roland didn't explain why he went to the draft to see Kobe, but even so, when the questioning failed, Kate just asked him to sleep on the sofa.

  Uh... Well, in the early hours of the morning, she dragged Roland back, who was not sleeping well.

And in the 20 days when Roland "evaporated", the North American box office of "Spider-Man" also had a very strange trend, breaking through 100 million in 100 hours, but in the next 15 days, the entire movie only won 147 million at the box office.

If you switch to other movies, the average weekly box office is 68.6 million, which is already a big hit, but for a record-breaking movie like "Spider-Man", this kind of achievement is obviously not enough stamina .

However, even if there is a real phenomenon of "lack of stamina", no media will underestimate its achievements. In addition to the fact that the summer vacation has just begun, the amazing purchasing power of Roland fans is also the reason why the media are unwilling to stimulate the market. .

   That’s right, who made the topic of growing up too special for children’s tastes?

In the past 20 days, in addition to the steady increase in the total box office, "Spiderman", a video game released on PS, has also sold nearly 350,000 copies. The Spielberg of the arcade market has it all.

   Not only that, but the pullover sweater with the half-head portraits of Spider-Man and Roland printed on it also cost 100 million dollars.

  Including other miscellaneous peripherals, in 20 days, the audience and fans spent more than 400 million on Roland!

  When people in the circle got this kind of estimation report, everyone was silent.

  Because Roland, who grew up with all the children in America, has a terrifying ability to absorb money!

  Everyone in the industry knows that entertainment is a field where children win the world, but over the years, only Walt Disney and his fairy tale kingdom can really tie children into chariots!

  With the passing of Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg is the one who can control children's tastes the most.

   But that old man was just a filmmaker, but Roland sold himself as a commodity!

  If before, people still thought that the explosion of "Jurassic Park" was inseparable from the development of CGI, and that Roland was just a cheap kid, but now - no one questioned this issue anymore!

For laymen, audience popularity is an inexplicable thing, but for industry insiders, audience popularity is actually the accumulation of character design time and time again: if the character you create is pleasing in itself, then the audience will be Will like you, one pleasing character will make you popular, two pleasing characters will make you completely popular, and if there are three, four, five, six pleasing characters in a row, then... you The character set is you in the eyes of the audience.

  If in this case, add the national IP of America, and then let the screenwriter and director write the movie script according to the reality of you in the eyes of the audience, then you on and off the screen, in the eyes of the audience, have overlapped.

   As for aesthetic fatigue?

   Oh, the breakthrough CGI technology is the best cure for aesthetic fatigue.

  Of course, even if it is analyzed why Roland succeeded, his success cannot be replicated.

Because if you want to reach Roland's state, you must first make "Home Alone" and "Terminator 2" with a box office of 500 million, and then "Home Alone 2" with a box office of 400 million and "Jurassic" with a box office of one billion. Ji Park"...

  The popularity of the audience is based on the box office.

   But apart from Roland, none of them could make it out.

  Because of the resources and connections, Roland now holds them all.

  Because of this, the guys in Hollywood don't want to offend him at all now, they don't even mean to criticize Roland's movies, because as long as Roland doesn't kill himself, the audience's favor for him can turn back all those who criticize him.

What? Do not believe?

   When "Home Alone 2" was released, Roland was far from being as popular as he is now, but what about at that time?

  His fans have already slapped all the film critics hard.

  Of course, apart from the fact that the fans are too strong, the itinerary of the past 20 days is also the reason why they kept silent.

Before, Roland was only relying on the two wolves of Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn, and those media groups didn’t bother to move him, but now—when the intelligence personnel told them time and time again, Roland went to Michael today. -Bloomberg's company went around for a while. Tomorrow, David Shaw and his girlfriend were invited to hang out on the street. The day after tomorrow, he went in and out of Michael Milken's house, and the day after tomorrow, he went to restaurants with Jordan Belfort...

  No... You have made it clear like this, so let's be good friends...

  Although everyone believes that there are only interests in this world, but—

  Roland is friendly with them now and doesn't provoke them, so why should they offend others?

  In this way, regardless of the box office trend of "Spider-Man", those media are just constantly praising and raising expectations...

   Saying a few bright words will not lose a piece of meat, but if the scolding is a bit harsh, what those Wall Street bosses might think!

   In this case, with Roland's return, Sony actually didn't know how to organize a celebration banquet.

  Because there are too many people who have helped recently, it is difficult to draw up the guest invitation list for the celebration banquet.

   And when Kate, who stayed with Roland all day, learned about this, she suggested that Roland should do it himself.

   "You didn't like all kinds of social banquets before, but now you have to."

   "Although we have circled around in New York, your roots are still in Hollywood."

   "Your teachers, Steven, James, they don't like this stuff either, but they still participate selectively."

   "Movies are never one person's business. You can build a good relationship with all parties when they are unwilling to attack you."

   "My suggestion is to invite all the people who have helped and come into contact with you since you entered the industry on the grounds of celebrating your record breaking."

   "Whether they want to come or not is their choice. Whether you invite them or not is your attitude."

   "No matter how strong you are, you can't be arrogant, unless you are just an actor, your job is just to act well."

  As a bronze-level social player, what Roland knows is to build relationships and hug his thighs. As a result, letting Kate take charge of organizing the celebration banquet has become his most accustomed choice.

  When those guys received invitations one after another and came to the banquet, the guests at the scene were comparable to Oscar.

  Although there are many people, the order is not chaotic, and with the help of Kate, Roland is also like a butterfly, wandering around in all directions.

  Looking at the young couple with a smile on their faces, socializing, laughing with this one, and that hugging and saying hello...

   Spielberg, who was hiding aside, found Cameron.

  Spielberg secretly asked: "James?"

   Cameron choked for breath, his expression a little nervous, "Steven?"

  Spielberg folded his hands and whispered: "Didn't you notice that Roland seems to have changed?"

   Cameron looked hesitant, "Uh... When he came back from Greece, I found out that he seemed to be in love..."

  Spielberg raised his eyebrows, "Hiss...Are you thinking I'm blind? Do you think this is the rhythm of dating?"

   Cameron coughed, pursed his lips and said, "This...probably, maybe, should, probably..."

   And just as the two of them were whispering, Hanks, who was holding a wine glass, also joined the group chat.

   "That...according to the skills I taught Roland, he should be the purest experience school now."

   "This is already infinitely close to the character creation of performance theory."

"After the filming of "Titanic" is finished, all romantic films will not trouble him, or in other words, he may not make any more romantic films, because no matter how he shoots, it is impossible for him to get back the present In this state, unless..."

  “…he’s in love with another girl and can get into this rhythm of life…”

   "But... Is Titanic really that magical? What kind of movie are you trying to make?"

   Hanks' sharp words directly pierced the truck driver's disguise.

And when Spielberg cast a questioning look at this guy, the rogue spread his hands and said: "No one can tell clearly about the relationship. I just gave Roland and Kate half a year, and I don't know the result." It will be like this."

   "But, I have to admit, I like this result very much. Both Roland and Kate are dedicated actors..."

   Of course, not even the truck driver himself believed this bullshit.

  Because he can also see that the relationship between Roland and Kate is no longer the mutual phone calls before the Oscars.

  Seeing the two of them socializing there, he felt like he had fallen into a pile of sugar.

   As for this situation is good or bad?

  For movies, that is of course good. Romance movies, if you don’t move yourself, how can you move the audience?

   But for Roland and Kate...

  Then he doesn't know.

  However, shouldn't the immediate matter be filming "Titanic" first?

  (end of this chapter)