Chapter 84 Five Seconds
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Seeing the scene flashing on the screen one by one, Matthew was still waiting, and he couldn't explain his current mood. He was a little excited, anxious, and expectant.
After all, this is the first time he has been able to appear in a movie!
Although Britney's MV has been frequently played on major TV stations and has many shots of him, in Matthew's eyes, the MV's status is too big compared to the movie.
Finally, Matthew saw himself on the screen.
He walked towards the corridor from the hall where the patient was resting. The camera gave him a long-range full-body shot, and could vaguely see his face. Then he passed by the heroine of Winona Ryder at the door of the first room. The camera's perspective turned to Winona Ryder. The picture turned to Matthew's back with her eyes until he turned into a ward and returned to Winona Ryder's face.
But the large close-up of the facial shot by Matthew in the room was gone, and the picture kept stopping on Winona Ryder. The two lines Matthew said turned into voice-over...
After a while, the character played by Ma Xiu appeared for less than five seconds. No one except himself would pay attention to such a small role.
Most of the audience are concerned about Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder.
However, Matthew thought about it again that his first character could have nearly five seconds of footage in the film, which was quite good.
Overall, he was in a good mood and had been enjoying the movie very happily.
This kind of good mood has continued from Kate Geoffrey's making a fool of himself to the present. Perhaps in the eyes of moral people, what Matthew did is very despicable, but he will never endure it when he is bullied. Even if he is temporarily patient, it is for the purpose of planning in the future.
From another perspective, these behaviors seem to be very lost, but if that happens to you, it is only clear whether it is happy or not, whether it is depressed or not.
After watching the movie, Matthew went out of the theater and heard someone next to him who seemed to be a film critic talking about the two actresses. He listened for a while and the two of them were positive about Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. One of them even thought that Julie could hit the Oscars' performance award.
“Oscars’ performance award…”
When he walked towards the bus stop, Matthew was still thinking about Oscars. He has been in this circle for more than half a year. How could he not know the status and influence of Oscars in the Hollywood film industry?
It is no exaggeration to say that the Oscar is the most important award in the entire North American film circle.
"When will I win the Oscar Little Golden Man?"
Matthew inevitably had this idea, but thinking about Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder's performance in the film, there is a huge gap between him, and these two female stars are not known for their outstanding acting skills in Hollywood...
He knew very well that Oscars could only be a long-term future goal, so he should work hard toward Hollywood stars at the level.
After becoming a Hollywood star, he believes that his life will change drastically and the goals he set can also be achieved one by one.
After watching "The Soul-Moving Girl", Matthew also obeyed his wish.
In the following days, he was not idle either. He went to the Los Angeles Performing Arts School and found his previous performance teacher David Astor, returning the previously borrowed videotapes, and borrowed a batch of new ones to continue his path of imitation and practice.
For the next filming, Matthew contacted Ronald Spears, the prototype of his role, through the crew. Although Tom Hanks would call the veterans of that year to the filming location, Ronald Spears himself was not in good health and would not go to London.
Matthew had to visit him in person.
According to Helen Hermann, the descriptions of these veterans can only be used as reference opinions. Since Ronald Spears was in poor health, Matthew only communicated with him for half an hour, focusing on the rumors of shooting German prisoners of war that year, but Ronald Spears did not answer, just laughed but said nothing.
In the end, Matthew didn't get the answer. The truth of this matter was probably taken into the coffin by Ronald Spears.
After seeing Ronald Spears, Matthew returned to Los Angeles, and Britney went to Nashville. He had to spend the holiday by himself. Fortunately, he was used to being alone, and there were a bunch of videotapes and books in the apartment. Studying and practicing performances was enough to allow him to pass this time.
Of course, the practice at this stage must first serve the role you will play.
Matthew found a lot of videotapes on war themes and specially watched and practiced the scenes of many tough guy characters in order to make up for his lack of experience.
As for the original novel of "Brothers" and the copy of the memoir, he read it again after he came back and was familiar with the contents.
He thought he was ready.
One morning before Christmas, Matthew received a call. After lunch, he put down what he had and went to a small park near the apartment for an appointment.
He went directly to the stone table and bench in the woods and saw the tall woman waiting here, Ilena Boyal, his old acquaintance.
"Long time no see, Matthew." Elena Poyal sat on the stone bench, looked at Matthew carefully up and down, and said, "You look different."
Matthew said with a shameless face, "Are you more handsome?"
"No." Elena Poyal rolled his eyes, "It's your temperament, it gives me a different feeling."
"I'm a soldier now." Matthew said casually, sitting opposite her, "or I've seen myself as a soldier recently."
Ilena Poyal seemed to understand what Matthew said, and snorted, deliberately saying, "Are you showing off to me?"
Matthew shook his head, "Do I need this?" he continued, "You have something to ask me?"
"It's okay." Ilena Poyal obviously said something wrong, "I'll find you to reminisce about the past."
She reminded, "Didn't Helen Hermann tell you? I reached an agreement with her."
"I know." Matthew revealed directly, "You want to ask me for news now?"
Ilena Poyal expressed his true purpose, "Aren't you going to pursue Britney? How is it going?"
"When did I pursue Britney?" Matthew asked, "that's fake news you wrote randomly!"
"You really didn't pursue Britney?" How could I believe Elena Poyal easily, "Britney admitted in person that you are good friends."
Matthew was too lazy to continue to respond and said casually, "Whatever you say."
Seeing Matthew not explaining, Elena Poyal came over and asked, "No way? You really didn't pursue Britney? I'm still waiting for you to give me explosive news and release the most eye-catching entertainment news in the New Year!"
"You're thinking too much." Matthew said lightly.
"You..." Ilena Poyal covered his forehead, "How should I explain to the editor!"
Matthew said at the right time, "Make up! Isn't you the best at making up fake news?"
"You mean to anger me, aren't you?" Elena Poyal's violent temper was revealed again, and she directly slapped the stone table, "Okay! I'll say you cheated and dumped Britney!"
"Don't!" Matthew quickly raised his hand to stop it. Ilena Poyal really wrote this, and in the way Britney thought about the problem, he might take it seriously. He spread his hands and said, "I am just an unknown man. I used to borrow Britney to gain some popularity. How many people have you read this?"
Ilena Poyal was just angry. If you really wrote this, let alone the editor-in-chief's review, you can't even pass the level of review.
Seeing that the New Year was approaching, she really couldn't find explosive news, so she came to Matthew and asked again, "Aren't you on the crew of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg? Is there any selling news?"
Matthew shook his head directly, "The crew issued a ban order, I can't tell you anything."
Ilena Poyal sighed, "If I can't find the news, I will be fired by the newspaper, and you will lose a potential cooperative journalist, and you are still a promising and capable one."
Matthew spread his hands, "You'd better go find Helen Herman."
According to his agreement with Helen Hermann, he could not disclose information to Ilena Poyal at will without notifying her as an agent.
Not to mention whether to comply with the agreement or not, Matthew couldn't think of any entertainment gossip for a while. He couldn't tell Elena Poyal about him and Britney, right?
Ilena Poyal stood up, probably in a bad mood, raised his foot and kicked the stone bench, gave Matthew a middle finger, turned his head and left.
"Hey! I thought of a good subject!" Matthew said deliberately.
"What?" Ilena Poyal stopped unconsciously.
Matthew smiled and said, "You admit to making fake news about Britney and me, apologizing to the public in the newspaper, and I believe many people will read it."
He deliberately squeezed Ilena Boyal to fight back against the middle finger. Unexpectedly, Ilena Boyal was even more shameless than he thought. After thinking for a second, he actually said to himself, "If you can't find other news, this is also a way."
Matthew could only stare at Elena Poyal and walk away. This woman was not at all honesty. Fucking her.
After leaving the woods, Matthew called Helen Hermann on the way back and briefly talked about the meeting with Ilena Boyal. After all, Ilena Boyal is an entertainment reporter, so it is best to let the agent know about this kind of thing.
In the next few days, including Christmas Eve and Christmas, he continued to practice and study performances and guess the role of Ronald Spears. Although he did not go out, he felt that he was living a fulfilling life.
As soon as the Christmas holiday was over, Matthew came to Los Angeles International Airport, picked up the ticket booked by the crew, and returned to London's Hatfield Airport. To be precise, it should be called Hatfield Set now.
Chapter completed!