Hollywood Road

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"Mr. Stanton..."

In a Burbank cafe, a middle-aged man in his thirties looked at Murphy and said, "$3,000 a week, that's the latest offer I can accept."

He turned to the woman who was slowly sipping coffee next to Murphy. "If you hadn't been introduced by Carla, I wouldn't have considered your film."

That's pretty solid.

Murphy's brows furrowed tightly, "Mr. Clibert, with your qualifications, such a price is not excessive."

The other party has been in the industry for more than ten years and has participated in the shooting of many films, many of which have invested more than 10 million US dollars in second-tier productions. Although he is an unremarkable props artist, compared to a newcomer like him, he is real. senior people.

"But the total investment for my film is only 300,000 US dollars." Murphy is also trying to impress him, "If you ask for too high a price, the budget for other aspects of the film will be reduced, and my project..."

Strictly speaking, compared to his qualifications, the price of this prop master named Kleibert is not too high. Nowadays, the weekly salary of prop masters in the second and third tiers of Hollywood is generally five thousand dollars. The problem is that these three thousand dollars are not worth the money That's a big number for the Philippines.

Murphy has made relevant plans. The most optimistic estimate is that the film will take at least two months from the preliminary preparation to the completion of the shooting. As a prop engineer, he must start work very early, even if he works for ten weeks, only one. People's salary expenditure reached 30,000 US dollars, accounting for one-tenth of the total investment, which was unacceptable to him anyway.

Kleibert bit down on three thousand dollars, and Murphy also looked at Carla Faith. She sipped her coffee quietly and didn't say anything, obviously not wanting to interfere in the negotiation between the two.

This is not surprising. In North America, business and friendship are fairly clearly divided most of the time.

Murphy has mastered the skills of many positions behind the scenes of the film, but he doesn't know much about props, and the film will use a lot of blood plasma and related props. guarantee.

Just like Kleibert, a relatively good props master also has a relatively high price.

Moreover, Kleibert had already lowered the salary requirement due to the introduction by Carla Fiss. Three thousand dollars was really cheap compared to a prop master of his level.

Murphy had no connections, no connections, and no qualifications. If it was Spielberg's project, Kleiber might have joined him even without money.

This was just the initial contact, and Murphy quickly got up to leave the cafe with Carla Faith.

After leaving the cafe, under the light of the street lights, the two walked along the one-way street towards the parking lot. Carla Feith was wearing high heels, probably because she was tired from a busy day, and the speed was a bit slow. Fei held a briefcase in her left hand and followed her unhurriedly.

"How's the preparation going?" Carla Firth gathered her blond hair blown away by the night wind and turned to look at Murphy's face, "It looks like you've encountered a lot of difficulties."

Murphy pointed to his face, "Is it so obvious?"

Carla Firth shrugged and sped up a little, "You are obviously in a relatively successful journalism career, but you have to transform into one of the most difficult industries..."

Having said that, she nodded Murphy's head in the air, "I really doubt if something is wrong with you here."

"Kara, you overlooked one thing." Murphy raised his head and looked at the dark night sky, like the future of his previous career, "I have been blacklisted by the Los Angeles Police, and if I continue to shoot social news, Will they trouble me?"

Hear what Murphy said,

Carla Firth's eyes flickered, but she didn't open her mouth to refute.

"And, if I continue, how far do you think I can do it?" Murphy looked back and turned to look aside, "Do you think I can own a TV station?"

Kara Firth was silent.

"You know, it's harder than winning the million-dollar jackpot." Murphy shook his head. "The best I can do is become the owner of a video capture company."

"But you will be successful in the film industry?" Carla Firth finally caught the point of counterattack and said unceremoniously, "The news video you shoot is really unique, but it's not the same as shooting a movie! You don't go through any After studying professionally, you rashly want to break into Hollywood, what is it that you are not stupid?"

Since the Beale Road incident, she has fully recognized Murphy, especially the video of the police and bandit shootout, which directly contributed to her promotion, making her feel that the other party can be the object of her learning.

However, someone she thought was born to be in journalism betrayed the industry.

Murphy suddenly stopped, and Carla Feith next to him also stopped subconsciously, and turned his head to look over again.

"Dear..." Murphy also looked at her and asked in a half-serious half-joking tone, "Are you caring about me?"

Carla Firth turned around, walked forward, and dropped a sentence, "I'm looking forward to your bankruptcy."

Carrying the briefcase, Murphy followed up unhurriedly, "Continue to shoot news, at most become the boss of a small video collection company, but my potential in the film industry is unlimited."

Carla Firth, who was walking in front, didn't speak at all, taking it as Murphy bragging.

"I taught myself a lot of film-related courses."

His past experiences were not convincing at all, and Murphy couldn't tell others about the special parts. He could only use self-study as an excuse, "I think I can do something in this industry."

Carla Firth stopped, turned her head and looked over, her bright eyes hidden under her long blond hair, flashing doubts.

Murphy understood what she meant, and didn't feel ashamed at all, "Maybe I'm the next Steven Spielberg..."

There was a hint of mockery in those bright blue eyes, and Murphy shrugged, "There's always hope for a director like Ridley Scott or Quentin Tastino? At least they can. The next Robert Rodriguez."

Murphy took a few steps, caught up with Carla Firth, put away the joking expression on his face, and said seriously, "In my project, there is still a lack of a producer who can coordinate the overall situation."

Carla Firth, who just recently served as the producer of the "Sin City" documentary, can naturally understand what Murphy means, "Can you afford my salary?"

"This..." Murphy patted his forehead, and simply stopped talking about this topic.

With the current strength of Stanton Studios, it must not be able to pay Kara Firth's high salary.

Just like Carla Feith recognized his work ability, Murphy also recognized Carla Feith's work ability, and like himself, in order to achieve his goals, Carla Feith can also use quite a lot of means, Most importantly, these methods still work.

Walking to the parking lot, Carla Firth came to her car, looked at Murphy's second-hand Ford car next to him, and waved to him, "It's getting late, I'm going back."

Murphy nodded and warned, "Drive slower."

Carla Feith got into the driver's seat, and just started the car, she seemed to remember something, lowered the window glass, and said to Murphy, "Is there anything I need help..."

She made a phone call gesture.

"I will." Murphy waved to her.

After working in a TV station for a few years, Carla-Fith has some connections, but Channel 6 is a small local TV station after all, and has nothing to do with film and television production. Except for the props artist she just met, she can help me Fei's place is also very limited.

Leaving the parking lot and driving back to downtown Los Angeles, although it was late, Murphy did not sleep, sitting at his desk, continuing to improve the script, especially the driving scene after the opening, which still needs to be carefully crafted.

This is just a story between two people. If you want to create more contradictions and highlights in the monotonous character relationship, the script must be constantly polished.

For the next ten days, Murphy perfected the script and drew the storyboard artwork, and on the other hand, did more preparatory work with Jessica Chastain, the only employee of Stanton Studios.

Interviewing candidates for positions as makeup artist, lighting artist, set designer, finding suitable and cheap photography equipment to rent, looking at locations that can be rented at low prices…

All kinds of tedious work almost kept him free for a moment, and his sleep time was even compressed to five hours a day.

Fortunately, his predecessor wandered around the streets of Los Angeles all the year round, and the physique that he left behind has received enough exercise. Now Murphy is very strong, and his energy is quite strong. Coupled with the excitement of getting into the film industry for the first time, let him The whole body is full of energy.

However, Murphy gave up the props engineer introduced by Carla-Feth, and the salary of $3,000 a week was indeed not what he could pay.

After half a month of busy work and interviewing dozens of candidates, Murphy chose for himself from a group of Hollywood losers who looked good in makeup, lighting, set, props and many others. Behind the scenes staff.

Especially the male makeup artist, who is very capable, Murphy was a little curious about why he was so down after working in Hollywood for so many years.

After a simple understanding, Murphy roughly understands the problem, for two reasons: one is that Hollywood has never lacked talents, and almost all types of work are like this; the other is that the makeup artist himself said - because he is not a Glass, I don't want to mess with others...

These words also reminded Murphy of many rumors he had read. Certain unwritten conventions are not only rampant in the big industry of Hollywood, but also widely circulated in some small circles of work.

For example, make-up artists in the film industry, especially male make-up artists, would have to take a lot of detours if they were not gay.

In the Hollywood circle, homosexuality and bisexuality are prevalent. In many cases, it is not those people who naturally want to be like this, but forced by the environment.

Fortunately, there is no such convention in the director's business, and Murphy can only think so.

Murphy put down these messy thoughts and turned to the next focus of work, officially establishing the crew and determining the two leading actors.

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