Chapter 2: Inspiration
Eric put a cumbersome second-hand typewriter on the desk and wiped the sweat from his forehead, remembering his life-thin laptop. This is the second day he found himself changing his memory. After a day of thinking, Eric has a preliminary plan for his future.
Therefore, he deliberately invited Jeff to a day off, and spent most of the day shopping for this second-hand typewriter. This is essential for implementing your own plan.
After dealing with Ralph’s aftermath, Eric’s hands were only a few hundred dollars in cash. In Western countries with a good welfare system, people have never had the habit of saving. Eric, who was born again, is fortunate. Fortunately, the loan for the house he lives in is already over. Otherwise, because the house cannot be paid, the house may be recovered. I have to sleep on the streets. In this way, the money to buy a typewriter is still a monthly salary that Eric pays to Jeff.
To achieve your own ideals, you must first enter the Hollywood circle. Don't think about being a direct director for a while, when an actor is not a path that suits him. I want to think about what is best for him or to be a screenwriter. Although people always say that the role of Hollywood writers in this era is low, it is not the case, because the top gold screenwriters have turned to be directors and producers, which is no different from the Hong Kong movies on the other side of the ocean.
Put a piece of manuscript paper into the typewriter, and Eric raised his hand and typed a line on the keyboard: Jurassic Park. That's right, it was the most profitable movie series of the 1990s.
Eric still remembers the past life, from the hawkers selling pirated CDs, the discs of Jurassic Park, and the scenes when watching with a group of friends, when the lifelike dinosaurs appear on the TV screen, Feeling, I can only describe it in one sentence: I and my friends are shocked.
In the memory, the novel of Jurassic Park was published in 1990. The novel has only more than 100,000 words, so Michael Clayton must have not started writing yet. Eric has taken it for himself, and he does not take it. As for Michael Clayton, there is no such thing as a fantasy in life. There is no such thing as Jurassic Park and Cretaceous Park.
Eric’s mouth tilted slightly and he tapped the keyboard while recalling the past. What he is writing is not the script of Jurassic Park, but a novel. After he saw the movie in his previous life, he was carefully curious to find a novel from Jurassic Park. Now, having a memory of a high school student who has a good grade in school, it is more than enough to translate the Chinese version of the previous life into an English novel.
The reason why the script was not written directly, on the one hand, is to write the script directly into the film company, the most likely to be thrown into the trash as waste paper, the script that the Hollywood film company receives every day, basically can be calculated. On the other hand, Eric wants to keep this series of movie copyrights in his own hands, because even if it is now written as a script, it will be seen by a discerning film company and made into a movie, then it will be the biggest. The only benefit is those movie companies, and Eric, in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars in scripts, receives an extra bonus. Eric is definitely not going to do this kind of loss.
When the novel is published, Eric can firmly control the copyright of the film and television in his own hands, waiting for the right time to wait for the price and maximizing the benefits that he can obtain.
The time spent immersing in work always flies fast, until the sky is completely dark, and Eric has already looked down on the letters on the keyboard, only to find that he has been writing for four or five hours, and his stomach is also unknowingly I started screaming.
Standing up, Eric looked at a thick stack of manuscripts on the desk and sat up with satisfaction. At this speed, he could finish the manuscript in about a week. After all, he would continue to be at Jeff's restaurant at this stage. Work, or else you have to go hungry.
Into the kitchen, Eric made a simple dinner for himself, rice with a tomato scrambled egg, typical Chinese home cooking, as for the remaining bread, cheese, peanut butter and the like in the refrigerator, Eric usually these days When eating snacks, he inherited the memory of the original guy, but the eating habits of the oriental people in the bones are still ingrained.
After a simple dinner, Eric came to the balcony on the second floor and looked at the surrounding night view against the railing. The apartment he lives in is a small yard of less than two hundred square meters. The two-story house has some unknown flowers and plants in the yard. There is no hostess. The cheap father Ralph is also an informal person. The lives of both father and son have always been rough. When the memory was about seven or eight years old, the father and son moved from London to London to Renton. Eric didn't remember why Ralph did this. At that time, it was still too small, and according to the clues in the memory, Eric couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother to think about it.
After moving to Los Angeles, Ralph dragged Little Eric to spend only two days in Los Angeles, and then bought the small courtyard under the introduction of real estate agents, everything seemed to be chaotic. Eric smiled, and the idea of a cautious home ownership in the bones was ruined.
After staying on the balcony for a while, I was planning to go back to the study room and continue to write "Jurassic Park". I suddenly heard a ping-pong, it seems that the glassware fell on the ground, Eric turned his eyes to the neighbors in the west, that is The family of the Langkel couple, a couple in their forties, the couple have three children, the eldest son has gone to college, one daughter is studying in a boarding school, and the youngest son is only seven years old.
The couple may have encountered a middle-aged crisis and often quarreled during this time. Although Eric's relationship with the Langkel family is good, Eric is not going to persuade him. These two are very restrained people, and there is no record of making a big hit. If you want to trade and rush to persuade, you can only make each other jealous.
After a rush of violent quarrels and broken sounds of several pieces of equipment, the door of the Langkel home was pushed away. The male owner, Charlie Longnkell, wore a shirt, and the hair rushed out of the door in a messy way. He ran two steps and turned to the woman in the door and shouted: "Enough, I am fed up, damn, you are this blue pool. If it wasn’t for you to move to Los Angeles, I might now be an executive at GM, and see what you look like now, Scorpio!”
"You are going to die," Mrs. Langkel, who has always spoken softly and whispered, but the voice is very tall and sharp at the moment: "In the three men who pursued me with you, one is now a California lawmaker. One sells oil in the Middle East, oil, do you know? The profit of a ship is worth a hundred years of salary! The regret is that the old lady is right. Now, go to your GM to sleep, dear 'Universal company high tube'!"
After Mrs. Langkel finished, she threw a black jacket out and slammed the door.
Charlie Longcker picked up his coat and patted it, stood up and just looked up at Eric, who was standing on the balcony.
"Sorry, I am disturbing you, Eric." Charlie smiled slyly, and said to Eric.
"It doesn't matter, Charlieson, do you want to come to my house?" Eric said.
Charlie shook his head and said, "No, thank you, I... I am going to the bar. Wait... After a while, Mary should be mad."
After Charlieson finished, he slammed Eric and nodded his car to drive away.
Eric returned to the house and remembered the scene of the two arguments of the Langkel couple. A thought in his mind suddenly flashed, sitting at the desk and loading a piece of manuscript paper into the typewriter. The thought was gradually clearer.
In the past two days, Eric has been thinking about what to write in his first script, and now he has the answer. That script is simply tailor-made for him. Well, because of the long distance between the times, a lot of details need to be modified, but these are not problems, and the selling points of the script are not in those details.