Entertainment: Stepmother’s daughter is actually a future queen

Chapter 248 Connecticut

There were green trees on both sides of the road, and a cunning old white man stood beside him, rubbing his hands and mumbling something to Xing Xueming beside him, and finally said "nononono"

Lin Yu was looking at this large, cathedral-style building. The entire building had a right-angled C shape, and there was also a single-family building standing at the front.

A scrapped iron door with iron locks wrapped around it.

The iron ropes were rusty.

The walls on both sides were covered with thorns and shrubs.

The entire building complex looks very large and mysterious.

This is the most hidden corner of the town. It is considered deserted in this town. This hospital also has a "story". I heard that there was a fire here. After the fire, one person was burned to death. The patients in the ward were bankrupted, and the director was later transferred to the local municipal government, and the place was abandoned.

"Damn, this white-skinned pig is really greedy." Xing Xueming came over, cursing, and was very rude when he opened his mouth, not afraid that the person next to him would understand.

"Tell him to open the door and let us go in and take a look. He said it would cost five hundred dollars."

"Fuck, why didn't he grab it?"

"Ask him, is there an underground tunnel here?"

"I asked, no."

"Then let's go." Lin Yu glanced at him and said without looking back.

"Ah, don't you go in and take a look?" Xing Xueming was dumbfounded.

"It's not necessary. This man is just a doorman. If we go in, we can go directly to the city government to talk. Otherwise, this man will charge us five hundred for entering now. Later, we will set up the place inside and weld the iron bars. I even How many rooms have to be decorated, and this person won’t blackmail me to death?”

"If we have no choice but to come here, we will talk to the government directly and kick this person away."

"That's right." Xing Xueming shrugged and got into the cab, "You're not old, but you think about one thing after another?" Xing Xueming glanced at Lin Yu and took a drag on his cigarette.

"Let's go to the next place."

Looking at the scenery outside the road, Lin Yu only felt that this trip would be more troublesome than he thought. Indeed, in a foreign country, with a strange skin, I will kill you if I don't want to.

However, Lin Yu didn't dare to take Xing Xueming's "compliment" seriously.There is indeed another person's memory in my mind, but in my heart, I just focus on the life of a college student.

Not to mention, I don’t know how much this Xing Xueming has deceived me.

"But brother, let me tell you the truth, do you really want the hospital to have an underground tunnel?"

He said confusedly, "I'll tell you the truth, your request is too harsh. Normally there would be this under the hospital, and it probably won't be anywhere we go next."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have it," Lin Yu said, "Then the tunnel scene can be cut up and filmed. Anyway, the audience won't know that the two places are not together."

The same goes for the plot of the elevator shaft designed by Lin Yu. It can be shot directly in another location. Even if Lin Yu is willing, each floor can be cut out and shot.

The audience can't see it anyway.

"You have thought about it. It is best if you have thought about it." After paying fifty dollars, he opened the door and let Lin Yu go in and take a look.

In the third house, there was a black man named Nico who was guarding the door. When Xing Xueming came to him, this guy was so excited. When he opened the abandoned mental hospital, Lin Yu was scared to death.

A dozen homeless people actually found their way inside and took over the place to make a family. As soon as they saw two yellow-skinned men, Lin Yu and Xing Xueming, coming in, some people even went to look for guns in a panic. Xing Xueming was so frightened that he retreated tactically. and shouted "sorry"

Lin Yu was able to experience a wave of exotic customs.

But Maine is really suitable for filming. The buildings are short, the style is very Wild West, the population is sparse, and there are many trees. Two-thirds of the entire state is simply primitive jungle.

And the entire economy is very backward.

After visiting Maine for a few days, Lin Yu also visited the "Maine Town" described in the legendary horror novel. He also searched for and visited some local scenic spots, horror stories, and religious rumors.

Then I went to the local library to read some local religious books, holding my mobile phone in front of the translator.

Half a month later, after studying around Maine, the satisfied Lin Yu left and took a plane to the next stop, Connecticut.

It takes two or three hours to take off from Maine and land in Connecticut, but the scenery of Connecticut is completely different. As soon as you see it, it is full of high-rise buildings and extremely prosperous.

Connecticut is adjacent to New York, but it is also the southernmost state in New Zealand. As soon as he landed here, Lin Yu felt that he had arrived in the real United States.

At the airport, Lin Yu looked up at the city and couldn't help but make secret calculations in his heart.

Is it easy to make a movie here?
Because this place seems too prosperous, it is obviously not harmonious with the background of the horror film Lin Yu wants to shoot, but it is not entirely like this. For example, "Joker" was also shot in prosperous New York, but the bottom lens The color filter is used well, but the feeling of depression still comes over me.

The feeling of loneliness is still suppressed.

Moreover, according to his own script, there is almost no scene on the street. Of the one and a half hour movie, less than 10 minutes are outdoors, and the rest is all about everyone trapped in a mental hospital.

From this perspective, Connecticut does not affect the shooting of forest fish.

"Let's go and check out what this state is like." Lin Yu didn't just check out the mental hospital just because he was only filming the encounter in the cemetery. Lin Yu thought that since they were all here anyway, he could also check out the customs and customs of this country.

Walk around each place to prepare for writing your own material in the future.

The car drove on the bustling Connecticut Avenue, and Lin Yu looked at the pedestrians on both sides of the street.

Connecticut ranks at the bottom of the United States in terms of population and area, but it is very wealthy and has one of the highest average incomes. You can refer to the situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

For example, the famous Yale University is located in Connecticut.

Xing Xueming first took Lin Yu to the city hall, the Connecticut Film Association and other places. After coming out, Xing Xueming cursed loudly.

"We are really good at showing off. When asked whether we are from China, there is no big company to issue a certificate, so no one will look at us."

"Ask her ten words, and the girl acts like she doesn't understand. She's just playing with her mobile phone. I wonder if her English is broken. Damn it."

Obviously, Xing Xueming was very angry after going in and being ignored.

"Big cities are like this. Don't worry. Let's go to the scenic spots to inspect them first. If there is no problem, we can ask someone to talk to us." There are always [-] solutions to problems.

"Yeah."

"How is it here?"

After getting off the car, Lin Yu made a motion of shielding his forehead with his hands, and looked around for a while. This was a suburban area, deserted by people, and a mental hospital was abandoned on the roadside.

It occupies a huge area and the entire hospital is dark red.

It is also a C-right-angled building, but there is no independent building. "What a coincidence. There is an underground tunnel here. It is said that this hospital was built in 1900. At that time, an underground passage was made to build a material storage. However, it has been abandoned for a long time. It just needs to be cleaned up. What do you think? "

"Okay, let's go in and take a look." Lin Yu showed a satisfied look on his face.

A thin woman dressed as a white housewife, smoking a cigarette, opened the lock with a key. Xing Xueming paid her twenty dollars quickly, then opened the door and went in to take a look.

Finally, there is no such thing as homeless people here. I looked down the third floor and finally went to the underground tunnel for a look. Although the underground tunnel was filled with the smell of dust, Lin Yu was already very satisfied.

"This hall is just right for the entrance scene. It's suitable, very suitable." Returning to the first floor and looking at the appearance of the building, Lin Yu's face was filled with satisfaction.

"Who is in charge of this hospital?"

Xing Xueming immediately chatted with the woman for a while, then walked over and shrugged, "As usual, if you want to rent the property under the name of the municipal government, you have to renovate it, right?"

"Correct."

"Then you have to talk to someone, but it's not easy to find someone. This kind of building is abandoned here, and no one cares about it. Let's go and try our luck."

Once you have a goal, it's easy. The rest is what Xing Xueming should talk about.

After leaving the hospital and finding his target, Lin Yu felt relieved.

Shooting locations, scripts, actors, project approval, isn’t this all in one?
As long as people are brought here to start work, the movie can be made, right?

right? ?

Lin Yu made repeated plans several times, but he always felt that something was wrong. Yes, it was a problem with the script!After these days of hard thinking, Lin Yu probably discovered that there were indeed hidden dangers in this script.

For example, should we decorate here first according to the script?

Where is your script?
The script still needs to be revised, how do you decorate it?

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Yu decided to put this issue aside for the time being, and followed Xing Xueming out. Before getting in the car, Lin Yu grabbed his sleeve.

"Hold on."

"You're saying that this hospital is managed by the responsible personnel of a certain municipal government office, right?"

"Correct."

"How much do you estimate the rent will be?"

Xing Xueming glanced up and down, "Anyway, it's sitting idle in this abandoned hospital. If you shoot for three months and pay ten thousand US dollars a month, that's enough."

"But they don't need the money, and the work seems cumbersome. We are not a big crew that can allow them to give us this face."

"In this way, let's come up with our own unique way of doing things."

"Ah, what kind of unique way of doing things?" Xing Xueming was a little confused.

"Go and find out who is in charge of this shabby hospital. Make an appointment with him. We will give him [-] yuan privately and ask him to ignore this matter and just issue us a filming permit."

"We decorated it for filming, and restored it to him after the filming. He didn't notice it. Anyway, he won't come again next time."

Xing Xueming stared at Lin Yu dumbfounded, "You are punishing me worse than me!"

……

Under the prying eyes of Xing Xueming, an American expert, he quickly found out that the person in charge of the mental hospital in this department was the employee "Louis Lee".

Xing Xueming handed a business card to the secretary at the door, and then pulled on a big tiger skin, saying that it came from the mysterious East, a very awesome film company, and a super big crew.

Anyway, after talking nonsense like this, he asked to meet with Louis Lee to discuss a very, very big deal.

I don't know if the secretary conveyed this "idea" correctly, but Xing Xueming came over and waited with Lin Yu on the cold steel chairs in the corridor.

"Let me tell you, this is how things work in big cities. I once ran a job for a film crew and went to the lobby seven times. Seven times!"

"Oh my god, I didn't even see that person hanging there. At first I thought that person was very busy, but then I accidentally saw that person smoking in the office through the crack in the door."

Xing Xueming patted his knee with his hand, "You know, the American is in front of me, and I clearly know that he is a shitty clerk in that shabby office. I don't even want to look at the salary he gets in a month. he."

"But he doesn't know why he pretends like that, and I have to pretend to be a grandson and smile."

Xing Xueming crossed his legs and patted his knee with one hand. He was silent for a while and said, "So I often think that the money I earn is just selling my poor dignity."

"If one day I want to become a famous director, I will definitely have them waiting at my door for seven days and seven nights!"

As he said this, Xing Xueming smiled bitterly, "But I already knew that this was not possible."

But this time, their faces darkened again.

Two hours later, one hour after the agreed time, Xing Xueming went to ask, but the secretary only said casually that Louis was busy and not in the office.

But the two clearly heard the laughter of a white man coming from the office.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, it was almost time to get off work. Xing Xueming couldn't bear it anymore and went to ask again, but he still got the same reply.

"Okay." Lin Yu grabbed Xing Xueming and couldn't help but sigh. This was not Xing Xueming's fault, but that he, a young director, had no reputation at all, and he was being deliberately ignored.

In the final analysis, it is the fault of being weak.

Sitting there, Lin Yu thought for a while, that Lewis might not be malicious, discriminatory, etc., not necessarily.

But it is certain that someone wants to show off his power and is habitual of taking the initiative.

But understanding is one thing, whether you can accept it is another.

"Xing Xueming, let's go."

"Ah." Xing Xueming was stunned for a moment, "Where are you going?"

"Go back to Maine."

"We can't reach Connecticut... We will come back one day, but not in this way, this way, walking into an office like that."

"I'll remember today's lesson."

(End of this chapter)