Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 310 Night Walker

Cannes, it’s time for the new year’s awards selection.

Among the films nominated this time, the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly Tang De's Night Crawler.

As Tang De's first crime film in a few years, it attracted the attention of many viewers and judges as soon as it was announced.

On the day of the film review, Chairman George Miller and other judges sat in the screening room, chatting while watching the film that was about to be screened.

George Miller sat next to Kirsten Dunst and Mads Mikkelsen.

One is a well-known actress who has starred in "Interview with the Vampire" and played Mary Jane in "Spider-Man", and the other is the Hannibal actor who is called Uncle Pull by many fans and whose movie clips are widely played on short video platforms.

When they saw Tang De's name on the film list, they were all very interested.

"What movie is Tang making this time?" Kirsten Dunst has never worked with Tang De, nor do they meet often. She knows Tang De only from his interviews and movies.

Mads Mikkelsen didn't pay much attention to Tang De, but he had seen his movies.

"I don't know. I heard it's a crime movie."

"Crime, like No Country for Old Men?" Mads Mikkelsen liked the movie very much.

George Miller shook his head. “It seems different from No Country for Old Men.”

"Then I'm even more interested," said Mads Mikkelsen.

"Keep calm, we have a mission today." George Miller smiled, and Mads Mikkelsen nodded: "Of course I understand, Mr. Chairman."

"Let's get started, is the equipment ready?"

Not long after, the theater darkened and the first movie began to play.

Being a judge at Cannes is not an easy job even if it is just watching movies. They have to watch at least four movies a day and give them scores.

In order to prevent them from being disturbed by external noises, they have to live in the place designated by the organizing committee and try to avoid contact with other people.

Therefore, most judges would not think about serving as judges a second time after serving as judges once, because it is indeed quite tiring.

After watching for three consecutive days, on the fourth day, Mads Mikkelsen and his friends finally saw Tang De's work, "Night Crawler".

The film opens with a little black boy running through the street. Amid the sound of gunfire and sirens, he weaves through the streets, avoiding pursuit.

However, just when he was about to be arrested, a white man helped him, and the two of them ran away from the chaotic streets together, and they were finally not arrested and imprisoned.

Then the scene changed, and the time came to twenty years later. The black boy retired from the army and returned to his home.

But what he had to face was a mess. His mother, who loved novelty, found her 25th husband. His drug-addicted sister dated different men every day. His younger brother, who loved fighting since childhood, often came home covered in injuries.

It can be said that the whole family was a mess, except for Franklin.

It was in this situation that Franklin worked desperately to make money to help his family get out of trouble. Unfortunately, his efforts were ineffective. His money was either stolen by his sister or used to take care of his brother's fractured bones.

Every time I am busy until I am exhausted, but I find that I have not saved any money at all.

It was at this moment of frustration that her mother suddenly angered her 25th husband and was dragged to the ground and beaten.

When Franklin saw this, he punched the man a few times and wanted to stop there, but his brother didn't want to. He took out a hidden pistol from the room and shot the man dead with one shot.

Franklin was confused, and so were his mother and sister. In order to help her brother get away with the crime, his mother wanted to say that she had killed the man.

Unexpectedly, the police had their own ideas about the case. After the investigation, they hastily determined that Franklin was the murderer. Then the prosecutor also determined the case very carelessly, and finally presented it to a white judge, who tried it on the spot in an extremely careless manner. Franklin was thrown into prison and met the killer Angle in prison.

At the same time, white Mike has been having a very rough time lately, because he didn't like studying since he was a child, so when he grew up he joined a local gang and worked for his godfather.

In the process, he met his girlfriend Britta, a drug addict whose greatest pleasure every day was to stay in the toilet and fiddle with her chemical props.

Mike had no way to deal with this, but he didn't want to break up with her, so he had to work hard to make money to support his girlfriend.

But human desires are endless, and during an accidental gang fight, he intercepted a batch of goods from a rival gang. Although his godfather had never touched drugs and had taught him so since childhood, he still chose to hide it away.

However, he never expected that after learning that the goods were missing, the rival gang became furious and hired two killers to kill the Godfather.

These two killers are naturally Franklin and Ang after they were released from prison.

After Franklin was released from prison, although he never made much money, he met a good girl who was completely different from the girl in his original family. She was simple and kind. Although she was bisexual, Franklin didn't care.

In order to give his girlfriend and family a better life, he and Ang committed crimes again and again.

But on the day of the murder of the Godfather, his fate suddenly changed.

After killing the gang leader, they found that there was still a survivor, Mike.

Ang wanted to kill Mike to silence him, but Franklin ultimately failed to do it. In the struggle of human nature, he killed his own plastic partner instead.

The reason is that Mike saved him when he was a child, it's that simple.

However, he felt that he saved Mike, but Mike did not feel that way because his childhood friend killed the godfather who was the best to him.

The two people suddenly went from being friends to invisible enemies.

It was in this delicate relationship that Franklin finally made money, successfully improved his life, and was about to live a good life.

But Mike suddenly decided to kill him.

After the death of the Godfather, his voice in the gang increased a lot. He started to get involved with drugs, and after tasting the benefits, he changed. In order to gain the highest position in the gang, he even took the initiative to have people hunt down Franklin as a capital for his own advancement.

During this process, Franklin's girlfriend actually got together with Mike's girlfriend.

Of course, not much is written here, and Tang De does not portray this relationship as chaotic, and the main focus is still on Franklin and Mike.

Mike took out rival gangs, dealt drugs, and his business grew.

Franklin was hunted down by his old friends and had to flee everywhere, causing his girlfriend and Mike's girlfriend no peace either.

But he finally avoided the pursuit and stood in front of Mike.

These two friends who had known each other since childhood finally stood on opposite sides and shot each other.

Mike is dead, but Franklin is alive.

But Mike's girlfriend soon appeared and wanted to kill Franklin. However, just as she raised her gun, Franklin's girlfriend also arrived.

In the end, Franklin's girlfriend died, and Mike's girlfriend also died.

Franklin was left alone and returned to his still messy home.

Just like the situation of thousands of black people, he ultimately could not escape this cycle, this sad cycle.

(End of this chapter)