The greatest talent of mankind is the right to chase dreams, but before chasing dreams, you must fill your stomach first. If you can't even get the basics down, everything else would just be fantasy.
It's been more than a year since I came to this world. Almost all of my time was spent in prison. The hardships he faced also made Murphy understand a lot of truths. Before his Hollywood dream can be realized, he must first find something that can support his expenses and survival, something he can call his own. Although the body's predecessor was a fool, he also left some useful things, such as this small apartment.
The apartment is located in a Latin community. Like most houses in downtown Los Angeles, it is low-rise and very old building. The public security situation here is worrying, and there are many idle people living around, some similar to Ross. The guys also haunt the community from time to time.
Maybe it's good luck, or maybe due to it being too shabby, it's quite remote here. At least this "aunt's" apartment has not been visited by thieves this year. The furniture and work that Murphy has always despised are left here by the idiot(former body owner). The equipments were still working, which really gave him a small surprise.
After finding this apartment with the help of his memory, Murphy conducted a thorough cleaning and then checked the family properties that he could now control.
The first is this house that he can live in temporarily. The British measurements are commonly used in the United States. According to Murphy's previous standards, the house is not small in size, 50 square meters, excluding the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room. The room is integrated with the balcony, there is also a small studio, that is, the former freelance reporter's workshop.
As the house under his name was forcibly confiscated as a fine and compensation, Murphy confirmed that he could only live here.
The furnishings in the house are very simple. Obviously, the Stanton family was just a very ordinary family of the slums. The aunt who went to the UK left behind basic appliances such as old-fashioned color TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. The furniture is equally simple. Chairs, a painted dining table, and a washed white cloth sofa, as well as a foldable single bed.
In one day, Murphy returned from the state prison to downtown Los Angeles and cleaned the room again. He was hungry, so he took out his only money and carefully counted it, two hundred and forty-three dollars.
Taking out ten dollars from it, and stuffing the remaining money into his personal pocket, Murphy went out of the room, went to a nearby burger shop, and bought a burger set as his own dinner.
Although the sky was dark and the public security situation here is not good, Murphy had not yet encountered a robbery. In his thoughts, perhaps his powerful physique played a role. After all, he had experienced so much in prison. His whole temperament looks vaguely fierce.
Dinner only cost him five dollars, Murphy had no source of income now and must plan the use of every cent wisely.
After passing the stairs which were far more run-down and messy than the room, Murphy returned to his room, locked the door, and turned on the TV, but there was no program. The subscription payment for the TV was due for a long time. The signal was forcibly cut off, so he turned off the TV and enjoyed his dinner quietly.
Murphy's head kept turning, thinking about how he would make a living, as he chewed the burger in his mouth unconsciously.
stock market?No, Not to mention that he doesn't even have the capital. It is June 2000. The stock market crash caused by Nasdaq is in full swing, and he was just a poor student in the poor film academy, and he didn't know anything about the operation of stocks...
investment? Who has the money to invest in it? He also wants people to invest in him.
Swallowing the food in his mouth, leaving the remaining half of the burger on the painted dining table, Murphy leaned back on the chair, propped his head with one hand, and mobilized all his brain cells to think of ways to make a fortune quickly.
Of course, engaging in the illegal business like Ross wasn't an option for Murphy.
After much deliberation, Murphy returned to what he was best at, which was the work related to the film industry. Although he was just a student with little practical experience, he also analyzed countless Hollywood classic movies and scripts during his studies. He had also heard a lot of popular movie songs.
After changing to a more comfortable sitting posture, Murphy first denied the song project. Hearing and writing songs are very different things At most he could write lyrics but what about the background sounds what about the optimal notes required, the instruments required? and then the money required for all this. Such unreliable thoughts will only make him starve to death.
The next idea was movies and scripts. He had also attended a film school. So the most basic teaching was guaranteed for him. He was also a hard-working student. Not only was he familiar with the classic art films that were analyzed in class, but he used to go a mile beyond and do the same after class. He had also studied a plethora of movies which he enjoyed.
In an instant, a thought came to Murphy's head. He wrote a script for a future classic film and mailed it to major Hollywood companies. The six Hollywood executives swarmed him like travelers who just saw an oasis in the desert. Treating him as a super genius, Murphy Stanton had embarked on a glorious avenue of money, power, and beauty in Hollywood.
"Isn't the suffering this year enough?" Murphy suddenly laughed and whispered in a self-deprecating tone, "You are not that innocent student anymore, don't you dare have such low-level and stupid ideas again?"
Even if it is an outsider, Murphy also knows that Hollywood has never lacked scripts, let alone the current six major companies, even in the second-tier film companies, there are numerous scripts left there collecting dust in the storehouse.
Murphy remembers very clearly that some of the future hit movies had their scripts made way before the time the movies were actually shot. Even such excellent scripts were left collecting dust.
The chance of a newcomer's script being accepted by a film company is infinitely low, but this is also a way. Even if the chance is low enough to make people despair, there is always some hope. Murphy plans to try it if he can find a job with a stable income. He is Just trying his luck.
Thinking of this, Murphy stood up and walked to the window, looked at the starry sky in the distance through the window, then sighed and gave up those unrealistic ideas, and turned his thinking towards the most realistic things. It is time to find a job with legal income first to solve your livelihood problems.
Chasing dreams requires one's own power, and Murphy had survived the crazy desperate life in prison for this, and so he does not hesitate to do some handyman work for this.
Of course, Murphy has another option, which is to continue to do the work of his predecessor.
He walked into the predecessor's studio, which was also cleaned up by him. There was no dust on the simple workbench, wooden chairs, and the shelf behind, and a notebook was neatly placed on it. , A Canon camcorder, police receiver left by police officers, and some miscellaneous stuff.
These are the work equipment of the predecessor.
Sitting in front of the workbench, Murphy opened his laptop and found some news videos taken by his predecessor. It was not difficult to find from the videos that the guy used to shoot videos on social current affairs, such as car accidents, fires, and robberies. Later, he was tempted by huge rewards and stupidly went to photograph Summer Redstone.
There are not only videos there, but also information on how to use the police receiver, the police code of the Los Angeles police, and the contact information of the news directors of several local TV stations in Los Angeles.
The other party's previous work was not complicated. Basically, it was haunting the streets of Los Angeles, grabbing some news pictures of public concern, and then selling them to interested TV stations.
However, Murphy did not intend to continue such work, but is only interested in these devices, after all, they can be exchanged for money to support his survival.
Although he gave up those stupid ideas, Murphy still has some plans. This is Hollywood, and there are countless people engaged in film-related work. This is also his first choice for finding a job.
First, engage in something work related to the film industry, even the lowest-level chores are fine. You can not only accumulate experience but also look for opportunities...
In fact, all film circles in the world are the same. Countless talented people have invested in it. Few people have succeeded. In many cases, opportunities are more important than talents.
As the night got darker, Rose called and asked Murphy what else he needed. Now that his situation was better than others. He said that he wanted to borrow a car temporarily so that he could go out to find a suitable job.
Early the next morning, a young black man delivered a still-new Chevrolet to the three-way intersection. Rose was very careful. The car was obviously full of gas. Murphy parked the car in an alley on the side of the apartment building. he bought breakfast and several newspapers went back upstairs, and looked through the newspaper's recruitment section while eating, trying to see if there was a type of job that suited him.
With his current conditions, the requirements were really low, as long as he is engaged in a film-related industry and can settle the remuneration in time it's adequate for him.
This is Los Angeles, where Hollywood is located. There are thousands of large and small film and television production companies and studios. Several crews start work every day. Similar job opportunities are still available.
After flipping through two newspapers, Murphy copied down several interesting information one by one and later tried to contact them. When flipping through the last newspaper, a job advertisement that took up a lot of space appeared. In front of him, his eyes lit up instantly.
This huge crew has just begun preparations, and it is openly recruiting artists, costumes, painters, assistants, and other staff, and the name of this project is-"The Matrix"!
After just reading a few lines, Murphy understood that this is a job advertisement for the two consecutive sequels of the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix." This is undoubtedly a good opportunity.