Chapter 004 (1/2)

It was already dusk and the lights on both sides of the street were on.

Simon looked at a stunned and hesitant woman in front of him. He had to remind them that it was time to go back. Malibu, far west of Los Angeles, was still far away from Burbank. Finally, Catherine is suggested to drive. It's too dangerous for Janet Johnston to drive in high heels.

Seeing that Simon was normal and showed no signs of getting sick, Catherine was relieved, but she was inexplicably unwilling to explore Simon's past.

Glancing at her friend, who was still turning her eyes, Katherine found it funny.

Let you not be serious all day, and finally be cured.

The female rogue pretending to be crazy meets the real madman from the mental hospital. Tut tut.

The friend into the co driver, Catherine also got on the car, hesitated, the woman still told Simon standing outside the window what difficulties must contact themselves, and then start the car.

Turning around at the intersection not far away, Catherine finally nodded to the boy on the side of the road and slowly stepped on the accelerator. The wine red ford gradually merged into the city traffic in the dusk.

Looking at the two women's cars away, Simon lifted his backpack and turned to leave.

After buying a map of downtown Los Angeles from a nearby store, Simon sat down in the open-air seat of a street fast food restaurant, ordered the cheapest dinner, and began to look at the map.

Because of inheriting the memory of 12 other people, Simon found that it's not just those professional skills. For Hollywood, or the whole of Los Angeles, from human geography to entertainment gossip, Simon knows all kinds of information about the past and future decades.

It seems that I still have the potential to be a paparazzi.

So amused thinking, Simon easily found the location of wma's headquarters on the map.

Camino street is just not far from the intersection of Wilshire Avenue and Santa Monica Avenue, the most prosperous part of Beverly Hills. Nearby is Century City Park where media companies gather. 20th Century Fox studio is located there. CAA headquarters, wma's nemesis, is also not far away.

Mark the location of wma's headquarters, and Simon finds the headquarters address of American Writers Union, which is also on the circle.

The waiter brings up dinner, Simon fills up, checks out and goes out of the restaurant.

Then he began to worry about how to leave Burbank.

In the 1980s, there were no buses or subways in Los Angeles. There were also very few taxis, and there were telephone reservations.

After wandering the street for more than half an hour, Simon realized that he underestimated the lack of public transportation in Los Angeles and regretted that he didn't have the cheek to ask Catherine to give him a ride.

No choice but to stay in a hotel in Burbank.

Early the next morning, with the help of the hotel owner, Simon called to book a taxi. After bargaining with the driver, he finally paid $15 with a tip, and the driver sent him to West Hollywood on the other side of Santa Monica mountain.

Standing on the side of Melrose Avenue, although there is still a long way to go from the destination, in order to save money, we have to walk. Fortunately, Simon has a whole day. Following the guidance of the map, I walked south and north to Fairfax Avenue, which intersects Melrose avenue nearby. After more than 20 minutes, I came to the WGA building.

Simon didn't come here to join the writers' Union. He doesn't have the qualification yet. His main purpose is to register the copyright of the script in his backpack.

According to the federal copyright law, in theory, the creator automatically obtains the copyright after completing the work. But in reality, once there is a legal dispute, whether the copyright registration has become a very important evidence.

In the United States, there are many ways of copyright registration, and even some private registration agencies.

Of course, the most authoritative one is the copyright office. However, due to the extremely low work efficiency of the US government departments, it may take four to six months for the creators to get the copyright certificate before they submit the registration to the copyright office, and the audit progress is extremely slow.

Therefore, in Hollywood, the first choice for most screenwriters is to register copyright through WGA.

Prepare the materials and registration fees, and you can basically get the registration certificate on the same day.

Of course, registration with WGA also has disadvantages, that is, it will only keep the registration materials for five to ten years for the creators, and it needs to be renewed when it expires. However, the registration of copyright office is permanent, and the emergence of legal disputes can also get more perfect protection.

After some deliberation, Simon chose to submit all the two scripts he had completed for registration.

The registration fee for a single script is $20, and the cost of two scripts plus printing materials once again makes Simon's wallet dry. After leaving the WGA building and thinking of the meeting in the afternoon, Simon made a copy of the script of the butterfly effect, and then picked out an electronic watch that cost less than $2 from a roadside stand.After all this, it's past noon.

Simply buying a portion of food to fill his stomach, Simon rechecked his wallet, and yesterday's $198 has dropped rapidly to less than $97.

Some helpless, but not too flustered.

The most serious problem is just to live on the street. The possibility of starvation is still very low. It's a big deal to find a church to rub some free food stamps.