Chapter 20： Gifts and wishes (1/2)
The time came on April 28th. In these two days, Wang Yang ran to three film companies one after another, and he still found nothing, and the artisan company had not contacted him for the time being, which was what he expected. .
Today is destined to be a busy day. Wang Yang finished a part-time job of handing out flyers in the morning, and in the afternoon went to a film company to try his luck. This company called ”Thinking Film” finished watching his movies from beginning to end, buying movies. The manager was frightened with cold sweat, but after thinking, they still dared not take risks easily.
Because the meeting time of the thinking film and his appointment was very late, and its headquarters was located far away from the Jessica ’s house, after leaving the thinking film company, Wang Yang did n’t even have time to go home to take a shower or change clothes. Yes, she hurried to Jessica ’s house with a briefcase full of gifts to attend her birthday party.
As dusk approached night, Wang Yang finally came to the community where the Jessica family lived, not too late. This is a very high-end community with a wide avenue in the middle and large houses with front and rear gardens on both sides. The trees are shaded and the scenery is beautiful. It is definitely a first-class community in Los Angeles.
”Hi, Jessica, I have arrived near your house, but I don't know what to do next.” Wang Yang glanced at the surrounding environment and smiled embarrassedly at the phone: ”Well, okay, I seem to be lost. Well, I am at a crossroads, there is a small fountain in the middle, there are chairs next to it, and there are some trees around ... ”
”Fountain? Oh, I know where it is!” Jessica laughed crisply, it sounded like she was in a good mood, she said: ”It's very close to my house, but you should stay where you are, I will pick it up in the past You, wait. ”
”Okay.” Wang Yang closed his phone and sat down on the bench beside the small fountain, looking at the surrounding scenery. After waiting for a while, he saw Jessica coming over from the intersection, waved at him with a smile, and accelerated his pace.
She was dressed very beautifully today. A set of pink checkered ladies with long brown hair fluttering as she ran. She ran to the chair and smiled at Wang Yang, showing her white teeth: ”Hi, Yang ! ”
Wang Yang stood up, looked at her, and praised: ”Wow, Jessica, you are so beautiful today.” Smiled, and said: ”Happy birthday.”
”Thank you.” Jessica smiled and pulled her hair, and said with a happy face: ”I'm glad you can come.”
Seeing Wang Yang take out a thing wrapped in colored paper from her briefcase, she was startled, and then realized that it was a gift, covering her mouth with both hands, and looked surprised: ”Oh, God ...”
Wang Yang said with a smile the voice of ”Dang Dang Dang Dang”, holding the gift in both hands, and handed it to Jessica, smiling: ”Is it Miss Alba? This is your birthday gift, please sign.”
”Oh, my God ...” Jessica took a deep breath, as if receiving the gift with both hands in the treasured place, lamented: ”Wow! Unbelievable. Yang, I received your birthday gift again, this is The second one. ”She smiled and said,” Did you know? The first birthday gift you gave me was the first birthday gift I received from a friend besides my family. ”
After listening to her, Wang Yang felt a little embarrassed and blamed himself. The first gift? Those ”wife cakes” weren't made by him at all. He took them as gifts. He still remembered that there were ten boxes of cakes. Jessica ate three, and he ate seven ... For Jessica, it has such an important significance ...
And this second gift, although it is a special one, is actually a very handy thing. Wang Yangqian laughed, with a guilty conscience: ”Do you like it?”
”Okay, let me see what it is.” Jessica's entire attention was focused on the gift, and no embarrassment was found. She opened the colored paper with a smile. The gift inside seemed to be a book. She took it out curiously and expectantly. It was not a book. It was a large book integrated with a lot of A4 paper.
On the top page, there is a large pencil word ”Ranger”, she flipped it casually, this large stack of A4 paper was completely filled with pencil words, and some pencil drawings everywhere, these paintings Some are weapons, some are characters, and some are frame-by-frame. Although the painter is average, it seems to be a sub-shot of the movie.
Jessica looked dumbfounded, and it took a while to realize what the gift was. She raised her head excitedly, looked at Wang Yang, and said incredulously: ”Wow, no!” She looked down at her hand again. In the paper, I sighed and said: ”A manuscript of a script !? Ranger? Yang, is this your script?”
Wang Yang touched his head and looked at the script with a look of pride, just like looking at his child, saying: ”Yes, a messy story, I hope you like it.”
He didn't have the money to buy a valuable gift, so he thought about giving some meaningful and unique gifts. After some selection, he chose this script. The content of this script does not come from the future movies in his mind. Every one of them is his own thought. He has studied martial arts since he was a child and was very interested in martial arts under the influence of old man Wu. The influence of super heroes like Superman, Batman, Captain America, etc. This script is about the story of a martial arts superhero in a modern city.
He has been writing this story since he was in junior high school. Until now, he has experienced mental maturity, rich knowledge, and deepened understanding of the film. This script is also constantly being revised and supplemented. It's more than enough to say that the content of that large stack of paper was filmed for good or bad. All his hard work for many years is in these manuscripts.
So he copied the script and sent the manuscript to Jessica.
”Of course, I like it, I like it very much!” Jessica kept turning through the thick stack of A4 paper in her hands, watching her eyes brightly, muttering: ”Wow, this gift is too much People were surprised ... this is the best gift I received ... ”
Listening to her gratitude, Wang Yang felt a little ashamed, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: ”Jessica, I think this script will be made into a movie someday, and the heroine of the movie will be performed by you. In fact, this is my gift. But only if you are willing to be a heroine. ”
”What?” Jessica jumped in her heart and stopped looking. She remembered what they said when she was a child. When we grew up, we became directors and actors. Then ... Yang this gift, is there anything special? Does it mean? Holding the script, she looked at Wang Yang without blinking her eyes, her heart beating quickly, and her voice became a little unnaturally low, saying: ”Well ... maybe, maybe I can try it.”
But Wang Yang didn't mean anything she thought. He nodded with a smile and said, ”Well, that's good! At least I don't have to worry about not finding the heroine, haha.”
Jessica just smiled. When he saw that he had nothing more to say, he said ”Oh” and said, ”OK, then come with me, my house is in front.”
Her house is also a big house with front and back gardens. On the trees in the front yard, there are some colorful balloons hanging on the mailboxes. There are several long tables on the lawn with tablecloths and various foods on them. There are many people in the yard, middle-aged people are busy, young people are talking, and children are running happily. It seems that there are many people invited to the party.
”Brother, welcome to my house!” When I saw Jessica coming back with Wang Yang, Joshua on the lawn greeted him for the first time, warmly touching Wang Yang with his chest, he held his The DV machine was filming and smiled at Wang Yang: ”You are free, I will continue to complete my movie. Well, this movie is a documentary called” Jessica's 17th Birthday Record ”, is it cool? ”He said nothing, so he went to other places to take pictures. A big white dog followed him. According to Jessica's introduction, it was their domestic Labrador named Danny.
”Hey, Jessica, who is he?” At this time, several young men and women came up, both white and black, and they looked at Wang Yang curiously.
Jessica glanced at Wang Yang and smiled and introduced to those friends: ”This is Wang Yang, my good friend, he is a director.” Wang Yang nodded to them and said, ”Hi, everyone. ”
The young people all wowed with surprise and looked at Wang Yang, such a young director?
Next, Jessica introduced Wang Yang to her friends, Ilya Wood, a short white man, the protagonist of ”Dolphin Flipper”, he and Jessica naturally met during the shooting. Wang Yang looked at his tender face and felt very familiar, thinking about it, it turned out that this guy would perform in The Lord of the Rings in the future, with the role of Frodo Baggins of the Hobbit.
Then there was a tall and strong young white man, Jack Frank, who was actually a director and a student of the prestigious school UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). It is said that playing basketball is also great. Wood is a good friend, so he knows Jessica. Wang Yang was puzzled, and looked at Jack a few more times. Is this guy the ”Jack” Joshua said?
There are also John, David, Winters, Erin, Michelle and others. Some of them are Jessica's neighbors, and some are her classmates in the acting school.
After everyone knew each other, Jack-Frank seemed to suddenly see the stack of A4 paper in Jessica's hand and asked curiously: ”Wow, Jessica, what are those in your hand?”
Jessica smiled slightly and said simply: ”A script, Jane gave me a birthday present.” She didn't want to talk more about this topic, and she didn't want to share it with others. She looked at Wang Yang and smiled: ”Yang, come with me, I will take you to meet my family.” She said to her friends that she was out of tune, and took Wang Yang to the back garden.
”Script?” Jack-Frank frowned as he watched the two of them talking and laughing.
Wang Yang first saw Jessica ’s mother and her grandmother. Her mother, Cathy, was a very beautiful and middle-aged white woman who treated people very kindly, obviously a well-educated person, and according to Wang Yang ’s own mind The data in the table shows that Cathy came from a Danish-French mixed Canadian family. No wonder he gave birth to such a beautiful Jessica; Jessica's grandmother was an affable old man, staring at him with a smile.
Then, Jessica found her father, Mark Alba, a Mexican-American man on the other side of the lawn. He was very tall, with a spiritual face and a flat hair style. Although he was a real estate businessman now, he was all over. There is still the majesty of an Air Force officer above and below.
Jessica hugged the script in one hand and hugged her father ’s arm in one hand. She looked at Wang Yang and smiled happily: ”Daddy, he is Yang, he was mine when we were in San Francisco before. Classmates, a very, very nice person. ”
”Hello Uncle.” Wang Yang reached out to Mark-Alba, and it was a bit strange. Why did Mark's eyes look so bad ... Is it possible that someone who has been a soldier before will have a murderous body?
Mark-Alba glanced at Wang Yang for a few moments, reached out and shook him heavily, and said, ”Hello, welcome to our house.”
After the introduction, Jessica let go of her father ’s arms and held the script sent by Wang Yang with both hands, saying: ”Yang, then you are free yourself. I will put this gift first!” Go to the house, leaving her father and Wang Yang looking at each other.
Seeing Mark Alba with a serious face, he kept staring at himself. Wang Yang felt a little hairy in his heart. Mark Alba suddenly frowned and asked, ”Yan, are you Jessica's boyfriend?” Suddenly Wang Yang said, ”No, no, how could it be.” He shook his head and smiled: ”Uncle, you misunderstood, Jessica and I are just good friends.”
”Oh!” Mark-Alba nodded thoughtfully, but in fact his head was confused, not Jessica's boyfriend, she introduced so grandly, what does it mean? His daughter, except for her begging for her to go to acting school, had not held his arm like this for a long time.
Jessica hugged the script and hummed into the room briskly. She was about to walk upstairs to her room, but her grandmother stopped her. The old man asked with a smile: ”Jessica, is Jane your boyfriend?” Jessica froze, saying, ”What?” Grandma, you said Yang ... No. ”Her mouth slightly curled up and smiled,” It's a good friend! ”Then she walked upstairs holding the script.
Is not it? The grandmother chuckled.
Went back to his room, Jessica breathed a sigh of relief and smirked a few times. She put the script on the desk, turned a page casually, and looked at the words and pictures. She extended her finger with a smile and gently stroked on it. When will you be able to make this movie?
After chatting with Mark-Alba for a few words, Wang Yang, who is ”as casual as he is,” did not run around. He strolled on the lawn and ran around for an afternoon. His stomach was already hungry, so he left At the long table of food, I picked up a donut and took a bite to chew it. I couldn't help but wowed and sighed, ”Oh, my God! It's so sweet.”
While he was eating, he was looking at the little kid chasing and playing on the lawn, wondering if the little Mary who took the DV machine all day and everywhere was there?
At this time, Jack-Frank pretended to come naturally, he also picked up a donut to eat, looked at Wang Yang next to him, and said: ”Hi, Yang.” Wang Yang returned his greeting, Jack then Asked: ”Yang, won't you write that script?”
”Jessica's share?” Wang Yang nodded and said, ”Of course, my manuscript.”