Chapter 128: Bait

"Miss Lindsay Bill, you sit here and wait for a while."
Eva, the front desk of Shahai Entertainment, gestured to the bench near the door and said to a girl with long golden brown hair: "I will call you when you come."
Lindsay Bill put her handbag first, sat down and looked at the company. The company is not big, it looks like 20 people at most.
But she has heard of this Shahai Entertainment, there is a "Human Elimination Project" which is very popular at the box office.
"Can you pass the interview?" Lindsay Bill muttered in her heart: "If you don't succeed, you can only go home and ask your parents for help."
After graduating from university, there is no reason to be independent, and the parents work very hard. It is unfair to ask them to help repay student loans.
This road is more difficult than expected. Perhaps after graduation, you should go to a commercial company as an intern, instead of stupidly running to Hollywood as a screenwriter.
If there is a better choice, Lindsay Bill will not go this way.
The university is barely considered third-rate, and the business school is a flood of majors. Even if the grades are good, those who come from an ordinary family without a master's degree, and lack their own work experience, most of them start as interns.
Lindsay Bill took a few jobs after graduation. The income was too low and she could only maintain a basic life and could not repay the student loan.
A friend from the liberal arts school was about to come to Hollywood to do a screenwriter. Lindsay Bill talked to him and decided to come to Hollywood to do a lot of work.
That friend said that Hollywood has a lot of money to be a screenwriter, and an idea can be sold by a Hollywood company for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. As long as it is talented, it is definitely not difficult. Selling creative scripts not only involves copyright fees. After making a movie, you can still get a draw from the movie box office.
There is also a screenwriter’s union to protect the rights of screenwriters.
Under the pressure of student loans and looking forward to a bright future, she came to Los Angeles from Pennsylvania and found that all her friends were talking about were a dream.
No one paid attention to the new screenwriters, and finally applied for a screenwriting team, but they could only help others, let alone sign the script, even the chief screenwriter of the script had never been seen.
After coming to Hollywood for three months, she only found two jobs, one with a weekly salary of 220 US dollars, dedicated to writing a script for dialogue between college girls; the other with a weekly salary of 300 US dollars, writing scenes from college life.
With these two jobs, in the words of a partner at work, she is so lucky!
It's normal for new screenwriters to find a job for half a year.
The screenwriters' union has a minimum salary requirement, but she asked, the screenwriters' union has a high barrier to entry, and people like her may not be able to join after two years of work.
Fortunately, I saved a bit of manuscript fees when I was in college, otherwise the three months would not be able to persist.
Recently, my good luck ran out and I haven't found a job for more than a month.
"Miss Lindsay Bill, please come with me."
Upon hearing the female receptionist's words, Lindsay Bill hurriedly stood up, followed along, and smelled it in her hand, there was no peculiar smell.
Then, a woman who was much older than her came out of the front office, walked towards her, and nodded to the female receptionist.
Lindsay Bill gave her a special look, vaguely smelling the smell of her peers.
This is also a candidate? It seems that the "face" is not so good, and the interview failed?
Good to fail.
This job is really not good, it is also a gunman, but Lindsay Bill urgently needs it.
Can't find a job, so I can only go back to my hometown to ask my parents for help. If I find a job, I can stay.
Entering the office, Lindsay Bill saw the person sitting behind the desk and was a little surprised. This was too young, as if he was younger than her own age?
Ronan pointed to the opposite chair and said, "Please sit down."
Then, he couldn't help but look at the other side a little.
This woman should not be twenty-five years old. The dressing is very simple, cheap black suit, half-old skinny blue jeans, gray flat shoes with the edge of the upper falling off, and it is 1.6 meters. He is about five in height, has an oval face, a high nose, and curly long golden hair draped on both sides, revealing a delicate face with soft lines.
With a slender figure, a delicate face, and delicate features, she is completely different from the traditional American girl. This woman is more in line with the Eastern aesthetic.
Ronan was a little surprised. Is this coming to apply for a gunner or an actor?
"Miss Lindsay Bill?" Ronan asked.
The woman started to feel a little cramped, adjusted quickly, laughed out two nice little rabbit teeth, and said, "Yes, I am Lindsay Bill."
Ronan nodded slightly to her and introduced himself: "I am Ronan Anderson, the president of Shahai Entertainment."
Lindsay Bill understood that this was the man who was going to hire the gunman.
Ronan didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Have you been a screenwriter?"
"Yes." Lindsay Bill told the truth: "I have worked in two screenwriting teams. I don't have the right to sign. The team leader assigns writing tasks, and then I complete them as required."
Ronan said strangely: "You graduated from business school, why do you think of being a screenwriter?"
Lindsay Bill has seen some scenes in Hollywood, and has stabilized her mind, saying: "Writing is my personal hobby. During college, I published more than 20 articles in school magazines, most of which were novels. A short story was published in the science fiction magazine "Analog"."
She took out the bound photocopy from her handbag and put it on her desk: "This is an article I have published."
It was these articles that allowed Lindsay Bill to get the first two jobs.
Ronan took it over and looked at it slowly. During that time, he glanced at Lindsay Bill again, and the cramps of the woman at the beginning seemed to disappear.
"It is not easy to publish science fiction in "Analog", even if it is a short story." Ronan knows the importance of "Analog" in science fiction literature: "Why not stay on the East Coast to be a literary writer, but instead go to Hollywood Up?"
Many people who engage in literature do not look down upon Hollywood screenwriters, especially those on the East Coast.
Upon hearing this question, Lindsay Bill immediately thought of Ronan’s identity as the owner of the film company, plus her own experience as a Hollywood screenwriter, and combined her personal experience, saying:
No matter how the elite writers on the East Coast squint Hollywood screenwriters with contempt. , I believe that the world I have gained is beyond the imagination of novelists, poets, and stage playwrights. No serious and respected writer can impress hundreds of millions of people with his work at the same time, but film screenwriters can!"
Ronan was inexplicably interested when he heard this, and it was not easy for a screenwriter to say such words.
The role of money is the most obvious reason for attracting screenwriters to stay in Hollywood, but there are also people who want to use a new medium because they lacked abilities in literature and theater circles.
Ronan added: "Film screenwriters have never been regarded as artists. A screenwriter should be used to the role of an ordinary executor."
What he wants is a gunman.
Lindsay Bill knew it well, and said, "I understand."
Ronan said directly: "You don't have the right to sign this job, and you don't have any copyright."
Lindsay Bill certainly knows the concept of a gunman: "I understand."
Ronan found the prepared paper and pen and put it in front of Lindsay Bill: "Using the traditional Hollywood female "sex" role and "color" template, such as Julia Roberts' "Beautiful Girl in Wind and Moon", the female "sexual "As a first point of view, write an article about the hero "fascinated" by the heroine."
Lindsay Bill did not speak, this is the current mainstream, there are actually many such novels on the market, she also read it when she was in school.
Ronan also said the second requirement: "Part two. Write an independent heroine. This role must take the initiative. She does not need a man to save, but to save a man."
"Okay, let's get started." Ronan glanced at the time: "You have half an hour. There is no limit to the number of words, and the specific background is not limited. Please write to me afterwards."
Lindsay Bill didn't say much, moved her chair forward, got closer to the desk, picked up the pen and started thinking.
Ronan ignored her for the time being, and watched the premiere process of "Reaper Is Coming".
Just twenty minutes later, Lindsay Bill put down the pen and said, "Mr. Anderson, I'm done."
Ronan took the paper she handed over and looked at it seriously. Mary Su wrote pretty well.
The heroine of Mary Su is the current fashion trend. The most typical is Julia Roberts. Call girls can make the rich and the rich love crazy, which is more nonsense than Gray's fifty shadows.
Lindsay Bill's ability in this area is not a problem.
The independent female protagonist is somewhat jerky, probably because of the influence of the environment. In this era, the truly independent female "sexual" roles are rare in movies and literary works.
However, it's good overall.
Ronan was a little bit worried about the latter, and said: "How do you think you can create a female "sexual" role "color"?"
Lindsay Bill thought for a while, and replied: "The role's should be close to the people, and it can also have shortcomings. After all, perfection is a very boring thing. Also, the role's must have motivation. This motivation is not only Only for men or children. A male screenwriter I worked with, he said that he can think of 300 motivations for his hero ~EbookFREE.me~ But for the heroine, the only thing he can think of is she wants Go save the child."
"This kind of subconscious prejudice must be eliminated." Lindsay Bill is obviously very thoughtful, "there is another kind of bridge that must not appear. When the actor intends to terminate the nuclear weapons, he stops to save his girlfriend first. And it succeeds. Yes! Of course, they will also prevent the explosion of a nuclear bomb, but I always think: Does your girlfriend don’t want you to save the city? Or is she a selfish person? Just like that, you still date her ?"
Ronan carefully read the two short articles written by Lindsay Bill again and said: "Miss Bill, you are admitted."
Lindsay Bill breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "How about my treatment?"
"The weekly salary is 1,000 US dollars. There will be a reward for completing the book on time. If it is published, the bonus will be calculated." Ronan did not say vain: "You need to write three novels according to the outline template I provided. After the first book is completed, In the second book, your weekly salary doubles, and so on."
He threw the bait: "If you can impress me with these three books, I will hire you as the screenwriter of Shahai Entertainment, a screenwriter with signature rights!"
"Really?" Lindsay Bill was tempted.
Ronan smiled and said, "If you have an agent or a lawyer, bring them over to sign the contract tomorrow. If not, I will be responsible for providing an endorsing lawyer."
Lindsay Bill said immediately: "Okay, see you tomorrow."