Chapter 84: Chapter 84 The Dream Rounding Program
"What are you going crazy about again?" Ecks looked at Lin Ming Yang, who had a mysterious look, and had a very bad feeling in his heart.
"I want to make a movie, a movie to help you fulfill your dreams!" Lin Ming Yang loudly announced his plan.
Ecks was so "excited" that he choked, and while he was busy wiping his mouth with a tissue, he said, "Don't expect me to give you any support other than thanks. Don't forget that you'll be facing graduation in a year's time, so if you don't want to disappoint your mother, then stay in school and be a good student!"
"Will anyone remember the name Felix Lin a year from now?" Lin Ming Yang asked hilariously.
Ecks was also conflicted, as an agent, he of course wanted Lin Ming Yang to be as famous as possible, "You have to go to college, and it's an Ivy League school, that's your mother's minimum requirement. During this time you can of course continue to take on movies, but you have to have a tutor to help you with your homework the whole time!"
"What about a movie I'm going to direct myself? Like Cinderella's Glass Phone, didn't we work well together that time?"
"I can't find a reason to convince your mother that being a director would leave you no time at all to receive academic tutoring!"
"You don't want to hear what I have in mind?"
His agent shook his head adamantly.
"I'll put the shoot at Falco High School!"
Eckles exclaimed, "You're crazy!"
"There just happens to be a suitable role in the film, and I'm going to ask Ms. Martha for a friendly role!"
"That's impossible, she's the principal of the school, how could she possibly run off to act in your movie?" Ecks head shook like a rattle.
"That role was supposed to be the school's principal, I think Ms. Martha would be interested!" Lin Mingyang clasped his hands with an air of confidence.
"What does this have to do with me, I don't lack women around me now!" Ecks spoke out of turn, but his eyes had already betrayed his heart.
"Really?" Lin Ming Yang sighed "regretfully", "There will be another character in the movie who will go crazy on our beautiful principal and finally get what he wants! Unfortunately, you're not interested, so we'll have to reconsider other candidates!"
In the end, Ecks was not able to withstand Lin Ming Yang's "coercion", the worst thing was that he knew that this guy could do anything crazy, after saying that he wanted to cast Masha in the movie, then Lin Ming Yang would definitely try to achieve his goal.
"What do you want me to do?"
"So you're interested in the role?" The fish had already taken the bait, but Lin Ming Yang wasn't in a hurry to reel in the line, he wanted to put in a long line to drop the big fish.
"The investment for the movie..."
"I can go to Brooksheimer!" Eckles "willingly" took the bait, naturally ready to be slaughtered.
"Then there's distribution..."
"I'll talk to Disney, the same mistake, they're not likely to make it again."
"But I'll be busy with my studies for a while, so there's still the preparation of the movie..."
"You make a list of the actors you want, I'll negotiate the actors for you, and the crew will help you set up the movie!" Ecks accepted all the conditions that Lin Ming Yang put forward without any good humor, "What other harsh demands do you have, just say them all together!"
Lin Ming Yang stuck his hands in his pants pockets, stood up and looked Eckles up and down for a few moments, "Last request, I'll give you three weeks, no matter what method you use, get rid of those extra fat on your stomach."
"What kind of request is that?" Ecks protested loudly, "Does this have something to do with the shoot too?"
"I don't want a guy with a beer belly in my movie!" Lin Ming Yang smacked his lips, "If you wish to have more to talk about when you meet with our dear Principal Martha, you might as well go practice American soccer again and find out what it used to be like. It's not necessary for performing, but it can be useful for picking up girls!"
"Now then, can we talk about the script?" Ecks mentioned the most crucial question, he was curious to know what kind of role Lin Ming Yang would arrange for himself.
Lin Ming Yang spread his two hands, "It's not written yet!"
Ecks stood up angrily, "So you've been joking with me before?"
"Take it easy, let me explain!" Lin Ming Yang pressed him back into his seat, "I was also just inspired by your high school past, the exact plot is being conceptualized, but I've already figured out the framework of the story."
Hearing this Ecks' face only became slightly better before Lin Ming Yang began to describe his idea to him.
"Do you still remember the topic we started with, life always avoids regrets, if you had a second chance to choose, would you still choose today's life?"
"If there's still a choice, then it can't be called a regret!" Ecks shook his head to negate Lin Ming Yang's assumption.
"Of course it's impossible in reality, but what about a movie? If you had a chance to do it all over again, what would you choose? Bravely rush into the office and beat up that philandering heartless man viciously?"
Ecks nodded, "Not a bad suggestion!"
"Okay, here's my story, Mike was the man of the hour in school, as the captain of the basketball team he could have gotten a scholarship and bailed right out of college, but he passed up the opportunity to be with his girlfriend, Kylie.Twenty years later, Mike, who had become a middle-aged man, had accomplished nothing. He and his wife Kelly are separated, he has little in common with his children, and his job at a drug company is boring as hell. Frustrated, Mike goes back to high school to reminisce about his former glory days. There he meets a janitor, and as the two talk, Mike confides in him his desire to be 17 again, and how life would be very different if he had it all to do over again, and he never gave up on scholarships and opportunities to further his education."
"I guess that janitor must be God, and then he sends the protagonist back to the past?" Ecks rarely interrupted Lin Ming Yang, this was the first time, "When did your ideas become so unoriginal, this bridge has already been used in Kim Carrey's The Imposter God, this movie has only been in theaters for a short while, do you think the audience will buy it?"
"This time you've guessed wrong, that janitor isn't God, he's just a magical guide, on the way back from school, Mike overheard that mysterious janitor was about to jump into the river. Surprised Mike rushed to jump out of the car to save him, not realizing that the janitor suddenly disappeared, but Mike himself was washed into the river and miraculously transformed into what he was when he was 17."
"Not back in time?" Ecks added the question.
"It's just that the protagonist turned into his seventeen year old self, and everything around him remained the same, including his family and friends!" Lin Mingyang explained.
"Back to 17?" Ecks froze as he thought about the fact that Lin Ming Yang just happened to be 17 now as well, and he felt that he wouldn't think that such a design was just a coincidence. When a grown man was in a state of frustration that he had no way of grasping, what he would prefer to think back to was what he looked like when he was younger, which Ecks thought was completely understandable.
"Imagine if you were to become your 17-year-old self now, and your friends thought you were a home invasion criminal, and you and your kids became classmates, what would be the funny story that would ensue? I think there's a very important movie concept involved in this, which is to start everything over and reverse the trajectory of your entire life. If you start over with knowledge that has to be acquired through the passage of years, then the decisions you make will naturally change, and along with that, the outcome will be completely different."
"This is your conception?" Ecks had to admit that Lin Ming Yang's idea could definitely score full marks in terms of creativity, and at the same time, he was also intensely interested in the plot: "And then?"
"After the initial confusion, he decided to return to high school."
"Take this opportunity to go around picking up girls to relive his youth?"
"Well I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, when he returned to high school he became a classmate of his daughter's, a confidant of his son's, and tried to mend his relationship with his wife. Of course none of them knew that Mike had gotten younger, so it caused a lot of laughs. Everything is going great when but Mike forgets what he looks like now and can't help but kiss his wife in full view of everyone, which causes quite a controversy."
"That's not a very tidy ending to an arrangement like that!"
"It ends with a basketball game similar to the one back then that will determine Mike's future. His wife, who came to watch with her daughter, leaves because she remembers old memories, and he makes the same choice again - handing the basketball to his son, who is standing on the sidelines, and decisively exits the game. It was then that he realized he had never regretted his choice. In the dimly lit hallway, he transformed back into the fat, disaffected, middle-aged man...and as Mike caught up with his wife and hugged her, he finally won her heart back as well. I believe that a story like this can resonate in some way with all who read it, because many of you have experienced one of those moments that are life-changing enough to be made by a decision that leads you down a certain path in life. And then you're constantly wondering what would have become of you now if you had gone back in time and made another choice."
Ecks admitted that he was overwhelmed by Lin Mingyang's story, and he was sure that the movie would be very interesting when it was made, but he had one last question, "Where is my character in this story?"
"You'll be playing Mike's dead friend, and in order to be able to help Mike return to school, you temporarily act as his father, and then you'll take him along to meet the principal of that original high school."
"Martha?"
"That's right, then you fell in love at first sight with that principal, launched an absurd and ridiculous marriage proposal, and in the end, the proper female principal was also convinced by the endless tactics of this weird guy like you, and then you'd be together." Lin Mingyang winked at him after he finished speaking.
Ecks stood up excitedly, "I love this script!"
"Then aren't you going to say a couple words of thanks?"
"Well, Felix I love you!"
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