Chapter 542

The girl didn't recognize the person in front of her, that is, lanli hall, who has been in the limelight recently. She is learning the style of street prostitutes and showing off her sexuality.

In fact, no one would notice the man sitting cross legged at the door. This is an ordinary tramp. There are countless tramps in the streets of the Bronx. If you go under the bridge or near the dump, there will be hundreds of tramps, and there will be bonfire parties in the evening. It doesn't look any different.

Naturally, no one would associate this filthy, slovenly man with the one the news media are scrambling to cover. However, even if the residents nearby know that this is lanli, what matters to them is not "lanli hall", but the money interests behind the familiar name. In their opinion, Langley should be a rich man.

However, at this moment, lanli is a complete tramp.

He was wearing a tattered T-shirt and a linen coat, and a pair of black boots with openings on his feet, revealing socks with no color inside; With an open fisherman's cap on his head, sticky hair came out of the gap; Even his face was covered with all kinds of dust, and his chin was covered with a disordered beard. His facial features were almost indistinguishable; The sack at hand is filled with all kinds of waste, such as desk lamp, shoes, clothes and books, which is like a treasure bag.

Dirty, messy, sloppy, embarrassed, vicissitudes, down, such a tramp, there is no flaw.

Ten days ago, Langley officially finished all the recording of the album, and then he met Tony Kaye for a short meeting“ The filming site for "detached" has been discussed. The crew and a high school have signed a two-month shooting agreement. However, they have to wait for high school students to finish their final exams before shooting. So, the crew set the boot time. After the final exam, filming started immediately. There were still two weeks to go before the meeting.

When he decided to take over this work, Langley had already determined the direction of performance: This is a graduation test of expressionism acting skills, which gives him a platform to truly show what he has learned so far, especially the basic skills learned in the college, as well as the things honed by the west end and Broadway.

In the past three months, lanli has turned over the script of "detached" for more than 40 times, and the pages of the script have turned over rough edges. He has pondered over every role in the script repeatedly, conscientiously and carefully. It's not just Henry, including every character who has or doesn't have an opponent. Then I had many exchanges with writer Carl Lund to understand the background of each character's birth, as well as Carl's original intention and ideas of writing the script.

For the performance school, reading the script is the basis of the whole performance, the most important.

These repeated reading and understanding make Langley have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the source of Tony and Carl's artistic ideas. He knows that expressionism does not need personal experience or integration, but he decided to further explore the role, but it is different from before.

Instead of trying to figure out Henry's growth experience and life background, Langley decided to observe the group of children in "detachment", the group of desperate children, the group of children who chose to give up. Strictly speaking, this is not Henry's perspective, but Tony and Carl's perspective, or a bystander's perspective.

Because Langley is eager to understand deeply, what is the real despair? What is the real walking dead? Their lives go on, but they stay where they are.

In the last life, he first devoted himself to his study, and then he was trapped in the hospital bed. The film reposed his dream and yearning; In this life, he has been enriching himself, music, literature, art, performance and even sports. But from the beginning to the end, he never gave up, never really despair.

The difference between the two films is that Adam and Henry are facing the abyss of despair. Adam tries to resist but has to give up his fate to the unknown, while Henry tries to resist but finally chooses to give up. This "despair" is abstract, which can be explained by expressionism, but he hopes to make the abstract concrete and rich.

So, Lan Li became a tramp.

It's not the way to come over to experience in the daytime and go back to your apartment at night; It's really living as a tramp. It started ten days ago.

Lanli thinks he is a man who has suffered a lot. Not to mention the injuries during the shooting of "speed and passion 5", the confrontation with van diesel is not as light as it seems; Just talking about the torture of the coffin before the "live burial" shooting, his mind and body were overdrawn to the limit, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

But only after the real experience, he knew that he was still too naive.

For two generations, Lan Li has never really suffered. In the last life, Ding Yanan's wings were enough to keep out the wind and rain. He was not rich in life, but he did not have enough food and clothing; In this life, not to mention, the life of the despondent aristocracy is still comparable to that of the middle class, and the living conditions are even better than those of the previous life.

But in the past ten days, Lan Li has really been living on the streets. It's very difficult to find a shelter from the wind and rain. He is learning the rules of the streets in danger.

Now lanli clearly remembers the first day when the tramp experienced life. That night, he had no experience, didn't know where to sleep, and didn't know where to get warm. After nightfall, Langley really knew that the midsummer of New York could be so cold that the whole person shivered.

In the end, he chose Central Park, which seems to be the right place for homeless people to sleep. He found a bench, slept with his clothes, closed his eyes and tried to summon sleepiness, but it was not easy.

Because I didn't take a bath, I was lying dirty all over. The feeling of being sticky, wet and cold made every inch of my skin uncomfortable. Even on the first day, I still felt itchy under the psychological effect.

Moreover, the benches in the Central Park are not the beds of five-star hotels. The hard wood strips are not mentioned, and the ventilation is good on all sides. The key point is that people will pass by all the time, making all kinds of strange sounds, and the danger signals will never go away. Lanli can't even close his eyes.

The whole person is in a situation of high mental tension, but the worse is still behind him. He just squints. First he is expelled by a tramp because he occupies other people's territory. Then he is chased by the police and runs for most of the night. Finally, he finds an empty seat on the bench by the side of the road and waits for the sunrise in a daze.

Sitting and sitting, he began to doze off unconsciously, and then he was awakened by the cold. Looking at the boundless darkness around him, he regained his spirit. But then his body began to be hot and cold again, and his whole body was shivering with cold. Occasionally, when he saw passers-by passing by, he had to be alert, and he could see the drunkards swimming around the corner, It seems that those shadows are looking for a good opportunity to kill.

Such a scene reminds us of Jack the Ripper's time.

To make matters worse, one afternoon without eating anything, the stomach began to protest and grunt. I was worried about taking a bath before, but now it seems that food and clothing is the top priority.

That night, he just sat on the bench, quietly waiting for the sunrise. When the sun comes out, the smell of danger fades away like the tide.

But compared with the Bronx, the previous embarrassment can only be regarded as spilling water. Now at this moment, Lan Li can squat on the corner calmly and observe everything here. It's all the exercise of walking and rolling in the street. Otherwise, it is estimated that the girl will go directly to Lan Li and let him taste the taste of a shrew.

Not only that, he also became a qualified tramp.

Every morning when he gets up, he has to find a place to brush his teeth, the sprinkler on the lawn of Central Park, and the toilet in the subway station, which are all good choices; Then go to the relief station to get food, but it's just canned food, hand-made sandwiches or processed food that is about to expire in the supermarket. Even so, you must be careful, or you may be kicked out of the line by disorderly black people or robbed by hungry vagrants.

It's always difficult at night. The place where tramps gather under the bridge is a good place to go. There will be bonfires and a large number of "companions". They will not lose their lives in the middle of sleep, but the disadvantages are obvious. Here, whoever has a big fist is the king. It doesn't mean that they can survive by adhering to the principle of "no money", Sometimes just putting your eyes in the wrong place can cause disputes. It's like the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest in nature. It's not easy to survive here.

Of course, some people are more cunning, avoiding the supervision of the patrol police, lying in the subway station or the hidden place of the Central Park, and often can sleep a safe sleep, and even some people directly sleep in the subway - as long as they can avoid the investigation before the staff go off work, it is not only shelter from the wind and rain, but also relatively warm.

The perfect place is McDonald's. However, it's a golden position. It can't be too early. If there are too many guests, the shop assistant must rush them; It can't be too late. The position will be robbed soon. As long as you can occupy a place in McDonald's, it will be a wonderful night.

If that's all, it doesn't seem that hard to survive on the street. But in the Bronx, this is only the basic rule of survival. After nightfall, how to avoid the areas where drug dealers trade, how to avoid the areas where gangs deal with "private affairs" and how to avoid the sensitive areas where gangs meet is the most important thing.

Because, if you are not careful, you will not see the sun tomorrow.