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Chapter 132: First Encounter with Hollywood

Naomi Watts.

Born in Kent, England in 1968.

He moved to Australia with his parents at the age of fourteen, but his nationality did not change.

In 1986, he starred in his first film "Unrequited Love".

In 1988, he participated in his first TV series "Parting and Separation Season ".

In 1991, he co-starred with Nicole Kidman in "The Girl Who Came in Love", and thus forged a deep friendship with Nicole Kidman.

In 1993, Naomi Watts came to Hollywood alone.

But it's a pity that although she is very beautiful, she didn't make any waves in Hollywood, which is full of beautiful women.

Even with the help of good friends, I still remain unknown.

Liu Jin was wrong about one thing.

During the seven years from 1993 to 2000, Naomi Watts was indeed living in poverty and unable to make ends meet.

In a big city like LA, without medical insurance and no guarantee of food and clothing, her life is indeed very difficult.

I once wanted to leave, but I was unwilling to do so.

It wasn't until 2000 that David Lynch found her and filmed "Mulholland Drive".

After that, her life improved.

The reason is very simple... David Lynch won the Best Director award for "Mulholland Drive", and she also won the Saturn Award for Best Actress the following year for this movie, and won the award for two consecutive years.

However, Naomi Watts didn't know that her fate had changed.

At this moment, she was still confused.

She came to Paris with David Lynch, but she didn't know her future fate.

She even doesn't know when her next work will appear.

The reception was lively.

But she felt it was very noisy.

Follower David Lynch chatted with the filmmakers, but seemed to be staying out of it.

She is still a little actor.

Maybe she is very beautiful.

But for the entertainment industry, this advantage does not seem to be very obvious.

After meeting with David Lynch and several French filmmakers, Naomi left the lively crowd, saying she was a little tired.

I wanted to be alone for a while and relax.

I saw Liu Jin standing in front of the movie poster, pointing and talking.

Cocktail party, not pan-Asian.

But I feel that Liu Jin is not from the circle.

An outsider, or someone of Asian descent, showing up here?
Naomi was a little curious, so she walked over.

Naomi couldn't help but burst out laughing when she happened to hear Liu Jin talking to the poster.

"Hey, hello, sir."

Liu Jin was recalling Naomi's message when he suddenly heard someone talking and turned around.

Ok?
He froze for a moment.

Then he turned his head and took a look at the poster.

A smile appeared on his face, he raised his glass and said with a smile: "Hello, Ms. Naomi."

"you know me?"

"Yes, Miss Betty."

Betty is Naomi's character in Mulholland Drive.

Naomi smiled and said, "Naomi Watts."

"Liu Jin, a Chinese."

As he spoke, he took a step forward and, in accordance with French custom, kissed Naomi on the cheek.

At this time, Sophie and an old man came over.

"Amos, why are you here?"

"Director Lynch."

Naomi shouted quickly.

"I was looking at the posters here and unexpectedly met the heroine."

Liu Jin replied with a smile, then said to the old man, "Director Lin Qi, nice to meet you."

"you……"

David Lynch is fifty-five years old, but he looks to be in good spirits.

He is a director, screenwriter and producer.

Liu Jin didn't know much about him, he had only seen the films he directed, "Twin Peaks", "Mulholland Drive" and "Inland Empire".

About his style...

Not particularly fond of it.

Sharp, full of personality, and outspoken, he likes confusing and psychedelic non-linear narrative techniques, which are gorgeous, gloomy and weird.

It's like Mulholland Drive!
In comparison, Liu Jin prefers directors like Spielberg and James Cameron.

But he also has respect for directors like David Lynch.

"Sophie said she wanted to introduce me to an outstanding writer, but I didn't expect..." "I didn't expect him to be Chinese?"

"Haha, that's not the case. I just didn't expect him to be so young."

David Lynch said gently.

Naomi, who was standing by, showed a surprised expression.

Writer?

She couldn't imagine it.

"Sophie said you're an excellent writer. Just now, when Sophie and I were chatting, she asked about my plans for my next work. To be honest, I don't have any plans at the moment... My writing seems to have hit a snag. After Mulholland Drive ended, I had no idea what kind of movie to make. So, she recommended you to me."

"I?"

Liu Jin looked at Sophie in surprise.

Sophie Marceau just smiled but didn't say anything.

He understood it all at once!
I'm afraid that when he asked Sophie Marceau about Pirates of the Caribbean before, Sophie Marceau misunderstood and thought that he wanted to enter Hollywood.

Huh, Hollywood?
Where even dogs don't go.

He really has no interest at all.

What are you doing in Hollywood?
screenwriter?

Everyone knows that the status of screenwriters in this circle is lower than that of dogs.

Of course, except for some top screenwriters.

However, he is still very grateful to Sophie Marceau.

Nodding at her, Liu Jin turned his head to look at the Mulholland Drive poster and said, "I've seen Lynch's works, including Twin Peaks and Lost Highway, and I feel that Lynch's works seem to be permeated with a kind of Freudian psychoanalysis.

“I haven’t seen Mulholland Drive yet, but from this poster, I can sense that there seems to be a phenomenon of multiple dreams.

Especially this one, this should be Rita played by Miss Laura Harring.

She was looking in the mirror, and what she saw reflected back at her was Miss Naomi, which was very interesting to me.”

David Lynch didn't take Liu Jin seriously at first.

But when Liu Jin proposed the concept of multiple dreams, he immediately became very interested.

"Miss Harling is not Miss Harling. Miss Harling hopes to be Ms. Naomi, and Ms. Naomi longs to be Miss Harling... Oh, if Ms. Naomi is Miss Harling, she could also be Sophie, Adjani, or Shu Qi... Director Lynch, how many mental personalities do you think a person can have?"

"This one……"

"If these spiritual personalities are hostile to each other, attack each other, and are suspicious of each other... I seem to have thought of a story."

Weird images flashed through Liu Jin's mind.

Sophie Marceau was frightened. She wanted to call out, but was stopped by David Lynch.

"Don't disturb him; he's writing an interesting story."

"On a dark night, in an endless desert wasteland, a raging storm cut off a motel standing in the middle of it from the outside world.

Eleven strangers who had never met each other were forced to gather in this dilapidated motel.

The innkeeper behaves strangely and seems to be hiding many secrets.

The male protagonist used to be a policeman, but now he drives a private car for a female star.

They knocked down a woman on the road and had to take her to a hotel for treatment.

While the woman's husband and son were driving, the car suddenly had a flat tire.

When they got out of the car to check, the woman was hit by the male protagonist's car...

Eva was a prostitute, and while he was looking for a lighter on the way, one of his high heels dropped out of the car window.

As a result, the car had a flat tire because of the high heels..."

David Lynch was a little nonchalant at first, but as he listened to Liu Jin's narration as if he was talking to himself, his eyes slowly widened.

"and after?"

He asked, "What does this have to do with spiritual personality?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, let me sort it out."

Liu Jin closed his eyes, and those scenes appeared in his mind again.

“The protagonist, Ed, is called Ed. He wants to find a doctor, but he meets Louisiana and Gini.

As the rain was too heavy, they had to return to the hotel.

At this time, Officer Rhodes also came to the hotel with a prisoner.

Eleven people were assigned to a room, and each of them held a room key with a number on it...

And then, death happened!"

David Lynch pulled Liu Jin aside.

He began to discuss the story with Liu Jin.

Liu Jin's story, called "Identity," is a Hollywood movie.

It will be released in 2003.

When Liu Jin solved the mystery and told David Lynch that these eleven people were actually split personalities of one person, it really touched David Lynch's heart.

He simply sat on a beach chair with Liu Jin and worked together to complete the story.

The two of them exchanged glances and chatted, becoming more and more excited.

Naomi and Sophie Marceau could understand it at first, but as the two spoke more and more mysteriously and bizarrely, they became a little confused!

……

(End of this chapter)