Hollywood RE:CODED

Year 1980

A ten-year-old boy woke up and started to open his eyes. His vision was still blurred and he just saw the shadow of some people surrounded him.

Suddenly he felt a deep intensity of pain inside his brain and he started to hold his head with both of his hands, hoping it would reduce the pain.

Then a lot of information flashed inside his head and his vision became clearer. Now he could see that he was in the bed surrounded by a crowd of kids accompanied by 2 women.

One of the women is old, about 50 or 60 years old, white hair and ordinary Caucasian looks while another woman is young, in her early 20s, Hispanic look, could be categorized as above average look.

For the kids, the oldest about 9 and the youngest is a bit small, like 4 or 5 years old, and there were 6 of them, 3 girls and 3 boys.

They screamed after seeing him open his eyes and started to surround him with a happy look on their face and started to bicker and blame each other.

He knew who they were but he was still confused. Where was his ventilator that connected to his lungs? Didn't his lungs collapse and died?

So much question appeared on his head, he then closed his eyes again to adapt to his condition.

"Okay kiddos, look at Al! He passed out again because you kids unable to shut up!" Said the old caretaker.

"I'm okay Mrs. K, I'm just a little bit dizzy. Need some time to calm this Force talking to my head." He said while smiling.

"And looks like those ball doesn't hit your head too hard. Still, the same Al as before and now kids, move out from here, Al needs rest and if you need something just call me or Mary. And stop watching those star film or something."

"Thank you, Mrs. K, glad you were here and I won't, those films bring hope to all mankind, Mrs. K."

"Never grow up Al, never grow up."

"That's a promise I can't keep Mrs. K"

Everybody laughed at their conversation. While others prepared to leave, the oldest kid came to talk to him.

"I'm sorry Al, I didn't mean to hit you, you were so distracted before and I throw you the hardest as I can as you said. I didn't think you can't catch it! You usually could catch it with your eyes shut!"

"Tis' but a scratch Toby, no worries, I'm perfectly fine. We could even play again tomorrow, but now, I think I need a little time to rest."

"Okay, bye then, get well soon!"

" Bye Al."," Get Well Al.", "Be careful next time Al."

They left him all alone in silence, any sound heard was just his breathing sound.

He started to explore his memories and found out who his new identity was. He also remembered very well who he was in his old life, and also other information left by his predecessor and old life of him.

First of all, he was damn right that he was Dead, yep Dead with capital D. The cause was pancreatic cancer that he suffered since he was diagnosed in his college years.

He was graduated from USC in film and television production. While he was preparing to make his first independent movie, pancreatic cancer he suffered became worsen but he rejected any treatment, believing that this kind of cancer has no cure.

But he didn't regret it a little bit and started to do something more meaningful.

So he canceled all of his film planning, donated all of his money except for his necessity to every orphan, homeless, and cancer aid institution in the USA. His condition became worsen until he can't do anything but lay in his hospital bed.

On his deathbed, he made a wish to whoever It was to get a second chance in his next life in the future but coincidentally, he was sent to the past in the 80s. He knew soon that he would be in the 90s where the golden age of Hollywood film was.

His new identity was not special too much, His new name is Alphonse Brandt, his father was a German astrophysicist who ran away from the Soviet and was hired by the United States to work as a lecturer and researcher at Harvard while his mother is a Jewish psychologist professor in Harvard who immigrated from Israel.

His father was an orphan without knowing who is his' parents were and his mother also an orphan whose parents were died in the war in 1967, to escape from grief, she flew to the US to begin a new life.

Both of them married and he was born on 1st June 1970, but when he was 4, both of them were having an accident and because he has no relatives left, he was sent to the orphanage.

Fortunately, this orphanage is more like family, with 2 kind caretakers named Mrs. K (Katherine Harris) and Mary Garcia, and lovable and kind children.

Because of his maturity, he rejected to be adopted while allowing other younger children to be adopted. Because he got an inheritance from his parents, the money would be used for his education and college fee when he hit 18, he decided to help other children to find a home and he would grow up in an orphanage just like Mary Garcia did.

Now he fused with his predecessor's mind, Al decided to accomplish his previous life wish.

Luckily, his soul fused with mine, it would make him felt guilty if he just came and extinguish his soul. He also didn't know what purpose of this "Being" for fusing his soul with Alphonse.

So whoever granted his wish he was thanking sincerely from his deepest heart.

While thanking, he suddenly got another revelation. Now he somehow could access the knowledge from past, present, and future from his head. He called this skill a "Mind Library" and somehow he could remember things faster and accurately than before.

"I got this perfect memorization but if I have no experience to do this, I will look like a politician who can only talk....

To become a director is hard at this time, nobody will believe that 17 or 18 years old can direct a movie...

Hmm, today is 7th July 1980, it will take about 2 years from E.T movies and the shooting will begin in 1981...

So, I will begin to get famous through the acting carrier and after befriending a famous producer, get an investment for my film.....

Then E.T. is my aim and the problem is how to get a casting opportunity, there will be a hundred child actors with a good connection who want to star in Spielberg films...

I'll think about it later, but now training for acting first, there are hundreds of acting books in my mind so there will be much time."

As Forrest Gump's mother said, life was like a box of chocolate, you'll never know what you get.

To be continued...