CHAPTER 1- YOUTH

A Parallel Time and Space July 1997

Milligen Los Angeles

Sid Leonhardt LionHeart）? A chubby middle-aged woman shouted to the crowd in the hallway.

Everyone in the corridor immediately raised their heads in unison, and the longing in their eyes reminded the middle-aged woman of the lamb to be slaughtered in the sheepfold, which made her frown.

This is Disney's office building in the city, and in addition to its daily office, it is also rented out to film crews for auditions and auditions when necessary. Now this is the interview venue for next year's summer movie, the assistant director of "Natural Couple".

The hallway was filled with young people waiting for interviews, most of them looking anxious and nervous. Most of the students here are high-achieving students who graduated from the directing and producer departments of the University of Southern California or the University of California, Los Angeles, and even a few academic wizards who graduated from the film department of the Disch School of the Arts at New York University.

But in the eyes of middle-aged women, they can't hold out for even a week in Hollywood.

In the fiercely competitive and strength-oriented Hollywood, film companies and crews have always preferred experienced veterans to highly educated, and many assistants who serve as the backbone of the crew are engaged in low-income, high-intensity hard work.

"Sid, Leonhardt! （Sid· LionHeart)" The chubby middle-aged woman couldn't help frowning when she saw that no one answered, and she raised her voice and shouted, and the people waiting in the corridor looked at each other and asked each other.

"Leonhardt!! (LionHeart), if I don't come, I'll let the next person in! The middle-aged woman impatiently opened the notebook and was about to cross out her name with a pen.

"YES! Here, Leonhardt is here! ~~" A light voice suddenly sounded, an arm reached out from the crowd, and a young man in a classic black and white baseball shirt and an ocean blue T-shirt jumped out, wearing a New York Yankee baseball cap, and walked over with a relaxed and happy step.

The relaxed atmosphere exuded by this young man was very different from the nervous college students around him.

"You're Sid Leonhardt (Sid· LionHeart）? The chubby middle-aged woman asked, looking at the list.

"Yes,Yes! I'm Sid Leonhardt. LionHeart), the heart of a lion, unlimited courage. Sid grinned cynically.

The middle-aged woman nodded, "Okay, let's go in." She said, pointing to the closed conference room.

Sid nodded and turned around to go in, "Hey, wait a minute. The middle-aged woman suddenly stopped him, "Take off your hat."

Sid suddenly took off his hat, and his pure black curly hair flowed down, with a towering nose and fair skin. A very handsome young man, or rather a teenager - look at the childish smile on his face.

But the middle-aged woman was stunned, because the left side of his eyes was a sea blue eye, and the right side was a pure black pupil. It's actually a gold and silver demon pupil!

The blue and black demon eyes declared Sid's ancient bloodline from the East, giving him a little more mysterious aura and bright colors.

Just when the middle-aged woman was slightly distracted, Sid smiled and asked, "Hey, can I go in?"

She nodded subconsciously.

Sid slipped into the conference room, a spacious room with an empty folding chair in the center and a row of interviewers sitting behind desks across from it. They looked up at the door, and Sid walked over to a chair in the center of the room and sat down under their gaze.

The interviewers found out that the interviewer was unusually young, and an elderly producer with gray hair and beard, Charles Shear, who was sitting in the center, asked, "Sid Leonhardt?" （Sid· LionHeart)"

"Yes, I am." Sid nodded with a smile.

"You say you're only sixteen?" Old man Charles Schell asked suspiciously.

"Yes, I'm sixteen." Sid said.

"Little children?" Several interviewers looked at each other in surprise, (How could such a young child be recruited?) They asked in a low voice. A few others jokingly said that we don't want to hire child labor.

"Your family agrees with you to come and work on the crew? Why didn't I see your parents' permission letter? Old man Charles Schell asked curiously.

In the United States, it is true that 16-year-olds can come out to work, but they need permission from their parents or guardians.

"I don't have any family, sir." Sid smiled slightly, "

Or maybe I'm the only family member.

Sid's words caused an uproar among the interviewers, but he continued without a pause, "I used to live in a federal government home, I also lived in several foster homes, and last month was my 16th birthday. So, I came out of the welfare home and looked for a job on my own. "

The elderly producer, Charles Shear, who is the head of the Disney side of the production company, wiped his beard and said, "Look, kid, I don't want to hit you, but you have no experience working on the set..."

Sid curled the corners of his mouth and smiled, "I think none of the young people outside who are waiting for the interview have any work experience."

"But they're all college students." Producer Charles Schell argued.

"And I'm half a child." Sid's voice was loud and calm, "I think it's nice to have a movie for kids with a crew member on set who has the same perspective as them." In addition, the job of an assistant director is not to shoot or produce anything, to put it bluntly, it is a role of running errands. As far as I know, the filming of "A Born Pair" has already begun, but you are recruiting assistant directors here, which means that the original person had an 'accident', so compared to the students who have been studying in the ivory tower, someone like me who is good at coordination is what you need.

Sid's pragmatic and capable words couldn't help but make Charles Shear's eyes light up, and at the same time, Sid's eyes were blazing and looking directly at the other party. There was undisguised confidence and deep and soft gentleness in his eyes, which made the old man Charles Schell feel a shock in his heart. For some reason, I felt a little kind of affection for Sid's gaze, which was Sid's specialty when he was "in the past" in the mall.

Although everyone says that shopping malls are like battlefields, blind confrontation and competition on the battlefield will only lead to inferiority, and reaching cooperation and forming alliances with as many objects as possible is also a very important topic in shopping malls.

And when making friends with people, communicating with people without words with flawless and gentle eyes can often have a deep emotional connection with the strange object they meet for the first time, which is an important negotiation method that Sid learned from a friend of a psychologist and a sister.

Under Sid's gaze, Old Man Charles Schell pondered for a moment. After a while, he looked up and said, "Well, you go to the next room and wait for a while, and we'll let you know how it turns out later?"

Sid nodded without the slightest dissatisfaction, "Okay." It seems that the other party wants to see what the quality of the rest of the people is first, and then decide whether to hire him.

Under the guidance of the assistant, Sid came to the next room, which is not a lot of space, and it can be seen that it is specially used for people to rest, so the sound insulation effect is very good. When the door closed, barely audible from the interview room, Sid opened the window and a breath of fresh morning air came in, and the birds and trees outside the window were like warblers.

This made him have to sigh that the natural environment of the United States is really as natural and gorgeous as the legend says.

Yes, Sid is not the true deity of this body. A few weeks ago, he was the owner of a medium-sized film and television company on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and because of his vision and proper management, the company has only been in business for a few years, but its business is thriving.

This allowed him to win several amplitude outstanding entrepreneur awards, but a sudden car accident caused him to disappear directly in the explosion. He was already discouraged, but after the endless darkness, he "woke up" like a ridiculous dream. And he has gone from being a citizen across the ocean to a citizen of the United States decades ago.

Although he is only an orphan, he has a real official status, and then Sid was notified by the welfare home that he needed to move out of the welfare home after his 16th birthday. And with no relatives in the United States, he immediately faced an existential crisis, and when there were not many choices, Sid first remembered his old profession - the film and television industry.

And Los Angeles is the location of Hollywood, which has attracted worldwide attention, and it is much better to get a behind-the-scenes crew job than to be a single-plank actor star. After all, the most important thing in the crew is to look at your strength, not your appearance and temperament and other things that have nothing to do with your own efforts.

After a few weeks of wandering around the directors' and producers' guilds in Los Angeles, Sid finally picked the crew of Disney's "Born to Match." It was chosen because, unlike other major studios, Disney itself is an all-age film that focuses on the children's market and family fun.

So he just passed the age of 16, which is a flaw and a shortcoming in other film companies and crews, but here it has become a strength. As an old fritter who has been rolling in the film and television industry for many years, Sid knows Chinese and foreign business cards well. Disney's "A Natural Couple" is no exception, with a large number of young actors in the film, especially the extras played by little girl actors, whether in the management of extras or in the coordination of shooting, compared to the busy and stressful adult staff.

It's easier for Sid to get along with them, gain their trust to coordinate filming and manage their crew's lives. Sid believes that these experienced producers at Disney will naturally understand his value. Moreover, Sid still has a hole card that has not been played, and if that plan is proposed, I believe that the other party will be eager to accept Sid's proposal.