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Hollywood RE:CODED

Author: BukanOrang
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Don't be too serious while reading this fic. New Cover Credited to LordValmar. ~~~ A man suffering from pancreatic cancer lay in his bed weakly. Believe that he will never survive, he made a wish on his birth/deathday to become the best filmmaker and become rich on his next life if there is. A normal boy, who wanted live a genuine life, carrying a mysterious past and future. Suddenly they woke up in the one body and one mind in year 1980. Watch him as he becomes the greatest filmmaker and the King of Hollywood ~~~ PS: I only own my OC's and I own nothing any of the copyright, name, and products that I mentioned in my story. Any similarities are inevitable because I use real person, event, and trademarks and just hope I won't get sued in this non-commercial fiction. ~~~ Support me on patreon : https://www.patreon.com/bukanorang Type directlly on your browser for further chapters. or You can donate me on paypal.me/igdtj Any donation meaningful for me. Any suggestion or discussion, find me in: Discord https://discord.gg/HRQFNjFEr6

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Chapter 1Chp 1 : Reborn?

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...

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junfriday
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First of all, allow me to apologize for the low rating (61 reviews before mine and not a single bad reviews? You have to forgive me to be the first). The normal me would usually go full force on rant and rage in rewiew and comment section with this quality of writing but because I've been so hopeful of having more contemporary, non-Eastern Asian MCs and settings like this so much and the fact that the author has so far been maintaining a healthy stability of updates, I thus decided to give a rare constructive criticism where not only would I specify what's so bad about the story, but also to give reasons why and to offer some suggestion (to my best knowledge). Before we begin, I'd mention general mistakes that you might also found in this story: 1) bland dialogues; where the conversation just doesn't sound real except in Anime 2) lots of 'telling' and severe lacks of 'showing'; "show don't tell" is a rule of thumb that must be taught to every emerging writers where instead of just informing what is happening, a writer must 'show' it because outright telling it is simply called info-dumping, not storytelling. 3) cringy characterizations; from the characters shown so far they are all made of cutout carbon whose personalities is just so unbelievable and too convenient to exist in real life All of these made up the story into something extremely unrealistic--so much for a story set in real life, modern day settings. For these mistakes, however, I can't give much input because I'm an inexperienced writer myself and believe these kinds of mistakes are something that can only be mend with more experiences and self-learnings, so good luck for author with this. Now, I'll start discussing aspects in the story that I found to be simply too much incorrect and shows nothing but author's clear lack of research in a lot of things. FIRST MISTAKE: Hope Institute Orphanage. This is the name of the orphanage where MC grew up. I'm aware that this is a fictionalized orphanage. What is wrong with it is the fact that U.S doesn't actually run traditional orphanage system, they've abolished it since late 19th century and by mid 20th century any orphanage in the US shoud have gone extinct. What they run instead is called foster care system. In traditional orphanage system, any orphans with no relatives or family friends willing to adopt them would be placed in the orphanages and lived there until potential adoptive parents make a visit and decide to adopt any of them. Meanwhile in foster care system they believe that children is better placed directly into a new family in a private house. So for orphans who just lost their parents and aren't directly adopted by their relatives or family friends, they'll temporary live in with foster parents in their foster families' houses until (1) a legible ***** decided to permanently adopt them, or (2) they turned 18 by which the foster parents fulfilled their fostering obligation and the young adults would then be asked to live independently. Actually there are foster cares that operate quite like an institution, like treatment facilities for children with mental problems or clinically disabled, or Children's Houses--where a foster parents take in quite a number of mostly "unwanted, problematic children" (I mean zero offense and I blame the imperfect system for letting those children's life sadly spiraling down out of control), one of the worst type of foster homes where any children in the system would hope not to be placed in. For your information, the vast majority of children being taken care in the foster care system actually aren't orphans; they're either children protected by CPS from parental abuses, parental neglect, children kicked out of their families, etc. Many orphans in U.S. would usually ended up being adopted by their relatives or family friends, those aren't adopted by them would spend just little time in the foster care before the agency found parents that are willing to adopt them on permanent basis because orphaned children are generally seen to be "non-problematic". Infants, especially, are of the most popular to be adopted by parents wanting to adopt children because the adopting parents can rise them from so little and innocent. Actually, some of those institutionish-run houses are even using the name "Orphan" or "Orphanage" but most of the children living there are those abused, abandoned, or drugs addicted and needing help instead of orphans. So yeah, if MC exists in real life, he would have been living with his adopted parents since a baby instead of in institution like orphanage. Also yeah, Hunting Hollywood's MC who was written to have lived in orphanage before going to Stanford (iirc) is a result of author's ignorance too. On a side note, Hope Institute really exists in U.S., it's actually an academy for children with disabilities (like autism or clinical disabilities). (I feel it is quite injustice that I don't write more about the foster care, especially the bad aspects of it but since it is already past my intended point, those who are interested can just google it). SECOND MISTAKE: Serializing stories in L.A. Times. I know in some countries almost every major newspaper actually has a special column to publish fictional works, but in U.S. that is not the case. In U.S., paper media that do publish fictions are only literature/cultural newspapers or magazines (with The New Yorker magazine being arguably the number one dream choice of many writers). L.A. Times never publishes fictional stories. Also, serializing the stories in paper media is such a roundabout way if your aim is just to secure the copyright of your writing. You could simply write them in standard screenplay format and register them for protection in Writers Guild of America (the process is instant, but the validity is just for 5 years however you could always renew them easily) or you can directly mail them (even just the draft version of your story) to U.S. Copyright Office (the process takes time--usually 6 to 12 months--but the duration is lifetime [70 years in general, easily extended if you're still alive when it expires, or depending on its significance your family members can extend it even long after your death]). THIRD MISTAKE: Works in publishing industry and people's reactions make zero sense. He became an instant, debuting, best-selling children's book author by the tender age of 10, yet no mention of press interview request at all, and he could remain so "low-key" to the point that he could succesfully hide his identity despite no confidential agreement mentioned with the publising house or the people from L.A. Times who know of him. Dude this is supposed to be international bombastic news and the media people acted such incompetently that I had to pull my hair repeatedly to remain sane at how off-handedly author deal with this situation. Then... Jurrassic Park book happened. Jurrassic Park novel, if you've ever read it, is so heavily immersed in its biotechnology discussion concerning genetics and DNA that no mentally healthy person who have read the book would ever believe it is written by a ten year old kid, yet it just happened... just like that... and people directly involved with him and knew of his identity never casted any kind of doubt and this one character even went as far as laughing at someone who was amazed by the book because this someone didn't know it was written by a kid like nothing's wrong if a kid even capable of writing that... I... I... am trying to contain my rant so I decide to stop here. I haven't read much into this novel nor I plan to continue from where I left off (10 chapters are already too much for my mind), but the short amount of chapters I read already allowed me to know that this story is just like your regural original stories/fanfics from this site where the new emerging author is actually channelling himself as MC living the author's wet dream as supremely gifted capable of doing absolutely anything and everything in the most perfect and unrealistic way possible with all the girls of all ages attracted to him in the most convenient and unrealistic way possible, while the storytelling itself has lots and lots of works needed to be done to make it worthy to be called an actual story instead of journal-like infodump like it is now. It is disparaging but I hope author can improve his writing quality in his next works. Given his work ethic shown by his stability of updates so far I'm willing to believe he'll always improve himself in the future.

AsianLadyBoy
AsianLadyBoyLv13

I was really enjoying this at the start. The Hollywood stuff was good, the business management stuff was good and even the slow romance start was good. Unfortunately for some reason, the author decided to take a hard left turn with his story and start focusing on other things than what people want to read about. The MC starts to hang out with friends more and it just turns into a slice of life with sprinkles of information of his business dealings and showbiz work. The author even decided to throw in some supernatural stuff into the story. By that point, you start to wonder whether or not you are even reading the same story you started with. I found myself skimming a lot trying to find the showbiz/business stuff because everything else is not interesting at all. When it comes to the romance stuff. In enjoyed the development with the first girl to confess to him but he rejected her. And his first girl he loses his V-card to is some random 17yold wanna-be actress from Europe. But she also rejects him. And he gets all mad and screams at her, then quickly apologizes. It just does not feel good at all. You just don't care about the characters he adds in to the story. It's not interesting and he forces a lot of things that just don't fit and makes you just want to skip all of those parts. If the Author kept it 80% showbiz/business management and 20%romance than this story for me would have been a 4+* book all day. And that's how it was at the start it really had me readying every chapter and not skipping or skimming any of them because it was interesting reading on how he was becoming the best in showbiz and in business. But it eventually stops being that, and the pace of the story slows down. It starts to make you think that it's a slice of life now with some showbiz stuff in it. The character design and story development as well as the world background building takes a huge nose dive as soon as the story starts to go all over the place. I was really enjoying it, and it sucks that I stopped enjoying it. But for me now this novel has lost its "Fun" factor. I no longer enjoyed reading it, it felt like a chore having to do so. And for that, I give this story a 2.8*.

NotYourCat
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ThaftLv11

Mantap, akhirnya aku ketemu novel business kayak gini yang gak bikin pusing hehe, untuk kualitas penulisan sudah bagus menurutku, dan latar belakang cerita serta latar dunia juga sudah bagus, cuma kurang romance-nya saja, dan jika bisa, saya punya saran, bagaimana jika MC juga ikut ke dunia pembuatan anime & manga? Aku selama ini belum pernah ketemu novel business tentang anime & manga, hal itu bagus untuk bahan cerita, dan jika bisa lebih baik MC terjun ke dunia anime & manga setelah dia menyelesaikan urusannya di Amerika, juga lebih bagus lagi jika anda juga memasuki dunia Manhua & Manhwa (Webtoon) hahahaha, yah, yang terpenting selesaikan arc MC di Amerika terlebih dahulu. Kerja bagus author, semangat! Aku hanya bisa memberikan anda dukungan berupa Power Stone! -Eng : Great, finally I met a business novel like this that didn't make a headache, hehe, the quality of the writing was good in my opinion, and the story background and world setting were also good, just lacking romance, and if possible, I have suggestions, what if MC also joined the world of making anime & manga? So far, I have never met a business novel about anime & manga, it is good for story material, and if possible it would be better if the MC jumps into the world of anime & manga after he finishes his business in America, also great if you also enter the world of Manhua & Manhwa (Webtoon) hahahaha, well, the most important thing is to finish the MC arc in America first. Good job, author, cheer up! I can only give you support in the form of a Power Stone!

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