Chapter 1912 1912 Quiet Town
A black coupe slowly stopped by the side of the trail. The door opened and Hugo walked down, then closed the door, patted the roof, and the car started again, slowly advanced along the trail, and finally disappeared from sight.
The sound of the engine seemed to disturb the birds on the branches. A group of sparrows flew into the blue sky. A leisurely track was drawn in the clear and transparent blue sky, stirring up circles of golden light, like a pure natural oil painting, making people unable to help but close their eyes and take a deep breath. The air mixed with hot sunshine and fresh sea breeze came to their faces. Even though it was November, the residual breath of summer was still floating.
Hugo turned around and looked around, but found that no one could see the whole road. Even after the roar of the car engine was long, there was no sound. A gust of breeze blew past, and there was still no noise. It seemed that any movement would stir up a powerful echo, destroying the peace of the town.
This town is called Seyside, which is actually literally translated as "the seaside". From the name, we can see how careless the people who established the town here in the early 1980s were, and they were even too lazy to give the town a real name. "The World of Truman" finally chose to shoot in this town.
At the beginning, Peter Will and the crew members were trying to find a perfect shooting location and build the studio in the "Trumen's World", but they could never find a suitable location. After all, there is still a huge difference between a small town and a studio in real life.
Finally, we came to Seaside with the recommendation of visual consultant Wendy.stites. After the on-site inspection, everyone was very satisfied, so they determined that this place was the location of the film. The entire crew will complete the filming of the entire movie here.
After Hugo arrived in Miami yesterday, he drove to Seside today, but Hugo decided to really feel the town, so he asked Samora to drive to the crew first, while he got off the car and walked on foot.
Just standing at the intersection and looking roughly, Hugo seemed to understand the reason why the crew selected Seside. The town was too quiet. Although it was not as dead as an empty city, you could still vaguely feel the popularity and vitality floating in the air. However, when you tried your best, you could only hear some of the sounds of waves, as if you were thrown on a deserted island, and you had no other partners except yourself.
Hugo slowly took a step forward and walked slowly along the path in front of him. There were no too many forks around him. The straight road seemed to be able to see the end at a glance. Small houses on both sides of the road were all one-story wide-area residential buildings with a small garden, neatly arranged. The appearance of all the houses looked exactly the same, with almost no many differences. The same off-white walls, red roofs with dark red doors, and white wooden fences surrounded the green space at the door. Even the lilac trees and bushes at the door were cut into the shape of round wooden barrels, and there were no extra flower pots to embellish.
It was like...it was like walking into any house and it was his own home. Hugo couldn't help but start to imagine the funny plot of going home and walking in the wrong door at night. With the almost identical low buildings in front of him, there was no sense of incongruity at all.
After reaching the end of the entire street, Hugo found that it had arrived at the beach. The blue sea in front of him was calm and calm, as if even the sea breeze was not too surging, making people suspect that it was just a pond. After looking around, he saw a building next to him. In fact, there was not much obvious difference from other houses around him. The sign hanging at the door showed that it was a post office. Hugo took another step and walked over.
"Dingdong", the crisp sound of the wind chime vibrated in the wind. An elderly gentleman walked out of the gate of the post office, wearing a simple gray jacket and a certain wide-edged top hat, slowly walked down. This was the first person Hugo saw after arriving at Seside. The gentleman pointed his chin slightly at Hugo, showed a gentle smile, and then took another step again, step by step, completely in line with the rhythm of the entire town, as if it should be like this naturally.
It was so quiet that Hugo had really been missing for a long time. There were no screams, no cheers, no surprises, and even the sound of calling the name "Hugo" disappeared. Everything was so ordinary, as if it was just an ordinary afternoon. The residents of the town did not feel the riots brought about by the arrival of the "Trumen's World" crew.
Walking through this street, you can see the sea at the corner again in a blink of an eye. However, when you turn to your right, the noise in the sea breeze faintly came. However, it was not the kind of noise that was crowded, but just the sound of people whispering in daily conversations.
Walking along the street, you can see art galleries, antique shops, fashion shops, bookstores and restaurants, neatly arranged on both sides of the street, and scattered pedestrians spend another ordinary day on the road. Even in such a "busy" street, there will definitely be more than fifteen pedestrians within Hugo's sight, as if this is the noisiest place in the town.
Hugo always thought this place was a bit strange. After walking half a street, he realized that the style of these buildings was no different from the residential area just now. It still had off-white walls and red roofs. Even the sign at the door was not too conspicuous, as if it was just another residential area.
Everything in front of me is like... like a model house. It is an area where a large number of model houses are built next to the foundation during construction, providing a residence for staff during the long construction process. However, these houses have no specified any purpose, so they are built according to a unified style and style. Some are treated as housing, some are treated as restaurants, and some are treated as bars... But from the appearance, they are consistent. After the construction is completed, all of these model houses will be demolished and the vacant land will be re-planned.
This is the case with the town of Seaside, just like the name of the town, as if the people who came to open the land only planned to stay here for a few months, and then build a golf course or a resort next to it. However, after living there, they forgot about this and gradually took root here and lived here.
Without any characteristics, style, difference, or even color, it is just an ordinary town, which makes people forget it at all and cannot leave any special impression of the town.
It is precisely such an ordinary thing that has become the most special part of the town, which is the "Trumen's World". They are planning to build an artificial island, with the buildings on it without any characteristics and cannot show any style. It is like a model house, but someone lives in it; like a studio, but surrounded by the sea, blue sea and blue sky; like a fictional world, but it exists in real life.
If it was built in a studio, the project was too large, almost equivalent to rebuilding the entire town. The process from the plan to the implementation was almost an impossible task, but I didn't expect that such a town really existed in real life. No wonder when Peter and the others discovered it, they were almost excited and called Hugo immediately and said that they had found a perfect shooting location.
Seaside, even more perfect than the studio.
The most important thing is that it is surrounded by the sea on three sides and backed by the mountains. It is almost a purely natural "island" not an island. From any location in the town, you can walk to the beach. Hugo walks to the end of the street and then sees the blue sea again, feeling that he is surrounded by the ocean.
However, this time it was a little different. Going forward a little further, it was a dock, but there were only a few wooden boats in a single shape on the dock, and you could also see seagulls docking at the bow. At this time, five or six people were chatting next to the dock. Hugo thought for a while, walked forward, "Hey, good afternoon."
"Oh, a stranger is here." The middle-aged man with a mustache standing in the middle laughed and spit out a cigarette, "So, you are the crew member who has come to the town in the past few days, right?" He didn't recognize Hugo.
Hugo nodded with a hee laugh, "Sorry for disturbing your daily life."
The middle-aged man waved his hand, "This is a good thing for us. There is almost no change in our days. We finally got a little new thing, and we also talked more with our wife at dinner. God, this is really a place without any surprises."
"Oh? What do you say?" Hugo raised his eyebrows and asked with interest on his face.
"This is a place where...no." The middle-aged man shrugged, "No good, no bad, no surprise, no surprise, no wealth, no poverty, no disaster, no change..."
The person next to him took over the conversation, "No excitement, no thrilling", "No challenge, no freshness", "No difference, no difference", "No affair", this last sentence made everyone laugh, "You want an affair, no one wants you, right?" Everyone laughed.
The middle-aged man curled his lips and took a sip of cigarettes hard, "It is impossible to even find a black man or a homosexual here."
After hearing what they said, this seems to be a very boring town, but in the eyes of many people, it is the most perfect life, a calm but smooth life. "But in the eyes of many people, this is a perfect life." Hugo said.
The middle-aged man spit out the thick smoke from his mouth long, "Is there really perfection in this world?" A meaningful sentence made Hugo think, but he immediately said, "Madonna is indeed perfect." Everyone burst into laughter again, cheerful and brisk.
Chapter completed!