The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 2 Body Donation Agreement
The Dodge pickup truck drove along the highway toward downtown Provo.

"Hey, your old car is running low on gas. Remember to refill it later." David, who was driving, said, "You were drunk last night and still asked me to drive you home. I got up early today to pick you up..."

Hawke replied, "Thank you."

"It's no use talking, we need to take action." David obviously had some ideas: "The Sundance Film Festival in Park City is about to start, and it's not too far away. Why don't we go and have a look? You pay for it."

He is an actor with aspirations: "Luckily, we met a great director who helped us become famous."

Hawke turned around and looked at him. This guy had blond hair, blue eyes, and a handsome face. He immediately said, "You need to clean your ass."

Anyone who pays a little attention to the entertainment industry knows the situation in the film industry, and David also knows: "Is it possible that I met a beautiful director?"

Hawke puts it bluntly: “You only get hyena directors.”

David didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Hawke explained simply: "In addition to making movies, I am also good at anorectal plastic surgery."

David was silenced immediately and drove calmly into Provo and headed straight for the city center.

This small town of 100,000 people, less than a hundred miles from Salt Lake City, is mostly composed of low-rise buildings, with only a few tall buildings standing in the downtown area.

The filming location of "The Singing Detective" in Provo is a small eight-story building, and the crew rented the entire building.

David drove into the parking lot, got out of the car and first ruffled his smooth blond hair into a mess, then grabbed some mud from under the car door and smeared it on his face.

Hawke was curious: "What do you do?"

"Are you drunk and an idiot?" David shook his head and reminded, "You forgot that the male lead, Robert Downey Jr., is a drug addict. He is domineering after taking drugs and does not allow anyone who is more handsome than him to be in the crew."

Hawke slapped his head, "I'm hungover and confused."

David threw the car keys to Hawke and pointed at his unshaven face: "You are so lucky. You have always been in a safe range and don't attract jealousy like me."

Hawke didn't bother talking to the man anymore and walked towards the crew's residence.

David hurried to follow.

There were several trailers parked at the crew's residence. The two found the stunt department's trailer and waited patiently.

Hawke seemed to be casually chatting with the people around him and soon learned about the work situation.

The film was planned, financed and produced by Ackerman Films, owned by California billionaire Buddy Ackerman.

The crew originally recruited three stuntmen in Los Angeles, but after moving to Provo for filming, director Keith Gordon and producer Bro Derick temporarily added several action scenes.

Then one of the stuntmen sprained his ankle, and another guy who was in the stuntmen's union quit because he didn't meet union standards, leaving only one stuntman.

In order to save costs, the crew simply temporarily hired Hawke and David in Provo.

Stunt director Freddy came back from the director's group, looked at the two carefully, and said, "Put on black coats and keep wearing black hoods."

The assistant immediately brought two different coats. Hawke waited for David to take one before he took the other and put it on.

He took off his coat and zipped up the pocket, revealing his revolver and car keys.

Freddy threw a hood over and shouted, "Put it on and follow me to the set. Don't keep the crew waiting for you two to act like idiots."

Hawke and David put on masks that only exposed their eyes and nostrils, and followed Freddy to the front of the building.

The crew hired people here temporarily not only to save costs, but also because the two robbers' faces will not be shown at all.

Even the makeup is omitted.

When we arrived at the main entrance of the building, the set was being set up. Another stuntman, McGinn, rushed over, but he would not appear in this scene.

Hawke and David were warming up, the director crew gradually took their positions, and the male assistant director, with his fingers pinched together, entered the set to discuss the scenes.

The role of the robber was added at short notice, without a script or lines, and the entire process depended on rehearsal before filming.

Although Hawke doesn't understand filming, he feels that these temporarily added characters and scenes will most likely be cut in post-production.

"Your characters are having an internal conflict here and are starting to fight in close combat." The assistant director stood on the withered grass and pointed at Hawke with his little finger while demonstrating the moves: "Knock him down quickly, then run towards the building. Got it?"

Hawke said, "Understood."

The assistant director walked out of the set, twisting her American hips.

As the script supervisor clapped the clapboard, two black-hooded gangsters wrestled with each other.

David swung his right fist and hit Hawk in the face.

Hawke blocked with his left hand and kicked in the crotch with his right leg out of habit. Fortunately, his reaction speed was fast enough and his physical foundation was good, so the kicking foot deviated a little and landed on David's leg with a snap.

David's eyes bulged and he let out a scream, but before he could do anything, Hawke's chokehold came.

He grabbed David's neck with his right hand, and changed his force from grabbing to pushing outwards, while tripping him with his feet.

David fell on his back with a thud, like a log.

Hawke turned and ran towards the building.

A voice came from the director's seat: "Cut!" Most people who work in the film industry are very outgoing, so the director praised loudly: "Well done!"

Outside, Hollywood stuntman McGinn put his hands in the pockets of his black coat and couldn't help but say to stunt director Freddy: "This guy has something."

Freddy nodded: "A good candidate for stunts."

Inside the set, Hawke pulled David up from the ground.

David couldn't help but complain: "Dude, you're not doing it according to the routine. That's not what we said yesterday."

Hawke had no idea what happened yesterday, so he could only say, "I winged it. I couldn't control it."

The assistant director then entered the studio, swaying her hips and sweeping her fingers across Hawke's face: "Follow me."

He came to the front of the building and pointed his little finger at the second floor: "In the next scene, you climb up and get into the second floor window..."

Hawke took a closer look and found that the lofted second floor was more than four meters high. In front of the building stood a number of street lamp poles, about eight meters high, but they were three meters away from the building, making it difficult to climb up and gain leverage, and it was difficult to get to the second floor.

The walls of the building are covered with matte granite slabs, and there are protruding decorative walls at intervals, forming a 90-degree angle with the wall.

Hawke came to the nearest angle, leaned his back against it, jumped up, supported himself on the walls with his hands and feet, and climbed up like a spider.

He climbed less than two meters before sliding down again and said to the assistant director, "Okay?"

The assistant director waved his hand and went to find the director.

The crew's equipment was moved here and filming began again.

Although Hawke's body was a little fat, his foundation was still there. He jumped onto the second-floor windowsill in a few breaths and got in through the open window.

Shoot once and it’s over.

Later, Robert Downey Jr. came to the set and the stunt team temporarily ended filming.

There was also a rooftop wire action scene in the afternoon, so David called Hawke to go to the crew's temporary entertainment room on the second floor to play video games to pass the time.

During lunch, the two men's hoods fell in the lounge.

After getting off the dining car, David sent Hawke to the lounge to get his hat: "My friend, you kicked my leg and broke it. You must compensate me."

Hawke gave him a middle finger and entered the building to go to the elevator when stunt director Freddy hurried over from the other side.

Entering the elevator, Hawke greeted him and asked casually, "Are you in such a hurry?"

Freddy said, “The producer approached me.”

The elevator reached the second floor, and the two people came out and walked in opposite directions.

The crew's entertainment room and the producer's office are in two opposite corridors on the second floor.

Hawke pushed open the door into the rec room and found a man lying on a glass table smoking madly.

Robert Downey Jr. heard the voice, raised his head, and shot his eyes like sharp arrows towards the door. He wiped the white off his nose, pointed at Hawke and shouted: "Get out! Now!"

Hawke didn't want to get entangled with the drug addict, so he found the hood hanging on the newspaper rack. He took the hood and a newspaper at the same time, and said casually, "You continue."

The poisonous insect was very unhappy to be interrupted, and his eyes gradually became sinister.

Hawke left the recreation room, put on his own hood as a hat, rolled up the newspaper into a circle, and lifted up David's hood like a black flag.

In front, a group of people came out of the elevator and turned into the corridor opposite.

Three muscular men in suits, two in white and one in black, stopped and stood guard in the corridor.

The other three came to the producer's office, and the two behind them stood at the door, one on the left and one on the right.

These five people are obviously security guards.

Hawke quickly glanced at the three people in the corridor and judged from his experience in his previous life that their suits were equipped with underarm gun pockets.

"Five bodyguards, a big shot?" He turned into the elevator and went downstairs to the studio at the back of the building.

Various departments of the crew were setting up the set, and several wire cranes were erected on the roof.

Hawke found David, threw him a hood, sat on the folding chair next to him, and asked, "When will the shooting start?"

"I don't know." David shook his head: "Wait, Freddy hasn't come yet."

Hawke opened the newspaper and saw the news about "The Singing Detective" on the front page.

"The Singing Detective crew is committed to charity!"

"Representatives of the crew, the leading actors and actresses Robert Downey Jr. and Katie Holmes, said in an interview a few days ago that they have signed a body donation agreement to promote social welfare and charity, and called on more people to join in..."

Hawke understands that charity and donations are mostly publicity stunts by Hollywood crews.

Hollywood doesn't have many drug addicts and drug addicts per capita, but the difference is not far behind.

(End of this chapter)