The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 2 2 times in life

Life is a journey, and the misty future is full of unknowns. No one knows whether what is waiting for him is uphill or downhill, and no one knows whether the road ahead is a flat river or a rugged mountain road. Unpredictable uncertainty is full of variables and surprises.

He once thought that the future is in his own hands. As long as he formulates a sufficiently strong, detailed, and sufficient plan, he can control every step of his life within the expected range, the future, success, career, family… Everyone’s life will be firmly controlled in their own hands, and there will be no deviations.

But obviously, he was wrong. As if he didn’t expect that he would spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed because of a car accident, he didn’t expect the end of his life to become the beginning of a new life.

In his previous life, his name was Chu Jiashu, a Chinese/Chinese. He was always a well-behaved child. He obeyed his mother’s arrangements, planned his future step by step, and followed every day’s plan in a regular manner. You will grow up to be an outstanding adult, and you will have a bright future.” From the beginning of sensibility, his mother told him.

His mother made a timetable for him, and marked everything on the entire wall blackboard, planning his life from three to thirty, from school to friends, from three meals a day to extracurricular activities. All of his was placed on the plan sheet, and it was clear at a glance, as if standing in front of the blackboard, one could see the end of life.

He can still clearly recall the New Year when he was eight years old. He wanted to buy some fireworks and firecrackers with the new year’s money to join the neighbours in the carnival, but his mother bitterly dissuaded him and pointed to the densely packed schedule. “We must take destiny in our hands. Everything is here. The order is from top to small, from left to right. From every minute to every hour, to every day, every week, every month, every year , Throughout your life, everything is in this form. Even your birthday present every year I have made a form. For example, your eight-year-old birthday present this year is an abacus, and the next math class can be used , I have already packed it.”

He looked ignorantly at his earnest mother, showing confusion and timidity. The roaring noises and the sound of firecrackers were looming outside the window. He just wanted to light a firework. But his mother didn’t pay attention to him at all. She just stood in front of the surface of the plan and waved at Fang Qiu, and said ambitiously, “Now there are 183 days left until the first grade starts. It sounds like a long time, but when converted into hours, There are only four thousand three hundred and ninety-two hours. When converted into minutes, there are only two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and twenty minutes. You will find that you can accomplish so many things.”

He didn’t understand what that series of huge numbers meant, but he knew that the firm light on his mother’s face gave him no room for rejection. “You have to arrange your every minute according to this form to ensure that every minute is used efficiently! To be honest, after entering the society, you can only rely on yourself. If you want to succeed, we must firmly follow this plan. table.”

His mother looked at him with a smile and confidence, and he nodded blankly. After all, the words that came to his mouth could not be said. “Very well, now you have fifteen minutes to breathe in fresh air, relax, and then time for English.” This is the conclusion of the mother’s speech, and it is still lifelike many years later, like a curse, firmly imprinted on it. in mind.

It is a pity that this magnificent plan was only implemented until his 22 years old. About to leave the university gate, he is actively preparing to enter the internship, and then seek better development in the future, it seems that everything is developing step by step, a bright future is waiting not far away, but a sudden car accident, but Let the plan come to an abrupt end.

Highly paralyzed.

He didn’t feel anything below his chest, he could only lie on the hospital bed like a useless person, panicking all day long. His mother ran around for him and even ran away her family wealth, but she still couldn’t reverse time. He was decadent, mad, gave up, despaired, angry, regretted… But in the end he survived-like a walking dead.

Fortunately, he encountered the movie, the unique and meaningful “Trumen’s World”, which opened the door to a whole new world for him. This form of expression, known as the “seventh art”, lit up. His boring and boring life, he was so greedy that he was immersed in the world of movies almost hungrily, and soared. Curious about the ups and downs of life, curious about the colorful world, curious about the colorful society, curious about the unrestrained freedom…that is the real life.

freedom, dream, life. Just thinking of such words makes his chest dull and painful, because he will never be able to touch them, he missed it, missed it forever.

He wants to go to every corner of the world, taste the icy snowy mountains and the turbulent ocean; he wants to challenge every limit of life, try the madness of skydiving and the excitement of extreme rock climbing; he wants to experience every kind of life Emotions, the joy of achieving goals and the pain of encountering setbacks…because he truly realized for the first time that life cannot be planned. Success and failure, happiness and sadness, happiness and torture are the two sides of life, lacking contradictions. The opposite then loses its meaning.

wanton, unruly, carnival, crazy, casual, free. Grasp every moment of life and truly endow life with its own splendor. Don’t let down this rare but only once life.

He couldn’t help wondering whether if he became a climber, he could climb all the peaks in the world; if he became a reporter, could he use a pen to talk to the world; if…if he became a climber An actor, can he perform all kinds of situations in life, can he give the character soul like those actors, can he touch other people like the movie inspired him, can he use his acting skills to make art glow with new vitality ?

Ten years, ten whole years, he was paralyzed in the hospital bed for ten years, he communicated with movies for ten years, but unfortunately, he did not have the opportunity to try those “ifs” after all. How eager he was to do it again, break all the shackles and shackles, and recklessly once again, but everything was too late.

On his thirty-second birthday, his regular, mediocre, simple and short life came to an end and escaped into nothingness due to the failure of his cardiopulmonary function.

After closing his eyes, the world was dark, but at the end of the darkness there was a faint light, as if guiding him forward in the dark, is it heaven or hell? The steps under his feet stepped forward, and then gradually accelerated, getting faster and faster, and finally turned into running, or even sprinting. He opened his arms and slammed into the milky white light.

At the end, it is not heaven or hell, but new life.

He was born again.

From 2017 to 1989, from the age of thirty-two, he returned to the state of a newborn baby, from a yellow race to a white race, from China to the UK, from Chu Jiashu to Lanli-Hall.

He won the second chance, this time, he won’t miss it again.

The Hall family is a downturned aristocracy in Britain, with hereditary baronial title. Although the family is no longer rich, it is not in the 1920s or 1930s. They have no fief and no manor, but their life is still very good. Abundance.

Lan Li is the youngest son of the Hall family, above him there is an older brother and two older sisters. Although they are downright nobles, they still followed the elite education of nobles, from Oxford Dragon Elementary School to Eton College, and then admitted to Cambridge University with excellent grades. However, Ranley did not follow in the footsteps of his father and brother to enter Trinity College. Instead, he chose Pembroke College to study classical literature. After just one year, Ranley temporarily suspended his studies and entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Started to polish himself in the West End of London.

This time, Lan Li wants to realize his dream, wants to try more possibilities, wants to explore the unknown of the world, wants to truly embrace freedom.

Acting, this is the source of enthusiasm in Lan Li’s heart. He aspires to be a part of the film. He aspires to be an actor, and not only an actor who imitates others, but also a person who relies on appearance. Reduced to a vase of furnishings, he aspires to become a true professional actor, an actor who can bring shocks with his acting skills, and an actor who constantly challenges his limits on the road of acting.

He doesn’t know how much his talent is, he doesn’t know how high his achievements can be, he doesn’t even know whether his dream can be realized, but he doesn’t care, he just wants to try it once, and runs wildly and recklessly. Run until you are exhausted, and really live once according to your own ideas.

Even if he fails, he doesn’t care. This time in life, he will not be wasted, he will not compromise, he will not give up, because at the end of life, he does not want to regret it.

But for the Hall family, Lanly’s choice is intolerable. This is a shame to the noble family, and it will become the object of ridicule by the upper class, making George and Elizabeth unable to raise their heads.

So he traveled across the ocean to New York, and he traveled across the ocean to New York, where he dropped his heels, burdened by the opposition and protests of his parents; while looking for opportunities to polish himself off Broadway, he began auditioning one after another. Performing opportunities, while also using his free time to work and earn money, completely get rid of the financial constraints of his parents; he has never been eager to become an actor, not for success, not for fame, not for super high income, just to be an excellent Actors.

The facts also proved that George and Elizabeth were correct. After three months in New York, he found the opportunity to audition for the first time. The hardship of this road is far worse than imagined. He is now pursuing the one-hundred-thousandth, one-millionth opportunity to realize his dream.

But, he does not regret it!