Chapter 541 The New NBA Star 1
Jake waved to the fans who were shouting his name while the security guards were protecting him and taking him to the cinema, Jake asked the security guards to stop because he still had to wait for his friends before entering the cinema.
Jake saw the fans shouting his name and decided to go and sign some autographs for the fans who had just come to see him for a few moments, Jake was not a famous actor so all his fans liked basketball or athletics.
Jake had arranged an hour with his teammates and he had come earlier, after all, he might have to do something before entering the cinema that Warner Bros wanted him to do and Jake wanted to guarantee.
With Jake seeing how he was on the movie road he realized he was right, reporters realized that Jake had stopped walking towards the cinema and started calling him for an interview.
They knew there was no interview scheduled, but only Jake had come to this Premiere and they thought that Jake would be the only famous person who had come to this Premiere and they had to try to talk to him.
Jake didn"t mind talking a little bit about the film before the film started because he knew the film better than anyone, even though he still hasn"t seen how the film has changed with him partic.i.p.ating, it shouldn"t be that different.
"Jake, this is the first major character you play in a movie, how do you feel about that?"
"I am a little anxious to know what the critics and the public will think about my performance, it is a dream that I realized by partic.i.p.ating in this film and I hope that I have other opportunities in the future."
"What do you think audiences and critics will think of The Matrix?"
"I am confident that everyone will like this film very much, it is a story that has a very deep theme and that can make you think about it for a long time, but the directors did it in a way that you can understand it easily."
"Keanu, Laurence, Carrie, and Hugo had excellent performances and that made the film more exciting, even more so in the action scenes and in the fight scenes, so I think the audience will really like the film."
"Jake, a question about basketball, you were chosen as the player of the month this March and you had already been chosen as the player of the month in February, do you think you can win the MVP award this season?"
"I don"t know what"s going to happen, I am happy that everyone can recognize my effort in the past few months and it is an honor to be chosen as a player of the month, but there are many players who have also had excellent performances."
"My team even had Shaq and Kobe who played very well, Karl Malone, Allen Iverson, and many players could also have been chosen as the player of the month, so only at the end of the season can we know, but it would be a dream come true if I won this award."
"Jake, the Los Angeles Lakers team had 30 wins and just 2 losses this season, do you think you can win the NBA t.i.tle this season?"
"I think so, of course, there are several teams that also have the opportunity to win, but I believe that our team has the ability to win and we will strive to achieve that."
After answering that question, Jake decided to go to the cinema entrance to avoid having to answer several questions, he thought that reporters would only ask about the film, but it is not strange that there were also sports reporters waiting to interview him.
After a few minutes Rick had arrived and the reporters who were paying attention to Jake didn"t realize that Rick had arrived until some fans of the Los Angeles Lakers team who were at the entrance to the theater to see Jake recognized him and started calling his name.
Rick did not want to talk to the reporters and was quick to go over to where Jake was with the security guards, Jake noticed this and told the security guards to go help the other players who would come for them to enter the cinema.
The security guards understood that this was important and understood that they had to help Jake"s other guests get into the cinema, especially if they were as famous as Jake was in basketball.
Soon Kobe arrived and Jake ordered the security guards to come and help him, reporters and fans realized it was Kobe and security guards had a hard time again looking for Kobe who also did not want to speak to the reporters.
Soon Dennis arrived too and the security guards had to work again, Dennis still stopped to sign some autographs for the fans, the gossip magazine reporters were very happy to see so many famous players like that, soon everyone realized that Jake was waiting for the other players from Los Angeles Lakers team arrive at the cinema.
Shaq arrived a little later and he attracted more attention from fans and reporters, Shaq also went to sign some autographs for fans and he also didn"t want to speak to reporters, so Shaq arrived at the cinema entrance Jake entered the cinema with his friends.
Jake realized that the time for the film was coming for reporters and the normal audience still had to enter the cinema before the film could start, the film administration people were anxious about it, but they couldn"t complain to Jake about it.
Fortunately after Jake entered the theater with the other players in selected places that would be isolated, reporters and film critics were able to enter the theater and the audience could also enter filling the theater.
After a few minutes the film finally started, some people were not so interested in the film and most wanted very much to see what this film would be like, the critics heard good things about the film in the preview, but they were expecting a bad performance from Jake as with other basketball players who tried to act.
Of course, they were also curious because they heard other critics praising Jake"s performance so much, it made critics think they were paid to praise Jake"s performance, as a budding actor who never even did theater as much as Jake could get in the opinion theirs was an acceptable performance.
Jake was also very anxious to see this film, he knew this film better than anyone, but he wanted to see what had changed in the film with his entry in the film, at the beginning of the film Jake was relieved to realize that everything was the same as what he remembered.
After all, in the first scenes only Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, and the agents appeared, Jake was thrilled again seeing Trinity"s fight scenes at the beginning of the film and showing her superhuman abilities.
Jake was even more moved because he understood how the scenes had been done and the difficulty of making these scenes, Jake can also see that the audience was enjoying the beginning of the film very much and his teammates were also enjoying it.
After Neo took the red pill and he woke up in that impressive scene with several people in liquid-filled pod among countless others attached to an elaborate electrical system, the audience was shocked by this scene and then Neo entered Morpheus"s hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar.
It was at Nebuchadnezzar that Jake"s character called Jev, it was strange to see Jev being taller than the other characters and even stranger because everyone knew Jake.
Soon Neo learned about the new reality of humanity and discovered that he spent his entire life dreaming of the Matrix and in fact never really lived, so everyone understood why Trinity had superhuman abilities and that defied the laws of physics.
It was because she and everyone in Nebuchadnezzar were part of a group of rebels who wanted to protect the humans who lived in Zion, so Morpheus also talks about the agents and how very powerful they are and that death in the Matrix means death in the real world.
Morpheus also finally talks about Jake"s character, he says how only Jev managed to fight the agents several times and still survive and that is how they all survived for many years.
After that Neo begins his training that impresses the entire Nebuchadnezzar crew, some conversations are also shown between Neo and all the people who live in Nebuchadnezzar, several conversations between Neo and Jev happen and Jake"s character says that he believes Neo is "the One".
Soon it is also shown that Cypher is actually a traitor who wants to return to the Matrix and he was willing to hand over Morpheus and kill all Nebuchadnezzar crew in order to get back to the Matrix.
Neo and the rebel group enters Matrix to meet with Oracle who can give Neo the answer if he really is "the One", Cypher also started planning the betrayal, Neo hears from Oracle that he is not "the One" as he thought.
Soon everyone tries to return to the real world and this is the moment that Cypher planned to betray everyone, soon one of the characters dies because of Cypher"s betrayal and they realize they are surrounded, in another scene Neo is almost captured by the agents and Morpheus tries to fight to save Neo and is captured.
Soon the group tries to escape, but the agents and the police surround their group and Jev stays behind to protect them and fight with the agents and the police, this was a scene that was not in the film that Jake saw in the past because it was a scene of his character.
In this scene it shows Jev fighting several policemen and agents in an emotional fight scene, even with Jev being strong he was. .h.i.t by several blows and ends up getting very hurt by the agents.
When he receives the information that the group has finally managed to escape, he also flees very badly and finds a phone before everyone else and returns to Nebuchadnezzar and will receive treatment.