Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 1 That Year, 2000

2000, Los Angeles, filming site of the movie "Fast and Furious".

Lin Yuan sat in the rest area, playing with his Nokia 3310 mobile phone.

"A divine machine that can crack walnuts, am I really reborn?"

Even though he had been reborn for more than ten days, Lin Yuan still found it hard to believe.

He turned his head and looked at the mirror beside him. The self in the mirror looked a little immature but heroic. He couldn't help but sigh: "Youth is great, everything is possible."

This is not the year 2024 when he was bedridden. He is no longer the down-and-out middle-aged man who had wasted half his life and was on his deathbed.

Back in October 2000, he had just turned 10 and the film "Fast and Furious" in which he starred was about to be completed.

As a born-again, he certainly knew that the film would be a great success.

This film marked the beginning of one of the most profitable film franchises of the next twenty years.

Unfortunately, as a Chinese, he could not play any important roles and could only play minor roles.

Are we going to miss out on such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
Absolutely not! He didn't want to live a miserable life like his previous one.

Lin Yuan looked towards the set, waiting for an opportunity that would allow him to take off, even if it meant risking his life.

"I don't know how the conversation between my uncle and the director went. We'll have the result after we finish filming this scene." Lin Yuan muttered to himself.

At this time, a racing scene was being filmed on the set.

"Boom~Boom~"

Amid the harsh roar of car engines, the speeding black Dodge Charger and orange Toyota Supra took off into the air.

"boom!"

The fence in front was smashed to pieces.

Two speeding sports cars weaved through the sky full of wood chips and then landed at the same time in a handsome manner.

At the same time, a train roared past from behind at a terrifying speed.

"Cut!"

The director gave a thumbs-up, indicating that the scene was passed in one take.

A burly bald man got out of a black Dodge Charger and walked straight towards Lin Yuan.

The bald man is Vin Diesel, 33 years old, who plays the boss of a motorcycle gang in the movie. He is burly, dark-skinned, and has a rebellious look, looking more like an American football player.

When he approached Lin Yuan, a burst of singing came into his ears.

"Hey yo hey hey hey, even that can't stop me from moving forward..."

"On this vast and unknown journey, I must face my life seriously..."

"Uncle, what did the director say?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Great song, by Jackie Chen?" Vin Diesel did not answer immediately, but asked back.

"Well, have you heard Chen Long's song 'Ambition in My Heart'?"

"Of course, he is my idol. But if you want to become a legend like him, the road is extremely dangerous.

If you really had an accident, how would I face the trust your parents entrusted to me before they passed away?" His concern for Lin Yuan was obvious.

"I'm more afraid of an ordinary life than of life-threatening dangers," Lin Yuan replied.

"The movie 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' that you co-starred in was well received when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. It will be released in the United States and mainland China in the next few days.

You already have a very good starting point, why not play it safer? Why do you have to take such a dangerous path?" Vin Diesel advised again.

After his rebirth, Lin Yuan discovered that he was slightly different from his previous life. In this life, he was the actor who played Luo Xiaohu in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

He has received some attention because of this role.

Lin Yuan knew the film would eventually rake in $200 million at the box office and win next year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, bringing him both fame and fortune. And riding on the momentum of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, his career would naturally soar.

But Lin Yuan had no intention of just lying down and waiting for the wind to come. If he wanted to become a wind rider, he had to learn to create the wind himself.

He wants to become a new generation of world action superstar in an era when Bruce Lee has passed away and Chen Long is getting older. He must seize every opportunity and never back down.

"Uncle, I appreciate your concern. But life is a struggle, so please help me!" Lin Yuan's attitude was very firm.

"Okay, the director agrees to let you try, but you have to bear the consequences yourself." Vin Diesel took out an agreement and handed it to Lin Yuan.

The "Risk Assumed" commitment letter clearly stated that the next high-risk scene was Lin Yuan's own request. If an accident occurred, the crew would not bear any legal responsibility.

Lin Yuan flipped through a few pages, signed his name, and handed it back to Vin Diesel.

"Okay, I'll take you to see the director. Good luck."

The two stood up and walked into the set and came in front of the director.

"Our handsome guy is here. Have you really thought it through?" the bald director greeted.

Director and producer Rob Cohen, who directed the biographical film "Bruce Lee: The Story of Bruce Lee", has always had a good impression of Chinese action stars, which is why he was willing to give Lin Yuan a chance.

"The Fast and the Furious" is a movie that focuses on racing scenes. The lightning-fast confrontation on the quarter-mile track makes people's adrenaline and dopamine rush.

Director Coen was very confident in the racing scenes he shot, but the two action scenes in which the biker gang hijacked a freight truck seemed too simple in comparison.

Originally, Director Coen was going to make do with it, but this Chinese-American boy who played a minor role in the crew actually came up with an astonishing filming plan.

If his idea can be realized, then the film's highlights and publicity gimmicks will be further enhanced.

But, isn't this plan too dangerous? Just reading the text is enough to make people break out in a cold sweat.

Perhaps only Chen Long in his prime can pull off such a scene. Can he really do it?
"Yes, director. I've thought about it." Lin Yuan nodded.

"Okay, then I'm expecting you to create a miracle. Get ready, and we'll film your scene in the next scene."

Lin Yuan nodded, walked aside and started doing warm-up exercises, reviewing the details of the action in this shoot again in his mind.

There is a scene at the beginning of "The Fast and the Furious": the boss of a motorcycle gang leads three sports cars to hijack a large truck.

The original plan was for the biker gang to ride in a sports car, go around to the front of a large truck, jump into the cab and steal the car.

This way of shooting is indeed not very good, and the solution proposed by Lin Yuan has two main changes.

The first point is that he plays a member of a biker gang who jumps onto a large truck from the rear of the vehicle and climbs all the way to the cab along the bumpy and shaking carriage.

This action is more thrilling, unlike the original one-jump action, and the viewing point is significantly enhanced.

The second change is even crazier. Instead of using the studio green screen shooting and post-production mode, it was directly shot with a long shot on real scenes, without any cuts and in one go.

If Lin Yuan's plan can be successfully implemented, it will definitely be one of the biggest highlights of the film.

Although it is an era when special effects have matured, the effects produced in post-production are still inferior to real shooting due to many limitations such as lens funding.

Action actors who are willing to risk their lives are now extinct because it is too hard and too dangerous.

If there were any accidents in this scene, Lin Yuan’s best outcome would be to be paralyzed in bed for the rest of his life.

But what does it matter? It's not like I've been paralyzed in my past life.

Rather than living a mediocre life, Lin Yuan would rather shine for a moment like a firework.

At this moment, Lin Yuan calmly stared at the golden text on his retina:

[This action scene has a Danger Level of D, Host's Success Rate: 50%.]

[Complete the action scene of this difficulty and receive 1 attribute bonus.]

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(End of this chapter)