Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 198 Confirming the Shooting Plan
"You're planning to have the protagonist fall from a height, fail to grab the window the first time, continue falling, and only succeed in grabbing it the second time, right?"

As a professional action director, Meng Tao immediately understood Lin Yuan's idea, but he still couldn't help but confirm it.

"Yes! This will drive the audience completely crazy. Think about it, when the audience sees the protagonist falling from a great height in the cinema, won't they be scared to death and break out in a cold sweat?

Then when you see the protagonist fails to save himself, will you jump up from your chair?

"Wouldn't it be awesome to finally save yourself?" Lin Yuan said, staring at Meng Tao.

"Then do you know how many orders of magnitude the difficulty and danger will increase?" Meng Tao asked.

Lin Yuan nodded, of course he knew.

In order to show the thrill of the falling process, the falling distance cannot be too short. After discussion, Meng Tao and Lin Yuan felt that a fall of about 12 meters each time would be the most cost-effective.

If it is just a one-time fall, the distance of the safety rope can be controlled at about 12 meters, ensuring that Lin Yuan can be caught immediately if he falls such a long distance.

And when Lin Yuan asked for two descents, it meant that after the first descent of 12 meters failed, he would have to descend more than ten meters the second time!
This will dramatically increase the requirements for equipment stability and safety, and the risk of accidents will become greater.

But this is not the most important thing. What is more terrifying is that if it is just a one-time fall, Lin Yuan can see the landing point accurately and prepare the falling posture.

Once it is modified into two consecutive falls, it means that when he tries to grab the window for the second time, his position, angle and posture in the air are unknown.

The difficulty and danger have increased by more than an order of magnitude.

Lin Yuan nodded, indicating that he fully understood the risks.

"I insist on doing this. Only in this way can we make immortal movies," said Lin Yuan.

"I have to find a way to make the safety rope more secure for your crazy idea," said Meng Tao.

Seeing that his request was approved, Lin Yuan held up two fingers and continued:

"I have a second point I want to adjust."

"Okay! Okay! As long as you want it, I will support you. What else can I do?" Meng Tao was a little desperate.

"For the final scene where the protagonist jumps towards the departure window, I wanted to shoot it in one continuous shot," said Lin Yuan.

The plot of this scene is: when the protagonist completes the infiltration mission, he needs to quickly return to the room where he started.

He tied a rope around his waist, jumped from the top of the building, and then ran down the outer wall of the building.

But when he approached the starting point, he found that the cable was too short and not enough to support him into the room.

So the protagonist took a running start in the opposite direction, untied the cable in mid-air, and jumped towards the window by inertia.

The protagonist's angle of jump was accurate, but the height was a little too high, so he hit the edge of the window and bounced down the stairs.

At the critical moment, Vin Diesel rushed forward, grabbed Lin Yuan's feet, and half of his body was hanging in the air.

Liu Yufei, who was in the house, grabbed Vin Diesel's trouser leg to help him steady himself so that he did not fall down the stairs with Lin Yuan.

When Tom Cruise was filming this scene, he originally divided it into several parts.

Take a good shot of your run-up and jump first.

Then film the protagonist jumping, hitting the top of the window, and falling.

Finally, his feet were caught by his teammates, who then pulled him up.

Although the shots are a bit fragmented, the scene itself is exciting enough to make the audience sweat with fear.

But Lin Yuan still felt that this was not enough and wanted to complete the entire scene in one take. This would definitely make the effect several levels higher, but the challenge would also be more difficult!

"..." Meng Tao said nothing and turned to look at Vin Diesel.

Lin Yuan cannot complete this scene alone and needs the cooperation of others.

Vin Diesel's throat moved up and down, but he couldn't say a word.

"Help me! I need you to grab my feet accurately! Otherwise my efforts will be in vain." Lin Yuan looked at him and said.

Although he didn't catch Lin Yuan's feet, he still had the safety rope, so he didn't really lose his life, but that meant that this part was filmed in vain.

In order to avoid wasting the shooting results, Vin Diesel had to lean half of his body out of the window which was several hundred meters high and hold Lin Yuan's legs tightly.

"I'm worried that I can't do it. I'm afraid of heights and I'm afraid of making mistakes." Vin Diesel felt guilty.

"How about I do this scene? I'd love to give it a try!" Depp raised his hand.

"Don't talk nonsense. With your physical condition, you can't catch Lin Yuan!" Director Cohen scolded.

Lin Yuan encouraged him, "No one can help me except you. Believe in yourself. When you were a security guard at the club, you were always so good at catching those troublemakers."

Lin Yuan's words reminded Vin Diesel of some past events.

He thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll try my best!"

Since Lin Yuan insisted on filming, it was unstoppable no matter what, so Vin Diesel chose to go on stage to help.

Seeing that Vin Diesel agreed, Lin Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then it's settled! Director, please adjust the shooting details as soon as possible according to the new action design plan." Lin Yuan said.

Director Cohen nodded and said, "Now I finally understand how you made those popular movies.

With such a hard-working spirit in making the movie, how could the audience not buy into it?
Making a film with you would make my career as a director complete.”

"You're too kind. This is the result of our joint efforts! The honor belongs to everyone in the crew." Lin Yuan replied.

"I have to work all night tonight. You should eat more to conserve your energy so that you can have a good shoot tomorrow!" Meng Tao shrugged helplessly.

After discussing work, everyone began to concentrate on enjoying the food.

Depp was holding four cheese lobsters and devouring them.

Meng Tao was also eating a lot of steak to save energy for tonight's work.

I have to say that the food in the seven-star hotel is really delicious. Even Liu Yufei ate a lot more without realizing it.

Lin Yuan's mind wasn't on the food. He asked again in his mind, "System, assess the difficulty of the action scenes."

This action scene contains three highly challenging sections, with a risk assessment of B, and a host challenge success rate of 72%.

Sure enough, after Lin Yuan made drastic modifications, the system finally gave a B-level difficulty rating.

The success rate was slightly increased to 68% based on the base rate of 72%.

It seems that his master-level gymnastics skills are of some help to this scene.

It’s already very good to have a B-level difficulty.

(End of this chapter)