Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 230 Meng Tao's Scheming

When Lin Yuan and Annie arrived at the shooting location on the top of the mountain by car, Depp was sitting in front of Meng Tao with a grim face.

"Don't we have a brotherly relationship? Why did you try to trick me like this?" Depp said.

"I'm doing this for your own good! If you want to leave a classic image on the screen, you can't be afraid of hard work! Don't you know to learn more from Lin Yuan?" Meng Tao said.

His words are very classic, very classic: For your own good...

Under this pretext, it is indeed appropriate to make many excessive demands.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

"This guy tampered with the wooden planks on the suspension bridge and didn't even tell me where they are or how many there are," Depp said aggrievedly.

"This way you can capture Captain Jack's fearful feeling! If you step on an empty wooden board, you might be able to create a more unexpected comedic effect!" Meng Tao said seriously.

After hearing their conversation, Lin Yuan immediately understood.

Next we have to shoot a scene where Captain Jack sneaks away while the savages are not paying attention.

Captain Jack would race across a rickety suspension bridge, only to be trapped in a dead end and captured and roasted.

This suspension bridge hangs between two hills, and there is a canyon hundreds of meters deep under the bridge.

Not to mention running across the suspension bridge, even if you just stand quietly on the bridge and the bridge starts shaking when a strong wind blows, many people will be scared to squat down and scream.

But Meng Tao still felt that this was not thrilling enough and could not produce the effect he had imagined.

So he replaced several wooden boards on the suspension bridge with hollow boards.

As soon as Depp stepped on it, he would immediately step on empty air and might lose his balance and fall off the bridge.

Although there was a net bag under the bridge to prevent accidents, Depp would never want to experience the feeling of being hung in mid-air, so he strongly resisted the action scene designed by Meng Tao.

For most people, the most terrifying thing is uncertainty.

You don't know how many planks are hollow, nor where they are located.

That means that every time you take a step, you may miss it.

This means that even if you have stepped on several empty wooden boards, you still don’t know how many more times you will step on empty boards.

The feeling of having a sharp knife hanging over your head is really terrible.

But only in this way can Depp capture the feeling of being cautious and treading on thin ice.

After all, except for Lin Yuan, the performance effect will never be as good as the real thing.

"This is Meng Tao's area of ​​responsibility. I won't comment."

After hearing the whole story, Lin Yuan said he would not get involved.

"Depp, if you don't complete the filming as agreed in the contract, you will have to take responsibility." Meng Tao said with a wicked smile.

"Okay, okay! You bastard, I'll remember you!" Seeing Meng Tao threatening him with the contract, Depp could only agree reluctantly.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan sighed that Meng Tao had changed a lot recently.

Not only in terms of personality, he is also working madly to learn film shooting. Perhaps filling himself with work time is his greatest weapon to fight against the pain in his heart.

But this also brought an unexpected benefit, which is that Meng Tao is actually in charge of the filming of many action scenes.

He is growing rapidly, and perhaps in the near future he will be able to grow from an action director to a new director.

At least directing an action movie is still very possible.

"Director, we are ready for filming." Seeing Depp compromise, Meng Tao informed him through the headset.

"All departments, get ready, filming is about to begin." Director Verbinski's reply came immediately through the headset.

Lin Yuan and Annie brought chairs and sat down to the side, waiting to watch the filming of this scene. Most of the time, it was others who watched Lin Yuan film, but today he got to experience the feeling of watching others film.

"Action!"

At the director's command, Captain Jack took advantage of the fact that the cannibals were distracted and suddenly started running wildly.

Soon he ran to the suspension bridge.

When he looked at the shaky and seemingly unreliable suspension bridge in front of him, he carefully stretched out one foot and lightly tapped it on the bridge surface.

"crunch~"

The board groaned, but seemed to hold its ground.

Captain Jack stood firmly on the bridge.

If Depp hadn't known that there were hollow wooden planks on the bridge, he would have definitely run wildly on the bridge by now.

But at this moment he was being extremely cautious, taking every step as if walking on thin ice, which seemed particularly funny.

"Haha, his movements are so funny, just like a tiptoeing little thief." Annie said with a smile.

"That's why Meng Tao insisted on doing this. The audience will definitely laugh when they see this scene." Lin Yuan replied.

At this time, the savages discovered the escaped Captain Jack and chased him from a distance with strange cries.

Captain Jack immediately spotted the savages chasing him, and he knew that if he didn't run faster, he would be caught immediately.

So he began to quicken his pace, but he couldn't help but limp as he ran in fear.

The whole movement looks like an exaggerated form of bow legs.

"Hahaha~ I'm dying of laughter." Annie couldn't help but hold her stomach and laugh.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Reshoot if you get caught!" Meng Tao roared from the side.

Hearing the prompt, Depp could only force himself to speed up his pace, and his swaying appearance made him look more like a lame goose.

When he finally reached the suspension bridge, he suddenly tripped!
"Ah, did I step on an empty wooden board?" A thought flashed through Depp's mind.

Fortunately, he was already at the suspension bridge, so he rolled forward and somersaulted across the bridge.

Finally reaching the other side, Captain Jack looked back and found that he did not step on an empty plank, but just twisted his foot due to extreme nervousness.

But why didn’t I step on a single empty wooden board while running all this way?

I'm really lucky today, right?

Depp was a little confused, but the director didn't call for a stop, so he could only keep running forward.

There was a dead end ahead, and Captain Jack soon had no way to go.

Depp turned around and was surprised to find a large group of actors playing savages running over from the suspension bridge and surrounding him.

its not right?
Why didn't any of them step on the hollow planks?
It can’t be that everyone is lucky!

Depp's mind flashed with Meng Tao's evil smile, and he immediately understood:

I was tricked by Meng Tao! There was no empty wooden board at all. He was just trying to scare me!
Thinking of this, Depp laughed angrily, but this smile just fits Captain Jack's helpless mood at the moment.

Surrounded by a group of savages, Captain Jack took out a bottle of seasoning and sprinkled it on himself.

First, he sprinkled seasoning powder on both armpits, and then hit the head twice.

"It has to be seasoned to taste good, right?"

"Cut!"

(End of this chapter)