Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 45: Give Taylor a Shock Again

2001 6 Month 20 Day.

The movies "The Fast and the Furious" and "Jurassic Park 3" will be released in two days.

Although the two films are released at the same time, they will not compete with each other at the box office. After all, the screening rates are not yet to the point where they will squeeze each other out.

Even with joint promotion, the two films will have a mutually reinforcing effect.

At ten o'clock at night, Taylor Swift finished a full day of vocal practice at her home in Nashville.

Since she met Lin Yuan on the train half a year ago and received funding from him, her musical journey has become smoother.

Her heart was filled with happiness:
Is there anyone as lucky as her, who chases after her idol and then has him help her and become her business partner?
In order to live up to Lin Yuan's appreciation, she has been working harder on music these days than ever before.

She hopes that she can grow up as soon as possible and give a satisfactory answer.

After a busy day, she sat down in front of the computer and opened the IMDB website.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) was created on October 1990, 10.

Over the past decade, it has gradually developed into the world's largest movie information sharing and evaluation website.

Some domestic users may not be familiar with this website, but when it comes to similar Douban Movies, Time.com, Zhihu Movies...

That's all too familiar.

In the previous life, IMDB was acquired by Amazon founder Bezos in 1998 and gradually gained full control.

But in this life, with Lin Yuan's strong recommendation, Mr. Eisen realized the importance of IMDB earlier, and therefore entered the market with great strength.

Finally, a consensus was reached with Amazon, and a 40% stake in IMDB was acquired.

After all, as a film information website, it is essential to obtain the support of Mr. Eisen, the representative of Hollywood capital.

Originally, Hollywood capital did not pay attention to this area, which allowed Amazon to have a monopoly. However, once the other party asks for a share, sharing will be the wise move to expand the market.

After Mr. Eisen acquired a stake in IMDB, Lin Yuan played a greater role and proposed a series of modification suggestions based on later experience, making the website's web design more user-friendly and practical.

Taylor loved the changes.

She skillfully clicked on the promotional video that Lin Yuan shot for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in her favorites.

The webpage shows that this video has been played more than 500 million times and has received more than 25 likes and comments, making it one of the top 10 popular film consultations on IMDB.

Although this number may not seem significant in later generations, it was absolutely astonishing in 2001.

You should know that even after more than 20 years, the video with over 10 million views on YouTube is still a hit.

What’s more, in 2001, when there was no mobile Internet, all these clicks were made by users sitting in front of their computers, clicking on them one by one.

Taylor clicked on the video again. She didn't know how many times she had watched it in the past few days.

If 500 million hits is a medal of honor, then Taylor must have contributed to its creation.

As the young man in white danced with the sword in the video, Taylor was immersed in it again.

No matter how much time has passed, this video is still her favorite, and the amazement she felt when she first saw it is engraved in her heart.

After watching this promotional video, the webpage popped up the newly added extension recommendation function.

Among them is another promotional video shot by Lin Yuan, and the cover screenshot is still the oriental boy in white.

"Lin Yuan is really cunning, riding on his own popularity, but the transition was really smooth."

This wasn't the first time Taylor had clicked on this promotional video, but she knew that if she had seen this related recommendation for the first time, she would have continued to click on this video even though she was still not satisfied with the previous one.

Therefore, this video has only been released for ten days, but it has already been viewed over 500,000 times, and the number is still rising rapidly. Taylor opened the video with a click of the mouse.

In the picture, Lin Yuan is wearing white clothes and holding a sword under the moonlight, which perfectly connects with his appearance in the promotional video of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

It was still a short sword dance, but this time the mood it displayed was dreamlike.

Taylor, who had seen it many times, was still attracted by this sword dance.

She believed that the viewers who did not see enough of the sword dance in the previous video would continue to watch this video with interest when they clicked on it.

If you continue reading, you will fall into the propaganda trap set by Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan, dressed in white, was seen splashing sword lights under the cold moonlight, giving people a hazy and dreamy feeling.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, Lin Yuan leaped into the air and swung his sword fiercely. The sharp sword light seemed to cut through time and space.

In this cold and sharp sword light, the picture was cut in half...

The camera switches to a scene on a highway, where Lin Yuan, dressed in modern clothes, is crouching on the roof of a speeding truck. This is a clip from Lin Yuan's action scene in "The Fast and the Furious."

Seeing this scene, Taylor smiled knowingly again: What a cunning transition, Lin Yuan really knows how to play with people's hearts.

Because before and after the camera switches, there are close-ups of Lin Yuan's face.

So although the scene and era have changed, the protagonist has not changed, giving people a feeling that this is Lin Yuan’s two lives.

This clever approach can minimize the disgust of users who are attracted by the oriental classical sword dance video when they are tricked into watching other movie promotional videos that are not real.

Before the audience could question why they suddenly turned 180 degrees and showed me this, they closed the video and gave it a bad review.

The next moment, Lin Yuan in the picture was thrown out by the truck and was about to fall off.

At this moment, the camera suddenly pulls away, showing a panoramic view of the shooting scene. All the audience will be surprised to find that this shot is a real scene!

Wouldn’t Lin Yuan’s life be in danger?
Will he be okay?
The next shot showed Lin Yuan falling heavily to the ground.

He staggered to his feet from the ground, his eyes bloodshot, as if they were about to spurt blood.

Medical staff rushed forward, surrounded him and performed emergency rescue.

This footage was recorded on the set of "Jurassic Park 3".

At this point, the promotional video has finished playing, and a line of text appears in the center of the screen:
In order to bring you the best visual effects, we are not afraid of any risks!
"Fast and Furious" and "Jurassic Park 3" will be officially released on June 6.

In this promotional advertisement, Lin Yuan cleverly linked two dangerous action scenes together with editing, perfectly showing his desperate and dangerous performance on the scene.

The audience who sees this scene will inevitably be extremely curious: How could the oriental boy who danced with a sword before be so reckless when he starred in other action movies?

This looks like a behind-the-scenes clip from a movie, right?

Is he okay?

The audience's appetite was whetted and they went to the cinema to watch these two movies with great interest.

Not only did the video ad receive a large number of likes, but the comments section was also overwhelmingly positive, expressing curiosity and anticipation for the movie.

After all, the last time they saw someone working so hard in a movie was Jackie Chen. Lin Yuan's performance easily made them make such associations and develop a good impression of him.

But most people didn’t realize that after being lured into watching an advertisement that was not what they wanted, instead of getting angry, they gave it a positive review!

(End of this chapter)