Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 544: The Furious Tiger King, Taking Advantage of Meng Tao's Absence

Everything was almost discussed, Lin Yuan stood up from his seat, picked up a plate of roasted venison, and prepared to carry out tonight's provocative action.

Seeing Lin Yuan's actions, the old director was stunned for a moment and said, "Are you going to provoke that tiger?"

"Yes, do you want to go together?" Lin Yuan asked with a smile.

The old director asked hesitantly, "If I go with you, will it take its hatred towards me? I have a scene with it."

"Are you scared now? Then why don't you consider canceling that scene? Otherwise, I'm worried that you'll pee your pants when filming on the spot." Lin Yuan said.

"What's so scary? Come on! I'll go with you!" The director stood up angrily.

It is impossible for an old director to lose the battle but not the battle, or to admit defeat.

Lin Yuan smiled and walked with him to the northwest corner of the camp, a rather secluded place.

There was a large iron cage placed in the corner, covered with a huge cloth.

Lin Yuan stepped forward and pulled off the curtain with force, revealing a huge male Siberian tiger: Raja.

This is Raja, the "tiger actor" who plays a crucial role in the next stage of the animal fighting scene.

This tiger, which was rented by director Eastwood through his personal connections, weighs more than 360 kilograms and is 3 meters long. It is definitely a big tiger among the Siberian tigers, which are famous for their majestic size.

When Lin Yuan lifted the curtain, Raja immediately stared at Lin Yuan.

It bared its teeth and let out a low growl, revealing its upper and lower pair of deadly canine teeth.

As expected of the cat family, Raja's four upper and lower canines are 8 cm long, like four sharp daggers, which is chilling.

If such canine teeth are inserted into the neck and strangle the throat, all the physical strength of the prey will be taken away in an instant, and it can only wait quietly for death to come. It has to be said that cats are the most perfect killing machines created by nature.

Lin Yuan silently admired Raja's canine teeth, while the old director stood behind him.

Seeing that Lin Yuan ignored his protest and even showed contempt in his eyes, Raja became completely furious.

Raja slapped Lin Yuan hard with his palm.

"Oh!"

But there was a steel fence separating the two, and Raja's tiger paw could only hit the iron cage heavily, making a loud noise.

Even someone who knows nothing about cats could feel that Raja was furious when seeing this scene.

The hatred and anger in Raja's eyes could not be concealed at all.

If it weren't for the steel cage blocking it, it would have rushed out immediately and torn Lin Yuan to pieces.

Seeing that he couldn't hurt Lin Yuan, Raja's hair stood up in anger.

Its red eyes stared at Lin Yuan and it let out an angry roar.

"Ouch!"

The deafening roar of the tiger echoed throughout the entire camp.

This roar seemed to dispel the joyful atmosphere in the camp. The crew members who were happily eating barbecue, singing and dancing immediately fell silent.

They looked towards Lin Yuan's location with trepidation, but didn't dare to come closer.

Lin Yuan, the culprit and troublemaker, picked up a small stone and threw it into the cage, hitting Raja's head accurately.

"Ouch!"

The angry Raja roared again, as if to say, "If you have the guts, open the cage and I'll kill you!"

But Lin Yuan was not moved at all, and continued to provoke the furious tiger.

"Is that enough, Lin Yuan?" the director asked. "It's already very angry. You've achieved your goal."

"What? This is just the beginning." Lin Yuan said.

"It seems that you really want to provoke it to the point of fighting to the death." The old director said helplessly.

"Only in this way can we achieve the best effect when filming on the spot." Lin Yuan replied: "I'm not a pervert who likes to torture animals, but for the sake of the filming effect, I can only let it suffer a little."

Regarding the villain BOSS Raja in the movie "Jungle Bully", his role is divided into two parts:

The first part is computer-generated special effects, which are mainly used for dialogue and plot, and of course also include necessary close-ups and transitions.

The other part is the action scenes shot with real tigers.

After all, Raja is a captive tiger, not a wild tiger, so his aggressiveness is relatively low.

Therefore, if you want to capture the best fighting effect, you must really provoke it.

To achieve this effect, Raja was deprived of food from the moment he arrived in Kisangani.

It hadn't eaten for nearly two days, and it kept smelling the aroma of barbecue coming from the camp, and was already in a very anxious state.

At this time, Lin Yuan came to provoke it again, which was simply adding fuel to the fire.

After all this, Raja definitely regarded Lin Yuan as his mortal enemy, and it would be strange if he didn't want to tear him to pieces during filming.

But Lin Yuan seemed to think that it was not enough?
Lin Yuan picked up a piece of venison with chopsticks and fed it to Raja, who had not eaten for two days.

Stimulated by the aroma, Raja couldn't help but put his big face against the iron cage, opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, his meaning very clear: "It smells too good, I can't help it, give me a piece?"

In this situation, if Lin Yuan fed the venison in his hand into Raja's mouth, the grudge just now might be wiped out.

But how could Lin Yuan do that? Wouldn't that mean all his efforts would be wasted?
He placed the piece of venison just where Raja could barely reach it with his tongue.

No matter how Raja rolled his tongue, Lin Yuan's hand would not move forward.

Raja was so anxious that his tongue kept flying up and down, but he just couldn't reach it.

This feeling of being able to see it and about to eat it, but never being able to eat it, drove Raja crazy.

Just when Raja was getting extremely anxious, Lin Yuan suddenly stretched out the piece of meat and quickly touched it on Raja's tongue.

The delicious taste of venison was immediately transmitted to Raja's mind through the taste buds on the tip of his tongue.

But before Raja's tongue could quickly roll away the piece of meat, Lin Yuan withdrew his hand in a flash, completely dashing his expectations.

Raja immediately showed a ferocious expression.

It is the nature of animals to guard their food. If you put the food in front of its mouth and then take it away, even a domestic dog may turn against you and bite you, let alone a tiger?
"Ouch!"

The thunderous roar of the tiger once again resounded over the camp.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

The sound of tiger paws hitting the fence could be heard one after another.

Lin Yuan calmly watched Raja's impotent rage. After he had vented his anger, his hand holding the chopsticks loosened and the piece of meat fell to the ground.

Under the tiger's desperate gaze, Lin Yuan stepped on the piece of meat and rubbed it hard with his heel.

The good piece of meat was crushed and covered with dust, making it difficult for even a tiger to swallow it.

Seeing this scene, Raja was filled with a new round of impotent rage.

Lin Yuan also felt a little sorry for this act of wasting food.

Such delicious venison wasted like this.

But if you want to completely enrage Raja, this is the most appropriate method.

When dealing with any animal, food is the quickest means to achieve the goal.

Before, Lin Yuan had dealt with anacondas, okapis, hippos, etc., and he quickly achieved his goal by using food.

As for the great white shark, the red horse has no food to clear the way, so it will take time and effort to conquer it.

At this time, Lin Yuan quietly waited for Raja to stop venting, and then he waved his hand.

Saragama came over with a large plate of fresh raw venison: "Mr. Lin, this is the venison you asked for."

"You can put the venison on the ground and I'll come get it myself." Lin Yuan said with a smile.

After all, for many people, the sight of a furious tiger would make their legs go weak and they wouldn’t dare to get close to it.

So Lin Yuan asked Saragama to put it on the ground more than ten meters away, and he planned to go and get it himself.

But Saragama did not stay away like the old director.

He didn't put the venison on the ground, but walked straight to Lin Yuan's side.

"It's okay, Mr. Lin, I'll help you." Saragama didn't look nervous at all.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan nodded silently in his heart. Saragama's courage was indeed sufficient. It seemed that he could implement the backup plan.

"Come, help me spread the slices of meat in front of the cage, as close as possible, but make sure it can't reach it." Lin Yuan said.

“I understand!” said Saragama.

There are gaps in the cage, and Raja can stretch out his front paws through the gaps to grab the meat.

But considering the width of the gap, it can only extend the forefoot to a length of about 50 cm.

This also means that in order to place the meat as close as possible, Saragama must be placed about 50 cm away from the cage.

The distance to Raja was too close, and the bloody stench emanating from the tiger's hair was clearly audible, which would surely bring great psychological pressure to people.

But Saragama seemed to be completely unaware of Raja's presence and calmly placed the pieces of venison at the appropriate distance.

As soon as his venison was placed on the ground, Raja could not help but stick his front paws out from the gap in the iron cage.

"Snapped!"

Raja slammed his front paws heavily on the ground.

But the claws were less than 5 centimeters away from the venison.

Raja was about to reach the venison and couldn't help but stretch his claws forward desperately.

5 cm...

4 cm...

3 cm...

I can't go any further. This small distance of three centimeters is indeed like an insurmountable chasm.

No matter how hard Raja tried, he was always just a little bit away from eating the delicious venison in front of him. "Awoo~" Raja roared in despair.

The roar was so deafening that the old director, who was standing more than ten meters away, felt his legs went weak.

It's not that he is timid, but it's his body's instinctive reaction.

This instinctive fear engraved in our genes is difficult to resist.

However, Lin Yuan and Saragama were only about 50 centimeters away from the cage, but they were not moved at all. They just kept putting meat on the ground silently.

Watching Saragama meticulously placing the venison in front of the cage, the old director couldn't help but admire him.

He tried hard to move forward: "Let me help too."

"Is it okay? Don't force yourself." Lin Yuan said.

"I still have scenes to film opposite it later. Now there's a cage blocking us. If I don't dare to face it, how can I talk about filming?" the old director insisted.

The old director, like many ordinary people who have never faced a tiger, imagined that if he was braver, he could overcome his fear of tigers.

But when he really faced Raja's power at close range tonight, he immediately found that he had thought it was simple. This was just a trembling from instinct.

But the director, who refused to admit defeat, did not want to give up, so he forced himself to gradually adapt to the mentality of facing the tiger.

I saw the old director holding a piece of meat and putting it on the ground.

As soon as he put it on the ground, he realized that it was a little too far away, a full 65 centimeters.

If it is placed so far away, it will not create the situation where Raja is in a dilemma.

So he plucked up his courage, took another step forward, and put the piece of meat closer.

But this time, in his nervousness, he placed the meat slice too close!
"Oh!"

Just as the director was about to move the piece of meat out, a tiger's paw hit the meat first.

After experiencing so many failures, Raja did not give up, but kept trying to find the meat.

There was so much fresh and delicious venison right in front of it, but every time it was just a little bit short, and the result was that it was so close yet so far away.

This feeling of being able to only see but never be able to eat is driving it crazy.

Now that it finally reached a piece of meat, Raja, who had not eaten for two days, immediately began to drool.

But just as Raja was retracting his front paws, a pair of chopsticks shot out from the side like lightning and pressed down the piece of venison.

This caused the piece of venison to be instantly stretched straight by two forces:

On one end is Raja's sharp tiger claw, and on the other end is Lin Yuan's chopsticks.

Just when the delicious venison was about to be obtained, an accident suddenly happened, which made Raja full of anger.

But it didn't dare to use force. Tigers are considered smart among cats. Naturally, it knew that if it tried to retract its claws forcefully, it would not be able to bring back the piece of venison.

Because the thin slices of venison cannot withstand the pull of its sharp claws, if both sides tear it hard, the piece of venison will inevitably be cut by its sharp claws and completely lost.

At this moment, even the veteran director could see the longing in the tiger king's eyes, even with a hint of pleading.

It was as if it were saying, "Please, I'm so hungry, let me have a piece of venison."

This was the first time the veteran director saw such emotions in a tiger's eyes. It was truly extraordinary to see the king of beasts' mentality reduced to this level.

Even the veteran director felt it was pitiful and couldn't bear it.

"Why don't you just give it this piece of meat? It can't reach the other meat anyway," said the old director.

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "No, we must do things to the utmost. Only then can we have absolute hatred."

So, in Raja's desperate eyes, Lin Yuan used his chopsticks to exert force steadily.

"Zi La~"

The piece of venison broke into pieces little by little between Raja's sharp claws as it was pulled, and finally completely separated from his claws.

If Raja were a human being, he would definitely feel that what he lost at this moment was not just the piece of flesh in front of him, but the whole world.

This intense feeling of deprivation overwhelmed Raja's entire consciousness.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Raja slammed his head against the iron railings, making a series of dull thuds.

"Woo~woo~"

This time there was no thunderous tiger roar, only a low roar.

The old director actually saw deep hatred in the eyes of a tiger.

This was a hatred that would never end; Lin Yuan had severely trampled upon its dignity.

At this moment, the director had no doubt that if they were to shoot the scene of Lin Yuan fighting the tiger tomorrow, Raja would definitely want to tear Lin Yuan to pieces at all costs.

Wouldn't this be a bit too much?
The director was very worried, but Lin Yuan looked satisfied.

"Very good, tonight's training is almost done." Lin Yuan said, "If the filming preparations were not yet complete, we could shoot that scene tomorrow."

"But we should be ready in two days. Director, shall we shoot this scene the day after tomorrow?" Lin Yuan said again.

"The day after tomorrow? Meng Tao won't be here by then, right? Aren't we going to wait for him to come before filming?" asked the old director.

"We can't wait any longer. It will take another five days for him to arrive." Lin Yuan said, "If this tiger starves for another five days, it will lose its ferocious peak momentum.

I've been stimulating it every night for the past two days, and the best results will be achieved the day after tomorrow when I shoot."

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, the old director silently felt sad for Raja. He had to be tortured by Lin Yuan for two more nights...

So when filming the day after tomorrow, will Raja act too aggressively and cause an accident?
So the old director said, "I'll call Meng Tao and see if he can give the elephant transport job to someone else and come here early on his own."

Because there are not many African elephants in Congo, Meng Tao brought a large group of African elephants from Tanzania.

Meng Tao was really worried about transporting this group of African elephants.

It is not possible to transport it by car. An adult African elephant weighs 6 or 7 tons, and it is already difficult to find a heavy truck to transport it.

But the roads in Tanzania and Congo have long been in ruins after years of war.

After the "afternoon rain", the road was covered in mud, making it difficult for heavy trucks carrying African elephants to pass.

Therefore, the most suitable way to transport African elephants by land is for trainers to drive the elephants and let them walk on their own, but the disadvantage is that the speed of travel is really too slow.

In fact, strictly speaking, elephants with good endurance can travel 60 to 80 kilometers a day, which is already a very fast speed.

But the distance was too far, and the waiting time for the elephants to walk on their own was unacceptable.

Therefore, in addition to land transportation, Meng Tao also added water transportation cooperation.

The most convenient way is naturally water transportation. As long as the elephants are driven onto the boat, they can be easily transported.

However, there is no direct confluence to Kisangani in Tanzania, so the only way to move forward is to take a part of the land route and then a part of the water route.

Meng Tao was able to transport the African elephants in such a short time, which must have been because he was worried about it.

If possible, the old director would not have the heart to rush Meng Tao.

But at this moment of filming, the old director still hopes that Meng Tao can be present so that he can feel more at ease.

He had no way of assessing the risks of the shooting plan submitted by Lin Yuan. If Lin Yuan said it was not dangerous, he could only assume it was not dangerous. But what if it was very dangerous?

"Don't rush Meng Tao. Without his elephant herd, transportation could easily go wrong. This scene is not dangerous. I can handle it myself." Lin Yuan said.

"Is it really not dangerous?" the old director asked in disbelief.

He always had the feeling that Lin Yuan wanted to take advantage of Meng Tao's absence to do something extremely difficult and shoot an extremely dangerous action scene.

The old director stared at Lin Yuan's face, trying to find out the truth from his face.

But he was soon disappointed. Lin Yuan was an actor with superb acting skills. How could he possibly see anything wrong on Lin Yuan's face?
So the director had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and said, "Let's put aside the filming plan for now. Is it really okay for Meng Tao not to be the one to implement the security plan?"

This question hits the nail on the head.

Although Lin Yuan also developed a detailed security plan, no matter how detailed and reliable the plan is, it ultimately depends on people to implement it.

For example, the plan includes many contingency plans for when danger occurs, such as administering tranquilizer needles to control the tiger and ensure that no further damage is caused.

But someone needs to administer the anesthetic injection.

What if the danger really happens and everyone present is so scared that their legs go weak and they dare not even administer the anesthetic injection?

Or maybe it was fired with great difficulty, but it was completely accurate and went off target?
Once this happens, all security plans will become useless paper talk.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "In the past, I would have been worried without Meng Tao. But don't worry today, we have a security guard who is also very good at mental health."

"A security guard with excellent psychological quality? Who is he?" the old director asked in confusion.

Lin Yuan pointed at Saragama and said, "Him! It was only after seeing his performance tonight that I decided to start filming without waiting for Meng Tao to arrive."

The old director looked at Saragama and immediately agreed with Lin Yuan.

Judging from Saraga's performance tonight, he will never be weak in the face of Raja. With him around, there is no need to worry about accidents happening on the spot due to fear.

The old director nodded and said, "With Saragama cooperating with the security plan, I'm relieved. But I hope Kane can also bring some people to the scene to help, as a double insurance."

Lin Yuan replied, "I agree, but Kane can only bring a maximum of four people. The rest must stay to defend the camp. Not too many people can leave."

There are armored Hummers and large ammunition stocks in the camp, so it is not advisable for too many people to leave.

Otherwise, it would be really funny if our house was robbed by some local indigenous armed forces that appeared out of nowhere.

At this point, Lin Yuan and the old director reached a preliminary consensus.

"Don't worry, we'll shoot a version first. If the effect is really not good, we'll wait for Meng Tao to arrive and shoot it again." Lin Yuan said.

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll personally supervise the work over the next two days and ensure the filming preparations are completed as quickly as possible." The old director said, "You prepare for the shoot, and we'll strive to complete it beautifully."

"I'll make the corresponding arrangements first, and then I'll come back to you later to discuss the shooting plan." said the old director.

"it is good!"

Lin Yuan's goal was finally achieved, and he answered readily.

(End of this chapter)