Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 545 Shooting plan, elbowing Raja?
In the next few days, the crew was busy preparing for filming during the day.

The construction of camera rails, the installation of fixed camera positions, and the production of safety rails are all progressing in an orderly manner under the command of the veteran director.

But the heavy rains that come as expected every afternoon in tropical regions also cause the veteran director a lot of suffering.

This gave him a deep understanding of why there are no powerful countries in the tropics.

The hot climate and the daily afternoon rain made it impossible to speed up the construction.

The director had anticipated these difficulties and thought it would take two days to prepare for filming.

But I didn't expect that when I actually carried out it, it would take an extra day.

This one-day delay also caused the tiger Raja to go hungry for one more day, but his hatred for Lin Yuan did not grow stronger.

Because the hatred value has already been maxed out, there is no way to have even a little more hatred.

During these three days, Lin Yuan was not idle either.

With his communication and promotion, the camp's precipitation filtering pool was replaced from a mud pool to a cement pool, which initially solved the water problem.

All that remains is to wait for the arrival of professional equipment for drilling wells, which will completely solve the water shortage problem.

In addition, he and Saragama went out hunting to solve the meat problem in the camp.

When Lin Yuan went hunting himself, he killed 5 yellow deer, 2 wild boars, and 1 super large reticulated python in one day.

The old director was stunned when he returned to the camp carrying so much prey.

Only then did he realize that the reason why Lin Yuan did not take action during the hunting that day was simply because he was afraid of dampening their enthusiasm.

He was originally proud of having hunted the largest yellow deer that day, but now he found that it was nothing compared to Lin Yuan's achievement.

But no matter how jealous the old director felt, the meat problem in the camp was properly solved.

It is worth mentioning that during the hunting trips these days, the okapi was waiting for Lin Yuan on the road, and took Lin Yuan to discover various delicious fruits in addition to red raspberries, as well as large green mangoes, apples, pineapples, etc.

This action made the okapi a de facto fruit prospector, indirectly contracting the fruit supply for the entire camp.

So Lin Yuan simply brought the okapi back to the camp and raised it as a pet.

There is not a trace of coercion, it is very willing, and it can even be said that it is eager for it.

As long as it can overcome its fear of humans, it can get clean water and a safe environment in the human camp, and no longer have to live in constant fear like before.

In short, during the past few days, the old director was in charge of the work and the shooting preparations were proceeding in an orderly manner.

Lin Yuan was in charge of daily life, and all the problems of meat, water, and fruit supply in the camp were properly solved.

The living standards of the entire crew have improved visibly, and the morale of the crew members has also become strong, and they are full of enthusiasm for work.

When night falls every day, the old director will come to Lin Yuan's thatched cottage and discuss the details of the shooting plan with him in detail.

The official shoot was about to begin tomorrow. The old director, holding the shooting plan, asked with a worried look on his face, "Lin Yuan, are you really going to let Raja slap you on the shoulder? Do you know how powerful a tiger's slap is? I'm worried your entire shoulder will be shattered."

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, Director. I know my limits and won't let Raja's strength get to the point."

The striking force of an adult male Siberian tiger can reach 1000 kilograms, or 1 ton.

If you have no idea about this power, you can compare it with Tyson in his prime. It is said that the striking force of his right fist can kill a cow, which is 800 pounds, equivalent to 362 kilograms.

This punch is truly "fatal", and the Siberian tiger's palm strike power can reach nearly three times that of Tyson at his peak, which is definitely not something humans can resist.

What's more, Raja is not an ordinary male Siberian tiger, and his palm strike force may reach 1200 kilograms.

Even though Lin Yuan's physical fitness was different from that of ordinary people, he could not withstand Raja's fierce slap on the shoulder.

"Your Chinese Kung Fu only studies fighting techniques against humans, right? Do you also have techniques for fighting tigers?" The director was still very worried. He asked seriously, "Isn't it possible to shoot it differently?"

Hearing the director's question, Lin Yuan also asked seriously: "Director, how do you think humans fighting tigers should be filmed to achieve a wonderful effect?"

When the director heard this question, he was also stunned. He really had not thought about this issue carefully.

Fights between people are easy to shoot. There are already too many samples, and even mature routines have been formed. You can just follow them to shoot exciting fighting scenes.

But what about humans and tigers?
Two completely different species, using completely different fighting methods, how would they fight when put together?
In his half-century film career, he had seen movies where people hunted tigers with guns or forks, but he had never seen a movie where people fought tigers with bare hands.

Because usually, when humans encounter a tiger, they can only run away, let alone consider fighting it head-on.

Seeing the director's confusion, Lin Yuan didn't embarrass him. Instead, he said, "There are two famous stories in ancient Chinese cultural works that describe in detail the scenes of humans fighting tigers."

"The first story comes from an article titled "Tang Weng Hunting Tigers" in Ji Yun's Notes from the Yuewei Thatched Cottage during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

Later, it was adapted into a primary school text called "Tang Fights the Tiger."

Lin Yuan briefly told the old director about this famous story. The famous internet meme "sliding shovel" originated from this story:

"The tiger pounced on him, and the old man crouched down and tilted his head. The tiger leaped over him and then he lay motionless on the ground, blood pouring from his belly. Everyone gathered around and saw that the tiger had been cut in half from chin to tail."

……

"Before he died, he told his son to kill the tiger and eliminate the pest. He gave him two instructions: one was that you should not be afraid of a tiger, let alone run away; the other was that if a tiger saw a person, it would pounce on him, so you should hit its throat or stomach."

"Every descendant of the Tang family is capable of beating a tiger, each with their own unique skills, but they all remember the two things Tang Niu said before he died."

Lin Yuan also didn't know how the descendants of the Tang family learned how to fight tigers from these two experiences that were useless.

Anyway, if you really think you have learned it this way, then it will definitely be a waste.

"The second story is about Wu Song fighting a tiger from Water Margin, one of the four great classic Chinese novels."

This story has spread even more widely and is now known to everyone.

The description of the tiger's three-step trick: "The tiger pounces, lifts up, and cuts its tail," and the tiger's tail that is like a steel whip, are deeply rooted in people's hearts.

But Lin Yuan knew that both "Tang Weng Hunting Tigers" and "Wu Song Fighting the Tigers" were fictional.

And not only is it fictional, even the techniques tigers use to hunt their targets are not very accurate.

Unlike modern people, ancient people did not have the opportunity to watch a large number of video footage of tigers hunting, and thus know how tigers actually hunt animals.

Tigers rarely pounce in the air, leaping off all fours as seen in "Tang Weng Hunting Tigers." Their most common tactic is to lunge, pin down their prey with their front paws, and then proceed to choke the prey.

The three consecutive moves in "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" are more like humans making moves in sequence. In reality, a tiger's tail may hurt when it hits you, but it is mainly used as a stabilizer to balance the body, and it will not really use its tail to hit people.

Although Lin Yuan knew that the descriptions of the fights between humans and tigers in these two ancient works were not quite realistic, he brought them up at this moment in order to draw on the essence of these two works.

Because even if the description is false, the attractive part is real. The answer to how to make the fight between humans and tigers exciting lies here.

Lin Yuan said, "If I dodge with all my strength, I'm confident the tiger won't be able to hit me at all."

Hearing Lin Yuan’s words, the old director was secretly shocked: What a monster!

"But if I shoot it like this, there will be nothing interesting to watch. I dodged every attack from the tiger, and I easily managed to dodge every time it tried to bite or scratch me. The effect of shooting like this is very realistic, but not exciting at all," said Lin Yuan.

"It's easy to draw a lesson from those two works: the key to filming a fight scene well is to focus on the tiger itself."

"The audience wants to see Tiger's ferocious and deadly attacks, and how I counter them. They want to see a turn-based, structured attack and defense, and close-quarters, physical combat.

"So, it's essential for me to hit the tiger, and for the tiger to hit me. That way, we'll have a sense of even strength, and it'll be thrilling enough," Lin Yuan explained.

At this point the director finally understood why Lin Yuan insisted on letting the tiger slap him on the shoulder, but could he really bear it?
"Trust me, it's okay." Lin Yuan said.

He was really confident because Lin Yuan's nerve reaction speed was so fast that it was even 40% faster than cats, which are known for their sensitivity!

He could even split a flying bullet, so a tiger's palm strike was no problem at all in his eyes.

Lin Yuan would look for the moment when the palm strike was at its weakest, and then "pretend" to take a hit, combining it with the boxing technique of neutralizing the force, and would not actually take a direct hit.

"Okay, I understand." The old director finally accepted it. "Now I know why you chose a deep chasm between you and the tiger Raja when you were performing the scene. The purpose was to trick the tiger into pouncing, right?"

Lin Yuan smiled and nodded: "Yes, the audience wants to see the tiger pounce, so we create conditions for it to pounce.

The audience wants to see the tiger slap me with its paws, so I try my best to meet their needs.

The audience wants to see me riding a tiger and throwing punches, so I designed it that way."

The classic scene of Wu Song fighting the tiger is that Wu Song rides on the tiger, holding the tiger's head with one hand and hammering it with the other.

Later on the Internet, many people, when looking at photos of Tiger's muscular figure, often asked in surprise: "Can Wu Song beat this guy?"

Regardless of whether Wu Song is an extraordinary person sent down from heaven, Lin Yuan will use his actions to prove that tigers can indeed be beaten in this way.

The old director sighed, “You carefully planned every step, making the tiger surround your baton to achieve your shooting intention.

Given the difficulty of filming this scene, it would be unacceptable not to give you an Oscar for Best Actor!"

Who says this kind of drama is not acting?

Lin Yuan not only had to shoot his own action scenes well, but also had to take the tiger with him and completely guide the tiger into his own shooting rhythm.

The difficulty of this kind of shooting and the performance requirements for the actors are simply incredible!

The veteran director had thought the anaconda action scene in Cherrapunji was already difficult, but compared to the scene we're going to shoot tomorrow, it seems relatively easy.

The anaconda scene was mainly a chase, with the anaconda chasing Lin Yuan one-sidedly and Lin Yuan dodging. There was no back-and-forth fighting.

Lin Yuan did not defeat the anaconda on his own, but was entangled and escaped by using anesthetics.

The tiger fight scene to be filmed tomorrow will be exponentially more difficult.

"Lin Yuan, I agree with all your shooting plans. But I would like to ask one last question," said the director.

"Director, you ask." Lin Yuan said.

“That’s how you plan to defeat Raja tomorrow?
I know you are very powerful and you once kicked Tyson away.

But can your power really cause enough damage to Raja?" asked the old director.

This question is very important. In order to capture the effect of a life-and-death fight, Raja must react with trauma to every attack from Lin Yuan.

If Lin Yuan punched and kicked Raja and it felt nothing, the whole fight scene would immediately collapse.

Tigers can't act. If they don't feel pain, they won't cooperate and react in pain.

But can humans with bare hands really hurt a tiger?
The old director was skeptical about this. Tyson once told an interview about a time when he escaped from a dangerous situation:
Tyson has raised many tigers, one of which is named "Kenya", who he raised since childhood.

As an adult, Kenya weighs 265 kilograms.

Once, "Kenya" was frightened by something and ran towards Tyson, knocked him to the ground with a palm, and pressed his tiger claws on his chest.

Tyson was pinned to the ground, sweating profusely, but he had no intention of resisting.

He knew that "Kenya" could easily drag a 1-ton bull. He was unarmed at the moment, and the little strength he had could not cause any effective damage to "Kenya", but would instead anger "Kenya".

So he could only caress the tiger with unprecedented tenderness for four hours before he was able to escape from the tiger's mouth.

Before Lin Yuan appeared out of nowhere, Tyson was considered by many to be the strongest man on earth. However, when he faced an adult tiger, he had no choice but to give up resistance and beg for mercy.

(Fighting Tsar Fedor protests!)

Can someone really hurt a tiger with their bare hands?
The 265-kilogram "Kenya" made Tyson dare not make any resistance, but Lin Yuan had to face the 360-kilogram Raja!
Although Lin Yuan is far more powerful than Tyson, "Raja" is also far more majestic than "Kenya".

The old director looked at Lin Yuan worriedly and said, "I've checked the relevant data. A tiger's bone density can reach 4.24 grams per cubic centimeter, which is more than three times the average adult male bone density of 1.22 grams per cubic centimeter.

In addition, the muscle density of a tiger is more than twice that of a human, so its comprehensive resistance to blows can reach at least 8 times..."

Having said this, the old director stopped talking.

But what he wanted to express was clear: Can you break the tiger's defense?
Lin Yuan suddenly stood up from the table and chair without saying a word and walked out of the thatched hut.

The old director thought that he was angry and didn't want to talk to himself who had been questioning him, so he got up anxiously and wanted to chase after him.

"Come with me, I'll prove it to you." Lin Yuan said.

"Huh? Prove it to me?"

The director was glad that Lin Yuan wasn't really angry, but he immediately became curious about how Lin Yuan was going to prove it to him.

The old director followed Lin Yuan to the back of the thatched hut. There were several large stones more than one meter high placed there. One of them seemed to have been hit by a huge external force and cracked from top to bottom in the middle.

"If I can smash this big rock, what will happen if it hits a tiger?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Break this big rock? Are you kidding me? Are you the reincarnation of a crusher?" The old director shook his head.

Are you kidding me? This rock seems to be sedimentary rock. It looks pretty indestructible.

But when the old director saw Lin Yuan's confident look, he couldn't help but hesitate: What if Lin Yuan can really do it?

To be on the safe side, the old director took out the small knife he carried at his waist and scratched the stone hard.

"Squeak~"

There was a teeth-grinding sound, and only a very shallow scratch was left on the surface of the stone.

The director saw that even with such force, the marks on the stone were still so shallow that they were almost invisible, which showed how hard the stone was.

The Mohs hardness of a steel knife is generally around 5 to 6, which means that the hardness of this stone is about the same, almost catching up with the hardness of human teeth, the hardest bone.

"Don't think about it, move aside, I'll prove it to you." Lin Yuan walked to a big rock.

"Bare-handed? Don't hurt your hands." The old director advised.

"Many people envy tigers, bears, lions and other ferocious beasts because they have sharp teeth and claws, and wonder why humans don't have these deadly weapons?" Lin Yuan said. "Actually, I think they underestimate themselves."

"As the most advanced animals that dominate the blue planet, we rely on more than just our brains. Who says we don't have deadly weapons?" Lin Yuan continued.

"You mean the elbow? I heard that in almost all legal competitive fighting matches, elbows are not allowed, especially downward elbow strikes." The old director said, "But are elbows really that powerful?"

"It's bigger than you think! Even if you are an ordinary person, the elbow is quite deadly." Lin Yuan replied.

Seeing the director's unconvinced look, Lin Yuan said, "If you don't believe me, you can pinch your elbow right now, and you can pinch it with all your might.

If you can pinch yourself and it hurts, then I am joking with you. If you can pinch yourself and it doesn’t hurt, then you should have the answer in your heart. "

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, the old director immediately became curious.

He really had never pinched his own elbow. Who would do that to themselves for no reason?

So he tried to pinch his left elbow hard with his right hand.

There is no pain at all, just a feeling of skin being pulled.

So he pinched himself with all his strength.

Still almost painless, only very mild discomfort.

Seeing the old director's incredible expression, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Do you realize how useful your elbows are now?"

The reason you don't feel any pain is that the skin under your elbows is very thin, even thinner than the skin on your forehead.

At the same time, there are almost no pain nerves in the elbow.

The skin is thin, and the hard bones at the elbows will be lethal.

Since there are fewer pain nerves, you can use it without any worries, without having to worry about killing a thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of your own.

The bone in the elbow is shaped like an eagle's beak, hence the name olecranon.

The olecranon bone is very hard, reaching a Mohs hardness of 7!

This is as hard as tooth enamel and even harder than most stones.

An egg certainly can't beat a stone, but the same can't be said for an elbow.

At the same time, the structure of the olecranon bone of the elbow is also very special. Unlike the kneecap, it is not separate, but is integrated with the bones of the upper arm, which can maximize its function without worrying about dislocation.

When using your elbow to strike, as long as you can ensure that your forearm is bent inward with force, you can make the elbow the most stable point in this triangle to exert the greatest power.

One of the most powerful ways to use it is the famous "twelve-point elbow strike".

The so-called "twelve-point elbow strike" is to use the elbow to smash down vertically from top to bottom with the help of the falling gravity of the body.

If this move hits a human, even the skull, which has the strongest protective ability, will be shattered instantly.

The fighters on TV who perform by smashing dozens of bricks with their bare hands often use the "twelve-point elbow strike" to blast from top to bottom.

After hearing Lin Yuan’s explanation, the old director began to believe that he could really smash the big rock in front of him.

"Now I'll prove it to you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yuan jumped up neatly.

With the help of the acceleration of falling and gravity, his right elbow hit the big rock hard.

"Crack!"

With a loud and clear sound, the huge rock more than one meter high split in the middle and broke into two pieces.

The old director was stunned by this scene: "F*CK! Can it really shatter a huge rock? Can a tiger withstand such a blow?"

Now the old director began to worry about Raja, after all, the tiger was on loan...

Lin Yuan patted his elbow and turned to walk into the house: "I asked you to prepare more medical teams tomorrow. Do you think I am worried about my own safety?"

"Isn't it?"

"The medical team is here for Raja, and I'm worried he won't get treatment in time."

"F*CK! Can you please stop saying such pretentious things!"

(End of this chapter)