Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 546 Shooting begins

During the "friendly" discussion between Lin Yuan and the veteran director, the shooting plan was finally finalized.

"I'm leaving. I have to go back and re-plan the camera positions and lens scheduling. There must be no problems on my part during tomorrow's filming." The old director stood up and said goodbye.

"I'll see you off." Lin Yuan stood up.

Lin Yuan felt somewhat guilty for asking an elderly man in his 70s to go back and work overtime overnight.

"No need, you should have a good rest. Stay alert, because you will be the one who will have to work hard tomorrow." The director decisively refused.

Seeing his firm attitude, Lin Yuan no longer insisted and watched him leave with a smile.

After the old director left, Lin Yuan felt more and more that something was wrong: Is he such a polite person?
Although it is right to have a good rest, how much time and energy can it take to send him off?

At this moment, Lin Yuan's mind reappeared the surprised and suspicious look of the old director when he smashed the boulder just now.

So Lin Yuan immediately slowed down his pace and walked out of the thatched hut.

Lin Yuan did not walk towards the old director's residence, but carefully moved towards the back of the house.

Sure enough, in the dim camp lights, the old director stood alone in front of a big rock.

He bent his right elbow and tapped it lightly on the top of the big rock.

"Boom!"

There was a muffled sound.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yuan immediately guessed why the old director came here alone in secret.

After seeing Lin Yuan's divinely-assisted attack, any man would be tempted to do it, and a thought would arise in his mind:
Since my elbow is so hard, can I also break the rock?
He wanted to try it himself, but was afraid of embarrassing himself, so after saying goodbye, the old director came alone to try his hand at it.

Lin Yuan could guess that if he could break the stone, he would immediately come to him and show off: "You're no better than me! Look, I just hit it casually and it did the same thing."

Lin Yuan looked at the old director, a little worried that he might overexert himself and hurt himself.

The old director knocked the stone with his elbow several times to confirm that no matter how hard he tried, his bones would not hurt.

He became bolder, so he imitated Lin Yuan and used his left arm to press his right arm, making sure that his right arm was completely clamped.

Then he jumped up, and using the force of the fall, he hit the boulder hard with his elbow.

"Crack!"

"what!"

The crackling sound of bones and the old director's screams came simultaneously.

"Could it be a broken bone?" Lin Yuan thought worriedly, "But even if the old man's bone density decreases, the elbow is still very hard. It's unlikely to be broken like this."

He decided to take another look and did not go forward immediately.

The old director covered his arm and screamed in a low voice, "Ah, my whole arm is numb."

The elbow pit is where the so-called numbness point is located.

If you hit it hard here, your whole arm will become numb and sore, and you will lose control.

It seems that the old director used the wrong angle of force and hit a numb point, but did not suffer any damage.

Lin Yuan covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing out loud.

It's really funny to see him getting embarrassed because of his stubbornness.

But Lin Yuan did not go up to him and laugh at him in person, as doing so would really hurt his self-esteem.

He understood the old director's seemingly childish behavior, and he felt that the old director was full of childlike fun.

Many of a man's thoughts throughout his life are no different from when he was young.

When they were young, many boys liked to compete in height and play games like "You're the best". It seems that this is a game that boys of all generations, both at home and abroad, like to play.

From the perspective of girls, this may seem childish.

But men just enjoy it.

Middle-aged anglers like to compare the sizes of fish they catch, and are even willing to buy miniature props to cheat.

Isn’t the old director’s attempt to smash the stone the same at this time?
Lin Yuan just stood quietly in the distance, watching what the old director would do next.

Just give up?

Or keep trying?

The old director stretched his arms and rested for a while. After his arms were no longer numb, he bent his elbows again.

Twelve o'clock elbow strike!
This time he aimed at the right angle and landed a powerful blow on the boulder.

"Boom!"

The stone made a dull sound.

After the blow was completed, the old director immediately stepped forward to examine the boulder.

Soon a look of disappointment appeared on his face.

Although he didn't expect to be able to smash the boulder in one blow, it was too hurtful that no mark was left on the stone.

So he hit her hard again.

"Boom!"

After checking the results again, there was still no trace.

After two consecutive failures, the old director completely gave up hope.

"I thought Lin Yuan's performance wasn't too difficult, considering how strong human elbows are. But I didn't expect it to leave even a scratch when I did it," the director muttered to himself. "Luckily, he didn't see my arm go numb, otherwise it would have been so embarrassing."

"But how much force is needed to smash this stone?" The old director suddenly became curious about how powerful Lin Yuan's seemingly ordinary attack was.

He looked around and Lin Yuan immediately hid in the shadows.

The old director found his target. He walked to a thatched hut and picked up a hammer used to build houses and tents.

"I wonder how the power of Lin Yuan's attack compares to the power of this hammer?" He held the hammer in both hands and raised it high.

Then he used all his strength and smashed it down hard.

With the help of the force-saving lever, the hammer exerted multiple times its power and smashed hard on the boulder.

"Boom!"

Fragments of gravel flew everywhere, leaving shallow pits of two or three centimeters on the big rocks.

Seeing this scene, the old director said in disbelief, "F*CK! Even a sledgehammer couldn't break this huge rock. How powerful was Lin Yuan's blow just now?"

The old director imagined that if this hammer hit the tiger's head...

I guess even a tiger would be beaten to a bloody mess or even suffer serious injuries.

But Lin Yuan’s elbow strike was more powerful than a hammer!
What will happen if the tiger is hit by Lin Yuan tomorrow?
"The medical team is here for Raja, and I'm worried he won't get treatment in time."

Lin Yuan’s words just now rang in the old director’s ears again.

I thought he was showing off, but I didn't expect that he was actually stating the facts?

It was only at this point that the old director began to really worry about Raja.

When this worry surged into the old director's mind, he felt it was extremely absurd: A human and a tiger were fighting bare-handed, but I was not worried about the human's safety, but instead worried about the tiger's safety?
The thought of Lin Yuan injuring the tiger during tomorrow's filming...

The old director suddenly felt mixed emotions.

The worry was that Tiger Raja was borrowed from a friend through personal connections. If he really injured it and sent it back, it would be difficult to explain.

The good news is that this kind of filming news is so eye-catching that it can immediately whet the audience's appetite before the release:

Shocking! During filming, Lin Yuan injured a tiger with his bare hands!

The old director doesn't believe that such news will not arouse the public's curiosity when it appears in front of the public.

It is simply a hot news with extremely high topic value, which can achieve an effect that tens of millions of publicity costs cannot achieve.

At this moment, the old director didn't know whether he expected Lin Yuan to injure the tiger Raja during the filming tomorrow.

Lin Yuan didn't know the director's mixed feelings of joy and worry. Seeing that the director was not in any danger, he turned around and left silently.

If he knew, he would definitely comfort the director: Don't worry, he is not yet able to seriously injure the tiger with his bare hands.

The reason why he was able to smash the boulder while the old director couldn't break it with a hammer was because when he used his elbow to smash down, the force point was much smaller than when he used a sledgehammer.

In terms of absolute lethality, Lin Yuan's elbow strike is unlikely to be better than a heavy hammer strike.

When elbowing, Lin Yuan's strength can be more concentrated, breaking the binding force of the boulder and breaking it from the middle.

However, the top of the tiger's head is not only cushioned by bones but also by muscles and fur. It is much more difficult to smash the tiger's hard skull with your elbow than to smash a boulder.

Several years ago, when he was dueling with Tyson, the power of his punch was about 650 pounds, and with the help of the strength of his waist and hips, he could kick out a force of more than 1000 pounds, successfully kicking Tyson away.

His strength is no longer what it used to be, but compared to the tiger's 1000 kilograms of strength, he is still no match for it.

Lin Yuan himself estimated that the force of his punch at this time should be around 1300 pounds, equivalent to 590 kilograms. Such force is already very impressive, but still not enough to seriously injure the tiger.

(At that time, Strength was 17, and now it is 23. The numerical improvement brought by the growth of Strength is exponential, not non-linear. Therefore, 23 Strength has the effect of 1300 pounds.)
Scientific research has concluded that if a human wants to inflict fatal damage to a tiger with bare hands, he or she would need to exert a force of 1600 kilograms.

This conclusion is quite reliable. When tigers fight each other, a palm strike of 1000 kilograms can often hit each other.

But the main damage is caused by the sharp claws tearing the skin and flesh. If you just hit the tiger with the force of the palm, it will not cause much damage to the tiger.

When tigers fight, the real killing move is to clamp the opponent's throat with their sharp claws.

Therefore, even if Lin Yuan only relied on a force of 590 kg, he could not cause serious injuries.

Even if he used the strength of his waist and abdomen to kick, the force could only reach about 900 kilograms at most, and still could not cause fatal damage.

He estimated that if he could hit the tiger with a few elbows tomorrow and make it dizzy, that would be great. After all, he could not replicate the feat of Wu Song fighting the tiger in reality.

It is not clear whether he can do it in the future, but it is definitely not possible now.

His real advantage does not lie in his attacking power, but in the agility brought by his nerve reaction speed. This is what he truly relies on to dare to face the tiger.

At this moment, Lin Yuan reviewed several key points of tomorrow's shooting in his mind again, confirming that there would be no danger, it just looked more thrilling.

Still worried, he silently said, "System, assess the danger level of this action scene." [The host's filming difficulty for this scene is B-level, and no attribute rewards can be obtained.]

After receiving a positive response from the system, Lin Yuan was completely relieved.

The system said there was no danger, so there was really no need to worry. Although there were no attribute rewards, Lin Yuan had long passed the stage of forcing himself to increase his strength.

In the past, he had to work hard to attract attention and needed more attribute rewards so that he could shoot more exciting action scenes.

He now carries too many responsibilities and is no longer suitable for taking reckless risks.

But he still insists on a bottom line, that is, the movie must be exciting enough.

As long as the film is exciting enough and there is no need to take risks, he will definitely choose to finish it safely rather than risk his life for the sake of attributes.

Lin Yuan returned to his thatched hut and looked at the watch on his wrist: it was half past ten.

So he closed the door and lay down on the mat that GAKKI had prepared for him. "There's no electricity or light, so I can't even read. Let's go to bed early."

"Speak softly, this house has poor sound insulation." GAKKI-chan obviously guessed Lin Yuan's thoughts. She didn't believe the man's words about going to bed early.

Lin Yuan didn't blush even after being exposed, of course no one could see it even if he blushed.

The sound of people undressing could be heard from inside the house, followed quickly by the sound of restrained fighting.

In this primitive village, the most suitable thing is the most primitive fun.

One night passed...

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The next day, Lin Yuan got up very early.

Starting from today, we officially enter the intense shooting period.

Once the shooting plan starts, there will be node tasks every day, and the shooting of the day must be completed on time, otherwise all subsequent arrangements will be affected.

In tropical regions where it rains every afternoon, the time available for shooting is quite limited, so you have to seize every available time.

When Lin Yuan finished washing up, GAKKI served him breakfast: "Eat quickly, so you can have enough energy for filming today."

Breakfast is Congolese specialty camel milk, served with red raspberry jam and bread.

It’s not that GAKKI doesn’t want to make a more East Asian-style breakfast, but the conditions here are really not suitable. Fortunately, under the guidance of the Okapi, the red raspberries we picked and ate were quite delicious. After making them into jam and eating them with bread, it is also a unique dish.

Seeing Lin Yuan happily eating breakfast, GAKKI suddenly said, "I feel a little unwell today, so I won't go to the set with you for the shoot."

"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan reached out and touched GAKKI-chan's forehead.

The body temperature is normal, no fever.

"It's nothing, maybe I just didn't get enough rest and I feel a little dizzy." said GAKKI.

"Then you should rest well in the camp. I will ask Gary to take care of you." Lin Yuan said.

"No, I just want to rest by myself." GAKKI-chan shook her head and refused.

"Okay then, I'll be busy first. There's a lot of work to do before the shooting." Lin Yuan finished his breakfast and prepared to get up and go out.

"Be careful during today's shooting. I'll wait for you to come back." GAKKI said.

Lin Yuan nodded and walked out of the thatched hut.

"He's not telling the truth. What little secret is he hiding?" Lin Yuan pondered.

As he possesses the talent of "mind reading", he can naturally tell at a glance that GAKKI-chan was not telling the truth just now.

She was not feeling unwell at all, she said that just to find an excuse not to go with him to film.

Lin Yuan is very confident that GAKKI-chan definitely doesn't have any hidden secrets, and she doesn't intend to stay and do anything bad.

Under normal circumstances, if she had something to do, she didn't need to hide it from Lin Yuan, she could just tell him directly.

Then the only explanation is that someone asked her not to say it and keep it secret.

Lin Yuan immediately guessed the answer, it must be Betty who arrived.

GAKKI-chan should be going to pick up Betty, and Betty wants to give him a surprise, so please, GAKKI-chan, don't tell her yet.

So fast!
It has been four days since the night Kano cleared out the French camp.

Taking into account the time difference, it was still the third day for Betty.

This speed of arrival is so fast!
Originally, Lin Yuan thought that Betty needed to arrange the work at hand, organize the relevant technical team, and spend three or four days on the road to get here, which would take at least seven days in total.

I didn't expect that she was about to arrive. She really took speed to the extreme.

Having guessed GAKKI-chan's harmless concealment, Lin Yuan naturally would not expose it.

Since Betty wanted to give him a surprise, he pretended to cooperate.

At this moment, he didn't care about Betty's arrival. He was too busy today.

First of all, he needs to continue to provoke Raja. The effect of sharpening the knife before the battle is the best. The filming is about to start today. The hatred created before the filming will inevitably make the memory very vivid, and Raja will have enough anger value in a while.

Next, he will personally communicate and review the work of the entire security team.

Safety is no small matter. When Meng Tao is not around, Lin Yuan must personally take charge of the filming safety work.

He has to carefully check every step to avoid any accidents.

The last thing he needs to do is put on makeup.

It has been a long time since I put on "savage makeup", but Lin Yuan has not forgotten how time-consuming it is to put on makeup from head to toe, so he must leave enough time for the makeup staff.

All of the above work must be completed before 12 o'clock so that we can wait leisurely for the arrival of the "afternoon rain".

Today's fight scene with the tiger king "Raja" requires the help of "good timing".

Any exciting action scene, in addition to the wonderful performances of Lin Yuan and Raja as the protagonists of the fight, also requires the support of auxiliary elements such as the environment and weather.

Therefore, Eastwood wanted to film the fight scene in the rain.

In heavy rain, the tiger's hair will be wet by the rain, making it look even more ferocious.

As we all know, when a tiger's hair is fluffy and dry, it looks furry and even a little cute.

Although many people don’t dare to face the tiger directly, it doesn’t stop them from shouting through the screen that they want to “pet the big cat”!
This also indirectly shows that tigers are actually quite cute.

If the tiger king "Raja", the villain boss, is too cute, it will destroy the suffocating feeling of oppression.

In director Eastwood's design, Raja, with his hair all wet in the rain, looks insidious and brutal in his embarrassment, which can achieve the best shooting effect.

Lin Yuan had previously conducted a special experiment. He got several basins of water and poured them on Raja in the cage, wetting all its hair.

As it turned out, Raja did look much more brutal after getting wet.

The originally fluffy hair turned into wisps after being wetted by water, looking murderous.

Raja's round tiger head became angular after its hair got wet, and the tiger's face looked even more ferocious.

The effect of the rain not only makes Raja more ferocious, but also makes the texture of the fighting scenes stronger.

In the rainstorm, all the movements of Lin Yuan and Raja can drive countless raindrops, making people feel a stronger sense of power and the cruel feeling of fighting to the death. This is the rain special effect given for free by nature, how can it not be used?
If you shoot somewhere else, whether it rains or not may depend on luck.

But in tropical regions where heavy rain comes as expected every afternoon, it is not that simple. Just start shooting at the right time, and the rain will not let you down.

The chase scene between Lin Yuan and the anaconda was also filmed on a rainy day. If no changes were made, the audience would feel a sense of repetition.

Therefore, in the design of this scene, the old director intended to time the rain and start shooting as soon as he saw it was about to rain.

There was no rain during the first half of the fight, which was like the first stage of a boss battle, and it seemed relatively less oppressive.

When filming normally, there are lightning, thunder and heavy rain falling from the sky. Both sides of the fight are drenched by the rain and are fighting a desperate battle in the mud of the rain. This gives people the feeling of entering the second stage of the BOSS battle.

When Lin Yuan heard director Eastwood's suggestion for the film, he couldn't help but sigh that the old director was really creative and even made clever use of the "afternoon rain" in Congo.

According to this shooting plan, it is indeed possible to create a feeling of progressive and increasingly brutal fighting.

After all, as a villain boss, it is really too sloppy to be defeated without even reaching the second stage.

Once this shooting plan was confirmed, the shooting time for today's scene was also determined: it must be before the afternoon rainstorm arrives.

Lin Yuan and the old director drove to the shooting location above the Boyoma Waterfalls.

There have already been two waterfalls in Lin Yuan’s film, and adding this third group of Boyoma waterfalls does not seem repetitive or boring.

Because each waterfall in Lin Yuan's film has its own characteristics:
The beauty of Niagara Falls lies in its graceful curve and abundant water volume.

The danger of Hukou Waterfall lies in the fact that the surging yellow river water carries a tremendous force, and suddenly narrows at the Hukou, giving people a sense of dominance that can destroy everything.

Today's Boyoma Waterfalls are characterized by their uniqueness.

The Boyoma Falls is a group of seven waterfalls. Unlike the single waterfalls of Hukou Falls and Niagara Falls, the Boyoma Falls is divided by multiple rivers into several waterfalls flowing side by side.

This disordered distribution gives people a rather strange feeling.

Together with the Boyoma Falls, the total drop is 61 meters, and the momentum is equally impressive.

All these things mixed together form the unique temperament of the Boyoma Falls.

Lin Yuan’s scene today is the ultimate battle with the villain BOSS, so naturally he has to choose a grand stage.

When we arrived at the shooting location, the usual sound was the roar of the waterfall.

But Lin Yuan was already used to it. He first followed the makeup team and started his own makeup work.

This kind of makeup from head to toe is really troublesome. Not only does it make his hair look dry and yellow, and a little dusty, but it also makes his skin dark and rough.

It took nearly 2 hours to complete the whole set of makeup and it was already 11 o'clock.

Lin Yuan stood up and went to the security team, intending to check the process again before the filming officially started.

When he arrived at the security team, he suddenly saw a familiar fat figure in the crowd.

"Meng Tao? Why are you here?"

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"

(End of this chapter)