Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 611 Heading to Norfolk Naval Base

When the light and melodious sound of "Dutar" sounded, the atmosphere on the field immediately became lively.

The crew members couldn't help but follow the accompaniment and clapped their hands to the beat.

"What kind of instrument is this? The sound is so beautiful, I've never heard it before." Director Cohen asked curiously.

"This is the 'dutar', known as the 'mother of Western musical instruments'. It is a traditional plucked instrument of the Tajik, Uzbek and other ethnic groups." Meng Tao replied.

"Can it also be understood as a Western version of the characteristic guitar?" Director Cohen continued to ask.

"Although I'm not wrong, your understanding is really superficial. Plucked string instruments all have a strong sense of narrative in folk music, which can't be covered by just a guitar." Meng Tao continued:
"The name of the dutar comes from the Persian word 'dutar', where 'du' means 'two' and 'tar' means 'string', so the dutar is a two-stringed instrument."

"Does it sound like the banjo we're familiar with?" asked Director Cohen.

Banjo, a common instrument in American country music, often appears in the interludes of country music. Taylor Swift has used banjo extensively in several of her famous songs, such as "Fearless" in which she danced with Lin Yuanyu.

"Shameless! The banjo is a black people's instrument, and it's almost being whitewashed into your white instrument, just like you stole country music." Meng Tao said disdainfully.

Director Cohen was speechless in response to Meng Tao's contempt.

It is indeed as Meng Tao said, the banjo was developed by African-American slaves in the United States from several African musical instruments, and is now labeled as such by white culture along with country music.

"China is good in this regard. Our Chinese nation is inclusive and would never want to plunder musical instruments of other ethnic groups. The dutar is the best proof of this," Meng Tao said proudly.

Director Cohen was speechless and suffered a crushing defeat in the debate. After all, many things done by European and American countries in recent years were indeed not authentic, and even he, a white man, could not stand it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The rhythmic sound of hand drums also joined in, interrupting the argument between Director Cohen and Meng Tao.

If the accompaniment of the dutar just now makes people feel happy.

The crisp sound of the hand drum is like beating on everyone's heart, making people want to dance.

Accompanied by the sound of musical instruments, Lin Yuan took a step forward and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Lin Yuan was seen landing on the heel of his front foot, and then on the toes of his back foot, moving sideways along with his front foot. His steps were steady, small and fragmented, with a few neat spins from time to time.

His movements were like those of a handsome and flexible young man moving effortlessly in a crowded crowd, giving people an extremely smooth and unrestrained feeling.

This opening immediately conquered everyone on the field.

Everyone began to applaud enthusiastically.

"This step is so unique, playful and graceful, and it matches the accompanying background music so well. What kind of step is this?" Charlize asked quietly.

"This is the stepping stone from the Western Region dance 'Sainam'." GAKKI replied in a low voice.

Sainam may be the most distinctive and recognizable type of Western Region dance. When talking about Western Region dance, many people's first impression may be the movements of beauties moving sideways on tiptoe and constantly twisting their necks. This is actually the use of stepping.

The stepping step can be said to be the basic step of Sainaim, because most of the people in the Western Regions are hospitable.

During folk festivals or gatherings with friends and family, people express their feelings through dancing, and dance to their heart's content in outdoor squares or restaurant halls.

When dancing in a group, there are not only many people but also a dense crowd, so when dancing, the feet need to move flexibly to avoid bumping into each other.

The stepping posture is flexible and easy to dodge sideways to avoid colliding with other guests.

Therefore, the stepping step has become the most basic step in the Sainaim dance. Combined with the clean and neat single-leg rotation, it appears passionate, elegant and very contagious.

It was indeed quite contagious. Lin Yuan's dance steps were filled with passion, which immediately made the atmosphere on the field cheerful.

As the background music gradually became more passionate, Lin Yuan followed the beat and began to dance on the field, moving back and forth in a very rhythmic pace.

This clean and neat step once again aroused cheers from the audience.

"I've never seen this kind of dance before. Lin Yuan is such a surprise." Charlize's eyes were shining, and she was completely immersed in the charm displayed by Lin Yuan.

She wanted to rush to the center of the venue and dance with Lin Yuan, but she really didn't know how to dance the Sainem dance, so she would only embarrass herself if she went up.

GAKKI said with a smile, "This is the iconic three-step, one-lift move in Western Region dance, also known locally as the 'scissors step.' It's the perfect background music for the strong rhythmic feel of Western Region music, allowing for flexible use of the ever-changing drum beats. It's safe to say that if you master the three-step, one-lift move, you've mastered most of the Sainam."

"The Source God is mighty!" Charlize, whose heart was pounding with emotion, raised her hands and shouted.

Her cheers immediately resonated with all the crew members present. Everyone:
"The Source God is mighty!"

"Source God, I love you!"

"Source God, I want to marry you!"

"Source God, I want to pick up soap for you!"

Lin Yuan: (Benefit)
I thank you for your support, but what the hell is that last sentence?

With the rhythmic background music, Lin Yuan's dance moves became more and more unrestrained. He began to let go of himself and freely displayed various Western dance moves:

A steady and heroic rowing step;

Elegant and light stomping and moving sideways;

Flexible advance and retreat;
The rhythmic trembling steps...

These difficult dance moves were performed one by one by Lin Yuan.

As Lin Yuan danced, the crew members cheered and applauded, which immediately livened up the atmosphere.

If there were cheering light sticks, it would be like Lin Yuan’s personal concert.

After Lin Yuan jumped high and landed cleanly with a 720-degree spin in the air, the dance performance ended.

Warm applause and cheers rang out again in the arena.

On this night, the entire crew of "Lord of Spy 2" thoroughly felt the diversity of popular culture.

Everyone was eating delicious Chinese barbecue while watching Lin Yuan's performance of Western dance and was deeply immersed in it.

"Yuan Shen, you are simply a dancer who was delayed by movies. Your dancing skills are simply not something a movie actor can possess!" someone suddenly shouted.

Lin Yuan: (▔Pan▔)
He was unhappy when he heard this.

"Who says dancing skills are not important for movie actors? You have to know that in a certain mysterious Eastern country, the first requirement to become a movie actor is to be a good dancer!" Lin Yuan protested.

Everyone: (one, one;)
It seems to be true that it doesn't matter whether an actor can dance or not in Hollywood.

But in Bollywood, not being able to dance is just like not being able to act, it is a fatal flaw.

An actor who can't dance is not a good actor!
Lin Yuan smiled and continued, "I wonder if everyone is satisfied with my performance?"

"Not satisfied! We are not satisfied!" The entire crew shouted in unison.

Lin Yuan: "..."

It's so uniform, you must be colluding in private.

"Only one dance is not good enough, of course we are not satisfied." Someone in the crowd began to shout.

"Source God, one more!" Lin Yuan was very familiar with this voice.

Lin Yuan looked up and saw Director Cohen shouting loudly with his mouth pursed.

When Director Cohen revealed his true intentions and took the lead in shouting, the crew members immediately joined the battle:
"Original God, come again!"

"If you don't perform another one tonight, we won't be able to eat or sleep well!"

Lin Yuan immediately guessed Director Cohen's intention. The dance just now was obviously a major highlight of the documentary he strongly promoted.

This dance will not appear in the movie, but it is exciting enough and can greatly enhance the warmth during the filming process, so Director Cohen asked him to perform another dance first.

This is a common "mutual reflection" technique in film shooting.

A wonderful element, if it only appears once, often leaves people wanting more.

If we can keep this element exciting enough and present it to the audience in a different form.

That will achieve the effect of 1+1>2.

Simply dancing again will definitely not work.

Not only does it appear repetitive and tedious, it also easily causes aesthetic fatigue, so differentiation is necessary.

But how could this possibly be a problem for Lin Yuan, who is good at making things happen?

So he smiled and said, "If you want me to dance again, that's fine, but you have to do it in a different way."

"What's the gameplay?" the crew members asked.

"This time, you choose the music for the dance. I will dance to whatever accompaniment music you choose." Lin Yuan said confidently.

As expected of the Source God, he really knows how to have fun.

In this way, the sense of anticipation is immediately full.

How about playing some African music and letting the Source God do a savage dance?

This is not good. I will embarrass my boss and will definitely be fired.

But I can't bear to give up the golden rice bowl in my hand.

I'm so worried, what accompaniment should I choose?

So the crew members in the audience began to discuss among themselves.

A consensus was quickly reached, and Director Cohen stood up and said, "Source God, we've chosen the song. Do you need to tell you what it is?"

"No need, just play the accompaniment. No dance can stump me." Lin Yuan said with a smile.

"Hahaha, then we look forward to your performance!" everyone said with a laugh.

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
Are you really going to mess with me?

At this moment, a light electric guitar accompaniment sound came from the speakers.

As soon as he heard this familiar prelude, the song title immediately flashed in Lin Yuan’s mind: "You Never Can Tell"!
This song is a representative work of the famous black musician Chuck Berry and can be regarded as a classic.

Many people have heard this song. If you don’t, here’s a better way to put it:

In Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, the background music played when "King of Dance" Travolta and the gangster's girlfriend were dancing the "Twist Dance".

When the accompaniment music of "You Never Can Tell" sounded, it was destined that Lin Yuan had to dance the twist dance next.

This obviously exceeded his expectations.

Of course, it's not because he feels embarrassed or ashamed of dancing the Twist. In fact, the Twist is a very classic, lively and interesting dance.

It is not only humorous but also a little crazy. It can be said to be one of the most contagious classic dances at the party.

only……

Lin Yuan cannot complete this dance alone.

He must have a female companion.

Thinking of this, the intentions of director Coen and the crew members are extremely clear.

When Lin Yuan suggested that the crew members request songs, he was actually mentally prepared to be pranked.

After all, he offered the knife handle himself, just to make the documentary more interesting and funny.

This humble attitude is also conducive to gaining more public favor.

However, the crew members had no intention of playing a prank on him.

They chose "You Never Can Tell", and naturally there was only one choice for the female lead: Charlize Theron.

As the heroine of "King of Spy 2" and also as his partner who has risked his life to climb the ice wall with him these days, is there anyone more suitable than Charlize?

And this dance will definitely leave the two of them with the most beautiful memories.

Everyone sincerely built a stage for Lin Yuan and Charlize and willingly served as a background.

Lin Yuan silently kept this thought in his heart. He quickly walked towards Charlize, bowed and made an invitation gesture:
"Ms. Theron, may I have the honor of having you dance with me?"

"Call me Charlize!" Charlize put her hand into Lin Yuan's palm, and then pulled him to the center of the camp.

God knows, when Charlize was watching Lin Yuan dancing the Sainem dance just now, she was almost unable to control herself.

Now, such a fantastic opportunity fell on her head, how could she refuse?

"It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well."

(This was a teenage wedding and the elders wished them all the best)
"you could see that pierre did truly love the made moiselle."

(You can see that this young man really loves this young lady)
I have to say, this word is so appropriate for the occasion that Charlize simply can't resist it.

Accompanied by cheerful music, the two began to rub the soles of their feet on tiptoe, waving their arms and twisting their bodies.

If director Quentin Tarantino saw this scene, he would definitely shout in Chinese: "Awesome!"

This is the magical "twist dance", which is so humorous and funny that it makes people laugh.

The dance moves were simple and easy to imitate, so all the crew members on the scene began to dance together to the music.

Everyone danced so joyfully, and the happy atmosphere on the field was visible to the naked eye.

Only director Cohen did not participate. He was setting up a camera and trying his best to capture the scene in front of him.

This is the happiest scene he has ever filmed in his entire film career, no doubt about it!

At the bonfire party that night, everyone had fun together until after two in the morning, and then reluctantly dispersed.

For many people, this may be the happiest and most memorable night of their lives.

It has become everyone's most precious memory in life.

……

……

The next day, Lin Yuan slept until after ten o'clock before getting up.

This day was a holiday and everyone could rest to their heart's content, but Lin Yuan, Director Cohen, and Meng Tao could not.

The three of them carried their equipment and returned to the Yala Snow Mountain to continue to check the safety of filming.

Although the ice wall climbing scene has ended, the filming on the Yala Snow Mountain has just begun.

A large number of fighting scenes and dialogue scenes need to be re-shot.

After Lin Yuan and the other two completed the investigation and eliminated the danger, the filming continued.

On the third day of filming, Vin Diesel and Johnny Depp also arrived at the camp by Lake Youcuo.

As the main characters of "The King of Spy", the two of them are naturally indispensable. Except that Liu Yufei gave up the position of heroine to Charlize for various reasons, the other main characters have not changed.

The two of them arrived late simply because they were very busy. They had just finished filming the scenes at hand and immediately rushed to Youcuo Lake to participate in the filming of the snow-capped mountains.

As soon as they arrived at the Youcuo Lake camp, Vin Diesel hugged Lin Yuan as usual and asked if he was doing well recently.

Depp, however, exclaimed in an exaggerated voice, "What a shame! I heard you guys had such a wonderful experience these days! The avalanche, the ice collapse, the bonfire party! I didn't catch any of them."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Even though you didn't catch up with the exciting things, you still suffered a lot."

"No way? Haven't we already filmed the tough scenes on the snowy mountains? If some hardship is inevitable, then I'll miss out on all the benefits and still have to endure all the beatings?" Depp protested.

"Don't you see how high the altitude is here? All the fight scenes in the snowy mountains will be at an altitude of around 5000 meters. I welcome you to experience the near-death experience of being out of breath after filming a fight scene at such a high altitude."

"Near death? Are you trying to scare me?" Depp protested.

"Scare you? You'd better believe that I'm just scaring you, not seriously. The next filming will become more and more difficult, and you have to go into the submarine with me." Lin Yuan said.

"Submarine..."*2
Depp and Vin Diesel were silent together.

When filming scenes on snowy mountains, they could still try their best to overcome the physical discomfort, but filming in the sea on a submarine was more of a mental depression, which was even more difficult to endure.

After hearing Lin Yuan's "threat", Depp felt increasingly uneasy, so he chose to escape.

"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to find Meng Tao. He's my good brother."

After saying that, Depp ran away.

Brothers?
Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
They are really good brothers who came through the back door.

They are still kindred spirits.

……

……

For the next twenty days, the entire crew was busy filming on the Yala Snow Mountain.

I have to say that filming at high altitudes is really hard and involves health risks.

Almost every day, crew members felt unwell due to altitude sickness.

Depp, who was in the weakest condition, even caught a bad cold, which induced a serious lower respiratory tract infection, which almost cost him half his life.

The crew had to send Depp back to Shu City for treatment, and Meng Tao stayed by his side personally.

When Depp was ill, his first concern was not his own health, but that it would affect the filming progress of the crew.

This made Meng Tao even more moved: his brother is becoming more and more reliable and responsible!
Depp, you've finally grown up!
Meng Tao felt quite pleased, and even Depp looked more handsome. Brother, you smell so good!
Meng Tao didn't know why he had such an idea. Could it be that there was something wrong with the feng shui of Shu City?

It's a pity that Lin Yuan is not with them at this time, otherwise he would definitely say some riddle quotes with a smile:

Something like a real glass city.

At this time, Lin Yuan took advantage of the time when Depp was ill and stopped filming to travel to many places in Sichuan Province.

Since 2001, when he first started to make a name for himself, he has already helped build many specially reinforced primary and secondary school teaching buildings in Sichuan Province for public welfare.

In a few years, a terrible catastrophe will sweep this place. He cannot be a charlatan and "predict" it, so he can only hope to save more lives in this way.

When that day comes, Lin Yuan will ask his company to organize some outdoor activities there that can gather people, preferably to get everyone out of the house.

After Lin Yuan ran around for a while, Depp was basically recovered and discharged from the hospital.

So the entire crew once again plunged into intensive filming.

It took 30 days from beginning to end, and the scenes in Yala Snow Mountain were finally shot.

But the crew members did not have a moment to rest. Instead, they boarded Lin Yuan's Boeing 747 private plane and immediately flew to Richmond International Airport in Virginia.

From here they will travel to Naval Station Norfolk.

……

……

When the Boeing 747 landed at Richmond International Airport and stopped steadily on the runway.

Depp pointed at several military vehicles speeding towards the special plane on the runway and said, "Lin Yuan, tell me the truth, have you done something bad? The plane just landed and military vehicles surrounded us!"

Lin Yuan looked at him as if he were mentally retarded: "Excuse me, do you know where we are going next?"

"How could I not know? Isn't it the Norfolk Naval Base?" Depp said.

"So, how do we get into the Norfolk Naval Base?" Lin Yuan asked.

"We drive in with a special pass!" Depp said confidently.

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
You reinforced my stereotype that many Americans are empty-headed idiots.

I know this is not right, but it seems to be the case!

What is Naval Station Norfolk?
That is the base of the Atlantic Fleet, where the 4th, 6th and 8th carrier squadrons are stationed.

The Norfolk Naval Base is the home port of five U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers: the USS Eisenhower, the USS Roosevelt, the USS Lincoln, the USS Truman, and the USS Bush.

This alone is enough to make the Norfolk Naval Base the military base with the highest security level.

Is this a place where anyone can drive in with a pass?

Not to mention, the place they were heading to was not the berth for aircraft carriers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, but the more mysterious submarine berth!
As we all know, the confidentiality requirements of surface ships are actually not that high, but submarines, which are fragile underwater "glass cannons", require confidentiality requirements that are several levels higher.

Many outdated and backward submarines have been decommissioned for many years before they are allowed to be open to the public for visits, but even then a large number of sensitive equipment that may cause leaks still need to be dismantled.

How could they get into the Norfolk Naval Base without the personal guidance of insiders?

(End of this chapter)