Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 84 Black Pearl
The Florida Peninsula in the southeastern part of North America is roughly equivalent to China's Qiongdao Province.

Miami is to Florida what Sanya is to Qiongdao Province—both are renowned coastal tourist destinations. Of course, for many Chinese, Miami is perhaps best known for its NBA team, the Miami Heat.

Wanting to capture the scenery of the Caribbean Sea, the crew chose Miami as the filming location, which was indeed the right choice.

The crew is now in Miami, at a small pier newly built for filming, where all the boats used for filming are docked.

A medieval town scene has already been built around the dock.

The preliminary shooting work has already begun, and Lin Yuan needs to start shooting immediately after arriving.

When Lin Yuan and his team arrived at the shooting location, the first thing he saw was a tall, fat white man walking out of the venue.

The man was about 50 years old, with gray hair. He was slightly shorter than Lin Yuan, who was now 1 meters tall. Combined with his fat body, he looked very strong and powerful.

"Lin Yuan, this is Gore Verbinski, the director of 'Pirates of the Caribbean,'" Mr. Eisen introduced.

After coming to Hollywood, every director Lin Yuan met was very tall. As far as he knew, Director Cameron was 1 meters tall and Director Nolan was 88 meters tall.

Perhaps in North America, directors also need a stronger physique to demonstrate their dominance?
Director Verbinski is of Polish descent and has never made any commercial blockbusters before. The only one he is somewhat famous for is the American version of "The Ring".

How did he get the director position of "Pirates of the Caribbean"?
But Lin Yuan didn't think much about it. Everyone has his own way, and he didn't want to delve into things that were not related to work.

"Nice to meet you. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation." Director Verbinski smiled and extended his hand to Lin Yuan.

Hmm? More polite than I expected.

"It's our first meeting, and I'm very happy too." Lin Yuan also had a polite smile on his face.

"Our film has a huge investment. I feel the pressure of responsibility when I think about the possibility of losses. You are the lead actor, and everything depends on you."

"Hmm?" Lin Yuan felt that there was something else behind these words. What do you mean it's all up to me?

"Your role is very important, so the responsibility is also great. I look forward to your wonderful performance!" said director Verbinski.

It turns out that the trap was dug here. Director Verbinski was hinting in his words and deeds that if the performance was not good enough, then Lin Yuan, who had so many roles, would have to take the responsibility.

Lin Yuan would not be polite about this. Being humble in front of Americans would only make people think you are weak.

"Don't worry, Director! My performance will definitely satisfy the company, the crew, and the audience. The rest depends on your skills, Director."

Director Verbinski was stunned when he heard Lin Yuan's tough answer.

He knew that Lin Yuan must have understood what he said, but he didn't expect Lin Yuan to be so confident and told him directly that he could definitely do it!

You have to know that he is the director of this drama. You can only do it if the director says you can do it, otherwise it won’t work.

Unless Lin Yuan is impeccable, he will always be able to find something to hold against him.

Although Mr. Eisen is the producer, he has the final say as the director during the filming process.

There was no need to indulge in verbal arguments. Director Verbinski pointed to a black wooden sailboat not far away and said, "That ship is the Black Pearl used for filming."

Lin Yuan looked in the direction he pointed and saw a wooden sailboat with a completely black body and tattered sails, which definitely matched the public's imagination of a ghost ship, parked at the dock.

The ship is about 50 meters long and has an estimated displacement of 600 to 700 tons.

The main mast of the ship is more than 30 meters high. It is made up of several oak trees spliced ​​together. It weighs 5 tons and is more than 10 stories high.

The sails supported by three masts have a total area of ​​more than 1500 square meters, and the largest piece of canvas weighs 400 kilograms.

These sails provided ample power to ensure that the Black Pearl became the fastest ship in the Caribbean.

Not too glamorous, but very cool, this is most people's first impression of the Black Pearl.

"It's very cool. I believe the audience will fall in love with this ship the moment they see it," Lin Yuan praised sincerely. Director Verbinski nodded, "But if you want to control it, you have to endure some hardships."

"what?"

Lin Yuan knew that they would definitely not be allowed to drive the boat, as not many people could handle this kind of sailboat.

"It's seasickness. This small-tonnage sailboat shakes so hard that many actors vomited after not staying here for long," said director Verbinski.

Indeed, if you have not been on a boat much, you will get seasick even on a modern large 10,000-ton cruise ship.

Not to mention a "small boat" like the Black Pearl which weighs several hundred tons.

Seasickness is much more uncomfortable than motion sickness. Some people can even vomit bile when they really vomit.

Lin Yuan nodded: "It will be fine once you get used to it, but it might be a little uncomfortable at first."

"Are you seasick? Get used to it when you have time, so you won't feel uncomfortable during the filming later," said director Verbinski.

Lin Yuan was quite surprised by the director's reminder.

He could have said nothing, and if the filming turned out badly, he could have just brought this up.

But Director Verbinski still dutifully reminded Lin Yuan.

This shows that even though he has opinions about Lin Yuan and will make more stringent demands, he still puts the movie first.

Very good. This is a person who considers the overall situation and has a bottom line.

"Let me go on the boat and feel it." After saying that, Lin Yuan walked towards the Black Pearl.

Although he had never been on this kind of small sailboat, and had hardly ever been on any other boat, Lin Yuan was not worried at all about getting seasick.

With an agility of 20, he possesses almost human-level balance and limb coordination.

His 15 points of Constitution made him much stronger than the average person, enough to reduce the degree of dizziness.

Lin Yuan walked alone to the front of the Black Pearl and slowly walked up along the lowered ladder.

The waves caused the boat to rock continuously, and the ladder planks also rocked.

When walking on a shaking staircase, people will jump involuntarily, so the staircase is also called a springboard.

It can be seen that it is not easy to get on the boat steadily.

At this moment, a figure rushed down from above and hit Lin Yuan hard.

Lin Yuan noticed it early on and knew that the other party had malicious intentions and wanted to take advantage of his unstable center of gravity on the ladder to knock him into the sea.

But how could Lin Yuan, who was proficient in master-level boxing and kicking kung fu, let him get his wish?

Lin Yuan effortlessly relaxed his shoulders and lowered his elbows to absorb the impact from the opponent, and then used the Iron Mountain Lean technique, which was cultivated over twenty-five years of skill, to deliver a fierce strike.

The figure flew out backwards...

"Pfft!"

With a sharp splash, he fell into the sea.

"Come and save people!"

"Johnny Depp fell into the water!"

(End of this chapter)