Marvel Salted Fish Kryptonian

Qian Ning nodded and said nothing.

Henry continued, "I could do a test jump between two stationary cars to get the director to confirm the feasibility of the shot. Then I could get the cars moving and do another test jump.

"We'll do it officially after you and the director confirm everything's okay. That way we won't waste film and we won't have to trigger the car-blowing setup."

"Or Channing, if you say we don't even have time to practice, then I have no way of proving whether I can do it or not. It all depends on whether you are willing to take a gamble."

Does the old man have the capital to not gamble?

of course not!

In fact, the calls that were not answered just now were not only made to his team members, but also to several well-known stuntmen in the industry, hoping to ask them to come to the rescue.

This was the network of contacts Channing had built up over the years in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it wasn't that they rejected him, but that he hadn't been able to contact any of them. He didn't even have a chance to test whether his connections could be realized.

After all, things like this kind of temporary rescue are the most troublesome. I really don’t even know where to find anyone.

Henry's proposed trial jump method was already a way to test whether he dared to perform the stunt. As long as he could jump sideways from a moving vehicle, the explosion would only be a collaboration with the off-site supporters.

So Channing pulled Henry in front of the producer and director who were arguing with each other and said, "Let this guy try."

"Can he do it?" "Who is he?"

Neither the producer nor the director took the random actor seriously, and therefore failed to recognize that Henry was actually a member of their crew.

The assistant director who was responsible for coordinating the positioning of the passerby actors knew about it, but such temporary replacements were not uncommon on the set.

There are usually some unknown PY transactions, and some people suddenly seize an opportunity.

But an opportunity like this one wasn't something that everyone could get. At least none of the supporting actors who were ranked high enough were jealous of this opportunity.

After all, it's just a faceless double, and yet he still has to perform dangerous stunts. Anyone who's jealous can do it! Do you know why stuntmen are listed among the behind-the-scenes crew?

Channing ignored other people's ideas. He just told the producer and director the suggestions Henry had made earlier.

The director didn't comment at first. He just wanted to film the scene he wanted: a man jumping out of a car and then blowing the original car up into the sky.

The producer, however, was more thoughtful. He asked directly, "Has the contract for the performance been signed? Who is his agent?"

Hollywood regulations require that actors' contracts must be finalized through agents or managers; no actor can be his or her own agent.

Qian Ningke didn't ask about this matter in detail. So he could only look at Henry. Henry replied docilely, "I don't have an agent. I'm only registered with the Screen Actors Guild, and the union's public agent signed me."

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Chapter 49: A Pitfall

Henry's situation was not difficult for anyone present.

As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. Hollywood has many rules that can be circumvented by those who are determined to do so.

So Channing said, "How about I sign a temporary agency contract with Henry, and then sign a performance contract with the production team, buy insurance, and make sure everything is in compliance?"

The producer certainly had no objection. All he had to do was ensure that there were no legal issues with the use of the production funds and the filming process.

The reason why Qian Ning was only willing to sign a temporary contract was because he still wanted to see whether this young man was worth cultivating.

As the most destitute member of the Hollywood hierarchy, Henry certainly has no opinion on the actions of these bigwigs.

Anyway, the only thing that got in the way of this drama was this one. If I really got hurt, I'll just consider it as paying tuition to improve my qualifications.

The paperwork was quickly completed, and Henry was taken to the filming location. Channing explained the filming plan he and the props team of the action team had developed.

Channing said: "See that brown car? You're trapped in the back seat of the bad guy's car, which is also the car scheduled to be blown up. The heroine will drive a red convertible alongside it.

"We've set up a mechanism in the car that will keep it moving in a straight line at 60 kilometers per hour. Before you pass the first tree marked in yellow, you'll need to climb out of the car window and prepare to jump."

"The first marked tree is where you'll jump from, into the back of the convertible. The second marked tree is where the demolition crews will detonate the explosives."

"There will be a mechanism on the ground that will launch the car forward from the rear, causing it to explode simultaneously. The vehicle will tumble in the air before landing, and because of the special flame mechanism, the explosion will be particularly large.

"The guy who planted the explosives is a veteran in the industry and is trustworthy. We also used models for test explosions, so we could meet the director's requirements in terms of the movements.

"As for the third pickup truck with a metal frame, in addition to being equipped with cameras to track you, it will also have a safety wire tied to your body.

"If anything unexpected happens, two staff members will tighten the wire and hoist you up. This is your safety device. Did you hear my instructions clearly?"

Okay, now I understand why the previous person refused to act.

The only safety measure is a steel wire, and in order to allow the stuntman to jump from one car to another, the wire is not initially taut.

Only when an accident occurs will the security personnel tighten the wire and lift the stuntman up.

What kind of damage will this time error cause?

If the wire wasn't pulled up in time and the man didn't jump onto another car, Henry would either be caught in the explosion, crushed by the flying car, or dragged by the wire and rolled on the ground.

This is not to mention whether the initially loose wire would hinder the stuntman's movements. It would be hilarious if he got tangled or tripped in mid-air.

Simply put, listening to this plan full of loopholes, if I were not a Kryptonian, I would only agree to this action design and safety guarantee if I had been pinched on the forehead.

"Can you do it?" the most nervous director asked. He added, "You have to understand, we only have one chance to actually shoot it."

Compared to the worried director, the producer was less nervous. For him, if the shot couldn't be filmed, then forget about it. He wouldn't increase the budget, and not filming meant less risk.

Henry's attitude was even simpler. This plan had a chance of success, but it was extremely unsafe. The safety measures in the event of an emergency, in particular, felt unreliable.

For Henry, who possesses Kryptonian superpowers, he only needs to ensure that his action performance is successful so that he can hide his abilities under the success rate and not expose himself.

It's like facing a bullet from a gun. Even a normal person has a chance to dodge the bullet, maybe because of good luck, or because the shooter didn't aim well.

So as long as Henry avoids the bullet's trajectory in advance and doesn't use super speed, he can pretend to be a normal person.

But if Henry chose to use his body to withstand the bullet, it was obviously not something a normal person could do. Even if he was good at playing dumb, his ability would be exposed.

As for proposing suggestions for improving safety equipment to make the entire action plan more reliable, this idea flashed through Henry's mind and then disappeared.

It's a simple reason. First, Henry doesn't have enough say. Second, as a producer, he might not necessarily provide more funds to improve safety measures.

This ambitious-looking young man had an attitude of, "If you dare to ask for more money, I'll cut off this shot." No one dared to mess with him.

So Henry pretended to check the back seat of the car to be blown up and the convertible, and then looked at the safety devices on the third car.

After a moment, Henry said, "Let's try a few times first. If everything goes well, then we can do it properly."

Qian Ning immediately said: "Okay, let's do the first test jump." When testing the movements, he, as the leader of the movement team, gave the orders, and the director watched the effects or gave suggestions.

Despite budget constraints, three brown cars of the same type as the one used by the protagonist to jump out of the car were prepared for this scene.

One of them was equipped with explosives and a flamethrower and was used for filming. This car was equipped with explosives, so it was not easy to move.

One was used to shoot the interior of the car, where the protagonist fights the bad guys. So a few doors were removed from the car to build a camera tripod.

The last car is used as a reserve and also for shooting some normal driving scenes.

It was this car that was driven next to the convertible. Channing said, "At that point, the two cars were about this distance apart, less than a meter. The reason they couldn't get any closer was because during the actual filming, there would be explosions and rollovers. If the two cars were too close, the other car would easily be affected."

"So where does my shot start?" Henry asked.

The director then stepped in to explain, "The scene where the protagonist fights the bad guys and then climbs out of the car window was shot from a close-up inside the car. So when it's your turn, you're sitting on the window with your upper body outside. Adjust your position, and then jump!"

Henry, who understood what he heard, immediately went on stage to try it out.

During the first jump attempt, both cars were stationary. Henry adjusted his position on the car window and only continued with the next move after getting the director's approval.

That is, he climbed onto the roof with his hands, stepped on the window with his feet, turned around, and at the same time, pushed hard, allowing himself to safely and securely fly into the back seat of the convertible. The process was uneventful.

"No!" the director shouted.

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Chapter 50: First Stunt Performance

Even Henry, who was lying face down with his face buried in the leather seat, could hear the director's dissatisfied shout.

He could only pull himself out of the prone position, jump out of the car, and see what the director was dissatisfied with.

Without even asking, the director excitedly said, "It can't be a dive. It has to be a flip in the air, like you're jumping too late and getting blown away with the car, rolling into the back seat of another car."

This... Henry was speechless. But from the "as expected" expressions of the people around him, Henry understood why the stuntman had left.

Relying on this unreliable safety measure, jumping out of the car while the explosion is happening is dangerous enough, but you even have to add a rolling action to it!

If I weren’t a Kryptonian, I would definitely kill this director first!

However, as a low-level actor with the most deprived rights in Hollywood, Henry certainly couldn't give up this opportunity he had fought for. He really had to do it even if it meant tears.

Henry, unable to cry, gave a wronged expression. Then, encouraged and instigated by the director, he sat on the window again, did a forward flip in the air, and lay down in the back seat of the convertible.

This time the director was so happy that he shouted, "Yes, yes, yes! That's it. Let's start filming."

Qian Ning quickly soothed him, "Wait, wait a minute, Director. Let's try jumping out of the car while it's moving, with the safety gear. Let's see if you can get to a certain shooting position and see how it goes."

"Oh, okay. Let's do it this way and try it again." The director, whose IQ had returned to normal, compromised.

For the test jump, the director climbed onto the support vehicle and stood on the back of the pickup truck. Of course, the safety wire had to be tied to Henry and adjusted to the appropriate length.

Before setting off, two support personnel tried pulling the wire to confirm that they could lift Henry up in an emergency instead of letting him fall to the road and roll around.

Channing was the one who drove the brown car himself, while the convertible driven by the heroine was driven by the heroine's stand-in.

In this kind of stunt performance that requires maintaining vehicle speed and directional stability, no one would take the vase heroine seriously, so it would be safer to have her exclusive stand-in take the stage.

The female stunt double was a member of Channing's action team, specializing in the female lead's stunt double. In addition to being able to perform various stunts, her driving skills were also impeccable.

Unlike other teams, there is no good female stunt performer. Most of the time, they use smaller male stunt performers dressed in women's clothing to replace the female lead in the stunt scenes.

Henry's running jump was the same as his static jump. He did a front flip and landed safely in the back seat of the convertible.

There was just one minor problem: the steel wire used for security. Because it was relaxed at the beginning, the steel wire tended to swing around in the air.

In order to avoid being entangled in the wire in mid-air, Henry waited a moment after the car reached a constant speed, then jumped at the right moment, dodged the swinging wire, and flipped into the back seat of another car.

It was this “wait a minute” that made Qian Ning mistakenly think that he was not sure. Although after completing the whole set of actions, the director was very excited and said that this was what he wanted.

Before the official start of the scene, the props crew from the action team gathered around the brown car loaded with explosives, doing final checks on the speed control and steering.

The director even checked the camera positions everywhere to ensure that all the shots he wanted could be captured.

As the boss of the action team, Channing quietly pulled Henry aside and said, "You hesitated for a moment, is that okay?"

Henry certainly didn't think there was anything wrong with it and said confidently, "No problem."

In their line of work, the biggest fear is a lack of confidence. Although Henry didn't seem to have any issues from his expression, Channing still said, "If you're unsure, just jump into the red car your own way. Don't worry about the director's requests for somersaults or anything like that."

"We only have one chance. He'll have to edit the film based on whatever material he's filmed. Even though there are safeguards, I don't want this to be the only time we can work together. Do you understand me?"

"I know. Don't worry, Boss Qianning."

Although he said this, Henry was very confident that his cooperation with Qian Ning's team would probably only happen this time.

Even if he wanted to do stunts, he didn't want to follow this third-rate team. If he weren't a Kryptonian, he really wouldn't dare to perform with their plan.

Thinking about the possibility of similar collaborations in the future, I might as well just be a passing actor in the background. Under Qian Ning's supervision, the chances of my superpowers being exposed seem quite high.

However, the fact that Qian Ning was willing to say these words to me shows that he knows how to take care of others.

After checking everything over and over again, when it was time to officially go on stage, Henry was already sitting on the back seat window of the unmanned brown car.

"1, 2, 3, Action!"

At the director's command, the most expensive scene of this B-level movie officially began shooting.

The unmanned brown car quickly accelerated to the target speed, while the red convertible, under the control of the female stuntman, ran smoothly parallel to the brown car.

Facing the wind, Henry quickly adjusted his posture, holding onto the roof with his hands behind his back, and facing outward, he moved his feet to the open window frame.

As he passed the first tree marking the path, he jumped forward.

Just as his feet left the window frame, the car passed the second marked tree. The demolition technician in the control center activated the wireless detonation switch.

At the same time, the bouncing mechanism on the ground was activated after the front wheel ran over it. When the rear wheel pressed on the mechanism, the rear end of the car was immediately bounced forward!

The explosives and flame mechanisms under the back seat and in the rear compartment were activated by remote control, creating a fireball.

At this moment, Henry, who was in the air, lowered his head, exerted force on his back and abdomen, and rolled forward. He was like being pushed by the explosion of a car and was blown away.

This explosion made Henry realize that the fact that a grenade in a movie could blow a person several meters away was definitely an exaggeration.

The massive bomb behind him didn't affect his mid-air posture much. He landed smoothly in the back seat of the convertible, just as he had done during his jump test.

But the only difference was that there was some burning kerosene on his trouser legs, which Henry had to hurriedly brush off.

After escaping the explosion range of the brown car, the red car quickly stopped. Someone rushed over with a fire extinguisher and worked with several people to put out the burning brown car. Another person ran to spray the flames on Henry's feet.