Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 293: Tokyo Finale

"Tang, these girls are AKB48, Mayu Watanabe, Yuko Oshima, Yuki Kashiwagi..." Akimoto Yasushi introduced the girls' names to Tang De.

After hearing what the boss said about themselves, the girls all bowed to Tang De stiffly.

"Good director."

Apart from these three words, they couldn't say anything else. Their throats felt as if they were being strangled and were extremely dry.

Just a glance and a few words exhausted the girls' courage.

Looking at the girls' performance, Tang De smiled and said in fluent Japanese: "I'm so sorry. I wanted to meet you all yesterday, but something unexpected happened. You have a heavy task today. Come on."

After saying that, he turned and left, continuing to work on the crew.

The girls opened their eyes wide and looked at the great director in surprise. The Japanese they just heard was no less than a bomb exploding in their ears. It was simply too shocking.

"Director, board member?" Kashiwagi Yuki couldn't help but mutter to herself.

"Norton, Director Norton is Director Tang De?" Oshima Yuko realized what Tang De meant from his words just now and covered her mouth with her hands.

"Unbelievable!" Mayu Watanabe scratched her head, and then the three of them looked at each other, and then looked at the other girls.

It feels as amazing as if the richest man suddenly invites you to visit his home and tells you that he is actually your biological father!
The girls never expected that Director Norton was the world-renowned Tang De, and they never expected that their chief director was so young!

While AKB48 was collectively surprised, Tang De was watching the test shoot with the photographer.

Tang De rubbed his temples with his fingers, not looking very satisfied: "I need a camera movement that spans the entire dome."

Photographer Geert Peda looked at the width of the stage and the length of the dome and said hesitantly, "Maybe we can use a helicopter?"

"A helicopter can indeed work, but the distance is too far, and there is no way to shuttle back and forth in the dome." Tang De frowned: "Let's try a drone."

DJI released the first generation of DJI Phantom in 2012, but currently not many people in Hollywood use drones for filming, because drone filming is not a concept that everyone can accept, and most people still question the stability and practicality of this thing.

However, Tang De knew that this little guy would change photography, and he also spent a lot of money to buy DJI shares.

"Drones, are they really possible?" Gilt also had doubts about this thing, but in order to complete Tang De's mission, he could only communicate with DJI's people.

When DJI heard that Tang De's film needed to be filmed with drones, it immediately realized that this was an opportunity to promote its products, and quickly sent a manager with engineers and engineering machines to the Tokyo Dome the next day.

At this time, AKB48 had already filmed several times in Tokyo Dome, and the nervousness at the beginning was finally mostly eliminated with each filming.

Therefore, everyone began to observe Tang De privately, wanting to see if the style of this big director was the same as what was said on the Internet, domineering and irritable.

But after observing for a long time, they found that Tang De was very patient and never lost his temper, and they couldn't help but sigh.

"What? I said, everything on the Internet is fake." Kashiwagi Yuki pouted and said critically, "Director Norton is obviously very gentle."

"Yes, I saw that he was always smiling and never got angry. How could he be a tyrant?" Oshima Yuko nodded in agreement.

Mayu Watanabe clasped her hands together in front of her chest and said, "But I didn't expect Director Norton to be able to speak Japanese so fluently."

"Yes, I heard that it was because Director Norton learned it when he was filming Memoirs of a Geisha." Kashiwagi Yuki said the gossip she heard from somewhere.

"Eh? Memoirs of a Geisha, played by Ken Watanabe, I've seen it, it's so beautiful."

"Yeah, I checked out some of Norton's movies yesterday, and every one of them is a classic!"

"So do you think our movie can also become a classic?" Yuko Oshima suddenly asked this question, causing the girls present to skip a beat.

"Maybe it's really possible." Mayu Watanabe muttered to herself as she watched Tang De talking to a DJI engineer in the distance.

"Tang, what do you think of this plan?" Gilt asked Tang De after listening to the engineer's renovation plan.

"I think it's okay, let's do it this way." The engineer meant to modify the engineering machine, install a camera, and fly it briefly in the air.

However, whether the engineering machine can bear such a heavy weight requires engineers to conduct experiments.

Therefore, the filming at Tokyo Dome will be postponed for at least another day.

Seeing this, Tang De could only go to film the girls' scenes first. When he came in front of the monitor, everyone in the AKB48 group became nervous unconsciously.

"I'm so afraid of making mistakes." Mayu Watanabe took a deep breath and couldn't help but say something to Yuki Kashiwagi.

As a result, she found that the girl's hands had begun to tremble, and she looked even more frightened than herself.

"Don't be afraid, Yuki!" Mayu Watanabe squeezed Yuki Kashiwagi's palm to cheer her up.

After hearing this, Oshima Yuko turned her head and looked at Kashiwagi Yuki, and chuckled: "I didn't expect Yuki to be a coward."

"Who is the coward!" Kashiwagi Yuki snorted unyieldingly: "You don't want to hold us back!"

"Hehe." With an expression as if she saw through her companions, Yuko Oshima followed a few people to the front of the stage and stood there, waiting for the director's instructions.

"start!"

At the command, the camera started moving, and the girls tensed up and immediately began singing and dancing.

When the song ended, the girls breathed slightly. They had just used up all their strength and were afraid that any slackness would make Tang De unhappy.

But even so, all they saw was shaking heads.

"Do it again."

Tang De didn't say what the problem was, but the girls spontaneously found various faults in their minds and corrected them one by one during the second dance.

"Rest for five minutes and then dance again."

Upon hearing the order to take a break, the girls immediately found a place to sit down and drank mineral water guzzlingly. Although it was only two short songs, they felt like they were about to collapse due to having exerted themselves too vigorously.

After sitting down, Kashiwagi Yuki asked with confusion: "What kind of feeling does Director Norton want?"

"Yeah, there's not even any hint." Oshima Yuko was also a little distressed, not knowing what Tang De wanted.

Mayu Watanabe took a sip of water and guessed, "Maybe it's because we didn't perform well enough."

"should be."

Although the girls felt it was a little strange, no one dared to question Tang De's decision, and they didn't even dare to complain, because they felt that such a great director must have his own ideas, and perhaps they just didn't dance well enough.

However, the reason why Tang De asked them to dance again was because they tried too hard, causing the whole dance to look a little too strenuous.

But in fact, this little problem doesn't affect anything, because there won't be too many shots of them in the movie anyway.

So he made them dance repeatedly simply because he wanted to kill some time.

Is there anything more enjoyable than watching a group of energetic girls dancing?

So after the girls finished their break, they danced three more songs for Tang De until he was satisfied and called a stop.

That night, the girls slept soundly. On the third day, thanks to the efforts of the engineers, the engineering aircraft successfully completed its test flight.

The scenes at Tokyo Dome could finally be filmed.

"All departments should be prepared to allow all extras to enter in an orderly manner."

Because today's scene involves a lot of audiences, Tang De directly asked the casting director to help him find 600 extras and seat them in different positions. Although it couldn't fill the Tokyo Dome, it was easier and simpler in post-production.

After these people entered the stage, the atmosphere in the dome immediately became much more lively.

Yuki Kashiwagi and Mayu Watanabe couldn't help but cover their chests when they saw this scene.

"Great, is our dream finally going to come true?"

Although there were not many spectators, they were already very excited.

Afterwards, under the arrangement of the crew, these extras all got AKB48 light boards. When they raised the boards in their hands to show their support, the girls' eyes instantly became red.

"Start shooting."

Tang De sat behind the monitor. Although this was not his first time shooting a large scene, it was indeed the first time he had filmed a scene with so many people.

For this purpose, he arranged a number of people to maintain order. Fortunately, no accidents occurred during the filming and it went smoothly.

When he shouted "start", the girls immediately began to perform. The lights flickered, the stage lit up brightly, and even illuminated the ceiling.

Then the drone carrying the camera flew over the audience's heads, circled several times, and came to the front of the stage.

Then, Scarlett and her group suddenly appeared in the center of the stage, followed by the enemies of the Arasaka Group. There were exclamations everywhere in the concert, and the lively concert suddenly turned into a superpower battle scene.

However, during the filming, everyone was performing to the air with a green screen in front of them, so the scene looked quite funny.

This scene was filmed for four hours and finally ended.

The girls finally breathed a sigh of relief and hugged and shook hands with each other to celebrate.

"The filming is finally done! That's great!" Mayu Watanabe jumped and cheered with Yuki Kashiwagi.

"Yeah, I'm so tired. Now I just want to lie in bed and not move." Kashiwagi Yuki looked lazy, as if she was ready to fall asleep at any time.

Upon seeing this, Yuko Oshima came behind the girl, and with her two claws she went from her back to her chest, scratching her, making Yuki Kashiwagi laugh so hard that she shook with laughter.

"No, Yuuko, not there."

Mayu Watanabe watched the two people interacting intimately and couldn't help but join the battle.

After they finished playing around, they followed the staff into the lounge, where Akimoto Yasushi was waiting.

He waited for the girls to quiet down first, then said, "Tang has booked a western restaurant tonight for the wrap-up banquet for everyone. Everyone can change their clothes later and take the car booked by the crew to the restaurant."

"Wow!" the girls exclaimed. They didn't expect that Director Norton would invite them to a wrap-up party.

It's still a western restaurant.

"That must cost a lot of money." Yuki Kashiwagi couldn't help swallowing when she thought of steak.

"Greedy Yuki." Yuko Oshima complained, but the next second her stomach started growling.

"Huh? Whose stomach is growling?" Kashiwagi Yuki pretended to be ignorant and asked around, making Oshima Yuko blush with embarrassment.

"Stop, Yuki, stop asking!"

In order to avoid everyone knowing that her stomach was growling, Yuko Oshima hugged Yuki Kashiwagi and tickled her again.

"Hahaha, hehe, stop it!"

Mayu Watanabe looked at the clothes she brought and felt a little distressed.

"What's wrong? Mahjong friend?" The friend next to him leaned over curiously.

"My clothes..." Mayu Watanabe was annoyed: "If I had known earlier, I would have brought a beautiful dress."

Now she was wearing an ordinary dress. I thought she would leave directly after the filming, but she never expected that she would attend the wrap-up party.

"It's okay, Mayu looks energetic no matter what she wears. Full of energy!" The friend raised his hands and cheered for Mayu Watanabe.

Not long after, the girls boarded the bus rented by the crew and headed to the restaurant.

After arriving at the restaurant, they found that this was actually a very famous Western restaurant in Tokyo. However, the restaurant, which was usually crowded with people, had become quiet. When they looked at the door, they saw a notice saying that the restaurant was booked today and could not accommodate ordinary customers.

"What an unexpected treatment." Yuko Oshima exclaimed from the bottom of her heart. Normally, if you want to eat in this restaurant, you have to make a reservation. I didn't expect that she could book the whole place today.

All the seats in the restaurant were empty. Led by the staff, they divided into several groups and filled the first floor.

More than ten minutes later, other staff members and stars arrived one by one, but they sat on the second floor.

This was somewhat disappointing to the girls who had been looking forward to a conversation with Director Norton.

However, this disappointment gradually disappeared as the dishes were served.

"Really delicious."

"Very delicious!"

"So tender! Superb!"

Mayu Watanabe was eating the dishes in front of her and felt that she had never eaten such delicious Western food. Although their salaries were not low, they usually had a lot of performance fees.

But as she came from an ordinary family, she knew very well the importance of saving money. In addition, she had a lot of arrangements at work, so she usually didn't go out to eat easily.

This was the first time she had eaten such great Western food.

The others are no different. Some use their salary to help their families, some use their salary to buy a lot of clothes, and some spend their money on the second dimension.

The only thing is that when it comes to the desire for food and drink, everyone just maintains basic satisfaction.

Now that I’m eating something delicious, I’m naturally excited.

Plus, there were no other leaders or elders at the table, so they were able to eat more.

Of course, the girls exercised maximum restraint because they didn't want to cause any problems with their body shape.

Just like Mayu Watanabe, even though she thought the beef was delicious with black pepper sauce, she chose not to eat it with the sauce for the sake of her weight.

Time passed quickly during the meal.

After they finished eating, Akimoto Yasushi came over with Tang De.

(End of this chapter)