Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 600 - A Place of Orderly Chaos
Although the indigenous president Evo Morales has worked hard for nearly a decade, the reduction of the gap between the rich and the poor in Bolivia has been slow and limited.

This situation can be felt very intuitively in La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia, where the wealthy and middle-class communities have quiet environments and excellent public security.

The cleanliness and prosperity of the commercial areas are in no way inferior to those in European and American metropolises; even the prices of some women's luxury goods are higher than those in European and American metropolises.

But when you walk into the suburbs of La Paz, especially the super-large slums in the southwest, you will feel like you have suddenly traveled back to the 14th or 15th century.

Chen Yu found it hard to imagine that in 2018 the residents here were still using candles for lighting. The rooms and walls of every household were studded with hooks for hanging kerosene lamps.

Kerosene lamps produced in China and India are necessities for residents here when traveling at night. After all, kerosene and gas are much cheaper than batteries in Bolivia.

Isabella followed closely behind Chen Yu, Del Toro, and Josh Brolin. She felt that the eyes cast towards her were full of malice.

To be honest, these poor guys had no evil thoughts about Isabella. There was never a shortage of pretty girls in the slums of La Paz, and they were generally passionate and unrestrained.

The local bosses in the slums strictly forbade local residents to violate women, and anyone who dared to disobey the orders would be thrown into the pool and drowned, because women are special goods.

The local bosses in the slums regularly recommend beautiful girls to Bolivian political and business leaders through bars, nightclubs and salons. This small business makes good profits.

The local bosses in the slums make money, the beautiful girl born in a poor family gets the opportunity to change her future destiny, and the political and business leaders enjoy themselves.

Killing three birds with one stone and achieving three goals at once, this is the Bolivian version of a win-win cooperation model! After the translator whispered to Isabella, the little girl fell silent.

Isabella believes that those beautiful girls have no choice but to sell themselves out. After all, it is not possible to cross class boundaries simply by studying in Bolivia.

The translator pursed his cracked lips, turned around to look at Chen Yu and Josh Brolin, then sighed with a strange expression. He didn't want to reveal the whole truth.

Fortunately, Isabella and other female actors and staff in the crew are not big fans of boxing, otherwise the work of the security guards and military police would become several levels more difficult.

When Chen Yu and others entered the slums, the Bolivian National Police stayed on the periphery, and only the soldiers of the Air Mobile Reconnaissance Company were responsible for accompanying and protecting the crew.

Chen Yu stuffed a package of unopened Hong Wan into the hands of the lieutenant leading the team, and asked him why the police were unwilling to move. It was a good opportunity to do some small business.

The Air Mobile Reconnaissance Company has two corporals who carry large combat bags. They are very busy on the road, selling everything from department stores and daily necessities to morphine and painkillers at low prices.

The crew of "Sicario 2" initially wanted them to be more restrained because several Bolivian media outlets were following and filming them.

After Chen Yu reported this to the captain, the situation was immediately improved. The residents of the slums surrounded the reporters at the street corner.

The group of reporters were very tactful and immediately handed over their filming equipment and mobile phones to the residents. Upon seeing this, the residents all stepped aside and no longer made things difficult for the cooperative reporters.

The crew of "Sicario 2" raised their eyebrows and gave the lieutenant a thumbs-up. Originally, everyone wanted to drive in, but director Villeneuve did not agree.

He feels that walking can capture more and better footage for use in post-editing, although doing so will increase the probability of accidents and the difficulty of security.

In fact, there were five Toyota pickup trucks following Chen Yu and his companions, and the first and fifth trucks were equipped with heavy-duty vehicle-mounted machine guns and thick bulletproof shields. Because all kinds of equipment, rest equipment, and diesel engines that provide electricity all need to be transported, if slum dwellers are hired to carry them on their shoulders or hands, a lot of them will probably be lost.

Even so, producer Basil Iwanik paid more than a dozen children from the slums to help carry some small items and allowed them to ride in the car.

"He is such a smart man, he knows how to reduce trouble." The lieutenant tilted his head slightly towards Chen Yu and muttered softly, while putting a red coin to his ear.

The lieutenant only took out a cigarette and threw the rest to the soldiers. Chen Yu screwed on the cap of the mineral water bottle, wiped the corner of his lips and said that the lieutenant was also a smart officer.

Upon hearing this, the lieutenant grinned and waved his hands at Chen Yu. Small favors were of no use to the Bolivian soldiers. They were very realistic.

"Soldiers prefer or are more willing to follow generals who can drive tanks into the streets. The Bolivian National Defense Force is best at pulling the trigger on their own compatriots."

The lieutenant did not take the iced cola handed to him by Del Toro but chose slightly cool mineral water instead. Chen Yu and Thanos did not respond but just patted the lieutenant's shoulders twice.

Chen Yu suddenly felt that the seriously out-of-shape lieutenant in front of him was not a smart man. He had not yet fully integrated into the Bolivian army, which made him very tired.

Isabella directly advised the lieutenant not to escape from reality. Such frank comfort could only be heard from a girl under the age of seventeen.

Chen Yu curled his thin lips and looked down at the sighing Isabella, then touched the tip of his nose and joked with the lieutenant, complaining that American girls matured too early.

After a 40-minute hike, the crew finally arrived at the location, a dilapidated Baroque-style chapel that Chen Yu believed was built in Spain.

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In fact, Chen Yu just wanted to say that this church was a cultural relic left over from the colonial period, but he swallowed the words back as soon as they came to his lips because it was not nice to open up old wounds.

The crew of "Sicario 2" bought this church for only one thousand dollars and can do whatever they want with it without any restrictions. No one will care even if they blow it up.

Director Villeneuve and Sheridan really wanted to turn it into ruins. Two weeks ago, the set design team came here to survey and calculated the amount of explosives.

Last Wednesday, all the holes for loading explosives were drilled, and producer Edward MacDonald also promised the surrounding residents that the ruins would belong to everyone after the crew left.

The lieutenant was impressed by the production team of "Sicario II" because they did not compensate the slum residents with money but allowed them to scavenge for scraps.

As long as the crew of "Sicario II" does not easily use US dollars to resolve problems and difficulties, the accompanying air mobile reconnaissance company and security will have it relatively easy.

The Japanese documentary team that came here before spent US dollars to hire slum dwellers to participate in the filming. When it came time to settle the bill, the slum dwellers immediately turned hostile and asked the Japanese to pay more!
The originally agreed fee of two dollars per person suddenly increased to ten dollars per person, and the number of extras instantly soared from more than thirty to more than eight hundred to surround the Japanese.

The Bolivian National Police were responsible for the security of the Japanese at the time. Their solution to this situation was to evacuate the scene first.

The twenty armed Bolivian national police officers who provided full security services simply abandoned the Japanese documentary team and ran away.

Fortunately, the slum dwellers only had cash and did not harm the members of the Japanese documentary team.

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