Actor: Thank you.

In the following days, when Zhang Yuan started working on the Bund every night, it was as lively as if he was at a press conference.

When filming an urban drama, if a big star comes, there will be a lot of people joining in the fun.

This is the most prosperous area in Shanghai, and relatively exciting car racing scenes are being filmed here, and there are countless curious people.

Because it was so lively, every time a vehicle drifted, it would draw cheers, so the crew had to completely abandon live recording and switch to post-production dubbing.

Too noisy.

The cheers could be heard through the car windows.

The audience was so happy all day long as if it was New Year's Day.

"Boss, are they all here to see you?" Zhu Yawen hid in the big tent in the rest area and looked out.

"Everyone comes to see the crew, and those who come to see me are probably the minority," Zhang Yuan replied casually.

Zhu Yawen thought to himself that my boss is quite humble.

Many girls outside were shouting his name, and some were saying it was a minority.

Classmate Xiao Zhu was very envious.

After all, I am one of the best students among my classmates.

When will we have this kind of scene and this kind of popularity?

We originally hired about ten security guards.

But now the crew feels more and more that something is not right, so they have hired dozens of people temporarily.

More than a dozen police officers from HP district were also dispatched to help maintain order.

Zhu Yawen felt that this was face!

Zhang Yuan asked his assistant to buy meals and drinks every day to serve these people.

Student Zhu saw this and kept it in mind.

"You have to be willing to spend money to build a good reputation..." Zhu Yawen muttered to himself.

"Don't just know the result but not the reason behind it." Zhang Yuan said after seeing this.

"What do you mean?"

"You have to be generous, take care of the other people in the crew, and build up your reputation. That's right."

"But good steel should be used on the blade, and small money should be spent where it can be seen."

Zhu Yawen shook his head, not fully understanding.

"A crew of several hundred people shoots for several months, almost a year."

"You treat us every day, even if it's just milk tea, is your pay enough?"

Zhu Yawen shook his head.

"Look, there are so many people gathered around, so many spectators watching, handing out things to the staff and security, and then posting them online."

“That’s what we call word of mouth.”

"Of course, I don't mean to let you just pretend. Friends must be taken care of from time to time, but if everyone takes care of them, it means that no one is taking care of them."

"Chen Long, Li Lianjie will invite the crew to dinner, and he will choose a time when reporters come to visit or when other people visit the set."

"do you understand?"

Chen Long is considered to be relatively generous.

My eldest brother is the kind of person who not only often invites you to dinner, but also, as long as he considers you a friend, he will pay for you when you go to a restaurant he is familiar with, as long as you give him a call.

He doesn't need to be present in person.

This is the kind of person who cares about face.

But they are also skillful in spending money and they won't treat the extras in the crew to meals for free all day long.

The extras are all guerrilla fighters, who can recognize you?

Especially extras cannot be invited every day, because there are so many of them and you cannot distribute them one by one in person.

You have to find a group leader or team leader to count the number of people or make purchases.

This extra step will immediately lead to false reporting and money-cheating.

"There are a lot of tricks and techniques here, just learn them." Zhang Yuan patted his shoulder, looked at his arm, and said in a low voice.

"Also, my arm injury must be kept secret. Don't tell anyone other than me, not even the crew."

"why?"

"Figure it out yourself." Zhang Yuan was too lazy to explain.

Just then the assistant director came to call people to go on stage, and they walked out of the tent.

A Subaru spare car on the set had been damaged in the battle and was overturned to the ground.

The props team also scattered various broken car body fragments on the ground nearby to simulate the effect of a violent car crash.

Zhang Yuan got back into his car.

As soon as the director shouted "start", he pushed open the car door and got out with a panicked look on his face.

During this time, my feet slipped slightly and I almost fell.

His eyes were filled with fear as he looked at the overturned vehicle not far away.

According to movies and TV dramas, especially Hollywood productions, a damaged vehicle will inevitably catch fire and explode.

Only a loud "boom" was heard.

Zhang Yuan subconsciously raised his hand to cover his face, and a red light passed through his fingers, spreading the afterglow of the explosion onto his face.

"Card!"

"Enter the stuntman."

Justin Lin greeted.

The explosion just now brought cheers from the onlookers... Of course it was fake. The props team made a gasoline explosion device.

Moreover, the team is much more professional than those in China, so it is considered safe.

The Hollywood team is not always safe either, it is also built with human lives.

Early Hollywood was also pure despair.

Including the fact that cars can explode, Chinese audiences just watch it for fun, but in North America it is a "documentary".

The most famous case is the Ford Pinto.

In order to compete with Japanese cars, Ford launched the "legendary" model, Pinto, in 71.

Small cars are also fuel efficient and you can buy one for just over $2000.

But in order to save space and weight, not only is the fuel tank placed at the rear of the car, but the tank is also particularly thin.

Therefore, if there is a rear-end collision, there is a chance that the car will explode.

What's even more outrageous is that after calculation, Ford found that the compensation for deaths from spontaneous combustion and explosions would be cheaper than recalling all cars and rectifying them, so it just left it alone and allowed consumers to become "roast ducks" due to various accidents.

This is what old-fashioned counter-revolutionary capitalists are like.

Ford's approach perfectly fits Mr. Marx's interpretation of capitalists in Capital.

So when Zhang Yuan saw the stuntman covered in flames struggling to climb out from under the car, he couldn't laugh.

Not only did I think of the people who died at the hands of capitalists, but I also thought of Stephen Chow's special effects performance in "The King of Comedy" where his whole body was on fire.

It is dangerous for low-level actors to work here and they earn very little.

puff……

As soon as the shot ended, five or six crew members rushed forward and put out the flames with a dry powder fire extinguisher.

Even though he was wearing a fire-resistant suit, the guy from the Cheng family team that Zhang Yuan introduced to the crew was still burned all over after taking off his clothes.

Anxiously use ice packs to cool yourself down.

No wonder Uncle Long publicly stated that he does not trust women, not even his wife.

For a guy who has such a hard job, if he comes home one day and finds that his wife has run away with another man with the money he earned with his life, he would be doomed to collapse.

"Zhang, it's your turn."

Justin Lin gave the order again.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly got into the car in front of the camera again, then drifted around and turned around on the spot, then drove away.

The plot is that when Han saw the other person crawling out of the burning car, he not only did not help, but also ran away in fear.

At this point, he had completed about 70% to 80% of his work, and the rest would mostly involve stunt double scenes.

He just needs to stay on the scene to see if the director needs to reshoot the scenes.

One week in China and two weeks abroad.

That's all the notice time he has for Fast & Furious 4.

The filming took a total of three weeks, and based on his current net worth, he could earn around 150 million US dollars.

Just based on this pay, any domestic actor would have their eyes red with tears!

Otherwise, they all want to go abroad to film and show their faces.

Zhang Yuan returned to the tent and rested again.

Filming with foreigners is so relaxing and pleasant.

You can take a break from time to time.

When you have free time, find time to deal with other matters.

Shu Chang called him and said that the property certificate for the house had been completed and asked whether he should transfer the second payment of US$200 million as agreed.

Zhang Yuan called Zhao Decai, who helped confirm that all the documents were legal and correct. Then Zhang Yuan called Changchang back and asked her to transfer the money.

"Watch the remaining $500 million carefully to prevent any unexpected events."

"I see." Shu Chang replied seriously, and then paused and asked in a low voice: "When will you return to the capital?"

"I'll take you to visit the new house in a few days."

"it is good!"

The two of them knew that it was definitely more than just a visit...

"Fuck!"

Zhang Yuan just put down his phone and turned around, then he was shocked.

He was so scared that he cursed.

"what are you doing!"

"So close."

After a closer look, I recognized that it was Zhu Yawen wearing special effects makeup.

The stand-in who was on fire just now was actually his stand-in.

He was wearing special effects makeup at this time to film a scene where he was stuck in the car and burned before the vehicle exploded.

Zhang Yuan estimated that Justin Lin's way of filming would suit the tastes of North American audiences.

They love plasma films.

But if it is to be shown in China, it will probably have to be edited, otherwise it will not pass the censorship.

Zhu Yawen’s scenes, which were already limited, had to be cut even more... Young actors have no human rights.

"You look like this, tsk tsk tsk." After reading it, Zhang Yuan turned to his assistant and said.

"Dandan, go see if there's a barbecue restaurant and buy some skewers for me as a midnight snack."

Zhu Yawen: ...The boss was jealous of my burnt makeup.

"It's a bit miserable. Take off your makeup and then go back to the hotel. Don't scare passers-by." Zhang Yuan advised.

"This is not bad enough." Zeng Jia suddenly said.

"what happened?"

The agent held his laptop in front of Zhang Yuan.

“Reality is much worse than filming.”

Zhang Yuan flipped through the web pages she opened.

Oh.

It's quite miserable!

Fresh news.

The crew of "Red Cliff Part Two" who were in the process of reshooting in order to catch up with the release date had a major accident.

The crew is in Xiaotangshan Science and Technology Park in Changping, the same place where "A World Without Thieves" was previously filmed.

We took a warship to shoot the stunt shots of the ship catching fire and exploding during the Battle of Red Cliffs.

This film cost a lot of money, the props are very exquisitely made, and even the armor of the extras is made very detailed.

Just set up a green screen on dry land and use post-production special effects to create the effect of a water battle.

In fact, a machine was used to pull the two prop warships together.

After all, John Woo made his way through Hollywood.

So it was clearly a wooden boat, and there was no explosives during the Three Kingdoms period, but he designed a scene where the two ships exploded after colliding.

It can’t be said to be completely wrong.

After all, the play "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was created in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and the prototype of the Battle of Chibi was the naval battle between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang in Poyang Lake.

When the novel was written, dynamite and muskets were already available.

Moreover, the Battle of Poyang Lake was the first large-scale naval battle in Chinese history that was clearly recorded as having used firearms and artillery.

Literary works are also subject to the limitations of the author's thoughts and times.

But the film is so exaggerated that it always makes people feel a sense of dislocation, as if it were a modern take on an ancient play.

The crew still uses the old method to shoot explosion scenes, with the explosion team installing explosives with fuses.

But just like the crew of "Secret Drawings", the director and the props guy often "increase the dosage" to achieve an explosive effect.

Two ships, one 15 meters long and the other 6 meters long, collided with each other and caught fire with a loud bang.

The flames spread to dozens of meters high!

Although this prop boat is made of an iron frame, for the sake of effect, the surface is covered with wooden boards, which are inherently flammable.

Seeing the fire getting out of control, the extras wearing armor jumped off the boat to escape.

The fire was so big that it burned the green screen, the fence railings, and the confidentiality curtain!
It took several hours for the fire truck to put out the fire.

The on-site director had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw firefighters carrying out a body from the wreckage of the ship that was so burnt and deformed that it was almost unrecognizable as a human.

A stuntman was burned alive!

In addition, three or four extras suffered burns on their bodies or respiratory tracts.

"Don't take human life seriously..." Zhang Yuan complained after reading it.

I guess Yang Zhigang is still lucky.

At least I'm alive.

But it's not over yet.

"There's more." Zeng Jia pointed to the screen.
Zhang Yuan clicks the next page.

"grass……"

"Call Zhang Yi and check on his condition." Zhang Yuan turned and instructed Zeng Jia.

Not long after, news came back that Zhang Yi was fine.

Zhang Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"People safe is good."

Because the content displayed on the next page is the new work of "Soldier Assault" director Kang Honglei, an on-set accident occurred on "My Captain, My Regiment".

And just like "Red Cliff", it was also an explosion accident.

When filming the war scenes, a lot of explosives were buried.

Once the filming started, I turned the knob and the bombs exploded one by one, simulating the scene of an artillery attack.

This kind of play is quite dangerous, because the actors have to rehearse many times in advance and cannot get into the wrong positions, otherwise they will be blown away.

But this time the actors were fine because they didn’t even have to wait until the filming started.

It exploded when the leader of the fireworks team was leading his men to inspect the explosion point.

The team leader died on the spot and two team members were seriously injured.

This kind of accident was purely accidental and can only be attributed to fate.

But this crew is also unlucky.

Just a few days after the explosion, when filming the army running across a covered bridge, the covered bridge built by the props team collapsed!

It wasn't sturdy enough when it was assembled, and there were too many extras.

After running back and forth a few times, it fell apart.

Falling from high altitude.

Thirty or forty people were injured, and a dozen were seriously injured.

So Zhang Yuan was anxious and had to ask his own people if they were okay first.

Because Zhang Yi is an unlucky guy and has never had good luck.

It was in this drama that the character he played, Meng Fanle, was stabbed in the thigh by the Imperial Army, so he often limped in the film.

Zhang Yi treated his work very seriously. He went to learn it specially before filming and also observed a real cripple, so his acting was very lifelike.

By the end of the performance, he had "fooled himself to the point of being lame", and he was still lame for a long time after the filming was finished.

But as the saying goes, you should not imitate disabled people. Making fun of disabled people will easily lead to retribution.

After this shoot, Zhang Yi finally got involved with the cripple.

He limps every time he is photographed!

After that, whenever there was any action involved in a work, he would injure his legs and feet while filming.

Some things are so mysterious that you have to believe them.

"Everyone on the set should pay attention to safety in the future."

"When we have dinner together later, let's publicize these cases and let everyone be careful."

"I understand, but..." Zeng Jia answered and then hesitated.

"what happened?"

"Anything else?"

"I found that they seemed to be...learning from you."

"What do you mean?" It was rare that Zhang Yuan didn't understand something.

"Didn't you use the explosion of the Secret Drawings to hype it up before?"

"Now these two dramas are popular before they are even filmed, and the whole world knows about them."

"Yes, I did it."

When talking about this, Zhang Yuan thought of the noisy Tang Yan.

It was this bastard who shouted it out.

If I hadn't been so flexible in my movements and had so many different moves, I would have definitely been in trouble.

Forget it, let her pay with her body.

“Now it seems that the crews of the two films that got into trouble have also started to hype it up.”

"Ah?" Zhang Yuan sat up straight when he heard this.

"They used these two on-set accidents to create hype."

"A bunch of press releases were released about the aftermath and celebrities visiting patients."

"It seems that there are still some trolls on the Internet who are deliberately hyping up these incidents."

Zhang Yuan scratched his head.

Is this my fault?
Is it my operation that gave these people an illusion?

If you hype up a bad thing as if it were a good thing, it will become a big hit.

The fact is, it really became popular.

It's already in the promotion period, and it's the right time to create hype.

It was originally just the same old three things, nothing more than running around for announcements, appearing on variety shows, and holding press conferences.

Now this group of people saw Zhang Yuan’s previous actions, which not only made the matter known to the world, but also led to the movie "Painted Skin" to win an astonishing box office of more than 3 million yuan.

It's just like watching Zhang Yuan go to Hollywood to film a movie and get paid in US dollars.

Seeing that "Painted Skin" is selling well, they are also greedy!

But seeing China's infrastructure construction, laying roads and railways at an astonishing rate every year, the GDP growth rate is even more frightening.

The growth rate was so fast that the West no longer used GDP to measure national economic growth.

This is their old trick, if they can't beat them, they change the rules.

Neighboring small countries and even many developing countries in other continents have also become interested when they see how fast China is developing.

"We are better than the Chinese. If they can do it, we can do it even better."

The wrong premise led them to have the "ultimate fantasy".

The same is true for these two crews now.

If a junior like Zhang Yuan can play so well and so extravagantly, why can't we?
We are your seniors, we have more experience than you, our skills are higher than yours, and our publicity and promotion costs are even higher than yours!
This is called plagiarizing.

I haven't learned enough.

I didn't see the details, I just learned the superficial things.

Is this how I play it?
"Hahahaha..." Zhang Yuan laughed loudly towards the sky.

Zeng Jia saw him like this and didn't understand what was so funny.

Others have copied our routines, and you are still happy.

He asked.

"Why are you laughing, my lord?"

"I don't laugh at others, I only laugh at Cheng Tian's stupidity and Hua Yi's lack of wisdom!" Zhang Yuan's hand swung back and forth more than ten centimeters away from his chin, stroking the non-existent long beard.

"Red Cliff" is a drama produced by China Film Group Corporation and Orange Sky, while "My Captain, My Regiment" is a TV series produced by Huayi.

"Just watch, this is asking for trouble." Zhang Yuan asserted.

But even he didn't expect that not only would there be people joining in the fun at the shooting site, but there would also be people joining in the hype.

Just a few days later, another person came to join the group... (End of this chapter)