Chapter 366: Collecting Protection Fees

The crew arrived at this street early in the morning and made various preparations. After the morning rush hour was over, they started shooting immediately.

In order to familiarize themselves with the environment, the actors who had rehearsed today also came early to discuss filming matters with the director and martial arts instructor.

In today's play, Yu Liang is the protagonist, and most of the scenes are about Da Lai, played by him, showing Da Lai's cruelty, cunningness, and high fighting power.

"When the money truck comes from that direction, you drive your car to force it to stop, and then have a fight with the escort..." The director told Yu Liang the scene again.

Yu Liang was already familiar with this scene, but he still went over the procedure carefully with the director. Afterwards, he saw that martial arts instructor Nie Jinlong was also there, and he brought up an idea of ​​his own.

"Director Jia, Commander Nie, after the robbery, when Da Lai retreats to the car, can I jump in through the passenger window?" Yu Liang said, gesturing. "The car can be driven slowly, and once we're in, we can drive away quickly. That way, it'll be more spectacular."

In this scene, Da Lai retreats while exchanging fire with the escort and a nearby police officer who hears the noise. To convey the thrill and urgency of the situation, Jia Zhendong and Nie Jinlong devised several scenarios, but they always felt something was missing.

After hearing Yu Liang's initiative, Nie Jinlong and Jia Zhendong went over the idea in their minds and looked at each other. "That's a good idea."

"But can you do it?" As a martial arts instructor, Nie Jinlong knew the difficulty of the movements best. According to Yu Liang's instructions, jogging for a distance, then jumping up, and getting in through the passenger window of a slowly moving car was very difficult to do.

If he does it, if he is not careful, either his upper body will get stuck and hit the car window above, or he will not be able to turn his body flexibly after jumping in with his feet. In short, he can easily get injured.

Yu Liang had waited countless hours for this day. The inspiration for this move came the day he bought his car. He practiced it countless times privately, first jumping out of his home window and then jumping out of a car window once he became proficient.

"Let me try it on you two first," said Yu Liang.

Jia Zhendong immediately asked the assistant director to drive the car over, which was the car that would carry Da Lai during the filming.

The car stopped, and under the tense gaze of Jia Zhendong and Nie Jinlong, Yu Liang nimbly jumped in through the window, nimbly sitting upright and even performing the motions of putting on a seatbelt. His movements were so smooth and effortless that Jia Zhendong and Nie Jinlong beamed with delight.

"Try again." Jia Zhendong said.

Nie Jinlong saw that Yu Liang had done this action very naturally, so he said to the actor driving the car, "Start the car, and drive slowly."

After Yu Liang got out of the car, the actor driving the car slowly started driving according to Nie Jinlong's request.

Then Yu Liang took a running start and quickly jumped in through the car window.

But this time, the difference between the moving car and the stopped car was too big, and he almost hit his head on the car. Fortunately, he completed the action.

Jia Zhendong made the final decision: "We'll do this move later!"

Such great moves are exactly what action movies need. What is the point of action movies? It is these kinds of high-difficulty moves that are highly entertaining.

After filming started, although it was past the morning rush hour, there were still many pedestrians on the street. Seeing that the crew was filming here, and it was an action movie, the idle pedestrians gathered around to watch the show.

When there are more people, it is bound to become lively.

Several motorcycles stopped in front of a tobacco shop. One of them, a tall man with tattoos on his arms, bought a pack of cigarettes, smoked one, and asked his follower, "What's going on over there?"

“It seems like they’re filming a movie.”

"Which film company's movie?"

"I'll go ask." The henchman immediately drove over on his motorcycle to take a look, asked a few more questions, and came back to tell the man, "Brother Ying, it's a show from Shengshi Entertainment."

The man called Brother Ying narrowed his eyes and said, "The people from Shengshi Entertainment came to my territory to do business. Do they know the rules?"

The henchman beside him understood what Brother Ying meant and said, "I'll call a few brothers over to teach them the rules later."

Brother Ying got back on his motorcycle, the engine roaring like thunder as he raced recklessly down the street, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Not long after, a few gangsters with cigarettes in their mouths and walking arrogantly pushed aside the citizens who were watching the filming, walked in, and kicked over the props of the crew with one foot.

"Who told you to film here? Do you know whose land this is?" The leading gangster pulled a wooden stick from his waistband and pointed it at the crew, "Who's in charge? Stand up!"

Assistant Director Shen Chunming knew at first sight that they were gangsters out to collect protection money. This kind of thing happens all the time in the film industry. Whenever you go out on location and visit some gang territories, you will encounter them more or less.

However, ever since Huang Yuliang became notorious, few people dared to cause trouble for Shengshi Entertainment.

Shengshi Entertainment has made several movies, but this is the first time they have encountered someone who dares to collect protection money from them.

Shen Chunming walked over and offered a cigarette to the leader of the gang, but he threw it to the ground and cursed, "What the hell, do you look down on me? Do you think I'm a beggar?"

Shen Chunyang smiled apologetically and said, "Excuse me, we are from Shengshi Entertainment and are borrowing your land to film a movie. Please, big brother, for Mr. Huang's sake, please be patient and talk it over."

"Who knows what Huangsheng, Baisheng, and Heisheng are? In this land, I am the one who calls the shots!"

In the spirit of "less trouble is worse than more trouble", and to finish the filming smoothly and not to delay the filming process, Shen Chunming took out a wad of money from his bag and gave it to the young and dangerous man, and sent these great gods away.

Director Jia Zhendong walked over, looked at the backs of the gangsters, and asked, "Whose henchmen are they?"

Shen Chunming said helplessly: "I don't know whose men they are, but this piece of land belongs to the Changxing Society. I thought Huang Sheng had a relationship with the Changxing Society and would at least give them some face."

Jia Zhendong frowned. He knew they were from Shengshi, yet they still came to collect protection fees. What did the Changxing Society mean?

"Remember to get reimbursed when you return to the company." Then he returned to the set and asked the actors to speed up the filming.

Who knew that not long after the filming started, a group of fierce-looking gangsters came to collect protection money.

Shen Chunming held back his anger and said, "A few big brothers just came and have already collected protection money."

"Who knows who you gave it to? This territory is mine. Every industry has its own rules. You want to do things here without even telling me. Are you trying to cause trouble?"

As soon as the words were spoken, several gangsters drew out wooden sticks and wanted to beat people up arrogantly.

Chen Chunming saw that the situation was not right. If the machine was smashed, it would be a huge loss. He smiled again and gave them some money.

After watching them leave, I immediately called the company and told them about this.