The next day, "Operation Red Owl" started filming again in full swing.
However, even though Chu Yinlong enjoyed great prestige in the crew, after the scandal the night before, the atmosphere in the crew became somewhat subtle. Especially some young staff members who had little experience, looked at Jiang Dao with undisguised contempt in their eyes.
Jiang Dao didn't care much about it, but Chu Yinlong's face darkened.
However, everyone just looked at him unfriendlyly, no one made any mockery or excluded him, and he even did his work in an orderly manner, so he couldn't blame him.
Today, the first indoor fighting scene is the chase between Jess and Xu Zhou in the base of a criminal organization. In addition to Jiang Dao and Jing Yu, there is also a stunt double with a similar body shape to Jing Yu involved in this scene.
Chu Yinlong has very high requirements for action scenes, and most of the fighting designs are real-life fistfights. In addition, the use of terrain and props requires the actors to have a certain ability to withstand blows - many shots cannot be faked, and they can only try to hold back and avoid vital parts during the filming process.
Therefore, even though Jing Yu had studied Sanda techniques for a period of time before joining the crew, most of the close combat shots had to be shot by a stunt double. In order to facilitate editing, the scene will be filmed completely by Jiang Dao and the stunt double first, and then Jing Yu's close-up shots will be added.
Chu Yinlong personally guided Jiang Dao and the stuntman in practicing the moves several times. They both learned very quickly, and after doing two reps with false strength, they officially started filming.
This is a short and fast chase and close combat. Neither of them has weapons in their hands. It is a relatively safe and simple part of the fight scene.
At the beginning of the scene, Jess, played by Jiang Dao, rushed straight towards the fleeing Xu Zhou. Xu Zhou was startled, turned around to resist, twisted his waist and kicked Jess' neck. After Jess dodged, he turned around and continued to flee. Immediately, Jess caught up with Xu Zhou again, dodged an attack and got close to him, followed by a series of quick punches and kicks.
The filming went smoothly at the beginning, however, when it came to the final fist fight, Jiangdao found something wrong.
The force used by the stunt double was much greater than he expected. In order to avoid getting hurt from a head-on collision, he could only choose to unload the force to the side and dodge for a while.
"stop."
Sure enough, Chu Yinlong, who was very demanding on action scenes, immediately called cut.
Surprisingly, he did not scold them, but glanced at the two people on the field and said calmly: "Do it again."
Seeing that Chu Yinlong looked unhappy, Jing Yu, who was watching the action scene nearby, became a little nervous.
He had learned before that Chu Yinlong couldn't stand actors who were pampered on the set. I heard that in one of his previous movies, the actor who played an important supporting role wanted to ask for leave to go to the hospital because of a scratch on his arm, but he was severely scolded by him.
Just now Jiang Dao was dodging during the fight scene. Did he poke Chu Yinlong in anger?
On the set, the staff reset the props and filming resumed.
This time Jiang Dao was mentally prepared. He steadily caught the stuntman's punches and kicks, controlled his numb arms, and completed the next series of actions perfectly.
Unexpectedly, when the performance was about to end, the stuntman suddenly tripped and staggered back two steps.
"Sorry!" He admitted his mistake without hesitation, "It's my fault!"
Chu Yinlong's expression became even uglier.
"What's going on? You're also an old martial arts stand-in. Can't you even act? Why are you doing such heavy movements? The people you're filming with are actors, not your enemies! Just show the sense of impact, but hold back on the strength!" His tone gradually turned cold, "Do it again!"
The martial arts substitute smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay!"
However, during the third take, he still used a lot of force, and in the end seemed to be distracted for a moment, and failed to catch Jiangdao's fist, resulting in serious deformation of the movements, and he had to NG again.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He apologized generously, "I was wrong, I will definitely finish it next time!"
Chu Yinlong suddenly stood up from behind the camera, walked to a direction that would not affect the camera and lighting, and looked at the two people in the field: "Do it again."
Jiang Dao raised his hand and rubbed his arm, shook his numb wrist, and curled his lips at the substitute.
He couldn't be sure before, but after the two NGs just now, he immediately came to a conclusion in his mind - the stuntman did it on purpose, deliberately using excessive force and making mistakes, the purpose should be to make him endure more physical confrontations and suffer more.
As for the other party's motive for doing this, Jiang Dao had some guesses, but no evidence yet.
However, he is not a little sheep that can be bullied.
Since the other party dared to do it on the first day, he dared to do it on the fifteenth... The worst that could happen was that he would be scolded by Chu Yinlong, which he didn't care.
After the stagehands reset the props, Jiang Dao walked into the stage, tilted his head, and gave the stunt double a sweet smile: "Come again."
The substitute snorted softly.
The filming resumed, and the first half of the chase was still very smooth. After a few seconds, the two men started fighting again. The stunt double raised his leg and kicked Jiang Dao without any force, and even caused a faint sound of wind.
Jiang Dao's expression remained unchanged, but his feet quietly turned at an angle, ready to meet the attack and counterattack the opponent.
Bang—bang!
The substitute kicked out, but the next second, he was knocked to the ground by a huge force and was completely stunned.
Chu Yinlong stood in front of Jiang Dao, withdrew his hand, and gently rubbed his palm.
He looked down at her with a cold gaze, "Xiao Yang, take this man out and find a replacement. We'll shoot this scene tomorrow."
After he finished speaking, Chu Yinlong turned and looked at Jiang Dao.
Jiang Dao said awkwardly: "Ah, that... I'm sorry for what happened just now..."
He was so well prepared to counterattack, and he didn't expect Chu Yinlong to suddenly rush out to block the knife, so he kicked Chu Yinlong directly on the butt. If Chu Yinlong's lower body had not been stable enough, he would have probably fallen to the ground on the spot, which would have been extremely embarrassing.
Unexpectedly, instead of anger, Chu Yinlong's face looked a bit... relieved?
"What's wrong with me? What did I do?" At this time, the stunt double got up from the ground and even tried to argue, "I'm just not used to filming yet. I failed a few times. There will be no problem next time--"
Chu Yinlong sneered, obviously too lazy to pay attention to him, and only added to the assistant: "Hurry up and deal with it."
"Chu Yinlong, you can't be so domineering just because you are famous!" The stunt double actually started shouting, shook off the assistant's hand, stood there with his arms folded, refusing to leave.
Chu Yinlong glanced at him with an indifferent look: "Do you want me to invite you personally?"
Hearing this, the stunt double obviously backed off a bit, but still looked unwilling.
"Teacher Chu," Jiang Dao suddenly called out in a low voice, "Wait a minute, I want to ask him a few questions."
"Huh?" Chu Yinlong turned around and looked at him.
Jiang Dao stepped forward, rubbing his arm carelessly, and asked the stuntman with a smile: "Why are you targeting me like this?"
His arms had been hit several times and were visibly red and swollen. Judging from the situation, bruises might appear soon.
However, the danger level of this action scene is clearly the lowest. As long as the actors control the strength well, not to mention redness, swelling and bruising, even the pain should not be too great.
Seeing this, before the substitute could reply, Chu Yinlong's face changed instantly. He stretched out his hand to pull Jiang Dao back to his side, half-protected him in his arms, turned his head and shouted, "Medical care!"
The medical staff on the set were obviously stunned for a moment, and took two seconds to react. Then they hurried forward with the medicine box to check Jiang Dao's arm.
Jiang Dao was helpless: "There's no need for such a big fuss..."
Chu Yinlong: "Shut up. Why didn't you tell me on the spot that you were injured so badly?"
Although he could also observe that the stunt double used more force than was necessary during the filming, he was not the person involved and could not feel exactly how strong the force was. Jiang Dao did not even cry out in pain, which led to his misjudgment. In order to confirm whether the stunt double was really doing something wrong, he repeated it once more.
Jiang Dao didn't care: "This injury is not that serious..."
Seeing that Chu Yinlong looked unhappy, he quickly changed the subject: "Don't worry about this for now, I want to ask him what he thinks."
As he said that, he turned his head and raised his eyebrows at the stunt double: "Why do you dislike me? Are you jealous of my beauty? Or jealous that I can appear in the movie? Or, is it because of the revelations on Weibo the day before yesterday? Do you think that a vase is not worthy of acting in a movie?"
"I didn't!" Wu Dai argued with a dark face.
"You didn't - I don't believe it." Jiang Dao curled his lips and shook his head, "In this scene, even if Teacher Chu himself came to fight, it's impossible for him to hit me so hard that I, uh, got hurt." Let's just call it an injury, although it was child's play for him.
Wu Ti snorted coldly and stopped talking.
"Hey, tell me." Jiang Dao continued, "Tell me why you are dissatisfied, so that I can change it, so that I won't be tricked when shooting dangerous scenes in the future, and I might really get seriously injured..."
Hearing this, Chu Yinlong frowned tightly.
After a moment, he looked at the stuntman with a cold gaze: "I'll give you a chance to explain why you deliberately used such a heavy hand. Tell the truth, and you can leave. If you don't, just wait for the lawyer's letter."
The martial arts substitute's expression changed several times. Finally, he glared at Jiang Dao with gritted teeth and snorted coldly, "I just can't stand people who rely on their looks to get ahead! Besides... I hate people who destroy other people's families the most. The son of a mistress won't be a good thing either!"
This incredible logic left Jiang Dao speechless.
Chu Yinlong was also speechless for a while, and finally waved to his assistant: "Take it away."
…
Due to this accident, filming was temporarily interrupted.
The assistant director began to urgently contact the actors originally scheduled for tomorrow, and the props and stagehands also began to busy themselves with preparing the scenes needed for the next shoot.
Chu Yinlong watched the medical staff give Jiang Dao the medicine. Seeing that Jiang Dao's arm was indeed beginning to turn blue, his brows furrowed even deeper: "Sorry, I should have stopped him earlier."
Then he sighed and said, "Let's go to the hospital. When Xiao Yang comes back, I'll ask him to take you there."
Jiang Dao laughed: "It's just a little swollen. I've already applied medicine. What else can I do if I go to the hospital?"
Chu Yinlong was worried: "Take an X-ray to see if there are any broken bones."
"Don't worry, no bones are broken." Jiang Dao answered confidently.
If the force used by the other party was enough to break his bones, he would have stopped playing long ago. How could he have even thought about completing the shot and allowed the other party to repeat it so many times?
Besides...breaking a bone would be much more painful than this. He is experienced and will never make a wrong judgment.
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