Chapter 477 This extra is not very calm
“Cut!”
On the set of "Pirates of the Caribbean", another shot was finished. Link looked at it in front of the monitor and felt good about it, so he gave it a pass.
Boom!
The crew had just stopped filming when suddenly an explosion was heard on the Black Pearl pirate ship.
"What happened? Is anyone hurt?"
Link immediately stood up, boarded the speedboat, and headed for the Black Pearl pirate ship.
"Link, it's nothing. One of the explosion points delayed the explosion for a few seconds. As you know, our explosives are loud and have average power. Even if you hold them in your arms, you won't get hurt."
Chris Ball shouted from the bow.
Bodyguard Bob went on board first to check the scene of the accident. After checking it out, he came out and told Link that it was a normal accident in the crew and no one was injured.
"Who is in charge here?"
Link asked.
"Uh, it's me!"
Chris Bauer raised his hand cautiously.
"Deduct half a year's bonus. If you make the same mistake again next time, all your bonus for this year will be deducted."
"Link, you can't do this. Maria is pregnant. Our family needs money, very much."
Chris Ball cried out with a sad face.
"If you make a mistake, you should be punished. If you want to make money, you should work harder."
Link didn't wait for him to argue and took his men away from the pirate ship.
Chris Bauer has earned millions of dollars in the past few years with the company's crew. He lives in a villa and drives a sports car. The half-year bonus is not a serious punishment for him.
After getting off the boat, Link called several department heads of the crew to a meeting. In view of the frequent accidents that have occurred in the crew recently, starting today, each group will be more careful at work. At the same time, the crew has set up a safety team to patrol the set every day to prevent accidents.
The team leader is assistant director Yu Feihong.
The crew will impose heavy penalties on any group that makes mistakes.
"Link, isn't this too much of an exaggeration?"
After the meeting, executive producer Mike Statham came up to talk and said, "It's normal for the crew to have accidents, especially for fantasy movies like ours with many battle scenes, the probability of accidents is higher.
I have served as executive producer on more than a dozen fantasy film crews.
Almost every movie will have seven or eight accidents during filming, sometimes people die, sometimes people get injured or disabled, and the crew suffers even more serious economic losses. Currently, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has been filmed 4/5 and only 3 accidents have occurred. This is the crew with the fewest accidents I have worked with."
Link said, "You have a point, but I have directed 18 movies and have relatively rich experience in managing crews. In the past, accidents rarely happened to my crews, whether it was the war drama Saving Private Ryan or the action-adventure film The Rock. Now accidents happen frequently on the crew, and I have to be more cautious to prevent more serious accidents."
Mike Statham opened his mouth and looked a little ugly.
From Link's words he discovered a terrible fact. In the past, when he worked with other crews, accidents often happened in other crews. After working with Link, the crews that had never had any accidents before also started to have accidents.
Does this mean that the accident that happened on the set was entirely due to his poor performance?
Michael Statham decided to seriously reflect on whether there were any mistakes in his work.
Lin Ke talked to Yu Feihong for a few words and reminded her to pay attention to the safety of the crew.
The reason he did all this extra work was not because he found any problems with Mike Statham, but because he received a security alert from Blackwater - someone hired a killer through a killer organization to assassinate him.
Blackwater suggested that he suspend his work outside, return to Los Angeles to rest for a while, and resume work after they eliminated the safety hazards.
Link rejected the suggestion. He was a billionaire, a Hollywood tycoon, and a prominent person. There must be many people in the world who harbored ill will towards him.
If he is afraid of all kinds of evildoers and hides at home, not daring to come out, then there will be no fun in what he does as a billionaire.
What he wanted was absolute freedom, to do whatever he wanted, without any restrictions or fears.
With his current status and strength, he is qualified to have these, so he insists on filming in the crew.
"Scene 131, 1st take, begins!"
The crew continued filming.
Because there will be several large-scale battle scenes later, the crew needs to hire three hundred extras. Killer Jon and Bald Johnson also came to the crew's office to recruit extras.
"Jon, are we really going to join the crew as extras?"
Bald Johnson looked hesitant but also a little excited. In the past, to carry out a mission, he only needed to rush directly to the target with a gun, and before the other party could react, he would kill him with two shots.
This time, in order to kill Link, they actually came to the crew as extras.
This is too crazy and too exciting. Even though they are killers, they are full of infinite yearning for the star-studded Hollywood.
Hearing him speak, the killer Jon looked around vigilantly and said in a low voice, "John, you know, we have to do this. Link has many professional bodyguards around him. It is difficult for strangers to approach him, let alone point a gun at him. We have to enter the crew and approach him as an actor, and then find a chance to kill him secretly."
"I understand, but I can't act. I get very nervous in front of the camera."
Bald Johnson swallowed.
"It's okay. I learned about the work of extras before coming here. We mainly act as background boards and atmosphere groups. The crew will not assign us shots, and we don't need to perform in front of the camera. This kind of work is not difficult."
"Okay, I'll try."
The two continued to queue, waiting to be selected by the casting director. Since "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a fantasy film, the extras in the film need to fit specific identities, including pirates, royal navy, etc.
Those with distinctive looks and a certain level of acting skills will be given priority.
"Wait, is that a dagger in your belt? What are you carrying a dagger for?"
the casting panel asked while interviewing a black man.
"Oh, this is a prop. Wouldn't it make me look more like a pirate with a dagger in my waist?"
"No need. You are not allowed to bring weapons into the crew. Next."
The staff waved and moved on to the next interview.
Killer Jon and Bald Johnson looked at each other, quietly stepped back a few steps, and retreated to the end of the team. They went back to the car, put the pistols into the storage box, and then returned to the team to wait for the interview.
After half an hour, the interview was over.
Bald Johnson was selected by the crew and got a one-week contract.
The killer Jon was not chosen because he has no distinctive looks, dull expressions, cannot cry or laugh, and can't even show anger. Such a person is simply not suitable to be an actor.
The casting team staff advised him to find another job, saying that he would starve to death if he continued to be an actor.
"John, I can't sneak into the crew, so the mission of assassinating Link is left to you."
Killer Jon said regretfully.
"No problem, but the crew has a rule that no dangerous items can be brought into the set. Without a gun, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to succeed."
"Don't worry. You can shoot on the set first and get to know the situation on the set. I will try to get the guns in from outside the set. It's such a large set with thousands of people. I don't believe that even a gun can't be delivered."
"Okay, let's do this."
Bald Johnson couldn't help but feel excited at the thought of becoming an actor. He had been a soldier for five years, a gangster and a part-time killer for seven years, and had killed many people, but he never thought that one day he would become an actor, and an actor in the crew of world-class director Link.
This experience was so novel that he suffered from insomnia the night before joining the crew.
The next morning, Johnson bought a hot dog from the roadside, took a few bites, and then hurried to report to the crew.
The main job of the group actors in the morning was to rehearse on the set according to the instructions of assistant director Gary Febrali.
The assistant director sat in the car and shouted loudly through a loudspeaker, sometimes asking them to move forward, sometimes asking them to move backward, and sometimes asking them to shout loudly again.
Johnson felt very bored and kept yawning. He was also criticized by the sharp-eyed assistant director, who asked them to cheer up. The crew spent more than 100,000 US dollars on each scene and each set of shots was very expensive. They performed and learned hard in the crew. After gaining some experience, they will be able to do better in other crews in the future.
Johnson curled his lips. He was a killer, not an actor, so he didn't need to be so serious. But seeing that everyone around him was taking it seriously, in order to be able to stay in the crew, he could only perform patiently.
At the end of the day, Bald Johnson was almost exhausted and felt that it was more tiring than his training in the Delta Force.
After returning to the hotel, Johnson didn't have the energy to take a shower, so he just fell asleep on the bed.
"John, what's the situation? Have you seen Link?"
Killer Jon walked in and asked.
"Don't even mention it. I've been rehearsing all day and I don't even know where the set is, let alone see Link."
Johnson waved his hands feebly.
"It doesn't matter. There are still a few days left. We still have a chance."
The next day, Johnson and other extras continued rehearsing, walking back and forth in the open space, repeating the same set of movements dozens of times.
Johnson gnashed his teeth in anger.
Before joining the crew, he had many beautiful fantasies about the profession of actor. He believed that the job of extras was to act with the stars, that he could see the big stars in the movies on the crew, and if he was lucky, he could even date the female stars.
But the reality is that being an extra is hard, tiring and boring, more boring than any other job he has experienced.
If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to stay and kill Link, he would never waste time here.
On the third day, the actors continued to rehearse, and Johnson became numb and his expression became dull.
The good news is that Jon sent the pistol to the crew through special channels. As long as Johnson meets Link in the crew, he will have the opportunity to complete this mission.
On the fourth day, the extras were divided into two groups, one group went to the crew for filming, and the other group continued to rehearse. Unfortunately, Johnson was assigned to the second group.
Johnson was very unconvinced and went to argue with the staff, hoping to be included in the first batch.
The staff told him that the first batch of actors would be in the Royal Navy, which required a decent appearance, but his appearance did not meet the Royal Navy's requirements.
Johnson looked back at the dozens of people left at the scene. Each of them had a strange appearance, and they were of different heights, weights and bodies.
The staff told him not to be discouraged, and that he would have more scenes playing a pirate, and that the cameraman would give close-up shots to those who performed outstandingly, and that he might become a star after the movie was released.
Johnson asked if he could meet Link, of whom he was a fan.
The staff said yes.
On the fifth day, which was only two days before the end of his contract with the crew, Johnson finally saw Link in the crew. Although there was a distance of more than 300 meters and dozens of people in between, fortunately he finally saw the target person Link.
Link was wearing a baseball cap, a loose T-shirt and ordinary jeans. He was tall and straight, and his aura was very eye-catching.
If he had a sniper rifle at this time, Johnson was confident that he could easily kill Link, but unfortunately he only had a single-barreled pistol disguised as a gunpowder gun.
It is extremely difficult to kill Link in front of hundreds of people and get away with it.
Johnson also noticed the two bodyguards around Link. They had bright eyes, were very vigilant, and had a serious attitude. Judging from the outlines under their clothes, the bodyguards also had real weapons on them.
Noticing this, Johnson suppressed his murderous intent and focused on being an extra to prevent others from discovering his flaws.
In the morning, the crew filmed scenes for several leading actors on the ship, with Johnson and other extras playing pirates standing around as background panels.
Watching the crew shoot scene after scene, Johnson found this kind of work more boring than the previous rehearsals, when at least he could move around.
It wasn't until the heroine Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared on the deck in a British court dress that Johnson and the other extras' eyes suddenly lit up. They stared at the tall and beautiful woman in front of them without blinking. She seemed to be even more beautiful than in the movie.
"it's beautiful!"
Johnson couldn't help but admire it.
"Of course, that's Catherine Zeta-Jones, the most beautiful English rose."
The long-haired extra next to them licked his lips and said.
"I heard that she is also Director Link's girlfriend. Director Link eats so well."
The extras next door holding harpoons looked envious.
Johnson also thought of this, and his expression gradually turned ugly.
Before, he wanted to kill Link, but he was just carrying out his mission, without any emotion or inclination.
After coming into contact with Link and learning more about Link's deeds and rumors, he felt that people like Link should be killed.
Link is worth tens of billions of dollars, eats delicacies every day, owns dozens of mansions and countless luxury cars, and lives a very good life.
His wealth was mainly obtained by exploiting others. His villas and mansions were built on the corpses of countless poor people. While he was living a good life, ordinary people were gritting their teeth and enduring a hard life.
This kind of person is so hateful that he deserves death.
In addition, Link is a lustful man. It is said that actresses have to devote themselves to him and even give birth to children for him in order to get a role. Now almost all the beauties in the entertainment industry have been bullied by him.
When Johnson thought of this, his murderous intent became even stronger.
"Be quiet!"
The stage manager held a loudspeaker and shouted at the extras, asking them to be quiet. They were about to shoot an important scene and everyone had to cheer up and take it seriously. If anyone did not obey his instructions during the filming, he would ask them to get out.
The stage manager shouted a few times and then clapped the board in front of the camera.
"Scene 147, 2nd take, begins!"
Johnson stood on the deck holding a harpoon and watched the performance of the main actors, occasionally shouting, laughing, or making some ferocious expressions at the signal of the assistant director.
During the performance, Johnson suddenly found that Link appeared behind camera position No. 3 at some point, less than 50 meters away from him. Johnson narrowed his eyes and quietly grasped the pistol inserted in his belt.
(End of this chapter)
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