Episode 108. territorial invasion
Kang-soo returned as Yoo So-hyun’s manager after about a month.
I stopped by the company in the morning, picked up Kim Bo-ran and Teresa, and picked up Yoo So-hyun before arriving at the Yongin filming location Townhouse.
“Please take good care of me today!”
Yoo So-hyun greeted with her trademark loud voice and went into the scene where she was preparing for filming.
Seeing this, Kangsu felt something familiar and welcome.
“Soo. It looks rather comfortable.”
“what?”
“It’s just like that.”
After talking with Teresa for a while, Kang-soo, together with Kim Bo-ran, unloaded Yoo So-hyun’s luggage and set up an outdoor waiting area.
Originally, there was a separate indoor waiting room.
However, Yoo So-hyun deliberately asked for a nearby place, saying that she directly checked the emotional lines of the actors filming other scenes.
“It is over.”
“It’s been a while since I did this, but I did well.”
“I’m glad you’re okay.”
In the meantime, a staff from the action team approached.
“Mr. Han? You must prepare.”
“Oh, please wait a moment.”
The delayed action scene was also scheduled to be filmed together.
So, Kang-soo checked Yoo So-hyun’s luggage one more time just in case, and followed the staff.
In addition to the scene where the characters stick together, we entered the filming set only for action scenes.
However, I saw someone who shouldn’t be there.
“… Peter Benson?”
Peter Benson, who was sitting in a wheelchair at the same time as Kang-soo muttered, smiled brightly and even waved his hand.
“Precipitation! Are you here!”
Before I knew it, I even learned a little bit of Korean.
That’s how Peter Benson tried to come by turning the wheels of his wheelchair toward the river.
Kangsu could not stand still and went there first.
“Aren’t you hurt? Be still.”
“are you okay. are you okay.”
“It is not in a good condition. Shouldn’t you rather be in the hospital?”
It was a left ankle ligament and right knee meniscus injury.
It was to the extent that I had to leave the wheelchair and rest in the hospital.
At this, Peter Benson laughed coolly.
“hahahahaha, can you stay still because you’re sore? I came out because I thought I would watch the juniors’ stunts.”
“You are really stubborn. For now, I will go get ready.”
Executive director Hawk O’Brien was on the main set.
So, the action side, which had been put off, was taken over by assistant director Marvin Pearson.
In response, Kang-soo followed the waiting staff, put a wire around his waist, and started the action. And as soon as he climbed the tree to the roof, Marvin Pearson shouted with a mighty voice.
“Cuuut—! Good! Very Excellent!”
Marvin Pearson even gave a thumbs up as if he was satisfied with the scene at once.
After that, I shot scenes where I slipped over the bonnet of a running car or stepped on the branches of a roadside tree.
It was a stunt in which even the slightest mistake could lead to a major accident.
“Whoa—”
Kang-soo took a break after digesting all five scenes.
Before I knew it, six hours had passed since morning, and it was past 3:00 PM.
“Is it over now?”
In order to finish it as quickly as possible, I concentrated on performing the stunt.
Thanks to that, I was able to finish a scene twice at most.
Kang-su greeted Peter Benson and Marvin Pearson and got up to go back to Yoo So-hyun.
But Marvin Pearson came to Kangsu first.
“I think I need to shoot an action in a hurry, is that okay?”
“What was left?”
When I first heard it, it was because the five scenes were said to be the end.
“There is a portion that was filmed first, but I am thinking about filming it again while Mr. Han is here. If it’s okay, I’d like to try it. How about it?”
“Which scene is it?”
I’m determined to cooperate with the stunt anyway.
Kangsu readily accepted and listened to Marvin Pearson’s explanation.
“It is a fight scene with many. Check out the script here… … .”
Marvin Pearson added a description of the scene as a script.
It was an action action in which Diablo broke into the party and fought over 20 of the villain’s subordinates.
The tablet was pushed out in front of Kang-soo who was reading it.
There, the scene that was filmed earlier was played.
The man who was a substitute for Diablo moved quickly and took down one person at a time. It was a combination that allowed the flow of action to flow like water.
“Isn’t this the first action episode aired this time?”
“… Do you know that?”
Marvin Pearson was stunned. This is because, unlike when Kang-soo told me where the scene was during the action, it was before I even explained where the video was going to go.
“I remember seeing it while waiting for Yoo So-hyun. By the way, this stunt looks good, so why do we need to reshoot it? Isn’t it broadcast a few days after the first screen?”
There are really only a few days left. Considering the editing and other additional work, it was bound to be a very tight schedule.
“This is a decision that the general manager has been thinking about for a long time. I’m worried too, but I decided that it would be quicker to shoot again at that time.”
“… All right. Get ready right away. By the way, what are the action conditions you want if you take a good picture and then reshoot it?”
You have to know that, too, so you can adjust it when you take action.
Otherwise, there would be no point in re-shooting.
“I want more urgency and natural action.”
“More than this?”
In the video we saw earlier, the main character, Diablo, avoids the enemies’ fists, axes, and knives without getting hit properly, or deflects the trajectory with a counterattack.
It was only possible if each piece was meticulously put together. If you make even the slightest mistake, it’s dangerous… … .
“Is that possible?”
“hmm… … .”
Kang-soo looked back and forth through the video and recalled what he was concerned about.
“Did the stuntman who did this action approve of the reshoot?”
If Peter Benson specializes in the extreme side, the stuntman in the video specializes in combat stunts.
I don’t know if it’s Korea, which is the concept of an assistant performer on the set. If you were a member of an American professional action team, it was clear that you would have strong pride in the part you were in charge of.
Kangsu learned about these things thanks to a Korean stuntman who was hired separately as a Korean while helping with the stunt work on the set.
“Honestly, I don’t like it, but I asked for understanding for the sake of the completeness of the work. Once it was accepted like that.”
At Marvin Pearson’s answer, Kang-soo felt a little uncomfortable.
The reason was that I could feel the stinging gaze of Paul Hoffman, who is in charge of combat action, from the direction where the action team members were gathered.
“I only accepted it, but I don’t think I was convinced.”
“… Well, yes.”
There was no way that assistant manager Marvin Pearson was unaware of such a situation.
Accordingly, Kang-soo pondered over how to resolve the action, their understanding, and anger. Then I got up and walked to the action team with Marvin Pearson.
Kang-soo, who arrived at the front, looked around at them and spoke in English.
“What about the people participating in the battle scenes that are being reshot here?”
He raised his hand shallowly here and there in response to the question that was thrown at him without hesitation. Only Paul Hoffman, who was sitting on the other side, deliberately raised his hand the highest.
It was like a protest.
In response, Kang-soo made eye contact with them slowly and said.
“I want the action to be as natural as possible. So let’s go in without matching the sum. really jump in You can match the sum of how to attack without me.”
At that moment, the atmosphere of the people was tumultuous.
Even Peter Benson, who was sitting in a wheelchair on one side, was startled.
“What do you mean! To go into a fight scene without matching the sum. Do you want to die!”
It wasn’t just a fist. Each had to carry a weapon and wield it.
If there was no sum there, it could not have ended like an injury.
“This is the only way to show you what you want. So, no matter what method you use, you can attack with all your heart. I will take care of the rest.”
After saying that, Kangsu tried to turn around and spoke again.
“If there is a problem, you don’t have to worry because we will never leave it to you.”
At those words, Paul Hoffman got up with a frown and walked toward the river.
“Do you know that you are saying something very irresponsible?”
“Wouldn’t the word “irresponsible” apply to when you couldn’t take responsibility?”
“… … .”
Paul Hoffman glared at the river as it was.
“This is a reshoot that goes into the first episode. Time is running out, so let’s start quickly.”
Originally, at this point, more than half of the total volume should have been completed.
However, the audition was canceled once because of what Monica Shaw had done, and Wu Xian of the Chiniu Group teamed up with actress Chen Wei to tackle the townhouse premises.
Because of that, time was delayed and it became as tight as it is now.
Everyone groaned. I was really at a loss as to whether I should do what Kang-soo said.
Assistant director Marvin Pearson, who was watching the atmosphere, spoke with Peter Benson for a while and shouted.
“According to Mr. Han, proceed. I will take all responsibility in my authority, so please prepare the action team right away.”
The decision fell.
Kang-soo changed into a white shirt and heavy dark blue suit to match the scene and entered the filming set.
The prepared filming location was a place where the city streets were reproduced like the rooftop set of the previous building.
There, everyone grabbed their tools and stood in a position where the staff held them.
This was to ensure that there was no difference from the previous scene as much as possible.
In the meantime, Kang-su stood at the designated location and waited for a signal from assistant manager Marvin Pearson.
The staff around her looked nervous.
They say it’s for realistic acting, but in an action scene where blades are used, they don’t even match… .
That could be controversial later.
Then Marvin Pearson swallowed once and shouted.
“… Action—!”
There was silence for a moment. The first sequence of the scene was the men’s attack.
Soon, a few people in the front moved.
Tada da—
It wasn’t too far, so I arrived quickly. At the same time, the men swung the hatchets they were holding at Kang-su.
Hook— Tak, Tak—
Kang-soo grabbed the man’s wrist and twisted it as he twisted his body lightly while making eye contact with him.
In the meantime, the hand ax that flew in from the other direction blocked the opponent’s wrist with the arm he had just pulled and knocked it down as well.
Quadang—
“… … .”
There was no ambassador.
Even in a situation that happened in an instant, the other actors rushed in without waiting for their turn.
That was when it really started.
Kangsu narrowly avoided their attack and moved forward while counterattacking.
The buck— the buck—
Papapak— Papak—
The men swung their blades wildly without hesitation.
However, it was taken away before it reached Kang-su’s body, or it was missed in an instant and dropped to the floor.
Then, when I blinked, I could see the sky.
“Two at two o’clock, four at three o’clock.”
Kang-soo continued to move while dealing with stuntmen.
At first, the attack of the men came in as a sign.
The first knife that flew in was dodged by ducking and rolling, then knocked it down with a sleep kick.
The kick was connected to the axis there. This time, the other foot rose and slashed the man’s hatchet in front of him, causing it to slam into the wall.
Pak—
It landed on the side of the man’s head, who had fallen on the edge of death.
Everyone held their breath and watched.
Several cameras moved frantically to capture all the cuts at once.
In the meantime, Paul Hoffman, who had passed over as the enemy in the climax, stood there.
They said they wanted to experience the action of the river, and added more people.
‘A person can move like that?’
To be honest, Paul Hoffman was so surprised right now.
It was because it was smoother than the one he had taken and the urgency was alive.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary