Elder brother's garrison

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"That's...that's amazing!!!" Director Zhang stammered for a long time, his face flushed with excitement. He jumped up from the stool, clenching his fist and waving it in the air. "I'm blown away! I thought this take would have to be filmed more than ten times, but it was done in one take! The emotions were spot on, he could cry on cue, he got into character so quickly, and there was no awkwardness at all from beginning to end. You...you...is this really your first time acting?! How can you be so outstanding!"

"Wow, that's amazing." Lu Ming, who was in the arena, looked at Loki with a smile.

The crowd outside the theater applauded, and the two male actors who had just entered the room also applauded while wiping away tears.

"This newcomer's acting is superb! And Miss Lu Ming's acting is amazing too! The two of you complement each other perfectly! It even brought tears to my eyes!"

"How could this not be popular? Of course it's popular!"

"I'm starting to feel grateful to that actor who ran away! Compared to him, Miss Loki is a dozen levels better!!!"

……

Loki accepted the applause without expression, as if she hadn't been the one perfectly portraying the wounded soldier while lying in bed.

Director Zhang quickly ordered people to prepare the environment for the second take.

Loki and Lu Ming were greeted by the makeup crew.

Loki wiped off his makeup, restoring his clean and white appearance, and walked back to Little White's side.

"Loki, you're such a good actor!" Little White said to Loki, who had returned to his side, with admiration.

“It’s just making an expression, it’s not difficult,” Loki said calmly. “In my acting class a week ago, the teacher taught me facial expression management techniques, and I’ve also tried crying scenes a few times, so I can cry relatively easily.”

"Wow... even so, that's amazing." Xiaobai exclaimed.

Everyone returned to the director's tent, just as the screenwriter finished writing the second take and was coming out.

The screenwriter was stunned to see everyone return.

"Director Zhang? Aren't you filming anymore?" the screenwriter asked, puzzled.

"No, we've finished filming."

"Huh? So fast?! There's only enough time for one take, right?"

"Isn't one take enough? Isn't that enough?" the crew retorted. "Are you questioning Miss Loki and Miss Lu Ming's acting skills?!"

"???" The screenwriter looked completely bewildered.

Director Zhang was too lazy to explain to the screenwriter. He snatched the newly revised script and quickly led everyone to the filming location for the second take.

The second take depicts the story of the wounded soldier, played by Loki, recovering and regaining consciousness under the care of a nurse, and learning the truth.

With the groundwork laid earlier, the second take required even greater immersion from the actors and demanded a full range of emotions from them, making it a very challenging scene.

The filming location is in place.

The staff immediately began preparations.

Shooting begins.

The shooting is over.

The second take was also filmed in one take.

When Director Zhang excitedly led everyone back to the tent, the screenwriter was still hunched over his writing desk, racking his brains to revise the script.

"Screenwriter, is the third scene finished?!" Director Zhang shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Not yet, not yet!" The screenwriter scratched his head, looking troubled.

"Why are you writing so slowly?!" Director Zhang asked angrily. "A whole bunch of us are waiting for you to start filming!"

"Hey, no, you guys filmed way too fast..." The screenwriter scratched his head, looking conflicted, but finally said with a hint of helplessness, "And this third take is really difficult... Because the previous scenes were male characters' scenes, this third take has action scenes, and these action scenes are a bit difficult for women to complete given their physical abilities... But this part of the plot is very crucial, a very important point of conflict, and I can't change it..."

"Action scenes? Oh right..." Director Zhang also started to worry when he heard this. He leaned over to the screenwriter and frowned.

"Excuse me, may I ask what level of action scenes are in the third scene?" Xiao Bai looked at Director Zhang in the tent and turned to ask Lu Ming beside him.

“There’s a section of free solo climbing,” Lu Ming said to Xiao Bai.

"Is it difficult?" Xiaobai asked.

“...Even with auxiliary equipment during filming, it's still very difficult for untrained humans,” Lu Ming said. “The last actor had to hire a professional rock climbing stunt double to get it right.”

"Oh……"

Little White looked at Loki.

Loki also tilted his head to look at Little White.

"Action scenes shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?" Xiao Bai asked with a smile.

“Hmm.” Loki nodded.

A near-perfect appearance, a unique temperament, superb acting skills, and superhuman physical abilities...

Looking at Loki now, Xiaobai suddenly realized something.

Although I initially only let Loki go with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

But looking at it now...

Loki might actually be the perfect actor.

Chapter 2278 Filming Ends (covered up)

On the cliff within the scenic area, a nimble black figure climbed upwards like lightning.

The cliff was exceptionally steep, almost perpendicular to the flat ground, and the exposed mountain surface was extremely smooth. There were very few climbing points along the way where people could use them for support and rest. But even in such a harsh environment, the black figure never stopped on any protrusion on the cliff. She seemed to be unaffected by gravity, rushing up the mountain at an exaggerated speed.

In the blink of an eye, the black figure reached the mountaintop.

Loki stood on the mountaintop, stepping on a protrusion, waving down expressionlessly, as if the rock climbing she had just done wasn't even a warm-up exercise.

at the same time.

Below the cliff.

The crew members, supporting the filming equipment, stared blankly at Loki standing on the mountaintop.

"Ten, a dozen seconds??" Director Zhang's mouth dropped open as he stared in disbelief at Loki atop the mountain. "He actually climbed this steep cliff with his bare hands in just a dozen seconds?!"

"This, this is what ship girls are like... Wow, what amazing physical abilities!"

"Looks like we don't need to use wires anymore..."

"Kantai Collection girls... they're really amazing..."

The staff members standing nearby also expressed their admiration from the bottom of their hearts.

"Director Zhang, now we should be able to film the free climbing scene, right?" Xiao Bai asked Director Zhang with a smile, turning his gaze away from Loki on the mountaintop with satisfaction.

"Yes, absolutely!" Director Zhang had transformed into a nodding machine, his eyes brimming with excitement. He quickly directed the crew members to busily set up the filming location.

Xiaobai turned her head to look beside her and saw that Luming was also among the actors.

Compared to the other actors around him who looked on with envy and astonishment, Lu Ming held a cup of hot tea, wore a warm coat given to him by the staff, and looked up at Loki on the mountaintop, his sapphire-like eyes flashing with a rather complex expression.

It's like a longing, and also like a nostalgia.

Xiao Bai looked at Lu Ming with suspicion, wondering why Lu Ming's behavior was different from the others, when Director Zhang called out to her from the side.

"Boss! Are you there?"

"Huh?" Xiaobai turned her head and found Director Zhang looking at her with an embarrassed expression. "Director Zhang, what's wrong?"

“Well… we now have a good understanding of the ship girls’ physical abilities… I believe that with Miss Loki’s skills, this scene of free climbing shouldn’t be too difficult for her.” Director Zhang said, a little embarrassed. “However… the character Miss Loki is in actually had to exert a lot of effort to climb the mountain, so I hope that when Miss Loki is filming later, she won’t climb as quickly as she did just now. It would be better if she could show that she struggled a little more… is that alright?”

"Oh, so Loki can climb a little slower? Sure." After hearing Director Zhang's words, Xiao Bai nodded with a smile and then waved towards the mountaintop.

Loki, who was on the mountaintop, saw Little White waving. She nimbly dangled from the cliff face and leaped down the almost smooth mountainside, returning to the group in a few quick steps.

"Loki, Director Zhang wants you to act tough when you're climbing the mountain later, is that okay?" Little White asked Loki, who had returned to him.

"……Hard?"

"It's like you've finished fighting with Super Big and then you come to climb the mountain."

"Understood." Loki understood immediately.

While Loki was talking to Whitebeard, the crew had already set up the filming location.

"Attention all units! Act 18, Scene 3, get ready to begin!" Director Chen excitedly shouted to the crowd through a megaphone.

The actors took their places.

A professional camera was pointed at the cliff.

With a snap, the film crew began shooting.

Time flies, and it's afternoon.

After finishing the third take, Director Zhang finally completed the previous shots. He led everyone back to the trenches to begin filming the most important and crucial final take.

……

"Boom!"

The carefully placed explosives, when detonated safely, produced excellent cinematic effects.

Filmed by seven professional cameras, the trench where Loki's character was located was bombarded by enemy artillery. The characters in the film cried out in anguish towards Loki's trench, and then they attacked the enemy like madmen. After the enemy was defeated and retreated, the characters in the film searched everywhere for Loki.

Ultimately, it was the nurses who first found Loki, whose body was broken in two and who was barely breathing.

What followed was a barrage of dialogue.

"...Thank you...for saving my comrades. I...I don't regret coming back here." Loki's character lay in the nurse's arms, gazing at her face with a satisfied yet weak smile. "It's so good I wasn't a burden to you...it's so good I was able to save my comrades...you...you must win next..."

Done.

Ignoring the shouts of the actors around her, Loki's bright red hand fell limply, and she closed her eyes and died peacefully in the nurse's arms.

……

"Card!"

With the death of Loki's character, the final filming scene came to an end.

The production assistant gave the order to end filming, and the actors on set finally breathed a sigh of relief, recovering from their solemn state.

Outside the theater, Director Zhang held Xiao Bai's hand with tears in his eyes, thanking him repeatedly as if he were about to cry.

"Boss, thank you so much for today! It was because you and your ship girls arrived in time that we were able to finally film this most important scene! We are truly grateful to you!" As Director Zhang spoke, it was as if all the pressure had been released at once; his eyes reddened, and his voice trembled. "Today I owe you a huge favor! I swear! If you ever need my help, I, Zhang Yiyan, will be there for you without hesitation! No matter what, I'll be the first to come!"

"It's alright, it's alright. Today has been an eye-opening experience for me, and I've learned a lot." Xiao Bai smiled and patted Director Zhang's hand. "Making movies isn't easy, everyone works very hard."

"Leader, I..."

"Old Zhang! Hey!" Just then, Director Chen put his arm around Director Zhang's neck and said with a big laugh, "Who is the boss? She wouldn't need a nobody like you! Instead of talking about this nonsense, why don't you talk to the boss about your salary for this film!"

"Oh right, salary!" Director Zhang snapped out of his daze, quickly letting go of Xiao Bai's hand, and said seriously, "I'll allocate your compensation for this filming to the level of a top-tier celebrity. What do you think?"

Xiao Bai is not short of money, so it won't affect Xiao Bai no matter how much or how little Director Zhang pays Loki.

However, on the other hand, since he has put in the work, it is only right that he should be paid. Director Zhang was willing to offer Loki, who was not yet famous, the salary of a first-tier star, which was already a great honor for Xiaobai. Xiaobai was already very satisfied with this.

"Let's do it that way then!" Xiaobai nodded with a smile.

"Then I'll go find the finance department to settle the accounts! I'll try to get the salary transferred to the manager before tonight!" Director Zhang quickly stood at attention, adopting a serious posture.

"Then I'll trouble you."

Director Zhang obtained the bank card number for transferring money from Xiao Bai, and then rushed to the film set as if he had found a treasure.

After filming that scene, the crew's workload for the day was finally over. The staff members wiped away their sweat, showed relieved smiles, and began to celebrate with each other.

Xiao Bai watched the bustling film crew, then heard footsteps behind him.

"Loki, you're back." Little White thought it was Loki returning, so she turned around as she spoke, but when she looked behind her, she realized that it wasn't Loki, but Lu Ming. "Oh, Miss Lu Ming?"

Xiao Bai looked at Lu Ming in surprise.

Lu Ming bowed slightly to Xiao Bai and nodded in acknowledgment, behaving obediently and politely.

"Where's Loki?" Little White asked instinctively.

“Miss Loki is removing her makeup,” Lu Ming replied.

Xiao Bai looked towards the stage and saw a group of staff members carrying basins of water, frantically removing various lifelike plaster casts and prosthetics from Loki's body.

"Oh..." Xiaobai nodded and looked at Luming, "Miss Luming, is there something you need?"

“Hmm…” Lu Ming nodded. After thinking for a while, she said to Xiao Bai, “Miss Loki’s acting skills… are very good.”

"Thank you, Miss Luming, your acting is even better!" Xiaobai smiled at Luming.