Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 361: Not good, I slept for three hours in the cinema

Gu Ming is leaving. The ship back to Japan will depart from Los Angeles, and the journey back will take more than 20 days.

Cheng Long is still in the United States. The movie "Killer Trench" has been released, but he still has to wait to cooperate with some promotional work and the filming of his next movie.

Gu Ming calculated the time and decided that he would go to the port in the afternoon and still have some free time in the morning.

"Let's go to the movies... That's not impossible."

Gu Ming gave some brief instructions to Niemoto Tatsumi, then packed up and prepared to go watch the movie "Killer Trench" with Cheng Long.

In fact, I had never watched the entire movie "Killer Hao Gu Ming" in my previous life. I only saw some movie commentaries and clips, but I knew that this was a well-known bad movie in Jackie Chan's career.

It’s quite interesting to think about watching bad movies starring Jackie Chan with him now.

When Zhen Zidan heard that Gu Ming was going to the movies, she was particularly enthusiastic: "I'm going too! I'm going too!"

"Just sit still, young man."

Gu Ming paused and still didn't say the second half of the sentence. Instead, he asked Nijia Ben Chenmi to keep an eye on Zhen Zidan.

"I'm not going to the movies, I'm going to socialize!"

Gu Ming seriously suspected that after watching the movie, Zhen Zidan would give Cheng Long a sharp criticism, which would make Cheng Long so angry that he would have a fight with him on the spot.

Seeing that Gu Ming refused to take him, Zhen Zidan could only shrug and really didn't follow to see.

Los Angeles is not a big city, but it is not difficult to find someone. Gu Ming soon met Cheng Long at the agreed place. He was fully armed, as if he was afraid of being recognized.

Gu Ming laughed: "You don't have to be so careful, do you?"

"That won't do. We have to be careful, in case someone recognizes us."

Cheng Long cleared his throat and said, "Let's go in and take a look."

Gu Ming responded, and the two of them went into the cinema together.

Although it was Cheng Long who bought the ticket, he asked his assistant to do it, so Cheng Long himself naturally didn't understand. Now when he walked in and took a look, Cheng Long was somewhat surprised: "American movie theaters are so small."

Gu Ming briefly explained: "Because it is a multi-screen cinema, it means there are several screening rooms in one cinema, and different movies can be shown at the same time throughout the day. It is unlike the current cinemas, which are often single-screen cinemas."

Currently, in various places including Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even mainland China, cinemas are basically single-screen, with very low screening efficiency. Multi-screen cinemas have only recently begun to emerge in the United States.

As Los Angeles is a city with a very developed entertainment industry in the United States, multiplex theaters have of course appeared a long time ago.

The two entered the theater. Gu Ming looked around and found that there were not too many people. The only audience members were basically Asian, but their makeup was a bit exaggerated. You could tell at a glance that they were "ABCs", banana people.

Occasionally there are one or two people who are not white, but are high schoolers.

"Cheng Long is quite famous among the gangster community. It's okay to call him 'Ni Ge' to his face."

Gu Ming calmed down and focused on watching the movie.

The story of "Killer Trench" is not complicated. It is basically a story of revenge. The framework is very similar to "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" and "Fist of Fury" starred by Cheng Long, but the background is set in the United States and the filming team is also changed to the United States.

Twenty minutes into the film, Gu Ming knew the movie was doomed.

Cheng Long's personal qualities are not reflected at all. It's not too bad, but it's just not that good.

Cheng Long's expression was not very good either, and he raised his hand and touched his nose.

I don’t know what the director was thinking, but his big nose is particularly prominent.

After watching a movie, Gu Ming listened attentively, but when he looked at the audience in front of him, they didn't give very good reviews.

Although several people were speaking English, Gu Ming could probably understand them.

"It's not pretty and it's boring."

"I slept for two hours in the cinema."

"Why use an Asian as the male lead?"

“You’re not Asian?”

"Me? I'm an American! I'm an American citizen!" Cheng Long pinched his fingers secretly and turned to look at Gu Ming.

“What they said wasn’t very nice.”

"It's okay, not too bad. After all, Americans aren't very good at cursing, and it's not very colorful." Gu Ming said, "Honestly, America is a good place, but it's better for you not to be there right now. Without achievements and your own team, if you do everything according to American demands, the end result won't be good."

Cheng Long nodded vigorously, agreeing deeply.

This filming experience made him very annoyed.

Gu Ming didn't say anything more, and that was the end of it.

The two walked out of the cinema and saw that it was almost time, so they prepared to have a quick meal.

Gu Ming's gaze accidentally shifted and he glanced at the poster at the entrance of the cinema.

"Yo." Gu Ming stared at the male actor who had a particularly big nose like Cheng Long for a while.

Cheng Long followed his gaze and laughed.

"This ghost guy's nose is not small either."

"Indeed." Gu Ming said nothing more, just waved his hand.

Let’s eat!
This movie is a classic American spoof, "Flying Tiger, Hidden Gem".

The actor Gu Ming pointed out was not an American, but a Canadian. He had some fame in the 1980s and had superb acting skills. He was considered an outstanding veteran actor in the United States.

Later, Jim Carrey and Stephen Chow both borrowed from him in terms of performance and plot creation.

This person is Leslie Nielsen, whose representative work is "The Grudge".

Gu Ming looked at Cheng Long again.

I wonder what Jackie Chan's mentality would be when he found out that his movie's box office was not as good as an American spoof.

……

……

After having a quick meal, Gu Ming said goodbye to Cheng Long and boarded the ship back to Japan.

After a twenty-day voyage, the ship finally arrived in Yokohama.

The people and goods were separated, and Gu Ming entered the port first. Now a vehicle to pick up the goods has been arranged.

"Be careful, be careful...be careful! Don't break my things!"

Gu Ming looked carefully at the large boxes in front of him, which contained the equipment he had brought back at great expense.

Computers are so expensive!

What Gu Ming didn't expect was that IBM also provided additional services and actually provided program support locally.

Come to think of it, computers have not yet entered the home market, and for corporate users, after-sales support is crucial.

After Gu Ming gave many instructions, he finally managed to load the boxes onto the truck.

"Let's go back to Tokyo! Back to my loyal Tokyo."

Niiemoto Tatsumi smiled and said, "Your Highness is returning to Tokyo?"

"You could say that." Gu Ming glanced at him and said, "Did you gain anything from your trip to America?"

"Yes, there are quite a few." Niemoto Tatsumi thought for a moment and said seriously, "They are not good at action design, but they are extremely complete in the filming process and all other work. When they supervise a work, there is a complete process."

Gu Ming nodded and suddenly said, "Then do you want to shoot something yourself?"

Seeing the stunned expression on Nijiamoto Tatsumi's face, Gu Ming casually patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about it later when we get back!"

(End of this chapter)