The Haunted Monster Actor - Chapter 104



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Episode 104

“Okay, everyone, attention.”

The trainees who were continuing their independent training gathered in the center of the gym with dumbfounded faces at the sudden visit of Director Lee Cheong-beom.

Just by looking at Director Lee Cheong-beom and Director Park Jeong-hoo gathered in one place, it wasn’t difficult to predict what Han Ik-sang would say next.

“Our manly action team will be joining the martial arts team for the movie ‘Bad Weather,’ which will begin filming around mid-February next year.”

At Han Ik-sang’s words, everyone’s surprised gaze turned to Hyun-soo.

As if he had known something like this would happen, Hyunsoo greeted everyone with a calm expression.

“I am actor Kim Hyun-soo, who has been cast as the lead in Bad Weather. I ask for your continued support.”

The trainees who were greeted by actor Kim Hyun-soo, who was not their classmate, looked bewildered for a moment.

Soon, Han Ik-sang’s words continued.

“At the end of the year when the basic training course for this batch of trainees ends, we will conduct a separate evaluation and select a few with excellent grades to join the Bad Weather Martial Arts Team. The Bad Weather Martial Arts Team’s general director will be Director Park Jeong-hu here.”

There was a look of surprise on the faces of the trainees who heard Han Ik-sang’s words.

Joining the team consisting of directors Lee Cheong-beom and Park Jung-hoo means working with the legends of Korean action.

Although Lee Cheong-beom failed twice in a row, it was only a box office failure and not a failure in the action scenes in the movie.

Soon, a serious look appeared on the trainees’ faces.

Han Ik-sang nodded while looking at the determined faces of the young action figures and continued speaking.

“I will be the assistant director who will be in charge of the scene together with the director. I think you all know what this means, right?”

Han Ik-sang’s thunderous shout is soon directed at the trainees with confused faces.

“I’m telling you that if any of the kids I taught fail the end-of-year evaluation, everyone should be prepared to die! Do you understand?”

“yep!!!”

The movie Bad Weather has entered full-scale production with the addition of the manly action team.

* * *

The moment of historic announcement that the masculine action team would be joining the movie Bad Weather has passed.

Hyunsoo and Goh Gun had a brief meeting with the two directors in the second floor representative director’s office.

It didn’t matter how the two came together again.

That’s just a conversation between two people.

Now it was a meeting between a director and an actor.

“The story turned out like this. I ask for your continued support, Actor Kim.”

“Please take good care of me too.”

Hyunsoo bowed his head and greeted the two directors.

“Please take care of me too.”

When you have two outstanding people with extraordinary auras gathered together, it feels like you have gained a thousand troops.

Hyunsoo felt his heart pounding as an actor as he embarked on his journey with these two extraordinary directors.

“The reason I asked to see actor Kim and manager Ko for a moment was to briefly discuss the rough schedule for the upcoming filming.”

Of course, we’ll talk about the exact production schedule separately, but since Goh Kun is here, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to talk about the rough schedule in advance.

“First of all, we are looking at crank-in between late January and mid-February next year.”

Hyunsoo nodded after hearing Lee Cheongbeom’s words.

It’s the end of October now, so they said it would start filming in about 3 months.

‘Since the filming location has changed from overseas to domestic, we’ll have to start scouting locations again from scratch. If you think about it that way, 3 months would be a tighter schedule than you think.’

I’m not just talking about the time it takes to set up a filming location or assemble a team.

No matter how strong and good the materials used to build a house are, if the foundation is weak, it is natural that it will collapse.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the pre-production stage of a film, which can be called ‘advance preparation’, is perhaps more important than the main shooting stage of a film.

And ‘action movies’ are the movies that put the most effort into the process among all movie genres.

The reason is simple.

This is because action movies, like other genres, cannot be filmed with just a ‘script’.

“As soon as the personnel on business trip return, we plan to form a team from Sangnamja and start filming a ‘demo video’ right away.”

The lines of characters in a movie are in the script, and their emotions are understood through the text and the flow of the narrative.

However, the sum of the action cannot be known just from the script or the storyboard.

That’s why, in action movies, they film a separate ‘demo video’, also called an action script.

This involves creating an action demo video that is matched in advance based on the script and the scenes drawn on the storyboard, and using this for the main shooting.

Director Park Jeong-hoo’s gaze turned to Go Geon, who was sitting next to Hyun-soo.

Goh Kun looked thoughtful when the words demo video came up.

“I’ll tell CEO Woo in advance, but since actor Kim is currently receiving training here… … I think it would be a good experience to participate in the production of the demo together. What do you think?”

It was natural why Gogun couldn’t answer right away.

Even if it was personal training before filming, it was highly unusual for a lead actor to participate in the production of a demo video before filming.

“Of course, in the case of dangerous filming, our team of skilled stuntmen will handle it, so you don’t have to worry too much about safety issues.”

At Park Jeong-hoo’s words, Go Geon’s gaze turned to Hyun-soo.

“I think the quality of the action in the movie will go up if the lead actors can directly participate in the production of the demo. I would like to participate.”

When Hyunsoo expressed his agreement, Gogun nodded and spoke.

“If the director says so, then maybe… … the CEO will also agree.”

‘There’s no one to stop you anyway.’

“I think it’ll be okay as long as it doesn’t interfere with the upcoming year-end schedule.”

There are three months left until the main shooting.

But the bad weather action was just beginning.

* * *

Hyunsoo returned home after finishing the remaining training, and there was a smile of anticipation on his lips.

“Finally… … is it on track?”

The brief action sequence that Hyun-soo showed during his first meeting with director Lee Cheong-beom resulted in the reunion of two genius directors who had not even been in contact with each other for five years.

But Hyunsoo never thought that these results were due to his interpretation of the script.

What is clear is that Director Park Jung-hoo also discovered what Hyun-soo discovered in the script.

‘If you know the story of those two people… …you’ll know just by watching the movie.’

Director Lee Cheong-beom conceived the film from the beginning with the intention of working with director Park Jung-hoo.

“Anyway, it’s a demo video.”

That means, before we even start filming, we might end up creating action scenes with our colleagues who we trained with.

In addition to that.

“Just because it’s an action movie doesn’t mean it’s all about action.”

As the lead actor in a bad weather drama, you have your own set of duties to perform.

It is the name of the analysis and ‘acting’ of the character.

“Since the entire script has changed, we will have to start analyzing the characters again from the beginning.”

After a quick shower and dinner, Hyunsoo spread out the bad weather script on the table.

As I said before, the bad weather before the revision felt like an unfinished business with the narrative and emotions scattered here and there.

But the final result is… … .

“All the side branches are removed, and the emotions are concentrated on the actions of the main character, Woojin Lee.”

The initial plot of the movie Bad Weather is as follows.

The main character, Woojin Lee, is a young man who lives in a semi-basement rented apartment in a shabby detached house in Dal-dong.

Woojin, who has no family to visit or a proper job, works day labor.

At first, the landlady was wary of Woojin, who was quiet and had a strange aura, but after living together for several years without any incidents, they naturally became friends.

The side dishes she occasionally prepared for me were full of affection, and the time spent playing baduk with the old man who lived in the attic on the second floor wasn’t so bad either.

Then one day, while eating with an old man and an old woman, Woojin says, laying out various side dishes as usual.

“Granddaughter, shall I help you find it?”

The landlady who immediately puts down the bowl of rice she was serving, and the old man whose eyes begin to tremble with a blank expression on his face.

The old man’s granddaughter that Woojin spoke of was the daughter of the owner who went missing eight years ago.

“Your name is Lee Su-yeon, right? If you come here, you won’t receive any overdue rent or side dish money.”

Woojin, who had been chasing Sooyeon’s whereabouts, soon finds out that her traces lead to an ‘island’ that does not exist on the map of South Korea…

The emotions contained in Lee Woo-jin’s actions here are simple and clear.

This is the ‘lost eight years’ of the old man and the landlady.

Their time, which had stopped after their granddaughter’s disappearance, begins to move again thanks to Woojin’s actions.

That clear flow of emotions will allow the audience to immerse themselves more deeply into Woojin’s actions.

The saying that the somewhat messy emotional line came together at one point was referring to this very thing.

“Woojin’s extraordinary past, which is revealed in the process of finding Sooyeon, will also be an interesting element that will keep viewers glued to the screen.”

As expected from an action movie protagonist, Woojin Lee has an extraordinary past and his personality is also unusual.

Woojin’s personality as expressed in the movie is…

‘In a word, it’s close to a split personality.’

When talking to old people, old ladies, and other characters, he is a young man with an ordinary personality that can be seen anywhere.

“When dealing with enemies, you are like a robot with no emotions.”

A setting that follows a suitable cliche that seems like something you’ve seen somewhere.

but.

“Because the taste you already know is scarier.”

Hyunsoo, who had been thinking about Lee Woojin’s character for a moment, nodded his head.

“I think the basic personality and the feeling when acting are similar to when I was in ‘Lee Ji-woon’.”

At the same time as these thoughts, there is an entity writhing in Hyun-soo’s mind.

‘Jang Ki-chun.’

During the last CF shoot, Hyunsoo was able to utilize the emotions of his dreams more stably based on his willpower as an ‘action actor’.

‘That means that such utilization is possible even while filming a movie.’

So Hyun-soo uses these dreamy emotions appropriately during the filming in this bad weather.

In addition to that.

‘I mix in my natural acting skills.’

The idea is to train Hyun-soo to utilize his acting skills at a time when the action actor’s willpower is most strongly activated.

“This time… … I won’t rely on your feelings unconditionally.”

The camera, which visualized ‘Actor Kim Hyun-soo’s dream’ in the image, began to illuminate the ‘dark forest path’.

As if in response, an ominous shadow walks out from the forest path.

Hyunsoo began to create and ‘recreate’ the character of Woojin Lee based on the existence of the serial killer Jang Gi-chun.

Continued in the next episode ▶