Former Warrior Turns Into A Million-Dollar Actor [EN]: Chapter 144

The Former Hero is a Ten Million Actor – Episode 144 (144/199)

To the World Stage (7)

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“Kugh, cough…”

On the windy rooftop of a hotel.

A man in a suit is holding a Korean man by the neck.

“Is this place also Endo’s territory?”

The emotionless voice asks a cryptic question. His strength is so great that he can lift a large adult man with one arm without faltering.

“……”

The suit-clad man’s eyes waver. This guy already knows everything.

The fact that the name of the ‘Association’ to which their boss, one of Singapore’s largest drug organizations, belongs is Endo, is only known to middle managers and above.

“You… who…”

“Looks like it. I can see your pupils shaking.”

The Korean man, speaking nonchalantly, moved with the man still lifted in his arm.

The destination is the railing. With the action clearly showing what he intends to do, the man desperately struggled.

“This hotel, the boss we are loyal to is a member of Endo!”

“So?”

“Endo will neither forgive nor forget. They will kill all your brothers, friends, and anyone even slightly related to you. If you stop now…”

“There aren’t any.”

The mouth of the man, who was shouting with his face reddened while being grabbed by the collar, closed.

That crazy Korean, the intruder who kidnapped him and dragged him up here, kindly spoke again.

“I don’t have anyone like that anymore.”

This Continental Hotel is a trading place and hideout for VVIPs and VIPs where all sorts of illegal activities take place.

The man, who started from the bottom of the organization and finally became the manager of this huge branch, was momentarily speechless.

‘This bastard, what is he, more than the Association’s killers…’

Have you ever seen a human close to death?

That is not a person. It is a disaster and calamity that brings destruction.

I don’t know what kind of idiot he is, but he has called death itself deep into the heart of the Association.

“…Who are you? You’re not a civilian. Are you a member of an organization we eliminated in the past? Did you come all the way to Singapore for revenge?”

Whirr, whoooo—

A merciless wind whips around the ears. When humans sense death, they reach resignation.

To the man’s question, who had lost strength in his body, ‘Gode’ shakes his head.

“It was a slum in the Philippines.”

“…What?”

“He had a black snake tattoo on his wrist. He closed his eyes, shouting Endo until the moment of his death, saying he had received the Association’s grace.”

Endo, called ‘Association’ among killers, drug dealers, and terrorists, is a massive criminal organization with branches in South America and Europe.

Under it are major organizations, and below them are small fries who only borrow Endo’s name.

However… if it’s a gang operating in a slum, there’s no way they could be a direct affiliate of the Association. In other words, someone who isn’t even an errand boy sold the name and came all the way here.

“…Are you on drugs or something?”

This is like going on a trip and setting fire to the country because you had a rough time.

The manager asked in vain, but the only answer was the sound of the raging wind.

Swae-aack, bang!

“Kyaaaa!”

“Someone fell!”

“Ambulance, call an ambulance! Someone call the police!”

The peaceful night streets of Singapore are soon stained with screams and shouts.

A camera approaches the wrist of the corpse, twitching with post-mortem convulsions, that just fell from the hotel rooftop, capturing the tattoo.

A wriggling black snake with white stripes on its body.

At this very moment. Cracks began to appear in the tree that supplied fluids to the ‘Association’ from the cutting edge of the financial world.

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After dropping the manager from the hotel railing, Gode moves immediately.

He could have handled it quietly, but that doesn’t fit the goal he came here for.

The reason for wiping out all the Philippine gangs associated with the ‘Association’ and flying to Singapore is only one.

It was because he wanted them to die in fear.

-What, the manager got hit!-

-Who is it? Blockade the rooftop!-

The hotel security’s radio chatter is heard from the earpiece in his ear.

Their armaments and ammunition are crude, but conditions are not important to this human weapon. Gode pressed the silenced pistol close to his body and went down the emergency stairs.

“Oh, you are…”

As soon as he opens the door, bullets are mercilessly shoved into the two guards who appear.

Ta-tang, ta-tang!

Two shots pierce through the sternum. Because bullets are scarce, he quickly kills them with the double tap drill.

In the first place, it is a shooting technique close to rapid fire, but it is so fast that it looks like it is playing at 2x speed for a moment.

“……”

Searching the bodies of the guards who have stopped breathing, Gode checks their wrists, replenishing guns and magazines.

As expected, this hotel is one of the Association’s major fishing grounds. The guys he dealt with in the Philippines only had one white stripe on the snake’s body, but even the security here has two stripes.

‘The low-level guys who only borrow the name have one, if you go higher, two, the middle manager has three…’

The snake on the manager he dealt with earlier had three white stripes. As he picks up his gun and gets up, he hears the sound of people rushing over with his terrifying hearing.

Gode rushes to meet them and confronts the three security guards who are turning the corner.

Pshuk, pshweet!

With one hand, he shoots a bullet into the Adam’s apple of the enemy at the front, and with the other hand, he pulls the second guard to block the angle of fire.

He throws away the guy who unintentionally became a shield for his teammate and shoots a burst at the third guard.

Then, he finishes the situation by hitting the head of the guy who is trying to get up.

Has it been only about 5 seconds? In a situation without bulletproof equipment, he has dealt with three trained security guards with minimal ammunition.

“Amateurs.”

Again, searching the enemies’ pockets, Gode comments indifferently.

If it was a gun with stronger firepower, or even a pistol, it could have penetrated the body of a comrade and inflicted significant damage on the enemy.

In fact, in the operation zone where he was, in the center of a civil war where murder and rape were commonplace, weren’t there countless madmen trying to kill even one more person?

‘Team leader, go first! I’ll take care of this!’

Among the countless voices that can no longer be heard, someone’s particularly thick voice brushes past his ear.

Gode takes his eyes off the corpse of the security guard he was looking down at… a bearded Asian man, and gets up.

There are many who look alike, and there are many who shoot guns, but the dead do not return.

He has put on the shell of a human, but he is no longer human, like an avatar of self-destruction and revenge.

-It’s upstairs! Contact with Team 5 has been lost!-

-Prepare for engagement and break in, there is a high probability that he has heavy weapons!-

The intercepted radio communication is caught again. The disaster that sows blood leaves the corpses behind and moves on.

There is no need to hide his face. In the same sense, there is no reason to hide his code [codename or identity].

After all, those who know ‘Gode’ will become cold corpses, regardless of the continent.

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“This was an unprecedented fight scene in film history. In my life, I’ve never seen anything of this quality, not even in Hollywood, let alone Chungmuro [Korean Hollywood].”

In the big room of the hotel where they are staying together.

Kim Yang-ho, who came with the two brothers, praised enthusiastically.

After filming, if it’s not too late, they gather with the Korean staff and share their thoughts.

The stuntman junior, who was said to be close to him when Kim Yang-ho went to scout him, retorted.

“No, hyung [older brother/male friend], why is your reaction always the same? Last time in the Philippines, you said it was the best action in Southeast Asia.”

“That’s Southeast Asia! And it was mainly machete fighting, this time it was classic shooting combined with jiu-jitsu.”

“Um, Singapore is also in Southeast Asia…”

Kim Yang-ho, completely ignoring his junior, rummaged in his back pocket and took out the action storyboard.

“Anyway, it was amazing. I was worried that it would feel similar to Kill Thorn 2, but our director and Park Geon created a completely different work. Even if the production team over there saw it, they wouldn’t be able to say it’s an homage.”

“That’s what they were aiming for in the early stages.”

“Yes? An homage to Kill Thorn?”

“No, to be compared as if it were an homage.”

Kim Yang-ho’s face, which had been tilting his head, slowly showed a sign of understanding.

“Could it be that’s why the concept is different for each battle scene…”

Geon nodded.

“Yes. The first is a head-on fight, and after that, it will become more sophisticated.”

Action movies also have their own techniques.

Thrillers rush from the build-up in the beginning to the development in the end, and blockbusters gather team members and gradually increase the scale of the incident, throwing out the actions that can be shown one by one.

If the comprehensive gift set that filled those actions in one movie was ‘Kill Thorn’, then ‘Gode: Guardian of Wrath’ goes one step further.

‘It will go similarly at first.’

Gwyn Raymond said leisurely at a meeting with only the lead actor and the director of photography.

‘If you captivate the eyes with overly unique actions and groundbreaking scenes from the beginning, the impact of the middle and end will weaken. Moreover, the audience’s expectations have risen as high as they can go because of Kill Thorn.’

‘Well, there are many reviews that even Kill Thorn dozed off after the middle part.’

Raymond received the words of the director of photography.

‘Why, isn’t there a Korean proverb that says that entering and leaving are different? As a creator, maintaining suspense until the end, even in the same play, is therefore important.’

‘In what way…’

‘It’s simple. Differentiation within familiarity.’

‘Are you talking about what’s written here?’

When Geon pointed to ‘Faster!’ written on the action storyboard, Raymond nodded.

‘I know it will be difficult, but Josh here will help as much as possible. He’s one of the few friends who can create speedy directing even when shooting long takes.’

‘1.3 times, or more, is possible.’

At the sudden number, director of photography Josh and Raymond looked at each other.

Geon confirmed their guess as fact.

‘Based on the most recent series of Kill Thorn. I can increase the speed of most actions, such as magazine changes, aiming shots, and rapid fire, compared to the actor.’

‘…At that rate, even if you cut it with slow motion, the audience won’t be able to keep up?’

The lead actor of ‘Kill Thorn’ also completed the action after undergoing harsh training. Josh, who knows the other side’s skills, sticks out his tongue, and Raymond smiles.

‘But don’t really bet on it. Our goal is to make those bastards gasp for breath.’

Thus, the directing of the directors also converged to one point.

Faster, more accurately.

It’s the same machete… or gun-jitsu action, but this movie is different from the beginning, imprinting on the audience’s minds that the performance of the rising star produced by Cannes surpasses ‘Kill Thorn’.

And today, another thing was proven amidst the surprise of the staff and stuntmen.

“Hyung, I just watched it, and it’s much faster.”

Park Seon, who was looking at his smartphone and iPad side by side immediately after filming, declared with a serious expression.

“Similar movements don’t look similar at all, the composition is different, and even the speed is faster, so it feels much different? If we keep going like this, we might really be able to catch them!”

“The style will be different next time.”

“Huh?”

Geon glanced at the action storyboards piled high on the table in the center of the room.

Bulletproof suits, armor-piercing bullets, sword wrestling, pool action, double axes, and even bows.

The action of ‘Gode’ starts now.

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