Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 371

371. The Madman Is Not Alone (1)

November 6, 2022

‘This is a bit embarrassing……?’

People tend to get flustered in unexpected situations.

Yeon-woo was no exception.

‘Gabriel is one thing, but why me?’

Yeon-woo didn’t know.

He knew that director Jonas Ben had built an impressive career and made good films at a young age.

But he didn’t know how his reputation was spreading within Hollywood.

‘Isn’t it enough to just do your job well and make good work? It would be a problem if he were crazy, but Jonas isn’t that kind of person.’

Some directors get hung up on strange things and make unreasonable demands.

The stories he’d heard, like ghost stories, were chillingly true.

For example, being told to actually light briquettes in a car for a suicide scene using briquettes.

Or being forced to break a window with bare hands without any safety measures.

Or being told to be inside a car when a piece of a building falls from a high place and destroys the car.

‘Compared to those crazy bastards, Jonas is nothing…….’

Even though he suddenly created a role out of nowhere and asked him to take it with crazy eyes.

That much is well within his defensive range.

After yesterday’s filming was delayed due to the sudden synopsis revision.

‘I hope no dirtier rumors than before spread.’

Yeon-woo was worried about that.

Purely because he didn’t know what kind of reputation Jonas Ben had.

‘It would be a problem if they thought I received some strange solicitation.’

In fact, if yesterday’s filming had gone smoothly, these worries would have been unnecessary.

Gabriel invested several days in just a few scenes and was attached to them.

Gabriel, who faced his trauma more clearly after the public service advertisement.

His acting was, of course, not bad in Yeon-woo’s eyes either.

No, it was pretty good.

‘Once they see it, they won’t be able to say anything. Everyone’s perspective will change.’

Recognition.

The cold stares that poured down every time he entered the set.

Yesterday’s filming was a kind of declaration of war against those gazes.

……If it had gone according to plan.

‘It’s good that I don’t hear strange whispers because of the suddenly increased role, but…….’

This is a bit burdensome.

“Yeon-woo, are you okay? Is there something wrong?”

Gabriel, who has a good sense, quickly asked Yeon-woo.

“There’s no problem, but it’s a bit strange.”

“Strange? What?”

“Gabriel, you’re one thing. But why are they looking at me like that?”

He didn’t make separate contact, so the status window didn’t pop up, but Yeon-woo was sure.

‘I have a feeling that most of those people probably have high favorability [positive feelings or opinions]?’

When Yeon-woo said that, Gabriel made an ‘ah’ sound.

“The story from yesterday must have spread.”

“……They just cast me out of the blue and they’re just going to leave it alone and watch?”

“Ah. Yeon-woo, you don’t know Jonas well, do you?”

Until yesterday, the gazes towards Yeon-woo were very monotonous.

What should I say?

It was a somewhat lukewarm temperature?

There was no open hostility, but there was no favor either.

He attracted attention because he was with Gabriel, but that was it.

If I had to say, he was just a bothersome passerby?

Occasionally, there were people who recognized that Yeon-woo was the composer of Dream Walker, but there was no difference.

‘It looks like one field from the outside, but when you look inside, there are clear differences between each field.’

That was the right answer.

Just like the distance between actors who shoot TV dramas and actors who shoot movies is farther than viewers think.

People in the film industry didn’t seem to have much interest in pop music singers.

They were definitely like that, but…….

“Ah. Jonas doesn’t take solicitations [requests or favors, often implying influence or pressure]. You could say he hates that kind of thing? Maybe that’s why?”

Jonas is serious about filming movies.

He couldn’t stand a bum who wasn’t qualified messing around in his area.

“He’s a bit famous for being headstrong. He really wanted to shoot this Black series, but he almost couldn’t because of that. I heard he rejected all the actors the production company had picked out.”

“Yes?”

“Isn’t it absurd? But he really did it. Raymond told me this, so it’s certain.”

Raymond was not even on the list of candidates for the main character in the first place.

“Black has a lot of female characters, but a sleek and handsome actor like Ray would damage Black’s masculinity, or something like that. It’s complete nonsense.”

The production company has the power to replace the director and even the screenwriter if necessary.

But Jonas said this to them.

-My Black has to be sleek and handsome like Raymond, as you say! Just because you have muscles doesn’t mean you can be Black! You want me to express a genius with a handsome face and a smart brain with that muscular, ignorant idiot you brought? Impossible. No way! I can’t!

It’s a situation where he could be replaced.

Nevertheless, Jonas did not back down.

Gabriel added.

“He’s stubborn. Jonas has a bit of a crazy streak too.”

Anyway, the conclusion is this.

Jonas is the kind of person who would say no to something he doesn’t think is right, even if a knife is held to his throat.

It was impressive that he was the same even in front of investors or production companies.

“You trust Jonas.”

“That’s right. Rather than seeing us as great…… it’s more like they trust Jonas’s judgment.”

The staff, who have been with Jonas for a long time, have deep trust in his insight.

It was the belief that Jonas would not revise the script for someone who was not qualified.

‘This is going to work out better than I thought?’

Should I say it’s thanks to Jonas?

Things are going to work out better than I thought.

‘The fact that they trust the director’s insight rather than the actor means they don’t really have any expectations for the actor yet.’

Yeon-woo was rather pleased with this situation.

Since there are no expectations at all, the reaction will be even greater when he shows the results.

“That’s good.”

A smile appeared on Yeon-woo’s lips.

This was an opportunity.

*

The atmosphere changed.

The Black series is not a light atmosphere to begin with.

But the staff could say for sure.

‘There’s a subtle tension added.’

That was a change that started with a man standing in front of the camera.

“Mr. told me to tell you this.”

“How can I trust that John Doe? After committing such heinous acts, you’re telling me to trust him?”

Raymond, no, Black, looked up at David, who was making an indifferent expression with sharp eyes.

He had met someone who would be the last person in his life not long ago.

Though he soon lost her.

“We regret Hannah’s death. Hannah’s loss was not something we wanted either.”

“That ridiculous excuse is really boring. Is there any proof that you’re not trying to manipulate me like you used Rachel, no, Hannah?”

“You know that leaving evidence is absurd.”

David was a secretary who was no different from John Doe’s henchman.

After the agency sent Hannah, an organization member, to Black according to the agency’s orders.

When they learned that the agency had eliminated Hannah to plot the mutual destruction of Black and John Doe, the two formed a precarious alliance.

David was the one who mediated between them.

“Wow. It looks like Jonas has really done something big this time?”

“I wondered why they brought in an unknown and stood him there…….”

The staff who were watching the filming unknowingly clicked their tongues.

This scene was the biggest prelude to the movie’s climax.

The synopsis, which was newly changed in one day, set this scene as the most important point.

“Jonas is really amazing. The atmosphere has become even more suffocating overnight.”

It was natural as the truth of the incident was revealed and the mastermind was revealed towards the end.

But the tension felt in yesterday’s and today’s filming was on a different level.

A heavy, gloomy, and sticky sense of crisis and urgency that was suffocating from all sides.

The flow of the movie even felt like the pace was one beat faster.

It was an atmosphere that would make even the viewers breathless with the events that would unfold in the future.

And in the center of it.

“Jonas is Jonas, but…….”

“Who the hell is that person……?”

There was a stranger who had been indifferent until yesterday.

There are two people who create an even heavier and more tense atmosphere.

Raymond, who is Black, is one thing…….

‘That person has changed this much……?’

He was definitely someone who didn’t seem very outstanding.

He was someone who wouldn’t have caught my eye much if he hadn’t been next to Gabriel.

I trust Jonas’s judgment, but yesterday they said something like that among themselves.

-Isn’t Jonas getting too stressed these days? So maybe his judgment is a bit…… blurred?

Stress sometimes, no, quite often, drives people crazy.

And there was no one among the staff who didn’t know that Jonas was under pressure because of the third series that would mark the final finale.

-It’s amazing that he’s come this far without making a single mistake. Jonas is human, so he can make a mistake once in a while, right?

Even if I concede a hundred times, I understood casting Gabriel as a cameo.

Gabriel’s private life is a mess, but his acting skills have been recognized since he was a very young child actor.

But the story is a bit different with a strange man who was invited with difficulty, creating a role that suddenly didn’t exist.

-I heard he’s a rising actor on Onflix [a fictional streaming platform, similar to Netflix] ?

-I heard he’s the composer of Dream Walker?

-Even so, Hollywood is a rookie, so what is Jonas believing in?

They had worked with Jonas for a long time and trusted him, but on the other hand, they knew.

That Jonas is human.

Therefore, he can get tired at any time and make wrong decisions.

‘It’s okay. I’ll just cut it out as much as possible when editing. Anyway, it’s true that Jonas’s new synopsis is better.’

It was a fact that the completeness of the synopsis was higher, although I don’t know about the actor’s acting.

Anyway, if I cut and paste the increased role into pieces as much as possible and plaster all kinds of effects on it, I can roughly fix it.

It was very fortunate that the increased role was a minor role.

But.

‘Wait a minute. What is this?’

The moment the camera turned, they could feel it.

For some reason, the atmosphere in the set changed in an instant.

Gulp!

The camera director’s Adam’s apple, who was the first to notice the change, moved up and down greatly.

‘I almost made a mistake!’

He is the most experienced veteran and senior camera director on set.

As long as he has a long career, he has been skillfully filming all kinds of actors.

But the moment the ready sign fell and he skillfully looked at the viewfinder and finely adjusted the focus of the lens.

“Heok.”

His eyes met.

It was an instinctive reaction that he inhaled without realizing it.

The focus ring, which he was finely adjusting, almost slipped.

It was creepy.

‘It’s just…… it’s just a walking scene, but this atmosphere…… what the hell is it?’

It was the scene where John Doe’s subordinate, David, directly faces Black for the first time.

The start was not a full figure shot of the whole, but a close-up shot starting with the shoes walking.

Starting from the floor, David’s walk gradually tracks up from a low angle, passing the bust and stopping at the shoulder for a close-up.

But the camera director almost turned the hand that was focusing and focused on another place.

Towards Yeon-woo’s eyes, not the intended ankle.

‘Jonas. What kind of monster did you dig up!’

He has filmed many stars, but he has never seen anyone who sucks people in like this, even through the viewfinder.

The skilled veteran camera director screamed inwardly.