In the beginning, Boss Jia watched the filming with great interest for a few days. Ultraman was one of Boss Jia's favorite TV series as a child. As for how Ultraman was filmed, Boss Jia was also very interested. On the second day of filming, Boss Jia even made a cameo appearance as a panicked passerby.
In addition, Boss Jia excitedly put on a leather suit and acted as Ultraman Tiga. He made a few handsome poses and was praised by the director as the most soulful Ultraman.
However, Ultraman's leather suit was really not something that humans could wear.
Because Ultraman Tiga had three different forms, three different sets of leather suits were made at the same time. Boss Jia wore a brand new set of leather suits for the speed-type Ultraman Tiga.
The reason why he wore a brand new set was because Boss Jia discovered that after the actor who acted as Ultraman took off the leather suit, a strong stench of sweat instantly emitted from the leather suit. It was so strong that Jia Yapeng took a few steps back.
Hua Xia's staff were the same. They couldn't stand the pungent smell. However, Fusang's staff were very used to it. It was obvious that they already knew this would happen.
Therefore, Jia Yapeng absolutely couldn't wear a leather suit that was worn by someone else. Jia Yapeng only stayed in the leather suit for less than five minutes. He made a few handsome poses and didn't even fight a proper battle. However, Jia Yapeng already felt unbearably hot. Countless amounts of sweat seeped out of his skin. Jia Yapeng felt like he was about to suffocate.
Later on, Jia Yapeng also did some simple battle scenes with monsters. When he was exercising, his sweat became even more exaggerated. Even though it was winter, Jia Yapeng looked like he was fished out of water. By the time the filming was over, his tight underwear was completely soaked.
"This Kwon Teng Shunsuke, how much is his monthly salary?" Boss Jia asked the director beside him. His whole body was covered in sweat and he couldn't wait to jump into the Huangpu River to take a bath.
Shunsuke Kwon was the actor in Ultraman Tiga's leather suit. He was in charge of wearing Ultraman's leather suit in battle. A single scene usually lasted three to four hours. Boss Jia didn't even dare to imagine how torturous it was.
"If there's a filming mission, it's about 500 yen an hour. It's already relatively high among all the staff!" The director replied.
"500 yen an hour, and a shoot usually lasts about 12 hours, so it's about 6,000 yen a day, and about 180,000 yen a month!" The director replied.
"Too little!" It was rare for Boss Jia to be so kind. He shook his head and said, "Who can stand to stay in this leather case for 12 hours a day for a month? How about this? Double his salary to 1,000 yen an hour! "
"Yes!" Since the boss had spoken, naturally, no one would refuse. When he heard that his salary was suddenly increased, Shunsuke Kwon was so excited that he almost cried. It was great to have such a boss.
Boss Jia also felt that the leather suit actors were really pitiful. As Ultraman, it was these leather suit actors who were supposed to protect humans. The human suit actors only needed to act cool.
However, their salary was more than ten times that of the leather suit actors. According to the crew's information, Nagano Hiroshi, as a Dago actor, was paid as much as 10000 yen an hour. He could earn as much as a hundred thousand yen a day. In comparison, the leather suit actors were really pitiful.
But then again, the salary of Fusang actors was actually quite reasonable. According to the standard of living of Fusang, this salary was really not high.
Fusang wouldn't have much inflation in the next 30 years. Similarly, there wouldn't be much of a contraction either, so the average monthly income would still be about 100,000 yen. As an actor, earning a hundred thousand a day wasn't too much.
At the very least, it was much cheaper than the Hua Xia actors who earned a hundred thousand a day when their average salary was less than 5,000 yen.
Of course, the actors in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms only earned a few hundred yuan a month. The Hua Xia actors of this era had it even harder. They really sacrificed their lives for the sake of art.
After watching the leather suit scenes, Boss Jia watched some real-life scenes. For example, the director had spent a lot of effort to find hundreds of extras dressed in ordinary clothes. Then, they had to act out a scene where monsters suddenly wreaked havoc in the city and they panicked.
The process was really messy. A scene that only took three to four seconds on TV actually took an entire morning to complete. Most of the time, the extras couldn't cooperate, or they didn't have enough expressions. In any case, it was very torturous.
In addition, there was also a scene where an actor sat in a makeshift plastic model of the Victory Swallow and fought with an airplane.
Boss Jia saw Zhang Fengyi, Tao Hong, and other familiar faces sitting in a motionless airplane model, performing all kinds of accelerations, dives, and all kinds of slogans. Their expressions were very focused, and they made all kinds of detailed battle expressions. When Boss Jia saw this scene, he almost couldn't help but laugh.
This was too damn funny.
After a few days of watching the filming of Ultraman Tiga, Boss Jia was about to return to Yuzhang when he suddenly encountered a very troublesome situation.
On the 3rd of February, the crew was about to start a new day of filming when they suddenly found that their filming base was surrounded by a group of farmers with sticks. These people were angrily talking to the crew. Some of the more impatient people couldn't help but want to throw the hoes in their hands.
"What's going on?" asked Jia Yapeng, who had received the news and hurried over, with a frown.
"These people, the production crew destroyed the forest left behind by their ancestors and even destroyed a few of their ancestors' tombstones. They are forcing the production crew to compensate them with a few thousand yuan. Otherwise, they will stop filming." The Chinese assistant director quickly explained to Jia Yapeng.
"Is that true?" Boss Jia frowned. "Tell me honestly. Did we destroy their things? Especially their tombstones. If they were really destroyed, you have to compensate them immediately. We are in the wrong!"
"No, if we really did such a thing, our conscience would be uneasy and we would definitely compensate for it. But we really didn't do such a thing. When we chose this place to build the filming base, we had already surveyed the ground. This was originally a threshing ground used by the village to dry the grains. "
"At that time, we promised the village that we would pay them 100 yuan a day as rent, and at the same time, we would harden the ground and turn it into cement. When the crew finished filming, we would give it to the village for free. We even signed a contract at that time!"
"But after a few days of filming, some people in the village suddenly said that their relatives were buried in this open space. There were also their tombstones inside. They wanted to harden the ground with cement so that their ancestors would be completely crushed to death, so that no one would be able to rise again."
"A few days ago, we were explaining this matter. We even gave the fiercest few 100 yuan each to appease them. We didn't expect that everyone would surround us today. What is this all about?" said the assistant director, feeling wronged.
"What? You gave money to these people? " Jia Yapeng was so angry that he wanted to kick the assistant director away. This guy had read too many books and had no social experience at all.
In the face of those villagers who were fighting, they shouldn't have given a single cent. Even if they fought with them, stopped filming, and directly changed the location, they wouldn't have given a single cent.
But this idiot actually gave them money, and even gave the fiercest few 100 yuan each. Well, then, the fiercest few would be satisfied with the money and stop causing trouble. Wouldn't the other villagers be jealous of them?
Why would they be able to get 100 yuan, but honest people like them didn't get a single cent?
So now all the villagers would ask the crew for money, and they all unanimously asked for 100 yuan each because they were crushing their ancestors' tombstones!
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