Road to Stardom

The slight increase in the success rate confirmed Lin Yuan's long-held suspicion:

B-level and higher-difficulty action scenes had to be more dangerous than ordinary people could imagine. Completing action scenes of that difficulty could not possibly rely entirely on attributes.

After all, the system would not truly turn him into a superhuman. Whether he could become an action superstar was uncertain, but being captured by a major nation's research institution and studied like a lab rat was practically guaranteed.

Therefore, he had to master more skills in order to truly raise his success rate.

All of Lin Yuan's scenes had been filmed. Zhang Ziyi had booked his flight for tomorrow. Unlike the self-purchased economy seat he had taken when coming here, he would be flying first class on the way back.

With the little time remaining, Lin Yuan did not go sightseeing again. Zhang Ziyi had also helped prepare the gifts he needed to bring back for his friends.

So he simply stayed with the production crew, carefully observing the filming process and gaining some experience along the way.

Watching the entire crew rush about, working with such enthusiasm, Lin Yuan became deeply absorbed.

Jackie Chan had just finished filming a scene. He left the set and walked toward Lin Yuan.

"The movie is almost finished. Do you have confidence in Rush Hour 2?" Jackie Chan asked.

"I believe there definitely won't be any problems."

Lin Yuan's answer was resolute. It was not merely because he could foresee the future, but because the crew's work ethic over the past few days had given him considerable inspiration.

Jackie Chan was a little surprised and asked with a smile, "Oh? You're that confident?"

"I don't know much about directing or filming, but I know a little about judging teams. Seeing how they work, I know there won't be a problem."

"How so?"

Although Jackie Chan had great confidence in his own movie, that did not stop him from wanting to hear what Lin Yuan, as a half-outsider, had noticed.

"I've also participated in the filming of other movies. In my experience, the attitude of the team members often determines whether a movie succeeds or fails.

"If most crew members work with the mindset of wanting to do things well, then the movie's chances of success increase greatly."

Jackie Chan nodded. He knew Lin Yuan was right.

If everyone was willing to do a little more, a movie that had originally scored seventy points would become an eighty-point movie.

Conversely, a movie that should have scored seventy points might end up with only sixty.

That positive or negative deviation was the key to victory.

Of course Jackie Chan understood this. Whenever he made a movie, he spared no expense in motivating his team.

It was precisely so they would willingly treat the company's projects as their own business.

"Although the team's interests are tied together, so people generally won't slack off.

"Still, there will inevitably be people who coast and muddle through. How can you tell whether they're really giving it their all?"

Jackie Chan smiled again. He had discovered that Lin Yuan had a sharper eye than he had expected.

"Big Brother, are you testing me? Then I'll share my view."

"Crew members often reveal their mindset through unconscious words and actions."

"If your crew members are always asking, 'I've finished this task. Can you see if it's okay?'"

"Then there's a good chance they haven't put their heart into it. They're working with a task-completion mindset. They have no real sense of whether their work is good or bad—they simply finish it and wait to see whether you accept it."

"If you say their work is okay, they consider the task done and muddle through it. If you say it isn't good enough, they put in a little more effort until you can barely accept it."

"People who are truly committed will first do their very best within their capabilities, then use their brains to consider, Can I make this even better? They'll often ask, 'I feel like something's still missing. Help me think it through.'"

"The mindsets reflected by those two ways of communicating are worlds apart. Fortunately, Rush Hour 2 belongs to the latter category, so I'm very confident," Lin Yuan concluded.

"You really are accurate at reading people! My team truly is outstanding. They're my most valuable asset." Jackie Chan's pride was impossible to hide.

This was the team he had built through more than twenty years of painstaking effort.

The core of any film company should be its production staff. In the realm of cultural products, people would always be the most important factor.

A film team with every position properly filled, abundant project experience, members who had worked together and grown accustomed to one another, who recognized each other's abilities and understood each other's workflows, was not something money could create in a short time.

Jackie Chan was grateful to have such a team in his hands. It was the foundation upon which he would achieve all his grand ambitions.

Yet many lofty "elites" simply could not see the value of people.

There were always arrogant investors and nouveau riche bosses from other industries who put money first, believing that with enough money, they could build an amazing team and then produce a good movie.

Talented people brought together with money might very well fail to get along, and the final result could be less than one plus one.

Without time to build rapport, team members would stumble through collaboration, fail to recognize one another's abilities, coordinate poorly, and suffer severe internal friction.

In the end, they would hold a winning hand and still lose miserably.

In fact, this was not limited to the film industry. Games, animation, music... the same principles largely applied to these cultural industries as well.

If one could not put people first and arrogantly expected success simply by throwing resources around, the result would often be a complete mess.

Lin Yuan could fully understand Jackie Chan's pride. He also hoped that one day, he would have such a team of his own.

Even a capable man needed help from others. If he wanted to walk steadily down the road to stardom, he could not rely on fighting alone.

Lin Yuan had truly gained a great deal from participating in the filming of Rush Hour 2. It was not just that he had played an important role and earned a considerable paycheck.

Over the past few days, he had been constantly considering what path to stardom he truly wanted to take.

First came the team. Lin Yuan had been observing and studying how the Jackie Chan Stunt Team operated.

After Jackie Chan saw through his intentions, he directly stated that he would give Lin Yuan his full support when he formed a team in the future.

He could even directly assign some people to serve as the core of Lin Yuan's initial team, clearly indicating that Meng Tao was one of the candidates.

Lin Yuan was delighted by Jackie Chan's generosity and expressed his gratitude once again.

The second step on the road to stardom was for Lin Yuan to establish a distinctive style and personal brand.

When people thought of Bruce Lee, they would say he was the embodiment of "kung fu."

Mention Jackie Chan, and people would immediately think of life-risking action scenes, as well as his humorous and entertaining furniture-store-style fights.

If Lin Yuan merely learned Jackie Chan's dangerous action scenes, then as someone who came later, he could never reach the same heights as Jackie Chan.

Lin Yuan had to plant an exclusive, one-of-a-kind label in the audience's minds before he could possibly become a true Legendary Action Superstar.

So what was the path that belonged to him?

Lin Yuan's answer was this: he wanted to become the embodiment of the concept of "martial arts."

Any fighting technique or weapon skill should come naturally to him, wielded with masterful ease.

Whenever people anywhere in the world mentioned practical combat techniques, he wanted to be the first person they thought of.

For anyone else, that would be an impossible task.

But for Lin Yuan, who possessed the system, it was highly possible.

Then the question was, how could he make the system drop more skills?

Complete another date with any girl. Based on the host's performance, a skill reward will be granted!