Jurassic Park 3 Premiere

June 21, Los Angeles.

The Fast and the Furious and Jurassic Park 3 were set to premiere at midnight that day.

The premieres for both films had already been held earlier that day.

Although the two films were being promoted together, their premieres were not held together.

At The Fast and the Furious premiere, Lin Yuan had originally thought he would have an easy time.

After all, his role did not have much screen time. He was only a minor character with one standout, exciting scene.

So he should have been able to take it easy, hang back behind Director Cohen, Paul Walker, and Vin Diesel, and simply show up for the occasion.

But he had forgotten that he was the link between the joint promotions for the two films. Several promotional videos had used him and his spectacular action scenes as their main selling point.

So Director Cohen had directly hauled him from the back row to the front, putting him to work and making full use of his value. How could he possibly let him slack off?

After all, thanks to the massive success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and those promotional videos, he was even better known than Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, the actual leads.

After finally wrapping up that event, he rushed straight to the Jurassic Park 3 premiere.

As one of the leads, he had even more responsibilities to shoulder.

The Jurassic Park 3 premiere was also a success. The invited guests and various media outlets actively helped build momentum for the film, giving it a solid start.

Lin Yuan did not particularly like such occasions, but he had no choice but to cooperate and go through the entire process.

By the time everything was over, his face felt somewhat stiff from maintaining a ceremonial smile for so long.

When the event finally ended, it was already afternoon. Lin Yuan wearily bid farewell to the cast and crew, returned home, and took a nap.

When he woke up again, it was already past nine at night.

He drove alone to an ordinary small cinema in the city, bought a ticket for the premiere screening of Jurassic Park 3, and went inside to watch it.

To experience the audience's most genuine reactions, the best approach was to observe them up close.

As the film was about to begin, Lin Yuan entered the pitch-dark theater, felt his way to a corner seat in the last row, and sat down.

This was the best spot for observing the entire audience's reactions.

There were walls to his right and behind him. On his left sat a white man and woman who looked to be around twenty.

Lin Yuan guessed that their relationship was still in that ambiguous stage. They were not officially a couple yet.

He understood why the man had bought tickets for the last row. Flirting couples liked to do that, regardless of nationality.

Just as the man gathered his courage in the darkness and reached his right hand toward his female companion's small hand, the movie screen suddenly lit up.

The sudden burst of light startled him.

"Dammit! Of all times," the man muttered under his breath.

"The movie's starting! I'm so excited!" the woman said with a smile as she looked at her companion.

"If I weren't here to watch this movie with her, I wouldn't have wanted to come at all. I hope it's at least scary," the man muttered so quietly that he was nearly inaudible.

Lin Yuan heard him and recalled something Liu Yifei had said before:

Guys liked taking girls to horror movies because they thought they were the hunters.

Little did they know that girls willing to watch horror movies with guys were the real hunters, disguised as prey.

There was probably something going on between these two.

At that moment, the movie officially began.

The opening shot showed a white speedboat cutting through a brilliant blue sea, throwing up waves.

The speeding boat towed a thick rope behind it, pulling a paraglider through the air into the distance, like a kite tugged along by a running boy.

The camera tilted upward, revealing a handsome young man on the paraglider, gazing excitedly into the distance. "That's the famous Isla Sorna. I hope I get to see the legendary dinosaurs."

The camera moved in for a close-up of the youth's face. It was a handsome Eastern face, youthful and full of heroic spirit.

"That's Lin Yuan! He's so handsome! I only came to see this movie because of him," the white woman beside him exclaimed softly.

"I don't see what's so handsome about him. He doesn't look manly," the white man grumbled unhappily upon hearing his companion praise another man.

"What did you say?"

"I said, he's the lead? Why did they use a Chinese guy as the lead?"

Lin Yuan, seated beside them, heard every word of their conversation.

Sure enough, many people's first reaction upon seeing the movie was, Why is a Chinese face the lead?

It was not that everyone was prejudiced against Chinese people. If a domestic film cast a Black or white person as its lead, everyone's first reaction would also be that it felt somewhat unusual.

That was only human nature.

"What's wrong with a Chinese lead? Lin Yuan is amazing!" the white woman continued.

"Is that so? Then I'll wait to see his impressive performance," the man replied dismissively.

On the screen, Lin Yuan, suspended beneath the paraglider, was looking into the distance.

Following his gaze, a vast green island appeared on the horizon. It was lush with dense vegetation, while countless black specks flew through the sky above it, too distant to tell whether they were large birds or some other creatures.

That was the destination of Lin Yuan's journey: Isla Sorna.

Continuing the storyline from the previous two films, it was the island where dinosaurs lived. It had now been designated a nature reserve, and humans were forbidden from setting foot on it.

But there were always curious humans who used aerial gliding methods like Lin Yuan's, hoping to catch a glimpse of the dinosaurs' true appearance.

"Get a little closer. I can't see clearly from here." Lin Yuan pulled out a pair of binoculars and spoke as he looked through them.

But then, an unidentified creature suddenly leaped out of the water and swallowed the speedboat's driver whole.

Without a driver, the speedboat began charging wildly ahead, flinging Lin Yuan through the air in every direction.

At last, the taut rope could no longer bear the strain and snapped in the middle.

The paraglider carried him down into Isla Sorna's dense jungle, where it snagged on the top of a massive tree.

Lin Yuan hung from the ropes in midair, swinging violently back and forth. It looked as though the strain would tear the paraglider loose and send him crashing down.

As an extreme sports expert, Lin Yuan did not panic. He calmly pulled out the knife at his waist and cut several ropes behind him.

As the final rope was cut, he fell downward, reached out to seize a thick branch, then swung forward with clean, fluid precision.

His movements were as light and elegant as an elf who had lived in the trees all his life.

After several leaps and drops, Lin Yuan safely reached the ground. He cautiously surveyed his surroundings, then slipped into a patch of bushes.

Seeing this, the woman beside Lin Yuan said, "He performed all those stunt moves himself. Isn't that cool?"

The man paused, then replied, "He's definitely got some skills. He's not just a pretty boy, but that alone isn't anything special."

"Then keep watching. There'll be plenty to surprise you," the woman whispered.