Chapter 264: Making Money, It's Time to Let the Audience Enjoy an Ultimate Visual Spectacle!

I mentioned it before.

The original British Duel has a heavier plot and is rather boring to the audience.

Moreover, the most important point is that Cheng Long doesn't have many scenes; the main storyline focuses on the love‑hate entanglements between Ireland and Britain.

Lin Mo's heavily modified version is completely different; he cuts out all those complicated love‑hate entanglements.

Pierce's character Lai Mu appears to be a senior government official, but secretly colludes with a terrorist organization.

He creates panic and then uses his official position to resolve the issues, thereby consolidating his own standing.

Now that he has been promoted to deputy minister, he should also discard that "urinal".

The plot is just like that—simple and logical.

But despite all his calculations, he never expected to offend the wrong person.

That's right.

That person is Guan Yuming.

After losing his young daughter Guan Fan, Guan Yuming looks much older, with a head of white hair and bloodshot eyes.

Soon after, two investigators came to his door, claiming to deliver his daughter's belongings.

One of the female investigators even asked Guan Yuming if he had any other relatives.

Only then.

On the big screen.

【7】 The camera focuses on Cheng Long's face.

The camera focused on Brother Cheng Long's face.

He lifts his head, his tone heavy, and says, "I.. y (I have no family)."

The big‑screen camera zooms in on Cheng Long's face.

At this point.

The audience suddenly realize.

Cheng Long...

He... he really seems old!

Wang Xing.

He is a film review blogger, invited today to the premiere of British Duel.

That's right, the Cheng Long fan mentioned earlier.

Usually on his Douyin and Bilibili accounts, he specializes in explaining Cheng Long's movies.

He has over two million fans.

One could say he grew up watching Cheng Long's films.

Just now, this shot.

His nose inexplicably tingled.

In his impression, Cheng Long has always been capable of fighting and jumping.

But suddenly, seeing such an aged Long Shu.

He then realizes.

Turns out, Cheng Long has aged!

Returning to the big screen.

Guan Yuming, portrayed by Cheng Long, is no ordinary person.

He senses something fishy behind the bombing; over the past few days of surfing the web and reading newspapers, he discovers it is clearly a meticulously planned terrorist attack.

Thus, he rushes to the local police station, intending to use money to smooth things over, hoping to extract the terrorists' identities from senior officers.

But senior police warn him to stay out of trouble, saying it brings him no benefit and to wait patiently for news.

He waits, weeks pass, and nothing comes of it.

So Guan Yuming begins his own investigation.

By chance, he sees Lai Mu in an interview video; this person once took part in extreme terrorist actions, even served time, and now has been white‑washed into Northern Ireland's first deputy minister.

Guan Yuming feels a stir, speculating that Lai Mu may be linked to the terrorist organization, perhaps even the mastermind.

Without hesitation, he calls Lai Mu's office and immediately asks for the terrorists' names.

On the other end, Lai Mu is puzzled, wondering why the caller assumes he knows these matters.

After that.

Guan Yuming utters a maxim.

"Politicians and terrorist groups are like the two ends of a snake; no matter which end you grab, you catch the snake."

Obviously.

Lai Mu doesn't give Guan Yuming any useful information and hangs up.

He didn't even care about the matter at all.

Thus.

From here, the story truly begins.

Guan Yuming goes alone to the government building, meets Lai Mu, and tries to ask him in person for the list of terrorists.

But Lai Mu continues to joke, claiming ignorance.

Seeing that Lai Mu shows no remorse, Guan Yuming heads to the restroom, places two bottles of lemon soda on the floor, ties them together with a rope, suspends them in the air, removes a cigarette filter, inserts a match into the cigarette, and positions it above the bottles to act as a timer and ignition.

After lighting the cigarette, he locks the door with a screwdriver and leaves the scene.

The audience in the theater.

They see this, yet they don't know what Cheng Long intends to do.

Suddenly, the camera switched to the toilet.

The cigarette burned down to the match, a flash of firelight, and the bottle fell to the ground with a huge "Boom"!

The audience wearing 3D glasses almost felt the heat wave hit their faces; this explosion effect was incredibly realistic!

Isn't that right.

This is why Lin Mo insists on real shooting.

As 3D movies develop, special effects can't match the visual impact of genuine real shooting.

"Holy shit!"

"This explosion is too real!"

"As said online before, Director Lin's movie is mostly real shooting!"

"You can really tell the difference between real shooting and special effects at a glance!"

"Awesome!"

"..."

In the theater, every audience member's face showed excitement.

Here.

At the premiere.

Seeing this explosion scene.

Jiang Wen also remarked beside him: "No wonder you, old brother, insist on real shooting; this effect really beats special effects!"

Then he also said: "But it really costs a lot of money; only you would dare to shoot like this!"

"That's right, besides Director Lin, who would dare to do real shooting for such a big explosion scene!" Ge Daye also said.

Feng Xiaogang, Chen Daoming, and others also nodded.

Especially Feng Xiaogang.

He himself is also a director.

Shooting an explosion scene for real would cost a lot of money.

Think about it.

If one take fails, you'd have to do a second, a third...

Who can afford such expense!

"I mean, as I always say, since we've made money, we should of course repay the audience, letting them enjoy the ultimate visual effect!!!"