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No matter how rushed the pace of the shooting was, they still have to eat.
“Lunch was so good I had high expectations for dinner, and it’s living up to them.” Director Son Tae-min said while eating.
The assistant director agreed.
“It’s really spicy and delicious.”
“It’s a shame. I want to eat this again tomorrow, but we can’t ask the person handling the action scenes to also cook.”
The assistant director, eating, asked,
“Director, wouldn’t this taste even better with some soju?”
“Right? This definitely calls for soju.”
Son Tae-min knew he had to stay up all night writing the revised script after today’s shoot. Drinking now would ruin the script and the film.
“Abstaining for a week is tough.”
Film company CEO Lee Tae-ho, sitting beside him, spoke up.
“Once the film is completed, I’ll treat you to premium beef and traditional soju. For now, let’s hold off.”
“Haha, you really know how to motivate. Let’s have a drink together then.”
“Absolutely.”
Lee Tae-ho glanced over at the food truck where Na Kang-In was.
“Do you think Na Kang-In will join us for the celebration?”
“Uh… I guess so?”
A staff member, who had been eating while looking at his smartphone, suddenly exclaimed.
“Huh? Why is this here?”
Everyone looked at the staff member.
Director Son Tae-min asked,
“What’s going on?”
The staff member held up his phone.
“The video of Min-ji’s rescue.”
“Hey, I told you to manage that carefully, why is it on your phone…”
“It’s on the internet!”
Film company CEO Lee Tae-ho stood up, shouting.
“How did that get online? Who dared to upload it?”
The staff member, who had accidentally discovered the video online, shrank back.
“What? I, I don’t know…”
“Someone here must have leaked it!”
Lee Tae-ho ordered manager Kim,
“Contact the PR team and get that video taken down immediately. No, I’ll handle it myself!”
He called the company’s PR team leader.
-Yes, sir. This is the PR team leader.
“Get a video off the internet immediately.”
-Is it a scandal?
“It’s not a scandal!”
Lee Tae-ho explained the situation and instructed the video be taken down. Then, looking around angrily, he thought,
‘Someone here must have leaked it. Maybe an actor, a staff member, or one of those detectives eating over there.’
A few moments later, the PR team leader called back. His voice wasn’t cheerful.
-Sir, this didn’t come from a media outlet. It spread through social media and internet forums.
“So?”
– Whenever we find the video, we request the site to take it down, but….”
“Are you saying it’s difficult?”
– The video has already been uploaded to foreign sites. Even if we block it domestically, it will just come back from overseas.”
Lee Tae-ho isn’t the type to yell at people to do the impossible. His voice turned cold.
“Then find the original leaker.”
– Yes! We will do our best!”
Director Son Tae-min was holding his staff accountable, trying to find out who leaked the video.
“Who is it? If you confess, I’ll spare you!”
Lee Tae-ho watched him with a cold look, then sighed.
“Phew.”
He called Jang Mi-jung.
“Mi-jung, listen without getting mad.”
– You didn’t get into trouble again, did you?
Lee Tae-ho gulped and explained the situation.
“It wasn’t me….”
– Then?
“It’s about Min-ji’s rescue video. It got leaked. It’s all over the internet. It spread too fast for us to stop.”
– Oh, that?
Lee Tae-ho blustered.
“Don’t worry! I’ll find the guy who leaked it and….”
– Min-ji posted it.
Lee Tae-ho’s eyes widened.
“What?”
– Min-ji wanted to see the video, so I showed it to her. She got so excited, saying the snack guy looked like a hero, and she wanted to post it online. She said she needed to share the cool image of the snack guy.
“Oh? So, what happened?”
– Of course, I told her to go ahead.
“You did?”
– Why? Is there a problem?
Lee Tae-ho looked at Son Tae-min, who was shouting for someone to confess quickly.
“No. I just have someone urgent to stop. I’ll call you later.”
Lee Tae-ho hung up and ran to Son Tae-min.
“Director Son! Can I talk to you for a moment?”
Son Tae-min was now yelling at not just the crew but the actors as well.
“I’m disappointed in you all!”
Lee Tae-ho shouted urgently.
“Director, please stop!”
“I expected you to know better!”
“Stop! It’s not what you think!”
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When Na Kang-in isn’t around, the number of customers at the PC bang drops a bit. Still, there are more people than before, so the part-time workers get some rest.
Right now, it’s Cha Eun-seo, the boss’s niece, who is working.
Yoon Ah-reum, the night shift worker, lost her apartment to a fire and has nowhere to go. So she did her school assignments at the PC bang during the day. She hung out there even when she had no plans.
Sometimes, when the PC bang was busy, she helped out even off-duty. That way, she got free meals at the PC bang.
Now, there weren’t many customers, and no orders.
Cha Eun-seo and Yoon Ah-reum were watching a video online. It was a video of Na Kang-in stopping a van and rescuing Lee Min-ji.
Comments were flooding the video.
– Wow. This is awesome.
– Is this a movie promo video?
– Of course it’s a movie promo. How else would this be possible without CGI?
– Right. If someone really jumped onto a moving car, they’d die.
– It was shot with a film camera, not a phone camera. That’s why it looks so good.
Some people pointed out which parts were CGI.
– When he jumps onto the moving car and when he pierces the engine room with a metal pipe, those are definitely CGI.
– What about the scene where he jumps from the hill onto the moving car?
– Obviously wires were used. CGI just erased the wires.
– Our CGI technology has really advanced. It looks more realistic than Hollywood CGI.
– The fighting scenes after he gets out of the car are intense.
– What’s the movie title? I have to see it when it comes out.
– They haven’t announced the title yet.
– But it’s a Korean movie, right?
– The car used in the video is a Korean van, so it must be a Korean movie. Since the promo video is online, the movie title will be revealed soon.
Cha Eun-seo watched the video and said,
“Wow. I have to see this movie when it comes out. Ah-reum, want to go together?”
“Of course. But…”
Yoon Ah-reum watched the video, puzzled.
“This person here looks a lot like Kang-in oppa, don’t you think?”
“Huh? You can tell faces?”
The video was shot from the hill.
When Na Kang-in was running down the slope, the distance was quite far, and they had to zoom in. Moreover, only his back was visible then.
When he jumped into the car and broke the engine room to stop it, his side was shown, but from even further away.
Plus, this wasn’t the original video. It was a low-quality copy made for reference, so the quality was worse than the original.
So, recognizing a face from the online video was hard.
Yoon Ah-reum pointed at the man in the video.
“His build is similar to Kang-in oppa’s. And if it isn’t CGI, only someone like him could pull off such stunts.”
“Huh? What does Kang-in oppa’s cooking skills have to do with this action?”
“Well….”
When Yoon Ah-reum was trapped on the roof of a burning building, Na Kang-in climbed up the wall with his bare hands to save her. They escaped by tightrope-walking to the next building with her in his arms.
It was something no ordinary person could do, even if they risked their life.
And the man in the video looked like he was risking his life just the same.
But she wasn’t sure.
“Maybe it’s too much, even for Kang-in oppa?”
“No one could do that. And why would he be there? He went to a film set for a catering job today. When would he have shot this and done the CGI work?”
Yoon Ah-reum also mistakenly thought the video used some CGI.
“Right? It’s not like CGI comes out in a few hours, right? Oh, so that’s not the case.”
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