Chapter 54 The Sick Man of East Asia's Signboard Has Been Kicked Off by Me
At the end of October, Lanfang has gradually entered the rainy season, but it has not yet reached the level of heavy rain every day.
There will be a rain around noon every day, and then the sunshine in the afternoon will not be too strong. You can also increase your outdoor activities during the day without worrying about dying from the sun.
October and March are the best times of the year to take photos of desert island survival and have wild survival experiences.
That afternoon, Zhu Youran followed Gu Kun on another beautiful, natural island about ten nautical miles east of Benma Atoll and had a great time.
Gu Kun recently spent tens of millions of ringgit to buy this small island. It covers an area of several square kilometers and is located due north and slightly west of Lanfang Islands. It is planned to be built into Lanfang's movie theater base in the future. (
Galloping Ma Atoll, which was previously built as a sea view hotel resort, is located in the northwest corner of the Lanfang Islands)
There used to be dozens of fishermen living on the island, but Gu Kun paid them compensation and demolished them, and the remaining money was used to purchase state-owned land for the royal family and the treasury.
The island originally had no name, but after Gu Kun bought it, he randomly named it Straw Hat Island.
The reason why he couldn't build a movie theater directly on the original Penma Atoll was because Gu Kun planned to use that atoll to transform it into a "Palm Jumeirah" model like Dubai, focusing on resorts.
If the functions of hotel-style apartments/villas are too mixed and there are too many tourists, it will not be conducive for rich people to enjoy the most beautiful beaches.
On the other hand, it is also because the Benma Atoll is a reef composed of pure coral reefs and white sand, and its water and soil conservation capabilities are very poor. Therefore, there are no natural streams on the island, and the vegetation is relatively simple. Even if Gu Kun spent a lot of time building it, there is still no water on the Benma Atoll.
Only trees such as coconut palms, palms, and banana trees can grow, and other low shrubs and flowers can only be planted.
The Studio City requires a more complex landform environment, richer vegetation, and preferably a primitive tropical rainforest. Based on these considerations, Gu Kun chose and bought this Straw Hat Island.
Straw Hat Island is an island with a coral reef as its base, but the alluvial soil itself is relatively thick. The highest hill on the island is twenty to thirty meters high, with a natural trickling creek, and about three to four square kilometers.
Dense virgin tropical rainforest.
The open space along the coast can be turned into supporting buildings for the movie theater in the future, and now it can also be used to shoot some of the tropical rainforest scenes in "Castaway".
However, these are still on the drawing board. In just a few days, only a few temporary photo studios, a temporary bar and restaurant, a row of prefabricated houses that provide daily service and logistics, and a steel
Structure of fitness center.
These houses are not all newly built, some are old houses of the aboriginal people on the island and were temporarily renovated to make do.
At this moment, on the beach in the distance, on the edge of the tropical rainforest, the film crew from Hollywood was setting up machines and starting work, while Tom Hanks, a fat old man, was dragging his heavy body of more than 200 pounds and jumping up and down in the rainforest.
, based on the survival experience guided by Gu Kun a few days ago, restore the drama of searching for food on a desert island.
Gu Kun originally didn't want to get involved in this trivial matter, and there would be no benefit to it.
But later, director Michael Range discovered that Gu Kun had more experience on how to survive on the local rainforest island than the wild survival experts invited by the crew, so he asked Gu Kun for some advice, and Gu Kun took action.
Director Michael Range and producer Jerry are both talented people. Since Gu Kun gave the advice, they filmed Gu Kun's every move as a behind-the-scenes video to prepare for the release of "Desert Island Survival" in the future.
Let the flowers go out together.
Gu Kun is now more famous than Tom Hanks. How can he not take advantage of such top-level traffic?
Gu Kun didn't mind, his only impression of this matter was:
Why is this guy Jerry so unreliable? He still has the nerve to say that he is a gold medal producer in Hollywood and his ability to coordinate resources is superb?
The wilderness survival expert invited to the crew claims to be a retired Navy SEAL trainer, but he can’t even catch a shark with his bare hands. When did the Navy SEALs start raising this kind of trash?
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Gu Kun only made a temporary guest appearance as a consultant on the set, so it was nothing to do without him when filming started.
He and Zhu Youran were just having a picnic, playing on their own on another rainforest beach nearby.
Zhu Youran has suffered a lot in the past few days, but she is very happy. Because she has been used to a life of fine clothes and fine food since she was a child, she is quite tired of it. Going to the wild to endure hardships and experience the hardships of natural life is like eating like rich people
It’s almost the same as eating wild vegetables and having fun at a farmhouse.
The key is a real survival experience in the wild. If it's like Mr. Bei, the little girl will definitely not be able to bear it. But with a coach like Gu Kun, he can play with her every day when she needs to relax, and control the degree of hardship.
If you stay there, the experience will be perfect.
Just like fishing, always rushing to bite the hook will definitely make people feel unfulfilled, and they will feel that the photo is staged and the fish are stocked by the fish pond owner. However, if no fish bites the hook after fishing for a long time, it will be very frustrating. The best thing is
The hook-biting frequency is so slow that it doesn't look like a script, and it just doesn't exhaust people's patience. This kind of fishing will definitely make people want to stop, and they will lose track of time after fishing for a whole day.
On this day, Zhu Youran worked in vain for two full hours.
Go into the sea and catch fish, you won't catch any at all.
If you touch the cedar lobster in the rocky creek that flows into the sea, there will be no trace of it.
She wanted to climb a tree to pick wild coconuts (the tree was pointed out to her by Gu Kun), but when she was halfway up, she lost strength and fell flat on her butt on the beach.
I only picked up a few live seashells and conches, which was not enough for a meal.
In the end, when Zhu Youran's patience was about to run out and his mentality was about to collapse, it was Gu Kun who personally jumped into the sea, touched it a few times, swam several hundred meters away, and brought back a few cedar lobsters.
I got a few more coconut crabs in a swish, and used crab claws to pop the wild coconuts, and then I put all the coconut crabs on the fire and roasted them.
The fire reflected Zhu Youran's dirty face, marked with black mud marks, and it was obvious that she felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart.
"I didn't expect you to be so powerful. A successful person like you is nothing like those other boring people who are obsessed with money. Let's say you are an Olympic champion. You are much more versatile than those who are engaged in sports. How do you do it?
of."
Zhu Youran held a large roasted coconut crab claw and nestled on Gu Kun's arm with a very relaxed and fascinated expression.
She was still too short, especially with long legs and a short upper body, so even if everyone was sitting, she couldn't lean on Gu Kun's shoulder when she leaned over, and could only lean on his arm.
Gu Kun didn't answer immediately. She took a bite of crab meat and couldn't help but continue to ask: "If I encounter such a big coconut crab in the wilderness survival, I might be killed by it. Survival in the wild is really difficult."
It's easy, I thought it was too romantic."
The scene where Gu Kun caught coconut crabs and opened coconuts just now still made her feel a little thrilling and very exciting. Afterwards, she felt very safe.
Coconut crab is not a kind of seafood, but a terrestrial arthropod that lives in trees. It is famous for its pliers that can pinch open coconuts. Therefore, few people dare to catch coconut crab with bare hands. If it is pinched, it will be very miserable.
The coconut crab that Gu Kun caught and ate just now is half a meter long and weighs seven or eight kilograms if both sides of the crab legs are spread out. It is already relatively strong.
"What's wrong? I don't think that if you were a 7-year-old who had to survive on your own and went out to sea for more than ten years in rough seas, you would probably be able to do what I am." Gu Kun was afraid that the girl would keep nagging her, so he could only face it head-on. Answer, drop the topic.
Zhu Youran didn't ask any more questions.
After a while, perhaps the fun had passed, she curiously changed the topic:
"By the way, why did you come up with the idea of opening a fitness company yourself? It's not like you want to start a fitness chain brand. That kind of business is not very profitable. Is it just to provide some high-end services to Hollywood stars and increase media exposure? What?"
Gu Kun took a sip of coconut water and touched Zhu Youran's hair: "Do you think this kind of business is unreliable? Children, don't worry about business matters. What you should do now is study hard and exercise, and you will understand in the future. "
Zhu Youran: "Then can you take me to visit the set where you filmed the weight loss highlights? I want to take a bath in the gym where Tom loses weight and look around."
After all, it was the vague things Zhu Jingye revealed to her that aroused the little girl's curiosity.
"What's so interesting about it? Losing weight is very hard, repetitive, boring, and not enjoyable to watch."
Of course, there is nothing wrong with the room where Tom Hanks loses weight. But the filming of Gu Kun's bodybuilding film has entered the preparatory stage, and he is currently undergoing actor training. If those things are seen by a young girl, it will inevitably cause misunderstandings.
"I just want to see the hard-working side of celebrities." Zhu Youran held Gu Kun's arm in his arms and begged.
"You can watch it if you want." Gu Kun hesitated for a moment, feeling that some things couldn't be hidden after all, so he might as well talk about it.
He didn't make the film himself, he just showed off the bodybuilding image of Asians for cultural export. This motive itself has a very upright outlook, as if he is upright and not afraid of slanted shadows.
After a while, after finishing grilled conch and mussels, grilled cedar lobster and coconut crab, Gu Kun wiped his mouth and took Zhu Youran to the fitness center on the island.
First, Zhu Youran, who was covered in mud and water stains, took a good bath before taking her to the gym where the filming was held.
Zhu Youran first saw Tom Hanks who was working hard to lose weight.
He gained weight specifically to shoot his previous fat house image, and then had to lose it again during the filming process. Zhu Youran was deeply touched by the torturous hard work.
As the world superstar who has won the world championship and broken the world record the most times, Gu Kun was very considerate and gave Tom Hanks a few words of advice in front of the camera, and also practiced a few moves with him and gave him some guidance.
Even Luo Haili, who is now the deputy director of the Lanfang Culture, Sports and Tourism Department, also appeared on the scene to give some guidance.
Finally, after visiting the weight loss behind-the-scenes scene, Zhu Youran noticed that there were several photography studios next door, and insisted that Gu Kun take her to see them one by one.
In one room, she saw several strong, tall Asian men and more white girls. The men were exercising there, while the girls were undergoing basic acting training.
"What do you want to take a picture of?"
"If you can't understand, I don't expect you to understand. I'm just doing it for cultural export. Let foreigners know that we are not the sick men of East Asia."