Chapter 912 1012. Tooth for Tooth
"CUT!" With the booing, Nie Wei frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to the staff on the sidelines, signaled to stop filming, and then called the assistant director to his side.
"Li Xiang, go and negotiate with those policemen. It's best not to let irrelevant people watch the filming. If you can't drive them away, try not to let them speak." Nie Wei ordered.
Li Xiang nodded quickly and walked towards the police who were helping to maintain.
Because the film was recorded on the spot, some loud noises were not allowed during the filming, not to mention such loud boos. The good scene just now was completely ruined by those boos.
Soon Li Xiang ran back and told Nie Wei that the police had negotiated and would let them be quiet.
Nie Wei glanced at the sidelines. The boos came from that direction, and there were about a dozen strong young men standing there, almost everyone holding a basketball. When they saw Nie Wei's gaze, one of them looked at the black man who was nearly two meters tall and raised his middle finger to Nie Wei provocatively.
Then Nie Wei saw a policeman come forward to warn the black man. The two seemed to have had a little dispute before. In the end, the black man waved his hand and seemed to give in.
"Continue filming." Nie Wei ordered, but he was still a little worried. He just hoped that the police could do it well.
The filming started again, still the same scene as before, the sentinel played by Joseph and the dream stealer played by Nie Wei played basketball and talked with each other.
"Cobb, no matter what decision you make, I will always stand on your side." Joseph just finished reading this line, and the basketball in his hand suddenly slipped out of his control, interrupting his performance.
It was just a small mistake, and it would be fine if he did it again, but the booing that made Nie Wei feel very uncomfortable sounded again.
Joseph, who was standing in front of Nie Wei, had a flushed face. He didn't know whether he was guilty for his mistake or embarrassed by the booing outside the court.
"Sorry, my mistake." Joseph said apologetically.
"It doesn't matter. The performance just now was good. Remember this state and do another one." Nie Wei comforted.
Nie Wei thought that Joseph's performance in this scene was still okay. If it weren't for the boos the first time, he might have passed it in one take. The second time, he only made a mistake in the basketball, but he didn't make any mistakes in his performance and lines.
Nie Wei looked at the time, and there were less than 40 minutes left.
"Hurry up and try to pass it in one take." Nie Wei clapped his hands, encouraged everyone, and then signaled the assistant director to prepare for filming.
However, Joseph had just picked up the basketball, and before the filming started, the boos from the sidelines rang again.
"Rookies, you don't deserve to play on this court. You should go home and ask your mother for milk." The black man who had just raised his middle finger to Nie Wei not only booed this time, but also shouted loudly at the two people in the court.
Along with his words, his companions also laughed undisguisedly, and the boos were raised again.
Joseph's face was red, and he felt that it was because of his mistakes that he was ridiculed. Behind the shame was more anger, and his eyes were full of anger, staring at the people on the sidelines fiercely.
Nie Wei sighed on the side, and he was still affected. Joseph was in a state where he couldn't make a movie at all. It seemed that if those guys were not dealt with, I was afraid that the filming would not be smooth today.
Once again, he called assistant director Li Xiang to his side and ordered: "Go to the police to negotiate. If they can't handle this matter as soon as possible, then report today's situation directly to their senior management. By the way, you let Robert accompany you."
Robert is a barrister Nie Wei found in Canada, and he is very famous in the legal circle of this country.
Let him accompany Li Xiang to negotiate, and there is no fear that the police will not try their best.
The shooting was paused. Seeing that half an hour had passed, Nie Wei was also a little anxious. He had begun to think that if the problem could not be solved in the first time, then he must go through legal procedures and let the local management agency pay for it.
You should know that when the contract for renting the venue was signed, it was stipulated that the shooting environment must be quiet. If the other party cannot guarantee it, it is naturally the other party's problem.
Five minutes later, Li Xiang came back, accompanied by the person in charge of on-site security.
"Mr. Nie, I am very sorry for what happened just now. I promise that similar things will not happen again." This person apologized to Nie Wei as soon as they met, and his attitude was very sincere.
"You don't need to apologize, but the delayed time must be made up. I ask for an extension of 20 minutes for the shooting." Nie Wei directly put forward his request.
The person in charge looked embarrassed after hearing Nie Wei's words, and indicated that he had to ask the leader first.
Nie Wei watched the police expel the onlookers on the sidelines while waiting for the result of the person in charge's request. A few minutes later, the person in charge came to Nie Wei again and told Nie Wei that the people above had agreed to his compensation request.
Nie Wei was not surprised. His request was very reasonable. It was normal for the other party to agree. If not, Nie Wei would doubt how those guys got to that position.
Another twenty minutes of shooting time, plus the remaining twenty minutes, was enough to complete the shooting task. When Nie Wei was about to ask Joseph to continue shooting, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head, and everyone in front of him showed a horrified expression.
Doug didn't expect that the gang of street thugs would dare to suddenly throw the ball at Nie Wei.
When he found out, the flying basketball was less than one meter away from the back of Nie Wei's head. Doug had no way to stop the basketball except changing his face.
He even thought about how to write an apology letter, and was deeply worried whether this incident would affect his career.
Just when he thought everything was over, Nie Wei, who had been looking at him, seemed to have eyes behind his head. When the basketball was about to hit the back of his head, Nie Wei quickly raised his hands and stretched them behind his head. Under the horrified expressions of everyone, he actually caught the basketball steadily.
At this moment, everyone's expression was frozen. The next second, Doug showed a look of surviving a disaster, and the black man who threw the ball at Nie Wei still had a smug smile on his face after the prank, but his eyes seemed to have seen something terrible.
"Mr. Nie, are you okay?"
"Nie Wei, are you okay?"
"Who threw the basketball? Why don't you come over to apologize? Didn't you see that you almost hit someone?"
Doug was still immersed in the ecstasy of surviving a disaster, and the next second he was squeezed out of the crowd by the crew members who rushed over.
Doug also wanted to know about Nie Wei's situation. Although he did see Nie Wei catch the basketball steadily, what if there was an accident? Even if there was a small problem with this world-class rich man, it would be a big problem.
Especially looking at the reporters with cameras crowded in the crowd, Doug was even more worried. Who knows what these guys will write.
Are the citizens of Quebec very unfriendly? Suspected of racial discrimination? Or is the danger index of Quebec City extremely high, and the rich were attacked on the street?
Doug felt that the imagination of the reporters must be richer than his own, and the reports they wrote must be more eye-catching, but this was exactly what Doug didn't want to see, after all, he was responsible for the security work at the scene.
"That bastard, catch him!" Doug quickly set his target on the guy who smashed the ball, thinking that he must teach this young man a memorable lesson today, so that he would understand that not everyone can be dealt with by their methods.
Under Doug's command, a group of policemen rushed towards the black boy who was still dumbfounded, while Nie Wei, who was surrounded by the crowd, smiled and asked everyone to disperse.
"I'm fine, really nothing happened. If you don't believe me, look, even my hair didn't touch it. Okay, everyone, disperse quickly, we are filming, what are you all running over for." Nie Wei held the basketball in one hand and asked everyone to disperse so as not to affect the filming scene.
Naturally, everyone dared not to listen to Nie Wei's words. They were all scared when they gathered around just now, especially the few girls, who almost cried. After all, the basketball hit Nie Wei like a cannonball, which looked very scary.
But after the shock, the girls were very excited again. They gathered together and chattered, all praising Nie Wei for being so handsome.
"Nie Wei didn't even look back, he caught the ball, so amazing."
"That's right, I saw the ball flew so fast, I didn't have time to remind him, I didn't expect Nie Wei to find it behind his back, how did he do it?"
"Who cares, I just think Nie Wei was so handsome when he caught the ball."
"The bastard who smashed the ball is the one, he's dark and tall, he doesn't look like a good guy at first glance."
While praising Nie Wei, the little girl didn't forget to belittle the black guy who had been detained by the police. However, this black guy was obviously not an honest person. In addition, he had more than a dozen companions, and he kept claiming that he just missed. The police couldn't do much with this group of people for a while.
"Mr. Policeman, can you ask the guy over there to return my ball? I don't like others touching my ball." After the black guy came back from his surprise, he didn't care anymore, just thinking that Nie Wei was lucky.
Faced with the police's stern warning, he also pretended to be indifferent, and even provoked the police in return.
"Drake, you may not know how big a mistake you have made. While no one is pursuing your fault now, you should disappear here as soon as possible, otherwise..." A policeman obviously knew the black guy and called out his name accurately.
But the policeman's warning was obviously useless to Drake. Before he finished speaking, Drake interrupted him with a look of indifference.
"What else? I just missed, and I didn't hit anyone. He caught the ball, right? Now I want my ball back, right?"
"And you guys are just accomplices of the rich. This is a public court. As legal citizens, we should have the right to play here. Who asked you to rent this court to those guys? I even suspect that you took benefits from them!"
"Yes! You guys, playing here is our right. Why do you want to drive us away?"
"Tell them to go somewhere else to shoot that damn movie. We won't leave. We want to play here!"
Drake's words aroused the approval of his companions. Everyone shouted slogans to support Drake and stood still. Some people even wanted to return to the court.
For a while, the police and the gang were about to clash again.
"Drake, I warn you not to cause trouble!" Doug came over and pointed directly at Drake. This guy was a frequent visitor there. Although he had never made a big mistake, he would always be there when there were small conflicts in this area.
It can be said that Drake had long been on Doug's blacklist. He thought that this was a group of bad boys, and he looked down on these guys who had not received a good lesson since childhood, and thought that they would be like this for the rest of their lives.
"Mr. Doug, you really live up to your name." Drake looked at Doug with disdain. He didn't like this very common guy. He felt that this guy named Doug always looked at people like him with a kind of contempt.
This kind of look deeply stimulated Drake's self-esteem, making him hate Doug more and more, and want to go against him more and more.
This is why they, who originally played basketball in another neighborhood, came to this remote place today, because Drake deliberately picked a fight with Doug.
Of course, after arriving at the place, he was also very dissatisfied with Nie Wei and his group, especially watching Nie Wei and Joseph, the actors, being "served" by a group of people in the middle of the venue, handing water and towels, and wiping sweat. He even saw someone applying makeup on the faces of these two men.
This made Drake feel sick, and felt that Nie Wei and Joseph were like the white children from wealthy families in the college where he used to stay, all spoiled.
Doug was stimulated by Drake's words. When he was thinking about how to deal with this guy, Drake took the initiative to provoke them again, asking them to go to Nie Wei to get their basketball back.
"That's my basketball. I don't like others touching my basketball. Do you understand? Or are you planning to embezzle my property? Oh my God, you really don't let us poor kids go." Drake shouted exaggeratedly.
Doug's face was dark and scary, but he couldn't get angry. He glared at Drake fiercely and signaled his assistant to go to Nie Wei to get the basketball back.
He only wanted to get the basketball back quickly and then drive these guys away quickly.
After all, Nie Wei was the one he had to take care of. These annoying guys in front of him were not worth wasting his time. When they made mistakes in the future, he would naturally have a way to deal with these guys in his own territory.
The assistant quickly found Nie Wei after receiving the order. When Nie Wei heard that the black man on the sidelines wanted to get the basketball back, he was stunned for a moment.
"Really shameless." Nie Wei sneered, and did not hand the basketball to Doug's assistant. Instead, he took the basketball and walked towards Drake. Joseph beside him saw Nie Wei's actions, and after a moment of silence, he hurriedly followed.
The two suddenly left the center of the filming site, attracting the attention of many people. Seeing that Nie Wei was walking towards Drake, a group of male staff members immediately stood up and followed Nie Wei.
Although they didn't know why Nie Wei suddenly walked over there, it didn't prevent them from following Nie Wei. One was to protect Nie Wei, and the other was to show their strength. After all, everyone knew the principle of strength in numbers.
Drake was really shocked when he saw Nie Wei coming with a group of people.
"You want the basketball in my hand?" Nie Wei stopped when he was about two or three meters in front of Drake, and then asked with a smile.
This smile seemed to Drake to be a sign of weakness, just like those Asians in his impression, who always give in. This made his heart, which was a little scared by so many people, gradually calm down, and even felt a sense of contempt for Nie Wei.
So what if there are so many people? Just give the ball back to me. Drake walked forward and prepared to take the basketball. He even made a draft in his mind, ready to mock Nie Wei a few more times, and then leave a cool figure. This is perfect.
But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he took the first step, he suddenly saw Nie Wei on the opposite side flick his wrist, and then saw a familiar brown object sweeping towards him like a storm.
Drake didn't have time to think about it anymore. A sharp pain in his chest almost made him lose consciousness.
Thanks to Fantasy Paradise for the generous reward.