If you think of going into entertainment industry, then you
should listen to what Rachael had to say first. Rachael was a movie star far
from making fame for more than 20 years. According to her, perhaps out of 100
persons, only 1 to 2 will make it to the top and the rest would be lost and
forgotten in time. And Rachael was one of those majority that could hardly make
her ends meet until she decided to do something else. Being once a small time
star, Rachael tried all her efforts to make herself known but most of the time,
she was only given supporting roles in movies making.
There was one role in a movie that made Rachael finally
decided to quit her acting career. It was a movie about a drown ghost seeking
revenge and finally Rachael was given a substantial role to act as the drown
ghost. Although Rachael didn’t like to act in ghost movies, she had no choice
as she was fed up with all her other small roles; perhaps acting ghost movie
for once could bring up her name in the local silk screen.
There was only one thing that disturbed Rachael: she hates
water! Naturally, in a movie about drown ghost; there are scenes about drowning
or there would be no drown ghost. In order to make the movie more realistic,
the film director have chosen an abandoned tin mine pool near KL that was
notorious about drowning. So the time for shooting was set and the film crews
went to the site accordingly.
Just as when Rachael was about to dip herself into the pool,
suddenly a series of siren sounds of police car and ambulance was heard. The
siren came from far and gradually moved towards the film crews; and finally
halted at about 100m away from the location of the shooting. Some of the crews
including Racheal went to the place where police car and ambulance stopped.
There they first smelt the foul odour of decaying flesh and then the saw a dead
male body flowing face down in the water.
Rachael and the gang were stopped by policemen standing
guard so they decided to return the filming site to continue with their work.
As recalled by Rachael, she was very reluctant to continue with the film
shooting as she was afraid of becoming the next drown person in the pond. So
she made a special request to the film director that she wanted two life guards
standing by in the pool just in case she should have any problems; or Rachael
would not continue with the film shooting.
After some heated arguments, the film director finally found
two tough young men to stand in the water around Racheal. That had certainly
solved Racheal’s emotional problem but the shooting wasn’t proceeding too
smoothly. First, the camera jammed and could not function, then the voice
recorder could not record voice and the batteries suddenly went flat. Lastly,
the giant umbrella that was used to shelter the director suddenly toppled and
stroke the director’s head.
A series of problems led the director to stop the shooting
momentarily and he quickly despatched his crews to buy some foods and incense
as offerings to whatever spirits were there. Strangely speaking, after the
simple prayers; all of the equipment function as normal.
At last, off Racheal went into the water and the required actions
were filmed. After the last shooting, Racheal turned her back and thanked the
two life guards for their service. As a gesture of curtesy, Racheal asked both
gentlemen: “I supposed you are life guards working around here?”
Surprisingly, both of the gentlemen replied: “What life
guards? We are morgue workers who just picked up the dead body nearby. Your
director asked us standing by so that we would not need to travel twice!”
Racheal almost hearing the last words. And the movie was the
last one she had taken part of. Interestingly speaking, the ghost movie never
hit the silver screen because the movie production was facing with financial
crisis. Having said that, poor Racheal was never paid!
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