Don't call me Master, call me Director

"Shangcaiyuan in Shanghai, and Provincial University of Technology in Lin'an, there are only two."

"What university is that?"

Udagawa Nanou, who had never heard the name of the school, was at a loss.

Chapter 281 Film Festival Opening Red Carpet

The two schools that Shen Er reported were not so unknown. Although they were not considered top-notch, they still existed in the first echelon.

However, for Uda Chuan Nanou, a Japanese, he only knew two or three top schools in China, so he naturally didn't know which school Shen Er was talking about.

This is also very normal, the Chinese only know about Todai and Waseda when it comes to Japanese universities, and it would be good to know Yingqing about the others.

As for why Shinji chose these two schools...

It was because Shen Er had to go to Lin'an in addition to the magic capital this time, so he made the trip.

On the other hand, these two schools are also Er Ye’s alma mater in a certain sense. In his previous life, he studied in these two schools for his undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Choosing these two places to give speeches is considered to be a publicity for his alma mater.

Since I don't go north to go to Nortel and Chinese Opera, then I can give speeches in other places, and there is nothing wrong with satisfying my inner vanity.

After confirming the itinerary of this Celestial Dynasty with Uda Chuannanou, Shinji spent another two days in Shanghai.

Originally, the organizing committee of the film festival wanted to send someone to be a tour guide for Shen Er, but Er Ye flatly rejected it.

Not only did he feel uncomfortable with outsiders following him, but also because Shen Er had no interest in those famous scenic spots in the magic capital - he was tired of visiting in his previous life.

Compared with visiting the Pearl Tower, Er Ye is more interested in the delicacies in the fly restaurants in the alleys of Shanghai.

After working as a "lonely gourmet" in Shanghai for a few days, the film festival finally opened.

According to the official statement, this film festival has achieved a historic breakthrough. The number of films registered for the film festival has been refreshed, with 48.4% more films registered than the previous one, and online registration is adopted for the first time.

The Internet in 06 was still a very novel concept, so new that even online registration could be promoted by the official.

However, compared to the way of registration, what the organizing committee put more effort into promoting is the luxurious star lineup of this film festival.

The official statement is: The opening ceremony of this film festival is full of stars on the red carpet, with a strong lineup and brilliant stars.

In the words of Ms. Baiyun: the sound of gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, the waving of red flags, and the sea of ​​people.

Using Shen Er is a very Versailles expression: I don't care if these stars have big names, anyway, their movie box office is definitely not as high as mine.

Of course, after saying this very arrogant sentence, Shinji was severely warned by Sakura with his fist.

"Brother, I can't control why you are crazy at home, but if you lose face abroad, don't blame me for cleaning up the house for Matong's house!"

When Sakura said this, her complexion was even scarier than that of the blackened herself playing HF, so Shinji had to nod obediently.

In fact, what Shen Er said is indeed a bit exaggerated. The red carpet lineup of the Magic City Film Festival this time is really good, otherwise it would not have the title of "Asia's No. [-] Red Carpet" after this film festival.

"Hello, Director Matou."

"Hello."

Just after passing the red carpet and entering the VIP waiting area, Shen Er met the chairman of the organizing committee of the film festival.

After shaking hands with the boss, the other party took the initiative to introduce the guests here to Shen Er.

Although Shen Er didn't know many of these guests because of the parallel world, but he still saw a few celebrities that he was very familiar with.

Seeing those great people who used to say "I know him, but he doesn't know me" now politely shake hands with him, Shen Er was quite moved.

However, Shen Er has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and has already seen many battles, so it is not a problem to chat and laugh with these people.

On the contrary, Li Riying, who was following behind Shen Er, acted a little trembling.

Lao Li never imagined that he, who was an ordinary social animal a month ago, would appear in the same scene as these big stars one day.

"Relax." Shen Er calmly reminded Li Riying, "In the future, you will have a lot of opportunities to dominate these people."

Li Riying grinned: "This word is not quite right..."

"You just need to understand what that means."

Shinji chuckled.

After some exchanges just now, Shen Er found that the filmmakers here are basically two extremes towards him.

Most directors and producers have a very indifferent attitude towards themselves. In stark contrast to them are those enthusiastic star actors.

Especially those female stars, their posture is similar to that of a hungry wolf who sees fat.

If it wasn't for walking the red carpet now, there would definitely be many female stars rushing up to hug their arms and kiss their cheeks.

The reason for the enthusiastic attitude of the female stars is easy to understand. It is to make a familiar face in front of Shen Er, and hope to be a supporting role in Shen Er's movies in the future.

Of course these actors are not stupid, they never hoped that they could go international by relying on Shinji, but as long as they can play a role in an international film of Fate's level, their domestic value and celebrity status will greatly increase.

The current China is not the environment after 2020, and the operation of exporting to domestic sales is still quite marketable.

Unfortunately, although Shen Er knew their thoughts clearly, he was doomed to disappoint them.

Because in Shen Er's opinion, the price/performance ratio of inviting these stars is too low.

It's not that the quality of these actors is too poor. After all, the stars before the new generation of fresh meat still have basic qualities, but it is too difficult to assign roles to these actors.

If you are an important role in the whole drama, the main body of the current film market is still North America and Europe, and there is no flow of domestic stars at all.

But if you give these people too few roles, then domestic audiences will be dissatisfied, and they will always feel that you are perfunctory and defrauding them of their money.

Moreover, domestic audiences attach great importance to the image of actors on the screen. You can't arrange villains, otherwise they will feel that you are humiliating the country and the nation.

In Shen Er's eyes, the best treatment for a domestic celebrity guest star should be like Black Widow in "Iron Man 2" or Wonder Woman in "Superman vs. Batman". The role is not too heavy, but it has full highlights .

But there are too few such roles, and there may not be such a role in several movies.

If there is such an opportunity, why doesn't Shen Er use it to give his newcomer Heroic Spirit?

So Shen Erda decided from the very beginning that he would never make any promises to the stars at the film festival.

But even so, in just twenty minutes, Shen Er couldn't remember how many people he had greeted.

Fortunately, Shen Er can understand Chinese directly, otherwise, if the translator relays it, he may collapse and resign directly.

In fact, compared to those celebrities and filmmakers, Shen Er wanted to communicate with those official people, and the content of the communication was naturally about the quota of imported films from the Celestial Dynasty.

Shen Er is very clear that starting from this year, the box office market of Tianchao will increase every year, soaring upward at the speed of a rocket.

However, it is impossible for the quota of imported films to change as fast as the box office. Although it has been increasing every year, the number is far less than the growth rate of the box office data.

In this way, if they want to eat as much box office bonus as possible, they can only find ways to occupy more quotas for imported films.

Chapter 282 Shen Er: Get out of the way, I want to show off!

It sounds unreliable, but it is not impossible for the Chinese government to increase the number of imported films for itself alone.

Because the Hollywood studios in Shen Er's previous life have shown him how to operate: take 3D movies as a sub-category to occupy a part of the quota.

You must know that the 3D technology of movies in this parallel world is currently firmly controlled by Shen Er's naked-eye 3D. As long as the number of 3D movies can be increased, then the money is not all earned by his second master?

It is also a good thing for China to increase the number of 3D movies. After all, the ticket price of 3D movies is more expensive than that of 2D movies, and the movie box office data can also be more beautiful.

Not only can you make more money, but you can also have political achievements. For the relevant departments, this is a good thing that you can't find with a lantern.

In the era of 06, the government didn't care much about the box office data of domestic films, as long as the total box office data was increased, it would be enough to make the superiors happy.

Shen Er estimated that the whole world probably has sufficient confidence in China's film market, even more confident than the officials in front of them who are trying to fool themselves into investing in China.

"It's a pity that I can't tell these people clearly."

Shen Er, who is well versed in negotiating skills, knows that no matter how optimistic he is about the Chinese market, he cannot fully reveal it.

Too much forbearance will only make the opponent gain an inch, and people usually don't cherish those things that are easily obtained.

To describe it in terms of love - licking a dog will not kill you.

Shen Er will not underestimate the country that is the best at doing business in the world, so he naturally maintains the standard when negotiating.

But in this way, there will definitely be no results to be discussed in the short term. This time, Shen Er on the red carpet is at most just a start, and the two sides still have follow-up talks.

"I will ask the local branch to submit a plan later."

"That's great, I'll check it out then."

After finishing the exchange with a certain boss of the relevant department, Shen Er was going to go to the media interview area to accept interviews from the local media of the Chinese Dynasty as agreed in advance.

As soon as Shen Er, the holder of the current world box office record, appeared, it naturally aroused great enthusiasm from the reporters.

A female reporter had sharp eyes and quick hands, and directly put the microphone on Shen Er's mouth.

"Director Matou!! I'm glad you accepted my interview!"

Shen Er found that the excitement of the female reporter in front of her was not feigned, she was really happy to be able to interview herself.

"It's nice to see you too."

Shinji smiled faintly, and replied very gentlemanly.

When facing the camera, Shen Er naturally restrained the frivolity of a playboy in himself, only showing the elegance of a nobleman.

The lady reporter didn't know Shen Er well, and immediately showed a surprised expression after hearing him speak Chinese: "You...you know Chinese?"

"Of course, I have studied linguistics, and I have studied Chinese, and I also have some understanding of Chinese culture."

"Look, I also used Bajiquan as the Kung Fu of several protagonists in Fate."

If he was a magician from the Celestial Dynasty, then Shen Er would definitely say that he learned Chinese while studying alchemy, but the reporters present were all ordinary people, which made Er Ye less pretending to be a coward.

But even so, the reporters at the scene were stunned by Shen Er.

There are too few foreign stars who can learn Chinese these days. In a few years, the stars who come to China to participate in promotional activities will be ashamed to say that they are interested in China's market if they don't show a few words of Chinese.

Like Paul Rudd (the actor of Ant-Man), even if his accent is terrible, he still insisted on speaking Chinese during the promotion of "Avengers IV".

However, his hard work has paid off. Originally, he was a small guest among the guests because of the phrase "I know my Chinese is bad, but at least it is better than them (other Avengers actors)." He gained a high degree of attention .

Although Shen Er is not a celebrity, he is also a public figure. His excellent Chinese skills naturally caused a sensation among the reporters.

Because he has been using Chinese in Shanghai for the past two days, Shen Er's perennial Japanese accent has disappeared, and now he is no different from a local.

Fortunately, the reporters who were able to attend this level of activities were also experienced industry veterans. After a brief surprise, the female reporter immediately chose to follow this point to conduct interviews.

"Director Jian Tong." The other party asked clearly, "When did you learn Chinese?"

"It was a long time ago. When I was a child watching movies, I liked kung fu movies and martial arts movies very much, but there are too few works with Japanese subtitles."

Facing these media reporters, Shen Er knew exactly what to say in his best interest.

"So in order to understand Chinese movies without subtitles, I learned the language directly."

This is of course not the truth, the second master just borrowed the advertising slogan of the Japanese language school, but this kind of reason that can be related to the origin of the movie is undoubtedly excellent material.

As for most Hong Kong movies being in Cantonese, it’s okay, after all, the early Hong Kong movies were dubbed in both Mandarin and Cantonese by default.

The female reporter interviewing Shen Er was very good at climbing, she immediately asked: "May I know what movie you have seen?"

Shen Er still kept smiling: "I've watched too many movies, and I'm more impressed with the "Once Upon a Time" series, Jin Yong's martial arts dramas, and the three major battles you filmed."

"Forehead......"

Now, the female reporter is really stuck. She understands "Once Upon a Time" and Jin Yong dramas, but in the end this one is really "non-mainstream"!

[What are the specific contents of those three movies?Forget it all...]

The female reporter was secretly anxious. Even though the school organized to watch those three movies in elementary school, she had already forgotten all the plots, and only remembered the names of the three major battles.

But this is the scene of the Magic City Film Festival, so it’s okay if Shen Er didn’t mention it, since the three major battles are mentioned, it’s really unreasonable not to ask some related questions.

Seeing the other party's anxious expression, Shen Er guessed the situation of this lady reporter.

In order to ease the embarrassment of both parties, Shen Er took the initiative to imitate Principal Jiang in the movie.

"Anyway, 80 vs. 60! The advantage is mine!"

"..."

The female reporter interviewed by the second master was completely incapable of doing so. It was the first time she saw a foreigner imitate this kind of accent.

You can't say that they are very similar, but they are exactly the same.

In fact, it's not just this female reporter, other journalists nearby were also manipulated by Shen Er's coquettish operation to punish Sparta.

They have thought about what kind of Chinese movies Shen Er might like. From martial arts, xianxia, ​​to cities, history, even love movies and Gongdou movies, they have guessed, but they did not expect this great director to like red. classic.