Don't call me Master, call me Director

"If the show after tomorrow has the current attendance rate." The investigator said proudly to the female reporter, "Fate/Zero will set a new box office record."

"I don't think it should exceed Spirited Away," the female reporter expressed her point of view.

"But it will definitely be higher than other live-action movies." The investigator spread his hands and said with a smile, "This is Fate."

"makes sense."

Thinking of the box office miracle created by FSN last year, the female reporter nodded.

At this time, footsteps suddenly sounded.

Knowing that it was the audience who came out, the female reporter immediately stood up, and beckoned her cameraman to walk towards the exit.

The investigator also rushed up with the questionnaire.

The audience in advance are all diehard fans of the series, and their feedback is very important. If they say yes, it at least shows that Fate/Zero's basic disk is stable.

But what surprised the two of them was that the first ones to come out were not the young people who occupied the vast majority of the theater, but a group of older, middle-aged and elderly men.

The female reporter showed a surprised smile, and she recognized the identities of these people.

She greeted her immediately, "Hello, Mr. Hanoi Yiping, I am a reporter from TBS."

After making a simple self-introduction, the female reporter quickly asked, "Did you watch Fate/Zero just now? Can you comment on this movie?"

When Hanoi Yiping saw a reporter interviewing him, he was taken aback for a moment.

Immediately, the old film critic showed the style of a top expert, and said slowly: "Fate/Zero wants to present a world of magicians that does not exist in reality, but it executes very badly..."

"Fate/Zero is really good! It's the best movie of the year!"

A high-pitched and excited voice interrupted Hanoi Ippei's words.

An audience member who was only in his twenties didn't talk about martial arts very much, so he grabbed the microphone and started yelling.

"Iskandar the Conqueror is so handsome! I wish I could have lived with him more than 2000 years earlier!"

Hanoi Yiping frowned, he really wanted to tell the other party that he was a film critic and an authority on films, and he should listen to himself.

Not to mention that it is very rude to grab someone else's microphone.

The young man noticed Hanoi Ipping's eyes, and he turned his head and glared at the old film critic.

"Old man, what are you looking at? Don't look at Fate for old antiques!"

"you!"

Hanoi Yiping was so angry that his breath was short of breath, and no one dared to talk to him like this for many years.

But in the face of the camera lens, Hanoi Yiping can only forcefully maintain his demeanor.

After that guy left, Ippei Hanoi continued the topic just now.

"Fate/Zero is a shallow work, full of unnecessary special effects. Although the director tries to show the brutality of war, the effects are terrible, especially the boring battle scenes.... ..”

Before Hanoi Yiping finished speaking, the microphone was robbed again.

This time it was a girl in her teens. Her face was flushed and she spoke incoherently, but her excitement was palpable.

"This movie is really great! Except that the ending is a bit dark and I am not very satisfied with the ending of Knight of Diarmuid, there is no flaw!"

"It's my favorite movie in my life, way better than The Lion King!!"

No matter how good Hanoi Yiping's self-cultivation is, at this moment his face is beginning to become ugly.

But the female reporter didn't seem to see it, and just handed the microphone back to Hanoi Yiping.

"Mr. Hanoi, please give Fate/Zero an overall evaluation."

"A very mediocre and time-consuming piece of work."

Hanoi Yiping gritted his teeth and said, "A movie that didn't even pass the exam!"

"Excellent! Full marks!"

"I scored 120 points! The full score is 100 points."

"Out of 10 points, I will give 9 points. The 1 point is deducted because the ending is a bit miserable."

......

The audience who walked out of the theater at the back grabbed the microphone and gave their own scores.

As for Hanoi Yiping, who knows who he is?

"Humph."

Hanoi Yiping snorted heavily, and left the theater with a gloomy expression.

He found out that he had made a mistake staying for an interview and should have left with the rest of the film critics.

The smile on the face of the female reporter who was interviewing did not change. She could see the change in Hanoi Yiping's face, but she did it on purpose.

An interview is an interview if it is topical, and what kind of reporter is a reporter who does not engage in big news!

Film critics who gave mediocre scores and audiences who scored full marks can only make their interviews repeatedly discussed with polarized evaluations.

So, the female reporter gave the microphone back to the teenage girl.

"Excuse me, who is your favorite character in this movie?"

"Of course it's the Diarmuid Knight!"

Recalling the glorious knight she saw just now, the little girl couldn't help breathing quickly.

"He's so handsome! I've never seen such a handsome man. Compared with him, J's idol is nothing! Diarmuid is really..."

Speaking of this, the little girl didn't come up in one breath, and her eyes rolled down.

Immediately, the interview site was in chaos.

"Someone fainted!"

"Someone come to help!"

"Call an ambulance! Someone has been passed out by Shuai!!"

Chapter 75 Shen Er: It takes thousands of years to produce an actor!

A film, especially a franchise with a fan base.Once a different attempt is made from the previous work, there will inevitably be support and opposition.

When choosing to use the script of Fate/Zero, Shinji already expected that some people would be dissatisfied with the change of plot style.

Sure enough, after the premiere and early screenings were over, the investigation company gave Shen Er some negative comments.

In particular, some iron fans who supported Artoria slammed Fate/Zero directly after watching the movie.

"The character of Saber was completely ruined. It made people feel like an incompetent and angry little girl, not the majestic King of Knights in FSN! This movie is a waste of my time and money."

"Matou Shinji ruined the Saber he created, a character full of faith and tenderness, and it turned into a confused and helpless crazy girl in the prequel, it is simply too ridiculous."

......

Shinji wasn't surprised by these feedback criticisms.

He had expected this to happen when he chose the Fate/Zero script.

After all, even Lao Xu made it clear in an interview after the release of FZ that he wrote the role of Artoria very badly.

In fact, Shen Er can completely change the script, for example, modify the script of the magician's version of the seven kills of Emiya in one night and use it as the main story of the fourth Holy Grail War.

Er Ye believes that as long as the story is not too outrageous, most of the fans will be satisfied, and making money is not a problem.

But, Second Lord Shen always feels that it is not perfect not to let the audience in this world experience the heart-warming Fate story of the warrior of love.

Moreover, it is really not challenging to apply a story template all the time, and it is easy for other film companies to form path dependencies.

Shen Er does not want the film industry he leads to become like Hollywood in his previous life, producing thousands of identical films every year without any innovation.

Besides, even if Lao Xu's story script has various shortcomings, it is really exciting, so there is no need to waste it.

In fact, in order to make the character less dramatic, Shen Er asked Artoria herself to participate in the writing of her character's lines throughout.

It is guaranteed that the role of Saber will not deviate from the setting in FSN as far as possible without affecting the main line of the plot.

Judging from the finished product, Altria has done a very good job. The live-action movie version of Fate/Zero looks better than Lao Xu's novel version by more than one level.

But audiences in this world haven't read the novel version, so they naturally don't know what kind of efforts Shen Er has made.

Fortunately, the proportion of these protesting audiences is not even 5%. Most of the audience are very satisfied with the Fate/Zero movie, and more than 80% of the audience gave the highest level of praise.

On the other hand, more than [-]% of the audience expressed their feeling that the story was too sad and felt uncomfortable after watching it.

In this regard, Er Ye said that when he makes more works about the depression of the warrior of love, I believe the audience will get used to it.

After a night of hard statistical work by statisticians, several key data were finally given to Fate/Zero's main creators before 5 o'clock on Friday.

Even though the sky had just turned pale, Shinji held a meeting at the office of the Xingzuki company in Fuyuki City.

"First of all, let me tell you the good news."

At the meeting, Shen Er turned the long report in his hand directly to the final summary data page.

"Fate/Zero's pre-screening box office data in Japan is 4500 million yen, and the North American premiere and early screening box office data is 1346 million US dollars. Statistics for other regions have not yet been released, but the attendance rate of the premiere is not low. Guys, we did it again!"

This data was not top-notch in Shen Er's previous life, but it was enough to be regarded as a pretty good business achievement.

Not to mention the deserted world of commercial movies.

Such achievements are enough to blind the eyes of most film companies in the world.

More importantly, the film's audience reputation is very good.

Although some negative reviews emerged quickly after the premiere, Fate/Zero's reviews in all aspects are still dominated by positive reviews.

This also means that the current good results will not be a flash in the pan, but will always be retained.

"Great, Master!"

"Congratulations, Master."

After Shen Er reported the data, the Heroic Spirits sitting around the conference table applauded one after another.

They don't understand how good this statistic is, but looking at Shen Er's triumphant smile, they can at least understand that this is a good result.

"Yeah, this result is indeed something to be happy about, but..."

Shen Er's "but" made the hearts of some present sink.

【Shen Er doesn't want to play tricks again, does he? 】

The Matou family's ability to handle affairs is obvious to all in the circle, especially Shen Er.

If Matou Kariya just likes to make small jokes, then Shinji just wants to do it to death as long as it doesn't kill him.

Just when everyone thought that Shen Er was going to announce some particularly difficult task, they heard him say.

"About the little girl who fainted during the interview, Cheng Zi, Ophelia, what's your investigation result?"

You must know that the little girl passed out in front of the camera during a live interview on TBS TV station. All the viewers who watched the TBS nightly news saw this scene.

Shen Er estimated that by the daytime today, the various news channels under TBS would probably broadcast this sequence of footage repeatedly.

In order to prevent someone from intentionally causing damage, Shen Er asked Cheng Zi and Ophelia to understand the situation as soon as he learned about it.

No way, the current stage is the most critical moment for Fate/Zero's promotion, so Shen Er feels that he can't be too careful.

Don't look at the gossip that people are often scared to death after watching horror movies on the Internet, and each of them is written with a nose and eyes.

But these are not the means of the film's propaganda, or someone is farting and smashing the hole-rumours.

If someone is scared to death watching a horror movie, the film company will be 100% compensated.

"About this... yawn..."

Cheng Zi yawned lazily and rubbed his eyes with his pale fingers.

In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, she and Ophelia ran back and forth between Fuyuki City and Tokyo City last night without sleeping at all.

Shen Er also knew that Cheng Zi was very tired, so he didn't urge him, but quietly waited for the other party's report.

"The reason why the girl fainted was related to magic."

Chengzi resisted the drowsiness and spoke out the conclusion of his investigation.

Shen Er suddenly became nervous: "What? Could it be that a magician deliberately framed it?"