I'm the director, I'm not bad

Chapter 668 665.SHINKAI-san

Big Year.

Yanjing.

After Xu Xin got into the car with the suitcase, he looked at the empty street and sighed with some melancholy.

"Hey……"

"The Hawthorn Tree" will be released in Japan on February 2.

It forced him to start his first job this year on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

It was really difficult to adapt for a while.

"Cute."

"Ah? Brother Xu, what's the matter?"

"How's your year going?"

"It's not so good... Everyone in my family knows that I work as an assistant for Brother Xu. From years ago to the end of the year, people came to visit the door every day. Many relatives in the family have children with them. Let me help to see if their children have become stars. Potential... I wake up very early every day..."

Su Meng started to complain.

She was also really drunk.

Why are relatives in the family so innocent?

What's wrong with your own child, why don't you want to be a star?
Star... is it that easy to be?

Maybe she was naive before, thinking that celebrities just sing and film, and when they become popular, they start to make money lying down... But since she applied for Shuangwei's assistant and followed Brother Xu, she really understood ... what is a star.

The "stars" in the mouth of relatives in the family are at best entertainers.

By singing?By acting?
There are so many people who can sing and act in this circle.

Do you think everyone is so popular?
Under the superficial ecology of this circle, there are more wars that cannibalize people without spitting bones!

Most people really can't handle this.

Ordinary people want to be stars, if they don't have any brains, they will either be the money-making tools of big companies, or they can only be reduced to the bottom...

I really don't know what's so good about being a star...

After Xu Xin heard her words, he chuckled lightly:
"Haha, what did you say?"

"I didn't say anything. Many relatives in my family said they wanted their child to go to an art school, and I didn't say anything. It's not easy to express opinions on this matter. If you talk nonsense, it may change the fate of a child... If you can become a star, you can't say anything. Well, if it doesn’t work...then I won’t be a sinner!”

Hearing this, Xu Xin nodded in satisfaction:
"Not bad, very smart."

"……hey-hey."

Su Menghan laughed, and at this moment the car also drove onto the viaduct.

She asked:

"Brother Xu, do you want to listen to a song?"

"Listen to the radio, I'm tired of listening to the songs."

Su Meng vaguely heard Brother Lun's heartbroken voice.

Then turned on the radio.

During the Chinese New Year, radio programs are basically recorded in advance.

Su Meng's habit is to listen to the traffic radio, and she can know where there is a traffic jam and where there is a lot of traffic.

When I turned on the radio channel today, it was FM103.9.

Then, both Xu Xin and Su Meng heard the song inside:
"Because of love~will not be sad~"

"So everything looks like happiness..."

"Because of love ~ simple growth..."

Xu Xin moved his ears.

After squinting and listening for a while, the song ends.

After the song ended, the phone rang.

"Dinglingling... hello?"

A male voice sounded:
"Hi, I'm looking for Wenhui. Wenhui in Room 218."

Then came a female voice:
"Yang Zheng, is that you? Where is you?"

The conversation between the two ended, and a clear dubbing sounded again:

"This is the youthful memory of our generation."

Then, the male voice on the phone rang again:
"Wen Hui, I'm by the sea."

Female voice:

"The sea? What kind of sea?"

Clear voiceover:
"This is our persistence in love!"

male voice:

"Wenhui, do you want to see the sea?"

"..."

"Then can you come out now? Are you outside now? Well, look up at the sky!"

After the male voice finished speaking, the music sounded immediately:

"Wait~you~love~~~~~me~~oh~~~~"

"In 1998, we were young and ignorant. With one heart and one mind, we will carry love to the end!"

"Even if only once is enough~~~~~~"

"In 2011, we had a successful career, but this time... facing the face we loved so much, is it still the same as before?"

"It has to be only once to be permanent~~~~"

""Carry Love Through to the End", February 2th..."

"Will you still be the same as before?"

Lasted about 30 seconds or so and ended.

After Xu Xin listened to the advertisement, he leaned on the seat and asked Su Meng:
"Over there at your house, is there a lot of publicity for this movie?"

Su Meng's hometown is in Suzhou.

After hearing Xu Xin's question, she said while driving:
"It's okay. After I went back this time, I watched "Let the Bullets Fly" and "If You Are the One 2" with my best friend. It was already the 28th of the Chinese New Year when I went there. The most promotional posters in the cinema were Jay's "Green Bee" Maybe it’s because the date is short, so the promotional schedule for Valentine’s Day hasn’t started yet. But the promotional video of “Putting Love to the End” has already started scrolling in the hall.”

"What about the frequency?"

"Well... I don't care about it. But I remember... When we were waiting to enter the venue, we watched the promotional video of "Jiang Ai" twice, and saw "Wulin Biography" once. I just don't know why Sequence problem, or other reasons..."

"Oh~ that's it."

Xu Xin nodded and changed the subject:
"Then why don't you watch The Hawthorn Tree?"

Su Meng was taken aback, and subconsciously replied:
"...Because I've watched it many times."

She's been watching the movie since it was filmed.

She was also watching during the editing of the film.

Not to mention watching it ten times, there are also eight times.

Looking at it again makes me want to vomit.

But after Xu Xin heard her reason, he took out his mobile phone and said:
"If you make the boss unhappy, you will be deducted five hundred this month."

Su Meng: o(Д)っ!
Under Su Meng's aggrieved expression, Xu Xin found Wang Sicong's chat box and sent a voice message:
"Help me ask about the strength of your publicity for "Carrying Love Through to the End."

Wang Sicong did not return.

I don't know if I'm sleeping or what.

He didn't mind either, and started checking Weibo with his mobile phone.

I searched for the topic of #必威爱给到了#, and a row of related microblogs popped up.

The first thing to bear the brunt is the trailer Weibo on the good media account.

There is no need to count carefully, because it is not fully displayed here.

But if he clicked on any of the most popular Weibo media, the number of followers of the other party was more than 100 million.

Today's Weibo is no longer the era when Yang Mi dominated the world.

Since everyone discovered the business opportunities of Weibo, buying fans and increasing fans has become commonplace for some social media or public figures who need to expand their influence.

As of January of the Gregorian calendar year, the number of fans of Yao Chen has exceeded 1 million.

And the following rising stars on the list, such as Xiao S, Zhao Wei, Cai Kangyong, Xie Na, etc., also have a soaring number of fans.

The average is above 500 million.

Perhaps because of the decrease in popularity, except for the fact that his wife's fans skyrocketed by 50 in a few days during the wedding, at other times, her number of Weibo fans only remained at No.7.

450 million.

As for this data... It's a bit "sour", the only thing she can get is 100% "true".

Don't engage in the set of buying fans and increasing fans, just relying on one after another to push it up.

The explosion in the number of celebrities' Weibo fans also represents a surge in the number of Sina Weibo users.

Leaving aside Tengxun Weibo, Sina Weibo alone is now recognized as the "Terminator" that ended the era of paper media.

And like this kind of media account, if you don't have 100 million followers, you are too embarrassed to go out.

The media account has many fans and a large body, and it can make money by receiving advertisements and promotions.

This is already an industry chain in Weibo.

Therefore, after Xu Xin looked at the media for the promotional video of "Jiang Ai", and found that they were all big media with more than 100 million yuan, he didn't need to ask the specific price to know that in this aspect of publicity, "Jiang Ai" must have cost a lot of money.

Although Wang Sicong hasn't responded yet...but he reckons that at least the announcement of this movie exceeds the movie investment of "Wulin Biography".

Adverse Ventures invested in "Wulin Biography", and the cost of the filming stage was less than 2000 million.

Counting the announcement, the budget is nothing more than a cap of 3000 million.

It is not realistic to expect them to announce like this, with a media account of millions of fans, and broadcasting and the like... It is not realistic.

However, the change of "Wulin Biography" itself is to observe the trends in the Beijing circle again.

If your guess is true.

So... What the Northwest Circle will face next may be an arms race without gunpowder.

In terms of money, they cannot be compared with their opponents.

The only thing you can rely on is word of mouth.

Through word of mouth, the impression of "produced in Northwest China must be a boutique" was erected little by little.

Still the old saying.

In the short term, it may not necessarily win.

But if things go on like this...he will never lose.

Thinking of this, he turned off the phone.

Looking at the tall buildings speeding outside the window, he murmured in a low voice:
"The rain is coming..."

……

Wang Sicong's message was sent when he was about to arrive at the airport.

The voice was still muffled when it was sent.

Obviously not awake.

"I asked you, but I haven't found out the exact number yet, but this time their promotional method is similar to that of "If You Are the One". Starting today, and until their release on the 12th, Wanda's opening screen advertisements for the film are all Their."

After receiving this message, Xu Xin responded with an OK gesture.

Wang Sicong is not returning.

Probably fell asleep.

Soon, arrived at the small terminal of the airport.

He saw Liu Yifei and Lin Juxin.

Lin Juxin gained weight during the Chinese New Year, and his chin visibly rounded up to the naked eye.

But what is surprising is that Liu Yifei...

Although she was wearing big sunglasses...but in Xu Xin's eyes, she was like...a deflated balloon.

When you obviously get married, you still have to call "Fatty".

But now he has returned to the land fairy realm.

Xu Xin raised his eyebrows in surprise.

It's too amazing, right?

This person said that he was fat, like eating pig feed, and he was going up.

This means thin... lost weight in an instant?

So, he said bluntly:

"How much is it now?"

"..."

The corner of Liu Yifei's mouth twitched...

The first reaction was to look at Lin Juxin.

Seeing that she couldn't do it, and she was also curious, she thought about it and walked to Xu Xin's side.

After covering his mouth with one hand, blocking Lin Juxin's perspective, he whispered to Xu Xin:

"114."

"Oh yo?"

Xu Xin raised his eyebrows:
"This speed is okay, how did you do it? Yang Mi will start to lose weight after the new year, you teach her."

"It's very simple. Three meals a day of boiled green leafy vegetables, and the staple food is 50g of oatmeal. The protein is an egg and two shrimps..."

She started talking about her recipes.

And Lin Juxin, who hadn't heard Liu Yifei's current weight, subconsciously said:

"Big lobster?"

"Fuck you."

These words were so angry that even sister Shenxian started to get rough.

"Small shrimp. Two. And then with fast and slow walking..."

Xu Xin was just confused when he heard it.

People feed pigs and give some chaff at least.

You seem to be eating worse than them.

So he asked:

"Then when I go to Japan this time, I still want to eat the ramen from last time... Do you still go with me?"

"..."

Sister Shenxian gave him an aggrieved look.

My heart says you are a stinky man...

……

For people who lose weight, the Japanese diet is friendly or unfriendly.

The question is who do you eat with.

If you eat it by yourself, it's nothing more than a light salad and half full.

But it was a torment for the fairy sister to follow Xu Xin and Lin Yuxin's big grievances.

At around 1:[-] Tokyo time, six people got off the plane together.

The translation this time is still Shangyuan Ai.

Xu Xin thinks this sister... Well, this mature sister has a pretty good personality.

It was a pleasure to work with.

Together with Ai Shangyuan, the person in charge of Toho Films who is responsible for all promotional activities of "The Hawthorn Tree" is called Tomoyuki Miura.

After Xu Xin got off the plane, he asked Shang Yuanai to eat ramen.

Just the ramen restaurant whose name I couldn't pronounce last time.

After arriving at the ramen shop, Xu Xin and Lin Xunxin were holding a bowl of soy sauce ramen and talking.

The two wanted luxurious soy sauce ramen, the kind with lobster tempura.

And Sister Immortal can only watch these two grievances take a mouthful of noodles, a mouthful of soup, and a mouthful of fried lobster... Where is she holding a bowl of Chinese seaweed?

The back molars are almost shattered.

The appearance of being wronged makes people feel distressed...

But no one cared.

Who made you fat?

And maybe it's Sister Shenxian's eyes that really make people feel distressed.

Xu Xin made a move that made Lin Gou Haoxuan spray the noodles from his nose.

He turned his head and said to the fairy sister who was like a donkey eating grass:
"If you really can't stand it..."

Liu Yifei's eyes lit up.

As long as you speak!
As long as you nod!
I definitely listen to you!

Absolutely no rebuttal.

Hurry up... say what I want to hear the most!

"You go out."

"puff……"

Lin Xingxin burst out laughing.

"..."

The eyeballs of the speechless fairy sister were all red.

Not wronged, but angry.

Bastard... I will love you in my next life and I will be a dog!
"Ai sauce, please help me order one like theirs!"

Liu Yifei, who was willing to go all out, rushed to Yuan Ai to say something.

"Don't! Sister! You can't give up all your previous efforts!"

Wu Qiqi panicked.

The tonkotsu ramen in his hand suddenly tasted bad.

Lin Xunxin was also speechless.

Looking at Xu Xin:

"What do you think you are teasing her for?"

"Uh……"

Xu Xin looked at the fairy sister with red eyes who looked like Master Rabbit...

"Forget it, let her eat a bowl."

After all, he is a child-loving character.

After hearing this, Liu Yifei smiled.

Hey.

Still hello.

Oni sauce だい好き!
In the end, after a meal of ramen, everyone was satisfied.

After leaving the ramen restaurant, the fairy sister who still couldn't bear the oily taste in her mouth was still having the aftertaste of "huhhuh".

It looks like the Four Heavenly Kings of Ramen.

And after this meal of noodles, the three of them were dragged into the studio by Tomoyuki Miura that afternoon.

Makeup and a microphone.

The host on the Japanese side is ready to go.

The three of them also entered the normal publicity process.

The first event was a small fan meeting in Ginza.

Not many people.

A studio is full of dozens and only 200 people are seated.

In Xu Xin's view, it was a meeting that couldn't be smaller.

The content of the meeting will be posted on the promotional website of Dongbao Films at that time, which can be regarded as the first round of warm-up for the release of "The Hawthorn Tree".

He was quite normal at first.

Unexpectedly, just after he was led by Shangyuan Ai to the stage under the host of the host, the audience who came to participate today, the people from Dongbao Yinghua, gave him a surprise.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

Attracted by the crackling sound of the pull ring ribbon, Xu Xin looked towards the auditorium.

Under the fluttering ribbons was a large banner pulled by the hands of the audience in the front row.

"Xu Xin and Yang Mi newlyweds, おめでとございます!"

Xu Xin doesn't understand Japanese.

But he can understand Chinese characters.

The latter sentence is not clear, but he recognizes the former.

Newlyweds...

And looking at this situation, his first reaction was to look at Yuan Ai.

Wondering what the latter sentence means.

And Shang Yuanai was also quite surprised.

Subconsciously looked at Xu Xin.

Seeing that he was looking at him, he hurriedly said amidst the host's smile and applause:

"Director Xu, everyone is congratulating you on your wedding."

"Uh……"

After Xu Xin was stunned for a while, he asked:

"At this time, is it appropriate for me to bow ninety degrees? Or is there any other etiquette?"

Fans of audiences in foreign countries prepared a gift for him.

People in the Celestial Dynasty pay attention to courtesy and reciprocity.

Of course he would return the gift.

Do as the locals do.

After hearing this, Shang Yuanai smiled and said:

"Just bow."

"Oh, good."

Xu Xin nodded, smiled and bowed to the audience:

"thank you all."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

applause.

And after this little episode, he didn't know what Liu Yifei and Lin Panxin felt like, but here, the distance between him and the audience who came to the meeting has been shortened a lot.

The smile is also more natural.

Then, everyone shook hands with the host and took their seats.

Started today's meeting.

According to Tomoyuki Miura, today's meeting will be divided into two steps.

First, the host asked, asking some movie-related questions.

This is the first half.

The second half is left to the audience to ask questions.

The content of the first half was average.

Xu Xin is the director, and Lin Gou and Liu Feifei are the leading actors.

Basically, you have a question, and I am answering a question.

As the three people who have gone through the complete domestic film process, they are no strangers to these issues.

Soon, time came to the "second half".

After the host announced that questions could be asked live, the first audience members were selected.

It was a girl with a round face and a mask.

Xu Xin was actually very curious from the beginning, why so many people choose to wear masks.

Is it because there are cameras here, and you want to protect your privacy, afraid of being photographed?Or something else?
He doesn't know much.

But after the girl took the microphone, she took off the mask very politely.

Holding the microphone, there was a burst of chatter.

It's quite a long story.

After listening carefully, Shang Yuanai nodded slightly, turned to Xu Xin and said:

"Director Xu, she asked you this question."

"Well, you said."

Xu Xin subconsciously sat up straight.

"Her name is Ming Lichun, and she is currently a sophomore in college. She saw comments from China on the Internet, saying that this movie is actually a tragedy.

I would like to ask why you did not choose to continue making a movie like "The Untold Secret".That movie stayed with her throughout her high school career and was one of her favorite movies in life.

Why should it end in tragedy?

She said that she watched your interview in "Chezi's Room" and wanted to know why, as you said, Jingqiu, played by Ms. Liu Yifei, and the third child could not be the one who sparkled in each other's eyes. "

"Well……"

Hearing this question, Xu Xin thought for a while and said:
"Have you read the original book of this story?"

After Shang Yuanai finished translating, the girl shook her head.

see...

"That's it... Then I won't tell you about the story to avoid spoilers. You just said that you are a college student, so... I want to answer your question from my perspective on this story. Also I hope you can get some inspiration from my words."

Seeing that the girl was listening, he said:

"I think this way... Sometimes, are we too obsessed with the ending? There are many great loves and beautiful things in this world that we can witness and experience. But as long as the ending is not satisfactory, we will It immediately feels like a tragedy.

Or just thinking, if there is a little bit of redemption in the ending of this matter, then all its injustice and pain seem to be negligible.

Because we care too much about the ending, we ignore the beautiful scenery in the process.Instead of this, I think it is better to change the way of thinking.We are chasing meaning in the process, so the ending will not be bad. "(Note 1)

After finishing speaking, he continued to give Shang Yuanai time to translate.

And after the other party's translation was over, he was about to speak... Suddenly, bursts of applause rang out from the scene, blocking his words.

Seeing this, he nodded politely, and when facing the thoughtful expression of this round-faced girl, he smiled and said:

"It's like we read classics. Not all classics have perfect endings, but that doesn't prevent them from being great. The same is true of our lives. Isn't it?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Amid the applause, the girl named Ming Lichun returned the microphone with an expression of "Master, I have realized it".

The host continued to look for the second audience while applauding.

At this time, a man sitting in the front row who was also wearing a mask raised his hands high and even stood up directly.

Seeing this, the host simply considered the beauty of an adult.

Signal the staff to give him the microphone.

And after he took the microphone, he also took off his mask.

But the moment he took off his mask, the host suddenly froze...

Immediately, a deep surprise appeared on his face, and he shouted:
"Eh? SHINKAI-san?"

(Note 1: The passage Xu Xin answered is from the original sentence of "Catching the Fallen Leaves", which has been slightly modified and quoted. It is hereby noted.)
(End of this chapter)