I'm the director, I'm not bad

Chapter 669 666. When English is in progress...

Xu Xin didn't know what happened, but from the host's words, she seemed to know this middle-aged man wearing glasses.

Also shouted "Sang".

And when he was wondering, he saw the man bowing politely to this side, and said a lot of words.

Then, with deep surprise on Shang Yuanai's face, she turned her head and translated to Xu Xin:

"Director Xu, this gentleman's name is Xin Haicheng, have you heard of it?"

Xu Xin was taken aback.

Liu Yifei's reaction was quick:
""Second speed of five centimeters"?"

Xu Xin, who was already familiar with the name, suddenly had a line in his mind:
"The speed at which the cherry blossoms fall is five centimeters per second. If the cherry blossoms made a sound when they fell, would you hear my thoughts about you..."

He and Yang Mi watched this animation together.

Although it is an animation, it left a deep impression on him.

Yang Mi even posted this line on Weibo.

And at this moment, after hearing Liu Yifei's words, he was also surprised to follow Shang Yuanai's explanation and asked:

"is it him?"

Shang Yuanai nodded.

"Yes."

"Uh……"

This time, Xu Xin was even more surprised.

I wondered how this transnational colleague could find himself here?

While wondering, Xin Haicheng spoke again.

Soon, Shangyuan Ai gave a translation:
"Director Xu, he said that he is a loyal fan of "The Unspeakable Secret". He has always liked your directing style. He also likes your answer to the girl's question just now. I wonder if you have the idea of ​​shooting animation."

"Uh……"

Although this question has nothing to do with "The Hawthorn Tree", after Xu Xin thought about it, he still smiled and said:

"Not yet, I'm not proficient in the study of painting, and I don't know the details of the real difference between it and the works shot by live-action movies. So... I don't have any animation ideas for the time being."

Then, following Shangyuan Ai's translation, Xin Haicheng nodded with a smile and shouted a word.

After hearing this, Shang Yuanai said:

"He said "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" come on."

"... Ha, thank you."

Xu Xin responded politely.

Then Yui conveniently put on the mask again and sat down.

It looked no different from other spectators who came to this meet and greet.

……

The 2-hour interview is over.

The three bowed to thank the audience who came today, and then returned to the backstage.

After walking this way, Lin Juxin also said:
"Is "[-] Centimeters Per Second" good? I've heard of it, but haven't seen it."

"It's beautiful! Although it's not a perfect ending... But the plot is really super attractive to girls."

These are the words of Liu Yifei.

And Xu Xin also nodded tacitly.

Indeed, the look and feel of that cartoon is really good.

While the three of them were walking towards the waiting room, a staff member trotted over and called Shang Yuanai.

After a while of whispering, Shang Yuanai nodded and asked Xu Xin:
"Director Xu, Director Xin Haicheng would like to visit you backstage, is that okay?"

"……what?"

Xu Xin was taken aback again.

Then nodded quickly:

"It's too polite to say a visit, and I welcome it."

After hearing this, Liu Yifei and Lin Xunxin were also very surprised.

But the two of them could also tell...they came for Xu Xin.

So, the three of them went back to the waiting room together.

Today is just one event, so there is plenty of time left.

Everyone is in no hurry to leave.

Back in the waiting room, Su Meng quickly handed over the teacup.

Xu Xin ordered:
"Make another cup of tea, there will be guests in a while."

"Ok."

Su Meng nodded, and quickly took out a tea bag from her bag.

Influenced by Yang Mi, when Xu Xin drinks tea when he goes out, he usually chooses jasmine flowers.

This thing is resistant to foaming. Although it will have astringent taste after long-time brewing, the overall taste is better than other teas.

After all, it is not good to carry a set of tea sets every day when you go out.

And the jasmine he drank was also chosen by Yang Mi, from Wu Yutai's royal jasmine tea king.

If it is sold loose, it will cost more than 9000 a catty.Packages are more expensive.

He usually drinks it as ration tea, but it is absolutely not too much to entertain guests.

While waiting for Xin Haicheng, Xu Xin was quite surprised, and asked Shang Yuanai:
"Last time I remember when we chatted, we also talked about the differences between China and Japan. You told me that the Japanese have a strong sense of group, but their individual behavior is actually very restrained. But this director Makoto Shinkai made me feel that he is a bit I'm familiar with myself."

Shang Yuanai smiled and shook his head:
"Director Makoto Shinkai has always liked Chinese culture, and was mentioned by fans on Twitter as his favorite movies, and he also recommended Director Xu's "The Unspeakable Secret" many times."

"……what?"

Looking at Xu Xin's surprised eyes, Shang Yuanai said:
"Director Xu, you can't underestimate the status of "The Unspeakable Secret" in everyone's hearts."

"Haha~"

Amidst the laughter, there was a knock on the door.

After Su Meng hurried to open it, Xin Haicheng, who had already taken off his mask, stood at the door and greeted politely.

Xu Xin didn't need Shangyuan's love to translate, Xu Xin knew that he was saying hello, stood up with a smile to greet him, and stretched out his hand actively:
"Director Xin Haicheng, hello, I'm Xu Xin."

This old man looked older than himself at first glance.

There's nothing wrong with being polite.

And when he stretched out his hand, Xin Haicheng bowed.

Seeing Xin Haicheng bowing, Xu Xin also bowed.

Anyway, the polite kind, the two finished shaking hands, and then Liu Yifei and Lin Juxin followed up one after another. The final result was that Xin Haicheng politely took the tea from Su Meng, and next to Xu Xin sat down.

Frankly, the dude has a soft-spoken tone.

And the attitude is really very polite.

"Director Xu, Director Makoto Shinkai said he took the liberty to disturb you today. At the Tokyo Film Festival, he had no chance to see you because he was in the late stage of film production. This time, I heard you coming, and I specially came to visit with the mentality of a fan."

"Uh... thank you, thank you, that's too kind."

Xu Xin smiled and nodded to Xin Haicheng.

""[-] Centimeters Per Second" is also great. Yang Mi and I have watched it, and I even remember the lines."

After Shang Yuanai translated Xu Xin's words, Xin Haicheng smiled happily.

In this way, through Shang Yuanai as the intermediary, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while.

After about ten minutes, after drinking a cup of tea, Xin Haicheng saw that it was almost done, so he got up to leave.

But before leaving, he and Xu Xin exchanged contact information and email addresses.

Xu Xin gave him two numbers, one is a domestic number, and the other is an automatically converted number after arriving abroad.

Then he also saved his contact information in the phone.

But he understands that even if the two of them have any communication in the future, the main means of communication must be email.

It's not that you can't make international calls.

It's a language barrier.

After leaving the contact information, Makoto Xin Haicheng sent his blessing of "I hope "The Hawthorn" will be a big hit", and left politely.

This is quite in line with the introverted character of the Japanese in Shangyuan Ai's mouth.

Know how to advance and retreat, and will not stay for a particularly long time, causing trouble to the other party.

And after he left, when the three of them finished packing their things and left, Xu Xin received an email from Xin Haicheng.

This time the email was not in Japanese, but in English.

have to.

Shang Yuanai was useless, so Liu Yifei had to come.

However, Xu Xin more or less understood the general meaning of the other party through the words.

So after handing the phone to Liu Yifei, he said:
"Did he mean: Nice to meet you, nice tea... Hawthorn Tree is Hawthorn right? Believe Hawthorn is a good movie? The latter line... is it asking what I need? Or is it... ..."

"Almost, the translation of his original words is... Nice to meet you, thank you for entertaining him with tea, it is delicious. I believe Hawthorn must be a good movie, and he will support it. If you need anything here If so, you can contact him."

"Hey, buddy, can you speak English now?"

Xu Xin raised his eyebrows, a little smug on his face.

Although he still can't express as proficiently as the other party, at least... he can roughly understand it.

And Liu Yifei was actually quite surprised.

After all, the last time we went abroad together, Xu Xin's English level is obvious to all.

At this time, Xu Xin took the phone back.

While walking, he spelled words very slowly and replied to the other party.

Seeing this, Liu Yifei also asked:
"Can I help you answer?"

"No, just treat it as practice...haha, if you think about it this way, we are also considered pen pals, right? Hahahaha..."

Seeing his eyes full of smiles, although Liu Yifei couldn't tell for a while whether he was happy because he met a new friend, or because someone helped him practice English.

But she murmured in her heart:
"If you want to practice English, don't you come to me too..."

When this idea was just born, Lin Juxin said to himself:
"Isn't it the same for you and Da Mi to practice English?"

Xu Xin ignored him.

Speaking English by heart, the couple can't practice it.

Yang Mi can't stand his "stupidity".

And he's also bad-tempered.

As soon as the daughter-in-law laughed at him, the two of them might start to F@CK each other.

in every sense of the word...

After trying a few times, I really can't stand the European and American style.

In the end nothing is left.

This new friend in front of me is just right.

……

The hotel arranged by Dongbao Yinghua this time is Hyatt.

After returning to the room, Xu Xin turned on the laptop.

Along the way, he and Xin Haicheng sent several emails.

The other party has mastered many uncommon words that are very unfamiliar to him at present.He didn't understand what it meant, so he could only rely on Baidu.

But... this is also an English practice.

So I didn't ask Liu Yifei, and I stayed in my room and looked up how to spell the words I wanted to express, while replying.

The topic of the two of them has changed from the polite way of you coming and going, to "The plot director who travels through time and space in "The Unspeakable Secret" initiated by Xin Haicheng. Your design is very clever. Where did you get the inspiration from?" At the beginning, it was transferred to "The Unspeakable Secret".

This is also the main reason why Xu Xin looked up words.

This sentence... He didn't understand it in a daze, but Liu Yifei helped translate it.

Xu Xin also gradually tasted a kind of pleasure in this kind of reply from you to me one by one.

Finally, he could more or less understand how the old man and Takakura Ken communicated through letters.

Xu Xin returned very slowly.

It felt like writing a small composition.

Linking Jay Chou's original script inspiration, to the piano soundtrack melody of "SECRET", to the first version of the movie script, and the differences after his adaptation...

Having grown so big, Xu Xin, who has never scored more than 10 points in English composition questions, looked at his eloquent hundreds of words...

Although he didn't know whether the grammar was a match between the donkey's lips and the horse's mouth, he still clicked send.

It took him nearly two hours just for this email...

Never hungry back to hungry.

But after replying, there was a... a wonderful feeling of refreshment.

It's like someone who writes a novel wants to see what readers think of what he has written.

Makoto Xin Hai...you can't say that you are good, right?
but……

After sending it, he waited for a cigarette, but the other party didn't reply.

Xu Xin reckoned that this buddy might not understand...or maybe he went to Baidu himself.

have to.

Your old man is also a two-handed knife?
With a bit of escapism, he sent a message to Liu Yifei and Lin Xunxin respectively:
"In? To eat?"

"Come on, let's watch us eat."

Lin Gou replied happily:

"Go, have a drink."

And Liu Yifei's reply is very intriguing:

"..."

Not a single word.

The rest is up to you to guess.

……

Dinner was at a Japanese-style canteen in the alley near Hyatt.

Shang Yuanai is a full-time interpreter hired by Xiying Studio, and the itinerary is unified with Xu Xin and the others.

According to her, this place is like home cooking in China.

Can drink and eat well.

The four of them ordered several dishes such as fried chicken, fried ginger, and sashimi.

Xu Xin proudly drank the unicorn here.

I always feel that drinking it is more delicious than domestic ones.

He and Lin Gou each had a draft beer mug.

Shang Yuanai tried every means to evade, but finally couldn't stand Xu Xin's kindness, and ordered a small cup.

As for Liu Yifei...

Holding a Chinese seaweed, he stared blankly.

In the end, a meal is full of wine and food.

Although not slightly drunk, everyone who felt very comfortable returned to the hotel again.

In the hotel suites on the Hyatt side, the infrastructure is better than the Roppongi side where I stayed last time.At the very least, although their bathtub is not big, it is equipped with something that Xu Xin thinks is very strange.

It's about the size of a hotel soap, and the box says "Hot Spring Soup".As soon as you throw it into the water, the color of the water starts to turn green.

There is a very peculiar aroma.

Very light, but smells good.

Compared to the stuff that Yang Mi bought at home and threw away one, which was as foamy as urine protein exceeding the standard, this stuff was obviously more to his taste.

After taking a bath, he comfortably took a photo with his wife in a bathrobe and sent it.

After dialing the phone, Yang Mi's first words were:

"It's kind of like staying for two days. I think the environment of your hotel is a bit like "Lost in Translation". Hey, will the people from Dongbao Films arrange a one hundred and forty-five catties for you in a while? Girls, wearing stockings, say "eat my stockings" to you?"

"..."

In an instant, Xu Xin didn't know what to say.

He was at a loss for words, and he didn't know what to say other than "Are you sick?"

The two of them watched the movie together on the sofa.

He was very proud of Scarlett Johansson.

Black Widow YYDS...

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said:
"You buy a set of Black Widow's COS."

"Survivors?"

"The widow's fart! In "Iron Man 2", Scarlett Johansson's set."

"..."

Yang Mi was speechless.

She didn't expect to dig a hole to bury herself.

So he typed a haha ​​very perfunctorily:
"What did you have for dinner tonight?"

"Stop changing the subject."

Xu Xin sneered:
"Buy it quickly, use my Taobao account to buy it, I will check the order record later!"

"..."

Yang Mi was speechless for a while, and finally tried to act like a baby:
“Husband~~~”

"It's useless to call Dad! Hurry up..."

"Om."

After the words fell, Xu Xin's cell phone vibrated.

He took the phone away from his ear, glanced at it, and found that it was a reminder of a new email, he got up from the bed and came to the computer.

"Let me tell you something."

While refreshing his inbox, he said:
"I met Xin Haicheng today."

"Who?"

Seeing her brother take the initiative to let her go, Yang Mi felt so beautiful.

As for who Xin Haicheng is...

He loves so and so.

Scarlett Johansson's tights in "Iron Man 2"...it seems to be leather pants?
Just don't wear leather pants.

Farting will be bulging!

As for Xu Xin, looking at the densely packed content sent by the other party, he felt a little numb at the moment.

You...why do you post so much?
I can post at most one composition, why did you post four or five?
And a lot of uncommon words...

can not understand!

He was a little speechless, but his interest came immediately.

Just solve the riddle.

Anyway, waiting is waiting.

But seeing that he didn't answer for a long time, Yang Mi couldn't help asking:

"Hello? What are you doing?"

"Look at the email... Xin Haicheng sent it to me."

"What do you mean? Can you understand Japanese?"

"If I can understand Japanese, I don't have to look for Chinese subtitles for the movies I download. It's like this..."

After talking about what happened today, Yang Mi asked curiously after hearing this:
"You two communicate in English now?"

"Yes, it's quite interesting. But his English is better than mine, so I can only look it up in the dictionary a little bit."

"Why don't you send it to me and I'll translate it for you?"

"Farewell, that's so boring. I'll take my time..."

"Oh, send it to me. Let me see what you two are talking about. The main thing is... I can't think of you talking English with people, just like fantasy stories."

Seeing that she was very curious, Xu Xin forwarded all their emails to her:
"Sent it to you."

"Okay, I'll hang up. Chat on QQ."

Xu Xin didn't care either, the phone call between the two of them was equivalent to reporting safety.

The old couple is old, and the passion of making a phone call for an hour or two has long since disappeared.

Up to half an hour.

If there are many words, it is a waste of saliva!

And Makoto Xin Haicheng's reply is really quite a lot.

Xu Xin just translated the first paragraph:
"I think the most attractive point in the movie "Secret" is that at the end of the movie, Director Xu, Mr. Ye Xianglun realized the specialness of Lu Xiaoyu in the time and space of "now" through the flashback memory. At the beginning When watching the movie, I still felt that Mr. Ye Xianglun would be a bit abrupt when he suddenly realized that Lu Xiaoyu was a "non-existent person". But after I watched it over and over again, I discovered many details that I had overlooked in the first pass. Understand what’s really exciting about this segment.”

This is the first paragraph of Xin Haicheng's reply.

Xu Xin has just finished translating.

QQ rang.

"Xin Haicheng is 12 years older than you. But in your emails, I feel that he is like your little fan, especially for "Secret", all kinds of admiration."

"Especially this latest letter, he gave me the feeling... as if he knows "Secret" better than you."

After sending two messages in a row, Xu Xin thought you were farting after reading it.

Nobody knows The Secret better than I do!
But he didn't show off, he just replied suspiciously:
"Have you read it all?"

"...That's right. I've finished reading it all, but you haven't finished it yet?"

"I just finished the first paragraph."

"Do you want me to translate for you?"

"No, I'll do it myself."

"Haha, then take your time, the speed is really slow. I'm playing DOTA."

"? Aren't you going to promote "Wulin Biography" tomorrow? Don't you go to bed early?"

"...I'm going to bed now, I'm going to take a shower, good night, 88."

In an instant, Yang Mi's profile picture turned gray.

Xu Xin didn't bother to find out if she was playing DOTA with "Zhan Dun".

No need.

He knows the matchmakers too well.

If she went to sleep right now, she would be willing to screw her head off and kick it as a ball.

But he doesn't care.

let's play.

Just don't delay work.

So, he continued to translate the email diligently.

gradually...

Late at night.

　By the way, this is not water.

Stack a armor first.

Xin Haicheng's plot is related to Chen Rui, and it is all to lead to some follow-up industrial layouts about Two-dimensional.

After all, Guoman is also on the rise.

So we have to lay the groundwork, otherwise, if there is no such level progression, it will be like the previous plots of Yang Mi and Wang Shuo.Obviously it's just a reflection of the mental journey, but there will still be people who are serious about "Have you paved the way before?" and so on.

And "The Unspeakable Secret" has such a high status in Japan, it is also because of this, and the plot of another follow-up movie.But whether that movie is going to be written or not I'm still thinking.

I didn't want to explain, but I was afraid that others would think these two chapters were useless, so I said it in advance.

This plot includes related plots such as Station B, Guoman, and industrial layout.

Just the beginning.

And the overall Japanese propaganda chapter is almost over.Back home tomorrow.

Then in 11, there were several major related issues, one was "Bite of the Tongue", the other was another direction of career, and the third was movies.

However, the plot of "A Bite of the Tongue" that has been foreshadowed before will greatly weaken the plot of "that road" qualification improvement brought about by the "Starlight Award".

After all, the article has been revised once before...it's not easy to write indiscriminately, it may be mentioned in one stroke.

Please understand.

　
(End of this chapter)