Don't call me Master, call me Director

"Of course, this is your brother's first movie."

Shinji didn't seem to notice Sakura's tangled expression, he smiled and tapped his sister's forehead with his finger.

"Are you ready for a new era of cinema, Ms. Matou Sakura?"

Chapter 13 Magician Banquet (×) Blind Date Meeting (√)

For most crew members, the end of filming means enjoying a long and comfortable vacation.

Even those few student parties can at least have a chance to study with peace of mind during the final exam, creating opportunities for themselves to have a pleasant winter vacation.

But this kind of good thing Shinji had no chance. After only two days of rest at home, he went to Tokyo alone to start the post-production of FSN.

It's not that Shen Er doesn't want to stay and work in Fuyuki City, but Fuyuki City doesn't have any relevant film post-production studios at all, so Shen Er can only go to Japan's current film center-Tokyo for post-production.

The post-production itself went relatively smoothly. Shinji's uncle Kariya Matou was working as a special camera actor in Tokyo. With his contact, Shinji rented Tsuburaya's post-production studio.

As an established film and television company, Tsuburaya's studio equipment is sufficient to meet Shen Er's needs.Shen Erye also hired an experienced editor from Yuangu to help him complete the tedious film editing work.

There was only one thing that made Erye Shen feel pained.His 7 servants summoned by the Holy Grail could not leave Fuyuki City because they were bound by spiritual veins, so Shinji had to return to Fuyuki City to make the post-dubbing of the film.

This caused Shinji to have to run back and forth between Fuyuki City and Tokyo during this period.

"It's decided. When FSN makes money, I will build a complete film post-production studio in Fuyuki City!"

In Matou's house, Shinji, who had returned from Tokyo again, lay on the table and complained.

"Oh~~ Really?"

Matou Zouken who was sitting across from Shen Er lazily replied that he didn't seem to hear what Shen Er said clearly.

"Grandpa~~"

The corner of Shen Er's mouth twitched wildly, and his right hand clenched and loosened several times.

If it wasn't for the fear of hitting this "Master Yoda" with a fist and causing comminuted fractures all over his body, Shen Er would have done it long ago.

Without him, Matou Zouken really deserves a beating right now.

At this time, the old man was lying on a padded sofa with Erlang crossed his legs, holding the fine wine in a golden wine glass (should have been obtained from the shining wealth) in one hand, and playing with him with the other hand. A cricket just bought at a high price from the Celestial Dynasty.

On the right hand side of the old man is the little brother B who is holding a fruit plate and bending over respectfully; on the left hand side is Hercules who is slowly fanning the cattail fan to blow the wind on the old man.

"Grandpa, where did you get this rich land?!"

Shinji patted the table and shouted at Matou Zouken.

Jiantong Zouyan lazily scratched his left knee with his right foot, and said indifferently: "Ah~~ I was originally a rich man."

"What you said is very reasonable, I can't refute it for a while... No, why are you fanning in the winter!"

"Because the air conditioner is on."

Jiantong Zouyan took a sip of his wine and replied calmly.

"Then won't you turn off the air conditioner? Do you know how much the electricity bill is?"

Electricity bills in Japan are as ridiculously expensive as domestic fruits, especially in winter and summer. If you don’t pay attention to electricity bills, it will start at 10.

Although the Jiantong family is not short of this little money, they can't waste it like this.

"You're stupid, Shen Er." Jiantong Zouyan rolled his eyes at his grandson, and showed off the cricket on his palm, "Turn off the air conditioner, isn't my little one going to freeze to death?"

"..."

It seems that no matter which world it is in, it can't change Matou Zouken's love for bugs.

Shen Er didn't know whether he should be happy or not, at least his grandfather played with crickets, not engraved worms, didn't he?

"Brother, don't talk to grandpa." Sakura complained while passing tea to Shen Er, "Ever since he bought this bug, he has been having convulsions."

Jiantong Zouyan said aggrievedly: "Sakura, it's too much for you to say that about grandpa. My old man only has such a little hobby."

Sakura stared at him dissatisfied, and said coldly: "Grandpa! If you continue to be so nervous, I will fry this bug!"

"No, Sakura can't be so cruel. Shen Er, good grandson, hurry up and persuade your sister."

Saying that, Zouken turned his head to Shinji.

Shen Erquan pretended not to see it, and drank his tea with his head down.

Just kidding, it's not like his second master has never encountered such a thing.If he helped grandpa out loud at this time, then fried crickets would appear in his rice bowl by then.

"Sakura, this tea tastes good. Your technique of making tea is really getting better and better."

Shinji ignored Matou Zouken's eyes and praised with a smile.

After being praised by her brother, Sakura showed a slightly shy expression of satisfaction.

"Brother, how is your work recently?"

"It's okay." Shen Er sighed slightly, "I just want to quarrel with Mr. Ohara every other day."

Ohara was the editor from Tsuburaya, and Shinji quarreled with him because the two had very different ideas about editing movies.

In the eyes of the old editor, many of Shen Er's editing ideas were simply random, but Shen Er felt that Kenji Ohara was too conservative and failed to understand the essence of commercial films in his heart.

You must know that the commercial film editing plan proposed by Shen Er is not random, but has a very clear theoretical basis.

In Shen Er's previous life, those Hollywood film companies had done a lot of research in order to get a return on their investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Through a lot of data analysis and psychological research, they even created a set of perfect commercial film editing framework timetable.

This timetable is very detailed, even accurate to the point where each action scene should start and end in a few minutes, and the feelings and conflicts between the hero and heroine should start in a few minutes and end in a few minutes. Seconds kissing...wait.

In fact, by the time Shen Er traveled through time, this timetable was no longer very effective, and most commercial films no longer followed this timetable.

Because too many movies with the same template have been watched, the audience has long been bored with this "model drama".

But in this lunar time and space, for those new audiences who haven't even seen "Star Wars", this framework is simply a stroke of magic.

This is the same as Shen Er directly using calculus to do math problems when everyone is still calculating with addition and subtraction.

Shen Er believes that his film is no less than an atomic bomb to the already stagnant film industry.

It's a pity that the editor named Xiao Yuan didn't know Shen Er's editing ideas. In his opinion, Shen Er's editing method did not follow the traditional routine, and it was young people messing around.

Fortunately, in this world, because of the dominance of art films, the director's right to speak in film production is much higher than that of other people. No matter how persistent the editor is, he will not be able to confront Shinji.

Shen Er didn't care much about the editor's attitude. Anyway, the two parties were just a simple employment relationship, and the other party could help him edit the material into a movie.

"Enough is enough, Grandpa. Throw this bug away!"

"No, my dear granddaughter, this is the only request from my grandfather in my life."

"This is already your 417th "only request in a lifetime"!"

The quarrel between Matou Zouken and Sakura interrupted Shinji's thoughts.

Seeing that the farce of the grandparent and grandson might affect him, Shen Er hurriedly drank the remaining tea in the cup, and then instinctively ran away.

"Good grandson!"

Just when Shen Er reached the stairs, Matou Zouken called him.

"Grandpa, I won't go against Sakura, you should always obey her."

"It has nothing to do with this matter." Matou Zouken said with a smile, "Tomorrow night there will be a gathering of Japanese magicians in Tokyo, and you will go with me then."

"A party?"

After hearing what Grandpa said, Shen Er frowned slightly.

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Although he was very reluctant in his heart, Shen Er followed Zouken Matou to Kyoto the next day to attend the party.

This is the year-end gathering of the local magician families in Japan. It is held in Kyoto every year, and several magic families in Kyoto take turns as hosts.

When Shen Er followed his grandfather to the party, there were many famous figures in the Japanese magic world as far as the eye could see in the huge banquet hall.

Shen Er recalled it for a while, and found that many of these people were well-known figures in ordinary people's society.

Under the leadership of the waiter, Shen followed his grandfather into the banquet hall with a wine glass in his second hand.

To be honest, Shinji doesn't have much affection for the magic families and magicians in Japan.

I don't know if it is influenced by Japanese conservative culture, but the atmosphere of closed-off magicians is especially obvious in Japan.

If the European magicians are described as conservative, then the Japanese magicians are stubborn stones.

Therefore, in the eyes of these people, practical magicians like Shen Er are "unfilial sons who violated their ancestors".

"So, Grandpa, why did you bring me here?"

In the banquet hall of a luxury hotel in Kyoto, Shen Er asked Zouken Matou with a displeased face.

"My dear grandson, don't say that~" Jiantong Zouyan said with a chuckle, "Maybe there will be a family that understands you."

"How could it be possible." Shen Er snorted disdainfully, "If there were, would I still use it to clock Tara people?"

Shen Er's attitude towards these people really confirmed the words of Prime Minister Cao: "Zhuzi, insufficiency and conspiracy!".

"Don't say that." Jiantong Zouyan looked up at Shen Er, "According to your future plan, you must continue to summon heroic spirits, right? Maybe some family will agree to rent out the spirit veins to you?"

"How could there be?"

Shen Er said so, but his body followed honestly, and under the recommendation of Matou Zouken, he visited the magicians.

With Fuyuki City's current magic power of the spirit veins, summoning the Seven Riders is already the limit.If you want to summon new servants, the best way is to connect other spirit veins with the Fuyuki City spirit veins to expand the magic reserve of the Fuyuki City spirit veins.

And the best spirit veins in all of Japan are in the hands of the magicians in the current banquet hall.

Therefore, Shen Er also felt that what his grandfather said was reasonable, at least it wouldn't hurt to get to know these people.

However, as time passed, Shen Er found that something was wrong.

Because at least nine out of ten magicians recommended by Matou Zouken will mention their daughters among their juniors intentionally or unintentionally, and they will also introduce their strengths to Shinji very intimately, and praise their excellent aptitudes.

"grandfather."

After another exchange with a certain veteran magician family, Shinji gave his grandfather a hand.

"It has nothing to do with Lingmai, right? Are you throwing me into a dating agency?"

Shen Er asked with a black line on his face.

Jiantong Zouyan laughed: "What's the matter, anyway, those girls are pretty good."

"Hey!"

Regarding his grandson's complaint, Matou Zouken tapped the crutch in his hand disapprovingly.

"My dear grandson, you have to know that your qualifications as a magician are the best in this generation in Japan. It's not normal for these families to have no thoughts about you."

Saying that, Matou Zouyan glanced sideways at his grandson.

"Shinji, didn't you have a lot of fun at the clock tower? Why did you become serious when you returned to Japan?"

"That's completely different." Shen Er said angrily, "And these old people are not interested in my plans and ideas at all? Why do you want to come to me to be your son-in-law now?"

Matou Zouken teased: "It doesn't matter to them what you want to do, as long as you can use your ancestral... to impregnate their women."

What my grandfather said made Matou Shinji feel a little uncomfortable.

Although Shen Erye himself was invincible up and down the clock tower, it was because of his appreciation and love for beautiful girls.

The two sides don't say that they are in love, at least they are in harmony during the estrus period.

But these people...

"It's all flattery to say that inflatable dolls are flattering, so what's the difference between that and breeding animals?" Shen Er murmured in a low voice.

"That's what a magician is."

Jiantong Zouyan nodded in agreement, and then he suddenly smiled sinisterly: "This is also a good thing, if they don't lend you the spiritual vein in the future, you can use your genetic factor to exchange it."

"grandfather......"

Shen Er wanted to say something, when suddenly two people came in front of their grandpa and grandson.

The other party is also a combination of grandparents and grandchildren, but the old man on the opposite side is a young woman with red hair instead of a grandson.

Shen Er knew them. The old man was the head of the Aozaki family, a famous Japanese magic family, and the woman he brought was Aoko Aozaki, one of the "Four Heroines of Xingyue".