Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 233 Propaganda and Swordsmanship

“I feel like there’s a lot more plot added to this drama, Old Thief!”

"The old thieves in the past would not portray the villain in such detail."

"After all, this drama is an ensemble drama! Although the heroine is Saber, the other characters are also very charming."

"It's just that Kenneth is so funny. I'm the best in school, but I don't dare to say anything back when my wife scolds me at home. And his wife seems to be... Oh, she has a green head."

"But Diarmait is a true knight! He is willing to serve a master like him. Kenneth's wife has problems, but Diarmait is a true gentleman."

"I read the biography of Diarmait that the old thief updated on the official website. It seems that when he was alive, his knighthood was tarnished because the fiancée of his loyal lord liked him. Now that he was summoned in the Holy Grail War, he is in the same situation again. Isn't the old thief going to use a knife to kill him?"

"The rules of the Holy Grail War seem to be that it will only end when only one Heroic Spirit and the Master survive, so don't feel sympathy for the Heroic Spirits other than Saber. The rules of the Holy Grail War dictate that all the Masters and Heroic Spirits behind will die, and only Saber and Emiya Kiritsugu will survive."

"No way, I like Diarmait this guy very much! And Alexander the Great, will the old thief let them die?"

"Of course, this show can't be a family-friendly dumpling show. Of the seven heroic spirits, only one can survive and have their wish fulfilled."

"Then will Jin Shanshan, played by Su Yan, also die?"

"I guess so"

"Why do I feel like the plot of this drama is going to develop in a bad direction? From what I've seen so far, the world view of this drama seems a bit dark. Magicians are also a group of guys who don't take human life seriously. They don't care about the lives of ordinary people when they fight for the Holy Grail."

"Emiya Kiritsugu, yeah! I reviewed the first episode on the website a while ago. His goal is to create a peaceful world. From this perspective, he has the highest moral character among the seven masters. But his fighting methods are a bit despicable. He always plots and launches sneak attacks."

"The process is twisted, but the result is just? Haha, I feel that this protagonist will end up in tragedy sooner or later."

"Honestly, am I the only one who thinks this drama doesn't look as good as Lao Zei's previous works?"

"That's normal. I used to do romance dramas, not this kind of stuff. You're just not used to it."

Fate Zero has aired its fourth episode with a viewership rating of 5.54. The increase in viewership ratings is very stable and is basically the same every week.

Although the work's rating is only 9.4, the industry still has high expectations that fz's ratings will surpass Madoka Magica in the future.

And then after this.
It’s the last day of January, and the Xia Yan Awards will be presented.

Su Yan has been to the Xia Yan Awards ceremony four or five times in total.

But last year, he and the rest of the team basically won all the awards they deserved.

This year, the situation is similar to last year.

All the major awards including Best Director, Best Screenwriter, and Best Actress were given to Su Yan.

The winning entries were very consistent.
They are all "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

Only the Best Actor award was won by someone else, and the reason is very simple. There were no important male characters in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and he didn't have enough screen time, so he couldn't win the award at all.

It's impossible that this award would be given to the supporting role Kamijou Kyousuke played by Su Yan!

However, the Best Actress award was in line with everyone's expectations and was awarded to Gu Qingyuan, who played Homura Akemi.

That night, the two-hour Xia Yan Awards ceremony ended without any twists and turns.

The next day, February 1st, the media in the Xia country's TV drama industry were all bragging about Su Yan's performance at the party last night.

Especially Su Yan’s last speech on the podium.

“As expected, I will still be standing here this time next year.”

After that statement was made, a group of TV drama industry bigwigs in the audience had interesting expressions on their faces, but no one, including the host and a group of black fans, could utter a word of rebuttal.

Judging from fz's current performance, Su Yan was just stating a fact.

As expected, next year's Best Actress award will be directly given to the new actress Zhuang Yuxin who plays Saber.

And she will also achieve a horrific achievement.

She debuted as the Best Actress.

Such an achievement has never been achieved before, and it is unlikely to be achieved in the future.

Since late January, Su Yan has been trending on the internet one after another in the Xia country's film and television industry. And every time Su Yan has a new trending search, with a group of media outlets behind him that have spent money fanning the flames, the wave of public opinion that is formed makes it difficult for many competitors to withstand.

The producers behind "Breaking the Array" and "The Fake Detective" are really anxious.

But when it was February and there was only a week left before the release of Rurouni Kenshin, Su Yan started to make new moves. He began to imitate the marketing methods of Chinese movies in his previous life.

You can say that the Chinese movies in Su Yan's previous life became increasingly uglier as they became more and more unimpressive, but you cannot deny that when it comes to attracting audiences to buy tickets and go to the theaters, they are definitely the best in the industry.

In Su Yan's previous life, a group of movie fans on the Internet crazily criticized the promotion of those movies, saying that it was equivalent to fraud.

The scenes and editing of the short videos are so exciting that when you are tricked into going to the cinema, you will find that the pre-promotion of other movies hides the really exciting parts and edits some irrelevant plots as promotional videos.

But for most of Su Yan’s movies in his previous life, you only need to watch the producer’s edited promotional videos. All the good clips are in them, and the rest of the plot in the main film is even more boring.

Although Su Yan has this idea in marketing, he absolutely believes that Rurouni Kenshin is an excellent movie, so he is being realistic.

Starting from February 1st, Su Yan began to post some short videos on the four major video websites and some short video software certified accounts.

The content is very simple, just explain to the audience the brief version of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu swordsmanship performed by Kenshin in Rurouni Kenshin.

Why is it a brief version? Because the original version is a real sword technique that kills people. Su Yan can't find anyone to try it. What's more, although Su Yan's body has been transformed by the system and he has been instilled with sword skills by the system, his body has not been exercised every day for many years. Although he is stronger than ordinary people, if he really wants to force himself to perform pure sword skills, he will probably get muscle strain and injuries, and he will have to recuperate and recover after just a few sword moves.

However, the fact that Su Yan released those videos was enough to shock Su Yan's fans for a whole year.

After all, when you click on the videos posted by Su Yan, the first sentence he says is:

"Hello everyone, today we will explain the swordsmanship of the protagonist Kenshin Himura in Rurouni Kenshin's Hiten Miken Ryu. Next is a simplified version of the basic move Dragon Nest Flash."

Throughout the entire video, Su Yan first lets the audience understand what one plus one equals two, and what addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are.

Pick up the sword, kick, turn around, chop
All the movements are very simple. People who watch the video feel that they can also hold a sword and perform the same graceful movements as Su Yan in the video.

"Okay, now you know it! Let me show you a simple version of this move."

Su Yan in the video said with a smile.

Then, when Su Yan demonstrated swordsmanship, the difficulty really jumped from addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to the level of calculus.

In less than two seconds, they saw in the video Su Yan performing a gorgeous sword move for them with the sword in his hand.

The speed, power, and accuracy are all terrifying.

the most important is
All of us fans are just secretly suspecting that Su Yan, you are really filming the movie without any wires.

Now you, Su Yan, have the solid evidence.

You can really perform those actions in real life!

Old thief?

You really are good at flying sword style!

That's not just exaggerated swordsmanship!

Su Yan had practiced various exercises in the office before, just to film these simplified versions of sword techniques.

There is no way to demonstrate the real killing method, but this is enough.

What is the core point of Rurouni Kenshin’s promotion?
Of course it was Su Yan's perfectly reproduced swordplay moves.

How could Su Yan just leave it alone for marketing?

He boasted about how great the fighting scenes in this movie were in the trailers and promotional slogans, but none of them were as good as a video like this, which let the audience know what level of fighting skills he, the protagonist, has.

And the effect.
I can only say it's explosively good.

Su Yan’s fans were stunned.

Even passers-by felt their scalps tingling.

Su Yan’s competitors in the same period were even more disappointed.

A group of colleagues in the Xia country's film industry were stunned.

Su Yan's fighting scenes are very famous in the Xia country's TV drama industry, but not many people in the film industry know about them.

We are really making a movie.

But are you, Su Yan, serious in the movie?
(End of this chapter)