Chapter 111: Chapter 111 Another year ends
The first trailer of "Goblin Slayer" quickly spread on the Internet and sparked discussions among netizens.
Although YouTube didn't exist in 2001, some large and small video websites already existed. With the deliberate promotion by the "Goblin Slayer" crew, the trailer quickly spread.
Of course, this trailer did not receive unanimous praise. It would be more accurate to say that the reviews were extremely polarized.
People who like this trailer think it is very powerful. Although some plots cannot be presented too directly due to network ratings, they have already seen the possible basic structure of the movie - the full R-rated elements seem to overflow from the screen.
Most of these audiences are fans of R-rated movies. For them, American horror movies and Quentin Calendino's movies are their favorites.
As for those who say bad things about it, most of them are fans of the original game "The Saint and the Brave". They think that based on the content of the trailer, "Goblin Slayer" does not show the fantasy journey of the Hyrule continent at all.
What they want to see is a heroic epic in which a brave man defeats a devil, but what is wrong with this movie?
What's so good about dealing with goblins? This kind of supporting role is not worth describing at all! Although the girl who was killed by the goblins in the trailer has a nice figure and face... ahem, anyway, this is not the movie of "Saints and Braves" that we want to see!
If the producers could remove the connection with "The Saint and the Brave", maybe we could still support it a little bit.
As a result, all kinds of quarrels began to spread on the Internet, but the producers of "Goblin Slayer" not only did not stop it, but instead seemed to be secretly instigating it.
After all, there will be no heat only when there are arguments. Nanaya has never been afraid of such things. On the contrary, it would be more terrible if there were no arguments and discussions, because that would mean that the movie would not have any heat.
So in the midst of a heated argument, Nanaya began to release the second trailer, which was even more powerful and even more excessive.
However, this trailer was not promoted online, but was shown on the big screen in the cinema.
Washimine used various connections to persuade as many major European and American cinemas as possible to play this trailer before the screenings of the currently released R-rated movies.
Nanaya is very clear that the audiences who go to the cinema to watch R-rated movies at this stage are basically the target audience group of "Goblin Slayer" in the future. Therefore, he must spare no effort to promote his movie to them and arouse their interest.
Identifying the target audience and then promoting it vigorously has always been the golden rule in commercial advertising strategy, especially for movies and TV series.
Because this second trailer is aimed at R-rated audiences, its scale is even more extreme than the first one. The audience even sees bloody scenes of goblins killing adventurers.
The second trailer basically maintains the same tone as the first trailer in terms of plot, still showing the difficulty of the goblins. However, the proportion of time spent by the four-member team of rookies in the early stage in the trailer is increased.
However, Nanaya was very cunning and did not directly show the results of three of the four rookies who were defeated. Nanaya edited the scenes of the swordsman being attacked by the goblin, the female magician being injured, and the female fighter attacking the giant goblin but being caught by the opponent.
However, Nanaya only showed the difficulties they encountered, but not their ending. In addition, Nanaya spliced the three shots with the four people's surprise after seeing the goblin group and the scene where the male protagonist Goblin Slayer appeared.
Therefore, this trailer of Nanaya gave people an illusion, making the audience mistakenly believe that the plot was that the four-member group was in a tough battle after encountering a group of goblins, and then the male protagonist Goblin Slayer came to the rescue.
Although trailers these days already have a very strong element of suspense, making the audience look forward to the true development of the story, it is rare for Nanaya to deliberately use wrong editing methods to mislead the audience.
However, this kind of misleading trailer operation is a technique that many movies will use in the future, out of fear that the audience will guess the plot and hype it up online, causing audience expectations to decrease.
The most well-known of these is the Marvel Cinematic Universe's trailer scam, especially the outrageous operations in the trailer promotion of "Iron Man 3", which made everyone think that this movie would be a battle between technology and magic.
But the result was completely different from what the audience imagined, which surprised everyone.
In Nanaya's opinion, the promotion of "Iron Man 3" was undoubtedly successful, but in the end, the audience generally did not give it a high evaluation. The biggest reason for this was that the characterization of Killian, the real boss who replaced the "Mandalin" in the film, was too flat and straightforward.
Nanaya has never been a loyal fan of the original work. In fact, he never thought that a comic or novel adapted into a movie or TV series needs to respect the original work. After all, the two media are different and the ways of expression are also different. It is not advisable to copy and paste.
As long as the story is exciting enough, the character motivations are convincing, and the character curves and dramatic tension are sufficient, Nanaya can accept any adaptation of the original work. However, "Iron Man 3" obviously did not do well in some aspects, or it was slightly lacking. The idea of using the surface boss and the inner boss was very creative, but the execution was not very good.
As a traditional Marvel villain, Killian is definitely not the worst, but as a boss who replaces the surface villain, the role tension is far from enough. If Marvel's writers can dig deeper into Killian's character, make him more capable and more convincing, Nanaya believes that there will be fewer viewers complaining about "Iron Man 3".
As a successful example of extreme commercialization, Nanaya, the younger generation, must of course watch and learn from it carefully.
Therefore, the trick of using a deceptive trailer can not only satisfy Nanaya's own bad taste but also create topical publicity for the film. Nanaya would be unworthy of his reputation as a military strategist if he didn't make use of such a good trick.
The only pity is that Nanaya can't do the same as Marvel and mix fake shots into the trailer. It's not that Nanaya doesn't want to, but the budget is not enough.
So, your Marvel dad is your dad, and he can spend as much money as he wants.
The response to this trailer was much better than the first one. After all, this trailer was very controversial and was aimed at R-rated movie audiences.
As a result, European and American audiences also began to pay attention to the director of "Goblin Slayer", Nanaya Kiryu. Although there are very few such people, it is still a good start.
After Shion reported this good news to Nanaya, Nanaya immediately called Ryutani Norisaki and told him that he hoped Lin Bao could cooperate with Washimine's promotion and introduce his two works "Kara no Kyoukai" and "Magical Girl Illya" to Europe and the United States.
Of course, Nanaya's video and DVD rental and sales are offline. After all, these two films are not suitable for online sales, and it will definitely lose money if they do so.
Movies like "Kara no Kyoukai" with a strong Japanese urban legend flavor do not have many audiences in Europe and the United States, and the scale of "Magical Girl Illya" is not suitable for TV broadcasts at all.
After all, the requirements for children's dramas in Europe and the United States are much stricter than those in other countries and regions. Just look at Ultraman Pawart, who was born in Europe and the United States. This guy is obviously much stronger than the first generation in combat power, but in the plot he can only give massages to monsters and aliens.
Nanaya doesn't expect these two projects to make a lot of money, but they will try to make as much as they can, after all, they have been squeezed out of almost all the money in Japan.
"I understand the reasoning." Ryutani Nobuyuki asked helplessly after listening to Nanaya's explanation, "But why did you contact me directly for such a small matter? Wouldn't it be better to just find a middle-level manager of Lin Bao and ask him to report to the issuance department?"
"I want to, too, but the only person I know in Lin Bao besides you is the domestic manager, and he's in New Zealand with me now."
Faced with Nanaya's self-righteous answer, Ryutani Nobuyuki held back an "MMP" in his heart, not knowing whether he should yell it out loud.
Even though they were separated by a phone call, Nanaya could more or less feel the old man's anger, so he immediately said "I'll take care of the rest" and hung up the phone.
Beep-beep-
Hearing the busy tone coming from the telephone receiver, Ryutani Nobuyuki was so angry that he almost threw the phone away.
"Ryuichi, next time we drink, I want you to treat me!"
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Of course, Linbao also has its own distribution department in the United States. Although its scale is not as large as the Big Seven, it is considered to be of medium level among second-tier distributors.
Otherwise, Washimine would not have said that the distribution of "Goblin Slayer" in Japan and overseas would be entrusted to Lin Baolai.
As for the response of "Kara no Kyoukai" and "Magical Girl Illya" in North America, it was so lukewarm that it seemed like there was no difference whether they were released or not.
After all, these two films of Nanaya were made for Japanese audiences, and they will definitely not be accepted in Europe and the United States. However, those R-rated film fans who started to pay attention to Nanaya because of the trailer of "Goblin Slayer" are impressed by Nanaya's ability to shoot women. Although it is not very satisfying to cover up, there are many things to look forward to.
"This director's scenes with women are all very good. It looks like we can look forward to Goblin Slayer."
As for those game fans, they are basically in despair.
Given the current production schedule of Goblin Slayer, they are powerless to stop its release. All these fans can do is to try their best to dissuade people around them and netizens online from watching the movie, but the results are minimal.
Those who don't like R-rated movies won't care too much, but for those who like R-rated movies, these fans are actually promoting it invisibly.
Especially after these game fans mentioned the various R-rated elements in the movie, many of them said in person that they would go to see "Goblin Slayer", which made the game fans very angry.
So these fans could only shout out in despair: "Even if we die, die outside, or jump off here, we would rather not watch this thing shot by the Japanese!"
As for whether these iron-willed heroes would finally say that it smells really good, Nanaya doesn't care at all.
Because he has even stopped the post-production of the movie, so he doesn't have the time to take care of these people.
Of course, Nanaya stopped making the film not because it encountered difficulties in the production, but because it was already the end of December 2001, and Nanaya took advantage of the time and gave everyone a two-week New Year holiday.
Nanaya himself returned to Japan with the members of [Erque Studio] to celebrate the New Year.
The place where Nanaya celebrated the New Year this year is the same as last year, still the Ryuogi family in Kyoto.
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Onigiri
Onigiri pS: Regarding cross-platform adaptation, there has always been controversy over how much of the original content should be retained. Some fans of the original work hope that it can be retained 100%, while others hope to see content that is not exactly the same as the original.
Mi Jiang is the type who can accept any adaptation as long as it is reasonable. After all, compared to whether it can be restored, Mi Jiang is more looking forward to seeing a good story.
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