Chapter 17: Chapter 17 Investment from wealthy people
"I see. Illya thinks there's something wrong with that woman."
After hearing the whole story, Illya nodded her head seriously.
Because school has started recently, the little girl has come to the crew less often. Although it doesn't matter to her whether she goes to class or not, it will still be troublesome if she misses too many classes.
As an accessory that is inseparable from Illya, Sera also echoed her eldest daughter: "Indeed, that woman has not been paying attention to the movie. She often daydreams while acting."
"So, what is Big Brother doing?"
Illya noticed that Nanaya had been holding a piece of paper and writing something desperately, so she asked curiously.
Nanaya said without even looking up: "I've done a new budget analysis for the movie... No! With the premise of completing the movie, no matter how much we cut the budget, it's still not enough. Even if we cut the salaries of some employees, we'll still be at least 3 million short of the budget. But even I can't stand this plan. It's 80% likely to be a failure."
Looking at the results he had obtained, Nanaya put his head in his hands and fell on the table, moaning softly.
Nanaya's words made Ikeda Subaru's back tense: "Wait a minute, Mr. Kiryu. You're talking about partial employee compensation. Are you talking about us?"
"Well, let's tighten our belts for a while."
Nanaya glanced away, apparently agreeing.
"You can't do this. I have elderly parents and young children to take care of, and a wife to support!" Ikeda Subaru grabbed Nanaya's arm and begged, crying.
"So I give up. Stop yelling."
Nanaya himself felt that this was too much, so he tore the paper filled with the budget into pieces.
"Is this really the last resort?" Nanaya turned his gaze to Ori and Subaru who were present, "If I use you two as collateral to borrow money from a [kind-hearted person]..."
"Senior! Don't joke around so easily!"
"usury..."
"Stop it, Senior! Your hands will be chopped off!"
"That's right..." Nanaya sat back in his seat again, "Sure enough, it's all over..."
Illya pouted as if she had thought of something, and she whispered something into Sera's ear.
"Hey, Sera. Is this okay..."
"Why?"
After hearing Illya's proposal, Sera's eyes widened, and she looked at Illya, wanting to say something but stopping herself. On the one hand, as she had also acted in the movie (although only as a stand-in), Sera really wanted to help Nanaya complete this work; on the other hand, out of her duty as a maid, she didn't want her master to invest in this movie, which was almost jumping into a trap.
Movies are a high-investment, high-return, but high-risk project. Every year, hundreds of movies are produced around the world, but only a few really make money. There are so many uncertainties in whether a movie will be successful that every movie is like a lottery with huge expenses in the end. The only difference is that some lotteries seem to have a higher chance of winning.
Therefore, the success of every movie is somewhat accidental. Even big Hollywood studios often fail.
Will the movie "Kara no Kyoukai" be a success?
To be honest, it's difficult.
Although Sera is not a professional filmmaker, as a maid serving a film tycoon, she can more or less make some judgment standards under the influence of her master.
The movie "Kara no Kyoukai" is interesting in terms of content, but the budget is too low. On top of that, it is a TV movie with almost no promotion channels.
Under such circumstances, it is basically hopeless for "Kara no Kyoukai" to achieve its owner's 10% ratings target. Now, the only hope for "Kara no Kyoukai" to make back its investment is to trick people into buying videotapes and DVDs through the good reputation of the first broadcast on TV stations and slowly recover the investment.
But how long will it take to do this?
As a classic in film history, how many years did it take for The Shawshank Redemption to recoup its costs through offline DVDs and TV broadcasts? Although the total investment of Kara no Kyoukai was low and the losses were limited, its poor attention also made it a challenge to recoup offline costs.
"Come this way, Sierra."
Illya noticed Sera's hesitation, and she secretly pulled Sera aside.
"Does Sera think Illya shouldn't invest in Big Brother's movie?"
"My lady, as your maid, I do not recommend you to throw your savings into this bottomless pit." Illya's big, shining eyes continued to wear down Sera's will. She simply turned her head away and didn't look at the little loli's face.
Illya's focus was obviously different from Sera's. She clapped her hands and said with a smile, "That is to say, Sera also hopes that big brother will finish the movie, right? As expected, he is worthy of being a big brother. Even Sera was moved by him."
"I'm…I'm touched?! No way! Miss, please stop talking nonsense! I really don't have any relationship with Kiryu Nana!"
Sera was so excited that she slipped and fell into another customer's seat in the middle of her speech.
"Oh~"
Illya covered her grinning mouth with her little hands, her eyes full of teasing.
"Miss, I will prove my innocence to you now!"
Before Sera could apologize to the customer next to her, she rushed to Nanaya, grabbed his collar and threw him over her shoulder.
"Varied--"
Nanaya, who was still sighing, suddenly felt his vision spinning. When he came to his senses, he was thrown to the ground headfirst by Sera.
"What are you doing?"
With his perspective reversed, Nanaya was waiting for Sera with dissatisfaction. He had no idea how he had offended this tigress again.
"Hey, hey. Big brother."
Illya walked up to Nanaya with cat steps. She put one hand on her waist and looked down at the embarrassed Nanaya.
Nanaya looked up following the sound.
I saw nothing but two white legs.
[Cut, the angle is wrong.]
stare!
Feeling Sera's malicious gaze, Nanaya shuddered immediately. He immediately pretended to listen attentively, although his upside-down posture was very strange, but no one said anything.
Illya shook her finger and said, "Big Brother, you are so useless. You are so depressed after encountering such a small setback. Look, even Sister Sera, who cares about you, can't stand it anymore."
"Wait a minute, Missy! What does this have to do with me?"
Facing Sera's question, Illya deliberately made a surprised expression: "Eh? Sister Sera, you couldn't bear it anymore, so you planned to throw him over your shoulder to wake him up?"
"Hmm..."
Sera realized that everyone was looking at her and took a step back with a blushing face. Only then did she realize that she had fallen into the trap of the eldest lady.
Nanaya got up from the ground and said to Illya seriously: "I'm sorry, Illya. I do look a little ugly."
Illya nodded her head vigorously: "Well, big brother is finally in high spirits. Let me give you a gift~"
As she spoke, Illya took out a very small booklet from her arms and handed it to Nanaya.
"Passbook? This... one, two, three,... so many zeros?!"
As soon as Nanaya opened the passbook, he was attracted by the amount on it. Looking at the deposit of nearly 10 million yen, he knew for the first time what a real rich loli was.
From the deposit dates above, it can be seen that this passbook should be used to store the little girl's pocket money.
[Isn't this a huge gap? When I was a kid, my pocket money was calculated in hundreds of dollars.]
Illya said proudly: "This money is all Illya's own. With this, there should be no problem with big brother's movie! During this period, Illya learned a lot in big brother's crew. This is Illya's return gift~"
[This return gift is too great! I feel like I can reshoot the entire movie. ]
Nanaya was still a little hesitant. He didn't think that he and Illya were that familiar with each other.
Illya took the lead and said, "Big brother, you don't have to refuse. Just think of this as Illya's investment in you. Big brother, you have to promise Illya that if this movie is successful, you must make a movie with Illya as the protagonist in the future~"
Nanaya looked at the little Loli's determined eyes, and finally nodded and agreed to her investment: "Okay, I understand."
However, Nanaya still explained: "I only need a budget of 5 million. A larger budget would not make much sense."
Nanaya was of course very happy that Illya took the initiative to invest in him, and that was why he didn't want to let down this hard-earned trust.
Nanaya has limited time and it is impossible for him to make a new movie. His current job, in addition to completing the remaining plot, is to replace the face of the woman in the previous shot with the new heroine.
According to the budget that Nanaya had just made, these works should be completed within 5 million yen, and more importantly, his new heroine does not need to spend too much salary. So Nanaya quoted the budget price he needed, and any more would be greedy.
Illya originally wanted to tell Nanaya that he could get more budget, but when she saw Nanaya's determined eyes, Illya gave up this plan.
"Ori!"
Nanaya grabbed LiangyiOri's hands and said, "Now there is something very important that I need you to do. You are the only one I can trust and rely on now!"
"Please go ahead..."
Although his frantically twitching eyelids told Ori that this was definitely not a good thing, he decided to listen to his senior's explanation.
Nanaya came up to Ori and begged in a sickly sweet tone: "Ori, for me, for everyone, and for this movie, you should play the role of Ryougi Shiki!"
"No way—!!"
Ori was so angry that he screamed.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Onigiri
Onigiri pS: No one can deny the greatness of "The Shawshank Redemption", but no one can deny its commercial failure. Although Mi Jiang also feels it is a pity, this is the reality of the film industry.
The same treatment is also given to the "Blade Runner" series. No matter how good the plot is or how profound the concept is, the slow narrative rhythm is destined to make them unpopular with theater audiences. Mijiang estimates that after the two "Blade Runner" box office disasters, it is estimated that it will be difficult to have a big-budget science fiction movie with such a good theme in the future.
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