On the evening of April 1st, in a cafe in Los Angeles.
Miss Katsushira welcomed her interviewee.
"I'm sorry I'm late."
Nanaya brought Ori and Bali to sit opposite Miss Katsushira and said apologetically.
"It's okay, I just arrived too." Miss Katsushira glanced at the two generals beside Nanaya.
"Is this the junior sister of Nanaya Kiryu? Director Kiryu and you two are really in love. You always take her with you wherever you go."
Miss Katsushira handed her business card to the three people: "But this is lucky for me, after all, I can interview one more FZ creator."
[It's not what I want to bring. ]
Nanaya certainly had no intention of carrying these two extra tails.
Although I had no intention of having a one-night stand with this beautiful journalist, it must have been a bit uncomfortable to have two light bulbs around.
But what if these two go to Shion and say something nonsense?
So, even if it feels awkward, you still have to bring it with you.
Of course, Nanaya was a little distrustful of this Katsushika reporter, so he brought two witnesses with him so that he could make things clear if something happened in the future.
Ori took the initiative to introduce himself: "No, I'm the younger brother. The one you're talking about is my older sister [Shiki]. She's in Japan now filming the new episode of "Kara no Kyoukai". "
"Oh, I forgot about this." Miss Katsushira apologized immediately, "You and your sister look so much alike, I made a mistake."
"No, people often make mistakes. I'm really a boy." Ori replied with his chest puffed out.
Looking at the excited Ori, a question mark slowly appeared in Nanaya's mind.
[Why are you so excited? Are you proud of being a man and looking like a girl? ]
Miss Katsushira on the opposite side didn't think there was anything wrong. Instead, she joked to Ori: "So you are looking at your brother-in-law? He is really a good brother."
"That's about right."
"Hello."
There was a hint of dissatisfaction in Nanaya's voice.
"Okay, let's stop joking."
Miss Katsushira sat up straight, took out her recorder and notebook, and asked, "Director Kiryu, did the promotion go smoothly today?"
Nanaya shrugged and said, "It's not a problem for me."
Seeing that the two sides had started a formal communication, Bali called the waiter and ordered a drink and a piece of cake for everyone present.
Although Nanaya has been in the entertainment industry for a long time and has done several interviews.
But Nanaya usually doesn't pay much attention to the media's evaluation of him. After all, most film magazines have two extreme evaluations of him.
Basically, all advertisements about Washimine describe him as a film genius of the new century. Japanese magazines even go further and portray him as a hero who saved the Japanese film industry.
Although Nanaya never paid much attention to the Japanese film industry from beginning to end.
As for those magazines that don't cooperate much with Washimine, they naturally don't like him very much.
After all, magazines and newspapers usually work more closely with film critics than with directors like him.
Because he has seen so much, Nanaya no longer cares about the media's evaluation of him.
But today is a little different. Nanaya wants to see what this beautiful reporter thinks of him.
It is rare for Washimine to write an agreement with a reporter individually. As far as Nanaya knows, apart from the person in front of him, there will be no more than five people.
This made Nanaya very curious about what he looked like in the other person's eyes.
Miss Katsushira was not shy about it. When she saw Nanaya looking at her notebook, she showed it to Nanaya without any attempt to cover it.
[Although Kiryu Nanaya doesn't have a muscular body, his medium-sized body makes him look very well-proportioned. Most importantly, the director's every move exudes fearlessness, and he looks like a heroic figure full of fighting spirit.]
"How about this, Nanaya Kiryuu?"
Miss Katsushira finished writing a paragraph and looked up and asked.
"You praise me too much. I'm not as good as you say."
Nanaya waved his hands repeatedly, saying that this description would be more suitable for Johnson if it was slightly modified.
Katsushira didn't think so. She looked at him with admiration and said, "That's not true. You are an excellent director and an artist who pleases the audience."
"Is that so..."
Nanaya was a little embarrassed and he didn't know how to respond.
"That's right." Miss Katsushira said affirmatively, "Your movie FZ has been making great strides since the early hours of Friday morning. Although today's box office data has not yet been released, I believe it should not be a problem for you to break the first weekend box office record, right?"
FZ's box office in the first two days was close to 120 million US dollars. In the absence of large-scale negative reviews, today's Sunday box office will definitely not be too bad.
It's hard to say how high the final box office results will be, but breaking 150 million US dollars and setting a new record should not be a problem.
"I feel a little ashamed to say that." Nanaya scratched his head and replied, "It's just because the audience likes me. I just made a small contribution."
Katsushira nodded repeatedly and she quickly started writing in her notebook.
[Although he has achieved such an impressive result, Director Nanaya Kiryu is still very modest. However, his achievement, shining like the North Star, is a peak that no one else can surpass.]
[This is totally exaggerated.]
Nanaya never thought that his achievements were so great. Perhaps others thought it was incredible that FZ broke the record of "Star Wars Episode 3".
But Nanaya, who was able to look back more than ten years, knew that this number was not worth mentioning at all.
Not to mention the future-deciding "Avatar" and the sprint king "Endgame", even next year's "The Dark Knight" will have better box office data than FZ.
So Nanaya will not be complacent with the records he has set, because he looks further than others.
Miss Katsushira didn't think so much at all.
For her, this was her first exclusive interview with her idol, so naturally she had to praise him as much as she could.
However, Miss Katsushira has a high EQ. After seeing that Nanaya was not impressed by what she had just written, she immediately changed her way of speaking.
"Director Kiryu, we all know that you spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make FZ. Did you feel any pressure?"
"Of course there is pressure, but it's nothing."
Compared with the movie box office record, Nanaya is much more confident about movie production.
"You know, being a director is not easy for many people. After all, so much money is on your shoulders and you need to give an explanation. More importantly, the money is not yours."
Nanaya smiled and replied, "Unless you are a heartless bastard, anyone would feel the pressure. But you have to face the pressure, and this pressure will also become your motivation to move forward. After all, if you want to make a good name in the highly competitive film industry, pressure can sometimes act like adrenaline."
Ori couldn't help but roll his eyes after hearing this.
[I don't know who said that stress is too fucked up before, but now stress has become a stimulant? ]
Miss Katsushira carefully wrote down what Nanaya said, and then she continued to ask: "Then Director Kiryu, why did you think of making a movie like FZ?"
"Because I like this story very much. When Gen Urobuchi gave it to me, he originally planned to publish it as a fan fiction. But I fell in love with it as soon as I finished reading it. I immediately grabbed Gen Urobuchi's hand and said, 'It's a waste to only write such an excellent story into a novel. Let's just make a movie.'"
Katsushira's eyes lit up. Nanaya had never mentioned the little story about the origin of FZ's creation in other interviews before.
Being able to get this exclusive news, this interview is a good deal.
"So the FZ story was a complete accident?" Miss Katsushira asked quickly.
"It can't be called an accident." Nanaya denied it. "At that time, I already had the idea of filming the Fourth Holy Grail War, but I hadn't figured out how to tell the story. Although FSN was very successful, it also became a kind of pressure. If I copied the story of FSN, this movie would become a mere rehash of old stories."
"So when I saw the story that Kyon provided me, it was as if a key part was located in my mind." Nanaya said and snapped his fingers, "I understood, this is the story I want. In the following months, Kyon and I polished the story countless times to make it perfect, and finally it became FZ that everyone sees now."
[Didn't you ask Gen Urobuchi to write the story according to your desired development ideas? ]
"Uh-huh."
Miss Katsushira was writing furiously, nodding her head from time to time.
"So what was your original intention in creating the FZ story, Director Kiryu?"
Nanaya said with certainty: "I just want to please the public and bring the simplest and purest happiness to the audience."
[So you made a total annihilation ending? Did you learn your sense of pleasure from Gilgamesh? ]
"Then the last question, I would like to ask Director Kiryu about your opinion on the special effects of the movie. According to the special effects production promotion video released earlier, we can see that most of the shots in the FZ movie use CGI technology."
"Some people criticize this way of making movies, saying that it makes the movies lack realism and turns live-action movies into computer animations. What do you think about this issue?"
Katsushira stopped writing and looked at Nanaya, ready to listen to his answer.
When Nanaya heard this question, "My first thought was The Lion King, which was almost entirely made of CGI but was called a live-action version.
"I have no intention of judging whether CGI movies are good or bad." Nanaya thought for a moment and replied, "But movies are originally fictional. If you insist on finding a sense of reality in fictional things, it only shows that the person who said this is not very smart."
Nanaya's words made Miss Katsushira burst out laughing.
"As for CGI technology, I want to say that whether it is real shooting or CGI production, the purpose of the movie is to make the picture look more real. If I don't post the special effects production video, and just talk about the movie, can you tell which shots are real shots and which use CGI?"