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Chapter 392 What the audience likes, we give
🕑 Added 2025-07-14 15:03:12 +0000 UTCIskandar rode his horse to his master's side, picked up Waver and put him in his arms. “Rider…” Waver looked at his Servant, his eyes filled
Iskandar rode his horse to his master's side, picked up Waver and put him in his arms.
“Rider…”
Waver looked at his Servant, his eyes filled with tears of emotion.
"Hmph~"
Iskandar grinned, and this hearty smile was captured by the camera.
According to the director's request, the two looked at each other affectionately for a moment, as if they were sympathizing with each other, ahem, like close friends of many years.
"Hold on tight, boy!"
The emperor pulled the reins, turned around with the sword in his right hand, and slashed at Hassan who was about to launch a surprise attack on him.
Yes, sneak attacks on the Master are just smokescreens. Hassan's real killer move is to attack Rider at the moment he is protecting the Master.
"Go to hell!"
"Come on, Assassin!"
In a flash, the dagger in Hassan's hand was knocked away, and then her thigh was cut by the sword of Cyprus.
All efforts failed at the last moment.
The decisive difference in ability between the two servants ultimately prevented Hassan from taking the emperor's head.
Hassan covered her thigh with one hand and pointed the last dagger at Iskandar with the other hand.
Her mask had been blown off, and her pretty face was glaring at her enemy.
According to the setting, as Hassan, her face should be shaved off completely, but such a scary setting certainly cannot be used in a PG-13 movie.
Besides, if we really stick to the settings, wouldn’t the actors’ looks be wasted?
"Assassin, I win this time!"
Iskandar declared.
Hassan glanced around and saw that all of his other clones had been annihilated by the Macedonian soldiers, leaving only a few Hassans still struggling.
“…I lost.”
After struggling for a moment, Hassan dropped the dagger in his hand.
"Kill me. It would be an honorable death for me to die at the hands of this great emperor."
Hassan raised her chest, and at this moment she also looked like a hero.
"Strategy is good, but strategy requires corresponding strength to be realized."
Iskandar jumped off his horse, walked slowly to Hassan, and pointed the sword of Cyprus at her face.
"Woman."
This was the first time that Rider did not address the other party by their job title. “This battle was a great pleasure for me. You did not desert the battlefield and lived up to your reputation as heroes. Tell me your name.”
Hassan laughed bitterly, "What a shame! That's exactly what I wanted to do when I participated in the Holy Grail War. Not as Hassan, but as a separate hero who will go down in history."
"Hassan's sorrow..." Iskandar nodded silently, "What a pity. Although I cannot help you fulfill my wish, I will remember you."
“It’s really my honor.”
Hassan closed her eyes, a look of relief on her face.
[Finally it's over. There haven't been any NGs so far so I guess I've passed, right? ]
"Goodbye then, Assassin."
Iskandar was not polite either. After saying this, he slashed Hassan's throat with his sword.
Hassan the Hundred Faces retired during the Fourth Holy Grail War.
"Cut! Very good, this one passed."
The sound of Nanaya shouting "pass" sounded like the sound of nature to everyone present.
Everyone on the set collapsed and sat down. The continuous shooting just now was really a torture for everyone.
But many people just feel helpless. If the director wants to play a light-hearted role, everyone can only accept it.
Everyone has to admit that the director's requirements are indeed reasonable. After all, commercial films are all about money.
The most popular CP among all UBW characters is [ArtoriaXRin] among men, and for girls it’s all [Red AXShirou].
Although the female market is quiet, its profits are huge.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the movie caters to the female market.
Any movie that is not made for money is just a hooligan; a commercial movie puts profit first.
Moreover, the movie did not show any scenes of Weber and the emperor openly dating each other. The whole movie was about showing the affection between the two people as a king and his subject.
This scene took a long time to shoot, and it was already past noon when Nanaya called for a stop.
Naturally, the morning shooting ended here and the crew went into the lunch break.
When we were working in the studio, everyone would go to the restaurant next to the studio to eat, and interns would just have to eat boxed lunches to get by.
However, the crew is now in the desert. Even if Nanaya lets them find a restaurant, they will probably all starve to death in the wilderness.
Therefore, everyone can only eat the boxed lunches provided by the crew. Fortunately, although the food provided by the crew is not very diverse, there are only hamburgers, pasta and salads to choose from. But do you still want to eat sashimi in the vast desert?
Although the crew still arranged seats in the lounge for people to rest and eat, this place is prepared for leading actors like Johnson or big names like Shion.
Most of the staff just ate a burger in the shade and called it a day.
This kind of differential treatment is the norm in the crew, and no one is stupid enough to protest.
Fortunately, there are no big stars who are particularly difficult to deal with in the crew, otherwise they would require a special RV for rest.
Since Nanaya still has a little work to finish, he hasn't come to the work area yet.
Shion took Elle and Johnson to sit together.
Johnson and Hiddleston also knew the identity of Shion's boss, so they did not reject her. Instead, they welcomed her very much.
Shion didn't put on airs; she smiled and chatted with the others while eating.
Since they were all the main creative staff of the film, the topic they talked about naturally revolved around the FZ they were currently filming.
"Um... Miss Washimine." Tom Hiddleston complained in a joking tone, "Regarding the relationship between the character Weber and Iskandar... can you modify it a little? Weber shouldn't be like that in the setting, right?"
Although Tom Hiddleston didn't say it explicitly, everyone knows what he was saying.
Johnson also echoed, "Such a role setting would cause a lot of resentment in Hollywood, right?"
Johnson, who considers himself a straight man, certainly doesn't want his future positioning to be labeled as rainbow.
Ellie shrugged but said nothing.
Things like changing the script had nothing to do with her as an intern screenwriter. She just had to make sure the woman next to her didn't raid her brother-in-law's bed at night.
"This...can't be done."
Shion rejected Tom's proposal: "After all, I have given full authority to Nanaya to make the movie. If you have any opinions, you need to raise them with him."
Johnson and Hiddleston's faces immediately dropped. Isn't it like walking into a tiger's mouth to go to that grumpy director?
"This……"
"Don't worry, Tom."
Nanaya munched on a burger and sat next to them.
"No one would think so. Although the relationship between Waver and the Emperor may seem a bit gay to female viewers, to normal people it is just a normal relationship between a monarch and his subjects, and close friends."
Nanaya said to the two actors who were concerned, "So no matter what type of audience you are, they won't be repulsed by you. I will grasp the right balance."
"Forehead……"
Tom Hiddleston didn't know what to say. He racked his brains to refute the other party, but didn't know how to explain.
This worried Tom Hiddleston so much that he felt like his hairline was moving back.
"Don't worry, look at the pure relationship between Spider-Man Peter Parker and Green Goblin Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man series."
In fact, the example Nanaya would like to cite is the Marvel Cinematic Universe series, which is the most successful commercial film project in selling CP but no one dislikes it.
That’s why Marvel is a treasure. You can learn countless business wisdom from it.
Look at how "Civil War" was ridiculed as "Divorce", but not many people raised any objections.
Nanaya continued to talk: "Although we are making movies and TV shows, we are essentially selling products. So we naturally have to provide what the audience wants. We also have to satisfy the audience's subconscious desire to watch."
"So, our love relationship can't be changed?"
Tom Hiddleston said dejectedly.
Nanaya comforted him, "If you think about it this way, there's nothing you can do if someone really wants to misinterpret it. When the comic censorship management agency was first established, didn't they want to delete and ban the comics on the grounds that Batman and Robin were gay?"
This incident happened in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, when comics were demonized and became the culprit of everything.
Anyway, if children don't study well, students fall in love early, teenagers commit crimes, and even the sows in the village stop giving birth, it's all the fault of the cartoons.
One of the reasons given for cracking down on the comics at the time was that Batman and Robin sleeping in the same bed was a hint of homosexuality.
This argument sounds so familiar, and it can only be said that there is nothing new under the sun.
"This era has become much more open, so as long as there are no specific shots, their light selling of CP will not only not be offensive, but can promote the spread of our works."
Johnson and Hiddleston looked at each other, and the two brothers in distress sighed helplessly.
Nanaya snorted in his heart. He felt that these two should thank him.
After all, what I did was quite honest. You have to know that in the future, the CP sold by these two people will be Wang Dachui and Guo Da Statham, and the intensity will be much greater than this time.
Of course, Nanaya was also playing a trick. If he had brought it up directly at the beginning, they would definitely have had strong resistance.
So he probably exhausted the two men physically and mentally after several consecutive NGs, and then made this request.
As expected, the effect was outstanding. In order to finish the filming early, they both followed Nanaya's arrangements.
Now that the head has been opened, things will become much easier afterwards.
After dealing with these two people, Nanaya turned to his sister-in-law.
"I have a story outline here, take a look." Nanaya handed her a printed paper, "It's not a good idea for you to just read it all the time. This is my homework for you. Before the filming is over, I hope you can write it into a novel."
"'Mahoutsukai no Yoru'?"
Elle read out the title with a confused look.
