Compared with previous New Years, the New Year of 2008 seemed very dull.
This year, the women around Nanaya chose to go back to their own homes to celebrate the New Year for various reasons.
This made the Kiryu household, which was usually very lively, unusually deserted.
Even the sisters Sera and Leysritt were sent back to Ryutani's house by Nanaya to celebrate the New Year.
It can be said that Nanaya's side was completely empty.
There is actually nothing wrong with this, as Nanaya can have a rare moment of peace and quiet.
Nanaya took the Kiryu couple to her villa in Japan, and the family spent a simple and warm New Year.
Although without those girls chattering in his ears, Nanaya's ears were indeed a lot quieter.
But after a long time, you will feel a little lonely.
Fortunately, the seven-night New Year holiday is not long.
On January 5th, he will take his crew to New Zealand.
Naturally, after the crew meeting, things started to get lively around him again.
"So people are all cheap."
Listening to the various noisy sounds coming from his ears, Nanaya couldn't help but sigh.
I miss you so much when you are not around, but when you are really here again, it feels so noisy.
Nanaya felt that his contradictory mentality, to put it simply, was that of a masochist.
"So you can call yourself a bitch~"
A crisp voice sounded beside Nanaya's ears. He quickly turned around and found that it was Shion who was looking at him with a smile on her face.
"Hi, Nanaya, long time no see."
Ziyuan waved the folding fan in her hand as an active way to greet Nanaya.
"Shion, why did you come to New Zealand?"
Nanaya was very surprised by Shion's arrival.
You know, the New Year holiday has just ended, and Jiufeng should have a lot of things to deal with.
"Would you be happy if I told you I came to see you specially?"
Shion threw a wink at Nanaya.
"Real?"
"It's fake. I brought Luvia here."
Shion pursed her lips and pointed at a certain blonde noble lady who was communicating with Rin in the distance.
"That's what I told you." Nanaya touched his nose to ease his embarrassment.
"But I also came here to see you~"
Shion said as she took Nanaya's hand and said, "I wasn't here during the New Year, did you get frustrated?"
"…"
Nanaya didn't know what to say.
It was a very touching thing that the two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time.
But what do you mean by driving right away?
Didn't I [beep!] you before the Chinese New Year, or what?
"Is this the only physical relationship between you and me?"
"Well, don't say that~"
Shion patted Nanaya's shoulder and consoled her: "Although it's not just a physical relationship, doesn't our date always end up with a physical relationship? I thought you would like it."
Bang!
Nanaya slapped him in the face.
Although from an objective point of view, what Shion said was absolutely correct.
But couldn't this woman use a slightly better word?
Don't always be so dirty.
"I'm talking to you..."
Shion saw that Nanaya was really a little angry, so she quickly forced a change of subject.
"Hey, why don't I see your assistant director and Shonan?"
"They went to take pictures of the scenery."
Although she knew that Shion was deliberately changing the subject, Nanaya still answered her.
The scenery in New Zealand is truly breathtaking, and this magnificent natural scenery is rarely seen anywhere else.
Nanaya already knew this when he was filming "Goblin Slayer".
It's a rare opportunity to come to New Zealand to shoot a movie, and Nanaya felt that it would be a shame to bring the crew here if he didn't include some New Zealand scenery.
Even though Madoka Magica is an urban film, that doesn't mean natural scenery can't be included.
Using mature CGI technology, Nanaya can use some of New Zealand's scenery as the background of the movie.
He believes that doing so will make the fictional world of Madoka Magica more realistic.
Nanaya made this decision based on the information he had learned in his previous life and after discussing it with the designers of the crew.
The urban structure of Mitakihara City in the movie was based on the famous wealthy city of Dubai.
In terms of specific layout, Nanaya has added Tokyo and Maebashi in Japan, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA, and the Bund in China.
Finally, for the scenery outside the city, Nanaya directly installed the dense forests and mountains of New Zealand.
"As mentioned above, Mitakihara City will become a unique city in the world, built by me, Nanaya Kiryuu, myself."
Nanaya announced proudly with his nose puffed out.
"Look at what you said." Shion sneered and said, "I heard from Sera that you had a hard time designing it."
"Hello."
As soon as Nanaya made a sound, someone patted his shoulder.
"Who?"
Nanaya, who had been interrupted twice, had a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
However, after seeing that the person coming was Luvia, Nanaya could only smile at this schoolmate.
"Hi, senior, I'm back on the set again."
Probably because she had already finished talking to Rin, Luvia came over and greeted Nanaya.
"Is the production of Iron Man 2 going smoothly?"
Nanaya asked the other party about the matters at Marvel.
Luvia smiled very ladylike: "Not bad, after all, this is the second time I've worked with Jon and RDJ."
[Only the director and co-stars were mentioned, but Avi Arad, the producer, was not mentioned? ]
Nanaya seemed to understand something.
But now is obviously not the time to criticize Marvel's president for his incompetence.
After exchanging a few casual pleasantries with Luvia, Nanaya turned around and asked the female assistant on the set to take her to familiarize herself with the crew's filming procedures.
After all, Mami's action scenes are about to start shooting, and Nanaya needs Luvia to get into the state as soon as possible.
However, the studio assistant Nanaya called was just a temporary worker recruited in New Zealand, not Ryan.
The beautiful British lady is still in England with her parents. It will take about half a month for her to come over.
Well, this is what Ryan said to Nanaya in person on the phone.
Although the call was snatched away by Lily halfway through.
But Ryan at least set a time for his return.
[But from Lily's voice on the phone, she seems a little unhappy? Did something go wrong with the crew of "The Second Generation Case Files"? ]
While thinking, Nanaya was wandering around the crew with Shion.
Finally, Nanaya brought Shion to the second floor of the studio, where they could get a panoramic view of the studio from a high vantage point.
Shion looked at the staff coming and going on the ground and asked, "It looks like the filming is going well?"
"Well enough,"
Nanaya looked at the five members of the group who were fighting at his feet.
"The daily routine part, which I am not good at, is over. The next action scene is my forte."
As a commercial film director, Nanaya can't say he is incapable of everyday literary drama, but he is certainly not very good at it.
It was also a bit bumpy while filming.
But if it is a fighting action scene, Nanaya will find it much easier to shoot.
Despite the early preparations and post-production, the shooting time of action scenes may not be as fast as that of literary scenes.
But at least in terms of process, Nanaya was still able to do it very smoothly.
At least in terms of work mood, I can be much happier when shooting action scenes.
So Nanaya is still very self-aware.
It's the kind of movie that uses an extremely slow pace to deeply explore the anomalies of human nature.
If we give it to Nanaya to shoot, no matter how much the budget is, it will probably be a failure.
The characters captured by Nanaya are basically relatively simple.
This time, Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi in "Madoka Magica" are already the most complex characters that Nanaya has ever played.
But even this pair is nothing compared to the psychopaths in art films.
It is also because of this that although Nanaya has made a lot of actors famous, he has rarely won any major acting awards.
Whether it was the Blue Ribbon Award or the Junbao Award, Nanaya's gains were very limited.
Don't even mention the Japanese Oscars. Everyone knows how worthless the best actor and actress winners are.
Even Nanaya's hometown of Japan doesn't like him very much, let alone North America.
Even for technical awards, Nanaya was mostly just nominated.
The number of times we get to take back the trophy is extremely rare.
But another result followed.
That is, although the actors of Nanaya don't win many awards, their popularity is far higher than those who do.
Let's not even talk about Japan's self-contained film and television industry.
Nanaya is currently the only director who has stepped out of Japan and taken root in North America based on his box office performance.
In North America, Lily and Luvia have never won any acting awards.
But compared to the Oscar-winning actresses in recent years, the two girls can get higher pay and are more well-known than them.
Not to mention career development.
Lily can completely rely on the role of Artoria for the rest of her life, and the achievements of the other characters are just extras.
If we ask passers-by, we will find that the proportion of audiences who know Lily and Luvia is much greater than those so-called movie queens.
This trend has become more obvious since the success of Fate.
If Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo were able to get the male and female lead roles in "The Incredible Hulk", it would be Seven Nights taking care of his own people.
Then the invitations from various film crews placed in front of the two people can illustrate the problem very clearly.
And those Oscar-winning actors and actresses?
The saying that a film queen's decline lasts for three years is not just a joke.
Although he has never made art films, Nanaya has already figured out the routines of art films.
If Lily or Rin is really interested in Oscar.
Nanaya can completely ask Shiki Matsuno to help them tailor a movie specifically for the Oscars.
What those old men from the academic school like most is to watch beautiful women dress up as ugly women.
If Lily plays the role of a psychopath, a sadist, or someone pretending to be crazy and ugly, I believe she will definitely win praise from the academic community.
Does such a character really have artistic value?
Anyway, Nanaya feels that these characters are just meant to cater to and please the morbid desires of certain groups.