The Best Director

Another story that based on hollywood which the MC is just copying the best seller movie and direct it himself. I quite like this one cuz novel that has a bit of 'hollywood' thingy is very scarce, as for the sex and stuff inside that mainly hollywood novel do i wont elaborate.

Very disappointed that Plague Doctor wasn’t picked, this light novel is from the same author (if my sources are correct) so I have high expectations that this could be a very great novel~ 🐱 (Reviewed this before reading hope this doesn’t disappoint) 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

First of all i will say this novel is good and its have a refreshing vibes its not like the other novel that the mc is just want to establish a company or want to become a actor just to have a sex in any beautiful female that theyve seen.. so for me i will rate this novel 5 star.. its good and have potential also its has many words.. 👍👍👍👍

Utterly disappointed in this novel. I decided to try this out since I’m a huge fan of Plague Doctor, but this novel is a complete piece of trash. Instead of reading this, you may as well pick up a Chinese elementary school Introduction to Propoganda textbook. So far, the entire novel revolves around other people discriminating against and being racist towards the MC for being Asian-American. The writing is clearly done in a way to portray non-Asians in a terrible light, and make the Chinese readers feel good with some signature face-slapping of the ‘racist Americans’. The entire purpose of this novel is to hate on whites, blacks, and Americans in general. The author was clearly tight on cash to write this loaded piece of anti-western propaganda. This is probably the most racist Chinese novel I’ve ever come across. Playing the victim card while simultaneously being racist. Utter hypocrisy. Read at your own risk.

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What makes this story different than the other Hollywood stories is that this feels more like a slice of life. It goes into more detail about the process of creating a movie and its obvious the author has done their research. After reading up to chapter 60 it also seems like there's probably no harem and the story just seems way more realistic.

Hope this and cultural invasion into a isekai gets Picked from this batch of Trial novels. King of Hollywood novel was readable novel. Would have been popular if translated but got abandoned. Hope this novel doesn't end up like King of Hollywood.

I had hoped this would've made it. A male media director story where MC wasn't banging every actress/singer that looked his way, so they can be in his movies. Kinda pissed off this failed and that piece of crap Earth fearsome whatever sh!t made it.

I love this book, so glad it’s being translated now! Probably one of the best entertainment novels I have read, the way the films are described are really cool, some modifications to some films to make them better (at least I think so). No harem or system just him knowing what films were good and shooting ones he liked

Well this novel is an interesting read. It is nicely translated though I have come across a number of issues that I can only put down to laziness in not rechecking the work. Story begins with the author (studying to be a movie director) being expelled from his University on charges of racism. Amusingly the MC is Chinese and the accuser was African-American. Anyhow the charges are false but of course it’s a case of he said, she said and so he is booted. Whilst wallowing in misery he gains the ability to see movies from the future after being hit in the head by a baby stroller. So that’s is his super power, knowing future movies and being able to plagiarise them. No system, no special powers. The book itself reads well and has a nice story but that is it. I have nothing else to praise it over. The narrative is smooth but there is no grab to it. How many times can the MC direct a movie, produce a movie, invest in XYZ affiliated movie industry? I read up to about chapter 150 and even though I did enjoy reading the story, there was nothing to keep me invested in this. I appreciate the effort the author took to try and keep accuracy in his story however it again it felt like rinse and repeat of previous achievements. I really wanted to be invested in this and did give it a decent go, but it wasn’t to be. The author has decent skills so maybe he could have done this in another manner to keep readers involved. I did note some comments were 4 years old with only 251 chapters released. I suspect this was a trial read that never made the cut back then and WebNovel has pulled it out of the cupboard to see if it can make them some money. Overall it felt good but sadly I had to give up.

I really liked this novel, I was bored with all the cultivation novels and needed a change which this novel provided me with. Hope it gets translated beyond ch 60 really soon. Looking forward to futher chapters...😉

最佳导演 Is the CN Name Very good novel Better than King of Hollywood I hope this one and the Cultural Isekai novels get picked because they are 2 great novels.

Very elaborate story. Can only recommend the book. Although it is sometimes a bit unrealistic, it is nevertheless very entertaining. The chapters are rather on the longer side :) Hope this gets picked up finished the trial read!!!!

(Long review incoming) Up front caveat: The translation quality should actually get 2 stars, not 5, but overall this is a 5/5 novel for me because it makes up for the mistranslations in other ways. For a novel with so many flaws, this is a gem. I’ve been binge reading Hollywood novels lately and can say with a fair amount of certainty that this one is the best. The first one I read was “I am Hollywood”, which was also excellent, but it had two flaws that put it below this one: First, it was a dropped novel. I can’t stand it when a novel I enjoy reading is suddenly dropped by an author or translator. And second, it lost focus on being a “Hollywood Novel” (capital H capital N) and meandered about in the world of investing and corporate bullshit. The Best Director, on the other hand, remains true to its purpose, chronicling the life of the MC from the moment he gets his chest up until the very end. An end, might I add, that came too soon; I’d have liked this novel to be at least twice the length it is. Three times as long to account for the skippable chapters that add nothing to the plot or story. Which leads me to my first major complaint - filler content. I edit translated Chinese webnovels for a living, and as part of my job I’m exposed to all manner of methods WebNovel authors use to pad their word count. See, Qidian (and other webnovel publishers like 17k and Zongheng) pays authors a per-word rate. So authors have found many ways to increase word count, like in-chapter repetition, peanut galleries, long, drawn-out navelgazing bullshit, and so on. This novel has a particularly terrible method of padding its word count creep in about a third of the way through it: box office reports and critic reviews. Seriously, it gets to the point later in the novel where entire chapters are just dry lists of what movies made how much money that week. Out of the 500-odd chapters total, I’d say around 200 of them are skippable because the numbers aren’t even for the MC’s movies. And another hundred chapters or so have box office reports and critic reviews take up half the chapter without any warning whatsoever. It’ll skip directly from dialogue to box office and/or reviews without warning or any kind of transition whatsoever. It’s kinda bad like that. And the second major flaw is that the translator gets the names wrong. There’s a lot of inconsistency in names (Kevin Spacey and Kiefer Sutherland show up a lot, and Keira Knightley is referred to as Natalie every time she shows up), but what’s worse is that the translator didn’t bother looking up the correct American names of quite a few of the films mentioned. He or she also misses the times when the name of the movies change, like The Departed becoming The Deceased out of nowhere. As a translator, you can screw up anything *but* names. Names are the only thing that you must keep 100% accuracy and consistency on. So why did I rate this 5/5 despite those two massive flaws? Simple: character development. One of the things that almost no webnovel ever does is develop a character, much less the main characters. A common mistake they make is thinking that increasing strength (bigger numbers/Xianxia maths) is the same thing as character development. Spoiler: it is not. But in The Best Director, the entire main cast of characters grows and evolves, becoming better actors, better people, or just… better. It comes at the cost of removing conflict from the novel entirely, but the tradeoff is beyond worth it. It makes up for the cardinal sin of inconsistent names, it makes up for the virtually 300ish chapters you can either skim or skip entirely, it makes up for all of the other minor flaws that were so tiny I didn’t even bother remembering them. But wait! There’s more! The novel also actually has a proper ending. I may have wanted some of the storylines to continue (like how the MC had a whole big scene about buying the rights to adapt a certain major bestselling series, but the novel ended before he got around to doing just that), but the ending was really good. The author took their time to bring things to a proper close and it was very poignant at that. Those two virtues covereth a multitude of sins. So my advice is to read this novel. You won’t regret it.