Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

Hack Kriegern was still unhappy when he got into the carriage.


Because he had heard about the agreement between the art center and Durin.


Paying for good movies is a matter of course, and Durin's several films are classics. Even many nobles think "Sound of Wind," which is supposed to give the Kriegern family a hard time, is actually highly artistic. Those shadows, that lighting—now almost all the other directors are learning from Durin.


It's just that their attempts are sometimes laughably bad, to use a Chang Tang proverb, somewhat absurdly laughable.


Hack had also seen the new movie, which was still set in an Another World without gods. Making a good movie in such a world is not easy. Durin's last film was well done, and other directors wanted to copy it, but even they couldn't replicate the concept of a world without gods.


Now, movie buffs have to admit that if you want to see a good movie, you have to look for Durin's.


Chapter 196: They Were There, Waiting for History to Judge the Loyal and the Treacherous.