Chapter 246: Why Unlimited Blade Works is a special weapon for Mr. Golden

The 2004 version of "King Arthur" directed by Antoine Fuqua is just another failed big-budget epic legendary film from the perspective of film history.

It's definitely not the first movie of its kind, and it won't be the last.

Putting aside the plot that was different from the original legend of peeing eight feet away, just from the character creation, the style of this movie seems to be still stuck in the last century.

The slogans of justice, freedom and sacrifice are shouted louder than anyone else, but the gap between what is said and what is done is as far as the moon and the earth.

Not to mention the plot, anyone who knows a little about the story of King Arthur will be shocked.

Arthur, a big boss who wants to retire from the world, plans to complete the last mission assigned to him by the Roman Empire with his round table brothers, and then retire and return home.

As a result, during the mission, they encountered the mountain guerrillas led by the wizard Merlin. However, after being fooled by Guinevere, they figured out the story of the Roman Empire becoming the king of Britain.

Excuse me?

The development of this plot is just like a fan of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" going to watch "The Legend of Guan Suo", and the first scene is that the second master and the third master kill each other's family in order to show their determination to conquer the world to the eldest brother.

This damn mouthful of blood sprayed directly on my face!

If there is one thing worth praising about the movie, it is probably the war scenes.

But the question is, aren't the Knights of the Round Table a group of Sabers?

What does it mean that all of you are better at archery than Archer?

Is it Tris Sadness who is possessed?

Oh, maybe it was really Tris Sadness who possessed him. After all, they all had deep hatred and grievances, just like Linghu Chong who wanted to retire from the world.

Of course, Lily would constantly complain about a movie like this, after all, she had spent a year preparing for this role.

In Lily's mind, King Arthur's status may not be sacred, but it certainly occupies an important position.

"Humph, these guys really don't understand King Arthur at all!" Lily was still angry, complaining with her arms crossed. "It's okay that Merlin doesn't have magic, after all, it's a realistic movie. But why did he become the leader of a guerrilla group?! Do you think this is the French Railway Guerrilla!?"

"Forehead..."

Nanaya briefly recalled a certain British swordsman in the Fate series.

[Is it true that online scams are just as unreliable as guerrillas? Will Lily also rant about FGO in the future? ]

Nanaya said awkwardly, "I feel that the King Arthur in Fate that I wrote is also not very authentic. At least the gender is a hurdle that cannot be overcome."

Lily clenched her fists: "But even so, Director Nanaya, you are better than those guys who talk nonsense!"

"Well..."

Nanaya felt a little embarrassed.

"Lily, let's do this." Rin seemed to have thought of something, and she said with a devilish smile, "As long as Fate can succeed, your King Arthur will definitely be more popular than Clive Owen (the actor who plays King Arthur). Maybe you can become the representative of King Arthur~"

"How is it possible..."

Lily seemed a little unsure, "I guess I'm just one of many actors who play King Arthur. After all, I'm not playing King Arthur in the traditional sense."

Although Lily herself likes this role very much, she is also very clear that such a feminine character may not necessarily be very likable.

Saber is popular now because her real name has not been revealed. When her real name appears in front of the audience, it is still unclear whether everyone will buy it.

"You don't have to worry about that. Maybe from you on, all the children after King Arthur will be girls."

Think about how popular Artoria was in her previous life, and search for pictures of King Arthur. It turns out that at least seven or eight out of ten are of a blue-clad girl knight, which shows how popular she is.

"I hope so."

"Lily, you have to be confident. Wait until Saber's real name is revealed. As one of the rare big productions in recent years, you will definitely be compared to "King Arthur" by the media." Nanaya felt that this might be a good opportunity for Lily to boost her confidence.

"Yeah." Rin nodded, "Think about it, if people comment on your role and find that you, a little girl, played it better than those grown men..."

Rin didn't finish her words, leaving Lily with plenty of room for imagination.

"Oh." Lily's eyes lit up, and it seemed that she had thought of something extraordinary.

"I'll do my best!"

Seeing Lily's excitement, Nanaya felt that this bad movie-watching experience might not be a bad thing. At least it stimulated his competitive spirit as an actor.

After returning from North America, Nanaya began filming at Ryuudou Temple.

Originally, Nanaya planned to find a temple and then shoot the scenes other than the inherent barrier through real-life shooting.

But after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any place that particularly suited Nanaya's taste.

It's not that it's hard to find temples with long stone staircases in front of them, but most of those temples are places with strong incense, and the cost requirements for filming are quite high for the crew.

After all, it is impossible for the crew to finish shooting all the shots in one day, but for the temple, one day less of incense money is absolutely unacceptable.

"Bah, these monks are only interested in money. Don't they believe that Buddha will blame them?"

After being scared off by another temple's high venue rental fee, he walked out of the temple cursing.

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, these temples do receive a lot of money from incense donations every day."

Ori said with a wry smile, and he patted Nanaya's back to signal him to calm down.

"Tsk. I just don't believe this."

Nanaya snorted coldly.

"So what should we do? Continue to look for the next one?"

"The battle between Artoria and Kojiro must be filmed as soon as possible, otherwise the progress will not keep up."

Nanaya doesn't have that much time to slowly look for a suitable place. You have to know that the post-production of the first half of Fate has already begun, and there is no time for him to slowly look for a place.

"so?"

"I'll just do it separately." Nanaya patted Ori's shoulder, "Ori, borrow the back mountain from your house for me."

"Ha?"

Under the pressure of the monk's money, Nanaya directly split the two scenes of Ryuudou Temple and the mountain gate.

As for the Ryuudou Temple, Nanaya found a temple in Kyoto that was not very popular and negotiated a very, very "reasonable" price.

On the mountain gate side, Nanaya rented the back mountain of Ryuogi's family for filming.

When the Ryuogi siblings got into trouble while climbing the mountain, the Ryuogi family took the initiative to pay for the construction of a stone staircase path in the back mountain.

I walked through this place once when I came here to celebrate the New Year two years ago.

So this time Nanaya used this place as a place for a duel with the gatekeeper with a saber.

"But there is no temple gate here…"

Ori said somewhat confused.

"Ori, what era is this? Wouldn't it be better to just put a green screen at the end of the road? Anyway, Kojiro's [Swallow Reversal] trick can't achieve the effect I want without special effects."

So Nanaya split up the crew again. He handed the actor who played the gatekeeper and Lily to Lao Li, while he took the other crew members to the temple to shoot the scenes related to the interior of Ryuudou Temple.

After all, Lily's only scene inside Ryuudou Temple is the one where she destroys the Holy Grail, so it wouldn't be a big problem to let her shoot the scene at the mountain gate first.

The battle inside Ryuudou Temple is divided into two parts. One is the confrontation between Mother C and Red A in the early plot. Nanaya finished filming this part very quickly because there were only a few dialogues.

The latter part is the final battle of the Holy Grail War, where Rin goes to rescue Shinji who is corroded by the flesh, and there is a battle between Shirou and Mr. Golden.

As the final battle of the entire movie, Nanaya put a lot of effort into the duel between Mr. Golden and Shirou.

After the duel with himself, the grown-up Shirou Emiya faces the last and strongest opponent in his adventure. The outcome of this war actually indirectly proves whether Shirou Emiya's transformation is successful.

"But...I have to say that the character played by Sugiyama is really perverted in the setting."

Looking at Sugiyama and Gawain who were confronting each other on the set, Rin complained.

"Why do you say that?"

Yoshinaga Yukari asked as she handed the water to Rin.

"Gilgamesh is supposed to be the strongest servant, right? It's really unacceptable that he was defeated by a human."

Rin took a sip of water with a straw and continued, "Even if the script says that he lost his position due to his disdain for humans, it feels like a plot kill."

"It may be the ultraviolet rays that have slowed down my body's reaction."

"Ultraviolet?"

Seeing Rin's curious expression, Yukari covered her mouth and chuckled, "Didn't you see the scene setting picture of Infinite Blade Works?"

"Well, a desert full of swords..."

Rin still didn't react.

"Aren't there usually plenty of ultraviolet rays in places like that?" Yukari shook her finger proudly, "If you stay there for a long time, your hair will turn white and your skin will be tanned, just like Mr. Ishida."

"puff----"

Rin quickly turned his head to prevent the saliva from spraying on others.

But Yukari did not stop, she continued: "So, a place like Infinite Sword Works is simply a dead place for white people with naturally thin pigments."

"Um, Yoshinaga..."

Rin poked Yukari's shoulder with a finger.

"I haven't finished yet, so I think... Mr. Director!"

Only then did Yukari notice Nanaya standing behind her.

"Well, I'm just talking nonsense, just listen to it."

Seeing Nanaya staring at her, Yukari's little heart started beating wildly.

"No, you have some truth in what you say."

Nanaya nodded thoughtfully, and then he shouted to the brothers Sugiyama and Ishida: "Sasuke, Junichi, do you want to shoot a sunscreen commercial? Yoshinaga gave me a good idea."