Chapter 55: Rating and Forbidden Words
Half an hour later, Iskandar finally landed the bull-drawn carriage back on the ground.
"Hmm, if this thing is real, it's quite cool. I kind of want one."
Iskandar stared at the fighter jet model with sparkling eyes. "In my era, we didn't have such handy things. This is much better than a phalanx."
"Impossible, impossible."
Waver, who was forced to go to the sky, leaned against the armored vehicle's wall, waving his hands continuously.
"These modern fighter jets are not something an individual can afford. Just the maintenance costs can bankrupt you."
Smack
Iskandar ruthlessly flicked Waver's forehead.
"What are you doing!"
Waver covered his forehead with both hands, complaining tearfully.
While patting Waver's shoulders with a resounding sound, Iskandar laughed heartily. "Hahaha! Kid, what nonsense are you talking about! I'm a king! When I return to Macedonia, there will naturally be an empire!"
"Wait until you leave Fuyuki City first." Waver said unkindly, "What kind of king can't even enter his own territory?"
Iskandar moved his mouth a couple of times, then glanced at Shinji. "As long as I can connect the leylines little by little, I can follow the leylines to Europe, right?"
...
Waver's expression: A face full of contempt.
"Yes, let's do that!" Iskandar clapped his hands, "Help Master develop his business, drive him to connect the world's leylines! This way, the entire world will be the territory of King Iskandar!"
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Waver's expression: A face of loving care for the mentally challenged.
"Hahaha! I am indeed a genius!" Iskandar drew his sword and shouted passionately, "Decided! The goal of this expedition is decided! Conquer the whole world!! From the Far East back to Macedonia!"
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Waver's inner monologue: "Global warming is definitely caused by him."
Waver, who had broken the jar and thrown it away, .JPG.
On the other side, Lancelot was crawling down from the airplane model, crying.
"I'm really useless! Because of my mistake, I let the king drive for so long! I'm truly an incompetent knight!!"
Shinji wondered if he gave Lancelot a handkerchief, would he bite onto it while crying.
'Is this the so-called strongest Round Table Knight? Why does it feel like he's just a fan of single-target fanservice?'
Listening to Lancelot's constant complaints, Shinji wished he could kick him in the butt.
"It's okay, Sir Lancelot."
Arturia, who came down from the plane, didn't seem to mind at all. On the contrary, there was a hint of excitement on her face, like a child who had just finished riding a roller coaster.
"Although I can't control it freely in the air, the feeling of driving this child is really novel." Arturia said as she touched the model's shell.
Lancelot shook his hair. "Oh king, don't say that. This is all my fault! I want to die in atonement!"
"Stop talking nonsense! If you continue like this, I'll let you and Diarmuid go seduce middle-aged and elderly housewives across Japan together."
Shinji swore that if he knew this crazy camel had such a personality, he would have summoned someone else.
"Never mind, Master." Arturia waved her hand to stop Lancelot, "I believe Sir Lancelot didn't do it on purpose. You should be more tolerant."
Shinji shook his head helplessly, thinking further.
If Lancelot, who seems relatively normal, is like this, what kind of eccentricities will the other Round Table Knights have? Shinji could almost imagine it with the back of his neck.
"Arturia, I can see that you're working hard, taking care of all these problematic children alone— What are you doing?"
Shinji turned around and found Arturia was dismantling the fighter jet model.
Arturia smiled and said, "Master, I'm planning to take this child for a spin."
"This thing can't even go on the road! Do you want to be detained by the traffic police?" Shinji's mouth twitched fiercely.
Although Japan has relatively lenient requirements for modified cars, any well-governed country would not allow such a motorcycle that has been modified into a fighter jet to be on the road.
Not to mention that this thing is loaded with live ammunition (magical type)!
Is this Knight King planning a war between England and Japan?
"Arturia, if you really want to ride a motorcycle, I think the one you rode in the movie is not bad..."
"Hey, Master. What do you think of "Llamrei II'?"
"Don't give it a name!"
Shinji's karate chop landed on Arturia's head.
In the end, Arturia didn't fulfill her dream of riding "Llamrei II" on the streets.
As for the fate of the fighter jet model, Shinji planned to disassemble unnecessary parts after shooting and then auction it as a movie prop.
Although the model is expensive, there are plenty of rich and bored people in this world. Shinji estimates that the final auction price may far exceed the cost of making the model.
Of course, this is also thanks to the talented Touko-senpai. If it were someone else, it would be unlikely to create such a realistic prop quickly.
Currently, Shinji has completely delegated the prop-making work to Touko. Shinji himself only takes care of making requests and waits for Touko to deliver the goods.
Leave professional matters to professionals.
What is professionalism? People like Touko are called professionals.
To get professional help, Shinji doesn't mind cooperating with certain "bad guys."
For example, in order to obtain the classification standards of Europe and America, Shinji had to request the Time Group to send an advisor to assist in the filming of Fate/Zero (FZ).
Although Shinji had already removed the content related to "children" from the script, the classification standards in the European and American markets are far from a one-size-fits-all situation.
For instance, the standards for the amount of blood in the shot scenes have strict criteria. How much red is considered PG-13, and how much is considered R-rated, all have very rigorous standards.
Sometimes Shinji clearly felt that the amount of blood was fine, but the Time Group's advisor insisted it was not acceptable because the area of impact was too crucial, and there should be no bleeding.
Previously, Fate/Stay Night (FSN) did not encounter such problems because Shinji, for the sake of easy approval, did not let the characters spew blood. In most cases, injuries were depicted through makeup and bruises.
Even in scenes where Shirou was critically injured and on the verge of death, Shinji used lighting and cinematography to convey the situation, leaving room for the audience's imagination.
However, Fate/Zero (FZ) was different. To portray the brutality of war, blood in the scenes was necessary. Thus, getting approval became a troublesome matter in the movie production process.
It must be said that the review standards in Europe and America are really annoying.
Despite the good publicity, the review line in Europe and America is "if it's not prohibited by law, there's no correction." You can shoot whatever you want, but when you need to release your work to the market, you must undergo industry association review.
Not getting reviewed is also possible, but no cinema will agree to screen such a movie with no rating.
As for the review standards of the film association, they are as flexible as Sir Humphrey's moral bottom line.
To facilitate internal operations, the Public Media Association of America (PMAA) publicly releases very vague language as review standards. Apart from the well-known taboo areas in society, the rest is only understood by internal personnel.
It's not an exaggeration to say that if a newbie who knows nothing about making movies produces a film, the result might inexplicably become an R-18 rated film.
It's not that the film is particularly explicit, but that the filmmaker unintentionally violates the details of the review.
Of course, if the newbie is like a bored Brit making "Drying Paint," that's another story.
Compared to Shinji, this newbie, the advisor from the Time Group, is obviously more professional, especially in dealing with reviews.
In addition to visual reviews, the advisor also helped redesign the lines of each character, avoiding many vocabulary that might touch on rating review.
In addition to terms that may be considered discriminatory, profanity in character scripts is also a focus of this advisor's review.
When it comes to profanity in English movies, many people's first reaction is a certain "F" word.
But in reality, there are many profane words in English, and different words correspond to different ratings. Even the same word in different contexts or usage can have completely different rating standards.
For example, the word "dick." When used in a person's name, it is not a prohibited word, but once used to refer to a certain organ, it becomes a prohibited word. However, the word "jerk" derived from this meaning is no longer prohibited.
So, the sentence "Dick's dick is a jerk" has three instances of the word "dick," but only the second one crosses the line in the review.
More importantly, due to the demands of societal orientation and film company interests, the review standards vary greatly in different periods.
The word "dick," for example, before the 1980s, was only a small part of private slang among some women, similar to how some people now use "Liu Bei" to refer to inappropriate books online.
After Richard Nixon took office, because this old schemer was too annoying, the term "dick" was widely misused by major European media (dick is a nickname for Nixon's given name, Richard).
When the Watergate scandal broke, even Americans themselves started misusing the word, eventually leading to "dick" being included in the list of prohibited words.
Since then, no one names their child Dick anymore. Those in Europe and America named Dick are all at least 40 years old.
Although the above is an extreme example, the complicated and constantly changing review standards indeed give Shinji a headache.
Just the review of language makes Shinji feel that hiring the Time Group's advisor is worth it.
However, no matter how powerful the lines are, they are just verbal skills. As long as the words are replaced, the review can always be passed.
But the scenes of Ryunosuke and Gilles committing murder are more challenging to handle. Even if there is no drop of red in the footage, this scene is definitely not suitable for PG-13 for children.
However, some things cannot be directly portrayed in the footage but can be imagined by the audience through another means.
Just like in Fate/Stay Night (FSN), where Shinji handled the scene of Shirou almost being split in half by Caster, by using items in Ryunosuke's lair, the list he wrote, and one or two murders in the review line, the goal of depicting the opponent's cruelty can still be achieved.
This kind of scene, even if the visible scale of the footage has a bottom line, the "blank" content outside the frame can definitely make the audience shudder.
As for whether the audience watching the movie will have nightmares because of this, Shinji thinks it is highly unlikely.
Under the influence of "art," fans in this world have been through countless battles and are broad-minded.
If it weren't for considering the rating, Shinji really wanted to go for an R rating. It would only make those with a taste for the extreme applaud.
After dealing with the aerial combat scenes, Shinji led the crew back to the studio.
The reason Shinji interrupted the studio shoot before was to let the set design team redecorate. Now that the scene is set up, Shinji naturally came back.
At this time, the studio set had been decorated to look like the rooftop of a building. This is the battle location between Kariya and Tokiomi.
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