Chapter 488

The few days before the movie's release were the most relaxing days for Luo Quan in this month, with no need to work and no pressure.

Other directors, before the movie's release, are all worried about gains and losses, worrying about box office and pockets, hoping for both fame and fortune, and fearing box office failure and bad word-of-mouth.

But Luo Quan is different. She doesn't have much worry about the achievements she is about to obtain. With her fame, just filming a few minutes of commercials can increase the ratings of major TV stations so much. This appeal is simply too powerful.

With such appeal, there is no possibility of box office failure.

As for word-of-mouth, the plot of this movie is steady, without too many controversial places, and it is impossible for it to collapse.

What she expects is to bring new elements to the Japanese action movie market with this movie, to put it bluntly, innovation.

However, this belongs to a higher-level pursuit, which is more difficult than achieving good box office and good word-of-mouth. Luo Quan doesn't know whether rigid movie producers will recognize such action movies.

But if "Rurouni Kenshin" achieves huge success, investors will definitely recognize it. As long as capital enters the market, everything will be easy to talk about.

By then, various similar action movies will come out one after another, just like "Resident Evil" sparked the zombie craze. By then, "Rurouni Kenshin" can also become a progenitor-like existence, and a big IP will be established again.

Of course, these are all Luo Quan's fantasies under the most ideal conditions. No one can say for sure about things that haven't happened yet. "Rurouni Kenshin" may be a big hit, or it may just be a small hit. Everything depends on the audience's reaction after the release.

Promotional commercials are played on major TV stations, and major platforms also have relevant news released by Sony. As a leading existence in the Japanese audiovisual field, Sony's influence can be called omnipresent.

Just like Samsung in South Korea, Sony is almost closely related to the lives of all Japanese citizens, just not as exaggerated as Samsung.

Relying on such a big company, and also getting its full promotional work, the effect produced goes without saying.

Before long, "Rurouni Kenshin" was known to everyone in the country. As long as people watch TV or go online, there is no one who doesn't know about it. Even if some people haven't looked at it carefully, they have definitely seen the relevant push and know that there is such a movie.

After catching a glimpse of a series of keywords such as Luo Quan, samurai, Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, vow of non-killing, and sword that gives life, they will more or less generate interest.

With interest, everything is easy to handle. Even if they don't go to watch the movie immediately, they have such an impression in their hearts. After a few days when the movie's word-of-mouth ferments, they will definitely go to the cinema to see it for themselves.

This is not only Luo Quan's own idea, but also the view of the senior management at Sony responsible for this business.

After the movie was filmed, while it was sent for review, it was also shown to them to see the finished film, considering what method to use for promotion.

If the movie is not filmed well, then cut out the most essential parts of the trailer and make a clickbait title to attract the audience.

If the movie is filmed quite well, then cut it normally, mainly highlighting the movie's features and the lead actors. Some types can be cut a bit more mysteriously to arouse the audience's curiosity.

And the finished film handed over by Luo Quan belongs to the third category. From the perspective of a commercial action film, it is top-tier. There is no need to consider how to edit it, because the fight scenes in it are all classics, and any scene of the scenery is as exquisite as a photograph.

Does this still need to be cut? Just put a few shots in it casually.

Anyway, after watching the finished film, the senior management had a brand new understanding of Luo Quan's skill in movies.

In the past, Sony's internal permission for Luo Quan to release new albums was given the highest level. As long as she released Japanese songs, there was no need to consider, just take the copyright and print the CD. There was no possibility of losing money.

This is the extreme trust she has gained since her debut because every Japanese song has sold well. Only those music divas who were popular throughout Asia at the beginning of the century could have this treatment.

And after these divas retired one by one, for many years, only Luo Quan could enjoy such treatment again.

And now, in the field of movies, she may also get the same preferential treatment.

However, Sony would definitely not tell Luo Quan about this kind of thing. They were afraid that if they told her these things, it would make Luo Quan feel slack, leading to a decline in the quality of her work, which would not be good.

After all, Luo Quan's laziness is famous all over the world. It's fine if she has work. The urgency of completing the task can drive her to exert her supreme talent to do everything that ordinary people cannot do.

But if there is no task to complete, she can stay at home for 24 hours, and might not even get out of bed except to go to the toilet.

Don't think this is a joke. Last year, when Luo Quan started live streaming, she already showed how strong her concentration was.

For a whole day, except for opening the door for the waiter who delivered food, going to the toilet, and taking a shower, she didn't leave the big bed for half a step. From getting up in the morning to going to bed at night, the steps on her mobile phone's Penguin app showed zero.

So much so that at that time, many "experts" and "teachers" criticized Luo Quan's lifestyle as being too decadent, without any vitality, simply corrupting young Chinese people.

Luo Quan felt very wronged about this. Her lifestyle is a true portrayal of many young people.

She doesn't know about others, but Lin Yizhu, Lu Yao, and Zhang Yun, don't they also do the same as her on weekends, lying from morning till night?

It's just that they like shopping and occasionally go out for a few laps, not as homebound as her.

Of course, she is not saying that doing this is right. She herself knows that this lifestyle is good, but she can't afford the matter of corrupting young Chinese people.

Since then, Luo Quan hasn't been on the bed much when live streaming. She basically sits in front of the computer desk, and the live streaming time has also been reduced a lot.

And the result of this is that the Weibo accounts of those "experts" who criticized Luo Quan were directly rushed by fans.

Last summer vacation was the most indulgent period for Luo Quan. After the beginning of the new year, she also consciously adjusted her lifestyle, and the amount of exercise increased a lot, such as sit-ups, push-ups, and other simple but practical exercise methods.

In addition, she has also been practicing yoga. Combined with the weight-loss tea brought back from the UK, after the two were combined, the effect has been quite obvious.

Now her weight has dropped to 118. In terms of her height and figure, this weight is no longer heavy.

However, Luo Quan feels that it is better to keep it at 55KG. In this way, even if she suddenly indulges for a period of time later, leading to weight rebound, she can still get enough buffer space, so as not to lose control directly.

During the few days she lived in Tokyo after filming the movie, Luo Quan didn't go out much, just like usual, staying in the hotel to surf the internet, and then doing some aerobic exercise.

A period of busyness made her feel a little tired. Taking advantage of this time, she could also adjust her mental state.

As for the school, it's still early before the start of school, and she doesn't need to worry at all.

It was during this period that everyone from the Lovemusic band came to the hotel to gather. From the conversation with them, it was learned that everyone in the band seemed to be in love.

Natsuko Miyano and Yu Amuro fell in love over time, while Suzune Kamiya was licked by Shuichi Sato, who had been affectionately and persistently licking her.

Although Luo Quan was surprised when she heard it, after thinking about it carefully, these were all things with omens, and there would be such a day sooner or later.

Besides, being in their early 20s is the time when spring heart is ignorant. It is normal for college students to fall in love. It's not that everyone is like Luo Quan, determined not to find a boyfriend.

Speaking of which, after Suzune Kamiya told Luo Quan about their love situation, she asked Luo Quan's thoughts again. After all, good friends have found partners one after another, so there shouldn't be no touch at all.

This is actually reasonable, because not only them, but Seifert is also in love. After the three roommates of Shangyi leave, no one will suppress their brilliance, and there will be more and more boys coming to chat up. It's hard to say when something good will happen.

I'm afraid that in a year or two, she will be the only one left alone among these people around her.

However, sore wa do kara (so what)?

What does other people's love have to do with her? At most, it's just paying an extra share of the gift money when they get married in the future.

Like Natsuko Miyano and Yu Amuro, she can even pay less.

As for the so-called touch, she really didn't feel it too much.

After all, there are not as many boys chasing her now as before. There are only two who have the heart of a thief, and they only have the heart of a thief. The courage of a thief has long been worn away.

Under such circumstances, she will not have the conditions to generate too much touch.

When friends fall in love, she just needs to send blessings. As for the others... thinking so much is just increasing trouble in vain.

And seeing that Luo Quan's will is so firm, Suzune Kamiya and others didn't say much about this aspect, knowing that she was prepared to go all the way to the dark...

On the evening of June 25th, in a theater in Ginza, Tokyo, stars gathered here today, all invited to attend the premiere of "Rurouni Kenshin."

As a blockbuster with an investment of 3 billion yen, the premiere naturally has to be grand and solemn.

Although as the director, Luo Quan only has Sakura Hoshino as an acquaintance in the Japanese film and television circle, and she hasn't spoken to anyone else, let alone friendship.

However, she couldn't stop people from wanting to take the initiative to get familiar with her.

After the movie release date was announced, there were many emails in the mailbox signed with the names of stars, basically congratulating her on the big box office and asking where the premiere was held.

Luo Quan would definitely not be stupid enough to refuse or throw these human feelings into the trash can. She responded politely and sent the time and place of the event.

However, those who took the initiative to send emails were all third-tier stars and below. Those with a little more fame generally wouldn't take the initiative to ask. Even if she is very popular now, being too proactive is too devaluing.

Fortunately, she has Sony. As the full organizer of the promotion, the premiere is naturally their responsibility. And these big-name stars were naturally invited by Sony.

With the invitation of Luo Quan and Sony's face, except for a few who were really busy, the others basically arrived.

So although Luo Quan doesn't have many acquaintances in the circle, this premiere of "Rurouni Kenshin" is still shining with stars.

Speaking of which, this is her first time attending a premiere as a director—the first time.

Originally, there should have been such a time when "Resident Evil" was released, but unfortunately, she hadn't proven herself in the directing industry at that time. After the movie was filmed, there was no splash, and only Netflix expressed interest in the movie, so the movie was released on the internet, and the premiere link was naturally saved.

The premiere she attended before was standing next to the director as a vase, and singing a song by the way, without saying a word. Now that she is the director in charge of the overall situation, to be honest, she is really a little nervous.

However, before the premiere, she watched a lot of video materials and knew the general process.

It is actually telling the creative background of the movie, the related legends behind it, and historical documents.

Then there are interesting or moving things that happened during filming. Note that if there are young fresh meat actors in the movie, this is a relatively important link.

The director or old drama bones must praise the young fresh meat actor, praise him for being hardworking, praise him for his progress in acting, in short, praise whatever is fine, and it is convenient for the media to blow it up after praising...

Luo Quan actually watched a lot of premieres on the movie channel when she was a child. At that time, she thought the movie would be played directly, so she stupidly listened to the people on the stage talking back and forth.

As a result, more than an hour passed, and she didn't see the movie until they finished talking.

Later, she learned that the premiere is like the preface or the beginning of a book, just telling the audience about the creator's mental journey. If you really want to see the content, you have to pay for it yourself.

Luo Quan felt that if it was just chatting, it would be too boring. She, who likes to do things, didn't stay idle this time and directly let all the creators come out wearing costumes from the movie at the premiere.

For an ancient costume action movie, if you wear a suit and dress, it would be too out of character. Wearing costumes can have more immersion.

And besides wearing costumes, Luo Quan also performed a sword performance for the audience off the stage and the audience in front of the TV at the premiere.

In addition to letting Kota Yagyu perform the sword skills of the Yagyu family, she herself also personally went into battle to display the long-lost Hokushin Itto-ryu.

According to her, in this movie, in addition to displaying the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu in the setting, she will also add the sword skills of the Hokushin Itto-ryu.

Now she first displayed one kind. If everyone is interested, you can see where the two sword skills are different in the movie.

Young people are always very interested in such sword schools that sound cool just by their names.

Undoubtedly, Luo Quan's unusual premiere once again gave the audience a surprise.

However, this is just an appetizer for tonight. The real surprise can only be found in the movie.

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