Lancer, Let's Go Watch a Movie!

"Damn it, those time Transmigrator with photographic memories must be cheating!"

Shinji, barely containing his anger, muttered, "Who knows if that old woman likes young heartthrobs or handsome men! Doesn't anyone know?"

Shinji's dilemma was completely unnecessary. This year's Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival went to Ben Affleck, also known as Big Ben.

Putting aside the most important Acting Skills —Aaron Benedict's rugged, mature man persona does bear some resemblance to Cú Chulainn.

So, at least from Catherine Deneuve's personal taste perspective, Cú Chulainn still had a slight chance.

It's just that Director Shinji, that beast, doesn't know.

By the way, the movie that won Ben Affleck the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival was "Hollywood Hills," in which he played George Rivers, the first actor to portray Superman.

Indeed, a Batman who can't play Daredevil isn't a good Superman.

Moreover, Shinji was very fortunate that the film "Hollywood Hills" was not shown at this year's Venice Film Festival.

Otherwise, Shinji wouldn't have been completely unfamiliar with the name Oomoto.

Perhaps because there was no actor named Ben Affleck in this Parallel world, or perhaps because the trend of adapting comics into movies hadn't yet taken off in this Parallel world, this movie about the death of the first Superman actor wasn't approved.

Working backward from this result, Cú Chulainn and Ultraseven X, in a sense, had a significant advantage.

Unaware that Cú Chulainn actually had an advantage in terms of taste, Shinji crossed his arms and asked Denis Villeneuve, "How much influence does media opinion have on the jury?"

"A little bit, but not much. And it often has the opposite effect."

Dennis immediately guessed Shinji's thoughts, saying, "Directly letting the media create hype and excessively promote a film or actor often provokes a backlash from the jury members."

"Of course, if the movie is truly excellent, that's another story, but..."

Dennis didn't finish his sentence, but his expression said it all.

As Director, he has confidence in his films, but he is not so arrogant as to believe that his films are invincible.

"In that case, we need to put some effort into promotion."

Shinji sighed helplessly.

Lacking the most valuable "future-vision" intelligence, this is the first time Shinji has felt so helpless regarding the matter of movies since his time travel.

Unable to directly influence the film festival jury, the Second Master can only wait for the festival's judging results to be released.

"Master, why are you looking at me like that?"

Cú Chulainn noticed that Shinji's eyes were fixed on him after he finished explaining the publicity precautions, and couldn't help but ask him about it out of curiosity.

"Hmm... I was thinking you might want to wear a curtain with a big hole in the middle."

Shinji serious tone.

"What kind of performance art was that? Did it help with the selection process?"

"The art of taking the cheongsam to its pinnacle is a kind of mystical art; after all, people often say that a good start brings victory, don't they?"

"Master... you really are a beast."

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Although Shinji said he would wait for the selection results, waiting for the results does not mean doing nothing during this time; otherwise, he would not have assigned publicity tasks.

Having been in the media and entertainment industry for so many years, how could he not know the methods of indirectly influencing film festival juries?

For these artists who consider themselves "the only sober one in a world of drunks," their rebellious nature makes them hate being praised by "common people."

Spending a lot of effort to promote how excellent your work is is arguably the most superficial and foolish public relations tactic.

Therefore, the best approach is to promote quietly, create momentum within a specific group, and then use various means to get the judging panel to accept your work.

Such public relations tactics are extremely complex and cumbersome, and incredibly pretentious.

But who can blame them when those "artists" fall for this kind of thing?

In fact, ever since Shinji held a press conference to introduce Ultraseven X as a cyberpunk work to the world, a cyberpunk trend has quietly emerged in Venice.

People began reading cyberpunk works such as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", "Neuromancer", and "A Fire Upon the Deep", and started to understand the various settings of cyberpunk. They even discussed with those around them what the true core of cyberpunk is.

It all seemed to happen so naturally; movie fans became interested in the film produced by Shinji Matou after watching his press conference.

However, the shadow of Type-Moon Company's promotion can be seen everywhere behind the entire cyberpunk trend.

However, this kind of promotion is very subtle, leading countless people to believe that they have come to like cyberpunk on their own initiative.

With the opening of the film festival and the rise of the cyberpunk trend, Shinji is preparing to enter the second phase—getting the jury to accept the cyberpunk concept.

Shinji believed that, given the artsy tendencies of the older judges, they would really enjoy this type of work once they understood the core of cyberpunk.

The challenge lies in getting them to engage with cyberpunk without prejudice.

After all, science fiction movies inherently require high investment, and in the eyes of these old fogies, high-investment movies are a combination of commercialism and vulgarity.

The most crucial aspect of Ultraseven X's public relations strategy is how to break this perception.

Of course, despite the trouble, Shinji was not prepared to give up this rare opportunity.

If all else fails, let Cú Chulainn sacrifice his looks and roll around in that old woman's bed from 1943 a couple of times.

As long as Catherine Deneuve can get out of bed alive, instead of suffering a pelvic fracture from being tormented by the Doggy, Shinji believes Cú Chulainn's Oscar win is still in the bag.

... I guess so.

Shinji was in Italy debating whether or not to use the young and handsome Cú Chulainn to whet the appetite of the Venice jury president.

Meanwhile, viewers across Japan were already Shinji's antics.

For no other reason than <Magical Girl Prisma Illya>!

The appearance of Tohsaka Rin and Luviya, the two True Magic girls (emphasis added), in the story is not simply for the audience to be cute and funny, but rather to allow the audience to enjoy the fighting.

Compared to the rookies Illya Miyu, Tohsaka Rin and Luviya have significantly more combat experience.

Despite their abilities being far inferior to Saber's, Tohsaka Rin and Luviya can still hold their own against Saber.

Especially Tohsaka Rin, who used a blade woven from high-density magic to not only break through Saber's magic defense but also fought back and forth with her opponent.

Despite Ruby's constant criticism that this barbaric fighting style was very un- Magical Girl, Rin still managed to gather a lot of information through close-quarters combat.

The rookie Magical Girl Illya Miyu were stunned to see that Magical Girl could actually engage in melee combat.

They had never imagined that Magical Girl could fight in this way.

"Wait, I've seen this move before!"

Illya screamed when she saw Tohsaka Rin being broken through by Saber.

In her eyes, Rin not only withstood Saber's sword strike with maximum physical defense, but also cleverly used her wand against Saber.

"Got you now. Fire!!"

Zero-range artillery fire!!

After an attack that strongly resembled Illya's, Saber retreated a short distance.

Before she could launch another attack on Tohsaka Rin, she saw a massive True Magic circle composed of six True Magic circles.

It turns out that Tohsaka Rin's close-quarters combat earlier was just a delaying tactic; her real killing move was the massive True Magic spell that Luviya had prepared during that time.

"I don't care if it's magic mist or some other random setting! Just get the hell out of here!!"

"Blow us away obediently!! Die--!"

Accompanied by extremely villainous remarks, Tohsaka Rin and Luviya filled the True Magic circle with their own magic power to act as projectiles.

"Volley fire—!!!" *2

As the saying goes, no matter how high your martial arts skills are, one brick can knock you down.

As long as my attacks are fierce enough, no matter how fancy your methods are, they won't work.

However, the "bricks" used by Rin and Luviya this time were so big that they couldn't be captured even with a long-distance camera.

At the same time, this "brick" was powerful enough that the entire street was deformed and the river was deformed due to the explosion.

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes.

No matter how powerful a brick is, it won't do much good when hitting an iron plate.

Rin and Luviya's attack was indeed powerful; even within the main Fate series, it would be considered an extremely powerful beam attack.

But their enemy was Saber, a Saber with Magic Resistance, so this magnificent battle ultimately failed to bring down the black-clad swordsman.

"Us--"

Looking at the black-clad swordsman standing in the river, Illya murmured to herself.

"--What kind of monster are they fighting?"

Chapter 301 Lancer, let's go see a movie!

Just how strong is Saber, or more precisely, Artoria? This question has always been a hotly debated topic among Fate fans.

The reason is simple: Saber, who is supposed to be the strongest Servant in the Holy Grail War, has a performance in actual combat that is truly hard to describe.

FZ starts with one hand crippled;

In the Fate Route, he was completely overwhelmed by Gilgamesh and Uncle Hai, and could only turn the tide thanks to Master's protagonist aura;

After being ambushed by Caster in the UBW route, I kept getting disconnected. I finally managed to switch to Master and log back in, but my only highlight was clearing out the entire enemy with my ultimate move.

The HF route goes without saying. In the early stages, he was knocked offline by a weakling named Hassan. After re-entering the game with black skin, he had gained some pressure and destructive power, but in the end, he was stabbed to death by a human with a knife. His death was incredibly frustrating.

Of course, no one can deny Artoria's brilliant performance in various Fate stories, nor can anyone deny the power of this King of Knights.

After all, everyone knows that this King of Knights, who is incredibly strong on paper, suffered setbacks in the story, which can be summed up in one word—it's all for the sake of the plot!

While fans may understand, busybodies won't stop discussing her fighting prowess just because of that.

Ultimately, after a few bored fans conducted serious, in-depth, meticulous, and rigorous research, they came to the conclusion that Artoria was defeated because her defense was too weak without Avalon.

Despite her high level of [Magic Resistance] skill, her performance in the story is quite different.

Whether it was a physical attack— Berserker's stone axe, an AOE light attack— Gilgamesh's EA, or an enchanted attack— Shuage's Gáe Buidhe, Artoria was injured by them all.

Characters with high attack but low defense have a very professional name – "glass cannon".

That layer of magical armor was as brittle as paper; anyone could pierce it.

The above statement has become the truth in the Fate discussion forum.

However, this claim has been overturned in today's <Magical Girl Prisma Illya>.

Facing Rin and Luviya's super beam cannon, a beam cannon whose visual effects are comparable to Excalibur and EA, Saber actually took it all without any damage!

Well, it's not entirely true that she's completely unharmed. A large portion of her black armor was torn, and the exposed black knight's dress made her look rather thin.

However, when this "delicate" knight was paired with the backdrop of shattered streets and a river nearly blocked by an explosion, not a single viewer felt that Saber was a weak girl.

This is a king standing on the water!

"They clearly suffered that kind of attack--!"

At this moment, even Rin and Luviya's shocked expressions revealed a hint of despair.

No matter how brilliant the strategy or how overwhelming the power, this black-clad swordsman could always launch the perfect counterattack.

With absolutely overwhelming power!!!

Black magic condensed on the Magic Sword, and the immense materialized magic magnified the sword. The visual effect of the intense magical fluctuations alone was enough to send chills down the spines of viewers in front of the screen.

"Marvelous!"

In front of the television, Gawain cried and sighed loudly.

"This is my My King! The King who conquered Britain!"

Blind old Cui still wore that same perpetually sour face as he gently plucked the strings of his harp with his fingers.

"My king, even though you have been corrupted by darkness, you are still so radiant. Indeed, you will always be—"

Bang!

Before Old Cui could finish speaking, he was forced to the floor by the other Knights of the Round Table.

"Stop playing that tune, you jerk! You're drowning out the TV!!"

"Tristan! You're disturbing our father's watch!"