The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 216 There Are Thunder Spots Everywhere

"Your Name" is a sci-fi animated film whose concept is not new. This film also contains two concepts of body swapping and cross-time and space connection.

The concept of body swapping or swapping consciousness is not groundbreaking. Even in Hollywood, there have been several body swapping movies, and it is between men and women swapping bodies. This setting is inherently very dramatic. Contradictions, the screenwriter doesn't need to use much brains to extend a lot of interesting plots, and it is very suitable for comedy themes. The few body-swapping movies shot in Hollywood are basically low-cost comedy themes, and of course love is indispensable.

There is also a setting that is connected across time and space. This concept is not groundbreaking in this plane, because Chen Jingxing has already filmed "Signal", and there are both movie versions and TV series versions. In addition, "Signal II: Mirage" is also in preparation , It’s just that the cross-time and space connection in "Signal" is through walkie-talkie, "Mirage" is through TV, and "Your Name" is through consciousness exchange.

The amazing thing about this movie is that it hides the connection across time and space under the setting of consciousness exchange.

That is to say, when the audience first watched it, they thought that the male and female protagonists exchanged consciousness under the same timeline-this is the usual setting of this type of movie. The clues of the exchange of consciousness were gradually given to the audience. It turns out that the timeline of the heroine was three years ago, and she had already died under the impact of a meteorite split from a comet.

The story of the whole movie is not complicated, it is the story of a male protagonist saving the female protagonist and becoming his girlfriend, which is similar to "Mirage".

As a movie of the same type as "Signal", Chen Jingxing originally wanted to adapt it into a live-action movie. After all, the market for live-action movies is bigger and the upper limit is higher, but when he wrote the outline of the story, he found that this story is not suitable for real people. Movies are not even suitable for making into 3D animation movies.

There is a bug in "Your Name" that is hard to ignore, that is, the hero didn't decide to look for the small town where the heroine lives until he didn't exchange consciousness with the heroine, and saw the sparkling meteor crater Only then did I realize that this town was actually the place that was destroyed by a meteorite three years ago, and the heroine had already died in this disaster three years ago.

Time is the measure of labor in modern society, and the male and female protagonists also have smartphones. Even if they are separated by three years, they are still in the same modern society. After switching bodies, they don’t realize that the two places are not only far apart but also have a three-year barrier. Issues ignored by the audience.

Not to mention that in a country as big as Dongying, it doesn't make sense for the hero to find a place with a strong landmark - the crater lake left by the last comet passing thousands of years ago - so difficult.

The last is the deadliest bug. Part of the comet fell off and destroyed the entire town. There were many dead. Even if the disaster happened three years ago, it would definitely be world news, even for an island country like Dongying, which is plagued by disasters. Well, the town destroyed by the comet is definitely an unforgettable place for Dongying people, even if it is not as famous as Fukushima, it will not be much worse than it.

And the male protagonist didn't even notice the body swap for such a long time, and the process of finding this town was also very difficult. If it is a live-action film and television drama, this is a bug that is difficult to be ignored by the audience.

The way "Your Name" solves these two bugs or covers up these two unreasonable places is to make it dreamy, hazy, or even streamlined. The post-memory is hazy and fuzzy. After the memory fades, only strong feelings remain, and even in the end, the hero and heroine are about to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

This kind of processing is very successful, at least the audience immersed in the plot is not easy to realize these two points in the process of watching the movie. Only when the movie is out of the theater will they realize the bug when replaying, and these two bugs Both can be explained by hazy dreams and blurred memories.

When you wake up from a dream, you usually forget most of the content of the dream. Even if you don’t forget it for a while, you will quickly forget it as time goes by. You can’t even recall the specific plot of the dream, but the emotions in the dream can be clearly Experience, whether joy or anger, joy or fear.

There is no doubt that the original movie of "Your Name" handled this well, and even this kind of dreamlike processing also enhanced the shock of the hero and the audience when they discovered the truth.

Once moved to live-action film and television dramas, these two bugs are very difficult to solve. Dreaming and blurring are not easy to perform in live-action film and television dramas.

Chen Jingxing felt that if a live-action TV drama version of "Your Name" is to be released in the future, it is best to change the background to ancient times. This bug is not so conspicuous. Three years ago, a village in the distant Miaojiang was razed to the ground by a comet. It is very likely that the residents in the capital will not know about it. Even if someone knows, it will not be a widely known news.

In this way, this is an ancient puppet whose consciousness can be exchanged across time and space. Chen Jingxing thinks it is quite promising.

Of course, no matter how complicated the timeline setting of "Your Name" is, the essence of this movie is actually a love movie, and it is a love movie with beautiful pictures, small and fresh to the extreme.

This is why Chen Jingxing chose to shoot "Your Name" and "The Return of the Great Sage" together as an important task to break the ice in the animation film market.

In the previous life, "Your Name" won a box office of 5.8 million in Huaguo, far exceeding the box office performance of the so-called "Migrant Man" theater version with countless fans in Dongying.

In the final analysis, "Your Name" is essentially a small fresh love movie, which makes its audience completely beyond the limits of anime fans. Many viewers look at it from the perspective of a love movie rather than anime, allowing it to curve It has surpassed the "ceiling of stereotypes in Huaguo animation" and gained the same broad audience as "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Kung Fu Panda".

Therefore, Chen Jingxing's confidence in this project is no less than that of "The Return of the Great Sage". Even if Xu Sheng and even Xiang Xuan are not optimistic about it, it is a 2D sci-fi love theme that is not related to myths and legends. Animated films, it can be said that every element has accurately stepped on the thunder point of Huaguo's animated film market. Even if the estimated investment given by Chen Jingxing is only 5000 million, it is difficult for Mo's high-level executives to be optimistic about this.

Xu Sheng and Xiang Xuan even proposed to make it into a 3D animation movie. 2D animation movies are not popular in the Chinese film market. "If the stereotype is divided into levels, 3D animation movies still have room for rescue, and 2D animation movies are the most difficult ideological stamp in this stereotype. Except for animation fans and children, 2D animation has no popularity in China. Yes, it is even more difficult to convince adult audiences to walk into the movie theater.

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