The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 462: Advantages and Disadvantages

Among the four people who set out to obtain Buddhist scriptures, Tang Seng is the most determined one to go to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

He had a clear goal of achieving enlightenment and was determined to obtain the scriptures. He supported the entire team and finally, after going through numerous dangers, he retrieved the scriptures.

Without his persistence, the team would have disbanded long ago.

Regardless of the tight curse or persuasion, he brought three disciples with very different personalities closely together around himself, stimulated their potential, and worked hard for 14 years around the goal of obtaining the scriptures. This ability alone is extraordinary and awesome.

It is precisely because of this persistence that the character of Tang Seng may not be very likable, but there are not many people who criticize him.

The next content is that the mountain monster appears again and grabs the children who are still learning to speak.

Jiang Liuer rescued a little girl, and while escaping, he accidentally came to a place.

At this point, a distant view was given of the entire mountain - just like five fingers!
The children became excited when they saw the Five Finger Mountain:
"Mom, Five Finger Mountain, is Sun Wukong coming out?"

"I like Sun Wukong the best!"

"Sun Wukong will definitely defeat all these demons and monsters!"

Amid the chattering of the children, the trolls on the screen continued their pursuit, completely unaware of where they were.

While escaping, Jiang Liuer carried a bamboo basket on his back, which held the little girl.

Perhaps because of Jiang Liuer, the "destined person", the chains here began to break, the ice began to shatter, and the rocks began to collapse!
What happens next is actually within the audience's expectations.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is such an easy-to-understand story.

Sure enough, as the scene changed, Sun Wukong appeared.

The mountain monster rushed into the cave, and the horse-faced monkey appeared in the camera again, exactly the same as the character stand outside.

At this moment, he was wearing yellow cloth and had a horse face, looking so ordinary. So ordinary that it was impossible to associate him with the Monkey King who had just caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

"This monkey is too ordinary! Without that handsome armor, this horse-faced monkey looks even uglier." Luo Yi thought to himself.

However, the following content in the animation made him complain about everything he wanted to complain about.

The little girl climbed onto Jiang Liuer's head and patted the monkey's head, babbling, "Big horse! Big horse!"

"Hahaha~" Bursts of laughter rang out in the theater.

This wave is all about spitting out the audience's complaints, leaving them with nothing to complain about.

The monkey finally gained his freedom and began to roam freely in the mountains and forests, but he soon realized that the bracelet in his hand sealed his magical powers.

The following plot is so hilarious that one can't help but laugh. The main content is that Jiang Liuer keeps chasing Sun Wukong and asking all kinds of questions.

Sun Wukong wanted to avoid him, but he couldn't.

No matter how hard Sun Wukong tried, he couldn't get rid of this little brat.

Jiang Liu'er kept chattering away, and Ma Lianhouzi felt like his brain was about to explode after listening to his chattering.

But for the audience, this scene is quite funny and interesting.

Because in the eyes of many viewers, Tang Seng's mouth is like a machine gun, chattering non-stop, Jiang Liuer's appearance surprisingly matches the image of Tang Seng.

Add to that the cute image of the little kid and the innocent voice-over.

The contrast is overwhelming.

Many people also saw their own childhood shadows in Jiang Liuer.

When we first watched "Journey to the West", didn't we also have a lot of questions and kept asking our parents?
The horse-faced monkey gradually collapsed and walked forward in frustration, seeming to have given up struggling.

Jiang Liuer's interest became more and more high and he never stopped talking. Sun Wukong's expression became more and more numb, and he even felt a little hopeless.

Immediately afterwards, the monkey whose magic power was sealed was suffering in all kinds of ways, and his words and actions were inconsistent, resulting in many hilarious scenes.

As Luo Fei watched, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at her twin brother.

"Tsk tsk! How come this horse-faced monkey is such a tsundere compared to Luo Yi!" Luo Fei thought to himself.

"Luo Yi, what do you think?" Luo Ming asked with a smile.

"It's okay!" Luo Yi didn't expect Luo Ming to suddenly ask him such a question, and answered insincerely.

Luo Ming smiled and didn't ask any more questions.

Luo Yi suddenly remembered something. He took out his phone and sent a message in the class group: "I went to see The Return of the Great Sage with my friends. It was pretty good. I strongly recommend everyone to watch it."

After sending it, Luo Yi, who was really happy, put the phone back into his pocket and continued to look up at the screen.

Luo Yi studied directing and is considered an insider in the entertainment industry.

Luo Yi's classmates also went to see "The Return of the Great Sage". After seeing Luo Yi's message, several classmates who had seen it came out to express their approval. "I just watched it this morning. This animation is really good."

"I'm watching it, it's really good."

"I just finished watching it. Apart from the thin story, there is nothing wrong with it. I would give it a score of 10 out of 7.5."

"Indeed, at least it tells a clear story, and the soundtrack is also very good, especially the theme song "Wukong", which is absolutely amazing!"

"After all, isn't this just a cartoon?"

"That's right, there's no limit to animated films. I have absolutely no interest in watching them."

"+1, I don't want to watch it either, the animated film is too childish."

Luo Yi's class group was clearly divided into two factions. Those who had watched the film thought that "The Return of the Great Sage" was good, while those who had not watched it would not watch it because it was an animated film.

Luo Yi didn't know all this. Like many other viewers in the theater, he had already been engrossed in the film and was looking forward to how the story would develop next.

In a good animation production, details are often very important. There are many places in "The Return of the Great Sage" that touch your cuteness, such as the cute land god.

For many shoddy films, it is already considered good if the protagonist is well made and not stereotyped.

It takes a lot of money and time to carefully produce these characters that only appear in a few scenes.

These minor characters are well portrayed and can act as a good buffer, preventing the audience from feeling bored when watching the human stories.

You have to know that in the entire movie "The Return of the Great Sage", those cool fighting scenes only appear at the beginning and the end.

The film is over an hour long, and throughout all the plots, the monkey's magic power is sealed.

For many viewers who want to see him show off his magical powers, if the content in the middle is not smooth, uncomfortable, or interesting, they will definitely feel extremely tormented and think that the movie is boring.

Investing more time and effort in these minor characters can also better balance the characters and the plot.

In fact, it’s not just movies and animations, other art forms such as novels and comics are the same.

Take novels for example, the author can leave some clues about minor characters that readers don’t care about.

If this clue can be used later, it can be expanded into a branch line, and readers will also feel that the author is laying out a foreshadowing.

If it's not used, readers won't think there's anything wrong with not mentioning it.

This type of writing technique is particularly common in mystery novels, where the murderer is often set using this inconspicuous writing style.

The murderer will most likely be among the characters that appear at the beginning. The author will bury some clues in the murderer, but then will hide the murderer with words, so that the readers can ignore the existence of this person as much as possible.

Finally, the hidden clues buried in the murderer at the beginning are used as evidence for conviction. When the truth is revealed, the readers will have a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and at the same time will feel that it is really amazing that the author can lay such a foreshadowing.

Of course, no matter how excellent the portrayal of the minor characters is, it cannot cover up the weakness in the middle period of "The Return of the Great Sage".

The bottom line is: "This movie is not enjoyable to watch! It doesn't give you that kind of hearty feeling."

In the minds of Chinese people, Sun Wukong is the Monkey King who can wreak havoc in heaven and has great magical powers.

But in the current movie, the Monkey King is just a horse-faced monkey with sealed magic power. He has difficulty beating up a small mountain monster and it's tricky to deal with small monsters. The whole movie is already halfway through, and he's still hitting people with a wooden stick. He looks so miserable and doesn't act like the Monkey King at all. What's the point of watching it?
In fact, there are quite a few viewers who have such ideas. "The Return of the Great Sage" has been screened for an hour.

This animated film has funny moments and cute moments. It is very comfortable to watch it in one go without feeling tired. However, since the subject matter is the Monkey King, the audience is not here for these!

At least some older kids and adults aren’t.

Many viewers also know that the bracelet that seals Sun Wukong's magical powers will definitely be unlocked later. This is basic movie logic.

If it is sealed from beginning to end, then either the production team is idiots, or the production team treats the audience as idiots.

Judging from the quality of the previous films of "The Return of the Great Sage", the entire production team was very attentive and did not treat the audience as fools. The biggest problem with this movie is that the foreshadowing took too long!

If it weren't for the scene of havoc in Heaven at the beginning, which allowed the audience to see the Monkey King's unruly nature, the wonderful fighting scenes, and the high-quality painting style, the psychological gap would probably be even greater now!

At this moment on the screen, the monkey was leading Tianpeng, who had turned into a pig, and Jiang Liuer and others to escape from the trap and board the boat.

The big villain Chaos, who has been watching from the sidelines, is finally taking action.

Seeing this scene, the audience whispered:

"There's still half an hour left in this movie. Sun Wukong should be unsealed and start killing everyone, right?"

"The seal is finally being broken. It looked interesting in the beginning, but it's not exciting enough. It will be interesting when the Monkey King breaks the seal and fights monsters for hundreds of rounds."

"We can't fight for hundreds of rounds, right? Then Sun Wukong won't be that cool anymore."

"Chaos is one of the four great beasts of ancient times. It won't be a loss of face if we fight him for a while longer!"

"Yeah, I hope the final fight scene can be as exciting as the first one!"

(End of this chapter)