Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 817 The last country to release "Avatar"!

"How do you calculate this question?"

"No, no, it should be like this!"

"I don't know how to do this kind of function problem. You guys should think of a way!"

"Guide! That should be like this, like this, and then like this..."

"Would you know it? This is wrong!"

"..."

Everyone was arguing about this math problem.

The light in the room was dim, and those who were crowded in the back couldn't see what the math problems written in front of them were.

Those who did the calculations in the front all thought they were little math experts, pointing fingers one by one, but they couldn't get a result in the end.

Li Zhifan is not very good at mathematics, so he can only watch them from behind.

"Let me do it!"

At this time, Liu Miao rushed out from behind Li Zhifan, squeezed to the front, picked up a chalk stub from the ground, and started counting, regardless of the people around him.

"Uh……"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but they could only make way for her.

I thought that Liu Miao would also be bitter for a while, but I didn't expect her to solve the answer in less than 5 minutes.

"That's right, this is it!"

Liu Miao tossed the end of the chalk, pointed to the three digits on it, "Try this password."

"Is it that simple?"

Questions were raised.

But some people immediately ran to the lock to experiment.

"This is opened with a key, not a combination lock!"

Only then did everyone realize that it was actually a key lock.

Zhou Shilei became irritable, and said: "Small it open! Isn't this deliberately embarrassing?"

"Smash it? Isn't it good? We don't have tools!"

"Why don't you go back the same way? I can't take it anymore, it's too eerie!"

"Look here!"

At this time, Fu Cai shouted and pointed to the opposite wall, "There's a safe here!"

"Oh! It's the password of the safe!"

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that they ran towards the safe together.

The three-digit password opened the cabinet door once, and there was a night light inside. There was a key in the middle, and there was an envelope under the key.

"This is……"

"Never mind him, open the door first!"

Zhou Shilei couldn't wait, picked up the key and went to open the door.

The door opened.

Fresh air flowed in, and everyone made the same movement—after taking a deep breath, they swarmed out.

The cameramen outside stood in a row, all pointing at them.

"Ah! Director, I'm going to strangle you to death!"

Wang Yue was the first to rush to the director, dancing like he was going to strangle him to death.

Director Li Rui stepped back again and again, yelling: "Don't bully me, go back and check your envelopes!"

"envelope?"

Only then did everyone remember the envelope they took out together just now, so they immediately gathered around and opened the envelope.

"Who will read it?"

"Let me read it!"

Li Zhifan picked it up and read aloud: "Congratulations for passing this test. All the members of the Men's Gang and the six female guests. Myths and legends are the long civilization of China, the miracles created by history, and the wisdom and strength of the ancients." It is a cultural treasure handed down from generation to generation by the working people, and I hope you can appreciate the significance of this recording."

"In Fengdu Ghost Town, there are many cultures that are not known to the outside world. I hope that with your help this time, I can convey more positive meaning and energy to the world. The most terrible thing in life is not death, but inaction and lack. Wisdom is like the last math problem you solved, only with wisdom and thinking can you pass this level, thank you, the fourth season of "Extreme Challenge", see you in the next issue!"

After reading this card, all 12 guests know that the show is finished, and in order to cooperate with the hard work of the program group, they should show excitement, excitement and positive emotions at this time.

As for what will be played and what the ending will be, all will be determined by the later program group.

As the director said in the later period: "I want to show the audience what I don't want to show the audience, the right is in my hands!"

……

It has been more than half a month since "Avatar" went offline in China.

In Japan, "Avatar" is just getting ready for release.

Looking at the world, except for those countries that do not have the ability to broadcast movies, among all developed countries, Japan is probably the last country to release "Avatar".

This is also because "Avatar" is selling so well all over the world, that's why Japan made an exception and released it early. However, the release of "Dark Dream 3" and "Mech 7" in the same period in Japan is still far away, and it is said that it will not be released until next year.

And Japanese movies are released at a later date when they are released abroad, especially in China, which is often a year later.

This time "Avatar" landed in Japan, which also set off a frenzy of movie watching.

Big data is the most intuitive. The popularity of "Avatar" can be seen from the number of people who pre-ordered tickets.

However, at the same time as "Avatar" was released, "Zootopia" also entered Japan on the same day and was released.

For Japan, a big animation country, animations from other countries are very repulsed. Li Zhifan’s "Coco" was an example. It only received a very low ranking when it was released in Japan, and most theaters did not buy it. Only foreign capital, especially theaters controlled by Chinese capital, are willing to give a certain amount of film schedule. Even if the box office exceeds expectations, there is still no increase in the follow-up film schedule.

"Zootopia" was also packaged together with "Avatar", otherwise it would be an indefinite end. Even so, "Zootopia" is still very low. Compared with "Avatar", the received It's not 01:30 that is badly treated.

From the standpoint of the Japanese side, this is a policy to protect their own national culture.

But from the standpoint of the whole world, it is a kind of narrow cultural discrimination.

On the first day of its release, "Avatar" directly won the box office champion of the day, and it also received great praise on the Internet.

But "Zootopia" is different. Although the tickets are sold out, the Japanese people do not support this animation at all.

"The animation level in the United States has always been like this, and the story structure can be guessed."

"Perhaps Americans will be more emotional, comparing their society is like that."

"Compared with our country's animation, there is still a big gap."

"Even the animation made by Li Zhifan is just like that, not as exciting and exciting as "Avatar"."

"Actually, "Zootopia" is well shot, but the style of painting is unacceptable."

"Yes, it's a matter of the style of painting, or the style of animation in our country makes people look comfortable, whether it's movies, TV dramas or comics themselves, isn't it just for people to watch comfortably."

"..."

……

domestic.

The owner of a certain video website UP suddenly contributed a video titled: How do Japanese audiences view "Zootopia"?Comment with translation!

Then the content of the video is all about the comments made by Japanese viewers, and these comments have caused quite a commotion and suspicion among Chinese viewers.

"What level of appreciation? Animations like "Crazy Zootopia" are not good-looking?"

"If you evaluate it this way, there are no good-looking animations in Japan, and it's not as good as "Peppa Pig"!"

"Hehe, the Japanese are really narrow-minded. For a certain purpose, they slander other movies. The whole world says "Zootopia" is good. They have nothing to find fault with, and talk about the style of painting?"

"There are also people who support it, but there are very few!"

"This is normal. The market for Japanese animation in the United States is not very big, and even China only watches those animations by migrant workers."

"Over the years, Japan's two-dimensional culture has been exported to China very well, but we also have high-quality Chinese comics, but they maintain a consistent exclusion, because they are afraid that other countries' animation culture will surpass them."

"@李志凡, come and punish these short-sighted Japanese invaders!"

"..."

Li Zhifan did not pay close attention to the release of "Avatar" and "Zootopia" in Japan.

Because after a work is filmed, it has nothing to do with the director, because it has already been a fait accompli, and the rest is left to fate, it depends on the power of distribution and the general acceptance of folk audiences.

But Li Zhifan never expected that these two films would have such polarized reviews in Japan.

"Avatar" is about to be praised to the sky, and all kinds of flattering remarks are everywhere, while "Zootopia" is trampled in the soil, and it is about to be taken off the assembly line immediately.

So from this point of view, the Japanese audience is not aimed at Li Zhifan or behind the scenes of the movie, but at the field of animation culture.

That being the case, Li Zhifan's fighting spirit was aroused again.

He has never considered the Japanese market, because the volume is too small, but this time, even if he loses money, he has to come up with an animation work specifically for the Japanese market, so as to stimulate these Japanese audiences.

After having this idea, Li Zhifan immediately started to implement it.

But now he is not alone, nor is he able to speak freely at that time, so he immediately called William Entertainment and asked to hold a video conference immediately, with Li Zhifan in charge of hosting the meeting.

Ten minutes later, the video conference was officially held.

Li Zhifan said as soon as he came up: "Everyone, don't talk nonsense, let me finish the purpose of this meeting frankly. Everyone has seen the comments and news after "Zootopia" was released in Japan, right?"

Everyone on the other end nodded.

"President Li, what do you want to do?"

"Everything is up to you!"

"Mr. Li, you make the decision, we follow!"

"..."

"Okay!" Li Zhifan said, "I plan to produce a Japanese-style Japanese animation, but if we distribute it according to the righteousness of our company, we may not repeat the same mistakes, so we need a Japanese distribution company to cooperate."

"Where's Sony?"

Someone at the other end suggested, "Although Sony is a big Hollywood company now, it has a high status and distribution rights in Japan. If the distribution is entrusted to them, it may be easy to get high-ranking films!"

"The premise is that the quality and taste of the movie meet the habits of Japanese audiences!"

Someone said, "Mr. Li, are you sure?"

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan said, "If I'm not sure, I won't hold this meeting!"

"Then you plan to..."

"I don't need DreamWorks this time!"

Li Zhifan waved his hand and said, "Let's find a Japanese animation production company. I will be the producer and be in charge of everything, and they will be the main writer."

"That's good, if you have them, you can control the problem of painting style."

"The style of painting is the most important thing. If you let DreamWorks do it, it is likely to deviate from your starting point. It still has a strong European and American style and Hollywood style, but if you hand it over to the Japanese team for production, you don’t have to worry about this. Problem."

"Yes, that's what I mean!"

Li Zhifan said, "From production to distribution, there are Japanese companies involved. I don't believe that we won't get a high-ranking film this time. As long as this film can be successfully launched in the Japanese market, maybe we can change the pattern of the Japanese animation market. In the future, no matter whether it is Hollywood animation or animation from other countries and regions, it will be respected when it is released in Japan.”

"But we can't hand over all the production to the Japanese side!"

At this time, a Chinese subordinate said: "In this way, they will look down on us even more, thinking that they rely on their technology and talents, so I think it is enough to invite them to be a consultant. In addition, I think we can find Chinese paintings. hand, because the Japanese painting style is also born out of the Chinese ink painting style, and the Huaxia style painting is their originator, and it is also close to it.”

"Ok!"

Li Zhifan thought about it, but he didn't expect this point.

As this Chinese-American subordinate said, if they really rely on Japanese production companies with full power, they will be a bit cocky.

However, if you only find a Japanese animation master as a consultant, even if you contribute, it will not account for too much of the proportion. In contrast, it can stop those who make irresponsible remarks.

"Okay! That's it! You go to the contact person, Zhang Xin, the Chinese painters, you will be responsible for recruiting, the level does not need to be high, but you must have at least three years of working experience!"

"OK!" The Chinese subordinate named Zhang Xin nodded immediately and took over.

Everything is in action, Li Zhifan plans to use the least amount of time to get this matter done.

And he devoted himself to the preliminary work such as writing the script and determining the character design drawings.

He can handle these tasks by himself, because Li Zhifan at this time is no longer the rookie who didn't know anything about the animation production industry.

And he has already prepared the content he wants to produce and shoot in the first place. This anime is also because of a music work he released a few years ago.

In less than a week, all the people were found, and this time the production location was not in the United States or Japan, but in China.

This team was formed temporarily, even a bit like a grass-roots team, but it was recruited by Zhang Xin himself, and several of them were his connections.

Li Zhifan doesn't care about the related households, as long as he can do things, and sometimes the related households are better managed. This is the only difference in the animation industry from other industries.

These people also have reverence for Li Zhifan, because of "Coco" and "Zootopia".

Now that I see Li Zhifan's first draft, I am even more impressed. My previous suspicion that Li Zhifan may not know art at all has disappeared.

(End of this chapter)