This Star is Legal But Sick

Chapter 738 "Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Return of the Great Sage"

 The animated film "The Return of the Great Sage" has been in production for a long time.

 This movie on Earth was slightly flawed in the final film due to insufficient production funds.

Even so, this film also created the highest box office performance of an animated film in the year it was released.

 Since "The Return of the Great Sage", domestic animated films have gradually developed, and some good works have been produced in the following days.

  It can be said that this monkey saved the domestic animation film industry.

 In this world, there are also domestic animated films, but they are all based on some already popular IPs.

For example, the cartoon "Dumber Goose and Stupid Dog", which is still updated every day, maintains the pattern of one animated movie every year.

 The movie is released during the Spring Festival and can also get a pretty good box office.

 But this box office is only relative to other domestic animated films.

 The highest box office of their big movie is only 415 million yuan.

In the Chinese film market, the animated film with the highest box office is a foreign film called "Adventures in the Spirit Realm". The box office in the Chinese film market alone reached 1.13 billion.

The concept that domestic animated films are not good has been imprinted in everyone’s mind, and many people have never even thought of producing a work that can compete with foreign animated films.

  After all, what you need to make good works is not passion, but funds, talents, and love for the animation industry.

 There are talents and passion, but no funds.

 No investors are willing to invest money in the production of animated films.

This kind of film investment is risky and has a high probability of losing money.

 This is also normal.

 But to Xu Ye, this is not a problem.

  The overall production cost of "The Return of the Great Sage" has exceeded 100 million.

This level of production funding is unique in the entire domestic animated film industry. If word spread, everyone would think Xu Ye was crazy.

 Xu Ye didn’t do any publicity outside and quietly produced the movie.

According to the current progress, both "Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Return of the Monkey King" can be released during the Spring Festival next year.

 When the two movies are released together, the audience can watch "Let the Bullets Fly" and then watch "The Return of the Great Sage".

 After Xu Ye reviewed "The Return of the Great Sage", the film was sent directly for review.

 The film produced by Dream Studio has made up for some shortcomings in the original film.

 After all, Xu Ye is not short of money.

 Cao Na from the review department was stunned after seeing this movie.

　　How come you made an animated movie?

It would be understandable if Xu Ye made a big animated movie like "The Legend of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit" or "Tom and Jerry".

Aren't semi-original animated films like "The Return of the Great Sage" just trying to lose money?

 However, after Cao Na watched the movie, her attitude changed.

 “This monkey is so handsome!”

At first, she really felt that the horse-faced monkey was really ugly. But later, when the monkey melted stone into armor and used flames to make a robe, the whole feeling was different.

This is not a horse face, this is a face with the Chinese character for country. One look at it and it is clear that it can achieve great things!

 The review of "The Return of the Great Sage" was not difficult.

 After the trial, Cao Na called Xu Ye and asked Xu Ye what kind of help he needed.

Nowadays, China's animation industry has been actively improving, but there are no animated movies yet.

 Xu Ye is daring to be the first again this time, and the audit department will definitely express his gratitude.

Xu Ye simply asked the review department to coordinate with the theaters.

Even if he is the director of "The Return of the Great Sage", it is still a bit dangerous to get a high-ranking film.

 It’s not that theaters are stupid, but there aren’t many domestic animated films scheduled, and it doesn’t matter who comes.

Especially if "The Return of the Monkey King" wants to be released during the Spring Festival, this schedule is even more tight.

 It would be better if the review department could help get more films arranged.

 During the filming and editing of "Let the Bullets Fly", this was a big studio and some new singers were added.

 Xu Ye has sung a lot of songs in "The King of Love Songs" before. During this period, he has released a lot of songs from "The King of Love Songs" intermittently to enhance the reputation of the singers in the studio.

 Xu Ye also released the eighth and ninth songs from his album "Silly Music".

 One is "Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horse" and the other is "Dala Benba".

Especially for "Dala Benba", Xu Ye used Zhou Shen's singing method, with one person playing four roles. After the song was released, the audience was shocked.

 Following this came a group of up-masters’ covers on Xiaolan.com.

 Xu Ye also launched a cover activity on Xiaolan.com, but he also put forward requirements for everyone's covers.

 You can change the names of people and places in it, or you are not allowed to edit it. You have to sing all the names of people and places in the original lyrics, and you have to sing them all over again.

 This is very difficult.

Even so, it still attracted many UP owners to cover it on the Xiaolan website, and the song quickly became popular on the Internet.

Yu Wei even came to Xu Ye to buy the copyright.

 Xu Ye previously suggested to Yu Wei that she could create a music variety show for The King of Masked Singer. After several years of discussion and planning, the recording of this music variety show will start next year.

Yu Wei feels that this song "Dalabengba" is very suitable to be sung on the stage of the King of Masked Singer.

Some old singers want to challenge themselves, but don’t want to be discovered by old audiences, so they can sing this song on stage. There must be some first-line singers who are interested.

By December, the editing work of "Let the Bullets Fly" was completed and the finished film was submitted for review. Cao Na analyzed the movie in her mind after receiving it.

 According to the five-year plan time mentioned by Xu Ye, this movie is the last one in the five-year plan movies.

 She looked at the information in the file. The movie category was comedy.

“The five movies in the five-year plan are all comedies.”

Cao Na didn’t think much about it. She had watched the previous four movies many times and knew the plots by heart.

It is obviously a movie that I have watched many times, but I still laugh out loud every time I watch it.

 “This movie is actually a comedy. I thought it was a war movie.”

Cao Na didn’t think any more and opened the movie.

 At the very beginning of the movie, singing sounded.

This song has a famous name, called "Farewell", which was released in 1915. It can be said to be the most classic of all farewell songs, a true century-old classic.

“Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky~”

 Listening to this beautiful singing, Cao Na was already sighing in her heart.

　　“The lyrics are so beautifully written!”

 Cao Na rarely uses beauty to describe the lyrics of a song, but this song "Farewell" gave her such a feeling.

 The scene changed to the train.

Cao Na saw He Shuhong who played the role of the master.

 Wait until later, Zhang Mazi fired, and a classic line corresponding to the movie title appeared.

 Zhang Mazi said calmly: "Let the bullets fly for a while."

 The train overturned, leaving only Mabond and his wife alive.

 “He Shuhong is dead, this movie is definitely a good one!” Cao Na said in her heart.

In the beginning of "Kung Fu", the leader of the Crocodile Gang, also played by He Shuhong, was killed by Brother Chen of the Ax Gang.

Netizens are joking on the Internet, saying that as long as He Shuhong dies at the beginning of the movie, it is a good movie.

 Cao Na thought the movie was quite funny at first. The horse-drawn train, some funny plots, and the various performances of the characters clearly showed that the movie was indeed a comedy.

 But the further she looked down, the more she felt something was wrong.

 Some people say that "Let the Bullets Fly" is a metaphor, but in fact it is not entirely true.

 There is a part of metaphor, but many things are stated openly, not metaphorically, but explicitly.

 Two hours later, Cao Na finished watching the entire movie, and she was only left with shock.

 “You call this comedy!”

 Cao Na doesn’t know how to evaluate this movie.

 The characters here obviously all refer to each other, some refer to a type of people, some refer to a certain person, and some characters have both.

Cao Na has grown up in a compound since she was a child. She has heard the elders talk about some past events, and she has a deeper impression of this movie.

“Zhang Mazi won, but he didn’t win completely. The boy who slayed the dragon will also turn into an evil dragon. If you want to prevent history from happening again, all you have to do is point a gun at the enemy and a gun at yourself.”

 Cao Na checked the movie’s registered release date and found it was during the Spring Festival.

 This also means that two movies by Xu Ye will be released during the Spring Festival.

 "Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Return of the Great Sage".

 When she thought of these two movie titles, a poem suddenly came to her mind.

 “The golden monkey rises up with a thousand-strong stick, and the jade sky clears thousands of miles. Today I hail the Great Sage Sun, only because the evil mist has returned again.”

 "Let the Bullets Fly" also passed the review smoothly.

 Xu Ye was relieved after receiving the news of the review.

 Xu Ye has been quite busy recently. He is already preparing for his wedding with Xiao Xu.

Weddings can be simple or complex, but for Xu Ye and Xiao Xu's identities, they can't be simple even if they want to.

Xu Ye didn't intend to make a big impact on this wedding. He would not imitate some stars in the entertainment industry and find sponsors to get married and turn the wedding into a business.

The people invited to this wedding will only be some relatively close relatives and friends.

 Even so, it’s still very troublesome.

 Many details require Xu Ye's personal decision-making, and you can't leave it to others if you want.

Just like taking wedding photos, even if you want to lower your standards, your status does not allow you to take photos casually.

What's more, most girls want to take beautiful wedding photos at this time, and it will take several days to go to the location.

 Fortunately, Xu Ye has already dealt with most of the work at hand, and has even made the next five-year plan. He is just waiting for the content of the next five-year plan to be announced next year.

 Otherwise he really wouldn’t have time to do these things.

Xu Ye originally planned to just pass the vacation, but in the end he received a call from Zhou Guohai.

"Xu Ye, I will be the director of this year's Spring Festival Gala again. Do you want to produce some programs?" Zhou Guohai said with a smile as soon as he came up.

"Why are you the director again? Didn't you say you won't direct the Spring Festival Gala?" Xu Ye asked.

 “This is the last time, you have to help me.” Zhou Guohai said with a smile.

Xu Ye thought for a while and asked: "Then let's negotiate a condition and let our company have a few more singers."

 (End of this chapter)