Chapter 32: The frustration of the movie version of Final Fantasy
Let's talk about the final result of this movie version of Final Fantasy first, which is many years later. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This time-consuming and labor-intensive production should be the first film in the Final Fantasy series, titled Final Fantasy: Deep in the Soul (Final_Fantasy_The_Spirits_Within).
Before the official release, the leaked promotional film still had good reviews. However, after the release, the evaluation took a sharp turn for the worse, and it generally encountered bad reviews. Some people joked that the essence of this movie was concentrated in those few minutes of promotional video.
There are no bad promotional films, only bad movies - although this statement is a bit exaggerated, but there are similar rules in the film industry, and the movie version of "Final Fantasy" is one of the more typical.
According to the film review website Rotten Tomatoes, the average "freshness" rating of the film by media critics is 44%, and the average audience rating is only 48%.
The production team attributed Final Fantasy Soul's box office failure to two reasons: the film's plot was unappealing to European and American audiences, and the characters were realistic but not recognizable stars.
To put it simply, the story of the movie version of "Final Fantasy" does not attract the audience very much, and the female lead will not have scandals, so it is difficult to have box office appeal.
It is also said that the failure of good team members to form synergies has a great impact on all aspects.
It's a big leap from the size of the game production team to the size of the film production team, and there should be a lot of differences in the way collaboration is done.
In addition to adapting to changes in scale and approach, the lead producer also had to adapt to the different working styles of the new occupants.
Square Enix's film studio was located in Hawaii because of its proximity to RB and the United States, which facilitated communication and cooperation between staff from the two countries.
In the RB gaming industry during this period, people were used to working late into the night...... But [Honolulu Studios] a lot of people are from the U.S. or other countries, and they're more concerned about their personal lives and don't work late in the office.
For various reasons, the production of the movie version of "Final Fantasy" should not be so smooth.
However, the huge success of "Final Fantasy 7" has brought high expectations to the company, and in order to get the film out of control in order to get the film out of theater as soon as possible, the production budget has grown from about 40 million yuan to nearly 150 million yuan.
All the money for the production of the film was provided by Square Enix itself, which caused the company to go through a very serious economic crisis.
At that time, the "Final Fantasy" series of games had already reached the tenth installment, and after the house leak happened to rain overnight, and after the movie suffered Waterloo, "Final Fantasy 10" also jumped tickets and failed to be released at the end of the year.
Two setbacks in quick succession put Square Enix in a difficult position, but the commercial failure did not mean that the company's production capacity declined, as long as it could produce a good game or film work, it could always be relieved.
The production technology of the film version of Final Fantasy is a huge unfulfilled asset, and the production team was involved in the production of the animated version of The Matrix before the next Final Fantasy film, which received extremely high praise as the most important of several avant-garde short film collections......
Su Le also plans to use these advanced filmmaking techniques in "Avatar – The Wind of the Wind," but he faces almost the same difficulties and may not be a box office success.
In order to avoid taking too big a step and flashing to the waist, and also waiting for the "Final Fantasy" movie version to expand related technologies, Su Le first invested in the production of the "Eskafroni" movie version.
Based on the TV animation "Eskafroni", and after a long period of precipitation, the production of the film version went very smoothly, and the success was natural and natural.
The core production team has been trained, and only needs to add some American elements to the production of "Avatar - The Wind and the Wind".
The personnel and training of the American side are being contacted by Xia Yingying. Su Le didn't have to worry about this matter, he took the time to follow some of the team members to Xianghai City to promote "Eskafroni".
In addition to the movie premiere, the event is expected to feature a local entertainment show, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The so-called "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a team of people to find clues to the treasure, and finally get the prize or bonus as a "treasure".
Su Le was not interested in prizes or prize money, but participating in the event could enhance the team's influence and thus increase the box office, so he decided to team up.
A total of four people are needed to form a team, and in addition to Asami Sakamoto, who voiced the heroine, Su Le also found Nana Mizuki, who voiced the supporting role in the movie version of "Eskafroni".
Lu La, who accompanied Su Le, also had to participate in this event, so that Su Le himself would complete the team.
In the event, four people in each group participated in the "Adventure Event" of Star Coins, Scepters, Swords, and Holy Grails. According to some of the information revealed by the organizers in advance, the "Eskafroni" team consists of Asami Sakamoto participating in the Star Coin Adventure, Su Le participating in the Scepter Adventure, Mizuki Nana participating in the Sword Adventure, and the final Holy Grail Adventure is in charge of Lula.
The first level of each adventure is to answer questions and brush off most of the contestants first. The problem with Starcoin Adventure is what base system does the computer use?
Asami Sakamoto is quite familiar with computers, so she answered easily, and then the person who answered correctly went to the next venue of the Star Coin adventure, Xianghai Department Store.
In Xianghai Department Store, contestants have two options, one is to get a coupon from Xianghai Department Store, and the discount amount is one-tenth of the Raiders of the Lost Ark prize. Another option is to go directly through the adventure and get the proof of passing the adventure - the Star Coin Medal.
To be honest, the discount of the coupon is not small, and it can be consumed immediately at Xianghai Department Store, which is very tempting for women.
Although Asami is a top voice actress and has released song records, her income is the smallest among the [Nayumi] Gosan, and most of her savings are lent to Yoko for urgent use, and only a small part of it is currently recovered.
Asami's usual living expenses are not large, but she is not lacking in daily use, and some relatively large expenses are all swiped by Su Le for her.
It's just that Asami doesn't really want to use men's money, so she doesn't buy many luxury goods. As a scarce resource with good looks and temperament among female voice actors, it was basically taken care of by Su Le at a very low price.
Luxury goods are bought less, not because those things are not attractive to Asami, Asami is also very fond of beautiful clothes, jewelry, bags, shoes and hats, this is the time to spend a small amount of money to do big things, but for the benefit of the team, she finally won the Star Coin Medal......
Su Le participates in the Scepter Adventure, and the puzzle is about the number of planets in the solar system, if Pluto is also a big planet, how many planets are there in the solar system? This question is not too difficult, and many of the contestants have made it to the second round, which is set up in the Xianghai University Gymnasium.