Chapter 153: The Legend of Wukong
Why did you change your mind temporarily and want to use "The Legend of Wukong" to replace the novel serialization of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"?
Although Jin Lan also asked Xiao Ran this question, Xiao Ran did not explain it to him directly, just a few vague words, and Jin Lan saw that this was a short story, which did not take long for the serialization.
Coupled with Xiao Ran's trust in Xiao Ran, he didn't ask much, but said that when "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" ends in a week, he will start serializing this "Legend of Wukong" on Xiao Ran's novel column.
And the reason why Xiao Ran really wanted to serialize this "The Legend of Wukong" temporarily was to break the inherent impression of "Journey to the West" in the minds of all readers.
The reason why Xiao Ran has this idea is fortunate that although a lot of history in this world has been changed, the great god who wrote "Journey to the West" still exists, and the status of "Journey to the West" remains unchanged.
This "The Legend of Wukong" uses modern thinking to interpret a novel of gods and monsters, and it is very well interpreted.
And the next comedy "Best Friend", Xiao Ran expects that the box office after its release should not be too bad, because there are too few comedy movies that can be watched now, so the audience will not be too picky.
As long as the results of "The Best Friend" are not bad after its release, Xiao Ran is ready to make two more movies that deconstruct "Journey to the West".
That is the two parts of the Journey to the West that made him feel very sorry in his previous life, namely "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "Cinderella".
Like many fans of Xing Ye, Xiao Ran also feels that these two series of movies are definitely among the top three in Xing Ye's movies, and the investment in the two dramas is also a high-investment movie. But it's a pity that when it was first released in the previous life, the box office was not ideal. And many people feel that they can't understand the intent of this movie, they just think it's funny.
Xiao Ran once looked at the box office records at that time. Although it is not too bad, it is absolutely impossible to make money, at most it is just to recover the cost, this is also one of the few movies that does not sell well and does not make money, so for a winning general on the box office list, the box office results of this movie are actually very unsuccessful.
And the reason for the regret is not only this, just a few years after the release of this movie, some people began to understand the interpretation of "Journey to the West" in it, and it was more than the later stage. The whole movie was recognized by the college students of the film school, and it became more and more popular, replayed on TV many times, and even various VCDs sold extremely well.
So it was re-screened again after the 20th anniversary of Journey to the West, but what is surprising and regrettable is that this time the box office suffered another Waterloo.
The reason for Xiao Ran's first analysis is that the audience can't understand what the movie wants to express, so they think that although it is funny, it is too noisy, and it is not as good as Xingye's previous movies.
The reason for the second time is that the re-screening has been too long, and it took a full twenty years to re-release it again. And in this process, the audience who likes this movie has already watched it countless times on TV and the Internet, so naturally they don't have any idea of paying to go to the cinema to watch it.
As a result, the box office results of this movie were not good in the two releases, but the reputation was exceptionally good, and even the people who created this movie probably often felt a little bitter smile.
And now the reason why Xiao Ran wrote "The Legend of Wukong" first is to prepare to use this novel. I just want to take advantage of the fact that "Minbao" is popular all over the country and its sales are rising, so that more audiences can read novels and understand that "Journey to the West" can have different interpretations.
It is equivalent to Xiao Ran using this "Legend of Wukong" to warm up for the next two parts of the Journey to the West. I believe that if "The Legend of Wukong" can be recognized by the national audience first, when the movie is released, more audiences will be willing to buy tickets to enter the cinema to watch Journey to the West. and can understand a lot of interpretations in the movie.
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A week later, after dozens of days of follow-up reading, all the readers who bought the newspaper followed. Finally saw the ending of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"!
Ouyang Feng was close to madness after practicing the Nine Yin True Scripture, but he still defeated Hong Qigong, Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi women, in order to force them away, Huang Rong spoke stimulatingly, and finally the world's first master was completely stimulated crazy, and on the other side, the Mongolian army pressed the border, but the news of Genghis Khan's life had come, Guo Jing and Tuo Lei returned to Mongolia together, and finally Genghis Khan had the wealth and wealth of the world, but he still couldn't get back his dying life......
"Boss, is there a new novel in Xiao Ran's novel column on the "People's Daily" today?"
"It's definitely out, yesterday's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has come to an end, guess what to write?"
"Didn't Yang Kang give birth to a son? Can't write the story of Guo Jing and Yang Kang's next generation? ”
In front of a newspaper stand in Huaxia, several young people in their twenties discussed with each other, they originally passed by here to buy a newspaper and see what new novels would be published after "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
"Two pieces."
The owner of the newspaper stand handed over a copy of the newspaper and said.
After paying the money, the three young people hurriedly opened the serialized column of the novel on the "Minbao", and the signature on the column still had Xiao Ran's name written on it, which made them a little relieved.
Although Xiao Ran is becoming more and more famous now, fortunately he has not thrown away his old business, and he still continues to serialize new novels.
After the three of them opened the novel column, they saw the title of the book written in three big characters: "The Legend of Wukong".
Introduction: Falling leaves drift to the earth, seeds sleep under the snow, a flower blooms and withers rapidly, in the shadow of the circulating light, the star map is constantly changing, the sea water rises high mountains, the grass and trees have been prosperous and withered for hundreds of generations, there are always pieces of wind upright,
Resembles their ancestors. How can you forget Journey to the West?
The four of them walked here, there was a dense forest in front of them, and there was no road again.
"Wukong, I'm hungry, find something to eat." Tang Seng sat down on the stone and said.
"I'm busy, won't you look for it yourself? …… It's not that there are no legs. Sun Wukong said with a stick.
"You're busy, what's busy?"
"Don't you think this sunset is beautiful?" Sun Wukong said, his eyes still looking at the sky, "I only have to look at this, can I insist on going west every day!" ”
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After reading the serialized content in the newspaper, the three began to complain.
"What the hell is written here? "The Legend of Wukong"? Journey to the West? Could it be that he wrote "Journey to the West"? Xiao Ran doesn't write martial arts novels anymore. ”
"I said I wouldn't ask the gunman to write it? Why did you suddenly change the type? ”
"It's not like that, if you really ask for a substitute gun, you must ask someone to write a martial arts novel, how can you write this kind of monster story? I guess Xiao Ran wants to try something new. ”
At this time, one of them wore glasses and seemed to be the oldest: "This plot is not like the model of "Journey to the West", shouldn't it be a continuation of "Journey to the West"?" What exactly is that banshee? How does Sun Wukong seem to be schizophrenic, this new book "The Legend of Wukong" looks ridiculous, but it seems to be quite interesting! ”
"Then let's take a look again, as long as it is written by Xiao Ran, it shouldn't be too ugly."
"That's right, and I've always read martial arts novels, and it's good to change my taste, but I hope Xiao Ran won't write martial arts novels in the future."
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Scenes like this are being staged all over the country, because today is the first time that the short story "The Legend of Wukong" has been serialized in the novel column of "Minbao", and it is also the first time that "Minbao" has serialized a new book that is not a martial arts novel after it began to add a novel section a few months ago!
Because the author's signature of this "Wukong Biography" is still written by Xiao Ran, although readers don't understand why they suddenly changed the genre of the novel, but for Xiao Ran's sake and trust in Xiao Ran, sales have not declined.
This is just in the plot of the first day of serialization, everyone is in a state of fog, and I feel that it is very interesting to write, but it seems to be completely different from the "Journey to the West" in their impression.
It is definitely not easy to interpret a chapter back novel that has already been impressive in the minds of readers from a new way of thinking, so although the classics of "The Legend of Wukong" are undoubted, it is still difficult for the first day of serialization to attract everyone's attention in a short time and a half.
So every person who subscribes to the newspaper is actually holding a newspaper since it has been ordered, isn't it a big loss if you don't read it? In addition, there is Xiao Ran's name as a guarantee, so every reader has a lot of patience and has been watching it for a whole week!
Eventually, people began to discuss the plot of the book on online forums and major communities, and the book actually looked more like a movie script, although many people have not seen what the movie script looks like, but they still feel that it is not like a traditional novel model.
"When fate is hard to change, will you choose to compromise or fight? Is it to be a pig that cries to the moon? Or do you want to be the monkey who resists to pieces? Is it true that no matter how hard we try, this outcome is already predestined, and those who want to fight from the beginning are destined to become tragic heroes? ”
"I have a dream, when I want to fly, that day let the way open, when I enter the sea, the water is also divided into two sides, the gods and immortals, see me also have to be called brothers, carefree, there is nothing in the world that binds me, there is no one who can control me, there is no place I can't go, there is nothing I can't do...... This is the struggle of that tragic hero for the rest of his life, remember, his name is Monkey King! (To be continued......)