Chapter 49: Dare to Ask Where the Road Is (Part 1)

After pondering for a long time, Yu Sheng said: "Mr. Wan, to be honest, when I met a few of you in the cinema today, I decided with Mr. Zhang to sign a contract with the four of you." So, no worries about the contract. However, I still want to follow my ideas to make the story of "Journey to the West". Does Mr. Wan think it's okay? ”

"Actually, as long as you have enough money, it's not difficult to do animation. The biggest difficulty in making animation is the repetitive and tedious production of the original art. This is the most constraining of the speed of animation production! ”

Yu Sheng nodded, indicating understanding. In real history, it took more than 100 people a year and a half to complete the production of "Iron Fan Princess". And "Havoc in Heaven" is calculated according to the calculation that 7,000 to 10,000 original paintings are required for every ten minutes of animation, and the two episodes are 113 minutes in total, and about 8 to 110,000 original paintings are needed! It took five teams two years to complete!

"However, this problem is not impossible to solve, in fact, there are many people who can paint in Shanghai. All kinds of painters, comics, comics, and all kinds of unknown little painters. In this year, as long as you take care of food and the salary does not have to be too high, you can find a lot of people! If you can have a production team of two or three hundred people, and then buy some copying machines and other things, a **10-minute cartoon can be produced in half a year, uh no, or even a few months! ”

The rest of your life's eyes lit up! said that there is nothing else, if it is just to spend money, the share he earns from these movies is enough to buy a few more villas of the kind he lives in now! As for whether he will lose money by investing in this set of "Journey to the West" cartoons, he really hasn't thought about it carefully.

In other words, will the work that concentrates all the advantages of the 86 version of "Journey to the West" and its sequel, "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage", and even the 99 version of the "Journey to the West" cartoon fail?

Seeing that Yu Sheng actually had such confidence, Zhang Shankun suddenly thought of something and asked: "Brother Yu is so confident, won't he want to repeat his old tricks and release a classic track in advance to gather popularity, right?" ”

Yu Sheng smiled: "Boss Zhang is really discerning!" Yes, I've already thought of a song called "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is"! ”

Yu Sheng smiled and opened his throat. The four Wan brothers haven't heard the live singing for the rest of their lives, so they can't help but stop their voices.

"You carry the burden, I lead the horse to usher in the sunrise, send away the sunset and step on the ups and downs, become a road to fight against the hardships and dangers, and set off again, and set off again. La-la... Spring, autumn, winter and summer. Sweet and sour, bitter and spicy. Dare to ask where the road is, and the road is at your feet. La-la... Spring, autumn, winter and summer. Sweet and sour, bitter and spicy. Dare to ask where the road is, and the road is at your feet. ”

"You carry the burden, I lead the horse over the mountains and wading, and the shoulders are frosty. Wind and clouds, thunder and lightning, Ren Qi, singing all the way, to the end of the world, to the end of the world... Spring, autumn, winter and summer. Sweet and sour, bitter and spicy. Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet. Dare to ask where the road is, the road is at your feet. ”

The essence of the original "Journey to the West", in addition to Sun Wukong's unruliness and courage to resist in the early stage, is the perseverance under the baptism of 72 calamities on the long road in the later period! Although there was no electronic music in this era, it was slightly inferior to the original songs of later generations. But the vicissitudes and persistence in this tune and lyrics are also very distinct!

Moreover, there is a deeper meaning to sing such a song in this era. In this era, after a hundred years of foreign aggression, China's self-esteem and self-confidence have been reduced to the extreme. Therefore, even the patriotic professor of Chinese at Hujiang University will say that Chinese culture is backward.

Such thinking gradually corroded the upper echelons of China, so there will be a tendency for Wang Jingwei to defect to the Japanese, and even after Wang Jiang merges!

Therefore, what China lacks most at this time is not the blood of the moment, but the perseverance of the struggle! This struggle may be incredibly long, but it must not be given up, and it must not be given up!

For the rest of his life, he moved the song "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" to this era, and when it is sung, more people can always know this truth. Therefore, with this song, this dilapidated China has three points of hard bones!

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While these people are discussing how to make money in the next movie, they don't know that the entire Shanghai Tang has been boiling over for this "The Great Wall Will Never Fall", if "Loyal to the Country" was born, its popularity was just boiling. Then, as soon as the era-spanning kung fu film "The Great Wall Never Falls" came out, its popularity was simply an explosion!

Because of the good results of the previous movie "Loyal to the Country" in the rest of his life, and the extremely high box office of Bu Wancang's "Mulan in the Army", the cinemas in the Shanghai Tang Concession, no matter which company the cinema chain they belong to, almost did not refuse to screen "The Great Wall Will Never Fall". This is a good condition that "Loyal to the Country" did not have in those years.

And on the first day after the premiere of "The Great Wall Never Falls", all the theaters in Shanghai were sold out to watch "The Great Wall Will Never Fall"! Seeing this, these cinema owners put other less popular movies on hold for the time being. Changed to a screening of "The Great Wall Never Falls"!

When the first screening ended, audiences who had never seen an action movie were hooked! In the movie, most of the people who were beaten by Huo Yuanjia were Japanese, which poked into the hearts of the audience even more!

After watching the movie, these ordinary viewers felt as if they had beaten the Japanese! Those who were forced to leave their homes because of the persecution of the Japanese and fled to the square inch of Shanghai Beach are even more proud. There are also many people, after seeing Chen Tian's kung fu, they have a strong interest in Lost Trace Boxing.

Among the disciples recruited by Huo Yuanjia in the Jingwu Sports Association established that year, several of them made a living in Shanghai. Now that he is approaching the age of confusion, he can't help but sigh after watching this movie. also recognized Chen Tian's kung fu, which turned out to be a secret technique passed down from generation to generation! After the matchmaking of everyone, these people were ready to re-establish the Jingwu Sports Association. Chen Tian's goal of promoting the Lost Trace Boxing and Huo Yuanjia Jingwu Sports Association was finally achieved.

And the deliberately extended section of the teenager Huo Yuanjia for the rest of his life also gave many teenagers in Shanghai a strong sense of substitution. In other words, the youth is an era when there are two temperaments of idol worship and self-appreciation, and they are integrated into one. After watching the movie, the first feeling of these teenagers is to worship heroes, and the second feeling is - since Huo Yuanjia did it, why can't I do it?

For a time, the practice of martial arts and anti-Japanese resistance in various schools in Shanghai was flourishing! This movie has set off a social trend!