The development of the bright era is going well, but in fact, there are more people in the entertainment industry who are struggling in it.

There are too many people in this industry who are working hard to survive for their dreams, and they have put all their net worth for the ideal in their hearts.

There are many people who keep looking for opportunities with scripts, and keep trying to persuade rich people to invest in themselves, but the vast majority of people only gain slow disappointment.

After the fame of the bright era, there are usually many people of all kinds who use various means to get close to Gu Cancan or company executives, trying to persuade the other party to help them, but the vast majority of people can't even pass the level of office building guards.

I don't know how this good-looking young man broke through the doorman to the front desk of the bright era, and he seemed to be chatting happily with the young lady at the front desk.

Hearing the other party say wait a minute, Gu Cancan hesitated for a moment and stopped.

"Miss Gu, I am Liang Xuan of the other side of the sky culture, I learned that your company is doing micro video support activities, and we have a very good story......

It turned out that he was here to pull investment, Gu Cancan waved his hand disappreciably and said: "Hello Mr. Liang, the micro-video support activities have a charter formulated by the company, and I personally don't count it." Can you ......, wait, the other side? ”

Liang Xuan was already hopeless in his heart when Gu Cancan said something that he obviously refused, of course he would still try to fight for it, but he didn't expect Gu Cancan's words to suddenly take a turn, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I am Liang Xuan, the founder of the other side of the sky culture, Miss Gu has heard of our other side of the sky?" ”

"You don't need to call me so politely, just call me Gu Cancan." Gu Cancan first corrected his title, the word Miss always sounded weird.

The name of the other side of the sky always feels very familiar, where did Gu Cancan think about it when he heard it?

Gu Cancan thought about it, but didn't think about it.

Liang Xuan observed Gu Cancan's expression, and was disappointed to find that Gu Cancan didn't seem to know what the other side of the sky looked like, and added: "Last year, we launched a series of animations called BoBo-ToTo, I don't know if Mr. Gu has seen it. ”

"Well, in this case, come to my office and say." Gu Cancan took Liang Xuan to her office.

Although he didn't remember which company the other side of the day was, Gu Cancan liked the name of the other side of the day very much, so he rushed to this name, and Gu Cancan also wanted to give the other party a chance to talk in detail.

Asked Liang Xuan to sit down, an employee came in and poured coffee, Liang Xuan nodded politely, and then said to Gu Cancan: "Mr. Gu, I am very embarrassed to take the liberty of disturbing today, mainly because I wanted to visit Mr. Su before, but I have never had the opportunity." ”

"Well, Sister Su Luo is usually very busy, and she usually needs to make an appointment in advance to see her. Mr. Liang, I see that you can go to the front desk of the bright era, and it is not easy to listen, do you have anything to do with us? ”

Liang Xuan said: "That's the case, in fact, I also want to apply according to the support plan issued by your company and Bright Video, and you can just give the script of the work step by step to sign up." It's just that what we want to do is an animated movie, before the animated film starts, you have to think of every shot, every scene, and the world view is magnificent, so the requirements for the main creative team and the director are very high, and the investment may be more than 10 million, so we must need to meet with your company. ”

Gu Cancan's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he asked for tens of millions of funds when he opened his mouth, is this to slash the bright era as a Kaizi? She frowned and said, "You mean to make a big movie?" Our event this time is a short film. ”

"I understand, I understand." Liang Xuan hurriedly said, worried that what he said just now would make Gu Cancan feel bad, "I don't know if Mr. Gu has heard of our last work on the other side, BoBo-ToTo's series of animations, we have produced four episodes of this animation, namely "Belladonna Fruit", "Unicorn Fish", "Rootless Water" and "Swallowtail Butterfly". BoBo is based on a panda, and ToTo is based on a chicken. ”

A light flashed in Gu Cancan's mind, and his thoughts suddenly brightened, no wonder he always felt that the name "Bi'antian" was familiar just now, isn't this the producer of "Big Fish and Begonia"!

Just talking about BoBo-ToTo, Gu Cancan had no impression in his heart, but when it came to pandas and chickens, as well as swallowtail butterflies, Gu Cancan instantly remembered those two cute cartoon images in his mind.

"I'm Bobo, a fat panda, and this is my good friend Toto, a skinny little rooster. If we're together, will you bless us?"

Gu Cancan was deeply impressed by the two images of a panda that looks like a trapezoidal square and a chicken that looks like a screaming chicken, just now Liang Xuan said that there are four episodes of their animation, and Gu Cancan has watched "Swallowtail Butterfly" in the original time and space, and the specific plot has been vaguely impressed, I only remember that this short story with a duration of only thirty minutes is very abusive, and Gu Cancan clearly remembers the sentence in the short story "I will also become very brave for you".

Her expression came alive, no longer the cold rejection she had just now, and she said with a smile: "I know, it turns out that the other side is the producer of the swallowtail butterfly, the story of the swallowtail butterfly is very touching, and the art picture also has its own style, I remember that it has won a lot of awards." ”

Unexpectedly, Gu Cancan knew a lot about swallowtail butterflies, Liang Xuan sighed and said with a smile: "Yes, swallowtail butterflies are short animations produced by us, and when they were originally designed, they were based on the concept of living with love and dreams. ”

"Mmmm, the two of them are really cute, and sometimes I use their memes." Gu Cancan smiled and said, "By the way, you just said that you are the founder of the other side, and you plan to create an animated film?" What type? ”

If you don't guess wrong, it must be the big fish and begonia, Gu Cancan remembers seeing the relevant reports in the original time and space, the big fish and begonia is known as the painstaking work of grinding a sword for twelve years, and the picture and music are indeed perfect.

Liang Xuan's spirit was shocked, and he finally got to the point, he said seriously: "Before talking about animated movies, I want to formally introduce the other side. ”

Gu Cancan nodded and smiled and gestured, "Please." She only has a rough understanding of Big Fish and Begonia, and knows that the total box office of this animated movie is hundreds of millions, although it is worse than the return of the Great Sage, it was also a very remarkable number back then.

"I founded it with my friend Zhang Chun." Liang Xuan recalled with emotion: "At that time, I was still in my third year of college, and one night I had a dream, as if written in Zhuangzi's Getaway, in which everyone in the dream was a fish in the sea, and when I was born, I set out from this shore, crossed the sea-like life journey, and arrived on the other side when I died. When I woke up, I had the idea that I wanted to animate this dream of mine and make it into a movie. ”

"Remarkable." Gu Cancan sighed: "Everyone dreams, and there are picturesque and wonderful illusions in their dreams, but there are really few people who have the courage and courage to make movies about the scenes in their dreams." ”

Gu Cancan's sigh is sincere, he knows the approximate creative process of the big fish and begonias in the original time and space, and the two founders may be one of the very few people in the world who have been stubborn for 12 years, just to put a picture in a dream on the big screen.

Ask yourself, let Gu Cancan spend 12 years grinding a movie, Gu Cancan will definitely not be able to do it, as the so-called body can't yearn for it, it is precisely because he can't do it that he admires such a person.

Liang Xuan also smiled with emotion: "Maybe my personality is more stubborn, I just want to shoot this dream." ”

"And then?"

"Later, I found a like-minded partner, that is, Zhang Chun, the co-founder of the other side of the sky with me, based on this dream, we made a few minutes of short stories, and the results were very popular, so I made up my mind to start the other side of the sky with Zhang Chun after dropping out of school in my junior year."

Speaking of this, Liang Xuan showed a proud and conceited smile like a scholar on his face: "We may have a talent in this area, every time we go to participate in the competition, we can win the first place, earn some bonuses, and our works can quickly receive feedback from others, which can not only solve life problems, but also make the creative process very happy, so we embarked on the 'road of no return' of animation." ”

Gu Cancan secretly pursed his lips, slandering in his heart, then why are you working so hard to find a film and television company, to serve a bowl of chicken soup to others?

She said slowly: "I have read your short stories, they are very stylish, and the painting style is very fresh and cute. But making a movie is very different from making a short story. There's very little to be done with short animation, but if you're going to make an animated film, you'll need a lot of money, according to your description. Do you already have a full script? ”

Liang Xuan smiled proudly: "The script has been preliminarily determined. ”

"Oh? Can you tell me a rough story? ”

The gist of the story is this: In a space parallel to the human world, there lives a race that works for God and controls the laws of the world and the human soul. On her 16th birthday, a girl named Tsubaki of the tribe turned into a dolphin and went on a pilgrimage to the world, but was trapped in a fishing net, and a human boy died trying to save her, and her soul turned into a small fish. In order to repay the favor, Tsubaki began to secretly raise this small fish "Kun" and help it grow into a fish larger than a whale in order to regain its life. But this practice has led to all sorts of disasters because it violates the communal order. ”

Gu Cancan remembered the big fish and begonias she had seen in the original time and space, the story that Liang Xuan told just now was not much different from the time of release, it seems that their script and character settings have been determined at this time.

In Gu Cancan's view, the animated film Big Fish and Begonia has many advantages, and its production level in music and picture is not the world's top, but it is certainly world-class. It is enough to replace the aging "Baolian Lantern" to take over the production benchmark of China's 2D animated films, and will surely raise the threshold of domestic animated films. The picture is beautiful, and almost a frame can be taken as a desktop.

But it is also very problematic, the most critical thing is the barrenness and paleness of the plot, and the logic of the characters does not stand up to scrutiny at all. The use of Chinese elements deliberately promoted at the beginning was reduced to decoration and emotional expression in the movie. The gods in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Kunpeng in the Getaway have all been reduced to supporting roles of "I love you, I will die for you".

After the release of Big Fish and Begonia in the original time and space, it also received a lot of bad reviews at the box office, and almost all the criticisms pointed to the storyline: love triangle, Mary Sue, green tea, urban romance drama......

Gu Cancan also thinks so, after she watched the big fish and begonias, she felt that the movie was dressed in the skin of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Leisurely Travel, and made a bunch of ancient rare words to name the characters, and finally said lines like "What I am most afraid of in this world is to make you suffer", which is a bit funny.

Later, CCTV Channel 6 once commented on Big Fish and Begonia: The inside festered and ruined a good skin.

How bad does the plot have to be to alarm***......

But the world view and background of the big fish and begonia are indeed very innovative, Gu Cancan likes some of the details in it, such as the ancestor who weaves cloth on the seaside, when she weaves, she will turn the whole ocean into the color of the starry sky, with the picture of the sea and the sky, this is a very poetic and romantic scene. However, this has nothing to do with the advancement of the plot at all, it does not help the development of the story at all, deleting this detail has no impact on the whole movie, just a few beautiful shots are missing, in the big fish and begonia, there are too many such beautiful but useless scenes, not that you can't shoot this kind of empty and beautiful detail at all, it's just that you can't shoot too much. Because this is not a MV after all.

The plot is weak and chaotic, the character building fails, and the most important thing is that the big heroine has quite a big problem, which is the most unbearable point for Gu Cancan to the big fish and begonia.

But now that Big Fish and Begonia has not started filming, if the plot and character design can be modified, no need to modify it perfectly, but how to achieve the smoothness of the return of the great sage, this animated film is definitely an animated film that can be recorded in the history of Chinese films.

And this huge world view can be made into a big fish series, and if it works properly, the IP of "Big Fish" has the potential to become a super IP with an original world view.

It's a pity that in the original space-time, this IP was destroyed.

However, a thought arose in Gu Cancan's heart, if ......

She stroked the hair hanging down at the corners of her eyes, and said casually: "By the way, Mr. Liang, how is the background of this story set up?" ”

When it comes to the story, Liang Xuan's excited tone is still high: "Yes, I spent three years, a lot of poetic and romantic imagination, I hope to show a particularly magnificent ancient China in this movie." I want to tell a very innocent story about love and protection, about how to get home. ”

Very ideal idea, Gu Cancan believes that after listening to Liang Xuan's description, there will definitely be many investors who are very interested in the worldview of their animation, but no one believes that they can make it, and no one believes that there will be a market after making it.