Chapter 307: Don't forget your original intention
"Plan D" is an interesting anime.
The reason why it is interesting but not good or bad is because it is difficult for Ryazan to give a clear evaluation of it.
In terms of production level, it should be the best animated series in the world at the moment.
Real cars, smooth shots, and some mythical but adrenaline-pumping racing sequences all highlight the quality of "Plan D".
However, as far as the story is concerned, although it has once again set off a trend of modification in Yueguo, and without any marketing, there are even rice pictures companies who have heard the news and contacted to buy the copyright, but the stories told in "Plan D" are really far away from the lives of Chinese people now.
Today's China, under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, the economy has just taken off, and the people's living standards are improving day by day, but it has not yet reached the point where every household has a car. Not to mention the many social phenomena that appear in it, which are unimaginable to most Chinese people now.
If you want to talk about those stories, Chinese people must not understand them? Not really.
Not to mention others, thanks to Ryazan's family background, he can at least see it clearly.
Some people may ask, Ryazan can't speak Mandarin, how can he understand it? What's this...... He has a relative named Sun Liang who taught himself Mandarin. As long as he comes to Boss Zhao to watch "Plan D", he will bring Sun Liang with him. A meat translator is enough......
To get back to the point, although Ryazan can understand the story of "Plan D", he can't comment on whether "Plan D" is a good animation or not.
The most fundamental reason for this is because he understands one thing - people like Sun Liang and himself are actually only a small number of people.
If "Plan D" is broadcast on TV, no matter what kind of evaluation Song Mu and even the elite group give at the summit, the vast majority of Chinese people will probably not buy "Plan D".
Not being able to comment on good or bad doesn't mean that Ryazan doesn't like it, as I just said, after watching six episodes from Boss Zhao, Ryazan thinks "Plan D" is very interesting.
Not only him, but because there are many core members of the Elite Animation Support Association whose family backgrounds are not worse than him, they also understand "Plan D" and also think it is very good-looking.
However, what makes them depressed is that Boss Zhao only has six episodes here.
According to Boss Zhao, he just wanted to know what the animation products made by the computer looked like, so he asked a friend to record these. He doesn't know Mandarin himself, so he doesn't have the idea of doing those later episodes anymore.
can only watch the first six episodes repeatedly, which makes Ryazan and those core members have an unbearable feeling of itching.
If it's just that, it doesn't matter, but the "translator" Zhang Liang always shows that he has watched all the first seasons of "Plan D" when they are stunned after watching six episodes, and hypes up how good it will be in the future.
This made Ryazan and the others eager to strangle Sun Liang, but they were helpless to take him. After all, if Sun Liang is strangled to death, there will be no one to translate and dub "Plan D" for them......
Until a few days ago, when Liu Xiaoping contacted Ryazan and explained that he was going to hold a special event for Miranda Taylor, a bold idea suddenly popped up in Ryazan's heart.
He first figured out the process of the event with Liu Xiaoping, and after completely winning Liu Xiaoping's trust, he said that many members of the club wanted to see Song Mu, and it was best to receive foreign guests. The leader and the director proposed that Song Mu also attend the event.
Liu Xiaoping was very talkative, and the first time he made this request, he directly agreed for Song Mu.
With these prerequisites, Ryazan contacted those members who liked to watch "Plan D" and reached an agreement with them that he would take the lead in petitioning Song Mu on the day of the event to let her release the full content of "Plan D" in China.
In order to achieve this goal, in just a few days, they simulated the situation on the day of the event countless times, asked all kinds of questions that Song Mu might say when he arrived, and came up with corresponding countermeasures.
Then, it came to today's actual battle.
The first half can be said to be quite perfect, until Sun Liang, who killed a thousand knives, had to answer a question from Song Mu in person on the grounds of "this answer was made by me, I have to say it myself", and was discovered by Song Mu alertly......
Under Song Mu's gaze, a cold sweat couldn't help but break out on Ryazan's forehead.
Song Mu was no longer in a hurry to explain to everyone, but with a playful smile on his face, he looked at Ryazan so straightly: "Xiao Liang, tell me, what's going on?" ”
Ryazan didn't answer immediately, he thought quickly in his head, not sure whether he should continue to act, or simply tell the truth.
Since Song Mu was still holding the microphone in her hand, although she didn't put it in front of her mouth, her words were still picked up and the volume was expanded.
After hearing this, Sun Liang plucked up his courage and said, "Teacher Song, it's not that wrong, they just want to watch "Plan D"!" ”
Song Mu sighed lightly after hearing Sun Liang's words, she reached out and patted Ryazan lightly, and the moment he touched Ryazan, he unconsciously shuddered.
This made Song Mu feel a little crying and laughing: "What are you afraid of me?" What, can I eat you or what? ”
"No, it won't." Ryazan replied in a whisper: "I just don't think it's good for us to do this." "The Eighth Library
"What's so bad?" Instead of reproaching Ryazan and them, Song Mu raised the microphone again and thought for a moment before slowly opening his mouth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I can feel the support of our elite group and know that everyone is a genuine fan of the elite group's work.
""Plan D" is a good work, but its content is actually not suitable for hype in our country. On that note, the same goes for the Fast & Fury mentioned today. This is one of the most fundamental reasons why these two are obviously animated series, but they will not be shown on any TV station in China.
"Another reason is that these two animated series are custom products from other countries. We don't have, and don't need to, dub them in Chinese. To put it bluntly, the essence of the elite group is to make money, since it is not broadcast in China, why should we spend more money to make a Chinese dubbed version of it?
"I know, you may say, you can raise money, let's do a Chinese dubbing. Then I'm going to ask again, what about the time spent doing dubbing?
"Anyone who knows the elite group knows that Haishi Fine Arts Film Studio, the name sounds quite big, but in fact, the business situation in recent years has not been very good, whether it is the studio itself or our elite group, there is a shortage of manpower now.
"In the presence of Vice President Taylor, I shouldn't say what I'm going to say, but I want to tell you that if it weren't for the lack of staff, we probably wouldn't have made Fast and Fury at all. It's also because of the lack of manpower, so we'd rather take less money and push the dubbing work to Miss Taylor, and they will do it themselves when they return to the United States.
"To sum up, I'm sorry about the dubbing of these two animated series."
After speaking, Song Mu bowed to everyone in the audience. After that, she was ready to hand over the microphone to Ryazan so that the event could get back on track.
After Song Mu's explanation, many people in the audience showed disappointed looks on their faces. But they can still understand Song Mu's choice.
Looking at the looks on these people's faces, Song Mu's heart was somewhat uncomfortable.
Why did you choose to do animation in your last life?
Why did you choose to stay in the studio in your life?
To make money?
Not!
Thinking of this, the microphone handed out by Song Mu stopped.
She raised the microphone to her mouth again and slowly asked the people present: "Finally, let me ask another question, do you have any resistance to foreign dubbed films?" Or to put it another way, is there any resistance to reading subtitles? ”
In recent years, foreign films imported from China are generally known as dubbed films, and there are special dubbed film studios responsible for the dubbing of these imported foreign films. There are many Chinese people who have never seen that kind of "soundtrack" film with subtitles.
Many of the core members gathered here at this moment have video recorders at home, and even if they don't have video recorders, they don't go to the video hall to watch movies.
Therefore, they are no strangers to "original soundtrack" films smuggled in from outside with traditional Chinese subtitles.
When Song Mu raised this question, everyone shook their heads.
Song Mu nodded slowly, and then said in a deep voice: "In that case, I have another way." ”
Hearing this, many people had already thought of the method that Song Mu was about to say, and their faces couldn't hide their joy.
After Song Mu rudely saw the reactions of these people, he strengthened his determination even more: "As I said just now, dubbing is impossible to dub...... But! We can subtitle "Plan D" and the follow-up "Fast and Fury", what do you think? ”
As soon as the words fell, those who had guessed Song Mu's thoughts at the beginning took the lead in cheering.
Song Mu pressed down his hands in vain, trying to make them stop cheering. Unexpectedly, the cheers became louder and louder, so she had to hold the microphone and shout "Silence!" ”。
When it was quiet again, Song Mu continued to announce: "Although you can add subtitles to them, as I said before, there are some ideas in these two animations, and the problem of not conforming to our current values in China still exists." So, they still can't be broadcast on TV. ”
"It's okay! Just see it! Long live Teacher Song! "Among the people in the audience, I don't know who took the lead in making such a statement.
"That's right! Long live Teacher Song! ”
"Long live Teacher Song!"
Seeing that he was about to cheer again, Song Mu hurriedly continued loudly: "Not only can't it be broadcast on the TV station, but in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, we can't release the videotape!" ”
"This ......"
The people below couldn't help but look at each other, even if it can't be broadcast on TV, if we don't even sell the videotape, what channels can we watch it?
In this way, even if "Plan D" and "Fast and Fury" are subtitled in Chinese, what is the point?