Chapter 43 Revision of the Film Source
There are no loopholes in this drama as a whole, only some minor flaws.
For example, the protagonist says his name wrong in the first sentence at the beginning. When Wanwan introduced comics, there was a translation problem, so until now, there are still people who call the little master Liu Angxing, and it should be called Liu Maoxing.
However, there is only the first episode of the whole show where he calls his real name, because this drama was originally named by the Unified Group, so all the characters in it are replaced by their family's product names.
For example, the source of "Little Master" is Xiao Dangjia crispy noodles, "Jidi Master" is Jidi dumplings, "Dudu" is Manchurian Dudu good sausage, and "Ah Q" is Ah Q bucket noodles......
Xiong Xiao checked on the Internet, there is no unified group in this world, only Kang Shuaifu and Master Tang. So he didn't worry about infringement, and just in case, he spent 600 yuan to register the trademark "Little Master".
This drama and Slam Dunk are two completely different themes, but the production method is similar, they all follow the standard process of Osamu Tezuka, and the shadow of cutting corners can be seen in many places.
Speaking of Tezuka, many people's first reaction is the president of the Youth Tennis Club.
But Osamu Tezuka is not the president, he is a god-like existence in the neon anime world, and even in the world anime industry.
In the early days, due to the lag of industry and the problems of talent and capital, neon animation could only survive by imitating the American imperialists, or directly importing the animated films of the American imperialists. At that time, Disney made an animated movie for tens of millions of yen.
With the development of science and technology, especially when television began to become popular, animated films have been hit like never before, and the traditional film model has been unable to keep up with the changes of the times, and the animation industry is in jeopardy.
It was at this time that Osamu Tezuka stepped forward, he was entrusted with the defeat of the army, he was ordered to be in danger, he was only 19 years old at the time, and he was still a student at the Osaka Medical School, but it was in that year that he published a manga called "Shin Treasure Island", which is still widely recognized as the starting point of neon modern manga.
In this comic, he was the first in the world to try to use cinematic lens compositions such as zoom, wide angle, and top-down view, as well as cinematic techniques such as montage, to express the comic image. And this kind of storyboard comic is still the expression of mainstream comics such as comic strip comics and four-panel comics to this day.
But that's just the beginning.
Osamu Tezuka did not sit idle after single-handedly creating the overall framework of neon manga, but immediately plunged into the animation industry. The pattern of "manga before animation" was proposed at the same time period.
Before he entered the animation industry, Neon's animation profit model was mostly in theater screenings. In the late fifties, in order to watch the wedding of Crown Prince Akihito and the commoner queen and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, every neon country installed television, which led to the fact that movie theater animation basically did not make money.
According to the industrial level of Neon Country at that time, the budget for making a 90-minute feature film animation was about 30 million yen, and it took 100 people and six months to complete. Such a high cost and lengthy production cycle are simply not realistic for TV animation. Osamu Tezuka, on the other hand, adopted a unique "cutting corners" method, and forced the production cost to only 50-600,000 yen per episode.
From a certain point of view, it was precisely because of the tight budget and construction period at that time that Osamu Tezuka was forced to come up with a series of methods to reduce costs, and the key is that these methods are still effective.
For example, the extremely money-burning original painting, at that time, the production standard of the American Emperor was one shot and one (24 original pictures in 1 second), and it shrank into one shot and two in the hands of other neon production companies, (12 original paintings in 1 second), and then it became one shot three (8 original pictures in 1 second) in his hands, and then reused the transformation and merging shots to fill the time, as well as the stretching of medium and close-up shots to deal with the plot.
Techniques such as the use of still images (the picture does not move, the character looks at something, and then gives a close-up of the face) and lip-syncing (making the rest of the body still and just moving the mouth) and other tricks have been used to this day as the framework of the neon anime industry.
These shadows can be found more or less in "The Little Master of China", and even a little rough in some places, but Xiong Xiao is not ready to use it to make a copy or make a full special effect, this drama is to see the sense of age to have a taste, after all, the story background is from the Qing Dynasty.
What he wants to change is the setting of the hero and heroine.
In the comics, Xiao Dangjia and Dudu made it clear that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, but in the TV version, this relationship is closer to ambiguous, and the only time the true love confession is the original TV version, when the two were trapped in the cave by Yizhang Qingxiangen.
In the later plot, the relationship between the two is much more complicated, not only did the dark cooking world send Zhu Qi as a third party, but even Dudu's first kiss was actually taken away by him.
If this plot had been broadcast on TV back then, how could it have been embarrassing for the little masters and innocent boys and girls?
This is a serious food, positive energy, no pretense, no harem, an excellent protagonist who slaps his face with strength and creativity, and he is a fellow countryman with Xiong Xiao.
Even Shiro, the most dishman in the whole play, finally left the group, how can he make the little master NTR? So this paragraph must be changed.
In addition to the highly toxic part to be changed, another thing that is urgent at the moment is the heroine's painting style.
In OP and ED, Dudu is a stunning character with long hair fluttering and fairy spirit, but in the main drama, it was said in the past, but in the later stage, the painting style collapsed due to various reasons, with a bun face, bucket waist, and even clothes dressed like a man's wife, and the production team was stunned to draw a 14-year-old beautiful girl as an aunt, and the screen was full of sister-brother love.
Therefore, Dudu's character must be changed, otherwise what's the matter, the audience will say that Lan Feihong is the heroine?