Public opinion is changing all the time.

A few years ago, when the domestic animation industry was in a recession, and there was not even a leading manufacturer, everyone was complaining about how spicy the domestic animation was, and the dogs didn't watch it.

At that time, the manufacturers who dared to go to sea to earn foreigners' money were also crowned by everyone as "cultural export" and regarded as heroes.

But in the past two years, public opinion has quietly changed.

Gu Miao felt it the most.

Because he formulated the strategy of Wanbao going to sea, he asked Wanbao to go abroad and go to the world.

Therefore, in the past year, most of the new works that have been broadcast or not yet broadcast by Wanbao are mostly for overseas markets.

For example, "Pretty Girl of Light", "Dragon Ball", "Cat and Mouse", "The Lion King" and "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" and so on.

These animations are either foreign or domestic, but the protagonists are all foreigners, and the stories also take place abroad......

That's why some people are dripping.

What does Wanbao mean by this? Why is the new work all about foreigners as the protagonists? The stories told are all foreign stories?

Worship the foreign, right?

Isn't it okay to use Chinese people as the protagonists? Can't you tell the story of China honestly? This kind of "cultural export" is not recognized by everyone, and even feels very shameful.

"To put it bluntly......"

"When we do animation, we are essentially pleasing the audience, no matter what animation we do."

Gu Miao spread her hands and said speechlessly: "In the past, we only developed in China, and it was the domestic audience that we pleased. Now that we want to develop overseas, we must please overseas audiences, so ...... Some people can't accept it. ”

That's a very realistic statement.

Animation is the same as doing business, and the same principle is that the customer is God.

It's just that Wanbao has not expanded into overseas markets before, God only has domestic audiences, and everyone is used to this.

When Wanbao began to develop overseas, and his works were more based on foreign backgrounds and foreign protagonists, some fans couldn't accept it.

This kind of public opinion does not need to be cared about.

According to some people's thoughts, Wanbao should not go to sea, let alone expand overseas markets, stay in China honestly for the rest of his life, and please the domestic audience.

How is this possible?

Gu Miao is an ambitious person, if he is only willing to be a leading animation manufacturer in China and second to none in Asia, then he can retire now.

Obviously, he was not reconciled.

Therefore, Gu Miao will not change the plan because of the hustle and bustle of some fans, what to do or how to do it.

What happened to the foreigner protagonist?

What's wrong with foreign stories?

As long as the copyright still belongs to Wanbao, what difference does it make? Could it be that "Kung Fu Panda" tells a Chinese story, and this is a Chinese animation?

Works such as "Little Master of China" and "Kung Fu Panda" in the original world have long made Gu Miao recognize reality.

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It doesn't matter whose story you tell, what matters is that the story is told by you, and the final interpretation of the story is in your hands.

Therefore, even if you tell others the story of the old king next door stealing the widow, the old king next door is very unhappy when he hears it, he can only hold back and dare not attack, who let him not make up the story himself?

"The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" is okay.

Although it is essentially an American animation, it tells half of a Chinese story, and the lethality is not so great.

But "The Lion King" directed by Du Hao is different, this is not a leather work, but uses the production method of European and American animation to tell a story that is a household name in the West!

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The production team of the movie "The Lion King" stayed in Africa for nearly half a year, eating and sleeping with lions every day, with an average of "lion language level 10" per capita.

It's a pity that there is no unbroken banquet in the world!

Although these lions have been with everyone for a long time, they are a little reluctant to leave, but there is no way, lions are not cats and dogs, and it is impossible to take them home and raise them.

There were a total of three lions contacted by the production team, two males and one female, and they also named the three lions respectively, one of which was called "Simba"!

It is also said that the name is recognized by the local zoo.

With the release of the movie "The Lion King" and its global popularity in the future, it is not difficult to predict that the brightest star of the local zoo must be this lion named "Simba......

The return of the film production team does not mean that the production of the film is over.

In Du Hao's words, the real test has just begun! The most cumbersome steps such as special effects implantation, editing and synthesis, and dubbing and music in the middle and later stages of the movie are the most tedious steps.

Of course, from the beginning of entering this stage, the movie can already be booked.

According to the partner, August this year is a good schedule, although there is a masterpiece of a well-known science fiction film director released during the same period, but except for this science fiction blockbuster, the whole August is basically safe.

Moreover, fans who like to watch Laiwu sci-fi blockbusters do not overlap with the audience of the "Lion King" movie.

Therefore, these two films are released together, which seems to be fiercely competitive, but in fact they complement each other and do not constitute a direct conflict.

"Then let's set it for August!"

Gu Miao has no objection to this schedule, to be honest, although he thinks July is better, he can accept it in August, after all, it is also the summer vacation.

It's mid-June.

Counting the days, there are only a few days left before August, and Du Hao is under a lot of pressure, he needs to complete the mid-to-post-production of the movie "The Lion King" before August.

Before that, he also needs to select a few OK clips from the movie materials and cut them together to serve as movie trailer PV to contribute to the promotion of the movie.

The trailer doesn't need to be very long.

But the release of the first movie trailer still held back for a full week.

Considering the grade and goal of the movie "The Lion King", the publicity and distribution standard must be the kind that is based on the first-line blockbuster of Laiwu and facing the world.

So this trailer is not only launched in Europe and the United States, but also in China and neon and other places at the same time.

Gu Miao also watched the trailer.

I have to say that Du Hao's attainments in live-action movies are indeed very average, but his control of the lens language is really eye-catching.

This trailer, which uses a multi-scene mixed cut, mainly outlines the general plot and direction of the movie, and the opening scene is a scene where Simba is killed by his uncle Scar and is down.

Then the scene turns, and Simba, with the encouragement of his friends, decides to return to the country and counterattack his uncle Scar......

The trailer has not been revealed, and Simba has not succeeded in the end, which is both to avoid spoilers and to arouse the curiosity of the audience.

Want to know if Simba succeeds?

Want to know exactly how Simba won?

So what are you waiting for! After the movie "The Lion King" is released, you can't buy a ticket to the theater to take a look?

The true meaning of the trailer is to arouse the audience's strong curiosity about the film, and if it can do this, it will be a successful movie trailer.

From this point of view, the first trailer released by the movie "The Lion King" is very good!