Although it is just some conceptual design drawings of the monkey, it can be said that it is really thoughtful.
Domestic animated movies, it can be said that the super IP "Journey to the West" alone has unlimited excavability and can be called a huge treasure.
It’s a pity that development is limited. Especially in the era of computer animation, the domestic animation industry has begun to show faults, leading to it being gradually replaced by more modern and fashionable superheroes from Hollywood. This is the first hero that domestic children come into contact with. The character is no longer the unruly monkey, but has become Iron Man, Spider-Man and so on.
Suddenly, a concept map appeared in front of Li Yi's eyes, making him look at it in surprise.
It was a conceptual picture from the back. In the picture, the Monkey King, the Monkey King, was sitting alone on the cliff, showing a sense of sadness and desolation.
In Li Yi's mind, a picture that almost overlapped with this scene appeared involuntarily.
That's a scene from "The Return of the Great Sage"!
The Great Sage is back!
In my memory, it is an animated film that can be called a booster for Chinese comics!
In another world, it was the emergence of the 3D Chinese animated film "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" that caused domestic animation fans to shout that Chinese comics are back.
The return of the Great Sage is the return of an era!
It is also a return of spirit and charm.
Once upon a time, at that time, I was young and growing up, and I was not deeply involved in the world. The superhero in my heart may have changed its appearance a long time ago, or may have ceased to exist, but whenever I mention the name "Sun Wukong", there will still be ripples in my heart, saying that the great sage is too stupid, why bother to protect Monk Tang from going west? Wouldn't it be beautiful to go back to the Water Curtain Cave in the Flower and Fruit Mountain and take a leisurely tour?
On the one hand, he was indignant about the "three attacks of white-bone demons" and worried about "a group of demons deceiving one's true nature and worshiping the true nature together."
To put it bluntly, I feel sorry for the great sage. He has been too lonely for these five hundred years, and Xuanzang's "faint" is really resentful. He was clearly just resisting, but he was heavily blamed. Although he had good intentions, he was misunderstood by the world. When we feel sorry for the Great Sage, we also feel sorry for ourselves. To say that the Great Sage is stupid is just to say that we are stupid against our will after feeling sorry for him. I thought that the Great Sage would be eternal, but unexpectedly, it takes too much courage to live in this world.
For a moment, Li Yi couldn't help but feel a little crazy.
I believe that for Chinese people, these two names, Sun Wukong and Monkey King, are familiar to everyone.
But I don't know when it started, but I have forgotten it, and that unruly figure has become blurry.
But thinking about it, I will never forget that unruly Monkey King who even the sky could not make him bow down!
He was so arrogant when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but after five hundred years of pressure, the Great Sage didn't want to care about it, and he didn't dare to care about it anymore. He was even more powerless. The former superhero was lonely and helpless.
In fact, is it not like us today? Once upon a time, we were proud of respecting the old and loving the young, and helping the elderly to cross the road, but what about now? The old man did not dare to help him when he fell, and he had to swallow his anger when faced with relying on his old age. Although the great sage is eternal in his heart, he has long gone...
"Director Li?"
"Director Li?"
Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi with tears in his eyes in surprise, with a confused look on his face.
Because he didn't understand why Li Yi shed tears looking at such a concept map?
He looked carefully, but still didn't see anything different.
"call......"
"Let's make a movie about that unruly monkey. It's also time to bring back the Monkey King who used to be the Monkey King when we were children!" Li Yi said with a sudden smile.
"This...that script..." Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi hopefully.
After all, Li Yi is the expert at this!
"I will give you the script later. It's called "The Return of the Great Sage"!"
"As long as there is a script, in fact, everyone can't wait to make the next animated movie!" Zhang Haiyang also said excitedly.
Zhang Haiyang does have reason to be excited, because since the success of "WALL-E", the entire Star Comic community has become enthusiastic. People who have participated in the "WALL-E" project hope to continue to create brilliance and create something that belongs to China. The history of Chinese animation.
And those new members are also eager to contribute to the rise of national comics.
Leave your own mark and traces in the new animated film.
Li Yi nodded. In fact, with the previous production experience of "Wall-E", Li Yi did not need to worry about whether Xingman could do a good job.
However, the original version of "The Return of the Great Sage" is not without its flaws. Perhaps due to space limitations, the pace is too fast and the priorities are not clear enough. It makes people feel that they are gobbling up the dish without having time to taste it carefully; especially the ending of The Great Sage The emotional outburst towards Jiang Liu'er was too sudden.
Li Yi thought of two solutions. One is to increase the length and describe more of the emotional changes and growth of the two; the other is to keep Jiang Liuer's story in the final chapter of the Great Sage under the current time limit. The role played in the outbreak is reduced!
Li Yi thought about the first one and finally gave up, but the second one needed to be considered carefully.
After returning, Li Yi began to "write" the script of "The Return of the Great Sage". This time, he would not draw almost all the key characters step by step like he did in the last "Wall-E". come out.
Because at that time "Wall-E" could be said to be an original theme, Star Comics at the time, including Zhang Haiyang and others, had just experienced the failure of their first major animated film and lacked full confidence.
But this time is different. "The Return of the Great Sage" is an independent story derived and adapted from "Journey to the West".
So does the design of the Great Sage inside have to be the same as the original version in his memory?
Li Yi shook his head, it doesn't need to be exactly the same.
Therefore, Li Yi will not give any more image designs, but hopes to let the people of Xingman make it themselves.
As for the plot, Li Yi made some adjustments.
Jiang Liu'er, he is very important. According to the original plot, the outbreak of the Great Sage seems to be due to Jiang Liu'er's death, but in Li Yi's view, Jiang Liu'er looks more like the former The Great Sage, or in other words, the other monkeys in the Huaguo Mountain, the Great Sage undoubtedly had feelings for Jiang Liu'er, but it was not deep enough.
So what if Jiang Liuer's death is treated as a trigger, the straw that breaks the camel's back?
Just like the anger that the original Great Sage felt when he learned that most of Monkey Housun was dead after he returned.
So perhaps more flashback scenes are used to show that the Great Sage hates his own incompetence and cannot protect the weak and his friends, his chagrin for his cowardice and evasion, his regret and unwillingness, as well as his memory and desire for his past glory, and finally In addition, the feelings for Jiang Liu'er were processed into a more complex emotional dynamic, and the final explosion seemed much more logical.
Li Yi spent more than a week completing the script creation of "The Return of the Great Sage".
He checked it carefully himself and compared it with the original version in his memory. There were some differences, but on the whole, the story of the original version was still used, with some minor adjustments.
Li Yi also thought about a question: Why do so many people like the Monkey King?
Like that unruly monkey?
Just because the story of that monkey can be said to be the growth history of everyone.
Most of us are not like great sages. The willful and carefree childhood has long disappeared with the passage of time. We also carry the heavy Wuzhishan along the way. Sometimes we feel that the world is incompatible with us, even ourselves. The people we identify with the most are leaving us. Sometimes we want to point our golden cudgel at the sky and bring down this fucked up world!
Therefore, Monkey King, the Monkey King, is different from other mythical characters. There are so many characters in "Journey to the West", but why is he the most unforgettable? Only him, we as children, regarded him as a hero.
When we were young, we didn’t understand why the all-powerful Monkey King, the Monkey King, who could ascend to heaven and earth, and was almost omnipotent, had become something we didn’t know after being pinned under the Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years. The Monkey King you know?
He has become less omnipotent and unruly. When we were children, we didn’t understand why earlier, he alone fought against millions of heavenly soldiers and generals in heaven, and fought against all the gods in heaven alone. , were not inferior at all, but why, later on, he couldn't even defeat a little demon?
But when we grow up, we will gradually understand the helplessness of the great sage.
Just like us, when we were young, we had innocent ideas of one kind or another, about what we should do and who we should be when we grow up.
We need to be upright men, but as we grow older, we will find that we are actually like the monkey trapped under the Wuzhi Mountain. We start to compromise for many things.
We can no longer do whatever we want, reality is like a tight spell hanging over our heads.
As a result, our once heroic words began to be gradually buried and dusted.
Another point is, why does everyone like to call Sun Wukong the Monkey King, but why can’t they call him the Victorious Buddha?
Almost all the gods and monsters who know Sun Wukong are willing to call him the Monkey King. Few people call Sun Wukong another name: Fighting Buddha.
Whether he is a god or a monster, for them, the Monkey King is more humane than the victorious Buddha.
If you think about it carefully, Sun Wukong himself prefers the title of Monkey King. He is happy only when he is Monkey King. At that time, he could move in and out of heaven and earth freely without any restrictions at all. Although he has entered Buddhism now, he has to abide by many regulations and his life is lifeless. After years of studying for Buddhist scriptures, he thought he would be free in return, but in the end, Tathagata would not let him go. He became a Buddha, and the Buddha was like a bigger curse, following Sun Wukong all the time, and he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to.
For all of us, the Monkey King represents who we once were, and the Victorious Buddha is the image of us living into the image we hate most!
Li Yi turned on his computer and found many works about "Journey to the West" from many years ago, including cartoons and live-action TV series.
Started to watch.
My thoughts can't help but seem to go back to the past.
Many dusty memories began to slowly unblock with those pictures full of age and emotion!
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