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Chapter 507 "The Return of the Great Sage"

Although it is just some conceptual design drawings of the image of the monkey, it can be said that it is really hard work.

Domestic animated films, it can be said that the super IP of "Journey to the West" alone has unlimited excavability, which can be called a huge treasure.

It's just a pity that the development is limited, especially in the era of computer animation. The domestic animation industry has begun to break down, leading to it being gradually replaced by Hollywood's more modern and fashionable superheroes. Domestic children are the first heroes they come into contact with. The character is no longer the rebellious monkey, but has become Iron Man, Spider-Man and so on.

Suddenly, a concept map appeared in front of Li Yi's eyes, which made him look in surprise.

It was a conceptual drawing of a back view, in which the Monkey King, Monkey King, the Monkey King, was sitting alone on a cliff, exuding a sense of desolation 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 can be called an animated movie that is a booster for Guoman!
In another world, it is the appearance of the 3D Chinese manga animation film "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Returns", which makes domestic animation fans shout, the return of Chinese manga.

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 mature, and I was not deeply involved in the world.The superhero in my heart may have changed a long time ago, or it may have ceased to exist, but whenever the name "Monkey King" is mentioned, there will still be ripples in my heart, saying that the great sage is too stupid, why bother to protect Tang Seng to go west, Wouldn't it be beautiful to go back to the Huaguo Mountain, Water Curtain Cave, and wander freely?

On the one hand, he was indignant at the "Three Beatings of the Bones", and worried about "a group of demons deceiving their nature, and all worshiping the truth".

To put it bluntly, I also feel sorry for the Great Sage. The past 500 years have been too lonely, and Xuanzang's "faintness" is really resentful; he was only rebellious, but he was severely punished. Although he had good intentions, he was misunderstood by the world.We feel sorry for the Great Sage, and we also feel sorry for ourselves. To say that the Great Sage is stupid is just to say that we are stupid after feeling sorry for him.I thought the Great Sage would be eternal, but unexpectedly, in this world, it takes too much courage.

For a while, Li Yi couldn't help feeling a little crazy.

I believe that for Chinese people, Sun Wukong and Monkey King are familiar to everyone.

But I don't know when it started, but I have already forgotten that the unruly figure has become blurred.

But when he thinks about it, he will never forget that arrogant Monkey King who can't even make him bow his head!

How mighty he was when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but after 500 years, the Great Sage didn't want to take care of it, and he didn't dare to take care of it.

In fact, why 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 now?The old man fell down and did not dare to help him, and he had to swallow his anger in the face of relying on the old to sell the old. Although the great sage is eternal in his heart, he has long gone
"Li Dong?"

"Li Dong?"

Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi with tears in the corners of his eyes in astonishment, with a dazed expression on his face.

Because, he didn't understand, why did Li Yi cry looking at such a concept map?
He looked carefully, but still didn't see any difference.

"call"

"Let's just make a movie about that unruly monkey. It's time for that Monkey King who used to be our childhood to come back again!" Li Yi said with a sudden smile.

"This and that script." Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi hopefully.

After all, Li Yi is an expert in this thing!

"I'll give you the script later, it's called "The Return of the Great Sage"!"

"As long as there is a script, everyone can't wait to make the next animated film!" Zhang Haiyang said quite excitedly.

Zhang Haiyang does have reason to be excited, because since the success of "Robot Wall-E", the entire Starman has become enthusiastic. People who have participated in the "Robot Wall-E" project hope to continue to create brilliance and continue to create a world that belongs to China. History of Chinese animation.

And those newcomers are also eager to contribute to the rise of Guoman.

Leave your mark and trace in the new animated film.

Li Yi nodded. In fact, with the previous production experience of "Wall-E", Li Yi didn't 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 flaws, perhaps because of space constraints, too fast pace, and insufficiently clear priorities, which makes people feel that when eating this dish, there is no time to taste it too carefully; especially the ending of "The Great Sage" The emotional outburst towards Jiang Liu'er was too abrupt.

Li Yi thought of two solutions. One is to increase the length of the book and describe and portray the emotional changes and growth of the two of them more; The role played in the outbreak is reduced!

For the first one, Li Yi thought about it, and finally gave up, but for the second one, he had to think carefully.

After returning, Li Yi began to "write" the script of "The Return of the Great Sage". This time, he will not draw almost all the key characters like the last "Wall-E" by hand. come out.

Because that time "Robot Wall-E" can be said to be an original theme, Starman at that time, including Zhang Haiyang and others, had just experienced the failure of the first major animation film, and lacked full confidence.

But this time is different. "The Return of the Great Sage" is an independent story derived from "Journey to the West".

So the Great Sage inside must be designed 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 image design drawings, but hopes to let the people of Xingman do it by themselves.

As for the plot, Li Yi made some adjustments.

Jiang Liuer, he is very important. According to the original plot, the outbreak of the great sage is all because of Jiang Liuer's death, but in Li Yi's view, Jiang Liuer is more like the former The Great Sage, or the other monkeys in the former Huaguo Mountain, the Great Sage undoubtedly had feelings for Jiang Liuer, but he didn't go that deep.

So what if Jiang Liuer's death is treated as a fuse, the last straw that breaks the camel's back?

For example, after the great sage returned, he was angry when he learned that the monkey monkey grandson had died most of the time.

So perhaps more flashbacks are used to show that the Great Sage hates his own incompetence, his inability to protect the weak and his friends, his annoyance, remorse and unwillingness to his once cowardly and evasive, as well as his remembrance and longing for his past dominance. Coupled with the feelings for Jiang Liu'er, it was handled as a more complicated emotional dynamic, so the final outburst seemed much more logical.

It took Li Yi more than a week to complete the script creation of "The Return of the Great Sage".

He checked it carefully by himself, and then compared it with the original version in his memory. There were some differences, but the story of the original version was still used as a whole, but with some fine-tuning.

Li Yi also thought about a question: Why do so many people like Monkey King?
Like that rebellious monkey?

Just because, the story of that monkey can be said to be everyone's growth history.

Most of us are not like the great saints. The willful and carefree childhood has long disappeared with the passage of time. We also carry a heavy Wuzhishan along the way. Sometimes we feel that the world is incompatible with us, even ourselves The people we agree with the most leave us, and sometimes we want to hold a golden cudgel and point to the sky, and turn this fucking world over!
Therefore, Sun Wukong, 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, let us in childhood be regarded as heroes.

When we were young, we didn’t understand why the indomitable Monkey King, the Monkey King who could ascend to heaven and earth and was almost omnipotent, became a person we didn’t know after being crushed under Wuzhi Mountain for 500 years. Monkey King?
He became no longer so omnipotent, no longer so rebellious, and we didn't understand when we were young, why earlier, he fought against millions of heavenly soldiers and generals in the heaven alone, and fought against all gods in the heaven alone , are not weak at all, but why, later on, he couldn't even beat 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 used to have naive ideas about what to do when we grow up and what kind of person we want to be.

To be an indomitable man, but as we grow older, we will find that we are actually like the monkey under the Five Fingers Mountain. We start to compromise and compromise for many things.

We can no longer do what we want, and reality hangs over our heads like a curse.

As a result, our once grandiose words began to be gradually buried and dusted.

Another point, why everyone likes to call it Monkey King Equaling Heaven, but why is it not called Fighting Victory Buddha?

Almost all gods and monsters who know Sun Wukong are willing to call him Monkey King, and few call him another name, Fighting Victory Buddha.

Whether it is a god or a monster, for them, Monkey King is more humane than fighting and defeating Buddha.

Thinking about it carefully, Sun Wukong himself prefers the title Monkey King, he is only happy when he is Monkey King.At that time, he was free to go in and out of the heavens and the human world, and he was not bound by a magic spell at all. Although he has entered Buddhism now, he has to abide by many regulations, and his life has no vitality.After many years of studying Buddhist scriptures, I thought that what I got in exchange was freedom, but I didn't expect that Tathagata would not let him go in the end.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.

And for all of us, Monkey King represents who we used to be, and fighting against Buddha is an image of us living in the image we hate the most!
Li Yi turned on the computer and found many works about "Journey to the West" many years ago, including cartoons and live-action TV series.

began to look.

Thoughts can't help but seem to return to the past.

Many dusty memories began to be slowly unsealed with those pictures full of age and feelings!
(End of this chapter)