Raising Dragons in Hollywood

This cartoon is full of the creator's strong bad taste.

After the little skull was wiped out and the screen gradually turned black, the matter wasn't over yet.

Like the opening title, a new line of dark red blood-like font appeared again:

[Since then, the good boy Mosley and his family have lived a happy life together. ]

Huh, happy life?

Are you fucking kidding us?

But familiar?

So familiar!

Isn't this a standard sentence?

Almost all fairy tales will end with such a sentence: [From then on, XX and XX lived a happy life together. ]

But this cartoon also says the same... Isn't it too ironic?

Can you still be happy if you come up with such a thing?

Everyone turned their complicated gazes to Sami, the creator of the animation, who was still wandering.

However, this petite guy with a small round face and dreamy pink hair, after noticing the eyes of everyone looking over, he seemed to have no idea what he had done to hate, and returned to them. A docile and harmless shy expression like a Dutch lop rabbit.

Everyone: ... just pretend!

"Well, what were you telling me yesterday, Norris?"

In the silence, it was Helena, the beauty from the International Affairs Department, who spoke first.

She recalled that Norris was definitely a "loose mouth" recommendation yesterday: "You said, what I want to watch today is a humorous and interesting cartoon that describes how family members care for each other and is full of warmth and affection?"

Norris, from Film and Television Entertainment, didn't want to talk.

Still the same sentence, when people want to attract investment, they can say any nonsense.He was also a victim himself, and when he casually chatted about cartoons, he didn't think about it at all. He just recounted the content of the report submitted by Rossi at that time, and now...

It's so warm to go!

He glared at this group of brats who were so daring that they even fooled him, his eye circles were still a little red.

It can be seen that some people seem to be tough guys on the surface, but they are actually vulnerable inside.

Wesley from Production took a deep breath, fat as a harmless hippopotamus.

He also sighed, but he took the initiative to ease the atmosphere and jokingly asked: "How about giving me that little skull? I'll trade it for you with Donald Duck."

However, completely different from the sentimental attitudes of the above-mentioned people, Ed from the marketing department was as realistic as ever.

He didn't care about Wesley's behavior of trying to ease the atmosphere, he was directly unceremonious, but he did give an unacceptable conclusion based on the facts: "I can't think of any way to deal with it."

Great truth!

This animation is kind of indescribable.

But all in all, not suitable for children to watch!

The overall atmosphere of the film is gloomy and depressing, not to mention, even the plot is a bit too adult.

At first glance, at any rate, it can be a little moving.

But the plot, in fact, there is no way to think about it carefully.

For example, the last shot of the film is simply frightening to death!

They always appeared as black shadows, and the adults who hadn't officially appeared finally all appeared on the screen.Under the bright sunshine, they warmly hugged Mosley, the "good boy who has returned to the right path", then turned their heads in unison, stared at the camera, and smiled.

At that time, everyone in the screening room probably didn't realize what was going on, so they almost gasped.

With the low and depressing background music, no matter how bright the light in the picture is at this moment, it is difficult to hide the weirdness of the whole scene.

These dolls, except for the small details such as size, clothing, hairstyle, some with beards, some without beards, some with hats and some without hats, are actually exactly the same.

The same clay dolls, showing the same, seemingly happy but stiff smiles, raised their heads in the same poses as if they were a family carnival, looking at the camera together, and behind them were the white ashes of the little skull blown by the wind powder?

Fuck, isn't this really a ghost movie?

What's even worse is that...

Until this moment, some perceptive people noticed that the puppet Mosley, who was supposed to have a triangular head, had unknowingly turned into a round face exactly like the adults.

Don't think about it, it's definitely not getting fat from eating too much!

This is obviously assimilated!

And the process of assimilation is undoubtedly extremely slow, silent, unconscious, and changes little by little with the plot.

Changes are so subtle that people don't notice them at all.

If it weren't for the scene of "a group of identical dolls standing together and smiling identically at the camera" at the end was too uncomfortable, which led to the thinking of "what's going on", everyone would probably ignore this point.

I never thought that the exact same and neat scenes could be so scary!

So, what's going on in the head of that round-faced little man!This is how evil it is to come up with this kind of lens.

Accidentally make up my mind, it's frightening to think carefully.

The change of the puppet in the animation is so difficult to detect, so...

How about a real person?

The individuality and diversity disappeared so quietly, it is completely a practical demonstration of alternative domestication!

In this way, it seems that the dragon that never appeared is not just a child's fantasy.

As the imagery throughout the animation, what exactly does it represent?

Mosley and Little Skull went out to fight bravely in the middle of the night, killing the dragon to protect everyone. What kind of dragon did they kill?

What do you want to protect?

Why do adults have to force Mosley to admit that there are no dragons in the world?

What is this dragon?

The more I think about it, the more I collapse.

Watching a cartoon that takes less than 10 minutes makes your head explode, plus creepy?It's too poisonous!

But the more this is the case, the more it proves that the animation is well shot.

Although it is not good in the general sense, it is indeed unique and ingenious.

However, this is difficult!

According to the ideas of the high-level executives, watching the experimental short animations independently produced by employees usually has two results. One is that the animation is very good-looking, and then it will be re-produced at a higher cost to create a new boutique for the company; The animation sucks, so give these restless little guys a hard time and tell them to go back and follow the company's arrangement. What independently animates.

But now, there is a third result that no one expected.

The animation is very exciting, although some people may not like this weird style, although the picture looks very simple due to the funds, but no one can deny that if the full score is [-] points, this animation will definitely get [-] points, or even If you hit the right audience, you might get [-] points.

But herein lies the problem - the right audience.

In recent years, although Disney has been working hard to diversify its products, strive to cover more age groups, and make the market bigger and wider, but in fact, the company's focus, or foundation, has always been on children.

In order to make children like it, and let parents trust Disney, thinking that they will always bring children suitable products, and always create dreams and hopes for children, then it can't be easy to come up with some dark values.

Disney's animation should be positive, healthy, safe, full of virtues such as happiness, friendliness, honesty, simplicity, hard work, etc., instead of running to scare children to cry, and then telling them, "Be a good boy and don't believe it." There are dragons'.

Maybe one day in the future, the company will try to create something more adult, but for now...

The time has not come.

Animation is good.

But sadly, there is no market for it to be released.

Add more money and make it into a long animation for adults?

Still not realistic.Whether it can make money or not, the key is that the company's annual filming plan has been formulated in advance, and the financial department will definitely not agree to allocate funds for this kind of gambling investment where the outcome is uncertain.

It's a pity to give up.

But don't give up, and can't think of another way.

It's obviously just a short animation of less than 10 minutes, but it makes all the bosses of the company in a dilemma.

At this moment, the same question probably appeared in their hearts: "What should I do with it?"

Sami didn't get any good news until after get off work.

Instead, Rossi got a complaint call.

His girlfriend Ellie yelled at him angrily on the phone: "Rosie, can you tell Sammy to take care of his shameless Mikey who ate all the food I put in the fridge today All masks!"

"What! Is he still alive?"

"Uh, no, it's a homemade mask, milk cucumber apple tomato lemon honey plus egg white or something."

Sammy, who heard the whole conversation from the side: ...It sounds delicious.