Big Manga

"Big Success! Phoenix Company's film production subsidiary was established less than half a year ago, but it has become the most profitable department of Phoenix Company! ", "Amazing box office of animated films, will feature-length animated film adaptations become the norm in the future? ", "Why take an unusual path again! "

——Once the huge box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" was exposed, it caused an uproar in the society. It made the news circle crazy and the entertainment circle shocked, but the movie fans were proud and celebrated.

And in the tumbling waves caused by this box office, there is another special group that has also been greatly impacted.

In addition to the fact that the box office on the first day unexpectedly ranked second among all the films released this year, "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" secretly has a very important message that has not been noticed by most people for the time being-it is very likely Become the highest-grossing reasoning movie in Chinese history!

In fact, it can't even be said to be 'highly likely', it's about to happen. Unless there is a sudden "century" reversal today, there is no basis for "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" not to become the "best-grossing reasoning movie".

The first to see this was the Huaxia Reasoning Association, which was headquartered in Yanjing and quickly held an emergency meeting to discuss this matter. Most of the people present at the meeting were some well-known reasoning writers and scholars. They have all passed their young age, but today they are more excited than one at the conference table!

"Five hundred and thirty million. If I hadn't seen the newspaper with my own eyes, I would have been told that it was the box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century". !", "My world view is about to be subverted by that kid!", "Tell me, what was the highest-grossing reasoning movie in the past?"

Talk about reasoning movies. This has always been a trauma in the hearts of Chinese reasoning fans. Reasoning works are niche works in China, and the famous ones are generally novels. There is no audience market for reasoning movies, and it is difficult to find people who are willing to invest. Therefore, even if it is a novel, very few can be adapted into movies in the end.

Among those reasoning works that have been made into movies, if you want to find out the most successful representatives. It still has to be that familiar novel.

"The "Sherlock" movie in the 1990s..." A writer sighed: "Its first-day box office reached 90 million, which is the highest box office before. I still clearly remember when the movie was broadcast. Yanjing all My reasoning fans got together and held a celebration, and everyone felt that it would bring hope of reasoning movies."

At that time, the box office on the first day of 90 million, after price comparison, is equivalent to 120 million box office today. As a cold reasoning movie, this number is not bad. However, the facts have proved that the movie "Detective Sherlock" did not bring a trend, and the reasoning movies since then have been unable to rush.

But now the situation has changed again. The box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" was several times that of "Sherlock" on the first day. It was like a bee that suddenly popped out, bringing unprecedented excitement to the Reasoning Association!

"It seems that "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" surpassed "Sherlock" is an inescapable reality. We need to use it to speed up the reform of the association, and we can't continue to escape!" The meeting room was silent for a few seconds. Qin Xi, president of the Reasoning Association, said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

But his words immediately caused several people on the left side of the conference room to shout nervously: "Wait! Chairman, the box office has not exceeded yet, maybe there are still variables!", "Let's think about the reform carefully!"

But they didn't wait for their speeches to end. Someone in the seat on the right side of the conference room snorted coldly.

"What variable? That's gone. At that time, the total box office of "Sherlock" was more than 600 million, and the first-day box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" was close to its total box office. If there is no accident, today will be able to over it!"

"You don't need to deceive yourself!" Someone on the right echoed: "There can be no variables. It will be noon soon-I think the total box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" has exceeded 600 million.

"

The members on the left fell silent at once, which is quite correct. According to yesterday's box office rate, the total box office of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" has surpassed the total box office of "Sherlock" by 100%-you must know that the former has only been released for a day and a half.

The conclusion is fairly simple, regardless of whether the subsequent broadcast of "The Magician of the Turn of the Century" is unexpected or not, it will not change the fact that it is the highest-grossing mystery movie of all time, and even this movie may remain No. 1 for decades to come. one.

This thoroughly proves the reasoning association's thriving growth in recent years - the charm of youth-based reasoning!

"Sure enough, we are still too conservative, the old tradition should be removed!", "This is the power of the new generation, you should be sober when "Detective Conan" comes out!", "The reasoning that meets the requirements of the times can It is the real reasoning literature, our reform speed must be accelerated, the momentum of reasoning works has been very good in the past few years, but we need to further promote the reasoning of youth department!"

The members on the right side of the conference room spoke one after another. They are representatives of a new faction that has thrived in the Reasoning Association in recent years: "He Xi Pai Reasoning". The so-called He Xi faction is not actually an official faction, but because the members generally support He Xi's reasoning style, it is regarded as the "He Xi faction".

The birth of He Xipai stems from the popularity of "Detective Conan". After witnessing the huge wave brought about by this comic, some people who reflect on the traditional reasoning style have sprung up in the Chinese reasoning circle. These people have a strong will and tend to explore the potential of young reasoning writers and reasoning readers, and explore reasoning works that are more suitable for modern society and can be generally accepted by young people.

And in this process, they have found a way ahead, which is the so-called "youth-based reasoning"-that is, the style displayed in "Detective Conan". This kind of reasoning work abandons many elements of traditional reasoning works, especially the dark tones, and generally uses a brisk style to describe reasoning stories.

Today, this meeting has also become a battleground between the conservative "traditional faction" and the radical "He Xi faction".

"Such a thing is not a mystery story at all!" - Influenced by "The Magician of the Turn of the Century". The traditionalists fell into a disadvantage in the meeting, and when they were irritated, they would always repeat the same sentence: This is not reasoning.

However, this sentence will often become the trigger for the "He Xi Pai".

"What is not reasoning? Why do you always restrict the definition of reasoning works so rigidly? As long as there is a reasoning process, no matter how the style changes, it is a reasoning work!", "It is because you are always self-righteous, and you always look at tradition more than anything else. Only when everything is important, will we be out of the times, and there will be fewer and fewer reasoning enthusiasts!", "Only by keeping pace with the times, we will not perish!"

He Xi faction has been suppressed for too long. In fact, after the launch of "Detective Conan", there have been many reflective people in the Huaxia Reasoning Association. Many reasoning writers have also written more popular works, and the atmosphere of the entire industry has changed.

However, in the Reasoning Association, the changes at the top have always been the most conservative, and some older authors are particularly stubborn. This has repeatedly hindered the speed of change in the entire industry, and has not really undergone earth-shaking changes.

"The "Detective Conan" manga has been released for five years, five years!" A reasoning writer of the He Xi faction stood up and cursed: "We saw the need for reform five years ago, and we found one that can be accepted. style of reasoning—but now, now what have we done?"

"Any culture can only have a future if it masters the hearts of young people! We have made a lot of progress, but ask yourself!" The light of pity, even the trend he brought up has not been fully utilized!"

His scolding silenced the entire meeting room. President Qin Xi's thoughts are heavy, this writer is absolutely right. On the surface, the Chinese reasoning community has made great progress in the past few years, but in fact, it is just enjoying the glory of He Xi.

He Xi's "Detective Conan" has turned countless young people in China from "reasoning blind" to "reasoning enthusiasts". Even at a rate of one percent, there are tens of millions of readers who have become interested in reasoning because of comics over the years, so there are tens of millions of readers who search for other reasoning works.

Of course, these tens of millions of people are not real reasoning fans, they are just touched and want to find "potential reasoning fans" of the same type of reasoning works of "Detective Conan". More than 90% of the people gave up because they couldn't find it-although there are novels following the trend of "Detective Conan", the Reasoning Association did not promote the development of this style above.

Which means Detective Conan brought in a huge potential readership that the Mystery Society didn't take advantage of -- it wasted. They can't even digest the influence of "Detective Conan". How can it be said that there has been progress in the past few years?

The real progress is to make full use of the potential readers brought by "Detective Conan" and turn these readers into reasoning fans!

Qin Xi had the answer: "He Qiang was right just now. We can't keep procrastinating! We can't ignore the popularity of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century". The reasoning style of the youth department is the right way, and the reform of the association is imminent... In a few days, I plan to invite Teacher He Xi to give a speech at the association!"

Both the traditional faction and the He Xi faction were stunned. It is of course a good thing to invite He Xi to give a speech. He Xi's speech can greatly promote the internal reform of the association-even the most stubborn traditionalists will want to get in touch with this Sharp cartoonist.

However, everyone is not optimistic: "No, do you believe that he will agree to come over?", "I think this matter is difficult!", "After all, there was a time when we were not very friendly..."

The Reasoning Association has not confronted He Xi in the past few years, and even occasionally came out to say a few good words for him, but the relationship between the two parties was nothing more than that, and there was almost no interaction. Because some bad incidents happened when He Xi made his debut in the past, the Reasoning Association was very guilty and never dared to contact He Xi directly.

An embarrassing atmosphere filled the conference room. Many people recalled the events of the year, but in the midst of the embarrassment, a few people finally spoke up to support them—they thought that He Xi was not a narrow-minded person, and would not criticize the past. Things take root.

"His reputation has always been good.", "And it's different now, he certainly won't be as knowledgeable as us...", "You know, many people in society now regard him as a representative of the reasoning world and look down on him. Our association—his influence is higher than ours, so there's no reason to bully us, right?"

Listening to these speeches, Qin Xi felt bitter and sour in his heart. Back then, no one looked down on He Xi, but now when it comes to him, people around him all look up to him, and even if it is just an invitation, they still have to worry about He Xi's plan not to care about the past.

"If I had known today, how could we have..." Qin Xi regretted a bit, but he still tried his best to dispel his complicated emotions and said, "Well, the matter is decided like this, and I will send someone to invite me."

"Send who?"

"I already have a candidate."

Qin Xi narrowed his eyes and said, thinking of that person's identity, he felt that the invitation was not completely uncertain——Xi Wenlin, the manga assistant of "Detective Conan" and an ordinary member of the Reasoning Association, naturally he would be the best to invite Meng Huo selected.

And when the news of the invitation reached Meng Huo's ears, it was already that night—he just returned to Ninghai, and just got into the car where Alice came to pick him up. Xi Wenlin told Meng Huo about it by phone.

"Are you going?" Alice asked.

"Go." Meng Huo nodded.

"The right choice." Alice sighed: "Although I don't feel good about their past..."

Meng Huo recalled the events back then, and couldn't help laughing: "That's already passed. If it can promote the reasoning world, of course I will go."

This is not a big deal, and Meng Huo actually likes to read reasoning works, but what he wants to see is more modern reasoning works-it can promote the reform of the Reasoning Association, so why not go?

"By the way, where are you taking me now?" Meng Huo asked Alice. He didn't care about the Reasoning Association, but was interested in where he was going now.

"Dihuang Restaurant, there are several directors waiting for you." Alice's mouth curled up: "The directors I contacted before regretted seeing "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century". meet you."

She smiled and said, "They are jealous of Bai Yan."

Meng Huo nodded: "They are all credible people?"

"Of course it's believable... They are all my acquaintances. Although they didn't join DreamWorks in February, they didn't leak my invitation in advance, right?" Alice explained with a smile, those directors had a good relationship with her , I didn’t come here before because I was worried about the difficulty of transformation.

However, seeing the popularity of animated films now, directors have become excited.

But it's a pity that Meng Huo doesn't need many directors anymore... (to be continued) R466