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After the lights in the theater dimmed, an angel and the logo of Zhongxia Company appeared on the giant screen.

The opening of the movie is a stormy night, the sound of horseshoes on the muddy road, the thunder in the dark sky, sitting in the movie theater, seeing the scene on the dark screen, as if I was also drawn into it, everyone The audience can feel the icy chill of the horse galloping through the rain.

"good……"

Meng Huo secretly praised the beginning, the atmosphere was well described.

Amidst the sound of horseshoes, some screams began to sound. The plot of the movie began with a massacre. On a stormy night, a group of robbers invaded the village on horseback, burned, looted, and slaughtered villagers inhumanely. The whole village was bloody.

In the dim candlelight, the bandit leader broke into the village chief's house with a big knife, and asked him to tell him the most valuable thing in the village - it was an ancient tomb, which was said to have a history of thousands of years, and many treasures were buried in it.

The bandit leader beheaded the village head, and led his minions to find the ancient tomb. They dug up the ancient tomb and found many treasures, including a door inside. After opening the door, it was an inner room, inside which was a silver-white long sword that was as clear as crystal.

The long sword floating in the air, surrounded by spiritual energy, was nothing surprising to Meng Huo who had read fairy tale novels in his previous life, but the robbers in the movie were stunned.

"what is this……"

"Treasure, treasure!"

The robbers all showed greed when they saw the fairy sword, but when they took a step towards the inner room, the aura around the fairy sword suddenly exploded, sucking the life of all the robbers around like a wave.

The fairy sword made a loud noise, and the silver light spread outward, and the village ten miles suddenly turned into a dead place, and all creatures were sucked out of life and died. But next to the immortal sword that had gained enough life, a skeleton stood up, picked up the immortal sword and walked out - the name "Strike of the Immortal Sword" also appeared on the screen.

"This is the prelude..." Meng Huo was stunned. The plot just now was the prelude to the movie "Strike of the Sword", and it only lasted a few minutes. It tells the process of the fairy sword's awakening.

Although it is only a prelude, the quality of the movie can already be reflected-the pictures and special effects, voice actors and music are all excellent. The prelude is exciting, and Meng Huo is also interested in the follow-up plot. Even if this movie can't become a blockbuster with a plot, it can definitely become a blockbuster with special effects.

The special effects of "The Legend of the Sword" are great, and it has one advantage over "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century", that is, the theme of martial arts fighting,

Movies full of fighting and fighting can best demonstrate the charm of animation special effects. This is a natural special effects movie subject.

"The Magician at the Beginning of the Century" basically has no fighting scenes. No matter how gorgeous the special effects are, the expressiveness is hard to compare with "Strike of the Sword".

After the prelude, the movie flashed the narration for the introduction of "Boy Boy", which is a necessary step for an animated movie. Then the camera turned, and the official plot of "Strike of the Sword" began, and the scene changed to a small shop.

In "Fire Boy", the most familiar male protagonist and his party were resting in a small shop when they suddenly heard people talking about it. It is said that several villages and towns have been massacred by mysterious organizations recently.

"There were no witnesses, and everyone who saw it died."

"It is said that a person used blood to draw a sword on the wall before he died... I don't know what kind of school symbol this is, but it is so vicious!"

A sword logo. The leading actor and his party were discussing what kind of sect this is. At this moment, a few men in black who were eating suddenly stood up, grabbed several guests who were chatting before, and asked them about the details of the sword. One of them refused to answer, and was immediately caught by the men in black on the spot. killed.

The righteous and awe-inspiring hero naturally couldn't see it, stood up to uphold justice, and had a fight with the men in black—unexpectedly, the moves used by those men in black were unprecedented. He actually blocked the attack of the hero and several knights, and finally killed all the other guests. successfully escaped.

Naturally, the male protagonist couldn't forgive these men in black, and found the Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng with the clothes they left behind and a token. Ask about the identities of these men in black.

Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng looked at the token with horror on his face, and refused to reveal it at first. In the end, I couldn't stand the entanglement of the whole group, so I told the hero that this is a hidden sect, and asked them to give up revenge for the guests.

But at the male lead's insistence, Bai Xiaosheng still told them more things. Those men in black have belonged to a mysterious sect since ancient times. This sect does not care about world affairs and does not participate in the struggles of the rivers and lakes. However, generations have been looking for a fairy sword, and they will only come out when the fairy sword is born.

The successive massacres outside were caused by the fairy sword and its servants. The mysterious sect is looking for the whereabouts of this fairy sword. As long as the head of this sect gets the fairy sword, he can gain invincible power and bring havoc to the whole world. .

Under Bai Xiaosheng's reminder, if the hero wants to prevent the catastrophe from happening, he must find and seal the fairy sword before the mysterious sect discovers it.

Only one saint knows the magic of sealing the fairy sword. A saint will appear every 100 years. She is born with the responsibility of protecting and sealing the fairy sword. If you want to save the world, you must first find the saint of this era. Then take her to seal the fairy sword.

However, the mysterious sect has been looking for and planning to eliminate the saint. The hero and his party met the mysterious sect many times and defeated each other again and again.

For Meng Huo, such a plot is not a particularly fresh setting. He has seen too many in his previous life, but in the eyes of other audiences in the theater, the plot of "Strike of the Sword" is very fresh——Meng Huo Shen Jie beside Huo was also fascinated.

After finding the saint who sealed the fairy sword, the hero did not immediately get the saint's help. The saint of this era hates her own fate very much. Soon after she was born, her parents and relatives were killed by a mysterious sect, and she was afraid of that sect.

However, in front of the killer sent by the mysterious sect, the hero blocked the sword for the saint and successfully moved her. The saint finally agreed to accompany him to seal the fairy sword. Just like other movies, there is also a love scene between the male protagonist and the saint in "The Legend of the Sword".

The male protagonist protects the saint all the way, getting along day and night. The saint fell in love with him, and gradually realized how important her abilities are to this world.

The righteous team formed by the two of them and other martial arts righteousness finally found the fairy sword first. However, just as they began to seal the fairy sword, the ceremony was halfway through. The head of the mysterious sect hiding beside them suddenly attacked and snatched the fairy sword.

The situation suddenly became critical, the head of the sect holding the fairy sword became extremely powerful, and everyone was still defeated by him. At the most critical moment, the saint used spells to enhance the strength of the male protagonist, and the male protagonist began to single out with the leader as if he had taken a stimulant.

After the world-shattering battle of ghosts and gods, like most martial arts movies, the male protagonist won the victory by relying on cheating, talk and love, and finally turned defeat into victory. Successfully sealed the fairy sword, and a martial arts catastrophe ended.

After the screening, the audience participating in the premiere was immersed in the aftertaste of the movie. The plot of "Strike of the Sword" is hardly innovative, and the traces of dog blood are very heavy. After watching it for one minute, you can think of the plot for the next two minutes. But this kind of routine plot is not so bad, at least it is acceptable.

The key is that the special effects of "Strike of the Sword" are really amazing, and the wonderful combat special effects can make up for almost all shortcomings-this is a wonderful martial arts movie, and it is even more visually blockbuster.

"Hollywood style..." Meng Huo commented in his heart. This movie gave him a feeling similar to many Hollywood special effects movies. They all focus on special effects and pursue the ultimate visual and auditory enjoyment-the plot has become a secondary element.

This did not surprise Meng Huo. The works of Zhongxia Company often take the route of special effects, and the theme of "Strike of the Sword" is more suitable for this route. There are many kinds of successful movies, and there are not a few movies that are famous for their special effects alone.

Moreover, the plot of "Strike the Sword" is not bad. Compared with ordinary special effects movies, the plot in this movie is a rare and wonderful plot. If you want to complain, you can say that its plot development is too "regular".

Ah... no, besides that, there is one other complaint...

Meng Huo was thinking about that defect, and Dong Ding took the initiative to ask him what he thought.

"Teacher He Xi. What do you think of this movie?"

Now after the screening, it seems that I am satisfied with the quality of "Strike the Sword". Dong Ding's complexion improved a lot.

"Overall is good." Meng Huo smiled, and all aspects of the movie "Strike of the Sword" are well done. This is a successful movie: "It's just that the ending is handled wrongly. You should warn the heavens in advance to prepare a more open ending for this movie."

When he was watching "Strike of the Sword" just now, he knew that the saint and the hero are impossible, and the movie ending should be the separation of the two, which is the inevitable ending of many theatrical movies... If they are not separated, the heroine If you follow the protagonist, there will be a big conflict with the plot of the original animation "Flame Boy". After all, the saint is not an animation character.

The saint is the original heroine of the movie, so she should only stay in the movie. But what Meng Huo didn't expect was that the angel didn't use the ordinary parting scene, but a more extreme method—that is, let the saint die!

In the ending of "The Attack of the Immortal Sword", the heroine of the movie actually died-if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Meng Huo really couldn't believe that the angel would do this. The saintess strengthened the hero's strength at the cost of her own life. In the end, she had to seal the fairy sword, and died in the arms of the hero because of exhaustion of mana.

This tragic ending was unexpected by everyone, and Meng Huo thought it was a failure.

"If the saint is not written to death, won't it have an impact on the animation?" Dong Ding frowned, but he didn't think it was inappropriate for the saint to die.

"Dead writing will lower the box office. If it is a more open ending, the box office of "Strike the Sword" will be even higher..." Meng Huo shook his head. Zhongxia Company may be too concerned about the contradictions of the original animation "Flame Boy" , they don't want the plot of the movie to interfere with the animation. This idea is correct, but it has gone to an extreme.

A slightly more open ending, although it will cause some viewers to question the conflict between the movie and the original work, but that is only a minority, and not many people will care. And Zhongxia Company has too many reasons to explain, which is much easier to explain than letting the heroine die.

Meng Huo has watched many feature-length animated theatrical movies, and he found that these movies basically have one thing in common. If there is an independent heroine in the movie, the heroine will generally not die. Even movies such as "Naruto" and "Pokemon" occasionally have heroines that belong only to the movie, but no one will die in the end, and the ending is not a pathetic path.

Tragedy is a big taboo in theatrical movies.

"When I make animated films, I will regard the background of each film as a parallel world independent of the original animation, and try not to conflict with the original, but I will not expect the plot of the movie to be inserted into the original animation without any contradiction……"

"Every movie can be regarded as a parallel world... Do you know the meaning of parallel world?"

Meng Huo asked Dong Ding, and Dong Ding frowned even more. He understood, and looking back, it was indeed a big mistake to adopt this ending.

"Then Mr. He Xi, how much box office will this ending cost us?"

"Well, this..." Meng Huo wasn't sure. Although the ending was tragic, the angel didn't make the ending too tragic. In fact, they were clever enough to make the saint feel happy before she died. After successfully sealing the fairy sword, she lay in the arms of the hero and passed away peacefully.

It is also a tragic ending, but the departure after completing the mission is completely different from the sad departure-it will not bring too much grief to the audience.

"If a happy ending can make your total box office reach 2 billion—of course, I don't know if there is 2 billion, just to give an example... If the total box office is 2 billion, this ending will lose 200 to 300 million ..."

Meng Huo roughly estimated that if the saint died in a bleak and painful way, then the box office loss of "Strike of the Sword" would be huge, and it would lose a quarter anyway. However, although the current ending is relatively mild, there will definitely be a box office loss of 200 to 300 million...

This loss is more than one-tenth of the total box office, which means that at least one out of every ten viewers will give up watching because of the tragedy of the ending. However, even so, Meng Huo felt that Zhongxia Company's expected total box office of 1.5 billion should be achieved.

The subsequent box office development proved his expectation. The premiere box office of "Legend of Sword and Sword" was not far from that of "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century", but the increase became smaller on the second day and the third day - after a few days passed , the media generally predicts that the total box office will be between 1.4 billion and 1.7 billion. (to be continued)