China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 216 There are thunder spots everywhere

"Your Name" is a science fiction animated film with a notion that is not new. This film also includes the concepts of interchangeable bodies and cross-time and space connections.

The concept of body swapping or consciousness swapping is not groundbreaking. Even Hollywood has filmed several films of body swapping themes in this plane, and it is also a film of body swapping between men and women. This setting is inherently a strong dramatic contradiction. Screenwriters do not need to use their brains to extend many interesting plots, and they are very suitable for comedy themes. The films of body swapping themes in Hollywood are basically small-cost comedy themes, and of course love is indispensable.

Another setting is the cross-time and space connection. This concept is not groundbreaking in this plane, because Chen Jingxing has already filmed "Signal", and there are both movie versions and TV series versions. In addition, "Signal II: Mirage" is also in preparation, but the cross-time and space connection in "Signal" is through walkie-talkie, "Mirage" is through TV, and "Your Name" is through consciousness exchange.

What's amazing about this movie is that it hides the cross-time and space connection under the setting of consciousness interchange.

In other words, when the audience first watched it, they thought that the male and female protagonists were interchanging consciousness under the same timeline - this is the usual setting for such movies. It was not until the film reached one-third that the clues of interchanging consciousness across time and space were gradually given to the audience. It turned out that the heroine's timeline was three years ago and had long died under the impact of a meteorite split from a comet.

The story of the whole movie is not complicated. It is the story of a male protagonist saving the heroine and saving her girlfriend, which is similar to "Mirage".

As a movie of the same type as "Signal", Chen Jingxing originally wanted to adapt it into a live-action movie. After all, the market for live-action movies is larger and the upper limit is higher. However, when he wrote the story outline, he found that this story is not suitable for live-action movies, and it is not even suitable for making it into 3D animated movies.

There is an unignorable bug in "Your Name", that is, the male protagonist decided to find the town where the female protagonist is until he did not exchange consciousness with the female protagonist. When he saw the sparkling meteorite impact crater, he realized that this town was actually the place where the meteorite was destroyed three years ago, and the female protagonist had already died in the disaster three years ago.

Time is the labor yardstick of modern society. The male and female protagonists also have smartphones. Even if they are three years apart, they are in modern society. After exchanging their bodies, they do not realize that the two places are not only far away but also have three years of time. This is a problem that is difficult for the audience to ignore.

This is also the reason why Chen Jingxing chose to shoot "Your Name" and "The Return of the Great Sage" to act as the important task of breaking the ice in the animated film market.

The male protagonist did not notice it at all for so long, and the process of finding this town was also very difficult. If it was a live-action film and television drama, this was a bug that was difficult for the audience to ignore.

When you wake up from a dream, you usually forget most of the content in the dream. Even if you don’t forget for a while, you will quickly fade over time, and you can’t even recall the specific plot of the dream. However, the emotions in the dream can be clearly experienced, whether it is happiness, anger, joy or fear.

Chen Jingxing felt that if he wanted to release a live-action film and television version of "Your Name" in the future, it would be best to change the background to ancient times. The male protagonist is a high-ranking family in the capital, and the female protagonist is a tea-picking girl from Miaojiang. In this way, these two bugs are not so conspicuous. Three years ago, a village in Miaojiang was razed to the ground by a comet, and it is likely that the residents far away in the capital would not be known, even if anyone knows it, it would not be widely known.

Of course, no matter how the timeline setting of "Your Name" is complicated, the essence of this movie is actually a love movie, and it is a love movie with beautiful pictures and extremely freshness.

In this way, this is an ancient puppet with interchangeable consciousness across time and space, and Chen Jingxing believes that it is quite promising.

The last and most fatal bug, the comet fell off and destroyed a whole town, with many dead people. Even the disaster that happened three years ago was definitely world news. Even if it was a disaster like Japan, the town destroyed by comets was definitely a place that Japanese people remembered. Even if they were not as famous as Fukushima, they would not be much worse than it.

The way to solve these two bugs or cover up these two unreasonable places is to make them dreams, hazy and even fluidize consciousness. The exchange of consciousness between the male and female protagonists is like dreaming. Moreover, after waking up, the memory is hazy and vague. After the memory fades, only strong feelings remain, and in the end the male and female protagonists are almost forgotten in the world.

This kind of processing is very successful. At least the audience who are immersed in the plot will not easily realize these two points during the movie. Only when they leave the theater and review and reminisce, will they realize the bug. Moreover, these two bugs can be explained by the hazy dreams and the blurred memory.

Not to mention that in a country as big as Japan, it is unreasonable to find a place with a strong landmark - the last comet passed by the crater lake left behind by a comet a thousand years ago.

There is no doubt that the original movie "Your Name" has been handled well in this regard, and even this dreamlike treatment enhances the shocking feeling of the male protagonist and the audience when they discover the truth.

Once moved to a live-action film and television drama, these two bugs will be difficult to fulfill, and dreamy and hazy transformation are not very good in live-action film and television dramas.

In his previous life, "Your Name" won a box office of 580 million in China, far exceeding the box office results of the so-called "migrant worker comic" theatre version in China with countless fans in Japan.

In the final analysis, "Your Name" is essentially a fresh love movie, which makes its viewing group completely exceed the limitations of anime fans. Many viewers view it from the perspective of love movies rather than animation, allowing it to surpass the "Chinese animation stereotype ceiling" and gain a wide audience like "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Kung Fu Panda".

Therefore, Chen Jingxing's confidence in this project is no less than "The Return of the Great Sage". Even Xu Sheng and even Xiang Xuan are not optimistic about it. A 2D animated film with an original script that is not a child, which is not related to myths and legends, can be said that every element is accurately stole the thunder point of the Chinese animation film market. Even if Chen Jingxing's estimated investment is only 50 million, it is difficult for Mo's senior executives to be optimistic about it.

Xu Sheng and Xiang Xuan even proposed to make it into 3D animated movies. 2D animated movies are not popular in the Chinese film market. This is a reality verified by countless previous experiences. If we say that in China, "animation is for children to watch" stereotypes, 3D animated movies have room for rescue, and 2D animated movies are the most difficult to break in this stereotype. In addition to anime fans and children, 2D animations are not popular in China, and it is even more difficult to convince adult audiences to enter the cinema.

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