Although it is just some conceptual design drawings of the monkey, it can be said that it is really thoughtful.
Domestic animated movies, it can be said that the super IP "Journey to the West" alone has unlimited excavability and can be called a huge treasure.
It's just a pity that development is limited, especially in the era of computer animation, the domestic animation industry has begun to show faults, leading to it being gradually replaced by more modern and fashionable superheroes from Hollywood. This is the first hero that domestic children come into contact with.
The character is no longer the unruly monkey, but has become Iron Man, Spider-Man and so on.
Suddenly, a concept map appeared in front of Li Yi's eyes, making him look at it in surprise.
It was a back view concept picture, in which the Monkey King, the Monkey King, was sitting alone on a cliff, showing a sense of sadness 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 is an animated film that can be called a booster for Chinese comics!
In another world, it was the emergence of the 3D Chinese animated film "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" that caused domestic animation fans to shout, "The Return of Chinese Comics".
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, when I was young and growing up, I was not yet deeply involved in the world. The superhero in my heart may have changed its appearance long ago, or may have long ceased to exist, but whenever I mentioned the name "Sun Wukong", my heart would still stir.
Ripple, you said that the Great Sage is too stupid, why bother to protect Monk Tang from going west? Wouldn't it be beautiful to go back to the Water Curtain Cave in Huaguo Mountain and roam freely?
On the one hand, he was indignant because of the "three attacks of white-bone demons" and worried about "a group of demons deceiving one's true nature and worshiping the true nature together."
To put it bluntly, we feel sorry for the great sage. He has been too lonely in the past five hundred years, and Xuanzang's "faint" is really infuriating. He was clearly just resisting, but he was severely punished. Although he had good intentions, he was misunderstood by the world. We feel sorry for the great sage.
We also feel sorry for ourselves. Calling the Great Sage stupid is just a matter of saying that we are stupid against our will after feeling sorry for ourselves. We thought that the Great Sage would be eternal, but unexpectedly, in this world, it takes too much courage.
For a moment, Li Yi couldn't help but feel a little crazy.
I believe that for Chinese people, these two names, Sun Wukong and Monkey King, are familiar to everyone.
But I don't know when it started, but I have forgotten it, and that unruly figure has become blurry.
But when I think about it, I will never forget that unruly Monkey King who even the sky cannot make him bow his head!
He was so arrogant when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, but after five hundred years of pressure, the Great Sage didn't want to care about it, and he didn't dare to care about it anymore. He was even more powerless. The former superhero was lonely and helpless.
In fact, why are we 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? We dare not help the elderly when they fall, and we have to swallow our anger in the face of relying on the elderly. Although the Great Sage is in our hearts
Eternity, but has long gone...
"Director Li?"
"Director Li?"
Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi with tears in his eyes in surprise, with a confused look on his face.
Because he didn't understand why Li Yi shed tears looking at such a concept map?
He looked carefully, but still didn't see anything different.
"call......"
"Let's make a movie about that unruly monkey. It's also time to bring back the Monkey King who used to be the Monkey King when we were children!" Li Yi suddenly said with a smile.
"This...that script..." Zhang Haiyang looked at Li Yi hopefully.
After all, Li Yi is the expert at this thing!
"I will give you the script later, it's called "The Return of the Great Sage"!"
"As long as there is a script, it's fine. In fact, everyone can't wait to make the next animated movie!" Zhang Haiyang said excitedly.
Zhang Haiyang does have reason to be excited, because since the success of "WALL-E", the entire Star Comic community has become enthusiastic. People who have participated in the "WALL-E" project hope to continue to create brilliance and create something that belongs to China.
The history of Chinese animation.
And those new members are also eager to contribute to the rise of national comics.
Leave your own mark and traces in new animated films.
Li Yi nodded. In fact, with the previous production experience of "Wall-E", Li Yi did not 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 due to space limitations, the pace is too fast, and the priorities are not clear enough. It makes people feel that they are gobbling up the dish without having time to taste it in detail; especially the ending of The Great Sage
The emotional outburst towards Jiang Liuer was too sudden.
Li Yi thought of two solutions. One is to increase the length and describe more of the emotional changes and growth of the two; the other is to put Jiang Liu'er in the final chapter of the Great Sage under the current time limit.
The role played in the outbreak is reduced!
Li Yi thought about the first option and finally gave up, but the second option needed to be considered carefully.
After returning home, Li Yi began to "write" the script of "The Return of the Great Sage". This time, he would not draw almost all the key characters step by step like he did in the last "Wall-E".
come out.
Because at that time "Wall-E" could be said to be an original theme, Star Comics at the time, including Zhang Haiyang and others, had just experienced the failure of their first major animated film and lacked full confidence.
But this time is different. "The Return of the Great Sage" is an independent story derived and adapted from "Journey to the West".
So does the design of the Great Sage inside have to be 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 more image designs, but hopes that the people of Xingman can do it themselves.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for the plot, Li Yi made some adjustments.
Jiang Liu'er, he is very important. According to the original plot, the outbreak of the Great Sage gave people the impression that it was all because of Jiang Liu'er's death, but in Li Yi's view, Jiang Liu'er looked more like the former
The Great Sage, or in other words, the other monkeys in the Huaguo Mountain, the Great Sage undoubtedly had feelings for Jiang Liu'er, but they were not deep to that extent.
So what if Jiang Liuer's death is treated as a trigger, the straw that breaks the camel's back?
Just like the anger that the original Great Sage felt when he learned that most of the monkeys and monkeys were dead after he returned.
So perhaps more flashback scenes are used to show that the Great Sage hates his own incompetence and cannot protect the weak and his friends, his chagrin for his cowardice and evasion, his regret and unwillingness, as well as his memory and desire for his past glory, and finally
In addition, the feelings for Jiang Liu'er are processed into a more complex emotional dynamic, and the final explosion becomes much more logical.
Li Yi spent more than a week completing the script creation of "The Return of the Great Sage".
He checked it carefully himself and compared it with the original version in his memory. There were some differences, but on the whole, the story of the original version was still used, with some slight adjustments.
Li Yi also thought about a question: Why do so many people like the Monkey King?
Like that unruly monkey?
Just because the story of that monkey can be said to be the growth history of everyone.
Most of us are not like great sages. The willful and carefree childhood has long disappeared with the passage of time. We also carry the heavy Wuzhishan along the way. Sometimes we feel that the world is incompatible with us, even ourselves.
The people we identify with the most are leaving us. Sometimes we want to point our golden cudgel at the sky and bring down this fucked up world!
Therefore, Monkey King, the 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 he can make us as children regard him as a hero.
When we were young, we didn’t understand why the all-powerful Monkey King, the Monkey King, who could go up to heaven and earth, and was almost omnipotent, turned into something we don’t know after being pinned under the Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years.
Do you know the Monkey King?
He has become less omnipotent and unruly. When we were children, we didn't understand why earlier, he alone fought against millions of heavenly soldiers and generals in heaven, and fought against all the gods in heaven alone.
, were not at a disadvantage in the slightest, but why, later on, he couldn't even defeat 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 had naive ideas of what we wanted to do and who we wanted to be when we grew up.
We want to be upright men, but as we grow older, we will find that we are actually like the monkey trapped under the Wuzhi Mountain. We start to compromise for many things.
We can no longer do whatever we want, reality is like a tight spell hanging over our heads.
As a result, our once heroic words began to be gradually buried and dusted.
Another point is, why does everyone like to call Sun Wukong the Great Sage Qitian, but why can’t they call him the Victorious Buddha?
Almost all the gods and monsters who know Sun Wukong are willing to call him the Monkey King. Few people call Sun Wukong another name: Fighting Buddha.
Regardless of whether he is a god or a monster, for them, the Monkey King is more humane than the victorious Buddha.
If you think about it carefully, Sun Wukong himself prefers the title of Monkey King. He is happy only when he is Monkey King. At that time, he could freely come and go in heaven and on earth without any restrictions at all. Although now, although
After entering Buddhism, he had to abide by many regulations, and his life was lifeless. After years of studying Buddhist scriptures, he thought he would be free in exchange for it, but he did not expect that in the end, Tathagata would not let him go. He became a
The Buddha is like a bigger curse, following Sun Wukong all the time, and he can't get rid of it even if he wants to.
For all of us, the Monkey King represents who we once were, and the Victorious Buddha is the image in which we have become what we hate the most!
Li Yi turned on his computer and found many works about "Journey to the West" from many years ago, including cartoons and live-action TV series.
Started to look at it.
My thoughts can't help but seem to go back to the past.
Many dusty memories began to slowly unblock with those pictures full of age and emotion!
