The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 411 Chen Jingxing's "Foresight"

Fu Sheng looked at the cultural commentary that took up half of the newspaper's page: "Use animation to dedicate a warning to the development of human science and technology—Comment on the domestic animation "Special Mobile Team""

Whether it's the title or the ants-like words in the box, he feels restless for a while.

Although Jingying Factory has been restructured long ago and introduced social capital, it is no longer a purely state-owned enterprise. He, the chairman, also owns Jingying's shares, but some of Jingying's styles still maintain traces of state-owned enterprises.

For example, regularly subscribe to major official newspapers, serious mainstream newspapers such as "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", and "Jingcheng Daily" are updated every day.

Other employees of the company may not read it, but the senior management of Beijing Film Studio still must read these newspapers and periodicals every edition, especially for Fu Sheng, a big man in the Beijing circle with a high position in the industry, the national policy is not illusory to him Things, the film and television industry and the entertainment industry are all cultural undertakings, and they will all be affected by policies.

Without a keen sense of smell, sooner or later you will suffer a lot.

Moreover, in recent years, these official newspapers have also produced more and more intensive reports and comments on the cultural industry and the film and television industry.

It can be seen that the country still attaches great importance to the development of the cultural industry.

Especially movies like "Source Code", "The Mekong River", "Gravity", "Spike II", and "The Martian", these serious official mouthpieces will also comment.

There are quite a few film and television dramas featured in Guangming Daily's cultural review, and DreamWorks' works account for more than half of them, but they are all movies anyway, with high-quality main themes and main themes that can also be exported overseas.

The box office is there, the word of mouth is there, and winning glory for the country is a symbol of the vigorous development of Huaguo's film industry, so he doesn't say anything.

Now even an animation can enjoy this kind of treatment?
"Skyhawk Warrior", which was widely hyped before, was specially visited by Fu Sheng. You must know that he basically doesn't watch animation works very much.

The last time I saw it was "The Return of the Great Sage", which created a miracle in the box office of Huaguo animation films during the Spring Festival. Before that, it was "Your Name", which took a box office of 7 million.

This has already made him say that he can't understand the film market in Huaguo. Beijing Film Studio has also learned the methods of private enterprises such as Jianghe Culture and Tianrun before, and has engaged in so-called diversified development and investment, but animation has never been in Beijing Film Studio. within sight of the plant.

Therefore, it is really the first time in his life to watch an animated series. Maybe he is really old, or he is really behind the times. No matter how sophisticated the two-dimensional animation is called by the outside world, it is still two-dimensional animation.

The plot of the teenagers driving mechas to fight monsters really made him unable to understand, and it was difficult to watch. Even the last one or two episodes, the so-called "Human Completion Plan", which is so magical, he was also confused. water.

Therefore, he never watched the next animation "Special Mobile Team" released by DreamWorks after "Aquila Warrior", even though it also triggered a topic on the Internet and caused heated discussions among netizens.

But even if "Skyhawk Warrior" didn't get the treatment that "Special Mobile Team" got?

The adultization and connotation of this wave of animation themes brought by DreamWorks is a trend that the media has been discussing in the past one or two years, and Fu Sheng is no stranger to this.

But "Special Mobile Team" can be so highly affirmed by a mouthpiece like Guangming Daily, giving such high praise seems to have a certain symbolic meaning, which made Fu Sheng feel uneasy and anxious.

DreamWorks has gone further and further, and its main theme can still make people follow suit. The industrialization of film and television production is also the slogan that big companies like Jingying have been shouting.

But today, it seems that any attempt to narrow the distance with DreamWorks is hard to get what it wants, and the gap between the two sides is getting wider and wider.

""Special Mobile Team" is indeed more adult-oriented than "Skyhawk Warrior", including the characters and world view. It is indeed somewhat out of the animation for teenagers, very hardcore and serious."

Zhang Ning, director of the film planning department, looked at the frowning chairman, sighed slightly, and explained why "Special Mobile Team" could win more praise from mainstream media and official mouthpieces than "Skyhawk Warrior".

The connotation of "Skyhawk Warrior" is indeed sufficient, psychoanalysis, adolescent psychological problems, and even philosophical thinking about human society are very deep, but the shell is indeed a frame of a young blood animation, the protagonist is a young girl, and the main line is mechs fighting monsters .

"Special Mobile Team" is different, it is adult from the beginning, the heroine is the captain of the Special Mobile Team, a specialized organization dealing with crimes of machines and prosthetics in the future world.

The entire world structure is full of details. On the one hand, the imagination is bursting, and on the other hand, it can find shadows in the real society, which is frightening to think about.

The same is to solve the case, and it is better than "Suspect Tracker" in terms of the level of the story and the degree of amazingness.

And the proposition of the discussion was so serious that Zhang Ning was speechless.

After "Special Mobile Team" was launched, Zhang Ning was the first to watch it. As the director of the film planning department, he was very concerned about DreamWorks, and I believe that the executives of other companies are also the same.

Halfway through, he even feels that "Special Mobile Team" is like a prequel to "Matrix", the difference is that he thinks "Special Mobile Team" is much deeper than "Matrix".

What is the nature of human beings not only discussed under the circumstances of the ship of Theseus?What is the soul?Is the body replaced by a machine or a human?How can one define a person when one's memory can be modified and blinded.

And at the end, the question of the future structure and evolution of human beings is raised. "Network society" is a more advanced system that can be used as the "third subject" and "superior structure". It seems to be the more ultimate revolution discussed in the animation. .

The animation shows such a chilling picture: With the rapid development of technology, individuality will gradually be lost, and the meaning of personal existence will be lost in the later stage.

There is a kind of alternative "human completion plan" feeling, but this time there is no need for a plan.

Although Zhang Ning has been amazed by the works of DreamWorks countless times, he still cannot help but be shocked again, and a sense of powerlessness arises spontaneously.

How easy it would be for him to be the director of the film planning department of DreamWorks.

Isn't this "Special Mobile Team" the subject of a ready-made film adaptation?
The entertainment circle is not big. Although the screenwriter team of DreamWorks is well-known, he has also been in contact with it, and it is not that he has never poached employees of DreamWorks.

The quality is relatively high, and the understanding of the film industry is often a head above that of practitioners in other companies.

But that's about it.

There is nothing particularly surprising about it.

So the key is Chen Jingxing.

What films did directors like Tian Xinye, Guo Fan, and Ning Weiqiang make before signing with DreamWorks?What work are you shooting now?
There was a sense of "I was born to be a master" in my heart. The aggrieved Director Zhang still tried his best to take care of the boss's emotions while slandering him: "Director Fu, animation is indeed a popular trend now. The idea I told you before has not changed. Not only Penguin Internet companies like Huanshi.com are deploying the animation industry, and Jangho Culture and Tianrun have both begun to invest in animation companies.

There are only so many animation talents in Huaguo. Mo has been absorbing top talents in the past few years, and other companies are staking their land. If they don't act, it will be too late. "

With a gloomy face, Fu Sheng picked up the newspaper again, looked at the words on it that bored him, and didn't make a sound, thinking about something, which made Director Zhang a little confused about the leader's clue.

Zhang Ning also read the review of "Special Mobile Team" in this edition of "Guangming Daily". It was indeed a high praise, but compared with the review of DreamWorks' previous works, there was nothing special about it.

"...DreamWorks is a fruitful fruit of Huaguo's 40 years of cultural development... "The Martian" reveals a great country style, expresses grand feelings, and reflects Huaguo's film culture confidence" and other comments have not been seen by the chairman. Such a big reaction.

"Special Mobile Team" He De He Neng?

Director Zhang vaguely realized that it might have something to do with DreamWorks announcing the development of the "Skyhawk Warrior" IP film four days ago, and then the stock rose sharply, with the market value exceeding [-] billion.

To be honest, a few years ago, he was puzzled by DreamWorks investing so much money in the animation industry, but now he understands how "far-sighted" Chen Jingxing is.

If Beijing Film Studio got the script of "Skyhawk Warrior" or "Special Mobile Team", would they dare to shoot it?How can it be?How much did the movie cost?
But first make animations at low cost, attract audiences, and directly turn them into IPs, and then turn IPs into movies and TVs. This road is similar to Hollywood’s manga reform system.

Animation is really a good medium for low-cost trial and error-of course DreamWorks seems to have made no mistakes.

Maybe the chairman is worried that DreamWorks will use this set of things to create Huaguo's manga reform system?
Thinking about it, it is indeed worth worrying. What kind of changes have other big Hollywood factories been forced by the two giants?
It would be quite hopeless if such a set was reproduced in Huaguo.

The sad thing is that the layout of DreamWorks seems to have been successful. Mo's computer animation department is already the strongest animation production studio in Huaguo without any doubts.

"You're right." After a while, Fu Sheng folded the newspaper carefully.

"You're right, the animation industry cannot turn a blind eye. I will hold a board meeting tomorrow, and we must take action."

Although Fu Sheng pretended to be uplifting, he couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart.

Huaguo's film and television industry is really confusing now.

An animation that he had never paid attention to turned into an IP that could be adapted into a movie or even a series of movies overnight, and it could even drive Dreamworks' stock price to soar.

The layout of the animation is a must have action.

Taking a ten thousand step back, even if you don’t consider this mode of using animation to promote IP and then feed back movies, the development of animation movies themselves is already worthy of vigilance.

This year's Spring Festival file "The Return of the Great Sage" will suppress all live-action movies except "Tang Detective II", but it has opened the eyes of filmmakers in the industry.

If this kind of thing happened to friends and businessmen, it would be a joke, but if it happened to me, it would be difficult to keep calm.

Fu Sheng used to rely on his deep understanding of Huaguo's entertainment industry - to monopolize big directors and big stars, weave a net, attract stars, create a Beijing circle, and develop the restructured Beijing Film Studio to its peak Occupying half of China's film and television industry.

But now, what made him have to accept the reality was that his way of playing seemed to be almost unbearable.

(End of this chapter)