China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 486 Love in troubled times? It's just a dream

In fact, as early as 2011, many departments in China had already begun to increase their support for domestic animated films.

This is what Director Li of Optoelectronics meant when he told Guan Ling that they would give their full support.

And this time, since the 17th China Animation Industry Development Achievements Exhibition will be held next year, the slogan and name of Guan Ling's film, which were shouted to the audience around the world in Venice early on, naturally broke the circle early on.

Not only the industry is watching, but the higher-ups are also keeping an eye on it.

They are unlikely to wait until the movie is released before watching it. After watching it at China Film, they will discuss it, hold meetings, and decide how much effort to invest in the film, so as to promote sustainable development, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, and even cultivate new economic growth points.

The animation industry represents a golden opportunity for cultural development. We must conscientiously implement the relevant spirit of the plenary session to promote the great development and prosperity of the animation industry.

In all this, Guan Ling is naturally the flag bearer.

“That’s normal.”

Han Sanpin was indeed frightened by the arrival of some people, but he quickly reacted.

Therefore, for China Film, all personnel need to be on their toes to welcome these people.

That afternoon, China Film Studio, screening room.

Guan Ling stood in front of the screening room early.

At this moment, outside of China Film, there are not only some people who need Guan Ling to stand with their hands down, but also relevant intranets, newspapers, CCTV.com and other official media. At the forefront, the logo of the China Culture News reporter is particularly conspicuous.

"Director Guan is very young. We have heard of your name a long time ago."

The leader’s surname was Liu. He wore glasses and had a warm look.

"As a benchmark figure in Chinese films, I appreciate and am grateful that you are willing to take the time to make an animated film that belongs to China."

Guan Ling smiled, shook hands with the old man, and said softly: "Whatever the country needs, I can do it."

"You're quite boastful, haha."

The old man smiled, his eyes revealing an undetectable expression of praise.

"But in the entire Chinese film industry, you're the only one I can trust. As for the others, I'd have to have some reservations."

It was not easy for Guan Ling to respond to this, so he could only smile along.

The old man simply did not ask for too many details. They had limited time and their main purpose of coming here was to review the movie. As for greetings and even exchanges, if the movie could satisfy their ideas, Guan Ling would definitely be pulled to take advantage of it at next year's development achievement exhibition. He would at least be a nominal publicity ambassador, and he might even have to give a lecture or a seminar or something.

Several leaders did exchange a few words with each other.

Taking advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, Han Sanpin walked a few steps slower, stood next to Guan Ling, and said, "It's not that I didn't inform you, nor that I didn't rehearse. This is a temporary event. When I received the list yesterday, it was already very late."

Guan Ling understood the other party's concerns. After all, the rank of the person coming this time was higher than Han Sanpin, and even higher than Director Li of Optoelectronics.

If Han Sanpin wants to be absolutely sure, he must rehearse in advance.

And now, all their hopes can only be placed on Guan Ling's movie.

Guan Ling asked: "Is Director Han panicking?"

"You're not panicking?" Han Sanpin glanced at Guan Ling. "It doesn't matter if it succeeds, but if the film doesn't like it, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"

"Why do you want me to take advantage of you?" Guan Ling asked in confusion. "Besides, if I can't even make a movie, how can other directors or other animation producers in China make one?"

Han Sanpin was speechless.

Although this sounded very impressive, Han Sanpin really had no idea how to refute it.

The main thing is that in the whole of China, there is only one person of Ling's level, right?

In the past few years, there have been many Chinese films that have gone viral, but Guan Ling’s films are definitely the most numerous.

There have long been rumors in the industry claiming that Guan Ling, despite his young age, seems to have become the godfather of the Chinese film industry, and this is actually not without reason.

After a few greetings, "Even If the Wind Rises" began to show in the cinema.

At the beginning of the movie, the Chinese style seems to be engraved on the screen, like an ink painting, slowly unfolding.

It was just daybreak, the earth had not yet awakened, and the morning mist filled the countryside.

There are rows of houses in the dim light, and the camera zooms in, through a window between two trees, and focuses on a boy who is sleeping.

The young man named Gu Song was sleeping soundly.

He is the second child in the Gu family and is currently ten years old.

The camera seemed to have entered his dream. In the dream, the ancient wise emperor Emperor Yao "rode a raft to float on the Milky Way". Gu Er recited Wang Jia's "Records of Lost Things" from the Eastern Jin Dynasty: There is a huge raft floating on the West Sea... The raft often floats around the four seas, completing a circle around the sky in twelve years, and repeats over and over again. It is called the Moon-piercing raft, also known as the Star-hanging raft, and winged people live on it...

There is also the wise king Shun, "When he burns you, the magpie will pick up your clothes, and the bird will go."

There is also a myth in the Shanhaijing about Dayu's flood control, saying that there is a country called Qigong in the north, where people have one arm and three eyes, with both yin and yang, and ride horses with patterns. They are good at making tricks to catch hundreds of birds and can make flying cars to travel far with the wind.

Just the chaotic accumulation of a few dreams at the beginning, although not taking up too much time, made everyone curious about the movie.

In these chaotic dreams, Gu Er flew his own plane, soaring across the sky, passing over thousands of acres of fertile fields and overlooking the vast rivers. Gu Er smiled happily on the plane.
Gu Er kept reciting poems about flying on the plane, as if all of this could give him wings to fly high.

He smiled and said: "I will go with him, riding a phoenix across the purple sky.
He shouted loudly: I want to dream of Wu and Yue, and fly across the Mirror Lake and the moon in one night.

He flew past the colorful clouds and raised his arms high: I wish I could grow two wings and hunt all the creatures in the world!

The whole scene is full of warmth, and inexplicably makes people feel that certain memories are stirring and being touched.

It is obvious that Gu Er likes airplanes. Even in his dreams, he has been dreaming about flying.

Just when everyone was excited about China's past history and stories, suddenly, a large number of enemies appeared above their heads. Before he could see clearly, he was shot down instantly by the enemy.

This clip is completely different from the previous one.

Everyone at the scene was instantly frightened by this scene.
In fact, many people knew the time period in which this movie would be shot, but no one expected that Guan Ling's entry point would be so quick. Everyone had smiles on their faces in less than five minutes.

Gu Er woke up from his sleep.

The family conversations began to fall into a warm rhythm again. Everyone confirmed that Gu Er loved airplanes. His idols were Polikarpov from the Soviet Union and Giovanni Battista Caproni from Italy.

He would often collect all the information about airplanes and idols from nearby newspapers.

The eldest son of the Gu family would often help his younger brother get back some special information.

In fact, everyone can see Gu Er’s family background in this play, but Guan Ling did not explain it clearly, so everyone just watched it.

Even in that era, there were certainly many rich people, and there is no need to argue about that.

That night, the stars were shining brightly, and like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, Gu Er suddenly met the two of them in his dream.

When planes fly across the sky in my mind,

Gu Er asked the two people, can Chinese people fly airplanes? Can I fly an airplane when I was ten years old?
They told him that anyone can fly a plane because a plane is a dream. The Soviets even told him that a plane is a commodity as well as a tool. The Italians told him that if you want, you can even design a plane because plane design is a fascinating dream. He even told Gu Er that there is an old Chinese saying that goes, "I am afraid of the beautiful buildings and jade palaces."

He also refuted the Soviets' lies, telling Gu Er that aircraft designers are engineers who make dreams come true, and that the so-called tools of war or the definition of commodities are the greatest insult to the name of the aircraft.

Gu Er was lost in thought. Time passed quickly, and Gu Er grew up and boarded a train to study at the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Jiaotong University.

He wants to pursue his dream of flying an airplane.

In 1937 in Shanghai, the train was also moving along the Beijing-Shanghai line.

The journey was long, and Gu Er opened his book and read it casually.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the pages of the book that had been turned countless times were blown away inadvertently. The girl next door grabbed it clumsily a few times, but only caught a few pages. She could only smile to Gu Er with a little embarrassment and regret.

Gu Er thanked her, greeted her, praised her for her agility, and reminded her to be careful.

The girl didn't take it seriously and just smiled and said, "The wind is blowing."

Gu Er was in a trance for a moment, and suddenly thought of the lines in "Seaside Cemetery" by the French poet Paul Valéry, which he had learned when he was in school, and he said, "The only way is to survive."

The girl was also stunned.

Perhaps both of them knew this poem, or perhaps they were both aware of the current situation, and for a moment, they fell silent.

Gu Er returned to his seat and silently said, "We all have to work hard to survive."

The train was waving a long puff of smoke,

There was a rumbling sound as they ran across the wilderness, but the sporadic lines alongside told everyone that this year, Japan had begun a full-scale invasion of China.

In the future, a war may be about to begin.

When Han Sanpin saw this, his eyes narrowed slightly.

The plot pace is very fast, and when it comes to this point, he is in some strange mood.

There are tens of thousands of Chinese cartoons, but Guan Ling's form is rare. It has the shadow of Japanese movies, but it also involves the chaos of that era. If it is not handled well, it may leave a bad impression in front of the leaders.

Then, the running train hides the world into a quiet picture.

But the next second, the entire scroll was completely torn apart.

The train stopped at Shanghai South Railway Station. Not long after Gu Er got off the train, he was walking on the road not far from Shanghai South Railway Station. Suddenly, a number of planes appeared in the sky.

Gu Er pushed his glasses and looked back.

The sudden bombing invaded the world, bombs were dropped one after another, and the entire Shanghai South Railway Station was like a lake wrinkled by the wind.
Houses, elevated roads, trains, people, everything has become duckweed in the flowing water, fallen leaves in the strong wind,
Everything turned into ruins in an instant.

There are ruins everywhere.

The world returned to peace, and everything was devastated.

After a brief silence, people began to flee in all directions. Gu Er suddenly thought of something and took a few steps back.

He saw a young child sitting on the railroad tracks crying loudly after the brutal and indiscriminate bombing.

He also saw the girl who had helped him take down the pages of the book, sitting on the ground not far away.

The girl's companion had a broken leg.

Gu Er helped her fix the leg brace, then led the child outside the railway track and handed him over to the official personnel who came quickly to deal with the situation.

The girl asked him to bring a message to her companion, who needed her family to pick her up.

After asking, Gu Er found out that the place they were going to was not far from the University of Transportation, so he carried her companions on his back and helped them find their families.

Looking back at the child in the hands of the official personnel, Gu Er's eyes revealed an unconcealable sadness.

Tsui Hark didn't understand it, but some leaders on the scene already knew what this picture was trying to express.

The scene of the young child crying loudly was published in the American magazine "Life". It is an old photo displayed in many museums in China. Its main purpose is to expose the atrocities of the Japanese army to the world.

And at this moment, these scenes appear in the animation, which really makes people feel extremely complicated emotions.

After the bombing, the situation deteriorated instantly. A war over the Magic City had been ignited, and fires were everywhere.

Since the injuries were difficult to treat, Gu Er could only temporarily put the injured in a safe place, and then took the girl's hand and rushed towards the girl's home. They passed through the crowded and noisy crowd, leaving a gust of wind in this chaotic world.

She brought her family and took her companions away. When both sides had gone far away, Gu Er realized that he had not asked the other party's name.

But it was too late.

Then, the situation suddenly deteriorated. The Japanese army bombed Shanghai South Railway Station and the Battle of Shanghai broke out.

The Jiaotong University fell and entered the French Concession.

In the blink of an eye, two years have passed. Gu Er is immersed in numbers and lines every day, and his life is fulfilling and orderly.

In the eyes of his classmates, Gu Er is a complete study maniac who is obsessed with all news related to airplanes.

One day, Gu Er received a package containing a ruler and tools left behind by the girl’s companion who he rescued.

In an instant, the girl's voice and appearance appeared in his mind again.

I just chased out, but there was no one outside.

When he returned home, the landlord of the rented house told him that there was a girl waiting for him in the house.

He looked forward to going back, but found that it was only his sister.

The conversation at this time also told everyone that since his study situation went bad, Gu Er had not returned home for two years.

The two talked about the story, and the younger sister said that the girl might also be interested in him.

Gu Er said that he had gone to the girl's home afterwards, but their home had also been bombed into ruins.

They should have left the area. After all, the Magic City is now a chaotic war zone.

Seeing this, Director Li spoke calmly.

“Is this a story about love in troubled times?”

Ren Zhonglun knew the plot, he just smiled and shook his head, "Director Li, where is love in such a chaotic world? It's just an illusion."

Director Li said: "I am very curious about how the story will play out later.

But even if it only gets to this point, this so-called cartoon has already broken the mold.

Let alone the photo of the little boy crying, the box office of this movie is worth at least 300 million yuan. "

Ren Zhonglun said nothing, but just opened his mouth.

"If that's the case, then the subsequent plot, I roughly estimate, is worth at least one billion."

"One billion?"

Director Li suddenly raised his head.

Puzzled! Extremely surprised!
(End of this chapter)