Chapter 145 If you can't get married, you can't get married!

Although in 1995, there is no doubt that the most popular animation production company in China can only be the Jiji Animation Studio led by Meng Zhe, it is still the Shanghai Art Film Studio that holds the lead in the entire animation industry in China.

Many TV stations, including CCTV, also have animation production departments, but the qualified Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio still gathers most of the animation production talents in China. If they make every effort, they can easily produce 5,000 minutes or more cartoons every year... As we all know, Chinese cartoons are in the format of more than ten minutes per episode, so bring the opening and ending of the film that can be used many times with one production. 5,000 minutes is more than 500 episodes of domestic animation!

But the problem is that this is only theoretical data - in fact, from 1993 to 1995, Shanghai Fine Arts and Film Studio only shot cartoons for about 500 minutes a year.

In this period, the cartoons produced by Shanghai Art Film Studio accounted for about 80% of the total Chinese cartoon sources.

So the problem is that all of China, from CCTV to provincial TV stations to county and municipal TV stations, large and small, add up to hundreds of TV stations!

Even if there is no children's channel in this era, even if every TV station in this era only broadcasts one or two episodes of children's cartoons in the form of 'Windmill', 'Animation City' at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, even if a cartoon can be repeated on multiple TV stations... But even if it is only the core CCTV One, it needs nearly 4,000 minutes of animation every year!

Therefore, the 500-minute animation produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio every year can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in front of this huge market.

Therefore, in this era, it is natural for a large number of foreign cartoons, especially Japanese cartoons, to appear in TV - after all, in this era, there is no restriction on the release of foreign animations.

It should be said that the radio and television of this era are indeed quite open-up. For example, in the 92 and 93 years of Shanghai Art Film Studio, a gangster-themed cartoon "Special Fleet" with animals as the protagonists was produced, which is a rare cartoon in domestic cartoons in this era.

Of course, in fact, many episodes of cartoons made by Shanghai Art Film Studio are actually quite good. For example, "Mutate Baby" is wrong... It's "Huluwa", such as "Shuke and Beta" written by Zheng Yuanjie, the king of fairy tales... But if you pay a little attention to it, you will find that Shanghai Art Film Studio is more Most of them are making single-episode animated feature films, rather than multi-episode cartoons in the series mode.

It doesn't matter if you like to make single-episode cartoons. Doesn't Ghibli only make animated movies and not TV animation? Don't those animated movies made by Ghibli also contain all kinds of truths?

But the biggest difference between Shangmeiying and Ghibli is that Ghibli is more commercial than Shangmeiying in this era, so in order to ensure the recovery of funds and make profits, they will try to explain the truth in the twists and turns of stories and exquisite pictures, and the goal is to focus on it from beginning to end. Animated film market.

It's different on Meiying. If you take it seriously, it was not until 1999 that you finally tried to enter the commercial animated film market and make the commercial animated film "Baolian Lantern".

I found Jiang Wen, Liang Tian, Chen Peisi and others as dubbing, and also found Zhang Xinzhe and Li Wen's "Baolian Lantern" at the end of the beginning and end of the album. After the release, they got 29 million box office data. The successful release in the same period only won more than 10 million in the Chinese market. The American animated film Mulan.

The top box office data of this domestic animated film was not broken by the 33 million of Fengyun Secret until 2008 - considering the price change, in fact, the box office revenue of Fengyun Secret may not be better than that of Baolian Lantern.

Therefore, after Meng Zhe worked out the script of the animated film, he was the first to think of going to the United States to talk about cooperation.

But Meng Zhe also knows that if he runs to the American film with a draft script, the animated film will definitely make money... If he can't say three words, he will be served tea to the guests.

Even if they are still a big pot rice system now, if they can't make people feel that the animated movies they make can really make a lot of money, are fools willing to invest and cooperate?

During this period, although Shangmeiying has received some financial allocations due to the emergence of the 5155 project, it is still tight. If you spend a lot of money, you are likely to lose a lot of money.

Therefore, Meng Zhe must find a way to make the people who play the beautiful film believe that the animated movies can really make real money.

So, Meng Zhe, who had this idea, found Yoshida and asked Yoshida to help him collect the box office data of the Japanese TV animation that produced the theatrical version of the animated film. After Yoshida patted his chest to ensure that he would complete the task, Meng Zhe found people to do market research on the streets of several large cities in "Anime Boy", computer network and printed forms... While Meng Zhe was busy with these things, Kong Lan finally flew back from the other side of the ocean and completed the investigation of the blizzard. Later, she successfully exchanged 5% of the equity of Kuanglan Entertainment Software Company for the same proportion of Blizzard Entertainment.

This result is already ideal for Meng Zhe, and the good news is not the only one - Bian Xiaochun and others of Kuanglan Entertainment Software have completed the localization of ICQ and the modification of the interface, and produced the first version of QQ software that Meng Zhe wants.

Originally, Meng Zhe planned to transfer the operation of QQ to Kuolan Entertainment Software, but now that he has exchanged equity with Blizzard... With the idea of never letting Blizzard take advantage of us, Meng Zhe temporarily assigned the operation of QQ to the network maintainers responsible for maintaining Qidian Chinese network and hao123.

Later, Meng Zhe simply went to register a leather bag company called 'Shengteng Network'... Everyone else, including Kong Lan, did not understand why Meng Zhe had such a strange name as Shengteng.

"Uh, is this? It's just the abbreviation of Shengshi Longteng. I hope this country can meet Shengshi again and fly to the sky like a dragon.

Meng Zhe answered like this. Of course, he would not tell everyone that he took such a name just to remember Shanda and Tencent, who were robbed of food by him.

"Oh, brother Zhe, you are getting more and more meaningful."

Kong Lan nodded with satisfaction, and then took over the work of pulling investment for the animated film Fairy Sword - Lamp Like Day.

Take Kong Lan's words as an example: "Brother Xiaozhe, your talent is wasted in such a place. Just draw your favorite comics and make up your favorite stories... Just leave these trivial things to my sister!"

After Kong Lan took over, the first thing he did was to send money to Shanghai Art Film Studio - it was really to send money to Shangmeiying. Kong Lan found a deputy director of Shangmeiying and entrusted part of the storyboard animation production of the third season of Fairy Sword and I-am-legend. It was made by Shangmeiying.

Meng Zhe is somewhat puzzled by Sister Lan's move, because although Jiji Animation is making two cartoons at the same time, there is not much pressure to make a cartoon of about 1,000 minutes a year on the current scale of Jiji Animation.

In other words, Gigi Animation can produce about 50 episodes of 20-minute TV animation every year, which can be arranged for exactly one year according to the mode of one episode a week.

"Oh, it's very simple... If you want to take it, you must give it first."

After Meng Zhe asked why, Kong Lan replied with a smile that in Kong Lan's opinion, this was just a small way to take a little money to get a lot of money.

"The Shangmeiying, which used to be proud of the heroes, is now seriously underdeveloped, so even if they don't say anything, they will be a little unhappy. If you talk about cooperation directly, even if you come up with all kinds of survey data, people may not be willing to be relieved. Therefore, we need to do some paving work in advance. Seeing that Meng Zhe was still a little confused, Kong Lan continued to explain: "Let them also participate in the production, and share the glory of being welcomed by all over China and successfully entering the international TV animation screening market... Brother Xiao Zhe, don't you think that after this connection, they will subconsciously think that our Jiji Animation and them Is Shangmeiying a friend or even a family?

When Kong Lan said this, Meng Zhe finally realized and marveled at Kong Lan's means - Sister Lan's breasts! Sister Lan is rippling!

With this friendship link at the bottom, and taking out the survey data of those animated movies, the probability of success of pulling the American film into the thief ship is indeed much higher!

So, Meng Zhe, who felt that he couldn't play with these things, obediently pulled a group of screenwriters and Guan Yuluo, who had been ordered by him, and closed the door to improve the script of "Fairy Sword - Lamp Like Day" and left.

Meng Zhe's brief script, which took all night to make, has now been enriched or modified a lot of things. For example, Meng Zhe's proposal to arrange two settings for the third master Hu to do all kinds of evil and deceive his subordinates, was greatly under Guan Yuluo's proposal after reading the draft script.

Guan Yuluo, who has completed the book "Cangsheng Qinhuang" in the light novel magazine. After reading the draft script of "Fairy Sword - Lamps Like the Day", she thought that Meng Zhe arranged two subordinates for the third master of the fox to set up, but she felt that if she could replace one of the two subordinates, it seemed that the demon clan would replace the Chengren class. It will be more interesting.

"If you can show the kind of self-abandoned thousand-year-old Taoism like the butterfly demon Caiyi in The Legend of Sword and Fairy, in order to repay kindness and have no regrets, in exchange the position for her father-in-law's ten years of Yangshou, which is more affectionate than others... It would be perfect!"

Guan Yuluo, who proposed the revision, said to Meng Zhe. The reason why Guan Yuluo knew the storyline of the fairy sword generation so early was that Meng Zhe asked someone to get a traditional version of the fairy sword generation game in order to remember, and was played by Guan Yiluo one time. I see it.

Then, Meng Zhe's laptop was rudely occupied by Guan Yuluo for a whole weekend for a total of two days and three nights.

When Guan Yuluo, whose eyes were red, returned the laptop to Meng Zhe, Meng Zhe seized the opportunity to cancel her sentimental crying nose, while Guan Yuluo resolutely did not admit that her eyes were red, but just stayed up late to stay up.

When Meng Zhe subdivided the difference between Ao Hong's eyes, who stayed up late and her crying red eyes, Guan Yuluo, who was crazy, directly overturned Meng Zhe to the ground. Then the little girl rode on Meng Zhe's stomach and stared at Meng Zhe with red eyes and said fiercely, "I didn't cry!" Who will cry after playing a game?!"

"Uh-huh, no crying, no crying! I read it wrong!" Meng Zhe nodded hurriedly.

Well, even if Guan Yuluo is a little weak after playing the game for two or three days, Meng Zhe is still not an opponent.

So in this kind of situation of Guan Yuluo's madness and arrogance, Meng Zhe felt that it was safer for him to follow Guan Yuluo's words. Thinking of the unlucky guy who was almost smashed by Guan Yuluo when he was kidnapped last year, Meng Zhe couldn't help feeling a little painful. What's more, it's still the situation where Guan Yuluo pushed Meng Zhe down, on the ground and rode on his stomach... Well, the place where Meng Zhe was pushed down is actually not the ground, but the sofa in his editor-in-chief's office that can be used as a bed, because Guan Yuluo is still measured even if he is crazy.

"I said, you can't always be so violent and discordant! I am honest, loyal and kind. You can bully me if you bully me, and push me down if you want to, but other male compatriots don't have such a good temper as me! Humph... When you can't get married in the future, you will slowly regret it!"

Between the 'peaks' that are not too big, Meng Zhe, who looked up at Guan Yuluo's face, couldn't help complaining like this. His eyes were slightly evil and strange - did the good thing of being 'pushing down' by a girl actually happen to me?

It's just that Meng Zhe regretted this complaining joke as soon as he said it - counting, Meng Zhe has known Guan Yuluo for more than two years. If Meng Zhe only regarded Guan Yuluo as an ordinary friend with a different surname at the beginning, then Guan Yuluo's weight in Meng Zhe's heart after getting along with him in the past two years has actually reached red. The degree of a confidant.

Meng Zhe is very clear about the fact that Guan Yuluo likes him, and also knows that he also appreciates or likes Guan Yuluo in his heart, but he has always carefully maintained the relationship between the two between friends and lovers, and rationally does not let himself do further things.

But now Meng Zhe's words are a little ambiguous, bullying, pushing down or something... On such an occasion, it's almost like flirting.

Sure enough, after listening to Meng Zhe's words, Guan Yuluo's face turned red at first, but then she thought of the Jiang sisters, so her eyes became a little dim: "If you can't get married, you can't get married!" At worst, I'll be single all my life!"

If Meng Zhe still remembers, he will definitely find that the answer given by Guan Yuluo this time is not the same as that when he intentionally said similar words almost half a year ago.

In this way, the atmosphere between the two became awkward. Finally, Guan Yuluo stood up generously and stretched out his hand to pull Meng Zhe up.

In order to resolve this embarrassment, Meng Zhe took the initiative to take out the draft script of "Fairy Sword - Lamp Like the Day" to Guan Yuluo, and Guan Yuluo really read it carefully, and also seriously put forward her modification suggestions... Therefore, Meng Zhe, who is good at collecting the crowd, accepted it after a little thought. Guan Yuluo suggested and took the initiative to invite Guan Yuluo to join the screenwriting team of Fairy Sword - Lamp Like Day.

(to be continued)