The star is legit but sick.

Chapter 738: Let the Bullets Fly and Hero is Back

The animated film "The Return of the Great Sage" has also been in production for a long time.

Due to insufficient production funds, the final film of this movie, Earth, has some flaws.

Even so, the film achieved the highest box office record for an animated film in the year it was released.

Starting from "The Return of the Great Sage", domestic animated films have gradually developed, and some good works have been born in the following days.

It can be said that it was this monkey that saved the domestic animation film industry.

In this world, there are also domestic animated films, but they are all based on some existing popular IPs.

For example, the cartoon "Silly Goose and Stupid Dog", which is still updated every day, maintains the model of producing one animated movie every year.

The movie was released during the Spring Festival and it also got a pretty good box office.

But this box office is only relative to other domestic animated films.

The highest box office of their big movies was only 4.15 million yuan.

In the Chinese film market, the highest-grossing animated film is a foreign film called "Spirit Realm Adventures", which has grossed 11.3 billion in the Chinese film market alone.

The idea that domestic animated films are not good has been ingrained in everyone's mind, and many people have never even thought about producing a work that can compete with foreign animated films.

After all, creating good works does not rely on passion alone, but on funds, talents, and love for the animation industry.

We have the talent and passion, but not the funds.

No investor is willing to invest money in the production of animated films.

This kind of movie has high investment risk and a high probability of losing money.

This is also normal.

But for Xu Ye, this is not a problem.

The total production cost of "The Return of the Great Sage" has exceeded 100 million yuan.

This level of production funding is unique in the entire domestic animation film industry. If this were to get out, everyone would think Xu Ye was crazy.

Xu Ye did not do any publicity outside and produced the movie quietly.

According to the current progress, "Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Return of the Great Sage" can both be released during next year's Spring Festival.

When the two movies are released together, the audience can watch "Let the Bullets Fly" before going to watch "The Return of the Great Sage".

After Xu Ye checked "The Return of the Great Sage", the film was directly submitted for review.

The movie produced by Dream Building Studio makes up for some of the shortcomings of the original film.

After all, Xu Ye is not short of money.

Cao Na from the Review Department was stunned after seeing this movie.

How did an animated film come about?

It would be understandable if Xu Ye made an animated movie like "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit" or "Tom and Jerry".

Isn’t it true that semi-original animated films like “The Return of the Great Sage” are designed to lose money?
However, after Cao Na watched the movie, her attitude changed.

“This monkey is so handsome!”

At first she really thought that this horse-faced monkey was ugly but quite distinctive. But later on when the monkey melted stones into armor and wielded flames into robes, the whole feeling was completely different.

This is not a horse face, this is a square face, you can tell at first glance that he can achieve great things!

It was not difficult for "The Return of the Great Sage" to pass the review.

After the trial, Cao Na called Xu Ye and asked him what kind of help he needed.

Today, China's animation industry is on a positive path, but there are no animated films yet.

Xu Ye is the first to take the lead again this time, and the audit department must also express its appreciation.

Xu Ye simply asked the review department to coordinate with the theater chain.

Even though he is the director of "The Return of the Great Sage", it is still a bit risky to get a high screening schedule.

It’s not that the cinema chains are stupid, but there are not many screenings for domestic animated films, so it doesn’t matter who comes.

Especially since "The Return of the Great Sage" wants to be released during the Spring Festival, this schedule is even more tight.

It would be better if the review department could help get more screenings.

During the filming and editing of Let the Bullets Fly, this large studio also added some new singers.

Xu Ye had sung many songs in "The King of Love Songs" before. During this period, he also released a lot of songs from "The King of Love Songs" intermittently to increase the fame of the singers in the studio.

Xu Ye also released the eighth and ninth songs from his album "Silly Music".

One is "Sunshine, Rainbow and Little White Horse" and the other is "Dala Bangba".

Especially in "Dala Bangba", Xu Ye adopted Zhou Shen's singing style and played four roles by himself. After the song was released, the audience was shocked.

What followed was a group of cover songs by up-loaders on Xiaolan Station.

Xu Ye also started a cover singing activity on Xiaolanzhai, but he also put forward requirements for everyone's cover singing.

You can change the names of people and places in the lyrics, but you are not allowed to edit them. You must sing all the names of people and places in the original lyrics in one go.

This is very difficult.

Even so, the song still attracted many UP hosts on Xiaolan Station to cover it, and it quickly became popular on the Internet.

Yu Wei even came to Xu Ye to buy the copyright.

Previously, Xu Ye suggested to Yu Wei that she could organize a music variety show called "Masked Singer". After several years of discussion and planning, the recording of this music variety show will start next year.

Yu Wei thinks that the song "Dala Bangba" is very suitable to be sung on the stage of King of Masked Singer.

Some veteran singers who want to challenge themselves but don’t want to be discovered by their old audiences can come to the stage and sing this song. There will definitely be some first-line singers who will be interested.

By December, the editing of Let the Bullets Fly was complete and the film was sent for review. After receiving the film, Cao Na analyzed it in her mind.

According to the five-year plan mentioned by Xu Ye, this movie is the last one in the five-year plan.

She looked at the information in the file and found that the movie category was comedy.

"All five films in the five-year plan are comedies."

Cao Na didn't think much about it. She had watched the previous four movies many times and remembered the plots by heart.

I have seen this movie many times, but I still laugh out loud every time I watch it.

"This movie is actually a comedy. I thought it was a war movie."

Cao Na didn't think any more and turned on the movie.

At the very beginning of the movie, there is singing.

This song has a famous name, called "Farewell". It was released in 1915. It can be said to be the most classic of all farewell songs and a true century-old classic.

"Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky~"

Listening to this beautiful song, Cao Na was already sighing in her heart.

“The lyrics are so beautiful!”

Cao Na seldom uses the word "beautiful" to describe the lyrics of a song, but the song "Farewell" gave her such a feeling.

The scene shifted to the train.

Cao Na saw He Shuhong who was playing the role of the legal advisor.

Later on, when Zhang Mazi fired a gun, a classic line corresponding to the title of the movie appeared.

Zhang Mazi said calmly: "Let the bullets fly for a while."

The train overturned, leaving only Ma Bangde and his wife alive.

"Now that He Shuhong is dead, this movie will definitely be a good one!" Cao Na said in her heart.

At the beginning of "Kung Fu", the leader of the Crocodile Gang, also played by He Shuhong, was killed by Brother Chen of the Axe Gang.

Netizens joked online that as long as He Shuhong dies at the beginning of a movie, it is a good movie.

Cao Na thought the movie was quite funny at first. The horse-drawn train, the somewhat funny plot, and the various performances of the characters all clearly showed that the movie was indeed a comedy.

But the more she looked down, the more she felt something was wrong.

Some people say that "Let the Bullets Fly" is a metaphor, but in fact it is not entirely true.

There is a metaphor in part, but a lot of things are on the surface, not metaphorically, but explicitly.

Two hours later, Cao Na finished watching the entire movie, and the only feeling left in her heart was shock.

"You call this a comedy!"

Cao Na didn't know how to review this movie.

The characters here obviously have metaphors. Some refer to a type of people, some refer to a specific person, and some refer to both.

Cao Na grew up in a compound and heard her elders talk about past events, which made her feel more deeply about this movie.

"Zhang Mazi won, but he didn't win completely. The dragon-slaying boy will also become a dragon. If we don't want history to repeat itself, we have to point one gun at the enemy and one gun at ourselves."

Cao Na looked up the film's registered release date and found it was during the Spring Festival.

This means that two of Xu Ye’s films will be released during the Spring Festival.

"Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Monkey King: Hero is Back".

When she thought of these two movie titles, a poem suddenly came to her mind.

"The golden monkey rises with great strength, and the jade cloud clears the air. Today I cheer for the great sage Sun, only because the evil mist has returned."

"Let the Bullets Fly" also passed the review smoothly.

After receiving the news that it had passed the review, Xu Ye felt relieved.

Xu Ye has been quite busy recently. He is already preparing for his wedding with Xiao Xu.

Things like weddings can be simple or complicated, but given Xu Ye and Xiao Xu's identities, they can't keep it simple even if they want to.

Xu Ye did not intend to make a big impact with this wedding. He would not follow the example of some celebrities in the entertainment industry who would look for sponsors for their wedding and turn marriage into a business.

The people invited to this wedding will only be some relatives and friends with whom we have a good relationship.

Even so, it's still troublesome.

Many details require Xu Ye and his partner to make decisions personally, and even if you want to delegate the responsibility to others, they won't be able to do so.

For example, when it comes to taking wedding photos, even if you want to lower the standard, your status does not allow you to take photos casually.

What's more, most girls want to take beautiful wedding photos at this time, and it will take several days to go to the location.

Fortunately, Xu Ye has already handled most of the work on hand, and even made the next five-year plan. He is just waiting to announce the content of the next five-year plan next year.

Otherwise he really wouldn't have time to deal with these things.

Originally Xu Ye was planning to let the vacation pass like this, but then he received a call from Zhou Guohai.

"Xu Ye, I'm the director of the Spring Festival Gala again this year. Do you want to put on a few programs?" Zhou Guohai said with a smile as soon as he came up.

"Why are you the director again? Didn't you say you wouldn't direct the Spring Festival Gala anymore?" Xu Ye asked.

"This is the last time, you have to help me." Zhou Guohai said with a smile.

Xu Ye thought about it and asked, "Then let's negotiate a condition and let our company have a few more singers."

(End of this chapter)