In an old residential area in a first-tier city.

Wu Weiyan sat in front of the computer. After posting the article "accusing" "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World", he did not exit the interface, but kept refreshing the comment area with the mouse.

Wu Weiyan is an original artist who also works in the anime and animation related industry. He often posts some of his works on Weibo and has accumulated more than 2 fans.

Since they are in the same industry, they should hope that Chinese animation will get better and better, so why did he post a message to criticize "Nezha"?

It's nothing, just jealousy.

In fact, Wu Weiyan's level is pretty good, but the profession of original artist is not as glamorous as outsiders imagine, and you can earn tens of thousands a month just by sitting at home and moving your fingers without leaving the house.

The truth is, although Wu Weiyan is a bit famous, his income is not high at all and is extremely unstable, otherwise he and his girlfriend would not rent such an old apartment in a residential complex without an elevator.

Half a month ago, he received a "business order" on Weibo, which did not ask him to draw a picture, but to write an article "criticizing" the movie "Nezha".

Although the other party did not reveal his identity, Wu Weiyan could guess that this was probably someone from a certain movie production company during the Spring Festival, hoping to use this to suppress the box office of "Nezha".

But Wu Weiyan agreed to this "business order" without much consideration, because the other party offered a price of 1 yuan per piece that he could not refuse.

Anyway, there are so many people criticizing the movie "Nezha", and one more won't make a difference, this is what Wu Weiyan thought.

The billions of box office revenue of this movie has nothing to do with me, but this 1 yuan is actually in my pocket!

Then came the first wave of collective negative reviews of "Nezha" on the Internet, and Wu Weiyan was one of those who posted the comments.

What happened next was that the reputation of "Nezha" was indeed affected to a certain extent, and the ratings on the film review website dropped, but the box office was like riding a rocket, and it still soared all the way and maintained the first place in the Spring Festival box office.

The "sponsor" may have felt that it was useless, or perhaps realized that the box office of "Nezha" was unstoppable, so he never contacted him again.

However, Wu Weiyan has not stopped criticizing the movie "Nezha" and has continued to do so until now.

Now, his new article has received more than 100 comments, many of which are from familiar faces.

"I agree! You're absolutely right!"

"Support the blogger, how brave! There are so many praises outside, but I really don't think this movie is any good."

"Compared with foreign animated films, the quality of this film is really not even a little bit worse. I don't understand what's so great about it."

"It is because these crappy movies that rely on acting crazy and stupid to make the audience laugh can get high box office that domestic animation cannot develop!"

Seeing that many people in the comment section supported his point of view, Wu Weiyan felt a sense of satisfaction.

At this moment, the door behind him opened, and his girlfriend Xiaojuan, who lived with him and had just finished taking a shower and drying her hair, walked in.

My girlfriend was standing at the table blowing her hair. She glanced at the computer screen and said, "Honey, you're posting about Nezha again."

Wu Weiyan nodded, his eyes never leaving the screen, his fingers typing quickly on the keyboard, "This article is so popular, there are already more than 1000 comments, it must have hit their pain points."

After the girlfriend finished blowing her hair, she took the initiative to go around his arm and squeeze into his arms, and said coquettishly: "But, you have been blowing for half a month."

"Why would we fight them to death?"

Wu Weiyan stopped what he was doing and sneered, "I just can't stand certain phenomena. I really can't understand it."

"How did the movie Nezha earn over 30 billion at the box office? What kind of character design is that? Nezha is ugly, and Taiyi Zhenren is a fat, greasy uncle. They are ugly in their own ways. It's not as good as the drawing I did when I was in high school."

Listening to his complaints, his girlfriend asked, "How did they get so much at the box office? There must be some merit, right?"

Wu Weiyan shook his head. "At best, the special effects are okay, but that's just okay. It mainly relies on luck and hype to sell tickets."

"The plot is at best at the level of something for children. I think it is an insult to Chinese animation to call this kind of animation the 'glory of Chinese animation'."

My girlfriend nodded, not really understanding. She usually likes to watch romance movies and palace fighting movies, and doesn't care about animation. But she still asked casually: "Then which works do you think can be called the 'light of Chinese animation'?"

"Of course..." Before he could finish his words, Wu Weiyan was stunned and stopped.

In fact, there have been many acclaimed Chinese comic works in recent years, including "That Rabbit" and "Wushan Wuxing", which have been dubbed "The Rise of Chinese Comics" and "The Light of Chinese Comics".

Originally, he wanted to talk about "Wushan Wuxing", which is very popular in the original painting circle. But he suddenly realized that he had overlooked a problem. These works, without exception, all came from the "Shiguangzhiqiu" animation studio.

It has the same producer as "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World"!

If I say "Fog Mountain Five Elements" myself, wouldn't that be slapping myself in the face?

Wu Weiyan curled his lips and changed his words: "Domestic animation is just at that level. The level of practitioners is uneven and there is no industrialized production capacity. Compared with foreign animated films such as Disney and Hollywood, the gap is too big."

"No matter how popular Nezha is at the box office now, it is only making money in China. When our animated films can go international and be released in Hollywood, that will be truly amazing. Then it won't be too late to be called the 'light of Chinese animation'."

The box office of "Nezha" exceeded 30 billion, and the various reports that followed did not affect Ye Zhiqiu.

At this time, he is busy filming "Detective Chinatown" and refuses any interference from the media.

But seeing that "Nezha" was breaking box office records every day, how could the reporters sit still? They waited at the door of the "Detective Chinatown" crew in Yangcheng every day, hoping to interview Ye Zhiqiu.

Finally, perhaps unable to bear the harassment, Ye Zhiqiu issued a statement, saying that he would hold a press conference and invited many media to participate.

Naturally, all media outlets were extremely active. Just after the fifteenth day of the lunar year, they rushed excitedly to notify the hotel where the press conference would be held.

However, when they saw the lineup for the press conference, they were all stunned.

I originally thought it was a press conference about "Nezha", but apart from Ye Zhiqiu himself, no one from the "Shiguangzhiqiu" animation studio was present.

On the contrary, Fang Long, who was sitting side by side with Ye Zhiqiu in the middle, surprised many reporters, but also left them confused.

What's going on? Why did you invite even the eldest brother?

However, the two pieces of news that Ye Zhiqiu announced next completely stunned all the reporters.

"I will work with Brother Van Loong to co-produce and shoot two Hollywood films for the global market."

"The first one is the animated film Kung Fu Panda. I wrote the script and the Autumn of Light studio and American Animation DreamWorks participated in the production."

"The second one is the crime action movie "Beyond the Storm". I wrote the script and Brother Van Long will star in it."

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