Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Whether or not thanks to the help of the short animation.

The final result is the box office of "Happy Life" has been soaring all the way.

Someone might make a fortune out of it.

But that person was definitely not Sammy.

Later, the crew of "Happy Life" also held a celebration banquet lively.

Except for the very self-respecting Mr. Director, everyone was happy.

Obviously, in the profit-hungry Hollywood kingdom, most people still agree with Ed's point of view, and the box office is high.

As for the dignity of the creator, please, can it be eaten as a meal?

So, from their point of view, the whole thing is simple: "Whoa, I'm in a movie!" "This movie grossed a fucking hell of a lot!" "I can brag about it for the rest of my life." Starting today, I am also a senior talent who has participated in the production of high-grossing films!"

As for the reasons for the high box office and the negative reviews the film received after it aired...

A few years later, who still remembers?

Rossi was a little resentful about it.

He deliberately posted several photos of the celebration banquet of the "Happy Life" crew in the chat group created for the convenience of everyone talking about work when he was making the "Killing the Dragon" animation.In these photos, countless people are well-dressed, with smiles on their faces, toasting, champagne is piled up all over the house, and luxury cars are parked outside the door.

Take a look, take a good look!

Obviously we also have credit, but we didn't get anything.

Are you not convinced?

Are you jealous?

Are you not reconciled?

Do you want to catch up?

however……

Former young rookie animator: [It looks so lively. ]

Photographer Gavin: [This picture should have been edited, look here, picture 1, skin color contrast, picture 2, shadow contrast...]

Sammy: [I'm so tired, my dragon-slaying great sword has finally taken shape, picture 123, but I haven't had lunch today. ]

Mikey: [Happy!During the publicity today, someone offered me candy!Human cubs hand candies to teddy bears.JPG]

Allie: [Rosie! ! ! ! ! ! !I asked you to go shopping with me, didn't you say you were busy with work?Is this your job? ]

Rossi: […]

Why don't you people have any self-motivation?

Rosie is heartbroken!

The exhaustion of "teammates are not good enough to lead five pits with one mind" and the grief of "may never be rewarded for ambition" rose again in his heart.

It does!

Since the response to "Who Killed the Dragon" was very good, when facing the members of the original production team of this animation, everyone in the company had a feeling of "these boys can't do it from now on." Bright future' idea.

Not at all.

Rossi wanted to continue to climb up the management team, but his qualifications were not enough, and although his grades were good, he was not that outstanding. As a result, everyone felt that he was a threat, but the position just couldn't be promoted; the situation of photographer Gavin was also It didn’t get better. Although he was skilled, he couldn’t find a suitable team because of his personality. On the contrary, the newcomer animator was relatively better, because he was a newcomer, and he was lucky enough to participate in such a good movie. Animation, casually hand out some bonuses, which means that you can easily appease them if you pay attention.

As for Sammy...

To be honest, the company doesn't know where to put this kind of director with a very serious personal style!

Continue to stay on the crew of "The Adventures of Aaron"?

Although he played a big role in the success of the fourth season, after all, if he didn't fully join the crew, it would be impossible to understand his importance in it.Moreover, it seems unreasonable to fire Director Jones for no reason and let him take over;

Then invest another sum of money to support him in making an animation similar to "Who Killed the Dragon"?

It doesn't seem to work either.Although film critics praised "Who Killed the Dragon", claiming that it was a short animation worth thinking about for adults, it is well known that many film critics' favorite things are simply not worth the price!For a rookie director (yes, Sammy is still rookie, even if it barely makes two films), it's not very safe to invest too much.

In a word, it should not be taken lightly or seriously, it is too difficult to arrange.

Based on this embarrassing situation, Sami, who had achieved certain achievements, was 'in the cold' instead (actually, I just didn't know how to explain the 'difficult arrangement' for him).

To what extent was it left out?

When Sami was obsessed with making the stainless steel dragon-slaying sword and didn't show up at the company for two consecutive weeks, no one asked.

People in the company thought he was running with the crew of "The Adventures of Aaron";

And the crew of "The Adventures of Aaron" obviously thinks that he is still in the company and clocks in to work seriously every day;

As for his friends and relatives...

Everyone was thinking of the best, thinking that he had finally turned himself around this time, that his talents had been brought into play, that he had been valued, and that no matter how busy he was with any big creations, he didn't dare to disturb him lightly.

Finally, Sami is officially out of the customs with the shiny dragon-slaying sword in his hand!

As a result, he drew his sword excitedly and looked around, only to find that he was forgotten by everyone.

If you were a normal person, you would definitely be depressed and annoyed. Take the time to go out and brush up your presence.

But Sammy had mentally retarded thoughts like 'hey, since no one is looking for me, then I'll go home and play'.

So he went back home without saying a word, and went to the studio to tap again, planning to get himself a dragon-slaying armor when he was free, completely immersed in his own world...

At the same time, when he was messing around at home...

The fourth season of "Aaron's Adventures" finally ushered in a pivotal plot twist with a huge twist.

In episodes that aired some time ago, Aaron and his non-human friends had developed a strong friendship.

They explored the forest outside the villa together, fished together, swam together, ran on the lawn together, experienced hardships together, but also created countless happy memories together.

Just when Aaron was playing with these non-human friends...

Mr. Ghost, who seems to have amnesia, is looking for something every day, but doesn't know what he is looking for, always reminds him of a sentence every morning: "Living humans should not always be in contact with non-humans."

But when they are not familiar with each other, Aaron can still be a little wary...

But as he got more and more happy with his non-human friends, he basically ignored this dissuasion.

However, the holidays always come to an end.

The Aaron family will soon be leaving their country house and returning to city life.

But all the non-human characters, headed by the teddy bear, don't want to accept this fact.

Before this, the audience has watched Aaron and non-human beings get along happily for a long time. The initial freshness is gradually disappearing, and it is difficult for human interest to last. If there is no more interesting plot, the ratings Frankness may not be able to maintain the previous state.

But at this stage, the plot took a turn.

Inhuman characters who were once warm, friendly, lovable, and kind finally showed their negative sides.

They got together and talked a lot, and they all opposed the 'Aaron's departure'.

"Aren't friends supposed to be together?" "Aren't we having a good time?" "Why leave? Will there be dense and beautiful woods in the city, will there be flowing rivers, will there be singing birds and green grass? "Aaron should stay with us. His parents didn't treat him well at all, and they even found such a fierce tutor for him before!"

Of these non-human characters, the teddy bear is the most vehemently opposed.

——You can come when you want, leave when you want, hug when you want to hug, abandon when you want to abandon, isn’t the bear sad?Isn't the bear sad?

——Do you think that because my fabric is faux fur and the filling is fluffy cotton, not high-grade angora wool or alpaca wool, and it looks cheap, bulky, and shabby, I have no soul, no heart?

--you are wrong!Bear souls are just like yours!The bear's heart is exactly like yours too!

——If the creator of the bear is willing to use high-grade angora wool or South American alpaca wool to make me fabrics and stuffing, and give me expensive pearls and gemstones as eyes, will you still leave the bear?Would you still be willing to leave the bear?You must be inseparable from bears, because you may only be able to afford one such expensive bear in your life.

——Standing at the feet of God, we should be equal to each other!

——I don’t dislike that you are too poor to afford a brand-name teddy bear, so you can’t dislike me for not having high-grade angora wool, South American alpaca wool, pearls, and gemstone eyes! !

The oversized teddy bear, which seemed to have doubled in size, roared like a resentful woman, and raised its paw high.

What's even more amazing is that all the audience who saw this scene seemed to feel the endless pain in the teddy bear's heart.

The huge dramatic tension brought about by that kind of grief and indignation rushed through the screen like a stormy sea.

All the audience was shocked.

But that's a puppet bear!

No matter how you look at it, it is a bear!

This actor is simply amazing!

How on earth did he show such intense emotion through his bear-like appearance?

This is the best part of the whole drama of Mai Qilong.

Absolutely heartfelt.

The poor dragon who lost his treasure understands the pain of this teddy bear without high-grade angora wool, South American alpaca and pearls and gemstone eyes!

At this moment, it is poverty that synchronizes and merges the souls of the characters and actors at this moment. Together, they interpret the pain of the poor on the screen, and even their eyes are filled with endless sadness.

Under such a look of almost actual grief, Aaron, the protagonist who originally wanted to laugh when he saw the lines off the set, was also brought into the play.

He backed away in panic, and fell to the floor in a terrible embarrassment.

The lights of the villa were flickering, but the normally honest and cute teddy bear showed a ferocious angry expression. Aaron's huge body almost covered Aaron's figure, making him look extremely scary.

At this time, after seeing this scene, all the people who are familiar with Sami will probably show a helpless expression, and curse in a low voice: "Damn monster complex!"

But there is no way, some things are just so strange.

In this world, since there are some people who "suffer from gigantic phobia and faint when they see very huge things", naturally there will also be people like Sammy who "super like giant monsters, the bigger the more they like them" people.

You know, when I was young, a certain round-faced dwarf secretly chanted a magnification spell (the spell came from a certain fairy tale book) to the cat at home for a week, trying to magnify it a hundred times.

Unfortunately, this incident only proved that he was a No-Maj without magic power.

But this does not affect him at all when he is engaged in creation, and from time to time he satisfies himself with selfishness...

For example, make a big monster in a TV series to enjoy yourself.

Therefore, when shooting this shot, Sammy deliberately stood in Aaron's perspective to shoot.

At this time, the audience sitting in front of the TV can only bring themselves into Aaron's perspective, and look up with him at the super-large teddy bear that suddenly transformed into an extremely burly and terrifying one, with a furious and ferocious expression. In the shadows, shivering!

But Sammy wasn't satisfied with that.

He directed the photographer to do a very frustrating and sick thing.

Toys like teddy bears, when making eyes, handmade glass beads were commonly used in the early years.

But later, due to cost and safety considerations, they were replaced with non-destructive and cheap plastic materials, but many inferior plastic materials have insufficient eyeballs and no pupils.

Therefore, in this play, the eyeballs of the teddy bears are made of handmade glass beads.

then……

A close-up shot of a glass eyeball suddenly appeared on the entire screen!

The transparent glass beads seemed to have faint cracks due to anger.

Therefore, the audience in front of the TV can still clearly see that in the flickering lights, the bear's artificial fur is blown up due to anger, but in the bear's glass eyes, it is clearly reflected. Aaron's terrified figure, but because of the cracks, the figure seemed to have been split, and there was a strange sense of fragmentation.

That weird scene composition...

It's almost like a person is locked in some kind of "eyeball prison that is about to burst", which makes the hair stand on end.

——It's so frightening!

Countless children were frightened and howled on the spot.

That night, the TV station's complaint calls were blown up.

Parents were angry: "Are you fucking sick? Why show horror movies to children?"

The operator of the TV station was really at a loss: "What? We don't broadcast horror movies, are you making a mistake?"

"That shitty "The Adventures of Aaron", with the big eyeballs on the whole screen, is scary."

"Sorry, but... I don't remember that drama as a horror movie, is it?"

Parents: "How dare you say it's not a horror movie! My child was so scared that he cried and threw away the newly bought teddy bears. What the hell! Last week he cried and asked for it, and now he wants to throw it away again! It's all your fault, you know how expensive this shit is? But I just found out that there are more expensive ones out there! Somebody actually buys some premium angora wool and South American alpaca and pearls and jewel-eyed teddy Xiong, this is too rich! Hey, does anyone really buy it?"

What is this all about?

Are you not complaining?Why are you gossiping again?This is not a sales hotline for buying teddy bears either!

The TV operator who hadn't watched "The Adventures of Aaron" at all was stupefied.

She had no choice but to answer patiently, dumbfounded: "Uh, I'm sorry? Regarding the horror movie, I will immediately report it to you and give you feedback as soon as possible. As for the wool you mentioned, er, is there any teddy bear with pearls and gemstone eyes?" Buy, sorry, I don't know."

A long time later, when "The Adventures of Aaron" had the opportunity to rerun and sell DVDs, the last segment of the episode, that is, the teddy bear suddenly burst into resentment, terrorizing Aaron, and, Sammy's favorite Glass eyeball lens...

All deleted! !

In fact, there are not many deletions, that is, five or six minutes.

But it was just too shocking.

Sammy couldn't figure it out.

When he heard the news, he scratched his hair with his hands, and felt very broken: "That part is so interesting! When the filming was over, I watched it specially, and it wasn't scary at all. Really, I watched it haha Lol, don't you think it's funny? (Everyone: ...No.) What a great idea that a person is all reflected in the eyeballs! I love it so much, it took a lot of effort to make this shot Well, besides..."

——There is no indecent language, no bare skin, and no violent plot.The teddy bear has always been purely threatening and angry, not really doing anything at all.Even if it was possible to do it, I didn't photograph the details into the plot, at most it brought a little hint.

——So, why do you want to cut it off after everything is like this?

——What did you say, the child is crying?

——Why do you want to blame me when the child cries?They are so timid that they will cry when they see a small bug.

——Let them cry if they want to cry.

——It's like every puppy has to bark. Crying is also the birthright of children. Why stop it? !

—Listen to me, ignore them, let them cry!

What I said earlier is not bad, but the last few sentences? ? ?

Everyone's veins twitched when they heard it: ... Can you learn to be a human being? !

What does it mean to ignore, what does it mean to make them cry?

Are you from Disney?

Are you afraid it's not a fake?

Disney obviously brings hope and dreams to children, but you wonder what it means to make children have nightmares every day?

Do you know it? It's because you always do this kind of thing!

The top management of the company doesn't know how to arrange you!

In short, Sammy's favorite scene must be resolutely cut.

He was extremely dissatisfied with this, and thought that everyone could not understand his inherently humorous and funny soul, so he wrote on Twitter angrily: [A warrior should not be reduced to a servant who coaxes children. ]

No one paid attention at the time, but years later...

This tweet was dug up by fans and ridiculed: [Hehe, it sounds like you have children. ]

Ignore these happenings in the future.

After the teddy bear exposed his identity as the ultimate boss, Mai Qilong went home.

no way.

When it was aired before, the person in charge of the review obviously ignored the horror of the teddy bear's transformation.

They probably naively thought, 'What's so scary about a toy bear growing up to act as a villain'?So, in the final analysis, this drama is still a Disney fairy tale drama, right?Even the villain is just a common teddy bear. Compared with the "villa ghost" submitted before, the horror level has almost plummeted to the lowest level.Still need to audit?pass. ]

However, what they don't know is that it's okay to be afraid of unfamiliar things; but the more familiar and even favorite things in daily life, suddenly make a terrifying face change, that is the real psychological shadow for a lifetime. !

So, in a moment of negligence, the terrible scene that scared countless children to tears was broadcast.

Even if it is edited again during the subsequent replay, the damage already done cannot be repaired.

In the following publicity by the crew, the teddy bear naturally met with strong resistance from the audience.

This directly led to the human cubs who used to give candy to the teddy bear played by Michelon and wanted to hug him. Now as soon as they see him, they cry loudly: "Bad...bad bear! Daddy, beat me!" Bad bear!"

The inexplicable 'everyone screams and beats' Mai Qilong is really aggrieved:

'...Are all human beings so fickle?You called me Xiong Tiantian yesterday, but today I am a bad bear? '

Faced with this situation, Director Jones also hinted frantically: "Why don't you take some free time recently?"

"Okay." Mikey had to go home dejectedly.

He actually enjoys the feeling of being liked and flattered by humans these days.

However, this world is too unfriendly to dragons.

But what he didn't know was that there were even more unfriendly existences.

That day, as soon as he entered the house, he saw Sammy rubbing his hands excitedly, with a joyful and mysterious smile on his face.

Then, the little man with a round face waved at him excitedly: "Come on, Mikey, I'll show you a big baby!"

He flew towards him happily like a bird, but suddenly pulled out from behind him the big stainless steel dragon-slaying sword that he had been eager to show off but had no place to show off: "Look, it's so cool! Come on!"

Why hasn't this happened yet?

Mikey let out a dragon cry of 'Mommy, I'm still a baby' in his heart, and showed a weak smile in extreme discomfort: "Yeah, that's cool!"

If you really have no way to resist life, it seems that you can only enjoy it.

Michelon believes that he cannot continue to be intimidated like this.

He's about to have a nervous breakdown!

Is there no nervous breakdown dragon in this world?

If you say it, you will be laughed to death and become the shame of the Dragon Clan!

And, there is still life to live.

So, he resolutely decided to overcome the psychological barrier, trying to adapt to a certain round-faced dwarf's strange preferences for "dragon slaying", and trying his best to treat the "dragon" in the opponent's mouth as a different species from himself. By the way, when the other party asked about the suggestion of 'slaying the dragon', he retaliated by talking nonsense.

It's still very simple.

Especially after considering that "even though I am not yet an adult, a small man with a round face who claims to be a warrior can't beat me at all, so he can only talk about it", some things are not worth being afraid of at all.

But Sami didn't realize the other party's perfunctory at all, thinking that he had finally found a life confidant with similar interests and shared dreams.

He likes Mikey more and more, because in his opinion, not everyone can be like Mikey, who is willing to naively believe in the fact that there are dragons in the world with him!

(Mike: "Nonsense, how could I think I don't exist!")

For Sammy, this 'support' has been a huge encouragement.

After all, he has always been the only one immersed in the world of "Warrior Slaying the Dragon", and he is often rejected by his relatives and friends. Although he doesn't care, he is sometimes a little lonely.

Now he has finally found a companion!

He was very encouraged, and his creative career, which had been without inspiration for a long time, seemed to be suddenly stuffed with some fuel into the fire... So, after a few sparks that were about to be extinguished, it started to burn blazingly again!

Under Mikey's bewildered gaze...

Sami writes a simple script like a fly, and the content is still new wine in old bottles-the dragon is raging, and the warrior rises up to slay the dragon!

Among them, the plot is ups and downs and intricate, and the text is vast and majestic!

Mai Qilong stood for a long time and sighed silently.

——What else can I do with the human being I found?

He turned around and picked up the stainless steel dragon-slaying sword that was "disappeared after showing off and has been thrown aside", took it to the kitchen as a waste, and cut a plate of watermelon for Sami.