Chapter 320 Leading the Animation Film Industry
Since the release of "Coco", Lu Qing has firmly established himself as one of the top film directors in China.
Although his main focus is different from other directors, others are all about commercial films and literary films, while he is into animation films.
But a black cat or a white cat is a good cat if it catches mice.
No matter what kind of film it is, it will not affect the box office at all.
Lu Qing, from "Spirited Away" to "My Neighbor Totoro" and then to "Coco", three movies were released in just one year, and all of them were well-received and box office hits. It can be called a miracle in the film industry.
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Many people may not reach Lu Qing's achievements even in their lifetime.
And he also made cartoons.
Originally, cartoons are a niche, a category that is marginalized by all people in the film industry. No one is willing to make cartoons. Maybe some young people who have just left school will try to make animated movies, mainly web drama versions.
Then if the number of hits is very high, they will prepare to make a theatrical version, but usually they are so desperate that they don’t even recognize their own mothers.
Animations released on the Internet can be watched for free by becoming a member on the website, and some members even do not need to recharge. Even if you recharge as a member, you can not only watch one cartoon, but with the annual pass, you can watch all the cartoons on the website for a whole year.
All video resources can be viewed.
Even so, for anyone to be willing to top up their annual pass for a certain anime, it must be a very high-quality anime.
As for animated movies, a movie ticket worth about 30 yuan can only watch one movie, not only one movie but once. If you want to watch it twice, I'm sorry to ask you to buy another ticket.
Therefore, there is almost no market for animated movies with a younger audience.
We must know that the real main force of consumption is adults who are struggling in society. The consumption power of minors or students is very low.
It takes a lot of determination to charge up an annual pass and use a computer tablet to watch TV series on the website. How can you spend money to watch cartoons in the cinema?
As for older adults, who have very high appreciation ability, few cartoons can attract them, unless it is a sentimental film, but there has not been one that sells sentimentality in several years.
Therefore, the market for animated films has gradually been squeezed into the corner. Directors who were still struggling in the animated film industry have switched to making other categories of animated films.
Only Lu Qing is still holding on, and his persistence is meaningful because he is waiting for Aimang.
Aimang wrote three works for him in one year, and each work made him popular. His popularity and net worth continued to rise based on the original foundation.
He was originally an unknown animated film director, but now he is a well-known animated film director with many masterpieces.
Directors who had changed careers are now actively contacting him, hoping to join his team and continue making animated films.
Even some directors who have never made an animated film come to Lu Qing to learn from him, hoping to get a share of the animated film industry in the future.
Because there was a lack of animated films and few good works, Lu Qing's appearance led a category. Everyone who was struggling in the film industry seemed to have seen a glimmer of hope and could jump out of the original circle and enter a new one.
Moreover, there is less competition in this circle. As long as you are as lucky as Lu Qing, you can have the same results.
After Lu Qing's "Spirited Away" was released, some directors gradually began to think about animated films.
After "My Neighbor Totoro" was released, the number of filmmakers joining the animated film industry reached a peak.
They also searched for scripts everywhere, looking for them in comics, novels, and original and updated anime.
I found a lot of them and made some animated films.
Showed in a crowd.
Each one was beaten more miserably than the other.
Although the cost of animated movies is not high, they still lose money and cannot even make back the cost.
People can't find the reason. It's obviously a popular novel, a manga with huge sales, and an anime at the top of the click list. Why can't it be made into a big movie and no one will watch it?
They forget the role of screenwriter.
Although the novel is very interesting, it cannot be copied and made into a movie. It must be adapted to make it more suitable for the look and feel of the movie. Who is needed at this time?
screenwriter.
Although comics are popular, they are static and cannot be completely copied to the big screen. Who is needed at this time?
screenwriter.
Although anime has a lot of fans who follow it, it is impossible to make movies of anime that have been broadcast intact. Most of them just use the original characters and story backgrounds, and then shoot a brand new story. At this time, it is necessary
who?
Screenwriter!
Lu Qing has love.
And what about them?
The answer is, no.
Therefore, most of the animated films produced by directors are nondescript and have been hastily released by netizens.
Those directors who followed the trend began to doubt whether the market for animated films was as good as Lu Qing said. They even thought that Lu Qing would step down after two films.
But not long after, "Coco" came out.
Everyone was dumbfounded. They couldn't imagine that Lu Qing could exclude the third animated film in one year. Moreover, this animated film is no worse than the previous two and can be called a classic.
They began to fall into self-doubt again.
More and more directors are beginning to try. They are looking for their own reasons and no longer doubt Lu Qing or animated films.
It is no exaggeration to say that Lu Qing saved the animated film industry and brought spring to animated films.
It's just that Lu Qing knew that he should remove his name and at least add another person in front of his name, that is Ai Mang.
Because without Aimang, there would be no "Spirited Away", "My Neighbor Totoro", and "Coco".
After "Coco", Lu Qing had nothing to do.
This time he did not urge Aimang to write as before.
Because he knew that Aimang was writing a novel.
He used to only know that Ai Mang was a good writer of scripts, and he was a fan of his scripts.
But after reading the short stories and novels written by Aimang, he became an out-and-out book fan.
He has read all the texts written by Aimang and paid to read them. He bought them and read them. In order to support Aimang, he also bought many copies and gave them to his friends.
After "Slam Dunk" appeared, Lu Qing went crazy.
I watched it day and night, not only watching it myself, but also motivating my colleagues around me to watch it.
Almost everyone in the entire Aesthetic Animation Film Company has a copy.
It's a pity that the second volume of the novel has not been released for a long time. He has read the first volume of the novel three times and the comics five times. If the second volume is not released, he feels that life will lose its fun.
Just then Aimang's call came.
Lu Qing jumped up from the bed with excitement.
Chapter completed!