No one can object to the objection.

After all, Mr. Gu nodded, how could anyone else dare to object? As a private company, Wanbao’s boss’s will absolutely overrides everything.

What's more, there is nothing to object to. What kind of IP is "Dragon Ball"? If Dragon Ball is not worthy of a theatrical version, then Wanbao's other animations can be buried directly.

There are many theatrical versions of Dragon Ball.

Among the many theatrical versions of the original works, some are surprising, while others are speechless...

But whether you are surprised or speechless, among the many theatrical versions of the original work, most of them are short films that are less than an hour long.

This is a very serious problem.

Nowadays, the theatrical version of animated movies generally lasts between 80-120 minutes. If it is a director's cut, it may be longer.

80 minutes is the baseline.

If the released version is shorter than this length, the audience may feel that the production team is not sincere and it is not worth the ticket price.

This is the trend of the new era.

Everyone is doing this. If you insist on being unique and make a streamlined version of the animated movie, which is not even one hour long, then just wait to be scolded by the audience!

Because of this, it will be very troublesome for Gu Miao to draw lessons from the original work for the upcoming Dragon Ball movie version produced by Neon Division.

After all, many of the lengths of the original work are not suitable for today's era. If you follow the example, you will only die violently and miserably.

Several theatrical versions starting from "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods" meet the standards, but these theatrical versions are too "new".

This new refers to compared to TV animation.

As the first theatrical version of the Dragon Ball series, it took too big a step and jumped directly into the "gods and gods" era. Gu Miao felt that it was not suitable.

Still have to be a little more conservative.

Based on some of the old theatrical versions, he appropriately expanded some plots until the duration was extended to more than 80 minutes. He thought that was enough, and the other requirements could not be too high.

Theatrical version, especially the theatrical version of a super-popular anime like Dragon Ball, is different in nature from "The Return of the Great Sage" and "The Lion King", and the audience's expectations are also different.

Give an example.

There is a sequel to the movie "Transformers". Everyone knows what they want to see, and the director also knows what fans want to see.

So the movie fans bought the tickets and went in to see Wuhu! The transformation of the Autobots, the passionate chase and fight, the appearance of various fighter planes, tanks and aircraft carriers, the robot battle...it was money well spent! The special effects are enjoyable!

Why is this happening?

Because for a movie like "Transformers", when everyone sees the title, they can already guess what the content is like.

In other movies, all kinds of secretive and mysterious things are done before they are released.

Transformers, on the other hand, puts its selling point directly in front of all audiences: I just sell special effects, and the main attraction is robots fighting. Just tell me whether you want to see it or not.

Similar to the theatrical version of animations such as "Dragon Ball", the same principle is actually true.

Dragon Ball has a theatrical version. Anyone who is not stupid knows what the story is about. The main selling point of the movie is definitely the various big fight scenes.

The logic is the same.

Everyone buys tickets to watch the "Dragon Ball" theatrical version, isn't it because of the exciting and exciting battles? If you do what fans should do for the movie, the theatrical version will naturally be a success.

As for other aspects?

All I can say is that everyone who understands understands.

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Dragon Ball The Movie is definitely a big movie for fans, similar in nature to "Detective Conan" the movie and "Doraemon" the movie.

This kind of animated movie, to put it bluntly, is just trying to make money.

Because of this, although Gu Miao has certain expectations for the theatrical version of "Dragon Ball", these expectations are more aimed at the box office prospects and are not as important as "Okja Love Story".

"If you talk about performance and audience, the ten Okja love stories put together probably can't beat even one Dragon Ball movie."

"But the two films are completely different in nature and have completely different themes. There is no need to compare them together if they are not from the same track." Gu Miao shook her head.

"That's right..."

Lao Zhang deeply agreed, and then asked: "So "Go Boy" is also like this, taking the niche and unpopular route?"

"Yes and no!"

Gu Miao did not deny this.

After all, compared with Wanbao's works of the same period, such as "Journey to the West 3D", "Wandering the Animated World", and "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds", the audience of "Go Boy" is indeed very narrow.

But to say that it is unpopular, that is not the case.

Go is an unpopular project, but it does not mean that Go animation is an unpopular subject!

On the contrary, chess-related animations, comics and even games have always been quite popular, with many fans both at home and abroad.

Who says CyberGo is not Go?

Speaking of this, Gu Miao suddenly thought of the reply he gave Xiao Ke yesterday when Xiao Ke came to him and asked him if no one would watch the animation "Go Boy".

No one is watching? I want to eat shit!

Even shit like XX’s story has been read by some people, and The Little Mermaid in Darkness has been read by some, so how come no one has read Jiang Liu’er?

"I'm not telling you, you are all wrong. Go Boy has never been a simple Go animation!"

Gu Miao explained speechlessly: "A 13-year-old boy's family is in ruins, he bears a blood feud, he gets a chance to rise quickly, and finally defeats countless powerful enemies and reaches the top... What does this kind of story template look like to you?"

"Hot-blooded Internet article!"

Lao Zhang said without thinking.

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized, my dear, after removing this part of Go, the main line of the animation is really a standard template for cool writing.

"So what are you worried about?"

"Rather than worry about the theme of "Go Boy" being unpopular and no one will watch it after it airs, it is better to worry about Fat Tiger." Gu Miao rolled her eyes wildly.

"Fat Tiger? What happened to him?"

Lao Zhang was a little confused when he heard this. Isn't Fat Hu working on the animation "Three Years of My Son-in-law, I'm the Immortal King and I Stop Pretending", an online text adaptation?

I heard that the animation will be broadcast soon. Could it be that there was trouble during the submission process?

"That's right!"

Gu Miao nodded and said: "Director Wang told me that this animation is considered by many die-hards to be kitsch in theme, with incorrect plot and revealing characters..."

He read all the review comments.

In general, he expected to be criticized. After all, there were some things that went too far.

For example, there is a problem with the female character's clothing. There is no complete piece of fabric on her body, so it is normal for her to be criticized and asked to correct it.

Fat Tiger really wanted to take care of the audience's feelings. In order to provide benefits to his brothers, he wandered on the edge of passing the trial and tried like crazy.

"You won't be able to pass the trial, right?"

After listening to this, Lao Zhang couldn't help but worry a little: "With such a big investment, it would be a bad thing if it fails to pass the trial in the end."

"No, just add a coat to the female character. There aren't many female characters in the play anyway."

Gu Miao was very relaxed.

Because he has connections, he can know that the main reason why the review is blocked is that the female character is dressed too revealingly.

As for the accusations that the protagonist kills people and buys goods, and that the plot is not correct, these are purely above the line.

If you have to put it this way, of all the fantasy fairy tales adapted by Penguin, which one does not involve killing people and cheating? Which protagonist has a very correct outlook on life?

Stop being funny!

In online novels, especially those in the fantasy fairy tale genre, there are almost no protagonists who have extremely upright views. If you have to find fault, many seemingly perfect protagonists have problems such as "selfishness and double standards, lust and greed".

While saying "the devil deserves to die", he turned around and fell asleep with a beautiful female temptress. Isn't this kind of thing uncommon?

Almost all animations adapted from online novels cannot tolerate criticism. Only Tomato’s work has a somewhat normal outlook on the protagonist.

So just listen to this accusation.

It’s not difficult for the Immortal King’s son-in-law to pass the trial. The real difficulty lies in how to deal with the old audience who are tired of seeing the same “routines”?

The transformation of online text into animation began to emerge two years ago and is leading the trend.

Since then, the domestic animation industry has seen the emergence of many highly "homogenized" web adaptations.

What does serious homogeneity mean?

Not only are the plots extremely similar, the audience will know whether he wants to poop or fart as soon as the male protagonist sticks his butt, but there is also the homogeneity of the 3D modeling of the characters.

Putting ten heroines/males from online novels and animations together, it would be like ten first-generation Ultraman, Zoffie, and Ultraman Jack standing together.

Regardless of how they are dressed, how many people can tell which anime’s male/female protagonist these faces correspond to?

They look so similar!

Fortunately, Son-in-law Fairy King is a 2D animation instead of the 3D production commonly used in the industry. Otherwise, the faces of the male and female protagonists may have become "Internet celebrity faces", seriously lacking in recognition.
To be continued...