Chapter 963

After the lights of the cinema dimmed, the logo of angel and Zhongxia company appeared on the giant screen.

At the beginning of the movie, it is a stormy night. The sound of horse's hooves is heard on the muddy road, and the thunder is rolling in the dark sky. Sitting in the cinema and seeing the scene on the dark screen, it is as if you are attracted to it. Every audience can feel the cold and piercing chill of the horses running in the rain.

"Not bad..."

Meng Huo secretly praised the beginning, and the atmosphere was very good.

The movie starts with a massacre. On a stormy night, a group of robbers invade the village on horseback, burning, looting and killing villagers without humanity. The whole village is full of blood.

In the dim yellow light of the candle, the bandit leader broke into the village head's house with a big knife and asked him to tell him the most valuable thing in the village - it was an ancient tomb, which was said to have a history of thousands of years, in which many treasures were buried.

The bandit leader cut down the village head with a knife, and took the minions to find the ancient tomb. They dug up the ancient tomb and found many treasures, including a door. After opening the door, this is an inner room with a silver white, crystal like sword.

The sword floats in the air and is surrounded by aura. It's no surprise to Meng Huo, who has read immortal novels in his last life, but the robbers in the film are shocked.

"What's this..."

"Treasure, treasure!"

The robbers were greedy when they saw the sword. However, when they took a step into the inner room, the aura around the sword suddenly burst out, like waves, sucking away all the robbers' lives.

Gao Yin, the immortal sword, makes a sound, and the silver light diffuses outward. Ten li of the village suddenly becomes a dead place, and all the creatures are sucked away to die. Next to the immortal sword that has got enough life, a skeleton stands up, picks up the immortal sword, and goes out. The name of "attack of immortal sword" also appears on the screen.

"This is the prelude..." Meng Huo suddenly realized that the plot just now was the prelude of the movie "the attack of the immortal sword". The plot only lasted a few minutes, telling the story of the awakening process of the immortal sword.

Although it's just a prelude, the quality of the film can already be reflected - the picture and special effects, sound quality and music are excellent. The prelude is exciting, and Meng Huo has begun to be interested in the follow-up plot. Even if this film can't become a plot blockbuster, it can certainly become a special effect blockbuster.

The special effects of "sword coming" are very good. It has one advantage over "the magician at the beginning of the century", that is, the theme of martial arts fighting. The movie full of fighting and fighting can highlight the charm of animation special effects, which is a natural special effects movie theme.

The magician at the beginning of the century basically has no fighting scenes. No matter how gorgeous the special effects are, it's hard to compare with the magic sword.

After the prelude, the film flashed through the introduction of "Flame Boy" with narration. As an animated film, this is a necessary step. Then, the scene turns, the official plot of "sword attack" begins, and the picture turns to a small shop.

In "the boy of fire", the leading actor and his party, who are most familiar to the audience, are resting in a small shop when they suddenly hear people talking about it. They say that several villages and towns have been slaughtered by mysterious organizations recently.

"There were no witnesses. Everyone who saw them died."

"It's said that a man drew a sword on the wall with his blood before he died... I don't know what kind of school this is. It's so vicious!"

It's a symbol of a sword. The leading actor and his party discuss what school it is. At this moment, suddenly, several people in black who were eating stood up, caught several guests who were chatting before and asked them about the details of the sword. One of them refused to answer and was immediately killed by the people in black on the spot.

The justice awe inspiring hero naturally couldn't see it, stood up to uphold justice, and had a fight with the people in black. Unexpectedly, the moves used by the people in black were unheard of before, which blocked the attack of the hero's several chivalrous men, and finally killed all the other guests and successfully escaped.

Naturally, the hero can't forgive these people in black. He takes the clothes they left and a token to find Bai Xiaosheng in the river and lake and asks about the identity of these people in black.

Hundred Xiaosheng in the river's lake looks at the token with a face full of horror and refuses to disclose it at first. Finally, I couldn't stand the entanglement of the group, so I told the hero that it was a secluded sect and asked them to give up revenge for the guests.

But at the hero's insistence, Bai Xiaosheng told them more. Those people in black have belonged to a mysterious sect since ancient times. The sect does not care about the world and does not participate in the struggles in the rivers and lakes. However, they have been looking for a magic sword for generations. Only when the magic sword is born will they come out.

The successive massacres outside are the work of the sword and its servants. The mysterious sect is looking for the whereabouts of the sword. As long as the leader of the sect gets the sword, he can gain invincible power and bring havoc to the whole world.Under the hint of Bai Xiaosheng, if the hero wants to stop the catastrophe, he must find the sword before the mysterious sect finds it and seal it.

Only one Saint knows the magic of sealing the sword. One Saint appears every 100 years. She is born with the responsibility of guarding and sealing the sword. If you want to save the world, you must first find the saint of this era, and then take her to seal the sword.

However, the mysterious sect has been looking for and planning to eliminate the saint. The leading actor and his party met the mysterious sect many times and beat each other again and again.

For Meng Huo, this kind of plot is not a particularly new setting. He has seen too much in his last life. However, in the eyes of other audiences in the cinema, the plot of "attack of immortal sword" is very new - Shen Jie, who is close to Meng Huo, is also fascinated by it.

After finding the saint who sealed the sword, the hero didn't get help from the saint immediately. The saints of this era hate their own fate very much. Shortly after she was born, her parents and relatives were killed by the mysterious sect. She is afraid of that sect.

However, in front of the killer sent by the mysterious sect, the hero blocks the sword for the saint and moves her successfully. The saint finally agrees to accompany him to seal the sword. Just like other movies, there is a love scene between the hero and the saint in the sword.

The hero protects the saint all the way, and she falls in love with him day and night, and gradually realizes how important her ability is to the world.

The two of them, together with other righteous members of the Wulin, finally took the lead in finding the sword. However, when they began to seal the sword, half way through the ceremony, the leader of the mysterious sect who was hiding around them suddenly attacked and robbed the sword.

The situation became critical, the leader with the immortal sword became extremely powerful, and the alliance was still defeated by him. At the most critical moment, the virgin uses magic to enhance the power of the hero. The hero starts to fight with the leader like a stimulant.

After the war, like most martial arts movies, the hero won by plug-in, mouth gun and love. Finally, he turned defeat into victory and successfully sealed the sword, and a martial arts catastrophe came to an end.

After the screening, the audience participating in the premiere were immersed in the aftertaste of the film. The plot of "sword attack" is hard to say that it is innovative. The trace of dog blood is very heavy. One minute you can think of the plot of the next two minutes, but this routine plot is not so bad, at least it is acceptable.

The key is that the special effects of "sword attack" are really amazing, and the brilliance of combat special effects can make up for almost all the shortcomings - it's a wonderful martial arts film, but also a visual blockbuster.

"Hollywood style..." Meng Huo said in his heart that this movie gives him a similar feeling to many Hollywood special effects movies. They all focus on special effects and pursue the ultimate visual and auditory enjoyment - the plot has become a secondary element.

This is not surprising to Meng Huo. The works of Zhongxia company often follow the special effects route, and the theme of "sword attack" is more suitable for this route. There are many kinds of successful movies, and not a few of them are famous only by special effects.

Moreover, the plot of "sword attack" is not bad. Compared with ordinary special effects movies, the plot in this movie is rare and wonderful. If you want to complain, you can also say that its plot development is too "standard".

Ah... No, apart from that, there's another thing to complain about

Meng Huo was thinking about the defect, so Dong Ding took the initiative to ask him what he thought.

"Teacher He Xi, what do you think of the film?"

After the end of the screening, it seems that Dong Ding is satisfied with the quality of "sword coming", and his face is much better.

"It's good on the whole." Meng Huo smiles. All the details of the movie are very good. It's a successful movie: "it's just a mistake at the end. You should remind heaven in advance to prepare a more open ending for the movie."

Just now, when he was watching the sword, he knew that it was impossible for the heroine and the heroine. The ending of the movie should be the difference between them. This is the inevitable ending of many theater movies... If we don't separate the heroine from the hero, there will be a big conflict between the plot of the original animation "boy of fire", After all, saints are not animated characters.

Saint is the original heroine of the film, so she should only stay in the film. But what Meng Huo didn't expect was that the angel didn't use the ordinary scene of separation, but adopted a more extreme way - that is, let the saint die!

In the ending of "the sword is coming", the heroine of the movie actually died. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Meng Huo couldn't believe that the angel would have done it. The saint's strength to the hero is actually at the cost of her own life. In the end, she has to seal the sword, because she exhausted her mana and died in the hero's arms.This kind of tragic ending is unexpected, which Meng Huo thinks is a failure.

"If you don't write the saint to death, won't it affect the animation?" Dong Ding frowned. He didn't think it was inappropriate for the saint to die.

"Death will reduce the box office. If it's a more open ending, the box office of sword will be higher..." Meng Huo shakes his head. Maybe Zhongxia company is too concerned about the contradiction of the original animation "Flame Boy". They don't want the plot of the film to interfere with the animation. This idea is right, but they go to the extreme.

Although the slightly open ending may cause individual audiences to question the conflict between the film and the original work, it is only a few, and not many people care about it. Moreover, Zhongxia company has too many reasons to explain, which is much better than letting the heroine die.

Meng Huo has seen many long animated theater movies. He found that these movies basically have one thing in common. If there is an independent heroine in the movie, the heroine will not die. Even films such as Naruto and the little elf of Chongwu occasionally appear, which only belong to the female owner of the film, but no one will die in the end, and the ending is not tragic.

Sadness is a big taboo in theater movies.

"When I make animated films, I will regard the background of each film as a parallel world independent of the original animation, and try not to conflict with the original, But I don't expect that the plot of the film can be inserted into the original animation without any contradiction... "

"Every movie can be regarded as a parallel world... Do you know what parallel world means?"

Meng Huo asked Dong Ding. Dong Ding's brow was more wrinkled. He understood. Looking back, he made a big mistake in adopting this ending.

"Teacher He Xi, how much box office will we lose in this ending?"

"Well, this..." Meng Huo was not sure. Although the ending was tragic, the angel did not write it too miserably. In fact, they are very clever to make the saint feel happy before she died. She died safely in the arms of the hero after successfully sealing the sword.

It's also a tragic ending, but leaving after completing the mission is totally different from leaving full of sadness - it won't bring too much sadness to the audience.

"If a happy ending can make your total box office reach 2 billion - of course, I don't know if there is 2 billion, just for example... If the total box office is 2 billion, this ending will lose 200 to 300 million..."

Meng Huo roughly estimated that if the saint's death was desolate and painful, the box office loss of "sword coming" would be great, You're going to lose a quarter. However, although the final result is relatively light, the box office loss of 200 million to 300 million will certainly be

This loss is more than one tenth of the total box office, that is to say, at least one in ten audiences will give up watching because of the tragedy of the ending. However, even so, Meng Huo thinks that the total box office of 1.5 billion expected by Zhongxia company should be able to reach.

The subsequent box office development has proved his expectation. The box office of the premiere of "sword" is not far behind that of "the magician at the beginning of the century", but the increase from the second day to the third day becomes smaller. After a few days, the media generally predict that the total box office will be between 1.4 billion and 1.7 billion