Highlights from the movie "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage"

The story of the movie "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" begins 500 years after Sun Wukong caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace and was suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain.

The legend of "making trouble in heaven" has been circulating among the people. Since monsters often appear in the world, the common people praise Sun Wukong as a hero who has psychological sustenance.

Take a sneak peek at the highlights!

What you don’t know about the plot of the movie "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King" The music producer of "The Return of the Monkey King" is Huang Yinghua, a famous soundtrack master in Hong Kong who has worked on "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Football", "The King of Comedy" and "Yangtze River No. 7"

and seven other Stephen Chow classic movie soundtracks.

The song where the Great Sage fights on the boat pays homage to "Kung Fu".

In addition, Huang Yinghua also composed the soundtrack for Tsui Hark's "Butterfly Lovers" and Johnnie To's "Dark War". He also composed the soundtrack for the TV series "Step by Step".

The summer movie melee has just begun. Under the attack of "Tiny Times: The End of the Soul" and "Gardenia Blooms", a domestic cartoon has made a strong counterattack, becoming a dark horse in the summer movie, and is creating an incredible event in the history of Chinese movies.

, the miracle of counterattacking the box office by relying on word of mouth? On July 10, this 100% made-in-China animated film "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King" was released. With an average daily film schedule of less than 15%, it was only released for 4 days, and the box office

It exceeded 100 million yuan! While "The Return of the Great Sage" swept the box office, it also received overwhelming praise. Many big Vs and many viewers spontaneously called it "the most sincere domestic animation production of the year", attracting a large number of people.

Audiences spontaneously recommended movies, and this gave rise to a powerful "tap water" army.

Tap water: Fans of "The Return of the Great Sage" mock themselves as "a self-funded water army formed spontaneously".

This word became popular due to "The Return of the Great Sage" and formed a phenomenal word-of-mouth effect.

Why did this film attract a huge wave of tap water and spontaneous publicity on the Internet? The following details may answer your question.

Jiangliu is Tang Seng's nickname. In Wu Chengen's novel "Journey to the West", Tang Seng's life experience is very legendary: his parents were killed by an adulterer on a boat, and his mother put him in a wooden basin to save him and floated away.

He was rescued by monk Faming when he was in Jinshan Temple.

Because he drifted along the river to Jinshan Temple, he was named "Jiangliu".

Jiang Liu'er is officially set to be the ninth of Tang Monk's ten lives. This is the classic line in the film: "Don't follow me, little brat!" and Wukong's classic line in "Journey to the West": "Master! Don't drive me away."

Go!? Adds a lot of sadness.

Regarding the 89-minute running time of the movie "The Return of the Great Sage": It has been widely rumored that due to the time limit imposed by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television on animated films, nearly 30% of the scenes were cut out, so the final film is not enough for us. 89

minute.

But in fact, the deleted parts are not deleted in the final editing of the film, but have been deleted during production due to production cycle, production cost and other reasons. Therefore, tap water people are highly calling for the complete uncut Blu-ray DVD.

?It should be difficult to see.

Jiang Liu'er's hair went from nearly bald to round-inch at the beginning of the film, to a long version of round-inch in the second half of the story. Jiang Liu'er's hair grew longer as the story progressed! Because they were all trekking long distances in the mountains.

There is a place to get a haircut! In the character setting, there are two versions with afro hair and brushed hair. Both are very cute, but they did not appear in the movie.

The shapes of the afro and brushed hair are actually a tribute to "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", but they were not used because they were too abrupt! The shape of the majestic little white dragon on the release poster was taken from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". The great sage's sentence? As long as

Where there is water, there are dragons? It also comes from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", dragons are not born from heaven and earth but are the same as ordinary animals.

So dragons in this background setting are quite common.

Historically, three-clawed dragons were popular before the Yuan Dynasty. From the Ming Dynasty, dragons with four legs and four claws were generally used. In the Qing Dynasty, dragons with five claws were mostly used. When expressing imperial power, a five-clawed golden dragon would appear.

The original work "Journey to the West" was written in the Ming Dynasty, so the little white dragon with four legs and four claws in "The Return of the Great Sage" is a Chinese dragon with provenance and research.

The Internet promotion and marketing of this movie is an advertising company with a 4A background. In terms of overall material production and control, the entire team of "The Return of the Monkey King" followed a style of doing less but being more precise, spending money wisely, and winning with quality, so

Every promotional material explodes with amazing power in terms of communication intensity.

From the widely circulated "My Former Me" MV trailer, Father's Day posters, posters released in various versions, etc., they all show a sense of high-end that "wins with content".

The widespread rumors about the limited publicity and distribution budget of "The Return of the Great Sage" are actually misinterpretations in a certain sense.

Because each of the above-mentioned high-quality promotional materials is produced by a master in the industry.

In order to ensure the standard of every aspect, to a certain extent, the promotional budget for "The Return of the Great Sage" may be the highest investment among Chinese animated films.