Chapter 115: Unsuitable for Repair

"So can someone explain to me what you think of the story of Daji?"

"Let me see, the production company is called "Black Heart Cotton Animation Studio"?"

"Yes." In the banquet-style venue, a girl sitting in the corner, wearing a black Gothic wizard robe, suddenly stood up.

Jia Wenyan: "Is this your topic?"

"Yes, Director Jia, this is a topic that I and my colleagues in the studio worked on together."

"Black Heart Cotton Animation Studio... I'm sorry, although I have worked in the animation and film industry, I know relatively little about domestic animation and film companies."

"So if possible, before introducing your own work, please introduce your... studio."

"Okay." Upon hearing this, the girl in the corner hurriedly called the "assistant" beside her and walked to the podium in front of the guest seats with the computer in hand.

"Hello everyone, we are the Black Heart Cotton Animation and Film Studio."

"As you can see, our team is very young, and most of us are students who have not yet graduated from college."

"We also understand that with our current manpower and resources, we are not able to achieve the same high quality of production as The Story of the Stubborn Stone and New Journey to the West in a short period of time."

"But please rest assured that our Black Heart Cotton Animation and Film Studio has come here without any improper relationships."

"We were able to pass the review because our school has been involved in the production of the New Journey to the West animation since last year."

"The part we were in charge of at the time was the Jade-faced Fox, the lover of the Bull Demon King in Journey to the West."

"We were the only group of students from our school who successfully bid for the project."

"Although I didn't have many scenes with the Jade Fox, we did our best to design no less than 300 accessories related to the fox spirit during that time."

"So when we drew more foxes, we unconsciously began to focus on the most representative fox spirit in the entire Donghuang legend system, the nine-tailed fox Su Daji."

"We all know that in our subjective impression, a vixen is someone who is opportunistic and seductive."

"That's why fox spirits in most anime products are mainly villains, or even concubines or lovers of villains."

"So our initial design direction has always been towards the direction of "evil charm". But later when we turned our attention to the most representative vixen, Su Daji, we suddenly began to realize that this original and most representative vixen seemed to be very different from the vixen we imagined from beginning to end.

Jia Wenyan: "Please elaborate."

Okay. The girl in dark gothic clothes said quickly:

"We all know that the setting of Su Daji mainly comes from the nine-tailed fox Su Daji in the work Investiture of the Gods."

"In the story of Investiture of the Gods, she guided Emperor Xin countless times and made him do evil things that violated human ethics one after another."

"But if we look closely, we can easily find that the nine-tailed fox that possessed Su Daji cannot be described simply by the word "evil and charming".

"It's true that she is a nine-tailed fox, but as a demon fox that cultivated under the seat of Goddess Nuwa, even if she made a mistake, she should have at least worked hard to cultivate herself."

"Even the fact that Nuwa sent Su Daji to confuse Emperor Xin and accelerate the fall of the Shang Dynasty was essentially a promotion test for the Nine-Tailed Fox."

"So the nine-tailed fox should have a certain degree of divinity at the beginning. Even the Su Daji she possessed was a beautiful and pure-looking good-family woman who had her own beloved."

"So Su Daji's evil charm should have been a gradual process."

"She may have relied on her charm to get close to King Zhou Di Xin and gain his favor, but in the beginning, she probably just used her charm as a means to accomplish her mission."

"But she never thought that she would actually fall in love with King Zhou Di Xin."

"Of course, some people here may say that the fact that the nine-tailed fox loves Emperor Xin is a mistake in itself. They may say that Emperor Xin is a scumbag."

"But the problem is that according to the setting in the Investiture of the Gods, King Zhou of Shang, Di Xin, existed as the emperor of mankind. He should have extremely high qualities, so it is possible for him to gain the favor of the nine-tailed fox under Nuwa's seat."

"It is true that the nine-tailed fox is in love, but as a fox spirit who has practiced under Nuwa for thousands of years, it is impossible for her to have no idea of ​​distinguishing between humans."

"Even the way she seduces the other person is a sign of her recognition of the nine-tailed fox's ability to grasp emotions."

Jia Wenyan paused for a moment after hearing this, and then interrupted the girl while she was drinking water:

"So your argument is that there is a certain amount of smear campaign in the story of Investiture of the Gods, and King Zhou of Shang was not really as incompetent and ruthless as everyone thought, which is why he was able to gain the favor of the nine-tailed fox?"

"Yes."

The girls in the stands nodded when they heard this.

Jia Wenyan: "Have you ever thought about how to deal with the CP combination of King Zhou of Shang and Su Daji, and their stance when facing the uprising of Xiqi?"

"I roughly understand your thinking. You are planning to make a fuss about the word 'charm' and attribute King Zhou's principled issues such as 'opening the caesarean to check the gender' and 'pools of wine and forests of meat' to the nine-tailed fox deliberately exerting short-term mental control on King Zhou of Shang in order to hasten the demise of the Shang Dynasty on the basis of the task binding rope.

She used her fox charm to control/guide King Zhou of Shang to do cruel things. In this way, the nine-tailed fox's behavior can be attributed to the task, and everything about King Zhou of Shang, Di Xin, can be attributed to the control and influence of the nine-tailed fox on ordinary humans.

"Digging out Bigan's delicate heart, and even guiding and promoting the declaration of war through various words. These dark histories can be explained in this way."

"In this way, we can indeed easily free the personal images of Su Daji and King Zhou of Shang from the quagmire."

"But at the same time I want to ask you, do you really think the public will like to see such a plot?

Jia Wenyan: "King Zhou and Su Daji were desperate, and their love and hatred in the underworld were beautiful.

But the couple did do a lot of bad things. Even the public has long since separated their love from their personalities.

"They can accept the deterioration of King Zhou and Daji as a couple, but if all this is based on taking the two away from their villain identities, I think many people in China will reject such a work.

Goth Girl: "Understood."

Jia Wenyan: "Of course, I personally understand that you want to give the original novel of Investiture of the Gods a story that is more in line with the audience's expectations."

"But the problem is that if you remove the evil deeds of King Zhou and Daji, then the images of these two characters will no longer be three-dimensional."

Jia Wenyan: "The highlight of Daji's character is the process of her self-hesitation between the mission and King Zhou."

"If you abandon her hesitant rationality, it means that the image of Su Daji will really become a complete love-brain."

"Or do you think the audience would like to watch a movie that has no name at all in terms of overall design, but keeps plagiarizing and imitating various weird things in the palace?"

Jia Wenyan: "Without those 'missions', Daji's role in Chaoge would probably become a mere tool for palace fighting."

"Then how will you explain why a thousand-year-old fox who knows magic would condescend to participate in a palace fight with a group of ordinary people?"

"Let's not talk about whether this is reasonable or not. The fact that these two words appear here itself indicates a kind of anomaly that is missing the point."

Jia Wenyan said this, looking at Zhen Shuwang who was sitting next to her and said:

"I know that after watching The Stone, people may have started to want to change their perspective to another side, and what they see will be a completely different picture.

Jia Wenyan: "Please remember that the audience hopes to see various twists and turns in the course of the story."

"But reversals don't apply to all plots."

"So far, few people have made mistakes in this regard in major traditional idol TV dramas in China. And once this work becomes a cliché palace fight, do you still think the audience will continue to follow it?"

Jia Wenyan spoke very sincerely, and other animation workers nearby also agreed with Jia Wenyan's idea.

Not everyone's work needs to analyze the good guys and bad guys so clearly. Ordinary people can do this if they pay a little attention.

However, who would have thought that this time, when others were still trying to figure out how to decorate their works in order to avoid getting a good result during the interview, Jia Wenyan suddenly jumped out and said with a smile:

"But you don't have to be too nervous. The theme of Su Daji is not completely impossible."

"The so-called reversal does not mean that you turn a villain into a hero."

Jia Wenyan: "Just now I searched for the short videos published by your studio. I can see that your studio also has its own advantages in painting."

"But try to be as tactful as possible. I understand that many of you may have been influenced by "The Stone".

And in the work Investiture of the Gods, there are indeed many "victims" who can be the objects of reversal.

But this person definitely should not be the nine-tailed fox Su Daji.

When we discern mission imagination, we must not only look at the individual.

For most people, the main reason why there are so many "controversial" characters in Zen Buddhism and Jiejiao is because of the background of the story of Fengshen Bang itself, which is the competition caused by different positions.

Many cultivators who had hoped to achieve advancement through practice had to fall in the competition. As for the direction of the story, it had become completely uncontrollable since they decided to adapt it.

So if you still want to use Su Daji as the theme, I suggest you change your mindset. Whitewashing is not necessarily a reversal, and even the audience certainly does not want to misunderstand the story of someone they are familiar with.