Chapter 117: Banana Fan Come on
Jia Wenyan really feels helpless about the current market environment.
As a viewer, she also understands that the domestic animation market has been affected by various "force majeure" in recent years.
But as a member of the new generation whose childhood coincided with the golden age of Chinese animation, she has always maintained an expectation for Chinese animation, which, although chaotic, would still produce one or two excellent works from time to time.
She always believes that in this market, there will still be creators who have artistic persistence in their works.
However, I don’t know if it is because creators who meet the above requirements are more inclined to guarantee their voice in their works through originality.
Jia Wenyan and Zhen Shuwang looked all the way, but they couldn't find any contractor who, in their opinion, could complete the task independently.
This situation made Jia Wenyan feel a little disappointed, but at this moment Zhen Shuwang on the side suddenly handed her a notebook.
Zhen Shuwang: "Take a look at this. I think you might be interested."
"You might be interested..."
Jia Wenyan murmured, and then the next second...
"Princess Iron Fan?"
"Yes, I didn't think of this option when I first saw it, but then I thought about it carefully and found that there are actually many things that can be described about the theme of Princess Iron Fan."
"Princess Iron Fan is a goddess from heaven. She lives in the human world because she is in love with Bull Demon King. Her magic weapon, the Banana Fan, is a very important treasure in the Journey to the West."
"How about this, isn't it interesting..."
Jia Wenyan: "Yes, I admit that this setting has a lot of room for description, but have you ever thought about whether the story of Princess Iron Fan is a bit too cliché?"
Jia Wenyan looked at the story outline handed over by the other party with some hesitation.
Princess Iron Fan, to be honest, in Jia Wenyan's eyes, this character is definitely more exaggerated than Su Daji.
Although Su Daji’s villain setting is sensitive, if we ignore the protagonist, there is basically nothing to complain about her existence as a villain in the animation circle.
But Princess Iron Fan is different. In Jia Wenyan's eyes, the background story of this character is simply outrageous and unbelievable.
A goddess from the gods' realm fell in love with a monster, and came down to earth to become the wife of the Bull Demon King.
Not to mention the possibility that the gods would fall in love with monsters.
Just looking at Princess Iron Fan's actions after marrying Bull Demon King, it is really incomprehensible.
No matter what, Princess Iron Fan was born a goddess and had a very powerful family background.
Even though she might have had some conflicts with the Heavenly Court because of marrying the Bull Demon King, judging from the fact that she possessed the palm-leaf fan, the Heavenly Court should have treated her well.
A fairy, with magic weapons and a son, just based on the setting, the Bull Demon King has almost no way to compete with her.
She should have almost 100% control over the Bull Demon King.
But in the original story of Journey to the West, the Bull Demon King not only cheated on his wife under the nose of his fairy wife, but he even married the Jade-faced Fox when he already had a wife and a son.
A goddess holding a top-level magic weapon, her husband ran away and married a fox demon, and all this happened even after her son was recruited by Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Daji can be described as having a love-brained mind, but when it comes to Princess Iron Fan, it can be said that she has no brains at all.
For a goddess to end up like this, any normal person would have picked up the palm-leaf fan and blown the Bull Demon King and the Jade-faced Fox out of the earth.
What's even more outrageous is that the Bull Demon King married into the Jade-faced Fox's family because he coveted her wealth.
Although the Flaming Mountain is not a rich place, the villagers here can still survive thanks to Princess Iron Fan, who uses her palm-leaf fan to bring in wind and rain every few years to provide moisture.
Then there is no need to mention the incense offerings that Princess Iron Fan received in return for temporarily extinguishing the forest fire with her palm-leaf fan.
According to the fairy setting of Journey to the West, Princess Iron Fan easily defeated Bull Demon King and Jade-faced Fox.
There are really too many unreasonable contradictions here.
The only possibility behind this incident is that the Bull Demon King, under the perverse logic that "wild flowers are more fragrant than domestic flowers", cheated on the Jade-faced Fox.
Then he found a hypocritical excuse for himself.
The Flaming Mountain is not rich, but as long as Princess Iron Fan holds the palm-leaf fan in her hand, she will never lack anything.
Then there is not to mention her son Red Boy, who occupied a hill by himself.
If a normal person encountered a situation like Princess Iron Fan, wouldn't he cry and apologize to her parents?
With her mother's family background and the palm-leaf fan, even if she cannot go back to being a god, she can definitely enjoy a good and peaceful life.
This setting is totally irrelevant.
Of course, she had to admit that in real life, there were definitely contestants who were so love-crazy that they went crazy.
But this is simply illogical.
You can be as dramatic as you want in real life, but film and television works must never be illogical.
However, what she didn't expect was that this time the other party actually resolved all the contradictions in Princess Iron Fan's character.
It turns out that in the story of this script, Princess Iron Fan was set up as a goddess who came to the mortal world to experience hardships.
As a goddess born in the realm of gods, she has only known how to practice since she was a child and does not understand the concepts of emotion and bondage.
This is a common problem among natal immortals. Although they are born with divine powers, they lack emotional experience in interpersonal relationships and therefore have significant deficiencies in their perceptions during spiritual practice.
So when her cultivation reached a bottleneck and she was completely unable to break through, she chose to go down to the mortal world to experience hardships in order to make up for her shortcomings.
Coming down to earth to experience trials and tribulations is the only regular way for gods and immortals to descend to earth allowed by the divine world and heaven.
The gods who choose this path will lose all their memories and enter reincarnation in the process of descending to the mortal world to experience trials and tribulations and reincarnation.
Although the immortals who experienced the tribulation in this process would improve their cultivation and gain a lot of insights related to the human world, if they were not careful during the reincarnation and tribulation, they would completely disappear in the human world with the reincarnation and tribulation.
The gods who reincarnate and experience tribulations here will return to the divine world only after their merits are fulfilled and their memories are awakened.
This is the case with Princess Iron Fan. After reincarnation and experiencing hardships, she was reborn as a banana tree.
While she was cultivating into a human form, she used her own body to create a weapon that could stir up a strong wind.
She carried the palm leaf fan along the way, bringing wind and rain to the farmers affected by drought. In the process, she also recovered her memory due to the accumulation of merits.
Originally, she could have ascended back to the realm of gods, but at that time she was already pregnant with the Bull Demon King's child, who later became Red Boy.
Oh, and by the way, regarding Red Boy, the production company also deliberately inserted a small easter egg here.
That is the misunderstanding about Red Boy’s life experience.
When Jia Wenyan saw this, she suddenly remembered a series of doubts she had about the Flaming Mountain in her childhood.
When Jia Wenyan thought about this, she quickly figured out that the Bull Demon King was a water buffalo, and Princess Iron Fan was the goddess who controlled wind and rain.
The combination of wind and buffalo should give birth to a monster related to wind and rain, or at the very least, it should be related to Princess Iron Fan's banana.
And this involves the original settings of the production team this time.
It turns out that in the early part of the story, when Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, he overturned Laozi's alchemy furnace, causing the Samadhi Fire inside to fall into the human world.
Princess Iron Fan happened to be passing through this area at that time.
The Huoyan Mountain was once a peaceful place with good weather and good harvests.
But the grade of Samadhi True Fire was too powerful, so the surrounding plants and water sources could not survive under the high temperature.
This was the starting point of the desolation and barrenness of Huoyan Mountain, and it was also such an important moment for the locals to leave their homes.
Princess Iron Fan, who was still a little demon, fell in love with the Bull Demon King and was determined to protect the land that the Bull Demon King loved so much.
To achieve this goal, she plucked her own natal banana leaf and made it into a banana fan that would make everyone who saw it subconsciously think they were about to be blown away.
But how could a magic weapon refined by a little demon possibly rival the Samadhi True Fire in the alchemy furnace of Taishan Laojun?
Over the years, every effort Princess Iron Fan made could only bring her a moment of peace.
Time and again she saw the flames of the Flaming Mountain reignite.
Wind can put out a fire, but it can also fan the flames. Although Princess Iron Fan's wind can put out a fire, it can also give the flames a chance to revive.
Her efforts seemed to be in vain as they only treated the symptoms but not the root cause.
But she did not give up. She was determined and used all her magical power to drive all the rain clouds from her "hometown" over.
She planned to use wind and rain to suppress the flames, and then take the remaining wildfire into her body to suppress it.
The torrential rain temporarily suppressed the wildfire, and the palm-leaf fan in her hand was promoted to a top-notch magic weapon that made countless people tremble in fear because of her act that moved heaven.
That was the beginning of her perfect tribulation, and the palm-leaf fan was God’s reward for her tribulation.
But at that time she no longer had the strength to put out the wildfire, and she even lost her memory again due to excessive use of her magic power.
In this way, she met the Bull Demon King and gave birth to Red Boy a few years later.
Princess Iron Fan, who had accumulated enough merit to return to heaven, stayed in the human world.
Although she regained her memory after waking up later.
But as a mother she couldn't let go of Red Boy, so she chose to stay.
She inhaled the Samadhi True Fire in her body and gave it to Red Boy. She thought this would be a good start for their family.
But she never expected that the Bull Demon King would become estranged from her because of the "fire element" in his son.
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