Chapter 43: National Gift Revealed
It is not the traditional kindness of the White Lotus Mother, but out of responsibility and to make up for the mistakes that one has made unintentionally.
She protects the villagers of Shixi Village because she gained human form through the villagers' faith.
She saved the skeleton because she knew that the reason why the skeleton was able to develop self-awareness was due to her "absence from duty".
That's why she would use self-sacrifice to save the other person, while using suppression to prevent the other person from causing harm to the world after he was freed.
There were no deliberate surprises, but everyone was diligently paying for their responsibilities and mistakes.
Such a protagonist setting is extremely rare in this era where everyone is either a "Saint Queen" or a "troublemaker".
Shiji in "The Stubborn Stone" is not perfect. She may make some unexpected mistakes due to her own lack of knowledge, but she understands very well the "responsibility behind the benefits."
She has flaws, but she never lets others pay for her mistakes, which is what makes her most attractive.
What is even more surprising is that the filmmakers did not use any forced "tear tactics" at the end of the story to move people to tears, but instead let the villagers who were blessed by Shiji actively accept it.
They know that Shiji is not beautiful now, but they can "change their aesthetic taste" for the Shiji who has protected them.
A hundred years have passed, and clearly no one alive has ever seen Shiji with their own eyes. However, judging from the children's reactions, the entire Shixi Village has instinctively accepted this consensus.
This is a kind of perfection that is rarely seen in the Chinese animation circle.
Moreover, whether it is the fight between Shiji and the skeleton, or the physiological reaction of Shiji swallowing mud and sand to draw mountains, all of them show the production team's dedication. The most important thing is that this animated film, which is said to cost only 60 million yuan, has crushed the special effects of a number of big productions with a cost of 200 to 300 million yuan in the past two years.
Even if animated films don't use popular actors, they won't be so bad.
Many fans who have been watching various animated films and European and American blockbusters for many years were shocked by "The Stone", an animated film with an investment of only tens of millions.
It’s not that 60 or 70 million is a small amount of money, but the problem is that in this era when the cost of a movie can easily reach hundreds of millions or even billions, a production budget of 60 million is really not considered a big production.
Then there is the fact that animated films have a longer production cycle than those shot with actors, which are things that the audience cannot imagine.
Zhenxin Animation...Some experienced 2D people at the cinema started searching for the production company.
They thought it was a cover for some big animation company, but soon when they learned from the Internet that Zhenxin Animation was just a company founded by several college students while they were still in school, some of whom had not even graduated from college, all the audience could feel was disbelief and admiration.
And before they could investigate further, the background music that sounded in the final Easter egg of the film conveyed another even more incredible fact to everyone.
That is, the entire movie "The Stone" only used one song as background music from beginning to end.
Whether it is the stubborn stone at the beginning, or the transformed shape of Shiji, or even the desolateness during the fight and when it finally turns into mountains.
It turns out that all of this originated from the variation and splicing of different fragments of the song "Tanshi Meng".
A song, a whole story. Many viewers thought that there was a loophole in the production team's list mark, but when they really found the source of the song "Tanshi Meng" on the music platform, they had to admit this fact, and the performer of this song...
It turned out to be "Director Jia"!
[Akido Sack, is it the same name? 】
[It shouldn't be. This Zhenxin Animation is on the top floor of Yong'an Museum. It should be the same person. 】
[“Tanshi Meng” is really amazing. Guzheng music students want to ask for a score. 】
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As the movie became popular, netizens’ opinions quickly flocked to the Yong’an Museum.
They wanted to get a positive response from the Yong'an Museum or from Jia Wenyan. However, when they opened the official account of the Yong'an Museum on New Year's Eve, what greeted them was not any promotion about "The Story of the Stubborn Stone", but a public video of a new project.
In the video, the "billboard" that originally tightly wrapped the central patio of the Yong'an Museum began to collapse in all directions the moment New Year's Eve arrived.
The sound of the billboard falling reverberated deafeningly throughout the museum, but netizens at this moment had no time to pay attention to all the noise.
Because their attention was completely focused on the "cherry blossom tree" that appeared behind the billboard.
The four-meter-high all-ceramic cherry tree shines with its unique charm inside the high-definition, oversized glass platform.
The huge pink and white crown looks like an oversized bouquet of flowers, showing its extraordinaryness to everyone with the illusion that a rain of flowers will fall from the sky in the next second.
Yongan Museum, the most precious treasure of the museum... Porcelain Sakura...
[Fuck, porcelain cherry blossoms, does that mean this entire cherry tree is made of porcelain? ]
[It should be, designers: Jia Wenyan, Zhen Shuwang, producers: Jia Wenyan, Shi Guang. ]
[Is this Zhen Shuwang the director of "The Story of the Stubborn Stone"? And who is this Shi Guang? ]
[He is a senior student of our Xian'an University's Cultural Relics Restoration Department. He was originally going to strive for a postgraduate study, but he went to do an internship with Director Jia during the summer vacation. During this period, he has been asking for leave from the school as Director Jia's assistant.]
[Oh my god, students from the same major said that no one told me that I could participate in such a good project through this internship. ]
[Haha, a friendly reminder from the locals who just grabbed the tickets, are you sure you still want to waste your time on gossip? ]
[Fuck, you sneaked away, little thief. ]
[I have already put on my military coat and lined up. I will definitely be the first tourist to enter the museum to enjoy the cherry blossoms tomorrow. ]
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"The Story of the Stubborn Stone", "Dream of the Pool Stone", Yong'an Museum's Porcelain Language Sakura...
One hot search term after another, along with the popularity of the New Year, filled all major browsers.
But these were not within Jia Wenyan's consideration.
From preparing state gifts to arranging the Porcelain Sakura to catch up with the New Year's Eve event, Jia Wenyan can be said to have split her time into two halves.
Even though there was sometimes the help of Bai Huahua during this process, when everything was settled, she instinctively fell into a deep sleep after her mind relaxed.
On New Year's Day that year, Yong'an Museum became the most popular holiday attraction in the entire Xian'an.
Although at this moment the Yong'an Museum still cannot compare with other state-owned museums in terms of the number of cultural relics, the four-meter-high porcelain cherry tree has indeed become the most talked-about hot spot in Xian'an this year.
If we have to say something bad, it is that after the Porcelain Sakura tree was put in place, the Yong'an Museum immediately strengthened the control over tourists taking photos.
In order to avoid congestion caused by tourists, they banned all flash lights and set up sufficient isolation zones around the cherry trees using oversized explosion-proof glass partitions.
Many tourists expressed dissatisfaction with the Yong'an Museum's behavior, but they did benefit from it.
For example, they only need to spend an additional ten yuan for the official photo-taking fee, and they can experience the exclusive commemorative shots without being disturbed by other tourists in the huge explosion-proof glass booth after passing through security check.
This is an experience that other crowded tourist attractions can never provide.
And perhaps because of the huge popularity of Jia Wenyan's Porcelain Cherry Blossom Tree, the official Winter Olympics actually announced in advance the porcelain state gifts designed and produced by Jia Wenyan for the countries participating in the Winter Olympics.
As soon as the set of national gift porcelain corresponding to the participating countries was unveiled, it aroused discussion among online netizens.
Let’s not mention the popular animal images such as the bald eagle of the United States and the polar bear of the Soviet Union.
What amazed netizens the most was the three-dimensional fairy tale book prepared by Jia Wenyan for the fairy tale kingdom. In the porcelain book that was spread out, Snow White, wearing a long dress, played with the seven dwarfs in front of the cabin in the story.
That was the happiest time for Snow White in the fairy tale.
The design is so exquisite that you can tell the theme at a glance, which has attracted countless netizens at home and abroad. But of course, everything with praise has controversy.
For example, the Japanese potted cherry blossom trees, although the porcelains prepared by Jia Wenyan for all countries are of the same "uniform size" regardless of the theme. But in contrast to the super-large porcelain cherry blossom trees in the Yong'an Museum.
Even though the bonsai version of the cherry blossom bonsai is equally exquisite, it is difficult for people to tell what its nature is.
But the cherry tree is at least just an act of force majeure.
The netizens from the Southern Dynasties were the ones who were really disappointed. The "spicy cabbage" chosen by Jia Wenyan is indeed the representative feature of the Southern Dynasties in the impression of most countries.
But something like kimchi is really hard to hold up.
At the beginning, when most people learned about the theme of spicy cabbage, their first reaction was to think that Jia Wenyan should have adopted a design similar to Donghuang's "Jade Cabbage".
But what no one expected was that Jia Wenyan actually truly restored the so-called spicy cabbage.
At that moment, when everyone saw the spicy cabbage-themed porcelain, no one failed to marvel at Jia Wenyan's exquisite craftsmanship.
But the problem is that it is precisely because Jia Wenyan perfectly reproduced the image of spicy cabbage with porcelain that many people couldn't help but break down their defenses.
After all, the pickling technique was originally a cooking and storage method that people in ancient times came up with in order to avoid having enough vegetables in winter.
So even if Jia Wenyan tried her best to make the porcelain look as exquisite as possible, it could not change the reality that spicy cabbage could not be as juicy as fresh cabbage.
Netizens did not expect Jia Wenyan to describe kimchi so vividly.
Netizens in the country of kimchi want to argue, but the reality is that they do not have any traditional culture more iconic than kimchi.
In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, Jia Wenyan also specially prepared two accessories: a "pickle jar" and a "small condiment area serving plate".
At that moment, Donghuang netizens, who had just experienced a series of "cultural controversies" not long ago, all launched the iconic "smiley emoticon package". Netizens did not want to imagine too much, but when they saw the panda cub holding bamboo shoots in the center position.
Netizens’ OS: Grab the bamboo shoots.
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