"Baolian Lantern" is the pinnacle of Chinese animated films and the last treasure of Shanghai Film Art Studio. The film embodies the hard work and expectations of Shangmei Factory, and despite many unknown difficulties and challenges in the last stand, it finally presents the highest level of Chinese animated films.
However, the film's release marked the end of the studio's glory days, and since then, this once bustling place has become quieter and quieter, and gradually forgotten.
In 1994, Disney's animated film "The Lion King" was released, which took the world by storm and received countless acclaims, and is still one of Disney's classic films today.
Since its introduction to Chinese mainland in 1995, "The Lion King" has also caused a powerful storm, attracting the attention of many merchants, who have launched stationery and snacks printed with Simba elements.
At the same time, the major ** has also praised and praised it.
Disney's classic film "The Lion King" is facing the impact of overseas animated films, and for this reason, Shanghai American Film Studio has taken on the responsibility of filming "Pauline Lantern", and also has to present a congratulatory gift for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1999.
It is worth mentioning that Chang Guangxi, who is 53 years old, once again stepped into the foreground and became the chief director of "Baolian Lantern".
The glory of the Shanghai American Film Studio is a thing of the past, and there has been no animated film released for ten years, and there is a shortage of personnel. Chang Guangxi started the project and began to recruit nationwide. Shangmei Film Studios used to have their own unique creative principles, and they pursued realism by collecting local styles and self-learning to create animation.
When filming "Havoc in Heaven", they did their best.
To commemorate the success of Havoc in Heaven, we specially shot the stamps of "Nine Colored Deer", so that the two classics collided with new sparks on the stamps.
Created by the nine-colored deer, the Shepherd's Flute perfectly integrates nature and humanity with a unique perspective and exquisite skills, bringing an audio-visual feast to the audience.
Created by Mudi Studio, the new animated short film "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" is warmly released!
The story of the tadpole looking for his mother continues in "Baolian Lantern", and the new artists have left their footprints all over the country, from the top of Huashan Mountain to the Yungang Grottoes, from Xishuangbanna in Yunnan to the desert of Ningxia, they have created 50 characters, 1,800 shots, 2,000 backgrounds and 150,000 animated images.
In order to be in line with international standards, Shangmei Film Studio decided to use stars for dubbing first, and then use stars to create characters. To this end, they used the connections accumulated in half a century and invited various celebrities at that time, including Jiang Wen and other well-known figures.
Erlang God played by Jiang Wen is completely different from Chen Peisi's interpretation.
Chen Peisi, the actor who plays the Monkey King, Zhu Shimao, Xu Fan.
"Baolian Lantern" is a classic domestic animated film, the stars who dubbed this movie include the Three Virgins Liang Tianning, Ma Ling, Zhu Xu, Ding Jiali, Lei Kesheng, Ma Xiaoqing and other well-known actors in the nineties, almost all of them are dubbed for free, only Hu Ge, who was only 16 years old at the time, dubbed the agarwood that grew up, and received a red envelope of 50 yuan.
In addition to the protagonist Agarwood, the film's three interludes "365 Days of Thinking of You", "Heaven and Earth in My Heart", and "Love is a Word" are also widely loved. These three songs are sung by Hong Kong singer Coco Li, mainland singer Liu Huan and Chinese Taiwanese singer Zhang Xinzhe, representing the heart of the same Chinese movie in the three places across the Taiwan Strait.
Among them, "365 Days of Missing" was included in the ** textbook of the fifth grade and became a classic among the classics.
Back then, these three songs were promoted on TV in turn, creating a 365-day atmosphere of thinking about you. Today, these three songs are still widely known and have become classics, and they are sung to this day.
In June 1999, the movie began to be released. In order to prevent piracy, Shangmei Film Studio recruited volunteers for training at many universities in Shanghai, and after a month of meticulous training, these young people returned to their hometowns with copies to supervise ** every day to prevent piracy.
In the end, they set a box office record of 25 million with a movie ticket of 5 yuan. Released in the same year, the animated film "Mulan", which was in preparation for five years, only received 10 million box office in China.
The birth of "Mulan" is closely related to the success of "Baolian Lantern". Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Company was the first to buy the copyright of "Mulan", and invited a number of powerful actors such as Cheung Ka-fai, Nicholas Tse, Cecilia Cheung and Joey Yung to dub in Cantonese.
The success of "Baolian Lantern" is not accidental, it won the Best Art Film Award at the 19th China Film Golden Rooster Awards and the 2000 China Film Huabiao Awards, respectively, becoming a representative work of domestic animated films.
After the success of "Baolian Lantern", Shangmei Film Studio gradually fell into loneliness, while domestic animation companies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. However, the quality of the works of these companies has dropped significantly, and there is a general problem of assembly line operation.
Such a trend has caused the quality of domestic animated films to decline, and the number of high-quality products is scarce, which has become an embarrassment in the domestic animated film market. Despite this, "Lotus Lantern" became the last glory of Shangmei Film Studios, and its success proved the potential and strength of Chinese animated films.
The success of "Baolian Lantern" has inspired Chinese animated filmmakers to continue to move forward, pursue higher quality works, and contribute to the development of domestic animated films.