Chapter 110: Director's Cut

The appearance of juvenile members in the Alter team may be unreasonable to the adults. After all, the appearance of children in an international armed organization is against common sense.
But from the perspective of a child, seeing his peers become team members and guarding the earth with Ultraman, the sense of generation is much stronger.
Besides, reasonableness...
Has Teshe ever been reasonable?
Ultraman and monsters have appeared, who cares about a child joining an international armed organization.
Although the idea is good, there is also a problem.
Young actors are easily injured, especially when shooting works like Ultraman, accidental injuries often occur.
Once such an accident occurs, let alone the inside of the crew, immediately after the news comes out, it can trigger a frenzy of public opinion.
Regardless of whether it’s the crew’s pot or not, you are at fault, and you shouldn’t hurt the young actors! After all, everyone likes to sympathize with the weak, especially children.
Even if the little actor just scratched a layer of skin with his hands, the news came out, I was afraid that a bunch of people would scold him.
This is why Meng Lang chose Wang Dahu.
Even if the pay of other small actors is low, due to reasons such as identity and background, if the filming is injured or something, it may cause a catastrophe.
Wang Dahu is different.
Meng Lang is kind to him and has his handle. As long as he dares to make trouble, he will not be able to make any waves by backhand exposure.
As for acting skills, it doesn’t matter. What acting skills do you want for a kid this age? If you can cry or laugh, you are qualified.
Really think Mr. Meng's money is easy to get?
In this way, Wang Dahu honorably became the actor of Kurt's trainee Yuki Hoshino.
In the first generation of the original version, the relationship between Hoshino and Akiko Fuji is not a sibling. But in the hands of Meng Lang, Hoshino became the half-brother of Fuji Akiko.
This is the character setting, followed by the identity of Hoshino.
In the original play, Hoshino did not have an official identity at the beginning, only relying on the relationship with Fuji Akiko to get into and out of the Kote team base. Later, because of outstanding contributions, he was promoted to a trainee by the captain.
Meng Lang felt this was not good.
After all, Hoshino is an important supporting role, and it feels awkward to play with the Kurt players without an identity.
Therefore, in his version of Ultraman, Hoshino was able to join the Kurt team as a trainee as a "prodigy", and after many wars, he became an official member of the Kurt team!
After the plot changes, Meng Lang took advantage of Saturday's holiday and summoned Wang Dahu into the crew and tried to make a scene.
"It feels okay!"
Although he was nervous and had small problems such as over-exaggerated expressions and inability to remember his lines, he was still smart, and he didn't make the same mistake again after teaching him again.
Meng Lang nodded: "Let's do it. Focus on filming his scenes on Saturday and Sunday, so that he can't delay his schooling."
The addition of Xiaohu has no effect on the entire shooting plan.
After all, it is a supporting role, and the presence is not high.
Instead, the appearance of the Baltan star became the first major event of the crew.
Baltan has a lot of abilities!
Teleport, invisibility, clone, hold, possess, regenerate...
As the first cosmic person to appear in the Ultraman series, the performance of the crayfish is definitely a classic monster!
How classic is it?
The popularity even surpassed some unpopular Altmans. Many audiences don't need to look at the leather case, as long as they hear the cry of "嚯嚯嚯嚯嚯", they will know that it is a crayfish.
There are more than 20 kinds of monster images created by Tsuburaya, and there are also more than a dozen models of leather cases.
There are countless guest appearances in Otter, and he is simply the "King of the Field" in the monster world! The stalk of the loyal crayfish from Manmen Zhonglie also came from here.
But this is not the point. The point is that the story of Baltan's appearance is too ironic.
The name of the crayfish comes from a certain gunpowder barrel area, and the crayfish's home star was destroyed by the box of eggs. In connection with the production time and background of the first generation, Tsuburaya's metaphor can be said to be obvious.
The Baltans came to Blue Star due to a spacecraft failure. After finding that it was suitable for living, they had bad thoughts that they shouldn't have.
But after the Kurt team fought back, they offered to negotiate.
"If you can abide by Blue Star's customs and laws, this is not impossible."
Hayata's answer sounds nothing wrong at first. If the Baltans are willing to coexist peacefully, the Kurt team does not need to eliminate them.
But here comes the problem, the number of Baltan stars is as high as 2.03 billion!
With such a large number of ethnic groups, it is impossible for humans to allow them to settle on the earth. Hayada offered to let the Baltans live on Mars, but the Baltans hated Mars and rejected the proposal.
The negotiation was broken, and the crayfish became huge and battled with Ultraman.
Later, the crayfish genocide happened.
The fierceness of the first generation is vividly displayed when dealing with the Baltan stars.
In this episode, Tsuburaya has added too many metaphors and pungent irony. This is a classic scene, but Meng Lang is very hesitant to keep this classic.
To be honest, it is easy to modify, just delete the part of the negotiation.
There is no negotiation plot, and no one knows that billions of aliens actually lived on the spaceship destroyed by Ultraman.
"Delete or not?"
As a producer, Wang Kui gave a suggestion after learning about Meng Lang’s distress:
Why not cut it into two versions? The version put on TV has no negotiation plot and serves children. Another director edited it. Version joins the negotiation plot and is released as a collection DVD."
Meng Lang was shocked!
This Wang Kui with thick eyebrows and big eyes had always thought he was a good old man before, but he didn't expect to have such a dark heart!
But this proposal does make sense.
Most of Showa's plots are heavy, and Tsuburaya also likes to make ironic metaphors. The actual viewing experience is not as comfortable as the new generation of LED's.
After cutting into two versions, this problem was solved.
In-depth content, put it on a DVD video tape and buy it home and slowly study it. The TV version is mainly to please children to promote derivative products. It is easier to get high ratings by making some cuts in the content.
"good idea!"
Meng Lang clapped his hands and said, "Let's do it like this! The DVD version is different from the TV version, and it can also promote the sales of DVD discs. Director Wang, you can think of this kind of good way. "
Wang Kui: "..."
Now that a solution was found, it was easier to shoot.
Moreover, Wang Kui's proposal also gave Meng Lang new ideas.
The DVD version has "Easter Egg Design"!
This news will make viewers who have watched the TV version become interested in the DVD version. Once interest arises, it is naturally not difficult to buy a DVD at hand.
It can be predicted that if we really add easter eggs to the DVD version, DVD sales will definitely not be low after the TV drama hits!
If DVDs are not only sold, do I need to buy a spin-off package?
Or another way of thinking, instead of making a big gift package to make a DVD set? How about adding old movies that are no longer available for sale in a collection?
No matter how you look at it, it's not a loss!