Special feature of 1905 film network It was released, and the box office accumulated 15 million on the first day. Frankly speaking, it is better than Xiao Dianjun’s expected box office results.
Looking at the animated film market in the past two years, there will be one or two works with good appearance every year. These works may not be perfect, but they are more or less a breakthrough in the current market.
After all, the first person to eat crabs needs courage, and of course he is lucky.

The appearance of Yesterday’s Blue Sky is a new breakthrough. Accustomed to all kinds of animated stories with overhead backgrounds, the author uses his hometown for chocolate in his pocket — —Zhejiang LanxiBased on the blueprint, I planted a lot of my own stories and created such a story. People who don’t know will say that they are copying Japanese animation just by looking at the stills.
Actually, not at all.
This animation is a first attempt, which can be called the first youth theme in China, and it is also the first time to create an animated film with a real city as the actual location.

Coincidentally, Xiao Dianjun’s colleague Ma Xun is from this small town in the south of the Yangtze River. When he first screened in the summer, he bought tickets early and then sold them all kinds of crazy. In his words, "The first shot of the film, the ship passing by on the Lanjiang River, the Simon Tower behind the camera background, and then a row of white pigeons flew by, is completely a childhood memory.
As a fan of animated films, he also took this opportunity to chat with the original pocket chocolate and express a homesickness.
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"Nong is also from Lanxi." Pocket chocolate first talked to me in dialect after entering the door. I was stunned when I didn’t hear the local accent for a long time.
"Well, in fact, I am still a high school with you, and I graduated from Lan No.3 Middle School. When watching movies, I still have great feelings when I see that old school gate."
"When I went back to collect the wind last time, I saw that the old school gate was still there, which was quite good."
Pocket chocolate, born in 1977, lived in the south of the city since childhood, and went to Shenzhen after the third year of high school to fight for his comic dream.
I was born in 1992, and I lived in the southeast of the city. I was familiar with him when he talked about many small town stories, but with the urban transformation in the middle and late 1990s, my memory was not so profound.
"Yesterday’s Blue Sky" really means more to me than anything else. In animation, many things don’t know how to express them in words when images project various places of their past lives.
This city is the soul of this animation.
When the film was shown in July, it was already seen in advance.
Touching was the biggest feeling at that time.Perhaps the film propaganda mainly promotes the youth of a generation, but for me, it is the whole memory from childhood to adolescence.
As early as around 2012, I had already read the original comics, and I dreamed that one day it would be presented in the form of animation, but I didn’t expect the final product to be like this. It is a little different from the original, but fortunately, the most important feelings of the small town have not changed.

This feeling is the same for the original author’s pocket chocolate. He grew up with his grandparents and lived in the south of the city. This area was the first area to be transformed by the city in the mid-1990 s. Almost 20 years have passed. As he said, "Many places have not been completely changed."
"I don’t know if you know that before Yan ‘an Road was rebuilt, shops at that time were not limited to rolling doors, and they were all made of wood, so I drew this into my work." For me after 90, it is true that this kind of door curtain is rare.
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"As a cartoonist, a lot of things to consider still need a sense of picture. For example, if I want to shape a small town, there will be a spatial logic and a small map like a sand table in my mind. I grew up in the old town of Lanxi, and the whole area of the old town can be drawn in my mind at any time. It is very clear. "

At some point, Pocket Chocolate began to dictate the map of Lanxi.
"Simon, there used to be a pontoon bridge, and there was Zhongzhou Park, then the ring road here and around there. A railway bridge goes around, there is a railway station, then there is a railway crossing, and then it turns here, and Yunshan Road turns here is an archway at the south gate. In this circle, the appearance of the old city comes out. "
Like Tu Xiaoyi, the man in the movie, Pocket Chocolate is a child who grew up in an alley. When I was a child, my parents were not around, and my grandparents brought me up. Children who grow up in alleys have one characteristic: they like to run around.
Of course, I have had such an experience before.

Alleys in the south are different from hutongs in the north. They will be narrower and extend in all directions. When I was very young, my grandmother was still living in the alley of the old city. If there was an adult’s bicycle to cross, one side had to retreat to the alley first.
Sometimes I chase and run with my friends in the alley, and I may run into someone else’s yard.

In fact, from the early comic book "Area 1 212" of Pocket Chocolate, the male host was set to be from Lanxi. This powerful nostalgia inevitably makes me curious and ask, "How often do you go back to Lanxi now?"
In the past, when his grandparents were alive, he would go back to visit his parents regularly. Since the death of the old man in recent years, his chances of going back are getting less and less, but this city that grew up as a child is unforgettable for him.

"I first wanted to create a story about the campus. At that time, I felt that since I wanted to describe a story that made people feel the same, I should take my real experience as the blueprint to shape it. Therefore, it is basically determined that it is a starting motivation to simply take my hometown Lanxi as the background. "
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been away from home for too long. In the urban design of the film, pocket chocolate still exposes some shortcomings. He is not familiar with the later rebuilt Chengxi New District.

In the animation, he set the heroine’s home in Hongmei Village in the west of the city. In reality, there is indeed this community. "Our setting at that time was that the hero sent the woman home, probably by bus. The hero must live in the old city, and the heroine must live in the new district. To be honest, because I grew up in the urban area, I am not particularly familiar with the new area, but I have an impression of Hongmei Village, so I simply set that place as Hongmei Village. "
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After listening to what he said, this geographical mistake became clear in an instant. In the area where Pocket Chocolate grew up, there was only a No.9 bus line at the door in the early days, and the terminal was Hongmei Village.
To put it bluntly, this "mistake" is nothing more than memories of home.
"Then why didn’t Lanxi be the blueprint in the process of film and television adaptation, but borrowed the customs of many other water towns?" I may not be completely satisfied by the film, but I can’t help asking.

"You may not know, in fact, very early on, the intersection of Yan ‘an Road was a bridge, which was later filled out. I actually want to do some restoration, but the urban area can’t get such a view, so I went to many places such as Luzhi and Yongchang, and implanted it with what is closest to my impression. "
Your personality is a bit like Tu Xiaoyi.
"In order to restore the school, in fact, we also returned to Lan No.3 Middle School. The school also specially showed us the files. " The high school in the movie does exist, but after almost 2005, it experienced a relatively large campus expansion, which is completely different from the appearance in the movie.

The only thing that can be found in the film is the old school gate, but now it has become a memorial inside the campus.
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In high school, Pocket Chocolate was not an excellent student, but it didn’t make trouble on weekdays, so I liked painting alone, so I contracted all the class blackboard newspapers in high school for three years.
At that time, he didn’t have any professional training, but he just liked it and copied it with pictures in comic magazines.

At that time, the family conditions were not particularly rich. For him, it may not be enough to buy comics and magazines, let alone buy white paper for painting.
"I held an umbrella and wore slippers on a rainy day, and I ran all over the streets in the old city to find that kind of copy shop and wanted to ask them to buy some white paper. At that time, people sold the whole package, but I couldn’t afford it. I said if I could buy 20 pages, they wouldn’t sell it to me. "
At that time, many people didn’t have any confidence in the art road, and they were often defined as "crooked roads". However, his family and teachers in Pocket Chocolate are very supportive of him.

"I was deeply impressed. When I was in a self-study class, Teacher Nie knew that I liked to draw cartoons and gave me a newspaper. But the above is the traditional satirical cartoon, which is not the same as our favorite cartoon. But the heart is really warm, and you will feel that a teacher is giving you strength. " Later, this bridge was painted by him into the movie "Yesterday’s Clear Sky".
But at that time, many things were not popular. After Pocket Chocolate learned about the art class of Zhejiang Normal University, my sister took him with her to find out, who would have missed the time to apply for the exam.
"Actually, like Tu Xiaoyi, I went to Shenzhen without taking the college entrance examination." It is also holding the mentality of "trying" and working hard for his comic dream.. Later, he kept painting and slowly began to have works.

“I think Tu Xiaoyi is you."After talking to Pocket for nearly half an hour, I suddenly threw this question at him.
At that time, he was stunned and replied, "A little."
During the interview, I actually talked a lot with Pocket Chocolate.
I talked about the tofu dumplings that flashed in the animation and talked about many hometown snacks.

I also talked about the TV tower that the protagonists climbed up in the movie. "At that time, junior high schools organized lectures, and our own boys sneaked to Dayun Mountain to play. Sometimes we went to the bomb shelter below to’ explore’ or strolled in the TV tower. Once the door was open, several older boys climbed up."

During the pre-production of the film, Pocket Chocolate took the team back to Lanxi for a few days. Today, this southern town has changed a lot, and even the pontoon bridge in the movie has been demolished in the past two years.

The school he attended, only the primary school has made too many changes.
"When I went back to Yan ‘an Road Primary School this time, I felt that when we were in primary school, we felt that the playground was very big, the corridor was very wide and the railings were very high. But when you climb up again now, you suddenly found that the playground was not that big, the railings were not that high and the corridors were not that wide. But when you go to a place where you have been before, you will have an illusion. When you were a child, you ran past you now. I really feel this way. "
"Well, that’s how I feel when I watch this movie."