Author: Shanjie
Since the launch of "Director Please Advise", Bi Zhifei has become the biggest controversy of the show.
In the film adaptation, Bi Zhifei chose Fei Mu's classic film "Spring in a New Town".
Probably because the title of Douban 2.2 point director is too heavy, "Spring in a New Small Town" has received a large wave of praise after its release.
Bi Zhifei also shed tears on the spot, thanking everyone for their recognition and tolerance.
But after a round of warmth, some people began to question, what kind of movie is the original "Spring in a Small Town"? Because it is too old, many viewers have not seen the original version, and cannot determine whether "Spring in a New Town" is an adaptation or a plagiarism.
"Spring in a Small Town" is about a small southern town after the victory of the War of Resistance. Another spring came, and the squire Dai Liyan and his wife Zhou Yuwen, his sister Dai Xiu, and the servant Lao Huang lived as usual.
Dai Liyan lost his family property in the war, seriously ill, his wife Yuwen guarded the dilapidated town and her half-dead husband, the two seemed to respect each other as guests, but in fact, there was no feeling, and life had long been as plain as white water.
But zhang Zhichen's arrival broke the calm of this family, he is a Western doctor who represents advanced medical skills, can he cure Dai Liyan's illness? He is also Zhou Yuwen's first love, and Zhou Yuwen's heart has also caused huge waves...
"Spring in a Small Town" is the first of the 100 Chinese films in the past century, and for the first time, it has made women vocal through the form of voiceover, becoming a typical example of Chinese psychological narrative. The heroine Yuwen, who lived in a small post-war town, faced her husband every day with "the country breaking the mountains and rivers" and "half dead and not living", and that "helpless mood" was a portrayal of the homeland of Chinese intellectuals at that time.
The film is deeply rooted in the essence of Su Shi's "Butterfly Love Flower", which reveals poetry and obscurity everywhere in terms of narrative, framing, composition, etc. The film uses ancient Chinese literary creation techniques to enrich the film language, which is worth a product for future generations.
Bi Zhifei's "Spring in a New Town" obviously refers to the original film in terms of story, framing, composition, actor positioning, and even character image.
The wife squatted on the ground to bring water and medicine to her husband, showing a state of respect between the two, which is consistent with the original story setting.
The original film revealed a fiasco everywhere, and the green of the new version of the film blockbuster revealed the birth machine, but in the framing, it chose to use overlapping composition and frame scenery to show the unique classical beauty of China.
Because it is a love triangle, a lot of triangle composition is used in the original film, and Bi Zhifei obviously learned this, and the most classic dinner scene always uses the triangle composition method.
The same lights, from the 40s to the 90s, are still not too much discordant.
Dai Liyan and Zhang Zhichen met for the first time, and the actors in the two versions of the movie stood basically the same.
In terms of dialogue, the new version of "Spring in a Small Town" brings out the particularity of the identities of the two people in one sentence, inheriting the subtlety of the original work.
In the original movie, Zhang Zhichen stepped on the medicine slag at the door of Dai Liyan's house. In the new version of the movie, Chinese medicine appears on the kitchen wall.
The small bonsai made by the younger sister in the original film appears in Dai Liyan's bedroom in the new version of the movie.
In both versions of the film, there are still lifes to lyrically depict images, and orchids and candles have the meaning of symbolizing vitality.
The wife raised the wine glass to drink, the husband can see God, completely restored the line in the original movie: "Over the years, I have hurt you well, let you live a hopeless life, it is rare that I see you so happy today, when you drink, I look at you, your youth is still there."
In the original movie, the heroine Yuwen after the arrival of the doctor Zhang Zhichen, the two suddenly fell in love and could not extricate themselves, in front of the husband, Zhichen's eyes could not be removed from the jade tattoo, when the three went out for a walk, Zhichen had held her hand, the two had also secretly gone out on a date, late at night after drinking, Yuwen had entered Zhichen's room, although bold, but in the end it was to maintain the Chinese "estrus, stop at the ceremony" of the hazy, subtle, ambiguous, and finally there was no substantial derailment.
In the new version of "Spring in a Small Town", Yuwen's feelings for Zhang Zhichen are not as turbulent as the tide, not vigorous, only plain nostalgia, less roundabout and complex parts of human nature.
In the new version of the film, Bi Zhifei designed the story background in the 90s, in addition to some old furniture, clothes, and tones to express the sense of age, there is no background similar to the "post-war" in the original film, which makes the whole story less profound, and only the story stays on the private feelings of men and women.
Bi Zhifei said that he made a big adaptation of this story because in the original movie, Zhang Zhichen, as Dai Liyan's friend, came to treat him, and he did not know zhang Zhichen's past love affair with his wife. In the new version of the movie, Zhang Zhichen, because he knew that he was critically ill and that time was short, and he understood the intentions of YuWen and Zhang Zhichen, he took the initiative to invite friends to come to his home, hoping to find a home for his wife in the second half of his life.
From passively accepting the feelings of his wife and Zhang Zhichen and his wife to taking the initiative to find a home for his wife in the second half of his life, this is the biggest change to the story of the new version of "Spring in a Small Town". Chinese men handing over their wives to others is indeed a big step forward in the traditional idea of male power, but for the story itself, there are still too few changes, especially in an era that advocates equal rights for men and women, and it is very unpleasant to depict a woman who has no active ability to redeem and is pushed around by men.
Is Bi Zhifei's "Spring in a Small Town" plagiarized? I don't think it can be counted, after all, this is a complete short film, all the work needs to be figured out by the director, and it is completely passable to shoot such an effect.
I actually understand that as a film professional who has feelings for movies and has read some books, when touching classic works, the first reaction is often not to innovate, but to shoot likes, but not to lose the taste of "classics", is to hold the original in the palm of your hand to study over and over again.
Tian Zhuangzhuang once made a new version of "Spring in a Small Town" in 2002, which was scolded by many professional filmmakers, saying that he was difficult to draw skin and bones.
Bi Zhifei did not make too many innovations, but if his passers-by are good enough, it can be said that it is a reference, a learning, a tribute, and our current cinema films are often doing remakes, but the mistake is that he is "Douban 2.2 You are worth it". Therefore, this too classic movie is almost how to make a mistake, to blame, you can only blame yourself for spending too much before!
Hello everyone, I'm Sister Shan. Film critic, screenwriter, director, teacher sister, the founder of the public name "Shanjie Cinema". His works have been published in "Curtain Taste", "Douban Movie", "Tenth Screening Room", "Movie Rotten Tomatoes", "Wu Zhihong", "Meet Zhang Xiaoxian", "The Bund The Bund", "Burning", "Elephant Screening", "Independent Fish", "Yi Jie Watching Movies", "World Chinese Weekly" and other public names.
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