Author: Gong Weifeng
Nowadays, the fiery momentum of IP adaptations has not diminished, but there are not many successful adaptations of high-quality dramas, and many original works have even encountered "magic reform" (subversive modifications) by the drama side, not only the fans are distressed, but the original authors cannot accept works that are changed to "mothers" who do not know. Recently, there is finally a "big heroine" standing up and speaking out!
A stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves. The original author of "Si Teng" did not expect that he would publish a long weibo post on November 18, putting the "problem" on the table, accusing the drama party of "magic reform" of the original work and asking it for the right to edit and review the script, which would trigger a strong backlash in the screenwriting circle. Although tailfish quickly put an end to ningren and said that they had no intention of blaming the screenwriter, the matter continued to ferment for many days.
So, who should be responsible for the IP "magic reform"?
Grievances
The work was "magically modified", and the author's opinions were ignored
"You're not a professional, you don't understand the market, and the audience likes people like people and stories."
On November 18, the online author Weiyu posted a long article on Weibo, accusing the dramatist of "magically changing" the original work when creating the script: "As of now, in addition to "Si Teng", other adapted scripts have been sent to me, and I have expressed strong opposition. "Tailfish example: After the two novels were adapted from the script, the characters and stories were completely different. She proposed revisions, one suggestion was replied by the dramatist that "you are not professional, do not understand the market, the audience likes such people and stories"; another suggestion was replied by the dramatist that "you may not know much about the script, sometimes, the script looks bad, it looks good when it is filmed".
Tailfish tried to prevent two episodes of "magic reform" of his own work from starting this year, but the effect was not good. So, she made a decision: "I told my agent that when I signed the contract in the future, please ask the author to have the right to edit the script (we have tried to do it before, basically not to come down), or don't sell it, don't want to make this money." ”
Some netizens suggested in the comment area that tailfish: being a screenwriter can perfectly solve the problem. Tail Fish said that being a screenwriter will delay writing novels, and he is currently not qualified to be a screenwriter: "Screenwriters are relatively professional, and they should let professional people do professional things (I have a lot of screenwriting friends, very talented). The right to comment on the script is required in the hope that in the process of polishing the script, the author's opinion can also be included, not excluded. ”
There is no doubt that the core appeal of tailfish is that when the drama party arranges for the screenwriter to adapt the original work, the original author has the right to review the script. However, according to the current Copyright Law, there is no concept of "script editing and reviewing rights" and "script opinion rights", and the rights transferred by the original author to the film and television company through copyright sale are mainly adaptation rights and filming rights. If the original author wants to have the right to edit, he needs to clearly stipulate it in the contract with the playwright. Of course, if the original author believes that the film and television company "magically changed" the script, it may involve infringing the original author's right to protect the integrity of the work, and can appeal for compensation.
Spit on
Book fans of the adapted works do not recognize it, and the Douban score is also low
"It's like you haven't seen the original."
The appeal of the tailfish has been collectively supported by book fans. Someone tried to find out and find the work that was prevented from booting by tailfish. At the Shanghai TV Festival in June this year, Tencent Video released a list of adaptations of the tailfish series through the drama conference, including "April Affair", "Rising Green Soil", "West Out of the Jade Gate", "Three-line Reincarnation" and "Keel Burning Box". After Tailfish posted on Weibo, many book fans suspected that one of the works that Tailfish prevented from starting was the upcoming "West Out of the Jade Gate", but Tailfish quickly denied it.
Before tail fish attracted the attention of capital, it already had a lot of fame in the online literary circle and was a resident contracted author of Jinjiang Literature City. In the eyes of book fans, Tailfish's works have the characteristics of ancient Chinese Zhiwei novels: the brain hole is large, the collection of spirituality, suspense, and romance are one, and the adaptation of his novels is more difficult.
Take "Si Teng", which is adapted from his classic work "Half Demon Si Teng", as an example, the heroine Si Teng, played by Jing Tian, is really a demon incarnated by Bai Teng. This setting has extremely high requirements for story line laying and special effects design, and once the production level does not meet the high requirements, the reputation of the adapted drama is likely to be unable to even reach the Douban score passing line.
Tailfish has a long-standing grudge against the original work of the drama party "magic reform". Before the 7-point blockbuster drama "Si Teng", the IP adaptation of tail fish works douban score was not high. The drama "Ringing Record" is adapted from "Anger Bumping Bells", produced by Sohu Video, and launched in 2016, the producer is Bai Yixiao, the director is Lin Nan, and the screenwriter is Zhang Yi'an, who has participated in "The Dark One" and "Old Nine Doors", but the Douban score of "Ringing Record" is only 3.3 points. The drama was complained by netizens about the rough production, chaotic adaptation, and poor aesthetics... Some book fans complained: "I can't bear to see it!" My anger is going to ring! With the popular trend of "Si Teng", on March 30 this year, "Yu Zhao Ling", adapted from "Kaifeng ZhiWei", was launched on iQiyi, and the Douban score of the drama was only 4.1 points. The audience complained in the comments section: "I feel like I haven't seen the original book." ”
plight
IP adaptations are both fragrant and bitter
Tianxia Ba singing sued the "Nine-Story Demon Tower" film party for infringing on the author's right to protect the integrity of the work
A few years ago, with the strong entry of capital, IP adaptations once became a fragrant feast for the film and television drama market. Online authors with huge fans have also become the object of market pursuit, for example, the "tomb robbery circle" of the southern three uncles and the world bashing, their works have been purchased by a number of film and television parties after the copyright is adapted. However, the quality of the adaptation of online works depends on luck.
The encounter with tailfish is not unique.
Among the IP dramas adapted from his novels, the higher douban scores include "Too Late to Say I Love You" with 8.4 points and "East Palace" with 7.6 points. But there is also no shortage of low-scoring dramas, such as "Lonely Empty Spring Evening" with a score of 4.9, "The Switch of Love" with a score of 2.9, and so on.
In contrast, august Chang'an is a lucky author, she created the "Zhenhua trilogy", "The Best of Us" and "Hello, Old Time" have become blockbuster dramas, popular Liu Haoran, Tan Songyun, Zhang Xincheng, Li Randi and other actors, but "Orange Sheng Huainan Crush" failed to continue the high reputation, and the two versions of IP adaptations have encountered word-of-mouth Waterloo, causing dissatisfaction among fans of the original work.
In contrast, the current lucky author is Zijin Chen. His works "Undocumented Crime", "Bad Boy", "Long Night Is Difficult to See", after being filmed and television adapted, were produced into "Undocumented Crime", "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth". The Douban scores of the three works are 8.1 points, 8.8 points and 9.1 points, respectively.
After the original work was "magically reformed" by the drama party, did the author really complain about it? In January 2016, Zhang Muye, the author of the series of novels "Ghost Blowing Lights", believed that the movie "Nine-Story Demon Tower" had serious distortions and tampering with "The Spirit of the Ghost Blowing Lanterns" and infringed the author's right to protect the integrity of the work, and sued the film party to the court. On August 9, 2019, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court concluded the infringement case of the movie "Nine-Story Demon Tower". The second-instance judgment found that, in the case of obtaining the right to adapt the original work, the changes made in the adapted work should meet the necessary limits. The changes to "Nine-Story Demon Tower" are major changes to the core expression elements such as the main character settings and story backgrounds of the novels involved in the case, and essentially change the views and emotions expressed by the author in the original works, thus constituting a distortion and tampering of the original works, and ordering China Film Company, Dreamer Company, and LeTV Company to compensate Zhang Muye for mental damage of 50,000 yuan.
Chaos
The screenwriters are surprising and uncover the topic of industry controversy
"Screenwriters can't even keep their own scripts, directors can't even keep their editing rights, and theaters can't even keep the right to schedule films."
After tailfish issued a long complaint, Zijin Chen vigorously supported tailfish and tweeted: "If a drama is just a plot, the first person responsible must be the screenwriter, the second is the director and producer, and the script is passed by them." Everyone else is unrelated. Screenwriters sometimes blame the poor script on the creative intervention of all parties, to say something that offends people, the really good script, all parties will feel good when they see it, one party wants to change it, the other party will not agree, everyone wants to give some opinions on the script, just like that. ”
Unexpectedly, this microblog further intensified the contradiction, triggered a large number of screenwriters to be dissatisfied, and pointed the spearhead directly at tailfish and Zijin Chen. Although Tailfish explained, "I didn't actually scare the screenwriter, but I just hope that the drama can properly refer to the author's opinion." In the future, I will be more rigorous in wording to avoid accidental injuries", Zijin Chen also deleted Weibo, and said that "I am deeply sorry for causing some industry misunderstandings." I just express that the script is the most important part of a play, and I have great respect for good, dedicated, professional screenwriters", but many screenwriters still express their opinions fiercely on social networks. Some people have also unveiled a lot of chaos in the screenwriting and film and television production links.
The responsibility lies with the screenwriter?
The screenwriter suggested that the author also become a screenwriter
In response to Zijin Chen's remarks that "the plot is not good, the responsibility lies in the screenwriter", the netizen who signed the Weibo as "_ Reading Lele" replied to Zijin Chen: "You yourself got the screenwriter dividend, turned your head and stepped on the screenwriter, how many screenwriters did you fool to do your project?" This netizen is more Aite Tailfish, to her popular science "film and television drama editing" position: "The editor is generally served by a very senior editor or screenwriter, and at least has had the script editing or screenwriting experience of several successfully released or broadcast film and television dramas..." This reply was retorted by tailfish: "I may not understand the specific meaning of the editing and reviewing power, our expression has always been to hope that the author has a certain opinion on the script, rather than putting forward any opinion is considered unprofessional, layman guides the insider." In the end, the author is also a part of the audience, so why exclude the author if you want to respect the audience? ”
Soon, "_ Reading Lele" was picked out by netizens as Jiang Guangyu, a well-known screenwriter in the industry, and her adapted works include "Lonely Empty Spring Evening", "Give Up on Me, Hold On to Me", "I Know Your Secret", etc., and the Douban score of these works is almost below 5 points. For the low score of Douban in the adapted work, Jiang Guangyu responded: "I am not ashamed, but proud, I have been respected in every project, I have made friends, and I have learned my skills." ”
"Reading Lele" also revealed the inside story of the industry in a further reply to tailfish: "Many authors become much more rational after they have done a screenwriting once. Screenwriters can't even keep their own scripts, directors can't even keep their editing rights, and theaters can't even keep the right to schedule films. Tailfish once again stressed that he only hoped that the drama side would respect the opinions of the original author, and did not belittle the writer and director.
The responsibility lies with the team?
"Laymen guide insiders, and everyone can come to give opinions and change the script"
Soon, many insiders participated in the discussion of this industry topic, Weibo named "the hidden person in the circle" industry insiders pointed out the "grass platform team" of the screenwriting chaos: many screenwriters are not from the class, casually watch two film and television dramas are senior practitioners, the editing team is responsible for revising the script Of the executive screenwriter is even responsible for the newly graduated students, at the same time, producers, directors, platforms, drama announcements, starring actors and other people have to give advice to the script, "The most heard in the previous meeting is 'the audience loves to watch this'' No one watches this kind of 'now children like this', 'The big mother in front of the TV likes to watch'"
Shang Menglu, the screenwriter of "The Promotion of the Princess Princess" and "Just a Marriage Relationship", forwarded this Weibo and pointed out that as a person who guides the screenwriting work of film and television dramas, the advantages and disadvantages of the responsible editors are also crucial. You never know how far the final broadcast plot is from the screenwriter's final script. In the future, do not look at the screenwriter to judge whether the drama can be expected, but look at who is more reliable, and the final probability of a drama is the execution of the will and preferences of the editor." She believes that it is very fortunate to meet a good editor.
Party A?
Wang Hailin advises writers to stop arguing about creating better works
Wang Hailin, vice president of the China Film Literature Society and screenwriter of "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", pointed out the problem of text creation in the film and television circle today - online writers are not polished with words, and good screenwriters with professional skills are difficult to find, and at the same time, even successful screenwriters have to face the pickiness and judgment of Party A. He believes that "the authors of the online article complain about the screenwriter's 'magic reform', and the screenwriter complains that the online text is too bad, which is a manifestation of immaturity." Respect each other, remind each other, don't inflate, and realize that the common enemy of writers is capital. ”
Interestingly, Wang Hailin also moved out of the "Screenwriters Gang" that helped the "NetWen Gang" defend their rights, believing that the online writers attacked the screenwriters for "only the relatives and the enemies are fast", he said that the next time the online writers encounter trouble, the screenwriters will still draw their swords to help, because the author of the world is a family. He also put on a conciliatory posture: "I hope to look farther away, the world is vast, don't just stare at your own acres and three points, the reading market, the audio and video market are the sea of stars, readers and audiences need more original content." He also suggested that writers should ride the wind and waves and do their best in their fields.
Yu Fei, deputy secretary-general of the Tv Drama Screenwriting Committee of the China Radio and Television Association and screenwriter of the TV series "The Eternal Wave", pointed out that the screenwriters are proud of their originality, and when they do the adaptation work, the direction and quality are controlled by Party A: "I think the novel has been changed, and you should find someone who bought your copyright to settle the account." The online writer pointed out the screenwriter, indicating that he did not understand the film and television industry and sprayed the wrong object. The network writers are as good as clouds, and the writing industry is also very deep. (Gong Weifeng)
Source: Yangcheng Evening News