The movie "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" was released for three days, and the box office currently accumulates 109 million, and the word of mouth is mixed. This is a new work launched by director Guo Zijian after 4 years after "The Legend of Wukong".
Compared with its strong starring lineup: Lei Jiayin, Xin Zhilei, Ge You, Li Xian, Guo Tao, cameo Wang Qingxiang, Yong Mei, and the full-acting school lineup of old drama bones, it seems that it is difficult to make a flawed film and television film and television film sell well.
The original novel has countless fans to pursue, and 3 years ago it was the first to be filmed into a series of the same name, and the challenge of this movie "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is indeed not small.
But some netizens found that even if they completely abandon the original work, simply as a feature film, its plot is full of mistakes and omissions, and the structure is mysterious, which inevitably disappoints people: For example, the male protagonist Wish (played by Lei Jiayin) died at the age of 7, how did he learn a top treasure hunting skill in the antique industry as an orphan? The film is completely unexplained, when the dragon is born of the dragon and the phoenix, the mouse is born to punch holes?
Of course, adaptation is not copy-paste.
When Guo Zijian was reading the novel, he found an interesting point, "This story is "Where Daddy Goes". In the novel, Xu Wish (Lei Jiayin), Yao Bu (Li Xian) and Huang Yanyan (Xin Zhilei) do not appear fathers, but more are the interaction of the two generations of grandchildren.
In order to make the story more convincing, Guo Zijian chose "father-son love" as the focus point. In the novel, Fu Gui (Ge You), who has more interaction with Grandpa Wishing, becomes another "father-son relationship" with Wishing in the movie.
This kind of creation seems to return to Guo Zijian's debut film "Wild Dog", he once replied under a netizen's film review - many viewers are focused on whether the gunfight is good enough, whether the rhythm is bright, but what he wants to express most is actually the emotion of the male protagonist, but it seems to have become less important. The balance of emotion and type also seems to have shifted from the past feedback to the "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau", and from another perspective, it has also become a kind of look back at Guo Zijian's creation.
Compared with the novel, Wish's appearance changes from the original antique shop owner to a decadent drunkard, who runs a home appliance repair shop and even owes rent, which is very different from the original book itself. In fact, in the early days of the script creation, everyone studied the role of Wish for a long time, "He is a big god, he looks ordinary, but he is actually very powerful." This kind of person looks fine in the novel, but it is not so good when presented in 2 hours. I have to compress, or change, some of the particulars of this character. ”
Admittedly, compared with the description of the treasure hunting ability in the novel, the film simplifies the narration of this background, but through several scenes of Wishing in the attic of the home, as well as flashbacks with his father, he explains that the character is superficially gag, and the heart has actually been hiding the family's sorrows in an attempt to find the truth.
In Guo Zijian's setting, he compares Wish to Ling Huchong in "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", and they all have some villains in their core, "Wish is disgusted with the entire five veins, and it is unreasonable for the entire antique class, but there is still justice in his heart." "Although the external setting has changed, in essence, Wish is still the character in the novel.
As for the medicine, Guo Zijian sighed, "He seems to be Loki in the Avengers." ”
After watching the movie, the original author Ma Boyong said on the social platform, "The special effects interpretation of several treasures is very amazing, I did not expect to have such a freehand expression method, which is a unique advantage of the movie." ”
A little new, is that Yongmei teacher cameo for a few minutes "Shen Ye", it is indeed a breakthrough in their own past image, there is some meaning.
Success is relative, "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" will inevitably have regrets, and even for this adaptation, some fans do not buy - "no matter how good actors, there are their own limitations, no matter how excellent acting skills, can not save an overall collapse of the film and television work." ”
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Editor: Xu Yang