Xu Anhua's "First Incense" directed by Zhang Ailing's novel was ridiculed by the group from the time of the broadcast of the promotional film, and after the release, it was even more bad reviews, and friends who had seen it told me not to watch it.
Netizens jokingly called it "the first furnace steel", blaming the film's failure on the fatness of the lead actor Ma Sichun, which was completely inconsistent with Zhang Ailing's image of Ge Weilong.
However, after watching the whole film for nearly two and a half hours, compared with the original work, you will find that not all the problems are in an actor.
More than one that does not fit the character image:
The first to bear the brunt of nature is Ma Sichun, the actor of Ge Weilong.
Let's take a look at the description of Ge Weilong in the original book:
From this text, the characteristics of Ge Weilong's appearance are extracted from this text, which is a bias towards the classical beauty of the East, the face shape is small, but the eyes are slender and feminine, and the double eyelids are very deep. The nose is thin and the small mouth is fat and round.
Another feature of Ge Weilong is that the skin color is white, just like "tamales". Jiangnan women are different from the white and charming of southern women, which makes her look particularly different in Hong Kong.
And looking at Ma Sichun's appearance, the skin color is dark, the shoulders are wide and the waist is round. Presumably, only gentle and thick is more in line with this point, and even a little thick.
Whether she was wearing student clothes, dresses, or dresses, the feeling of looking more in line with the figure of a hard-working and simple middle-aged woman was more in line with the body.
Such a thick appearance and temperament, it is really difficult to associate with Ge Weilong, who will become a social flower in the future.
The reason why her aunt cultivated her as her successor must be to see the plasticity of her appearance.
That's why she was willing to lure her on the road from the beginning with a cabinet of gorgeous costumes and a world of red and green flowers.
After a beautiful woman has seen the world's wine, diamonds, and Chanel, it is difficult to return to the days of sentient drinking.
Ma Sichun's inadequacy lies in the fact that the actor's own appearance and temperament are far from the book, in addition to her, there is also Peng Yuyan, who plays Qiao Qiqiao.
Also take a look at the description of Georgie Joe in the original book:
Georgie Joe was a mixed-race man, and his whole being was pale. The appearance is three-dimensional, and the eyeballs are a little dark green.
He was the child of one of Sir Qiao Cheng's aunts, who had no money, no power, no learning, and no skills. Now his character image has come out:
A beautiful teenager of mixed race, a hollow young master, wants to rely on a good pair of skin bags to eat soft rice until the sky is old. He was lazy, gentle, and modern. There is no half-interest in the ideal future. Focus on eating, drinking and pleasing women, and admit that you are good material for being a donkey.
Look at Peng Yuyan again, the complexion is healthy and the muscles are strong. As soon as you see him, you will remember that he is "Roll Over! The indomitable sportsman in "A Xin", or the iron-blooded undercover in "The Great Mekong Case".
He is also foreign, but this foreign atmosphere is more like a California teenager under the suny beach, than the mercurial man who exudes a casual breath and indulges in stealing incense and jade.
If I had to substitute the image of an actor to compare Qiao Qiqiao, all I could think of was Zun Long or Zhang Guorong. The twelve teenagers in "Rouge Buckle" are not just the same as Georgie Joe.
Mrs. Liang, the aunt played by Yu Feihong, should be the actor who the audience thinks is closest to the original character.
In fact, if you look closely, you will barely pass, like a camel in a flock.
The character of the aunt is beautiful and selfish and knows how to calculate, married a rich merchant as an aunt at a young age, and inherited a large amount of property after her death. She neither remarried nor did she remain widowed in peace.
Have a lot of money, but no love.
Such a veteran of Xu Niang's semi-old style and charm in the wind and moon field, from cultivating her maidens to her own nieces, has attracted all kinds of men, in exchange for rich interests and glory.
Yu Feihong's age is in line with her aunt, and her appearance is still moving, but she is beautiful but not glamorous, delicate but not charming.
Overall, the aura is very hard, and the temperament is very decent. Every time I saw her spit on men, I didn't feel contempt for these people. When persuading her niece to go to the sea, it is more like a teacher who hates iron and steel is teaching her.
There should be jealousy between her and Ge Weilong, her niece is jealous of her innocence with Georgie Joe, and she is also jealous of her niece Hua Rongyue's appearance.
Some people joked that Yu Feihong was very much like a lurking underground party member in the play, and if you think about it, her wind emotions are a bit blunt, and her lines are very orthodox at a glance. And laughing and scolding, flattering and flattering these gestures are not vivid enough.
It's hard to associate her with the three words "bad woman" .
Liang Luoshi's Sense of Zhou Jijie's mixed blood is enough, but her state is really not the appearance of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and her Mandarin lines are very blunt, jumping out word by word.
Mr. Situ of Fan Wei is not like a wealthy businessman who seeks pleasure, and he even shows a state of mind that is a bit like the father who protects his daughter. But I know that whether it is his aunt or Ge Weilong, he is just a canary for him.
Conversely, several supporting characters are selected to be selected.
Zhang Jianning interpreted the gaze of this person whose heart is higher than the sky. Because he was sent out to accompany Mr. Situ by the master's high look, the contempt when he first saw Ge Weilong jumped on his face. Because the look of anger and corruption when rushing to the top and being driven away by the hostess is really a incompetent roar of the upper loser.
Zhang Junning's nickname is honest and loyal, even if she has been seduced by Qiao Qiqiao, she can see through it. Knowing that he was the next person's destiny, there was no benefit in leaving Mrs. Liang's big tree. In the face of Ge Weilong's scolding, I can also understand her "too pitiful". It is not strange to see it, but it is still compassionate.
Zhang Ailing's works are difficult to shoot, except for "Half Life", it is almost difficult to have works that satisfy book fans.
Because her work is exclusive to that era: a half-dirty, half-smelly, half-feudal, half-colonial society.
And the protagonist's love is almost all her own life experience, proud, narcissistic, stubborn, knowing that it cannot be done.
She wasn't poor, she woke up every day smelling coffee and eating the gold of Kesling's cake.
She is not a mediocre person, she is a talented woman who began writing novels at the age of 7 and began to publish works at the age of 12.
Her work expands new horizons of women's criticism and reveals the devastation inflicted on women by patriarchal social systems, traditional cultures and customs. The analysis of women's tragic fate rises to the perception and thinking of human nature, life, destiny, and history.
The connotation of her works can often only be understood ineffable, and the things that are deeply imprinted with the era and personal soul are actually unique to her.
Yes, it is exclusive to her own, and it is difficult to draw a tiger to draw a skin.