Since the beginning of Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", the trend of adapting traditional Chinese mythological stories has been blown on the screen, such as "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", "Journey to the West", "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending" and other mythological stories have emerged in an endless stream, one after another, and these works are not in the Spring Festival file, or the National Day file, it can be said that every holiday is indispensable to the figure of this kind of film.
The popularity of traditional mythological films has also made the capital market smell the taste of money, and many follow-up works have been released, but the quality or adaptation is difficult to describe, such as "Jiang Ziya", "Nezha Reborn", "City of Figurines" and other works, although the investment is huge, but the homogenized content makes the audience look like a fish in the throat.
It can be said that for the film adapted from traditional Chinese mythology, there has been no hit for a long time, but no one expected that at the end of the National Day file, the online platform launched a new mythological adaptation movie, which is - "Journey to the West Red Child".
"Journey to the West Red Child" was broadcast on two video platforms, and on the first day of its launch, the film won the first good result in ratings.
At present, the cumulative playback of the film has exceeded 13 million, the number of viewers is close to half a million, and the cumulative account is 830,000, which is only the data given by a video platform.
In terms of popularity, although the film was only released for two days, it ranked second in the cat's eye heat list, pressing the "New Truant Veyron" and "Spring Brilliant Pig Eight Commandments" joined by many old drama bones.
In terms of word of mouth, although Douban has not yet opened the rating, netizens who have watched this film have also given a good evaluation.
Some people say: comedy journey to the west, cut into the point of novelty, special effects are a bit empty shell, iron fans can also be more fun.
Some people also say: The red child is filmed as Nezha, talking about robbery and destruction, the actors are looking for better points, and the special effects are more exquisite, which is Zheng Baorui's set of theater westward travel films.
So the question is, in the case that "Journey to the West" has been adapted badly, why is Xu Dongdong's new film so "arrogant"!
Xu Dongdong, the "big sister-in-law" who first got rid of the sexy shackles, can also interpret the affectionate maternal love
Mention Xu Dongdong, the first thing that comes to mind is her and Zhang Yishan's "Residual Sin", in the play Xu Dongdong played by the sister-in-law, sexy and beautiful, left a deep impression on the audience, but since then Xu Dongdong is closely linked to sexy, dress exposure, looking at Xu Dongdong's film, it is not difficult to see that she is taking the sexy route.
However, in "Journey to the West Red Child", Xu Dongdong took the route of maternal love, but no one expected that Xu Dongdong, who was originally free from the sexy shackles, actually broke through the ceiling of acting skills, especially the maternal love that he was willing to sacrifice for the red child, which made many people moved.
In the film, Xu Dongdong plays the Princess of the Iron Fan, five hundred years ago, Sun Wukong kicked down Lao Jun's Bagua furnace, the furnace fire fell into the human world, and the Samadhi True Fire was born in the continuous impact of the Flame Troll.
In order to relieve the suffering of the people, the Iron Fan Princess used the banana fan to block the Samadhi True Fire at the same time, although the Flame Troll was sealed, but the baby in the Iron Fan Princess's body was affected, affected by the Samadhi True Fire, the Red Child was no longer the body of the Earth Immortal, and became the existence of the Half Demon and Half Demon, it can be said that the Red Child's current situation is actually affected by Sun Wukong's big trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
At this time, the golden cicada appeared, in order not to let the red child bring disaster to the people, he hoped to make him a child when he was not born, and the iron fan princess as a mother pleaded bitterly, and even made a vow to guard the Flame Mountain in the life and not let the flame troll do wrong.
For the healthy growth of the red child, Tie Fan sent the young him to the Flame Village, let him eat a hundred meals to grow up, feel the suffering of the people, and she herself had to stick to the gossip map under the Flame Mountain for many years, because she was separated from her mother for many years, in order to attract her mother's attention, the red child was naughty all day and did a lot of outrageous times.
However, when the day came, the Iron Fan Princess tried her best to suppress the Flame Troll, in order to let the Red Child get out of the predicament as soon as possible, she still used that drop of nectar, the Iron Fan Princess played by Xu Dongdong, it can be said that she paid too much for the Red Child to live healthily, and Xu Dongdong also used the most sincere acting skills to show the greatness of maternal love.
The naughty red child does not lose to Nezha, who has changed his life against the sky
In previous film and television dramas, all the content involving red children appeared in a demonized image, but in the film, a change in the previous character setting, but instead of mischievously mischievous in order to attract the attention of the mother's left-behind children, this is somewhat surprising.
In the film, the red child was sent to the flame village by his parents since he was a child, he grew up eating the villagers' hundred meals, although he often did some things out of the ordinary, but the villagers regarded him as their own child, without any harsh responsibility, the most obvious example is that when Sun Wukong said that the red child is a demon, the villagers all gathered around and accused Sun Wukong, which shows the status of the red child in the hearts of the villagers.
Although the red child has been recognized by the villagers, but his heart is lonely, because he most wants to get the mother's love, for which he often does some unusual things, such as beating other little demons, tying up the Tang monk as a birthday gift, etc., but in the middle of the night, he always stares at the wall in a daze, thinking about the days when his mother played with him when he was a child, so on the surface it looks very beautiful, but in the middle of the night, he can only pray to meet his mother in his dream.
In fact, the fate of the red child and Nezha is very similar, Nezha is originally a spirit bead, but was replaced by Shen Gongbao for a magic bead, resulting in him being disgusted by everyone in Chen Tangguan, but fortunately he has a pair of parents who love her, especially Li Jing in order to change Nezha's life, he did not hesitate to exchange his own life, and finally Nezha realized the change of life against heaven.
The same is true of the red child, who was affected by Sun Wukong's big trouble in the Heavenly Palace, causing him to lose his body as an earth immortal and can only exist in the form of a half-demon and half-demon, not only that, in order to suppress his hostility, his parents can only guard the Flame Mountain for many years and cannot live with his parents.
But fortunately, under the influence of the villagers, although the red child acts uninhibited, but he is kind-hearted, even if he is seduced by the wolf monster, but in the end he repents and finally achieves the right result, and overall the fate of the red child is very similar to Nezha.
Funny version of the master-apprentice four
"Journey to the West" is naturally inseparable from the four Tang monks and apprentices, in this version, Tang Monk obviously borrowed from the "Journey to the West" Tang Monk's personality, especially the words, after being captured by the red child, the Tang monk directly said that I understand the process, said that I directly tied myself, and then opened a fragmented thought to the red child, this kind of words is so bad that it makes the red child fall asleep, if it is not the wolf monster, maybe the Tang monk himself can escape.
In other versions, Sun Wukong often appears in the image of demon exorcism, but in this version, it is more about shaping the process of Sun Wukong's self-redemption, such as when he first met the red child, Sun Wukong did not say that he directly moved, and at this time Sun Wukong only had the obsession of eliminating demons in his heart.
And when he learned that the current Red Child had become like this because of himself, he went to ask Guanyin for guidance, and finally risked his life to free the Red Child from the control of the Flame Troll, it can be said that the Flame Mountain is a process of self-redemption for Sun Wukong.
The Eight Precepts of the Pig and the Sand Monk are still funny, and in this drama, the Eight Precepts constantly have to let the Tang monk teach him the tightening curse, and flirt with the beautiful woman who sells tofu when he goes to the fast.
When he was allowed to answer outside the door, the Eight Precepts went to see the play instead, and as a result, he mistakenly took the goblin as the master and ran all the way, the Eight Precepts of the Pig is worthy of being the funny responsibility in the previous Journey to the West, and the master brother of the sand monk, the master was captured by the monster, also appeared in the play.
Definitely more than five cents of special effects
As a mythical story, special effects are absolutely indispensable, in this film, the special effects are definitely more than five cents, from the beginning, the gossip furnace was kicked over, the rolling fire came down, and then the appearance of the flame troll, and then to the red child and Sun Wukong fighting method, and the wolf monster's nine palace fire formation, and then to the final showdown, every frame can see full of sincerity, and even can see money burning, purely from the special effects, this drama is absolutely comparable to the cinema movie.
The little people are equally wonderful
This "Journey to the West Red Child" can be filmed, in the end, it depends on the small person Wolf Monster, originally its family lived happily, but because of the arrival of the heavenly fire, the parents of the Wolf Monster died tragically, in order to avenge, he learned the Ninth House away from the fire array, using the Red Child to try to destroy Sun Wukong, although it seems hateful, but in the end, the wolf monster's life is changed because of Sun Wukong, he is also a poor person.
As a network university, from the perspective of special effects, story intention, human settings and many other aspects, it is not at all inferior to the cinema movie, but its biggest drawback is that it wants to be perfect, borrowing from the future versions of Journey to the West, some of which do not make sense in the plot, and in essence, it is too similar to "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending", so the network university still has a long way to go, but overall, this film is still very good, worth watching.