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Thai cinema has two treasures.
There are really ghosts in horror movies, and youth movies are really youth.
Since 2010's "The Little Thing About First Love", Thai youth films have officially entered our sights, and by the way, the label of "Thai Little Fresh" has been ignited.
However, after this, the Thai small and fresh youth films have not been able to surpass "The Little Thing about First Love", and the road seems to have come to an end.
It wasn't until 2017 that "The Talented Gunslinger" appeared.
This is an alternative youth film and a dark horse in the Thai film market.
The film is based on the sensational Asian exam cheating case in 2014, telling the story of a genius student bully who uses high-IQ exam cheating to make huge profits.
I have to say that this movie is impeccable in plot, editing, soundtrack, and performance, and the director uses the design-sensitive editing and oppressive picture and soundtrack to make a story of a genius bully cheating to make a spy movie.
At the Golden Swan Awards, known as the Oscars of Thailand, the film won five awards at the 27th Golden Swan Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
Nearly 600,000 people on Douban rated 8.2, accounting for only 0.3% of the total.
In terms of box office, the performance of "Genius Gunner" is also quite strong.
Thailand's box office revenue of 113 million baht, after the introduction of the mainland to release, less than 3 days box office broke 100 million, the cumulative box office of 271 million.
This achievement does not seem to be very strong, but as an import film, it has set a record for the mainland box office of Thai films.
Now, after three years, the drama version of "Genius Gunner" has arrived.
The Genius Gunslinger (aka Mock Criminals)
The drama version of "Genius Gunner" was re-created by the company that made the original film, and the series consisted of 12 episodes.
At present, 2 episodes are updated, although the protagonist has changed blood, the plot is just as exciting, and even one episode is explosive.
At the beginning of the episode, it is a word contest duel.
With her super vocabulary reserves, the heroine Lynn won the opponent and won the favor of the principal of the noble school in Bangkok.
The principal promised Lynn's dad that Lynn would enter their high school on a full scholarship.
Noble High School not only has first-class teaching equipment, but also has a crushing level of teaching resources.
The computers are all apples, as well as luxurious piano classrooms, an oversized library, and the school also offers full scholarships to students with excellent academic performance to study abroad.
Soon, Lynn made her first friend at school, Grace.
Grace wanted to join the school's stage play club, but she did not meet the registration requirements because her grades were too poor.
Out of intolerance, Lynn not only helped Grace make up lessons, but also passed the answer to Grace through an eraser on the midterm exam.
The midterm results came out, and Grace successfully entered the stage drama club because of her excellent grades.
But Lynn was surprised to find that the questions of the midterm exam were actually on the tutoring materials that Teacher Su Peng gave Grace.
It turned out that Teacher Su Peng had been using the convenience of his position to collect tuition fees from students by missing questions.
At the same time, Teacher Su Peng also noticed Lynn.
Then, Grace's boyfriend Apai, who has poor grades but is super rich, appears.
He listens to Lynn helping Grace cheat, and he also wants to borrow Lynn's hand to help him achieve his desire to buy a car at the end of the term.
And he promised that as long as Lynn was willing to help him, he could pay for it.
However, Lynn refused.
The first time she cheated was just to help a friend, and she wasn't the kind of person who would stop at nothing for money.
Unexpectedly, the "turnaround" appeared.
Lynn returned home to find that she had not been admitted on a full scholarship.
Because there was only one place in the scholarship, and they had a classmate with excellent grades at their age, the school decided that the prize money would be half.
In this way, Lynn needs to pay 30,000 tuition fees.
And the money is a lot of pressure for the dad of a regular school teacher.
Therefore, under the entanglement, Lin found Ah Pai again and decided to reach a cheating agreement at a price of 30,000 yuan.
But the matter is not over, in order to catch Lynn's "life-saving straw", Ah Pai secretly revealed that there is a tradition of collecting "sponsorship fees" for Lynn's school.
Lynn also found a "sponsorship fee" receipt of 200,000 baht at home, which is a high school, obviously a "vampire" school.
After this, Lynn began to fall into the abyss of being seduced by money.
From helping 2 people to cheat, to helping 5 people cheat, there is even a set of exclusive cheating techniques.
On the other side, the male protagonist, Banks, was once a full scholarship recipient.
His family runs a small laundromat, the family income is very low, the mother is not in good health, and she has always relied on a full scholarship to barely keep her qualification for higher education.
Now the appearance of the heroine, first of all, let his scholarship be halved, and the second year is even more directly absent.
His pressure was no less than Lynn's.
If you look at the plot development of the movie, Banks will also be blackened in the later stages, and the blackening will be more thorough than Lynn.
However, according to the official version of the drama, the ending of the drama version will be different from the film version, whether it will become darker or more sunny, can only continue to watch.
Judging from the two episodes currently updated, the drama version of "Genius Gunner" is still good in soundtrack and editing, especially the two cheating scenes, which make people clench their fists and feel oppressive throughout.
But compared to the film version, there are still two differences.
The first is the starring big change.
The female protagonist, Pauline, is played by the model-turned-judy mont joan ChaRong Suin, who is replaced by June (June), a former member of the Thai girl group BNK48.
Unlike the film version of Lynn,, who has a high cold aura, Lynn played by June is more sweet.
However, the two versions of Lynn are quite online in acting skills, and the film version does not need to be said more, and the newcomer actors have taken the film, and the skills can be imagined.
And June's acting skills can also be remarkable, especially the scene where she confronts Teacher Su Peng,
The male protagonist Banks is played by Thai star Second Generation Ginger Wattanasin, who did not appear much in the first episode, and the main role was in the second episode.
At present, the male protagonist of the second episode has performed well because of too much pressure and vomiting and frustration to want to quit school, and I hope that there will be surprises in the future.
The second is the plot.
Because of the length of time, the plot is rich and changed a lot compared to the film version, and the details are more.
Judging from the current 2 episodes, the storyline of the two versions is basically the same, but from the preview, the next story will be more complicated.
Such as greater temptations;
One exam, 800 customers, one person to charge 50,000, a test can make a profit of 40 million.
There are also more complex character relationships;
In the trailer, the relationship between the 4 protagonists seems to be not limited to exam cheating, but the confrontation and conflict between the characters should be more obvious.
There are many scenes of entanglement and tearing each other, and it seems that there are some other stories between several people.
and more exciting cheating methods that have appeared in the first two episodes;
The first cheat in the first episode, the drama version, like the film version, uses the method of eraser and shoe delivery.
But from the second time on, the method is already different.
Lin first used a false move to attract the attention of Teacher Su Peng, then led him out of the examination room, and then directly changed the examination paper.
This section matches Lynn's acting skills, and the oppression value is pulled to the highest.
Moreover, this section of the teacher looks really cool.
Of course, although the operation method is different, it looks more suspenseful and more tense, but when you think about it, there are actually loopholes.
However, the third multi-person cheating is different, and this exam is more rigorous than the film version.
When I watched the movie before, I felt that it was too difficult to represent ABCD with piano music.
Not only do you have to concentrate on watching the changes in your fingers, but you also have to memorize these fingerings, and if you make a slight mistake, you will lose everything.
In the play, this operation is questioned, and then Lynn uses a new method to complete the exam.
This adaptation can be described as a stroke of God, which solves the difficulty of cheating in the film version, and also properly introduces the personality of the male protagonist Bank.
In fact, the richness of the plot is necessary for the story of "Genius Gunner".
Because the length is elongated, the drama version has more places to play, and the topic drama version that the film version has not had time to discuss can also go deeper.
Friends who have seen the movie know that this is not just a story about the cheating of talented students, but a reflection of different social classes in Thailand through their stories.
The drama side also stated during the creation of the series that the drama version of "Genius Gunner" will enter into an in-depth discussion of Thailand's social structure, the gap between rich and poor, the education system and human nature.
In fact, this has also been shown in the updated 2 episodes.
For example, Lynn's father has been helping other teachers at school to take on the work.
For example, the first time Lin took the initiative to collect remuneration to cheat, she thought of using threats to get Teacher Su Peng.
Previously, because of Su Peng's tutoring, Lin mastered the fact that he missed the question.
So she threatened him with the missed question incident of Teacher Su Peng, attracted his attention, and let the cheat go smoothly.
In fact, this threat is just a false move of Lynn, but it is used by Ah Pai, causing Teacher Su Peng to lose his job.
And Apai's rhetoric is: "One day it will be us who will be rectified." ”
It just so happens that Teacher Su Peng's son and Lin once had a relationship, and because of this incident, Lin's heart fluctuated.
Using the matter of Teacher Su Peng and his son, the side reflects the entanglement in Lin's heart.
In addition, the drama version also adds a story of the first meeting between Banks and Lynn, who says not to become friends because it is a competitive relationship, and if they become friends, both of them will be sad because of the scholarship.
At this time, the personalities of both are still positive, and even by the end of the second episode, Lynn and Banks are positive.
Adding these details to contrast with the subsequent blackening is even more ironic.
Therefore, although there is a little sugar sprinkled at the end of the second episode, I believe that the tone of the whole show is still dark.
Whether the ending of these two people will be blackened all the way, or whitewashed like the film version, is very exciting.
In general, although the drama version of "Genius Gunner" is not as good as the standard of the film version, it is also a good drama, and from the perspective of intention, it is more worth watching. #影视杂淡 #
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