The Italian suspense film "Dead Without Proof" was released in the mainland for 5 days, and the cumulative box office finally exceeded 20 million.
While the box office improvement is slow, the rating is also going all the way down, Douban opened 8.3, today has fallen to 7.9 points, short reviews with "exactly the same, one to one copy" more and more new reviews, but also got a lot of fans likes.
Pigo also recently went to the theater to watch the entire film, 102 minutes of story, the whole film more than 40 reversals, wonderful excitement, the rhythm is bright and not delayed, and the actor's acting skills are also online.
It was almost a perfect movie, but the more I watched it, the more I felt diaphragm, and when the film was over, I was even a little angry.
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Even the poster of "Dead No Proof" is copied from the original version
As we all know, "Dead Without Proof" is a remake of the Spanish word-of-mouth work "The Invisible Guest" that swept the world.
In my heart, "The Invisible Guest" is the best suspense film in the past 5 years, and I am amazed by the exquisite plot design, the profound portrayal of the characters, and the shock of the reversal of the ending.
So before watching "Dead Without Proof", although it was already known that this was a remake of "The Invisible Guest", Pigo still maintained high expectations.
My anticipation stemmed from last year's film "Manslaughter" produced by Chen Sicheng.
It is reasonable to say that the remake of the suspense film is a thankless thing, the biggest attraction of a suspense film is the suspense part, but the remake unbuttoned in advance, how to stimulate the audience's desire to watch movies? Manslaughter solves this problem.
"Manslaughter" is remade from the Indian high-scoring film "Manslaughter", but this version of the remake is very successful.
In "Manslaughter", Chen Sicheng's version deleted a large number of redundant shots in the original work, reshaped the character characteristics of the protagonist, more flesh and blood, and also engaged in an open-ended ending, which is equivalent to untying the buttons in the original work and putting on new buttons, which is surprising.
Chen Sicheng's move can be described as a successful template for the remake.
Pi Ge originally thought that "Dead No Proof" would also give this classic a little new meaning like "Manslaughter", but the whole film looked down, the director did not "learn" Chen Sicheng's tricks, the film almost 100% copied the original work, large to the direction of the story, the lines of small characters, and even the design of the sub-shots are naked copy and paste, even the name of the protagonist in the film, the car used are the same, "1:1 reproduction", there is no new thing, the creator is even lazy to even copy the original version of the movie poster.
Pigo has been until the end, thinking that this remake will come to some new reversals, but the result is a big disappointment, except for the heroine's human skin mask is more exquisite, other are not innovative, seeIng that Pigo only wants to give it a zero score.
Pigo even felt that directly changing the face of "The Invisible Guest" was much better than "Dead No Proof".
"Dead No Proof" is a failure, but as a failure case of a remake it is extremely typical, it tells us: a remake is not the same as a reproduction, and a remake must bring something new to the audience.
It is a pity that this year's most anticipated remake has become the most failed remake of the year.
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Domestic films master the core secret of "remake"
In recent years, many good remakes have emerged in domestic films, and they use vivid examples to tell us what a good remake is.
For example, the comedy movie "The Richest Man in Xihong" starring Shen Teng is remade from Universal Pictures' "Brewster's Million Windfall", on the basis of the original story, the main creative team has integrated domestic elements to create a lot of new baggage, such as "Factory State Hengtai Team", "Wolong Phoenix", "Fat Risk" and other new stems are extremely creative, which can be seen as a successful model of the remake.
For example, "The Big" People starring Bao Bell and Wang Qianyuan is remade from South Korea's "Veteran", and in the process of remake, the screenwriter also added a lot of Chinese elements: demolition, school district housing, rich second generation beating... Therefore, the same story is still full of surprises, and Bao Bell and Wang Qianyuan also contributed superb acting skills, which made people shine.
For example, the "Caller" starring Qiao Shan is a remake of the Italian high-scoring movie "Perfect Stranger", which has been remade by many countries, and almost every country's version has been integrated into its own national conditions.
In "Callers", we can see that the screenwriter only borrowed the framework of the original version, telling the Chinese mood: live rewards, mother-in-law relationship, pension problems, divorce and house buying many issues placed on the table to discuss, the table is a middle class of deceit, outside the table is bittersweet and sour and sweet life, look very enjoyable.
Compared with the remake of "Twelve Citizens" starring How Bing from the classic film "Twelve Angry Men", localization is done very well, replacing the non-existent jury system with a mock court in China, a broken warehouse, twelve old men whose appearance is not online are stunned to perform a good play by dialogue, drama-style performance, film-style scheduling have added a lot to this remake.
Although none of the remakes listed above are as good as the original, they all stand on the shoulders of giants and make brave innovations, and this kind of flawed innovation is far more sincere than a stroke of copying.
Fortunately, the current audience is not a fool, the original version of "Invisible Guest" Douban score of 8.8 points, this version of "Dead No Proof" coincidentally got 8.3 points before the release, just a few days has fallen to 7.9 points.
As a "replica film", it has collapsed, and its box office has just exceeded 20 million in 5 days of release, and the eyes of the masses are still shining.
Finally, Pigo would like to say that the history of film has been more than 100 years, and there are countless classic movies worth remaking, so that these classics can be replaced with a fresh face to meet the audience. And the booming Chinese films should also give the remake enough space, so that the old bottle can be filled with new wine, and the old tree can blossom into new flowers.
But the remake is by no means a copy, the tribute is by no means plagiarism, only by holding a reverence for the film, on the basis of respecting the original, bravely output new content, can the classic film be carried forward and recognized by more audiences.
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