This morning, some netizens revealed that "Huan Zhu Gege" is about to be remade again, and the crew is recruiting actors. The news has been on the hot search, netizens are indeed "complicated feelings", have been persuaded, "there is no need to ruin childhood" "there is no need to add failure cases for domestic classic remakes"... Over the years, remakes of film and television dramas have brought too much "harm" to the audience, either copying the plot to take shortcuts, or making rude selling feelings, destroying classics and ruining childhood. Too many remake cases such as "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", "Tianlong Eight Parts", "Deer DingJi" and so on have been "overturned", falling on the ultra-low word-of-mouth score, hoping that the creators of the follow-up remake can be in awe of "remaking the classic with the current young people's methods".
"Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was once a long period of "winter and summer vacation divine drama", covering the childhood time of multiple age groups, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the "national memories". "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is divided into three parts, in 1998, the first part of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was broadcast, Douban 8.3, this one is the most classic. In that year, the kit-kat angle of the screenwriter of "Huan Zhu Gege", the bizarre twists and turns of the story, the positioning of xiaoyanzi's role, and the cleverness and vividness of the lines were all indispensable foundations for the achievement of this classic TV series, and also brought a fresh air to the TV drama market at that time.
However, in 2003, when the actors shuffled in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 3", only Zhou Jie and Wang Yan remained, and the Douban score dropped to 4.7. In 2011, the remake of "New Zhu Gege" had a word of mouth score of only 4.6, and the screen was full of one star. The overseas remake of the Vietnamese version, the sudden change of painting style and the inferior quality of the characters Lei Man and special effects contributed a lot of jokes.
The news that "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is going to be remade is not the first time it has come out. In 2018, Tencent Pictures released the news that it would work with Qiong Yao to create a "new Zhu Ge Ge" and open a full range of development of film and television, animation, and games. Qiong Yao also said, "Although I understand that the classics cannot be reproduced, I still hope to use a method suitable for young people to watch at the moment to make more young people love this story." "The January 2021 web drama filing shows that there are "Flowers and Bones Prequel", "Old Nine Doors 2" and "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" remake of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge". And "There is a girl in the pearl" is produced by Tencent Pictures, is expected to 38 episodes, at that time exposed the casting standards, requiring 18 years old, appearance, performance foundation. However, this morning's netizens broke the news that there is no official news to confirm it.
However, the first reaction of netizens is to dissuade the remake, it is indeed because there are too many lessons from the past, and even the classic IP cannot afford to consume fast food again and again. The 2018 edition of "Smiling Pride Jianghu", the 2017 edition of "Chivalrous Journey", the 2013 edition of "Tianlong Eight Parts", the 2014 edition of "Divine Eagle Heroes", the 2013 edition of "Smiling Pride jianghu", the 2019 edition of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", douban scores from low to high, the lowest 2.5 points, the highest 5.8 points, all below the passing line, more than 6 points are few. To take a more recent example, last year's fifth edition of the "Tianlong Eight Parts" TV series, Douban scored only 3.4, setting a record for the lowest record in the history of "Tianlong Eight Parts" adaptation. In 2020, Zhang Yishan's version of "Deer Ding" "Monkey Spirit Monkey Present" also received the lowest score of Jin Yong IP adaptation on Douban, 3.2 points. In addition, the "List of Fengshen Gods" and "The Legend of the White Snake", as popular mythological BIG IP, have been interpreted in countless versions, and now the mythological stories have been virtualized into the background, allowing the creators to smear vulgar and clumsy love stories in them.
No more originality? It is whenever the news of a classic remake of a film and television drama is sent, the netizen audience will issue questions and powerless sighs. Remake film and television dramas are naturally full of ulterior motives of "making quick money with classics", which can naturally inherit the popularity and attention of the classic previous works, and have a lot of advantages over original dramas, regardless of whether they will be scolded or not, in short, no one is worried about watching. In recent years, "remake" is still the key word in the film and television market, in addition to the classic remake, it is also remaking Japanese and Korean film and television dramas, remake songs, remake game animation, etc.
Although there is no official news of the remake of "Huan Zhu Gege" at present, for the vast majority of the audience, if the remake is remade, the storyline must be new, the actors must have acting skills in addition to their appearance, and the values must conform to the current context. But at present, there is very little information about "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" 3.0, the character setting of the character biography is basically consistent with the original version, there is almost no novelty, Xiao Yanzi is still "a little smart, a little righteous, is a little trickster, like a small koi", Yongqi "more than a little clever, not a general small single-minded, somewhat small bottom line, there will always be some small filial piety", Ziwei "ancient style words skills are full of points, frank as a canoe, gentle and elegant wisdom, deep and unswerving", Qing'er "show talent, eight faces exquisite popularity king, The heart does not reveal the small cotton jacket, keep the clouds open to see the moon", the sword "Zheng Zhengxia iron bone, proud and determined to do, piano chess poetry wine book, a sword love". The so-called "redefining the six major roles" refers to the six roles of Xiaoyanzi, Yongqi, Ziwei, Erkang, Qing'er, and Xiao Jian, which shows that this is to recreate these 3 pairs of CPs.
Many remakes will be on top of some names in preparation, and there are still countless "overturns". For example, "close to the original, pay tribute to the original", in fact, is to take advantage of laziness, copy the scene dialogue, etc., and even become a selling point; such as "using techniques suitable for the current young people to watch", that is, adding some modern terriers to the costume drama, watching the audience's toes cut the ground. In fact, some netizens' comments are not rough, "As long as the shooting is good, there is no need to cater to young people." When the old version of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was broadcast, it was really popular for young and old, up to my 70-year-old grandmother at the time, and children as young as a few years old loved it. It turns out that as long as you shoot well and act well, you can be loved by audiences of many ages. And the last remake, "New Zhu Gege" is very ruined. ”
It can be seen that the successful remake is to use the current audiovisual language to interpret the new connotation of the classic, so that the classic can be revitalized again. And the failed remake will only consume classics under the guise of feelings. For classic IP, there should be more reverence, rather than the consumption of blindly "making quick money". At present, if the remake, the more positive side is that the picture quality of the 1998 version of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is very poor, and now most of the TV series use 1080P or even 4K picture quality, and the technology of the remake must be upgraded, but it cannot only be upgraded.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News