A drama stirs up thousands of waves—
Zhang Ailing's novel "The First Burning Incense" was adapted and put on the big screen.
Sure enough, the crowd laughed.
Tens of thousands of comments were all questioning:
"Ma Sichun plays Ge Weilong, and the casting is afraid of being a joke."
If you can't shoot well, don't shoot, it's really speechless open the door for speechless, speechless to go home
There are even people who complain:
"The muscular Peng Yuyan plays Qiao Qiqiao, a bit like Jiang Wen playing Cheng Dieyi."
Don't blame netizens for complaining.
Ma Sichun and Peng Yuyan's student outfits don't look like fallen youths, more like strike marches, just right students.
The two acted against each other to make "First Burning Incense" into "First Furnace Steel".
It was only one day after the start of the broadcast, the ratings were not there for the time being, and there were countless bad reviews.
why?
Let's set our sights on The First Incense.
Let's talk...
Invisible, soulless
"The First Incense" began filming and exploded.
Without watching the plot, listening to the scolding first, "The First Burning Incense" set a precedent.
There are two reasons for this, one is that the casting is invisible, and the other is that the characters are soulless.
Before that, let's talk about the content of the "First Incense" novel to facilitate understanding the plot trend and content core.
The story takes place during the colonial period in Hong Kong.
The heroine, Ge Weilong, is a poor student, who defected to a rich aunt in order to stay in Hong Kong to study, and gradually went to the depravity.
In this story, Ge Weilong struggles, she wants to keep the bottom line, but overestimates her sanity and yearning for wealth.
Until she was in prison, she could no longer get rid of the shackles of control.
The beauty of ge Weilong's role is reflected in the desolation and tragedy of the woman who struggles to survive.
After introducing the background of the story, we began to say that it was "garbage casting that netizens have been madly complaining about for 2 years".
Why shouldn't Ge Weilong be Ma Sichun?
In the novel, it is described that the aunt is petite, and Ge Weilong tries on her tennis suit, but it is still much larger.
If you follow the original book, Wei Long should be "delicate".
The original book has this passage:
"Ge Weilong hiked to her aunt's mansion in the middle of the hong Kong mountains, and the thin figure contrasted with the long winding road in the middle of the mountain, which is the ladder of the beautiful girl climbing class."
Ge Weilong's slenderness, which seems to be a description of his body, is actually a contrast with the gorgeous life in the later period.
The thin figure can't resist the desire for abundance.
Looking at Ma Sichun again, the appearance in the play is a Guotai Min'an face, and how to look at it is not a remnant flower that has fallen into red dust.
Beauty is beauty.
Formless and soulless.
Then why do you say that Peng Yuyan is not Qiao Qiqiao?
Qiao Qiqiao's handsomeness is slightly melancholy and alienated, and Zhang Ailing once described him like this:
No matter how good it is, the temper is a little gloomy, with a little bit of a.
He was even bloodless than Zhou Jijie, and even his lips were pale, like plaster casts.
Under the black pressed eyebrows and eyelashes, the eyes were like the wind blowing through the waseda field, sometimes revealing the blue light of the water under the rice, flashing and darkening again.
Man is tall, and he is born evenly, but his clothes are so obedient and casual that people forget the existence of his body."
In just a few words, what caught my eye was the appearance of a dragon.
On the other hand, Peng Yuyan was awe-inspiring.
Are you sure he's a little white-faced man with no power to tie his hands, and not an undercover agent disguised as a high-society detective gangster?
A drama, like an innings, succeeds or fails in people, not in heaven.
If the casting is wrong, the character's soul portrayal is understandable.
But.
Neither the actor nor the screenwriter could read the script.
The first to deviate from the soul track was Ma Sichun.
At the beginning of filming, she sent a Weibo message reading "The First Incense":
"Because love is not the humility of one person, but the bravery of two people."
In her heart, Ge Weilong gave up his dignity and bottom line for love, was forced to do so, and survived with a broken arm.
but.
This is not the case.
In the original work, Ge Weilong, who first entered his aunt's house, was attracted by the fragrant car BMW and the beautiful and complicated life.
For young and poor girls, this seemingly illusory plan is intertwined, flowing with the gold of desire.
Ge Weilong is a smart person, and she knows that if she wants luxury, she will pay a price.
At the same time, she was also too confident, thinking that as long as she kept the bottom line, it would be enough.
But it's that simple.
Once the floodgates of desire are opened, reason runs away from home.
Ge Weilong willingly became a pawn of her aunt Vanity Fair, allowing others to fill the gap of her inner desires.
She fell soberly, and this sobriety deepened her hatred, and she hated herself and her aunt.
Thus, the contest between the two began.
The aunt snatched Lu Zhaolin, Ge Weilong's favorite boy.
Ge Weilong grabbed the man that her aunt couldn't get, Georgie Joe.
Does Ge Weilong love Ge QiqiQiao?
Not necessarily.
She decided to fall in love with Georgie Joe in order to get it, and after doing the fake drama for a long time, even she couldn't tell the difference.
In such a vain age, in an illusory life, love and the desire to conquer are really difficult to distinguish.
In "The First Incense", no one is alone, everyone is a pawn, each taking what they need.
Just a different attitude.
The aunt felt that it was reasonable to exchange her body for money, but Ge Weilong felt twisted and uneasy.
She covets the extravagant and flashy social circle, but does not want to expose the bottom line, so love becomes an excuse.
It wasn't until she met a group of drunken sailors who treated Ge Weilong as a prostitute standing on the street that she began to face her true self:
"What's the difference between me and them?" How is there no difference, they are forced, I am voluntary."
You see, this is Ge Weilong, there is no little warmth, a little light, and no love.
Ma Sichun's understanding, on the other hand, is too idealistic, ignores real desires, and exaggerates nihilistic love.
In this way, "The First Incense" is completely meaningless.
Zhang Ailing has a famous saying:
Life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice.
But on the gorgeous robe of "The First Incense", not only were there no lice, but even the robe was torn.
Don't blame netizens for not paying, this movie is broadcast, Zhang Ailing can be angry and come back to life.
After all, it is the transposition of the jianghu star, and the old glory cannot be exchanged for new traffic.
No taste, no fate
The remake of Zhang Ailing's novel was scolded, but not only "The First Incense".
The last one was "Half Life" renamed "Deep Love Shallow".
In addition to complaining about the age and appearance of the protagonist, the most unacceptable thing is that it is beautiful and has no fate.
In the novel, Man Zhen, born in a dim family, works in a dim office, and in order to earn money, she runs from one place to another every day.
In order to live, she did her best.
In the TV series, Gu Manzhen (played by Jiang Xin) wears a fashionable tweed coat, hot and wavy rolls, and wanders at the forefront of new ideas in the new era.
Unable to grasp the essence of Zhang Ailing, it will only make the remake a meaningless empty shell.
In the end, the shattered fate is like a bubble, disappearing on the road to the remake.
What is fate?
It is an indescribable lament for the world.
But the current actor can't play Zhang Ailing's decision to end the road carnival and the self-deception in the chaotic world.
But what you don't know is.
Zhang Ailing's remake of the drama obviously has a model.
For example, Ang Lee's "Color Ring".
The short story of only a thousand words was expanded to more than 2 hours.
Wang Jiazhi plans to seduce and assassinate the traitor Mr. Yi.
Who would have expected to end up feelings.
Tang Wei played out a fierce struggle with the true heart under the shadow of the spy.
But the fish and the bear's paw can not be both, and in the end they end up losing everything.
Again, fate played tricks, and everything became empty.
For example, Guan Jinpeng's "Red Roses and White Roses".
star Ye Yuqing came to play the wooden beauty White Rose Meng Yanli, which looks gorgeous but is actually boring.
Chen Chong plays his mistress "Red Rose" Wang Jiaorui, a veteran of the wind and moon who plays with men, and finally loses to men.
But Wang Jiaorui is cheerful enough, love is love, and if you don't get it, you can let go.
Wang Jiaorui is like zhang Ailing's declaration of love:
"I love you, what's the matter with you?"
In her works, no one's emotional fate can escape the choice of "making a living" and "making love".
So she set up a world, set up a bureau, create a dream, let the reader sleepwalk in it, and then awaken everyone in the most cruel way.
But now, the actor can't understand Zhang Ailing's unspoken meaning, and the director can't read her loneliness and despair.
As a result, Zhang Wei'er's full remake drama fell off a cliff, and she finally became a tear of the times that wanted to fall.
Sad, lamentable.
No respect, no innovation
The adaptation of Zhang Ailing's works is difficult to know.
Visual images can restore the plot, but the charm cannot be filmed.
Zhang Ailing and her characters are a desolate gesture and a heavy sigh.
Every soul is a lost elegance, a flower that blossoms from a stone crevice.
For example, Jiu Li in "Little Reunion", learns to be decisive in abuse;
For example, the white tassel in "Love in the Fallen City", whoever moves the heart first will lose.
No matter which role it is, it seems that people can see the shadow of the times.
Like a cup of Mandarin ducks from Hong Kong, milk tea and coffee, you can't tell who mixed who, who was the host, who was the visitor.
No matter how much we like Zhang Ailing, we have to accept that at a time when idol dramas and palace fight dramas occupy the market, Zhang Ailing's remake dramas have a rare place.
But it is not only Zhang Ailing, but also countless high-scoring dramas that have been targeted.
Speaking of which, there is actually one more issue that has not been explored in depth.
Why is it that the current drama, whether it is a remake of a classic film or a remake of a classic novel, cannot escape the fate of the street?
The remake was scolded in the final analysis, ruined by "disrespect for the original".
Why?
There are three points.
First, for the sake of traffic, the casting is not serious.
The remake drama is a huge shortcut for the capital market to quickly circle money.
Remake drama with its own traffic + love beans with its own traffic = the fastest way to make money.
Second, for the sake of difference, the script is changed randomly.
There is no shortage of remakes in the film and television industry, but how to attract attention requires the use of brains.
As a result, some directors, the director is not good, the brain is not very good, change it and change it, only the three words of "remake drama" are left.
The story has changed, the structure has changed, even the underlying logic has changed.
The film and television circle has changed from an original big stage to a porter.
Third, in order to seek speed, perfunctory.
One of the most scolded points of the remake is that it does not conform to the original work.
It boils down to the lack of speculation on the core of the characters by the directors and writers:
"I don't care what you think as long as I feel."
The actors don't even read the novels, so that a group of people with a bunch of words and play with instructions.
The result can only be to bring batches of garbage to the audience.
The most obvious example is that the ceiling of any genre is remade and turned into a ditch.
Costume drama ceiling "On the wrong flower palanquin to marry the lang" remake as "flower good moon and round".
Li Gengxi's chest crushed a large stone that dropped the score to 3.9.
Idol drama ceiling "Mischievous Kiss" remade as "A Kiss promises love".
Lin Yun's glare kill caused the score to plummet from 9.0 to 4.4.
The ceiling of the martial arts drama "Tianlong Eight Parts" is remade as a new version of "Tianlong Eight Parts".
Duan Yu encountered Wang Yuyan's urinary incontinence, making the audience scold.
The rating speaks for itself.
3.5 points I feel high.
A common problem of remakes.
The plot is currently non-existent, the shape is shoddily made, and the acting skills are difficult to say...
The loneliness of film and television is not a problem of the times, but a problem of attitude.
In the past, remakes have become a hotbed of bad dramas, and we can only chew the cultural residue of rough processing.
40 years ago, the Chinese film industry was nominated for Best Picture for "Heroine" (directed by Hu Jinquan) and won the Technical Award. Chinese film and television surpassed foreigners and shined in the three major film festivals.
40 years later, the Chinese film industry is known for remakes, and audiences eat cultural residues and chew wax.
Do you take it?
The audience was not convinced.
But the actor doesn't care, the director doesn't care.
At the end of the day, I don't want to work hard for quick benefits.
Just falling to the pen, telling a thousand words, it is difficult to interpret one-ten-thousandth of the loneliness of Chinese film and television.
Nowadays, there is no longer any such drama, and there is no way back to the glorious era.
Sigh helplessly, at that time, only the road was common!
Finally, click "Watching" and leave the regrets and the love and hate that you have been obsessed with for the years.
By the way, shout out, please be serious with the directors, we really don't want to look at the garbage.
Written by: Hatsuho
Edit: Mediterranean crab
Source: "First Incense", "Crazy Aliens", partly from the Internet
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