Remaking an old movie requires great courage, and even if you count the remakes in the history of cinema, there are very few people who can catch up later, and most of the cases are that the standard is lower than the original film one or two files.
Even if Hollywood is such a strong film industry system, the remake of "Infernal Affairs" of "Infernal Affairs" has a great reputation abroad, but it is simply a summer overnight tea, and it cannot be drunk.
"Crowds"
The movie "The Crowd" is a remake of Japan's "The Way to Steal the Key". Before that, South Korea also remade it once, called "Lucky Key".
Judging from my personal movie-watching experience, the best in Japan can be called a classic good movie, and the worst in South Korea has become a burlesque film.
As the director of "Surging Crowds", Rao Xiaozhi has always been good in the audience's reputation, because "The Unknown Generation" has put the bottom line for him.
Although "The Unknown Generation" has a good reputation, it cannot hide Rao Xiaozhi's flaws, he is good at atmosphere rendering, but he does not have enough control over the film as a whole; likes to give the characters distinctive characteristics, but often cannot fill the fullness of the characters; the most terrible thing is that he does not attach importance to the logic of the story.
So, watching his movie, you have to be mentally prepared to pull your crotch.
"The Method of Stealing Keys"
The actors selected for such a movie are actually quite surprising. In "The Method of Stealing the Key", Xiao Yang plays the role of Masato Sakai, Andy Lau plays Teruyuki Kagawa, and Wan Qian corresponds to Ryoko Hiromi.
If you compare South Korea again, you will find that Xiao Yang corresponds to Li Zhun, Andy Lau is Liu Haizhen, and Wan Qian is Zhao Yunxi.
Although I don't like Sakai's acting style, he plays this role with his own hands, and his slightly exaggerated performance style is very suitable for this role.
He can pick up the personality characteristics of this downtrodden little person before and after the key exchange identity, the heart changes, and the interpretation is natural.
Xiao Yang couldn't do it.
It seems that many people especially like Xiao Yang's simple and witty acting style. But what I want to say is that Xiao Yang has no wind except this wind.
He always acted with a specific expression, style, and action, and no matter how different the roles were, he didn't like it, or was powerless to show the difference.
You can't think that a person must be a good person because he looks honest, and that he is a good actor like Xiao Yang.
For example, in a plot where he and his ex-girlfriend meet, the change of laughter and laughter in his expression is funny at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel very fake.
The character is fake, but you can't make the audience think that you're playing fake.
As far as this role is concerned, Sakai Masato can crush Xiao Yang.
Andy Lau bumped into Teruyuki Kagawa and are two masters who can definitely fight.
But why is the role of a killer a clown in Japan, a clown in South Korea, and a handsome guy in China? The director has his own director's ideas, and we just think about it according to the film.
Teruyuki Kagawa's acting is one of the few actors in Japan who tries to abandon the style of drama as much as possible, so when domestic audiences watch Kagawa Teruyuki acting, it is one word - service!
On such a face, he can be liked by Ryoko Hiromi in the movie, in addition to the character setting, his own interpretation is also very convincing.
The characteristics of his behavior after the amnesia are in line with the logic of being a killer, making the character so three-dimensional that the audience does not look at all incompatible.
Andy Lau can't help but say that the acting is not good, nor can he say that the acting is very good.
There are two reasons here, first of all, in the movie "Surging Crowds", the changes between the character and the series of emotional lines come too quickly, so abrupt that the audience can't react. It's a script issue.
Secondly, Xiao Yang and Andy Lau play, both seniority and strength are inferior, as far as Andy Lau's acting habits are concerned, he is a person who likes "people to go crazy".
If the opponent is strong, he is strong; if the opponent is weak, he is flat.
Although Wan Qian is still in love with Andy Lau, it still needs to be said that the years are really ruthless, this man who claims to be handsome all his life, the wrinkles are finally inevitable.
The movie "Surging Crowds" not only wants to retain the core of the Japanese version of the plot, but also wants to have a realistic localization, and there are still many cultural differences between China and Japan, which is a very difficult thing in itself.
The success of a movie has many uncontrollable factors, not that "Hello, Li Huanying" is a good movie at the box office.
The biggest deficiency of "Surging Crowds" stems from the fact that the movie wants too much, the New Year movie should not have its figure, if you remove such a release of the original intention, the script adaptation of the film will be in different directions, and the quality presented should be different!