Jin Yong has remakes every year, and this year is particularly numerous.
In 2021, a number of Jin Yong novels were put on the big screen, but they were rarely praised.
Previously, Yan Kuan starred in the movie "Nine Yin White Bone Claws of the Shooting Eagle" landed on the internet, but it caused controversy because of the ambiguous feelings between Huang Yaoshi and Mei Chaofeng.
After Wang Jing directed the sequel to "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", which was scheduled for September, the "old version" Zhang Wujie, starring 40-year-old Lin Feng, attracted complaints.
At present, due to the TV series directed by Rong Guang and starring Yang Youning and Wen Yongshan, the TV series "Tianlong Babu" is being broadcast on CCTV.
Although introduced by CCTV Dad, this "Tianlong Eight Parts" is considered to be a work with a deviated vision.
Up to now, the film's bean-petal reviews are full of 1-2 star reviews, and many netizens have given a low rating of "the worst version of Tianlong in history".
The director of the new "Tianlong Eight Parts" Yu Rongguang had an outstanding reputation in his early years, and he directed 8 excellent works such as "Mufu Fengyun" and "Legend of Dance Music".
However, after the end of the cooperation with screenwriter Wang Tian, Yu Rongguang's work style in recent years plummeted, and the "Fighting Sky" that cost 600 million yuan in the previous few years was complained about due to rough special effects, and the rating was as low as 4.4 points.
After the launch of "Tianlong Eight Parts" that began filming this year, Yu Rongguang continued the downward trend of word-of-mouth, and the wind commented on Jin Yong's works at the top of the record.
So, what is the reason why the new "Tianlong Babu" was put into the cruel discussion of "the worst version in history" less than a week after it was launched.
In my opinion, In this regard, Yu Rongguang's team has to bear the "three deadly sins".
One Crime: Casting & Styling Controversy
The most intuitive and biggest slot point of the new version of "Tianlong Babu" is: the failed casting vision.
Although the producer of the show, Wang Di, once praised Duan Yu's actor Bai Shu, saying that the crew was "very lucky" to select him.
But a few days after the series went online, it was precisely this Bai Shu who attracted the most criticism, and he was considered to be "the worst reputation in history".
From the styling point of view, Bai Shu just appeared on the scene and caused discomfort to netizens.
He appeared surprisingly with stud earrings, and the heavy bangs also made people a little dramatic.
Although the configuration of the thick bangs of the stud earrings is trendy, the audience is also blocked.
From the perspective of acting, Bai Shu's performance is also somewhat exaggerated.
Before learning Ling Bo's micro-steps, this "Duan Yu" seemed to have learned a trick first: Ling Bo micro-toot.
In the first episode, when he is attacked by the Immeasurable Sword Sect, he mutters a cute face and speaks a large paragraph of excuses to excuse himself.
This rambling appearance vaguely reminds people of the Tang monks in "Journey to the West".
Subsequently, in the face of Zhong Wanqiu's denigration of his father Duan Zhengchun, he muttered an O-shaped mouth to "quarrel" with the other party.
What should have been an angry emotion, under the presentation of the white shudder swing deduction, how to look like a child's pity...
Duan Yu was originally a fei fei shi jia prince in the book, but here, it seems to have become a stupid son in the backyard of the landlord.
In addition to Duan Yu, the casting of other supporting roles is also difficult to say.
For example, Zhong Ling, who should have been "ghost horse smart", dressed up completely different from the spirit word.
As soon as she appeared on the scene, she appeared in a Nezha-like shape, and the image was very dramatic.
From some perspectives, Zhong Ling's face is quite old-fashioned, and he has no feeling of a little girl at all...
Another example is Murong Fu, who mainly plays "the undefeated wind in the East".
This version of Murong Fu's appearance is exposed, and under the addition of clothing, many netizens have complained about seeing the Duke of Dongchang.
Judging from the performance, Murong Fu, who should have been introverted and introverted, was released in the previous episodes.
Whether it is the eyes or the appearance, the yin compassion has already written the five words "I am not a good person" on the face.
Xu Dongdong plays the dignified and stable Princess Dali, which is also a big gap compared to her former screen sexy image.
In general, whether it is the shape and interpretation method, the casting of the actors of "Tianlong Eight Parts" this time is difficult to be satisfactory.
Although a few characters such as Wen Yongshan's version of Wang Yuyan and Zhu Zhu's version of Madame Ma barely passed the pass, it was difficult to stop the overall casting perception of the new "Tianlong Eight Parts" from going down.
Two Deadly Sins: The plot changes flavor
The second largest slot in the film appears in the plot details.
Although the overall plot follows the framework of the original work, there is no magic change in the story line, but specific to the details, the audience gradually found that many places are not right...
For example, an overly accelerated plot makes the pace weird.
Perhaps in order to satisfy the young audience who have not seen the original work, the director let many major characters appear in advance to reduce the "difficulty of watching the movie".
In the first episode, he rolled out the story line of the three Tianlong brothers at the same time, so that Xuanzhu met the eldest brother Xiao Feng in advance, and also let Murong Fu, You Tanzhi and other mid-to-late characters appear in advance.
But this speed up also brings about the lack of look and feel of the original fans.
"Southern Murong and Northern Xiaofeng" began to fight in the first episode, which made people look a little "strange".
In the original work, Murong Fu was a mysterious master who "lived" in the mouth of the outside world in the early stages, and it was not until after the duel with Xiao Feng in the middle and late period that he revealed his original face.
In many film and television versions, Xiao Feng and Murong Fu will not officially start fighting until after 30 episodes.
But in this version, Murong Fu not only fought with Xiao Feng in episode 1, but even Murong Fu was directly defeated, and the early start of the two also reduced the sense of suspense created by the original work.
Duan Yanqing, the first of the four evil men, also joined the ranks of forcibly speeding up.
In the novel, he has been hiding the identity of the former prince of Dali, and it is not slowly revealed until the later stage.
But in the play, only the first time he met with the Dali royal family, he couldn't help but have a direct showdown:
I am Duan Yanqing, the former prince of Dali!
Although the plot framework has not changed, under the accelerated plot, the original party's perception is obviously greatly reduced.
In addition, some flaws that should not have appeared became the second reason for the plot to change its flavor.
First of all, there was a common sense error in the line, and Duan Zhengchun's former lover Gan Baobao, faced With Duan Yu, he blurted out this sentence that was amazing:
Duan Gongzi, is his father in good health?
(The screenwriter is a person who can't even tell the difference between his father and Ling Zun?) ）
Then there are some plot details that do not stand up to scrutiny.
After Zhong Ling fell into the hands of the enemy, Duan Yu and Mu Wanqing rushed to rescue her, which should have been a moment of 100,000 fires.
But the two Duan Mu, who were sitting on the same horse, were chatting about how to save people in the previous scene, and the next scene was slowly chatting on the horse.
This scene makes the horse run into the horse scattering...
In addition, the first episode also appeared in the scene of Duan Yu attacking the chest bell spirit, which also caused discomfort to some netizens.
Although the "far-looking" plot framework of "New Tianlong" is no problem, the "close-up" is full of slots.
The third sin: the picture perception is not good
In addition to the characters and plot, "Tianlong Babu" also has a deduction in the visual experience.
First of all, from a static point of view, the film's deliberately dark main color makes people play.
In the play, from the main characters to the supporting roles of the group, they all wear dark costumes, and the overall painting style highlights a black and not slippery autumn.
The background has added a dark black tone, not only there are scenes such as forests and caves, but even many daytime scenes are selected to be filmed in a cloudy environment.
This makes the characters in the background, and even the hair is almost invisible...
From a dynamic point of view, too many slow-motion scenes have also become the groove point of the picture.
Watching the first few episodes, almost every action scene seems to be 0.5 times faster.
In the head-to-head duel of Xiao Feng and Murong Fu, in order to show the heroic posture of the two martial arts masters, the director team slowed down the camera many times, and from the effect point of view, this was indeed a bit dazzling.
However, the effect of the master's battle does not mean that other scenes should also be slowed down.
The director team adheres to the principle of slow action scenes, so that almost every scene related to action is slowed down.
The most exaggerated thing is that even Zhong Ling's mink bit the enemy, this wave ran over, and also added a few slow releases...
Whether it is static or dynamic, the shortcomings of "Tianlong Babu" in the style and perception of painting are very intuitive.
In fact, in addition to the above "three deadly sins", this "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" could have had some advantages.
The film is one of them, and the crew runs all over the country to shoot in Yunnan, northwest and other places, and includes the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains in the play.
No longer forced to cut the picture, but a real beauty bonus, this scene landscape painting is indeed very beautiful.
Compared with the magic reform Jin Yong drama in recent years, the overall framework of this drama follows the original work, and the characters and plot direction are not subversive "transformation", and the screenwriter has made a relatively safe move.
But apparently, the director team did not grasp these advantages well.
Despite the great beauty, they are excessively "dark" in order to pursue the texture of the film.
Despite following the main line framework, they appeared one slot after another in the details, which reduced the original advantage.
In general, relying on jin yong IP, this new "Tianlong Babu" still generates huge network popularity, and sits in the top three of the platform heat list within 3 days of going online.
However, in stark contrast to the high popularity, it is the bad review tide of the network platform, from the data point of view, "Tianlong Eight Parts" can be described as scolding and heat flying together.
And the encounter of Yu Rongguang's "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" also foreshadows the "double-edged nature" of Jin Yong's work.
On the one hand, Jin Yong's IP has a huge basic audience, so that each remake has a high degree of attention.
On the other hand, under the increase in popularity, today's Jin Yong dramas have been put into a more stringent examination environment than before.
Not only will they be compared with their predecessors, but their shortcomings will be infinitely magnified, and their criticism will be far greater than in the past.
Of course, playing iron also needs to be hard, and in recent years, there have also been Jin Yong dramas that have carried the critical eyes of the outside world.
In 2017, the new "Shooting Eagle" was praised for its solid plot and exquisite painting style.
Although the actors of the play are generally famous, under the sincere production, they still conquered the majority of the original party, and still have more than 8 points of evaluation.
And this year's "Tianlong Eight Parts" although the cast and cost are far above the new shooting, due to problems such as wrong lines and failed casting, they won the heat but lost the reputation.
Obviously, whether it is traffic or gimmicks, the key to conquering the "picky" audience is two words:
pretty
At least from the current episodes of "Tianlong Eight Parts", this new Jin Yong remake is temporarily incompatible with the word "good-looking".
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