Author: Fork Less
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Recently, the 2020 version of "Deer Ding" starring Zhang Yishan was launched, and Douban scored 2.7 points.
Such a low rating is obviously not a problem with the original "Deer Ding". TVB has remade "Deer Ding" twice, both of which were great successes. The 84 version has the least funds and the worst conditions, but it is Jin Yong's favorite version, and the two protagonists of the 98 version have never received professional training, but they performed the highest score of 8.9 points in the "Deer Ding" series.
In 2000, Wang Jing also remade a version, he personally adapted the script, some people said that this version is a tragedy, after watching it and crying 13 times.
Today, let's compare the previous version with the 2.7 points.
Nothing
In 1984, TVB executive Liu Tianci approached Li Tiansheng to shoot "Deer Ding" and asked him to choose someone. Li Tiansheng chose Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei. At that time, Andy Lau was already a little red, and Liang Chaowei was still a newcomer.
Originally, Wei Xiaobao's role should be played by Andy Lau, but at that time, Andy Lau had just finished playing Yang Guo, and the company was afraid that the image contrast was too large, so Wei Xiaobao's role fell to Liang Chaowei. Andy Lau felt that he had lost his role without renewing his contract with TVB, and he was a little depressed.
Andy Lau ran to the library and read a lot of books about the Qing Dynasty. Especially for Kangxi, who was a person, he did enough work. Andy Lau felt that Kangxi was an unhappy emperor, he had died since he was a child, and his father Shunzhi had only met once, and he must have been a very lonely person who needed friends. To show this, he practiced his lines in bed after turning off the lights at night.
Liang Chaowei, who plays Wei Xiaobao, has just been transferred from the children's program "430 Shuttle" and played some supporting roles in TVB. After receiving this task, he read the original book of "Deer Ding" without sleeping at night, studied the character personality, and designed Wei Xiaobao's exclusive small actions for himself. In order to quickly find the feeling of Wei Xiaobao's "slave talent", he watched the TV series at home at night, kneeling on the ground to imitate the character and shouting "Long live, long live." ”
Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei are both idols, but to perform this play, the first thing to do is to shave their heads. On the day of the hair cut, the two were in love, and Andy Lau said: "To cut it, look at it more." ”
< Andy Lau >
Liang Chaowei said: "I am reluctant to cut my hair, what a man." But after cutting, he asked Andy Lau not to look at him because it was too ugly.
< Liang Chaowei >
At that time, TVB filming, basically using Shaw's old idea of filming, the traces of the move posing when fighting were obvious, but it could be seen that every action was very in place, the fall should fall, the crouch should lie down.
Ma Jin, director of the new version of "Deer Ding", said that it is 2020, "and then go to shoot the cornice walking wall flower fist embroidery legs, and then go crazy dumb hole laughing hole is very funny and childish", so he handled the martial arts scene like this:
The 84 version of the martial arts scene is indeed a bit fake now, but the 2020 version of the martial arts scene may think that Wei Xiaobao suffers from polio and hyperactivity at the same time.
At that time, there were so many Jin Yong dramas, TVB first filmed "Deer Ding Ji", also because of tight funds, most of the scenes of "Lu Ding Ji" were arranged in a simple court.
By 2020, there is no shortage of money, and director Ma Jin said that this scene is "red with green Qing Dynasty LOGO-level color matching." ”
In the 1980s, the filming environment was very poor, there were no stunts, no stand-ins, and limited funds, and all the actors had to do their best to make a TV series successful. At that time, Liu Qingyun, Wu Qihua, Ouyang Zhenhua, and Wu Zhenyu, who had not yet become famous, all ran dragon sets in the play, and everyone knew that this opportunity was not easy to come by, and no one slackened off.
< Liu Qingyun >
< Wu Qihua >
The 84 version of Zeng Jiang, an old TVB actor who plays Chen Jinnan, does not have too many exaggerated expressions on his face, and he shows the special identity by relying on a few eyes:
In contrast, the new version of Hai Dafu performs like an electrocuted ghost animal:
The 84th edition of "Deer Ding" is not the most distinctive, but it can be called "God Restoration". The 84th edition is Jin Yong's favorite edition. Without him, just because of the simple restoration of the scene, the actor carefully studied the role and tried to show the essence of the original work.
Frustrated young people
In the 1990s, TVB decided to remake all of Jin Yong's novels into a TV series. But the time is very tight, and the copyright period bought by Jin Yong is only the last five years.
TVB executives also found Li Tiansheng and asked him to serve as the director and producer of Jin Yong Drama again. When Zhu Yu was in front of him, when he remade it in 1998, he felt that he had to shoot a new trick.
< was > by Li Tim-sheng
First of all, the difficulty is to choose who to be Wei Xiaobao. At that time, Li Tiansheng successively filmed "Divine Eagle Hero", "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", and "Tianlong Eight Parts", starring Gu Tianle, Lu Songxian, and Huang Rihua. The male protagonist almost plays who plays who is on fire, so the wireless internal debate about the role of Wei Xiaobao is endless.
Li Tiansheng held a chess game irregularly, and Chen Xiaochun ran to Mao Sui to introduce himself. Chen Xiaochun is not handsome, he is also older, and he has not participated in wireless professional actor training. But he has been trying to give himself a chance. A few years ago, when Liu Weiqiang was preparing to shoot "Ancient Puzzle Boy", it was Chen Xiaochun himself who called to ask for the role, and only then did he have that version of "Brother Pheasant".
This time too. Chen Xiaochun ran to Li Tiansheng and talked about his troubles when he was a child, saying that like Wei Xiaobao, he was poor and grassroots. "In addition to not marrying seven wives, wei Xiaobao is not me?" Li Tiansheng was impressed by Chen Xiaochun and said: "Shoot two episodes to try." ”
In order to get this role, Chen Xiaochun visited Zhou Xingchi seven times and asked "how to play Wei Xiaobao", and Zhou Xingchi replied to his four words: "Color, ghost, play, stupidity." ”
The 1998 version starred in another protagonist, Kangxi, ma Junwei. Ma Junwei first signed a singer contract with Wireless, but unfortunately it was not popular. In a variety show, he wore a costume similar to Ning Caichen's, and was favored by Li Tiansheng. At that time, Ma Junwei was at a low point in his life and planned to quit the entertainment industry.
At first, Ma Junwei did not want to pick up, he felt that he could not compare with Andy Lau. But Li Tiansheng insisted that Ma Junwei go to the audition, and after the audition, Ma Junwei still felt: "When I look at it, I know that I will not be selected." ”
Unexpectedly, a week later, the phone call came, and the crew decided to let Ma Junwei play Kangxi. Ma Junwei has never acted in costumes, or even received actor training, he does not want to continue to stay in the entertainment industry, and plans to return to his old business to do sales. Li Tiansheng patted him on the shoulder, touched his head again, and said, "You have an emperor pillow behind your head, and you are destined to be an emperor." ”
In this way, Li Tiansheng selected two excellent actors for Jin Yong's "Deer DingJi". To this day, the 1998 version of "Deer Ding" has the highest rating of all TV drama versions in Douban, with 8.9 points.
This version of "Deer Ding" is played by two frustrated young people, who have experienced the lows of life. Chen Xiaochun is from the city and can appreciate Wei Xiaobao's worldliness, Ma Junwei's mother has been ill for many years, and his mother has no reaction to calling his mother's name, but this experience allows him to interpret the loneliness of the Kangxi Emperor.
Two young people who had never received acting training, relying on instinct, performed the highest-rated version of "Deer Ding".
In order to distinguish it from the 84 version, Li Tiansheng hoped that the script could present another style. He invited TVB gold-medal screenwriter Chen Jingyi, who had previously written "Washed Injustice Record", "Forensic Pioneer" and "Earth Grace". Chen Jingyi made a bold adaptation of Jin Yong's original work, making the story fully entertaining and more in line with the aesthetics of the audience at that time.
For example, Wei Xiaobao often stages a small theater in his head, and his mental activities can be seen by the audience.
Zhang Yishan's version of "Deer DingJi", the director also wants to take Chen Xiaochun's version of the idea, showing "'entertainment'", "cartoon direction", but may not be the scale is pinched, only absorbed the essence of "monkey play".
In the 98th edition, Chen Xiaochun chose to interpret Wei Xiaobao with a little "silly" method, and today, there is a sentence that can be used to describe this kind of human setting - playing a pig and eating a tiger.
The 98 version of Chen Xiaochun's Wei Xiaobao is pretending to be stupid, and the 2020 version, Zhang Yishan's Wei Xiaobao may be really stupid.
Although the 98 version is "comedic", it is very serious in the serious place. Characters are not puppets just to make people laugh, they have their own emotions.
In the first two episodes, Hai Dafu assumed an important role in recalling the case of that year, which was related to Jiangshan Sheji, and his performance must be able to hold the scene to prove the seriousness of the case that year. If there is also laughter here, then the whole story cannot be established.
Looking at the 2020 version of Hai Dafu, the performance of Zhang Yishan is too matched, and the two successfully perform a pair of masters and apprentices with low IQ.
The success of the two versions of TVB, in addition to the appropriate actors and innovative screenwriters, the most important thing is the executive producer Lee Tim-sheng.
As a teenager, he had read all of Jin Yong's writings and could almost recite them. He has a grasp of the personality of each character, so he can always choose the most suitable actor. In the 90s, TVB's Jin Yong dramas were all produced and directed by him, and each one scored more than 8 points.
But he never thinks it's the actors who make the series a success: "Tv dramas don't have actors driving ratings, the script is important." This kind of recognition has made a series of classics.
Cry 13 times Xiao Bao and Kangxi
Entering the new century, the remake of "Deer Ding" is still continuing. The most famous and highly rated is "Xiaobao and Kangxi" in 2000. This version of Wang Jing as the director, Zhang Weijian starred as Wei Xiaobao. To this day, there are still countless people who can casually recite this version of Wei Xiaobao's oil poem:
"The cool breeze has sex, the autumn moon is boundless, and the emotions of my sijiao are like living like a year."
The series of martial arts dramas directed by Wang Jing have a distinct feature, almost every one of which is a strong tragicomedy. "Xiao Bao and Kangxi" is a typical example.
Before Wang Jing, the stories of "Deer Ding" were almost all comedies or nonsense, and there were few sensational times. But Zhang Weijian's version of "Xiao Bao" is very different, and Wang Jing has added many "little people" to him.
This version of Xiao Bao has to say goodbye to the beloved woman twice, the first time for the first love of the little goldfish:
The second time was Princess Jianning. This version is also the only version that kills Princess Jianning.
In the first episode, Wei Xiaobao played Wu Song, Wei Chunhua played the tiger who was beaten by Wu Song, and Xiao Bao lost his hand and injured his mother during the performance. The appearance also reduces the feeling of "slippery head", but it is a little more sad.
A netizen said that when he saw this, he couldn't help but cry. Wei Xiaobao was not a big person, he was at the bottom, and he was smiling on his face when he suffered, because he didn't want people to look down on him.
Wang Jing's adaptation is very bold and challenges the spiritual core of the original characters. Jin Yong's "Wei Xiaobao" was created for the "template of successful people". Born in the city, he is full of street wisdom, and even if he does not know martial arts, there will be almost no obstacle to him.
Ni Kuang once commented: "Many successful characters in reality have more or less The character of Wei Xiaobao. ”
The special feature of Wang Jing's adaptation is that it weakens the omnipotent side of Wei Xiaobao and gives him more "vulnerability". This kind of change made Wei Xiaobao more like an ordinary person.
This version has a score of 7.3 on Douban. Compared with the 1984 version and the 1998 version, the score is not high. But unexpectedly, after Wang Jing's "Xiaobao and Kangxi", all the remakes of "Deer Ding" scored no longer on 7.
In 2008, Zhang Jizhong's version of "Deer Dingji", Huang Xiaoming starred as Wei Xiaobao, with a score of 5.7. In 2014, Lai Shuiqing remade again, and Han Dong starred as Wei Xiaobao, scoring 6.5.
In 2020, Zhang Yishan's "Deer Ding" turned out to be the lowest score of 2.7 points in the "Deer Ding" series.
Looking at Douban, the evaluation is lower than Zhang Yishan's "Deer Ding", which is probably only 2015's "Dream Showbiz".
What is Deer Ding?
In 1969, Jin Yong began to write "Deer DingJi", which was written for two years and one month, which was his longest work. Ni Kuang commented: "The Record of Lu Ding can be regarded as the highest peak and the highest peak of Jin Yong's creation. ”
In 1984, TVB made "Deer Ding" into a main drama, props, costumes, lines are all strive to restore, in 1998, Li Tiansheng and Chen Jingyi worked together to change into comedy, focusing on Wei Xiaobao's wit as a small person in the city. In 2000, Wang Jing remade it again, guiding the direction of "tragicomedy", hoping to show the heartache of the people at the bottom. These three versions more or less capture the essence of the original work.
However, director Ma Jin of the new version of "Deer Ding" in 2020 obviously has his own personality, and he admits that he has not seen a single version of the previous "Deer Ding". He said: "Some people say that 'Deer Ding' is a tragedy, some people say it is a comedy, and some people say that it is a positive drama, and I just think it is a farce. ”
Unexpectedly, "Deer DingJi", which has been studied by countless experts and scholars, the director finally came to the conclusion of "farce".
Director Ma Jin emphasized: "With the basic realistic scene atmosphere, the Qing Dynasty LOGO level color matching with red and green, and the performance characteristics of cartoon style, this double deconstructed adventure journey is completed. Of course, this style of painting can also be understood as neo-expressionism. ”
The director further explained: "'Deconstructing Shengong' is to use the 'Newton painting style' to express the fighting and fighting within the physiological limits of human beings in the era of cold weapons, as well as the ruthless end of hot weapons on various divine skills, which forms a mutual echo of 'deconstructing the jianghu'. In 2013, China's Chang'e-3 probe arrived on the moon and did not find Chang'e Wu Gang and Little White Rabbit. Musk has already launched VIP tickets for space tours while building the 'StarLink'. In the context of human beings having entered the AI era, it is very funny and childish to shoot the cornice walking wall flower fist embroidery legs, and then to go crazy dumb hole laughing hole, and lack basic respect for the IQ of contemporary audiences. ”
The IQ of contemporary audiences really can't keep up with the director's footsteps, and it is difficult to understand what the director wants to express after reading this paragraph three times.
After Zhang Yishan's "Deer Ding" came out, Zhang Yishan's GIF as Wei Xiaobao was spread throughout the Internet by netizens.
The expression is exaggerated, the look is like a monkey, netizens commented: "Gong Hanlin possessed? ”
Referring to this phenomenon, director Ma Jin explained: "Each version of Wei Xiaobao has its own emoji, and I believe that this version of Ichiyama has contributed the most and is the cutest, because the style of this version is card ventilation. ”
After the bad reviews came out, Zhang Yishan hurriedly said: "Don't treat me as a very good actor, because I also have times when I can't act well." ”
But the director of the new version of "Deer Ding" obviously did not give Zhang Yishan this step.
He said: "The overall style of this play is a strong comedic character, with nonsensical character interactions and hilarious lines, as well as exaggerated performances to create the overall character state. As far as character creation is concerned, Ichiyama is very well done, and he is the Wei Xiaobao I am looking forward to! ”
Thinking about it, I actually had some sympathy for Zhang Yishan.
Some references:
[1] The Record of Lu Ding, Jin Yong
[2], "On the > of lu ding ji of <", Ni Kuang
[3], "Zhang Yishan Contributed to the Top Performances of Wei Xiaobao in Past Dynasties", Beijing News interviewed Ma Jin
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Author | Few forks
This article is from the public account: Past Char Siu (id: wschashao), focusing on discovering the shining moments in the old times. What is written here is the past of the cultural circle and the entertainment industry. Time is a magician, and what seems to be insignificant at that time determines the history and the direction of life in the dark.