Just past the Dragon Boat Festival, too crotch pulled.
As many as a dozen movies, none of them have grossed more than 100 million.
In the final analysis, it is still due to the low overall quality, more bad films, and lack of attractiveness.
If you let Uncle Fish elect a representative to complain about.
That has to be it —
Sunshine Sister Tao (China Edition)
Uncle Fish thought that its reputation would hit the street.
But I didn't expect the box office to be so punchy.
It only grossed 60 million in 6 days of release.
It can be seen that everyone has long lost confidence in this kind of domestic remake.
This is not the first time that a Korean domestic film has been remade.
This time it's a little different.
Most of the objects of remakes in the past are not well-known in China.
Probably many viewers have not heard of the original.
But the original Korean version of "Sunshine Sister Tao" is too classic.
On Douban, more than 500,000 people commented, scoring a high score of 8.8.
Better than 98% of comedies, Douban TOP250 ranked 134.
Few films combine the three elements of female friendship, personal growth, and changing times at the same time.
Coupled with the appropriate laughter and Korean sensationalism, it is still unfinished after two hours of watching.
Even after watching it for many years, you can recall the moving plot in an instant.
Before Uncle Fish looked, Ben held out a little hope.
Thinking that the good guys have the foundation of the script, it should not be particularly bad.
Perhaps, the audience who has not seen the original work can feel a little fresh.
But as long as you have seen the original version, you will definitely be like Uncle Fish -
The whole process is like sitting on a needle felt, there is no fluctuation in the heart, and there is no smile and tears.
Sure enough, Douban scored 4.9 and continued to fall.
Remaking classics is a tough challenge for many directors.
I don't know what kind of courage Bao Bell has gained, and he has to face the difficulties.
Obviously, the last directorial debut", "Fat Man Action Team", was not out of shape.
The score on Douban is only 4.2.
What did he do again this time?
The questions are:
He didn't do anything.
The plot is copied, the human design is copied.
Even the movement of the mirror and the composition are completely copied.
Let's start it.
Also starting with the alarm clock, the heroine gets up, makes breakfast, and takes care of her husband and children.
Look in the mirror halfway through, stroke crow's feet, and lament your aging.
After all the busyness, I looked at the female students outside the window, smiled with relief, and the title of the film slowly emerged.
It cannot be said to be similar to the beginning of the original version, but it can only be said to be exactly the same.
Is frame-by-frame remake really necessary?
What followed was worse.
Everyone must have the impression that the protagonist and his party in the original version went to a girls' school, and the story takes place in a specific era background in South Korea.
Therefore, they set up small teams in the class, and even went outside to fight with other girls' school small groups, which was in line with the social atmosphere at that time and also belonged to the youth memory of the Korean generation.
The domestic version, in addition to changing the time to 1997, also changed the girls' school to a gender-neutral ordinary high school.
The rest of the plot is still the same.
A few girls still set up small groups, and they still make fights.
This is completely divorced from the youth experience of most people in China, and it is difficult to resonate.
You know, the remake is definitely not a gourd painting scoop.
Because the national conditions are different, the culture is different, and the times are different.
The director's most important lesson is to localize the original script.
However, Bao Bell's remake this time has placed the plot that is very reasonable in South Korea as it is in China.
All of this becomes extremely contradictory and extremely distorted.
It's not just the plot that's bad.
There is also a overall decline in production standards after copying the plot.
First of all, the whole film is full of pompous and vulgar aesthetics.
These roughnesses of the Service Path are also counted.
Back in middle school, it was a deliberate full-screen filter.
As soon as the male god appears, it is to light up and brighten up, and the body practices "handsome to shine".
One is to show the heroine's inner fawn collision, that is, the airborne pink bubble rain.
In the original version, the male god quietly put on headphones for the female protagonist to pay tribute to the divine stroke of the classic romance film "First Kiss".
Instead, it was gone.
Second, frantically pile up the symbols of the times.
Did the original do a good job in this regard?
Then I will replace and add further padding.
Little Tigers, The Return of Hong Kong, Shan Tianfang Telling Books, Zhang Zhen Telling Stories... You sing me out.
I'm sorry.
Who wouldn't simply pile up symbols, the key is to integrate into the script without appearing blunt.
Take the songs that make up the majority.
The song selection is general, and the release is even more general.
Most of the time, the golden songs were skewered with popular songs from both sides of the strait and the three places at that time.
But the English song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" that is located in the original version of "Sunny" is also available.
I would like to ask, how many domestic middle school students listened to this song in that era?
It's really too fragmented!
And what makes Uncle Yu most angry is the expression of the theme.
Is the original really just a youth film?
As mentioned above, it not only portrays youth, but also presents the social changes and class divisions in South Korea for more than two decades.
That's the essence.
For example, the most classic passage of the original version, the Sunshine Sisters made a second appointment.
This scene was combined with the democratization movement in full swing in South Korea at the time.
It not only provides a big scene, but also an account of the bloody emotions of adolescence.
Coupled with the personality of the heroine's brother, he is also a member of the movement who sympathizes with the working class.
Just through a side line, the situation of Korean society at that time was outlined.
The domestic remake also filmed this clip, but the entire background was changed to Chengguan vs. Hawkers.
The brother's personality became a rock youth.
History is stolen and replaced by a farce, which completely loses social expression.
Another point is that the original film is rich in very strong feminist colors.
In the original version, the role of the poisonous tongue woman in the sister group, who met her husband in middle age and cheated.
In order to fight back, she cheated herself.
Come on, hurt each other, hurt each other.
That's what she's set up.
In the remake version, her husband bought a suite for her in Sanya and gave her a sports car, and she chose to forgive her completely.
These three views are also no one!
Seeing such a treatment in a film with a female theme really causes physical discomfort.
And the funeral scene at the end is even more embarrassing for Uncle Yu to tighten his toes.
Watching a few characters who didn't collide a little spark staged a famous scene of funeral dancing really couldn't evoke any touching tears.
There is no doubt that the remake of "Sunshine Sister Tao" this time is really bad.
But do you really think That Bao Bell doesn't understand the reason for the poor shooting?
In fact, people are clear.
In the interview, he himself said:
"I (as a director) are so new, isn't it death-seeking to make a movie like "Sister Tao"? How you shoot will be scolded, shoot exactly the same as the original version you will be scolded, everyone said then why do you want to shoot? But if you don't shoot according to the original version, you will also be scolded, and everyone says that people shoot so well, what did you change?"
If this is the case, knowing that the classics will be destroyed, why should we insist on going our own way?
Because in China, remake is the easiest and most expensive way, especially for creators who have little ability.
Not to mention that there are many people who don't even want to buy copyrights.
Under the large number of remakes, only a few can double harvest box office reputation.
But more often than not, it has been reduced to cannon fodder.
For example, "The Hunt", which was released in 2017.
The original film swept all over China in the 1970s.
The new version of the director invited Wu Yusen, which is big enough.
There are also movie stars from China, Japan and South Korea.
Big director + national IP + internationalization, it should be a hit.
Unfortunately, in the end, it still ended up with a box office fiasco, with a Douban score of 4.5, and Lao Wu's reputation was also destroyed.
Please, even if the national conditions are not considered, the times are still progressing!
It's 7102 years old, and the story told in The Hunt is really outdated.
If a remake is to be successful, it must do two things well.
First, choose a good text.
Take "Sunshine Sisters Tao", for example, although its script is indeed bull x.
But its national characteristics and epochality are too obvious, and it is not suitable for remake at the root.
Therefore, even the Japanese remake version, which is still well evaluated, is far from the original version.
Japanese version of "Sunshine Sister Tao"
Second, do a good job of localization and adaptation.
We must make good adaptations according to the national conditions to avoid being dissatisfied with the water and soil.
You must not be lazy just because you have a ready-made script.
It is also necessary to keep pace with the times and avoid derailment of the times.
Untouched carrying is to lift a stone and drop it on one's own feet.
Uncle Yu cites two more successful remake cases.
One is this year's Lunar New Year's "Crowds", which is a remake of the Japanese movie "The Method of Stealing Keys".
Although word of mouth is controversial, its drastic adaptation of the original is worthy of recognition.
The final box office performance is also worthy of this courage.
"Crowds"
The other was the earlier years of Twelve Citizens, a remake of the 1957 American film Twelve Angry Men.
This film is old, and the legal systems of the two countries are different, making it extremely difficult to remake.
But "Twelve Citizens" cleverly brings the film's characters and details close to the domestic situation.
It has become a domestic high-scoring masterpiece, which is admirable.
The Twelve Citizens
Of course, the words come to an end.
Uncle Yu still hopes to see less and less remakes in the domestic film market.
Remakes also require capabilities though.
But originality is more worthy of support.
After all, whether the story is local or not, and whether the public likes it or not, only we know best.
There are so many good stories in China.
Patience to write our own excellent script, better than any classic remake.