The audience loves and hates the filmization of "The Three-Body Problem".
Love it, because this is the pride of Chinese science fiction after all.
Hate it, blame the remake for being inaccurate, and cool the hearts of sci-fi fans.
In particular, the animated "Three-Body Problem" was scored a record low of 4.1 points, and everyone generally suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
As soon as they saw the name of "The Three-Body Problem", they all chose to take a detour.
Therefore, when the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" started, everyone had no expectations.
I didn't expect it.
Not expecting turned into a surprise.
"Episode 6 Feng Shen... Episode 7: Fengshen ... Episode 15: Fengsheng... Episode 11 was cut to 34 minutes, and the gods were still sealed. ”
It returned with full blood in the posture of Concubine Xi returning to the palace.
Without concealment, the casting problem of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" does exist.
For example, Ding Yi, played by Wang Chuanjun, is difficult to say a word, only embarrassed.
However, it is faithful to the original book and directly picks the book, and the degree of reduction makes the original powder scalp numb.
Someone also shouted loudly:
"The spring of domestic film dramas begins with the three-body problem."
"I would rather call it the Chinese science fiction opener than wandering the earth."
Stop! Stop!
Guys, calm your excitement.
I privately think that the success of "The Three-Body Problem" is not about the score and praise, but about testing the success or failure of a key character.
She is, Ye Wenjie.
Although Ye Wenjie is not the protagonist, if the portrayal fails, the three-body body will have no soul.
Therefore, only by filming Ye Wenjie's affairs well, "The Three-Body Problem" was eight percent successful.
Today, let's talk about Ye Wenjie.
Take a look at how the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" created this character.
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Oh, director Yang Lei is very good at hanging people's appetites.
At the beginning of the first episode, he flashed back the scene where Ye Wenjie pressed the button repeatedly.
The director set "The Three-Body Problem" as a double male protagonist detective type similar to "Detective Thief" and "Sherlock".
However, the core is not that Wang Miao and Da Shi teamed up to investigate the case, but let Ye Wenjie thread the needle.
After all, Ye Wenjie is the key topic.
In line with the novel, in the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", Ye Wenjie has two periods:
Ye Wenjie (played by Wang Ziwen), a young man during the Red Bank Base period, and Ye Wenjie (played by Chen Jin), a retired professor in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University.
On whether these two castings are suitable.
My views are:
The former passes, but is too beautiful; The latter is frighteningly relevant, exactly the same.
As for the performances of the two actors, they are remarkable, each with its own merits.
Father
The story of young Ye Wenjie begins with his father Ye Zhetai.
Ye Zhetai is a professor of physics.
He was attacked for adding relativity to the basic class, spreading the Copenhagen explanation, and Big Bang theory, and was tortured to death with a belt by four junior high school students.
This past story is mentioned at the beginning of the novel.
The text description is shocking.
"The physicist lay quietly on the ground, looking at the blood stains flowing from his skull with half-open eyes, and the venue fell into a dead silence in an instant, the blood stain was the only thing moving, it was crawling slowly like a red snake..."
What happened to his father made young Ye Wenjie face the evil of human nature for the first time.
This plays a key role in character development.
Therefore, if you want to set up the role of Ye Wenjie, this section is indispensable.
Due to the limitations of objective conditions, the three-body problem of "Drama Version" redecorated Ye Zhetai.
In the episode, by investigating Yang Dong's death, Dashi obtained Ye Zhetai's file.
He told Wang Miao about this dusty past.
Among them, the eldest daughter Ye Wenxue and his wife Shaolin, who made him finished, all mentioned it.
Of course, there is no oven iron door on the chest, no Sholine's revelation, no father's pipe...
Everything became gentle and fragmented.
The drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" uses two short flashbacks to portray the last moments of Ye Wenjie and Ye Zhetai.
Broken window paper, hula.
Moonlight poured into the dilapidated room, and shadow window frames cut the room into a cage.
Ye Wenjie is wiping his father's injured body.
She was puzzled:
"Didn't Mom say that Grandpa and Einstein were good friends? They were still talking about science together, but why did they start criticizing Einstein now? ”
The weak Ye Zhetai replied:
"Sauline's father did have contact with Einstein, and in 1922 on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, Einstein stopped next to a small worker who smashed stones. Ask him how much he earns a day? The small worker replied: five points. This was her father's only communication with the world-changing master science, with no physics, no relativity, only icy reality. ”
In fact, this line was originally Ye Zhetai's last psychological activity before his death.
He debunked a white lie about his wife's past.
My father kept repeating, "So many physics terms, can I change my name?" ”
Perhaps, you will also feel abrupt about this line.
In fact, this sentence is a question for Sauline.
At that time, Sauline sniffed out the wind of intellectuals and changed the names of most of the laws and parameters of physics.
Ohm's law was renamed the law of resistance, Maxwell's equation was renamed the electromagnetic equation, and Planck's constant was called the quantum constant.
Ye Zhetai obviously disagreed with his wife's approach.
Regarding Ye Zhetai, the drama version is a little different from the novel.
In the original book, he did not confess guilt, did not commit suicide, and did not become numb.
The drama version was designed, and Ye Zhetai took the initiative to choose suicide.
Seeing her father's death, Ye Wenjie ushered in a moment of emotional outburst.
She held the lunch box and shut up in silence.
The eyes stared, tears swirling in the eyes.
After that, she closed her eyes and her body shook.
He cried out hoarsely angrily, and a tear slipped down.
In the end, she couldn't make any sound herself.
What was not cried and shouted permeated and dissolved in her blood and would stay with her for the rest of her life.
The one who deceived her
The elderly Ye Wenjie, played by Chen Jin, is sophisticated, calm, and not easy to get set.
Wang Miao seduces her step by step to reveal the secret of the Red Bank.
She was unflustered and deliberately slowed down her speech.
The truth hangs on the lips, but it is not revealed.
"The true value of Red Bank is... Sorry Xiaowang, I can't tell you this part yet. ”
Wang Miao's OST at this time should be:
"Bai Huanxi, count you ruthless."
And one more scene.
Wang Miao borrowed the external civilization hypothesis to deliberately set words.
Ye Wenjie understood what medicine was sold in the gourd.
She wittily detoured:
"I encourage thought experimentation, but doubt everything. Xiao Wang, aren't you like that too? ”
This sentence directly made Wang Miao eat the closed-door soup.
For Ye Wenjie, trust is a luxury, a key that can open the door of the heart.
However, no matter how close the other party is, she will always be vigilant.
The reason for this is to start with the two crooks at the Red Bank base.
The first liar, Bai Mulin.
With the words "I can see your feelings, only the two of us can see this feeling in this place", he knocked open Ye Wenjie's long-sealed heart.
A book of "Silent Spring" shaped Ye Wenjie's three views, making her think rationally about evil for the first time.
"What is right and what is wrong? In the eyes of humans, the use of pesticides could not be more legitimate. But from the perspective of nature, what kind of harm human beings have caused to the world.
Right and wrong, it's just a matter of looking at it from a different perspective. ”
One thing needs to be added here.
Compared with the lines of the drama version, the original book has a deeper and colder description.
"How many more human actions that seem normal or even just to themselves are evil?
True moral consciousness of human beings is impossible, just as it is impossible for them to leave the earth by pulling their hair. This can only be done with the help of forces other than humans. ”
Finally, he used a report letter to turn Ye Wenjie into a scapegoat.
The second liar, Lei Zhicheng.
From no fixed job to technical backbone, Ye Wenjie's promotion is inseparable from Lei Zhicheng's promotion.
When Lei Zhicheng told her that the Red Bank base was used to combat enemy communications and reconnaissance satellites, a surge of gratitude welled up in her heart.
I thank Lei Zhicheng for his trust and admire his honesty and straightforwardness.
What's more...
Lei Zhicheng's "Comrade Ye Wenjie" directly filled her eyes with tears.
It can be seen that Ye Wenjie trusts Lei Zhicheng 100%.
Until he was notified to the headquarters office, Ye Wenjie was still worried about Lei Zhicheng.
She also secretly decided to take the responsibility on herself in order not to implicate Ray, and even did not hesitate to lie.
To Ye Wenjie's surprise, Lei Zhicheng took the lead in speaking out and cleared his responsibility:
"Ye Wenjie, first of all, I do not agree to do this, the following decision was made by Chief Engineer Yang after consulting his superiors, and he will be fully responsible for the consequences. With the consent of our superiors, we decided to tell you the real situation of the Red Bank Project. ”
After being stunned for a long time, Ye Wenjie realized.
From beginning to end, I was deceived.
Regarding the secrets of the Red Bank base, those previous words are pure nonsense.
Her long-lost trust was trampled alive.
The pressure came to Netflix
To tell you the truth, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" is not perfect.
Because of various limitations, it is impossible to restore 100%.
Sometimes, in order to pass the line, it also has the phenomenon of secondary dubbing.
For example, Cheng Lihua forced Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining to oppose Lei Zhicheng's promotion of Ye Wenjie.
Fortunately, the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" relies on the original book.
As long as it is not messed up and the acting skills are online, it can play stably and win the favor of the audience.
This is also the key to maintaining a reputation of 8.1.
Today, there is only one Netflix left in the "Three-Body Problem" film and television works.
Who is stronger and weaker, and who can reach the top of the Forbidden Purple?
I dare a wave of prophets:
Netflix is bound to fall into the abyss of magic reform, prejudice, political correctness,
The domestic "Three-Body Problem" can be celebrated in advance with champagne.