Recently, a drama has been making a lot of noise in Douban.
It can be called "losing people abroad".
First, netizens collectively erupted in anger, "insulting the national body";
Then there is the petition to "execute the screenwriter";
Even, alarming the relevant departments, forcibly removed from the shelves.
Nothing new under the sun?
Sir thought so at first.
But freshness is fresh, it doesn't happen right in front of you.
Instead, it plays out in the homes of the "neighbors" we once envied.
The Korean Exorcist
Chosun Guma
A Korean drama.
It is still a blockbuster Korean drama, and it is not small at the beginning of the broadcast, and the ratings are second only to the dog blood god drama "Penthouse 2".
The theme is also the "explosive elixir" of Korean dramas in recent years - zombie films.
There was "Kingdom" before it.
More than 100,000 people gave 8.6 points and carried the banner of "Oriental Costume Zombie".
After that, there is "Sweet Home".
It entered the US Netflix Top 10 film with the eighth place and is also the only Korean drama.
This "Korean Exorcist" clearly wants to replicate the experience:
Costume + zombie, the scale is full.
Biting, bleeding, severed heads, disemboweled...
outcome?
Two episodes were broadcast, and they were taken off the shelves and completely cool.
The reason is not that the scale is too large.
It's a group mockery of the audience.
The Korean audience struck hard and eager to put the screenwriter to death.
After the collective petitioned on the official website of the Blue House, 20w people agreed within 2 days.
The spearhead refers to the screenwriter, Park Jiyu.
The last masterpiece, "Empress Zheren".
Well, it's the one that's called the "Korean version of the Princess Promotion."
Sir also said before that this adaptation is too utilitarian, so it has been resisted by netizens from both countries.
The problem is still not changed.
Take a look at a few points sprayed by Korean netizens:
Most obviously, "serving morality" is too Chinese.
Eat and drink, mooncakes, buns, peeled eggs, Chinese wine altar, what is the crew's intention?
And this dress, are you sure it is not the design next door?
The soundtrack uses a guzheng, and the lines all quote ancient Chinese books... Not real yet!
Each of the Korean netizens has a testimony to prove that this drama has a strong Chinese background.
As soon as this wave of remarks came out, Japanese netizens took the lead in mocking a wave:
Can this all be a big fuss? It amuses everyone.
Sir's first reaction was also quite surprised.
For the first time, I saw South Korean netizens so well-intentioned in proving that the artifact culture belonged to China.
The "cultural punch" didn't seem to work very well, and it also led to laughter.
South Korean netizens made a second move:
The drama side tampered with history and could not bear it.
One of the protagonists, Lee Fong-won (Gan Woo-sung), is a historically enterprising monarch.
In the play, as soon as he came up, he killed crazy.
Take the soldiers and kill the zombies.
However, he accidentally fell ill with the illusion of seeing evil and slashed at innocent people...
After calming down, there were more than a dozen innocent corpses around him.
Seeing this, South Korean netizens attacked the drama side with artillery fire.
Under pressure, the director, screenwriter and actor collectively issued apologies, advertisers withdrew their investment, 32 billion won (180 million yuan) was lost, and the film was temporarily stopped...
This plot... Get acquainted.
Just because the show sucks?
Deeper reasons, there are also Korean experts analyzed:
The increased influence of Chinese capital in South Korea has caused discomfort... After being dominated by this emotion, it feels wrong to look at anything.
Okay, the background is pretty much over.
So, in the end, is this drama wronged?
The first step in lifting the fog, Sir wants to return to the essence - to discuss the drama with drama.
There is indeed something unreasonable about the point of "falsifying history".
Even if it is declared in advance that it is "purely fabricated", works that joke about history will always cause discomfort to some people.
What's more, this drama is not like "Kingdom", it is directly copied from historical figures ("Kingdom" is based on the Lee Dynasty).
however.
Regardless of history and culture, even if the show is broadcast normally, the response will not be much better.
It caters to the audience's intentions, too deliberately.
At every point in the story, "I am a zombie film" is written on the face.
The name given to them in the play, "Living Corpse".
Group mutation, the feeling of zombie siege, there is;
Human-to-human infection crisis, it also has;
The immortal body, basically realized.
To highlight the sense of gloom, the lesions of the makeup, the mutated blood... (The picture does not put it)
The standard of zombie films, Qi Live.
Speaking of blood, it can be said to be brave enough on a scale (even a picture of the brain shell being cut in half)
At the same time, it also knows that in addition to the horror of zombies, the audience also needs something more exciting.
All costume background, how to do without adding some power.
In the play, Emperor Taizong has 3 sons under his knees, secretly competing around the candidate for the succession.
The current heir, Grand Prince Jean-Nimün.
The successor cultivated by Emperor Taizong was entrusted to him with the heavy responsibility of city defense.
However, he was addicted to alcohol, and his subordinates were infected with living corpses and were reprimanded.
After solving the first wave of the crisis of living corpses, his first thought was to hurry back to the city...
Lip service said, there was also a living corpse sneaking in.
Actually – I'm going to save my beauty baby!
It was not very reliable, fortunately, he still had a group of loyal henchmen behind him.
His father-in-law, Han Zhengxian, admonished him to clean himself and stay away from wine;
Seoul Governor Yin Ren Zhengwei even said that if the corpse crisis pits the other two brothers, it will be able to keep your position as crown prince.
Of course, the throne of the Grand Prince is not entirely secure.
Little Prince Jiang Ning.
Scratched by living corpses and possessed by evil spirits, he is already a key target of detention.
The other brother, the Third Prince Zhongning, was delicate.
When asked about welcoming the Western priests to exorcise evil spirits, Emperor Taizong said to his face:
Reception of Westerners' work
It is not suitable for a country to do
The implication is that you are not the first heir, and you just have to do this kind of thing.
Doesn't look like an opponent?
Wrong.
Emperor Taizong, who was proficient in the Imperial Mind Technique, deliberately concealed the zombie information from the Grand Prince and informed the Third Prince separately.
The Grand Prince wondered what kind of routine this was.
Suspicion and the temptation of power affect the harmony between father and son.
Greater suspense is showing its fangs—clues suggest that living corpses originated in the West and are related to Emperor Taizong and even the former emperor.
Zombie + conspiracy, just a lot of reversals.
The screenwriter is very ambitious, and it just happens to be bad on the "one-pot stew".
So much so that some details are handled, extremely contrived.
In order to expel the threat of zombies, they found a Western "priest".
After chanting "Lord, Amen," they shouted:
Evil spirits reveal your substance
I judge jesus who were born in this land
Let go of your breath and go back
It's like the mantra "Destroy You on Behalf of the Moon", inexplicably a sense of neutrality.
But it is not as useful as beheading, which is really embarrassing (the scene is too bloody and has been lost).
Compared with zombies, exorcism is the focus of this drama.
In addition to Western priests and crosses, there are also witches casting spells.
The scene of a crowd dancing the big god is enough ceremonial.
There is even a copper mirror to illuminate the demon.
Western demons, semi-modern zombies, traditional Oriental magic...
Too much emphasis, and naturally lose focus.
In addition to the "great fusion" of exorcism culture, there are also unnatural aspects in the plot.
When the zombie suddenly appeared in front of the little prince.
In the conventional setting, the attendants who have no power to bind the chicken will flee into the wilderness.
This time, they proved their loyalty.
The guards desperately defended the Lord; the maid held down the advancing zombies; the old slave also blocked with his body, shouting "Your Highness run."
But the little prince, stunned, stood still.
You'd say he was scared silly, but he started running again after the zombies had killed people.
Causes crazy spitting.
Even more coincidentally, when he was about to be bitten to death by a zombie and his hand had been scratched.
Taizong appeared and shot the zombie with an arrow.
Why, you just got scared silly too?
Everything seems to be done in order to complete, and the plot setting of the prince being possessed by the evil qi of the zombie.
The connection in the middle of the way is ignored.
In the first 2 episodes, a big hole was dug, which also gave people a lot of sense of violation.
But has it really made many unforgivable mistakes?
Sir didn't think so.
As a drama, it is a pity that it was urgently removed from the shelves due to "cultural issues".
Korean historians have also spoken out to prove that:
Isn't the historical adaptation of the past also accepted; if this standard is used to demand film and television, how many works can survive...
"Why is it not a distortion of history?
The crew said that the Chinese food in the play is because the location is located in the border area, which is understandable. Uiju is a major transportation and trade center connecting the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong region, and it is not surprising that foreign food is available on the border where foreigners come and go frequently.
There should be no words and deeds that historical figures have not done in movies and television, what do you think?
In the United States, Lincoln was regarded as a great leader and loved by the people. But there are also novels and movies in the United States that portray him as a vampire hunter with an axe everywhere and a vampire in the end. In a self-democratic society, it is very ridiculous to criticize this kind of creation as a 'distortion of history'. ”
The history of other countries has its own national divisions.
However, national sentiments suppress literary and artistic works and force them to take down.
For all the critics, like using the rules to get out of the game as soon as the other side comes on, we also lose the opportunity to beat him to the ground.
Should there be criticism, the batch must be approved (there are still many slots).
Viewers can choose a more decent way.
Or rather, in a fairer way.
Plagiarism is shameful.
But is there still room for discussion on the fact of plagiarism?
It is certainly irresponsible to falsify history.
But is there still a distance between "tampering" and "adaptation"?
Sir has scolded many national dramas and dramas that have copied South Korea before.
But there has never been a call for "removal" and "banning".
The reason is simple – we must defend our rights to the death, in a way that does not surrender them easily.
"Insulting the state" is, of course, a felony.
But when it easily crushes the rules and blurs the standards, it becomes a heavy hammer that everyone can pick up and everyone can't hide.
Sir remembered the "Age of Awakening" that just ended last month, and remembered an experience by Hu Shi.
At that time, he scolded "Journey to the West" and "List of Fengshen Gods" fiercely, saying that this was the residual poison of feudalism.
What did he do at the same time?
For the "Journey to the West" to do research, up to more than 20,000 words.
He wanted to knock down what he didn't look up to. In the way of a literati, he is truly criticized from the perspective of literary criticism, even if there is controversy in later generations.
So, sir, of course, thinks that "The Korean Exorcist" is a bad drama that lacks sincerity.
Sir was even more sorry.
We can't do it in a way that's more refreshing and more of the audience's own.
Really beat it off the field.
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