On August 18, the first trailer of the new version of the Dream of Red Mansions movie "Dream of Red Mansions: Golden Jade Good Relationship" was released under everyone's expectations! "Dream of Red Mansions" as the first of the four famous books, the audience has particularly big expectations, but once the 45-second trailer was released, it instantly caused heated discussions among netizens, costing 200 million, and the casting actually "overturned"?
Golden and Yu Liangyuan? That is to tell the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, since this is the case, it is better to call it "Mushi Marriage", or "Mushi Front Alliance" is more appropriate.
Let's talk about the characters and actors, it is said that this version of the script has been polished for 10 years, selected from 20,000 people, and trained for 9 months, but it still lost in the choice of the actors themselves, which is not at all appropriate to the original.
Jia Baoyu is played by Bian Cheng, Lin Daiyu is played by Zhang Miaoyi, Xue Baochi is played by Huang Jiarong, and Guan Xiaotong plays Jia Yuanchun in friendship. Jia Baoyu lacks wealth and nobility, Lin Daiyu lacks culture, Xue Baochu lacks femininity...
"Dream of Red Mansions" was originally a classic, and it was not easy to remake, and Li Shaohong's version was broadcast at that time with constant complaints. On the other hand, this movie version is directed by Hu Mei, who has many works, among which "The Great Emperor of Hanwu", "The Courtyard of the Qiao Family", "Yongzheng Dynasty" and so on are all well-known works and have achieved many achievements.
But filming "Dream of Red Mansions" has always been Hu Mei's dream, until 2017, when she finally began casting. There are 20,000 auditions for the protagonist alone, followed by 9 months of immersion in Qinqi calligraphy and painting training. But when the poster trailer was announced, it was still extremely disappointing.
Jia Baoyu
First of all, let's take a look at the protagonist Jia Baoyu, played by Bian Cheng, born in the Beijing Film Academy, 19 years old this year, 14 years old when filming started in 18 years, decent age, just a handsome young man with beautiful facial features, but less Jia Baoyu's trace of wealth.
According to the original work, Jia Baoyu is "like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival", it should be a full and round face of the Buddha, wearing a purple-gold crown on his head, a gold forehead with his eyebrows together, wearing big red arrow sleeves, and a long spike palace tape...
And Bian Cheng still looks relatively thin, and then look at the dress in the poster, all dressed.
Is the movie version a little poor this time?
Lin Daiyu
Let's look at Lin Daiyu, this time starring Zhang Miaoyi, the key figure of the whole play. Lin Daiyu's appearance: two curved eyebrows, a pair of eyes that seem to be happy and not happy, Chu Chu is moving, loving, sentimental, delicate and slightly panting, sick as Xizi.
On the other hand, Zhang Miaoyi is sweet and cute, beautiful and undeniable, but without Lin Daiyu's full talent and weakness. It is simply incomparable with Lin Daiyu's aura, let alone the rare beauty of Lin Daiyu described by Cao Xueqin.
Looking at the styling again, there really is no bit of everyone's style. A Daiyu funeral flower, it looks really abrupt and unconvincing.
Compared with the 87 version, the difference is not a little. Compared with the 10th version, it is also comparable.
The 87th version of Chen Xiaoxu is really the best choice for Daiyu, Lin Daiyu's freshness, lightness and agility make Chen Xiaoxu play brilliant, and even some audiences think that Chen Xiaoxu is Lin Daiyu.
The 10th version of Jiang Mengjie was also scolding at that time, although he spent a lot of money to hire a stylist, Lin Daiyu's sadness was there, but the aura was gone.
Let's look at Zhang Miaoyi, although it lacks some of Lin Daiyu's taste, but if the makeup and hair clothing are adjusted again, it may be closer to it, let's expect her performance to be better!
Xue Baochai
Xue Baochai, from one of the four major families, is extremely favored and talented, even more than 10 times higher than her brother. The face is like a silver basin, the eyes are like apricots, and the country is like a peony.
The actor this time is Huang Jiarong, a newcomer, no outstanding works, not beautiful enough, without Xue Baochai's rich beauty, after all, Xue Baochi is the first of the twelve Jinling, how can he be general.
The 89th version of Xue Baochi is played by Fu Yiwei, a big beauty who has played Su Daji, and her temperament is also relatively beautiful, with a classical beauty.
And the 10th version is played by Li Qin, although it is also quite beautiful, but it is too thin, and it does not match Xue Baochu's plumpness.
Wang Xifeng
When it comes to Wang Xifeng, it is recognized that he is vicious, intelligent, and scheming, and he has not heard his voice before he has seen him, "who rules the country with gold and purple, and the skirt can be one or two Qi family" is Wang Xifeng.
This time is Wang Xifeng played by Lin Peng, Lin Peng is 36 years old this year, the age does not conform to the original work, according to the records, Wang Xifeng should be 18-19 years old.
Wang Xifeng has "Danfeng triangular eyes, willow leaf hanging eyebrows", eight faces, and Lin Peng's version looks luxuriously dressed, but the smile is still too gentle, without Wang Xifeng's cruelty and courage.
The 87th version of Wang Xifeng played by Deng Jie is really brilliant and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, although he was complained that he was not suitable because of his height of 158cm, but the domineering acting skills of swatting the table and turning back still made the audience applaud repeatedly!
Jia Yuanchun
Jia Yuanchun is played by Guan Xiaotong, but after all, Jia Yuanchun is from a rich family, and he is a favorite concubine in the palace, and the exposed Jia Yuanchun's appearance lacks some grace and nobility, and is more youthful.
But after all, Guan Xiaotong is a child star debut, acting skills are online, beautiful appearance, there is a performance, Guan Xiaotong performed Jia Yuanchun's sad emotions well.
But after all, it's just a cameo, only a short shot, and it can't support the whole movie.
And this time Jia's mother is played by Lu Yan, Grandma Liu is played by Ding Jiali, and Mrs. Wang is played by Yang Tongshu, all are old actors, and we can only expect their acting skills to overshadow the styling.
The 87th version of "Dream of Red Mansions" was the pinnacle as soon as it was released, and it was difficult to surpass it later, even so it was subject to a lot of controversy when it was first broadcast, not to mention now.
It is said that director Hu Mei wanted to shoot "Dream of Red Mansions" when she was 10 years old, but she withdrew due to the horizontal insertion of capital. For director Hu Mei's obsession with the dream of the Red Mansion, I believe that the plot can move the audience and convince the audience, let's wait and see!