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The movie "Jiupin Sesame Official" starring Stephen Chow has a Douban score of 8.7 points, with more than 710,000 people scoring it, proving the gold content of the movie's word-of-mouth.
Now 30 years have passed, Stephen Chow's "Jiupin Sesame Official" is still ranked 147th in the TOP250 Douban movies, and it is still a masterpiece that countless audiences continue to recall.
But the remake of such a movie "New Jiupin Sesame Official" was dismal at the box office, and the cumulative box office only exceeded 4,000 yuan after the movie was released for 5 days, and the Douban comment area of the movie was even more scolded.
Some netizens angrily denounced "self-inflicted humiliation, boycott and refuse to watch", and some netizens complained "What kind of capital is investing in this kind of garbage, is there no place to spend money?".
Obviously, the movie "New Jiupin Sesame Official" is so bad that netizens call the police.
The plot can be overturned if it is copied, and the rough production is not visible
Judging from the plot of "New Jiupin Sesame Official", the plot of the new version basically follows the original story, and on the main line, Bao Longxing (played by Peng Yuyu) was implicated because of the case of the folk girl Xiaorou (played by Lin Yanrou), and went to Beijing to sue the emperor, and met the emperor by chance in the Qinglou, and finally the trend of redressing the unjust case for Xiaorou has not changed.
But the relationship between some characters during this period has changed, the villain Fang Tangjing has become Bao Longxing's right-hand man, and the folk girl Xiaorou and Bao Longxing are childhood sweethearts.
As for Chang Wei, who killed the thirteen members of the Qi family, it was because he learned that Fang Tangjing, Bao Longxing, and Xiaorou had disguised the fox fairy to rob their relatives, so they were furious and killed Xiaorou's entire family.
Basically, the relationship between the characters in the original version, which was very tense, has all been changed in "New Nine Sesame Officials".
And even so, "New Jiupin Sesame Official" did not forget to rub the popularity of the original version, and the movie found Huang Yishan and Sister Pomegranate, two actors from the original version, to appear, and the performance of these two in the movie cannot be said to be a charcoal in the snow, it can only be said to be the icing on the cake, just a dog tail flower on a piece of cow dung.
Not only that, "New Jiupin Sesame Official" also found Stephen Chow's royal voice actor, actor Peng Yuyu, who played the male protagonist Bao Longxing, as soon as he opened his mouth, the audience was familiar with the voice, but unfortunately, "New Jiupin Sesame Official" has Stephen Chow's voice, but it does not have Stephen Chow's charm.
Peng Yuyu's acting skills in the movie are rough, his facial features are flying wildly, and he has a sense of absurdity and comical in the shaping of the characters, and the arc light before and after the characters is comparable to the version of the star master.
In the original version, the folk girl played by Zhang Min had a miserable fate and suffered injustice, she was tortured to extract a confession, her face was full of blood and hatred biting Stephen Chow's fingers, with a strong picture impact.
However, Lin Yanrou, who played Xiaorou in "New Jiupin Sesame Official", had a modern and technological face, and she cried out of a stingy feeling when she was framed. In the picture, she has fine skin and tender flesh, and she will only cry with her eyes closed, and the tears on her face have a kind of hypocrisy with eye drops.
From the protagonist to the supporting role, "New Jiupin Sesame Official" has the strength to interpret what it means to be completely destroyed if it can't be reproduced. I don't even think that if I brought the original directly into the cinema, it would not be so dismal at the box office.
The most hateful thing is that there are still a lot of crooked thoughts in the movie "New Nine Sesame Officials".
Sexually transformed lion's head, the edge of the shot loses depth
It not only has to rub off on the popularity and feelings of the original, but also takes the route of rubbing the edge and taking the vulgar shortcut.
In the movie "Jiupin Sesame Official", the lion-headed Lei Leopard has a distinct image and full of charm, but in "New Jiupin Sesame Official", this character becomes Lei Meow, a wild lion head, and in the movie, he becomes a sexy girl wearing a tight-fitting low-cut top.
In all the shots aimed at Lei Meow, there is a vulgar gentleman's gaze, and even this character imitates Shu Qi in "Journey to the West". It seems to be very aesthetic, but in fact, it is a rigid copy, and the essence of the character's existence is to wipe the edges.
This alone proves that "New Jiupin Sesame Official" can't even do a pure tribute.
After careful analysis, what is the rot of the movie "New Jiupin Sesame Official"? In the final analysis, it is a lack of sincerity.
The costumes of many actors in the movie are extremely rough, and Chang Wei's fake hood can be seen clearly in close-ups.
The movie grasped the main plot line of the original version, incorporating all kinds of rotten stalks and vulgar stalks, but ignored the biggest attraction of "Jiupin Sesame Official".
Stephen Chow's version is very in-depth, the film satirizes the filthy real society in the absurd and bizarre story, and even the content of the film can rise to a reflection on the concept of justice, and a discussion of procedural justice and outcome justice.
Aside from the depth of the film, the audience can feel the simple joy in the original version more. Looking back on the plot of "Jiupin Sesame Official", there are too many classic pictures.
Fang Tangjing provoked, and after Bao Longxing punched hard, he left a sentence of "I have never heard of this kind of request".
Bao Longxing and the old eunuch scolded each other, and the other party was so angry that he almost died.
The salted fish disguised as Shang Fang's sword, Bao Youwei, who was ridiculed and sunburned as an African chicken, and any clip in the movie alone has the burden of making the audience laugh until they lean forward and back together.
But "New Jiupin Sesame Official" only has embarrassing laughter and sneering, only a blunt plot and uncreative line settings.
30 years have passed, and many lines in "Jiupin Sesame Official" have become famous sentences that are still circulating on the Internet.
"I want them all."
"If you cut your throat, no one will pay attention to you".
"As soon as I entered the door, I saw Chang Wei calling for blessings."
"If you don't give money, you don't sell it."
If the 1994 version of "Jiupin Sesame Official" is shaping classics and creating jokes, then this "New Jiupin Sesame Official" in 2024 is inspirational to turn the whole movie into a joke, the box office is so bleak that it looks like a joke, the actors' acting skills are shaped like a joke, and even the comment area of netizens' spicy comments is better and funny than the plot of the movie itself.
However, it was only after "New Nine Sesame Officials" that I realized that the decline of Hong Kong films was not accidental but inevitable. From the main creator behind the scenes, to the starring actor in front of the stage, from the service to the writing of the script, it can be seen that the current Hong Kong movies are still dreaming of the peak, and they use the classics to create gimmicks, but they can't even copy and paste.
"New Nine Sesame Officials", a movie that almost set a new film record, can achieve this effect, it can only be said that Hong Kong TVB is really empty, and the Hong Kong film industry is really hungry.
Finally, what do you think of the movie "The New Nine Sesame Officials"? What do you think of the movie's current box office performance? Participate in the discussion in the comment section to evaluate the quality and content of the movie, or share your favorite highlights of the classic version of "Nine Sesame Officials".