Seeing that "Painted Skin" was remade by the Internet University and airborne to be broadcast on April 25, I felt that my brain was buzzing, that is, I felt that the Internet University had set a small goal for itself:
wants to remake all the Chinese classic red IPs, and there is quite an intention to establish his own "online remake classic", but the result is very bitter.
In recent years, the remade film and television drama classics have overturned without exception on the track of the Internet University.
In 2022, "The Resurgence of Chinese Heroes" scored 2.7 points on Douban, in 2022, "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: Jiuyang Divine Skill" scored 3.5 points on Douban, "Chasing the Dragon: Dragon and Tiger Fight" scored 3.7 points on Douban, and "New Jiupin Sesame Official", which was just launched in March 2024, scored 3.0 points.
Basically, this kind of remake of online movies is overturned, and those that can exceed 4 points or more are good films.
You may complain that the investment in online movies is small, and it is generally played by 18-tier young actors, and the low word-of-mouth score is understandable.
But in fact, among these online movies, there are many big actors such as Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Chen Xiaochun, Wang Haoxin, Lin Feng, Wen Yongshan, etc., and the investment has basically won the top match in the Internet University, but the movie still can't work!
The problem is that these Internet giants are still becoming more and more frustrated, knowing that they can't do it. In the case of classic action movies, funny movies, and none of them have been able to turn over.
set his sights on the classic ghost movie IP, after all, in the past few years, the achievements of the Internet University have been some folk thriller fantasy movies.
So it's really not surprising that "Painted Skin" was taken out for remake. After all, the two major IPs that can get out of the circle in the Chinese ghost classical text "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" are "Nie Xiaoqian" and "Painted Skin".
The IP of Painted Skin was made by Hong Kong Phoenix Pictures in 1979 and became the first horror movie released in Chinese mainland, almost a shadow of our parents' childhood.
Later, in the 80s, Beijing Film Studio also produced a movie "Tomb Wasteland", which also quoted the story of "Painted Skin" in "Liao Zhai".
Then there is the 1992 Hong Kong martial arts master Hu Jinquan's film "Painted Skin: Yin and Yang Law King", starring Wang Zuxian and Zheng Shaoqiu, both the production and the cast are top-notch.
It's a pity that the plot of this movie is very fragmented, and the special effects are relatively rough, and it was taken off the shelves after six days of release and failed miserably at the box office, so that many people only remember that Wang Zuxian played "Nie Xiaoqian", but they didn't know that she also played "Painted Skin".
2008's "Painted Skin" is the best version so far, and the movie upgraded the content of "Painted Skin", which originally highlighted the essence of evil ghosts in "Liao Zhai", to a humanized demon girl character.
Let her form a complex love triangle between Wang Sheng and Wang Sheng's wife, and from the perspective of Banshee Xiao Wei, she digs deep into human nature, good and evil, and ethics and morality.
In 2012, Wu Ershan's "Painted Skin 2" also strengthened this triangular emotional relationship, and supplemented the strong oriental magic style, although his story text was worse than the first version, but still achieved good box office results.
And the success of these two movies is inseparable from the role of the demon girl Xiao Wei played by Zhou Xun.
In fact, in the story of Wang Sheng and his wife, Xiao Wei, as a third party, is normally a despised character, but Xiao Wei played by Zhou Xun is hateful.
A large part of the reason for this stems from Zhou Xun herself, she has girlish clear eyes and demeanor, even if her character is a thousand-year-old fox demon, and she needs to devour people's hearts to maintain her human form.
But with the blessing of Zhou Xun's acting skills, Xiao Wei, the fox demon, is sometimes innocent and pure, sometimes charming and weird, and even every emotion of the final desperate and tragic death, Zhou Xun does not add a point to the performance, Zhou Xun has contributed to the success of this movie.
And the story of this version of "Painted Skin: Love Annihilation" we see is much worse, the heroine Zhong Xintong plays the role of the Dragon Girl of the East China Sea, Ah Ruo, this role is very pure, because she fell in love with the mortal Wang Sheng and came to the world at all costs, and then she was also designed by the bad woman fox demon Xiaoman, and lost the treasure spirit leaf on her body.
At first glance, it is a black-and-white routine story, and there is not much to speak of in terms of depth.
The beginning of this trailer is for two women to ask themselves: Is there anyone in your heart who can't be together?
Then there is the story of the entanglement between the two female protagonists and the male protagonist, put it on the line of the dragon girl, the male and female protagonists are either gentle and careless hugs, or the female protagonist pays treatment for the male protagonist.
And the fox girl standing behind them,Always poke and poke at the appearance of secret.,All kinds of teasing to the male owner.,And then the three of them confronted each other.,The female owner turned away.,And tell everyone:Of all the ways to say goodbye,,The thing I hate the most is I'm sorry!
After watching the trailer, I can say that even if I don't watch the whole plot, I can already guess the whole story of "Painted Skin: Love Extinguished".
If a good movie needs the blessing of good actors in addition to the story text, then there is a huge difference between talented actors like Zhong Xintong and Zhou Xun in this online university.
You can let Zhou Xun play the role of the shy girl Xiao Wei in middle age, but you let Zhong Xintong play the role of the girl Ah Ruo, just her wooden expression can't pass the test, let alone she will pass the heroine's emotions in the future, so for such a sloppy remake of the Internet, everyone should wash and sleep!