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In May this year, the blockbuster was launched, and just looking at the schedule, there are many movies worth looking forward to successfully attract the audience's attention.
Among them, there are action movies that attract attention by scale, "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", which attracts attention by mainstream themes, and "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" that earns enough eyeballs through character design and advanced cyberpunk style.
Fans are ready to contribute to the box office in May, but this "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" relies on the curiosity of the audience to set off discussions.
Even though the audience is no stranger to the love between old and young, the 61-year-old Fan Wei and the 32-year-old Zhou Dongyu play a couple, which still makes people feel uncomfortable.
The theme is interesting, the plot is interesting, and Fan Wei's new film has a clear positioning
The movie tells the story of Lao Qin (played by Fan Wei), a middle-aged man who has been imprisoned twice and has been in prison for more than 30 years.
In the plot, Lao Qin, who is 55 years old, although he has been in prison for 30 years, is definitely not a vicious villain.
When he was young, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for arguing with the villagers and pressing them into the mud.
After he was released from prison, he took the risk of bringing a pack of drugs to others for his mother's serious illness, and was imprisoned for 17 years.
Life is only a few decades, Lao Qin has been imprisoned twice, and most of his life has passed since he came out.
Fortunately, as soon as he appeared, he encountered the demolition of his hometown, and suddenly became the fifth king of diamonds, who only wanted to live a good life, in order to speed up the process of marrying a wife and having children, he directly held a sign to go to the women's prison to ask for marriage.
It's just that Lao Qin's experience of being imprisoned twice doomed him to a bumpy love road.
The woman who came to the door was either a liar who was preparing for the fairy jump, or she couldn't accept his conditions.
Chang Juan, played by Zhou Dongyu, has almost become Lao Qin's only choice.
Chang Juan's requirements are very simple, to take wedding photos, and to ask for a bride price of 184,004.
The two hit it off and became a legal husband and wife.
But who knows, after getting married, Chang Juan disappeared again, Lao Qin was deceived, and when he went to the police station, even the police couldn't help complaining, and they were all in prison twice, how could they still be deceived.
According to the plot of the original book, Chang Juan did not intend to deceive, the 184,004 she asked for was actually to pay the victim's family.
It turned out that Chang Juan's parents died in a car accident, and in order to take revenge, she pushed the perpetrator's daughter down the pond but killed the wrong person by mistake. The grandmother sold the property and still owed the victim's family 184,004 in compensation.
In the original book, Chang Juan cheated Lao Qin's bride price money, and then jumped down in a wedding dress, fell down the building and became paralyzed, and Lao Qin, who knew the truth, took over to take care of the paralyzed Chang Juan, but Lao Qin finally survived two reprieve deaths, and the stable life he waited for may be a more difficult marriage.
Of course, in terms of plot, the ending of the movie "Morning Clouds and Dusk Rain" is likely to be adapted.
Whether it is the theme of the movie, the protagonist group that the story focuses on, or the development of the plot, "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" is an award-winning feature film. But the cast configuration of this movie is indeed difficult to be accepted by the audience.
61-year-old Fan Wei and 32-year-old Zhou Dongyu play husband and wife, and the picture in the same frame is too explosive
In fact, according to the setting of the original book, the age of the male protagonist in "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" should be 55 years old, and the female protagonist should be 25 or 26. But the 61-year-old Fan Wei looked old when he was young, and now it is even more difficult to hide the taste of the elderly, and the actual age of 61 years old also has a 70-year-old effect in the movie clip.
As for Zhou Dongyu, his actual age is 32 years old, but he looks too small, and he is in the same frame as Fan Wei like a teenager.
Moreover, Chang Juan's image characteristics in the original work are obvious, she has delicate skin and is a little fat, but Zhou Dongyu belongs to the type of overly petite.
Whether it is Zhou Dongyu's visual age or the adaptability of Zhou Dongyu and the protagonist's positioning, it is not very reasonable.
If you click on the relevant comment area of the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", you will find that netizens generally do not have a high degree of recognition of this pair of screen combinations, some netizens bluntly said that "I can't tell who is the capital for a while", and some netizens commented spicily, "It is the same nature as Burning Dong, it all depends on the curiosity of the audience".
However, objectively speaking, the age gap is not the biggest inappropriate thing about the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain". After all, the original book is written like this, one of the movies is for marriage and children, and the other is for money, and the simple age gap is not worth mentioning.
What's more, the performance gap between the actors.
In the clips released by "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain", you can clearly feel the uneven acting skills of Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu.
Lao Qin, played by Fan Wei, has been in prison for 30 years, and after coming out, he walks stiffly, he doesn't dare to raise his eyes when talking to people, and even his subconscious reaction when he hears the siren seems so real.
Moreover, Fan Wei has his own simple temperament, so that the audience always has a trusting preference for Fan Wei, even if he has been in prison for 30 years, the audience is willing to believe that the old Qin played by Fan Wei is not bad.
This kind of character tonality determines that Fan Wei can completely shape the role of Lao Qin.
But Zhou Dongyu is different, although Zhou Dongyu is the most outstanding one among the 90 flowers, his acting skills are limited, and the characters who can be portrayed are always rebellious sisters.
In the trailer of the filmmaker, there is a scene where Lao Qin locks Chang Juan at home. In this scene, although Fan Wei looks calm, he uses a creepy tone and a sense of oppression to show Lao Qin's desire to control Chang Juan.
And Zhou Dongyu's resistance to the performance is to stare at her eyes and roar, her hideous face feels like a sister who uses too much force, and she is also a ruthless character, Fan Wei's acting skills really beat Zhou Dongyu.
Objectively speaking, although the love between old and young is easy to make the audience feel uncomfortable, the audience can be persuaded when the plot is reasonable and the actors' acting skills are passable.
But obviously, the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" not only has some differences with the original book in terms of casting, but also the gap between the visual age of the male and female protagonists in the movie has widened, and Zhou Dongyu's acting skills have also made people full of distrust in the movie.
At present, those who can accept the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" are probably the audience who are curious about the screen effect of love between old and young, and who have an actor filter for Mr. Fan Wei.
After all, Zhou Dongyu's reputation has been declining over the years, and now she only has a coffee position in domestic entertainment, no reputation, and no popularity. It is very difficult for the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain" to achieve success at the box office.
Finally, what do you think of the movie "Morning Clouds and Twilight Rain"? Can you accept the husband and wife duo of Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu? Participate in the discussion in the comment area and talk about your opinions.