"Tianlong Babu" has made a new version, which is already the 7th version.
Many people have developed aesthetic fatigue, why is Jin Yong drama always remade endlessly?
Because Jin Yong's novel is a super big IP, the heroic dream of our generation is nourished by Jin Yong's novel, and the idea of "the great hero, for the country and the people" has been deeply rooted in the bones of Chinese, so although the remake of Jin Yong drama is always spat upon, it has never lacked an audience.
And "Tianlong Eight Parts" is very special in Jin Yong dramas, it has a total of three protagonists, and a lot of brilliant supporting roles, especially suitable for film and television companies to promote new people, which also makes "Tianlong Eight Parts" always be constantly remade.
With the two pearls of the 97 TVB version and the 2003 Zhang Jizhong version in front, the remake version after that is always indispensable to the sound of spitting, but the latest version of "Tianlong Babu" has a very low sense of existence.
On August 14, the 50-episode new "Tianlong Eight Parts" officially landed on CCTV Eight Sets, and was also broadcast simultaneously on Tencent Satellite TV, which has been updated to the 11th episode, but many people do not know that it has been broadcast.
4 days after its broadcast, its online popularity was only 6th, and it has now fallen out of the top 10.
The director of this version of "Tianlong Babu" is Yu Rongguang, you may sound familiar, yes, he is the actor Yu Rongguang, the actor guan Yu in "New Three Kingdoms".
He acted and directed well, filmed "Fighting broken sky" in 18 years, Douban only has 4.4 points, so it is difficult for you to expect anything from the new "Tianlong Eight Parts".
And watching the cast list, it is even more uninteresting.
Yang Youning plays Qiao Feng, Zhang Tianyang plays Xu Zhu, Duan Yu is played by Bai Shu...
The actor's fame is not as great as the director's, and it is no wonder that the audience is too lazy to complain?
But after all, this is "Tianlong Babu", although the 97 version and the 03 version are classics, but the picture quality is too rough to attract young audiences, this new version still has a certain attraction to a new generation of young people, Tomato Jun also watched a few episodes with a curious attitude, feeling like a fish in the throat, some words are not spit unhappy.
Objective evaluation, this version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" should not be a work of circle money, and the main creator has also made a lot of efforts.
In terms of actors, the appearance of acting skills is not to say, almost did not see any plastic surgery face, the appearance is more comfortable. Although the starring role is insufficient, some well-known actors also help, Huang Yi plays Qin Hongmian, Qiu Xinzhi plays Duan Zhengchun, Maya Shu plays Li Qingluo, Lu Liangwei plays Wang Jiantong, and director Yu Rongguang also plays Yelü Hongji in the play, these old faces make up for the star flavor to a certain extent.
On the screen, compared to the 97 version and the 03 version, of course, it is more exquisite, and it looks very eye-catching. Many large scenes are more dazzling with the help of computer special effects, which is a little more atmospheric than the plastic scenery of TVB and the real-life scenery of Zhang Jizhong.
In terms of script, this version adopts Jin Yong's latest revised version of "Tianlong Babu", the ending will be different from the old version, and the screenwriter has also made a certain effort in the creation.
For example, the lines of the first ten chapters of the novel are restored, adding a lot of fun, while the old version has skipped this.
For example, in the novel, Qiao Feng appeared in thirteen chapters, Murong Fu only appeared in the Linglong chess game in thirty-one chapters, and the story of Northern Qiao Feng and Southern Murong was told by other people in the early stages, and the new version filmed the content of other people, so that Qiao Feng and Murong Fu fought in the first episode, and also shot out the sentences in the novel such as "Assassination of Marshal Yelü Bulu", which is generally more careful.
However, if the new version of "Tianlong Babu" is carefully considered, then the slot points will come.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > Tomato Jun summarized a total of four slot points. </h1>
The first big slot point: it is the slow-motion play.
When Hong Kong and Taiwan films were brilliant, many actors had martial arts skills, and the scenes they played were coherent and realistic, and they really achieved "fist to flesh", for example: Zhang Zhen practiced eight pole boxing for three years in order to shoot "Generation Grandmaster" and won the championship of the eight pole boxing competition.
Now the production cycle of martial arts dramas in the mainland is short, although this drama has found Wei Guoqing of Hongjiaban to guide the play, the actors have no time to practice, and can only show the play through slow motion and close-up shots.
As long as it is two people fighting, the weapon is close, and there is a slow-motion close-up immediately, the actor does not need to play beautifully, just need to blow the hair up with the help of the blower, and then grin and pose.
The most classic routine is that the two people in the air palm each other, and then the picture is instantly still, the actor hangs in the air without moving, the camera rotates 360 degrees, this routine is very cool to use once, and the more it is used, the person will look at the vomit.
In the new version of "Tianlong Babu", such slow-motion playing scenes abound.
Everyone uses slow-motion special effects to play, so there is no distinction between the big man and the rookie. When Tomato Jun watched this drama, BGM was automatically played in his head: "Follow my left hand and right hand in a slow motion..."
A martial arts drama collapses, and this drama collapses by more than half.
So we saw that Qiao Feng's "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms" became "Descending Dragon Ten Palms", without any sense of blow;
Duan Yu's Ling Bo micro-step became MJ's space dance step, and at first glance, he thought that it was an idol trainee training.
Murong Fu was directly possessed by the Yin and Yang Division and directly danced.
Think about the 97 version of Huang Rihua's Qiao Feng carrying a stereo, playing BGM, handsomely playing that set of palm techniques, how many children have imitated it in the past?
Look at the new version of Yang Youning's Qiao Feng, the evil charm smiles, a comparison, and a set of "broadcast gymnastics", don't blame the audience for rolling their eyes.
The second big slot point: the age of the actor.
In this drama, Wang Yuyan is played by Wen Yongshan, she is an absolute big beauty, and her appearance in "Equator" and "Cold War 2" is amazing.
Her appearance in this play can be said to be the biggest attraction, but the director has been laying the groundwork for half a day, and wang Yuyan did not have a sense of surprise when she appeared, and the eyeliner of her oily face was even more scene-stealing.
What's even more embarrassing is that then the two girls Aju and Abi appeared, but Abi's dress was more moving than Wang Yuyan's, and netizens ridiculed: No wonder cousin Murong Fu didn't like her.
It is reasonable to say that Wen Yongshan's appearance is online, how to play Wang Yuyan is so different, I will understand when I check the age.
Liu Yifei, the actor of the 03 version of Wang Yuyan, was born in 87, zhang Meng, the actor of the 13 version of Wang Yuyan, was born in 88, and the actor of the 21st version of Wang Yuyan was also born in 88.
This is equivalent to 3 peers playing Wang Yuyan at the age of 16, 25 and 33, respectively, and the age of Wang Yuyan in the novel is sixteen or seventeen years old, which is why Liu Yifei's version of Wang Yuyan is so amazing.
Of course, Li Ruotong plays the 97 version of Wang Yuyan is also 30 years old, but she has her own aura as a mixed-race child, although she is a little old, but the immortal qi is still ah.
Although Wen Yongshan's appearance is also quite beautiful, it really does not have a little fairy spirit.
And the age problem in this play is not only Wang Yuyan.
Can you think of Wen Yongshan after the 80s playing Wang Yuyan and Duan Yu talking about love, but Xu Dongdong after the 90s is playing Duan Yu's mother Dao BaiFeng?
You can think of Ah Zi played by He Hongshan in 87, and Du Houjia, who played You Tanzhi, in 94.
Their story is not the story of the goddess and the licking of the dog, it is simply the story of the aunt and the little fresh meat.
I really want to ask the director, since they are all new people, why don't you use the age of more suitable newcomers, a two over-aged actors can make up for it with acting skills, but the age confusion of the whole staff is very affecting the perception.
The third slot point: it is the acting skills of the actors.
As we said earlier, Duan Yu's role was originally a major highlight, but this actor obviously did not hold it.
From the appearance point of view, he wears earrings and combs oblique bangs, which is the dress of modern small fresh meat, but he has a wig sleeve behind him to play Duan Yu, with an obvious sense of violation.
In the novel, Duan Yu is the first male protagonist in the early stage, and the old man uses a lot of plots to shape his "nerd" atmosphere.
But nerds are idiots, not stupid.
The 97 version of Chen Haomin and the 03 version of Lin Zhiying both performed Duan Yu's infatuation, and this version of Duan Yu only performed stupid, he shook his head and shook his head and looked like he had no ink in his chest and no style of a noble prince.
On the other side, Qiao Feng's actor is Yang Youning.
Compared with the four versions of Qiao Feng's actors, Huang Rihua and Hu Jun are classics, Zhong Hanliang is the most crotch-pulling, and he is obviously Duan Yu's temperament but went to play Qiao Feng.
Although Yang Youning is more powerful than Zhong Hanliang, it is still a bit difficult to play Qiao Feng, and he suffers from the appearance, does not have that kind of chivalrous temperament, and occasionally shows an evil smile.
From the accent point of view, he is a Taiwanese actor, using dubbing, often the accent is not right, and the dubbing is also deliberately lowering the voice a bit pretentious.
Some netizens said that director Yu Rongguang to play Qiao Feng is also more imposing than Yang Youning!
There is also virtual bamboo, there are not many scenes at present, and there are few slot points.
Only from the appearance point of view, the virtual bamboo in the novel should be a silly monk, by no means a handsome man, so that after a night of spring supper readers can see a more sense of substitution, Fan Shaohuang and Gao Hu acted well, this version of the virtual bamboo face is somewhat too delicate, of course, the specific acting skills remain to be seen.
The fourth slot point: the rhythm of the story.
The original novel has more than 1.5 million words, and many characters appear in the later stages, so after being filmed into a TV series, the screenwriters have chosen to speed up the pace and let the three protagonists appear in advance to meet the audience, which is understandable.
The problem with the new version is that the steps are too big and the characters appear too fast.
When I watched the first episode, I only watched for about ten minutes, and the main characters made an appearance in the PPT style, without causality and story line, and it was difficult for the audience to be impressed directly.
In the novel, Qiao Feng and Murong Fu fought after he became the King of the Southern Courtyard, with one enemy and two PK Murong Fu and You Tanzhi, and in this version, 20 minutes, the two directly did it.
Qiao Feng said to go to the Shaolin Temple, there was not even a shot of riding a horse, directly teleported past, the screenwriter in order to let the virtual bamboo appear early, directly came to a competition, forced the virtual bamboo in the first episode and Qiao Feng had a face-to-face.
At the beginning of the play, Madame Ma framed Qiao Feng clearly, and in the novel, Qiao Feng has been in the dark until he overheard the conversation between Madame Ma and Duan Zhengchun.
After the main characters were introduced, the story was divided into two lines, Duan Yu and Qiao Feng - but Duan Yu's story looked like a fantasy drama, and Qiao Feng's story looked like a traditional martial arts drama, and the two lines had a clear sense of separation.
This god perspective introduces the characters and simplifies the plot, although it takes care of the young audience, but it is a bit of a chicken rib for the audience who are familiar with the plot.
In short, the new version of "Tianlong Babu" can be used as a pastime, and if you are serious, you will lose.
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Yang Yi)