In October 2018, Mr. Jin Yong, the "martial arts master", passed away. And a remake of "Jin Yong martial arts drama" has also poured into the film and television market.
In 2019, Jiang Jiajun's version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" was launched, and the slow-motion fighting scenes that can be seen everywhere have made this new version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" controversial. In 2020, Ma Jin's "Deer DingJi" has also become the focus of the audience's hot discussion because of the camera performance of "Monkey Spirit Monkey Present".
After "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" and "Deer Dingji", Yu Rongguang's new version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" was also officially launched not long ago. However, this work did not escape the "word-of-mouth catastrophe" in the end.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > director Yu Rongguang who flipped over again </h1>
Yu Rongguang also has an extremely solid audience base in the mainland film and television market.
On the big screen of Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s, Yu Rongguang won the love of many fans for his works such as "Kapok Robes", "Mirage", "The Undefeated Rise of the East", "The Iron Horse of Young Huang Feihong", "Letter to Daddy", "Stormtrooper's Angry Street" and other works.
At the end of the 1990s, with the gradual decline of the Hong Kong film market, Yu Rongguang left the big screen and entered the mainland TV drama market in search of new development opportunities.
In 2001, Yu Rongguang transformed into a producer, and filmed the TV series "King of Money" in multiple capacities such as producer, producer and starring. This TV series won the honor of "Golden Eagle Award for Chinese TV Dramas", and Yu Rongguang also stabilized his position above the mainland TV drama market with the help of the drama.
After "King Qian", Yu Rongguang set up his own "Yunnan Runshi Rongguang Film Production Co., Ltd." and sat on the director's seat.
With the emergence of classic TV series such as "Chinese Criminal Police - September Storm", "Detective Cheng Xu's Dragon City Years", "Mufu Fengyun", "Legend of Dance Music", "Biography of Nanqiao Mechanic Hero" and other classic TV series, Yu Rongguang has gradually ushered in his own "TV drama era" under his self-directing and self-acting.
In 2018, Yu Rongguang's road to directing suffered a major setback, and his "TV drama era" also came to an end at this time.
This year, Director Yu filmed "Fighting to Break the Sky", the famous scene of "Fighting Gasification Horse" in the play, which was widely circulated on the Internet and ridiculed.
3 years after "Breaking the Sky", director Yu Rongguang came up with a new version of "Tianlong Babu". I thought that this work would make Yu Daoyixue ashamed, but unexpectedly, Yu Dao overturned again in this new work.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > In Rongguang's new edition of Tianlong Babu</h1>
In 1955, "Book of Swords and Enmity" officially opened the road of Jin Yong's martial arts novel writing. The multi-character "group portrait story" in the work also laid the foundation for Jin Yong's work style in one fell swoop.
After experiencing the creation of works such as "Green Blood Sword", "Legend of the Archery Hero", "Flying Fox of the Snow Mountain", "Hero of the Divine Eagle", "Tale of the Flying Fox", "The Tale of the Dragon Slayer in the Sky", etc., Jin Yong created "Tianlong Babu" in 1963. And the work has also become the pinnacle of Jin Yong's "group portrait novel works".
The full text of "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" is more than 1.5 million words, but more than 230 people appear before and after. Mr. Jin Yong's exquisite writing skills make the rhythm of the whole story tight and orderly, and the performance of the characters is vivid and vivid.
In the face of such a rich story and so many characters, shaping the personality of the characters has undoubtedly become the top priority of the film and television of "Tianlong Eight Parts".
However, in this new version of "Tianlong Babu" directed by Yu Rongguang, the failure of character shaping has become the biggest slot in the play.
In the play, Yang Youning played the role of "Qiao Feng". What kind of image is Qiao Feng, to paraphrase Jin Yong's old master:
This figure is very tall, more than thirty years old, wearing a gray old cloth robe, has a slight tatter, thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose and wide mouth, a square chinese literal, quite the color of wind and frost, gu pan, very powerful. Duan Yu secretly drank in his heart: "What a big man! This must be the tragic song of the northern kingdom of Yan Zhao. Neither Jiangnan nor Dali will have such a figure. Bao different bragged about what heroic, like this big man, only to be called 'heroic' four words! ”
In the 1997 TVB version of "Tianlong Babu", Huang Rihua accurately grasped the temperament characteristics of "Qiao Feng".
In the 2003 mainland version of "Tianlong Babu", Hu Jun grasped the characteristics of "Qiao Feng is a Khitan man", and showed the character's inner wildness and reckless hero characteristics very well, and also won the love of many audiences.
However, in this new version of "Tianlong Babu", I don't know if the actors and directors have any misunderstandings about the words "when Gu Pan is looking forward to it, it is extremely powerful" and "heroic".
Yang Youning's "Qiao Feng", in the first episode, came a performance of turning around and looking back, blowing his hair, and playing handsome. Seeing this scene, the image of "Joe Helper" collapsed in my heart in an instant.
And the evil smile after that made me even more amazed: Is this the expression that Qiao Feng's character should have?
After watching this version of "Qiao Feng", I always can't help but think of the two regimental leaders in "Thunder Warrior" who "smoke cigars in the trenches" and "look back at the discharge".
These two waves of operation cannot be said to be exactly the same, but can only be said to be completely consistent.
Of course, it is not only Qiao Feng who portrays abnormal characters, in the new version of "Tianlong Eight Parts", the performance of Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu has not been recognized by the audience, especially Duan Yu.
After the launch of the new version of "Tianlong Babu" directed by Yu Rongguang, the most controversial is the role of "Duan Yu".
"Duan Yu" in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" has always lived in the royal palace and has very little contact with the outside world. Therefore, in him, there is a purity and simplicity that is incompatible with the world. And this kind of innocent, simple temperament, once unbalanced, it is easy to become a complete "stupidity".
And the actor Bai Shu, in the new version of "Tianlong Babu", accurately interpreted "what is the imbalance of holding".
In contrast, it is Zhang Tianyang's "virtual bamboo" that has become the most stable performance of the three protagonists. Although this character has no sense of existence from beginning to end, it does not have too many slots.
The shaping of the three protagonists is of this level, and how the subsequent characters will perform is also afraid to have too high expectations.
In addition to the shaping of the characters, the bold changes in the rhythm of the story have also become a hot topic of discussion in this new version of "Tianlong Babu".
Under the pen of Mr. Jin Yong, the story of "Tianlong Babu" is divided into three parts through the different appearance orders of Duan Yu, Qiao Feng and Xuan Zhu. In the early stage, Duan Yu is used as a clue character to show the story; in the middle period, Qiao Feng is used as a clue character to show the story; in the later stage, the virtual bamboo is used as a clue character to show the story.
Successive film and television versions of "Tianlong Babu" have also followed the story structure of the novel, and through the successive appearances of Duan Yu, Qiao Feng, and Xuan Zhu, the huge background and a large number of characters in the story have been introduced.
However, in this new version of the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", the main characters of Qiao Feng, Duan Yu, Xuan Zhu, and Murong Fu appeared collectively in the first episode and also looked at each other.
The new era has a new understanding and new presentation of the expression of old works, and this spirit of exploration is worthy of recognition.
However, the characters appeared early, and the new version of "Tianlong Babu" after the story pace accelerated, there were a total of 50 episodes before and after. Interestingly, Huang Rihua's version of "Tianlong Babu" has 45 episodes, while Hu Jun's version of "Tianlong Babu" has only 40 episodes.
So, speeding up the pace of the story and letting the characters appear early is to make enough time for the slow-motion fight later?
The rhythm of the story is drastic, and the details of the story are full of slots.
When Gan Baobao asked Duan Yu about Duan Zhengchun's recent situation, the sentence "Is the father in good health?" In an instant, "martial arts drama" was turned into a "suspense comedy".
Who is Duan Zhengchun's father? Is Gan Baobao and Duan Yu brother and sister?
The language level is not passed, not only Gan Baobao, but also our Joe helper, that sentence "now the top priority", but also poked at the laughter of many viewers.
In order to make the new version of "Tianlong Babu" have such a special performance in the plot and lines, Yuan Bullet, who is the screenwriter of the play, must be solemnly introduced.
This female screenwriter named Yuan Zidian not only has a powerful and domineering name, but also has a rather tough life history. His father, Yuan Keping, is a well-known screenwriter in the film and television circles in the mainland, and the scripts of works such as "Great Rivers and Great Rivers", "National Action" and "Going to the Sea" are all written by Yuan Keping.
In the early years, Yuan Bullet was a white-collar worker in an advertising agency, then transformed into a writer, and then influenced by his father to become a screenwriter.
In 2016, Yuan Zizi became famous with the TV series "Ode to Joy", and then participated in the script creation of "Ode to Joy 2". Now that I think about it, the word of mouth of "Ode to Joy 2" is not unreasonable.
Although this new version of "Tianlong Babu" has only been updated for 9 episodes, the poor performance in the early stage has made the work much complained about, and it is obviously not practical to reverse the reputation in the later stage.
In 2018, "Fighting Qihua Horse" "Fighting to Break the Sky" caused Yu Rongguang's directing career to suffer a serious setback. At present, the new version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" of "Qiao Feng's Handsome" not only failed to save Yu Rongguang's directorial career, but also made his situation more embarrassing.