After 13 years, Zhang Ailing's famous work "Agarwood Crumbs • First Incense" finally met with everyone in the form of a movie, because the success of the last "Color Ring" made many viewers look forward to this film, originally thought that this film would be welcomed, but the result was not satisfactory.
The movie "First Burning Incense" is directed by the famous director Xu Anhua, the cast is also very strong, such as: Peng Yuyan, Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, Zhang Junning, etc., these can be said to be powerful actors, the focus is that this film has a lot of aura, but the first day of the film's release is only 5.67 million box office, so far the box office is only more than 20 million, not only that, the online reputation is a cliff-like decline, the audience scored 5.6, compared to "Color Ring" A score of 8.5 is a world of difference.
So the question is, the same is Zhang Love's work, why the effect of the shooting is so large, in fact, "Color Ring" and "First Incense" are compared, and the reason for the gap comes out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" >, the director's understanding of Zhang Ailing is different</h1>
Director Xu Anhua's ability is unquestionable, her works have won numerous awards, but also some awards with relatively high gold content, such as: the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Dragon Award for Best Director, the Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, etc. It can be said that as long as it is the work she wants to shoot, it can basically be recognized, but "The First Incense" surprised her.
Everyone knows that director Xu Anhua is a loyal fan of Zhang Ailing, and also the director who remakes the most of Zhang Ailing's works, and the success of the past has made her adhere to her own creative methods, but each of Zhang Ailing's works is a fine product, and the ideas that she wants to express are also different, so she wants to shoot Zhang Ailing's text works, but also to express her own ideas in the fitting room Is it very difficult, which is why many directors in China dare not remake literary classics.
And this time Xu Anhua also expressed Zhang Ailing's work from his own perspective, to put it bluntly, the outstanding ideas of this film are what Xu Anhua wants to express, not written by Zhang Ailing, so the film made makes the audience unable to see Zhang Ailing's thoughts.
As for director Ang Lee being able to show Zhang Ailing's thoughts to the fullest, the reason is that Ang Lee is starting from Zhang Ailing's point of view, and really shows the kind of ideas that Zhang Ailing wants to express, every detail, every action, is so perfect.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > second, it is crucial for the choice of actors</h1>
In "The First Incense Burner", the two main actors are Peng Yuyan and Ma Sichun, and if you compare them with the characters in the original work, they are indeed far from each other.
Ma Sichun plays Ge Weilong, ge Weilong in the original is a student who has experienced oppression on the way to study, she has the purity and personality of the student, that is, these two points have attracted the attention of Mrs. Liang, and gradually become Mrs. Liang's money-making tool.
But Ma Sichun is 33 years old this year, the audience did not see the purity of the students from her, it can be said that it does not look like a student at all, anyway, it is not at all compatible with Ge Weilong in the original work, to be honest, the performance of "desire" in the final fall is OK, but a literary film has made mistakes from the role, which can be said to be equivalent to losing a large half of the color of the film.
As for why Ang Lee chose Tang Wei as the heroine that year, it was from her body that he saw that temperament, so he decisively chose Tang Wei, who was not famous, instead of some well-known female stars.
As for Qiao Qiqiao, played by Peng Yuyan, in the eyes of the audience, it is quite OK, after all, Peng Yuyan's personality for so many years is very good, it can be said that what it is like to act, but this time playing a debauched bad guy, but how to make the audience "hate" can not get up, which is very different from Mr. Yi played by Liang Chaowei.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Third, literary classics pay attention to the ease of understanding</h1>
The reason why Zhang Ailing's works are liked by many people is that she dares to express some of the current situation of that era in the form of words, and if she wants to show these things, it must be fully understood by the audience, which is also the most neglectful point for many directors.
In "The First Incense", director Xu Anhua also wanted to show the label of that era as much as possible, so he wanted to make this film a literary and fresh film from beginning to end, but this approach made it difficult for many audiences to understand.
Audiences who have seen the original work, or Zhang Ailing's fans, will think that the film is good after watching it, but for those who do not understand the story, this film is simply a work that cannot be understood, so that many viewers do not understand what the film wants to express, and finally let the film suffer from the polarization of word of mouth.
Compared with "Color Ring", Ang Lee uses an easy-to-understand form to let everyone know Zhang Ailing's talent as much as possible, so many people have some sympathy for Wang Jiazhi's suffering after watching it.
The literary classics are close to the original work, but they cannot be understood by the audience, and it is useless, so the failure of "The First Incense" has many factors, but the audience's incomprehension is the biggest key.
Putting aside the acting skills of the actors, my feeling about this film is "tall", which can indeed highlight Zhang Ailing's writing techniques, but it is difficult for many people who score it to understand, so I think that filming Zhang Ailing's work, it must be Ang Lee, not only dare to shoot, but also can shoot, can shoot, and easily express what the audience wants to see.