Among the fans, there are a considerable number of people who do not want their favorite novels to be adapted by IP, and this attitude is not biased against film and television adaptations, but is determined by the characteristics of literature and film and television:
Literature is a pure two-dimensional, with unlimited imagination space, in the hearts of this kind of book fans, novel characters have no face, not only a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts, and even a thousand Hamlets in a person's heart - he can grow Ji Xiaobing's face today, Tomorrow he can grow Yang Yang's face, and the day after tomorrow he can also grow Teacher Pan's face, as long as I want, ever-changing. More often than not, he is a vague feeling.
Film and television are three-dimensional. When the characters of the novel walk from the second dimension to the third dimension, they have specific facial features, temperament, voice, expression, conversation, walking posture... Under normal circumstances, the characters also lose a lot of imagination space and possibilities.
The effect of IP character adaptation can generally be divided into three cases:
1. Actors < original characters
The actor's image, temperament and performance failed to support the human setting, and while the character's name outside the play received attention, it damaged the brilliance of the original character, which is often said by book fans to collapse the house and the blood-sucking paper person.
2. Actor = original character
The actor's image, temperament and performance fit and support the original character, which is now popular in the rice circle rainbow fart: the actor's performance makes him seem to come out of the book and cut it out. The actors and the original characters achieve each other and complement each other.
3. Actors > original characters
The actor's image, temperament and performance overflow the characters, achieving the role, which in turn adds charm and brilliance to the original characters.
Strictly speaking, this situation is extremely rare, and the prerequisites are very harsh, and it is not the work of the actor alone, and it is necessary to gather the time, place, and people.
The ex-boyfriend of the heroine Qiao Jingjing in "You Are My Glory", Su Ye, played by Ji Xiaobing, is closer to this situation.
As mentioned earlier, this is not the work of the actor alone, but has strict prerequisites:
1, the original character does not have much ink - this determines that he naturally has more possibilities and re-creation space.
2, the person is negative, the drama is very small, there is no topic degree, and the sense of existence is very low.
The character of Su Ye, the ex-boyfriend of the female protagonist, and Xia Qing, the ex-girlfriend of the male protagonist, is actually very different. Xia Qing's character is complex and three-dimensional, her choices, unwillingness, and even her heart and jealousy are very grounded, very realistic, and very helpless, in fact, they are understandable. Relatively speaking, Su Ye's ex-boyfriend's personality is much more facial, and there is no room for beautification. This determines that the audience has no expectations for this character, no established image (Su Ye in the hearts of many netizens is even a middle-aged bully who is not bad looking), which greatly reduces the pressure on the actor.
It should be noted that this is not the kind of villain who has enough depth, complexity, topicality and shining points to give the actors sufficient creative space and sufficient drama, which is very different from the issues discussed in this article.
3, in the process of adaptation, strictly faithful to the original work, abide by no drama, no troublemaking, do not interfere with the feelings of the male and female protagonists, and give full play to their own functionality to achieve the purpose of setting off and shaping the male and female protagonists - it will not attract too much disgust from the fans and the audience of the original.
With the above prerequisites, the elected role exceeds the expectations of most audiences, and when the actor's own image, temperament and performance are brilliant enough, it will reverse to this role that no one cares about, the evaluation is negative, the person is flat, and the lack of brilliance is given more charm, and at the same time, the audience who loves the male and female protagonists scolds the scumbag, and also wins the favor and love of some audiences - only such Su Ye can make people understand why Qiao Jingjing, who fell in love with Qiao Jingjing, who fell in love with him too much in her girlhood, will like him. It also makes some viewers who originally only have a negative impression feel entangled and dilemma about him - want to bump his and the heroine's passing CP and feel teeth, not bumping and itching, it is simply love and hate. There are even a few viewers who directly abandon the characters and plots, and feel sad and regretful about his breakup with the heroine.
A good story is bound to make people want to keep asking "And then what?" A good character will inevitably make people curious about all kinds of things related to him - the audience begins to be more interested in Su Ye, a character with limited description in the original work, and will involuntarily discuss him in depth and study him:
Why does Qiao Jingjing like him? What qualities in his body will make Qiao Jingjing, who is in love with the way, like? His character, his abilities, his hobbies, his family... How did they meet and how did they fall in love? What stories happened in the process of falling in love...
Usually for a role, the screenwriter and director make the skeleton, and the actor uses the appearance temperament to give flesh and blood, and injects the soul with the performance. Su Ye is not, in a sense, due to the overflow of the role, the "fourth wall" existing between the creator and the audience has been opened, resulting in the audience in addition to the screenwriter, director and actor, the audience is also involved in the setting, portrayal and shaping of the character, he is the IP character from the second dimension to the third dimension of the extraordinary situation:
He not only did not lose his imagination space and possibilities because of a specific image, but instead was made up for the lack and blankness of the original book in the discussion of the audience, improved the relevant settings of the characters, triggered more associations, allowed him to expand his living space, increase the length and breadth of life, and gain more vitality.
The following is the analysis of the character of Su Ye by some viewers, so that his people are gradually refined and supplemented in their discussions.
The following are some of the fan works of Su Ye and Qiao Jingjing created by netizens, there are long and short, no matter what the length, su Ye's character has a clearer outline and appearance under their pen, more thoughts, richer emotions and a broader life.
In the second creation video of Station B, Su Ye and Qiao Jingjing have a past that has not been seen in the play, there is sincerity, there are misses, and there are regrets.
Everything has two sides, when the actor performs well enough, the preconditions that cause the character to overflow have achieved the brilliance of the actor, but at the same time, we must see how serious these harsh preconditions are to an actor, and how narrow the performance space left for him is - in the tens of seconds and minutes that belong to the individual performance, it is easy to be turned into the fragmented time of the past by the impatient audience, relying only on a few lines, supplemented by eyes, expressions and body language, not only to set the person firmly and firmly. In turn, it is necessary to add charm and brilliance to the negative roles that lack topicality and have a low sense of existence, so that they firmly attract the attention of the audience, resulting in their great interest in the characters, willing to ask questions, to imagine, to make up for the brain, to be honest, in fact, it is not easy, and it also requires actors to spend a lot of effort to speculate, analyze and deduce.
It is still the same sentence, "there are no small roles, only small actors", even if it is a cameo role in seconds and minutes, it is worthy of being respected and treated with heart.
Mr. Su Yesu, who was co-created by the screenwriter, director, actor and audience, goodbye!
Although you are conceited, arrogant, a little scum, a little pretend, and a little mysterious, there are still many possibilities waiting to be perfected and made up, but in another time and space, I hope that you can also meet the one who makes you happy and makes you worried, makes you respect, makes you cherish, makes you no longer high and makes you willing to give everything.
Green mountains do not change the green water long stream, we will see you in the next article.