In the domestic film and television circle, remaking classics is a trend that will never go out of style, and IP adaptation TV series since the new century are also emerging in an endless stream.
Classic film and television dramas and literary IP that have a certain popularity and fan base, remake and adaptation of them are naturally easy to attract attention and discussion.
For example, Zhang Yishan's version of "Deer DingJi", which is currently being broadcast, has been ridiculed by the group because of the actor's performance and improper deletion of the plot.
However, when this work was filmed, everyone's attitude towards it was still positive, and some film and television dramas, from the day the official lineup was announced, were spit on miserably.
Just like the new version of "Half Life", which has now been renamed "The Origin of Love", it has received various negative evaluations.
In fact, if you don't see the news to be broadcast, Xiaobian will soon forget this TV series that has been finished for more than two years, but for those dissatisfied complaints and criticisms, it is still difficult to forget to be honest.
"Half Life" is a very popular novel by Zhang Ailing, a famous female writer in the Republic of China, and this book is easy to be accepted by the public in terms of theme, wording and writing style.
Therefore, the readership base of the novel should not be underestimated.
The heroine of the novel is a pair of sisters, named Gu Manlu and Gu Manzhen, and the sister Manlu chooses to marry Zhu Hongcai, who already has a wife and a child in the countryside, in order to maintain the family's size.
His younger sister Man Zhen came together with shen shijun, the son of a rich family, but the family wanted him to marry his cousin Shi Cuizhi, who was the right cousin.
When Shi Jun returned home, Man Lu's husband Zhu Hongcai defiled Man Zhen and then imprisoned her, all of which was carried out under Man Lu's acquiescence and even guidance.
In the end, Man Lu died of illness, Man Zhen married Zhu Hongcai, and Shi Jun also obeyed the family's wishes and married his cousin.
Many years later, the two met again, but their situation was very different, and they could only end this inseparable love with a sentence of "we can't go back".
In 1997, "Half Life" was first adapted to the big screen, and the film followed the title of the novel, directed by Xu Anhua, Mei Yanfang as Gu Manlu, Wu Qianlian as Gu Manzhen, Li Ming as Shen Shijun, and Ge You as Zhu Hongcai.
Speaking of director Xu Anhua, she and Zhang Ailing are also very fateful, from "Love in the City" to "Half-Life" to the "First Burning Incense" that has been making a lot of noise in the past two years, and it is estimated that the less scolded is this "Half-Life".
In 2003, the TV drama version of "Half Life" was launched, which was played by Jiang Qinqin as Gu Manlu, Lin Xinru as Gu Manzhen, Tan Yaowen as Shen Shijun, and Li Liqun as Zhu Hongcai.
The 2020 (according to the release year) version of "Half Life" is played by Liu Jialing as Gu Manlu, Jiang Xin as Gu Manzhen, Zheng Yuanchang as Shen Shijun, and Guo Xiaodong as Zhu Hongcai.
And netizens, after seeing the 2020 version of this lineup, began to spit out uncontrollably.
The first thing to be dissed is the appearance of the actors.
The original description of Gu Manzhen's appearance is "She is a round face, the circle sees the square - not the square, just the outline is it, the fluffy hair, very casually draped on the shoulders."
If according to this standard, among the three actors of Man Zhen, Wu Qianlian is the most inappropriate, after all, she has nothing to do with the round face.
Lin Xinru is very much in line with this standard, looking like a round face, and at the same time has a certain outline of the jaw angle.
Jiang Xin's words are not much different from the original description, the face shape is round, and it is not the baby face.
The problem is in the body.
Anyone who has seen the novel, or who has seen the 97 film version and the 2002 drama version, knows that the climax of the whole story falls on the scene where Man Zhen is defiled by Zhu Hongcai.
This is not to say how big the scale is, but the various resistances of Man Zhen when he is humiliated and the despair of having nowhere to escape and no one to save, this paragraph is really a childhood shadow series.
Therefore, under the background of this plot, everyone will naturally use words such as weakness and thinness to describe Man Zhen.
Wu Qianlian and Lin Xinru are very much in line with this requirement in terms of body.
And Jiang Xin, is a well-known "plump" beauty in the show business circle, she is not only rounded, the skeleton is also relatively large, before in the TV series "Ode to Joy" there was an embarrassing scene of holding the clothes to deformation.
Judging from the exposed Reuters, her figure is indeed difficult to associate with the weak Man Zhen.
Most netizens complain about this reason, and even toxic tongue netizens ask "Guo Xiaodong can beat Jiang Xin", which is really vicious and funny.
Some netizens have "creatively" suggested that the title of the play be changed to "half-life circle", and I have to say that these people are really trying to complain.
In the eyes of many viewers, Guo Xiaodong is the literary and artistic male protagonist in the film directed by Lou Ye, whose appearance is biased and Sven, and his figure is not strong.
This time, not only did he turn into a demon who mutilated the women of the good family, but he also staged various forced dramas with Jiang Xin, who looked much fatter than him, so that netizens could not help but worry about his body bones.
There are even comments that Zhu Hongcai is so handsome, simply from him. If you don't know the evil deeds of the characters, the editor may also agree.
And Liu Jialing, who has been away from the TV circle for many years, has had a complete impact on netizens by participating in the role of Gu Manlu this time, and Jialing's sister has also been ridiculed as a triad sister flower on the beach with Jiang Xin.
In the original work, There is no direct description of Man Lu's appearance, only mentioning that the photos of her when she was a teenager resembled her sister Man Zhen.
Therefore, the two sisters of Man Lu and Man Zhen should have similar looks, I don't know if it is because of the same Qiong Yao girl, Jiang Qinqin and Lin Xinru are really somewhat similar.
Of course, the most similar is Still Mei Yanfang and Wu Qianlian, who play sisters very convincingly.
And the looks of Liu Jialing and Jiang Xin can't find any similarities at all.
Jiang Xin's facial features to face shape are relatively small, while Liu Jialing's facial features and bones are very prominent, and the entire silhouette is also very tough.
Of course, the most prominent feature of Gu Manlu's role is the poignant feeling of "zero rain and pingping in the world", but this is difficult for us to feel from Liu Jialing.
As netizens said, how could the domineering Liu Jialing be a slave of fate!
Although acting skills can make up for the lack of appearance, this situation where actors and character images are far apart still makes most viewers accept incompetence.
The other thing that was most complained about was the age of the main actor, coincidentally, or these two sisters bore everything.
When playing Gu Manzhen, Lin Xinru was 26 years old, Wu Qianlian was 30 years old, and Jiang Xin was 34 years old.
Mei Yanfang played Gu Manlu at the age of 34, Jiang Qinqin starred at the age of 27, and Liu Jialing was 52 years old when she played!
Compared with the previous starring role, Jiang Xin is older, and Liu Jialing is directly separated by a generation, and even the age difference between her and Jiang Xin is very far-fetched.
Although Jiang Xin herself is also a relatively mature look, their "sense of generation separation" is because one became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, while the other was popular in 2011 in "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
Of course, this is all small things.
After all, Guo Xiaodong, the zhu Hongcai who tortured the Gu sisters to death and came back to life, was nearly ten years younger than Jia Ling's sister.
Although it is said that the age of women should not be discussed, but imagine That Gu Manlu, who is more than half a hundred years old, is it reasonable to become a dancer in order to live? Will there be a market for this?
From the trailer released by the film, it is difficult for everyone to feel the sadness of fate, nor can they appreciate the emotional entanglement between the protagonists, but they are snatched away by the lights and greenery of the Shanghai Dance Hall.
If this version should focus on portraying Manlu's career as a dancer, and focus on her struggle history left and right in the wind and dust, it cannot be related to the original characters who only have ordinary two-story houses.
Especially this time is Liu Jialing's absence from the television circle for many years, the first time to take over the TV series, the script to work harder on the role of Man Lu is also normal.
However, the first two versions also received a lot of criticism when they were broadcast.
The drama version of the line lost the essence, Lin Xinru's jerky acting skills, Wu Qianlian's excessively cold temperament...
However, Mei Yanfang and Jiang Qinqin, who play Manlu, have received almost all positive and positive evaluations, so as a heroine in the new version, Liu Jialing faces far greater challenges than others.
As I said earlier, there are more and more platforms for audiences and netizens to express their ideas, and the speed of feedback is getting faster and faster, and the saliva on the Internet can "drown" people at any time.
In fact, in recent years, the remake of classics and adaptations of literary IP film and television dramas are not satisfactory in terms of quality and standards, before the plot of the illogical 2018 version of "Smiling Proud of the River", the 2019 version of the super soft light filter "The Legend of the New White Lady", the existing "man playing monkey" 2020 version of "Deer Dingji".
Among them, the main creators who were ridiculed began to doubt their lives were the film "The First Burning Incense" directed by Xu Anhua.
Xu Anhua's introduction of Zhang Ailing's work to the screen has made many Zhang fans unhappy, and the film's casting has attracted countless criticisms and attacks.
The collocation of Ma Sichun and Peng Yuyan was dissed to shoot the "first furnace steel", and the casting news of the starring role alone was on several hot searches, and it was also violently ridiculed for nearly two years.
Many times, the appearance with a super high degree of coincidence with the role can make up for the lack of acting skills, and likewise, the actor's hardware that is far from the character description cannot be saved by acting.
Therefore, although Liu Jialing, who has multiple film awards, is also inevitably a fierce controversy.
In any case, the TV series has been filmed, and it is very unfortunate to be pressed into the bottom of the box for two years, xiaobian is still willing to keep looking forward to it, hoping that the finished product can surprise everyone.
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