Recently, Peng Yuyan, Ma Sichun starring in the love film "The First Burning Incense" caused a hot discussion, not only netizens do not hesitate to say all kinds of sarcastic words, even the screenwriter of "The First Burning Incense" Wang Anyi also joined the spit army, in a recent interview, Wang Anyi talked about director Xu Anhua's understanding of the script, Xu Anhua once said: "I just want to make a love film, I have reached this age, I have never loved well, you want me to love once", it is really too willful for "love".
Wang Anyi (right) and Hui Anhua (left) in Hong Kong
It is said that how big the hope is, how big the disappointment is, the production team of "The First Burning Incense" is luxurious, the story content is adapted from Zhang Ailing's novel of the same name, the actors are Peng Yuyan, Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, Fan Wei, the soundtrack, photography, screenwriter, director, costume director, etc. are the most top configuration in China, most of them have won domestic and foreign awards, but such a lineup can not bring "The First Burning Incense".
The first day of the release was only more than 5 million, and in the next four days the box office went all the way down, and in a few days it is estimated that the daily box office will be compressed to less than one million.
Looking at the Douban score, the opening score on the first day of the release was only 5.9 points, and then it dropped all the way to today's 5.6, seeing the spit under the Douban, this score is estimated to have room to fall.
As a commercial film, the box office is the only criterion for testing its success, even if the reputation is poor, as long as the box office is high, then it is successful. At the beginning, Xu Anhua had promised to make a big production, and then make a lot of money through it, "The First Burning Incense" was indeed a big production, but the result backfired, and it was a loud "slap" by word of mouth and box office.
If the requirements for the script are too willful, then director Xu Anhua is even more wrong in casting, which is also the original sin of the film's failure. As early as September 2020, when Xu Anhua was interviewed by the media, he praised Ma Sichun and Peng Yuyan, believing that they were the best male and female actors in "First Burning Incense".
However, the contradiction after the release of the film is highlighted in these two major protagonists, especially Ma Sichun, the film's costumes and shapes have successfully avoided the advantages of Ma Sichun, infinitely magnified the shortcomings of her body, and are incompatible with the description in the original work, there is no "Ge Weilong" on the body of half pure, personality, small family jasper, but the "desire" when the late "Ge Weilong" sinks is vividly displayed.
Screenwriter Wang Anyi recalled the adaptation process of the script, she said that she could not see love, the whole story repeatedly told the exchange of various interests, full of tests of human nature, so the characters in the play are all bad people, but director Xu Anhua responded: "It doesn't matter, bad is bad."
The script adaptation of "The First Burning Incense" is one-on-one, the screenwriter Wang Anyi has not contacted any actors in the adaptation process, completely obeying the needs of the director, the whole film is completely completed under the guidance of the director, from the script adaptation to the casting, Xu Anhua is completely hands-on, it can be said that he paid his last efforts, but it is a pity that he is too willful, too obsessed with Zhang Ailing's work, and finally let himself fall off the altar of the big director, and the late festival is not guaranteed.