Wang Anyi is the screenwriter of "The First Burning Incense", which has been discussed in full swing, and the plot is the first pot.
The first incense line-up
Wang Anyi is a well-received writer and literature professor, who can create and write literary criticism. Many people compare her with Zhang Ailing, because she is in Shanghai, has written in Shanghai, and is also a female writer, as if she is very close to Zhang Ailing, who belongs to the Hai school.
Wang Anyi also specially wrote "Zhang Ailing to Me", which began by saying that "I am not particularly researched on Zhang Ailing", which should be regarded as self-effacing, because from the whole article, she knows Zhang Ailing very well.
At the same time, Wang Anyi also understands herself, and Wang Anyi knows very well that she is very different from Zhang Ailing.
Zhang Ailing is looking at the world coldly, and I am looking at the world with hot eyes.
Zhang Ailing is such a sharp view of her relationship with everything around her, people and background, people and environment, people and people, between gender, between the elder and the young, between the powerful and the weak, the relationship is very tense. I'm not that sharp personality, so life is a little better than hers.
——Wang Anyi, "Zhang Ailing to Me"
Wang Anyi is a writer who writes more gently, unlike Zhang Ailing's world, which is very sharp. Xu Anhua is also a gentle director, and the more gentle scenes are suitable for her. She filmed "The Golden Age", Mr. Lu Xun played a very heavy role, and belonged to the male second in it. Xiao Hong's life has been brilliant, but also displaced, Mr. Lu Xun is her nobleman, for her writing preface, invited her as a guest, these are the scenes presented in "Golden Age", so that this film has a warmer light.
Judging from these elements, Wang Anyi and Xu Dao fit in, and they may be successful in cooperating again, but they are too unsafe to Ailing. Zhang Ailing's words are desolate, and the relationship between the characters is full of tension. Many feelings are not presented with lines, and even the author with God's perspective does not necessarily say it, and the reader needs to guess.
There is no direct confession between Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan in "Love in the Fallen City", and the original book of "Color Ring" requires readers to guess whether they love or not. In Zhang Ailing's famous short story "Love", there is such a passage:
In the midst of thousands of people, in the endless wilderness of time, there is no step earlier, no step later, just caught up, then there is no other word to say, only a soft question: "Oh, are you here too?" "
——Zhang Ailing's novel "Love"
This is Zhang Ailing's expression of feelings, there will be no "I love you" such a hot and direct line, especially Western style. Even if they really love each other, they are tempting each other.
Georgie smiled, "You don't need me to make up lies for you." You will coax yourself. Someday, you'll have to admit what a despicable person I am. At that time, you will also regret that you sacrificed so much for me! In one breath, they will kill me, maybe not! I was simply scared! ”
Wei Long smiled, "I love you, what's the matter with you?" It's weird, and it's not up to you. ”
——The dialogue near the end of the original book of "The First Incense", here is still not a broken road
To some extent, Zhang Ailing will not directly write the character's mourning through lines, but through many scene descriptions to render. "Love in the Fallen City" begins to write that the white tassel has an obscure future, not the white tassel directly crying and whining I am so bitter, what should I do in the future, is the erhu sound of babbling in the building.
Movies are generally more of an art that relies on lines, but it is not necessarily. "Color Ring" has been adapted from the original work, but it still gives people a feeling of highly restoring Zhang Ailing, because it retains the hidden aesthetic of the original. This is exactly the space for Zhang Ailing's novel adaptation: how to indirectly present the inner world of the characters and show the mutual temptations between the characters. The film adaptation of "The First Incense" first completely destroyed everything through the lines, completely destroying this aesthetic.
Love me.
I can't promise to love you, but I can promise you joy.
- A line from the movie "The First Incense"
The second is the various action designs. Wei Long is a person who just stands there and is looked at, and thinks that "she feels that her arm is like hot milk, poured out of the blue pot, the tube can't be controlled, and the whole self is spilled out", will she have a special loud movement? But this is always the kind of action in the movies.
Why would my aunt pinch Veron's chin? In the original book, the aunt only touched her chin
When the film came out of the casting news, Ma Sichun and Peng Yuyan were said to be more suitable for playing "Camel Xiangzi", not "The First Burning Incense". Perhaps because this film is not so Zhang Ailing in terms of aesthetic pursuit and understanding, or even completely opposite.
It's not that novels can't be adapted, but they can't fuse the opposite.