Recently, the launch of the new version of "Tianlong Babu" has caused a lot of controversy.
Due to improper casting, chaotic plot, poor production and other issues, the drama's current Douban score has dropped to 3.3 points.
Among them, Duan Yu saw the plot of Wang Yuyan's incontinence and was definitely eligible to be shortlisted for this year's domestic drama car accident scene.
Without any suspense, the show has become the worst-rated of all the current versions.
Classic pearls in front, the remake will inevitably face comparison, but like the 2021 version of "Tianlong", it is indeed rare to have no highlights in all aspects, so the drama is juxtaposed with the 2018 version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and the 2020 version of "Deer Ding":
The three worst works in the mainland version of Jin Yong's drama.
Of course, in the future, it may be increased to four works, after all, the new version of "Condor Heroes" has not yet been broadcast.
Regarding the controversy of the new version of "Tianlong Babu", Fan Yingjun has written before, and we will talk about something else in this issue.
The remake of Jin Yong dramas will have a wave every few years, some adapted into classics, and naturally there are also cases of failure.
Before the 2021 edition of "Tianlong Babu", there are not a few cases of adapting the street, such as:
In zhong Hanliang's 2013 edition of "Tianlong Babu", the Douban score was only 4.5 points.
Among all the remakes, the most bizarre version of the plot is the 1990 Taiwanese version of "Tianlong Babu".
On the plot magic change, I am afraid that all the later versions of film and television dramas, plus one piece are beyond reach.
At that time, Taiwan's screenwriters made great changes to the original work, the play Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu directly merged into one person, Wang Yuyan and Menggu were thus integrated, the screenwriter added a lot of original plots, all kinds of strange and chaotic elements flew in the sky, directly from martial arts to Xian Xia drama.
The Douban score of this version of "Tianlong" is only 4.7 points, and it is estimated that there are not many people who have seen this score, otherwise the rating will only be lower. But for the fans personally, I was impressed by this version of "Tianlong", because it was the first version I had seen.
In this issue of "Forgotten Domestic Drama", let's introduce the magic transformation god work in this Jin Yong drama -
Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon
The series was produced by China Television and aired at the end of 1990.
The producer is Zhou You, the gold medal producer of Taiwan's martial arts drama industry, and she and Yang Peipei almost contracted half of taiwan's ancient costume martial arts dramas in the 1980s and 1990s. Zhou You has participated in the production of many classic Taiwan dramas, such as: "A Generation of Empress Wu Zetian", the 1991 version of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", "Huaiyu Princess", the 1984 version of "Divine Eagle Hero" and so on.
For domestic audiences, the most familiar is the 1991 version of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", which went to the mainland to shoot in the snowy mountains that year, changing the shortcomings of the rough set art of Taiwanese martial arts dramas at that time. Unfortunately, although this drama cost a lot of money, it suffered ratings At the time, it suffered ratings Waterloo, which caused Zhou You to be discouraged and gave up the Jin Yong drama adaptation.
Before the 1990 version of "Tianlong", Hong Kong had launched a number of versions of film and television dramas, of which the more classic was the drama version produced by TVB in 1982, which was divided into two parts: the first part was "Six Pulse Excalibur", and the next part was "Legend of the False Bamboo", which was a classic version in the memory of many people, and its influence was no less than that of the 97 version that came later.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Taiwan's remake of Jin Yong's martial arts dramas had two significant features:
The first is to change the original magic, but also to greatly expand the love drama, which can basically be classified as a romance martial arts drama;
The second is to love to use Hong Kong stars with big heroines, and there is often a situation where one person is decorated with multiple angles.
The 90th edition of "Tianlong Babu" is no exception, and all aspects can reflect the style and interest of Taiwanese martial arts dramas of that year.
As is customary, let's start with casting.
The actor Qiao Feng is played by Hong Kong martial arts star Hui Tianci and Hui Yinghong's brother. Hui Tianci himself has a kung fu background, has played many martial arts film male protagonists, and more importantly, he has played the role of Qiao Feng.
As early as 1982, Hui Tianci had acted in the Shaw film "Gang Rules" based on the novel "Tianlong Babu", the story of this film was born from Jin Yong's original work, and the plot was highly restored, but the name of the character in the film was completely changed, the era background was moved to the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the protagonist played by Hui Tianci in the film was actually Qiao Feng, the gang leader.
Movie "Gang Rules"
The most innovative part of the 90th edition of "Tianlong Babu" is that the screenwriter combines the characters of the middle of the original work with the role of The False Bamboo.
Duan Yu is played by Guan Lijie, a hong Kong-made martial arts actor who is often present in the drama, guan Lijie was 28 years old at the time, but his appearance and temperament are still in line with the feeling given by Duan Yu in the middle of the original work, especially the image of a silly nerd who is benevolent to a little pedantic at the beginning of the episode is quite vivid.
The first heroine of "Tianlong" is naturally Wang Yuyan, but since Duan Yu and Virtual Bamboo are combined, the screenwriter has made a big stroke of the pen, so that Wang Yuyan and The official matching Menggu (Princess of Xixia) of Virtual Bamboo have become the same person, and Menggu, as Li Qiushui's granddaughter, has set a very similar appearance in the play, so Wang Yuyan, Menggu and Li Qiushui in the play are uniformly played by actress Song Gangling.
It is said that at that time, the producer Zhou You originally planned to find Pan Yingzi, because she was the most popular costume drama actress in Taiwan at that time, but Pan Yingzi's schedule was too full, and finally Zhou You selected the actress Song Gangling, who had starred in the costume drama "Wang Zhaojun", and after filming this drama, she gradually faded out of the show business circle.
Like Wang Yuyan, Qiao Feng's official match Aju and Ah Zi as sisters, of course, must also be played by one person in two roles, played by Zhang Yongyong, a red flower dan of China Television, and the actress who played Zhong Ling is Ge Weiru, who later became popular across the taiwan strait and three places with "Family with a Fairy Wife".
From today's point of view, this drama can definitely be said to be a star-studded gathering.
However, this version of "Tianlong Babu" was not smooth in the filming process that year, because the actor Hui Tianci suffered a car accident, resulting in a shooting cycle of up to half a year, and the ratings after the broadcast were even less ideal, and they were also criticized by the audience for changing the plot.
The beginning of this drama is bigger than the 2021 version: Qiao Feng was ordered to assassinate the Liao state coach Yelü Moge, and as a result, on the way back, he actually met Li Qiushui and Tianshan Tong Yao who were fighting in Western Xia.
In the original work, this part of Tianshan Tong yao has a certain mysterious color because it was originally ghostwritten by Ni Kuang, and the Taiwanese screenwriter has played a brain hole and added more xianxia mysterious elements on the basis of the original work.
Li Qiushui originally wanted to lure and capture the legendary divine beast "Jade Qilin" with the sound of the piano on the night of the full moon, but instead bumped into the poison raised by the heavenly child, "Mang Mu Zhu Clam". The two sisters, who are almost two hundred years old, are also lovers who have hated love and entanglement for many years, so they fight as soon as they meet.
Tianshan Tong Yao did not talk about martial arts, and secretly attacked Li Qiushui with poison, but Qiao Feng, who was passing by, intervened to prevent the fight between the two.
As a result, Tianshan Tong Yao held a grudge in her heart and took revenge on the Gang, causing the old gang leader Wang Jiantong to be injured by Mang Mu Zhu Clam. The only way to dissolve the poisonous wounds was to find the legendary Divine Beast Jade Qilin . Coincidentally, the Jade Qilin was in the Duan family of Dali Guo, so Qiao Feng set out for duan wangfu.
On the way to Dali, Qiao Feng snatched a horse by the way, and the owner of the horse was Murong Gusu's courtier Sangqi, and Qiao Feng also met Murong's maid Aju, who also came to Dali to look for Jade Qilin.
At the same time, the people of Mantuo Mountain Villa also came to Dali in order to get Duan Zhengchun's wife's sword Bai Feng's hair, because the hostess of Mantuo Mountain Villa was Duan Zhengchun's old lover Li Qingluo, who wanted to kill Dao Bai Feng through the "tie little man" method because of her love and hatred.
Not only that, Li Qingluo also sent someone to rob Duan Yu, fortunately, Qiao Feng, who had seen the uneven road, intervened, so he met Duan Yu.
Later, the Tubo master Kumo Zhi came to Dali Tianlong Temple to challenge, and Qiao Feng just happened to be present again, and once again defeated Hatsuma Zhi.
Then, Qiao Feng learned that Princess Bai Feng had been hit by witchcraft, so he ordered the disciples to search for clues, and finally found the Mantuo Mountain Villa, Duan Zhengchun came to the door, and finally broke Li Qingluo's witchcraft.
Dao Baifeng was grateful for Qiao Feng's righteous hand, so he took the initiative to tell him the clue of Jade Qilin and Qiao Feng successfully found Jade Qilin with the help of Arjun and got the antidote.
On the other hand, the rebellious young duan Yu ran away from home, and as a result, on the way, he accidentally bumped into Quan Guanqing, the "first rhythm master of the Cai Gang", and conspired with a mysterious person who wanted to use gunpowder to plot Against Qiao Feng, and this mysterious person was Murong Fu.
Duan Yu, who was eavesdropping on the sidelines, was discovered, and Quan Guanqing ordered his men to directly knock Duan Yu unconscious and leave him in the nearby river.
And this scene happened to be heard by a disciple of the beggar gang passing nearby, this beggar disciple risked death to pass the news, and just happened to meet Arjun before dying, so Arjun disregarded the danger to inform Qiao Feng, and finally Qiao Feng was saved, but Arjun was seriously injured.
Duan Yu with the aura of the protagonist of course can not die, the nearby river channel is actually connected to the underground river of the Immeasurable Mountain, Duan Yu actually drifted along the current into Lang Huan Fudi, so he met the "Immortal Sister", and the story was pulled back to the original main line here.
It's just that the "Immortal Sister" that Duan Yu saw was not a statue, but Li Qiushui was frozen due to practicing, resulting in himself being frozen.
The awakened Li Qiushui found that Duan Yu was a martial arts wizard that was unique among all, especially a good seedling for practicing the Northern Meditation Divine Gong of the Qiaoyao Sect, so Duan Yu learned the art from his teacher and learned the Northern Meditation Divine Gong and Ling Bo Microstep.
The above is just the plot of the first episode, it can be said that -
Except for some of the character relationships in the original book, the plot is completely the original of the screenwriter.
After Duan Yu learned to become a Northern Meditation God Gong, the screenwriter pulled the story back to the original work, Duan Yu became acquainted with Zhong Ling and Mu Wanqing, and met the first female protagonist Wang Yuyan.
In other versions of film and television dramas, Wang Yuyan is more like a fairy-type vase, although she is proficient in various martial arts in the world, but in fact, it is also to please her cousin Murong Fu. In this play, the image of Wang Yuyan is actually much higher than the original work.
In addition to beauty and the encyclopedia of human brain martial arts, the personality is also very assertive, smart and understanding, and even uses the empty city to deceive Hatsuma Zhi, just like Huang Rong's personality in "Shooting Eagle".
According to the design of the big heroine of Taiwanese martial arts drama at that time, the heroine was crazy and added drama to normal operation, so the screenwriter subversively added a persona for Wang Yuyan to fascinate all sentient beings, and the admirer was more than Duan Yu.
For example, Hatsuma Zhi, who was drunk in the original work, became an old idiot in this drama.
In this play, Jiu Mozhi first came to murong Fu to kick the pavilion, but was given a point by Wang Yuyan to break his martial arts, and Since then, Jiu Mozhi has licked Wang Yuyan's avatar, so he and Murong Fu reached a deal to challenge and win the six-veined excalibur at the Duan Tianlong Temple in Dali, in order to obtain Wang Yuyan from Murong Fu's hand.
This is not enough, the later plot also has the plot of Hatsuma Zhi using the Ecstasy Dafa to control Wang Yuyan's mind in a vain attempt to dominate her.
Of course, the screenwriter's arrangement is mainly to let the male protagonist Duan Yu achieve the main task of the hero saving the United States.
In addition to Hatsuma Zhi, Wang Yuyan also has the second licking dog, and the role of soy sauce in the original book is extraordinary.
This plot is even more outrageous, suspecting that the screenwriter copied the passage of the Valley of Absolute Love in Jin Yong's "Divine Eagle Hero", zhuo fan in the original work is a soy sauce character who was hung by a false bamboo, and became an old idiot in this play, claiming that he had seen the "Divine Eagle Hero" Little Dragon Girl when he was young, and since then he has been unforgettable for her beauty.
So under the introduction of Tianshan Tongmao, he set his eyes on Wang Yuyan, who was not inferior to the little dragon girl. What's even more outrageous is that Zhuo Bufan is also a master of witchcraft, suspected of being proficient in Maoshan Technique, and can use spells to control Wang Yuyan, and use this to make Wang Yuyan and Chao himself worship the church.
The screenwriter's brain is desperate, but the problem is that the era background of "Tianlong" is the Northern Song Dynasty, and "Divine Eagle" takes place in the last year of the Southern Song Dynasty.
So is Zhuo Extraordinary a crosser?
And the plot of Duan Yu's side, because it is merged with the story of the virtual bamboo, the whole has completely become a fantasy fairy drama.
First of all, Duan Yu accidentally met a crazy mother-in-law who recognized her son everywhere, and the kind-hearted Duan Yu touched the other party, but the unchanged rules in martial arts films, the protagonist must have an adventure when he goes out, and the crazy mother-in-law is actually the descendant of the most mysterious sect "Heavenly Outer Palace" on the jianghu.
Because he saw that Duan Yu was pure in nature and decided to pass on the mantle to him, Duan Yu learned the magical "Dream Taming Technique", gained the superpower that could communicate with people in dreams, and could see Wang Yuyan in his heart in dreams.
Yes, you read that right, that's how the script was written.
When Ji Mozhi used the Ecstasy Dafa to control Wang Yuyan's sanity, Duan Yu successfully restored Wang Yuyan's sanity by entering Wang Yuyan's dream.
The martial arts version of "Inception", just ask this brain hole is not convinced?
As a result, Due to duan yu's lack of skill, he forcibly entered a dream to awaken Wang Yuyan, resulting in his own being eaten, and Duan Yu lost his memory.
Murong Fu, the biggest villain of the play, wants to secretly get rid of Duan Yu, but Duan Yu has the aura of a protagonist after all, and is accidentally saved by the Shaolin abbot Xuan Ci. Duan Yu, who had lost his memory, was taken in in Shaolin and became a monk on the spot, and since then he has had a legal name: Virtual Bamboo.
After visiting Shaolin, Duan Yu's identity jumped repeatedly in the two identities of Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu in the subsequent plot. Even in the same episode, The front foot entered Shaolin as a virtual bamboo to ask for punishment, and not long after, he was pulled to the Western Xia to choose a horse as Dali Shizi.
As Li Qiushui's granddaughter, Wang Yuyan was taken to the Western Xia Imperial Palace and crowned as a Princess of Western Xia.
Compared with the line of Duan Yu, the main plot of another protagonist, Qiao Feng, has basically been retained.
However, because there are too many original plots, the story is full of loopholes, and many characters are a bit whitewashed compared to the original.
Ah Zi's debut is still the evil of the original work, and the more he goes to the back, the more he looks like he is just brutal and willful. And this version of You Tanzhi is more assertive than the original work, and in the second half of the story, he reconciles with Qiao Feng, becomes a good friend of the protagonists, and has been in front of the gang leader.
The bigger character change is Murong Fu in this drama, as the number one villain in the whole play, it is simply a churning stick, so that watching this version of "Tianlong Babu", there is often a feeling that "any bad thing in the world cannot be related to Murong Fu".
From the beginning of his appearance, this version of Murong Fu has been constantly planning bad things and framing good people, such as: masked killing people to marry Qiao Feng, and then secretly colluding with Quan Guanqing and Kang Min to expose Qiao Feng's identity as a Liao.
The point is that Murong Fu's motivation for framing Qiao Feng was because he admired Qiao Feng and wanted to win over the other party, so he had to make the other party discredited, so he framed him and left him alone, so that he could easily join forces with Qiao Feng to restore the country.
The most subversive adaptation is the tragedy of Murong Fu's identity.
In this play, the identities of Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu are combined into one, and Duan Yu, as the protagonist, gets those adventures of Xuan Zhu, and the tragic life of Xuan Zhu falls on Murong Fu as a villain.
In the original work, The Virtual Bamboo is the illegitimate son of the Shaolin abbot and Ye Erniang, and in this drama, it also leads to a tanuki cat for prince incident:
In retaliation, Xiao Yuanshan transferred Murong Bo's newborn baby with Ye Erniang's illegitimate son, resulting in a monk who was supposed to grow up in the Shaolin Temple, and when he grew up, he became Murong Fu.
Therefore, Murong Fu, who had aspired to revive the Yan kingdom since childhood, was actually not a member of the Murong family at all.
Although he did a lot of bad things, he was completely blind, because his life was a complete tragedy.
In general, this version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" is the most magical version of the film and television drama that I have ever seen, and many people think that this is a thunderous adaptation, even if the new version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" thirty years later, compared with this drama, can only bow to the wind.
According to the Taiwan media interview with the producer Zhou You that year, he once asked the screenwriter why he was so magical.
Zhou You himself has responded, claiming that it is the suggestion of screenwriter Liang Liren:
He thought that if he took the screenwriting fee, he would be very careless if he only copied the original work.
From this point of view, looking at this version of "Tianlong Babu", I feel that this drama can be said to be very ambitious, and the creator intends to subvert the classic. If the production team removed the name "Tianlong Babu" at that time, it was directly labeled as original.
It is estimated that it is likely to become an alternative classic in a martial arts drama!