In the summer of 2017, a Thai movie about "cheating" came out.
2017 - The Talented Gunner
The film is not created by a famous director, nor is it blessed by superstars.
However, after its widespread release around the world, it caused a lot of discussion.
With a cost of 13 million created a box office miracle of 1.2 billion.
The film will cheat such a small theme, creating a spy war, suspense movie-like atmosphere;
Combined with textbook editing and a nervous BGM, everyone who has experienced the student era can resonate.
Douban has nearly 600,000 evaluations, and the score has remained 8.2 so far, accounting for only 0.3% of one star.
Haven't seen enough?
Don't be afraid, now after three years, it has returned in the form of a suspense drama!
Only this time, it not only has a more exciting high-IQ cheating method, but also has an ambition to expose the injustice of education -
The Talented Gunslinger (Drama Version)
Clever Cheat Game The Series
Also known as "Mock Criminal Life", a total of 12 episodes, each episode is about 50 minutes.
In fact, individuals have not been very optimistic about remakes;
In particular, the remake of classic works is very easy to overturn.
After all, the classics are in front, and the audience is preconceived;
If you want to break the stereotype, in addition to restoring the classic, there must naturally be a place for innovation.
What's more, a 120-minute movie, to be extended into a 12-episode TV series, is easy to be labeled with stereotypes such as "procrastination" and "slow pace".
But after six episodes, I can say for sure: it's still a familiar taste, a familiar recipe, and the drama version doesn't lose the film version at all.
Although the 4 leading actors have changed blood, they have performed a new style;
△ The characters are Xiaolin, Aban, Xiaoba and Grace
At present, the Douban score is 8.6, even surpassing the movie version.
It proves with facts: a good story, no matter how many times you shoot, you can play a new trick.
The film opens with a pinnacle showdown.
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The film version is almost the same, and the heroine Xiaolin is a good student with extraordinary talent and excellent character.
Linda and the previous champion, Song Wei, are in an English vocabulary contest.
After discovering that the other party cheated, he only smiled and said lightly:
"Rest assured, I won't say it!"
Then he crushed his opponents with his super vocabulary reserves, won the game in a low-key manner, and won the favor of the principal of the noble school in Bangkok.
The principal promised Xiaolin's father that Xiaolin would enter her aristocratic high school in the form of a full scholarship.
Aristocratic schools, as the name suggests, are famous schools piled up with money -
There are first-class teaching resources and equipment, even the computers are all Apple's, and Xiaolin's favorite music room.
The students here have everything, money and resources;
Only there are no good grades.
Xiao Lin's father, on the other hand, was just an ordinary teacher in a public school and was not rich.
Soon, Xiaolin met her first friend at school, Grace.
She wanted to join the stage drama club, but her grades were too poor to meet the registration requirements.
Out of the care of her friends, Xiaolin decided to help Grace make up lessons.
Not surprisingly, in order to help Grace improve her grades, Xiaolin began to help her cheat.
But she found that the math paper she had tutored Grace before was actually the original question of the exam.
It turned out that Teacher Su Peng had been using the convenience of his position to collect tuition fees from students by missing questions.
When Teacher Su Peng discovered the "little trick" of the two, Xiao Lin also held the handle of the teacher's leak, and the two confronted each other face to face.
The teacher asked Xiaolin back——
The teacher's implication is: if you have money, you can get the test questions in advance, and you can be one step ahead.
This is the prerogative of the rich;
In addition to teachers, the same is true of schools.
The previously agreed to provide a full scholarship to enroll, but later changed.
There is only one place, and it must be divided equally with others.
This means that Xiaolin needs to bear an additional 30,000 tuition fees.
This is a lot of pressure for an ordinary family.
Under the reminder of Grace's boyfriend Ah Pai, Xiao Lin learned that the school still had the tradition of collecting "sponsorship fees".
Only then did I know that my father had privately paid the school a sponsorship fee of 200,000 baht.
Education, which should equally give children in all family environments, a chance to control their own destiny.
Today, privilege is a game changer.
The teacher's leaks, the principal's lies, the hidden bills...
At this point, Xiaolin gradually blackened and said bluntly:
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On the basis of paying attention to the plot, the character portrayal of the drama version is more delicate and the motivation turn is more reasonable;
For example, at the beginning, Xiaolin proposed a cheating method for the film version: using the piano playing action to prompt the option ABCD.
But the characters in the play question this approach:
Are you sure this solution is simple and operational?
So much trouble is not as good as hanging up...
So the drama version was upgraded, choosing to use clocks to convey the answer.
For an exam of 2 hours, Xiaolin first uses 1 hour to complete all the questions, and then uses the remaining 1 hour to pass on the answers.
The finger of the heroine's right hand moves at which hour, which means that it is the answer.
And each person needs to complete a question independently to avoid the same answer.
Genius is genius, meticulous, watertight.
I have to say that the drama version of "Genius Gunner" only broadcast 6 episodes, but there are as many as five or six cheating methods mentioned;
Every exam scene, the tense BGM and cool editing, are thrilling, and the palms of your hands are sweaty.
Arguably, a big part of the success of "The Talented Gunslinger" lies in:
It's not just a cheat movie, the story setting is very realistic.
In the play, they are not just a group of ordinary campus students;
Their behavior is more like a reflection of Thailand's social structure and education system.
What is justice? What is right and wrong?
Everyone in the rules has their own grievances, and there are no absolute good and bad people in the play.
When the missed teacher was expelled, it was painful to fall, after all, he was just an ordinary father;
Although the heroine Xiaolin earns tuition by cheating to pass on the answers, she also has her own rules.
For example, he did not earn money from his good friend Grace, and gave up his scholarship to Banks, who also came from a poor family.
All in all, the drama version of "Genius Gunner" lived up to expectations.
As for the ending that the director said will be different from the film version, well...
Will it be blackened all the way, or will it be whitewashed like a film version?
Let's wait and see.