Exactly 20 years later, Gu Tianle played Xiang Shaolong again, and the film version of "In Search of Qin" was scheduled to be released in Hong Kong, China on November 18.
Starring in the 2001 TV series "Looking for Qin", Lin Feng, Xuan Xuan, Guo Xianni, Teng Liming, Zheng Xue'er and other original members of the team all returned.
At first hearing this news may make all the friends who have chased this drama happy,
There are three reasons for this:
1. In 2001, "In Search of Qin" was used as a TVB 34th anniversary Taiwan celebration drama, and the script was adapted from the masterpiece of the same name by the famous Hong Kong martial arts novelist Huang Yi.
The novel itself is a masterpiece in the new martial arts novel because of its brain holes, grand narrative, full characters, and ups and downs, and is also considered to be the originator of the historical crossing novel.
2. The TV series "In Search of Qin" not only successfully filmed these essences of the novel, but also gathered Xuanxuan, Teng Liming, Zheng Xueer, Sydney and many TVBS in terms of actors, and the stars held the moon, and the "Bai Gu", which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people because of the TV series "Divine Eagle Man", pushed to a new height in the acting career after the skin color became bronze, so that the audience completely accepted the "Black Gu".
With the drama Gu Tianle won the Best Actor Award at the Ten Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony for the second time.
At the same time, it also supported a new generation of TVB Xiaosheng Lin Feng to take the position.
Guo Xianni, who just joined TVB in 2000 and was originally a flight attendant, participated in the 1999 Miss Hong Kong win, and shined in the first protagonist play.
3. Once the TV series "In Search of Qin" was broadcast, it became a classic of ancient costume crossing themes, scoring 8.5 points, and later the "Palace Lock Heart Jade" and "Step by Step" that were popular all over the country were 10 years later than it, and the score could not be surpassed.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that "In Search of Qin" is the originator of the "crossing drama", and the significance is not insignificant.
So much so that it is revisited every once in a while. In 20 years, some people have repainted it over and over again.
And calm down, we can't help but worry about the movie version of "Looking for Qin",
20 years later, if the film version of "In Search of Qin" wants to be affirmed by the audience, there are 2 difficult problems that it cannot get around:
1. PK of "original screenplay" and "original novel"
As we said above, the drama version of "In Search of Qin" is adapted from the masterpiece of the same name by the famous Hong Kong martial arts novelist Huang Yi.
Who is Huang Yi? Readers who are not in the Greater Bay Area may not be very familiar with it.
Yi Huang graduated from the University of Chinese, Hong Kong. In 1979, at the age of 27, he became the assistant director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and ten years later he resigned from his high salary and began to concentrate on his work in Lantau Island.
In the early 1990s, works such as "Rain and Clouds", "Searching for Qin", and "The Legend of The Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty" were successively released, becoming unique "new martial arts" novel works that swept across Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has been put on the screen by TVB and has also received good word of mouth.
Huang Yi, who is famous as a martial arts novelist, majored in Chinese landscape painting during his studies, so he described a very strong sense of scenes. At the same time, Huang Yi was also obsessed with the study of traditional cultures such as palm phase, astrology, eight characters, guqin, dong zhen, "I Ching", and metaphysics.
Therefore, the martial arts world view of Huang Yi's novels is completely different from the entry perspective of the previous generation of martial arts writers who "save the people from water and fire, and save the building from the will fall", but through fantasy, crossing, and overhead history, these novel ideas that were unique at that time were different from the old style of martial arts, creating the core of "new martial arts".
Therefore, his stories can always scratch the most itchy places of readers and win the hearts of countless readers. It can be said that Huang Yi's novels opened many doors for the creation of contemporary martial arts fantasy novels at that time.
Note, taking "In Search of Qin" written in 1996 as an example, we recall that the concept of so-called "crossing" at that time was still rare, and the domestic film and television drama of this theme I remember only has a movie directed by Cheng Xiaodong, starring Gong Li and Zhang Yimou.
This work is also adapted from the novel "Qin Figurines" by another famous Hong Kong female writer, Li Bihua (representative works: "Farewell to the Overlord" and "Green Snake").
In short, whether reminiscing about the past or looking at the present, the best film and television works are often adapted from mature original novels.
In the case of the original zhuyu of "Looking for Qin", TVB found 5 screenwriters to polish the script at that time, including Liu Caiyun, who had written "The Ambition of the Police", "Streets of Anger", and "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong", and He Qun'e, who had written "Yuan Zhenxia" and "Not a Hong konger in the next life", such a gold-medal screenwriter.
As a result, Xiang Shaolong, played by Gu Tianle, traveled from modern times to the Warring States Era more than 2,000 years ago.
From a Hong Kong G4 agent to the biggest assist to assist YingZheng in ascending the throne.
There is also the most enviable confidants around him, the gentle and talented woman Qinqing played by Guo Xianni.
Xuan Xuan plays Wu Tingfang, who dares to love and dare to hate.
Zheng Xue'er plays the kind and lovely princess Zhao Qian.
And for the two not being able to be together, which still makes the audience feel uneasy, Teng Liming's bold and free kindness...
Not to mention that Lian Jin, played by Jiang Hua, from the "first swordsman" at the beginning to the final transformation into Changxin Hou Yanyi, has always been a cold and vicious appearance, with sharp eyes and meticulous thoughts.
The Yingzheng played by Lin Feng has changed from cowardice to a generation of emperors, and the Ya Lady played by Sydney has a variety of styles...
The love and hatred between them are mixed with sorrow and joy, helplessness, and reluctance in the torrent of history.
And the biggest premise of becoming the originator of the cross-over drama is that the story is quite attractive, and then the actors' performances are outstanding. Therefore, "Searching for Qin", which belongs to the medium production level, has been named a divine work and won numerous awards.
Let's look at the upcoming movie version of "In Search of Qin", whose script is written by the famous screenwriter Zhang Jialu (representative works: the film "The Sound of the Wind", "Finding the Dragon", "Di Renjie" series).
As well as a young female screenwriter He Xin (representative works: "Lao Kasa", "Hidden Dragon Storm"),an original script co-authored.
It can be said that this combination is not bad, but it is not easy to write a story born out of Huang Yi's novel.
According to the plot revealed so far, we can roughly understand -
In Hong Kong in 2030, five outlaws led by Max (the new character) accidentally travel to the Warring States period, which is nineteen years after the end of the TV series "In Search of Qin".
To digress, Pi Ge still remembers that at the end of "Looking for Qin", Xiang Shaolong's son said that he wanted to be a big hero and change his imposing name to Xiang Yu, which scared the old father out of a cold sweat and chased after his son to change his name. I don't know if the movie version of "Looking for Qin" will pick up this meme.
It can be known that five outlaws who crossed over intervened in the Battle of Qin Qi and used their modern combat advantages to defeat the Qin army. Therefore, The King of Qin, Yingzheng, found Xiang Shaolong, who had been in hiding for many years.
He threatened him with the lives of his family members to force him out of the mountain, and Xiang Shaolong, who had no choice but to obey, discovered Max's huge plot - after copying the appearance of The King of Qin, he replaced him.
The safety of his family, the threat of the King of Qin, the crazy plot of the outlaws, what awaits Xiang Shaolong is an adventure that must be won.
It can be seen that as an original script, the story of the film version of "In Search of Qin" deliberately avoids the story of the original novel and retains only the basic characters.
Pig believes that in the existing film and television production environment, even if the funding is not a big problem, it is not easy to make a film and television work comparable to the original "Search for Qin", mainly based on the following reasons:
First, the original author Huang Yi died of illness on April 5, 2017, and it is impossible to write a sequel.
Second, the possibility of today's authors wanting to create such a masterpiece as "In Search of Qin" is too small.
Because the original author, Huang Yi, was extremely knowledgeable and had a fairly in-depth study of art, astronomy, history, metaphysical astrology, and the five elements.
So that in the all-encompassing story of "Searching for Qin", we can gallop in the profound and profound traditional culture, traversing the danxue of magic, the theory of the immortal path, the theory of meridians, poetry and song, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, religious philosophy...
A large number of literary famous sentences came out of Xiang Shaolong's mouth, which won the hearts of beautiful people.
In the final analysis, what really gives the soul to this story is undoubtedly the imagination and deep thinking that allow the imagination to be wild, and to combine history and human feelings together to create a moving world that can justify itself.
This is undoubtedly the biggest challenge for the screenwriter, and the first problem that is difficult to bypass if the film version of "In Search of Qin" is to be affirmed by the audience.
Because of this, in 2018, Wu Qilong served as the artistic director, and his company participated in the production, remake a version of "Looking for Qin", starring Chen Xiang and Guo Xiaoting, but there was basically no other sense of existence except for a wave of scolding, and the Douban score was only 2.3 points.
Because there is no soul!
In addition, the movie version of "In Search of Qin" has a second difficult problem that is difficult to bypass.
Second, "Actors 20 years later" and "20 years ago" PK
In the second year of Huang Yi's death, Gu Tianle's film company tianxia announced the "Search for Qin" film project, in order to retain the original taste of "Looking for Qin", Gu Tianle personally convened the original team to perform, including Xuan Xuan, Lin Feng, Guo Xianni, Teng Liming, Zheng Xue'er, etc., for which everyone also expressed great expectations.
It is true that Gu Tianle performed Xiang Shaolong's emotions in various periods very well, and it can be said that the actors and roles were integrated, which further laid the unshakable status of Gu Tianle in the hearts of the audience;
As a newcomer, Lin Feng was not at all jerky about the interpretation of the role of Yingzheng, and he mastered it with ease, which made the audience clap their hands and applaud, and also laid a solid foundation for his future acting career;
Xuan Xuan even played a love-hate and obsessive Qin Shi woman Wu Tingfang just right, and Jiang Hua's Lian Jin was also full of acting skills, and it can even be said that every role in the play is quite brilliant.
However, Gu Tianle, who played Xiang Shaolong, was only 31 years old, and Xuan Xuan, who played Wu Tingfang, was also 31 years old, which was the peak of his appearance.
Lin Feng, who played the role of Yingzheng, was only 22 years old, and Teng Liming was 25 years old, just when the so-called newborn calf was born.
Now 20 years later, Lin Feng is 42 years old, Teng Liming is 45 years old, and the first two are 51 years old.
Remembering Xuan Xuan and Teng Liming in "Top Gun Master Sister 2021" at the beginning of the year, I can't help but sigh: the years are not spared.
Therefore, although "Looking for Qin" has been very vocal from the beginning of the project, audiences who have watched "Finding Qin" will find that there is one less person in the starring role, that is, Jiang Hua, the actor who starred in the TV drama version of Lian Jin/Yan Yi.
Jiang Hua made it very clear in an interview: I don't understand why I want to remake?
He said that we are all old, and it is good that a TV series can become a classic in everyone's mind, and there is no need to remake it. From the actor's point of view, what is the purpose of playing a role 20 years later and then playing a role 20 years ago?
Therefore, he said that he had no intention of making the same role in twenty years and declined.
For this view, Pigo also sided with Jiang Hua.
Because the classic remake is never an easy thing, changing new people to shoot old stories that everyone knows, we will feel that new people can't play that familiar taste.
But after 20 years, let the old man of the year re-enact this story, it seems that it is not right, the style is not there, there is a feeling that things are not human, even if it is adapted into a new story, it is even more wrong, in other words, how to shoot is wrong.
For example, in the new edition of the 2019 "Dragon Slaughter in the Heavens", Zhou Haimei, who once contributed the most classic version of Zhou Zhiruo, became an extermination master, as if to tell us that even the most beautiful Zhiruo sister will eventually become an extermination master.
For another example, in the new version of "The Legend of the New White Lady" in 2019, Ye Tong, who played Xu Xian in the past, became Xu Xian's mother. At that time, Xiaoqing's actor Chen Meiqi became Xiaoqing's mother-in-law, in addition to not having any feelings to speak of, it also felt like reminding the audience: the actor is old, and you who watched her act at that time, Te Meow is also old.
What's more, Pigo also found that Wu Xuanhui, the director of the film version of "In Search of Qin", is a visual effects director, and as a visual effects director, he has contributed many excellent works such as "Cast Name", "Painted Skin", "October Siege", "Victoria One" and so on.
As a director, there are currently "Looking for Qin", "Tomorrow's War", "Force God Xue Rengui", "Gorilla Monster", "King of Weapons" five are all works starring Gu Tianle, but none of them have been released, "Looking for Qin" will be the first directorial work we have seen him.
Another director, Li Zhenlong, is also a newcomer who has no representative works, and the only film whose name can be found is in 2007 in "The Iron Triangle" starring Gu Tianle.
In other words, both of them are inextricably linked to Gu Tianle before they become directors.
So from the above information, Pi Ge first of all has great support and expectations for the movie version of "Looking for Qin", in short, he still hopes that this movie can succeed.
But based on the lack of support of the original work, it is a story that is a different way, the age of the actors is older and the directors are newcomers, Pigo believes that if these two problems are not solved, the probability of "Looking for Qin" becoming a bad film is far higher than the probability of reshaping the classic.
Now that it's finally unveiled, let's wait and see what will happen in the end!
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Liao Yu
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