From the beginning of the exposure of the "First Burning Incense" lineup, "Ma Sichun starred as Ge Weilong" was questioned, and since its release on October 22, "First Burning Incense" has a poor reputation, the box office is less than 40 million, but also because of the casting and other issues encountered large-scale complaints from the audience and appeared on the hot search many times, the name of "First Furnace Steel" did not go away, and even some viewers were curious to buy tickets because of too many bad reviews... On the morning of the 28th, director Xu Anhua expressed his apology to Ma Sichun in an interview and appeared on the hot search. However, netizens did not buy it, and said, "If the casting was appropriate at that time, where do you need to apologize?" ”
Director Xu Anhua is the world's first female director of the Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, screenwriter Wang Anyi won the Contradiction Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award, the director of photography is Du Kefeng, who has won 39 international awards, the music director Ryuichi Sakamoto has won the Oscar for best original score, and the costume director Wada Emi has also won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design... At the beginning of the preparation of the film, "The First Incense" was highly anticipated, but the choice of actors was also controversial from the beginning.
Of all the named characters in the movie, many netizens said that they were only impressed by Mrs. Liang, The Aunt of Ge Weilong, played by Yu Feihong, and Situ Xie, played by Fan Wei, while the male protagonist Qiao Qiqiao, played by Peng Yuyan, was a pale,weak and weak "flower heart young master" who ate soft rice, while Peng Yuyan's healthy wheat-colored skin and muscular body were particularly dramatic.
And Ge Weilong, the big heroine played by Ma Sichun, is a little too "stout" in appearance, too thick when playing a student, and the social flowers played in the later stage are not enough style. In the film publicity period, "give love and can not have a commemorative day", "do everything, love a person", "it is better that you let me go, I also let you go", "just accompanied you to play a scene as deep as the sea, it should be scattered" and other spiritual chicken soup propaganda, but also far from the core expression of the original work, Ma Sichun is even more because of zhang Ailing's interpretation of youth pain literature, by many netizens complained, more deeply after the release of the audience's dissatisfaction and doubts.
"Peng Yuyan looks like he can pull 5 tons of coal, and after pulling, he can go to the gym to give me a personal training class." It feels like the two of them are not flirting, but Peng Yuyan is talking to Ma Sichun about the personal training arrangement plan, if you want to lose fat, do ten squats today, less intake of carbs" "Camel Xiangzi" of "The First Furnace Steel", Peng Yuyan plays Xiangzi, Ma Sichun plays Tiger Girl, the casting is appropriate, the male actors and actresses are very strong" "Today's happiness is given by "The First Furnace Steel"... Some netizens even said that "watching movie reviews is more interesting than movies.".
It is worth mentioning that "The First Burning Incense" is not the first time that director Xu Anhua has adapted Zhang Ailing's works, before which she directed the film versions of "Love in the City" in 1984 and "Half Life" in 1997, both of which were cold at the box office and mediocre in word of mouth, and the third adaptation experienced a "cliff-like" decline in word-of-mouth.
From the box office and word of mouth, "The First Burning Incense" is undoubtedly a failure, but the luxurious production team is not a shoddy "bad film", and many fans of Zhang Ailing and some film critics also believe that Xu Anhua's adaptation this time basically restores the original work, many bridge scene settings, dialogue and even complete reproduction of the original work, but also supplemented some blank paragraphs of the original work, making the story more complete, and it is more friendly for audiences who have not seen the original work.
Xu Anhua's obsession with Zhang Ailing is admirable, because of the success of films such as "Woman, Forty", "Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai", "Sister Tao", at least the film critics and most of the film audience, are full of tolerance for this 74-year-old female director who has dedicated her life to the film, and how tolerant the director is, how cruel the spit on the actors.
Xu Anhua also expressed his apologies to Ma Sichun: "I don't care about myself, but this time it made Ma Sichun miserable, she was scolded for two years, you know? In those days in the group she could barely sleep. ”
And netizens are not soft when spitting on the actors of "The First Furnace of Incense", but in fact, everyone understands in their hearts that this "first furnace steel" is not only the actor's pot.
Upstream journalist Tang Hao