After the release of "The First Burning Incense", it was ridiculed by the audience, the male and female protagonists were madly complained by netizens, and director Xu Anhua expressed guilt for Ma Sichun, saying that "she was scolded for two years, and she could hardly sleep in those days in the group." ”
But most netizens think that it should be sorry for the audience, director Xu Anhua seems to have lost his previous spirituality, the whole film is full of mediocrity and tedium, and the casting mistakes make it difficult for the character image to be brought in, such as Ma Sichun Fa Fu obvious, and Peng Yuyan, the male protagonist he plays, Qiao Qiqiao, is a flower heart young master who eats soft rice, but Peng Yuyan is indeed healthy wheat-colored skin, as well as a body of muscles, which are too big to be different from the original work. The fit between the actor and the role is too low, and the audience really can't enter the play.
Netizens even said that "Yu Feihong, Liang Luoshi, Bai Bing" and other female partners casually pulled one out is better than Ma Sichun's high appearance and high stature. Many viewers even joked that the aunt in the original book really had to be the same as Yu Feihong, where she still needed a niece like Ma Sichun to seduce men.
What about "The First Incense"? As a literary and artistic film, it only emphasizes the extended significance of literary and artistic films. Maybe it has something to do with Zhang Ailing's novel being too abstract, maybe it has something to do with director Xu Anhua getting older and a little powerless, maybe it has something to do with the tension of the actor's performance. After all, not every director can meet Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Zhen, and not every director can become Wong Kar-wai with Du Kefeng. Literary and artistic films are like a mirror, what is important is not the form and luster of the mirror itself, what is important is that we can examine it from another angle through it.