In recent years, remakes have become one of the mainstream ways filmmakers are keen.
For example, Chang Yuan's previous directorial debut "Warm Hugs" is a remake of the Korean film "Plan Man".
Andy Lau and Xiao Yang immediately landed in the theater line of the new work "Surging Crowds", which was remade once by South Korea and now remade by China, "The Method of Stealing keys".
Previously, the most domestic film remakes were in South Korea, followed by Japan, such as "Breaking the Game", "Lobster Police", "Hide and Seek" taken from South Korea, or remakes of Japan's "Trouble Family" and "The Dedication of Suspect X".
The Shadow Emperor Qianyuan even flipped 4 in a row, almost letting himself fall into the trap of picking up people's teeth and wisdom, but fortunately in recent years, he lost his way and returned to the road of strength.
However, Wang Qianyuan went back, and Bao Bell, who was "violently beaten", plunged into the remake pit.
No, just after ruining the classic Japanese movie "My Robot is Girlfriend", Bao Bell brought a new remake of him.
This time, I also played a riot operation: remake myself
- "Big Red Packet".
The story is that Chen Zhong (Bao Bell) was taken by his girlfriend with a green hat, and his love enemy was a handsome and gold-rich man, and he was ashamed of his face and wanted to escape from the shura field in the name of a business trip.
However, just after submitting the application, he suddenly remembered the red envelopes he had stuffed in recent years, and Chen Zhongxin was unwilling and wanted to get back the money that had been deposited in others for all these years through a "fake marriage".
Chen Zhong found his ex-girlfriend Shang Yu, naturally touched a nose ash, and tried several methods without success, Chen Zhong and his friend Da Rui (Zhang Yiming) patted his thigh, decided to use the name of filming, to find actress Ellie (Clara), coaxed her to act as a bride, to complete a two-headed deception "fake wedding".
After the scam began, everything seemed to come naturally, and the graceful and colorful Ellie spoke in the name of Chen Zhong's fiancée at the annual meeting, with a sympathetic pulse, which allowed Chen Zhong to earn back face and also got a red envelope gift from the company's colleagues.
But later, the ex-girlfriend was emotional, suspected that it was a scam and obstructed it.
In order to round up the lie, Chen Zhong had to officially hold a wedding to deceive everyone....
The film adopts the model of "innings in the middle of the game", Chen Zhong and his friend Darui deceived the heroine on the one hand, claiming that it was an act, while the other end cheated the red envelope in the name of fake marriage.
Although the comedies about cheating marriage have been exhausted, such as "The Beneficiary" by Dapeng and Liu Yan some time ago, or the "Wedding Feast" directed by Ang Lee earlier, in addition to "Li Cha's Aunt", etc., the film wins in the plot, and the design of various skirmishes continues, making people not dull.
If there is no big problem, perhaps this will be Bao Bell's recent recovery.
Unfortunately, the movie is "circle money", and the three views of the plot are collapsed.
<h1>Self-remake</h1>
The film is remade from the 2014 film "Red Packet", a small-budget independent film.
The director's name is Li Kelong, and when he opens his resume, it is all 2/3 points, and some even have no scores.
However, only the score of this "Red Packet" is enough to stand out in the work column.
6.6 is the highest score in Li Kelong's career.
Perhaps surprised that he can also make a 6-point passing movie, in 2020, Li Kelong made a comeback, the cast was newly upgraded, called Bao Bell, Clara, Zhang Yiming, Xu Juncong and others, according to the mold to re-make a matryoshka doll, the "Red Packet" plus a "big" word, changed to "Big Red Packet" -
Remake yourself.
This method of fried cold rice, I still saw it for the first time, and I was eager to write the words "circle money" on my forehead.
90% of the filmmaker's character design, conflict, and twist are basically copied, and only the small plot and some sense of age have been relatively polished, and even many paragraphs are still original.
For example, the part where Clara shows charm.
Another example is a paragraph about a list.
The lines, scenes, and even scenes and angles were not changed, but the station was moved.
Of course, the biggest slot point still comes from the movie ending.
It is unbelievable that after so many years of social evolution, the director still put the original ending on the screen without cutting, allowing the audience to see a gorgeous dixie fantasy.
In the end of the movie, although Chen Zhong completed the fake wedding and cheated everyone's red envelope, he also fell in love with the actress Ellie at the same time.
In pursuit of Ellie, Chen Zhong admitted that he had deceived everyone and gave everything up.
Chen Zhong's ugly face is revealed, and Ellie's parents sweep him out of the house.
Then, Chen Zhong transformed into a bitter male protagonist, shouted downstairs to admit his mistake, and apologized at the same time as the whole company.
And guess what?
Ellie fell in love with him, his ex-girlfriend forgave him, his boss didn't pursue him, and even Ellie's parents insisted on making up for the wedding.
Now look back at the movie, full of YY of a loser:
The male protagonist, Chen Zhong, is cowardly and incompetent, greedy for money and lustful, but his ex-girlfriend does not want to be rich and handsome, and he has to break the connection with him, bent on trying to puncture his deception.
And actress Ellie, in the original version, also designed a setting of "poor intelligence caused by childhood car accidents" to pave the way for the stupid things done later.
But in the new version, Clara is white and beautiful, returnee, and a proper goddess, and as a result, after puncturing the scam, she not only does not blame him, but also hopelessly falls in love with Chen Zhong.
Moreover, Clara's character exists almost exclusively to distribute welfare.
The ubiquitous close-up of Clara's character in the new version has become the main selling point, whether it is a trailer or a still, they are eager to pull the banner of "selling meat" and play into a salivating KPI to satisfy the director's coveting of beautiful women.
One of the two girls is portrayed as a resentful woman, while the other is a purebred "big chest and no brain".
The male protagonist, a fraudster who deceives everyone's trust, is deeply contested by the two ladies.
Plus Bao Bell's "wonderful rendition" - hey, it's really vomiting.
If the plot of a small-budget movie is so perfunctory, it will be enough, all of them should laugh, but as a movie that landed on the big screen, the screenwriter did not perceive the collapse of the three views, but filled in a rotten excuse of "the male protagonist cheated to help the mother cure the disease" at the end, which is really slippery.
It is no wonder that "Big Red Packet" landing on the big screen has a much lower score than "Red Packet".
The lineup was enhanced, but the rating dropped to 4.7.
And the evaluation interface, basically in addition to the poor acting skills and lackluster jokes, the plot attack on this loser's self-deprecating drama accounts for a large part.
Of course, what makes Bao Bell fortunate is that although "Big Red Packet" has added bricks and tiles to his bad film inventory, at least it has made a lot of money at the box office.
The film was released on January 22, and it was a big money grab by no one in four places, and it was the box office crown from the day of its premiere to yesterday.
So far, there are about 55 million box offices, and it is not surprising that it is just around the corner, which is already a lot of money for such a low-budget sitcom.
It is worth mentioning that the movie "Big Red Packet" was actually set in the Spring Festival file last year, which is a movie released together with "Tang Detective 3" and "Win the Championship" and other "Spring Festival Seven Heroes".
Unfortunately, it dwarfs the real blockbuster and is not mentioned at all.
Later, on the second day after the pre-sale of the Spring Festival file began, watching "Tang Detective 3" and "囧Mom" they were fighting with each other, and at that time, they were frightened and quietly withdrew Mimi.
Later, it was changed to May 1st, and May Day was scared away, changed to January 29, 2021, and saw that no one was released and raised to January 22 today.
The file was withdrawn and changed ahead of schedule, and it was changed three times in succession.
As a result, there were no tigers in this mountain, and the monkeys really became kings.
<h1>Remake the movie</h1>
As we all know, the "big" person who remade "Old Hand" 2 years ago made Bao Bell, who wore a wig and was violently beaten by Wang Qianyuan, ushered in the first praise in his life.
The film has achieved 380 million box office, although it is not as good as the "explosion", but for Bao Bell, the word of mouth after a few years of dormancy is undoubtedly a long drought, and for a time " Bao Bell's acting skills are OK" Comments have poured in.
Perhaps Bao Bell tasted the sweetness, after this, Bao Bell also began a long remake journey, "My Robot Girlfriend" and "Big Red Packet" came out one after another.
It must be admitted that the remake has a huge advantage, under the premise of success, the script has been localized and re-released, basically there will be no tragic Waterloo incident.
Of course, the premise is to take into account cultural differences, in a common context, that is, why the remake of the work is basically the communication between China, Japan and South Korea.
But it must also be admitted that even if there are predecessors paving the way, from another point of view, it is also pearls and jade in front.
Remake movies will inevitably be compared, if the influence of the previous work is large enough, under the preconceived concept, many fans will have an expectation gap after watching, and even in order not to destroy the initial impression of the heart, and deliberately do not go to see this movie, thus affecting the audience who has not touched the movie, thus forming a vicious circle.
This is also one of the main reasons why the remake film box office basically did not explode - there is a lower guarantee, and there is also a ceiling cap.
Picking up people's teeth is not always a clever strategy.
Wang Qianyuan already knew this, but Bao Bell was still trapped in it.
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