"The Legend of the White Snake" has been remade again, and the IP of "White Snake" has been remade continuously over the years.
This time, "The Legend of the New White Snake" is a costume fantasy drama directed by Ji Hong and Wang Fangyun, starring Sun Xiaoxiao and Lu Hong.
It tells the story of the thousand-year-old snake demon Bai Suzhen who, after failing to cross the robbery, came to the mortal world to find his own dust fate under the initiation of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
"The Legend of the New White Snake" was filmed in 2017 and was scheduled to be broadcast in 2019, but it was abruptly withdrawn before it was about to be broadcast online, so the show was backlogged for four years before it was finally broadcast.
So what is the quality of this remake of "The Legend of the New White Snake"? In terms of the feedback after the current broadcast, it is difficult to say.
Not only is the popularity not high, but also the street, the Douban reviews of the drama are filled with 1-2 star reviews, and netizens even give the evaluation of "the worst version of "The Legend of the White Snake" in history".
It can be said that whether it is popularity or word of mouth, "The Legend of the New White Snake" is destined to be another remake of a classic work.
The reason why this drama is not popular is that in the eyes of the editor, there are mainly the following three slots.
Groove point one, casting style is too pulled crotch.
For the new "Legend of the White Snake", the most intuitive slot is that the casting of this drama is very unsuccessful, and there is basically no suitable role in the whole drama.
Let's first talk about the two most core characters in the play, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian.
The role of Bai Suzhen belongs to the image of the goddess in everyone's heart, so most of the actors who played Bai Suzhen before are online.
Zhao Yazhi's version of the dignified atmosphere, Wang Zuxian's version of the feminine style, Liu Tao's version of Wen Wanxianhui, even in the new version of the "Legend of the New White Lady" that was complained about, the appearance of the white lady played by Ju Jingyi is also attractive.
In the new version, Bai Suzhen is played by Hunan Satellite TV host Sun Xiaoxiao, not to mention how she changed from a host to an actress.
Mainly because her appearance is not recognizable, she completely lacks the fairy and fluttering temperament of the costumed beauty.
The shape is also very perfunctory, Bai Suzhen during cultivation is very plain, not even an earring, not only wearing plastic jewelry on the head, but also the shoulder pad on the shoulder pad also looks particularly burly.
The daily dress is very similar to the white and shallow shape in "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", not only imitating the eight-character bangs, but also copying Yang Mi's high hairline.
And Sun Xiaoxiao's manners in the play are not good, either shrinking his neck or hunchback, and his acting skills are also embarrassingly staring at his eyes and mouth, and his facial features are directly flying around.
Bai Suzhen's casting was so collapsed, and Xu Xian's was not much stronger.
Xu Xian, as a scholar, should be a weak and powerful figure, but Lu Hong himself is strong and has no bookish vitality.
Coupled with his thick eyebrows, eyeliner, oblique bangs fluffy and flowing, the temperament is more like tony teacher from the hair salon, and the image of Xu Xian is completely incompatible.
In addition to the two protagonists, the casting of other supporting roles is also difficult to say.
For example, the clever and clever Xiaoqing became fond of provoking wrongs, and when she flirted with Bai Suzhen, she also injured Xu Xian.
The shape is also a variety of exaggerated purple eyeshadow, lipstick and blush, afraid that others will not know that she is a leprechaun.
There is also Fahai, played by Zhang Tianyang, who plays a virtual bamboo in the new "Tianlong Eight Parts", and feels that directly one model has completed two crews, and the makeup and hair do not need to be changed, that is, the point of the bulge on the head is not too obvious.
In addition, there is a special feature of the "New White Snake" crew, that is, they like to let the actors play two roles, and I really don't know how poor this crew is.
For example, the heroine played the roles of Guanyin and Bai Suzhen in the first episode, and Zhang Tianyang, who played Fahai, also played the evil demon.
Overall, "The Legend of the New White Snake" is unsatisfactory in both casting and styling.
Slot two, the plot adaptation is too thunderous.
For many remakes, they will be adapted and innovated on the basis of the original, and the same is true of "The Legend of the New White Snake".
The main line of the whole plot and the old version are not much different, they all tell the story of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, but in the details of the plot, "The Legend of the New White Snake" can be said to be completely different.
Bai Suzhen is shown in many film and television dramas with a smart and elegant image, but the white snake in this drama has nothing to do with these four words, and is completely a "silly white sweet"!
For example, in the first episode, After Bai Suzhen ascended the immortal crossing and failed to go to the Guanyin Bodhisattva to ask the reason, Guanyin Bodhisattva told her that it was because the dust was not over, and the heroine shook her head and shook her head without etiquette when talking to Guanyin Bodhisattva.
In order to cultivate the positive fruit Bai Suzhen to find her own dust in the human world, after arriving in the mortal world, the heroine went to live in the hotel, and as soon as she came up, she gave the shop Xiao Er a big pearl.
The shopkeeper saw that Bai Suzhen was rich and did not understand anything, and as soon as his head was patted, he directly sold her to the Qinglou.
The heroine also smirked and thanked people for being too enthusiastic, as a goblin who had cultivated for a thousand years, this IQ was also no one.
After that, the heroine mistakenly regarded Xu Xian's friend as her dust under the guidance of Elder Yue, so Bai Suzhen went to the mortal world to find Lin Jiawen.
After Bai Suzhen saw Lin Jiawen, she was like a crazy bastard, and confessed to Lin Jiawen, "I am your admirer, I have liked you for a long time."
This position of the heroine frightened Lin Gongzi to run away quickly, to be honest, a normal person will run away when he sees the crazy appearance of the heroine.
And Xu Xian, as a student, is reading every day but saying to his sister that he will not go to the examination, so you read this book and want to be Zhuge Liang?
The play also allows Xu Xian to have pure Yang attributes, so Xu Xian's blood can not only deal with demons and ghosts (his blood can hurt the monsters), but also help the goblin cultivation, good guys This Xu Xian directly becomes a sought-after character like Tang Monk.
In the original version, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian's first encounter in the West Lake was directly transformed into the main road in the play.
Xu Xian was attracted only to see the heroine's back, and Bai Suzhen turned Xu Xian into an idiot after turning back.
Just let Xu Xian fall in love at first sight Bai Suzhen's eyes are unfocused, his face is puffy, when did Xu Xian's aesthetic become so bad?
In order to promote the development of the relationship between the two, the play not only allowed the two to stage an unexpected slow-motion kiss, but also let Xu Xian call the heroine "Chastity".
And plots like this magic change can be described as abound in the play, such as adding a demon to the relationship between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian to become a love triangle.
Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian became intimate, and did not repay the favor but for Xu Xian's wish, but Xu Xian liked her wishes, and even later there was a plot asking Fahai to kill Xu Xian.
There is also Fahai who also has emotional lines, and a fox demon is ambiguous, and when he sees a goblin, he does not catch a demon, not only chasing after the white snake to teach the Cause and Effect Buddha, but also praising Bai Suzhen for having great love.
Just as netizens angrily rebuked, there is no ten years of "looking at the sky in the well", and such a strange script cannot be compiled.
Slot three, special effects martial arts are too perfunctory.
As a mythological drama, the special effects cast in Zhao Yazhi's version of "The Legend of the New White Lady" did not know how many people were stunned.
After so many years of remake, the special effects of "The Legend of the New White Snake" are actually not as good as "The Legend of the New White Lady".
For example, at the beginning of the play, Bai Suzhen is suffering from thunder, and the heroine shakes her fingers like a barala magic fairy, whether it is the special effects of the work or the background of the cutout, it is very inferior.
When Xiao Qing came ashore, he casually found a small river, and the snake also made a strong sense of plastic.
There is also the location of Guanyin Bodhisattva and the people in the play, not only the special effects are very fake colors but also saturated, and the picture is directly unbearable.
There is also this rockery fake, everyone feels it on their own.
In addition to the martial arts in the special effects drama, people are also speechless, such as the fight between Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing, the two go back and forth in a few actions in a circle in the same place, but also add a variety of inexplicable slow motion.
Bai Suzhen's special effects of flying in place are also a shock to people's bodies, and I don't know if the special effects action personnel in this post are sleepy.
In general, whether it is casting, production or plot, "The Legend of the New White Snake" is a mess, no wonder it only took 15 minutes to force the audience back.
In fact, for the classic remake, everyone has seen no surprise, although there are pearls in front, but as long as you work hard, you can shoot popular works.
Unfortunately, many remakes are branded with classic signs, rubbing the heat, and then shooting with a perfunctory attitude.
For these hot-eyed remakes, Xiaobian only wants to say please let go of the classics and let the audience go.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department | Piggy
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