"Fengshen Yanyi" is a long divine and demonic novel created by Xu Zhonglin in the Ming Dynasty, because it involves religious, political, power plots and other elements, it has always been an important material for film and television drama adaptations, especially the immortal settings such as immortals, magic weapons, and spells depicted in the book, which have a fatal attraction for curious young people, and once became the fifth largest universal reading after the four famous works.
As early as 1986, this work was adapted into a 34-episode TV series, but unfortunately, the lines, dubbing, and story line in the play were not careful enough, and finally there was no wave in the market.
What really made the IP of "Fengshen List" catch fire was the 90 version of the TV series of the same name starring Fu Yiwei. The character costumes and special effects in the play are only commonplace now, and even a little stretched, but in that era of more conservative thinking, such revealing clothing was criticized by many people, and even rated as "offensive to morality".
However, the negative evaluation did not stop the fire of the play in the end, and the flying immortals, dazzling spells, and heart-wrenching plots in the play attracted more people to watch.
Later, Chen Haomin's version and Fan Bingbing's version appeared successively, and they also gained a good reputation, but the story framework was mainly based on the original plot.
No matter how delicious the dish is, it will be tired of eating too much.
Recently, there is a network movie based on "Fengshen Yanyi" but created a new story , "Fengshen List • Tota Heavenly King" was released, and immediately rushed to the first position of popularity. From the title of the movie, it can be seen that the director has uniquely placed the perspective on Nezha's father, Li Jing.
Such adaptations have also been made before, such as Chen Haomin's version of "List of Conferred Gods" focusing on the bond between Nezha and his family, although the battle with the forces of the King of Lu is equally wonderful, but the indecisive Li Jing in the play, the obedient Nezha, and the touching Yin Shiniang are even more impressive.
Originally there were excellent adaptations in the front, and the amount of film story content was not as much as that of TV series, as long as the script was created with care, how to be too bad. However, "Fengshen Tota Heavenly King" still refreshed my understanding of the net university - even if there are good special effects, it can't stand the perfunctory work of the main creative team.
The story unfolds from the perspective of the young Li Jing, mainly telling the story of the Great Desolate City Fortress to resurrect the Red Eye sealed by the emperor three thousand years ago, and it is demagogic everywhere. Teenager Li Jinglu met Jiang Ziya, Xiao Bailong and other teammates, and had to fight to the death in order to save Cangsheng.
This drama uses the evaluation of netizens as "car accident scene", "rotten to a new height" and "a lump".
Comments that seem extreme are actually not without reason.
The story line of "Fengshen Tota Heavenly King" is very clear, that is, Li Jing, who has just come down from the mountain, defeats Chi Hu with the help of everyone to save Cangsheng. But in the context of such a simple story, awkward acting, forced funny, characters downsizing, and hard-pulling CP have become unbearable places.
At the beginning of the movie, Li Jing fights with the demon dragon and accidentally encounters an injured white girl. Then there was a magical scene, Li Jing did not say a word and tore a piece of cloth from the girl's skirt to bandage the girl's wound.
This has to be a plot that a director with a history of mental illness for several years can come up with? In other film and television dramas, there will indeed be similar bridge sections, but the male protagonist either uses a towel he carries with him or tears a piece off his clothes. What is the difference between your act of tearing other people's skirts and playing a hooligan? The thin skirt of others is not the reason why you use your hands and feet.
This plot is actually intended to achieve the purpose of being funny by creating a sense of contrast. But the film first positions fantasy and action, and there is no need to force funny at the cost of reducing the intelligence of the characters. What's even more embarrassing is that there are many similar plots behind.
After coming to the Great Wasteland City, in order to uncover Zhang Wu's identity, Li Jing asked Jiang Ziya, who was standing in the crowd, to help him explain, who knew that Jiang Ziya felt dangerous and pretended not to know him. Then everyone pointed at Jiang Ziya, "He called you."
Not to mention how wonderful the script is, at least the basic character motivation and ideological logic must stand up to scrutiny, because the audience is normal people. For example, everyone will go to the bowl after eating, instead of licking the bowl clean to force funny. There are more such embarrassing shots, which is a great harm to the viewing experience.
Next, Jiang Ziya forcibly pulled the wrong person, and the bow string of the Xuanyuan bow that ordinary people could not pull was blown by the wind... Many embarrassing laughter shots make the audience feel what is called "like a needle felt", "like a man's thorn in the back" and "like a fish in the throat".
If forcing awkward laughter only makes the audience feel unnecessary in certain plots, then the actor's acting skills are to make the audience embarrassed from beginning to end.
The lead actor of this drama is HuaiWen, who may not know the name, that is, He Zongwei, who took the side of Guo Baokun and his gang in "Qing Yu Nian" and then fought with Fan Xiandoushi but was left with the scum of Du Fu's seven-word poems.
As a supporting role, although Huaiwen was not as brilliant as Fu Jia's Xin Qiwu and Tian Yu's Wang Qinian in the only few exits of the TV series, he was also considered to be decent and did not drop the line. But in this leading role of the net university, his acting skills are exposed.
After defeating the demon dragon, the evil charm sighed and smiled, did not understand what he wanted to express; the left and right swings when the temple closed the door, as if afraid that others would not know that he was performing; after losing the enemy, he said to himself, it is estimated that he himself is embarrassed to read...
What is more interesting is that in some posing and putting skills, Huaiwen does it like a decent look.
The emergence of such a contradiction actually exposes huaiwen's problems.
He has done a good job of the parts that are directed by people, such as the action and the opponent scenes, but he obviously does not spend enough effort on the parts that need to be understood and interpreted by himself.
The character understanding is superficial, the presentation effect is not practiced in advance, and the final performance is naturally embarrassing.
For a movie, the protagonist's perspective is the audience's perspective, so how to shape the protagonist is pleasing is particularly important. And Li Jing, portrayed by Huaiwen in "Fengshen Tota Heavenly King", with his poor acting skills, low IQ, and love to dress X, makes it difficult for everyone to like such a protagonist.
For a nasty person, his experience, growth, thoughts, how can the audience care? Not to mention the sense of substitution. Coupled with some inexplicable plots from time to time, the audience can see the question marks on their faces.
For example, before the decisive battle, Zhang Wu gave his subordinates a demon dan, saying that it could stimulate powerful combat power, but it had to pay the price of a drastic reduction in life expectancy. When he met Li Jing and his gang, the male demon ate the demon Dan, and a large amount of black qi was emitted from his body, and he estimated that he would have to come to a life-and-death duel.
Who knew that the demon after the frenzy had just run in front of Li Jing, and his life span was exhausted, and he didn't have to fight. Did you eat this for suicide? So you still have a hammer?
Director this brain hole, I would like to call it "the strongest".
It is said that the adaptation is not a random compilation, and "Fengshen Tota Heavenly King" is really written from the beginning to the end. At present, the box office in the 3 days of release is only 360,000, compared with the achievements of several million on the first day of the release of other networks, it can be said that it is very poor, and it is estimated that it is difficult to turn over in the later stage in terms of film quality.
With the development of technology, the current net university has made great progress in special effects, such as the slot-filled "Fengshen Tota King" in the fight special effects have not been particularly crossed, but the script and acting skills have become a common disease of many net universities.
Because the script involves too many hidden factors, such as the story framework, character motivations, ideological logic, etc., they are all involved in the whole body but cannot see the untouchable things, which will be difficult to solve for a while and a half. This is not only a problem of the Internet, but also a problem of many cinema movies. However, in terms of acting skills, there is room for improvement.
Now many directors always like to choose some actors who have played supporting roles in popular dramas as the main roles of the network, such as Chen Guanying in "New Jingwumen: Martial Soul", Suo Xiaokun in "Mars Mutation", Xu Juncong in "Big Talk God Hunting"...
Judging from the final effect, the acting skills are more embarrassing than one, and the reputation is also inferior to one.
In fact, there are some actors who have a high degree of fit with the University of the Internet, and their acting skills and actions are very online, such as Shi Xiaolong and Xie Miao, who have been "child stars".
In March this year, the "Legend of Yan Chixia Hunting Demon" starring Shi Xiaolong was released, and some people complained that the plot was unknown, so some people complained that the doll sounded uncomfortable, but few people complained that Shi Xiaolong's acting skills were not good.
It is said that the plot is not enough, the acting skills to make up, to find more actors with online acting skills, may not be a way to ensure quality.
Of course, before this, the director needs to further polish the script, after all, it is a script that is not careful, and the good actors will not accept it, so that a two-way promotion will be formed, and the audience's viewing experience will not be as bad as it is now.
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