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The audience is eagerly looking forward to this drama.
Adapted from the comic of the same name, and the movie "Snow Country Train" of the same name by Feng Junhao .
The goddess Jennifer Connery plays the lead role ("Once Upon a Time in America" "Beautiful Mind").
Before the broadcast, Netflix had booked two seasons at once, indicating that Netflix has certain confidence in the show.
The audience's expectations are not low.
I want to watch 10,000 people, the highest number among British and American dramas to be broadcast in May.
However, this "Snow Country Train" seems to be hovering on the verge of overturning.
Judging from the broadcast of the first episode, the comments are very polarized.
Some people think that it looks good and surpasses the movie version.
Some people think, this is it? 8 points?
How on earth, let’s talk about the IP of "Snow Country Train" and the issue of adaptation——
The first season of "Snow Country Train"
Snowpiercer Season 1
2020.5.18
As mentioned earlier, the drama version of "Snow Country Train" is adapted from the comic of the same name, and the movie of the same name by Bong Joon Ho.
Back then, Bong Joon-ho found a manga in a comic shop at Seoul National University by accident.
And was deeply attracted by the plot and pictures inside.
Feng Junhao later preached:
"One day in 2005, I picked up this comic for the first time, and at that moment I realized that it would consume my entire life. Since then, my dangerous and unusual film adventure has begun."
Soon after, Bong Joon-ho called his good friend Park Chan-wook , and Park Chan-wook bought the rights to the comic as a producer.
This is the French science fiction comic of the same name "Le Transperceneige".
It won the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in 1985.
In the comics, the minimalist black-and-white style pushes an ice-breaking train forward.
The opening article wrote:
"Across the white boundlessness, from the eternal icy winter, from this end to the other end of the planet, passing the train that never stops."
The comic setting has a dystopian , political metaphor and religious color.
In the future society, in order to reverse the greenhouse effect, humans will spread the refrigerant CW-7 into the atmosphere.
Unexpectedly, the antidote turned into a poison.
The temperature dropped sharply, the world froze, and life died.
A train full of survivors has become a place of escape in the last days, symbolizing the new Noah's Ark.
Where there are groups, there is a power structure.
A train, a microcosm of society, a political interpretation.
The 1001 carriages are arranged from front to back according to the social class.
A revolution that had been brewing for a long time broke out from the rear of the car, breaking out one car after the other.
The interpretation of class contradictions, the exaggeration of oppression and resistance, constitute a strong political fable.
Feng Junhao also acknowledged its political nature:
"People's lives are always within a certain system." "People have the dual desire to be in the system and to break through the system."
As long as human beings exist, as long as society exists, there will be a "Snow Country Train".
In addition, the "Snow Country Train" is ecological and warning against the background of global warming, human beings falling into crisis and self-help .
The movie basically retained this setting of the comics and made a drastic adaptation of it.
Winning or losing does not matter.
After being put on the screen, the setting is definitely one of the biggest highlights of the movie.
At the same time, logic bugs have become more prominent.
Comic works are also highly hypothetical. Once restored into images, people tend to believe it.
Because film is the most realistic of all art.
The audience's complaints are realistic and specific:
"The ending fell short, and Evans should definitely be brainwashed, otherwise the political parable he painstakingly built would be useless."
"Why do you have to flee to the train", "The train has not been repaired for 17 years", "The temperature drops, why not flee to the equator" and so on.
In other words, some parts of the film did not deal with the relationship between assumptions and reality.
And the drama version, judging from the broadcast of the first episode——
It also widens the gap between science fiction and reality, and the ambiguity between hypothesis and details is unclear.
The drama version basically continues the setting of the original worldview.
The conductor Melanie, played by Jennifer Connelly , is a brand new character.
She has a very high level of professionalism and looks unsmiling, reporting to the entire train:
The outside temperature is -119.6 degrees Celsius, 6 years, 9 months, and 26 days have passed since the departure date.
Different from the original, the drama version adds a history to the rear of the car——
In the final stage of the ice block, the train was only allowed to board the rich, and the abandoned civilians broke into the train at the last juncture.
In other words, the person at the rear of the car becomes an "intruder."
From the very beginning, he was given the image of a rebel who fights against the unfair system and fights for living space.
After a meal delivery, the anger of the people at the rear of the car has accumulated and can detonate a "rebellion" at all times.
The front of the car is reducing the rations at the rear of the car, starving them to death, and sterilizing their women. There have been no newborns in the rear of the car for five years.
The sharp contradictions of class have staged a struggle for survival in a small space.
Andre Leighton, the role prototype of the film version of "American Team" Chris Evans.
He was the detective responsible for the murder in the old world.
The way the story unfolds is very different from the original, which is refreshing.
In the original work, the overall appearance of the train is presented through the use of force by the people at the bottom to break through the carriages.
In the play, there is a murder in the car , and the cannibalism between the rich.
Leiden was the only homicide detective in the car, and the man in the front had to find Leiden to solve the case.
Through the eyes of Leiden, a part of the life of the upper class is revealed-food can not be eaten and no charity is given to the poor.
The story of the series is not only closely related to the old world, but also contains all the details and looks very grounded.
For example, during breakfast, Melanie greeted Chinese passengers in Cantonese.
Rich people from all over the world gather on the train like a hodgepodge.
The conflicts caused by different concepts and different living habits are staged in a small sauna room.
Melanie went back to her small room, took off her uniform, removed her exhaustion, put on light sportswear, and walked towards the front of the car.
The male protagonist, entangled with his ex, also developed a love triangle on the train, which is a bit bloody.
These details are very realistic and easily reminiscent of reality.
Judging from the first episode, the screenwriter seems to have such intentions--
Want to reproduce the reality order on the Ark train.
Okay, you won. Successfully created a sense of fragmentation in the audience :
Is this a science fiction drama or a reality drama?
Under the banner of a science fiction drama, the surreal setting of "Ark Train" is retained ,
If the story is like a movie, it is allegorical and a high-level summary of reality, this is true.
However, the story of the series is realistic everywhere, almost moving reality in parallel.
There is a sense of separation between form and content.
You will find that many complaints about the drama come from this sense of fragmentation.
When the audience believes in the realism of the drama, they cannot tolerate the bugs in the setting of science fiction.
This approach is actually lazy and even speculative.
Borrowed the biggest highlight of the movie-sci-fi setting, as a selling point.
The story is another routine commonly used in American dramas—homicide, suspenseful colors, racial contradictions, and class antagonisms.
In order to be stable, the original white protagonist was replaced by a black man, and he was caught in a storm of "political correctness" .
What do the audience expect more?
Since it has been expanded into a drama series, there should be a more complete and rigorous worldview, and richer and more complex social discussions.
Obviously this is difficult, it has higher requirements for creation, it takes longer and the investment cost is higher.
It's hard to come by for a good drama, and most of it is a normal drama during the year.
In such a freak season, I am worried that everyone has no drama to watch.
When you ignore some bugs, the drama version of "Snow Country Train" cannot be said to be unsightly, and even has novelty and suspense, which attracts people to watch.
In the movie, the male protagonist is the core character.
In the drama version, the heroine Melanie became the absolute core.
This woman who shuttles between the front and the rear of the car, circulates between the upper and lower floors, and interacts with people of all colors, but is filled with secrets and plans. She is very interesting.
It can be said that the goddess Jennifer Connelly is the biggest attraction of this drama.
Some details of the series are well received. With the detection of the murder case, the male protagonist was able to explore the structure of the entire train. This is also the process of understanding the enemy's situation and laying the groundwork for future "uprisings."
For example, a drawer on a train is equivalent to a prison serving a sentence.
The man instructed the person at the rear of the car to surrender to the drawer of the car and lie in the drawer, waiting to besiege the front of the car in the future.
Who is the murderer? Melanie's identity and purpose? How do people at the rear of the car break through to the front of the car?
There are various loopholes in the first episode, and it can be regarded as a suspenseful head.
Many people say that the drama version is good for a reason-the setting itself is attractive enough, the plot is full of stories, the drama conflicts are obvious, and there are also factors of freshness and curiosity.
Although the critics are not optimistic, its ratings are very high, with a popcorn index of 82%. According to foreign media reports, the premiere of the drama version reached the top of the TNT TV ratings, and also broke the station's 2018 "Silent Angel" ratings record.
It won’t be very exciting, and it’s okay to watch it as a popcorn drama. The good news is that Dad Netflix saves the drama, and the full episode will be released on the 25th. Looking forward to the follow-up plot hitting me in the face, so that you can rest assured to follow the drama. Text/Sister Banana
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