I don't know, if all the plot settings in "Legend of the White Snake" are retained, the level of the scenes will remain unchanged, and the network of characters will remain the same, but all the text about "Legend of the White Snake" will be discarded. Let the story take place in -- say, a modern high school. So, does the movie turn into something close to the feel of Twilight. Of course, whether it will sell as well as the Twilight series in the US is another question.
There is such a divergent thinking, because the content shown in the film most of the time is always full of some kind of youth film temperament. It's not just the modern vocabulary and especially "down to earth" jokes that characters blurt out relatively casually during dialogue. Many traditional Hong Kong-made films still have this kind of "indiscriminate entry", but they are often contrasts and accidents. For example, the ignorant and naughty communication between Qing Snake and Neng Ren is basically consistent with the simple and nonsensical content of the lines. Not to mention the flippantness of several characters in dealing with love and hate, and the perverseness in dealing with contradictions, all of which are full of publicity and arbitrariness without any sense of self-examination. This is the best portrayal of young people who are full of vitality and focus only on their own desires.
Of course, I am not implying that this is a big disadvantage. On the contrary, although the characters in the play are wearing ancient costumes or stunt costumes, they are the girls who are holding the mobile phone beside us and chatting about nail art tips while peeking at the senior's profile in the shade. There is no difference, so even if they have not completed relatively hierarchical characterization, they should be able to attract the attention of young people, and even a vague favor. This should be the direction that the film director took the initiative to approach from the beginning. Compared with the active market positioning awareness of "just want to show it to young people" before "Da Wusheng", "Legend of the White Snake" is actually more thorough. From the very beginning, the film made a gesture of not taking itself too seriously. Only when you first assume that this is a costume action film will you find the so-called "shallowness" and "stupidity" exist. And if you don't look at it with a straight face, its ease is not annoying.
But this does not excuse the rudeness in its actual operation. In fact, the ignorance of the plot in the narrative of "Legend of the White Snake" has reached an appalling level, giving people the illusion that they are too lazy to use the plot to promote the story. Of course, the original story of the White Snake has a basic structure that has been polished for hundreds of years, and Tsui Hark's version also left a lot of wonderful moments, so it is a dilemma whether or not to change some well-known plots and how to change them. choose. Obviously this time the main creator didn't plan to do anything in the most fundamental drama conflict, but to move the event forward to several necessary points--white snake play Xu Xian, applying medicine to rescue victims, realgar shock, water flooding Jinshan, etc.- Use as nails to hold in place, and then do deployment elsewhere. So the audience will be surprised to find that no matter what the characters are doing in the story, they end up going back to the plot lines they know well.
So really don't get into why the white snake started fighting without even asking a word, and don't ask why Xu Xian was so frightened by the snake one second, and joined the guinea pig team the next. After the main characters have done what they have to do in each climactic scene, there are various reasons to take them to the next place. This kind of quick-thinking promotion, this kind of conservative grasp without the desire to talk, protects the film from the rupture of other similar films after too much force. Although there won't be the kind of disjointedness that "Wuji" attempts to deepen the theme but makes people look on the sidelines, it still fails to capture the audience's sympathy and joy. But the climax paragraph is not sensational and there is nothing to do, so what can finally be highlighted is just the logic in the repeated recitation of a few sentences, but a parting that no one cares about. Tired of slow motion and theme songs, the appeal cannot be said to be absent, but the collective mind wandering can still catalyze all the affectionate and sad digressions into jokes.
Another joke, the so-called magic.
I don’t know if they asked the creative team questions like “What do monsters in this world live on, do they all have to eat people, if they don’t eat people, what do they eat?” The original state is all kinds of creatures, so what is the ultimate form? How do they cultivate their spells?" "Does Fahai collect demons rely on spells, martial arts, or magic weapons?" "Bat poison can completely change the appearance, why? It didn't affect their minds at all?" "How many monsters are locked in Leifeng Pagoda? Why can a fairy grass that looks like a monster be able to calm them? As the monsters increase, will the fairy grass fail?"
Audiences who are not interested in related content will probably sneer, thinking that these are all made up things anyway, so why take it so seriously. But the truth is that if you don't compare him, there is no "true". Some of the above problems may need to be explained in the film, and some need not appear at all. But whether you have seriously thought about these issues means whether the creator believes that there really exists such a world where people, demons, and Buddhas coexist. This world is different from the world in all other cultures (of course, you can refer to other cultures), the movie After the end, the world can still exist. These details clearly represent whether the story setting follows strict rules written in accordance with an inherent world view, or is just a "reason" found to meet various purposes. If the world is dead and broken, what reason do you have to believe that the characters in it will come alive?
In recent years, due to the increase of financial support and the increase of international exchanges, the level of some craftsmanship in the film industry has been greatly improved, and new methods have begun to appear in some of the effects that were previously solved by the "earth steelmaking" method. But in fact, our real "new" is far from there. The stimulation of some foreign models turned into a restraint. In this so-called magic movie, we can see that a large number of fragments of Western movies appear in front of us for no reason. The devil's shape of the CG manta, the stone statue with strange proportions standing in the center of the lake, the inexplicable magma scene in the center of the earth, and the soundtrack sung repeatedly by the choir, these are not directly related to the set world, but are only used to enrich the scene. This element, which doesn't really interact, ends up just sliding on one plane. The huge scene that invested a lot of money to create only left people with the feeling of an online game promotional video.
This is not the problem of "Legend of the White Snake" itself. In fact, this kind of frivolous and naive character story is not the most messy or the worst, but the "point of view" paragraphs it supports with investment. "It reinforces that. It even created more jobs than Warring States. Perhaps it is more worrying that we attempt to attack the opponent by quickly painting the opponent's appearance with the always weak link. Some people say that Zhao Wenzhuo finally has the capital to ridicule Jet Li once, but this is actually unnecessary. Li Lianjie did nothing wrong. Fa Hai, who neither loved nor insisted, looked at this world he didn't understand, and said "So I was wrong" to the Buddha who never existed. It was not a difficult task.
However, "it turns out that such a scene can also appear in Chinese movies". Today, what is the real meaning of Chinese movies themselves?
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