At the end of last month, the drama version of "Brave New World" was finally released. Peacock and Renren could not wait to release all 9 episodes within two weeks. At the beginning of this month, it was also "honorably" removed from the shelves due to the size visible to the naked eye.
Judging from the name, there is no doubt that this is the "brave new world" from Huxley's original book, and I was looking forward to it for half a year. The first episode really got off to a good start, with high-level service and bright eyes, the characters of all parties are in place, Epsilon's jumping off the building, Lenina and Henry's fixed sex life aroused Bernard's warning, and the barbarians are secretly planning a fight against New London. The Great Rebellion...
The lines mentioned above are almost completely broken. Epsilon's jumping off the building is not heavily described, the sexual relations are well written, the mass rebellion is a complete failure, but the show's boring male lead, John, is sent to New London.
The first three episodes bring John into New London, the middle three are John's resistance (short-lived) and integration, and the last three are a stinky love triangle and an inexplicable uprising.
And in my heart, the rating also drops by one point every three episodes.
This American drama, visible to the naked eye, hit the street. The biggest problem lies in the adaptation. The plot from the middle of the story is completely different from the book, and the reason lies in the screenwriter's magical change of the hero and heroine . Many people have mentioned that the dystopian masterpiece has become an anti-artificial intelligence.
love is selfish
Brave New World, what kind of world is it? The drama version has a line that sums it up well "Everyone belongs to each other". The drama version also adapted this setting very well. The common things in "Black Mirror" and even the "electronic eye" are put into the eyes of everyone in New London. No one has privacy, and people can directly call others in their eyes. The picture I see, and I guess it should be that the higher the level, the higher the authority. Plus, there are no families, no regular partners, no parents, which are shameful words. In short, from the spiritual world to the material world, it is shared by everyone, what is yours is mine, and what is mine is yours, whether it is the world I see, or your boyfriend~
But is love really something that can be shared?
I've been on a spree lately with "dog rejection groups," which depict all kinds of puppies with "bad" personalities. There is a corgi that impressed me a lot. His owner has a cat besides him, and he is jealous all day long. If the owner feeds the cat first and then the corgi, he becomes dissatisfied and goes to the owner's feet to pee after eating. If the owner feeds the corgi first and then the cat, it won't work, because he finds that there is still food in the cat's bowl after eating, and he runs to knock over the cat's unfinished rice bowl. The owner must avoid Corgi's sight when he licks a cat, and some people say that their dog beats the cat when the owner is not at home all day long, and the cat's head is bald.
Animals treat emotions like this, and humans are even more "stingy". In ancient China, although it seemed feasible for a man to have three wives and four concubines, the script of Gong Dou Zhai Dou has never been absent since ancient times. The big and small wives receive unequal love, and they can't even help themselves to fornicate with other men to make up for it. It's not about material things, it's about emotions.
Bernard or the cutest boy in the show, because he's an expensive alpha, but he's just as careful as us ordinary people. He likes Lenina, and when he sees Lenina having fun with others at the party, he pushes away all the girls around him and walks out of the nightclub by himself. Lenina only dated Henry for a long time (4 months), and Bernard became more and more disliked by Henry, and he even punched Henry at the instigation of the barbarian John. In this new London where only happiness is allowed, this is simply outrageous behavior that has never been seen before! People were both amazed and irritated by Bernard's anger. Later, after Lenina fell madly in love with John, Bernard felt jealous to the bone, and even driven by jealousy, he provoked and lied to John... Bernard couldn't get it because of love, and became more and more like a human that we know well.
Since love itself inspires people's exclusive psychology, selfish love can well decipher the ideal argument that "everyone belongs to each other". If the screenwriter is keen on writing love scenes, it is better to use selfish love as a fulcrum. However, due to the magical changes to the characters of Lenina and John, the final love scene was terrible, and this was the biggest reason for the failure of the show.
The love line changed by magic
Lenina is a goddess, there is no man who doesn't want her, Bernard loves her more than humanity, and John loves her at first sight.
When I watched the show, I felt that the cast was so well chosen. Lenina (Jessica Brown Findlay) has a delicate face, a graceful figure, and a standard beauty with no flaws at all. Nine out of ten people will think she is beautiful, although there is no such thing as a Reaching the point of love at first sight is another matter, but it does deserve the title of the goddess of the public.
There is nothing to say about the looks, the focus is on Lenina's personality.
Lenina's character in the play is also surprisingly good, and she can be called the only woman in New London who has completely awakened. She is able to consciously reject shamrock (a pleasant drug that isn't harmful to the body), and she works hard to train her friends and partners to feel emotions other than pleasure. Sometimes I feel like Lenina can make a difference without John. And then she really fell in love with John, even if they were promiscuous, so as not to be noticed that she was an outlier.
But what is the Lenina in the book like? A downright courtesan. In the book, she has never awakened, and is a person who obeys sexual desire and instinct. She doesn't understand love, let alone why some people are jealous because of love. In the book, her kindness to John is out of curiosity and trying to get him. Because of John's repeated retreats, it aroused her growing curiosity and interest, and it was the unattainable things that were the most heart-wrenching. And John is still as unwilling to treat his beloved woman irresponsibly as in the Savage Land, so he has been avoiding Lenina's pursuit. In the end, it was found that Lenina was just a person who pursued desires and had no true love, and was disheartened and gave up these new human beings completely.
Lenina is destined to be a person without emotional tools, in order to highlight the horrors of this brave new world, in order to reflect the civilization of the barbarians. Change Lenina into a person who understands love, then where does John's motivation to change and fight against the world come from? He'd just be happy with Lenina as a whole, and John wasn't the type of person in the book who had the concept of love and loyalty anyway. Beautifying Lenina and vilifying John, this kind of magical change, not only did not please women, but also made the whole drama into an uncontrollable situation.
"Brave New World" in the new era is not a script that cannot be written as an uprising against AI, but the characters are divided, and the desired effects and functions have not been achieved. If the explicit line is John's various experiences and riots in New London, the dark line should be the emotional changes between the characters. However, such a clichéd love adapted from this play is not only unattractive, but even affects the rationality of the bright line. John's emotions jumped up and down again and again. After a while, he merged into a counter-judgment for a while. After falling in sweet love, he started an uprising again. When the uprising was beyond his control, he started to stop the uprising. In the end, he chose to live in seclusion... How can I write Create such a human being! !
According to the writing of Lenina, who does not understand love, and John, who is civilized and restrained from beginning to end, it can not only complete the entire emotional line, but also allow John to smoothly lead people to revolt, or live in seclusion in the mountains, which are all reasonable behaviors. The flurry of this American drama can be summed up in one sentence. If you have the will to do it, you don't have the strength to do it.
Love is an eternal motif, writing love scenes is not simple, nor is it low-level, nor is it to satisfy the audience's perception and refreshment. Only characters shaped by a reasonable love line can better serve your so-called "bigger thesis".
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