Reinventing a celebrity doesn't necessarily smear a golden layer on the movie

Making jokes about real historical figures is a very pleasing job in filmmaking. Any historical figure can joke about it. If the protagonist lives in a long time, the public has a vague impression, the resume is good enough, and there are related novels as a blueprint, the directors will definitely rush to it. In this regard, the directors of Chinese costume TV dramas can be said to be like a duck to water (see Huanzhugege, Detective Di Renjie, etc. for details). However, the portrayal of legendary characters in movies is quite different from that in TV dramas. In TV dramas, directors can combine a lot of the same The content of the subject work is plagiarized into the story to increase the content and length of the work. Of course, I did not take the opportunity to satirize famous TV dramas such as Chinese Teenager XXX and Detective XXX. Due to the urgency of time, the film director will try to compress the protagonist's legendary story into one or two hours, which requires the director to dig deep into the protagonist's legendary story, and add several unrelated vases by the way. After all, the most important thing is to raise the ideological height of the film in order to win the resonance of the audience.
The first thing I think of for successful films in this regard is Braveheart. The protagonist has a legendary experience and the public is not impressed. There are a lot of stories as material. After the director's characterization, the characters in the film are fuller and more free. Thoughts are the elements of the success of this film, all of which make this film bound to success. Of course, if there are positives, there must be negatives. The film Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire has successfully served as a negative model for us. In fact, the plot of this movie is justifiable. The play is full of religion, politics, action, men and women, monarchs and ministers. Elements, and occasionally create an eerie atmosphere, there are enough conditions to become an excellent film, but the problem is, regardless of the factors such as character modeling and loyalty to history, the director chose Di Renjie as the protagonist. What's the point? ? Through the dissemination of CCTV TV series, Mr. Di Renjie has long formed an image of a civil servant who is loyal to the monarch and the country, and the image of the knight in the movie version is enough to surprise people. The protagonist of the movie can completely make up a name at will, and then Focusing on the plot of the film and the characterization of the characters, the director's freedom can also be greatly relaxed. Audiences will also be relatively receptive.
This is also the problem with the film The Crow, Edgar Allan Poe's real experience is legendary enough to be excavated, but the director threw away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds, gave up a lot of real material, and imposed a not very exciting story on love Lombok makes the film even more unacceptable. If the celebrity effect is not used well, it will backfire and become a flaw in the film. The neurotic character of the protagonist and the dark style of the whole film have to be reminiscent of Sleeping Hollow, but compared to the plot of Sleeping Hollow, the plot of this movie is too pale and not fascinating enough. Cusack's acting skills are not bad, but more It seems that Depp's evil spirit is still a little weak, and the other actors have no impression.
As the title says, reshaping celebrities may not necessarily give the movie gold, and it is very likely that they will get a gray nose, which coincides with the style of the movie - gray and gray

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