When Chen Nian and Xiaobei were lying on the bed, Yi Yangqianxi, whose face was bruised, slowly revealed his life experience, his eyes were firm, and a teardrop fell at the right time. I thought in my heart: Yi Yangqianxi became . _
Movie face, juvenile spirit, hormones, and eyes, you can hardly imagine that this 18-year-old boy is acting in a movie for the first time. I really can't think of anyone of the same age who can play Xiaobei.
From today onwards, I am his fan. Zhou Dongyu, who was called "Brother Dong" by the whole crew, contributed the best performance of his career. This introverted and forbearing female high school student has a completely opposite character to Brother Dong in life. At that time, Brother Dong was 27 years old, more than four-character younger brother. A full 9 years older.
After "July and An Sheng", Zhou Dongyu, the newly-appointed Golden Horse actress, fell into homogeneity in her performance. Everyone she played was like An Sheng, and everyone she played was like herself. Until Chen Nian appeared this time, Brother Dong blocked the mouths of all doubters with his strength .
Producer Xu Yuezhen (Sister Jojo) said: "In our movie, she is no longer Zhou Dongyu . " If you regard "Youth as a Younger" as the Chinese version of "The Passion of Joan of Arc", Zhou Dongyu's Chen Nian is "contemporary Joan of Arc" !
The explosive performance of the two young actors propped up this slightly bloody story, "You are the first person to ask me if it hurts", "You protect the world, I protect you" , such lines are really hypocritical, But when they said it, it was very touching.
The four-person screenwriter team has contributed to the ability to turn a fourth-rate novel into a first-rate movie, but the biggest credit has to be the director Zeng Guoxiang . Many people don't know that he is actually Zeng Zhiwei's son.
After watching the movie, the author couldn't calm down for a long time. When I woke up the next day, I yelled, "Zeng Guoxiang can shoot too!"
The appearance of director Zeng Guoxiang has greatly enhanced our confidence as novel writers. No matter how bad your writing is, it is as bad as "Youth, So Beautiful", and Director Zeng will help you turn it into a masterpiece!
The original story is very "Guo Jingming style" . Although it advertises the theme of campus bullying, the description of the bullying part is not even as good as Xiao Si's "Sadness Against the Current", which is essentially a love novel in the cloak of bullying.
And Zeng Guoxiang spent more than half of the page showing the complete process of Chen Nian being bullied on campus, and each bullying was progressive in level .
At first, Hu Xiaodie, who committed suicide out of sympathy for being bullied, returned to the classroom and found a pool of red ink on her seat.
The most terrifying part of bullying is that the harm comes to you without a reason and soundlessly , while everyone else is indifferent to it, and even the teacher will add, "Why didn't other students find you... ….” The second bullying, the damage further escalated .
Physically, no one picked up her ball during gym class, and she was smashed with volleyballs in turn; when she came home from self-study in the evening, she was kicked to the ground by three girls, pressed against the wall and beaten; Human flesh searches, debt collection pictures are spread by the whole class, and you are mentally crushed.
The third bullying was a shocking scene .
The eldest sister took the group of sisters to strip off your clothes, and took a mobile phone video of you being naked and humiliated, bringing you both physical and mental abuse. This time, Chen Nian's psychological defense line nearly collapsed, laying the groundwork for the murder...
In addition to the perspective of the bullied party, Zeng Guoxiang did not forget to stand on the side of the bullying party to discuss the possible reasons for their bullying . Wei Lai, the eldest sister in the novel, is portrayed as a masked female gangster, and she is much plump and three-dimensional in the movie.
In the movie, she is a good student with a wealthy family, hiding a knife in her smile, having the same good academic performance as Chen Nian, and is very likely to be admitted to Tsinghua University, and the good students do evil , which is even more hateful than in the novel .
Rich parents don't know their daughters. After the daughter encounters an incident, they only believe in solving everything with money. Wei Lai failed to pass the college entrance examination and went to repeat her studies, and her father had been cold and violent to her. This kind of parenting and family education is the initiator of helping Wei Lai become a bully. To a certain extent, the villain Wei Lai who used the bullying is also a victim himself , which points the criticism at adults and society. In the timeless classic "Blue Door" , a personal favorite Chinese youth film, Gui Lunmei's character once asked : "What kind of adults will we become when we grow up?"
Chen Nian said in "Youth as a Younger", "After the college entrance examination, we are adults. However, there has never been a class that taught us how to become adults."
One of the things that surprised me the most about the movie "Youth as a Teenager" is that it has been sending a message over and over again throughout the film: "Adults are useless".
For Chen Nian, adults cannot protect her. In the film, the head teacher said to Chen Nian, "If you have something to do, ask your teacher." Police officer Zheng Yi (played by Yin Fang) said to Chen Nian, "If something happens, call the police. We can help you."
Chen Nian responded coldly , "I've found you, is it useful? Am I still like this? I just want to get through the college entrance examination, why are you holding on to us?"
So, is it just bad classmates who use bullying , which one is not an accomplice of the incompetent judicial public apparatus, the "universal" college entrance examination system, and the collective unconscious society where human nature is far behind?
If these adults could really protect Chen Nians, there would be no line where Chen Nian asked Xiaobei for help - "Can you protect me?"
There is no romantic and touching story of this kind boy guarding the bullied girl .
Zeng Guoxiang's use of the college entrance examination elements in the whole film is also amazing . I did not expect that it is the first time that a Hong Kong director has filmed the college entrance examination on the big screen. The horror of the national memory. How did he know what the college entrance examination meant for mainland teenagers?
On the one hand, the college entrance examination is a mental cage that overwhelms everything , and on the other hand, it is Chen Nian's hope to escape from the sea of misery .
The unpacking scene of the college entrance examination paper took on the scene of the excavator turning over the body . This montage shows Zeng Dao genius's audio-visual scheduling ability, and it is destined to be one of the most powerful scenes in this year's Chinese movies.
At the end, Chen Nian and Xiaobei met in the prison, and the faces of the two overlapped through the visiting glass, as if to metaphorize the "symbiotic" relationship between the two beyond ordinary lovers.
In this scene, Director Zeng did not arrange for the two sides to speak a line, but approached the actor's face with a close-up of his hand , and the precise camera language stimulated the two actors to the best state. From the perspective of the whole film, similar to Hu Bo's "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor", Director Zeng has always followed the photography motif of "large close-up and shallow focus" to shoot characters. The background is completely blurred, implying the separation between her inner world and the outer world .
In addition to the pictures, Zeng also paid great attention to the sound processing .
At the beginning of the movie, when Hu Xiaodie jumped off the building, Chen Nian happened to put on headphones to listen to English listening. The world around him was silent for a moment , only the magnetic male voice speaking English test questions was left, further implying Chen Nian's confrontational relationship with the outside world.
"Youth You" is the strongest Chinese youth film I have seen in the past ten years. From the perspective of audio-visual language alone , it has dropped a lot of routine youth films such as "To Youth" and "The Year in a Hurry".
It proves that even if the story is not that prominent, it is possible to use image storytelling to construct an empathetic cinematic space that impresses all audiences with unique storytelling.
Moreover, it can be seen from the above analysis that the film team has made great efforts to adapt the original novel, and the story level is also quite original .
However, many viewers don't think so.
For a long time, ordinary audiences have high requirements for the "narrative", "logic" and "reality" of movies. In their eyes, a "good movie" is basically equivalent to a "good story" .
And the public's accusations of "Youth as You" also did not escape this single evaluation method.
When they learned that the original novel of the film was plagiarized, and the story had a lot of similarities with the novel of the Japanese reasoning writer Keigo Higashino , they turned their backs.
In line with the principle of "plagiarism of novels, so 1 star for the movie", they gave the movie 1 star on the rating website to show their attitude of resolutely resisting "plagiarism of movies".
On many social platforms, things have evolved to the point of war of words . Book fans, movie fans, and anti-plagiarists accuse and abuse each other. The scene is chaotic, and rational discussions on movies are almost submerged.
Book fans do not think that novels are plagiarized, and popularize the concept of "melting stalks" to outsiders . They claim that this is a "homage";
Movie fans admit plagiarism of the original book, but think that the film party has greatly adapted it, and the movie and the original book are two different things ;
Anti-plagiarism thinks that both the filmmakers and actors have to take the blame. They are all accomplices in promoting the phenomenon of plagiarism, and they should all be scolded.
The author is a book fan of Mr. Keigo Higashino for more than ten years. I have read most of his books, and I have a certain say in this matter . Of course, from the legal point of view of the "Writing Law", the definition of plagiarism requires careful analysis of each issue, so I won't go into details here.
Jiu Yuexi's "Youth, So Beautiful" does imitate "Walking in the White Night" in the overall structure and the "symbiotic relationship" of the protagonist , and the part where the male protagonist takes the blame for the female protagonist imitates "The Devotion of Suspect X" . Ling Moji has a certain similarity with "Malicious" , but this kind of imitation has not reached the point of "plagiarism".
We can compare a similar infringement case before, "Qiong Yao v. Yu Zheng, (2015) Gao Min (Zhi) Zhong Zi No. 1039" , which can be used as a comparative reference.
In the context of "You Are So Beautiful", the part that really sparked legal controversy was the plot of "taking the blame". Similar to Qiong Yao v. Yu Zheng, the key to the dispute is to first resolve the issue of whether this part of the plot is thought or expression.
"Qiong Yao v. Yu Zheng Case, (2015) Gao Min (Zhi) Zhong Zi No. 1039" states : "Only to a certain extent, the plot selection, structural arrangement, and plot advancement design of a literary work reflect the author's unique Choices, judgments, and trade-offs can become expressions of copyright protection.”
From the comparison palette of the two novels produced by careful netizens , we can see that these similarities are abstract story concepts rather than specific plots. It can be judged that there is a high probability that the overlapping part is just an idea rather than an expression, so it does not constitute plagiarism.
Why can't "imitation of ideas" be considered "plagiarism"?
Because monopoly thinking will kill the creative motivation of subsequent creators.
Novels have existed in human society for thousands of years. It is difficult to guarantee that the ideas of an original novel have not "collided with ideas" with past novels . If "colliding with ideas" is judged to be "plagiarism", then no one has written new novels. Can be called "original".
Of course, this is just the conclusion I came to by asking the legal person, and it is not necessarily accurate . If Keigo Higashino really wants to sue, he will not know whether "You Are So Beautiful" will be judged as "plagiarism" by the court.
In addition, I appreciate the practice of some netizens boycotting movies because they learned that novels are plagiarized . This shows that many people in our country have increased copyright awareness, which is definitely a good thing for the long-term development of the cultural industry.
However, when we don't know whether the filmmakers are aware of the copyright dispute of the original work, I think it is very unnecessary to turn the object of accusation and abuse to the film's creative team and even the actors. Especially the actors, they are quite passive when working with the filmmakers.
On the premise that the facts of the crime have not been identified legally, this is not a rational attitude towards the film team. We cannot agree with the logic of " The novel "Youth as a Teenager" is suspected of plagiarism, so I give the movie 1 star".
However, this incident can also be regarded as a reminder to film creators and related practitioners. When purchasing novel copyrights in the future, they should consult more professionals in the novel circle to clarify whether the novel has copyright disputes. If you still insist on filming, you must accept the supervision and criticism of public opinion.
In addition, someone once said, "Keigo Higashino feeds half of the Chinese crime film circle" . Although this sentence is a joke, it reflects to a certain extent that domestic crime movies have plagiarized similar themes in Japan.
What we want to say is that Keigo Higashino is at best a best-selling novelist and not a master. Why do we have to use someone else's IP to shoot our stories? In essence, this is still purely from the consideration of capital and the thinking of making hot money.
Our Chinese film industry has also produced excellent crime movies adapted from original stories such as "Fireworks in the Day" and "Burning Heart" .
In the future, we should devote ourselves to writing original stories that truly belong to China , so as to make excellent Chinese school bullying movies. We believe that this day will not be too long.
As for how to view "Youth as a Younger", we appeal to:
Please be less "concerned" about plagiarism (if possible, it will be resolved by the law in the future), pay more attention to campus bullying incidents in our lives, stop being indifferent bystanders and silent people around bullying, and fight against bullying together Ling, this is the film's greatest social value.
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