I am in favor of changing books into movies. Good books are not necessarily easy to change, but they are definitely worth changing. Besieged City, A Dream of Red Mansions, Journey to the West, Farewell My Concubine. . . The source of countless good works is a good book. Personally, I think the story structure of Farewell My Concubine and Lu Criminal Yanshi is relatively similar. Farewell My Concubine is no better than Criminal Lu, and Chen Kaige is no better than Zhang Yimou. Why is "Return" such a MV movie with no plot, no background, and only a set.
What is written in the book is strange love, strange people, strange things, half a century, experienced all kinds of vicissitudes of modern China, under this background, the love brewed can not but say that it is a strange love, a love that overwhelms the country, other than that. Although the characters in the outer plot are not complicated, they are not easy to control in a movie. The way the movie "intercepts" the last 30 pages is like cutting off the head and body, and it is impossible to see the whole picture from a single corner. , Intercept opportunistic, earn tears, save effort to please, why not do it?
I doubt Zhang Yimou's understanding and feelings for this book. He may know that this is a good book, but he doesn't like it at all. If you had to choke my tears, I just felt disgusted and wanted to close my eyes.
What a charming person Yan Shi is, but he doesn't fit in with the turbulent environment, and the film ignores these. How many hardships he went through to get back to Wanyu is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The movie skips these. It took him more than 20 years to realize that his true love was in such a distant place, and he went through almost all the hardships before returning to his wife. After leaving, he found that Wanyu's spirit had left him, but Lu Yanshi in the book did not try to pull Wanyu back like in the movie. Yanshi in the book was just a "sad smile". language.
The love between Lu Yanshi and Wan Yu was born out of separated thoughts and the pressure of suffering, not a warm relationship. Their love is touching after one party's aftermath, the other party's peaceful waiting, and the reality of going against them. The kinds of things that are made are not easy. The movie took two hours to show off various acting skills in a small temporary set, sprinkle eye drops, things that did not exist in the YY book.
It's not the actor's fault, it's Lao Mozi and those stupid screenwriters.
After reading the suffering in the book, I realize that everything in the movie seems so mediocre and trivial.
It's a pity that Uncle Ming has such a handsome body and a good voice. It's a pity that such a good work by Yan Geling has history, love, and art. It's a pity.
I am looking forward to seeing Uncle Ming rejuvenate his youth and become a suave and suave on the screen. No one is more suitable for this kind of role than him. I hope to see young Wan Yu like Gong Li in the red lantern, The liberation of the inner character is behind the extraordinary Yan Shi. I was expecting to see a masterpiece like Farewell My Concubine. Unfortunately, the structure of the film is so stingy that even the aura of the two actors cannot be contained. When Uncle came to the audience off the screen, I was eager to see the vast snow field behind him, where life was devastated, eager to hear Uncle Ming's magnetic voice recite the words of the book, and eager to smell the ubiquitous suffering in the historical storm. And helpless, this should be an atmospheric work, the original did it, and the movie failed.
The most helpless thing is what I feel after watching it, helpless Zhang Yimou's compromise, helpless actor's embarrassment, helpless there is always a strange thing that prevents the best works and the best actors from getting the treatment they deserve.
If you don't love it, why go back.
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