"Adaptation is not random editing, joking is not nonsense."
In the past six months, Mr. Six has been pushed to the forefront of the Internet, and there have been a steady stream of stalks. Nowadays, public opinion is relatively moderate. Looking back, many netizens actually did not have too many netizens at the time. Sharp emotions, the original intention is just to play stubbornly.
For many netizens, it is a contradictory and interesting phenomenon to play with the stalks of "two blossoms" and "apologize" while mocking the endless stream of crude remakes of Journey to the West.
During the time when Mr. Zhang was ridiculed by the whole network, the person who was most often asked to compare with Mr. Zhang was the "Jigong" visiting the old man Benchang.
You Benchang starring in 1985 "Jigong" and "Jigong Travels" in 1991 are classic memories in the hearts of several generations of audiences. They are crazy and casual but highly capable, which perfectly constructs the audience's fantasy of the image of "Jigong".
Since then, for more than 30 years, no matter how the remake, you can't escape the shadow of the 85 version of "Jigong".
In 1993, "Jigong" directed by Johnnie To and starring Stephen Chow impressed everyone. Presumably this is the version that audiences prefer now besides the version of You Benchang, but many friends don’t know that Stephen Chow was popular in the Taiwanese film market. It was a big hit, but the box office of "Jigong" was upset. The director Wang Jing once talked about this. After the fiasco of "Jigong", negotiations between Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers broke down. He even thought that this was one of the fuse of the decline of Hong Kong films.
Next comes the new century TV series, Zhang Mo's "Jigong New Biography" in 2006, Chen Haomin's various "Living Buddha Jigong" series from 2010 to now, and even Guo Degang's "Jigong Biography" in 2016.
Although these works are strange and difficult to describe, Mr. You Benchang himself has a very open attitude towards "remake". He has never considered his "Jigong" to be an authority or a template. In his opinion: "Bodhisattva has no form." Although the Jigong starring in him is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it does not mean that "Jigong" has only such a way of acting. He said: "Before I acted as Jigong, there was Jigong in Chinese movies in the 1930s. The actor was called You Guangzhao and he was fat." From this we can also see that Mr. You Benchang is open-minded, a real man. Film and television art workers always have good expectations for artistic diversity.
However, as more and more shoddy remakes appeared, everyone also called for: Although the old man You Benchang is generous, the theme of "Jigong" is not so tossed! Is it true that the old man will not "two flowers"?
At the end of last year and early this year, the movie trilogy of "Jigong" by Chen Haomin was launched online successively. Before it went online, the producer released a rhetoric: "The goal of the "Jigong" trilogy is to create a series of Chinese Marvel heroes." After it went live, The body that has been complained by netizens is incomplete.
Recently, the movie "The Mad Monk: The Renewed Frontier" is also online. This time, "Jigong" is played by the singer Xuecun who once became popular across the country with the song "Northeast People Are Living Leifeng". In the movie
, Jigong & Zhong Kui gag, fox demon & scholar staged a Chinese Ghost Story, mixed with many elements, but still can't hide the essence of a low-cost magic comedy in a "Jigong" skin.
Although the old man You Benchang encourages the diversified development of art, we have to look at the problem dialectically. The prerequisite for the diversification encouraged by the old man must also be the quality of the work.
Now a lot of shoddy remakes have appeared to make countless viewers complain, but at the same time, many viewers have come up with the example of "Journey to the West": they were dismissed in the past, and now they are regarded as classics, in case we complain about the "bad movies" now It became a classic again after many years. There are such possibilities as
, but they are rare. Why? These films, which are now classified as classics, were criticized because of their novel and obscure, or avant-garde forms. The audience at the time could not accept them. As time passed, audiences began to accept and appreciate them.
But most of the bad movies we see nowadays are not because the "novelty ahead" is unacceptable, but because the "vulgar and old-fashioned" are dismissed. Whether it is a plot character or a line burden, lazy creators are often outdated. Film and television routines and online culture stretch their hands for nothing, making the audience feel embarrassed when looking at the outdated and old-fashioned elements. This kind of work can be appreciated in the age, not in many yearsLater, but many years ago.
The novel and obscure "bad", and the vulgar and old-fashioned "bad", have a huge appreciation space.
