used to hear a lot of fans complaining. If you want to create your own IP universe in China, the difficulty is not that you don’t have good IPs, but that no one is willing to develop them in a real sense. They are not willing to go one step further from the original story.
This is not~
Taking the IP of "Journey to the West" as an example, it has been 22 years since the last work "Journey to the West", which created a "story after learning", combines the story of Journey to the West with modern stories. "Magic Phone" is also 14 years old. So far, Chinese stories about Journey to the West have almost always been remakes. We will choose good-looking scenes, good-looking female goblins, and good-looking special effects technology, but we will never be in " On the basis of "Journey to the West", expand the world view story.
Therefore, in these years, whether it is film or TV, Journey to the West seems to me to change the soup but not the medicine. The person who really makes the big IP of "Journey to the West" full of infinite possibilities will have to wait.
In this regard, Disney across the Pacific Ocean expressed that he also wanted to make a "modern version" of Journey to the West. As one of the most widely spread IPs in Chinese mythology today, the overseas version of Journey to the West cannot be adapted. It's a little, from the Southeast Asian version, such as the Japanese remake!
also has a modern "Journey to the West" adapted by South Korea with the help of the story of Journey to the West~
and this "Journey to the West" IP derivative series created by Disney this time is even more "Westernized" in its setting. The name of the episode is " Beauty" Born Chinese " is a series dedicated to the theme of Chinese descent.
in the role setting:
Wu Yanzu played the "Monkey King";
Michelle Yeoh played the "Guanyin"; In other words, Michelle Yeoh's popularity to appear in the "Guanyin" in this drama is a relatively normal choice for Disney.
And Wu Yanzu needless to say, the earlier American drama "The Wasteland" was adapted from "Journey to the West", and Wu Yanzu played "a Monkey King on a motorcycle" in it.
Therefore, this time playing the role of Monkey King with more mana, Wu Yanzu is indeed a good choice among many Chinese.
Of course!
Compared with our Journey to the West character selection, Disney's casting is naturally not appropriate enough, but if you put it in the world view of this Western-style drama, you will find that Disney's choice is just a delay of the past habit, although the current The entire episode just gave a preview, but because this episode is based on the original story, yes, the script of this drama has a work of the same name, adapted from Yang Jinlun's best-selling graphic novel of the same name.
On the plot synopsis:
Michelle Yeoh plays Guanyin, a humble aunt who helps her nephew Wei Chen deal with the challenges of American High School , while maintaining her secret identity as Guanyin Bodhisattva, Xu Weilun plays "Shi Ji" "Niangniang", she and her magical dog usually work in a jewelry store, Guan Jiwei plays Freddie Wang, a fictional 1990s sitcom star...
ahem~ You may see it here, I guess a lot Fans should also have the same thought in their minds as me, that is: Guanyin Bodhisattva's nephew, does this mean that Guanyin Bodhisattva has an older brother or younger brother?
dude, thisKinship, when did Buddhism allow this kind of operation?
I have to say that although there are some innovations in the Western references to Chinese apotheosis, these innovations are indeed a bit off the mark to some extent, and they are obviously gods, but they are always entangled in the biochemistry of Chinese Americans in the United States. Fragmented story, so, at the end of the day, the show might still be a family drama at its core.
As for the so-called Journey to the West mythical characters, most of them may be covered with a layer of skin at most, and other mythical characters can be applied. However, most of the reasons for choosing Journey to the West here may still be attributed to the theme target being Chinese.
Therefore, according to my personal opinion, this drama is not optimistic, and it is highly likely that it will be an anticlimactic master. For domestic fans, it may be a complaint, and for many foreigners who have not watched the story of Journey to the West , perhaps so attractive.
After all, there have been Hollywood-style Journey to the West works over the years. The " King of Kung Fu ", which both Jackie Chan and Jet Li called earlier, is believed to have been seen by many fans. It is also a Western-style Journey to the West story, but The score of a certain valve is only 5.6, which is purely for the purpose of going to Western theaters.
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