文丨Amei Yi Xiao
I think everyone still remembers the winter of 2019 still fresh. A piece of "last dance", a cassette, Li Ziwei, and Huang Yuxuan, their love spanning time and space, wrote the collective memory symbols of the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. The whole network is exhausting logic for "Want to See You", Shed tears. The drama "Want to See You" also deservedly became the drama that came out of the circle that year.
"Want to See You" TV series
On December 23, the movie version of "Want to See You", after three years, the original cast met with the audience. We finally got Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan on the big screen. However, from walking into the theater full of expectations, to getting up and leaving disappointed, the movie version of "Want to See You" is just a MV belonging to the series in my heart.
For drama fans, this MV can awaken the surging memories of three years no matter what, and return to the time and space of chasing dramas in 2019, forming a memory cycle again. The movie version of "Want to See You" is more like a medal for fans to witness and wait for three years.
"Want to See You" movie
But for those who "watch the movie", the movie version of "Want to See You" does not use the language of the movie to tell a story about Huang Yuxuan and Li Ziwei, but uses the "frame" of the movie to forcefully It frames Huang Yuxuan and Li Ziwei who ran away from the TV series "Want to See You". Film language only assumes the function of reproduction and reproduction, and loses its own artistic charm of language.
Back to the story itself, from the discussion of love, to the Mobius ring-style "know yourself", "I want to see you" in the shell of an idol drama, dissecting the trajectory of time and space, and finally returning to the ultimate fatalistic cycle of human beings.
The drama "Want to See You" is able to arouse the enthusiasm of many audiences, because it tries to use logical deduction as the time-space coordinate axis of daily narrative, stitching reality and fantasy, and achieving a "sensual emotion and rational law" Sisyphus" confrontation moment, and everyone in the play "becomes" the cause and effect of each other's fate, which also deepens the fateful relationship under this resistance from the drama level.
Here, the foreshadowing of daily life and logical deduction is particularly critical. As a series, "Want to See You" has created a country that imitates daily life for the audience through the volume of the TV series and the meticulousness of craftsmen. From inside the play to outside the play, the protagonist group of "Fengnan Squad" also became famous in one fell swoop. The ultimate addition of fictional and realistic emotional weights has been achieved, and both the characters themselves and the emotional relationship chains of the characters can be extended to the maximum extent.
But the problem is that when the movie version of "Want to See You" still uses the same story structure of the TV series, telling the story of Huang Yuxuan, Li Ziwei, Chen Yunru , the three souls travel through, and the fate is connected. In line with the logic of reality, in the movie version of "Want to See You", it has become a "silhouette" of montage screen with background music.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan went from acquaintance to ambiguous stage at the milk tea shop, through Li Ziwei buying milk tea all year round through the montage flash screen with music, rendering the relationship between the two advanced.
Immediately afterwards, the couple's daily outings continued until the New Year's Eve watching fireworks and confessing to each other. This part is still a montage flash scene with background music, presented in a kind of MV shooting, re-enacting the sweet romance of normal couples together that we can imagine.
Even if I strip away the characters and the story filter, the basic core story has not been established, the process of the two people's relationship advancing the plot is rough and embarrassing.
Even in the follow-up, the heroine's company team building, going to KTV to sing with everyone, still uses this MV technique to push the heroine's mood at the moment to the emotional rendering of the MV.
uses music and trivial pictures to promote the emotional outburst of the characters, just like we listen to love songs when we are sad about breaking up. It can be said that the first few decades of the movieMinutes, the effective information conveyed by the film is very little, let alone the image narrative that relies on the language of the film.
These flash montages and background music cannot allow the audience to capture the clues about the story, and lose the fun of logical reasoning in the episode "Want to See You".
The audience can only rely on a straightforward and uninteresting "emotional effect" over and over again to reach the audience's most superficial viewing nerves: the music is playing, I know this place, I should be moved.
But movies are not all about emotions. The success of the drama version of "Want to See You" is definitely not entirely dependent on an emotional outburst.
As mentioned earlier, the success magic of the drama version of "Want to See You" is actually to use mathematical rational thinking to deduce emotional logic, thus pushing the "Stone of Sisyphus" to the goal of Olympus On the top of the mountain, even if the stone will still fall due to gravity, it will not prevent Huang Yuxuan and Li Ziwei from continuing to cross under the love for each other.
The film version of "Want to See You", from the very beginning, ignored the image characteristics of the art form of film itself in the direction of planning, and the essence of film volume and series volume is not more or less, nor is it simply Compressing the content of the series in the MV style can achieve the presentation of the film language.
The narrative, video functions and story structures carried by the two have different emphases. The effective time in a movie is not judged by the amount of time, but the movie itself can reshape and deform the time axis through "moving images". Therefore, movies, this medium is more mysterious, and at the same time, it can better reflect the ambiguity and chaos of the relationship between time and space.
Unfortunately, in the movie version of "Want to See You", the movie has at best become a "limited-time proposition". It can be seen that the main creative team explained the story and the fate of the characters to the audience as clearly as possible within the limited time capacity, and even added a summary of the previous situation to Chen Yunru to round out the logic of the characters. But this method of filling the "blank space" also seems to be a mediocre burden for movies.
The final result of watching the movie is that it is difficult for people to realize that this is a movie through the video, and it is also difficult for those audiences who have not watched the drama version of "Want to See You" to feel that in the lyrics, "Through a thousand years A timeline", "Exhausted logic and scheming to reason about love", "Let the time change for four seasons, let the universe change or the stars move and never go out of fashion", these desperate, heavenly and earthly love, and the foreshadowing in the drama version More than 20 episodes of questioning the ultimate proposition of human beings.
The effective "time" in the movie version of "Want to See You" cannot afford the capacity of the story structure of the episode, not to mention that the first few tens of minutes of the movie are frantically using music and montage images to create the emotional rendering of the MV, which takes up a lot of time. A large number of pages are used for ineffective image narrative.
Of course, as expected, after watching the whole movie, the most commendable thing is still the acting skills of the heroine Ke Jiayan , and only the acting skills of the heroine make me feel that in the movie of more than 100 minutes, there are so many A few moments back to the moment of chasing dramas in 2019.
Perhaps, when the movie chooses to follow the story structure of the series, the fate of the movie is already doomed. The movie version of "Want to See You" has lost the essence of the drama version, leaving only the feelings of imagination. This feeling may still be worth a movie ticket.
When we sat in the movie theater and watched Li Ziwei propose marriage to Huang Yuxuan, we would still silently wipe away tears. But these are not directly related to the movie "Want to See You".
