was released, the total box office of the movie "Want to See You" exceeded 100 million yuan. When I saw the news, the reporter found that its Douban score dropped by 0.1 points.
"So temporarily close your eyes, and float my expectations in the darkness..." After three years of waiting, the movie version of "Want to See You", which once triggered a craze for watching dramas, was finally released on December 24 this year. Although the original cast reappears the suspenseful and brain-burning love, it seems to be full of sincerity, but the Douban score of the drama version of "Want to See You" is as high as 9.2, and the movie version of "Want to See You" is now only 6.6 points.
As early as when the series was on the air, many viewers called for a sequel. Now that the movie is released, it is also called a "gift for fans of the show". However, the drop from 9.2 to 6.6 proves that this gift is ultimately just Are you "cutting leeks"?
Watching an episode in the cinema
The drama version of "Want to See You" premiered on November 17, 2019. It is an urban fantasy suspense love drama starring Ke Jiayan , Xu Guanghan , Shi Baiyu . The play tells the story of the heroes and heroines in 1998 and 2019, traveling through time and space through a tape, looking for each other's love stories.
In the movie version of "Want to See You", the timeline restarts to three years before the drama version. In order to find the lost lover, the hero and heroine rely on a tape to travel from 2017 to 2014, trying to change their fate and start over. The way of telling the story and the core design are very similar to the drama version. The director, screenwriter and starring are almost all the original crew, which ensures the original flavor of the film. But compared to the series, the one-and-a-half-hour movie is slightly perfunctory in narrative, and many details are passed by montage and , which is far less surprising than the explosion of information when watching a drama. The film did not further sublimate the structure of the story, or expand the world view, and many people even felt that the story became smaller as it was told.
Moving from a small screen to a big screen is not only about enlarging the size of the screen, but also the problem that needs to be considered is that after entering the theater, the work has to face not only fans of the drama, but also a large number of ordinary audiences. However, it is almost an insoluble paradox to please fans and ordinary audiences at the same time. The attitude of the film creator in previous interviews was quite ambiguous, "(shooting this movie) we originally wanted to give back to the many fans who love us-but you can still watch it if you haven't seen the drama version, it is also a movie. A relatively independent story."
In fact, there is still a big difference in viewing experience whether you have watched the drama or not. The movie does not have a special review of the character setting and relationship between the characters in the play. The characters of Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan who have more scenes are more full, while the characters of Mo Junjie and Wang Chuansheng who don't have many words are slightly thinner. Audiences who have watched the drama are equivalent to understanding the history of the characters, and can automatically fill in the weak parts of the movie, while in the eyes of audiences who have not watched the drama, these characters are very like tool people-this kind of movie-watching experience, probably It is equivalent to the audience's common perception of the newly added character in the movie, Yang Hao played by Jin Shijia and : inexplicable and vague.
Jin Shijia is not a play, I feel that he is trying to reduce his sense of existence with the mentality of "I am here to join this family, not to tear it apart" and try not to spoil the story, but this character has little to do with the whole story. Moreover, no matter whether he plays or not, the addition of Yang Hao is a big failure in the movie. In the drama version, , Chen Yunru, , and Mo Junjie have an emotional relationship. In the movie, Chen Yunru’s emotional drama is divided in half to Yang Hao. It was also hollowed out, and when I thought of his melancholy and hesitant appearance with the stubble on his face, I felt that what was filled in hastily in the end was not the story he originally wanted to tell. Moving
from the small screen to the big screen requires an upgrade in production. Many popular Japanese dramas will release theatrical versions, that is, movie versions, which need to be further upgraded in terms of story framework, clothing, cast, and even scenes, including the two recently released Japanese animation films "Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween" "" "One Piece: The Red-haired Diva" are the theatrical versions of anime series, whether it is the appearance of popular characters to start new stories, or thrilling scenes, action scenes, etc., have become the selling points that attract audiences to watch in theaters.
In the movie "Want to See You", the story only expands from Taipei to Shanghai, adding Yang Hao played by Jin Shijia, and changing the time of the original storyAlthough the core of suspenseful love is retained, it is not enough to upgrade. It is enough to do a special episode of "Pay to Unlock". This also makes watching "Want to See You", even though the screen becomes larger, it is like sitting in a theater watching an episode of a web drama. In particular, the projectionist in the theater the reporter watched may be a temporary part-time job, and the picture format has not been adjusted to the best. There is still a circle of black borders around the small screen, which makes the iPad feel more intense.
The IPs without extra points are all consumed
Although "Want to See You" hastily announced on December 20 that it will be released on December 24, there is not much time left for announcements, but the popularity of the series IP is still the first to be released The weekend draws quite a few crowds. On December 24th and 25th, the national single-day box office exceeded 100 million for two consecutive days. The proportion of "Want to See You" is second only to "Avatar 2", which has a significant boost to the box office. According to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, as of 0:00 on December 28, the total national box office (including pre-sale) of the 2022 Lunar New Year file (November 25-December 31) reached 1.26 billion yuan, and "Want to See You" is currently listed The 2022 Lunar New Year box office ranked third.
After watching the movie, some people feel very satisfied and make up for the regrets in the series, while others think that the film is just a simplified copy of the structure of the series. Objectively speaking, "Want to See You" is by no means a bad movie or a money-making work. It is better than most love movies this year, such as " Don't Forget I Love You " with a score of 3.1, and " I Really Want to Go" with a score of 4.5. Your World Loves You ", "Ten Years, One Product Wen Ruyan" with a score of 2.8 is also far better than "Your Wedding" starring Xu Guanghan released last year with a score of 4.6.
In the situation that domestic romance films are generally below 5 points, it is considered a high score to be able to pass.
What's interesting is that when "Your Wedding" was officially announced as the starring role, it was Xu Guanghan who became a new generation of male gods with Li Ziwei in "Want to See You", and the protagonist's character setting and some plot routines in the film are looming I am studying "Want to See You", and it even makes people feel that this is a customized movie to meet the needs of fans to watch Xu Guanghan on the big screen.
The reporter predicted at the time that Xu Guanghan could consume his personal IP to boost the box office once, but it was impossible to have a second time.
It may be unfortunate that when "Want to See You" appeared on the big screen with the original "Li Ziwei", fans no longer had the original fawning. "Want to See You" currently has a box office of more than 100 million, but it is still far away from "Your Wedding" with 700 million. In fact, Xu Guanghan's performance in "Want to See You" is far more layered than in "Your Wedding". One person plays the two roles of Li Ziwei and Wang Chuansheng, which can also clearly make people feel the difference between the characters, but fans are already there. I have seen Xu Guanghan on the big screen. Moving
from web dramas to the big screen is undoubtedly an effort to continue the vitality of the IP, but for an IP, if the remake does not add points to it, then it is a waste.
"Want to See You" is not low in completion, and there are serious ideas in the design of the suspense core and timeline, unlike the movie version of " Love Apartment ", "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom" and " The Best of Us " " Smiles Very Allure " and other fan-oriented works, it is hard to say that it was shot for "cutting leeks". But no matter whether it wants to cut leeks or not, a helpless fact is that word-of-mouth is far from reaching the height of the drama version, and the value of its IP has been irreparably damaged.
When the "Want to See You" episode was released, the most attractive thing for the audience was the left hand "Douban" and the right hand " Zhihu ". While watching the drama with a microscope, they sorted out the foreshadowing of the details and reasoned about the fun of the subsequent plot. There are a lot of details and blank space in the drama, giving the audience enough room for appreciation and interpretation. However, due to different viewing methods, no matter how skilled the audience is, they cannot reproduce the sketches drawn by Li Ziwei on the blackboard in the film from memory. The upsurge of chasing dramas. A
remake, perhaps just like developing a spin-off, is not the right approach for every IP. Perhaps for the main creator of "Want to See You", it is difficult to answer what is the core of this IP. Is it the love of "Want to See You", time travel, suspense, or Wubai tape? Whether it is telling a love story in a suspenseful way, or constantly traveling back and changing the past, these are all traceable in other works. loveDoes the theme IP really have room for expansion? The failure of "Want to See You" is also worthy of consideration by other creators. Editor-in-Chief of
column: Shi Chenlu Text editor: Shi Chenlu
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Source: Author: Zhong Han
