Shi Tu, a wage earner, suddenly became the owner of a poorly managed zoo that was on the verge of bankruptcy. There is no shortage of keepers in the zoo, but there is only one bear suffering from depression. What to do with
? There is nothing you can't think of and nothing you can't do. Shi Tu was so imaginative that he specially made a batch of costumes for the keepers to wear. So in the originally poor zoo, there were pandas, kangaroos, orangutans and tigers, and each of them had unique skills, which made a group of tourists happy.
spread to tens and hundreds of people, and the zoo quickly became a place for Internet celebrities to check in, with an endless stream of visitors. Of course, deceiving customers is not allowed, and pretending to be an animal will definitely be exposed. Shi Tu publicly apologized, disbanded the zoo, and the bear suffering from depression was released into the wild...
is currently showing the movie "What's in the Zoo?" 》, it tells such a story.
Do you feel familiar?
No, I am not referring to the Korean movie " Secret Zoo ", but the online movie " Northeastern Beasts " released last year. The only difference is that in "Beasts of the Northeast", the protagonist Sun Xiaohu wanted to destroy the zoo run by his father from the beginning and sell it to developers for money. After finding ways to send the only tiger away for treatment, he just had people pretend to be animals. became a part of his play. It's just that the friends didn't understand the reason and worked hard to perform, which led to the zoo's business getting better and better.
The two films were released a year apart, with Douban scores of 4.2 and 5 respectively. I pondered, "What's in the Zoo?" "The 0.8 points higher may be a reward for at least clearly purchasing the copyright of "Secret Zoo". Unlike "Beasts of the Northeast", it didn't say anything and just let the audience guess: "Is this a remake or a plagiarism? ?"
Whether it's a remake or a "reference", in recent years, from "Twenty Again", " "Big"" ", " Please Don't Believe Her ", "Saving the Suspect" to "Priceless", Chinese filmmakers often get stories, ideas and inspiration from their Korean counterparts. This path itself has its own rationality. Scholar Liu Qi once pointed out that remakes are the fastest and most convenient way to localize genre creation, and it is also a simple and direct imitation method often used in the early stages of the development of genre films; the genre itself of Korean films It has gone through the process from borrowing to originality. For Chinese filmmakers, it is obviously safer and safer to choose Korean genre movies to remake.
But like "What's in the Zoo?" " and "Beasts of the Northeast", it is unprecedented to catch the same sheep and pluck them hard, and the sweaters weaved out are all low-quality woolen sweaters. As for whether it is unprecedented, it is hard to say yet.
What’s interesting is that actors Jia Bing appeared in both movies at the same time, playing similar roles: in "Beasts of the Northeast", he was the unscrupulous subordinate of the developer, and in "What's in the Zoo?" ", the moral level has not improved, but at least the status has improved and he has become the boss.
Just like "Beasts from the Northeast" is just an online movie, "What's in the Zoo?" "Although the quality is similar, it has become a theatrical movie.
Looking back at "Secret Zoo", Douban scored 6.6 points, which makes people secretly sigh: Douban fans really have high standards and strict requirements for Korean movies. At least, in order to fake it, the characters in the film are seriously learning to imitate the movements of animals, so much so that they are almost forming muscle memory.
Compared with them, the animals in our "zoo" are not only fake animals, but also low-end versions, and the entire movie has become a reduced-dimensional version of "Secret Zoo" rather than a remake.
Finally, Shitu dared to make false claims, perhaps because he felt that local tourists had never seen real animals. But there are real audiences in the cinema who have seen good movies, and they will ultimately decide what is in the cinema.
Author: Granny Drama
Text: Granny Drama Editor: Xu Luming Editor: Shaoling
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