In the past two years, domestic movies have been competing with remakes.
Looking through the film list at random, six or seven of the ten films are remakes. Originality should be something that filmmakers should strive to do, but now it has become a luxury.
found a ready-made book, simply added some popular elements, and added realism. Xuanfa deliberately avoided remakes, and finally the movie was released. The ready-made formula of
has become an assembly line, and the same is true for " Brilliant Her ", which is another heartwarming remake of the Korean movie " Jichun Grandma ".
Remake is not the original sin, but domestic directors and screenwriters never seem to understand what a remake means.
adaptation is not simply copying, nor is it changing the surname Zhang to Li, but localization and reasonably embedding the story into the movie.
If Sergio Leone didn't copy the diamonds of Akira Kurosawa's " Yojimbo " 1:1, there would be no need to imitate other people's porcelain work, otherwise it would just be a copycat.
Maybe they have that ability, but they are just too lazy. They can get high scores in open-book exams, so why bother themselves with closed-book exams, thus following the lazy logic of producing bad movies again and again.
Actually, it would be unfair to say that "Brilliant Her" was completely copied. At least part of the plot was deleted, and the gambling father, Guo Zhao's Liu Haocun, was added.
just changed it like this. The intention of sensationalism is too obvious. Sensation is not a treasonous thing. As long as it is just right, it is not bad. On the contrary, it is done deliberately.
However, the director added more hardships to the protagonist, but the explanation was sloppy and hasty. It started in a hurry and couldn't wait to end. The whole thing was too rushed, highlighting the sloppiness.
This causes the emotional appeal to drop as soon as it rises. It's like calling Nobita and everyone out just because of something as trivial as Shizuka sneezing.
Maybe the director also knew that the driving force was insufficient, so he made the protagonists cry from beginning to end. No matter what the situation, they cried first as a sign of respect.
In the understanding of domestic directors, there are only big and small tears when moved. Like most actors, crying is regarded as the highest acting skill. It seems that if you can't cry, you don't know how to act.
But they have completely forgotten or simply don't care that restraint is the trigger for tears. Although it is a test of ability, the audience is looking for sincerity when watching such a tender film.
Like "Grandma Jichun", the protagonists cry only a handful of times, and the text is very cliche, but why does it move people's hearts?
Because it is natural and smooth, it is done in one go. Even if the script is calculated, it does not matter, because the director makes people remember their feelings instead of crying.
Because if you remember it, you will never forget it, and if you cannot forget it, it will be in your heart, even if the director does not "I've worked so hard, why don't you cry" is clearly displayed on the screen, and the audience can't help it.
Obviously, "Brilliant Her" does not have such a role. The emotions are distorted, and how can tears well up in the eyes.
In addition, in "Grandma Jichun", the grandmother found Huizhi and took a photo together.
Huizhi (fake) smiles but doesn't smile, and grandma doesn't laugh as heartily as she usually does when she is with Huizhi. This is a scene in the movie, which has the effect of connecting the previous and the following.
First, it shows the process of Huizhi (fake) being melted and integrated into grandma's love, which naturally leads to the following.
Secondly, it shows that grandma knew from the beginning that Hui Zhi (fake) was not her granddaughter, laying a foreshadowing, intertwined with the reversal of grandma's recording at the end, and Eun-joo's return home again.
The third is to highlight that wisdom (false) is her hope for living a lonely life. She also treats Eun-joo as her granddaughter, and their relationship is also very true.
"Brilliant She" also has such a photo, but it happened when Liu Haocun went to Fuzhou to take the exam.
In this way, the taste is very different. Just like the photos of Liu Haocun, his father who is addicted to gambling, it is purely to make the audience cry, but the audience can hardly feel the close relationship between Hui Yinghong and Liu Haocun from the film.
This is because "Brilliant She" lacks details that express their deep love between ancestors and grandchildren.
For example, in the original work "Grandma Jichun", there is a plot of raising pigs. When Huizhi goes to the toilet, it always comes to feast.
Especially at night, when the pig ran over, Huizhi was so scared that she screamed. Grandma rushed over and told her that she must take her to the toilet in the future.
In the later part of the memory, Xiao Huizhi mentioned this pig again. After grandma lost her memory, everyone specially brought a pig that was exactly the same as the previous one.
As a symbol in the film, this pig assumes three emotions at different stages of the plot development.
Grandma cares deeply about her granddaughter, granddaughter (Hyizhi) cares about grandma, and everyone and granddaughter (Eunjoo) show their true feelings for grandma.
Although it is an inconspicuous insertion, it can moisturize and move things silently and naturally. The world is constantly changing, but some love will not weaken by half because of this.
"Brilliant She" actually changed the pig into a dog, which was a very flattering approach.
One is human's friend, the other is human's food, a natural sensational tool, but the director did not use them, making the dog not even a tool dog.
The beginning is fleeting, the middle is fleeting, and the end is about smelling the scent and finding the lost grandma. That's it. It's wasteful and cumbersome. It's better to just copy this scene from the original work.
Grandma is her granddaughter who was lost in the market. She has been searching here since she lost her memory, and then asked her (fake) granddaughter to find her in the market, killing two birds with one stone.
not only allows the grandma to complete the atonement and no longer feel guilty for losing her granddaughter, but also allows the granddaughter (fake) to change her identity and become a real granddaughter with her granddaughter's (real) love and her love, forming a family relationship. closed loop.
There is another shortcoming in the adaptation of "Brilliant Her", and that is the title.
In the original film, Hui Zhi (fake) calls Grandma Ji Chun from grandma to Grandma Ji Chun and then to grandma. At first, she is a fake granddaughter, and she keeps calling her.
Later, she hoped to have such a grandma but was afraid that she was not worthy, so she called her Grandma Ji Chun. Finally, Grandma Ji Chun accepted her, and she regarded herself as Grandma Jichun's granddaughter, so she changed her name to Grandma. The difference in the name of
is Keiji's growth and the change of her identity, which complements the plot. No more words are needed, but "Brilliant She" can't even learn this.
It can be seen that the director probably didn't think much about how to make it well before filming "Brilliant Her", let alone paid attention to it. He didn't think about it, and the things he shot must look fake.
They never understand or don't want to understand what "the times are different, we need to take a longer view, the audience's standards are getting higher and higher, and 'those who learn from me will live, and those who are like me will die'" means.
can only suddenly feel up and down. He understands that "the brows are lowered, but the heart is in the heart" (literal meaning only), but he can't see that there is "flowers drifting by themselves and water flowing by themselves." A kind of lovesickness, two places of leisure Sad. There is no way to eliminate this feeling."
