16, the movie "New Nine-Rank Sesame Official" was released. According to Beacon Professional Edition, as of noon on the 19th, the box office in theaters across the country in four days was only 3,647 yuan, and a total of 109 people watched the movie in theaters.
The film is adapted from Wang Jing's 1994 film "The Nine-Pin Sesame Official (White Bread Blue Sky)", starring Stephen Chow, Ng Man-tat and others. Although this film has been 30 years ago, more than 700,000 people still gave it a high score of 8.7 on Douban. It is also an important masterpiece of Stephen Chow.
At a time when remakes and adaptations of classics are in vogue, "九品官" has also received a remake, and even some of the original cast members, such as Huang Yishan and Yuan Qiongdan, have joined.
However, when the reporter opened Douban, "New Nine Pins Sesame Official" received negative reviews. The film was also launched simultaneously on the video platform, so the number of short reviews reached 148, and everyone basically gave it one star. Netizen
commented, “I didn’t even understand the remake, and I didn’t edit it well.” “It’s a pity that I can only give one star at the lowest, why can’t I give it a negative score?” “I was deceived, Sister Pomegranate didn’t even have a few scenes, the old version "It's a simple remake, the quality of the Internet is great", "It can also be ranked among the bad movies. It is very risky to copy the classic works of the star. The star himself uses his own works, and the effect is also very poor, such as " The New King of Comedy "."
The previously released copywriting of "New 9th Grade Sesame Official" shows that some of the original cast members came to pay tribute to the classics. Yuan Qiongdan and Huang Yishan, two veteran actors who had outstanding performances in the original work, once again appeared as The Third Aunt and the Emperor, "The film inherits the nonsensical comedy style of the original work, and also adds elements such as suspense, fantasy, and action, making the film more diverse and rich in viewing experience. The fox fairy snatches the bride, the massacre of the family, the difficulty of deciding between black and white...a series of thrilling Weird and suspenseful events are staged one after another. How will Bao Longxing turn the tide and uphold justice under many difficulties? "
However, after checking the products, netizens found that the plots of "New 9th Grade Sesame Official" and "9th Grade Sesame Official" overlapped. As high as 90%, but the characters in the new version have no distinctive features, and the actors are not likeable. The sense of absurdity and irony in the original version has been greatly weakened. This remake is simply meaningless, as simple and boring as ordinary online movies. .
For many Hong Kong film lovers, the nonsensical comedy "The Nine-Rank Sesame Official" co-produced by Stephen Chow and Wong Jing at their peak is a childhood memory for many people. Although the film is a comedy masterpiece, it pays tribute to many popular unofficial histories or plots of novels, such as "The Case of Bao Gong". The plot elements also adopt "Wang Jinglong Meets Su San", "Yu Hong Pattern", "The Injustice of Dou E" and "The Case of Yang Naiwu" " and other legends, and even " Tianlong Babu ", the film also uses short stories or unofficial histories of celebrities such as Zuo Zongtang, Zai Chen, Zhou Bangyan, Li Shishi, Yang Youji, etc. The characters who appear in the play are Emperor Tongzhi, Li Lianying and Fang Tangjing are also real people, and they can be described as entertaining and educational.
What is more common is that in recent years, Hong Kong film IPs have often been remade into major online movies. There are very few masterpieces, and they are basically ruining classics. For example, in 2021's "The Dragon", Stephen Chow's old partners Huang Yishan, Huang Yifei and Luo Jiaying All participated, and Douban scored 4 points. In addition, there are " A Chinese Ghost Story ", "Hedong Lion's Roar", " Tang Bo Hu Dian Qiuxiang ", " Four Famous Catchers ", " God of Gamblers ", etc., all of which have also been remade in the form of major online movies. .
Previously, it was reported that many leading online movie companies have purchased classic Hong Kong films such as " Qi Men Dun Jia ", "Naked Agent", "God of Gamblers", "New Shaolin Group Five" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" in recent years. Reproduction rights. However, as copyright issues continue to be resolved, it is even more urgent to improve the quality of remakes. If the plot remains intact and a few original actors are returned, such a remake that cannot reflect the current significance is lazy and rogue, and will not only fail to revitalize classics , it is destroying the classics.
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Kong Xiaoping
proofreader Xu Heng
editor Chen Zhe
