□Lan Jiachen (Hunan Normal University)
Information announced on the National Film Administration website on March 26 showed that the Japanese film "The Last Hot Girl" will be remade in China, with the title "Counterattack Girl". Among domestic movie fans, "Bottom Hot Girl" has a high reputation, with a Douban score of 8.3 and more than 470,000 ratings. Therefore, the news of the remake quickly aroused heated discussions among netizens, with many netizens expressing concerns about the local adaptation of the film. In fact, every remake of a movie will be compared with the original work. In terms of results, most people think that the original version is better. For example, "Manslaughter" has a Douban score of 7.5, which is a good score, but the original film "Manslaughter" has a good score of 7.5. Tianji " score is as high as 8.6.
If this is the case, why do China still insist on remaking overseas IPs? In recent years, domestic movies seem to be obsessed with remakes, such as " Brilliant Her " is a remake of the Korean movie " Jichun Grandma ", " Rescue the Suspect " is a remake of the Korean movie " Seven Days ", " Second-hand Masterpiece" "" is a remake of the American movie "The Greatest Father in the World", " is a remake of the Spanish movie " The Invisible Guest ", and even this year's Spring Festival release " is hot and hot " has been questioned by netizens A remake of the Japanese movie " Hundred Yuan Love ". Many remake movies did not do well at the box office and received low ratings. It can be said that they lost both box office and reputation. In the past, audiences may have had expectations for remakes, but as more and more remakes hit the market, people have become more and more disappointed with them, so that every time they hear news about remakes, they almost always think, "The director is not worthy of filming, and the actors are not worthy." The cry of "acting".
This has led to a suspicion in society that the reason behind the popularity of remake movies is the lack of originality. This doubt is not groundless. Even director Zhang Yimou once bluntly stated in a master class at an international film festival that "China is short of good screenwriters." The reason is that on the one hand, original movie scripts are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and only screenwriters with writing skills, experience and ideas can write in-depth original scripts, which leads to a serious shortage of good scripts. On the other hand, Chinese screenwriters The status is too low compared to the United States, Japan and South Korea. The famous screenwriter Jia Dongyan expressed the hope that the screenwriting industry can "set things right" and that screenwriters can create complete scripts and give them fair rights to authorship.
Therefore, compared with original creations, remakes of foreign market-tested films have become a speculative path for many directors and screenwriters. However, domestic films and TV shows cannot rely solely on remakes to become popular, but must adhere to originality. "The Wandering Earth" has raised domestic science fiction movies to new heights, and "Article 20" has triggered public thinking about justice and humanity behind self-defense laws. In October last year, the domestic comedy "Hello, Li Huanying" was released by Sony Pictures Get the remake rights. It can be seen that excellent original scripts can be created in China. Creators must be attentive and immerse themselves in life to create high-quality scripts. At the same time, the status of screenwriters should also be improved. Directors and actors should not add, delete or modify script content at will. Remake of
is not the original sin, only relying on "appropriationism" is the sin. Movie remakes are actually a routine operation in film production, but remakes have two most important points. One is reasonable localized detail processing to expand depth, and the other is injecting a new spirit of the times into classic masterpieces. These two points are still inseparable. The word original. As the screenwriter who successfully adapted the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" into a TV series said, "No one needs a series that repeats the movie. What we want to do is make something completely original." In fact, many viewers will not completely resist movie remakes, and are even happy to see localized changes in classic works. Some people will also jokingly call them "remakes of movies that are more suitable for Chinese people's constitution."
The author believes that the prosperity of the domestic film market cannot allow the "remake trend" to get bigger and bigger. Stop the excessive purchase of copyrights. We must delve into original scripts and write local stories well. Even if we remake them, we cannot blindly copy them, but we should make local adaptations. Solve the film narrative gap in cross-cultural contexts and inject new spirit of the times and cultural core.
