The movie "Dream of Red Mansions" was a huge flop with bad reviews and a bleak box office performance! This is obviously not surprising, but has been expected. The overturn of the movie "A Dream of Red Mansions" is not an isolated case among today's adaptations and rema

received a lot of bad reviews, the box office was bleak, and the movie " A Dream of Red Mansions " turned upside down!

This is obviously not unusual, but has been expected.

The overturn of the movie "Dream of Red Mansions" is not an isolated case among today's adaptations and remakes of classics. Before

there was the "Fairy Sword" series, and after that there was "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World". There has never been a shortage of latecomers in the remake and adaptation of classics. For "Dream of Red Mansions", the first of the four famous classics, it is undoubtedly more difficult than those classic IPs in the past. Especially when it was made into a movie, let alone when it was made into a movie that lasted less than two hours. It is obviously impossible to present the original content of more than 700,000 words.

But director Hu Mei didn't believe it. She would rather face the difficulties and make the impossible possible.

This courage is indeed worthy of appreciation!

has gone through eighteen years. Regardless of the result, this persistence alone is admirable.

But for a movie, especially a remake of a classic, these are actually not important.

Judging from the results of the movie "Dream of Red Mansions", whether it is the quality of the film or the reputation and box office, it does not match the eighteen years. We don’t know what happened behind

.

But judging from the results, it can still be declared that this adaptation and remake was a failure.

is not a failure in the result, but it is doomed from the source.

In the 1980s and 1990s, it was an era rich in classics, such as the 1986 version of "Journey to the West ", the 1987 version of "A Dream of Red Mansions", and later " Romance of the Three Kingdoms " and " Water Margin ". Even though More than thirty years have passed, but it is still an insurmountable peak.

The so-called classics must have withstood the test of time, gone through the wash of the years, chosen by history and the audience to stay, and have already become part of the common memory of the public!

The people who created the classics all created them with piety and awe under extremely difficult conditions. Nowadays, although the conditions have been greatly improved, there is no such state of mind. Instead, we always think about subversion and innovation. Naturally, it is difficult to remake and adapt it well.

In an era that lacks ingenuity and awe, the road to remake classics is undoubtedly even more difficult.

87 version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" also took many years to be filmed. In addition to basic training, director Wang Fulin also asked everyone to "fall in love with the characters in the book". Even if you can't act, don't be afraid. The key is to be like that character.

Although director Hu Mei has also gone through this process, the requirements and results are completely different.

There is still a difference in mentality behind this.

Those people at that time really loved "Dream of Red Mansions" and really devoted themselves to it. They studied, researched and filmed with piety and awe, and they had a sense of mission and responsibility. Today's creators, kidnapped by capital, always want to innovate and capture the hearts of the audience. They lack awe of classics and are more market-oriented. The starting point of

is very different, which determines the difference in results.

Director Hu Mei once said frankly:

"'A Dream of Red Mansions' is an encyclopedia of feudal society. In addition to poetry and songs, it also touches on the value of food, medicine, architecture, textiles, folk customs, social systems and other aspects. I want to put it all in one movie." It is impossible to show it here, and there are many ambiguities in the whole text. We don’t want to be greedy for too much, and we just want to pull out a line, break it up, break it up and explain it clearly, and turn it into a narrative structure that fits the movie.”

This passage can be understood to mean that "Dream of Red Mansions" is to serve the movie, rather than the movie serving "Dream of Red Mansions".

Adhering to this point of view to remake and adapt, it will obviously cause big problems.

So, in the end, this is what we see today.

Director Hu Mei also emphasized:

"Snow White" and "War and Peace" in the West have also been remade, why can't "Dream of Red Mansions"? Using modern film language and good director skills to reinterpret Chinese classics should be our watch. Family skills. "

can be said to be steadfast in his vows. He has no so-called piety and awe, and there is already something wrong with his mentality.

And this is what most creators have in common today.

always has a arrogant attitude, thinking that it is omnipotent and flaunting its creative abilities. But in fact, it has no internal skills. It blindly emphasizes technology but ignores artistic expression. In the end, it is arbitrary adaptation.

Therefore, in the movie "A Dream of Red Mansions", there are technologies piled up with money everywhere.

As for technology, without soul, such technology is worthless, especially for the masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions". The luxury of

's service and the gorgeous visual effects of the scenes are not expensive, and after all, they are just technical.

The most taboo thing about movies is large-scale, comprehensive and superficial expressions, and the movie "Dream of Red Mansions" just violated this taboo. Director

has repeatedly emphasized that this is a youth version of "Dream of Red Mansions", created for contemporary young people, but she has ignored whether the young people in her eyes like to accept it. In other words, the young people she calls are all imaginary.

On one side is the classic and on the other side is the market. The creator ultimately chose the market. The problems with the

adaptation strategy are often fatal. The movie "A Dream of Red Mansions" made a fatal mistake. It did not find a certain balance between classics and innovation. Instead, it innovated for the sake of innovation and the market, but was eventually completely abandoned by the market.

is an adaptation behind closed doors, an adaptation that caters too much, an adaptation that emphasizes technology, an adaptation without awe, an adaptation without ingenuity... How can

be successful?

It is never easy to remake and adapt classics. Latecomers always don’t want to simply remake, but want bold adaptations.

Being bold must be careful, but latecomers often fail to do so, and naturally they end up falling over.

Classic remake and adaptation, where is the road ahead?

In fact, the predecessors have already pointed out the way, set an example, and set an example. However, future generations are often too self-righteous and want to escape, so it is normal for the result to overturn.