Jimu News Chief Reporter Rong Yu On November 9, the domestic film "The Untold Story" adapted from the extremely popular online novel was released. Fueled by the IP effect of the original work, the film's box office on the first day was close to 63 million yuan. With more than 38%

Jimu News Chief Reporter Rong Yu

On November 9, the domestic film "The Untold Story of " adapted from the super popular online novel was released. Fueled by the IP effect of the original work, the film's box office on the first day was close to 6,300. 10,000, beating out all competitors with over 38% of the box office share, and Fault won the day’s box office championship.

But unfortunately, the aura of IP adaptation did not continue to shroud the lovers "Chen Mingsheng" and "Yang Zhao". As "The Untold Story" meets more and more audiences in theaters, the film's reputation continues to decline, and it only received a low rating of 5.7 points on Douban. As of now, the film's total box office has not exceeded 90 million yuan on the 4th day of its release, and big data's prediction of its total box office has been lowered from 240 million on the first day of release to the current 120 million.

"Be Ceiling" moves to the big screen

"Chen Mingsheng, I'm here to find you."

0 years ago, the novel "The Unknown Story" was serialized on the Internet platform and received more than 1.7 billion reading clicks. The author's The love tragedy of undercover drug police officer "Chen Mingsheng" and antique restorer "Yang Zhao" is regarded as the "ceiling of be aesthetics", and this unremarkable dialogue in the book carries the soul of the original novel and has gained countless Tears and heartbreak from fans.

Although the title of the book is "Untold Story", this novel is not only a top player in the field of online literature, but also a "head" adaptation resource in the eyes of the film and television industry. In the past few years, there have been many rumors that "The Untold Story" will be adapted into a film and TV series. Movie and TV series projects have also been announced. In the end, the first ones to debut were Qiu Ze and Lang Yueting . movie version.

When a best-selling novel is transformed into a film and television, the most worrying thing for book fans is undoubtedly the casting of the main role. After the movie version of "The Untold Story" announced the cast, it sparked heated discussions among book fans. Book fan "Prometheus" told Jimu News that the reason why the novel "The Untold Story" became so popular is that the characters of the two protagonists are crucial. "One is a disabled undercover policeman who lives outside the crowd. , one is an emotionally indifferent antique restorer. Their lives have no intersection, but they are driven by fate to fall in love and are pulled apart by impermanence. "

"Prometheus" praised the original author for his accurate portrayal of the two characters. "So even though everyone hates BE, they feel that if Chen Mingsheng and Yang Zhao were real, this ending would be their only choice."

According to "Prometheus", "The Unknown After the novel "Story" became popular, book fans spontaneously recommended the best actors for film and television. Ni Ni , Zhu Yan Manzi , Song Jia were all "Yang Zhao" with higher votes, and the leading actor "Chen Mingsheng" was Popular candidates include Luo Jin , Zhang Zhen and others. Therefore, when the cast of the movie version was officially announced, many book fans expressed disappointment, thinking that Qiu Ze and Lang Yueting's "cp sense" was not strong, especially the simple temperament of the heroine Lang Yueting, who was not as cold and decisive as in the novel. Yang Zhao.

Judging from the feedback from the audience after the release of "The Untold Story", many book fans once again expressed their disapproval of the casting, thinking that it did not meet their imagination when reading the text and failed to recreate the protagonist in their minds. , and this has become one of the reasons for the low rating of "The Untold Story".

Book fans are more optimistic about the TV series version

Although the casting choices cannot satisfy all book fans, the more important reason for the low reputation of the movie "The Untold Story" lies in the script adaptation. The original novel of "The Untold Story" has a lot of content that is light on narrative and heavy on atmosphere. The author's excellent writing style helps book fans enter the situation. If this style of novel is adapted into a movie, if the screenwriter cannot make up for the "shortcomings" of film and television, the audience will have an MV-style viewing experience.

In the Douban message area of ​​the movie "The Untold Story", many viewers left comments criticizing the movie version of the story for being "missing" and unclear. As for the detailed adaptation of the ending of the movie version, some book fans said they could not understand. "I can't accept that Chen Mingsheng's last words were, 'Buy me a bowl of wild wontons, remember to add a poached egg.' The sudden sense of impermanence in the novel was immediately weakened."

Some netizens said that they cried while reading the book. I was so upset that I brought tissues to the cinema to "torture" myself again this time. "In the end, I didn't use any of them." However, regarding the performance of the actors in the film, most viewers still recognized Qiu Ze's acting skills and thought he "I showed my best performance in a limited space." When the crew of the

movie "The Untold Story" was interviewed by the media, director Zhang Yan said that the team made many adjustments to the script and tried to stay close to the original novel. After reviewing a large number of comments from book fans, they considered it The most touching lines and scenes in the original work have been transplanted into the movie.

But judging from the final effect of the movie, if you want to adapt a popular novel with a large number of readers into a 2-hour movie, you have to face too many challenges. Facts have proved that after watching the film on the premiere day, a large number of book fans discovered that "The Untold Story" turned into a movie was not the story they were familiar with. The audience comments on the premiere day also directly led to the film's weak box office success. Soon It was surpassed by films such as "Burn the City" and "Venom: The Last Dance".

Public information shows that "The Untold Story" is likely to be adapted into a TV series again, which has also become a great comfort for book fans. Book fans unanimously believe that "The Untold Story" is more suitable to be adapted into a TV series. "The capacity is larger and many details in the book can be presented. If too much content is cut off like a movie, it will feel like it is gone all of a sudden. "

(Picture source: official public information of the film)

(Source: Jimu News)

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