In recent years, the remake of film and television works has become a kind of "craze". In recent years, the number of remakes has soared. Among them, period dramas and modern themes account for the majority, including the four major IPs "Journey to the West" and "Xin Bai "Legend of a Lady" and the recently popular "Three Lives III Pillow Book". However,
presents the characteristics of mixed good and bad. This year's remakes, some of can be called classics, and some are only short-lived, and cannot escape the fate of "high ratings, low reputation".
Current status of domestic remakes
01, serious homogeneity
Many domestic remakes are adapted from excellent IP at home and abroad.
is either the adaptation and re-creation of classic film and television works, or the extension and expansion of well-known comics or literary works, which also leads to the fact that the content structure of our remakes is relatively simple and the homogeneity is more serious. In the case of capital chasing profit, many investors and producers of will blindly follow the trend under the temptation of high economic benefits, which leads to the accumulation of homogenized themes, thus forming a "vicious circle".
and the lack of original content, so that more producers and film investors are chasing classic IP with its own fan effect, using popular stars to achieve a short-term outbreak.
, and once it is significantly different from the original, it will cause viewers to criticize it.
It is true that because of the IP support of the remake, especially fixed fans, it can attract more audiences who are interested in the original work in a short period of time and gain a higher degree of attention. However, behind the high degree of topicality, there are also false prosperity scenes, which cannot fundamentally enhance the core competitiveness of our film and television drama creation.
02, heavy special effects but light content
. Compared with original film and television series, most of the remakes have lower barriers and costs, and shorter production cycles. Therefore, many remakes have uneven and more extensive features. The picture, special effects, storyline, character and the transmission of values all have the problem of "not refined enough", focusing on special effects and neglecting content.
Even if a creative team invites a more professional film and television production team, there will be logic and narrative deviations due to insufficient control over the original story, which will affect the viewing experience.
In existing remakes, especially myths or costume dramas, special effects are an extremely important part. However, special effects themselves serve the "effects" in film and television works.
When many creative teams are doing special effects, is just trying to make a "qualitative" leap from the old version. As a result, many ancient costume works have no special effects but lack high-quality content.
For example, in the "Three Lives Three Worlds Pillow Book", it can be seen that the director wants the audience to experience the alternative "beautiful love and love", and also invited the special effects of "The Wandering Earth" The team, however, is beautiful, but it lacks the "auxiliary" role of special effects to the plot and deviates from its original intention.
03, the character image ignores the historical heaviness
character is the core embodiment of film and television works, the success of a work is closely related to the shaping of characters.
In classic film and television works, many viewers will also be deeply impressed by a play because of its characters, such as the magical Monkey King, Zhuge Liang who has done his best, and Wu Song who is bold and righteous.
For many modern film and television remakes, the creative team wants to present something "new" to the audience. has "hardened" the story and character modeling, and strives to create a new visual effect with the original. However, it ignores the heavyness of history.
For example, some remakes have greatly changed the character modeling, and even processed and created them according to their own understanding and experience of history. As a result, the remakes lost the charm of the original characters and were complained by the audience.
Thinking and breaking through
remakes are so popular that they must have their advantages and strengths in dissemination. However, once they are not grasped well, more problems are prone to appear. Then, remakesWhere is the road to break through?
01, the transmission of positive energy and correct values
In modern society, film and television works are not only a way for people to rest and entertain, but also convey and think about the audience's ideological values.
British psychology professor Richard Wiseman said in his book "Positive Energy":
"Positive energy refers to all the motivations that give people hope and upwards, promote people's continuous improvement, and the inner needs of life. "
good film and television works can not only bring the audience a positive attitude towards life, can also transform such positive energy into the driving force for continuous hard work in life , so that people can get something and gain in entertainment.
02, based on reality, diversified content production
In my country, the main audience for remakes is still young audiences who are loyal to the original. Today, is crowded with genres. What the remakes really lack is realism that is closely related to the audience. If
is divorced from reality, it will leave the creator in a state of "self-heavy" and the limitation of aesthetic isolation.
In 2019, there was a remake of a foreign film and television work "Late Night Canteen", inviting the starring actor Leung Ka Fai, the picture is beautiful, healing and warm, but still more viewers feel that "ungrounded, separated from the lives of Chinese people"! The reason for the formation of
is not because of the carelessness of the play, but because of the hindrance of creation. The limitation of the original
makes the whole style of the movie close to the Japanese style, instead of conforming to the real life of the Chinese people of "beer, drink, skewer".
Russian literary critic Shklovsky once vigorously advocated realism.
He believes:
“Art production is the defamiliarization of real life. Creators need to obtain materials from real life, and through artistic processing, they will defamiliarize the life they are usually familiar with.”
Realistic themes are the basis of art. On the way home, can only avoid blind creation if it is based on the present and deeply cultivates realism themes.
Lunar New Year file, a film remake from the Indian movie "Manslaughter" and the movie "Manslaughter", with a small investment of 1.2 billion yuan in the box office. Behind the high reputation is the processing of the original material in the adaptation. Refinement, based on the aesthetic thinking of the present and the Chinese, has unearthed the emotional factors of empathy among the present. In the adaptation of the Indian version,
did not blindly "self-heel", but focused on the skills of "storytelling", creating more vivid and high-quality scripts, which aroused the audience's thinking.
This is a breakthrough and innovation in the remake of our country, which has a certain mirror value for the development of film and television remakes.
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