This film tells me two things: 1. Old Mei can't play with oriental themes, 2. Nai Fei can't play movies.
Lao Mei adapted Oriental themes. In addition to this "Death Note", the previous "Dragon Ball" is also a mess, and those Japanese horror films have turned into plasma films in the hands of Americans. I was not afraid of watching horror movies. I watched it directly as a comedy after seeing plasma movies. I was surprised and exaggerated to be tripped by high heels at critical moments. This kind of plot would make me laugh so hard to find Bei. So overall, I have never taken the old American adaptations of Oriental themes (especially mysterious ones) seriously.
Nai Fei photographed Marco Polo, which mentioned Mongolia and Song Dynasty. Although the persuasion is very good, the characters have no temperament and charm, and their motivations are completely like modern Americans. For a time, they laughed off the teeth of history lovers in our country. However, the American people don’t like to watch Chinese Americans pretend to be on the TV in weird clothes, so this TV drama with huge investment and trying to open up the Asian market ended in a dismal ending.
The second point is that Nai Fei can't make movies. That's a long-standing thing. You can set the storyline to be longer when shooting TV, but you can’t do that when shooting movies, but Nai Fei does just that, so the movies it shoots are too warm, such as "Gears of War" starring Pi Dashuai, Bong Junhao The director's "Yuzi", "Skinny" starring the little beauty Lily Collins, and the "Death Note" I'm going to talk about today.
The above films have one thing in common: I didn't watch any of them seriously, and I watched them fast forward. Because the plot can't catch me.
"Death Note" comics, episodes, and feature films have huge fans in China and Japan, but Nai Fei and the director obviously didn't take these fans seriously. They wanted to reform the story completely in accordance with American ideas. Lao Mei’s ideas have two characteristics, one is straight and the other is morally correct.
Straight is straight, it is savage and rough. After L learned that Ye Shenyue controlled her old assistant to go to the orphanage to find his household registration file, she turned into a SB. It is said that the one who works hard is the one who treats the other, and the Japanese version of L is the one who works, and the L in this film is completely a workman. I went to Ye Shenyue's house and looked for L to fight, and was held down by Yue's father. People with an IQ of over 80 couldn't do such a low-powered thing. A child with such ups and downs is not worthy to come to our company to dig a toilet, and become a leader of the FBI. There is really no hope for your country.
The protagonist is so Sb, don't expect how exciting the story of the confrontation between the two heroes is. Although Ye Shenyue in the film is as smart as you and me, it is more than enough to deal with L's mental retardation. So the plot of the whole film goes straight forward, almost like two kids playing with each other.
Moral is correct, this is the common stubborn disease of most of the old American films. In this film, L has become black, from the ascetic white man like Matsuyama Kenichi to this greasy black buddy, fans are disgusting I'm almost throwing up. For non-fans like me, it's like a vegetarian who eats real chicken when he eats vegetarian chicken. This feeling is terrible, and there is a murderous heart.
In addition, in the Japanese version of the work, although the dark component has gradually faded from comics to dramas to feature films, the core is still very dark and depressing. There is a kind of sneaky drawing a small circle to bring all mankind. They all curse the pleasure of death, but you can’t do that in Lao Mei’s films. After all, people uphold universal values. This fundamental cannot be moved. Otherwise, the various social and religious schools will attack, and you will have a hard time. NS. Under such a morally correct premise, a dark theme like "Death Note" cannot be shot well.
In summary, the old beauty's straightness and moral correctness, coupled with the fact that Nai Fei did not dare to cross the thunder pond, are the three major reasons why the US version of "Death Note" is rotten to the root of the thigh. Don't watch it if you haven't watched it, to save electricity for the Republic and time for yourself.
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