Ten years ago, new martial arts and fantasy literature in mainland China emerged. Blogs, written stories and real life are all wonderful and full of chivalry.
At that time, I was thinking that film and television dramas should quickly adapt their works! I wait for the book fans to contribute to the box office ratings in minutes. The past two years have really been the era of big IP, but the selected books are one of the young ones, and the adapted film and television dramas are inferior to each other. These lucky authors, who may be favored by capital because of their larger number of fans, cannot be compared with the above-mentioned people in terms of thinking, education, writing power, and literary value of their works. Among the previous generations of great gods, except for Jiangnan Cangyue, which continued to be highly productive, the rest Most of them are in a semi-retired state.
Their status in the rivers and lakes is like Tsui Hark. The great god is always the great god. After the peak period, they will return to the rivers and lakes, but it is not a half-day effort to reach the top again.
Master's series of works from Cecilia Cheung's version of "Shushan Biography", the visual effects are more sophisticated, but it is difficult to continue the glory of the past, and most of them are lost in the story. "The Legend of Shushan" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" are remakes of their predecessors, but they have no charm; "Seven Swords" is dull and dull and mediocre; The success of Tiger Mountain is firstly because of the clever interpretation of red romance to Hong Kong directors, and secondly, it is not difficult to ignite the audience due to the fairly powerful characters and stories.
But what the master wants to shoot more is the male god Di Renjie in his heart, and he already has a grand blueprint for the series of movies. It is a pity that the two completed works of "Empire of Tongtian" and "Dragon King of Shendu" are only middle-class, and they still lose in the story, especially "Dragon King of Shendu".
Therefore, when I realized with hindsight a few days ago, I bought the film novel "Dragon King of Shendu" adapted by Chu Xidao, and read it in one breath with joy.
First moved by the "preface", Chu Xidao made a big confession to Tsui Hark. She said that this book was "I wrote it for my idols", and she could fully understand how she felt when she was hand-picked by her idols to complete this book.
She chose to lay out the premise for the film and add context to the characters. So there was the fierce fighting between Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong and the courtiers; the experience of Di Renjie when he was in Bingzhou, where he was arrested, imprisoned, and appreciated by Yan Shangshu, as well as his optimistic character and lofty ideals; The life experience psychology and Yuan Gongzi's more convincing poetry is reflected.
And she let the story give the following hints in a more reasonable and beautiful way: After the hero and heroine (Di Renjie and Yin Ruiji) meet, there must be an exciting attraction to each other, rather than just helping each other as shown in the movie. As well as the deeper psychological entanglement between Wu Zetian and Di Renjie, Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin, the relationship between these three groups of important characters should not be as shallow as in the movie.
However, Chu Xidao's great character adaptation just started, and it ended at the beginning of the movie's plot like a story. This turned out to be an unfinished novel...
She completely disagreed with what she said in the preface: "The movie has a limited screen time, so it focuses on the events of Di Renjie's solving the case, and the novel is limited to no spoilers, and it is not necessary to use the movie The plot is explained again." The first half sentence can't deduce the conclusion of the second half sentence at all. I personally thought that she had to do this because the movie script was inherently insufficient and difficult to change, and even the movie had already been filmed when she started writing the novel.
For example, the biggest bug in "Dragon King of Shendu" - Luoyang Linhai, although there is a footnote of "This Luoyang is not Luoyang", still makes the audience extremely playful. In this regard, Chu Xidao changed it into the "Dragon King" where the navy encountered the "Dragon King" in Luohe in the novel. However, how wide and deep the Luo River is, how can it hide a water monster of that size! One hundred thousand sailors set sail from Luohe? Absolutely "throwing the whip and breaking the flow". Furthermore, Luoyang is the closest to the sea (Lianyungang enters the Yellow Sea) more than 1,200 miles away, and the ten-day investigation period has passed between the trips. The Fuyu Kingdom is in the present boundary of Changchun, Jilin, and it does not rely on the sea at all. Even if the mayfly shakes the tree and provokes the Tang Dynasty, why should the navy be dispatched from Luoyang to attack it?
Another example is that the relationship between the major protagonists of the film is extremely weak: Yin Ruiji, as the female lead, failed to play any role in the development of the male lead Di Renjie. There is no emotional connection between the two, only I can save your life. Help me solve this kind of functional superficial interaction.
The admiration of the second male Wei Chi Zhenjin for Yin Ruiji only adds a few comical effects to the film, and does not affect the progressive relationship between the male and the male.
Wu Zetian was obviously hostile to Yin Ruiji. For example, she was disdainful and angry that an official prostitute caused the whole city to suffer. She ordered Yuchi to solve the case within ten days or she would come forward to see her. Later, she rebuked Yin Ruiji and Di Renjie and asked him why Can save her with his own life.
In the novel, Chu Xidao has a psychological description of Wu Zetian recalling that when he was as young as Yin Ruiji, he served Emperor Taizong cautiously and discreetly every day. However, it is too absurd for a generation of queens to be so jealous of a little girl just because of the passing of their youth. If Empress Wu had to be disgusted with Yin Rui Ji in the film, she would have to make up for the fact that Empress Wu had a good impression of Di Renjie and Yu Chi because they valued them, but they both fell in love with Yin Rui Ji, and because of this, Yin Rui Ji was always at odds. There is another love, Di and Yuchi can just let go of their hearts and bless them together... This kind of serial psychological frustration of "I can't ask you to give up, they still use their lives to protect you against me" can't be expressed in words , is enough to make the Queen categorically find it difficult to tolerate that little girl's challenge to her dignity and charm.
There is also Huo Yi, the big boss from East Island played by Hu Dong, who is not related to everyone else, and the psychological basis for his vain attempt to subvert the Tang Dynasty is also unconvincing. How much power can such a Facebook-style villain contribute to the brilliance of the film? The brush and ink wasted on him and his subordinates, as well as the monster Mr. Yuan, who was harmed by him, took up a lot of time in the film and tasted like chewing wax. The setting of "Dragon King No. 2" by Young Master Yuan has seriously dispelled the formal sense of the proposition of "Dragon King of Shendu". Even Huo Yi has no inevitability of choice for being bewitched by Young Master Yuan. The film can only be set as Young Master Yuan as the exclusive royal tea merchant...
Similarly, the love between Yin Rui Ji and Young Master Yuan is also lackluster in the film. The rotten poem "Only envy the flounder but not the immortals" is even more of a failure. Regarding the two people's acquaintance, getting along and falling in love, Chu Xidao added a lot of detailed plots in the novel. The beauty of the writing and artistic conception, the fullness of Yin Ruiji's character, and especially the newly added poems, there are surprises everywhere. Unfortunately, since the story ends when the movie begins, the pure love of the bitter couple has no way to reflect the impact on others. Yin Ruiji still chose Yuan Gongzi after she met the Emperor Zhenming (the official match for her in the novel is Di Renjie), the change and sublimation of the emotional relationship between several characters, if the novel is finished, it may be heart-warming ending.
Although Carina Lau's version of Wu Zetian doesn't get much attention in the two Di Renjie films, her momentum, character, and appearance are the most outstanding of all the film and television dramas I've seen. And Di Renjie, only in the 1986 version of the TV series "The Legend of Di Renjie's Case Judgment" left me with little impression of being elegant and wise when I was young, and then Liang Guanhua's version made his image blurred to the point where he was like a family uncle and Wu Zetian's CP was completely unimaginable. Now that Mr. Xu loves Di Gong, as a fan of Mr. Xu, he is certainly optimistic about the series of films presented one by one. However, please, sir, be sure to invite reliable novelists (all of you mentioned in the first paragraph of the article) to polish the script together! At the same time, I look forward to the old and new works of the great gods being put on the screen by the reliable producers (Master's level) as soon as possible.
Finally, based on the relationship between the characters in the novel "Dragon King of the Gods" adapted by Chu Xidao, let's reorganize the plot of the film:
Yin Ruiji was originally the princess of Fuyu Kingdom and had a marriage contract with the general Huo Yi, and Fuyu Kingdom was assisting Baekje When they attacked Silla, they were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, an ally of Silla. Yin Ruiji and Huo Yi were separated, and they became Tang official prostitutes as prisoners of war. The earth-shaking changes in her life made her sullen in her incognito, swearing to win the gods and courtesans, and disrupting the Tang Dynasty. Among them, I feel the inner expectation of eternal love and quiet years.
After receiving the help of Prince Yuan's good poetry and winning the reputation of the oiran in one fell swoop, Yin Ruiji let go of her longing for her motherland and General Huo, and fell in love with Prince Yuan. After being attacked by the "Dragon King" at sea, he was willing to sacrifice to the Dragon King to keep life safe. But I don't know that the so-called "Dragon King" is a giant water monster raised by Gu poison after Huo Yi led the remnants of his homeland to an uninhabited island in the East China Sea. It is intended to destroy the Tang Navy, help it overthrow the Tang society, and report the destruction of the family and the country. hatred.
Huo Yi once invited Yin Ruiji to cooperate with him to seduce the powerful figures of the Tang Dynasty, causing them to kill each other and quickly disintegrate the imperial rule. At that time, Yin Ruiji, because of the love of Young Master Yuan, looked down on the family and the country, and was unwilling to make waves. Huo Yi even hates and envy, changes his strategy, and tricks Yuan Gongzi to make him a monster. He has infinite power and unclear intelligence, and only uses it for himself. Under the dark Gu, wait for the time to come and overthrow the entire Tang imperial family.
Huo Yi led his men to sneak to the Dragon King Temple to kidnap Yin Ruiji, but was stopped by Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin, leaving a note for Yin Ruiji, asking her to seduce Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin, causing the two to lose peace and fight. Can be reunited with Yuan Gongzi. Yin Ruiji was worried about the safety of Young Master Yuan, so she had to obey Huo Yi's arrangement.
Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhijin both fell in love with Yin Ruiji at first sight. Seeing that Yuchi was determined to win, Di Renjie focused on solving the case and made new breakthroughs in the case. Yin Ruiji deeply respected him. Yuchi is also an extraordinary person, aroused the pride in his chest, and promises to help Yin Ruiji find the son of Yuan. In the Yanzi Building, the three-person room was full of beautiful scenery. Suddenly, a humanoid monster appeared and rushed towards Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin. Yin Ruiji stood up to protect each other, and the monster dropped a silver hairpin and left.
When Rui Ji saw the token of love she had given to Young Master Yuan, she suspected that the monster was Young Master Yuan, and went to Huo Yi to be held accountable and placed under house arrest. Huo Yi confessed that he had given Yuan Gongzi a serious trick, and he wanted to seize the power of the Tang Dynasty and complete the marriage contract with Yin Ruiji. Yin Ruiji hated her for being mad, she used her charm to escape from detention, went to Di Renjie to reveal her true identity, informed him of all Huo Yi's conspiracies, and begged to rescue Yuan Gongzi. Back to him again.
According to Yin Ruiji's instructions, Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin led the navy to the island where Huo Yi was based to find the antidote for the poison, but Huo Yi took Yin Ruiji and the monster Yuan Gongzi back to the island to wait first, while " "Dragon King" is going through a cycle of cultivating Gu, and he has no ability to move, but he is about to wake up soon. After a battle, Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin lost to the monster Yuan Gongzi. Once Huo Yi ordered, they would die on the spot. Rui Ji forced each other with her life, asking Huo Yi to abandon evil and follow good, and let them go. At the mercy. Huo Yi resented Yin Ruiji's empathy, forgetting the hatred of the country and the family, and wanted to kill her first in front of Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin. At the critical moment, Young Master Yuan's heart opened, and he resisted the poison and anti-addiction together with Di Renjie and others. Against Howie. Huo Yi was furious and awakened the "Dragon King". The water monster's Gu was too deep and its power was difficult to tame. The entire island was in danger. Under Yin Ruiji's guess, everyone finally confirmed that the antidote to the poison was the dragon heart lotus, the national flower of Fuyu that was planted throughout the island. The flowerbed was set on fire at the moment, and the fragrance of the flowers caused the water monster to lose its strength and sink to the bottom of the sea. , from now on can't make a mess. When the crisis was over, Yuan Gongzi took the anther to detoxify, but the poisoning was already deep. Only by staying with his sweetheart could he regain his human form, and there would be serious sequelae. Yuchi Zhenjin tried hard to persuade Yin Ruiji not to be emotional, but Yin Ruiji looked at the three most affectionate men who were implicated by her, and resolutely chose to take care of Yuan Gongzi for the rest of her life.
On the day the case was closed, Emperor Gaozong presented Di Renjie with a mace, and Empress Wu ordered Yin Ruiji to see the phoenix driving. Seeing that Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin will love and protect the Luoyang Hua Kui, the Empress Wu can't hide her jealousy and ridicule him as a disaster for the country. In front of the Queen of Heaven, Yin Ruiji was neither humble nor arrogant, and said that the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty she understood was to transform the world with a king, not to destroy the state of others. The king should have mercy on all living beings. The so-called Dragon King of the Divine Capital, if he meets the benevolent ruler of the Ming Dynasty, naturally Haiqing Heyan, otherwise, whether the Sea Dragon King or the Dragon Seat Supreme, is like a Gu, but an ugly monster. Wu Zetian admired the courage of the little girl, but was not angry that her dignity was challenged, and ordered Di Renjie to execute Yin Ruiji as a criminal to reassure the people. Di Renjie privately helped Rui Ji and the weak son of Yuan go down the Luoshui River and escaped far away.
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