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A movie was released recently.

"A Dream of Red Mansions: A Perfect Marriage".

Yes, it’s amazing that a movie based on Dream of Red Mansions was made.

As one of the four great masterpieces of Chinese literature, Dream of the Red Chamber is rich in content, involving politics, society, ethics, and love. It has a vast content and delicate characters. It is a novel that one would like to film but dare not easily.

If it is filmed well, it will be a classic; if it is filmed poorly, it will be a horror film.

The 1987 and 10th versions of the TV series are the best comparison.

In addition, movies have actually been made.

A total of six films were made, and the ratings were good, most of them were above 8 points.

But not every film or TV adaptation yields good results.

Just like this time, after only a few days of release, both the box office and word of mouth plummeted, and it also caused huge controversy.

The box office forecast is more than 6 million, and the film company can only get 36%.

What a loss, huge loss.

The film is said to have been in preparation since 2006.

There is a story inside.

At that time, the TV version of "Dream of Red Mansions" (the one starring Yang Yang, Jiang Mengjie, and Li Qin) was about to start filming. Hu Mei was originally scheduled to be the director, but it was rumored that she left because of differences with the investors, so the director was replaced by Li Shaohong.

But Hu Mei did not give up on the film and television adaptation of "Dream of Red Mansions".

In 2017, open auditions will begin, and after the selection, closed training in Chinese studies and Redology will be conducted.

The process was quite bumpy.

The director said that he couldn't find a suitable Lin Daiyu from more than 20,000 applicants. Later, the principal called and recommended three people. It was finally chosen. After searching for a long time, he finally found her without any effort.

See who the director chooses↓

Take the others along to see as well.

In addition to the new actors, there are also some familiar faces.

Guan Xiaotong, Yang Shutong, Ding Jiali, Luo Haiqiong, Yuen Qiudan, etc.

A lot of effort went into the casting and the filming as well.

This movie borrowed real antiques, none of which are fakes. Jewelry, jade, red sandalwood, etc., add up to a value of 60 to 70 billion.

The director reminded us again and again to be careful.

If a piece of jade is broken, no matter how high the box office is, it will not be able to compensate for it.

As for why these cultural relics are used?

The director said that in order to live up to the classic Chinese literary work and Mr. Cao Xueqin, he had to put in all his effort.

Preparations began in 2006, casting began in 2017, filming started in 2018, and it will finally hit the screen in 2024.

Hu Mei let out a breath.

They said it would be released on the 16th and go abroad on the 17th. She didn't care about the rest and left it to everyone. She would do whatever the box office could for the movie. Anyway, she had done her best to "Dream of the Red Chamber" in these 18 years.

As a result, is it cool?

No.

Instead, he has become a laughing stock recently because of his quarrels with netizens.

Three days after the movie was released, director Hu Mei posted on Weibo saying that her painstaking work had been criticized.

Some people use AI virtual data to post 1-point reviews, some register accounts months in advance, and some make personal attacks and insults.

I went to Douban to take a look.

The scores haven’t been released yet, but most of the short reviews I’ve seen are one star.

There are simple evaluations.

Some people write one, two, three seriously.

To sum up.

1. The logic is crude, the characters are crude.
2. The rhythm is like a short video, splicing climax points.
3. The casting was not good, and Daiyu received the most complaints.
4. The core is wrong, and it becomes a youth painful love movie.
5. 
   

I looked at the good reviews to compare them with the bad ones.

A few people gave it five stars, but the number of likes and one star is obviously not on the same level.

One of the comments was quite interesting.

"The movie is pretty good, not as bad as I imagined," and I gave it a full five stars.

Although the Douban platform is now full of battles between fans and haters, Douban's algorithm mechanism still has great reference value, and the influence of the hater's scores is not that heavy.

To put it simply, a high score does not necessarily mean a good drama, but a low score definitely means a bad drama.

And maybe many people haven't seen the film, but everyone has seen the director and actors' interpretation of the film, which is also very controversial.

The director said that Zhang Miaoyi, who played Lin Daiyu, was originally a girl who loved to laugh, but the character she played cried all day long, with a sad face and weeping all the time.

Hu Mei said that Zhang Miaoyi didn't dare to laugh because she was afraid that something would feel wrong if she laughed.

Criticized by netizens.

Lin Daiyu was a lively and transparent girl. She didn’t cry all the time. She mostly cried when she was sick in her later years.

Zhang Miaoyi's comments on Lin Daiyu.

It is said that Lin Daiyu challenges tradition, is rebellious and unique, while Xue Baochai follows the rules, obeys the wishes of her family and is very steady.

It was also criticized.

"Heretical" is more suitable for Baoyu, while "conventional" is not appropriate for Baochai, as it does not point out the core idea.

What is even more outrageous is the interpretation of Baochai by Huang Jiarong, who plays the role of Baochai.

It is said that Baochai has two major regrets.

One is that I have not realized my self-worth, the other is that I have not got a husband who loves me, and I don’t have a relationship that I can recall.

This time, netizens didn’t even bother to argue and just said fuck it.

Baochai is the one who wants to enter the palace, and she is the one who wrote "A good wind will help me soar to the sky". She is full of ambitions, so how can she talk about love?

How come an actor wants love?

Just by looking at the director and actors’ interpretation of the characters, the public felt that something was not right.

If we compare the interpretations of the two actors who played Lin Daiyu, the difference is immediately apparent.

But director Hu Mei did not pay attention to these and did not discuss them.

Instead, they were targeting a leaked picture, saying that haters had photoshopped the picture to vilify the actress.

But netizens said that the picture above is indeed from the movie.

It's a picture of Lin Daiyu visiting the crazy Baoyu, and the two of them looking at each other and grinning. It's not a fake picture at all.

Hu Mei didn't care. The mistake was definitely the netizen's. After the message was posted, she deleted it.

Let’s fight again.

She seemed to be possessed by Yu Zheng and posted four pictures and a video in a row to prove that her vision was correct.

Is Zhang Miaoyi ugly?

I don't think so.

She previously starred in "When I Fly Towards You" with Zhou Yiran, playing a cute and girl-next-door type.

But her appearance does depend on her makeup and condition.

There is no point in posting stills.

Everyone knows that the stills are only the ones that look good, but that doesn’t mean that every moment in the movie is good. Yu Zheng has already taught everyone a lesson on this point.

And the public has a scale in their hearts.

You can't compete with them in terms of core, appearance and temperament. Why blame the netizens?

This reminds me of the original "Shanghai Fortress".

Exactly the same reaction.

You say it's bad, and it goes crazy and releases a trailer asking: Is this a bad movie?

If you say that the actress who plays Lin Daiyu is not good, it will still send you stills like crazy and ask you to praise it.

Oh, director Hu Mei is not as good as the official Weibo of "Shanghai Fortress".

At least they opened comments.

Director Hu Mei, while asking netizens, turned off comments and even turned off forwarding.

Refuse to communicate.

It really gives people a bad feeling.

Directors who fail to listen to the audience's opinions will most likely fail.

Previously, the box office of "There's Nothing That Can't Be Solved by a Hotpot" was not good, so the director came out to make some irrelevant remarks.

It is said that the promotion is difficult, there are barriers to watching movies, the audience likes to watch short videos, and conspiracy theories, etc. These are all external factors, not that the movie is bad.

At that time, I was directly criticized by the industry.

Won't watch it again.

Including Feng Xiaogang in the past.

When Feng Xiaogang was successful in making movies in the early years, he was very arrogant and said that the box office was high every time and there was not a single time when it would be low, and he was particularly eager to know when the box office would be low.

Being invincible is so lonely.

Later he filmed "Personal Tailor", which also had good box office, grossing 700 million.

The only drawback is that the rating is not high. It was just over 5 points at the beginning and is only 6 points now.

Feng Xiaogang was very angry.

He posted several Weibo posts in a row, angrily criticizing the film critics' taste.

Later, he even blasted Douban for being a big wolf at a media meeting.

The raised index finger has the familiar smell of the little steel cannon.

There are even more cruel things than this.

The reason why there are so many rubbish movies in China is because there are rubbish audiences. Only when there are rubbish audiences will producers make rubbish movies.

This is as disrespectful as asking why there is so much shit on the table, because people like to eat shit.

Is it anti-human?

Arrogant people always have to pay for their arrogance in the end, not because the audience takes revenge, but because they themselves are too arrogant and unwilling to absorb the audience's constructive comments.

Last year, Feng Xiaogang's If You Are the One 3 was released, and the boomerang backfired, with both word-of-mouth and box office suffering a setback.

A different kind of sourness.

Some people may say that some bad dramas do have a lot of people watching them.

Just like the ancient costume dramas being filmed one after another now, they have no logic, are forced to be more intelligent, and have forced sweetness, but there are still so many people watching them.

I think TV shows and movies are different.

If the TV series is not that good, people just treat it as a relaxing entertainment or background music. But movies are watched with real money, dozens of dollars, and you have to concentrate on watching them for two hours. If it is really bad, who would spend money to suffer?

So if a movie is criticized, it must be the movie's problem.

But some people don't want to step down from the altar.

Hu Mei originally had a good reputation and was a famous fifth-generation director along with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Gao Xixi and others.

Several dramas she has filmed are pretty good. "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "The Emperor of Han Wu" have Douban scores of over 9 points, and the two dramas swept the award ceremony.

She is well aware of this and even posted it a few days ago.

But the glory of the past belongs to the past after all.

There are top scorers in the college entrance examination in the humanities and gold medal athletes in the martial arts. They all understand one thing: reaching the peak represents success at the time, but maintaining the peak is a matter for the next time.

The same is true for directors’ works.

Chen Kaige made "Farewell My Concubine", but that doesn't mean every work can achieve the same success as "Farewell My Concubine". Guo Baochang made "The Mansion Gate", but it is difficult for every work to be as classic as "The Mansion Gate".

It is not easy to be a victorious general, and everyone knows that. What we are afraid of is that some people do not even have the courage to face the facts, and are left with only arrogance in the end.

Oh, and there’s an Easter egg.

The director and actors of this movie are quite similar. They swear to defend their dignity to the death. Don't meddle in my business.