xinmin art review | don’t let lin daiyu become “xiaomei” again
2024-09-08
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summer is coming to an end. the box office of the past summer movie season was mediocre. the 200 million yuan investment in "dream of red mansions: golden jade marriage" only achieved a box office of more than 5 million yuan. the reason is that some viewers think that presenting the entire "dream of red mansions" in less than 2 hours is equivalent to telling a movie in 3 minutes in a short video. a movie has become 3 minutes, without the names of the male and female protagonists, and the narration is unified - "the woman in front of you is xiaomei, and the man in front of you is xiaoshuai." in the era of short videos, when lin daiyu has become "this xiaomei in front of you", chinese filmmakers should also put down their mobile phones.
first of all, short videos hurt the film's narrative strategy. before the release of the new "dream of red mansions", this movie was still highly anticipated. after all, the audience had not seen a decent adaptation of a classic in the cinema for a long time. it was not easy for director hu mei to squeeze in daiyu's bereavement, entering the jia mansion, granny liu's visit, dreaming of taixu realm, sending palace flowers, jade fragrance, reading the west chamber, sending handkerchiefs, building the grand view garden, the princess yuan's visit to her parents, the loss of jade, the substitution, burning manuscripts, marriage, crying for the dead... almost covering the main events of the original "dream of red mansions" in the 116-minute film.
a simple division can show that everything is just a passing glimpse. looking back at the previous adaptations of dream of red mansions, whether it is the 1987 tv series with 36 episodes or the 1989 film version with six parts and eight episodes, with a total of more than 730 minutes, even so, none of them show the full content of the original work. no wonder many people said after watching it that it was like a plot commentary of the dream of red mansions tv series on bilibili, but it still lacks the narrator's voice and subtitles.
the alienation of short videos in movies is also reflected in the content. for example, this version of "dream of red mansions" seems to be poisoned by "xiao mei". for example, the film adopts the viewpoint of "jia swallowing lin's wealth", letting the jia family swallow up the huge family property of the lin family to make up for the deficit and build the grand view garden. using the "old-fashioned and bloody substitution plan", this section was filmed into a refreshing short drama of "conspiracy and love". such a magic change undoubtedly made the classic shallow. some experts believe that "this is an insult to the iq and eq of all the main parties in the original work". the crew seems to have spent 18 years and huge amounts of money, but they did not understand "dream of red mansions" at all. there is no doubt that it is difficult for readers who love the original work to accept such a rough operation. it is not surprising that there is no awe and respect for the classics, but just blindly catering to the market, and finally leading to a box office tragedy.
in addition, "short video movies" can also bring many problems to movies. for example, the suspense movie "silent killing" in this summer's season also adopted the short video processing method, and a little further back was "gone girl" in last year's summer season... this short video narrative strategy has caused some problems in these movies, such as incoherent narrative logic, the pursuit of high-concept narrative gimmicks and "heavy taste" of visual images.
even after accepting the influence of internet thinking, film creation has undergone a distortion of "cross-media narrative", "creating" a unique viewing mode. in zhang yimou's "rock solid" last year, faced with the problem of illogicality caused by too many cuts in the film, the main creative team chose to make the deleted parts into short videos to form the peripheral highlights of the film, creating a new viewing mode - watching the whole film in the movie and watching the deleted parts in the short video. netizens jokingly called it a "jigsaw movie".
there is no doubt that the advancement of technology has greatly enhanced the creation of short videos. however, when "short video movies" are released one after another, if they are coupled with high-tech ai that is good at remixing, it will make today's film creation even more difficult. this is worth being vigilant about.
spending a few dozen yuan to watch short videos in a movie theater may sound absurd, but it has obviously become a trend. in fact, not only can you watch short videos online, you can also read about the "harms of watching short videos for a long time". here are a few of them: limited thinking ability, distorted values, reduced learning motivation, weakened critical thinking... put down your phone and read more books, these problems can be cured by yourself. (wu xiang)
