The Spring Festival is coming, seeing that the major popular movies are about to be on, the filmmakers are most afraid of a little chaos at this time to affect the reputation, "Assassination of the Novelist" is just in this situation at the time of the door.
On the afternoon of February 4, the director of "Assassination of a Novelist" released a set of movie posters on social platforms, accompanied by the slogan of "Assassination of a Novelist", and his enthusiasm and expectations for this film can be seen in the words.
But not long after the article was posted, there were repeated voices of doubt from netizens, all discussing the suspected "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" in this group of posters, both in color and style.
As the discussion became higher and higher, the incident fermented, and director Lu Yang finally came out late at night to apologize. The overall appearance of the apology seems to be concise and clean, sincere and generous, and many people in the comment area accept it with a more tolerant attitude, but if you carefully consider it, in fact, many places are still a bit awkward.
1. Weak copyright awareness
The director's apology text indicates that it was "very similar after being reminded by the colleagues of the partner", coupled with the reason for the fermentation of public opinion, he quickly deleted this set of pictures, and the behavior is worth affirming. But in fact, it can also be seen that his awareness of copyright review and control is very weak, and he has not pursued the source at all before sending the map.
Perhaps it is understandable for ordinary people to do this, but it is surprising that industry practitioners do not have such a sensitive awareness. Nowadays, posters, film and television drama plots, set compositions, etc. have been repeatedly plagiarized, and in addition to knowingly committing crimes, there may be many reasons for this.
2. Take it lightly into a consensus
This is not to target the director of "Assassination of a Novelist", but in fact, from the logic of the director, it can be seen that as long as the apology is sincere and the attention is timely, many dissatisfactions will be successfully resolved.
Nowadays, apologies for plagiarism seem to have formed a routine, first showing that they are unaware, then expressing respect for the original author's creative workers, and finally sincerely apologizing.
From the reaction given by netizens after Director Lu Yang apologized, it can be seen that this wave of forgiveness was very successful, which greatly reduced the impact of this matter on "Assassination of a Novelist".
"The unknown is not excessive" has always been everyone's default logic, and there is no mistake, and the plagiarism incident of the director of "Assassination" may really be just a mistake that he likes. But such an example gives those who really knowingly commit crimes too many loopholes to drill: those who do not know are not excessive, then I "do not know" will be let go.
The film has always been taboo to plagiarism, but plagiarism seems to have little impact on the box office of the film, such as "Young You", which shined last year and won many awards, has been scolded for plagiarism and questioned continuously, but it has never affected its further success.
The original novel of the blockbuster TV series "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" was almost copied by the real hammer "Peach Blossom Debt", but both the original author and the drama staff made a lot of money.
Even the newly broadcast Hu Day and Li Yitong's "Dear, Dear" second part, "Your Time, My Time", were quickly exposed to plagiarism, but the drama side did not react at all.
Today's plagiarism, does not affect any interests, no punishment as a lesson for the past, the entire industry is slow to react to this, commonplace, the big deal is an apology, and even like Guo Jingming and Yu Zheng, the threat comes, only to be willing to temporarily bow down after 6 years and 15 years, the posture bears the burden of humiliation.
The wind of plagiarism is so severe in the film and television industry, but it is so understated that it is lamentable.