In recent years, Chinese films and television especially like to stir up old IP, and the more famous it is, the more it will be recycled.
Among them, the IP of ancient mythological themes is the most popular, such as "Journey to the West" and "List of Fengshen Gods".
The former Sun Wukong, the latter Nezha, and the number of sequels that have been repeated over and over again have been counted. The construction of the worldview of the mythological universe in the mythological theme IP has given many screenwriters room for extending their imagination.
It's just that this kind of re-creation has good and bad, and the adaptation is a blockbuster, and the outrageous adaptation is thrown to the end.
No, recently there was a new adaptation of the mythological theme "Fengshen Shen: The Return of the Painting Saint".
As soon as you look at the title, you know that it is another "innovative work" that the screenwriter has opened his mind. This time, the "List of Sealed Gods" and the "Painting Saint Wu Daozi" came to a dream linkage.
Starring Gong Xiaojun, Huang Yilin, Li Xiaoning, Yin Yezi and others, the film tells the story of the last years of the Shang Dynasty, after Wuzu Jiang Ziya led the gods to cut down the gods, the victorious gods returned to the hidden mountain forest, but the "Fengshen Pen" of the halfway artifact was lost in the world and disappeared.
In order to obtain this artifact, the Tang Dynasty painted Saint Wu Daozi, and the Second Prince, turks and other forces began to negotiate, in order to seize the "Fengshen Pen" to fight. Originally, Saint Wu Daozi was drawn to compete for the artifact for fame and fortune, but he found the "Fengshen Pen" but was calculated by his fellow disciples and blinded.
At this moment of life and death, Wu Daozi had Jiang Ziya incarnated into a god, used his divine power to defeat the enemy's conspiracy, and finally defended the Tang Dynasty.
To tell the truth, after watching this movie, my whole person was greatly shocked, I felt that I understood and felt that I did not understand.
This way down, from Jiang Ziya to Wu Daozi, from the artifact sealing pen to the painting saint with the force value max, this linkage is too imaginative, you feel unreasonable, but people just do it.
It feels like Sun Wukong, who soared to become a Buddha, helped Li Bai, and Li Bai gathered the power of poetry to transform into a superman with the peak of the force value, suppressing the white bone essence that was reborn three thousand years later.
The point is, there are several scenes in this that I always feel familiar with, and I feel that I have not seen them.
For example, the big scene of Wu Daozi dragonfly splashing ink on the scene is a bit cool and a little outrageous.
Some netizens said: Isn't this Zhou Xingxing's churning masterpiece in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang"?
After thinking about it, it is really a bit like it, but Wu Daozi is obviously better, soaring up and down, and the strength of painting in the air, which is the painting saint! This is kung fu painting, immortals under the mortal, good you Wu Daozi!
What is even more bizarre is that I also saw the figure of "Ghost Blowing Lights" in the linkage of "Sealing God List" + "Painting Saint".
The sentence "Looking for the dragon and dividing the gold to see the entangled mountain, a heavy entanglement is a heavy pass", let Wu Daozi exclaim when he heard it, "You nine days of Xuangong even understand touching gold?" ”
Good guys, really good guys, how many elements does this movie have to link? How did a good "Fengshen Drama" turn around and become a compass to see the yin and yang technique of feng shui?
It is true that sometimes the classic fusion is really good, but this does not mean that the element chaos stew is seconds, like this, pulling and pulling, jumping and interspersing, resulting in the main line scattered, without its own charm, all borrowed from the essence of others, very easy to make people play.
In addition, the development of the main plot is also too thousand turns, you think that the princess who martyred Pei Ming at the beginning is a miserable and miserable poor person, who knows that the ending is turned sharply, the princess is full of blood and resurrection, and even becomes the biggest boss character behind the scenes.
To tell the truth, the entire plot line can be represented by "jumping out", the linkage is inexplicable, and people can see the clouds in the fog. When you feel that this is already the end, the result is that people give another answer without logic.
You do this? Do you want to keep the second part? The title is "Fengshen Shen: Painting Saint Wu Daozi and Shi xian Li Bai" (no).
In general, such adaptations made of the shell of the fengshen universe big IP are largely due to too "free innovation", resulting in an uninteresting and disjointed plot, which has become a popcorn film of the water injection category.
Seriously, if you don't have the ability to tell a good story, in fact, which fiery big IP you change to, the probability is to throw the street, this is not a problem that the play itself is not hot enough, but the script itself is dragged to the heel.