Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

Although Tao Qingfeng has finished filming, the other actors of "Queen of Guining" have not finished filming, and they are still fighting against Xiong Zian's roar every day.They would occasionally contact Tao Qingfeng on WeChat for a few chats—thankfully, Tao Qingfeng finally knew how to use WeChat a little bit, and even learned to use emoji bubbles (mostly the default first smile, in today’s Internet age, there are already The [呵呵] expression that means "smiling on the face, mmp on the inside").

This makes other people chatting with him often brought into a weird atmosphere by his "default smiley face", and the content of the chat was very concise at one time.Tao Qingfeng didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it, and he quite liked this kind of non-sloppy style.

After being able to use WeChat to communicate, Tao Qingfeng and Yan Dan also sent messages to each other, replacing the previous pattern of text messages in the morning, afternoon and evening.

But since what happened on the night of the banquet, the daily contact between him and Yan Tan has turned into his unilateral tacit cold treatment.Tao Qingfeng hasn't messaged Yan Dan for a whole week, and neither does the other party.

Tao Qingfeng didn't know that Yan Tan was locked up for a postgraduate exam for a week, and all communication tools were confiscated.Tao Qingfeng thought to himself, still being Teacher Yan was just like himself, embarrassed and didn't want to talk.

Tao Qingfeng was extremely depressed during this time.

He can't write about the three virtues of a gentleman to calm himself down.Nor can he look directly at the teachings of the saints.He was like the helpless scholar who was waiting for the sword to fall on the execution ground again, but this time the murder weapon was no longer a sharp knife smeared with lard, but a four-character plaque on the top of the Lingxing Gate with the words "The Virtues of the Former Kings" ...

In ancient times, there were short-sleeved peaches, Mi Xia was for Wei Linggong, Wang Sun was for Han Wu, Dong Xian was for Han Ai.Da Chu also has Zhuzhi Pavilion and Rabbit Xianggong... This kind of thing has happened a long time ago.

Tao Qingfeng clutched his temples. Existence has existed for a long time, but for him, it may not be correct...

Tao Qingfeng really didn't dare to look through classics and classics to relax and clear up doubts. Every time he glanced at it, he felt ashamed in his heart.So he opened a copy of "Zhuangzi", Lao Zhuang is a quiet and natural theory, so it won't be irritating anymore.

As a result, he turned to "Qiwu Lun" as soon as he flipped through it, and saw at a glance that "the oysters are regarded as females, the elk and the deer have sex, and the loach and the fish swim..."

This sentence is about the mating of animals.This means that apes mate with snipe, elk likes to mate with deer, and loaches mate with fish. ※

Tao Qingfeng was stimulated again, and closed the book abruptly: Yin and Yang are transformed into Taoism.Monkeys, deer, and fish all have to mate, so what is his unethical idea?

Pull out another Taoist classic, and open it to Emperor Yi's Night View of "Nineteen Books of the Sea of ​​Clouds" (that is, the Taoist art dedicated to the emperor's room)... Tao Qingfeng closed the book again abruptly.

Tao Qingfeng smiled wryly and thought: Back then, Xu Tangweng once said that he came back from Shi Lao for more than ten years, so he didn't advocate his disciples to read Buddhist scriptures.But Tao Qingfeng thought, if things go on like this, the Confucian classics will not dare to read, and the Taoist classics will have no face to read, he may soon have to read the Buddhist scriptures...

But at this time, Tao Qingfeng suddenly thought: My next play is based on three "martial arts novels", and I must read it for work.Almost as if he had been pardoned, he hurriedly borrowed a whole set from the library.He was afraid that he would read too fast and fall into that painful state of mind again, so he simply understood the whole system of martial arts novels, not limited to those three books, but included all the works of famous martial arts masters in the scope of preparatory reading.

Da Chu has no martial arts novels.Only the legend of the ranger has been recorded in Tai Shigong's "Historical Records".So after Tao Qingfeng read the first martial arts novel (not the one to be photographed, but "one of the must-read beginner martial arts novels" recommended by the librarian), he felt confused that those who have "light kung fu" Masters of internal strength and true qi are far superior to dead men like Jing Ke assassinating Qin, and they are not real people at all.

This kind of person is probably based on the alchemist Zhiguai who began in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and later Ge Hong's "Shenxian Biography" and "Baopuzi". After imagination, a new type of person was processed.

Of course there were martial arts in ancient times.However, Tao Qingfeng thought to himself that the exaggerated peerless martial arts in martial arts novels cannot exist."Treading the snow without a trace", "Dengping crossing the water", and "Great Luo Jindan" all weaken some of the characteristics of "immortals" and write them on people.

But this does not prevent him from thinking that this kind of book is very good-looking.

Most scholars have the feeling of throwing pens and serving in the army in their hearts.Or, scholars often end badly when they violate the ban with pens, but knights who violate the ban with martial arts can still escape unscathed and live in seclusion, which is really enviable.All literati have the dream of being a knight.The authors of martial arts novels are basically literati with such a wish.When Tao Qingfeng read it, he naturally found it very appetizing.

In less than two hours, he finished the book that was said to be "a must-read introduction to martial arts novels".He probably understood what a martial arts novel is.Then Tao Qingfeng began to watch the web drama he was about to shoot, and read the original works of the three martial arts novels that were adapted.

From this point of view, Tao Qingfeng can see many problems that will be encountered when adapting web dramas.

The original author of these three martial arts novels, named Mu Fei Ke, has passed away.His dozen or so martial arts works were published by his family after his death.

When Mu Feike was alive, his martial arts novels were withdrawn several times by the publishing house - the withdrawal is not the rejection of the manuscript, but the editor has agreed to publish these novels, but the manuscript does have obvious flaws, so the author should go back and correct it It's just for republishing.

But Mu Feike was born a prodigal son, he was too lazy to be restrained by those restrictions, so he simply didn't change, and he didn't leave.After his death, his family sorted out the manuscript and republished it at their own expense—except for proofreading, the original manuscript was unchanged.The advantages and disadvantages of his book have been published in their original form, and have caused controversy among readers.

Mu Feike's martial arts novels are fluent in writing, with twists and turns in the story, clear clues, fascinating narration and strong readability.But there is a very obvious flaw, which is also the place where the publishing house asked for a retreat in the past-the characters are purely for the plot, and the plot is too weird, which creates a sense of precision before and after the characters.Therefore, these martial arts novels can only be classified as second-rate works.

In the past ten years, the works of martial arts masters such as Jin Gu, Liang Wen, etc. have adapted many film and television works, but Mu Feike's martial arts novels have never been adapted to any film and television drama, which is one of the reasons.

In the past two or three years, the IP craze has risen, large and small film and television companies have been hoarding copyrights, and the top big IPs have been divided up by big capitalists.The second- and third-rate film and television companies are not willing to fall behind, so they buy the IP copyrights of second- and third-rate works.As a result, Mufeike's martial arts works were purchased in bulk by the media culture company behind the Blueberry video website, and there was an investment plan for online dramas.

Naturally, the richer the content of the web drama, the better, so three books with the same background were merged into one for screenwriting processing and adaptation.

The biggest problem with Mufeike's martial arts novels is the fine division of characters.And the biggest thing about adapting the trilogy is that the three originals should be written independently, but they happened at the same time, and characters from different perspectives are strung together—it’s like a person with a scar on his face, and then The doctor cut down on the scar.

Whether to carefully separate the scar to reveal a clean and perfect face, or to make this face more horrible depends on the level of the surgeon.

However, the screenwriting company that adapted the Mufeike trilogy is a well-known screenwriting company in the industry that is flooded with assembly line work and outsourced, and its level is uneven.The screenwriter who wrote it by name is quite well-known in the puppet and martial arts circle.But he handed over this job to his four young screenwriters.Two of them are writing for the first time.

This is simply worse.

Of course, Tao Qingfeng didn't see the script now, so he didn't know about these situations.He simply saw the problem of the character's fine-grained distinction from Mu Feike's martial arts novels.

The first book of the original work is called "Tianlang Yushu Qiankun Xia", the protagonist is nicknamed "Qiankun Xia", and Tao Qingfeng will play the "male number one" this time.

This novel has 120 five chapters and is divided into two parts.The first part mainly describes how the male protagonist Yu Shanhai lurks alone in the enemy's palace, waiting for an opportunity to exterminate the country - but suddenly discovers that the enemy's prince who is about to assassinate is actually the biological father who abandoned their mother and child many years ago.Driven by the stunned nature of father and son, Yu Shanhai was knocked off the cliff, and his life and death were unknown, and the first part ended here.

The second part describes that Yu Shanhai survived a catastrophe and had to meet a strange man to teach him peerless martial arts.When he returned to the martial arts in his home country, he found that his life experience had been spread.Those who don't know the truth think that he is in collusion with the villainous enemy, the father of the country, and that he is the man behind the leak of the Central Plains martial arts information, and everyone can punish him.With difficulty, Yu Shanhai finally found out the real culprit who blamed himself, deceived the world, and caused heavy losses to the Central Plains Wulin. He was even more devastated to find that it was the uncle who raised him and was respected as the leader of the Central Plains Wulin.

It turned out that Yu Shanhai was just a pawn of his uncle, and the purpose of training him was to let him grow up to assassinate his biological father.Yu Shanhai failed in the assassination, his uncle thought he was a traitor, spread vicious rumors about him, and ordered the whole world to kill him.

The final outcome is that Yu Shanhai killed his father for the country, killed his uncle for righteousness, and killed himself at the junction of the two countries.

This story was so tragic that Tao Qingfeng almost lost his breath after reading it.What kind of mood did Mufeike write?Hearing that the endings of the protagonists in the web drama will be greatly revised, Tao Qingfeng sincerely hopes: it must be changed better, and it will not be as miserable as the original novel.

In addition, when Tao Qingfeng was reading this book, the more he saw the back, the more he felt an indescribable depression. Later, he realized that it was the entanglement caused by the inconsistent style of the characters.For example, in the early stage, Yu Shanhai lurked undercover, endured humiliation, and wittily resolved several sudden crises. Once he was almost tested to be a martial artist, and forcibly relying on his own heart, he vomited blood and pretended to be sick, dispelling the prince's suspicion.Logically speaking, this should be a smart and resilient martial arts man.

But in the middle of the plot, in order to cater to the plot of Yu Shanhai being knocked off the cliff, his will and mind dropped like a cliff, turning into a simple and rude reaction of bitterness, sensitivity, and loss of control when he was stimulated.Let his cheap father's personal bodyguard knock him off the cliff directly.

In the second half of the story, the protagonist completely lost the composure and forbearance in the early stage, but showed a brave, ruthless, unruly ferocity. In front of everyone, the truth was revealed. After killing the leader with a single sword, he drank the sword and died bloody.

Tao Qingfeng thought for a long time after watching it, but he still couldn't assemble the fragments of this character into a complete "person".One of the most important things Tao Qingfeng learned from the crew of "Queen of Guining" is that no matter how changeable the character is, there must always be a coherence, a certain endowment that must be emphasized, and that is also the "personality" of the character.

But after reading the original novel, Tao Qingfeng couldn't find anything that runs through Yu Shanhai from beginning to end.He just remembered this story—it was indeed very thrilling, exciting, and wonderfully reversed—but, what kind of person is this character?Why did he do that?

Tao Qingfeng watched "Hanhai Dongjunlu" and "Witch's Heart" again, and found that there were similar problems.The plots are very exciting, but the characters are sacrificed, and the front and back cannot be unified.

For example, Dong Jun, the little prince who was born in a noble royal family, but because he witnessed the tragic death of his wife since childhood, his personality has become withdrawn.His real name was Luo Langning, he hated imperial power extremely, he was apprenticed to a well-known figure in the world, and he was only called "East Lord" to the outside world, after a few years he became a famous hero, but he had to be ordered to return to the old capital to protect the emperor's brother.Dongjun's character in the early stage is a typical "the emperor can't get on the boat", "I am a man of mountains and rivers in Qingdu" type of carefree style.

However, in the late stage of the story, one murder after another happened at the feet of the emperor.Dongjun punishes the evil and promotes the good, and arrests the murderer. He completely lost the contradiction of being depressed and tortured when he returned to his hometown. At the end of the case, he was full of joy, "drinking good wine", and finally tied the knot with his cousin and avoided Bailu Feng lived in seclusion.

Tao Qingfeng thought: This story has a happy ending.The process of handling the case was also very exciting, but he still felt bored after watching it, because he felt that the protagonist's personality changed very strangely, and he still couldn't figure it out while watching it.Tao Qingfeng can only tell the story, but can't grasp it. Does Dongjun hate the royal family?How did he untie his knot in the end?

As for "The Witch's Heart"... Tao Qingfeng's biggest impression after watching it is: This is not a witch at all. Chi Danniang is very heroic from the beginning to the end, but she is worthy of the word "Danxin".But in the early stage, it was said that her hands were bloody, cruel and cruel, and people in the martial arts called her a "demon".However, the story is all about how she saves the lonely and weak from the fire and water... Even her name is the very decent "Mei Wangxue", and her personality is also jealous, upright and kind. It's really strange to call her a witch.

Tao Qingfeng's head really hurt, and he began to understand why Zuo Yulong broke the contract and didn't act.These three original novels are very... problematic.