Is it still possible for Jin Yong's drama to imagine the classic martial arts text
2021-12-29
The TV series Tianlong Babu directed by Yu Rongguang lost its popularity after receiving a small amount of scolding. Unfortunately, it followed the footsteps of other dramas adapted from Jin Yong's works in recent years. On the to be broadcast list, Tong Mengshi and Mao Xiaohui's TV series "divine carving heroes" and Qin Junjie and Liang Jie's TV series "biography of flying fox" are impressively visible - no matter how many times they rush, they often remake Jin Yong. The audience's impatience with the new version of Jin Yong's drama is directly proportional to the speed at which Jin Yong's drama came out. Although Jin Yong's drama is no longer the guarantee of viewing, there is a new version of high frequency every one or two years, which reflects the lasting appeal of the "golden" sign in the TV drama circle. However, in recent years, these remakes are more like an investment to ensure the return of capital. The routine is the same: create topics with the word Jin Yong, and then package them with other popular elements. For example, Yu Zheng's Xiaoao Jianghu arranges Dongfang Buwei to fall in love with Linghu Chong. By borrowing Jin Yong's shell, they still pack their own love stories of handsome men and beautiful women; Zhang Yishan played Trinket as a walking expression bag, as if shooting funny clips for a short video platform; The 2017 edition of the legend of the Eagle Shooting hero is unique in the recent remake, but it still sacrifices other plots to strengthen the color of the idol drama. From the perspective of reception history, Jin Yong's novels have gone from "Adult Fairy Tales" and popular teaching materials of Chinese history and culture to cultural readers who are considered to be able to carry the desires, beliefs and ideals of Chinese people. Readers have a process from popularity to elegance in the positioning of Jin Yong's novels. In contrast, the adapted plays of Jin Yong's works are becoming more and more mediocre. They set popular people on classic characters, wasting heavy materials, just like using the technique of adapting Twilight city to shoot the Lord of the rings. Jin Yong's novels have become an important tool to promote the production level of TV dramas in the three places on both sides of the Strait Once upon a time, the lovers of martial arts drama and TV drama were highly coincident. The most wonderful thing on the screen is the martial arts drama, which can represent the highest level of TV drama production. Throughout the history of Chinese TV dramas, Jin Yong's novels not only contributed to the peak of martial arts dramas, but also promoted the improvement of local TV drama production level. Jin Yong's novels were warmly read in the mainland in the mid-1980s, as part of the literary and cultural fever. After entering the 1990s, TV dramas quickly replaced reading as the most popular form of entertainment. For most people, the word Jin Yong is basically only related to TV dramas. Chen Pingyuan, a scholar who linked Jin Yong's novels with the Chinese Ranger tradition in the eternal scholar's knight errant dream, later said: "Jin Yong's novels thrive because they are especially suitable for adaptation into films or TV dramas." Compared with Liang Yusheng's highly similar characters, Gu Long's poetic omission of martial arts scenes, Jin Yong's characters have their own characteristics, the martial arts scenes are detailed, and although the plot is ingenious, it takes care of the front and back, with few omissions. Although referring to Jin Yong's novels now, he will be classified as a romantic, but he is also a master who pays attention to realistic details. It is easier for the screenwriter and Fu Huadao to visualize his words. For example, the imagination of Lingbo micro step, toad skill, one Yang finger, nine Yin white bone claw and other moves in various TV drama versions is roughly the same. Wei Xiaobao, Xiao Longnv and Huang Rong in the protagonists and Zhou Botong, Yue buqun and Li Mochou in the supporting roles have distinctive temperament. Once there is a version that deviates from the inherent impression, it will be difficult for the audience to accept. For example, Wu Qianlian's little dragon in black and Chen Yanxi's little dragon with meat wrapped face were rejected only because of their modeling. The adaptation of Jin Yong's novels by Hong Kong and Taiwan TV circles has begun since the 1970s. It can be said that Jin Yong's plays are a historical record of the TV industry in the two places from infancy to maturity. The 1983 edition of the legend of the Eagle Shooting hero produced by Hong Kong Radio Television (TVB) Since it was introduced into the mainland two years later, the Jin Yong dramas produced by Hong Kong and Taiwan broadcast in the mainland have been able to represent the highest level of commercial operation in the Chinese television circle at that time. Zhang Jizhong, who later became the most successful behind the scenes promoter of Jin Yong's dramas in the mainland, also gave full play to his location advantages in a series of dramas, such as the grassland in the legend of the carving hero, Dali in the eight dragons, Anji in the line of chivalry, Jiuzhaigou and Yandang mountain in the eagle heroes, which are beautiful and become the best visual supplement to the novel, It also makes the play a big deal. The Hong Kong and Taiwan version of Jin Yong's drama, which is regarded as a classic, may not be flawless, or even overturned The reason why the early Hong Kong and Taiwan version of Jin Yong's drama was praised as a classic was somewhat emotional. For the vast majority of Jin Yong's fans who have not read the original novel, the Hong Kong and Taiwan version seen in their childhood is an opportunity to enter Jin Yong's world, and the defects are lovely in the soft light of nostalgia. Many of these Jin Yong plays have been quite successful in casting. The two versions of "divine carving" lovers played by Andy Lau and Chen Yulian, Gu Tianle and Li ruotong, and the two "carving shooting" couples of Huang Rihua and Weng Meiling, Zhang Zhilin and Zhu Yin have been recognized by the audience, opening a precedent of using Jin Yong's plays to make young actors popular. In recent years, Jin Yong's plays in the mainland have followed this idea of casting, but not many have been widely recognized like Huang Rong played by Li Yitong. The 1994 version of the story of relying on heaven and slaughtering the Dragon successfully portrayed Zhou Zhiruo and Yang Xiao, two characters with contradictory characteristics - and even later actors intentionally or unintentionally learned from Zhou Haimei and tried to perform the comparison between delicate and cruel. Yang Xiao's actors were often criticized for not performing the mixed temperament of romantic and special feelings in the 1994 version. In the 1990s, TVB TV series formed the characteristics of lively rhythm and concentrated drama tension, and even made people who read the original work after reading the drama version impatient with the slow serial rhythm of the novel. The design of its martial arts scene is not sloppy, especially the slow motion in the mainland version, which benefits from the specialization of martial arts guidance in Hong Kong Film and television circles. Even if there are a lot of emotional dramas like the eagle warrior, it will not slow down the rhythm in order to exaggerate love and love. The original work of Xiaoao Jianghu has a long description of Ling Huchong's grief after the death of his younger martial sister. The TVB version only uses a close-up of crying. Zhang Jizhong's version asked Ling Huchong to play an episode with his younger martial sister in his arms, which is impossible to appear in TVB dramas. Jin Yong's dramas in Taiwan's TV circle are more concerned about today by virtue of film and television Golden Songs. Zhou You's flying fox on snow mountain, produced in 1991, was the first batch of Taiwan dramas to be filmed on the mainland, Compared to other Taiwan swordsman films, "Bao Li Long (bubble plastic) rockery fake water" is cheap, the tail of Luo Dayou's creation and Feng Feifei's "dream chaser" is more firmly branded in the audience's mind. In the 1994 edition of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber produced by Yang Peipei, many songs have also become the classics of pop music history, such as Emil Chau's "sword like dream" and Winnie Hsin's. Forgetting each other, Li Lifen's love rivers and mountains more love beautiful people, and Huang Kai's let things be as good as he wrote a smile in the sea for the film Xiaoao Jianghu. It is worth mentioning that the Hong Kong and Taiwan version of Jin Yong's drama did not turn over the car. Zhouyou's "Tianlong Babu" produced in 1990 was belittled as "Tianlong Babu" by the newspapers at that time, which shows the degree of nonsense. This edition breaks up the part of the bamboo and adds it to Duan Yu. Duan Yu loses his memory and becomes a monk, The French name "false bamboo" ("amnesia stem") has always been one of the most criticized elements of local TV dramas. This character seems to have opened a double plug-in, with good luck. Wang Yuyan and Princess Yinchuan also merged into one. This series of soap opera operations were the principles generally followed by TV drama producers in Taiwan at that time with fierce competition. Yang peipeipei later produced "Xiaoao Jianghu" and "Eagle heroes" was ridiculed as "supporting roles are more like protagonists" as soon as it came out. Ren Xianqi, the protagonist of the two plays, is considered to be the actor who is most inconsistent with the original work. The late recognition of Zhang Jizhong's historical drama adaptation gives us enlightenment Zhang Jizhong once recalled: "there was no martial arts film in mainland TV dramas in the past." Although in the early 1990s, there were "Gan 19th sister" adapted from Xiao Yi's novels and "white eyebrow great Xia" adapted from Shan Tianfang's storytelling, and there were also "Book sword gratitude and hatred record" starring Huang Haibing, as a type, the mainland martial arts drama did not become a climate at that time. Zhang Jizhong's first shot of mainland Jin Yong's drama "Xiaoao Jianghu" has great ambition. He wants to make his own new voice of martial arts in the mainland in the field of TV dramas and is determined to "shoot better and more ideological connotation than Hong Kong and Taiwan." Although many of his series of Jin Yong plays have been proved to be new classics by time, they have suffered brick at the beginning of their publication. People's doubts about Jin Yong's drama seem to start with this version of Xiaoao Jianghu. Li Yapeng, who plays linghuchong, and Xu Qing, who plays Ren Yingying, are considered too old. After the play was broadcast, it immediately attracted a curse, which is probably one of the earliest cultural phenomena ridiculed by the whole network. Now, first of all, because the style of this version is too different from that of the Hong Kong and Taiwan version - although the location part has been greatly improved, the rhythm control is closer to the white eyebrow great Xia, far away from the general fast-paced modernity of the Hong Kong and Taiwan version, and the character's shape is closer to the simple water margin, rather than the idol treatment of the Hong Kong and Taiwan version. Interestingly, in the new version of Jin Yong's plays since the 21st century, the scores of those who were scolded when they first came out will rise slightly when an updated version appears. For example, the 2013 edition of Tianlong Babu became a laughing stock because Qiao Feng skateboarding appeared. Once the new edition was released, some people thought that this edition "may be a classic again in ten years"; After the publication of Lu Ding Ji led by Zhang Yishan, Huang Xiaoming's version has received a lot of "compensatory" praise. After the 2019 version of Yi Tian Tu Long Ji was broadcast, some people regretted that they "seriously underestimated" the version starring Deng Chao ten years ago. Basically, Jin Yong's dramas produced by Zhang Jizhong have been recognized late after the emergence of various new versions. Qiao Feng of Hu Jun and Liu Yifei's "fairy sister" have won the classic status of Huang Rihua and Li ruotong. The score of Xiaoao Jianghu, which was scolded the first, increased the most, which is almost the same as that of the Hong Kong version in 1996. The rise in the score of the old version of Jin Yong's drama reflects the dissatisfaction of a considerable part of the audience with the new version, but it also shows that the production concept of Zhang Jizhong's adaptation of Jin Yong's novels in the form of historical drama has finally been understood by the audience. This shows that Jin Yong's drama still has room for innovation in addition to the deep-rooted Hong Kong and Taiwan version model. There is still much to be done in the image adaptation of Jin Yong's text. Such a re imagination may surpass the Wulin and Jianghu Since the TV series "Legend of fairy sword and Chivalry" adapted from the game, the martial arts drama has gradually been replaced by fairy Xia and fantasy. Even if the characters' skills are less and less cannibal, the chivalrous character of "walking alone in the holy world and being called a hero all over the world" can still be seen in Xiuxian drama. On the contrary, in Jin Yong's dramas in recent years, chivalry has become less and less. The focus is no longer to rebuild an imaginary historical world with chivalry as the core, but to imitate idol dramas or comedies in the cloak of martial arts. The unique charm of this type of martial arts has disappeared. The martial arts world created by Jin Yong can still touch people's gratitude and hatred for pleasure
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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