Author: Tangshan
Counting the stop time of the sandstorm (that is, the evil wind in the play) is not bad, and opening the Xiangtang and doing it again, the self-made hot air balloon hits the old Beijing city wall, Daqingge is like a female version of Kang Youwei…plus gunfights and gangs , Detectives, heroines, antique identification, steampunk, old rules of antiques, the last palace, the Japanese plundered cultural relics, etc. The “List of Treasures of the Antiquities Bureau in the Middle Game” has almost all the current “eye-catching” factors. .
If it weren’t for a small screen and a long title, the show should have been called “Under the list of treasures in the middle game of the Antique Bureau, the handsome, high-tech, knowledgeable, and the May Fourth spirit of small fresh meat defeated the Japanese, and it was still inferior to the trendy. Qinggege fell in love (multi-horned love).
At this level, there are still so many one-star and two-stars in the Douban review (the ratings are not yet open), which is thought-provoking.
The original “Antique Game Midgame” wins in three points
Let me first declare that the “List of Treasures of the Antiquities Bureau” has little to do with Ma Boyong’s original work. It’s OK to say that the magic change is just a bit sorry. Generally speaking, the magic change always tries to increase the advantages of the original work. This play does the opposite. It strives to magnify the shortcomings of the original work, and even makes up for the flaws in the original work.
The series of novels in the “Antique Bureau Intermediate Game” was greatly influenced by Dan Brown.
First of all, “big suspense” and “small suspense” coexist.
Dan Brown will set up a mystery at the beginning of each chapter of the novel and disassemble it at the end. One by one “small suspense” is connected into a “big suspense”. By organically combining “expectation” and “burst”, the narrative can be kept in the climax stage for a long time. In the words of The New York Review of Books, “Since the publication of Harry Potter, no novel author has been like Dan Brown who has used the ups and downs of the story to make readers breathless; Another trap, confusing readers.”
This is where “Antique Game Midgame” wins. The price is: In order to maintain suspense, it sometimes violates the character logic of the characters.
Secondly, multi-thread narrative.
Dan Brown’s novels sometimes use counterpoint writing to write the same thing from different perspectives, presenting different aspects of the same event; sometimes it promotes the development of the event from a single perspective and elaborates the logic of the development of the event. This forms two narrative streams, the latter is fast and the former is suspenseful, forming a cordial and sharp style.
Ma Boyong’s novels are also multi-line. Although “Antiques in the Middle Game” is an omniscient perspective, it has a fictional line and a historical line (Dongling Pirates). The two lines are separated, forming tension. The price is: sometimes slow down the narrative rhythm.
Third, the convergence of multiple knowledge systems.
Dan Brown is an “encyclopedia-like” reader who knows not only alchemy, semiotics, but also architecture and cryptography. A novel is not a story, otherwise it is too thin. Outside of the plot, the novel cannot be separated from the “dark matter”. Dan Brown creatively introduces popular science into the novel as the “dark matter” of the novel.
Dan Brown’s novels always present a “different world“, with its unique underlying logic, system, history and experience, but they are actually transformed with partial knowledge.
The spread of knowledge in “Antique Bureau Middle Bureau”, such as the identification of antiques, the rules of old Beijing antiques, the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, are all this kind of “dark matter”, which not only makes the story unfamiliar and creates a sense of distance for appreciation; it also evokes The curiosity of readers has the effect of “tethering the donkey”. The price is: separation from the main story, easy to show off.
All hidden dangers have been implemented by the script one by one
“If you gain one benefit, you will have one disadvantage.” This is a dilemma that is inevitably encountered in novel creation. Good writers will try their best to show their strengths and cover their weaknesses. The handling of the original work of “Antique Bureau Middle Game” is remarkable, but unfortunately, I encountered a screenwriter who did the opposite.
First, kill “big suspense” with “little suspense”.
Since it is titled “List of Looting Treasures in the Middle Game of the Antiques Bureau”, the story should focus on the backbone of “Treasure Looting.”
To set off the male lead, the warlord Wu Jingwen panicked and circled the antique shop bosses and used fake auctions to blackmail them. With this ability, can you just grab the shop and copy the house without worrying about it? Is it inconvenient to ask for a ransom directly from the family?
But the screenwriter firmly believes that there is such a mentally handicapped warlord in the world, so what is the point of the male lead talking to him about “junziqi” for a long time? Even Tang Seng didn’t have the patience to listen to such a complicated piece of nonsense, right?
In the pursuit of “small suspense”, “big suspense” is sacrificed at all costs. The protagonist pretends to be a god and plays a ghost for a while, and then becomes a high-tech expert. The screenwriter has created all kinds of unreasonable and unreasonable points with his strength, so he relies on a long voice-over to explain. So, is the audience watching the performance or listening to the recitation?
Second, the narrative rhythm is extremely slow.
The “little suspense” is not bright or crisp, so the beautiful women make up the stage, the white rose and the red rose play together. When talking about polygamy, when encountering difficulties, we can only rely on “accidental” help.
For example, in order to highlight the mystery of the villain, Lao Chao Bong, he adopted the method of “still holding the pipa and half covering his face”, showing only his voice, back view, and Peking opera. If you are scheming and determined, you will be successful. From the results, apart from proving that the bad guys live in different environments, there is not much difference in their personalities. So, why add these meaningless sub-clues? Is it just to drag down the rhythm of the whole play?
Also, if you want to show off, you have to read some books.
Ma Boyong has in-depth reading of the history of the Republic of China, antique appraisal, and folklore history. This is the advantage of the original work of “Antique Bureau Middle Game”, while the screenwriter made up the five-way bizarre Xiangtang ritual and door rules, which turned out to be self-defeating. .
For example, the male protagonist gave Prince Long an appraisal of the treasure. Very simple knowledge, but turned into a ghost and a snake god. It is really worthless for the male protagonist to perform half martial arts and half dance operations-looking at a fake bronze mirror, what twist do you turn? As for the “explanation” of the theory of relativity in the play, it is even more embarrassing: ask a science student to ask, is it really that difficult?
The screenwriter tried to portray the male protagonist as a steampunk, but he portrayed him as a “xiaobai” who only shows off common sense and is better at dating.
In short, where there may be defects, the “List of Treasures of the Antiquities Bureau” did not miss a single one, and grasped the weaknesses in all directions.
If you can’t find the theme, add a love scene
Dan Brown focuses on the destruction of beliefs, the destiny of mankind, the impact of the information age, and the instrumentalization of people. These mysterious and mysterious issues are presented in stories to lead readers to think deeply. Ma Boyong’s taste is to present more possibilities in history, which has moved readers’ cognitive framework, which also brings dilemma-how to establish a moral reason for telling.
The value of moral reasons lies in sublimating the theme and continuously outputting power to the story.
The solution of the original work of “Antique Bureau Middle Bureau” is to put the story in the framework of “China and Japan seize the treasure”. Patriot.
This solution is relatively easy to be accepted by the Chinese people, but it lacks in-depth space. With Ma Boyong’s profound knowledge accumulation, the problem can still be obscured. The screenwriter of “The Treasures of Snatching List” seems to be aware of this problem, but the solution is: massively stuffed into the love scene, causing the overall structure to collapse completely.
In the play, the heroine Hai Lanzhu is a xunqingge, without the banner people’s respect for rules and etiquette. If it is the change brought about by studying abroad, she is too naive and ignorant. She claims to be studying astrophysics, but she is looking for The alien thought that “Supplementary Notes” was reliable, and since he had a higher education, he didn’t know how to doubt and verify it? Why go abroad to train such an outstanding student.
As a result, Hai Lanzhu was designated as “half of studying abroad”, maintaining innocence and possessing high knowledge potential, thus satisfying the needs of the two consumer groups with one stone, but apart from the appearance of beauty, it is really invisible to this person. Relevance to the original work.
Similar superfluous additions include the speeches on fighting for women’s rights in the play, the heroine’s thinking about the times, the rituals of the five veins, and the workplace struggles of the descendants of the five veins. These stickers seem to be colorful, in fact, they have created countless embarrassing moments.
The bad shots also satisfy the capital interests
The original work of “Antique Bureau Intermediate Game” has strong narrative and has been tested by the market and is relatively mature. Why is it difficult to achieve the expected effect after the adaptation?
This reflects the gap between creation and capital.
Creation often starts with being dissatisfied with other people’s work and thinking of “creating something new.” The success of the original “Antique Bureau Middle Game” is precisely the “newness”. However, “newness” is the enemy of capital, and capital naturally hates risk, so it wants to monopolize it. When it cannot monopolize the market, it forces the product to monopolize itself—including all the existing successful elements in the market.
The scary thing about capital is that it has a virtual methodology, thinking that through rational operation, it can control highly complex markets. Through one by one “success stories”, people are convinced that “correct operation” can determine everything, forgetting that human beings are still unable to truly control the complexity so far. At least so far, no one can accurately predict the stock market.
It’s like that joke from the United States. Through research, experts found that the best-selling books in a certain year are mainly divided into three categories, one is related to Lincoln, the other is related to doctors, and the third is related to dogs. So the publisher launched “Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog”.
In creation, “advantages + advantages ≠ greater advantages”, but capital is used to “money + money = more money”. When capital controls the right to speak, the results can be imagined.
“The List of Treasures of the Antiquities Bureau” satisfies all the successful elements of today’s online dramas. The original book also comes with its own traffic. A unique and innovative “sauce tank”.
Capital is highly efficient, and the market can be ashesed by the rapid production of a large number of similar films-when all you see are the same, inferior works may be mistaken as good ones. Just as it pollutes the environment first and then protects a small piece of it, then this small piece will become a scenic spot, and it can also be used to collect money. Relying on this idea, numerous masterpieces have been destroyed, and “Antique Game Intermediate Game” is just one of them. (Tangshan)
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