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Explore the reasons. On the one hand, there are differences in the form of content between movies and literature. On the other hand, Zhang Ailing's writing style is too extravagant. So how exquisite the presentation and furnishing of the rooms in the film, and how gorgeous the Mid-Levels mansion is, there is also a feeling that has not yet been reached. Of course, the camera jumps too fast, and the audience will inevitably ignore some details, which are also factors that need to be considered.

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For Zhang Ailing's book fans, everyone has their own Ge Weilong and Qiao Qiqiao in their hearts. It is impossible for the director to be satisfied with how to shoot.

For ordinary viewers, the original book talks about ”familyization of brothels”, the degeneration of beautiful women in the glitzy metropolis, a kind of predicament and struggle that is forced and voluntarily. Therefore, when the things of that era are placed in the current environment for film and television, the barrier of literature is removed, and it is time to face the market. It is difficult for ordinary audiences to empathize with the characters, and they will not be able to understand some of the characters' choices.

The background of the story of ”The First Incense” is sad. It is not just a story of a woman falling in love with a scumbag, it is about the reality of Hong Kong before the war.

Brothel literature has the function of social criticism, and it is this part that the film has weakened it, so it is bizarrely into the trend of ”cannot love, youth hurt literature, and occasionally seems to be a comedy movie.”

Books are hard to understand, movies are hard to shoot

Zhang Ailing’s works are difficult to shoot, but there are still a large number of film and television adaptations. Because the director wants to shoot, the reader wants to watch it. Xu Anhua is the one who keeps trying and making mistakes.

At the 77th Venice Film Festival, Xu Anhua was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded as the world's first female director. However, the most controversial she has received is ”not good at filming Zhang Ailing”. This comment is like a nightmare, which surrounds her film career.

In the 1980s, when the filming of ”Love in the Allure” started, Xu Anhua encountered public opinion that was confused by the casting.

Zhou Yunfa played Fan Liuyuan, and Miao Qianren played Bai Liusu. Fans accused the casting of inconsistent with the original work. Even Xu Anhua mentioned in his later autobiography, ”Miao Qian’s dramatic performances are very poor, and so is the hair. Although both of them are good actors, they are film actors, not theater actors. In fact, ”Love in the City” has the most What attracts is the rivalry of the two protagonists. The dynamics of the two people are enough to control the whole play. The actors have to do excellent drama roles, but they are very low-key actors.

At that time, Xu Anhua had not left the Shaw Brothers, so ”Love in the Fallen City” has been subject to the company's intervention from casting to filming.

In 1997, she challenged ”Half Life” twice, with a box office of more than 7.5 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 26th in the movie box office that year. Compared to the 8.13 million of ”Allure of Love”, at least from the box office, it is not a turnaround for Xu Anhua.

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So it is conceivable that ”First Incense” was not favored at the beginning, and the marketing party even used sinking reverse marketing to create gimmicks.

Netizens once moved the vibrato announcement video of ”The First Burning Incense” to Weibo, complaining that ”The First Burning Incense” is youth pain literature, and explained in the comments below, ”This is really not a spoof, but the first The incense is officially issued.”

In Mrs. Liang’s home tea party in the movie, one of the two wealthy businessmen standing on the balcony is a guest appearance by the famous Zhang Ailing research scholar Xu Zidong.

In previous interviews, Xu Zidong said that Zhang Ailing’s novels are difficult to film and television, because critics and professional readers can read very complex information in the works. In short, it is difficult to present these complex information through films, and at the same time, Zhang Ailing's works are not suitable for entertaining the public.

screenwriter Wang Anyi said in a recent interview with ”Southern Weekend” that the biggest difficulty in adapting Zhang Ailing is that the two people have different eras and have different views on the world.

She mentioned: “The difficulty of adapting Zhang Ailing is that there are too many things hidden, and I need to guess, especially after the age. I grew up under the influence of left-wing thinking, and it is still a bit difficult to understand her.”

Zhang Ailing is good at leaving blanks in the article. The narrative of ”The First Incense” is detailed before and afterwards. In order to meet the needs of the film, the screenwriter must enrich the content. Wang Anyi said frankly that she reserved most of the dialogue and derives a little bit of vagueness. This conservative approach may also be another proof that Zhang Ailing's works are difficult to change.

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In 2018, Xu Anhua invited Wang Anyi to be the screenwriter of ”The First Incense” and mentioned her original intention to make this film: ”I just want to make a romance film. I've reached this age and I have never loved it. , You want me to love once.”

The English name of ”The First Burning Incense” is ”Loveafterlove”. The character poster of the movie reads the slogan ”Do everything, love one person”. From the beginning of this film, the idea of ​​the director and the creative team may be just a purely romantic film, rather than the reproduction of the world in Zhang Ailing's works that the audience expects.

From the moment the lights in the theater went out, it was the beginning of a misunderstanding.

However, this is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

In order to accommodate all the lines and plot, the rhythm of the first half of the film is slightly faster. At the same time, the film is too constrained to the original, the first half of the storyline has always been promoted by lines, and lines only tend to be superficial.

In the discussion of the big V on Sina Weibo, the doctor of drama and film and film critic @OneMyRoad2010 commented: ”If the film is depicting the continual corruption and devouring of a flashy and extravagant life on a person from the external to the spiritual level, then the film It just draws the basic main line of the original novel at a shallow level.”

Compared with the complete restoration of the lines, the original work has a lot of scene descriptions, but the film is difficult to give the audience intuitive feelings, such as ”a layer of antique blue glazed tiles on the roof” and ”carved iron fences on the windows.” ”, ”The jade snuff bottle and the ivory Guanyin statue are displayed on the stove, and the sofa is surrounded by a small bamboo screen.”

Of course, one is a niche literary film and the other is a sci-fi blockbuster. This result is reasonable. But apart from the film form, in terms of film presentation, ”First Incense” is still not a success.

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The director and screenwriter respect the original work very much and present the classic plots in the original work one by one.

Such as the first scene of a group portrait. Ge Weilong visited Mrs. Liang and asked her to support herself in school. Mrs. Liang said, ”Miss, you think about it everywhere, but you didn't think about it for me. Even if I am willing to help you, I can't help. Let your father know, Let me bite me and kidnap the good girl.” Compared to the original work, Wen Jianjian's lines were almost unchanged, and the actor spoke out.

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