Among them, The Journey to the West, A Dream of Red Mansions and Romance of the Three Kingdoms are undoubtedly very successful and become irreplaceable classics in the eyes of our mainland audience.
However, the Water Margin of 1998 is much worse than these three movies, and the score of Douban is only 8.9, which is the lowest among the four TV dramas.
The reason is that the CCTV version of "Water Margin" itself abridged the original plot too much in the process of script adaptation, resulting in an incomplete story.
In addition, 1982 has a Shandong version of Water Margin, and 20 1 1 has a Ju Jueliang version of Water Margin. Compared with the former, the characters fit better, the latter story is more substantial and complete, and the CCTV version is slightly embarrassing.
Of course, these three editions of "Water Margin" TV series now have their own fans, and they often quarrel on the Internet, which also creates a unique landscape.
In Pigou's view, these three versions have their own advantages and it is really difficult to choose. If we want to distinguish by comparison, Pigou thinks it is enough to compare the classic characters in a novel alone.
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In the original water margin, Song Wu, a planetary man, used the most pen and ink and the most complete characters.
Song Wu's experience is very long. Since Chai Jin Zhuang first met Song Jiang, he has experienced Jingyanggang's killing tigers, killing his wife, fighting Ximen Qing, playing shop on the horizontal slope, drunken beating Jiang Menshen, flying clouds, splashing blood in the Yuanyang building, trying a knife in centipede ridge, drunken punching holes, and meeting Song Jiang again.
Lu Xun said: "Tragedy destroys all the valuable things in life for people to see."
Song Wu in the original works, after killing Ximen Qing, resolutely chose to surrender, willing to give up his life and save his honor, which shows that he is an upright man. But such a good man with good character was finally cornered and died in Yuanyang upstairs.
Song Wu's evaluation of this character has always fallen into a misunderstanding and regarded him as a hero. In fact, the author Shi Gong has no intention of creating heroes. He described Song Wu in detail, and put him in that era by showing the transformation process of Song Wu's image and personality, so as to expose and accuse the darkness of the old times.
Therefore, the image of Song Wu in TV plays depends on whether his character and outlook on life are consistent with the original.
Of course, the image and characteristics of the characters, the performance of the actors, the level of service, the grasp of the integrity and rhythm of the story, and the presentation of action scenes must also be taken into account.
1, Shandong version of Water Margin (played by Zhu Yanping)
1983, Shandong TV station launched 8 episodes of TV series "Song Wu". Due to the strong response, Lu, Lin Chong, Chao Gai, Song Jiang, jy, Gu Dasao and others filmed one after another, forming 40 episodes of Water Margin. Therefore, the success of the Shandong version of Water Margin is attributed to the eight episodes of Song Wu.
Zhu Yanping, who plays Song Wu, was born in Feicheng, Tai 'an. 1978 was admitted to the performance department of Shanghai Theatre Academy and just graduated when the drama was filmed.
Zhu Yanping has a Chinese face, a big waist, a beautiful image and good skills. He doesn't need body double to shoot action scenes, which is very consistent with the image of Song Wu in the original work, so he is considered as the most perfect Song Wu actor.
In the play, the story of Song Wu meeting Song Jiang at Chai Jin Villa was omitted, and there was no drunken boxing behind, but in order to enrich the characters, the story of Song Wu subsidizing the poor boy Chen Xing was added. The fighting capacity of the flying centipede king Taoist in centipede ridge was improved, and a small climax of team battle was arranged for the play; Finally, I took a photo of Song Wu on Erlong Mountain.
Let's talk about the most important plot of "Song Wu Opera" first. The crew used a real tiger to take several shots in the same frame as the animal trainer, and then asked Zhu Yanping and the stuntman wearing tiger skin to take several close-ups and finally put them together to edit a thrilling tiger-fighting plot.
With the shooting technology in the 1980s, although there are many flaws, it can still be seen that the level is very high.
To sum up, the eight episodes of Shandong Edition of Song Wu were highly completed, and Zhu Yanping became an irreplaceable Song Wu at that time.
Although he never played the role of Song Wu again, when CCTV was preparing the Water Margin, Zhang Jizhong specially found him and wanted him to play this role again, also hoping to cater to the needs of the audience.
But Zhu Yanping, who had just turned 40 at that time, felt that he had already done it once, and there was no need to do another copy of Song Wu. Song Wu, who is much older than the 25-year-old when he appeared in the original book, should leave the opportunity to young people, so he refused.
Zhang Jizhong was more affectionate and later invited him to play Chen Jinnan in Duke of Lushan.
2. CCTV version of Water Margin (played by Ding Haifeng)
The 43 episodes of the CCTV version of Water Margin abridged the original plot too much, which seriously destroyed the perfection of the story. However, for the highlight of the original work, the main creator of "Wu" CCTV still dare not take it lightly. After the role of Song Wu was rejected by Zhu Yanping, it finally fell to Ding Haifeng, a graduate of Jilin Art College. This is his first TV play.
Although Ding Haifeng is not from a martial arts background, his 182cm height is not inferior to that of Zhu Yanping.
After getting the role, Ding Haifeng gained targeted muscles, and at the same time, his body fat rate increased slightly, which made him look very strong in the play. Although Ding Haifeng is not Zhu Yanping's standard hero face, he has one advantage, that is, his facial features are very tough, giving people a kind of masculinity.
For the presentation of the original, the drama series is also well done, from Song Jiang to Chai Jin Zhuang's guest introduction, to shooting tigers, killing his sister-in-law, and killing Ximen Qing, a series of plots are almost exactly the same as the original.
However, the plot has also changed slightly. First of all, the father of and were deleted. Second, the plot of trying to quit the knife and punch a hole drunk was cut off.
Therefore, the CCTV version of Song Wu's story is actually abridged, only shooting nearly 80% of the original plot, but it is already very good compared with those roles that have no chance to play at all.
As for the plot of killing tigers, like the Shandong version, it is a real tiger plus an animal trainer and a fake tiger plus a hero, but it is more real.
What is commendable about the CCTV version is that the plot of killing sister-in-law, fighting Ximen Qing, and "blood spattering on the mandarin duck building" is close to the original intention on a large scale, and the performance is full of bloody and violent elements, which is the most satisfactory place for the audience.
Yuan Heping's martial arts movements are also much better than the Shandong version. Some difficult movements are very useful in body doubles, so they are very ornamental.
It is worth mentioning that in March this year, Ding Haifeng also released an online movie "A bloody battle between Song Wu and the Lion House", which is a "returning grass".
However, the 52-year-old "Song Wu" usually pays great attention to fitness, and his figure is still very good. The trace of time still remains on her face, which is not the feeling of that year.
3. Ju Jueliang version of Water Margin (played by Chen Long)
Pige, who has carefully read the original novel, has a good evaluation of Ju Jueliang's version of Water Margin, because its advantage is outstanding, that is, the story is more complete than the first two versions.
However, the Grand Jue version does have a lot of serious injuries that cannot be ignored, and there are too many points that can be used by netizens to vomit.
The most talked about by netizens is Chen Long, the actor of Song Wu. Although he is 180cm (self-reported height), his figure is obviously thin, and his image is not as tall and powerful as that of Zhu Yanping and Ding Haifeng. It can be said that casting is a failure.
But this can't be blamed on the casting director, because before filming, the casting of Song Wu experienced a slightly wonderful role change.
Changing roles at the last minute is a taboo in filming, and there is nothing the director and crew can do.
The actor originally selected for the role of Song Wu was Wu Qingzhe, a student of performance artist Li Fazeng. He made his debut as a model and actor, with a height of 1.84cm, a strong physique and a similar appearance to Ekin Cheng. His mind is full of stars.
When the film released makeup photos of several protagonists, Wu Qingzhe's Song Wu image immediately attracted the attention of netizens. But not long after, netizens with good news found the problem. It turns out that Wu Qingzhe had played the role of Song Wu before he joined the crew of Water Margin, and it was in a little-known movie produced by Jing Wong.
Wu Qingzhe was promoted by Jing Wong in 2005 and participated in two costume dramas directed by Jing Wong, The Eight Xia Fish and Hua Wuque. In 2009, he was invited to participate in this Hong Kong film produced by Jing Wong. Although there are not many scenes in the film, it is said that body double was also used in a short passionate scene, but after all, he participated.
If he plays Brother Yun (Jackie Chan lying with a gun) instead of Song Wu, or any other role, it may not be a big problem. Like Xu Jinjiang, who has acted in countless good movies, he can also play Friar Sand in The Journey to the West.
However, he played Song Wu in the film, and now he plays Song Wu in this version of Water Margin, which is hard not to make people associate.
Therefore, the crew finally had to replace Wu Qingzhe and temporarily chose Jackie Chan. In order to compensate Wu Qingzhe, he played the villain Fang La.
Finally, in the scene of the duel between Fang La and Song Wu, when Wu Qingzhe shouted, "Nothing more than killing the tiger Song Wu!" He must have mixed feelings when he said that line.
The Chen Long version of Song Wu also sent a makeup photo, but it looks a bit strange, wearing a headscarf, and was nicknamed "Song Wu of the Caribbean" by netizens. The action scene in the play has also become a spit film. Although the action director is still Yuan Jiaban from Yuan Heping, he is obviously lazy this time.
For example, Song Wu beat Ximen Qing, apparently copying the duel between Huo Yuanjia and Qin Ye in Jet Li's film Huo Yuanjia, and Ximen Qing copied Fu Guang played by Yu Rongguang in Letter to Dad.
Besides, it is more casual to say that the main event is "fighting tigers". The crew didn't use real tigers at all, but relied on a little rough CG special effects.
Moreover, director Ju Jueliang thought that it was impossible to kill a tiger with his bare hands, so he gave Song Wu a dagger without authorization, turning "killing a tiger" into "stabbing a tiger", which caused criticism from netizens.
As for the restoration of the original, Pigou thinks that it is the only place worthy of praise in the Ju Jue Liang edition.
In the play, 65,438+0,000% restored the characters and stories in the original work, trying to quit the sword, getting drunk and making holes, and even the disgraceful things such as Song Wu being hanged by Kong Ming and Kong Liang were filmed, but the setting of Sun Erniang was slightly changed for the needs of the trial.
From this point of view, the Ju Jueliang version still has advantages over the first two versions, and the image of Song Wu dressed as a "walker" is also mighty and capable, close to the original image.
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Based on the above analysis, Pigg thinks that Lu Opera, CCTV and Ju Jueliang's The Water Margin are more serious and have their own characteristics.
If we want to compare Pigou, Pigou prefers the Zhu Yanping version, because its highly restored version can already be called a masterpiece.
As for the Ding Haifeng version, Pigou thinks that the obvious shortcoming is that the story is incomplete. In order to delete the role of stone, the handsome boy who was younger than in the original work was turned into a little old man. This operation is really incomprehensible.
The Chen Long version of Song Wu has a lot to say, but the story and characters are still very serious.
Generally speaking, the three versions have their own advantages and disadvantages. Which version of Song Wu do you like?
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Hot Blood and Dan Xin
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