In 2018, Xu Zheng won the Best Actor at the 55th Golden Horse Awards with "I'm Not the God of Medicine". This film also maintained a high score of 9.0 on Douban.
But to talk about Xu Zheng's famous work, it must be this one that carries too many good memories of the post-80s and post-90s, and is a well-deserved childhood classic.
Xu Zheng's strength is not only accepted by the public because of this drama, but now "Xu Zheng-style" comedies are still being imitated, and he also gained his own love because of this drama.
——"Bright Spring Pig Bajie"——
How popular was this show at the time?
Hunan Satellite TV's highest ratings reached 23.42%, and it also set off a wave of myth dramas. Many of the characters and bridges in it are still classic even now.
The pig brother played by Xu Zheng has a pig on his chest. He is honest and cute, exaggerated and interesting. When someone encounters Xu Zheng in public, he is not called "Xu Zheng", but "Zhu Bajie".
Until 2010, after the release of his and Wang Baoqiang's "Man on the Road", the image of "Pig Bajie" in the hearts of the audience slowly faded away. This work has truly become a classic in the deepest hearts of many people.
After a lapse of 20 years, it has also maintained a score of 7.8 on Douban, which is considered a very high score in domestic movies.
But such a play that is deeply loved and praised by the public has a lot of bad reviews. Why?
On the one hand, the domestic dramas at the time were indeed very positive and strong. The ones broadcast around 2000 included "Daming Palace Ci", "Youth Bao Qingtian", "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "Starscream", etc., each of which was popular all over the world. The north and south of the river are regarded as classics even now.
And "Spring Bright Pig Bajie" wants to stand out on the basis of already standing out, no matter how big it is, the difficulty is not small.
On the other hand, the plot of "Bright Spring Pig Bajie" is too avant-garde and bold. The whole play describes the process of Zhu Bajie changing from a pig to a human before going west, and then from a human to a god.
So its purpose is to "create something out of nothing". The screenwriter combines folk myths and legends with funny bridges, and re-creates it to subvert the original mythological impression.
In addition, completely put aside feelings, this drama still needs to criticize some objective factors, the plot logic is full of loopholes, and the performance is more exaggerated.
In addition, as a fairy tale, the special effects seem unreal, and some netizens say that this drama is thunderous, stinky and long.
However, "Bright Spring Pig Bajie" is now 20 years old. The filming conditions of the work at that time were relatively poor in all aspects, and its success is difficult to replicate from the old drama to the present. Brother Zhu and The tragic love of Xiaolongnu has become the biggest uneasy feeling in our hearts in the past 20 years.
As the most successful spin-off drama of "Journey to the West", we watched it when we were young, but it was just a farce. Now, in retrospect, it is very similar to the love that every post-80s and post-90s generation encounters when they have little things to do.
And the reason why it has been remembered by us to this day is not the stalk that amused us, nor is it a heavy childhood filter, but the feeling of disappointment that floods our hearts when we think of it.
But recently, "Bright Spring Pig Bajie" is about to be remade into a movie, which may be released this year. Among the starring names, Tao Hong will continue to act, but the others are freshmen with little work.
In my opinion, under the premise that domestic remakes have repeatedly overturned, there is "The Deer and Ding Ding" before, and then there is a sequel "Chasing the Tiger and the Dragon" which just released with only 5.5 points. I advise you not to destroy the classics, find a new one. The subject that the public loves, make a good drama with your heart!
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