Over the years, Jin Yong's works have never stopped being adapted into films, and they have supported countless film and television people. Every novel is either constantly being remade, or is on the way to being remade again and again.

Jin Yong's martial arts works have the reputation of "adult fairy tales".

Over the years, Jin Yong’s works have never stopped being adapted into films, and they have supported countless film and television people. Every novel is either constantly being remade, or is on the way to being remade again and again.

Just a while ago, it was officially announced that "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" will be remade. Soon, it will be the turn of "The Swordsman" again. Today, "New Swordsman" released the first set of character posters. Linghu Chong, Dongfang Bubai, Lin Pingzhi, etc. are all played by newcomers.

It has only been more than thirty years since Jin Yong's novels were released from Hong Kong and were banned in Mainland China and Taiwan. In the past 20 years, "The Swordsman" alone has been remade five times, with an average of one every four years. It feels like the complaints in 2013 are still there. As the saying goes, 2018 is about to welcome the release of another "Swordsman".

Netizens obviously didn’t buy the official cast announcement and called it “outrageously ugly”.

This year can be said to be the year of remakes of martial arts dramas. In addition to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Swordsman", it is said that in 2018 there will be " The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon ", "The Swordsman", "The Deer and the Cauldron" and " Peerless Two Prides" More than ten classic martial arts works adapted from Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng and others will be put on the screen again.

"The Swordsman" has been remade 12 times, including the latest one.

"The Swordsman" was first put on the screen, probably in the 1978 Shaw Brothers movie. But what is embarrassing is that the "Sunflower Collection" is called the "Sakura Collection" in the movie. Even though this movie is not classic enough, it also opened the prelude to the film and television version of "The Swordsman".

1984 Chow Yun-fat and Chen Xiuzhu's version of "The Swordsman" is the first "The Swordsman" in the history of TV series.

In 1985, Taiwan also followed the footsteps of Hong Kong TVB and filmed the first Taiwanese version of "The Swordsman", starring Liang Jiaren as Linghu Chong, Liu Xuehua as Ren Yingying.

The most classic version is the 1990 movie "The Swordsman". Huang Zhan's eternal masterpiece " The sea is full of laughter " is from this movie. Produced by Tsui Hark, Xu Guanjie, Ye Tong, Jacky Cheung and Zhang Min star in the film. The birth of this movie was originally a dispute between rivers and lakes. At that time, Old Monster Xu was not Old Monster Xu, and Hu Jinquan was already the founder of new martial arts movies. Because of the filming of this movie, the two had a falling out, and Tsui Hark All the parts shot by King Hu were overturned and reshot, making the overall story messy and confusing. However, Linghu Chong played by Xu Guanjie is still recognized as the Linghu Chong whose character is most in line with the spirit of the original work. Together with Huang Zhan's song "A Laugh in the Sea", this classic has been made.

The 1992 version of "Swordsman II: The Invincibles of the East" brought us the Brigitte Lin version of The Invincibles of the East, which is still an unsurpassed classic screen image. Jet Li's version of Linghu Chong was also rated by Jin Yong as the candidate closest to Linghu Chong in his heart.

The 1993 "The Invincibles of the East Returns " is the last part of the "Swordsman" movie trilogy. Brigitte Lin still plays the role of the Invincibles of the East in this film, with Wang Zuxian and Yu Rongguang, although this one is not as good as the previous one. The two classics have nothing to do with Jin Yong's "The Swordsman", but the song "Laughing in the Red Dust" - "The world is so ridiculous and infatuated is the most boring", and the superb performances of Brigitte Lin and Joey Wong, add to the overall beauty of the film. too much.

The most classic TVB version of "Swordsman" in 1996, starring Lu Songxian and Liang Yiling. Lu Songxian's version of Linghu Chong is probably Bai Yueguang in many people's hearts.

The 2000 version of "The Swordsman" starred Simon Yam and Anita Yuen. At that time, Jin Yong also commented that Ren Xianqi's version of Linghu Chong was too immature. In the same year, the Singapore version of "Swordsman" was also launched, starring Ma Jingtao as Linghu Chong and Fan Wenfang as Ren Yingying.

In 2001, the mainland Zhang Jizhong version of "The Swordsman" was broadcast, with Li Yapeng playing Ling Huchong and Xu Qing playing Ren Yingying. However, due to the unreasonable adaptation of some plots, it was criticized by Jin Yong after the broadcast.

But if Jin Yong watched the 2013 original version of "Swordsman", he would probably spit out blood. Ren Yingying did not appear until the 23rd episode of this drama, and was completely outclassed by Dongfang Bubai. Before that, Linghu Chong had already staged a martial arts version of Qiong Yao drama with Oriental Girl .

It’s hard to imagine what kind of troubles the new version of "Swordsman" will cause.

No matter how awesome the IP of Jin Yong is, if it has been adapted into movies and TV shows to this extent, it will inevitably lead to a bloody path in the end.

Since "The Story of Ancient Swords", television has been invaded by fantasy dramas, and martial arts dramas have received little attention and received a cold reception. During this period, "New Xiao Shiyi Lang", "Flying Knife Meets Flying Knife Again", "New Martial arts dramas such as "Border Town Prodigal Son" did not make any splash, so that martial arts dramas have almost become synonymous with "outdated". Until the release of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" last year, even though all new actors were used, it achieved a double harvest of word-of-mouth and ratings. It also became popular among Yang Xuwen , Li Yitong , Chen Xingxu , Meng Ziyi and other new actors. The success of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has restored everyone's confidence in these classic martial arts works, and martial arts dramas have also experienced a resurgence.

"The New Legend of the Condor Heroes"

The success of a remake was followed by a swarm of followers. And every remake of a drama must be prefixed with "new version" to distinguish it from the old version. However, other than that, there were no breakthroughs. It is said that "to make a classic that belongs to this era", but in fact it is just a remake purely for the sake of traffic and market, deliberately doing special effects for the sake of special effects, breaking away from the Jianghu flavor and martial arts spirit, and constantly reheating "cold rice". The glory of swords, joy and hatred in the world of martial arts have long been diluted by the inexplicable and strange Mary Sue plot.

Besides, the audience is really ignorant. Classics have been remade again and again. Does China have no screenwriters anymore, or is it impossible to write original scripts?

Jin Yong's martial arts is a high mountain. If there are too many people climbing over it, the legend will become difficult.