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" movie " Best Us " is adapted from the novel "Best Us" by youth literary novelist August Changan . The novel is one of the "Zhenhua Trilogy" in Changan in August. It is a campus story with Zhenhua High School as the background. It tells the three years of life of Geng Geng and his deskmate Yu Huai , as well as the joys and sorrows of the two who separated after graduating from college and met again a few years later.
"The Best of Us" was first adapted into a web drama and was launched in 2006. The online drama version is starring Liu Haoran and Tan Songyun . After the broadcast, it attracted widespread attention. The number of views exceeded 3 billion times, and the praise was buzzing. It currently has a Douban score of 8.9 points. The Liu Haoran version of won the audience's love. In addition to the high degree of fit between the actors and the characters, the drama version also successfully restores the essence of the novel: not bloody, very youthful.
should be seen that for a long time before this, youth film and television dramas were almost equivalent to "dog blood". In 2013, "To Our Youth That Will Die" directed by Zhao Wei was released, winning a box office of more than 700 million yuan in one fell swoop, opening a new curtain for youth campus dramas. Movies of the same type began to be released in large numbers. The subsequent films such as ", You, , Hurry Year, and "Left Ear" also easily won a box office of about 500 million yuan. Zhao Wei's "To Youth" "unintentionally planted willows and willows to form shade", which opened up the precedent for abortion and car accidents. In the movie, the goddess Ruan Wan was pregnant with a scumbag's child. The scumbag was frightened, so Ruan Wan went to the hospital for an abortion; in "Your Deskmate", Zhou Xiaozhi was also not careful, and Lin Yi took her to have an abortion, but unexpectedly caused heavy bleeding; in "Soon of the Year", Fang Hui found someone for a one-night stand in order to revenge her first love boyfriend, and went for an abortion after getting pregnant. In order to punish herself, she chose "no anesthetics"... This is almost 100% abortion rate.
The audience quickly became tired of the aesthetic taste of the bloody youth drama. How could so many cheating, love triangles, and abortion come from? This is not in line with the youth experience of most people at all. Most of the high school life is to study diligently and do the questions seriously. Even when the love is just beginning, it is hidden, delicate, silent, and sneaky. Most of the time it is just a grand one-man show in a person's heart.
The web drama "The Best Us" was born in this context. It is not bloody at all. Instead, it records Geng Geng and Yu Huai's fine, dull, and vibrant high school life very realistically. Even if they fell in love with each other, they were confused and never said it out. Therefore, many viewers can see their own shadows from the series.
So can the film version of "The Best Us" retain the essence of the original work and be as successful as the drama version?
is different from the length of more than 20 episodes of the online drama. It can fully restore many vivid details in the novel. The movie only has two hours and must be greatly deleted to speed up the narrative rhythm. It not only needs to make the beginning, inheritance, transformation and transition of the story naturally and smoothly, but also make the story convincing. The problem now is, what should be deleted? This directly determines the quality of the movie. The advantage of
movie version of "The Best of Us" is that it retains many classic plots in the original work and retains the abundant youthful atmosphere in the original work. For example, when Geng Geng Yuhuai met for the first time on the list of school, he found that their names were "Geng Geng"; for example, Yu Huai said at a glance that Geng Geng was not a student with good grades, "because you are wearing a book cover"; for example, Geng Geng couldn't understand the teacher's lectures and was embarrassed to raise his hand to ask questions, Yu Huai raised his hand to tell the teacher that he didn't understand and asked the teacher to say it again...
Chen Feiyu is the son of the famous director Chen Kaige and actor Chen Hong. He entered the entertainment industry with a golden spoon in his mouth, but he had to admit that he did inherit the excellent genes of his parents, tall, handsome, and a very youthful feeling. He Lando is not a first-time beauty. It looks ordinary, but it also has the freshness and uniqueness of Japanese style, and it has a very good fit with the original work.Young and beautiful boys and girls appear on the big screen. Although their acting skills are awkward, there is no trace of decoration, but instead they have a sense of youth. There are also obvious weaknesses in
movie version. If the original and drama version are not bloody, then the film version seems a bit bloody. Because the length of the movie is limited, the screenwriter drastically deleted the dull details in the original work - dullness is the mainstream of high school life, and the chaotic little love is just an occasional wave. In this way, the main content becomes the love story between Geng Geng Yu Huai. How they like each other, how they have conflicts, how they hold hands, how they separate... has become an idol drama again. The reversal after Geng Geng learned the truth at the ending was very tear-jerking, but it had a sensational feeling in Korean dramas - just to make the audience cry, logic doesn't matter.
movie version "The Best Us" was originally scheduled to be released on June 21, but later it was upgraded to June 6, aiming at the Dragon Boat Festival holiday and high school graduates who have just finished the college entrance examination. Although the film version is much inferior to the original and drama versions, it is quite suitable for boys and girls who have just finished their high school life. The three years of intense and stressful study life in high school made them eager to get rid of it and grow up quickly, but one day they may find that youth is the best year, and that time they are the best self. Don’t regret losing like adults. When you are young, live passionately and love each other bravely.
