In the story of "The Beginning", the male and female protagonists Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing are constantly circulating on a bus that is about to explode, and they are immortal. I thought they could keep circulating until they found a real solution, but who would have thought that in the latest episode, the audience found that Xiao Heyun's health was getting worse and worse, and even started to have nosebleeds.
Then the problem also comes, this loop is not infinite! Every time the male protagonist Xiao Heyun is in the cycle. The physical strength will be severely consumed and eventually becomes more and more fragile. So why is Li Shiqing, who is also in the cycle, okay?
Some viewers may think that the reason why Li Shiqing is fine is because she is the chosen one and the first person to enter the loop, so this loop has no side effects on her. But Xiao Heyun is like a bug, it is someone who suddenly entered this cycle because of what Li Shiqing did, so Xiao Heyun is constantly punished by the cycle.
and this explanation does not make sense, it is indeed very reasonable. But in my opinion, this plot is actually the finishing touch of the director or screenwriter.
TV series "The Beginning" is adapted from the novel of the same name, and a large number of popular film and television elements have been added to the adaptation. Therefore, TV series is not the same as novels. Let me explain it first. In the novel, Xiao Heyun did not show symptoms of nosebleeds. Although his health is getting worse and worse, it is consistent with the ideas performed in the TV series version.
In every cycle of "The Beginning" in the TV series version, the male and female protagonists have to face the terrifying psychological pressure of the last death! After all, facing death is not a simple word, one sentence can explain it. Those who truly face death have to suffer the pain of death, are already facing the fear of death, and the fear of terror that they have survived the disaster.
In the original work, every time the male and female protagonists suffer an explosion, the impacts they suffer will affect the recovered body. The heroine Li Shiqing was confused during the first two explosions. It was because of the previous two impacts that she blurted her brain. Although she was not hurt on the outside, she was concussing inside.
So from this we can conclude that every explosion and every death will affect the damage on the two protagonists! But there is no skin trauma, but it does not mean that these people are not hurt in their hearts.
Although Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing's two actors have interpreted the horror after each cycle, to be honest, the performance was not true after all, and there are not so many shots dedicated to them to perform these.
So the audience will only see them wake up and breathe heavily, look frightened, and then end. However, in the novel, the author describes each cycle in great detail, which affects the reaction of physical discomfort.
So this is why many novels must be adapted to become TV series. Novels are not as capable as film and television dramas, and the three-dimensional image of the content cast through the interpretation of actors, so that the audience can immediately understand the meaning of it. But on the other hand, it is difficult for film and television dramas to be as comprehensive as the descriptions in the novel. After all, acting is different from describing it! Maybe the author's words "The patient goes crazy" may be the actor needs to take about half a minute to show the patient goes crazy.
Therefore, when reading the novel, although the male and female protagonists did not get worse and worse due to their health, such as nosebleeds, readers can feel that if the cycle does not end, just these back and forth suicides will be enough to make the two protagonists go crazy.
Because their string has been pressed to the extreme, they have experienced not only the word death, but also the deaths of relatives and friends, including Lao Zhang they know, and the passengers. And the process of their own facing death and feeling death, these pressures will overwhelm them.
It is precisely because of this that readers will feel that sense of oppression in the novel, so the audience who watch TV series can also feel a certain sense of urgency and oppression. But because the feelings shown in the TV series are different, the audience will only feel that as long as the cycle continues, the male and female protagonists will not die, and naturally they will not create a sense of tension and oppression.
Director or screenwriter can of course add the description in the original work to it, but this undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of the acting skills of the male and female protagonists, and also increases the cumbersome and repetition of the plot, which will inevitably affect the viewing experience of the audience.
And another way they came up with is to directly affect this damage on the character's body! Originally, Xiao Heyun's body was very weak, and in the original novel he described was weaker than Li Shiqing. He just happened to be a tool person, but the first thing he could not withstand the cycle again and again, and his body collapsed first. The final effect of
is the same. Readers can feel that if the male and female protagonists do not end the loop, they will eventually die of crazy! The audience of the TV series can also draw conclusions based on feedback on the male protagonist's physical condition, and will die if the cycle is not ended.
even added the emotional scene between Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing. If Xiao Heyun dies, Li Shiqing will definitely go crazy. This makes the audience even less willing to see Xiao Heyun die, which shows that this adaptation is a masterpiece.
As Teacher Liu said, adaptation is not a random script, and play is not nonsense. The script of Noon Sunshine is carefully polished to produce exquisite content. Just like there is no key description of those passengers in the original book, and even these passengers are pure passers-by in the eyes of the male and female protagonists, but in the play we see passengers with flesh and blood, and each of these passengers is worthy of being saved and we are reluctant to let them sacrifice in vain.
