Adaptation is actually a technical job, and you can tell the story better than anything else!—Mantou sighed.The finale of "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea" is over, and as a fan of the original work, I always feel that something is wrong. After a careful smack, I figured out what the problem was, and the adaptation was a problem.
"The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins" You say that he doesn't respect the original work, the plot is still generally sticking to the story line of the original work, but you say that he fits the original work, then the loopholes in the online drama can't be explained.
First of all, there is a logical question, why is the danger completely different between Hu Bayi's entry and exit of the coral spiral?
In the online drama, the more Professor Chen thought about it, the more worried he became, and contacted a professional search and rescue ship to rescue Hu Bayi and others. But if the search and rescue ship could easily get in, the Coral Spiral would not be known as the Bermuda Triangle. Just adding the word "professional" is not enough to convince the public.
Shirley Yang has connections and connections in the United States, and she has a lot of money, so it is not impossible for her to dredge up her relationship, and it is not impossible to find a few professional-grade search and rescue ships from the United States to cross the ocean to the South China Sea. And at the beginning, Shirley Yang still bought a sea willow boat and looked for Ruan Hei, didn't the protagonist group think of using external forces, but only relied on the two old sea wolves, Uncle Ming and Ruan Hei?
Obviously this is a logical question. In fact, all it takes is a few flirtatious narrations or simple character dialogues to fill in some loopholes.
In the original work of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Tianxia Ba Sing explained the problem of going in and dying for a lifetime, and it is easy to come out.
In the original work, it was written that due to the tossing of Hu Bayi and his party, the sea vapor in the ruins of the South China Sea was dissipated, and the climate and magnetic field were calm, so that this place was no longer dangerous and abnormal.
And in the original book, the protagonist group was also picked up by Professor Chen and others, after all, even if the South China Sea vapor is exhausted, the perennial team at sea must also have an exploration period, since it is a professional search and rescue team that knows the danger of the coral spiral, is their equipment enough to monitor the celestial phenomena, so that they can muster the courage to cross the "Bermuda Triangle" in a short time?
The online drama would rather add a large number of emotional scenes and memory scenes than explain to the audience, and the strategy of letting the audience make up for it on their own is a manifestation of irresponsibility.
And the large emotional drama between Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang that joined is even more problematic. didn't take into account the audience's acceptance and the relevance of the main line, this skipping did not affect the drama at all, I don't know how many friends jumped directly to watch this paragraph like me.
In fact, the current review problem has led to some plots or scenes that are not suitable for presentation, and it is not unacceptable to appropriately carry out tactical convergence when writing and filming.
But the story is a good story when it is told round, and if it is told flat or square, it will make people's bones in their throats, and it is better not to shoot. "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea" is one of the last four parts of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", after all, "The Tomb of the Yellow Skin" and "Angry Qing Xiangxi" are both memoirs, but without "The Return of the South China Sea", it is not good to draw out the memories of "Angry Qing Xiangxi", let alone the motive of "Wuxia Coffin Mountain".
So it's important to tell the story well. But the current adaptation model is that I would rather go to the water for a long time than polish the script well, which is quite a serious problem. After all, you are filming the whole "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and it is not the ...... of "Tomb Robbery Notes" that can't be opened
This is also a common problem in the IP adaptation of the current domestic TV drama market.