Ruan Jingtian went crazy in "Removing the Three Evils in Zhou"!
There is no controversy about the good looks of the movie, but the copyright dispute outside the movie is also a big drama, the two sides have been in court as early as last year, and after "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" was released in the mainland, it was immediately promoted to domestic entertainment.
Is he the prototype of "Around"?
Briefly talk about the plot of "Removing the Three Evils Around the World".
The wanted criminal Chen Guilin played by Ruan Jingtian, the only relative passed away + advanced lung cancer, and he was ready to go to the police station to surrender, but he didn't expect the young policeman to know him at all, and pushed him to line up on the other side to register.
So he found himself only in third place on the wanted list, and he was torn up half of his ......
The third big brother of the list couldn't swallow his anger no matter how he thought about it, so he decided to do a big deal before receiving the boxed lunch, and kill the first and second big brothers on the list, so that the world could remember him.
"Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere" itself comes from a legend in "The New Language of the World":
The stubborn young man is around, relying on his martial arts to run rampant in the township. The villagers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, but tacitly called him the "three evils" along with the white-fronted tiger of Nanshan and the dragon of Xijiu Changqiao.
Some people persuaded Zhou everywhere to assassinate the dragon and the tiger, in fact, hoping that the three scourges would fight each other. When Zhou came out of the ups and downs in the water for three days and three nights, he found that the villagers were applauding for his death at the bottom of the river, and he realized that he was one of the three evils that he was disgusted by.
He repented, was inspirational and studious, and eventually became a virtuous and loyal minister.
This story was adapted as "The Legend of the Tiger" as early as the Ming Dynasty, and there is also a repertoire of "Removing the Three Evils" in Peking Opera.
The movie "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" moved the story to the modern day with the help of allusions, integrating the background of the Wanwan gangster, and the male protagonist Chen Guilin is also said to have a prototype, which is Liu Huanrong, the famous deacon of the Bamboo Union Gang.
Liu Huanrong specialized in black-eating black, hunting and killing gangster bosses, but he robbed the gangster's money many times to be a charity and relief child welfare agency, and he can be regarded as a legendary boss.
We'll tell you more about his story later.
In addition to Chen Guilin's style of acting similarly to Liu Huanrong, the mysterious smile of the two of them is also the same.
Last year, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" was nominated for 7 Golden Horse Awards, and finally won the Best Action Design Award; This year, it was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Asian Chinese Film.
The movie is infinitely beautiful, but it is accompanied by the "plagiarism" controversy, Taiwanese screenwriter and director Qian Renhao, publicly said that "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" plagiarized his story.
"Sharing a story" with peers that ended up being made into a movie?
Qian Renhao said that "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" plagiarized the story "Lawlessness" that he had prepared for many years, not only the outline was almost identical, but even the names of the protagonists and supporting characters, the dialogues of golden sentences, the storyline, and even the slogan were also copied exactly the same.
He mentioned that the team that has worked with him for many years in the circle and some familiar actors have long known that he is hereyears were mentioned more than once at the press conference.
At first, he didn't name "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week", and the film producer Li Lie said that he could not respond.
Li Lie's ignorance angered Qian Renhao, and he directly scolded the production company of "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week" on Facebook, and hinted that he had been suppressed by his eldest sister for many years, and at the same time pointed the finger at director Huang Jingfu.
was named and accused by Qian Renhao, and Huang Jingfu also came forward to respond to his creative process and denied plagiarism.
He said that as early as 2010, when he filmed "The Death of the Avenger", he had the meaning of the proposition of "good and evil", and later chatted with the members of the group with great interest, and the idea of "good and evil", "human nature" and "religion" sprouted in his heart.
After that, he continued to talk about the outline with his fellow producers and absorb opinions, until he reached a consensus with Li Lie and others in 2019 to shoot "Removing the Three Evils Around the World", and completed the story outline in August 2020, with a full 12-page story.
Plot structure, characters, thematic style, and religious propositionsIt is in the same vein as his old work "Death of the Avenger".
The origin of the story inspiration and the timeline are also important information for identifying the originality of the work, and Qian Renhao's response directly pulled the timeline to1997 year.
He said that the story inspiration of "Lawlessness" first originated from the experience of begging for life on the streets of Linsen North Road in 1997, and later in 2006, when he became a director to shoot "Underground Order", he met several Wanwan gang brothers who came to the movie to make cameo appearances, and listened to them share a lot of life experiences and Taiwan's secret stories, which I thought was very interesting, and then referred to Taiwan's top ten most wanted criminal incidents, and combined with his own imagination, there was the later "Lawless", and Huang Jingfu had never even been to Taiwan before.
In the same year, Qian Renhao went to Hong Kong to develop and met several producers and directors such as Huang Jingfu. At that time, he brought paper outlines of several works, including "Lawless", and he tried his best to "sell stories" to Hong Kong producers and directors, but unfortunately no one cared about the stories.
During the years of waiting for the opportunity, he and Huang Jingfu also came out to drink many times and share each other's stories.
Don't just share it with friends and peersIn 2018, he also posted the outline of the script of "Lawless" on Weibo
I'm quite puzzled by this, because according to my own writing habits, I don't make the manuscript that I don't finish public. I also asked a director friend, and he said that some people will indeed share the script with their friends who have good friendships, hoping to absorb revisions, but like Qian Renhao, he directly posted the script outline on Weibo, and he didn't know what the operation was.
I always feel that Qian Renhao does not have a strong sense of protection of the script (of course, this is not a reason to be plagiarized).
Now Qian Renhao has simply released the full script with the writing time on Facebook, and officially sued the movie "Removing the Three Evils Everywhere" for plagiarism.
He made a color palette manually, comparing the similarities between "Lawlessness" and "Removing the Three Evils Around the Week", and said that the repetition rate of the script content was as high as 72%.
There are also some similarities in the main plots, such as the character "Chen Guangzhou" in "Lawless" has become "Chen Guilin" in "Zhou"; At the beginning, the gangster male protagonist went to the police station to surrender, was asked to line up by the little policeman and the plot of the male protagonist being deceived into cancer, the relationship between the second list and the massage parlor girl, etc.
The similarity of the lines and golden sentences is also quite high, for example, Qian Renhao wrote "I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid that no one will know if I die", and in the movie, it is "I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid that no one will remember if I die." ”
In addition to presenting evidence, he also deliberately mentioned in the interview that Miss Li Lie has a huge influence in Taiwan, and others are soft-spoken.
The Miss Li Lie he said is a Taiwanese actress and producer, and Luo Dayou's ex-wife.
She invested in the production of "Monga", which allowed Ruan Jingtian to get rid of the male protagonist label of idol dramas, and she also won the Outstanding Taiwan Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 47th Golden Horse Awards.
Li Lie is also a controversial woman in Wanwan.
In 2017, she was publicly accused of workplace bullying by director Chen Junzhi, who has made documentaries such as "Beautiful Boy" and "War of the Roses".
Regarding Qian Renhao's accusations, the filmmaker pointed out that they were all rumors, and also sued Qian Renhao for defamation, because the case was under trial, the filmmaker chose not to disclose the information.
As for the reaction of netizens, some people feel that Qian Renhao is "rubbing traffic", after all, there are almost no works that he can show before.
Some netizens feel that although the story outline is similar, the content and details in it are different, and it is more inclined to "stitch and melt the stalk" than plagiarism, like the plot "Kill Bill 2" that kicks open the coffin board after being buried alive, and the cult ** is also similar to "A Midsummer Night's Terror".
Three endings of "Plagiarismgate".
Every once in a while, you will see accusations of plagiarism in a certain work, and last week even "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" was on the hot search with the entry of "plagiarism".
Of course, this hot search came and went back quickly, because everyone found that in addition to the setting of "children with killers", the story mode matched,The core features of the character relationship, the key main line and the style of painting are completely different.
This kind of "plagiarism" accusation is obviously not established, and the "plagiarism case" that really goes to court is much more complicated
First, the key evidence is missing, and it is not resolved.
After the hit of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" in 2018, screenwriter Chen Qiongqiong told screenwriter Han Bing that "White Night" was co-created by her and Han Bing during their relationship.
The man only wrote a ** synopsis, and she rewrote it into a 10,000-word script, and the setting of the twin brothers, the script of the fourth episode of the web series and the short version of the story outline were also completed by her and Han Bing, which were testified by emails.
In the later 20 episodes, she said that she and Han Bing also had a lot of meetings and discussions, but thinking that it was a couple relationship, there was no recording to keep the bottom. It wasn't until "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" that she felt that this emotion was a stepping stone for others.
At that time, many netizens stood on the side of the "ex-girlfriend" and felt that the second half of the plot of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" was indeed worse than the front, but Han Bing himself was also very strong, saying that he was the "only author" of the script.
Due to the lack of key evidence, the matter was later closed, and Chen Qiongqiong's Weibo is still the relevant content of this infringement case. And "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night 2" was not started until last year, and it is said that the core setting has been greatly changed.
However, similar themes have become the sweets of the industry, and several criminal investigation and reasoning dramas with the shadow of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" have been broadcast immediately, and they have all fallen into the ...... of "plagiarism" controversy
The second type: the difficult rights protection is successful, but the plagiarist is slow to express his position
There are two very classic plagiarism cases in internal entertainment, one is Yu Zheng's "Palace Lock Liancheng" plagiarized Qiong Yao's "Plum Blossom Branding", and the other is Guo Jingming's "How Much Do You Know About the Flowers in Your Dreams" plagiarized Zhuang Yu's work "Inside and Outside the Circle".
This kind of plagiarism on the palette is a sure thing, because the plagiarist refuses to admit it, and it has been torn for a long time, and even after the court finds that the plagiarism is established, the party still does not execute the apology.
Qiong Yao waited for 6 years, while Zhuang Yu waited for 15 years to finally apologize.
Guo Jingming proposed to calculate all the online and offline income of "Dream Fall" to Zhuang Yu, and Zhuang Yu's response was also beautiful, accepting the apology, and proposing to use this income to set up an anti-plagiarism **.
This ** is really not to make up for Guo Jingming. In the 15 years of waiting for an apology, Zhuang Yu has helped many plagiarized authors, and she deeply knows how serious the consumption of rights protection is for an author's spiritual, physical and financial resources, and she has long wanted to establish such a **.
The first anti-plagiarism case of Zhuang Yu was the case of online writer Zu Zhan suing another online writer Jiu Yuexi's "Little South Wind" for infringing the copyright of his work "Embracing You Over Time". (The outcome of the trial is not yet available.)
So whether the apology is sincere or not, at least it can be regarded as a victory for copyright awareness.
The third type: change of authorship of the work + box office dividend settlement
The most famous plagiarism incident in film history occurred in Hollywood in the 60s.
In 1964, Leone adapted Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film "Heart Stick" into his own Red Dead Redemption. In addition to the scene changing from a Japanese village to a western town, and holding a knife to playing with a gun, other character designs, plot directions, and even lines are exactly the same as Akira Kurosawa's "Heart Stick".
Kurosawa filed a lawsuit and eventually won, eventually receiving 15% of the global box office profit of "Red Dead Redemption", which even surpassed "Heart Stick", and Kurosawa's name was added to the screenwriting column.
Akira Kurosawa was satisfied with the results, and praised Red Dead Redemption as a good shot and worth watching. With the blessing of the "official", the film became famous and was even regarded as the pioneering work of Italian Westerns.
This "reconciliation" situation has also made Hollywood plagiarism a tradition, and plagiarism scandals are staged every year, and the solution is simple and crude: disobey and sue. As long as the infringer spits out the proceeds of the infringement, it will be closed.
Returning to "Everywhere", the Taiwanese director really confirmed our stereotype of the literary style ......It is a thousand-word long article at every turn, but judging from the information he has made public so far, it is really hard to say whether it can be defined as plagiarism, after all, the "Copyright Law" protects expression, not ideas.
Before the case is decided, everyone should still look at the incident rationally, especially not to deny the possibility of infringement of a work simply because it has achieved great success. Zhuang Yu also said that many times the plagiarist's work will be better written than the original.
After all, the plot and characters in the original version were built by the original author with great intelligence and labor, and the plagiarist would certainly write better if he added the icing on the cake on the basis of others.
Qian Renhao was not convinced, but he also affirmed "Zhou Place": The story is really good, the actors are innocent, and the performance is also very good.
Therefore, as a passer-by audience, if you want to watch it, you can still go to the cinema to watch it generously, and you don't have to have a "sense of guilt", the court is in court, and I believe that the law will give justice to the original author.