Chen Sicheng complained that the domestic version of Sheep Without a Shepherd was lower than the Indian original. What is the difference?

Produced by Chen Sicheng, directed by Sam Quah, and starring Sean and Tan Zhuo, the domestic film Sheep Without a Shepherd is a remake of the Indian drama Hideki by mistake. After the film was released, the word-of-mouth and box office were good, and it became another dark horse of domestic films. At present, the five-day box office is close to 300 million, making it the box office champion in this gap period.

On Douban, the score of Sheep without Shepherd is currently 7.7, which is rising steadily, and it is a high score in the category of domestic movies. However, the original Indian version of "Covering the sky by mistake" scored as high as 8.5 points. Before the release of Sheep Without a Shepherd, Chen Sicheng also complained that his score was lower than the original film. He hopes that domestic film critics and audiences will give more tolerance and understanding to domestic films.

If we put aside the emotional elements of domestic films and foreign films and analyze this film in detail, we will find that there is indeed a creative difference between the domestic version of Sheep Without Shepherd and the Indian version of Killing Hidden Heaven by mistake, which may also be an element that caused some Douban users to score.

As a whole, the domestic version of Sheep without Shepherd completely copied the essence of the original, making some lines and shots highly restored, and its own "manslaughter" is a mystery drama, so the high quality of the original also ensures the overall creative tone of this domestic version of Sheep without Shepherd. It is a creation standing on the shoulders of great men, so it is understandable that the remake of the film is lower than the original score. After all, you are not an original script.

In addition to retaining the essence of the original work, we can see that "My Sheep Without a Shepherd" is actually the "essence edition" of the original Indian work. The length of "Sheep without Shepherd" is only 1 12 minutes. Excluding the eggs and the credits, the length of the play is about 100 minutes. But "Killing and Hiding Tmall by mistake" has 163 minutes. Therefore, "Sheep without Shepherd" seems to be more concise in the beat, but obviously more full in the plot, including the Indian version of the drama about kinship and kinship, which has been deleted in the domestic version of "Sheep without Shepherd".

Another reason is that India is an invention of going abroad, which is a true description of its social environment. However, the background of the domestic version of Sheep without Shepherd is not in China, but in a country in Southeast Asia, which also has certain obstacles in cultural identity. Of course, although the "Tangtan" series once laid a good foundation in Thailand, as a meritorious film to explore social relations, it is also different from comedies and can gain more and more social recognition in other places.

Besides these, I think some local changes in the center of the domestic version of Sheep without Shepherd are different from the original version. Some of these changes are impossible, and some are creative needs. Of course, some viewers like this change and some don't.

One of the central changes: montage is handled differently.

The domestic version of "Sheep without Shepherd", played by Sean, happened to be on a business trip in another city. He came back in the middle of the night for fear of an accident at home, and then went back with his family. In the original Indian version, the father "No.2" was not in another city, and the whole case was completely stopped by "hypnotizing" others. The domestic version applied the father "No.2" of another city and stopped the "montage" treatment of half truth and half falsehood. This is the difference between the two films. This technique has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is also an innovation of the domestic version.

The second central change: the position and relationship of the characters are different.

In Sheep Without a Shepherd, Sean plays a lower-class family, although in the original and the original, he is a small boss of an Internet company. In the original version, this family was a standard middle-class family. Although an orphan, he never went to school, but he got married and had a big family. The social status of this family is still there. Sean's character setting is closer to the characters in the Tang Tan series.

There are three basic contradictions in the film: the police chief and his wife, the bribing policeman and the boss of the Internet company. In the original Indian works, the conflicts mainly focus on the vicious police who pay bribes and the owners of Internet companies, but there are not many direct conflicts between the police chiefs and the owners of Internet companies. The description of the police chief and his wife in the film is neutral and even positive, especially the senator's husband. As a mother, the police chief tortured the boss of an Internet company to get her son, but she didn't do it herself, including less verbal violence. Many violent acts are committed by bad policemen, even this bad policeman takes the initiative, especially when interrogating little girls. As a mother, the police chief is still watching from a distance, a little unwilling. This also provided an emotional basis for the Internet company boss to apologize to the police chief and his wife later. After all, the police chief did this to find his children.

However, in the domestic version of Sheep Without a Shepherd, the relationship between characters has stopped adjusting, and there are fewer scenes of bad policemen, which completely blackens the police chief played by Chen Chong, including the scene where she extorts a confession from a little girl, which is simply frightening. This also makes the tone of the whole film darker, and the attributes of suspense and merit are stronger, while the comedy attribute in the original Indian version is simply abandoned in the domestic version.

The third central change: the degree of evil is different from the way of death.

In the original Indian version, the son of the police chief didn't sexually assault the daughter of the boss of Victory Network Company, but just photographed her taking a bath and went to her house to blackmail her, leading to manslaughter.

In the domestic version, the son of the police chief directly sexually assaulted the daughter of the owner of the Internet company, and will sexually assault again. This led to manslaughter. The evil degree in the original Indian version is not serious, so it shows an apology for being late for "manslaughter", while in the domestic version, the son of the police chief can really be said to be "guilty". Moreover, in the original Indian version, the son was killed and buried for the first time, but in the domestic version, he was stunned and buried in the coffin and gradually suffocated, including the hint that the little girl scratched the table with a fork and the scratches after the coffin was opened. This change further strengthens the darkness of the domestic version, which is much stronger than the original version in suspense.

The end of "Chinese style"

At the end of the original Indian book, my father just stopped apologizing to the police chief's family. The core value is that both sides are working hard to protect my family and children. But in the domestic version, the father finally turned himself in because of the child's "revision of the test paper", fearing that the child would learn to lie like himself. I have to say that this ending is affordable and ingenious, which not only avoids risks, but also is very logical, including the perfect connection between the ending and the beginning. It can be said that it is a somewhat advanced Chinese ending. But the bad center is weakening the logic of the whole plot, which seems to cast a shadow on the original Japanese heart.

The reason why this film has attracted so much attention is that this theme is indeed a social phenomenon in China at present. The evils of the rich second generation are abhorrent, including Li Tianyi, the son of Li Shuangjiang, and a fruit in Yunnan that is being processed recently, which fits the theme of this film. In addition, from the film point of view, Indian films seem to be more and more international in creation and manufacturing, and China films have begun to make a living by remaking Indian films. Finally, I want to say that if we have an Indian film creation environment, this domestic sheep without a shepherd may really score higher than the original.