Is the movie The Legend of the Demon Cat worth watching? How to evaluate?

As a fantasy masterpiece carefully prepared by Chen Kaige for six years, The Legend of the Demon Cat was released at the end of last year, which undoubtedly dropped a huge bomb on the film market in China.

The film is adapted from Baku Yumemakura's Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty in the Empty Sea (Tetralogy). This book boldly uses Li Longji, Li Bai, Gao Lishi, Abe Zhongmalu, Bai Juyi, Liu Zongyuan, Han Yu and other real historical figures as a foil, tells a series of fantasy events caused by the death of Yang Guifei, expresses the author's own world view, and constitutes a huge historical fantasy picture, which is an important work of Japanese writers' literary imagination of China Datang. And the film radically reshaped the original work in the adaptation.

The intentional restoration of the sidewalk and numerous special effects bombings make this film rarely reveal the style of oriental fantasy movies different from Hollywood. The Legend of the Demon Cat is undoubtedly the benchmark of China's fantasy business in our time.

Of course, there are many other people's comments. Then, I will focus on the adaptation of the script-this book is the most passionate literary work I have ever seen. The adaptation of the script by screenwriter Wang and Chen Kaige continues the mysterious feeling and historical narrative structure of the original book, turning the part full of adventure and dog blood into a plain and safe plot, emphasizing the concentration of the main line and the sublimation of the theme, and the structure is quite neat.

The specific methods include-deleting one of the two male masters, orange Yi Shi (the most significant change), and replacing it with the male number N Bai Juyi, adding many scenes to the new theory of Song of Eternal Sorrow; The mirror images of several groups of characters, such as Yu, Bailong and Bai Juyi, Chen and Yu, have been added, and the corresponding relationships in historical mysteries have been clarified. The complementarity and foreshadowing of the plot are more concentrated, and large-scale adventures and subplots are deleted; The core elements were replaced and rewritten, focusing on one person and one banquet; The behavior motivation and life background of the characters have been greatly deleted and reorganized. ...

The last few groups of exquisite love relationships, feminist expression, the confrontation between literature and reality, and the pursuit and abandonment of life value are all more prominent than the original work, surpassing the original work. This is China's triple rewriting of Japanese imagination of China, and it is also quite powerful to make Huihuan's perspective and level so clear in extracting elements and changing themes.

There are four impressive scenes:

At the end of Elysium, Yang Yuhuan seems to know her destiny, and Li Longji, An Lushan, Gao Lishi and Abe are flickering behind her.

During the Anshi Rebellion, when someone needed to take the fall, Li Longji and Gao Lishi switched places.

When Yang Yuhuan was asked if he would accept an autopsy, he seemed full of hope and knew about the scam.

Long Dan's ultimate scam is to let the white dragon die of the illusion of its body.

The details of these scenes are impressive-the script is well controlled in a secluded place, and the brush strokes can make people confused about what is unreal and what is real, and can tell the whole story at a critical moment.