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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:paperji, author: Jiayan

The original title: "two movies a week" you change the movie ceiling "released, domestic players all exploded? "

Many players may have played games for more than a decade and have never seen this battle.

Within seven days, two reformed films were released in China. Moreover, the online reviews of the two films exceeded expectations and saw netizens boast that they were "changing the ceiling" more than once.

A "Dungeons and Dragons: glory of Theft" (hereinafter referred to as the Glory of Theft), a "Super Mario Brothers movie" (hereinafter referred to as "Super Horse"), just finished watching the latter today, while it is still hot, let's talk about them and transform movies and TV dramas.

First of all, there is a spoiler warning, but not much, which has no effect on the two popcorn chips. If you really mind, you can fork it off, or just look at the modified part below.

The prototypes of the two films are very famous. The first release of Grand Theft Glory is adapted from the board game ip Dragons and dnd, which you can understand as the ancestor of today's rpg, but also an important cornerstone of modern games and even fantasy culture. Everything from the worldview setting to the impact of a certain attribute on combat can be traced back to dnd. Now there is a popular name for playing dnd board games, "running group".

Dnd mainly provides rules, it has an official background plot, but the specific development depends on the player now "make up", so there is no software entity, the experience depends on the player's impromptu choice and creation, with a high degree of freedom. The Grand Theft Glory is an original game film based on these classic settings, a series of adventures made by human bards, barbarian female warriors and Tifflin druids in the main task of "resurrecting the Bard's wife."

Today's release of Superhorse is much easier to explain. It is adapted from countless people's childhood memories of the platform jump game "Super Malio Brothers", the plot is still a series of classic Mario vs. Quba, Princess Brigitte, Mushroom head and other well-known characters all debut.

What is most worth discussing about the two films is that they also represent different directions of the reformed films to some extent. The circumstances and presentation ways of the two are different. Fortunately, different paths lead to the same goal, and later they were widely recognized by the audience.

The glory of chivalrous theft has almost fallen into the category of "bad movie booking" since it was announced in advance. Before the defense of the 2000 Dungeons and Dragons live-action movie, many netizens lost interest when they saw the poster, calling "cheap numb" and "old-fashioned western fantasy".

In fact, Superhorse also has similar homogenization posters, but it is an animated film, live-action movies value the appearance, acting skills, sense of disobedience and other elements have been watered down, the audience is more tolerant. Moreover, the reputation of Nintendo and Lighting Entertainment has always been excellent, and the popularity of passers-by will not be so bad if they are not told by any fans.

As a result, the expectations of the two reformed movies are very different:

Chivalrous Theft Glory, "A minority of ip, the real fantasy, earthy taste of good and evil," debuff is entangled.

Super Horse, "childhood memories, the number one game character in the world, produced by Nintendo" buff blessing.

But Grand Theft Glory, as a live-action movie, is full of entertainment and has a tight rhythm. Soon after the opening, the game settings will be quickly rolled out, no Winterfell, Baird Gate, race and occupation division, these are dnd enthusiasts, CRPG players like a number of settings, players can quickly enter the state. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, they are really just the background and don't affect your understanding of the plot at all.

Many people, including my friends, said that the movie had the feeling of "running a group" after watching it. Under the main line goal, the phased advance of multiple tasks, from finding props to gathering team members, to completing each person's storyline, gathering challenge copies, each character has a highlight occasion. Plus a little bit of CRPG dialogue unique mouth broken humor, strong atmosphere of running a group.

Like the graveyard question-and-answer session that viewers like to talk about, when you see a warlock releasing spells with props and telling the bard to limit himself to five questions, you can even figure out which one he is looking at in the dialog box. There are brain-eaters who specialize in eating highly intelligent creatures, and the fun that the whole staff's intelligence test is not up to standard immediately comes out when they directly ignore the passers-by of the main horn group.

In addition, the proportion of each scene is enough, so the pace of the movie is fast. Not to mention irrigation, we can see that the director doesn't want to waste another second. Even if the team created a crack and then closed this important drama, I roughly wrote it down, and it only took a few minutes to finish it. The impression is a bit hasty, but it takes care of the motivation and growth of everyone in the main corner group, the arc of the characters is complete, and the story is smooth.

Compared with the complex adaptation of the game elements by Rogue Glory, the Superhorse without touching a real person can be said to be very pure. From beginning to end, Nintendo fans get a low score of "EX" + "audio-visual shock" with a score of 10.

The main line of the film focuses on the two Malio brothers, intruding into a different world adventure from the real world they live in, and finally defeating Quba to become the savior of both worlds. The process is a grand tour of Ma Li European games, even if you don't know the origin of the transformation of bricks, drilling pipes and eating props, you can enjoy it only by relying on the gorgeous visual performance of 3D cartoon animation.

Almost every segment of the movie can find the perfect corresponding game settings and prototypes of the scene, which will frequently evoke memories of playing games.

Therefore, both of them are blown as "changing the ceiling". In fact, they have not achieved exactly the same goal. Chivalrous Theft Glory is an excellent live-action film, and Super Horse is a high-quality integration of animated films and games. Importantly, they also provide some paradigms for changing movies and TV dramas.

If you don't want to see a spoiler, you can start here. )

One of the major contradictions in TV dramas is the balance between game elements and good storytelling. To put it bluntly, we should not only serve the players well, but also take care of the general audience. If the above two reformed films are compared horizontally with conventional films, objectively speaking, the passing level is high, and the story is weak. However, how to change the movie has been pulling hip for a long time, such a vertical foil, it is inevitable to look beautiful.

Both works have their own advantages that are difficult to be reproduced. The core of Grand Theft Honor dnd lies in the rules and settings, while the plot and characters rely on the original creation of the participants, which is an advantage. So it does not have to deliberately pursue restoration, arrange the rhythm can show the elements of the game at the same time, and specifically tell where the story of the virtual world is not important, what we want to see is similar to the adventure of running a group.

Behind the Super Horse is one of the most famous games in the world, ip, sitting on a number of word-of-mouth best-known games, low barriers to play, the top mass base, as long as possible to restore, the starting score will not be too low.

However, advantages are not all about success.

First of all, it is important to find the right degree of humanization. At the height of the game in the last century, Ma Leo also launched live-action movies, regardless of the picture, word-of-mouth is regarded as black history, perhaps the two brothers are not suitable for real people. At least as in Sonic movies, the protagonists take risks in the real world with 3D cartoon characters and real people. This time choose full cg animation, so the taste is right.

(dizzy) if the ip theme itself is a bit of an adult, then full personalization will gradually become an option, such as "biochemical Evil" (limited to the first two films, the latter plays are getting worse and worse). For example, World of Warcraft, the world's highest-grossing film between the first two, uses live actors, but also uses a lot of CG technology to render.

(Wu Yanzu) to show the elements of the game is mainly to restore. Apart from scenes and settings, players are always strict with familiar game characters, and CG animation generally does not have this problem, but live-action TV drama casting often subverts the outside for messy reasons. For example, in the American TV series "the Last Survivor" (tlou), there were a lot of complaints at the beginning because the bear was not like Ellie. Finally, after several episodes of acting persuasion, the controversy gradually subsided, and the film usually does not have so much time for people to unravel the "misunderstanding".

Now the technology of Fu Hua Tao makes the appearance less dull, mainly depends on the casting. Some netizens praised chivalrous Theft Glory in this way, "I see the intransigence in the compromise of political correctness, except for a protagonist his wife, no one is ugly." Among them, the little Druid sister was praised by everyone, including the elder brother of the island. So if you choose the right person, you will win half of the movie and TV series.

However, for the current European and American film industry, this basic ability is obviously a little distorted.

Finally, the most important thing for movies and TV dramas is to tell a good story. The strength of the sense of story of the game ip itself, and the sense of the game, may determine how to deal with the plot of the film. If the game ip itself has a strong sense of story, then the reasonable means should be moderate originality and faithful restoration, such as Warcraft and tlou; just mentioned. If you have a strong sense of game, you should actively add original stories to strengthen the elements of family fun according to the movies such as Sonic, Rogue Glory and Superhorse.

Back to the example of tlou American TV series, its super-high rating is quite interesting. The plot context of tlou American TV series is not much different from the rampant zombie themes in Europe and the United States, and the profound part that ordinary audiences think is nothing more than the common eschatological insight into the human nature of this kind of theme. To put it bluntly, tlou American TV series have been brought to a level that does not fit it. The first part of its original work, tlou, is good enough and has a strong sense of story. American TV series only need to be moderately original. If the second season continues to be filmed in accordance with the deliberately disgusting unfolding of the second part of the game, without drastic adaptations, it will be very difficult for this film not to be devoid of people. (or be blown up again)

And this just shows that movies and TV dramas used to provide ideas for games, but now it's the game's turn to feed them back. Treasure chest monster, mushroom eating transformation, decadent uncle plus smelly girl and other designs have become one of the countless sources of freshness.

For players, there are more excellent works of movies and TV dramas, and the impact is very intuitive. I remember before the Grand Theft Glory broadcast, there was a couple next to me. After sitting down, the boys and girls whispered popular science, saying, "this Dungeons and Dragons inspired a lot of games, and now the running group is also like this." then the girls immediately showed a little excitement, "really? I've heard of running groups, but I've never played them. How can I play them?"

At the Super Horse game, I even saw some spectators coming to the scene with ns. After the staff watch was played, they took a group photo and socialized with offline carriages. There are also young parents who bring their children to see them, who are interested in Malio's games and thinking about "buying one and going back to play".

If you have to find any meaning for you to change the film, this is probably it.

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