Huang Lei's "Late Night Dining Hall" opened to a lot of curses. To be honest, I don't think the drama is that good, but it's not that bad to be cursed, at the very least it's way better than some of the hot IP immortal dramas of the last few days. Even though it doesn't talk about people sometimes, it has more flavor than those dramas that don't move for tens of thousands of years and still only know how to fall in love. Take its much criticized brand of instant noodles as an analogy, Huang Lei's version of "Late Night Dining" is not instant noodles, but upgraded boiled instant noodles, sometimes with vegetables and eggs.
So far, the overall feeling is regular. It's basically a remake of the Japanese version. There are comments that this version is a "copy" of the Japanese version, but I think that's an understatement. This version came to be a remake, the basic formula of the original version should of course be followed, if the original version of the formula or shell is missing, then what remake? That can only be the top of the original name another new drama, right! Referring to the "Nine Layers of the Demon Tower" downfall, since the remake, honest remake, should be used for my use, can not be polite.
Remake dramas are actually hard to do. Although there is a ready-made sample, do not have to worry too much about the overall framework of the construction, but at the same time also because of the pearl in the front, it is difficult not to be compared. And like this remake of a different country, we have to make the original meet the national conditions of the country, so that the audience can not seem to have a sense of contradiction. On top of that, it takes a lot of effort to make the movie more unique and far-reaching. The fact that this version of "Late Night Dining" was so badly criticized and the public's disgust was so great has a lot to do with the drama's "floating". Coupled with the fact that the expectations for actor Huang Lei were too high, the backlash after being let down was naturally inevitable.
"Floating" is a common problem in Chinese dramas, from the immortal with no feet on the ground, to the mother-in-law's daughter-in-law drama, to the serious anti-Japanese dramas, to the entertainment of youth idols, which one is not floating? Because the actors do not eat the earth, because the director is not grounded, because the screenwriters closed doors, because the investors only look at the rate of return, because the whole society is filled with an atmosphere of impatience and superficiality and only care about the immediate future, everyone seems to be like a balloon, can't not float, can't be down-to-earth.
If they are all floating, why is Late Night Dining alone being ridiculed? It's because the posturing that Late Night Diner puts on at the beginning doesn't match its substance. Since it aspires to be a drama that warms and heals the busy and barren hearts of modern people, first of all, look at yourself to see if your own heart and everything you own is also barren? If so, either don't start or find a way to fill yourself up. Of course, filling yourself up in order to make a drama that's in a hurry to get to a screening is going to be too much of a rush anyway, and if you don't want to show your face, you'll have to pack it tightly. The problem with "Late Night Diner" is that it wasn't wrapped properly, and it revealed itself, accidentally revealing its own small-mindedness of being profit-oriented and quick-witted, only wanting to cheat the money and the word-of-mouth of the screening period. This is not looking for scolding?
We're tired of looking at people's faces every day, and we don't want to see the cheap sympathy of those who pretend to be condescending on TV.
So swapping bubble rice for instant noodles isn't the fundamental problem; the fundamental problem is that the warmth and sadness hidden behind the food in the original "Late Night Diner" was treated like food waste and thrown away. And those so-called changes, opinions, and chicken soup that are supposedly meant to be in line with the country's situation, verbose and unrelenting, are being force-fed by so-called actors who have been or are still not acting and want to force-feed them like babies and toddlers, just like the powder packets in instant noodles, which are force-fed and entrapped with private goods. But audiences are adults, and who likes to take it all in with this kind of cheap indoctrination and imposition?
And then there's the overwhelming implanted ads. In today's world, where even public magazines know how to do soft advertisements with interesting padding, "Late Night Diner" dares to come up with two eyes of pasta, who gave you the confidence and guts?
Who doesn't have a little heart?
What's the point of the movie?