On January 4th, Yuan Hua officially finished filming. After holding a small finale banquet, he bid farewell to the other members of the crew. He didn't even catch his breath, and rushed to the airport without stopping to fly directly to New York¡ª¡ª
Although the filming period booked this time is 45 days, Yuan Hua is already the latest one among all the leading actors, and the others have arrived one after another. Chen Sicheng, who was the first to pass, has been preparing there for more than two months.
In fact, the filming of the film in the previous life was only started in August 2017, but in this life, the film was almost half a year earlier. There is no doubt that Yuan Hua fanned the butterfly effect¡ª¡ª
As early as during the filming of "Tang Detective 1" and the film's road show, Yuan Hua had intentionally or unintentionally communicated with Chen Sicheng about the script of the second part. The insinuation provided him with a lot of key ideas to fill in, which naturally greatly reduced the script. Writing time.
In fact, when it comes to the script of "Tang Detective 2", it is inevitable to avoid the Taiwanese horror film "Double Eyes" in 2002.
The core of the reasoning of the two cases is highly similar. If you say that plagiarism is not enough, but if you say it is a coincidence, it is even more self-deception. To be precise, it should be regarded as a reference.
The murderer of "Double Eyes" is deduced by using "ancient stone slabs + gossip arrays", using the name of clues to send five villains to five kinds of hells, so as to help him cultivate himself into a fairy.
The murderer in "Tang Detective 2" followed the order of the five elements, using the horoscope of the birth date as a clue to kill the victims one by one according to the five elements, and took the five internal organs to make alchemy to help them become immortals.
Although it seems that both villains have cancer, this is really not the same thing.
After all, the role of cancer in the two films is fundamentally different. The doctor in "Tang Detective 2" wanted to cultivate immortality and kill people because he had an incurable disease.
Xie Yali's murder in "Double Eyes" has been purposeful since she was born, and her cancer is a condition required by Taoism to achieve enlightenment.
Taoist spells, organ harvesting, and murderers committing crimes according to "religious rituals" are just the routines commonly used in reasoning works. Similar forms are presented in many works, including becoming a celestial body, which has always been a common trick in my country's fantasy works.
If the similarities are counted from the main plot, "Double Eyes" and "Tang Detective 2" have the same Taoist elements, and the murderer's motive for killing is to "become immortal" by killing people, and the number of victims is 5. three o'clock.
It would be a bit exaggerated to plagiarize "Double Pupils" if any story with Taoist cultivating immortality as the motive for killing and the number of victims is 5 people.
In the final analysis, "Tang Detective 2" criticizes a layer of religious metaphysics, but inside it follows the path of reasoning + comedy, expounding the theme of anti-feudal superstition.
"Double Eyes" is a layer of criminal reasoning skin, which takes the path of horror + suspense inside, expressing the theme of traditional gods and ghosts.
The two films are completely contradictory in essence, even the basic worldview is different, so what is plagiarism?
Standing on the shoulders of predecessors and creating something of our own, this is the law of evolution of any art industry.
But to say that the movie "Tang Detective 2" does not draw on the previous work at all, it would be too self-deceiving. Among them, there are two major "flaws" that are relatively controversial and difficult to justify.
One is the "view in the building", which means that there is a Taoist building in the building - the altar.
This point is reasonable in "Double Eyes", because the villain in it, led by Xie Yali, developed a cult, so it is said that an altar was built secretly, so that it could not be discovered by outsiders.
However, the villain boss doctor in "Tang Detective 2" is a loner. He built such a large altar in a hospital where people come and go, and hides such a conspicuous large Chinese-style building in a Western-style building. Do you think everyone is blind?
Well, even if everyone is blind and foolish, the movie shows that the hospital is a high-rise building, and you must know that the load-bearing capacity of each floor is limited. Will it not collapse if such an altar with a height of two or three floors is built?
Therefore, this is indeed a "bug", not only extremely unreasonable, but also easily listed as ironclad evidence of "plagiarism".
So Yuan Hua suggested to Chen Sicheng, otherwise this place should be changed, isn't this villain a doctor who is very rich!
A rich foreigner likes to hunt and ride horses in the countryside in his spare time, or he bought a private farm in a remote suburb, and he can build the altar in his own farm, which is not only hidden but also has good Fengshui.
Didn't Laomei say that private territory is sacred and inviolable? Usually not found. It doesn't matter even if someone finds out, and it's not illegal to build an altar, but building it in a hospital must be an illegal building, and once found, it will be cleared and fined.
The second bug, after the villain doctor was caught by the protagonist group at the altar, onlyAfter only a few words from Qin Feng + Tang Ren, he cut his throat with a scalpel and committed suicide!
What?
That's it? Is this psychological quality still a villain? What about trouble?
To be honest at the time, Yuan Hua thought it was outrageous when he watched it!
As a reasoning movie, it took a lot of hard work to find the big boss villain. It took less than 30 seconds to "reveal his true colors", so it was so anticlimactic? Not even a struggle?
Why does this paragraph feel abrupt to the audience? In fact, it is because there is one point that was not mentioned here, which involves a Taoist concept called "military solution".
If you have seen "Double Eyes", it is easy to understand, how did the villain boss in "Double Eyes" die?
She obviously had the advantage to play with the male lead in the applause and control the power of life and death, but in the end she chose to let the male lead shoot and kill herself, because he wanted to use the male lead's hand to "destroy" her. The final step of ascension.
The same is true for doctors. It can be seen from his behavior that he is a believer in Taoism. Even before he died, he still firmly believed that he was a "God". Suicide on the altar also hopes to solve the "reincarnation and reconstruction".
This is the main reason why he didn't try to escape, because if he did that, he would be far away from the altar, and the ceremony would be incomplete and not achieve the best effect.
He knew that he had failed and had nowhere to go, but he still wanted to use the "military solution" as a last-ditch effort. This is the perfect explanation for his decisive suicide.
The murderer behind the scenes of these two films chose "suicide" in the end, because in a sense, killing someone intentionally is considered suicide.
But why is this not mentioned in "Tang Detective 2"? According to Yuan Hua's speculation, it may be to avoid "plagiarism", so this point was deliberately hidden.
But precisely because of the lack of this point, the logic of the doctor's behavior does not seem to be sufficient, and it feels a bit fragmented.
It is obvious that the villain doctor is a life-saving person. In order to cure his own cancer, he did not hesitate to commit a lot of blood debts. In the end, he committed suicide so simply. This is not convincing at all!
Therefore, Yuan Hua suggested that it should be changed to a last-minute doctor's counterattack. He wanted to use the scalpel in his hand to kill the female policeman who was supported by Song Yi, but Song Yi counterattacked and killed him cleanly.
This may be regarded as a big villain in the eyes of the audience. Before he dies, he has to complete his obsession and drag the last sacrifice to his back.
As for why Song Yi wanted to kill the villain, of course the more important reason was to silence him, because if the doctor was caught, then his hitchhiking killing of Lu Guofu would inevitably be exposed, so he had to be the first to kill him.
It just so happened that the doctor attacked the drugged policewoman who was protected by him, and it was not out of the ordinary for Song Yi to kill the doctor in self-defense.
As for whether killing someone would reveal that he was "q", in fact, Song Yi already knew that he was exposed a few minutes ago, because he used his right hand without even thinking about it in the moment of saving someone.
He is a left-hander, how could he use his right hand to grab someone at a critical moment?
Qin Feng knew that he had been exposed, and of course Song Yi, who was equally extremely smart, also knew about it, so at this time, the silencing doctor didn't need to hide it anymore, anyway, Qin Feng had already seen it!
Of course, there are still some sporadic suggestions that are relatively scattered. The most important changes in the plot are these two points, and Chen Sicheng also listened carefully to Yuan Hua's suggestions and made changes to these two points.
Such a modification can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. First, it optimizes some loopholes in the original script, and second, it can avoid being accused of "plagiarism" by these two points in the future.
Chen Sicheng also said that he could add Yuan Hua's name in the screenwriter column, but Yuan Hua declined without thinking
Although plagiarism is definitely not enough, there are still some controversies, so I don't want to go into this muddy water ?