China-Singapore Entertainment Review: The film and television drama "Fried Cold Rice", "The filming is very good and it is not allowed to film again"...

　　China News Service Client, Beijing, January 19 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) Nearly 20 years later, the "Matrix" series of movies is now making a sequel!

Keanu Reeves is back, built by the original cast, and for fans, this is the

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　　However, after "The Matrix: The Matrix Reboot" was released in China, both the word of mouth and the box office were cold - Douban scored 5.7 points, and the box office was only over 50 million yuan.

　　It is not that the domestic audience "doesn't know the goods".

The film has just surpassed $140 million at the global box office and has an IMDb score of 5.7.

Some netizens said: "Some things should be left in the past." Others quoted Internet memes and ridiculed

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The Matrix: The Matrix Reboot poster

　　Among the many comments, the most prominent is the outside world's doubts about the film's "remake of consumer sentiment" and "fried cold rice".

　　Some media said that in "The Matrix: The Matrix Reboot", director Lana Wachowski also used the character's mouth to implicitly "spit out" Warner, the film producer, "The times have changed and the market is down. I believe that You can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Bros., decided to make a sequel to the trilogy. They told me they would develop the sequel with or without us. If we didn't cooperate, they would end our contract. "

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　　Of course, some people pointed out that this is not a problem with Warner.

Several major Hollywood film companies are keen on remakes, such as Disney's live-action films "Mulan", "The Mermaid", "The Lion King", "Dumbo", "Aladdin", Paramount's "Your Name" and "To Catch a Thief", Netflix Remake the live-action version of "Cowboy Bebop", "One Piece" and so on.

　　Looking at the list of film and television dramas, in recent years there has been a boom in domestic remakes of classics,

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Among them, there are also many failure cases, such as "The Deer and Ding Ji", "Looking for Qin Ji", "Swordsman", "Forget You, Remember Love", "Meteor Garden" and so on.

According to the investigation, the Douban score of these works does not exceed 4 points.

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　　The remake of classics and consumer sentiments seem to have become a major feature of current pop culture.

This can't help but make people curious, is the film and television industry exhausted of inspiration, and there is no original good script?

Why don't you turn your attention to the classics again and again?

　　But looking back,

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For example, John Woo's "The True Color of Heroes" is a remake, and the "Batman" series, the 2005 version of "King Kong", and the movie "Manslaughter" have also received good reviews.

　　Therefore, the problem is that many producers remake classics, not because of new expressions in content, but only because those works have a relatively stable audience.

Compared with new themes, its benefits may be subject to certain subjective guarantees in advance.

When film and television practitioners don't want to take risks and want to earn "a lot of money", this may be a "more suitable" plan.

　　The paradox is here.

When the producer overemphasizes the IP orientation, the emphasis on the story will be reduced, and the level of the work will inevitably be uneven, which makes many viewers also resist the remake.

The case of "The Matrix: The Matrix Reboot" shows that simply "frying cold rice" and consumer sentiment have long ceased to be a foolproof "good business".

　　For many viewers, the classic is a feeling.

Although remakes can attract temporary attention, to continue the classics, the creators need to spend more effort on the content.

, leaving enough room for the audience to imagine, only then can there be a "next" possibility.

　　Alas, consuming classics under the guise of feelings, it's time to put the brakes on.

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