I have not watched the movie and will write another review after watching it. I give a 10 because the trailers they made worth the 10
Decided to write this review as seems like there are anti here keep mentioning about plagiarism.
I am not a fan of the book, neither have I watched the Drama version. Personally, I don't like being influenced by reviews but this plagiarism scandal really took my attention and I had to do some research on it to find out what exactly is going on.
So in the most recent interview with the Producer and the Director (You can buy easily in china website or the film's official weibo aka China's twitter), apparently when Alibaba Pictures bought over the filming rights from the author of the novel, they were not aware of the plagiarism scandal. so when was the acquisition?
First, movie adaptation was announced by then CEO of Alibaba on late 2014. So I believe the acquisition was made earlier before that, so most likely early 2014. The earliest article that I could find in china website that stated the plagiarism is late 2014. So, it sounds reasonable to me.
Second, while searching for the earliest article, I realised majority are dated around mid 2015. That was when Alibaba Pictures announced the confirmed cast of Female lead Liu Yifei. fishy there
So what did Alibaba Picture do about the plagiarism? Since they have already acquired the rights, all the contract and even confirming the cast.
They scraped the so called plagiarism content and redraft the script with original lines and even some parts of the story lines. Meaning, this movie can also be considered a new movie with different concept and lines from the novel and even the drama. No surprises that it is different from any other versions so please stop complaining about why they don't follow the novel and very different from the drama!
My conclusion, they are making a new story with only same characters from the novel so personally, I would say the film has no relation to the plagiarism scandal.
While researching, I had to look at all their videos such as trailers and BTS. I must say, if you are curious about the Eastern mythology or love Mandarin, this could be for you. The fact that they use animals to represent every characters, different yet unique characters and the originals lines they said (I saw in the trailer) are just so beautiful and mysterious. Every word of their lines has a meaning and they just made me feel like learning Mandarin all over again.
Not to forget the absolutely brilliant graphic, I must admit this is by far the best CG China has ever made. The costumes are so exquisite and scenery are so beautiful and dreamy, yet they could retain the mysterious eastern elements inside.
So anti, please let us watch the film peacefully. if it's really that bad, we, including me, will definitely our ORIGINAL reviews. Don't flood us with your anti comments. Just saying plagiarism is not a review and definitely not helpful
Decided to write this review as seems like there are anti here keep mentioning about plagiarism.
I am not a fan of the book, neither have I watched the Drama version. Personally, I don't like being influenced by reviews but this plagiarism scandal really took my attention and I had to do some research on it to find out what exactly is going on.
So in the most recent interview with the Producer and the Director (You can buy easily in china website or the film's official weibo aka China's twitter), apparently when Alibaba Pictures bought over the filming rights from the author of the novel, they were not aware of the plagiarism scandal. so when was the acquisition?
First, movie adaptation was announced by then CEO of Alibaba on late 2014. So I believe the acquisition was made earlier before that, so most likely early 2014. The earliest article that I could find in china website that stated the plagiarism is late 2014. So, it sounds reasonable to me.
Second, while searching for the earliest article, I realised majority are dated around mid 2015. That was when Alibaba Pictures announced the confirmed cast of Female lead Liu Yifei. fishy there
So what did Alibaba Picture do about the plagiarism? Since they have already acquired the rights, all the contract and even confirming the cast.
They scraped the so called plagiarism content and redraft the script with original lines and even some parts of the story lines. Meaning, this movie can also be considered a new movie with different concept and lines from the novel and even the drama. No surprises that it is different from any other versions so please stop complaining about why they don't follow the novel and very different from the drama!
My conclusion, they are making a new story with only same characters from the novel so personally, I would say the film has no relation to the plagiarism scandal.
While researching, I had to look at all their videos such as trailers and BTS. I must say, if you are curious about the Eastern mythology or love Mandarin, this could be for you. The fact that they use animals to represent every characters, different yet unique characters and the originals lines they said (I saw in the trailer) are just so beautiful and mysterious. Every word of their lines has a meaning and they just made me feel like learning Mandarin all over again.
Not to forget the absolutely brilliant graphic, I must admit this is by far the best CG China has ever made. The costumes are so exquisite and scenery are so beautiful and dreamy, yet they could retain the mysterious eastern elements inside.
So anti, please let us watch the film peacefully. if it's really that bad, we, including me, will definitely our ORIGINAL reviews. Don't flood us with your anti comments. Just saying plagiarism is not a review and definitely not helpful