I'm not mentally ill, I'm a master of a thousand faces!

Chapter 121, Did the surprise turn into a shock?

the other side.

This time, "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" has indeed attracted a lot of viewers.

As a long-established IP with a large fan base, it has been around for many years.

Many people are paying attention to this work.

Some people are happy about the changes in public opinion surrounding the work, while others are sad.

Xiuqing was undoubtedly pleased.

Or perhaps there was a hint of schadenfreude in it.

Judging from the impressions of this Murong Fu as presented in the first episode, it seems that many veteran viewers do not quite approve of this Murong Fu, nor do they approve of this character who has been changed too much.

"The production team initially chose a surprise, but a surprise can sometimes turn into a shock, and now it has become a shock." Xiuqing looked at the entertainment section of the newspaper, the comments on Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and even the editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of Southern Metropolis Daily came out to criticize this change.

Putting aside whether the acting was good or bad, this change is disrespectful to the original work.

The changes are too drastic.

They completely changed the character's basic settings, so for readers of the original work, it's not the person they remember at all.

Xiuqing was still somewhat bothered by this, after all, his father had once said that he didn't like the character Murong Fu that he played.

He was portrayed as too clownish.

Let's see now.

The conclusions given by the media sector.

A fictionalized account is not nonsense, and an adaptation is not a random fabrication.

Murong Fu was originally a clown character, and a clown should act like a clown. Even though Xiuqing liked the character and felt that Murong Fu was very suitable for him, liking is liking, and a character is a character. He still followed the feeling of the original work.

At this moment, Xiuqing gave a copy of the newspaper to her father.

"So, what do you think, Dad?"

"What can I do but keep watching? I can't really tell anything from the first episode. All I can see is that the way Murong Fu is portrayed is a little different from what we understand." Xiuyu looked at the newspaper with a smile.

"Back then, you didn't like me either, you were Murong Fu too," Xiuqing said, seemingly still holding a grudge about what happened back then.

"Oh dear, I didn't say that, kid, don't be so sensitive." Xiuyu paused and said, "Besides, this Murong Fu isn't as bad as you guys say, he's just different from how you remember him from your youth."

"Let there be more episodes, so that all viewers can judge, instead of just the media's one-sided opinions. They are only a part of the audience. Don't judge a character or a work based on the voices of a few."

"All right."

Xiuqing shrugged. Anyway, he felt that the creators of this Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils would probably regret not choosing him.

With his own addition, the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" can be made more authentic, and the reputation of the TV series should be better.

But now everything is set in stone.

At this very moment, Mr. Cha, who lives in the capital, is also paying close attention to the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

He also watched the first two episodes of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

"So? What do you think of the broadcast of 'The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'?" His old friend Tao Jie asked with a smile from the other side.

Also a novelist, he has known Jin Yong for over half a century.

"So what's your opinion? You watched this TV series too."

Jin Yong smiled and asked in return.

"Not bad, quite good-looking. The casting of Qiao Feng is like he stepped right out of the book." Tao Jie paused and said, "If I had to say, I'd say it's just right."

"And what about Murong Fu?"

I will not comment on this character.

Why?

"How much subjective malice did you bring to this character when you created it? So I won't comment on whether it's right or wrong, and I have absolutely no right to say, right?" Tao Jie said with a smile.

Jin Yong thought about it for a moment, and recalled when he created Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

It has been half a century since then.

I was still young back then.

At that time, my cousin was still alive, and I was very clear about my malice towards him; I hated him.

The creation of the character Murong Fu was entirely subjective, with not a trace of objectivity.

There was even a hint of venting in it, bringing his dislike for his cousin into the character to satisfy his perverse sense of humor. Jin Yong remembers feeling quite satisfied back then, being able to vent his dissatisfaction with real people in his books, and this sense of control was very comfortable.

But as time goes by, and as years and memories gradually become blurred with age, so too do we grow older.

She even lost her malice towards her cousin and gained a clearer understanding of him.

I myself have changed, but my work has not. The character Murong Fu still carries the malice I feel towards my cousin. He is still the same person with a wicked sense of humor who harbors malice towards his cousin.

Is this fair? Is this just?

Jin Yong had actually thought about this question a long time ago.

At least after seeing Murong Fu's performance on set, I started to think about it.

At this moment, Tao Jie's words came to mind again.

After a long while, Jin Yong looked at the winter plum blossoms outside the window, pushed up his glasses, and smiled.

"I haven't held a pen in so long, I wonder if I can still write smoothly."

Why should I, Jin Yong, be the one who understands Murong Fu best?

At this moment, Li Yun no longer paid attention to Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. There was still a long time before his highlight scenes were revealed, and the media's discussion level could not represent the whole picture.

The highlight scenes should be after Shaolin Temple.

Let the dust settle; don't let the voices of a small group influence your judgment.

He would only chat with Liu Qianqian occasionally, and she would always find the most girlish ways to comfort Li Yun.

Oh my, you are the cousin I love the most.

She speaks with the wisdom and tact of a young woman.

Li Yun occasionally enjoyed this kind of comfort.

The young girl wasn't the only one comforting Li Yun; the middle-aged scholar was too.

His seemingly curious mind about everything in the world also offered some comfort to the dejected Li Yun.

He also used his own way.

Since Murong Fu left, there has been no one like him who could talk to himself so peacefully.

He always seems to be able to make the most calm choices from the perspective of an observer, in his own way.

"Well, although I don't know if you're a real person, I'm still very grateful for your comfort during this time. It's made me feel much better." Li Yun hadn't expected that someone could comfort her when she was alone.

"That old bastard, utterly hypocritical!" The speaker was the evil youth's personality. Ever since Cao Zhengchun left, he had become arrogant again: "Why do you feel like he cares about you? You and I are both fatherless bastards. He gives you a false feeling because he has his own ulterior motives. He just wants to use your body to see the world. He wants to truly live."

This guy is a coward who bullies the weak and fears the strong. He knows Li Yun can't do anything to him.

The middle-aged scholar, however, with a wave of his hand, subdued the seemingly strong but actually weak and wicked young man, kneading and deforming him in his hands.

"You still lack discipline from your family and have no one to discipline you, so I'll discipline you myself." The middle-aged scholar said calmly, then smiled slightly at Li Yun: "Eat dinner early, don't worry about anything else, it's not good to go hungry."

Then the middle-aged scholar and the wicked youth disappeared at the same time.

This proves that the middle-aged scholar's personality is one of the rare traits that leads him to voluntarily disappear.

Try not to disturb Li Yun's life, and take the initiative to comfort Li Yun when she is depressed, trying to make her feel better from an outsider's perspective.

This made Li Yun feel somewhat comfortable.

There is a comfortable feeling of being respected.

"This guy really deserves a beating," Li Yun said, touching my chin.

However, he said they were all guys without parents.

They didn't say anything wrong.

It wasn't that Li Yun was struggling with this issue.

Instead, he was thinking about whether he could use that feeling in his audition for New Police Story.

After all, the character is set up so that A-Guan is a boy who was not loved by his father since childhood.

His mother's doting love and his father's indulgence and neglect led him down the path of crime.

Whenever he makes a mistake.

Immediately, a wad of cash would be thrown at them, accompanied by insults and abuse, sometimes even accompanied by beatings with sticks.

No matter what mistake was made, big or small, the mother would always try to settle things with money, while the father would always think that his son was just a good-for-nothing and would never say whose fault it was.

Ah Guan grew up in such an environment.

This gradually turned his personality evil, cruel, and radical; to him, the world itself was gray.

There are naturally born villains.

But it wasn't him.

He became like this later in life.

Lack of discipline.

That's why things turned out this way.

At this moment, Li Yun looked at A Guan's script, which was quite similar to what he had previously imagined in his profiling.

A spoiled rich kid who believed that money could solve everything ended up becoming an arrogant and domineering character who even resorted to crime to gain attention.

If I had to explain it, it's actually quite easy to understand.

The spoiled child turned from a bad child into a ruthless child, and a bunch of ruthless children as well.

This led to the events in the new police story.

This bad kid gathered a bunch of other bad kids to commit murder and rob banks, just to gain attention; a group of equally wicked people.

A somewhat cliché, yet undeniably villainous character.

In this new police story, people kill for the sake of so-called "fun" and attention.

Such a character setting is actually very easy to evoke empathy and reflection, since the issues stemming from education are also easy for people to think about.

It's also easy to get into.

A villain with somewhat stereotypical traits.

However, Li Yun felt that his situation was still somewhat special.

He murmured.

"It's a bit hard to relate to this, at least you have both parents, while I have neither."

(End of this chapter)