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["Young You": I owe you a companionship through the midsummer]

["Young You": How beautiful you are, but also how evil you may be]

[Image antidote in the digital age, what is the root cause behind minor violence? 】

[The complex beauty of "Young You" is because growth itself is complicated]

[Homage or plagiarism? ! The premiere of "Young You" was criticized for plagiarizing Keigo Higashino's work? 】

[The box office exceeded 300 million within three days of its release. Behind its success is blatant plagiarism and meddling! 】

After the premiere, "Young You" premiered nationwide on August 3.

On the day of its premiere, "Young You" quickly became a trending topic on Weibo, and its box office performance was overwhelming.

The box office was 88 million on the first day, 120 million on the second day, and remained above 100 million on the third day!

"Young You" is a hit, and a big hit!

But as the movie exploded, so did a lot of skepticism and criticism.

On the second day of the movie's premiere, a group of so-called marketing accounts boldly spoke out on Weibo and other social platforms: "Young You" is suspected of plagiarism and meme-ing!

Under their guidance, many fans who have not read "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", two works of Higashino Keigo, feel that part of the plot and story of "Young You" comes from these two novels. Stitched out of the story.

This situation makes Guangying Times and even Li Yang, Wu Yuan and others a little depressed.

Is "Young You" really a plagiarism, a reference, or an homage?

Of course not!

If I had to say it, I can only say that the protagonists' settings of the novels "Young You" and "White Night Journey" are somewhat similar.

They are all stories about two protagonists, a man and a woman, who redeem each other. They are both underage, and their peaceful lives are no longer peaceful because of an accident.

If you just read a few high-traffic articles and make a few tables and outlines to compare, you may be really inspired and think that this movie really seems to have plagiarized Keigo Higashino.

But in fact, if anyone has actually read the original works of "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", they will not think that they were plagiarized.

"Young You" and "White Night Walk" are only slightly similar in setting, but if you peel them off layer by layer, there is actually not much connection.

The relationship between Chen Nian and Xiao Bei has a lot of dialogue. Xiao Bei obviously protects Chen Nian, Chen Nian is kind and innocent, and Xiao Bei is a bad boy.

In "White Night Walk", Yukiho had already lost her kind side in childhood and became the "queen" who would kill anyone who stood in her way, while Kirihara was her lifelong executioner. In the novel, they never even crossed paths. And the dialogue, Yukiho is in the daylight, Kirihara is in the dark.

As for The Devotion of Suspect

This is actually just some similarities in the most basic character settings.

This is something that is difficult to avoid in literary creation.

This kind of collision with "settings" is very common.

For example, "Inception" and "Red Hot Chili Peppers", "Black Swan" and "The House of Dreams", "I Am Not a Medicine God" and "Dallas Buyers Club", "Detective Chinatown 2" and "Two Eyes", "Warriors" and "The Usual Suspects", "Heroes" and "Rashomon" and so on...

They are more or less similar in character settings, but the specific core of the story, plot, and character relationships are all different.

In fact, if "Young You" really involved plagiarism, it would not have won the Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Golden Statue awards for Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, let alone be nominated for an Oscar. Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The public opinion accusing "Better Days" of plagiarizing Keigo Higashino is entirely a deliberate smear campaign by someone with a well-intentioned mind.

People who have actually read Keigo Higashino's novels and have independent judgment and thinking can only be regarded as a minority among the minority in the online world.

The Internet is a big dyeing vat, and opinions and attitudes are everyone else’s.

Most netizens who surf the Internet follow what others say, and can easily be manipulated and become consumables for creating public opinion tools.

Just under the influence of some marketing accounts, the topic of suspected plagiarism in "Better Days" was rushed to the forefront of Weibo's hot searches. Many people have neither watched "Better Days" nor Keigo Higashino. Netizens are "supporting" Keigo Higashino, and are abusing and criticizing the movie "Young You".

They seemed to have deliberately ignored that the script of this movie was written by Wu Yuan. They did not directly criticize Wu Yuan, and did not mention the word "Wu Yuan" at all. Instead, they focused on criticizing the movie "Young You". He scolded Guangying Times for being the leader in the industry and taking the lead in plagiarism.

What is very strange is that although Guangying Times is already one of the shareholders of Sina Weibo, there seems to be no response from Guangying Times this time. Whether it is removing the trending search or suppressing the popularity, this method of controlling the fermentation of public opinion has not happened at all. , completely letting the bosses behind the marketing accounts take action.

However, just when netizens who were tricked and coerced flocked to the official blog of Light and Shadow Times, intending to fight for "justice" and use their keyboards to bring justice to Keigo Higashino, thinking that they were the vanguard of anti-plagiarism.

On the official Weibo of Light and Shadow Times, the latest Weibo has been updated, which is also a video blog post.

In the video, the well-known Japanese writer Keigo Higashino appeared in the center of the camera and said with a smile: ""Young" is very beautiful. It is a great movie. The problem of school violence is also a very troublesome problem in Japan."

"Director Wu Yuan's script is very well written. I like it very much. If there is a chance, I would be willing to meet with Director Wu Yuan to talk about everything about literary creation."

"When "Young You" is released in Japan, I will definitely be there to support it!"

Keigo Higashino didn't talk about any plagiarism issues, but his attitude said everything.

No need to ask, of course Wu Yuan asked his Japanese partners to help record this video in advance with Keigo Higashino.

Of course he knows what kind of public opinion attack "Young You" will encounter after its release. For the sake of his reputation and the film's box office performance, Wu Yuan will of course take precautions in advance.

In fact, after Keigo Higashino watched the finished film of "Young You", he did not think that the film was plagiarized from his work. A true cultural person can naturally see the difference between plagiarism and the same setting.

The core of the story and the plot of the two stories are completely different, and the purpose of the story is also different.

After watching the movie, Keigo Higashino asked the Japanese representative with emotion when the movie would be released in Japanese theaters.

Regarding the serious and heavy topic of school violence, Japan also needs the baptism of film works.

It's not just Japan.

South Korea, even more proactively than Japan, came to the door, seeking to introduce and release "Young You"! (End of chapter)