Chapter 533 Higashino Keigo: Looks Good!

[Better Days: I owe you a journey through the summer]

[Better Days: How beautiful it is, how evil it can be]

[Antidote to images in the digital age, what is the root cause behind juvenile violence? ]

[The complex beauty of Better Days, because growth itself is complex]

[Tribute or plagiarism? ! Better Days was criticized for plagiarizing Keigo Higashino's work at its premiere? ]

[The box office broke 300 million in three days, and the success of the hit is a naked plagiarism and fusion of plots! ]

After the premiere, Better Days premiered nationwide on August 3.

On the day of the premiere, Better Days quickly became a hot search on Weibo, and its box office performance was unstoppable.

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

Better Days became popular, and it was a big hit!

But with the explosion of this movie, a lot of doubts and criticisms also followed.

On the second day of the movie's premiere, a group of so-called marketing accounts boldly voiced out on social platforms such as Weibo: "Better Days" is suspected of plagiarism and plot integration!

Under their influence, many fans who have not seen "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", two works of Keigo Higashino, feel that some of the plots of "Better Days" are stitched together from the stories of these two novels.

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

Is "Better Days" really plagiarism, reference, or tribute?

Of course not!

If you have to say it, you can only say that the protagonists of "Better Days" and "White Night Walk" are somewhat similar.

Both are stories of a man and a woman who redeem each other. Both are minors, and their peaceful lives are no longer peaceful because of an accident.

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

But in fact, if you have really read the original works of "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", you will not think that it is plagiarized.

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

There are a lot of dialogues between Chen Nian and Xiao Bei in the emotional line. Xiao Bei openly protects Chen Nian. Chen Nian is kind and innocent, and Xiao Bei is a bad boy.

In "White Night Walk", Xue Sui had already lost her kindness in childhood and became a "queen" who would kill anyone who stood in my way, and Kirihara was her lifelong executioner. In the novel, they did not even have any intersection or dialogue. Xue Sui was in the sun and Kirihara was in the dark.

As for "The Devotion of Suspect X", the similarity is that the male protagonist covered up the truth of the murder in order to protect the female protagonist. It is the same as the above, but the setting is similar. If you look at other specifics, the two stories cannot overlap.

This is actually just a little similar in the most basic character setting.

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

This kind of "setting" collision is very common.

For example, "Inception" and "Paprika", "Black Swan" and "Perfect Blue", "Dying to Survive" and "Dallas Buyers Club", "Detective Chinatown 2" and "Double Eyes", "Wushuang" and "The Usual Suspects", "Hero" and "Rashomon", etc. ...

They all have some similarities in character settings, but the specific story core, plot, and character relationships are all different.

In fact, if "Better Days" really involved plagiarism, it would not have won the Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenwriter and other awards at the Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Golden Image Awards, and would not have been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Oscars.

This wave of public opinion accusing "Better Days" of plagiarizing Keigo Higashino is completely a deliberate smear campaign by someone with ulterior motives.

People who have really 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 dye vat, and the views and attitudes are all from others.

Most of the netizens who surf the Internet just follow the crowd and are easily led by the rhythm, becoming consumables for creating public opinion tools.

It was only under the rhythm of some marketing accounts that the topic of "Better Days" suspected of plagiarism was rushed to the top of Weibo's hot searches. A large number of netizens who have neither watched "Better Days" nor Keigo Higashino are "supporting" Keigo Higashino, scolding and criticizing the movie "Better Days".

They seem to deliberately ignore that the script of this movie was written by Wu Yuan, and did not directly scold Wu Yuan, nor did they mention the two words "Wu Yuan" at all, but focused on scolding the movie "Better Days" and scolding Guangying Times for taking the lead in plagiarism as the industry leader.

It is very strange that Guangying Times is obviously one of the shareholders of Sina Weibo, but this time Guangying Times does not seem to have any reaction, whether it is withdrawing the hot search or suppressing the heat, this means of controlling the fermentation of public opinion has not made any movement, and completely let the bosses behind those marketing accounts do what they want.

However, just as the netizens who were manipulated and coerced rushed to the official Weibo of Light and Shadow Times, intending to fight for "justice" and use their keyboards to seek justice for Keigo Higashino, thinking that they were the vanguards against plagiarism.

The official Weibo of Light and Shadow Times updated the latest Weibo, which was a video blog post.

In the video, the famous Japanese writer Keigo Higashino appeared in the center of the camera and said with a smile: "Better Days" is very good. It is a great movie. School violence is also a very troubling problem in Japan."

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

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

Keigo Higashino did not talk about any plagiarism or not, but his attitude has already shown everything.

Needless to say, this video was of course recorded by Keigo Higashino after Wu Yuan asked his Japanese partners to help him.

He certainly knew what kind of public opinion attacks Better Days would encounter after its release. For his own reputation and the box office performance of this movie, Wu Yuan would of course take precautions in advance.

In fact, after watching the finished film Better Days, Keigo Higashino did not think that this movie was plagiarized from his work. A true cultural person can naturally see the difference between plagiarism and the same setting.

The core and plot of these two stories are completely different, and the intentions of the stories are also different.

After watching the movie, Keigo Higashino asked the Japanese representative with emotion when the movie could be introduced to Japanese theaters for screening.

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

Not only Japan.

South Korea, even more proactive than Japan, came to us and sought to introduce and screen "Better Days"! (End of this chapter)