“Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” stills
The TVB drama “Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” was launched on Monday (16th). It tells the story of the two big families of Luo and Zhu who have been fighting for hundreds of years. Romeo (played by Jialuo Zhou) and Juliet (played by Yau Jiaxin) fell in love at first sight; because Juliet has already With her fiancé, Yingqiao (Chen Yimei) resolutely decided to let Juliet go, thus laying the foundation for a war between the two families. One of the must-see selling points of “Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” must be that Aimee Chan returns to TVB after 9 years, playing two roles by herself, and filming with her husband Chen Hao as a couple. However, the plot setting has also been highly controversial, with producer Chen Weiguan being accused of “paying homage” to different works.
First of all, “Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” was accused of plagiarism. It was too similar to the background of Leonardo DiCaprio’s classic movie “Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Passion” 27 years ago. It only made the story more modern. , for example, the sword duel was replaced by a gun, Yang Zhenghua appeared in the Joker costume in the first episode, etc. Chen Weiguan has a history of paying tribute to other works, including the poster design of “New Chapter 42” which was accused of being similar to the mainland drama “Flowers on the Road”. Even the image search automatically showed up the “Flowers on the Road” poster. “Killer” was accused of being too close to the story setting of the online novel “Killer World”, but Chen Weiguan emphasized that its inspiration came from the movie “This Killer Is Not Too Cold”. In addition, a section of “Seven Princesses” depicts Lin Xiawei’s stubborn expression about the price when buying things. It was considered to be plagiarized from foreign comedy films, but it was still recognized in the “Best Drama Series” award. “Women’s Club” refers to the Korean movie “Sunshine Sisters”, but Eric Tsang said it was only a source of inspiration.
Many netizens have been discussing the suspected plagiarism issue of “Romeo and Zhu Yingtai”, such as “If you can see it, it is a tribute, but if you can’t see it, it is original”, “Plagiarism in the post-modern passion chapter”, “Four unlike TV series. Put some wild things together” It’s a mess.”, “Ming John Wick”, “Coastal Village’s Kim Seon-ho Show That Pile of Certificates”, “A complete series of dramas that have been praised for generations”, “Working Master, Queen of Lost Dogs”. Gintama again.”, “There are some scenes that are also like the movie Dragon Tiger Gate.”, “Tbb’s wild plagiarism is so surprising”, “The series is so embarrassing that it doesn’t match up at all”, “Hong Kong version of John Wick”, “Plagiarism from leonardo Guotao post-modern passion chapter?” and “If you haven’t watched other dramas, treat them as your own original work” and so on.
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“Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” stills
“Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” stills
“Romeo and Zhu Yingtai” stills
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