China's four classic novels, CCTV TV series in 1980s and 1990s, are precious cultural heritage and spiritual food for generations of China people! Especially in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the golden age of literary and art circles. Several famous domestic directors, such as Wang Fulin, Yang Jie, Zhang Shaolin and the great producer Ren Dahui, adapted four great classical novels into TV series, which raised the aesthetic art of film and television to an unprecedented height!

So why are these classics always used for remake? Today, let the author analyze the reasons for headline friendship.

Undeniably, CCTV's four classic novels and TV plays are four insurmountable aesthetic peaks in the history of film and television! No matter from the preparation or the actor's acting skills, other remakes are not comparable. The four classic CCTV editions are listed as follows:

Yang Jie's 1.86 version of Journey to the West.

2.87 version of A Dream of Red Mansions directed by Wang Fulin.

The 3.94 version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is directed by Wang Fulin.

The 4.98 version of Water Margin directed by Zhang Shaolin.

The above four CCTV editions are classic editions and masterpieces in the history of China film and television development! It has become an indelible spiritual food and classic version in the memory of generations.

However, with the development of market economy and the enhancement of people's commodity consciousness, some commercial producers and film directors always take out the classic versions of these four classic novels to remake them.

The author believes that this kind of behavior is extremely profitable from the perspective of business awareness and business operation mode! The remake is no more original than Wang Fulin and other big directors, and the original operating cost is extremely high! The operating costs of remake and remake are low, and some are even extremely low, but they can grab people's attention with famous dramas! This business model is in response to a famous saying that they started their business "on the shoulders of giants"!

However, practice and time have proved that these four classic novels: A Dream of Red Mansions, Water Margin, Journey to the West and The Three Kingdoms, no matter how they are remake, are much worse than the previous four CCTV versions! What's the reason? Because of the new four classic novel series, their director is no longer the award-winning professional Wang Fulin, and their producer is no longer the famous producer Ren Dahui! Their achievements in film and television aesthetics and the popularity of the audience are bound to be greatly reduced, just as later novelists continued to write A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin and Water Margin by Shi Naian, no matter how they continued to write, they were not as good as the original works.

(Note: Author: Lin, Bai Jianuo. Chaozhou Dream Jiangnan, the picture comes from the Internet, thank you! )