Chapter 1387

Zombie master, the first Chinese horror film ever released in North America, or the first Chinese film ever released in North America.

In the last life, "hero" has made considerable box office achievements in North America, but that's mostly because of Harvey's operation and the popularity of Quentin. Moreover, in this life, "hero" has not been able to borrow strength from Quentin, and the box office performance is very general.

However, zombie master is not the same as hero. Although zombie master is not as grand and exquisite as hero, it is a classic Chinese film of kaizongli school. Its directors do not place their hopes on winning awards overseas, nor do they want to test the movie as a blockbuster. It is not the same as hero Under the background of the booming Hong Kong film in those days, the directors, its actors and behind the scenes workers just wanted to do something different. They have to say that they have succeeded in this regard.

"Mr. zombie" has a complete set of characters, a complete plot and a complete system of fighting against monsters. While ensuring the integrity of these aspects, the film can still maintain the main tone of humor and humor. What's more, it's Lin Zhengying's perfect interpretation of the role in the film. His expression, voice and every move will give the audience great trust, Let the audience really believe that he knows how to kill the zombies, let the audience believe that he is really a zombie Taoist.

At the beginning, the film has created many miracles in the field of Chinese film. It has created a new sect in the highly competitive Hong Kong film world by itself. Now, the film is ready to be a blockbuster in the North American market!

Because it's an old movie and it doesn't have actors familiar to North American audiences, zombie master doesn't have a premiere. It just arranges the first show in the United States at midnight New York time as the premiere of the movie. North American audiences have long been looking forward to the movie, so the attendance rate of the premiere has undoubtedly reached 100%.

As the distributor of the film in the North American market, Lucas came to the premiere in person. He and several partners purchased the consecutive tickets through the pastoral ticket system. He wanted to see what the North American audience thought about the film. He needed to infer the potential of the film through the observation of the audience.

Many movie premieres can guarantee full seats, but this is not the performance of box office sales. Many movies have poor stamina. Within a few days of release, the box office and attendance rate began to plummet. Therefore, Lucas has no bottom for this movie. Although he has certain confidence, he also wants to know how much potential this movie can have.

And how much potential a movie can have depends on the audience's word-of-mouth. If the audience at the scene shows great love for the movie, the movie will definitely catch fire. If the audience at the scene doesn't pay for the plot and many obstacles of the movie, there is no doubt that the movie will soon end.

At zero o'clock, the cinema lights out on time. The audience of the whole theater is looking forward to the old movie from Hong Kong, China, made in 1985.

At the moment when the screen lights up, Jiahe company's classic title appeared on the big screen. For the vast majority of North American audiences in the cinema, this is the first time they have seen the company's title picture.

After Jiahe is Baohe, after Baohe, there are four big characters: Mr. zombie.

Under these four characters is the English title of the film "zombie master", which is also written in miserable green.

Miserable green text creates a kind of creepy and weird atmosphere for the audience, which makes all the audience nervous and quickly enter a state of watching horror films.

After the introduction of the title and the cast members, the first act of the film begins in Yizhuang, a unique place in ancient China and modern society.

In the picture, a large number of coffins are placed in the dilapidated room. Xu Guanying's Apprentice pushes the door open and walks into the Yizhuang, lights a incense and calls for the ghosts in the Yizhuang to eat.

And then, he said, "it's a guest passing by, you eat first."

As soon as the voice came to an end, he reached out and opened a white tent. As he opened the white tent, a row of zombies in Qing Dynasty official uniform and with yellow characters on their foreheads appeared on the screen.

If it is the first time to see this picture, the audience will be shocked by the row of zombies. However, the audience in North America who saw this movie for the first time, when they saw this scene, they immediately cheered with surprise!

“China-Zombie！” I don't know which excited audience suddenly exclaimed. There was a burst of applause and whistles in the cinema!

We are used to seeing Chinese zombies in cartoon version in "plant vs. Zombies online". This time, we suddenly saw the movie and TV image of Chinese zombies on the big screen, which not only didn't feel afraid, but also felt very kind!

In fact, in addition to a small number of Chinese Americans who came to the cinema to review the classics, most of the other North American audiences came to this unique Chinese zombie image. When they played the game, they were particularly interested in this special zombie image. Later, I saw some netizens coming from the screenshot of the movie on the Internet The picture is more interested in these zombie images and zombie movies, so there are rows of Chinese zombies at the beginning of the movie, which is really satisfactory to them!Later, Xu Guanying is grabbed by a "zombie" in a coffin, and then a "zombie" jumps out of the coffin. Xu Guanying is scared and quickly picks up the camera, and then counts the number of zombies. At this time, the "zombie" suddenly kills back. Xu Guanying responds in a hurry, but is forced to the corner by the zombie accidentally. At this time, the "zombie" opens his mouth to bite, Seeing that Xu Guanying is about to be bitten by zombies, the audience is also nervous for a while.

At this time, "zombies" suddenly spit out a pair of false teeth. It turns out that "zombies" are not real zombies, but the younger martial brother played by Qian Xiaohao.

Although it was a false alarm, several of the eight zombies in the back were accidentally removed from their foreheads. Then the zombies immediately recovered their freedom and began to attack them.

Then, their master, Lin Zhengying, came out and solved the zombie problem easily. This episode was quite comic. The audience was also very satisfied with this comedy processing segment. Finally, all the zombies were solved, and they were settled by Fu Zhuan again. Lin Zhengying's younger martial brother took the eight zombies to the road. When the eight zombies jumped and followed Lin Zhengying's younger martial brother When I went out behind me, there was another burst of laughter in the screening hall.

What's more interesting is that there is a zombie who can't jump over the threshold in any case. Xu Guanying hurriedly comes out to help, saying that I will help you, while holding the zombie to send him out.

At the end of the first unit, the audience had a very intuitive understanding of the zombie. Then, Lin Zhengying was invited to help the businessman Ren Laoye move his grave. During this period, Lin Zhengying talked about the unique geomantic omen of China on the premise of the camera. Interestingly, the word "geomantic omen" also has a certain influence in North America, which is well known in North America "Yin and Yang" and "Fengshui", but most people don't understand the details. Lin Zhengying briefly introduces some Fengshui in the plot, which also makes the North American audience enjoy it. Although they can't understand it, they can know that the Chinese tombs also pay great attention to Fengshui. Fengshui can protect the future generations to thrive. If Fengshui is not good, it may bring disaster to future generations To mutate the body.

This unique Chinese culture, after being processed by film and television, can easily let the western audience see the characteristics and depth of Chinese culture. There is no so-called geomancy in the West. In their culture, one of the most metaphysical legends is the full moon night, the werewolf will change on the full moon night, and the vampire will change on the full moon night, in addition to that Besides, there are basically no other metaphysical legends.

The subsequent plot of Mr. zombie tells the reasons for the formation of zombies and the ways to deal with them in great detail through Ren's father's corpse. Lin Zhengying says that corpses are divided into zombies and dead bodies, people are divided into good people and bad people, and people become bad people because they don't fight for breath. The reason why corpses become zombies is that people live before they die Anger, suffocation and suffocation will make people accumulate resentment after death and eventually become zombies.

The saying of good and bad people, dead bodies and Zombies has a long history of Philosophy in Chinese culture, which is expressed in the language of Lin Zhengying, but it is also recognized and praised by Western audiences.

As for Lin Zhengying's practice of letting his apprentice use ink to pop up a grid on the coffin, it also opened many audiences' eyes. In their eyes, there should be some metaphysical factors in the ink fight, which is the spear and shield of Chinese legend.

In Western legends, there are spears and shields, but the overall rank is relatively low. For example, vampires have to cut their heads, demons are afraid of holy water, werewolves are afraid of silver weapons, and the whole is very simple;

in Chinese zombie legends, spears and shields are very complicated. There are not only zombie Taoist priests, but also the complex method of array. Even if they are only making ink fights, they need blood and ink, Then we can make use of these materials, and then pour them into the ink bucket to make it work.

Although it seems tedious, when Lin Zhengying does these things, he has a kind of magic, which can make the audience feel that all he has done is very persuasive.

One of the most interesting things about this movie is that the comic effect is very good. When the master brother finished handling Ren's father's coffin, Qian Xiaohao met the ghost bride who adored him on his way home. As a result, the ghost bride sat in the back of his bicycle, but was hit by a branch. When the ghost bride sat on the ground and was wronged, there was a laugh in the cinema.

The structure of the film has always been a mix of comedy, drama, comedy and drama. As soon as the funny story of the ghost bride passes, Ren's father begins to die. Lin Zhengying's Ink Fight also has a magical effect, leaving the zombies nowhere to escape.

Later, the two brothers arrived at Ren's house, only to find that Ren's cousin, Qian Jin, had coveted Ren Tingting for a long time. Together, the two brothers used a little magic, pulled a hair from Qian Jin's cousin's head, and added a rune seal to make Qian Jin's cousin and Xu Guanying into a pair of "dolls" with the same actions. Then, you came to me and laughed frequently 。

This comedy plot is particularly brilliant. The whole movie theater has become a piece of laughter. Whatever "a" does, and "B" does, it has been played badly in Hong Kong movies. But for North American audiences, this is the first time to see it, so the audience is especially paying for it.Lucas watched the audience's eyes and laughter, and excitedly said to one of his partners, "Oh God, look at the audience's performance so far, I believe this movie will catch fire!"