Lucas's years of experience in the film and television industry is not groundless. He has seen the film for a long time, so from the moment he sits in the cinema, his attention is on the audience around him.
Whether the audience has been staring at the screen, whether the audience contributes their laughter to the jokes in the movie, whether the audience feels the tension in the plot, these are the key factors to measure a movie.
But in Lucas' view, from the beginning of the movie to the present, the vast majority of the audience have been watching it with special attention, and they enjoy it very much. They will give enough feedback on every joke and plot in the movie. It can be expected that after watching the movie, the audience will give it a very high evaluation and public praise It will be very good!
Lucas' professional vision has not gone wrong.
Then the story, the audience see more input!
The power of this movie is that it can blend in very interesting and advanced jokes in various situations, not only from the characters, plot, but also action guidance.
In the film, after Ren's death, Lin Zhengying is jailed by Qian Jin's cousin. The other side uses the iron of the word "adultery" to intimidate Lin Zhengying, and buries a foreshadowing. Then, Ren's death makes Qian Xiaohao stop the zombie with Fu Zhuan, but unexpectedly, Qian Jin's cousin comes in and starts a series of coquetting operations. These series of coquetting operations laugh frequently , including that he accidentally dropped the rune seal many times, including that Qian Xiaohao burned the word "treachery" on his chest with the brand iron of "treachery" because of a series of Wulong, which just echoed the foreshadowing pen he had buried before.
The most interesting thing is that in the plot, Qian Xiaohao didn't mean to ask for the whole family's Qianjin cousin, but when he attacked the zombies, Qianjin's cousin sat on the sharp point of the knife, then jumped up, hit Qian Xiaohao's brand iron by mistake, which was a vicious report.
Later, Xu Guanying and Ren jiaqianjin's plot to deal with zombies was also tense and funny, and the audience was nervous, happy and excited.
Then, Lin Zhengying with his apprentice Qian Xiaohao came out to subdue the zombies, and showed the strong professional quality of the zombie Taoist priest.
In this process, another apprentice Xu Guanying was bitten by a zombie and poisoned by a corpse, and then the plot was divided into two parts: one was to help Xu Guanying control the corpse poison, the other was Qian Xiaohao meeting with the female ghost again, and the plot was interspersed with the traitor played by the afternoon horse, who deliberately mixed 30 jin sticky rice into the 50 Jin glutinous rice sold to Qian Xiaohao, thus burying the following plot Another small foreshadowing, there is Qian Xiaohao's subtle design that the female ghost controls the weather and constantly turns the clouds and rain with the female ghost.
Multi line propulsion, multiple foreshadowing, multiple burdens, multiple characters, so many elements mix together, but they can deal with the rhythm in a very compact way, and they are not messy at all, which is extremely rare. Moreover, the load-bearing ways of laughing materials are various. Not only in various plots, they can naturally integrate laughing points, but also in martial arts, Although it's just a comedy film without any depth, from these points, it can be seen that the staff behind the film have a profound foundation.
After that, the plot of Lin Zhengying's female ghost fighting is also very tense and interesting, and the fighting scene is intense and interesting, which is also mixed with many Taoist practices and behaviors of using magic tools, which is more convincing while highlighting the profession.
In the unit plot of fighting female ghost, the female ghost is defeated and escapes by Lin Zhengying. The original beautiful courtyard suddenly becomes a depressed and dilapidated small courtyard. Lin Zhengying returns with his apprentice. One of his two apprentices is poisoned by corpse, the other is bewildered. Lin Zhengying can only solve it one by one. On the one hand, he helps Xu Guanying control the corpse poison, and on the other hand, he sets up a formation to wait for the female ghost to come.
The role of female ghost in the play is not a pure villain. On the contrary, because she is sincere to Qian Xiaohao, she gives an explanation of all her actions that can be accepted by the audience, which makes her image relatively positive. After the fierce fighting, Lin Zhengying does not kill the female ghost, but let Qian Xiaohao be the master himself. Qian Xiaohao's practice does not let her The audience was disappointed. He removed the shackles from the female ghost and let her go. After the female ghost escaped, the audience was relieved.
Although the crisis of female ghost has been solved, the real boss, that is, the zombie changed by Ren Ye's father, has not been solved yet, so the final plot of Gao Chao in the movie is to fight with this zombie boss.
At the critical moment, Lin Zhengying's younger martial brother, who appeared at the beginning of the film, once again came to the scene with a group of zombies. This first and last echo is also very interesting in the film structure. The audience was deeply impressed by these zombies and Lin Zhengying's younger martial brother, who was wearing a striking Taoist robe. So when they saw him at this time, they were very happy.
Next, younger martial brother Lin Zhengying manipulated a group of zombies to fight with a zombie boss, which surprised the audience. At first, he thought that eight zombies would be killed by one zombie. Unexpectedly, these eight zombies, together with younger martial brother Lin Zhengying, would be a big aquatic product. Eight zombies lost the battle after only one round. Unexpectedly, But it's in reason.
At the end of the film, people fight against zombies together, and finally burn the zombie boss to ashes. This also echoes what Lin Zhengying said to Ren, the safest way to prevent zombies is to cremate. When the first master disagreed with him, he lost his life, and everyone spent a lot of time. His father was still burned clean by a fire The details are somewhat ironic.At the end of the story, the writer shakes a burden. Some zombies brought by Lin Zhengying's younger martial brother have all been burned clean by a fire. The eight aquatic products have a wave of water at the beginning and a wave at the end. Finally, they go back to the west completely. They also stick to their professional ethics as "aquatic products" and have a sense of humor
After the final burden shakes, the whole movie comes to an end. Lucas looks at the performance of the audience around him and cheers.
What surprised him was that after the movie, someone in the theater took the lead in clapping, so the clapping became one after another, mixed with cheers and whistles, and the atmosphere was especially warm.
Although the film is very old, its plot is compact and coherent, all kinds of plots, jokes, baggage and foreshadowing are well combined, each character has its own characteristics, each plot is explained, each baggage is shaken, and the audience is nervous, exciting and excited in the 100 minutes Interesting and devoted, so that they have a deeper understanding of the characteristics and background of "Chinese zombies", so the whole movie is highly complete in the eyes of the audience, and the experience is also perfect.
At the end of the cinema, many audiences still have a lot to say. They seldom watch Hong Kong movies. Unexpectedly, the movie is fast-paced, tight plot, intense, exciting, relaxed and interesting. It also has a full exotic flavor, which makes people enjoy watching it so much that when the audience exits in twos and threes, they are still communicating some plots in the movie. Lucas is stuck in the crowd with his ears up listen.
Some people say that the unique characteristics of Chinese zombie settings, such as zombies can only jump, for example, zombies rely on the breath of people to determine the direction of people, for example, although zombies are afraid of zombie and Taoist runes, magic weapons, but the two sides are not absolutely oppressive. When they meet fierce zombies, Taoist magic and magic weapons will lose their function, which is very interesting and also interesting It's relatively reasonable. It's not like many American supernatural legends or film and television works. For example, if a powerful vampire cuts off his head, he will die. If a powerful werewolf is stabbed by a silver dagger, he will die.
It is also discussed that Lin Zhengying plays the Taoist priest in the movie. This character is particularly pleasing in the movie, not only because he looks like a very decent person, but also because of the "professional qualities" he shows in the movie. The most important thing is that his three views are extremely in line with the protagonist setting of the movie and TV series. Although he looks meticulous, he knows the big and the big No, so it took him a long time to subdue the ghost girl, but he didn't insist on killing her, which made him more flesh and blood.
The audience also felt sorry for the female ghost. They thought the role was full and three-dimensional. She fell in love with Qian Xiaohao because of his kindness. Then she tried several times to get close to him and have a curfew with him, but she didn't have any intention to harm him. Even when she saw Qian Xiaohao was in danger, she tried to break through the array set by Lin Zhengying and save Qian Xiaohao Life, even when she was trying to kill Lin Zhengying, she could remind Lin Zhengying that such a role, in the eyes of North American audiences who are used to watching such love dramas as ghost, is particularly sympathetic, and even many audiences hope that she can finally get together with Qian Xiaohao.
Lucas listened all the way with an excited heart. After he left the cinema, the first thing he did was to call Li Mu.
It's 2 a.m. New York time. Yanjing, which has 12 hours time difference with New York, is now 2 p.m.
Li Mu is having a closed door meeting with a group of people in Yanjing to discuss the specific planning of the film and television base. He has already forgotten that North America is premiering zombie master. He received a call from Lucas. He didn't want to answer it at the beginning. After a moment of hesitation, he suspended the meeting and connected the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Li!" As soon as the phone was connected, Lucas said hello to Li Mu excitedly.
Li Mu said, "you are also Lucas. What's the matter with calling me at this time?"
Lucas's voice was a little agitated and said: "Mr. Li," zombie master "just finished its premiere at zero, and the audience's response was excellent. I think the word of mouth of this film will be good enough to explode after tomorrow, and its box office will be much higher than we expected."
Li Mu asked him, "how much can I get?"
Lucas said: "in terms of the performance of today's audience, I don't think there is any problem with the box office of $100 million, or even $150 million. Moreover, you have given the cinema an extra 20% share. The cinema is waiting for the movie's public praise and attendance. I think the movie's public praise will come out tomorrow, and the cinema will be on the original basis In this case, it's not a problem to increase the box office by 3% or 40%. "