Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1387: The North American premiere of “Zombie-Master”!
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"Zombie-Master"-the first ever China horror film to be fully released in North America, or the first China film ever fully released in North America.
previous life, "Hero" has achieved considerable box office results in North America, but most of it is due to the operation of Harvey and the name of Quentin, and, in this life, "Hero" failed to borrow from Quentin. Great, the box office performance is very general.
However, "Zombie-Master", that is, "Mr. Zombie(s)" is not the same as "Hero". Its although is not as grand and detailed as the "Hero", but it is a Chinese movie. In the classic film of the Kaizong School, its director did not place any hope on him to win an award overseas, nor did he think about testing the movie as a god, its director, as well as its actors and behind-the-scenes workers, in Hong Kong that year In the context of the booming movie, I just wanted to do something different, and I have to say that at this point, they succeeded.
"Mr. Zombie(s)" has a complete character set, a complete storyline, and a complete Daguai system. While ensuring the integrity of these aspects, the film can still maintain a witty and humorous tone. It is even more rare. Lin Zhengying's perfect interpretation of the characters in this movie, his expression, his voice, his every move will give the audience great trust, let the audience really believe that he knows how to eliminate Zombie(s), let the audience believe that he really is An Zombie(s) director.
At the beginning, this movie created a number of MU Online / miracle in the field of Chinese-language movies. A single genre has created a new sect in the fiercely competitive Hong Kong film industry. Now, this movie has done a great job in the North American market. ready!
Because it ’s an old movie, and it does n’t have an actor familiar to North American audiences, there is no premiere for “Zombie-Master”. It ’s just that the first show in the United States will be scheduled at zero in New York time as The premiere of the movie, and the audience in North America has longed for this movie, so the attendance of the premiere has undoubtedly reached 100%.
As the distributor of this film in the North American market, Lucas personally came to the premiere. He and several of his partners purchased the movie tickets for the seated seats through Mucha ticketing system. I want to take a look at North America. What does the audience think about this movie? He needs to observe the audience to infer the potential of this movie.
The premiere of many movies can be guaranteed to be full, but this is not the performance of the box office. Many movies have very poor stamina. The box office and the attendance of the movie have fallen sharply after a few days of release. Therefore, Lucas said that this movie There is no bottom, he has a certain confidence in although, but also wonders how much potential this movie can have.
And how much potential a movie can have depends mainly on the word of mouth of the audience. If the audience on the scene shows great love for the movie, the movie will definitely be in flames. The plot and many stalks are not bought, then there is no doubt that this movie will soon be on the street.
At zero, the theater turned off the lights on time, and the audience in the entire theater was looking forward to this old movie from China Hong Kong, production and 1985.
The moment the movie screen lighted up, Jiahe's classic titles appeared on the big screen. For the vast majority of North American audiences in the cinema, this was the first time they saw this company. Opening screen.
Jiahe is Baohe after it, and after Baohe, it is four big green characters: Mr. Zombie(s).
Below these four Chinese characters, there is also an English film title written in a dismal green color: "Zombie-Master".
The miserable green text creates a horrifying and strange atmosphere for the audience, which makes all the audience start to get nervous and quickly enter a state of watching horror movies.
And after the introduction of the title and the cast members, the first act of the film is in the unique place of China ancient and near Hyundai / modern society-Yizhuang.
In the ruined room in the picture, a large number of coffins were placed. The apprentice played by Xu Guanying pushed open the door and walked into Yizhuang, lit a incense, and called the ghosts in Yizhuang to eat.
And immediately after that, he said: "You are the guest when you cross the door, you eat first."
As soon as the voice fell, he reached out and opened a white gauze tent. As he pulled away the white tent, a row of Zombie(s) dressed in the Qing dynasty's official uniforms, with foreheads covered with yellow seals, appeared in the big time On the screen.
If you are the first time you see this picture, you will surely be surprised by the rows of Zombie(s), but the North American viewers who watched this movie for the first time, are seeing this At the scene, I immediately cheered in surprise!
"China-Zombie!" I don't know which excited audience suddenly exclaimed, and there was a round of applause and whistles in the theater!
Everyone has long been accustomed to the cartoon version of China Zombie(s) in "Plant Wars Zombie(s)Online". This time I suddenly saw the film and television image of China Zombie(s) on the big screen. Not only did I not feel scared, but I felt very cordial!
Actually, except for a small part of the audience who walked into this cinema, Chinese descendant came to review classics, almost all other North American audiences came from this very distinctive image of China Zombie(s). When they played the game I have always been very curious and interested in this special Zombie(s) image. Later, I saw some netizens from the screenshots of the movie on the Internet. I was more interested in these Zombie(s) images and Zombie(s) movies, so the movie just opened a point. Rows of China Zombie(s) appeared in a few minutes, which was really satisfying for them!
Then, in the plot, Xu Guanying was grabbed by "Zombie(s)" in a coffin, then a "Zombie(s)" jumped out of the coffin, Xu Guanying scared hastily to pick up the mirror, and then counted the number of Zombie(s), which At that time, the "Zombie(s)" was suddenly killed and Xu Guanying hurriedly responded, but was accidentally forced to the corner by Zombie(s). At this time, "Zombie(s)" opened his mouth to bite. Seeing that Xu Guanying was about to be bitten by Zombie(s), the audience was also nervous. .
At this time, "Zombie(s)" suddenly spit out a pair of dentures. It turns out that "Zombie(s)" is not a real Zombie(s), but a younger brother played by Qian Xiaohao.
although was a false alarm, but among the eight Zombie(s)s behind, a few Zombie(s) forehead characters were accidentally removed, and then these Zombie(s)s immediately regained their freedom and began to attack the two.
Next, the master of the two, Lin Zhengying, appeared to solve the trouble of Zombie(s) easily. This segment has quite a comedy effect. The audience also very much bought the clips processed by such a comedy. Finally, all Zombie(s) were resolved and renewed. After being fixed by Fu Zhuan, Lin Zhengying's younger brothers took the eight Zombie(s) to get up and rushed out. When the eight Zombie(s)s jumped and followed behind Lin Zhengying's younger brother, a burst of laughter broke out again in the screening room.
More interestingly, there is an Zombie(s) that can't beat the threshold anyway. Xu Guanying will hastily come out to help, while saying that the old man I will help you, while holding Zombie(s) to send him out of the door.
The small plot of the first unit is over, and the audience already has a very intuitive understanding of this Zombie(s). In the subsequent plot, Lin Zhengying was invited to help the businessman Ren Lai move to the grave. During this period, Lin Zhengying mentioned China on the premise of the camera. The unique feng shui theory is interesting. The word "feng shui" also has a certain influence in North America. North America knows the "yin and yang" and "feng shui" in the China culture, but most people do not understand the details. , Lin Zhengying briefly introduced some feng shui in the plot. This plot also made the North American audience very interested in it. although ca n’t understand it, but can know that the tomb of China also pays great attention to feng shui. Feng shui can best protect the prosperity of future generations and bad feng shui. It may bring disaster to future generations, and even mutate the body.
This unique culture of China, after being processed by film and television, can easily let the western audience see the characteristics and depth of the China culture. Westerners do not have the so-called Feng Shui studies. In their culture, the most A legend of metaphysics is the night of the full moon. Werewolves will mutate on the night of the full moon, and vampires will also mutate on the night of the full moon. In addition, there is basically no other metaphysical legend.
The subsequent plot of "Mr. Zombie(s)", through the body of Ren ’s father, combined with the plot, gave a very detailed description of the formation of Zombie(s) and how to deal with Zombie(s). Lin Zhengying said that the body is divided into Zombie(s) and dead bodies, and people are divided into good and bad people. People become bad because they do n’t fight, and the reason why corpses become Zombie(s) is because they breathe more. People are angry, suffocated, and suffocated before they die. This tone will make people accumulate grievances after death and eventually change. Into Zombie(s).
The good guys and bad guys, dead bodies and Zombie(s) are very consistent with the China national culture. These truths are expressed through Lin Zhengying ’s language, but they are also recognized and praised by Western audiences.
As for Lin Zhengying ’s apprentices ’use of ink fountains to pop up grids on the coffin, many viewers opened their eyes. In their eyes, this ink fountain should have certain metaphysical factors. This is the spear and shield of the China legend. .
Western legends also have spears and shields, but the overall rank is relatively low. For example, vampires want to behead, devil is afraid of holy water, and werewolf is afraid of silver weapons. The whole is very simple;
The spears and shields in the legend of China Zombie(s) are very cumbersome. Not only are there professional occupations such as Zombie(s) Dao Chang, but also complex methods such as arraying, even if they are just making ink fountains, they need chicken blood and ink, and then practice on these materials. , And then poured into the ink fountain, to be able to play a role.
It seems that although is cumbersome, but when Lin Zhengying is doing these things, there is a kind of magic that can make the audience feel that all he does is very convincing.
The very interesting thing about this movie is that the comedy effect is particularly good. After the brothers and sisters dealt with the coffin of the father and father, Qian Xiaohao met a ghost bride who admired him on the way home. In the back seat of his bicycle, he was hit by a tree branch. When the ghost bride sat on the ground and grieved, there was a laugh in the cinema.
The structure of the film has always been interspersed with comedy-main drama-comedy-main drama. After the funny plot of the ghost bride, the father of Ren Ye began to corpse, and the ink fountain of Lin Zhengying's method also played a magical effect, let Zombie(s) has nowhere to escape temporarily.
Afterwards, the brothers and sisters came to Ren Ren ’s house, but they found that Ren ’s cousin had coveted Ren Qianting for a long time, and the brothers and sisters used a small spell to pull out from Qian Jin ’s cousin. Root hair, plus a seal, turned Qianjin's cousin and Xu Guanying into a pair of "dolls" acting in unison, and then, the two parties came and went, laughing frequently.
This comedy story is particularly exciting, and the whole movie theater has been laughed into a piece. What this "A" does, "B" follows what is done, it has been ruined in Hong Kong movies, but it has a bad reputation for North American audiences. For the first time, this is the first time I saw it, so the audience also bought it.
Lucas saw the audience ’s unmoving eyes and constant laughter, and excitedly said to a partner around him: “Oh God, look at the performance of these audiences so far. It will be a fire! "