What should be suitable then? After much deliberation, I suddenly thought of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an and the tomb of Qin Shihuang! This is good, it meets all the elements needed for the film.
First of all, the terracotta warriors and horses in the mausoleum also include several floors that are buried deep underground, which fits the theme of the catacombs. Moreover, our Qin Ling has a much stronger sense of history.
The foreign version is about searching for alchemy, and there are some mysterious stories about it. Our five thousand years of history has many mysterious things. The Qin Shihuang version is looking for the elixir of life. There is still historical evidence. We can also make a fuss about the unofficial history that Qin Shihuang asked Taoist priests to develop anti-aging medicine, and derive clues from various historical relics allusions. It can even be related to why Qin Shihuang wanted to burn books and confess Confucianism. The secret here must be related to clues to the tomb.
What about the mechanism of the tomb? We have ghost blowing lanterns and tomb robbery notes, boldly learn from them, what corpse konjac, hanging soul ladder, human face spider and so on. There are also tomb robbery terms, feng shui terms, and even characterization, which can be completely integrated with them, allowing young Chinese audiences to immediately enter the state, popular and friendly.
In fact, a pseudo-documentary is a type of film that has a small cost and can conceal insufficient funds. Some small film companies in mainland China should best make them. Don't toss about those boring micro-films. Ge, the money, can’t you just make a splendid and beautiful pseudo-documentary?
In a country with such a huge population of mobile Internet users, there must be a lot of interesting pseudo-documentary material!
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