Serious spoilers below.
Plot retelling: Under the powerful influence of the Zhao family in Haiyuan, the Li dynasty has been known as a puppet and lingered until the emperor died one day. In order to stabilize the situation, the Zhao boss trained the emperor and a young doctor was drunk by the zombies. After the blood, the corpse was returned from Hanyang to Chilvxuan, the Laiyang rescue organization where he worked. Corrupt officials are rampant, the people are miserable, and the patients in Chiluxuan can hardly eat a full meal. One of the young men who did everything in order to "live" and who was from a tiger-catching army boiled the body. , Pretending to be a deer, let everyone have a full meal. As a result, everyone was infected with zombie poison and turned into zombies (my ghost, zombie virus is not good for boiling water disinfection, too wide and scared). They are afraid of the sun to become a dead state during the day. Haunted and bitten at night (later a new explanation: not because of the sun or night, but because of the temperature). A medical girl in Chilvxuan went to find a plant called "Life and Death Grass", hoping to detoxify it. This was the message left by the master before he died. In another story line, the emperor’s son Li Cang lived in a situation of being coveted by the public since childhood. His mother died young and the Zhao clan watched him. Before the emperor’s death, he had co-branded a hundred scholars to plot "rebellion." The real purpose is only to overthrow the rule of real power under the Zhao clan. But the joint letter reached the enemy, and Li Cang was wanted for treason. At this time, Li Cang came to the Kangning Hall to visit his "ill" father, but he accidentally saw the silhouette of the zombies and heard the roar of the beasts. He felt that something was wrong. He was rushing to Donglai to find the medical officer who entered the palace to treat his father. (The master of the doctor woman died of poisoning from a zombie). After finding the medical officer's notes, he finally determined sadly that his father was dead. In order to prevent himself from becoming a criminal minister, prevent the people around him and the Rulin children from dying because of him, for the truth of his father, and to end the national zombie epidemic single-handedly planned by Zhao, he and his cronies, young tiger-catching soldiers, The medical girl embarked on the road to protect everyone from tracing the truth.
Distilling the story core is actually very simple: for power, the Zhao family found an excuse to kill the son, and on the other hand trained the dead emperor's corpse, but the corpse poison spread to a region and spread across the country as the corpse was sent out of the palace. , The son is the father for himself and the people, leading the people to fight against evil forces.
There are no deep ideas, complicated clues and high suspenseful burdens, but I want to give four stars. If "Travel to Busan" is just an attempt to merge East and West, then this drama has really become very Korean (maybe the word North Korea should be used here). Similar zombies are mostly similar, and unfortunate zombies have their own misfortunes. Why is there no sense of disobedience? Because the homework is done enough, the general environment and objective conditions surrounding the zombies are all convincing. Therefore, the transplantation of some things is actually not that difficult. No matter what gimmick (tool) is used to connect the story, the final return is the plot itself.
I would like to give a reason for my four-star rating from the two points of the world’s personality and rhythm.
One, person setting
The prince let us see a prince full of flesh and blood: a highly educated, literate, worthy, identity and aspiring Siyou newcomer. Without going through any cruel reality baptism in the field, it seems a little bit idealistic; he maintains strict adherence to the concept of superiority and inferiority, and he does not hesitate to present the idea of "you are different from me" when he treats the common people and the lower classes. He is kind and sympathetic to the weak to help women and children. At the critical moment when the zombies are chasing after the zombies, he resolutely does not abandon the heavy pallet carrying the elderly and calls everyone to rush with the cart. It doesn't matter if he can't behave like abandoning the people because of his noble status, or that this kindness is actually just a form of heroism in disguise, but Shi Zi did it: he is different from those people. Those who really treat the people as untouchables, sell the government officials, deduct food and pay, force people to eat people, raise their finger at the unarmed people, besides natural disasters, it is a man-made disaster. In feudal society, it is impossible for a royal family to treat the people as friends. It is not "I will never let my partners be harmed", but "You are my subjects and I will protect them". This setting is very reasonable. , Noble and real, and even a little...emmm... an overwhelming boyfriend power?
Shi Zi was not so brave at the beginning. He was frightened and rushed when he saw the corpse for the first time; he went to find the whereabouts of the medical officer, clutching his nose and couldn't stand the smell of the people (gutter? Livestock? whatever); eating the people The jerky that you can't eat at all is too greasy, and of course it tastes inferior to the royal meal. But in just a few days, I felt the blood of people turning into zombies at close range. I found a note left by the medical officer to confirm the death of his father. I witnessed the little girl who was still kicking Cuju a second and died because of him the next second. The prince was forced to grow up quickly.
He understands that the so-called resistance is not as simple as writing the word Li Cang on a formal joint letter, or sitting in a heavily guarded palace and reading the sages and sages so easily; a qualified leader can't just stay. At the level of theory and giving orders, he must—regardless of whether he was forced to—take up arms to fight and face the bloody zombies and the powerful Central Army. It is even conceivable that in the second season, he might have a life-and-death duel with his father who has been transformed into a corpse.
As the plot progressed, we saw the changes in the characters. The son quickly adjusted. He didn’t have time to grieve. He immediately decided to withdraw who to find whom, and lead everyone to build fortifications; he quickly transformed into a warrior from the state of losing his father, raising his sword and falling. Quickly let the zombie's body separate.
He chopped not only monsters, but also hostile forces with zombies as tools. This process brings the kind of battle between good and evil that audiences love to watch, full of hope, full of affection, and carved out a kind of perfection that hardly exists in the world today: whether relying on weak ideals and justice can really overthrow the ills of the tyrannical era.
This is a person design, not just a person design.
Any illusion of flying sand and stone is a coat (regardless of science fiction, suspense, industry, realism...any subject), but as long as there is a gleaming universal sentiment in its core, it must be moving.
Second, the rhythm
A friend of mine said that the pace is too slow, and I don’t know if he is biased against Korean dramas. I personally think that it is just right (a group of zombies are running wild behind you, how fast you have to), this is not an American drama that requires a strong plot to explain all the preceding events, past history, and next goals in the first 15 minutes of an American drama. structure.
At the beginning, a suspense was thrown out, and then the two lines inside and outside the palace were drawn one by one, and slowly converged.
Subdivided, there are a total of four simple clues: Shizi, Laiyang (a doctor girl, a young man who catches a tiger, a teasing officer, a general in the barracks), Zhao's, and An Xuan.
The corpse plague spread by the Zhao family was because of the Laiyang general and the teasing officials who took the nobles to escape, and took them to Sangju along the boat. The first son and An Hyun-sama met in the zombie battle in Sangju, fending off the enemy together, and throwing out the next suspense. : What is the relationship between Master An Xuan and the making of zombies?
This is just talking about it. I think it's too slow to talk about it, and it really can't be helped. Generally speaking, the plot is very compact, and there is basically no waste. The proportions of literary and martial arts are moderate, and they will not always feel tired from being chased and fighting all the time, nor are they always trapped in clues to the truth. They are relaxed and relaxed.
Retelling a story like this is much more comfortable than retelling a brain-burning drama. Writing the afterthought of Song Zaizheng’s works can first stun yourself (so I wrote the notes of "Nine Times of Time Travel" halfway through, because I didn’t strike while the iron was hot and rest. Going back for a week and thinking about writing again, it's already confusing).
Telling simple stories is not easy. The same zombie in the same world, why not use a strong plot and fast-paced, recall the "The Walking Dead" (only the first season), the reason why it appeared "up and down" is because it is an escape, killing and anti-slaughter The story, and shows humanity in a group portrait in the escape (so in fact, humans have far more dramas than zombies). It needs to create atmospheric tension and high concentration of adrenaline. It is bloody and enjoyable. There is no need to be too subtle. It Unlike "kingdom", which is essentially a political confrontation between good and evil-yes, the latter can even be regarded as a power struggle drama, zombies are just a means-such an entry point, of course, needs to be talked about. There is no good or bad, only the essence of each determines the form of expression.
From the pros and cons to the bottom, and from the opposing to the lower, I describe each reaction in the face of drastic changes, and put together a picture of the social landscape from each side. Compared with adrenaline, it needs calm and objective brain cells to tell the (although virtual) history. As for whether there is any use of the past to satirize the present, the benevolent sees benevolence. I personally think that there is not so much content added. After all, the maladies of ancient and modern are often the same. You can never say that someone wrote a story about Hai Rui or Bao Qingtian. I'm also suggesting something.
To talk about the shortcomings, the power struggle is still relatively pediatric (so the word I used earlier is just power struggle rather than strategy). Apart from zombies, there are indeed not many refreshing links. In addition, there are some more real er (such as me) the details of the bones in the eggs (actually not harsh, because I think this drama is good, I like it, so I really hope it can be better), like the young doctor's body can obviously be in the palace Destroyed inside but wanted to send it out to let people discover the flaws (screenwriter: yes, how do you cook it if you didn’t send it out), and the reason why it had to be sent back to the original unit with such a strange wound was not explained (I don’t think it was changed to trying to Destroyed in the palace, but for various reasons it still cannot be established at Chilvxuan, it is more logical); the connection between the resurrection of life and death and the creation of zombies and detoxification is not very clear; the blood of the aunt of the queen really has to flow Can you give a hint to the audience only on your feet? (Obviously pretending to be pregnant, will he still be so careless about his aunt?) Like Shizi in the Sangju Zombie War, there was a slow motion and tinnitus sound effects. I understand the director’s intention is to express a sense of despair of feeling "I can’t get through today." (Then Master An Hyun arrived in time), but I didn’t have that kind of strong touch at all, because the intensity of the battle was not significantly progressive compared with the previous few times; like... it’s okay, the flaws are not concealed, It doesn't make much sense to pick bones in an egg.
Three, other
The picture quality is already very cinematic. If you pay attention to it, you will find that, except for the bright yellow scenes (sunrise, fire, candlelight), most of the screen tones are somewhat light, including the most luxurious ones in the palace. The clothing saturation is not too high. The colors of the interior and exterior scenes look simple and light, as if it is always dusty and cloudy (in fact, if I remember correctly, the exterior scenes during the day, except for the sunrise, hardly have a scene. That kind of direct sunlight, I don’t know if it’s the weather at the shooting stage, or whether it’s intentional), which is very consistent with the temperament of the story, the unclear future, the vague truth, and the hope that cannot be grasped.
A new concept is very good, different from other zombie stories: monsters come out at night, not because of the sun, but because of the temperature. Such a setting will definitely create some surprises in the second season. expect.
Zhu Zhixun’s acting skills are better than his face. Fear, cowardice, grief, anger, unwillingness, courage, justice, and subtle expressions all convey the inner world, and they have a kind of extravagance, which is really a very elder son.
Pei Douna's role is very simple, with the timidity of a little woman, and the kindness and bravery in the face of adversity. It is a very traditional hostess. She can't perform her acting skills at all. It's a bit wasteful. I hope there will be more differences in the second season. place.
Fourth, Plants vs. Zombies are still fun up to now, and I have played for an hour or two a few times. If it will be updated, they can consider putting life and death grass in it next time, growth time: 3 minutes, function: let the zombies you eliminated in front of you fight for you.
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