There are many zombie movies released this year, including "Weird Island No. 13" and "Warm Corpse", "Zombie Massacre" co-produced by Italy, the United States, Germany, and Canada, and "Rising of Zombies" produced by India. However, the leader among them is the "Zombie World War" known as the epic zombie work. The ambition of this zombie work can be glimpsed from the actor's Brad Pitt. You must know that most of the protagonists of zombie movies are not Hollywood celebrities! (Except for "I Am Legend", whose actor is Will Smith) And the investment of more than 200 million US dollars is beyond the reach of other zombie movies.
As an epic work, the investment is not large enough, and the hero is big enough. The scene of the battle between zombies and humans in the movie must also be jaw-dropping. In "Zombie World War", the most amazing scene is that zombies pile up arhats in hordes, and finally capture Israel. It is definitely the most creative scene in the history of zombie movies to be able to shoot zombies so magnificently. And this kind of visual stimulus is much higher-end, magnificent, and higher-end than those low-cost zombie movies that purely pursue bloody violence.
Unlike the slow-moving zombies in "The Walking Dead" familiar to American TV fans, the zombies in "World War of Zombies" act as fast as lightning, and are so aggressive that they can drop helicopters from the sky. A human being bitten by a zombie can transform into a zombie and continue to attack humans in just ten seconds. Therefore, only one zombie can turn a passenger on an airplane into a zombie instantly. The "transmissibility" of zombies is just as catchy as a virus that infects at a high speed. However, after the humans in The Walking Dead are bitten by zombies, they have a few hours or more to mutate, which undoubtedly creates more vitality for humans to escape. If the zombie group in "Zombie World War" crosses into "The Walking Dead", it is estimated that the points will turn several protagonists into zombies.
It is undoubtedly the zombie in "I Am Legend" that is comparable to the zombies in "Zombie World War" in terms of speed and organization. And these powerful zombies turned Will Smith into the only human in the movie. However, the zombies in "I Am Legend" are afraid of the sun and only dare to hunt in the dark, while the zombies in "Zombie World War" can hunt and kill humans regardless of time, occasion and location, leaving humans with no respite.
Although the zombies in "Zombie World War" are fierce, not all zombie fans pay the bill. Some people complained: "This group of zombies is simply an insult to the name of the zombie family. Where they are zombies, they are simply a group of mad dogs with rabies. !"
To talk about the ancestors of zombies in American movies, one has to mention George A. Romero's zombie trilogy-"Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Living Dead" and "Zombie Out of the Cage". George A. Romero, as a hallmark figure in American zombie movies, not only made zombie movies popular all over the world and made zombie movies the new favorite of horror movies, he also commented on the zombies in movies as follows: 1. Let zombies for unknown reasons Resurrected from the dead, and the zombies themselves do not have any consciousness and thinking ability, and they are acting entirely by instinct; 2. Zombies like to eat human flesh and attack humans in order to find living human flesh; 3. Zombies can infect people who are bitten by zombies After death, they will also become zombies and continue to attack humans; 4. Zombies will not die, because they are already dead, so no matter how to hurt his body, the zombies will continue to move; 5. Swarms of zombie groups moving slowly , And then the panic caused by the hunting of living people caused psychological oppression of the audience. The definition of zombies defined by Mr. Romero has also become the norm for zombie movies to follow.
However, the ancestors of these zombies "made" by the old man were something about the 1970s. Now, with the development of zombie themes, the descendants of zombies are becoming more and more "advancing with the times". Don't blame it. The zombies in "Zombie World War" look like crazy dogs, and even the game has evolved from "Resident Evil", which once followed Romero's zombie standards, to today's vegetarian zombie-"Plants vs. Zombies."
Zombie movies are not a favorite of the West. Among Hong Kong movies, zombie movies also have a place, and they were once a popular movie theme. The zombie series of Lin Zhengying is the best representative. Taking "Mr. Zombie" as an example, we can see the essential difference between Hong Kong-produced zombies and Western zombies. Hong Kong-produced zombies have distinct local characteristics: most of them wear official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty. This is because the theory of zombies was the most popular in the Qing Dynasty. Both Yuan Mei's "Zi Bu Yu" and Ji Xiaolan's "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" have a large number of records about zombies. The way the zombies move is also different from that of normal people. They stretch their hands and move forward with one hop. They are afraid of light, so they only come out late at night. They can't see people, they can only tell the direction of others through their breath, and if they hold their breath, they can avoid zombies. Therefore, when the movie "Mr. Zombie" was released in Taiwan, it was also translated as "Stop Breathing".
The method of dealing with Hong Kong-produced zombies is also rich in folklore legends. The zombie leader played by Lin Zhengying can use glutinous rice, ink thread, peach sword, yellow paper talisman to reduce zombies. The same as western zombies, once a person is bitten by a zombie, they will turn into a zombie. The difference is that people can avoid becoming zombies through folk earthwork, such as applying glutinous rice or bathing with glutinous rice.
The classic corpse chasing plot in Hong Kong-made zombie movies (in the night, Taoist priests ring a bell to lead the way, followed by a group of jumping zombies with yellow paper talisman on their heads) is also directly quoted from Chinese folklore. In the Qing Dynasty, there was widespread rumors of "dead people" in western Hunan. They used unknown spells to "drive" the bodies of people who died in a foreign land back to their hometowns, allowing them to settle into the land for safety.
The movie "Zombie Family" is a masterpiece of Hong Kong-made zombie films. Unlike other zombie films of the same period, zombies are no longer cold monsters, but human emotions. After the little zombies in the film strayed into the world, they even became good friends with human children.
In the zombie movie "Warm Corpse" released in the United States this year, the protagonist of the story is no longer an ugly and thoughtless horror zombie, but has become a tall and handsome literary zombie who loves to listen to old records. If he falls in love with the human being as the heroine is not enough to surprise the zombie fans, then "love" is enough to resurrect the zombie into a human being, but it is enough to make the zombie fan vomit blood. However, this love movie dressed in a zombie coat has been recognized by many fans. Many netizens believe that it is also a cross-species love. "Warm Corpse" is much better than "Vampire Love"!
With the development of zombie movies, the subject matter has naturally become more and more diversified from the simple horror movies earlier, such as "Zombie Shaun" and "Zombie Land", which can spoof traditional horror zombie movies into comedies. The zombie movie of the film is even more popular with fans.
Spoofing classic characters into zombie movies is also a common hobby of Chinese and Western filmmakers. In the United States, there is a movie "Lincoln vs. Zombies" that spoofs the president of the United States. "In ", US President Lincoln was turned into a vampire hunter.) And the millennium zombie in the Hong Kong-made zombie film "Heaven of the Dead" is Qin Shihuang. I don’t know that this arrogant emperor learned that he was joked as a zombie by posterity. , Do you really want to become a zombie and resurrect!
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is a zombie movie about the classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" that will be released in the United States this year. It tells the story of a plague in the town where Elizabeth Bennet is located. Many people have become zombies. Elizabeth is determined to wipe out all the zombies. However, the arrival of the arrogant and rude Mr. Darcy disrupted her. After a quarrel and reconciliation, the two began to join hands to deal with the zombies...
As for the effect of the spoof, let’s see on the big screen!
This article was published in "Hainan Daily"
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