Crazy bloody zombie battle...
Fans who love horror movies should remember that Robert Rodriguez once In 1996, he directed a surprisingly amazing "From Dusk Till Dawn" (From Dusk Till Dawn). The first half of "Evil Night Hunting" is like a road movie depicting robbers and desperation. Unexpectedly, the second half turns into a fishy banquet of vampires and demons. All kinds of extremely frantic flesh and blood fly across the screen. The audience was dumbfounded.
In 1998, when Rodriguez was directing the sci-fi thriller "The Faculty" (The Faculty), he suddenly had the idea of shooting a zombie movie in his mind, and he immediately wrote nearly thirty pages of the script. . He was full of excitement and said to the film’s young actors Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett and others: “Zombie movies have been silent for a long time, and now it’s time for a revival. We must be the first person to revive the zombie movie.” Unfortunately, this plan was later shelved for various reasons, and Rodriguez never knew how to complete his script.
Just as Rodriguez had expected, zombie movies have indeed revived in recent years, such as "Resident Evil" (2002), "28 Days Later, 2002", " The new generation of zombie movies such as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Land of the Dead (2005) are not available. Jedi has been launched one after another. It was not until 2003 that Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino jointly brainstormed the idea of two-in-one parody of the B-level exploitative film "Grindhouse" that he made up his mind to complete. The script of this zombie movie is the "Planet Terror" of the two films. Although Rodriguez is not the first person to revive a zombie movie, he is still interested in making a zombie movie of his own unique style, a zombie that has never been seen before and makes people surprise from beginning to end. movie.
The plot structure of "Planet of Horror" is not much different from that of ordinary zombie movies. It mainly tells that a military base in Texas leaked a birth virus. The residents of neighboring towns were infected and turned into zombies that would attack humans. A few people with immunity survived and fought a life-and-death battle with the large group of zombies. Strictly speaking, the zombies in this film are not really "Zombies", but should be called "Sickos", because they don't get up and move after death, and their appearance is not As shriveled, pale and rotten like zombies. According to Greg Nicotero, director of special effects makeup, after those people were infected with biochemical viruses, they first showed slight laceration wounds and small herpes tumors, and then the tumors began to rapidly purulent and spread over the whole body. In the end, the virus invaded the brain cells, turning them into dehumanizing and irrational crazy killers. However, for the convenience of writing in this article, I still write all of them as "zombies".
The most impressive thing about this film is Rodriguez’s unique and unruly style. The style of the whole movie looks like a low-cost sci-fi horror film like John Carpenter in the 1970s and 1980s, although From beginning to end, it is full of absurd plots and silly and ridiculous dialogue, but it creates an extremely vigorous and powerful momentum. Rodriguez admired John Carpenter very much. Tarantino once said humorously that if John Carpenter played in Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing , 1982) If you filmed zombie movies during that period, you probably would adopt the same style. In order to pay tribute to the former generation of B-level film master, Rodriguez originally invited John Carpenter to write the soundtrack, but for some reason it could not be achieved later, so Rodriguez had to take over and finish it himself. A movie fan from abroad said that God is fair. He bestows Lorie Gezi with the gift of music, just as He bestows Tarantino with the gift of dialogue. The strong and powerful soundtrack with the opening and dancing will definitely make the audience excited. It can be called one of the best movie soundtracks this year.
Rodriguez not only continued his nasty style of flying limbs and spurting blood in "Evil Night Hunting Order", but also more unscrupulously showing off the blood and doing crazy spoofs. The section shortly after the opening In the gun battle between the special forces and the private lords, the funny scenes of bullets flying with the "dandan" on the ladder, I am afraid that the audience will see the eyeballs or hide their faces and flee, but this can only be regarded as a way to stimulate the taste buds and make people feel uncomfortable. It's just an appetizer for appetite. Next, we will see more shocking and bloody and disgusting pictures, such as the horrible tumor mucus on patients infected with the virus, zombies tearing up living people, or dismembering and dismembering, swift trucks will bring a lot of zombies. It was smashed, wooden stakes were inserted into the naked eye, etc., and even more fascinating were the super-abnormal shots of "little brother" that festered and melted. Rodriguez can be said to have picked up the essence of many classic zombie films. For example, using a helicopter propeller to split a large group of zombies into pieces, it is obviously to "Braindead aka Dead Alive" (Braindead aka Dead Alive, 1992) Tribute to the Massacre of Lawnmowers.
Although there are so many bloody and disgusting scenes in this film, the audience may not feel scared at all. Instead, they will laugh wildly while watching the blood spray on the screen. If the audience pays attention to the scenes of flying flesh and blood, they will find that the human body dismembered and torn apart by the zombies does not look like a living flesh, but it is easy to see at a glance that it is a mannequin prop made of latex. Some viewers may think that the special effects team of this film are novices with insufficient skills, or that the production cost budget is seriously insufficient to make such an obvious piercing shot. In fact, the members of the special effects makeup team "KNB EFX" of this film are all top masters in the industry, and the entire production cost is said to be as high as 60 million US dollars, which can be regarded as an A-level high-cost production. Generally, B-level films have to produce rough special effects because of insufficient production costs. This film is to imitate the roughness of the B-level film, and deliberately use top special effects to make a lens that seems to be a piercing. The level and meaning of this piercing is far different from the general B-grade film. I think if you look at Hollywood today, probably only a few movie madmen from Lori Gerz, Tarantino, and Tim Burton can dare to make such a big joke with the money of the movie company.
As you may already know, the main spirit of this film is to simulate the screening style of the Grindhouse in the 1970s. In order to imitate the shabby feeling of the old films in the 1970s, special effects were added to the screen. Damaged scratches, the entire film also presents an effect that seems to be the color distortion, fading and blurring caused by the aging of the film. In this regard, Rodriguez has played a lot more than Tarantino. From time to time, the film will have skipping, inaccurate focus and shaking, and even see the film burned and melted the lens. People who go to the old theater to watch a movie should have seen this kind of situation, right? The most interesting part is that when the male and female protagonist is making love to the point where the film is suddenly melted, burned, and interrupted, the caption "The film is lost, sorry for the inconvenience" is typed out, and when the film is replied, it has already been skipped. For a long time, the audience has no idea what happened during this period. This "Missing Reel" (Missing Reel) was inspired by the experience Lori Gerz and Tarantino had while watching an Italian police film starring Oliver Reed, which was suddenly interrupted. After replying, I skipped nearly twenty minutes of the plot. The good guys turned into bad guys, and the bad guys turned into good guys. The audience was as clueless as King Kong.
The biggest feature of Rodriguez’s movies are outstanding characters and novel weapon designs. A good movie usually has impressive characters. After many years, we may gradually forget the plot details in the movie, but those outstanding The typical characters will remain deeply in our minds. The most prominent characters in this film should be the two heroines. The first heroine is the pole dancer "Cherry Darling" played by Rose McGowan. She is in the opening film. The ecstasy and fiery dance will make the male audience look straight and drool. However, her most outstanding feature is the dreadful perseverance. After her right leg was ripped off by the zombie, she was still a wooden stick prosthetic made by gritting her teeth and leaning on the legs of the table. , Fought to deal with the zombies in desperation. When her broken leg was connected to the M4 carbine, she leaped into the air, holding her machine gun leg straight, and shooting a large group of zombies with a graceful dance. The graceful figure would definitely make the audience stand up and applaud. The image of the machine gun-leg dancer created by Rodriguez in this film is indeed refreshing and has become the most eye-catching symbolic totem in this year's entertainment movies.
The second female protagonist is Dr. Dakota Block, a female doctor played by Marley Shelton. She is a strange woman with a very complicated personality. She is a tortured and weakened woman in front of her husband. The little woman, in front of the patient, is a capable and powerful female anesthesiologist, and even a shot of anesthesia can give a lot of laughter. Her syringe technology can make the infected patient sleepless, and she can quickly take out the syringe from the stockings, throwing a knife like a flying knife to the point of hitting a zombie. Her most logical quote is: "At certain moments in your life, those useless talents, you will find their usefulness." In addition to these two heroines, there are some others in the film that are eye-catching. Bright beauty. The audience should not forget the sexy pair of "Crazy Babysitter Twins" (Crazy Babysitter Twins), these two coolly dressed Mexican girls full of swear words, lying sideways on the sofa and patting each other's chest with their feet. The posture has allowed many male audiences to see drooling on the ground. The "crazy babysitter twins" are the maidens of Rodriguez. This time just let them try their skills. It is said that Rodriguez is preparing to make a new film starring the two of them. There is also an actress who plays the role of a female doctor's lace-side lover, who turned out to be Stacy Ferguson, the female lead singer of the well-known hip-hop band "Black Eyed Peas", which is a gift to fans. unexpected surprise.
Of course, the cast of this film cannot be ignored. The actor is Freddy Rodriguez, who has the same surname as the director. He is an American actor of Puerto Rican descent. He used to self-produce the HBO series "Six Feet". (Six Feet Under) was shortlisted for the Emmy Awards and twice for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. In the film, he plays the unidentified downturned ranger El Wray, who is as vigorous and vigorous as he is alive, and he looks handsome with swords and guns, and should win the admiration of many female audiences. Michael Biehn, who once starred in "The Terminator" (The Terminator, 1984) and "Aliens, 1986" (Aliens, 1986), famously played a straightforward but utterly useless person in the film Town sheriff. Jeff Fahey, who looked extremely handsome when he was young, plays a sloppy rotisserie owner who is more than half a hundred years old. The brothers of the sheriff and the rotisserie owner can be said to be the most interesting licorice characters in this film. They usually fight each other for the recipe of the bbq sauce, but in the end they show the brotherhood of being born and dying together in suffering, making the audience laugh wildly. Can't help but shed moving tears.
The backgrounds of the two deputy sheriff's actors are also not to be underestimated. One of them is Tom Savini, an outstanding special effects makeup artist, who has participated in many works by George A. Romero. Special effects production of classic zombie films, and later directed the remake version of "Night of the Living Dead" (1990). In order to pay tribute to this unparalleled special effects makeup master, Rodriguez specially arranged for him to be torn apart by a group of zombies under his best special effects. The other is Carlos Gallardo (Carlos Gallardo), who starred in Lori Gerz's debut "El Mariachi" (El Mariachi, 1992). The long-awaited reunion guitarist looks much more mature and stable than before. The guest actor who surprises the audience the most may be Bruce Willis. His special forces captain still maintains the image of a tragic hero, but the anecdote he said about Bin Laden is really true. It makes people laugh. Quentin Tarantino, who likes to show his face on the screen, seems to have entered middle age and is gradually getting blessed. This time his cameo performance can only be said to be really like a super abnormal strange uncle. Last but not least, the child star who plays Tony, the youngest son of a female doctor in the film, is actually the biological son of Rodriguez himself. Because Rodriguez is not merciless to his son in the film, so in After the extended version, a warm clip of apologizing to his son was added.
Although Rodriguez's "Planet of Horror" and Tarantino's "Death Proof" can be regarded as two independent films, a careful audience can still find some connections between the two films , The background of the story all happened in the same small town in Texas, and the time points are almost overlapped. You can hear the message of memorializing Jungle Julia in a radio broadcast of "Planet of Horror". Those who have watched "Guaranteed Immortality" will know what happened. There are several characters appearing in both films, including the female doctor Dakota, the Crazy Baby Twins, and Texas Patrol Earl. The Texas Patrol Earl McGraw played by Michael Parks has appeared in many films of Rodriguez and Tarantino, first appeared in the director Rodriguez He later co-starred Tarantino's "Kill Bill" with his son James Parks. This time the two fathers and sons once again starred in the Texas Patrol in "Guaranteed Immortality", and Michael Parker also played the same role in "Terror Planet" alone. We can notice that in "Guaranteed Immortality", the attitude of the female doctor Dakota to Patrol Earl is very unfriendly. It is only in "Planet of Horror" that the relationship between the two of them will be discovered. The sharp-eyed audience can also see a small detail, the "Red Apple" (Red Apple) that Al Rey bought at the rotisserie, which is a brand of self-made cigarettes that often appears in Tarantino movies.
The extended version of "Horror Planet" is nearly 14 minutes longer than the theater version. The added content seems to be scattered in various paragraphs. Each paragraph seems to add some pictures and dialogues, making the connection of several story lines. More detailed and complete. Same as the screening sequence of the theater version, there is a trailer called "Machete" (Machete) before the start of the feature film. This trailer is a popular Mexican-style action movie. The protagonist is Danny Trejo, who once played the flying knife in Desperado (Desperado, 1995). The plot probably says that a nickname is The professional assassin of "Mountain Knife" was hired by the gang boss to assassinate the new senator, but he was framed by the boss and wounded by a shot. Later, with the assistance of his friend priest, he returned to kill the new senator. In fact, this professional killer character is an extension of the throwing knife in "The Hero Does Not Cry". In the trailer, you can also see some places that imitate the "Hero Does Not Cry". It's just that this time the thrown was not a small knife, but a super large mountain knife. Originally, this was just a "Fake Trailer" that was purely made for fun, but because the audience's response was quite enthusiastic, Rodriguez has decided to make a real feature feature film, but it may only be released directly. DVD only, let us all wait and see.
Traditional Chinese and English subtitles of "Planet Terror" (105 minutes extended version).....
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