The background of zombie films is always set to a certain day in the "future" to remind people to cherish and be in awe at this moment.
South Korea, after successfully creating "Train to Busan", boldly set the background of the zombie movie in the "past",
The previous movie "Rampant" starring Hyun Bin and Jang Dong Gun was followed by the TV series "Kingdom" starring Joo Ji Hoon, Bae Doona and Ryu Chenglong.
Coincidentally, the character structures of the two are similar:
Hyun Bin and Joo Ji-hoon play the down-and-out heirs to the throne, while Jang Dong-gun and Yoo Sung-ryong play ministers who hold great power and want to rebel.
In contrast, the TV series "Kingdom" is much better. Produced by Netflix, it has updated 6 episodes of the first season at one time.
The opening prologue of The Kingdom consists of several shots:
Shot 1: In the darkness, several incense sticks are arranged one after another. The smoke is transparent and slowly ascends, penetrating into the endless darkness.
Shot 2: In the darkness, neatly arranged white patterns stand up, symmetrical from left to right, like fish scales.
The next few shots are to present this white thing from vertical, horizontal, near and far distances. What is it?
Take off a scale, revealing the emperor's court dress pattern. The mystery is revealed: This is the leucorrhea wrapped around the emperor's body.
Next shot: In the darkness, a small purple flower is ground into medicine. Boiling water keeps tumbling.
The camera zoomed out, and it turned out that the few sticks of incense just now were all arranged on the emperor's body, including dozens of acupuncture needles.
Fill the emperor's mouth with rice, and then pour in a spoonful of the soup that has just been boiled.
The dead emperor seemed to have consciousness, and the green smoke that curled up immediately changed direction and got into his breath one after another.
A monster's face roared, and the lying emperor finally opened his eyes.
There are no eyeballs in the eyes, and then the title of the drama "Kingdom" jumped out.
It's scary, suspenseful, and beautiful.
After watching the plot after that, and then watching this opening prologue, you can understand what it is talking about.
It talks about the "origin" of the whole story, where did the zombie virus come from.
Compared with the movie "Rampant", which introduced the virus to foreign countries, this TV series is much more delicate.
The virus is born precisely because of "desire".
The traitor Liu Chenglong played has been plotting for the throne for a long time, and his daughter is pregnant as the emperor's successor (I estimate that the previous concubines were killed by him). He just waited for the child to be born and became a puppet emperor, while hiding behind the scenes to control the world.
It is a pity that the emperor died before the child was born. According to the ancestral system, at this time, the son of the concubine Zhu Zhixun, played by Zhu Zhixun, should inherit the throne, and his voice in the Hanlin is also very high.
Liu Chenglong was scheming, and found a famous doctor to give a prescription for "reviving the dead" - the purple flower in the opening prologue. The dead emperor poured this soup, and he would wake up after dark every day, becoming a zombie, eating people every day.
On the other hand, he slandered the prince and the Confucian scholars for colluding and rebelling, trying to plot the throne.
So how does the zombie virus spread?
"Rampant" is an accident, and the "proliferation" in the TV series is ironic.
The magician prescribed a prescription to the emperor, but his apprentice was bitten to death. He returned to his medical workshop with the body of his apprentice, ready for burial.
However, at that time, the people of the world were struggling, people could not eat enough every day, and the patients treated in the medical workshop not only had to endure pain, but were also hungry. A daring man lied that he had hunted a wild deer and boiled the body of the little apprentice for everyone to eat.
As a result, everyone was poisoned by zombies and became a real "man-eater".
The film arranges for two bloody scenes to present:
The son ran to tell the old father to run away, but was bitten. After the mutation, the son rushed forward and killed his old father.
The mother hid the younger daughter in the cabinet. She was going to find the eldest daughter, but a wound developed on her body. After the mutation, she immediately killed the eldest daughter.
In front of the zombies, there is no human relations, and there is no general rule. No matter father, son, mother or daughter, or commoners or nobles.
Zombie virus began to flood the town.
Zombies are fast, strong in attack, and instantly transformed when bitten, almost stronger than zombies in all zombie movies.
So is there no way to resist?
have.
escape!
The prince in "Rampant", Hyun Bin, has both wisdom and courage, and he wields a big sword freely, and it is no problem to sweep away zombies.
What about the prince Ju Ji-hoon in "Kingdom"?
It's just so hard:
As soon as he appeared, he knelt down and was humiliated by the young successor.
He was framed as a treason, but he couldn't beat his military attache.
Chased by a horde of zombies, unable to resist, can only run away desperately...
He doesn't have the power of "Prince Hyun Bin", which makes him look more like a flesh and blood.
He also had desires, and he did sign the joint manuscript that the Confucian scholars put forward. He was also afraid that the child in his womb would take his throne, and that the foreign relatives behind the child would have the monopoly of power.
He was very frightened when he saw the zombies, but he knew that he wanted to be a king who cared about the people, so he insisted on staying to help the people escape, and gave the few pieces of meat he had to the hungry children.
The second way to resist zombies is also very simple, because zombies have a weakness, that is, when the sun rises, they will hide and become corpses, at this time cut off their heads or burn them to ashes That's it.
The process of disposing of the corpse was another round of irony.
An aristocratic old lady came out to speak: I can't burn, my body is affected by my parents!
The rich and powerful fled on the only boat with their belongings, and no one handled the bodies, and no one was willing to take care of the life and death of a group of poor people.
When the night comes, it will be another catastrophe.
So ah, the zombie virus is just an attractive concept, and its inner core is still for irony.
Satire that dark "kingdom" that only cares about personal desires and fishy people.
I saw the end of the fourth episode, and it even went up to the discussion of human nature.
The prince who gave his life to save the people was supported by everyone a moment ago, but the next moment the pursuit came. They stood at the door like the zombies from last night, shooting arrows in one after another to force the prince to go out and surrender.
At this time, someone said to the prince, "Look, it's all your fault."
It's never a zombie that causes harm, it's a human being.
This movie is so beautifully shot, so rotten and rotten from top to bottom.
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