"Zombie" tells the story of haunted zombies in a rental building. Although it is called zombies, it actually mixes the two types of zombies and ghost movies, and only uses zombies as the main narrative clue. The images of this film are very stylized, the ghosts in white, the zombie king in black, and the outdated lens language like withered leaves make this film look and feel beyond ordinary horror films. However, the focus of the movie "Zombie" is not on the lens and style. The creators have slowly integrated the intention of making this movie into the plot and actors.
"Zombie" sets up a haunted and zombie-like rental building in the plot, and also sets up a zombie-catcher who lives in it. It is inaccurate to use the word Taoist. Lin Zhengying, who is most famous for catching zombies in old Hong Kong films, appears as a Taoist, but in "Zombie", the one who catches zombies is just the owner of a small restaurant, a wandering ronin. That's it. They do not have professional Taoist robes, nor do they have the agile and agile skills of Lin Zhengying. They are only clumsy, hurried, and powerless. The one with the most legacy of Lin Zhengying is the sad mother played by Hui Yinghong who seeks revenge for her son. In the clue of zombies, everyone, whether it is Wu Yaohan who has become a zombie, feeds his children with children in order to keep their husbands. Zombie Bao Qijing, or Zombie Qian Xiaohao and Chen You, who are opposites to them, are all helpless and inexplicable depression.
Anyone who knows a little bit about Hong Kong horror films knows that the heyday of zombie films was in the 1980s. Since the death of Lin Zhengying, the grand master of zombie films, Hong Kong zombie films have almost disappeared and disappeared for decades. And all the actors in "Zombie", from Qian Xiaohao, Chen You, to Lou Nanguang, are the representative actors who are second only to Lin Zhengying in the most prosperous era of zombie movies. They represent the era of prosperity of zombie movies in the last century. . But after decades of rapid decline of zombie movies, they reunited again and resumed their old business. Some of them were no longer in high spirits, but only full of pain and weakness. The movie uses such actors and plots, not just to express that the zombies in the movie are too powerful, but to use the zombie that is not strong to recount, the zombies are still the same zombies, but the people who catch the zombies have long been in the country. go. What the creators have tried their best to express through such deliberate choice of actors and subject matter is the unwillingness and helplessness of the zombie film, which is almost extinct.
For our generation, even though the current mainland film circle is rising very rapidly, it still occupies an important position in our hearts, the Hong Kong film circle that has changed in the last century. Even now, we have all sighed more than once that the high standard of Hong Kong film production decades ago is unmatched by the speculative elements in the mainland film industry today. Thinking about how many classic works were released in the Hong Kong film industry back then, how many talented actors were discovered, and the current Chinese film industry, one can't help but sigh.
In fact, it is more than a zombie film. Compared with the previous Hong Kong film industry, another major Chinese-language film that has almost disappeared is the ghost film. The last time I saw that it could be regarded as a ghost film, only "Blurry Night" and "Fantasy Night" were adapted from Li Bihua's novels. Although both films tried their best to get closer to the old ghost films, they were already fragmented in spirit. Although most of the past Hong Kong ghost films were poorly made, there are still ghost films like "A Chinese Ghost Story" that have done quite well in all aspects. In particular, most of the ghost films should be based on the reincarnation of the story. To a certain extent, the essence of ghost films is to warn the world and persuade the world, so the disappearance of ghost films must be said to be the biggest loss to the Chinese film industry.
Nowadays, the Asian ghost movie market has almost been occupied by Japan, South Korea and Thailand, but no matter how many these countries shoot, there is no one that can compare with "A Chinese Ghost Story". Japanese ghost movies do not pay attention to karma, South Korea The film does not have much depth, and the Thai film has no aesthetic sense, and a master of all aspects like "A Chinese Ghost Story" can only be shot by the old Hong Kong film circle that has passed away. After all, the current Tsui Hark has long been unrecognizable as the one who shot "Green Snake".
Two days ago, I watched "The Magic of Yu Lan" directed by Zhang Jiahui. After watching it, I was amazed at Zhang Jiahui's skilled directing skills. It is said that this film contains Zhang Jiahui's expectation of revival of Hong Kong ghost films. There is quite a lot of research on ghost movies, and the shooting techniques of various horror movies are basically used, and the effect is still good. But on the whole, this movie is far from enough to carry the banner of the revival of Hong Kong ghost movies. In terms of plot design, theme and modeling, there is still a long way to go.
Horror movies, or ghost movies, as one of the most important movie genres, and the most ill-fated movie, almost disappeared in some places, and filled the market with a lot of low-quality knockoffs, and in others A lot of people as a means of making a quick buck and not being made seriously as a serious movie. Ghost movies are far more than just the name they seem. Scary is always just a subsidiary of ghost movies, and ghost movies must have their own attitude.
Speaking of ghost movies, maybe we don’t know what we are talking about, maybe it’s just scary, it’s ghosts, maybe it’s the Hong Kong ghost movies decades ago, and the one that led the trend of Asian movies decades ago. Hong Kong cinema. Two days ago, I saw the news that the producer of "A Hundred Birds and the Phoenix" would not hesitate to ask for the movie to be arranged in theaters. Maybe when it comes to ghost movies, what we sigh and what we miss is not just the high-level movie market at that time. , but also because the current Chinese film industry and market, which is full of speculation, do not think ahead, and shameless, leaves us with no better choice, but can only miss the past.
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