Resident Evil is a survival horror game that is fascinating because it introduces the concept and image of zombies to the game for the first time.

The concept of zombies existed in some legends and literary works long before the advent of film and television works.

In addition to the best-selling content of zombies in the story of Pride and Prejudice, there are also stories like Pride and Prejudice that appear in zombies.

The first appearance of zombies in film and television works was in the father of modern horror movies, known as the "originator of zombie films". A. Romero's debut novel Night of the Living Dead.

This new genre film by a rookie director caused a sensation in Hollywood as soon as it was released, and the film, which cost just over $100,000, eventually grossed $30 million worldwide, a full 250-fold increase

And Night of the Living Dead not only earned a super high box office and generated super profits, but it also started the trend of zombie movies, so that zombie movies firmly occupied a place in the later film genres.

In addition, the significance of this movie is that it has formulated a series of characteristics for zombies, which have almost become the "three laws of zombies" of zombie culture, which are "conventional" and observed, and the "attack and defense" between zombies and humans has become well-founded.

For example, it is the factors of unknown reasons that make the dead "come back to life" and become zombies.

Zombies themselves do not have any consciousness or ability to think, relying on instinct to move, and their only thing is to eat human flesh.

Second, zombies can be infected. People who are bitten by zombies will quickly become zombies or something like that after death.

Zombies look a bit like Chinese zombies at first glance, but they're actually quite different.

The first is the appearance of primitive zombies, zombies become after death, and of course being bitten by zombies and turned into zombies is another continuation.

Zombies, on the other hand, are the living dead who have changed for various reasons.

Again, the process of transforming into a zombie is irreversible, which is the premise of most zombie movies and related works.

But zombies are different, the process of being bitten into zombies is reversible, whether it is with rune water or glutinous rice or spells, generally as long as it is in the process of transforming into zombies, that is, as long as they are not treated before completely becoming zombies, the bitten person can still be restored to the original state.

Of course, whether it is zombies or zombies, the fundamental ones come from feudal superstitions and legends, plus the fabrication and spread of film and television and other carriers.

But back to the two products themselves, because of the different settings, the result is that whether it is a zombie film or a work, almost all of them take place in the background of a few characters in a small scene.

And the zombies in this regard, the scene is generally a little bigger.

Because zombies will continue to infect, once the mutation can not be recovered, there are a lot of them, and groups of people and animals are harmed, except for the same kind.

And in Qiao Feng's view, this is also one of the main reasons why zombie movies will be popular and occupy an important position in the entire movie genre.

After all, with small scenes and few characters, it is difficult to make a blockbuster with super visual impact. (Except, of course, pure horror films with small production costs)

Therefore, Qiao Feng never wanted to promote zombie films to the world, because the first cultural difference made it too difficult to do this.

The word zombie comes from the Haitian culture of Voodoo, which was first popular in Ghana, West Africa, and later spread to Haiti in the West Indies in the 16th century due to the slave trade of white colonists.

It is said that in this religion, shamans have a mystical ritual of resurrecting the dead and becoming zombies for them to drive. This was the original origin of the concept of zombies

The world's first zombie movie was based on this.

In 1932, the film "White Zombies", starring the famous vampire actor Bella Lugosi, was released, which tells the story of a voodoo wizard who turns people into zombies through witchcraft and makes them work in a sugar factory day and night to make money. In this film, the zombie neither eats people, nor does it decompose, but is just as pale as a corpse, and its endless work is pitiful.

Obviously, although this movie wears a zombie hat, it is indeed the origin of the concept of zombies, but in fact, it is not about zombies, and it has nothing to do with zombies.

In reality, this is the so-called wizard who can hypnosis through drugs and hypnosis to control normal people to help them do things and listen to their management stories.

The image is no different from the evil capitalists who oppress the workers, and the black coal kiln bosses violently control the absenteeism to dig coal.

Therefore, although the term zombie originated from Voodoo, the zombie and zombie culture that has become a popular element is not directly related to Voodoo other than the name.

What really made zombies a popular element after that was the Night of the Living Dead.

But back to the spread of zombie culture, apparently it started with the fake zombies of Voodoo in the first place.

And from the spread of this religion, it can be seen that whether it is for Africans or whites or other colored people in North and South America, they obviously know more about zombies and zombies, and they are more familiar with zombies.

At least in their dictionary there is the word zombie, but zombies don't.

The word zombie is simply spelled jiangshi in English.

The second is that zombie films are really difficult to make into big productions.

Whether it's a horror movie or an action blockbuster, what people want most is a super visual impact.

Zombies that can be infinitely assimilated can undoubtedly do this better than zombies.

Based on these considerations, in the setting of the Resident Evil game, Qiao Feng decided to copy it and not make any changes to the Chinese version.

After all, zombie culture is not the mainstream in Chinese culture, and it is not a niche.

That is, zombie movies have become popular a few years ago, and everyone knows something about zombies.

Otherwise, there may not be a few people who know a little about zombies.

Such a feudal culture in China and its niche and even non-mainstream is so difficult for foreigners to accept, Qiao Feng does not feel that there is much need to promote it to the world.

For the culture of zombies and zombies, Qiao Feng feels that it is good to make money for himself, and there is no need to worry about where it originates.

Even if zombies are really promoted to the world, so that everyone knows zombies, likes zombie movies, and zombie culture, can it seem that China is so powerful?

Inexistent.

Like Resident Evil, which originated from Ben, but when the Resident Evil movie was very popular among zombie lovers all over the world, no one would say, "Ah, because Ben came out with a Resident Evil game, and then people said that Ben was really good..."

Because even if the game manufacturer of this book does the Resident Evil game well, but in essence, the zombie culture originated in Europe and the United States, so people will only say that you imitate other people's things and imitate them well.

Therefore, whether Resident Evil is made into a game or a movie in the future, you can make a lot of money, so just copy it in a trouble-free way, why bother to make changes.