Lucas's years of experience in the film and television industry are not unfounded, he has seen the film for a long time, so from the moment he sits in the cinema, his attention is on the audience around him.

Whether the audience is glued to the screen all the time, whether the audience contributes their laughter to the jokes in the movie, and whether the audience empathizes with the tension in the plot are all key factors in measuring a movie.

But in Lucas's view, from the beginning of the film to the present, the vast majority of the audience has watched it very attentively, and he enjoys it very much, every joke in the movie, every plot point, they will give enough feedback, it can be expected that after watching this movie, the audience will definitely give it a very high evaluation, and the reputation will be very good!

Lucas's professional eye was not wrong.

After that, the plot was watched more by the audience!

The great thing about this movie is that it can incorporate very funny and high-level jokes in various situations, not only from the characters, the plot, but also the action direction.

In the film, after the death of Master Ren, Lin Zhengying was imprisoned by his daughter's cousin, and the other party also used a soldering iron with the word "rape" to intimidate Lin Zhengying, laying a foreshadowing, and then, Master Ren's corpse changed, and Qian Xiaohao finally used the talisman seal to temporarily fix the zombie, but unexpectedly, the daughter's cousin came in, and then began his series of sassy operations, which had frequent laughs, including that he inadvertently got rid of the rune seal many times, including that he was burned on his chest by Qian Xiaohao with a soldering iron with the word "rape" because of a series of oolongs The words just echo the foreshadowing that was planted before.

The most interesting thing is that in the setting of the plot, Qian Xiaohao did not deliberately want to be the cousin of the daughter of the whole family, but when he was attacking the zombies, the cousin of the daughter sat on the tip of the sharp knife, and then jumped up and hit Qian Xiaohao's soldering iron by mistake, which was completely evil and evil.

Subsequently, the plot of Xu Guanying and Ren Jia's daughter dealing with zombies is also tense and funny, and the audience is nervous, cheerful, and excited.

Then, Lin Zhengying took his apprentice Qian Xiaohao to subdue the zombies, and the powerful professionalism of the zombie Taoist was undoubtedly revealed.

In this process, another apprentice, Xu Guanying, was bitten by a zombie and was poisoned by the corpse, and then the plot was divided into two ways, on the one hand, to help Xu Guanying control the corpse poison, on the other hand, Qian Xiaohao met the female ghost again, and the plot was also interspersed with the profiteer played by Wu Ma, who deliberately mixed thirty catties of sticky rice with the fifty catties of glutinous rice sold to Qian Xiaohao, laying another small foreshadowing for the follow-up plot, as well as Qian Xiaohao's exquisite little design of being controlled by the female ghost and constantly turning clouds and rain with the female ghost.

Multi-line advancement, multiple foreshadowing, multiple burdens, multiple characters, so many elements are mixed together, but the rhythm can be handled very tightly, and it is not messy at all, which is extremely rare, and the carrying methods of jokes are diverse, not only can be naturally integrated into laughter in various plots, but even many interesting jokes are integrated into martial arts action, don't look at this is just a comedy movie with no depth, but from these points, it is enough to see that the staff behind this movie has a very deep foundation.

Immediately afterwards, the plot of Lin Zhengying's fight against female ghosts is also very tense and interesting, the fight scenes are fierce and interesting, and there are also many Taoist practices and behaviors using magic weapons, which are more convincing while showing professionalism.

In the unit plot of fighting female ghosts, the female ghost was defeated by Lin Zhengying and fled, and the original beautiful courtyard suddenly became a depressed and dilapidated courtyard, Lin Zhengying returned with his apprentice, and one of his two apprentices was poisoned by the corpse, and the other was fascinated by the ghost, Lin Zhengying could only solve it one by one, while helping Xu Guanying control the corpse poison, while setting up a formation to wait for the female ghost to come to the door.

The role of the female ghost in the play is not a pure villain, on the contrary, because she is sincere to Qian Xiaohao, she gave her all her actions an explanation that is enough for the audience to accept, which makes her image relatively positive, and after the fierce fight, Lin Zhengying did not kill the female ghost, but let Qian Xiaohao make his own decisions, Qian Xiaohao's approach did not disappoint the audience, he removed the shackles on the female ghost and let her go, and after the female ghost escaped, the audience at the scene also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the crisis of the female ghost has been solved, the real boss, that is, the zombie that Ren's father has turned into, has not been solved, so the plot of the high dynasty at the end of the movie is to fight with this zombie boss.

At the critical moment, Lin Zhengying's junior brother who appeared at the beginning of the film once again came to the rescue with a team of zombies, which echoed the beginning and end of the movie is also very interesting in terms of the structure of the movie, and the audience was deeply impressed by these zombies and Lin Zhengying's junior brother wearing a striking robe, so when they saw him appear with zombies at this time, everyone was extremely happy.

Next, Lin Zhengying's junior brother controlled a group of zombies and a zombie Boss The setting of the fighting method was also unexpected by the audience, originally thought that eight zombies against one zombie, this big boss would die in the hands of the same kind, but I didn't expect these eight zombies plus Lin Zhengying's junior brother, which is equal to a big parallel import, and the eight zombies only carried one round and were defeated, which was unexpected, but reasonable.

At the end of the film, everyone fought zombies together, and finally burned the zombie boss to ashes, which also echoed what Lin Zhengying said to Master Ren in the first half, the safest way to prevent zombies is to cremate.

And at the end, the screenwriter also shook off a burden, several zombies brought by Lin Zhengying's junior brother to help, all of them were also burned clean by a fire, these eight parallel goods started with a wave of water, ended with a wave of water, and finally returned to the West completely, and also adhered to the professional ethics as a "parallel import", with a little more sense of humor......

After this final weigh, the whole movie came to an end, and Lucas watched the performance of the audience around him, and was about to cheer out with excitement.

What he didn't expect was that after the film ended, someone in the theater took the lead in applauding, so the applause was one after another, mixed with cheers and whistles, and the atmosphere was particularly warm.

Although this movie is very old, although the picture quality is average, and the special effects are even weaker to the extreme, its plot is compact and coherent, all kinds of plots, jokes, burdens and foreshadowing are combined just right, every character is very distinctive, every plot is also explained, and every burden is shaken, and the audience watched it in this hundred minutes, which was tense, exciting, interesting and devoted, which gave them a deeper understanding of "Chinese zombies" , so the whole movie is extremely complete in the minds of the audience, and the experience is also very perfect.

The theater ended, many audiences were still unsatisfied, they rarely watched Hong Kong movies, they didn't expect this movie to be fast-paced, tight-plot, tense, exciting, relaxed and interesting, and full of exotic flavor, so addicted to watching, so that when the audience left the venue in twos and threes, they were still communicating some of the plots in the movie, and Lucas was caught in the crowd and listened with his ears pricked up.

Some people are saying that the unique characteristics of the Chinese zombie setting, such as zombies can only jump, for example, zombies rely on people's exhaled breath to determine people's orientation, for example, although zombies are afraid of zombie Taoist talismans and magic weapons, spells, but the two sides are not absolutely suppressive relationship, meet powerful zombies, Taoist spells, Magic weapons will also lose their effectiveness, which is very interesting and relatively reasonable, unlike many American supernatural legends or film and television works, such as the most awesome vampire, a knife to cut off the head will kill a violent death, no matter how strong a werewolf is stabbed by a silver dagger, it will die.

Some people also discuss the Taoist played by Lin Zhengying in the movie, this character is particularly likable in the play, not only because his appearance looks like a very decent person, but also because of the "professionalism" he shows in the movie, and the most important thing is that his three views are extremely in line with the protagonist setting of the film and television drama, although he looks meticulous, but he understands right and wrong very well, so after he worked hard to subdue the female ghost, he did not insist on killing her, which made him even more flesh and blood.

There are also viewers who feel sorry for the female ghost, feeling that this character is very plump and three-dimensional, she fell in love with him because of Qian Xiaohao's kindness and incense, and then tried to get close to him several times and have a spring supper with him, but she didn't have any intention of harming him, and even when she saw Qian Xiaohao in danger, she desperately broke through the formation set by Lin Zhengying, and also wanted to save Qian Xiaohao's life, and even when Lin Zhengying, who had always intended to kill him, was in danger behind him, she could also take the initiative to remind Lin Zhengying that such a character was used to watching " In the eyes of North American audiences in romantic dramas like "Ghost Love", it is particularly sympathetic, and even many viewers hope that she can finally get together with Qian Xiaohao.

Lucas eavesdropped on the road with an excited heart, and after leaving the theater, the first thing he did was to call Li Mu.

It's two o'clock in the morning New York time, and Yanjing, which has a 12-hour time difference from New York, is now two o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Mu was holding a closed-door meeting with a group of people in Yanjing to discuss the specific planning of the film and television base, and he had forgotten that North America was premiering "Zombie-Master", and received a call from Lucas, he didn't want to answer it at first, but after hesitating for a moment, he paused the meeting and connected the phone.

"Hello Mr. Li!" As soon as the phone was connected, Lucas excitedly greeted Li Mu on the other end of the phone.

Li Mu said: "You're also Lucas, is there anything wrong with calling me at this time?"

Lucas's voice trembled a little with excitement, and said: "Mr. Li, "Zombie-Master" just finished the premiere at zero o'clock, and the audience's response was excellent, I think the reputation of this movie will be so good that it explodes after tomorrow, and its box office must be much higher than we expected." ”

Li Mu asked him, "How much can I get?"

Lucas said: "Judging from the performance of today's audience, I think there is definitely no problem with a box office of 100 million US dollars, and even 150 million is not impossible, and you gave the theater an additional 20% of the share, and the theater is now waiting to see the reputation and attendance of this movie, I think tomorrow the word-of-mouth of this movie will come out, and the theater will continue to increase the film schedule on the original basis, in this way, the overall box office will increase by 3 or 40% is not a problem at all!"