Chapter 65: Zombies

"First of all, I want to thank everyone for coming together and we are going to embark on an amazing adventure and create a fun film. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Sid stood in front of the huge workbench and thanked everyone.

Everyone laughed and applauded, and Sid finally started today's work after introducing each other to the team members who had gathered for the first time. Then he turned on his computer and projector, and the design he had drawn appeared on the projection wall.

The face of a young man with a cheek so bad that it doesn't look like a human appeared on the projection wall, and then Sid began to tell the team the story of his new film, "This is our main character, R. ”

"Wow, with such a pale face, he doesn't look normal. Vie Neill (a top special effects makeup artist) lifted her glasses and said strangely.

"Wei, you guessed it. Sid laughed and cocked his finger, "R doesn't look normal, because he's a zombie!"

Sid's words immediately ignited the enthusiasm of everyone in the special effects team present, and the people who would choose special effects work as their life career are definitely artists who like whimsical and whimsical ideas. As soon as the protagonist came up, he was a zombie, and he couldn't satisfy his appetite for them.

"And this is a bloody horror movie?" asked Levine Brightman, the director of Industrial Light & Magic, curiously, "Sid, do you hold it? Zombie movies are so bloody and violent, disgusting, are you sure you won't spit it out when you shoot it?" and I really don't know, it turns out that you are still a lover of cult movies. ”

The legend of zombies first comes from the legend of Voodoo, but when it comes to zombie movies, Hollywood has a long history. As early as 1932's "Pale Zombies", this kind of monster in the Middle Ages, which was as famous as werewolves and vampires, appeared on the big screen.

But to say that the most classic zombie films, it is undoubtedly a generation of horror film masters, George Romero's "The Living Dead" trilogy, "Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Living Dead" and "Land of the Living Dead", not only established George Romero's status as the "Godfather of Zombies", but also provided a steady stream of inspiration and basic rules for subsequent zombie films.

For example, zombies are unconscious, Chi living people Rou, who are accustomed to collective action, and people who are bitten by zombies will also become zombies, etc., the rules that seem to be conventional, in later generations, all come from the "Living Dead Series".

And Peter Jackson, who later won the Oscar with the "Lord of the Rings" series, also filmed bloody and disgusting low-budget horror films such as "Corpses Play Across the Line" in his early years.

So when everyone heard that Sid was going to make a zombie movie, the reaction of Levine Brightman and others was that he wanted to make a cult movie that paid tribute to the "Living Dead" series.

Sid smiled slightly, raised his finger and said, "Levine, who said that making a zombie movie must be bloody and violent?

“Wh…… What!?", except for Henry and Lance Arcord (photographers), who knew the script beforehand. When the others heard Sid's words, they couldn't help but be confused, "Zombie films?

Everyone recalled the bloody scenes in "The Living Dead" and "The Corpses Played Across the Line", and then imagined the warm and romantic scenes in comedy romances, and suddenly couldn't help but feel shocked, goosebumps falling all over the ground.

"You're not kidding, Sid. Livin Brightman asked, speechless.

"Well, let's listen to my story first. Sid clapped his hands, Henry pressed the button, and the projection wall was replaced by the appearance of a blonde-haired human beauty, of course.

"This is our heroine, and her name is Julie. Sid pointed to the blueprint, then he gestured to a third one on the projection wall.

This is a set image overlooking the ruined city, and you can see that the overgrown city has obviously been abandoned for a long time, and in the upper right corner of the screen, a row of tall walls surrounds it, isolating the abandoned city.

"Time is a time in the future, the world has been destroyed by zombies, most of the people in the world have been turned into zombies, and only a small number of humans have survived. "As soon as the picture was changed, it became the appearance of zombies running rampant in the city, and then the next one, in the dilapidated city of human beings, the market and houses built with rags looked full of the dilapidated sense of the end of the world.

"And our protagonist is a staggering zombie R in the airport. Although he looks like any other zombie, he is very different in that he can think!" Sid's words gradually aroused the interest of the crowd, and they stood up and listened to Sid's words.

And then a few are the set pictures of the handsome guy zombie R wandering around the dilapidated airport, everyone looked at the protagonist in a red hoodie, in the airport full of zombies, while listening to Sid introduce his guesses about the professional identity of various zombies before his death, and couldn't help but have a bit of black humor.

Especially when the pair of black and white Xiao Zhengtai and Xiao Lori appeared hand in hand, the funny black humor flavor became quite strong, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

"And R has a 'friend' M. "With Sid's introduction, Uncle Zombie M appeared. On this day, they felt very hungry, so they decided to go out hunting in groups. But, my God, these zombies are walking really slowly. OK, let's take a look at the heroine. ”

To the laughter of the crowd, Sid changed to the setting art on the human side, "Oh, I forgot to mention that the blonde Julie is still the daughter of the leader of our human resistance. And this day happened to be the day when a group of young people walked out of the city wall to search for survival items. This is a very important thing for young people to learn about the world. ”

And Julie, along with her friend and boyfriend Perry, walked out of the walls in full gear. Then, after the two sides have advanced some distance to each other, Julie's human team is in a laboratory searching for medicine when they run into R's zombie army. ”

R is knocked to the ground by Julie's boyfriend at the beginning, and the zombies keep rushing in, and the young humans fight back. Just as the zombie army is attacking humans step by step, our protagonist R is shocked by the heroic blonde cutie Julie's fighting heroism and falls in love at first sight. ”

The next few pictures are R's dull eyes, and the handsome scene of Julie holding a shotgun and constantly shading the enemy, and everyone watching is laughing again.

Then when R got up to see Julie, there was a 'snap' shot, and Julie's boyfriend Perry shot him in the shoulder. When everyone heard this, they suddenly let out a strange laugh of "oh oh haha", boyfriend Vs male protagonist, this is the rhythm of going against the sky. Ha ha.

"Laugh one, MotherFu-!" Sid mimicked R's voice and switched to the next one, and R pulled Perry off the table, followed by a slam until ...... Smash Si until now.

"Wow, that's too heavy. Vie Neel covered her mouth and laughed.

"No, no, brothers, I'm much better than 'Zombie Crossing the Line', okay?" Sid said with a smile, "And then in the feast of corpses, R will tell us one thing, if you just bite someone, then he will become another zombie later, but if you eat his brain, then you can get his memories, his thoughts, his feelings." ”

"I'm sorry, but R really can't bear it, because by eating his brain, he can feel the feeling of being a human again. Then there is the memory of Perry that R saw, the experience of attending a fireworks display with his parents when he was a child, and the experience of being bullied at school, which shows that the human world was still normal at that time.

And then there is the scene of meeting the heroine Julie in the human shelter, the experience of the two dating, and so on. A love in the apocalypse is particularly precious.

Then the happy smiling face of the heroine Julie overlapped with the face of the nervous shouting of reality, "Good sense of camera." Vie Neel nodded slightly, Sid's proficiency in the camera has increased compared to when he was filming the Harry Potter short film in the UK.

Then there is the scene where the heroine Julie saves the female number two from the zombie and strikes the protagonist R with a flying knife, but she is the protagonist of the zombie, so of course she will not suffer any damage.

The main character, R, corners Julie and begins to shout her name "Julie" with difficulty. At this time, there were no living people in the room, and the other zombies smelled the smell of the living, and R not only did not Sha Julie, but also smeared Julie with carrion, and "rescued" her back to the airport of the zombie base.

R then hides Julie in his abandoned plane, which is a secret base, which is full of "treasures" that R has collected. From gramophones and records, to snow globes, musical instruments, and more. For the next few days, they spend the next few days in this secluded place, and Juliet goes from initial fear and disgust to curiosity about R, a zombie who can talk and listen to records every day.

And Julie also awakens the unique talent in R's heart, and there is a forbidden emotion between the two, but Julie is confused and confused by this feeling. Eventually, she escaped back to the human city, where her father, the human general, was a ruthless zombie hunter.

As for R, he found that his friend M and other zombies had touched the "switch" in their hearts because of his and Julie's actions, and they transformed in the direction of the living. Eventually, because of the skeleton's chase, R sneaks into the human city to find Julie.

When Julie sat on the balcony on the second floor, and R was standing downstairs, the concept was shown, and the crowd laughed and shouted, "Hey, isn't this a classic Romeo and Juliet scene!"

"Bingou!" Sid said with a smile and cocking up his finger, "I've always told you that this is a romantic and fun zombie movie." ”

Finally convinced, after Sid finished the story outline and all the setting drawings were displayed, they gathered to deal with specific matters in batches. From the special effects makeup of zombies, to the set problems of abandoned cities and human cities, from lighting costumes, to special effects shots that can only be handled by industrial light and magic.

Sid went down to everyone in batches, piece by piece. Only then did someone remember, a very important question, "Sid, what's the name of our film?"

"WarmBodies!" Sid replied with a smile.