Chapter 185: Zombies on the Big Screen

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Kowloon Grand Theatre is the most luxurious and high-end cinema among the 13 cinemas under Time and Space Film Studio, located in Wang Zhao Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, and is the iconic cinema of Time and Space Film Studio.

And "Mr. Zombie", as the first film produced by Time and Space Film Studio with its own theatrical chain, according to Mo Ziqi, this film is of great significance to the studio and must be taken seriously, so it was arranged to be screened at the Kowloon Grand Theater.

Moreover, the scale of this screening is relatively large.

One of the things that can reflect the large scale is that there are a lot of movie stars who are invited.

Like Zhou Yan, Zhang Guorong, Liang Jiahui, and Lu Liangwei, they are all frequent guests who often attend movies written by Lin Jing.

The Hong family class represented by Hong Xinbao is naturally indispensable, they themselves are the producers of this movie, and they stood at the gate of the cinema early to greet the "guests". and the Hong family class, who is both a brother and a competitor, is also a group to cheer, although not everyone will enter the cinema, but they can come so much, and the lineup is neat, which is also to help this screening, adding a bit of momentum.

Other relatively fresh faces, and the most popular is the "Wireless Five Tigers" called last year.

Miao Qiaowei, Tang Zhenye, Huang Rihua, Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei performed a show together in September last year, so they had the reputation of "Wireless Five Tigers".

Of course, for now, the most popular of the Five Tigers is Andy Lau, because Andy Lau is powerful on both the small screen and the big screen. followed by Miao Qiaowei, Tang Zhenye and Huang Rihua. Liang Chaowei is a typical rising star because of his outstanding talent. Although he is the youngest, he is also very strong.

What's more, there have been rumors lately. He will play the leading role in a movie written by Lin Jing, which undoubtedly adds another exuberant fire to him.

In addition to movie stars, you can also see many directors.

Xu Anhua, Wu Siyuan, Zeng Zhiwei...... Wu Yusen, who happened to return to Hong Kong from Taiwan, actually came with Xu Ke.

Wu Yusen was "devolved" to Taiwan, although he did not have no films to make, but he did not make the comedy he wanted, and he seemed a little depressed. It's Xu Ke. After nearly a year of rest, he has come out of the blow of "The Legend of the Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain", and he looks very interested.

Xu Ke's more than 30 million large-scale production zuò "The Legend of the Swordsmen of Xinshu Mountain" failed at the box office. But this does not prevent his fame, which is still as bright as ever. As soon as he and Wu Yusen appeared, reporters immediately surrounded them.

"Director Xu, I didn't expect you to come to participate in the screening of the film produced by Time and Space Film Studio."

"There's an invitation. Here it is. There's nothing surprising about that. ”

"Everyone is a film studio, do you predict that the box office of this movie will pass "The Legend of the Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain"?" A certain reporter with a bad stomach asked with the same provocative question.

"It is rumored that Lin Jing's screenplay is a guarantee of the box office, and since "Mr. Zombie" is also her screenwriting work, the box office should be very good." Xu Ke has been a director for a long time, and in the face of reporters' provocations, he knows how to answer so as not to offend people.

"I heard that this movie is written by the screenwriting team of Time and Space Film Studio, not ......"

"Hey, what's the matter?"

But it was Xu Ke who didn't hear it right. I pushed off the microphone and walked in, wanting to flash people.

"Lin Jing is here."

But he hadn't taken a few steps yet. Suddenly, I heard a cry from the side, and the reporters who were just about to pester a few more explosive topics with interesting points suddenly dispersed. Xu Ke stopped to look, and those reporters swarmed not far away.

I saw that in the group of reporters, the focus of the spotlight, two tall girls wearing a blue and white dress, wearing sunglasses, walked slowly under the maintenance of the security guards.

"Miss Lin, I heard that Ba Jin invited you to go north, for this invitation, you will ......" A reporter who finally squeezed to the front opened his mouth, and it turned out to be a topic that had been outdated for a long time.

Perhaps it was the peers next to him who were annoyed with his inappropriateness, and squeezed him down before he could finish speaking.

"Did you still write the film?"

"Did you ask the gunman to write it and put your own name on it?"

"Predict what the box office of this movie will be?"

"I heard that you are going to write, direct, and act in a movie in the near future, is it true?"

……

The flashes were on, and the reporters kept pressing the shutter and squeezed hard in the gaps between the shots.

Those actors and actresses who stood next to them and witnessed this scene couldn't help but have some strange thoughts in their hearts, just like when Liu Banghe met for the first time when he saw Qin Shi Huang on patrol.

"When will I be as beautiful as her, I really envy the dead?"

"Celebrities should have such pomp and circumstance, and even there are more reporters who want to interview than others."

"Isn't it just that I've written a few bad novels and broken scripts, what's there to be angry about?"

……

At this moment, even Li Saifeng, the heroine of the screening ceremony, is overshadowed by Lin Jing's aura.

Many actors and stars present were either envious, jealous or hateful, with different expressions. However, stars like Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong only smiled faintly when they saw it.

"Ah Jing, can we take two steps faster, when can we go in like this?" Wang Guxian turned his head slightly and said in Lin Jing's ear. Wang Guxian, who was dragged by Lin Jing to walk together, had never experienced the scene of being surrounded by so many reporters, and she was so nervous that she regretted a little why she didn't refuse to be tough in the first place.

"You can also see where to go fast in this situation." Lin Jing replied helplessly. She didn't expect that her appearance would attract so many reporters, I'm afraid there would be no more than twenty or thirty.

When Wang Guxian and Lin Jing were "whispering" to speak, the reporters behind them had already started to discuss. It turned out that they couldn't get Lin Jing's answer for a while, so they shifted the target to Wang Guxian. After all, in terms of appearance, Wang Guxian is almost on par with Lin Jing, and Lin Jing is a little more refined at most.

"Who is the girl holding her hand. Look at how intimate they look? ”

"Good friend, it's a bit of a face."

"I think I've seen it, what's it called, oh yes, it's going to be cold on the lakeside this year, she seems to have appeared in that movie."

"Wang Guxian. Her name is Wang Guxian, Taiwanese, but now she is playing tricks in Hong Kong. ”

"Could it be that Lin Jing is ready to support this newcomer?"

……

Lin Jing was silent from getting out of the car to being surrounded. It wasn't until they were crowded to the door of the cinema that the reporters wouldn't stop without saying a word or two, so they opened their mouths.

"Miss Lin, what kind of movie will this be?"

"The movie will be about half an hour later, and everyone will be able to see it for themselves. Why rush for a while. Of course. I believe that this will be a very innovative movie, a movie that will definitely make everyone happy to watch it and walk out of the cinema with a smile. ”

After saying these few words, taking advantage of the gap exposed by the reporters, and the people of the Hong family class running over to escort them, Lin Jing and Wang Guxian finally got rid of the "siege" of the reporters.

When they entered the cinema, the entire theater was almost full. Everyone is waiting for the arrival of "Mr. Zombie" with great anticipation.

About half an hour later.

As the light of the cinema dimmed, the big screen lit up. The iconic Milky Way appears on the big screen, symbolizing beams of light that travel through time and space.

"Produced by Time and Space Film Studios!"

After the simple opening animation came out, these nine big characters appeared. It is said that the reason why these nine words are listed first in the movie is to show that as long as the film is produced by the Time and Space Film Studio, it is the crystallization of collective wisdom and must be a masterpiece.

Of course, compared with Shaw Brothers Film Company's "Shaw Brothers production, it must be a high-quality product", the advantage is to be subtle and low-key.

"Mr. Zombie" officially opened.

The first shot is of Yizhuang, dim and claustrophobic, full of coffins.

The literary talent played by Xu Guanying pushed the door in, ignored the coffin, walked straight to the spiritual altar, picked up a handful of incense and lit it.

The most bizarre thing is that he lit the incense, and even walked to the door and said a word outside.

"Uncles and sisters, please come back for dinner."

What would be the incense to eat as a meal, just think about it, eerie, miserable, can make people shudder.

And what is even more surprising is that he said next: "Everyone who passes through the door is a guest, let you eat first." ”

Then a pair of cloth curtains were opened, and there were eight in a row, wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms and official hats, with green fangs on their bloodstained faces, and yellow talismans on their foreheads, suddenly appearing in front of them, like a wall, swaying non-stop.

Zombies are here!

The zombies in this version of "Mr. Zombie", because of the zombie special effects makeup techniques taught by Lin Jing to the special effects makeup artists, are particularly real and terrifying, which startles the audience who are watching attentively.

In fact, it was not that there were no zombie movies before "Mr. Zombie", as early as 1974, Shaw Brothers invested in a genre film called "Seven Golden Corpses".

The movie "Seven Golden Corpses" ingeniously combines Western vampire stories with China's legend of "Xiangxi Chasing Corpses", which tells the story of Xiangxi, China, where the mage of the Ancient Temple of the Seven Golden Corpses wants to resurrect the Seven Golden Corpses with the power of the vampire Dracula, so as to control the Xiangxi village again. Unexpectedly, the first thing Dracula resurrected was to kill the mage, and then he leaned over his corpse and returned to China to resurrect the seven golden corpses.

In order to save his hometown, the protagonist played by David Jiang follows his teacher, astrographer Professor Van Helsing, and his son and a wealthy widow back to his hometown to catch zombies.

This movie not only has blood-sucking zombies from the West, but also zombies from the East.

Dracula the vampire, Vampire Hunter Van Helsing, Chinese zombie ...... The content is more mixed and complicated, the style is more bizarre and weird, and the storyline is even more bizarre.

Because of this, zombie films have been in a slump, and no film company has just leaned on this aspect. Because if you rely on it, it's a huge loss.

For this "Seven Golden Corpses", the average audience may not have much impression. And even if there is an impression, to the current "Mr. Zombie". The image of zombies in China has changed dramatically. is no longer the dirty, sloppy and ugly refugee appearance of before, but a dress of ancient Qing Dynasty official uniforms, with uniform jumping movements. It's weird, and it has a bit of comedy.

"Mr. Zombie" has a bit of a terrifying atmosphere in the opening part, and it quickly makes people laugh.

The handsome and neat but mischievous apprentice "Qiusheng", the clumsy, timid and lustful "Wencai", the two fought and made trouble all the way.

Then there is the master "Uncle Nine", who is clever in Taoism and likes to have a straight face and a little bit of chicken intestines. Come out and clean up for them.

In bursts of laughter, the story has come to the part where the corpse of the "Old Lady Ren" who is now carried back to Yizhuang by the ninth uncle and apprentice has become a corpse. Worried that the corpse would turn into a zombie, Uncle Nine began to take precautions.

"Prepare the pen and paper, ink and sword."

"What?"

"Yellow paper. Red pen, black ink, real knife, wooden sword. ”

After the yellow paper, red pen, black ink, real knife and wooden sword were brought. Uncle Nine immediately opened the altar.

The whole process seems mysterious and professional. Plausible, surprising and somewhat admirable.

This qiē has never been presented on the big screen before "Mr. Zombie", which greatly satisfies the audience's curiosity. There are even some more superstitious viewers who think this may be true.

"People are divided into good people and bad people, and corpses are divided into dead corpses and zombies."

"People are not only divided into good and bad, but also men and women."

……

"People become bad because they don't fight; Corpses turn into zombies. It's because of an extra breath. ”

……

"Therefore, to be a man, you have to be angry. The most important thing is to lose your breath when you die. If you keep getting angry, you are harming others and yourself. ”

Dialogues like this made the audience burst into laughter from time to time.

What's more, "Mr. Zombie" not only has zombies, but also female ghosts and ghosts.

"I don't want to see the moon in the sky, and I don't want to see the moon in the sky.

The bright moon spits light, the yin wind blows the willow lane, it is a female ghost looking for love.

Who wants to love, the miserable ghost bride.

Accompanied by female ghosts, stealing moonlight late at night. ”

……

This enchanting and charming ghost will be carried out by four paper figures in a red sedan chair in the eerie wilderness on a full moon night, and then follow behind the person he likes, taking the opportunity to seduce him.

What a wonderful encounter, but it's a pity to be fascinated by ghosts!

At this moment, I don't know how many people sighed in their hearts: Peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic.

As the plot progresses, because of the carelessness of Qiusheng and Wencai, the bottom of the coffin is missed when the ink line is played on the coffin, and the corpse of the "old lady Ren" turns into a zombie and runs out to kill.

The story enters the first small **, and the show officially begins.

"Master Ren" was killed at home, and the security captain Ah Wei said that he was killed by someone with a nine-son chain of money darts, and Uncle Nine said that he was killed by a zombie with a fingernail. Ah Wei had long seen that Uncle Nine was unpleasant, so he used "Master Ren" to be killed by fingernails, and Uncle Jiu's fingers were very long as an excuse to hold Uncle Nine in the prison of the Yamen.

In the prison, "Master Ren" was killed by zombies and poisoned, and finally turned into zombies.

And so—

"If you meet a zombie and stop breathing, you'll be fine!"

This method of combining spoof and creativity has emerged.

On the big screen, "Master Ren", who had turned into a zombie, attacked, and Uncle Jiu, Qiusheng and Ah Wei hurriedly held their breath when they were caught off guard. Sure enough, after they held their breath, the zombies seemed to suddenly become "blind" and could no longer feel their existence.

"You can save yourself without breathing, this, haha, the screenwriter is so talented."

This refreshing plot made the audience laugh out loud - it's so funny!

The original version of "Mr. Zombie" was produced in Taiwan, and because of this, it was also called "Stop Breathing", which can be regarded as a kind of charm of the movie "Mr. Zombie".

Unfortunately, people need to breathe after all. Holding your breath, although you can make zombies "can't see" themselves, this is only a temporary solution, a palliative solution.

If you want to save yourself and kill zombies, you still have to rely on real magic methods.

And to cure zombies, you can use ink bucket lines, yellow charms, glutinous rice, and as for killing zombies, it is a wooden sword, a peach wood sword.

I saw that on the big screen, Uncle Nine and Qiusheng each held one end of the ink bucket line and pulled it open in front of the zombie and knocked the zombie down, and then Qiusheng jumped up and held the wooden sword that Uncle Jiu ran over and killed it in the air, and finally Uncle Jiu took the yellow fu in his hand and shook it casually in order to prevent the zombie from being resurrected, and ignited the fire to completely destroy the zombie.

At this point, "Mr. Zombie" let the audience see that the jumping zombies are afraid of Taoist props such as glutinous rice, ink buckets, and Huang Fu, and the only way to avoid zombies is to hold their breath.

This scene of fighting zombies and killing zombies made the audience addicted.

However, this is just killing a little zombie who has just been born, and the really powerful zombie has already attacked Ren Tingting, the only descendant of the Ren family.

This final wave SS is not only invulnerable to the sword and gun, but also cunning by nature. If you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will run, and it seems that you know the essence of the art of war. If they keep running away and hiding, Uncle Nine can't do anything about it.

"Fortunately", zombies have the "mission" to destroy their descendants, and they will keep chasing and killing Ren Tingting.

So everyone hid in the house in Yizhuang, waited for the rabbit, and was ready to wait for the zombies to come to the door.

But when the zombie came to the door, everyone was in a mess, and they were surprised to see that the ordinary glutinous rice, ink fountain line and yellow fu could only repel it, or temporarily restrain it, and if they wanted to really kill it, they couldn't do it at all.

In this way, Uncle Jiu and Qiusheng's master and apprentice were forced to have two chicken feathers and duck blood, and the wolf was unbearable.

Fortunately, at this time, the Xiangxi corpse chasing Taoist priest played by Chen You arrived and used his "customers" to block the fierce attack of the zombies. And when Uncle Nine and Qiusheng blocked the zombies, they put down the chandelier, set the fire and burned the zombies, and finally burned the zombies to death.

After killing the final wave, the movie enters the end without any delay.

The whole "Mr. Zombie", the plot is compact, the content is full, the elements are rich, there are laughs and laughs, there are highlights to watch, it can be said that the whole film has no urine points, compared to the phantom trilogy "Ghost Fights Ghost", "People are Scary" and "People Scary Ghosts" I don't know how many times more exciting.

With the melodious singing of "Ghost Bride", subtitles rolled on the big screen.

The audience on the seat was still talking and laughing, reminiscing about the extremely wonderful plot just now. Until the light of the big screen goes out and thunderous applause rings out.

(The two-in-one chapter, today is this one.) (To be continued......)