In the last week of March, Xu Nuo's mother resumed her normal work and started a busy business trip again.

Just like Du Xinghe said, he would go to Xu Nuo's house at night to sleep with Xu Nuo. After Xu Nuo falls asleep, he will work in the living room of Xu Nuo's house.

The Kim Fourteen is a big project, and he spends his time in the office copying during the day, and he hasn't written it at night lately. Taking advantage of Xu Nuo's mother's absence, he can work at Xu Nuo's house, and he has been rushing to work on the storyboard script of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" recently. He had tried to draw this horror film during the day, but when he flashed back to this movie in his mind during the day, he felt that he really didn't feel it, which directly led him to draw a storyboard script and greatly reduced his interest. Later, at Xu Nuo's house at night, he picked up the pen again to draw the storyboard script of this movie, and he regained the thrill of horror and excitement, and even felt the storyboard script.

Especially listening to the song of Chu Renmei taken from the Cantonese opera "Selling - Meat to Raise Orphans" in the play, it is really resentful!

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Lang is in the happy place~

When the concubine is broken~

The grievances are known for a month~

It is not easy to meet, and it is easy to separate~

The abandoned woman regrets it too late now~

Jun remembers the phoenix on the day ~ Remember whether you continue to lose your kindness and don't branch ~

Do you have no place to stay for the old love~

I also read whether there is a mother, a fatherless and an orphan~

Wife~

Do you know if I have been sick for a long time and become tuberculosis~

Soon I will die of sadness for you~

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This Cantonese opera singing, accompanied by the appearance of the female ghost Chu Renmei, is also the favorite singing segment of Chu Renmei, who is a famous Cantonese opera singer in the play, and is an extremely important theme element in the film. Du Xinghe looks at this song from the perspective of a professional musician, and he has a high evaluation of this song, and even has the meaning of putting the finishing touch to the whole play.

This singing section is sung in the middle board, with a sad tune and a poignant lyrics, which not only spits out Chu Renmei's feelings when she was wronged during her lifetime, but also expresses her resentment and hatred accumulated for a hundred years vividly. Especially at the end of the film, with Chu Renmei's miserable white hands slowly stretching out and rising from the waterhole, the lyrics of this song were sung again, and the chill that invaded the muscles and cracked the bones suddenly appeared. At the same time, an allegorical ending is constructed. "Human hatred does not end with death, it will also wait for the opportunity to seek revenge and vent", this kind of moral finally realizes the interaction with the audience's thoughts. Provoke the audience to think. And this song. It will also be deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience.

After three nights of processing the storyboard script of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" at Xu Nuo's house, Du Xinghe finally got the first storyboard he drew in this plane quite satisfactorily.

In fact, his work is completely upside down, according to the normal script project. If the other party is interested in the story, the screenwriting team will continue to expand the story and plump it into a text outline of less than 10,000 words, and then the director or producer will participate in proposing revisions, and the screenwriting team will repeatedly revise it according to these meanings until it is finally finalized, and then write this story synopsis into a real text script, that is, a theme script full of dialogues and scenes. After repeatedly revising the script, it will be handed over to the director, and then it will be drawn into a script for the second shot, ready to start shooting.

Du Xinghe now saves all the previous steps, and directly draws the final storyboard script, with the dialogue script that the actors read, in which he has done a lot of side descriptions according to the performance style and atmosphere of the original work, and completely does what a director should do, as long as the actor looks at the script, he can act directly, and he doesn't need the director to talk about the drama at all.

Even this film doesn't need to find a genuine director, find a good executive director who has strong control over the scene and a good grasp of the actors' roles can be filmed.

Of course, the premise is to find producers and investors with strong organizational and overall planning capabilities, and set up projects before they can really shoot.

At three o'clock in the morning, looking at the thick book of storyboard scripts and line scripts he had drawn, Du Xinghe was still satisfied. It was the first time he had done something he had never done before, and it felt like writing a song for the first time, which was exciting, satisfying, and fulfilling.

Du Xinghe is full of expectations for the reaction of this film in the market here, and this expectation is even stronger than the sense of expectation that he copied the song. After all, this is the first movie he "directed" in his life, although it was copied, but this thing is not as simple as copying songs.

He has a very deep musical foundation, copying songs is as free as eating for him, but copying movies is different, especially when his painting skills are not so good, he can draw a detailed storyboard script with a thousand shots, which is definitely a big project!

In the process of "directing" the movie for the first time, he summed up a lot of things and learned a lot of things, which can be regarded as a lot of sweat.

People always don't know how to cherish it, but if it is the result of hard work, people will protect it with their hearts.

For this film, Du Xinghe really wants to shoot it quickly and see how the market reacts. Originally, he had high expectations for this film, but after calmly analyzing the horror film market in this plane, Du Xinghe felt that this film might not have as much influence as it did in the previous plane.

The synopsis of this film Du Xinghe has summarized it, looking at the text, it is simple and easy to understand, and it doesn't feel too terrifying, but if it is really filmed, it will be completely scary, at least Du Xinghe feels that it will make him chill more than the "No Bones" he watched before.

A film like "No Bones Remains" is a plasma flow, which mainly makes people watch a thrill and enjoyment, while "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" is afraid from the bottom of my heart.

The protagonist of this film is called Xiao Ming.,The beginning is that he went out to play with his companions.,The companions played the "conjuring game".,Xiao Ming was born with yin and yang eyes.,Can see ghosts.,I don't think it's appropriate.,I didn't participate in this game.。 As a result, there was an accident in the game, one person died of a heart attack on the spot, and the other three players also died mysteriously for no reason.

XIAO MING INTUITIVELY FELT THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG, SO HE TURNED TO HIS SISTER CISSY, WHO WAS A JOURNALIST, FOR HELP. CESSY ALSO WANTS TO GET THE SCOOP, SO SHE INTRODUCES HER FRIEND HAIR, WHO HAS A DEEP STUDY OF SPIRITUALITY AND HAS A CRUSH ON HER, TO HELP XIAOMING.

Fa Mao and Xiao Ming went to Huangshan Village, the site of the incident, to investigate, and found that the village had a bizarre tragedy nearly a hundred years ago, when there lived a famous Cantonese opera singer, whose husband was a teacher in the village, but he was a well-dressed beast, in order to achieve the purpose of combining with the rich daughter, set up a bureau to kill his wife, and dumped the body of the barren mountain. After the death of the famous singer, he learned the truth, and the soul of the grievance was not gone. Killed 66 people in the village in three days.

The ghost's brother puts the bracelet she had given to his brother on her hand and tries her to calm her anger. The resentment of the female ghost was appeased. This time, there was a new project to bury the female ghost's body, and the female ghost's bones were thrown into the pool on the side of the mountain, so they came out to harm people again. Xiao Ming and the others have been investigating the female ghost's life experience, so they went to find the female ghost's godnephew. As a result, the female ghost's godnephew also died because of this. But Xiao Ming knew that he had to put the bracelet on the female ghost's hand again to calm her resentment.

The two of them investigated in detail. It was discovered that female ghosts can't actually kill people with their own hands, and can only make people who have drunk the water in the pool hallucinate and die bizarrely. But when they found out the reason, it was too late, Xiao Ming's sister and brother-in-law had already drunk the pool water, and even Xiao Ming himself had drunk the water by mistake.

Xiao Ming was unwilling to be restrained, and decided to go down to the pool to salvage the bones of the female ghost, just when Xiao Ming saw the body of the female ghost, and found that the bracelet was by her side, Xiao Ming wanted to put it on her, and then there were four people who jumped over with one shoulder on the other, all of them were Xiao Ming's dead friends, and this last person turned back to Xiao Ming himself, he saw his hideous face, and he fell short and died in the pool. And the corpse came to the surface.

In order to save CISSY, who has been secretly in love, Fa Mao resolutely drank the pool water, overcame the fear in his heart, calmly faced the terrifying hallucinations created by the female ghost, and finally used his deep love for CISSY to impress the female ghost and save his life and CISSY. But, is this the end of the female ghost's revenge? Her resentment did not dissipate......

This film was released in Hong Kong on November 4, 1999, and starred famous actors such as Wu Zhen-woo and Lai Zi, which had considerable significance in the film industry at that time. The film's parody of "Midnight Bell" and its own innovation abandon the routine of previous Hong Kong-Hong Kong horror films, and emerge a horror style with metaphors and psychological implications. This also made this film not only achieve good box office results that year, but also won the title of "China's version of Midnight Bell".

In the previous plane, the appearance of "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is a sign of the transition of Chinese horror movies from "banter and funny" to "strict and terrifying".

One of the major contributions of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" to Chinese horror films is that it ends the deformed development model of Chinese horror films in the subgenre and "formally legislates" for Chinese horror films in this positive sense.

For a long period of time before "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", the creative concept of Chinese horror movies was missing, and the creation of the entire Chinese horror film was in chaos, including "psychedelic martial arts dramas" and "ghost films" filmed for banter and curiosity, "plasma films" that purely imitated Oumeier, and "psychic comedies" with gods and ghosts as the selling point.

These subgenre films are more or less terrifying, but they are far from horror movies in the true sense of the word. "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is different, it follows the creative idea of Yan sù horror films, and the scene scheduling and lens language of the whole film have begun to serve the core theme of "horror".

Therefore, it can still be praised by the audience as "scary" today, ending the era when Chinese horror movies were in name only, and Chinese horror films began to be truly terrifying and thriller.

The reason why "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" has a huge influence on the previous plane is because this film is the first time that many people have been really scared by Chinese ghost films, such as Du Xinghe.

Before that, Hong Kong-Hong Kong ghost movies were mostly funny, even if they were scary, they were not really scary. And this film is scary from beginning to end, from the soles of the feet to the ends of the hair.

In fact, this transformation is not only "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", but also the "Yin Yang Road" series of movies filmed at almost the same time as "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" in the previous plane, all of which began to move closer to horror in the real sense.

Later, under the influence of this concept, many classics of Chinese horror movies appeared, such as the Peng brothers' "Seeing Ghosts" series and Chen Kexin's "Three Watches" series.

This is in addition to the change in the concept of the directors themselves in the Chinese-speaking world. It also benefited from the imitation of the film and television language of the Japanese contemporaneous horror film "Midnight Bell" in "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", which on the one hand introduced the concept of Japanese and Korean horror films into the Chinese film industry, and interpreted the charm of real commercial horror films to the Chinese horror film industry that has been shrouded in banter and funny atmosphere for a long time.

On the other hand, it enriches the expression of Chinese horror films and creates conditions for the transformation of Chinese horror films in film language. The creative concept of using thriller hints as the psychological foundation, suspenseful reasoning as the story clue, and horror modeling as the visual element borrowed from Japan and South Korea was finally determined in "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", and then it became a creative paradigm, which was widely used and enriched by the creators of Chinese horror movies.

In addition to the concept of film, "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" established the basic value orientation of Chinese-language horror films. That is, the core value system of the horror movie "karma".

It's all a kind of art. Movies are the same as music, and movies that lack the core of value can only be garbage piled up by moving images, and this "valueless" orientation. For a long time in the last plane, the Chinese horror film world has been enveloped. Jokes, fantastical spells, and disgusting images. was once full of Chinese horror movies, which inevitably made Chinese horror movies at that time flat, fast-food, and clichéd.

a movie starring Lin Zhengying with zombies and Taoist as the core elements; Huang Baiming's "Happy Ghost" movie fully reflects this vulgar tendency.

The lack of basic value orientation also leads to the lack of core competitiveness of Chinese horror films. It is difficult to enter the international market with a high standard of film art.

In the last plane, before "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", none of the Chinese horror movies were released beyond national borders. Nowadays, many Chinese-language horror films have begun to crowd the international market, and even received high nominations for film awards. Li Xinjie won the Taiwan-Bay Golden Horse Award for "Seeing Ghosts", and the film also set the best score for Chinese horror movies in the year of its release.

In fact, the film "Seeing Ghosts" undoubtedly continues the basic value orientation of "there must be an effect" and "good will be rewarded with good" and "evil will be rewarded" that has been established since "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village".

In addition, the horror movies shot after "Yin Yang Road", "School Cemetery", "Ancient House Panic" and so on, this value orientation is obvious step by step.

This kind of value is the universal value orientation of the Buddhist cultural circle in China and even the entire East Asian region, which makes Chinese films have a good universality. It is not difficult to explain why the subsequent Chinese horror films can quickly enter the international market, in addition to the improvement and progress of filmmaking techniques, it is a large part of the transnational affinity brought by this value.

Moreover, Du Xinghe also heard from his friends who are professional in movies that it is the more direct impact that "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" has brought to Chinese horror films, and it is the basic film and television language system established by "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" for the creation of Chinese horror films in the future.

Compared with the Chinese horror movies before and after the last plane "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", the most intuitive feeling is the huge change in audio-visual language.

First, the positive and negative cut style is established.

Throughout the 8th and 90s of the 20th century, mainland horror films were rare and basically extinct, and some film companies in Guangdong "underground" produced two horror films, "The Shining-Fierce" and "Black Mansion-Lonely Soul", which were banned at that time.

Even these two horror films are the same as the horror film subgenres "ghost films" and "psychic martial arts dramas" that were popular in Hong Kong at that time, mainly narrating bizarre stories and showing fantastic spells.

Since "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", the special effects in Chinese horror movies have gradually been reduced to auxiliary, on the contrary, the shooting technique of front and back shots with real scenes as the main subject has gradually become the mainstream method of horror film creation. And this kind of ordinary use of positive and negative tangential shots, "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is the initiator in the Chinese film industry.

Although the shooting techniques of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" have some traces of borrowing from "Midnight Bell", it is more profound and more frequent than "Midnight Bell".

The horror of "Midnight Bell" is that it often interrupts the positive and negative cuts, and the frightened expressions of the characters are filmed tangentially, but there is no need to show what the characters "see" in the reverse cut, and this visual misalignment is used to cause the audience's psychological expectations and produce a terrifying effect.

"The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is a complete positive and negative use, not only showing the facial expressions of the characters, but also using a subjective lens to tell the audience what he "sees", this creative style has profoundly influenced the creation of subsequent horror movies and thriller movies, this style has been followed to this day, and has not been completely subverted.

Du Xinghe felt this very obviously when he was drawing the storyboard script, because his friend had told him about the play, although he had a fairly clear understanding of it.

The tradition of horror cinema created by "The Old Corpse of a Mountain Village" continues to this day with its own intrinsic rationality. It is more in line with the traditional thinking habits of the Chinese, and it is also a good means to show the horror elements of the movie abruptly, and more importantly, this positive and negative use can play a good role in psychological suggestion in horror movies. (To be continued......)