The continuation of time and the movement of space between the tangent and the reverse tangent can amplify the power of the film's horror psychological suggestion.

is like the section in "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" in which Bei Li commits suicide, Bai Li sings a nursery rhyme while looking down; Then the reverse cut, a close-up of Bailey's two-handed sharpening of the knife, greatly magnifies Baili's "ghost-on-body" state of loss of control, and the oppressive sense of death that is about to befall her.

In the last movie "Different Dimension" starring Leslie Cheung before his death, the passage where he encountered his dead girlfriend in the pool was vividly rendered to the fullest of the tense atmosphere of the "female ghost" approaching step by step at that time.

The positive and negative styles have made Chinese horror films finally get rid of the fate of "farce" and embark on the strict formality of horror films.

The second important influence of "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is that the "people-oriented" character setting is officially finalized.

In the previous plane, before "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", Chinese horror films were stored in the subgenres of "ghost films" and "psychedelic martial arts dramas", and the character settings of the films usually had two layers: "human" and "non-human".

"People" can be understood as ordinary people, ordinary people, that is, the main objects threatened by external risk factors;

"Non-human" correspondingly can be understood as an unusual person, such as a Taoist, a mage, a god, and so on.

In the previous subtypes, the problem of "human" was ultimately solved by "non-human". This kind of creative logic under the guidance of theism certainly makes the whole film seem fantastical and exciting, but it also relieves the pressure caused by horror elements and weakens the tension of horror movies.

The last plane created the horror films "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" and "Yin Yang Road" around 1999, and the character settings were broken.

"The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is especially obvious. The character setting retains the "human" layer, while the "non-human" is gone.

In "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", the core external threat comes from the resentful female ghost "Chu Renmei", and the cancellation of the "non-human" role layer makes the "people" led by Xiao Ming have to face the threat element.

At this time, the sense of threat and oppression in the drama is still born, because there will be no more "heavenly masters" to subdue the female ghosts, the conflict between ordinary people and female ghosts has become extremely violent, and with the continuous bizarre deaths of the main characters, the terrifying tension and despair brought by the dramatic conflict have also accumulated.

After the last plane 2000. The "inhuman" characters such as "Heavenly Master" and "Dao Chief" in Chinese horror movies have disappeared.

"People" become the core of horror movies. And the "people-oriented" movie character setting and creative ideas have also been basically determined. It's also a general trend in Asian horror movies. This is closely related to the continuous deepening of pragmatism and realism in the hearts of the people.

In people's thinking, "God" has gradually become unreliable, and people have to take responsibility for their own actions and actions. Therefore, the transformation embodied in horror movies is that "people" begin to face external terrorist threats.

"The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" also has a third point of heavy dà influence. It is the integration of Chinese elements into transmutation.

Traditional Chinese art is recognized as a cultural treasure in the world. But. It is extremely difficult to create a horror film that integrates traditional Chinese art elements, and it is precisely because of this that it adds a strong touch to "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village". This is also one of the reasons why Du Xinghe admires this film the most. Among them, the Cantonese opera singing is a tribute to traditional Chinese culture.

The use of drama as a motif element of horror films, except for "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", is still extremely rare in the Chinese horror film industry.

In the creation of horror films after "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", the directors have tried their best to add Chinese elements to evoke resonance.

For example, in the film "School Cemetery", a common school rule of millions of high schools in China, "it is strictly forbidden to fall in love" is used as a motif bound to horror elements throughout.

Another example is "The Ancient House's Panic", which sets the story of the entire film in the "first seven" period of filial piety for his father.

The use of these sinicized elements is not only to enrich the film itself, but also to mobilize the resonance of the audience, to achieve horror autosuggestion and aesthetic recreation.

The vulgar story of the fight between gods and ghosts in Chinese-language horror movies and the story system based on Chinese Taoism have finally been rewritten.

In the previous plane, "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" has opened a new era of Chinese horror movies in many aspects, but it is different in this plane.

Due to the existence of a grading system, horror movies began to rise in the seventies, and although light-hearted and banter horror films still dominated, orthodox horror films have also entered people's field of vision and formed a fairly mature genre. For example, the second most famous ghost building in Fuwan "No. 38 Hanoi Street" became famous because of an orthodox thriller horror film "Ghost Shadow" fifteen years ago.

"The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" has many groundbreaking meanings for Chinese horror films in the previous plane, but in this plane, most of these groundbreaking meanings no longer exist, and its influence naturally cannot be the same as the previous one. But as far as the story of the film itself is concerned, it is really not picky.

Du Xinghe has watched more than 20 horror films from this plane so far, except for "No Bones" watched in the cinema, which gave him a new big-screen horror experience, other horror films did not arouse his heartfelt chill too much. There is no film that has left him with a poignant scar like Chu Renmei from the depths of his consciousness after watching it.

This film is put here, it will definitely be graded, it is estimated that teenagers under the age of 16 cannot go to the cinema to watch it, because it is too scary, let alone children, if an adult has poor willpower, watching this film in the cinema is estimated to leave a psychological shadow.

Du Xinghe suddenly felt that he had copied "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" as the first film, which was a little perverted. He was deeply frightened by this film, so did he want his compatriots on this plane to follow him and be frightened? Just thinking about it makes me feel a little petty.

If you want to say that the people of this plane believe in ghosts and gods, he can copy some more joyful ghost films, such as the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series. to meet everyone's needs and appetites, so that not only the audience of this plane is happy to watch, but the cloud world can also make a lot of money from it, why not?

A film like "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" must be classified, and it is extremely terrifying, and it is certain to establish a good reputation, but it may not be a big hit at the box office.

A top-notch horror film like "No Bones", the Southeast Cinema Alliance, which has the highest total box office revenue in China, can only sell about 100 million at the box office. This kind of box office can't be compared to a family-friendly comedy movie. It can't be compared with those Chinese New Year masterpieces.

Horror movies will cultivate diehards, but they can't give the cloud world too much of a name, and if the first movie that the cloud world invests in is "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", this may also affect some image problems of the cloud world. After all. Now the cloud world is shaping a healthy and upward corporate image. Suddenly casting such a resentful film, what will make people think about their cloud world?

After this more in-depth study, Du Xinghe couldn't make up his mind for a while. He really wants to see the reaction of this "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" on this plane, but he doesn't want the cloud world to shoot it, what should he do?

If the script is sold and filmed by another company, then someone is likely to change his script, and maybe it will be another "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

He has to be filmed by his own company, so that he has the right to interfere with the director's filming, and even he can be a director himself, do nothing, just shoot according to the storyboard script.

He watched the performances of those actors on the spot, as long as he could reach the level of the original Oh Jin Woo and Li Zi. Or if he can't understand the actor acting on the spot, just take care of the executive director, tell the actor according to his ideas, and let the actor perform that feeling.

As long as there is a director team to assist him, he can shoot the film according to the storyboard script, and finally edit the film according to his ideas, or rather, according to the rhythm and number of shots of the original work, and that's it.

As for the music in the film, especially the Cantonese opera, it is his profession, and he can handle the production of zuò. In this way, he can perfectly replicate the classics of the previous plane.

But the premise of this qiē is that he must have absolute control over the filming of this film, and even the casting must have rights, which cannot be obtained as a screenwriter alone. Only the producer and director have this right, so if he wants to replicate the film perfectly, he must be the director himself, and at the same time invest in a reliable producer to produce zuò.

Obviously, he doesn't have so much free time to waste on making movies, and he still plays with tickets and hands over the movie to a familiar director who can respect his opinion.

Thinking of these, the first director that flashed in Du Xinghe's mind was Wang Xiaoyue, the female director who had filmed the MV of "I Am a Little Bird" for Xu Nuo.

Xu Nuo's new album "Crazy for Love", Yi Yan's new album "Flower Heart", Cloud World and Wang Xiaoyue's team have signed a cooperation agreement, and Wang Xiaoyue's team will shoot the MV for all songs.

This time is more generous, and it is the second time to cooperate, or a large-scale cooperation, Wang Xiaoyue's team gave the cloud world a preferential price, all 10 songs of Xu Nuo's new album, 5 songs of Yiyan's new album (only 5 MVs: "Flower Heart", "Sleepless", "Are You Okay Now", "There Are Lovers in the World", "Which kind of man do you want"), the total shooting cost of 15 MVs is 3 million, and the average shooting cost of each MV is 200,000.

This price is actually relatively high in the industry, but Du Xinghe feels that Wang Xiaoyue's team is very efficient in shooting, Wang Xiaoyue is also relatively neat, the quality and reputation of the work are very good, and he is still a friend of Chen Hua, so he uses Wang Xiaoyue's team.

A few days ago, he went to the beach to watch Wang Xiaoyue's team shoot the MV for "The South Sea Girl" for Xu Nuo, and saw Wang Xiaoyue choosing a script. Later, after chatting casually, I learned that Wang Xiaoyue had the intention to enter the big screen and wanted to direct real movies, instead of sticking to the MV field all the time.

As far as Du Xinghe knows, Wang Xiaoyue already has several shooting intentions in his hands, but he has not yet finally decided which one to shoot. After the MV task for Cloud World and several other record companies in the past two months is completed, her team will stop shooting the MV first, and will concentrate on preparing the first movie.

Du Xinghe chatted with Wang Xiaoyue at the time, and knew that Wang Xiaoyue's filming this time was transformed by her own MV company [Lamb Film and Television Production Co., Ltd.], and since it was the first time to wade on the big screen, their shooting plan was more cautious. I want to make a small-scale and stylized film with a cost of less than 5 million.

Among them, 1 million are invested by Lamb Pictures itself, and the other 4 million are still in the stage of investment intentions, which are the investment intentions brought to them by Wang Xiaoyue's husband Gao Yang.

Wang Xiaoyue's husband Gao Yang is an outsider, and it is said that he is an antique appraiser, and the investment interested party he helped Wang Xiaoyue pull this time is an antique dealer who is familiar with him.

Wang Xiaoyue actually doesn't really want this kind of pure layman's money, because this kind of person doesn't know much about film investment, and it will ask for more and more trouble.

She once joked with Du Xinghe. Ask Cloud World if he is interested in making a movie. At present, the film market is very good, and Cloud World is willing to gamble on their Lamb Pictures and invest a little money, maybe they will get a good return.

Du Xinghe said to Wang Xiaoyue at that time, "Okay". Waiting for her to choose a book. You can talk to the cloud world.

Four million isn't much anyway. After "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" sold like crazy, Cloud World now has more cash available in its hands, and the return on investment of movies in this plane has always been very high. Of course, the risk is also relatively large, especially for the films made by some new directors, in an increasingly cruel competition environment, the five major theater chains will not necessarily attract the release, if the film is not even guaranteed, then the investor will lose all his money.

The film of the newcomer director, even if it is released in one of the five major cinema alliances, the film scheduling rate must be very low, if you want to become popular as soon as you become a blockbuster, it really needs luck, as well as good film quality, only after the market reaction, the film of the newcomer director or some films that are not too optimistic about the theater will gradually increase the film scheduling rate. Otherwise, more film scheduling rates will definitely give those well-known directors' best-selling works.

In this plane, there is competition between films and films, and there is also competition between theaters and theaters, which forms a mutually restrictive relationship, the filmmakers have to please the theaters, and the theaters have to please the filmmakers, especially those well-known directors, their films will definitely get a super high scheduling rate, so it is possible to continue to cooperate. On the other hand, if a big director's film suffers from market fiascos again and again, the theater will no longer arrange a superior film scheduling rate for him, but shoot according to the laws of the market.

For new directors, the theater has always arranged films according to their own aesthetic standards and market rules.

Wang Xiaoyue has a good reputation in the MV circle, but in the film industry, she is a nobody. Some of her classmates in the film school are good in the circle, but they won't help Wang Xiaoyue much.

For a rookie director like Wang Xiaoyue, it is almost difficult to rush to a high box office, unless she makes an excellent film, and the publicity and distribution must be in place, which can form a word-of-mouth effect, so that it is possible to get a better film scheduling rate and soar the box office. But this possibility is very small, because the total investment of the movie she wants to shoot is only 5 million, which is too small for the film industry.

The mainstream blockbusters in the film industry in this era in this plane, not to mention the cost of production, the cost of publicity and distribution alone is more than 50 million.

Wang Xiaoyue used 5 million to shoot a movie with publicity, how could it produce too good results?

However, relying on the name Wang Xiaoyue and the connections of her classmates in the film school, she is going to export a movie, and there will definitely be a theater release, and as long as it can be released, the income of this film can actually be guaranteed to a certain extent, because the film released in theaters, no matter whether you have a good box office or not, all kinds of additional income can be driven.

For example, TV stations around the world, including those in other Asian countries, buy the broadcast rights from the films released in Chinese theaters every year, which is a lot of income.

There are also films that have been released in theaters when they are released, and the share treatment is much higher than that of films that have not been released.

The reason why the small production of zuò's films have to rush to the theater line is because of a series of additional benefits that come with it, which is the biggest guarantee for them to recover their costs.

For example, a 5 million-level film, as long as it can be released in theaters, it is no problem to recover an investment of three or four million by selling various copyrights and film and television products, plus box office income, even if it is worse, the total investment can almost be recovered.

Therefore, as long as Wang Xiaoyue can ensure that the film she directed can be released in theaters, it will definitely be a profitable deal. But for Du Xinghe and Cloud World, they have a lot of deals that make sure they don't lose money and can make a lot of money, and they don't really have much to participate in things like Wang Xiaoyue that may not necessarily make a lot of money. However, in order to make friends with Wang Xiaoyue and get more benefits when filming MVs in the future, Du Xinghe had considered helping Wang Xiaoyue invest in a movie before, but the premise is that the script must be good, otherwise the name of Cloud World will appear on the investor, and it will be a big bad movie, which will have a negative impact.

originally wanted to wait for Wang Xiaoyue to choose the book and talk about it in detail, but now that Du Xinghe has written a high-quality script, he naturally thought that he could directly let Wang Xiaoyue shoot this "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village"!

Wang Xiaoyue is best at shooting MVs, and her control of the camera and her performance are stronger than those of ordinary film directors, but she may not be very good at storytelling ability and overall control of the film, after all, she has always shot short and fast MVs.

But now that the storyboard script has been written for her, she just needs to shoot it, which shouldn't be a difficult thing for her. (To be continued......)