YO, in fact, do you know that Zach Schneider's Virgo is a B-grade zombie movie "Dawn of the Living Dead", 17 years away, Za Director re-engaged in the old business, playing the zombie theme again, today is what I want to talk about is my long-awaited "Army of the Living Dead".
emmm, when I watched the trailer before, I felt that this is not the American version of "Busan Line 2", which is a film that relies on a simple plot to release plasma and release more plasma.
For a B-grade film with zombies as the main element, if the protagonist does not have one or two deaths, it is not a zombie film, and my score is passing (6.5 out of 10), for me personally, it can be a cool.
Of course, the most criticized in the film is that some of the characters are really dead, resulting in the overall crotch of the film's plot, if you put the logic aside and go to see the burst plasma, it should not be so hurt and angry.
This time, the director's signature slow motion is very restrained, but it is a big play of shallow focus photography, almost the whole text, the guide cut version of "Justice League" The final big Easter egg clown scene is shallow focus shooting.
As a zombie film plasma is also a tube full of tubes, each song and classical music included in the film, all have their own meaning in the film, each character has a different personality to form a group, causing a lot of humor and accidents, if you survive the first third of the preparation, the subsequent adventure journey will have a sense of substitution for each character, but this third is really too long, laid for more than 50 minutes, they really enter the zombie park adventure to begin.
Next, it's time to start spoilers! There will be a lot of my very personal over-interpretation and brain holes, and the next step is to analyze the details, no longer evaluate the movie itself, so if you think it is a big bad movie, there is no need to look at the details, please stop here.
If it is acceptable, let's dig up how many Easter eggs and fierce materials are placed in "Army of the Living Dead"!
"Army of the Living Dead" can be summed up in one sentence, which is the adventure story of a group of people who want to gamble their lives and make a fortune in the zombie-besieged casino city of Las Vegas.
At the beginning of the film, there are Easter eggs, the military transports a mysterious box from Area 51, and when it is first transported, there are 2 UFOs flying away in the distant sky, if you contact the blue mysterious particles of the zombies after that.
On the other hand, a couple of newlyweds are driving while doing traffic violations, at this time the background music is Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds", the literal translation is the suspicious personality, this song is about the relationship between distrust and dysfunction, the first sentence of the song is "We fell into a trap", which also alludes to the encounter of the film's protagonist group entering the adventure.
Later, the newlyweds rubbed too the car, resulting in a direct collision with the convoy transported by the military, the box overturned the door was opened, and the zombies of the human experiment were released.
We can see the zombie wearing a U.S. soldier's name tag, indicating that he was once a soldier, he was transported out of Area 51, indicating that he may have been used for experiments, secretly studied as a super soldier or the like, and there was blue blood in the back... I have to think of marvel's super serum Yuki, dream linkage.
The zombie soldier then bit 2 soldiers and established the founding members.
Next is the bloodbath of Las Vegas, and then the introduction of the protagonist group, the film credit subtitles, Za directed a song that is also Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" Las Vegas long live, and performed the opening MV of nearly 6 minutes.
And this also includes a small story, that is, the protagonist Scott once formed a squad and rescued the defense secretary trapped inside in Las Vegas, so most of them also have a lot of experience dealing with zombies.
Among them, the zombie boss walked to the Olympias Hotel, and the zombie boss looked at the statue of Zeus, the god of the universe, and decided to place his nest here, because the name of the zombie boss was called Zeus, and the king of the universe was connected, and the mythical Zeus fertility was very strong, and it was also linked with the zombie boss's strong infectious ability.
After that, the military fenced the entire Las Vegas in containers to control the tide of zombie infections, but it was also equivalent to locking up a casino vault.
The U.S. side wants to blow up the entire casino with a nuclear bomb a few days later, on July 4, the U.S. National Day.
At this time, a mysterious man named Tanaka found Scott and wanted him to team up in the casino before the city was destroyed, and go to a safe to take away the two hundred million dollars that belonged to him, of which 50 million could be distributed to Scott.
On the other hand, Scott's daughter Kate, ostensibly because her mother became a zombie and was killed by her father, so the father-daughter relationship "broke", after which Kate volunteered to help the wandering Las Vegas people.
After a night of deliberation, Scott agreed to Tanaka's mission, but at this time Tanaka had several American officers in the family, and it had been explained that Tanaka did not want money, and perhaps the money from the safe was not his.
Next up is Scott teaming up, and as everyone prepares their gear together, the background music reminds the thesis of Thea Gilmore's "Bad Moon Rising" The Bad Moon Rises, and the lyrics are also very appropriate, including "Hope you are ready to die, it looks like we are going to face bad weather... The bad moon is rising and must take your life."
The black brother of the members, Van der, when he took out his chainsaw, had an omega mark on his chest, yes, darkseid's chest, and in the Greek alphabet, omega had the meaning of the end of everything, just the opposite of Alpha's original meaning.
Judging from the later plot, the zombie soldier who came out of the box became the zombie boss, and it was he who formed a group of alpha troops, with intelligence and speed to listen to commands.
The beginning of alpha and the end of omega are often linked, and you can see and appreciate this meaning when you see the final ending of the film.
After that, the team assembled and went to the warehouse agreed upon by Tanaka to coordinate the battle plan, and there was an imaginary scene clip in the middle, in which they successfully unlocked the safe, and when they saw a room full of banknotes, there were several boxes of film in the corner.
In order to successfully infiltrate the blockaded casino, Scott went to his daughter Kate and asked her to take a shortcut to find a relationship, and Scott would also give Kate his 15 million US dollar knife directly.
Kate agrees, finds Lily Aka Coyote and asks her to lead the way, and the gang officially enters the casino.
The first one came to the sacrifice, and a bento security guard was sacrificed, attracting the zombie queen.
In the setting of the film, the zombies around the zombie boss are not just tools that can bite humans like traditional zombies, but have obvious hierarchies, as well as a certain IQ and thinking.
Moreover, the zombie queen is pregnant, and the high-level zombies can still reproduce.
The zombie boss did enough when he appeared in the aura, and Za Dao really liked to use plastic sheets to make a foreground, and the old man also played like this when he appeared, and how to get less of a cloak.
It is said that the more this zombie boss looks, the more he looks like the cousin of the Night King in the game of thrones, especially when riding a zombie horse in the back.
In the zombie base camp, we can also see that among the zombie alphas in the group, some of the zombies' eyes are still glowing blue, and then the blue elements will continue to appear, and then they will be summarized together.
The adventure squad then enters a mansion, but passes through a group of hibernating zombies, at which point the red turban woman and the undercover man sent by the U.S. military to actually carry out the mission have a conflict, and the undercover goes to frame her and confuse the lights.
Frankly speaking, this play is really made entirely for the sake of making an action scene, there are several places in the film that are like this, as an undercover, of course, I am bent on getting the head of an alpha zombie first, rather than causing chaos, otherwise my life will not be saved.
Sure enough, the woman in the red turban woke up a group of zombies, took her own bento, and the others escaped in danger and went to the target building.
So they divided into three ways, the undercover man and Lily guarded the outside, Scott and Kate went to generate electricity, and the lock man went to unlock the lock.
The undercover men also completed their ultimate task at this time, that is, to take the head of the zombie queen, which is what they really need, so as to study the zombie army.
Unlocking the lock, I saw a few corpses lying there, and the black brother played with a parallel loop of cosmic stems, and the costumes of each corpse really corresponded exactly to some of their members, and I almost believed it, but unfortunately they didn't have hexagons.
However, the black brother has a very accurate sentence, saying that they are all pawns in this perverted game, and indeed they are all pawns, because the real purpose of this trip is not to take money.
The moment the locksmith saw the safe, his eyes lit up, and his mouth said "Twilight of the Gods", at this time the background music did sound the second section of the third act of "Twilight of the Gods", called "Siegfried's Funeral March", listening to the name, you know that the follow-up events are not good, in the back of the safe was opened, and in the fierce battle, the song continued to sound again.
We can notice that the mechanisms that pass through the safe are extremely deadly except for the first level, and tanaka said that they are all non-lethal organs before, which once again shows that Tanaka does not want to keep them alive, nor does he want to get the money.
This is also why after the undercover got the head of the people and locked everyone up, some people say that he is also stupid, since he got the zombie head, with the large troops to withdraw together, why do you have to leave alone, because he can't let these people know his purpose, must let them die, he himself also said, after going up he will directly kill the pilot, drive the helicopter himself, yes, the undercover will drive the helicopter.
On the side of the zombie boss, he found that his beloved wife's head was headless and angry, he carried back the body of the zombie queen back to the base camp, pulled out the fetus in the abdomen, too heavy to put the original picture, but you can see that when it was just taken out, it was obviously blue, and then the fetus quickly changed back to normal flesh like a loss of energy.
This already shows that the zombie boss is sure to hit the Marvel family's super serum...
After that, the zombie boss completely ran away, leading the Alpha zombies to go out to kill the gold-hunting gang that rebelled and broke the "peace treaty".
Scott and they also opened the safe, and the 200 million US dollars were lying there waiting for them, but at this time Kate did it, and left the team to go to the rescue of Geeta alone.
This is also where many people feel that the IQ of watching the film is insulted, not to mention whether Kate can find it, it is extremely dangerous to go alone, and in the case of a nuclear bomb launch ahead of schedule, even if it is found, can there be time to run out of the explosion radius without taking a helicopter.
In short, saying more is a plot need.
Next up is the moment when the zombie army and Scott are in a decisive battle, where zombies with blue eyes can be seen killed, and there is a clear metallic fire in the headshot.
After that, the black brother and the zombie boss went head-to-head, obviously not opponents, one of which was the picture of the zombie boss wanting to bite the black brother, but was hit by the locksmith, thinking that it was stopped, but finally found that there was no, the black brother was indeed bitten.
After the undercover escape alone, he was unlucky to encounter a zombie tiger, and this fragment of the tiger gnawing on people cannot be said to be exactly the same as "Wilderness Hunter" Xiao Li being chewed by a bear, but it is also the same.
In the scene of the fierce battle in the casino lobby, the sharp-eyed official must have found that the yellow hair curl shot a zombie, and could see that when the bullet hit his head, it produced a metallic fire, and it could be clearly seen that the eyes were blue, the chin was metal, was it the Terminator play?!
No, Director Za has made it clear in the interview that there will be robots in the zombies, but he did not think well, or when he was given this movie project, the script was only mentioned, but did not think about how to explain.
This is obviously to pave the way for the follow-up, of course, here is only over-interpretation and brain holes.
Let's string this blue element together, first of all, the zombie boss is a US soldier, which was shipped out of Area 51, but at the beginning we can see the UFO, indicating that the background of this world UFO or alien civilization exists, and this blue particle should be an element extracted by humans from the alien civilization, and then experimented on humans.
When the zombie boss was finally headshot by Scott, he also spewed out a lot of blue particles of blood.
As for why there is a metal material in the body of the zombie, at present I can only explain that perhaps when some people are transformed into zombies, the body can be converted into metal, which is very ridiculous, anyway, another movie released at the same time is not directly in the sky.
No, za explained afterwards, this pit is to pave the way for the animation of "Army of the Living Dead: The Fall of Las Vegas", which will explain the reasons for the appearance of robots in zombies, and will also reveal the source and mystery of zombie outbreaks.
Then see how to explain it, it is said that Za director will direct the first 2 episodes.
In addition to animation, there is actually a prequel movie called "Army of thieves", which tells the story of Scott who robbed one of the world's tightest safes before, and it is said that the actors will return to the original team, and the director guesses who it is, who is the locksmith in the film.
We then finished, Kate's fall, Scott can only go to save his daughter, fortunately in the time to grasp accurately, the last moment to rescue the daughter, you said directly on the plane is not OK, or you go to the roof you are good to close the door ah, and do not close the door is still resting there, the zombie boss directly rushed up.
Sure enough, the zombie jumped on the helicopter, and after some hand-to-hand combat, Sterk headshot the zombie boss, but the helicopter also crashed, and what was more tragic was that Scott was bitten and could not go back, it is estimated that Kate's intestines were remorseful, and finally he could only execute his zombified father.
Seeing this, everyone should also see that the core emotion of this movie is about the father and daughter, which also has to be associated with the father-daughter love between the off-site director and the love daughter "Qiu", the suicide of "Qiu" has become a painful shadow that Za Dao cannot erase, in fact, if it corresponds to Za Dao's personal life experience, Scott has a lot of words in the film, and it feels like Za Dao is what Za Dao wants to say to his daughter "Qiu".
The fact that the daughter is alive and the father is dead at the end of the film is exactly the opposite of the reality of Za Dao. It can be said that this movie once again verifies that zadao's private goods are too overflowing, whether it has been touched or not, to see everyone's perception.
The film uses cranberries in this section of "Zombie", not only the film is about zombies, but also the lead singer of cranberries is also a singer who has passed away, which is quite elaborate.
And director Za has made so many film works, and finally used such an R-rated film to talk about the father-daughter relationship.
In the end, the nuclear bomb flattened Las Vegas, but the black brother was reborn, and the black brother took a few bags of US knives and almost walked to the peak of his life.
Why is it almost, because when he took a private plane to Mexico City, he found that he had been bitten, and this hindsight was also no one.
In the toilet, he laughed eerily, obviously paving the way for the sequel.
If there is a sequel, it is actually easy to guess, he was directly bitten by the zombie boss, which also means that he will become an alpha with thinking ability, rather than an ordinary zombie, so he smiled and seemed to see his super ability with more potential than getting money? Zombie army of the same age? I'm terrified when I think about it.
Good! At present, the two poles of commentary are not surprising, and it is not unexpected to make a series of universes, but as for how far it can go, it depends on how the follow-up development will occur.
Do you like this "Army of the Living Dead" directed by Za, and how many details did you find in the film? Za director interview said that he has a cameo, but only 2 frames of the picture, he holds the camera, or the refraction of the mirror, in order to catch up with the draft I did not take the time to seriously find, if there is a small partner found welcome to leave a message in the comment area to share with everyone!