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Tomato Jun remembers clearly, in 2020, a "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" once again set off the IP fever of "Ghost Blowing Lights", and the score of Douban 8.2 points was also the highest score in the entire "Ghost Blowing Lights" IP.
Pan Yueming's Hu Bayi, Zhang Yuqi's Shirley Yang, Jiang Chao's Wang Fatzi, Tong Lei's big gold teeth, four people in a play, the book fans gave the highest evaluation: just like coming out of the original.
After a year and five months of hard waiting, the second part of the original class of people and horses came——
Yunnan Worm Valley
Only one night after the launch, the number of plays broke 120 million, which can be described as unprecedented heat.
The IP of "Ghost Blowing Lights", since the fire of the original book of the world's hegemony, is now about to be "played badly".
Just like the "Journey to the West" IP that must be changed every year, a casual search for the three keywords of "ghost blowing lights" can find more than 25 various film and television works.
Most of them are low-quality films and online networks, and the quality is unbearable.
In these movies, there is such a killing Matt look,
Shirley Yang, who has such a net red face,
And such a fat man,
Such nonsense.
Even if it is a large-scale cinema commercial film, with the blessing of famous directors and various stars, it cannot change the fate of the street.
In 2015, Lu Chuan's "Nine-Story Demon Tower" with only 4.4 points was like this.
Because of this, in the past decade, most viewers have avoided the words "ghost blowing lights" as soon as they hear them.
Until the emergence of Pan Yueming's version of "Angry Qing Xiangxi" in 2019, a web drama filmed the original feeling of "Ghost Blowing Lights".
In 2020, "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" continued to fire, and the score rushed to 8.2 points.
Today, "Yunnan Bug Valley" is coming!
In the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, the story of "Yunnan Bug Valley" is the most difficult to shoot.
The terrain is complex, the monsters are weird, and it is difficult to express them by means of imagery.
Before the launch of "Yunnan Bug Valley", some people were optimistic, some people sang down, how the specific performance, Tomato Jun stayed up late to brush 5 episodes, which will talk to everyone:
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The story continues at the end of the previous "Longling Labyrinth", Hu Bayi (Pan Yueming), Wang Fatzi (Jiang Chao), Shirley Yang (Zhang Yuqi) and Da Jinya (Tong Lei), who have a hard time escaping from the ancient city of Jingjie, and are guided by Chen Blind Zi to go to yunnan insect valley to find the cloud dust beads.
At the beginning, an animation is used to clarify the basic situation of The Worm Valley in Yunnan.
More than 2,000 years ago, there was a group of people in the southwestern frontier, and the leader of this group of people was named King.
This devotee was proficient in feng shui, but cruel and tyrannical, and liked to use a kind of herring (a kind of witchcraft, which is called the three evil laws of southern Yunnan, alongside poison and head-downping).
In order to build his own tomb, he asked the high priest to infuse worms into the living.
Make the people into human figurines.
Hu Bayi's destination this time was the tomb of this dedicated king.
Packing up, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and Wang Fatzi immediately set out on the road, because they were cursed in their bodies, and if they did not find the Cloud Dust Pearl quickly, they would die.
On the way into the mountain, because the car was shaking, the fat man almost threw up all the way.
The disguised identities of the three people are insect research groups from Beijing.
I didn't expect to go to the front village soon, but the car broke down in the middle of the road because of a landslide.
It was a common thing for a car to break down, but Hu Bayi had a vague uneasiness.
He saw something that had fallen out of the mountain that was very strange, and there were bugs crawling out of it.
Not only that, but there were people next to him staring at him sneakily and grinning.
To go to the Worm Valley, you have to go through the Shade Dragon Mountain, and if you want to cross the Shade Dragon Mountain, you must first go to the Shade Dragon Village.
There was a little girl named Peacock on the car, and her home was in Shalong Village, so the group was ready to go to the village to avoid the rain.
In the face of these three uninvited guests, the people in the village were not very welcome, especially the peacock's brother Ada.
Hu Bayi originally wanted to borrow the peacock to ask about the waterway to the Worm Valley, but Ada was stunned and would not let it.
When bidding farewell to the three, Shirley Yang's friendly attitude touched the peacock and told them the exact route to worm valley.
The three people who learned of the route immediately set off, and they prepared a bamboo raft and prepared to drift into the mountain.
After a rushing stream, the three of them came to a dark cave.
Entering the cave, they found a strange phenomenon -- many tall, fat and thin figurines hanging upside down from the top of the cave.
After thousands of careful observations, Shirley Yang determined that this was not a stone figurine or a clay figurine, but a figurine made by a living person.
Hu Bayi also confirmed that looking at the number of figurines, they should have been getting closer and closer to the tomb of the king.
The human figurines are actually worms.
A group of people entering the cave may have set off some kind of mechanism, and the figurines began to brush and fall into the water.
The three men rowed hard, and although they avoided the figurines, the figurines that fell into the water slowly reacted.
The water bees raised in the figurines are densely packed and flocked out, filling almost the entire surface of the water.
The water wasp is also another name for the ant, but these antes raised by the figurines are much more ferocious than ordinary ants, not only can use the surface of the water to suck human blood,
They can also attack in droves from all directions.
Before the crisis of the water wasp had passed, Shirley Young accidentally fell into the water.
Strangely, Shirley Yang, who fell into the water, was not attacked, and she turned her head to see that monsters more powerful than the water bees were swimming towards this side.
This is a piranha.
Piranhas feed on water bees, which are much more powerful than these teasing ants. And it's very bloodthirsty, nibbling on things when you see them.
The bamboo raft was quickly gnawed by the piranha, and Hu Bayi was also bitten by the piranha that jumped up.
The three of them managed to get out of the danger, and when they walked out of the cave, they saw that there was a vast forest outside.
The exploration of the Worm Valley in Yunnan seems to have just begun.
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The hot episode has just been released, and Tomato Jun will not spoil too much, and the rest will be left for everyone to watch for themselves.
After brushing five episodes in one breath, like many viewers, I also sighed: still the same recipe, still the same taste.
The "original team" in production is not a gimmick, and the main team, including director Fei Zhenxiang, has not changed, which largely retains the pure "Ghost Blowing Lights" flavor of "Longling Labyrinth".
Although "Yunnan Bug Valley" is more difficult to shoot, as far as the current five episodes are concerned, the main creator has completed the task well.
Rhythmically, without procrastination, without water injection, it always maintains suspense and high energy.
From the first episode of entering Yunnan to the second episode of the Shalong Shan Shui Cave Exploration, from the Worm Valley Couple Tree in the third episode to the High Priest Blood Coffin in the fourth episode.
"Yunnan Bug Valley" will play the suspense and excitement of the IP of "Ghost Blowing Lights" to the extreme, every detail, every decision, is taking the audience to explore this mysterious world.
Neither breathing nor staying, which is one of the main reasons why fans flock to "Ghost Blowing Lights".
If you keep your mind highly focused, the time of five episodes will pass in an instant, and while recalling the previous plot, you will regret it a little: Why don't you just watch it slowly?
In terms of texture, "Yunnan Worm Valley" adheres to the sophisticated production standard of "Longling Labyrinth", and the details are full.
Shirley Yang's dress is the look of overseas Chinese from the 70s to the 80s of the last century.
The shelf bed, old books, light bulbs and even the net pocket made of hemp rope in Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi's residence have been carefully restored.
The picture frames on the walls, the wardrobe in the distance, and the radio in front of you are always reminding the audience of the background of the whole story.
Compared with the descriptions in the book, "Yunnan Worm Valley" does its best to restore the whole picture of worm valley.
When I saw the design drawing of the Ancient Dian Heavenly Palace released before, Tomato Jun was really looking forward to it.
Watching the drama now, the degree of reduction is very high, and it is also the TV series closest to the Yunnan Worm Valley in the hearts of book fans, and there is no one.
In addition, as a fantasy IP that "science can explain", the display of various monsters and scenes in the play is what many viewers are most looking forward to.
At this point, "Yunnan Worm Valley" also does not pull the crotch, except for the previously mentioned living figurines, water bees, piranhas,
The blood coffin of the High Priest in the back,
Blood-colored flesh line,
and bug valley vitiligo,
Almost all of them have been restored to the most vivid images.
If you have really read the description in the original work, I believe that you will not be disappointed after watching this "Yunnan Bug Valley".
After experiencing "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", Pan Yueming, Jiang Chao and Zhang Yuqi's "Iron Triangle" has become more and more skilled in acting and cooperation.
If there are still some line problems and coordination problems in the first part, then this one is already a very mature work.
Zhang Yuqi's action scenes have made great progress, heroic posture, and more and more have the shadow of the bold, generous, bold and careful American "king of props" in the original work.
Pan Yueming's Hu Bayi was as steady as ever;
And Jiang Chao is simply the fat man who came out of the book.
When he was serious, he was Hu Bayi's most trusted brother, and when he was not serious, he would gag and play poor.
Most of the laughs in the play are contributed by Wang Fatzi, played by Jiang Chao. From the beginning of the stem of wearing a few pairs of pants, to vomiting all the way.
From the awkward chat with peacock brother Ada in Shalong Village,
When it comes to sleep, as soon as it touches the bed, it will purr and be cheerful,
As long as there is a fat master along the way, there will be laughter, he is the only conciliator in the tense and exciting atmosphere of the whole play, and he is also the glue of the relationship between Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang.
Without Wang Fatzi, Hu Yang's love ridicule may become greasy and awkward.
But with the addition of Wang Fatzi, these small love scenes have become one of the few laughs and expectations in the whole play.
Therefore, for Jiang Chao's Wang Fatzi, Tomato Jun is very fond of.
From "Angry Qing Xiangxi" in 2019 to "Longling Labyrinth" in 2020, and then to "Yunnan Bug Valley" in 2021, Pan Yueming's version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" has truly given this played IP new vitality.
It should be known that there are more than twenty film and television works adapted from "Ghost Blowing Lights" in the country, and no more than three can make the audience feel amazing.
But this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is definitely one of them.
I hope that the next plot of "Yunnan Bug Valley" will continue to be high-energy, and I hope that director Fei Zhenxiang and the new "Iron Triangle" can give us more surprises!
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Yang Yang)