Touch gold, unload mountains, move mountains, and make hills.
"Blessed by heavenly officials, there are no taboos." Fa Qiu faction, finally shot.
First of all, how long has it been since I have seen a "tomb robbery blockbuster".
Last time, was it Pan Yueming's "Yunnan Bug Valley" that was caught in the suspense of deleting episodes? Is it not, after reading it, but some are not addictive?
Once upon a time, with the continuous fermentation of the two major IPs of "Ghost Blowing Lights" and "Notes from the Tomb Robber", "Tomb Robbery Blockbusters" were once unique in the Chinese film and television genre. However, step by step, it is deeply trapped in the quagmire of creation, and there are naturally good works.
But, follow the trend, rub the heat, shoddy, more.
Even the classic golden tip has gradually become a mantra for opening the door - "Looking for the dragon and dividing the gold to see the winding mountain, a heavy entanglement is a heavy close; if there is an eight-fold danger in closing the door, there is no yin and yang bagua shape." ”
The words are ringing, but the gold-touching faction of the tomb robbery theme is increasingly falling into the past creation? Can you break the game in danger?
Cinema blockbusters, web dramas have tried, the next answer, I bet - online movies!
Big production + top stream can not play, small cost can play well? However, the network movie is good in that it is flexible and light as a swallow, perhaps, the creation can untie the shackles, break the routine, and open up another world in the depths of the "tomb"?
A network movie that has just been launched is a bit interesting - "Fa Qiu Tianguan: Kunlun Ruins". Starring, "The Most Handsome Fahai" + "Qimen Dunjia" "The Most Beautiful Boss Lady".
Less than 3 hours after the release, the popularity of the whole network of Maoyan rose to the first;
iQiyi soared the list, number one.
Under the aura of data, is it everyone watching a hilarity, or is this "FaQiu Tianguan", really some skills? Look at the comments, there are likes, and there are many complaints.
What is "Fat Hill"? Hair, excavation; mounds, hilly tombs.
In the end, if it works or not, come, follow the "General of the Hair Hill" and go for a while.
1. Introduction: Heaven, Adventure
Other tomb robbery films must enter the ground, and this step is to "ascend to heaven" first.
During the Republic of China, snow-capped mountains and dangerous peaks.
Eagles spread their wings and fly snow.
A group of explorers, climbing the rocks.
The target - Kunlun Market.
Fang Eight Hundred Miles, Gao Wanling, in the mythological adventure theme often appears as the birthplace of the world's "dragon vein", known as the place of the hundred gods.
Climb the rocks, just to find the ancients.
Suddenly, a rock climber screamed and nearly fell off a cliff.
The climbers were in a panic and an object fell.
At the critical moment, the leader Shunten flew down, like a divine soldier descending from heaven, grabbing an object - Zhang Yuling, a legendary figure of the Faqiu faction played by Tang Wenlong.
When it was safe, an old man took the object and sighed in a Japanese drama, "If the Zhaoming Ancient Mirror is lost, the door of kunlun ruins will never be opened again." “
This paragraph, the amount of information is not small!
One hand, it will lead the audience into the mysterious adventure of the towering mountain peaks, underground valleys, and the wonderful and dangerous secret place - the Heavenly Array.
But entering the Kunlun Ruins is the beginning of the real danger.
Before entering the city, first enter the mass burial site, the low sound effects, coupled with the strange sound of hissing, as soon as you walk into the eerie underground labyrinth, it is like being in a huge tomb full of dangers.
The dark and dark caves, the skeletons of the previous explorers, the bottomless devouring dark abyss, the strange and strange illusions, and the miserable sharp shouts, instantly make people chill.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the big scene was coming.
Sure enough, facing the cave, the male protagonist's father used the Heavenly Official's Hammer, "Heavenly Officials bless, there are no taboos."
Between the rotations of the Heavenly Officials,
It's like detecting another world—
Suddenly the mountain gate moved, and in a few moments, before the expedition team could react, a luminous object that looked like a jellyfish suddenly shot out.
Once attached to the human body, the "blood basin mouth" is opened in an instant to swallow the person.
At this time, the narration of the male protagonist came out - "The whereabouts of all the expedition team are unknown, but I believe that my father must still be alive."
This picture is not unfamiliar to the audience of the tomb robbery film. Tomb robbery works also have their own unique doorways.
Although there is no fierce fighting during this snowy mountain adventure, whether it is the majestic natural landscape of the Kunlun Mountains, the legends of the ancient miracles, or the horror atmosphere, it has slowly penetrated into the hearts of the audience.
The suspense of the life and death of the protagonist's father, buried with the secret of kunlun ruins for seventeen years, entangled the protagonist like an ancient tree, and thus extended the main plot.
With the first appearance of the sinister scene of Kunlun Ruins, the next step, of course, is the underground palace of swords and light swords, the scene of close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, as well as strange mechanisms, addictive pythons, and strange mountain cities.
From the earth into the sky, from shallow to deep, the suspense effect is slowly amplified, the miracle legend is gradually approaching, the audience is gradually brought into this story, and then, it is up to the next generation of Hair Hill.
2. Story: Exploration, Kunlun Ruins
The story of "Kunlun Ruins" begins with Zhang Wenfeng, a descendant of Faqiu Yimu, who is introduced into this sinister underground journey with a three-person group of partners Jia Luban and Zhong Ling, in order to find the truth about his father's disappearance.
The goal, of course, is to try to find the traces of the male protagonist's father.
At the same time, the mysterious Japanese female agent also arrived in Kunlun, she was the apprentice of the Japanese at that time, but to open the door of kunlun ruins, it was necessary to issue the tianguan seal and the heavenly official of qiu tianguan, in other words, without Zhang Wenfeng, it was impossible to enter the kunlun ruins.
It is not difficult to see that the film's use of tomb robbery customs and legends is somewhat fresh.
After all, the story of Fa Qiu's faction is not familiar to even the veteran tomb robbery audience.
The 4 Gate Sect in the domestic tomb robbery universe - "Captain Touching Gold", "General Faqiu", "Moving Mountain Daoist" and "Unloading Ridge Force". Each has its own tricks -
Lieutenant Touching Jin divided the Golden Ding Cave; the Unloading Ridge Lux sensed the earth's vein; the Mountain Daoist dispelled the miasma and eliminated the evil; and the FaQiu Heavenly Officer skillfully broke the Heavenly Array.
Touching the gold faction, the audience is the most familiar, Hu Bayi, Wang Fatzi, and Shirley Yang of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series are all touching the golden door, wearing the touch of gold charms, and are good at astrological gossip feng shui identification.
With "Nu Qing Xiangxi", the audience is also very familiar with the "Angry Qing Xiangxi", paying attention to team combat, and there are tens of thousands of brothers led by Chen Yulou alone.
The faction that moved the mountain, through "Nu Qing Xiangxi" and "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", penetrated into the hearts of the people, this faction does not touch gold, only to relieve the curse, the smallest number, the most maverick, but the strongest individual combat effectiveness, the representative figure, is the partridge whistle.
Even the original book of "Ghost Blowing Lights" does not tell much.
What's up? In fact, this faction has the longest history, and the son does not hear it - the legendary General Of the Fa Qiu Zhonglang?
Lieutenant Touching Gold has a Touch Gold Charm, while General Fa Qiu Zhonglang has a Fat Qiu Heavenly Seal, which has eight big characters on it: Heavenly Officials Blessing, No Taboos.
His descendants were called Faqiu Tianguan.
The film uses it as the title, which obviously also brings the audience into a mysterious world composed of ancient and mysterious Kunlun treasures, the secret art of heavenly officials passed down from generation to generation, and the fantastic underground labyrinth.
And with Zhang Wenfeng acting under the coercion of the Japanese, the bright line of the film is obviously to find kunlun ruins.
This is, of course, a dangerous road, in front of which is the dangerous tomb door mechanism, the thousand-year-old python that devours people and eats bones, and the immortal tree that has been sleeping for a long time, and behind it is the sister of the mighty and mysterious Japanese cold agent.
During this period, there are various strange yin and yang gossip layouts of the underground palace, there are also common dark arrow mechanisms, and there are unprecedented undead trees, step by step traps, which make people deeply aware of the long road ahead and the dangers.
There is a bright line that naturally has a dark line, that is, even if there is no Japanese, the male protagonist himself will explore the Kunlun Ruins again, looking for the fate of the expedition team.
Pay attention to the words of the Japanese sister: she found the skeleton of the teacher, but did not find any trace of the father of the male protagonist.
She suspected that the father of the male protagonist was still alive, and that it was somewhere in the Kunlun Ruins.
The story is more and more foggy, the adventure film is also a puzzle film, only by entering the Kunlun Ruins, the truth of that year can surface.
But the story actually has a clue, that is, in the process of approaching the Kunlun Hundred Gods Rock Wall Map and the Immortal God Tree, the unique skills of the Qiqiu Yi vein are gradually illuminated, from the skill configuration and identity identification of the Faqiu Tianguan to the exclusive recipe of the Faqiu Tomb Exploration, which completely structures the world view of this sect.
It must be said that the director's narrative skills are not bad, whether it is the protagonist group fighting monsters, the duel between the three-person group and the Japanese adventure forces, or the past of the year, several lines are continuously interspersed, constantly laying the thrill of the moment when the mystery is revealed.
It wasn't until the last moment that the Undead Tree was found that all the hidden details were thrown out.
The story of the film is also very rigorous, laid out in detail, and each character has its role, including the purpose of the mysterious Japanese sister, which is not revealed until the last moment.
While the suspense burns the brain, the audience is also gradually immersed in the story of the male protagonist and the father, and what the male protagonist has not been able to put down is why the father helps the Japanese do things, and the suspense of the father's life and death.
At the end of the film, this father-son relationship has also become the biggest key to the protagonist group to break the situation.
In the end, no matter how many fantasy elements there are, the key to determining the success or failure of a tomb robbery blockbuster is: telling a good story.
3, taste: hair mound, probe hole
Great stories matter. But to stand firmly and deeply, it also depends on the characters.
The most gratifying thing in the film is Pei Zitian, who played the role of Fahai in "The Legend of the New White Lady", with a cold temperament and sharp eyes, showing Zhang Wenfeng's extraordinary skills and boldness to the fullest, and then adding some small playfulness and the masculinity of an explorer.
An Wei Aya, who played the boss lady in "Qimen Dunjia", this role is also extremely brilliant, cold, mysterious and deceitful.
As soon as I look back and raise my eyes, the sense of story and tension will come to my face.
There are also Li Zixiong and Tang Wenlong, the old drama bones.
Especially Tang Wenlong, who plays the male protagonist's father, is 52 years old, his appearance and acting skills are still online, even if his whole body is surrounded by the immortal god tree, he can still perform the charm of a guilty father's contradictions by looking at him.
Of course, the film also finds the key to the success of the tomb robbery film, the tomb robbery element.
The first is to bring the visual elements of the tomb robbery type to the fullest.
Kunlun Ruins itself is a mysterious place, that kind of unknown, for the audience both fear and curiosity.
The film shoots the mountainous Kunlun Mountain, the imposing mountain city, the unattainable giant stone statue, under the blessing of exquisite visual effects, all reveal the ethereal magic of the Kunlun Ruins.
The art scenes and props in the Middle City of Kunlun Mountain are also meticulously detailed, and the crystal rock walls, various organs, Kunlun Hundred Gods Rock Wall Diagrams and Enlightened Beasts are exquisitely carved and textured, plus various gold touching equipment is also full of details, creating a high-burning adventure world.
Second, the pace of the lens story is bright, which not only maintains the essence of the genre, but also combines the rhythmic characteristics of action suspense films. The arrangement of the literary drama is very meticulous. Martial arts can also play emotions and personalities.
In the film, there is an action group scene in which a three-person team and the Japanese agent sister compete for the ancient mirror of Zhaoming, on the one hand, the underground palace python devours human life, and on the other hand, the battle scene between the two sides of the sword and light sword shadow with a clear front, the close-to-body hand-to-hand combat scene is adrenaline rushing.
The smooth operation of the mirror, the mysterious soundtrack and the actors' excellent play choreography blend, the underground palace python breaks out and rushes straight to the screen, high energy is continuous, with the three-dimensional and changeable lens language and the sharp and fast editing technique, the unique skill of faqiu Yimai's "Heavenly Official Technique" is revealed.
The third is the suspenseful thriller atmosphere with feeling.
Whether it's directing, art scene design, or visual effects rendering, they're all creating a life-and-death adventure between unreal and real.
Especially after entering the ancient city, the color grading of large saturation has a strong sense of contrast, causing visual impact at the same time, and serving the plot well.
As the highlight of the film, the Undead Tree itself has a gloomy feeling, coupled with a perfect horror atmosphere, the audience is like the male protagonist father who is entangled in the ancient tree, and it is difficult to get out until the last moment.
This is the authentic "Fa Qiu Tianguan" style.
4. Breaking the game: Heavenly official, open the door
In fact, when the audience watches a tomb robbery blockbuster, what is it watching?
Looking for sensory stimulation? Or special effects? I think what really attracts the audience is a fantasy and glamorous underground world.
The reason for this is not only in visual effects, but also in the construction of a convincing worldview in fantastic and gorgeous virtual images.
The "illusion" of fantasy should still be based on the "reality" of perception.
From the materialization of the prop scene to the fantasy of the Kunlun Ruins, many fantastic scenes, although they were destroyed in an instant, they can still feel the magnificence of the ancient legendary world.
But whether it is the Immortal God Wood or the Kunlun Secret Realm, the fantasy is still human heart. In the end, the tomb robbery still has to return to the human world.
Therefore, what finally impressed the audience in the film was the father-son relationship of the Fa Qiu Tianguan family.
In general, this new network film has many shortcomings, the story is not lacking in routines, and it contains too many elements of the past classics, and even chaotic intrusions, such as the Tianguan Gong that reminds di Renjie. The role of the villain sister played by "The Boss Lady" is eye-catching, but it is also too prominent, and it is somewhat noisy.
But the best part of the film is the smell of this tomb robbery film, the tense plot and the horror atmosphere are also well rendered, and I especially like the ending of the film's father-son relationship.
I have always felt that in order to make a good tomb robbery blockbuster, we must use high-level language and top technology to tell stories with Chinese flavor.
The taste of the film is not correct, and it will eventually be sensed by people watching the story off-screen.
As long as you don't think about taking IP adaptation as a hammer deal for consumer feelings, even if there are flaws, you are not afraid, just a sentence of "blessed by heavenly officials, no taboos", it will hook people's hearts and cause suspense.
Now, the film has taken the lead for the "Tomb Robber Universe" FaQiu faction, and what I want to know more is whether there will be a more wonderful Tianguan story next, and whether it can open another door for the tomb robbery type.