The popular "Golden Night Building 2" has a behind-the-scenes fun.
In order to shoot a traffic jam scene, the film crew closed the bridge. This kind of routine operation that even our audience listens to a lot of, but let the actors Chen Shancong and Li Shiwei sigh "big battle".
Why do they feel flattered?
Because, compared with the "money to come out" of today's sequel, when I made the first film, I was really poor.
How poor is it?
You don't watch the second part of the special effects makeup that is time-consuming, laborious and expensive such as zombies and disfigurement.
The yokai shape of the first part is so cheap that no one knows that it is a yokai without saying it.
You see "Crow Lady", that is...
Paste a treasure 3 pieces of 5-pack feathers on the face of the actor.
I believe you say that it is the latest trend makeup of some top international superstar.
You have to admire that the rough production does not affect its fantasy effect, let alone its explosion.
The hit "Golden Night 2" stirred my love for Fantasy Harbor dramas, and I recently reviewed several of these classic works and found that roughness has almost become the ancestral characteristic of Fantasy Harbor dramas.
In 1978, "Fantasy of the Sea" showed horror only by a green light, but now it still does not make people play.
Behind the bitter "roughness" is the most mysterious place:
#只用五毛特效的奇幻港剧,
How do you do it to make people enjoy chasing it? #
Let's start with no prizes to answer a question:
Which one comes to mind when you think of an ancient fantasy unit drama? Do most people rush to answer the 1990 Japanese "Wonderful Story of the World"?
Reward you with a cold knowledge:
As early as 1978, TVB made the fantasy unit drama "The Wonders of the Sea", more than a decade before "The Wonderful Story of the World".
It can be said that this is a grandfather-level fantasy drama that has laid a lot of pioneering elements.
Some netizens even commented: Because of it, Hong Kong later became a pro-establishment ghost drama.
First look at the cast list: Zhou Runfa, Wu Mengda, Liu Jialing, Lu Liangwei.
Let's starve.
Yes, TVB newcomers play a ghost film to practice courage, and it has also been followed in many fantasy harbor dramas since then.
In 1992's "Extreme Ethereal", there are Luo Jialiang, Tao Dayu, Cai Shaofen, Zheng Yijian and so on.
In 1993's "Incredible Tuesday", Zhong Hanliang, Xuan Xuan, Zhang Yan (the man's wife of "Double Cannon", break the dimension), Li Keqin, Cai Shaofen, Gu Juji, Wen Zhaolun, Zhang Zhilin, Li Zi, and Zhou Huimin were brought together.
By the 2005 "Fantasy Tide", you can also see She Shiman, Zhong Jiaxin, Yang Siqi, Liang Luoshi, Liang Yongqi...
In short, Hong Kong's emperor queen, half of the country behind the emperor vision,
They have all dealt with "ghosts"
The second groundbreaking is the nature of the unit.
Episode 1 story of "Fantasy of the Sea", a total of fifty-four ghost stories.
The duration is flexible, ranging from 4 minutes to 20 minutes.
The reason why the production team dares not to play cards according to the routine is that it is convinced that the excitement of the story does not lie in the length, but in the coolness.
To be cool, there are two elements.
One, bizarre enough; two, there is a reversal.
Let's tell a story, "The Realm of Death" in "The Strange Affair of the Sea of Illusions".
Ah Niu (Zhou Runfa) recently discovered that there are always people burning rats in the village, but they don't pay attention to it.
When he got home from work, he lay down in bed and slept, but outside the house the children laughed for a while, the chickens chirped for a while, and soon after, the neighbor aunt even ran out to urge him to eat lunch- the time was out of order.
Next, the neighbor aunt was even stranger, she saw the statue of Guan Gong next to Ah Niu's bed, panicked like a ghost, and kept urging Ah Niu to tear it off.
Later, someone in the village put on a celebratory drink.
But have you ever seen an all-black and white wedding in Chinese style?
Holding up the camera, a bunch of "people" in front of the camera, in the lens... Not a single one.
And as soon as the bride turned around—there were no eyes. (I won't put the picture to scare you)
Ah Niu was frightened and flew down three thousand feet, but the others felt that everything was normal and shouted "Ah Niu is crazy."
Ah Niu escapes to the train and meets his fellow countrymen. The townspeople happily nagged with Ah Niu:
We've moved to town
The village burns rats every day, it stinks too much, where can it stand
Inadvertently, Ah Niu saw the newspaper next to the seat that read: A certain village died of plague.
Look up again - where are the fellows, the carriages are empty, there is no one at all.
The white wedding and the pupilless bride were absolutely bizarre in those days. In the end, the audience, like Ah Niu, thought that they had finally escaped from the abnormal countryside. I didn't expect that the seemingly kind compatriots on the carriage were still ghosts!
The illusion of a crisis being lifted is broken, and the shock of the reversal in the hearts of the audience is even greater.
1978's "Fantasy of the Sea" is the first form of fantasy harbor drama:
Completely separate unit story.
Relying on the suspenseful hunting plot.
The following "Incredible Tuesday", "Extreme Ethereal", "Fantasy Tide" are all like this.
However, with the development of fantasy harbor dramas, screenwriters began to learn to shape characters.
The story will end, but the characters will always be alive.
When shaping characters becomes the focus of the screenwriter, the fantasy harbor drama is no longer a sketch, but has the opportunity to be put together into a complete work.
At this time, the fantasy harbor drama entered the second form:
A character line + unit story.
It is also the framework of today's "Golden Night Building".
Siu Wai Ming and Alex experience strange things together in the Golden Night Building, while solving the mystery of their love in the next life.
What is the use of such a framework?
The point of view has obviously increased. Fantasy Harbor dramas can no longer only rely on bizarre, but also while hunting for curiosity, while making you CP how cool!
There are also many classic CPs in this category, and the characters are very interesting.
1997 "The Lost Files", Gao Yongxian vs. Wen Jiali.
Gao Yongxian (Luo Jialiang) is a university biology professor who believes in science, while Wen Jiali (Zhang Keyi) is a radio writer who is in awe of the unknown.
The two of them became lovers after experiencing strange events such as "Cursed Clay Sculpture", "Reincarnated Lover", "Descending Head", "Cult", "Alien Degree", and "Evaporation of the Human World".
Two people with opposite concepts, CP, the emotional pattern lies in: complementarity.
The cool points for the audience are:
Watch their contradictions dissolve, and then sniff the sugar of the protagonist's hindsight.
In the play, from fighting at the first meeting to tacitly talking about the case, they always feel open. On the contrary, it was my parents and friends, all of whom had golden eyes and felt that they would be together sooner or later.
Sure enough, a certain crisis made them realize hindsight, finally recognized their feelings for each other, and broke the window paper.
The audience suddenly tasted a spoonful of honey in the mysterious series of cases.
(Can't help but think that many bad dramas at the moment are just the opposite, under the guise of fantasy and fantasy, the whole process only talks about love pure selling CP, the cart before the horse, the plot has no point to see)
The same complementary CP is Tianguang vs Gao Shan in 2004's "Pursuit of the Murderer in aNother World".
Tian Guang (Guo Jin'an) is a police officer in the major crime team, who talks about evidence in everything, but the writer Gao Shan (Chen Huishan) often relies on intuition to find the real culprit.
It is also from the explosion at the first meeting, to the run-in tacit understanding, knowing and loving each other.
However, although the two pairs have similar love patterns, the characters in them are still unique.
Gao Yongxian in "The Lost Files" is handsome and handsome, while Wen Jiali is independent and intelligent. No one is strong, no one is bullying, they get along with each other on an equal footing, and sugar overflows the screen.
In "Chasing the Murderer in aNother World", Tianguang is grumpy and conceited, Gao Shan is half disabled but optimistic and strong, the two argue and unveil each other's disguises, and the true feelings are also very sweet.
Back to the love mode: there are also strong and powerful ones.
Many people have bragged that the recent hit "And Try the World" is a rare combination of strong and strong, in fact, 2003's "Wesley" already has it.
Wesley vs Leukolin.
An unscrupulous private investigator, a rigorous anatomist. The two people experienced strange events such as "Paper Monkey", "Corpse Change", "Charcoal", "Dream Hunting", "Seduction", "Immortal" and so on, and finally came together.
This pair of characters is very bold.
Let's say that Wesley, as the male protagonist, is not great and just, and even a little unpopular.
In the first episode, he and his assistant went on an expedition, encountered a chase, and even made conceited remarks:
- Why do you have to sit behind me every time?
-Because you are fat and thick in flesh, you can help me block bullets.
-Why help you block bullets?
- Because I'm Wesley, and you're not.
Both smoke and drink, and are not a good boy.
When they saw the heroine, they couldn't move, and everyone put the gun on their heads, and they still said something bad:
Peony flowers under death, can die at your hands, do ghosts also merry.
And Bai Su's personality is more bold, a royal sister who has no love brain, and even rational to the point of cold-bloodedness.
After Wesley finished speaking, Bai Su really shot out, almost killing the male protagonist, the end of the play.
An improper rioter + a serious and cruel person solves the case together, strong and strong inspire each other, of course, can collide with interesting sparks.
By the way, Ni Kuang's science fiction works have also been performed by many big guys, in addition to the 03 version of Luo Jialiang, as early as 86, Qian Xiaohao, Zhou Runfa, and Maggie Cheung played the ancient early version of "Yuan Zhenxia and Wesley":
More classic is the "Original Zhenxia" performed by Dawn in 1993, Li Jiaxin, Faye Wong, Zhu Qian, and Hong Xin (the theme song "May You Not Leave Tonight" sung by Dawn is also a classic golden song):
May You Not Leave Tonight Music: Dawn - Dawn You Love Or Not Love Pick 2
If you are interested, come to the comment area and tell me that I can write another issue of Ni Kuang's works.
Speaking of which, the various types of CP mixing in The Wonderland drama cannot be left untouched.
But.
Whether it is the first form or the second, the reason why fantasy harbor dramas can flourish for a long time is not only because of the simple superposition of "watchable elements".
Rather, the production team runs through a concept from beginning to end:
pragmatic.
When I wrote "Golden Night Building", I had already praised the seriousness of the crew. But hard work ≠ credit.
To put it bluntly, the hard work of uselessness is not worth showing off at all.
Even if it seems lazy, effectiveness is king.
The pragmatism of Fantasy Harbor drama is that everything is effective.
Therefore, many mysterious stems will be used many times, but each time the old stems can be used new, and the return is miraculous.
For example, the urban legend of "a barrel returning to the west" was used twice.
In 1978, the first episode of "Fantasy of the Sea" was "Four People Returning to the West".
In "Fantasy of the Sea", it is said that four masters play mahjong and play four pieces of west together, and then one of them, A, in order to win the card, disregarded the obstacles, and played a "one-shot", and the bad omen came: returning to the west together.
After playing cards, the other three and A-Tai play the second half tonight:
-We'll pick you up at twelve o'clock."
- Okay.
As a result, the two men died in a car accident when they went out. Mrs. A dreamed that other servants would come and take her away at night, so she pestered her husband to accompany her.
Burning paper money, chatting, watching TV, and any way to soothe the soul are used.
There is also a neighbor named Eight Aunt who beckons A to play mahjong at night and not to think about it.
A too promised to come down, but said it would be after twelve o'clock.
So they kept going on and on, and finally waited until the bell rang at twelve o'clock.
After a while, the eighth aunt also came to pick up Mrs. A as promised. Before leaving, Mrs. A's husband also thoughtfully gave his wife a sum of money and wished her fun.
But when the audience and their husbands breathed a sigh of relief, the radio suddenly began to announce the time: it was now 12 o'clock in the evening.
At the same time, there was another knock at the door. One open --
It's eight aunts!
Therefore, just A Tai was still taken away by the ghost as scheduled.
2005's Fantasy Tide also had an episode about this story.
Four netizens played cards in the chat room, and at the instigation of Man A, everyone played the card face of "a barrel back to the west".
Then, someone died suddenly in the elevator room, someone was choked to death in the shower, and someone ate a noodle and choked to death.
When you think "just so", the police investigate the ID of the instigator A man and find his home.
His dad said he did have a computer at home, but it couldn't have been made by Man A.
He pointed to a posthumous photograph – it was A-man!
He died a long time ago, a few years ago and others played "a barrel back to the west" on the Internet to die...
There is also the element of "zombie".
The first unit of the popular "Golden Night Building 2" said:
When Grandpa was young, he and his friends bought a house and made a long-lived contract, and whoever lived long belonged to whom. As a result, Grandpa died unexpectedly, but became a zombie.
For the sake of the house, dad and grandson disguised grandpa as a living person by putting on preservatives and makeup.
And there is an episode of "Wesley" in 2003: After the death of a rich man, the rich wife felt that her husband never got sick and died strangely, and found Wesley to investigate.
During the period, a pair of thieves CP sneaked into the rich man's house to steal something, and ended up bumping into the rich man who was chained, thinking that he was bumping into a ghost.
The rich man's son did everything to disguise it and prove that his father was dead.
When Wesley thought that the rich man's son was plotting to kill his father for property, and "rescued" the rich man, the rich man began to pinch people in anger.
In fact, the rich man has long been dead, and he can move only because he is a zombie.
Wesley stabbed down, and the corpse flowed blue blood, which quickly dried up.
The final conclusion is that The Rich is an alien, so he never gets sick and turns into a zombie after death, and his blood is blue.
(Easter egg: This two zombie-themed stories are 20 years apart, but the actor Zheng Zicheng who plays the son of the zombie is the actor Zheng Zicheng, coincidentally? ）
"Money can really do whatever you want"
You will find that the reason why these old earth elements that are used and used can always be scary is because they are grounded enough, and the screenwriter will always work with his power to renovate them upwards.
For example, playing cards, this is a lot of daily work.
But the more everyday, the more terrifying the derived horror.
True horror is never an overhead fantasy.
It is extremely close to the unexpected of life.
When the production team can spread this sense of horror into the lives of the audience, it is as ordinary as breathing.
These fantasy stories make people afraid and love, and they can't stop.
Then again.
For people who love to watch this genre, fantasy dramas are a rare dream of getting away with when we grow up.
Although there are ghosts in the dream, there is no lack of colorful colors.
Hopefully, there are more good-looking fantasy dramas that can be sung like the opening song of "Wesley":
Let me keep cheering for dreams.
Always looking forward to it.
Today's hitman: green riding chicken