In the costume detective suspense movie, Di Renjie, like Song Ci, is the hardest hit area.
The former has released 6 online movies this year, such as "Di Renjie's Skeleton General", "Di Renjie's Pluto Contract", and "Di Renjie's Death-Defying Strange Fragrance".
But in terms of quality, it is simply difficult to say.
Homogeneous plot, homogeneous setting, and even the name of the movie are very similar.
The operation step should be to design a template first, and then batch set the story inside.
This perfunctory attitude of wanting to make money and not being careful has been complained about by many netizens.
Surprisingly, another "Tang Di Gong Case fox fan case" was recently released.
From the name alone, it is slightly different from the previous "Di Renjie XXX".
Check it out, the director of this movie is called Li Lizhuo, who has served as a screenwriter for film and television dramas such as "Martial God Zhao Zilong", "People's Procurator", "Lidi" and so on.
"The Fox Film Fan Case of the Tang Dynasty" is his first film to direct.
Old screenwriter, new director, which means that there will be different angles and frameworks to explain Di Renjie's story.
As expected, the plot of this film is designed quite carefully, especially the handling of the case, which is both hierarchical and logically consistent.
This is extremely rare in online movies where the quality of the script is generally worrying.
The story begins with a man named Zhang Quan being bitten off by a fox demon in a dilapidated ancestral hall.
To be honest, the beginning of this movie is extremely unsightly in its kind.
The special effects of foxes and broken tongues can only be described as perfunctory, and "fifty cents" is a bit exaggerated.
Seeing this, I was ready to spray.
I didn't expect to get to the back more and more surprises.
Poor special effects can only be said to be insufficient funds, but the story plot is full of sincerity.
Di Renjie was promoted from Puyang County to Dali Temple, just passing through Jinhua County, where the case occurred.
Jinhua County Ling Cao Jianzhou and Di Renjie are brothers in the same disciple, and their relationship is very close, so Di Renjie decided to intervene in the investigation of the case.
This case is more complicated than imagined, and there have been the deaths of Shusheng Jiang Yiren, Dancing Girl Yunshu, Fu Shao Zhang Quan and others, and also involved the rebellion case and the legend of the Black Fox Qu fifteen years ago.
At that time, a woman named Zhu Ling'er created the Black Fox Song by observing the movements of the black fox.
The beautiful dance style attracted the attention of hou Jingping (a key figure) of the general stationed in Jinhua.
Later, the two married and gave birth to a son, Hou Yi, and Hou Jingping also built a black fox shrine for Zhu Ling'er.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, when Li Zhen, the eighth son of Emperor Taizong of Tang, was planning a rebellion and wanted to win over Hou Jingping, who held military power.
Hou Jingping agreed not, nor did he agree, so he had to hide for two years without responding.
It was not until the defeat of the Yue King's rebellion that Hou Jingping returned to Jinhua because he missed his wife and children.
At this time, someone anonymously reported that Hou Jingping had been co-opted by the Yue King, and the imperial court sent Xu Renzhong, who was Di Renjie's master, to investigate the case.
In the end, Hou Jingping's entire family was killed, and his wife Zhu Ling'er hanged herself, and Only 3-year-old Hou Yi escaped this disaster.
This old case from fifteen years ago actually leaves a lot of doubts.
For example, in the letter of the Yue King to woo Hou Jingping, the rice dumplings and plum wine mentioned in them are all southern foods, which are not the same as the diet in Hou Jingping's hometown of Longxi.
Zhu Ling'er had shown signs of childbirth before committing suicide, but Hou Jingping had been gone for two years, and it was clear that the child was not his.
Hou Jingping knew that he had been framed, but finally confessed to the crime...
As the investigation deepens, Di Renjie gets closer and closer to the truth, and at the same time learns another secret of the conspiracy case in the mouth of the monk Xinglin Master.
Master Xinglin was once a county lieutenant in Jinhua County, and assisted Xu Renzhong in handling Hou Jingping's case.
So he has a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of things.
In ancient times, every time a new emperor ascended the throne, he would kill some powerful and important ministers to establish his power.
At that time, Hou Jingping had a heavy army in his hands, and both the faction and the situation were destined to become the target of this opening.
The anonymous whistleblower letter was just an oil head, and Hou Jingping could not have had a chance to overturn the case from the beginning.
Since this was the case, Hou Jingping chose to acquiesce to this result, while concealing the fact that his wife was cheating.
This is also the last bit of dignity left as a man.
At this point, in fact, we can see the intention of the movie "The Fox Film Fan Case of the Tang Di Gong Case".
It begins with the fox demon case, brings out the old cases that were full of doubts fifteen years ago, and then peels back the cocoon to round up these doubts.
Most importantly, the final BOSS is still not exposed in the process.
That is, the real murderer of Shusheng Jiang Yiren, the dancer Yunshu, the rich boy Zhang Quan and others.
After that, Di Renjie began to investigate the child born before Zhu Ling'er's death.
The child's name is Zhu Hong, and he learned the black fox song from the big red cloth left by Zhu Ling'er from a young age.
At the age of 12, Zhu Hong was sold to the Qinglou, and the first guest she received was Zhang Quan.
Zhu Hong struggled to resist, injured Zhang Quan and took the opportunity to escape, and finally fled to the Black Fox Shrine without further news.
From Zhu Hong's mouth, Di Renjie knew that Shusheng Jiang Yiren was Hou Yi, Hou Jingping's son.
Later, based on repeated hunting and killing, he deduced that the culprit behind the scenes should be one of the county orders, county lieutenants, and county clerks who had served as Jinhua's parent officials.
Coincidentally, the officials Wailang Wen Jiadong, xinglin master Tian Orange, and Libu Langzhong Tang Hujun just happened to be the county clerks, county lieutenants, and county orders of Jinhua in the past.
The three returned to their hometown during the Mid-Autumn Festival, giving Di Renjie the opportunity to find out the real culprit.
Later, Di Renjie took Zhu Hong as a temptation, allowing Wen Jiadong to expose his identity, and at the same time unveiling the whole picture of the whole case-
Before the Yue King's rebellion, Hou Jingping failed, so he recruited the county governor Wen Jiadong to his command.
In the process, Wen Jiadong took advantage of Hou Jingping's going out to hide from the disaster and seduced Zhu Ling'er.
When Hou Jingping returned, Zhu Ling'er was ashamed to commit suicide because of cheating, and Wen Jiadong put the solicitation letter into Hou Jingping's home and planted it for framing.
In the following years, Wen Jiadong's official Yun Hengtong sat all the way to the position of foreign lang of the official department.
Vermilion was miserable.
Although he escaped from the Qinglou, he hid in the Black Fox Shrine.
However, during an injury, Vermilion was licked by a black fox, resulting in rabies. (I specifically checked it, the wound is licked really may be sick, to timely injection)
After the outbreak of rabies, it is an incurable disease until now, let alone in ancient times.
So the vermilion ending was already doomed at the beginning.
From the perspective of plot design, "The Fox Fan Case of the Tang Di Gong Case" is obviously much more than the same type of works.
Both the overall story line and most of the details have been handled extremely rigorously.
For example, when he first appeared, he added a setting for Di Renjie to be afraid of foxes and sensitive to the smell of foxes.
This kind of setting in other bad movies may be talent, innate and so on.
But the film specifically gives a relatively reasonable explanation.
Many years ago, Di Renjie's teacher was bitten by a fox raised by Zhu Ling'er while dealing with a rebellion case, and thus suffered from rabies.
The tragic situation at the time of the illness left an indelible impression on Di Renjie.
From that time on, Di Renjie had a visceral fear of the fox.
This fear, in turn, prompted him to be particularly sensitive to the smell of foxes.
To its credit, the film does not use the reverse routine again, but puts all kinds of information on the table at the beginning.
As for the sense of violation of information, it depends on whether the audience can detect it in advance.
However, this movie provides a lot of information, and if you watch it with a relaxed and entertaining mindset at the beginning, you may ignore a lot of information.
I also straightened out the details after watching it a second time, and at the same time realized the director's intentions.
Of course, "The Fox Fan Case of the Tang Di Gong Case" is not a perfect work.
The special effects at the beginning of the spit are not to be said, and they cannot be fake anymore.
Some of the characters in the film are also relatively weakly motivated.
For example, Zhang Quan, as an important clue figure, is the key to bringing out Zhu Hong and the real murderer behind the scenes.
But all his actions were based on being injured by Vermilion.
This character's motivation is hardly able to sustain the actions behind him.
From the perspective of a third party, the prostitute was injured and fled by the wind and dust woman, and he may be very angry at the time, but he will most likely forget it afterwards.
Because it's not something so serious that people don't have to die.
But after that, Zhang Quan ran to the Black Fox Ancestral Hall at both ends for three days, and even after the Xinglin Mage laid down the illusion, causing the Black Fox Ancestral Hall to leave behind various evil legends, he still insisted on wanting revenge.
How big a vendetta and how much resentment does this have to be?
If Zhang Quan is a paranoid, it is not impossible, but the film needs to make the audience have empathy, and such paranoid people are a minority after all.
In addition, Vermilion fled to the Black Fox Temple for only three years, describing herself as a wild man who drank blood from Ru Mao.
Even her father didn't want to leave when he came to pick him up.
What is the logic of such behavior?
Zhu Hong has not had her parents to take care of her since she was a child, and she has suffered all kinds of white eyes, and now that her father has appeared, she refuses to leave on the grounds that she has been wronged for many years.
In a word, he was very touched by his father's appearance and rejected him.
According to normal logic, the more you lack something, the more you crave something.
Vermilion has a different attachment to the black fox song that she has never listened to, because it is left by her mother.
The desire for maternal love and the abandonment of fatherly love are not contradictory to her motives.
There are many similar small problems, such as Wen Jiadong killing the black fox to annoy Zhu Hong, Wen Jiadong slashing Di Renjie several times without dying, Zhu Hong did not see Wen Jiadong's appearance, but Zhang Quan saw...
For newcomer directors, it is actually quite rare to be able to achieve such a degree.
This type of network movie, the last time it felt good, should be Yu Zhen's two "Forensic Song Ci".
Now the Di Renjie series can appear such a more sincere work can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.
If the funds can be more abundant, the overall quality should be able to go to a higher level.
I look forward to the director's follow-up more wonderful works!
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