In 2005, Zhang Muye, a Tianjin native who was doing financial investment business, used his spare time to start serializing his own horror suspense novels in the Lianpeng Ghost Talk section of the Tianya Forum.
At the beginning of writing, Zhang Muye did not have much planning, but only planned to write some folk strange talk and rural legends, and did not have a clear story style and theme. The first work was "The Fierce House", which is said to be adapted from a friend's personal experience.
But I didn't expect that after the release of the novel, it was actually highly sought after, and then turned to the starting point at that time Chinese network serial. The story structure becomes larger and larger, gradually shifting from horror to adventure archaeological literature.
The original post of the Tianya Forum that year
Because his parents were both workers of the Inner Mongolia Geophysical Exploration Team, who were specifically responsible for using physical methods to explore mineral deposits in various places, Zhang Muye grew up in the compound of the Geophysical Exploration Team since he was a child, which made him have a strong interest in various geographical histories.
After working, Zhang Muye had contact with many coal miners in Shanxi. Because there are often some safety problems in the mine, many superstitious mine owners will ask the "old gentleman" to see the ore vein feng shui. Zhang Muye was therefore fascinated and learned a lot of feng shui knowledge.
After Tianya became popular, Zhang Muye officially signed a contract with the starting point Chinese Network and officially began the journey of a writer. He applied these knowledge of tomb visiting and feng shui to his own writing, making archaeological expeditions the core of his story.
Zhang Muye
Relying on the popularity of the novel, Zhang Muye has a well-known pen name: Tianxia Baxiang.
He borrowed the poem from the poet Du Fu's famous "Immigrant AngongshanGuan" poem "Mountain ghosts blow out the lights, and the cooks speak at night", named his novel "Ghost Blowing Lights", and created a novel of nearly two million words in one go.
The original work of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is divided into two parts and eight volumes, the order is "Ghost Blowing Lights 1 Jingjing Ancient City", "Ghost Blowing Lights 2 Longling Labyrinth", "Ghost Blowing Lights 3 Yunnan Worm Valley", "Ghost Blowing Lights 4 Kunlun Shrine", "Ghost Blowing Lights 5 Yellow Skin Tombs", "Ghost Blowing Lights 6 South Sea Returns to the Ruins", "Ghost Blowing Lights 7 Angry Qing Xiangxi", "Ghost Blowing Lights 8 Wuxia Coffin Mountain".
Hair hill, touch gold, move mountains, unload mountains
The novel takes the protagonist Hu Bayi's archaeological exploration experience as the main line, and thus leads to the four major tomb robbery sects of "touching gold, unloading the ridge, hair hill, and moving the mountain" and many strange and bizarre tomb robbery experiences.
The protagonist Hu Bayi is a veteran, and his grandfather Hu Guohua inherited the gold school lieutenant Sun Guofu when he inherited the Republic of China, so he got the true inheritance of the legendary gold master Zhang Sanchainzi at the end of the Qing Dynasty, before Sun Guofu died, he passed on half of the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" that Zhang Sanchain had learned throughout his life to Hu Guohua, and finally reached Hu Bayi.8
"Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique"
In the 1980s, Hu Bayi, who had retired from the army, and the frustrated little king Who had mixed in Beijing, together with The Triumph of the Lost Hair, were introduced by the antique dealer Dajinya, and were recruited by Shirley Yang, a returned overseas Chinese, to go to the Western Regions to find the Ancient City of Jingjie, and in the process encountered the curse of the Jingjie Queen.
In order to break the curse, the trio of touching gold had no choice but to start looking for the Cloud Dust Pearl in the north of the South China Sea. First to the Longling Labyrinth in Shaanxi, then to the Tomb of the King of Xianwang in the Worm Valley of Yunnan, and finally to the Kunlun Shrine on the Tibetan Plateau to resolve the curse of the Queen of Jingjie.
The plot of the first part of the novel ends here, ending with Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi following Shirley Yang to the United States.
The second part, with the prequel "Yellow Pizi Tomb" as the opening, tells the strange adventure experience encountered by the young Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi when they joined the countryside in Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia, and then inserted a story of Shirley Yang's grandfather Partridge Whistle excavating the ancient tomb of Xiangxi Bottle Mountain in the early years of the Republic of China with Chen Blind Zi, the bandit leader of The Ridge, which is also the story of "Angry Qing Xiangxi".
As for the trio of touching gold as the protagonist, after returning to China, they first went to the South China Sea to find the lost treasure Of Qin Wang's bone mirror, and as a result, they mistakenly entered the tomb built by the ancient ancestors, resulting in heavy casualties in the gold touching squad, and the fellow egg people Duo Ling was also poisoned by corpses.
In the final volume of "Wuxia Coffin Mountain", in order to find the legendary Neidan to save the corpse poison of Duo Ling, Hu Bayi and others, under the guidance of Professor Sun, went to Wuxia Coffin Mountain with him, preparing to find the lost "Dixian Village" and find the "corpse Dan" of the so-called "corpse immortal", but they did not expect to encounter the legendary "Guanshan Taibao" vein, and thus unveiled the ambition and conspiracy of the real hidden boss Professor Sun of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, and thus the entire "Ghost Blowing Lights" series of stories ended.
Coffin Mountain of Wuxia
In addition, in addition to the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series of novels created by Tianxia Basing himself, there are also many fan works of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, such as "Traces of the Holy Spring", "Fuxian Poisonous Clams", "Kuzhen Crazy Sand", "Xiangxi Mystery Tsuka" and other works. These fan works are not created by Tianxia Baxiang himself, and the quality of the works is uneven, and the influence is far less than that of the original.
"Ghost Blowing Lights" was serialized for two years and quickly swept the Internet. The ups and downs of the novel, all kinds of strange adventure experiences and ancient mysterious relics, the mysterious and mysterious feng shui theory, coupled with the humorous and refined language and the style of the times in the 70s and 80s shown in the book, all make people marvel, and thus become -
The pioneering work of the online tomb robbery literary genre.
With his wild imagination, the author Tianxia Basing has built a huge tomb robbery world, which has the flavor of ancient Chinese zhiwei novels and obviously has the shadow of Hollywood blockbusters and games. Time magazine commented:
"'Ghost Blowing Lights' is rich and full of imagination, which has become its most impressive place."
As the pinnacle of Chinese adventure literature, the influence and popularity of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series are self-evident.
However, it is precisely because of the huge value of "ghost blowing lights" that all forces want to share a piece of the pie, resulting in a chaos in copyright.
Starting point Chinese network first realized the great value of this IP, they used a paper contract to buy out the IP adaptation rights of "Ghost Blowing Lights", and the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series was divided into two parts due to the interruption in writing, and the film and television rights of the first four and the last four were sold separately, including both cinema movies and dramas, as well as the network movie of the same name, in addition to adapted fandoms, comics, stage plays, games and so on.
Ghost Blowing Lights fanfiction
However, all this has nothing to do with the author's world bullying, because the control is no longer in his hands.
The author does not interpret the copyright dispute about the novel too much, but one thing must be admitted - due to the confusion of the copyright of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series has spawned different versions of film and television adaptations, coupled with remakes by different film and television companies, directors, and actors, and the result is that the adaptations are often uneven.
Except for a few successful cases, the vast majority of adaptations are basically car accident level.
Looking at the Douban entry, there are as many as 20 film and television works of the released and unreleased pseudonym "Ghost Blowing Lights".
As a fan of the original novel of "Ghost Blowing Lights" for more than ten years, out of feelings, almost every time the film and television drama adapted by "Ghost Blowing Lights" is broadcast, the author will go to see it for the first time.
In this issue, the author will take stock of these "Ghost Blowing Lights" film and television dramas -
The Nine-Story Demon Tower
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe
Release: 2015-09-30
Douban score: 4.3
Box office: 628 million
As the first film and television work of "Ghost Blowing Lights", Lu Chuan's "Nine-Story Demon Tower" was highly anticipated by fans.
However, when the audience walked into the cinema with expectations for the original work, they found that they were deceived -
The film is completely a fandom of hanging sheep's head and selling dog meat, but it borrows some of the original character names and story settings, and the plot is completely magical.
The film is adapted from the first volume of the novel, "The Spirit of the Ghost Blowing Lantern", but the content basically does not see the shadow of the original book.
The story mainly tells that in 197, the Kunlun Mountains found the bones of mysterious creatures, and an expedition led by Hu Bayi went deep into the hinterland of the Kunlun Mountains to find more secrets about the remains of ancient creatures.
Many years later, Hu Bayi returned to Beijing after retiring from the army, reunited with Fa Xiaowang Triumph, and with the intervention of the mysterious organization 749 Bureau, followed the scientific expedition team back to the western oil town, on the way met Shirley Yang, who looked exactly like Yang Ping, a female hygienist he knew at that time, and the familiar face awakened the memories of the days when he was in the expedition.
On the way, they were attacked by alien monsters, and finally found the legendary nine-story demon tower in the hinterland of Kunlun Mountain, thus uncovering a secret history of humans and ghosts that separated them for thousands of years.
Only the first half of the film involves the exploration and archaeological elements, the middle section becomes a monster movie that upgrades and fights monsters, and the end suddenly becomes a science fiction movie, turning the ghost cave clan in the original ancient city into a ghost star from outer space.
The whole movie is not so much about "Ghost Blowing Lights" as it is more like Ni Kuang's "Wesley".
In fact, the tomb robbery story in the original book was originally a very small pattern, but the screenwriter was changed to a star wars-like grand science fiction background story. But the embarrassing director's lack of ability leads to the story becoming fragmented, the lines are two, the art is bad, and the scene is full of cheap online game flavor.
In terms of character shaping, Hu Bayi, played by Zhao Youting, is completely different from the heroic and courageous soldier with the unscrupulous soldier in the original work;
The cape shape of Shirley Yang, played by Yao Chen, crosses directly to Assassin's Creed. As for Wang Fatzi, who is the strongest fighting force in the gold-touching squad, he is completely reduced to the role of a passerby who plays soy sauce in this work.
Overall, this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is really mouthless.
It is worth mentioning that the film was sued by the original author Tianxia Basing because of excessive magic changes to the plot, and finally the court found that "Nine-Story Demon Tower" infringed the novel author Zhang Muye's right to protect the integrity of the novel, and compensated the author 50,000 yuan.
However, it is such a magic revision of "Ghost Blowing Lights" that makes the original author go to court, but because it took the lead and finally received 600 million box office, director Lu Chuan was able to start filming the sequel "749 Rounds".
Dragon Quest
Mojin - The Lost Legend
Release date: 2015-12-18
Douban score: 7.4
Box office: 1.682 billion
It is precisely because of the background of "Nine-Story Demon Tower" that it shows the excellence and sincerity of "Dragon Hunting Tips" in production.
The production lineup of this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" can be described as unprecedentedly strong, Wanda, Huayi, Guangguang three private film and television giants have participated in the investment, the production cost is as high as 250 million yuan, which was definitely a rare large-scale production of domestic commercial films at that time.
The film is directed by UrShan, the famous filmmaker Chen Guofu as the supervising producer, and found the original author Tianxia Basing as the screenwriter, the plot is basically based on the "Yellow Skin Tomb" original.
The story tells that Hu Bayi, a lieutenant who is about to wash his hands in the golden basin in the United States, and his fiancée Shirley, originally wanted to say goodbye to the tomb robbery career and live an ordinary life. Who knew that on the eve of the wedding, he found that ding Sitian, the first love girlfriend who died in the 'Hundred Eyes Cave' of the Grassland of Inner Mongolia twenty years ago, had actually reappeared.
His friend Wang Kaixuan therefore returned to China alone to find flowers on the other side, and Bayi and Shirley, who could not be relieved, had to return to China and go deep into the thousand-year-old tomb of the Liao Kingdom in the depths of the grassland.
Although the plot is brand new, it has to be said that "Finding the Dragon" can be highly faithful to the original in terms of both story style and character building, especially at the core of the whole story.
The presentation of the elements of tomb robbery exploration has not lost the essence of the original work.
Whether it is the historical background of the young Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan going to the countryside to know the youth, or the strange experience in the underground fortress of the Japanese army, or the technical display of feng shui theory in the ancient tomb of the Liao Kingdom later, it has achieved a very vivid and detailed display, which makes the original party greatly addicted.
To use a line in the movie: This is the authentic gold touch.
In terms of casting, this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is a top configuration.
Chen Kun's version of Hu Bayi from the downfall when he lived in seclusion in the United States, to the spirit of youth, and then to the domineering exposure when he returned to the old line to show his skills, which is very suitable for the feeling of middle-aged Hu Bayi in the original work.
Although Huang Bo can't completely match the fat master in the original book in terms of stature, the kind of acting skills that play who is like whom, but let him interpret a wang Kaixuan who is heavy on righteousness and light life, and Shirley Yang, played by Shu Qi, is obviously a reference to the Laura character in "Tomb Raider", and the overall performance is also remarkable, very heroic.
Of course, based on the factor of force majeure, the film still changed the tomb robbery to the protagonist forced to visit the tomb.
But even dancing in shackles, I have to admit —
This "Dragon Hunt" is still the best "Ghost Blowing Lights" movie, especially in the field of domestic film industry exploration has great significance.
"The Spirit of the Ghost Blowing Lantern"
Candle in the Tomb
Release date: 2016-12-19
Douban score: 8.0
2015 is regarded as the "first year of domestic tomb robbery film and television dramas".
In addition to the release of the two movies "Ghost Blowing Lights", in the same year, there was also a web drama version of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" starring Li Yifeng and Yang Yang, which was handed over to the country, although the plot of the country was turned over to the whole people, but to a certain extent, it also promoted the popularity of the film and television drama on the theme of tomb robbery.
Seeing the great value of the IP of "Ghost Blowing Lights", Tencent's Penguin Pictures purchased the adaptation rights of the drama version from the Reading Group behind the starting point Chinese Network, and announced that it was preparing to shoot 8 "Ghost Blowing Lights" web series and two movie versions, of which the leading force was the "Ghost Blowing Lights" filmed by the famous Noonday Sunshine Team.
Thanks to the conscience adaptation of the noonday sun, although this web drama has a certain degree of changes and deletions to the plot, it basically achieves a high degree of restoration of the novel, so that many fans of the original book express a satisfaction.
As the content of the first volume of the novel, the plot basically follows the flow of the original novel. From Hu Bayi's return from the Vietnam War, to the reunion with Wang Fatzi in Beijing, Pan Jiayuan's acquaintance with the Big Golden Tooth, to the Savage Ditch to find the Kwantung Army fortress, to face the red calf and the pig-faced bat, until later Shirley Yang went online, touching the gold squad to go deep into the ancient city and other main plots, a lot.
In particular, the dramas produced by the noonday sun have always had quality assurance at the production level, the drama has adopted a large number of live-action shooting, the crew led the actors to go to the snowy mountains and deserts in Xinjiang to shoot, and the construction of important scenes such as underground fortresses and exquisite ancient cities has also been highly restored.
In addition, there are props and art scenes with a sense of age, all of which reflect the sincerity of the crew.
So that every frame in the play can instantly bring us back to the dusty memory of history.
In terms of actor casting, although this version is not in line with the original work, fortunately, the performance of several leading actors has not fallen.
Although Hu Bayi, played by Jin Dong, does not have the original temperament, he has the aura of a soldier, and he has a tacit understanding with Wang Kaixuan, played by Zhao Da. As for Chen Qiao'en playing Shirly Yang, although his performance does not have too many highlights, he is better than the temperament that fits the character.
However, in the play, compared to the protagonist, the most brilliant is a number of supporting roles.
The old drama bone Wang Yongquan transformed from Xia Shouzun in "Langya List" to an old desert guide An Liman, and Yang Xinming, a national first-class actor and priest in "Medicine God", played Professor Chen, all of which are impressive.
After the drama was launched, it received a lot of praise, with 5 billion hits, and has maintained a good reputation of 8 points on Douban so far, and for a long time, it has been regarded as:
The best version of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" TV series.
But unfortunately -
Although this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" in the noonday sun is successful, there will be no sequel!
As the top TV drama team in China at present, the reason why Noonday Sun took over the filming of "The Spirit of the Ghost Blowing Lights" was originally expected to be broadcast on satellite TV, because at that time, the cost limit of network dramas was relatively large, and not going to the stars would affect the revenue.
According to producer Hou Hongliang once revealed in an interview:
"The investment budget of 'The Ancient City of Essence' is the highest ever, and the actual shooting is even more seriously overspended."
It may be because of this that the Noonday Sunshine team decided to give up the plan to continue shooting the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series.
"The Mystery of Makino of the Ghost Blowing Lantern"
Release date: 2017-07-03
Douban score: 3.0
Who would have thought that "Jingjie Ancient City" just made a good start, and then there was a copycat thunder drama that followed the trend.
This "Makino Mystery" is also adapted from the work of the world's bastion, and it was therefore hung up under the name of "Ghost Blowing Lights", but in fact it has nothing to do with the original novel of "Ghost Blowing Lights".
The drama version is supervised by Huang Xiaoming, you heard it right, it is the greasy sect leader.
Because the original "Makino Mystery" is only a collection of short stories, the content of the whole book is composed of some strange stories, so the screenwriter made a drastic adaptation of the story, and forced it into a sequel to "Ghost Blowing Lights".
The protagonists are Hu Tianyi's son Hu Tian, Wang Kaixuan's son Wang Yao, and The Granddaughter of Big Golden Tooth Xiao Jinya (you heard it right, the name is so arbitrary). The story tells that twenty years ago, the trio of touching gold went to the Tomb of the Overlord in order to find the legendary "Heavenly Book Ghost Pattern" spell, and since then mysteriously disappeared and their lives are uncertain.
Years later, Hu Tian grew up and accidentally encountered a mysterious woman Ice Wheel, bringing news of his parents, who had disappeared for 20 years. Hu Tian then decided to take the little gold teeth with him and follow the ice wheel to the mysterious "ghost city" to find the relic "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" left by his father, and finally learned that his parents left to save the curse in his body. So in order to find his parents, Hu Tian decided to embark on an adventure with his friends to find the Tomb of the Overlord.
Although the screenwriter forcibly set that the protagonists are the descendants of the original book such as Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi, the drama, whether it is the main plot or the story style, has nothing to do with "ghost blowing lights", which is basically equivalent to a pompous second version of "Where did the father of the ghost blowing lights go".
All the characters in the play have a pompous shape with honey juice, and Hu Tian, played by Wang Mainland, can't see his father's shadow at all, and he is a fool, not to mention that the acting skills are extremely embarrassing.
So much so that many netizens commented that:
If Hu Bayi had such a son, would he be angry to death?
In terms of plot, the story of the play is extremely protracted and low-grade, and the first half adds too many mentally retarded comedy plots and low-end cosplay-like fantasy action scenes, and also mixes with elements such as anime, fantasy, and nonsense to "stew", but the protagonists are not serious tomb robbers.
The writers and directors also let themselves go, adding all kinds of self-righteous humor, but actually very mentally retarded elements, such as:
The elevator was actually built on the Great Wall, and the Doubao Building is an ancient building with a horror and fantasy style decoration, but the building is equipped with electronic equipment such as microphones, LED screens, lifting stages, and the staff use candles to illuminate and so on.
Ming Xuande annual production doraemon statue
The play not only loses the atmosphere and heaviness of the original novels of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, but also makes the whole story like a farce, full of embarrassment and thunder from beginning to end.
Responsibly speaking, this drama is definitely the worst of all the drama versions of "Ghost Blowing Lights", and there is no one.
"The Yellow Skin Grave of the Ghost Blowing Lamp"
Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave
Release date: 2017-07-21
Douban score: 5.3
After the success of "The Ancient City", the sequel was naturally put on the agenda.
However, because the Noonday Sunshine team withdrew from production, the goose factory waved a big hand and handed over the project to the team of the famous director Guan Hu to redevelop and shoot the sequel "Yellow Skin Grave".
For a popular IP adaptation, it did not hit the iron while it was hot, but started another stove, coupled with the complete change of blood from the production team to the cast, which has foreshadowed the Waterloo of the show's reputation.
"Yellow Skin Grave" is the second story in the novel, which is a prequel to "Jingjie Ancient City". It tells the adventure of young Hu Bayi and Ji Wang Fatzi when they joined the army in the countryside in the northeast as Zhiqing, and mistakenly entered a collapsed yellow-skinned tomb.
Because the story takes place in the youth of the protagonist, the play obviously wants to create a "youth version of "Ghost Blowing Lights"" feeling, and the casting is basically young, but whether it is Hu Bayi, played by Ruan Jingtian, or Wang Fatzi, who is not fat at all, played by Liu Chao, there is no shadow of the original work.
The image of the young Hu Bayi in the original novel should have a kind of fierceness that is not stingy and dares to take risks. There are both the impulsive recklessness of young people and the calm and decisiveness of those who touch gold.
However, ruan Jingtian's performance does not have the same arrogance as in the original work, and the Taiwanese accent of that mouth is even more dramatic. And even if Hu Bayi is a Fujianese in the novel, it is difficult to make sense, but the shape of the hot head is also very out of line with the times!
As for the fat man, don't say it, the whole process is whirring, there is no skill, mainly responsible for flirting with the sister to fall in love.
What I know is to shoot "Ghost Blowing Lights", and those who don't know think this is a "Northeast Love Story"!
The key plot is also crazy to inject water, as if dragging the rhythm, forcing a lot of inexplicable scenes to the supporting roles. At the beginning, the scenes of Xu Erhei and his two mentally retarded brothers are about to catch up with Hu Bayi, and Xu Lu, who appears as the heroine, has a strange protagonist aura, and the dog blood romance drama is on the minute.
No wonder the show received a lot of bad reviews after it aired, with even more poisonous comments claiming:
It is 99 times worse than "The Ancient City of Essence"!
However, there is one thing to say, and the objective evaluation of this "Yellow Skin Tomb" is not completely without merit.
The show is at least entirely cinematic in terms of production. In particular, the creation of a sense of historical heaviness and horror atmosphere has reached a very high level, and scenes such as the northeast countryside, yellow leather tombs, and Japanese army crematoriums are quite exquisitely arranged. As for the special effects, they are also much more powerful than the previous one, at least it can be seen that they are careful.
Unfortunately, the show has a gorgeous appearance, but it is disappointing.
No matter how strong the "sense of movie", it can not hide the paleness of the show, and it is not surprising that the reputation has been cold after its broadcast.
Yunnan Worm Valley
Mojin: The Worm Valley
Release date: 2018-12-29
Douban score: 3.2
At the end of 2018, the director Fei Xing's "Yunnan Bug Valley" was released, which was produced by Huayi Brothers Pictures.
According to the film's information, the film was originally planned to be made into a trilogy, and has previously completed the filming of "Longling Labyrinth" and "Yunnan Bug Valley", in addition to a "Kunlun Shrine" in preparation.
But the strange thing is that the first release of the movie is the second "Yunnan Worm Valley". This also leads to the film not even explaining the basic character relationship and the cause of the story, and does not consider whether the audience can understand the plot before and after.
At the beginning of the movie, it is understated that the protagonist and his party are looking for the cloud dust beads because they are under cursed, so they set off for Yunnan to find the legendary tomb of the king.
You may not know at all why the protagonist is suffering from a curse, you may not understand the relationship between this newly added female number two and Professor Sun, and the protagonists such as Hu Bayi, or even why Wang Fatzi has to take off his clothes in public on stage to show the curse marks on his back...
All this screenwriter did not explain, and then the film entered the Yunnan scenery film mode, the protagonist and his party arrived in Yunnan on the first night is under the fireflies, I and I, sprinkle dog food on each other. At this point, 40 minutes have passed, and the director feels that he can no longer fool the audience, and finally decides to let the protagonist step on the quest and start the exploration mode in a group.
The remaining hour of the movie is basically a copycat version of "Tomb Raider", the plot has no logic at all, the degree of simplicity and brutality is like a game of breaking through, and most of the time is showing how a group of people organize to fight monsters.
Fight the piranhas first, then the big lizards, and then after a night's rest, then the big crabs. Then fight the big scorpion, finally finish fighting all the mobs, after arriving at the tomb of the king of the offering, the protagonist found that the original tomb of the king of the sacrifice itself is a thousand-year-old snake monster, so they finally have to fight the snake spirit boss.
It's not so much a grave-robbing adventure movie as it is a game of upgrading monsters.
Those classic elements of the original work, as well as the charm of the original characters, the blood and friendship of the gold team, are not shown in the movie.
The plot of the whole film is like a running account, the whole script collapses, people are like a needle felt, and the director also adds a lot of emotional scenes, just to finally make the role sacrifice when sensational, but it is counterproductive, not only failed to show the rich plot of the original, but also appeared to be dragging the dog's blood abnormality.
The story is even more illogical, and the dialogue lines are dry. One minute, the companion who fled by righteously and sternly saying "I will live to collect the body for you", the next minute will appear at the critical moment to shout "I will not go to hell who goes to hell" and then sacrifice himself to die, which really shows the unique temperament of the schizophrenia of this film.
If the film has any contribution, it is probably some highlights in the scene art and special effects.
The film's final box office of 150 million was doomed to fiasco, which directly led to the disappearance of the previously completed "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", and the originally prepared trilogy finale "Kunlun Shrine" is basically impossible to have.
"Angry Qing Xiangxi"
Candle In The Tomb: The Wrath Of Time
Release date: 2019-01-21
Douban score: 7.2
After "Yellow Skin Grave", the Guan Hu team regrouped and brought the third part of the series, "Nu Qing Xiangxi".
"Angry Qing Xiangxi" is adapted from the seventh novel in the series of novels "Ghost Blowing Lights" created by Tianxia Baxiang. Judging from the timeline, it can be counted as a prequel story of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series.
The protagonist is no longer the "Iron Triangle of Lieutenant Touching Gold", composed of Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and Wang Fatzi, but Shirley's ancestor Partridge Whistle, and Chen Yulou, the leader of the Four Gate Sects of Tomb Robbery.
Drawing on the lessons of "Yellow Skin Tomb", "Nu Qing Xiangxi" should be more faithful to the original work in the adaptation, and the plot returns to Xiangxi in the Republic of China period in flashbacks, telling the plot of the two factions of the four gates of the tomb robbery, the grass and green forest masters of the two factions of unloading ridges and moving mountains, plus a rogue warlord who went deep into xiangxi bottle mountain to explore the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty.
This volume of the novel has the feeling of a classical chivalrous novel, with a bias of sinister and strange. Details such as the old Xiongling Yizhuang at the beginning of the episode, the second aunt of the rat, and the ancient tanuki monument encountering the Yellow Demon Round Light Technique are simply restored.
In the subsequent plot, the mountain movers cooperate with the bandits to go deep into the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain. From the interpretation of the secret of "looking, hearing, asking and cutting" in the feng shui of the tomb robbery, to the secret art of the organ in the ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty, to the various rare and strange beasts encountered in the process of visiting the tomb, such as the nuqing chicken, the white ape, the six-winged centipede and other creatures.
The screenwriter strictly followed the details in the original work, which undoubtedly made the original party feel very close. The mysterious and secluded atmosphere combined with the thrilling and compact plot makes the fans full of a sense of substitution, and also adds a bit of legendary color to the adventure in the play.
In order to reproduce the whimsical ideas and the mysterious folk culture of Xiangxi in the original work, the drama adopts a large number of real-life shooting and special effects synthesis. He even recreated the important scenes described in the book, such as the Xiangxi Archive, the Bottle Mountain Palace, and the Tibetan Soldier Building.
In terms of casting, Chen Yulou, played by Pan Yueming, has good acting skills, and the relationship between him and partridge whistle, who is also enemies and friends, is interpreted very well.
As for the partridge whistle played by Gao Weiguang, it is undoubtedly a highlight of this work, not only extraordinary in skill, free in demeanor, but also generous and chivalrous, courageous, but it is a performance of the feeling of a worldly master with a heavy family mission.
However, this film still has the problem of interim plot delays.
The plot begins to paddle in the later stages, and there is a lot of irrelevant nonsense, giving people the feeling of high and low.
Fortunately, the actor's acting skills support the whole play, Chen Yulou, Partridge Whistle, Red Girl, and even the supporting roles of the warlord Luo Laowei, Shi Sister Hualing and other characters are very vivid, and their performance makes this drama not too collapsed.
"Ghost Blowing Lantern Witch Gorge Coffin Mountain"
(Web Movie)
Release: 2019-05-31
Douban score: 3.4
With the popularity of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" web series, it has also attracted many copycat works that follow the trend.
Among them, it is represented by many "Ghost Blowing Lights" network movies, most of which are low cost, rough production, thunderous plots, and special effects, but with the appeal of this IP, they have a certain market audience.
The first is this "Coffin Mountain of the Witch Gorge of the Ghost Blowing Lantern", adapted from the content of the last volume of the novel.
The plot tells the story of Shirley Yang's unexpected pregnancy that makes Hu Bayi, who is trapped in a blood seal curse, face more urgent pressure.
Yes, you read that right, the grave robbery motive in this movie is Shirley Young's accidental pregnancy!
Through Professor Sun's archaeological invitation, he learned that among the Fengshi monuments in Dixian Village, which was opened in 12 years, there may be a corpse that can be used to solve the spell. Who knew that the ancient ruins of Dixian Village were a dangerous place that was easy to enter and difficult to get out, and the gold team wade all the way to the danger, only to find that everything was actually Professor Sun's conspiracy.
In the film, it is not only the protagonist Wang Fatzi who is slimmed down, but also the whole story.
As the finale of the original book, "Coffin Mountain of Wuxia" is a super long content, much larger than the other seven volumes of the novel. It's almost impossible to put such a large amount of content into a 100-minute movie, so the screenwriter doesn't go into its essence, take its dross, and add a lot of crap.
First of all, Miss Yang's pregnancy setting is very thunderous, and the two most exquisite fragments in the novel, "Feiyan for the Bridge" and "Painting the Ground for the Door", have been brushed over by the director due to cost constraints. As a result, the movie has no waves, no subtleties, and the next grave is like a family joke.
At the beginning, everyone easily came to the outside of Wuxia Coffin Mountain, crossed a small stream to the mountain gate, drove away the poisonous things directly with candles, and immediately entered the ancient tomb. After going to the tomb, there is no sense of suspense and horror, not even a serious adventure film, not even the most basic qimen armor and gold touching techniques.
Speaking of actors, Miss Yang really apple myoglial hyaluronic acid hit too much, Hu Bayi Baijing did not look like a veteran at all, Wang Fatzi had the most serious problem, his mouth was mean, there was no one in his eyes, and his actions were exaggerated, making people look eager to smoke to death.
As a common disease of the big movie, the cheap service, the flood of special effects of wumao, the embarrassing acting skills of the actors and other issues are also a lot of films, even if the fast forward is three times the speed is also very ugly.
"Ghost Blowing Lantern Fury Qing Xiangxi"
Release: 2019-11-17
Douban score: 3.9
In the same year, there was also a network university that collided with the web drama version of the internet drama "Ghost Blowing Lights Of Rage Qing Xiangxi".
The plot of the film and basically copied the TV series, and even many plot design and scene props were not changed, which clearly showed that they wanted to rub the heat of the drama version.
However, because of the production cost, the plot can only be greatly reduced, many plots are inexplicable, and the tomb robbery plot is particularly sloppy. The poisonous gas of the whole canyon was done by a few packs of lime powder; the poisonous insects in the valley were handled by a dozen chickens, just like a joke.
As for the final ultimate puzzle, the original Bottle Mountain Tomb turned out to be an anti-gravity space formed by an alien meteorite, all the people and things that entered it would be reversed, and the scene special effects seemed to come to outer space, and Newton could not hold back the coffin board when he saw it.
The Legend of the King of Yunnan Worm Valley
Release date: 2020-01-17
Douban score: 2.9
As the name suggests, this network is adapted from the third volume of the novel "Yunnan Worm Valley".
The drama is basically in the cottage "Dragon Hunting Tips" in terms of styling, and the plot is to extract a few paragraphs from the novel to build a routine framework, fill in several poison mechanisms in the original, and make up enough for 80 minutes, and the big BOSS at the end of the "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" has moved the human-faced spider in "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth".
The preparation of the first half of the whole play is too long, the key scenes in the second half are too short, the special effects are basically a 2-cent version, the process of entering the tomb is a smooth mess, and finally the purpose of the tomb robbery is also a mystery, throw a bomb out, see the end and do not understand what the relationship is with the legend of the king.
The proposed name is: "The Legend of Money Laundering in Yunnan Worm Valley".
The only highlight of this film may be that there is a cameo by the well-known avant-garde "performance artist" Wang Li Dani in the film!
Dragon Ridge Labyrinth
Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns
Release date: 2020-04-01
Douban score: 8.3
Not long ago, the fourth part of the drama version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" was launched.
The main actor is still Pan Yueming, who once turned the head Chen Yulou into Hu Bayi, a lieutenant who touched the gold. The other two members of the gold trio: the heroine Shirley Yang, played by Zhang Yuqi. Wang Fatzi is played by Jiang Chao, the "Li Dazui" in "The Legend of Wulin".
If nothing else, this version wins just from the casting!
"Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" is the second part of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series of novels, and the plot undertakes "The Ancient City of Jingji". At this time, Hu and Wang bid farewell to their gold careers after experiencing the adventure of the ancient city. With Shirley Yang's patronage, the two turned to antique dealers who set up a stall in Beijing's Panjiayuan and went to Gulan County, Shaanxi Province, because they were deceived by the story of embroidered shoes made up by villagers.
In the territory of Gulan County, the three reunite with the returned Shirley Yang, learn that they may have contracted the curse in the ancient city of Jingjie, and hear the heroic story of the partridge whistle and the dust master's search for the dust beads. In order to find the cloud dust beads that can break the curse, the gold team went deep into the tomb of Li Chunfeng in the Longling Labyrinth, worked together, turned the danger into a disaster, and finally found the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book.
The drama has received a lot of praise for its high-quality production, high restoration of the original work, rich and full character image, and suspenseful plot design. Whether it is the fishbone temple robber cave hidden in the hinterland of the mountain, or the giant spider with human face in the ancient tomb, it can be called a god restoration.
What is particularly shocking is that the passages in which the gold-touching squad encounters the "Hanging Soul Ladder" and the "Tomb in the Tomb" are very addictive. In addition, the episodes where Partridge Whistle followed Master Chen's Elder Dust to the Treasure Hunt for the BlackWater City in Western Xia were amazing.
In terms of adaptation, the screenwriter integrated the plot packaging in the original book, did not overly change the plot, and adopted a multi-line narrative technique to make the whole play become tense.
The casting of the actors, this version is also more in line with the original work, and the brave and responsible Hu Bayi is revealed in the vigor, the shirley Yang who combines tenacity, strength and wisdom, and this time Wang Fatzi is finally really fat!
It is worth mentioning that there are also those supporting roles in the play, two generations of Chen Yulou competing on the same stage, the vicious but righteous villain Ma Bold, the timid and fearful farmer Li Chunlai, and even the third elder who is often taught to "use ideas and wisdom", all of which are impressive.
All of this makes this version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" finally have the taste of the original!
In addition, it is worth mentioning that from this point on, the main cast of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" web series was finally fixed, and the lead actor Pan Yueming and others signed a contract of 5 at one time.
This means that the next few drama versions of Hu Bayi, Wang Fatzi and Shirley Yang will not be casually replaced!
Looking forward to next year's "Yunnan Worm Valley"
"The Last Mountain Mover of the Dragon Ridge Labyrinth"
(Web Interactive Drama)
Release date: 2020-04-08
Douban score: 8.2
During the hit of "Longling Labyrinth", the filmmakers also launched an interactive short drama "The Last Mountain Mover of Longling Labyrinth".
Speaking of this interactive drama "The Last Mountain Mover", it can be said that it complements "Longling Labyrinth", first of all, some of the plots in this interactive drama have appeared in "Longling Labyrinth", but they are more detailed, such as how Partridge Whistle found the dust master, and there are also related plot introductions in interactive dramas.
In addition to supplementing the plot content of "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", because of the addition of interaction, the audience can make their own choices, and each choice may unlock a new plot, so although "The Last Mountain Mover of the Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" is about the plot of partridge whistle to Blackwater City, this plot has several different endings.
In addition, Hu Bayi's grandfather Hu Guohua appeared in the short drama, which can also be regarded as making the world view of the drama version of "Ghost Blowing Lights" more complete.
"Ghost Blowing Lantern Dragon Ridge Labyrinth"
Release date: 2020-04-02
"Ghost Blowing Lantern Dragon Ridge Shrine"
Release: 2020-04-24
At the time when the drama version of "Longling Labyrinth" in Goose Factory was popular, the domestic copycat network blockbuster merchants were not idle.
In order to rub the heat, Shunshi launched two network movies adapted from "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", which were broadcast before and after.
These two works must be put together to talk about -
Because they are basically a bad film, but they have been forcibly dismantled into two.
First of all, "Ghost Blowing Lantern Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", the whole film is completely hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat, but the plot of partridge whistle to Blackwater City tomb robbery is transferred to Hu Bayi's body.
The production of the film is very copycat, almost most of the scenes are completed in the indoor green screen, the plot is also sparse and chaotic, since the protagonist is going to Blackwater City, then where is the "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth"?
The next "Dragon Ridge Shrine of Ghost Blowing Lights" is to greatly reduce the plot of the Dragon Ridge Labyrinth in the original novel and adapt it into this Dragon Ridge Shrine.
The plot of the two movies is almost the same routine, not only are the villains arranged, but the villains are also weak chicken special effects. And because it is forcibly divided into two movies, resulting in a lot of plots can not be connected, the actors' lines are not lip-syncing, and people are out of the play.
As for the actor's performance, it was a disaster, and the worst was probably the greasiest version of Hu Bayi in history played by Lin Yushen. It forced Hu Bayi to become a greasy ruffian, slanting his head and playing handsome talking only half of the corners of his mouth, which made people simply sick.
As a cottage network big ——
Rotten is not terrible, what is terrible is the shameless practice of the filmmakers who want to use the same bad film to circle money twice.
The same people and production team, even the end of the film without changing the tidbits, actually cut into two movies.
The last one borrowed the original name "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" to put some story scraps into a movie, sold to a certain qiyi, and went online to catch up with the heat of the drama version; the second part changed the skin, cut the rest of the story into a movie and sold it to a cool, and the line just caught up with the finale of the drama version.
The same bad film, harvesting the traffic and heat of the two platforms at the same time, rotten is really bad, but the film side is also really shameless.
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(Web Movie)
Release: 2020-12-24
Douban score: 3.8
Although the drama version of "Kunlun Shrine" is still far away, the wangda movie version has been launched first.
Zhou Patrol in "White Night Pursuit" can't solve the case, and turns to tomb robbery and becomes Hu Bayi.
This film tells the story of Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, Wang Fatzi, in order to unlock the secret of the cloud dust beads, and the antique merchant Ming Uncle and his party who want to find the "crystal corpse", they formed an expedition team to go to the ruins of the Guge Kingdom to find the guge silver eyes and ice crystal bones, but accidentally encountered the mysterious giant beast Great White Ape, as well as the white wolf king and other crises, and finally got out of danger after several twists and turns.
The film is relatively cheap in production, there are many places where the special effects and scenes are simple and gang-like, and due to the time limit, the story is over-compressed, the plot is relatively fluid, and many of the wonderful settings in the original work are brushed over.
However, the first two-thirds of the plot of the movie is still in line with the original work, and what is more outrageous is that the screenwriter forcibly inserted a layer of reversal into the story, and the adopted daughter of Uncle Ming in the original work became the main villain in this film, and she was actually a descendant of the Demon Kingdom, but it was basically a tool person used to forcibly create conflict.
"The Secret Treasure of Xiangxi with Ghost Blowing Lanterns"
(Web Movie)
Release: 2020-09-30
Douban score: 4.0
The ghost of iron blows the lamp, and the water touches the gold and iron triangle.
After "Angry Qing Xiangxi", there is another "Xiangxi Secret Treasure".
This version of Hu Bayi is played by Zhang Zhiyao, the story tells that after returning from the Longling Labyrinth, Hu Bayi, in order to save the poisonous big gold teeth, led the golden iron triangle into the Xiangxi Bottle Mountain, looking for the long-lost six-winged centipede in the jianghu legend, and obtaining the story of life-saving Neidan.
The story of Shirley Yang's grandfather in the original work was actually changed to an adventure story of touching the golden iron triangle in this film.
This film is actually a viral zombie film with a tomb robber skin, and when you see the beginning, you know the end.
Coupled with production problems, the whole film does not have any ups and downs, boring barriers and monsters, and embarrassing sensational scenes.
The six-winged centipede, which is a monster in the tomb, appears to fly out, and the result is after a fight. It was actually the stone bridge that broke and fell to his death, and when I saw this, I felt as if the screenwriter was mocking the audience's intelligence.
"The Qinling Dragon Grotto of Makino' Mystery"
Release: 2020-05-03
Douban score: 2.8
With the gimmick of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" episode, a cottage movie that does not touch the golden iron triangle.
The story tells that Zhang Yingchuan, a descendant of the Faqiu clan, after an accident in a tomb search for medicine, took his niece Xiaoye to live in seclusion, the uncle and nephew were dependent on each other but quarreled continuously, Xiaoye was bent on wanting to know the truth of his father's death, carrying his uncle to find the mystery with his life, and entering the thousand-year-old tomb guarded by the digging army, causing a struggle between the digger army and the Faqiu family.
The film takes the Faqiu Tianguan Yimei, who is not mentioned too much in the original work, as the protagonist, but in fact, the film has nothing to do with the original work, and Zhang Yingchuan in the novel is obviously a descendant of Zhang Sanchain, a lieutenant who touched the gold school, and as a result, this film also makes him a tomb robbery master.
The whole film is more than 60 minutes long, part of it is a drowsy dog blood memory, part of it is awkward and boring to play, and the real grave robbery plot is pitiful.
"The Guardian of the Touch of The Golden Seal"
Release date: 2021-05-01
Douban score: 3.3
Although the adaptation of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" film and television drama is quite popular, it has nothing to do with the original novel author Tianxia Baxiang, because the copyright of the novel is no longer in his hands, and therefore, Tianxia Baxiang had to re-create a new set of "Ghost Blowing Lights" novels after the end of the eight volumes of "Ghost Blowing Lights" as a reboot prequel of the "Touching Jinjue" series.
Published in 2016, the novel is a new series of tomb robbery novels created by Tianxia Basing, the style is still inclusive of folk strange talk, suspense thrillers, tomb robbery adventures and other elements, the protagonists are still Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan, but there is no Shirley Yang.
The story is set in the 1960s and can be said to be a prequel to Ghost Blowing Lights.
Therefore, the movie poster impressively wrote five words: Ghost Blowing Lights New Universe.
The movie tells the story of Hu Bayi and Fat Zi's first adventure of robbing a tomb when they were zhiqing in the northeast.
But after watching the whole film, it can be said that it is rotten without any new ideas, the tomb robbery novel has become a national treasure, the word touching gold in the title has become a joke, the crew's restoration of the sense of age is even more non-existent, the scene after entering the ancient tomb of the underground palace is very simple, the ground wall in the tomb is clean and does not look like a dusty ancient tomb for thousands of years, and the props such as the coffin and the touch of the golden seal in the important tomb are also full of plastic feeling.
In fact, in the final analysis, this kind of tomb robbery adventure movie needs to have excellent technical cost support, so there is no big production, and there is no quality at all.
Release: 2021-06-05
Douban score: 5.9
This film is not strictly a tomb robbery movie, but closer to a suspense thriller.
The film focuses on restoring the plot of the original young Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi mistakenly entering the Wong Tai Sin Temple and encountering multi-layered illusions, and the overall style is terrifying and terrifying, basically a mountain village strange talk + ultra-low version of "Inception Space".
The film is adapted only to the first third of the novel, and, as is customary, all the crisis and horror experiences are explained in the form of yellow-skinned magic.
The score of the film in the same kind of network movie is relatively high, with 5.9 points, but this score is also the background of peers.
Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley
Release: 2021-08-30
Douban score: None
At the end of this issue, it ends with the web drama "Yunnan Bug Valley" that has just started.
The drama is the fourth part of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" web series, created by the original team of the previous work "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth", and has been highly anticipated as early as before the start of broadcasting.
The story of this season continues "Longling Labyrinth", which tells the story of Hu Bayi and others who travel to the Worm Valley in Yunnan to find the tomb of the lost king of the ancient Dian Kingdom and look for the dust beads.
This part of the original work is the most wonderful plot of the book, and it also best reflects the whimsical ideas of the author Tianxia Basing on the plot of the tomb robbery expedition, especially the description of the strange vine techniques and various terrifying creatures in the primitive rainforest, which is breathtaking.
From the beginning of entering the Shalong Shan Shui Cave, various wonders and eerie horror plots emerge in an endless stream, gourd cave, sinkhole deep pool, ghost signal, knife-tooth salmon, stone figurines, blood coffin corpses, cave dead drift, Huo's undead insects, baby warts, black scaled fish people, Taiyi corpse caves, etc., all kinds of thrilling bridge sections are overwhelmed, and this adventure trip to touch the golden iron triangle can be described as nine deaths.
The adventure element, combined with the grave robbery plot, is undoubtedly the best combination, and the show is therefore closer to the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" style modern adventure film genre than the previous three seasons.
The first 5 episodes of the original work of the restoration degree is very high, continuing the "Longling Labyrinth" in the production of the advantages, the whole drama used a lot of live-action shooting, photography and art is completely cinematic, the opening of the Natural Scenery of yunnan rainforest is eye-catching, and the subsequent Shading Dragon Mountain Water Cave, the wreckage of the plane on the old banyan tree, the mountain temple in the Worm Valley and other important scenes are also very suitable for the original.
Of course, the show is not perfect, and judging from the 5 episodes that premiered, the change of the script is still a big controversy.
The above is the current version of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" film and television drama that the fan shadow jun personally inventories.
This year, there is also a movie "Ghost Blowing Lantern Heavenly Star Technique", starring Zhang Hanyu, Lu Jingshan and Jiang Wu, this film was successful as early as 2019, but so far there is only one trailer flower, from the trailer point of view, it is very worrying about the quality of the finished film. We will talk about it when it is officially released.