In the field of domestic fantasy films, 1982's "Qi Men Dunjia" is definitely a ceiling-level work.
Born 41 years ago, this work is an eye-opener for the outside world with its fantasy imagination that transcends its time.
Throughout the film, the film constantly appears a variety of imaginative spell scenes, which can be called a dark spell encyclopedia...
There are both wonderful dementors;
During a fight, nailing the opponent's shadow can make the opponent immobilized.
There is also a fairy-like way of underneath;
Finely chop the picture with the rooster on it, and in the next second, you will harvest a bowl of hot chicken noodles.
There are also paper knife dolls that have brought childhood shadows to countless people;
This white-faced imp nested in the wine altar spit out a paper ball in his mouth, stretched out the paper ball, and this paper directly turned into a machete...
Despite the special effects of the 80s, these designs can only be achieved by borrowing and other means,
But even so, such imaginative "spell ideas" are now quite novel.
This "Qi Men Dunjia", filmed by Yuan Heping and Yuan Jiaban, is also known as a benchmark for domestic fantasy films because of its cross-era imagination.
But this benchmark is admired, but it also makes latecomers dare not touch it.
Because the imagination of this work is too high, the difficulty of remaking is too great, and few people have tried to remake the IP in the following forty years.
Even in 2017, the eighth master Yuan Heping himself personally restarted the IP and started filming a new "Qi Men Dunjia",
But after the plot set the alien as a big boss and let a group of mages fight against it, the entire movie style also jumped out of its original characteristics and ran off track to become a "Chinese-style Marvel".
It was difficult to live up to expectations, and the film only scored 4.4 points in the end.
And this IP, which even the author himself does not control very much, has recently been tried again.
Who has such boldness?
This time, it was two Chinese-speaking actresses.
A few days ago, "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" starring Golden Rooster actress Liu Xiaoqing and Xinke Golden Image actress Liu Yase landed on the Internet.
Due to the failure of the previous film version of the remake, and due to the network nature of this new film, the outside world is not very optimistic about this movie.
But not long after it was broadcast, the film unexpectedly counterattacked and achieved extremely high popularity.
After landing on the network platform, it has won the popularity championship of the whole network 12 times.
The box office of more than 25 million also makes the film far ahead of the online big account list.
In the comment area, there were a lot of praise for the film.
Some people said that they saw it in "Qi Men Dun Jia 2":
The correct way to open Chinese fantasy films can also be sold for hundreds of millions in theaters
Some netizens said that this is:
Domestic network big ceiling
There are even people who think that the film can enter cinemas:
In this way, you can consider the upper theater line.
So, this brave remake of the top IP of Netda, is the wind review exaggerated, or is there really dry goods?
Let's talk about the plot first.
The beginning of the main line of "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" is very peculiar.
The story starts with a pig.
In a small town, a domestic pig belonging to a rich local man changed.
Its body continues to expand every day, and it grows into a mammoth-like physique.
How has the rich man of the town ever seen this kind of battle?
So, he hurriedly asked for people everywhere and asked Wu Yin (played by Zhang Xiaochen), a famous god operator in town, to help.
Although Wu Yin claims to be a divine arithmetic, he is actually a charlatan.
Without diamonds, he soon found himself stepping on thunder.
After arriving at the scene, he was not only frightened by the huge appearance of the pig, but he was also frightened into fainting after witnessing the scene of the pig eating people.
When he woke up, there was a strange scene in front of him.
Not only was a humanoid moth frantically pounced on him, but beside him, there was also an inexplicable thread-like creature that sneaked into his body...
It turned out that the meat ball that blended with Wu Yin's body was called Tai Sui.
As the head of the gods, it can help the host increase its power and bring back the dead, but it will also dominate the host's consciousness in turn.
By chance, Wu Yin happened to replace the pig as the new host of Tai Sui.
Under the inexplicable influx of divine power in the body, Wu Yin, who was manipulated by Tai Sui to partially conscious, refused the request of the demon lowering person Feng Xiaoxiao (played by Liu Yase) to remove Tai Sui for him.
But after winning the "jackpot", he also became the focus of jianghu.
Many evil demons also coveted the spiritual power of Tai Sui, and the whole world rushed towards Wu Yin.
The big demon Tianxie, that is, the character played by the 70-year-old Liu Xiaoqing, even planned a plan for the world.
Following this adventure of the male protagonist, a fantasy showdown between the two camps of good and evil also began...
Judging from the above story synopsis, the plot is also quite fantastical.
From the perspective of presentation effect, the film also has several highlights worth mentioning.
01. The look and feel is novel, both scary and funny
I have to say that the look and feel of this "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" is very complicated.
After watching the 90-minute movie, you will be scared by a lot of horror pictures, but the next set of shots, you will be immediately amused.
Let's start with the horror side;
Around the demon dance caused by the birth of the Tai Sui, one after another gloomy passages like "Liaozhai Zhi Wei" followed.
The first scene of the film sets the tone of Chinese horror;
At this point, the camera focuses on a village shrouded in night.
In order to treat the blind child in the family, a peasant couple is trying to ask for the age of the elderly.
But under this movement, they did not invite Tai Sui, but they were instead found to be too old evil insects.
At this point, the originally kind couple also switched to another strange painting style.
With the dark tone and background sound, the couple's two smiling faces make people look panicked.
Then, as one monster after another revealed its true body, this Chinese horror flavor was further upgraded.
Whether it is a moth with a human face, a spider crawling all over the ground, or even an upside-down corpse that suddenly appears, it brings us a double impact physically and psychologically.
The large-scale direct pictures frightened many audiences.
But after creating a horror atmosphere, the screenwriter also played the other extreme, neutralizing this movie-watching mood with enough laughter.
Enough laughter is also another highlight of the plot design of this film.
With the male protagonist Wu Yin being too old to be on the body, he also produced a lot of laughter under the "consciousness conflict" with the tai sui in his body.
The first time the two sides got together, they disagreed over "what to eat for dinner".
In the play, the male protagonist is chased by evil insects, and the taisui in his body backhands subdue the evil insects for him.
In the next scene, the hungry Tai Sui manipulates the male protagonist's body again, and in turn wants to devour the evil worm.
Looking at the disgusting body of the bug, the male protagonist who is about to passively devour the dark cuisine highlights a bad word.
And his helpless words of pleading are even more funny:
Eating raw will have diarrhea, can we change one?
In the subsequent plot, there are many such paragraphs.
The male protagonist was arrested for stealing and quickly chased, looking at the three male ding, Tai Sui ignited his appetite again.
Therefore, at this time, it was the turn of the male protagonist himself to exercise all kinds of restraint, restraint, and restraint.
With the distorted fission expression in his eyes, this tossed movement is quite funny.
This plot of the male protagonist with too old to break into the rivers and lakes also burst out a lot of laughs, so that the rhythm of the plot is "relaxed and measured".
To some extent, this is also similar to the 1982 version of "Qi Men Dunjia"'s funny and terrifying thriller comedy style.
02. The concept is exquisite, there are fantasy spells and suspense reversals
As a work that remakes fantasy IP, this "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" also pays tribute to its predecessors in fantasy imagination.
Around the theme of the good and evil camp "looking for the old age", we have also seen a lot of wonderful spell designs.
On this side, there is a door with its own teleportation;
When the monster was a scourge on the world, and the people dispersed, the "house figure" held by this mage came in handy.
In the next second, the house directly expands into a gate.
This word is not in line with the function of self-transmission, and Da Qiao called him professional when he saw it.
On the other side, another universal telescopic umbrella;
The umbrella in the heroine's hand can be turned into a defensive shield to resist the group attack of insects.
Folded up, it can transform into a mini sentinel and wander around to spy on what's ahead.
In the battle between good and evil, both sides show their talents and skills.
Including the mage who controls the paper man Didi Dai, the evil insect that infiltrates the human body to operate, and the spider array of the villain Tianxie, all of which are novel.
And the screenwriter's plot conception is not only fantasy.
At the same time, the screenwriter also set up a lot of suspense points for reversal and reversal.
Throughout the plot, the screenwriter set up a lot of foreshadowing that echoed before and after, so that the sense of suspense spread.
For example, the silent "disguise" of some characters;
In the early plot, the male protagonist once swaggered to cheat an old beggar into taking away money, and this scene also flashed at the beginning.
But in the middle of the plot, the old woman's reappearance made the outside world suddenly realize.
It turned out that the old beggar was a disciple of the Mist Yin Sect in disguise, and she had been observing the male protagonist for a long time.
And the motive of the fog hidden door to focus on the male protagonist is also a foreshadowing for the subsequent finale.
Another example, the identity of the male protagonist is reversed;
In the early plot, the screenwriter only explained that he was too old to be on top.
But with the laying out of the foreshadowing, the outside world slowly feels that the identity of the character is not simple.
From the fog hidden door to its key care, and even willing to break the rules to accept its entry,
To the villain Tianxie's sentence to the male protagonist "long time no see", it all hints at the character's not simple.
With the awakening of the male protagonist at the end, the foreshadowing previously thrown out by the screenwriter echoed one by one, so that the male protagonist's identity was finally reversed.
The logical reversal design with a beginning and a tail also improves the watchability of the entire film.
There are so many ingenious burials, which is indeed quite rare in the net.
03, two movie queens and one play, but this man is also very "stealing the scene"
After talking about the plot, it's time to talk about the actor level.
In the field of the net, the cast of this "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" is definitely a top match.
Co-starring Academy Award actress Liu Yase and Golden Rooster actress Liu Xiaoqing, the film has a lineup of actresses who have reduced dimensionality in the Internet circle.
In this film, the performance of the two is also remarkable.
New Ke Golden Statue actress Liu Yase plays the Demon Slower, Feng Xiaoxiao.
Its character highlights a cold painting style.
Due to the "death" of his former partner, Feng Xiaoxiao has always been low because of self-blame, and the process of lowering the demon has been pulling his face.
And when facing the monsters, she also refracted this emotion into the demons, with fierce and sharp eyes, with an aura that shocked the demons.
And the character's style of treating people coldly and treating demons fiercely on the other hand was also performed quite brilliantly.
Golden Rooster actress Liu Xiaoqing plays the biggest villain of the whole film, Tianxie.
This 70-year-old actor also uses old spicy acting skills to perform the villain aura of the character.
In Liu Xiaoqing's first scene, she used three different styles of performance to perform the aura of the role.
In the plot, a passerby couple mistakenly broke into the forbidden place.
Facing the other party who knew nothing, Tian Xie pretended to be a village old lady and invited the other party to come in and rest.
But seemingly polite, she constantly looked at passers-by with a stagnant face and straight hooked eyes, and the gloomy aura of the character was revealed here.
And after successfully tricking passers-by in, she quickly switched back to the maniac aura.
Looking at the children of passers-by, she approached with a sly smile, and "telled" her love for children in a laughing and crying style...
This crazy attitude also makes people look a little hairy.
And after an operation scares and eats passers-by, the character returns to its original strong aura.
Looking at the subordinates who rushed over, she stared at the other party with gloomy and fierce eyes, urging the other party to find Tai Sui as soon as possible.
In just a few minutes, Liu Xiaoqing's back and forth switching of the three auras back and forth was quite brilliant.
The old drama bones are really not covered.
In addition to the two actresses, the performance of 37-year-old Zhang Xiaochen is also worth mentioning.
Playing the upper body of the Tai Tai, he performed the "sense of division" of the character's attributes.
When he was put on by Tai Shi, the tangled appearance of the character's hand and mouth separation was very appropriate.
And when he was suppressed by the female wife, his quickly switched tricks and painting styles were even more hilarious.
And after getting out of the control of Tai Sui, the characters range from cynical greasy to righteous and awe-inspiring righteousness, and they are also all kinds of seamless connections.
And his play also made the acting content of this film rise again.
04. Although there are many advantages, the limitations of the network cannot be hidden
Of course, as a large network, this "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" also has many intuitive shortcomings, which directly leads to the Douban score of the second part being only 5.6 points.
First, the plot is suspected of "applying" other IPs;
Many plot settings in the film will make people feel familiar.
Whenever the Mist Hidden Gate people complete the demon descent mission, they will always use goldfish spells to erase the eyewitness memory.
And this setting of erasing memory is also reminiscent of the classic setting of the Hollywood movie "Men in Black" using a pen to erase memory.
In addition, the symbiosis between Tai Sui and the male protagonist in the film is also questioned to borrow from the European and American movie "Venom".
Too old is also good and evil, the attributes of the arrogant personality, and its various gags with the male protagonist are also similar to the original "Venom".
Even the picture when parasitizing is very close to the style of Venom painting.
And this also made the comment area issue a lot of complaints and ridicule.
second, a slight "off-topic" for the IP of "Qi Men Dunjia";
The core highlight of the original 1982 version of "Qi Men Dunjia" is to display various fancy spells.
Relying on techniques such as borrowing positions, Yuan Heping fancy showed us more than ten fantasy spells such as transfiguration, crossing oil pots, and building paper bridges.
Compared with the protagonist's revenge line in some routines in the original work, the imaginative spell design is the main reason why it can explode for 40 years.
Although this "Qi Men Dun Jia 2" retains the characteristics of the original version and presents some thoughtful spells, the overall proportion is not high.
The plot is more focused, or lies in the main plot line of "too old symbiote".
And this also deviates from the core highlight of the 1982 "Qi Men Dunjia" IP.
In short, the IP is a remake, but it does not capture the most positive taste of the IP.
These two shortcomings also restrict the upper limit of the film's rating.
Of course, as a network with limited cost, we really can't demand too much.
In general, under the obvious limitations of cost production, the highlights of the film are still greater than the slots.
It does a good job both from the perspective of acting and the entertainment of the plot.
And with a certain special effect bonus, the fantasy color of the whole work is also very good.
Whether it is in the field of the Internet or put into domestic fantasy films, the film is also a good film.
As the so-called flaws are not hidden, this network is filmed as a whole quite fine.
Obviously, this time, the 70-year-old Liu Xiaoqing tested the water network and barely passed.
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