The first cool drama in April is finally here.
"Train to Busan" Yeon Sang-ho shot again. Netflix investment, adapted from the popular Japanese classic Korean drama.
As soon as it was launched, it exploded directly among Chinese, Japanese and Korean netizens.
It's not surprising that this IP is too peculiar.
Hitting people is no longer enjoyable, and simply fighting across races.
In the opening scene, the monsters slapped each other on the road, and the coolness and excitement were both full.
The scale is also unprecedented.
The front row reminds that this drama is not suitable for watching during meals.
Without further ado, take off directly -
On the wilderness road, a car is rushing wildly, and in the night, a monster with giant wings and a flowering head flies over, straddles the car, and directly wants to stop.
As a result, it stimulated a quiet girl in the car to transform,
Grow huge tentacles and engage in a fight with monsters.
I couldn't get enough of the fight in the car, so I got out of the car and continued.
The monster had no intention of fighting, changed back into human form, and after confirming the identity of the girl, he wanted to go back to his life, but he just opened his wings and flew into the sky, and was directly pierced by the girl's tentacles, and fell to the ground.
Good guy, I shouted good guy, the first episode made people go up, and I finished 6 episodes overnight.
It's so cool, it's been a long time since I've seen such a cool Netflix Korean drama.
Today, I would like to give you a strong Amway -
Parasite: Gray Troop.
When Netflix bought the rights from the big financier Netflix and decided to remake it, many fans were looking forward to it.
Japanese cartoonist Iwa Mingjun's classic comics, which won the 27th Nebula Awards in 1996, are definitely childhood memories in the hearts of several generations.
In 2014, the movie of the same name starring Someya Shota "Parasitic Beast" made Japanese high school students Shinichi Izumi and "Little Right" popular all over Asia, although the scores of the upper and lower parts have only just broken 7, but the score of the animated version is as high as 9.2 points.
In a word, it's a classic.
In terms of the main creator, it can be called the king of the lineup.
Director Yeon Sang-ho, it has been eight years since the release of "Train to Busan", although in the past eight years, Yeon Sang-ho's works have been difficult to satisfy.
But dramas such as "Hell Minister" are still not low.
Looking at the starring role, the heroine played by Gu Jiaohuan can be described as quite eye-catching.
Lee Jung-hyun, the originator of the Korean Wave, has a big image subversion.
And the most explosive is undoubtedly Sugata Masaki's cameo, Xiao You's out, full of feelings.
Although there are only six episodes in the whole show, and the actual length of each episode is about 36 minutes, it can only be regarded as a beginning for the IP of parasitic beasts, but Netflix is still ambitious this time.
It's not a remake of the Japanese version, but a new plot, just borrowing a parasitic beast setting.
If you want to describe this Netflix Korean drama in one sentence, that is:
Localized parasitic beast + monster human smash brawl.
The Japanese film version is not a success, and the Korean version, with Yeon Sang-ho's state in recent years, continues to destroy the classics?
After staying up all night chasing after it, I can draw conclusions-
Fans of the original book are destined to be dissatisfied.
But for passers-by and spectators, there was no rollover.
Netflix gives money, Yeon Sang-ho contributes, the story has a beginning and an end, the rhythm is in place, the special effects level is online, there is no blunt remake of the Japanese version, but it brings surprises.
For Yeon Sang-ho, this is his most mastered work after "Train to Busan".
For viewers who recently want Netflix to refund their money, this drama has finally captured Netflix's conscience.
01 The parasitic beast pierced the sky, and the man and beast exchanged fire directly at the beginning, and the rhythm of the plot was ruthless
Today, the parasitic beast setting is not new.
As the audience's tastes become more and more picky, it is not easy to shoot something that suits their appetite.
But this drama just became that surprise.
From the very beginning, the setting is very attractive -
Turn the entire Korean music festival into a killing playground.
At the beginning of the story, a parasitic beast descends from the sky,
A drunk rich boy is drilled into the ear by a parasitic beast, and when he wakes up, he suddenly mutates, tearing apart the best DJ beauty in the whole show first.
Then the music festival went on a killing spree, with human faces torn and brains bursting, and the entire music festival became a slaughterhouse for parasitic beasts.
The story is not hidden at all, and the opening scene directly lets the parasitic beast see the light.
Next, three big scenes make the story go straight to the climax.
Session 1: Parasitism.
The vector of the parasitic beast, which emerges from the ocean and resembles a cold virus in shape, burrows into the human body, that is, completes the parasitism.
Usually doves occupy magpie nests, eat all host brains, and use human form to survive.
But the heroine is different.
I don't know if it's good luck or bad luck for her.
The heroine Zheng Xiuren was originally an ordinary introverted girl who worked in a supermarket.
Once after work, I encountered a manic mania, and after a quarrel, I rode a little donkey home, and was followed by a manic car and hit by a manic, and was stabbed several times in the back.
When the danger was imminent, the parasitic beast appeared, first got on Hidehito's body, and then activated the emergency mechanism, directly splitting the manic mania in half.
But it was this serious injury that saved the heroine.
Because this parasitic beast Heidi can't come up and eat human brains like other parasitic beasts, but has to be busy helping the heroine repair her body to save her life, and as a result, the heroine has become a mutant, and only when she is in danger, Heidi can control her body, which is equivalent to a forced symbiosis.
With the special system of mutants, the heroine has escaped the screening of parasitic beasts by humans, and only the police uncle who really cares about her senses that something is wrong.
And at this moment, the second big drama begins: hunting.
A battle has begun between the Grey Forces and the Parasites.
Choi Jun-kyung, the head of the gray unit special services team played by Lee Jung-hyun, appears.
The Grey Force formed after the festival massacre had only one purpose: to destroy all parasites.
At this time, the parasitic beast is in the middle of an immortal jump, and it is the second most beautiful parasitic beast in the whole play.
As soon as the drunken noble son was introduced into the bureau, the gray troops took action.
This scene also completely shows the strength of the director's scene scheduling, which is interlocking and thrilling.
The Grey Troop is well-trained and uses heavy lethal shotguns as their main weapon, sending the beautiful parasitic beast flying directly with one shot.
When you encounter a difficult fight, you will open a net to capture,
Immediately after being trapped, the shotgun is concentrated and killed, and there is no nonsense with the parasite at all.
What's even more unfortunate is that the gray army also has a secret weapon - the heroine's husband, who turned into a parasitic beast, was put on his head and turned into the parasitic beast radar of the gray army.
This hunt is based on the radar signal.
Originally, this hunting mode was tried and tested.
But parasitic beasts are not monsters that only occupy human bodies, but sapient beings, and when they are organized in the form of a church, they quickly start to fight back.
This is the third big scene at the beginning: counter-killing.
Since the secret weapon of the gray army is the parasitic beast radar, then send the human inner ghost to secretly infiltrate the parasitic beast radar's car and complete the assassination.
Because parasitic beasts will call the police when they get close, humans won't.
This trick is indeed very clever, and the first generation of parasitic beast radar is offline.
But Choi Junjing soon found the second-generation radar - the heroine, Zheng Xiuren.
Accidentally discovered that the human ghost was next to the police uncle.,In order to protect the uncle, he infiltrated the parasitic beast assembly site with the male owner.,Want to touch the melon.。
As a result, he was captured by the gray troops in the chaotic battle.
In this way, it became the new radar of the gray troops.
After the last time the radar went offline, the gray troops strengthened the guards, and the trick of human ghosts was useless.
The parasitic beast has a new trick: if the soft one doesn't work, then the hard one will come.
Directly create chaos on the bridge where the gray troops escort the heroine, start a war with the gray troops, and then get close to eliminate the heroine, in a word, it is tough.
In this scene, the human body is flying all over the screen, with an absolute large scale, and even brings out a bit of the charm of a B-grade movie.
But if you want to kill the heroine, I'm afraid it's not that easy.
And the heroine, who was lucky enough to be saved by the male protagonist, immediately started a new escape: the gray army of mankind, to arrest him.
The parasitic beast wants to destroy her as an alien.
And the only uncle who can rely on her, in order to protect her, was cut off by the parasitic beast and parasitized.
This is only half the story.
The whole process of watching the drama is like sitting in a car that is speeding at high speed throughout the whole process.
The war between humans and parasitic beasts has been in full swing since the first episode, with guns and flesh and knives to blood.
Coupled with the scenes of parasitic beast headshots, raw swallowing, and headshots by gray troops, the visual stimulation of the audience has been pulled to the extreme.
What surprised me even more was that unlike the film version, which relied on plot and reversal to win, Netflix's drama version relied on the pure dopamine stimulation brought by violent killing.
It's enough to see it.
02 Parasitic beasts also have human nature, ambitions, and even want to replace the human high-rise, and this series of reversals has new ideas
In addition to that, from the very beginning, the series quietly buried a dark line.
This dark line is not really revealed until the second half of the story.
This dark line is also the biggest and most thoughtful innovation in "Parasite".
That is, what the hell does the parasitic beast want to do?
The unique setting of the Korean version is: parasitic beasts cannot reproduce, that is, there will be no new parasitic beasts to parasitize humans, if you wait for the gray troops to encircle and suppress, sooner or later, the current parasitic beasts will become extinct.
So what to do?
It is here that the story takes its biggest turn.
Originally, like the audience, I fell into the trap of the screenwriter: I thought that the parasitic beast organization was organized in the form of a church and hid to fight to the end.
Unexpectedly, there were traitors among the parasitic beasts.
As the priest of the leader of the parasitic beast, the parasitic heroine police uncle, decisively betrayed her own kind for the greater good, and put the parasitic beast of the entire church in one pot.
It was this decision that led to the second-in-command of the team who escaped death, that is, the role of the parasitic male protagonist's sister, who decided to fight against him with the female protagonist.
But why did the priest, who is the leader of the parasitic beast, do this? Not only are the male and female protagonists puzzled, but I was also confused for a while when I saw this.
And the final reversal of the story, believe me, after the eyeballs are cool, this clue will make you can't help but sigh "Oh, I see".
At the end of the day, the story weaves a human siege of parasitic beasts.
The world of parasitic beasts is not simple and pure, the closer they get to humans, the more human-like they are.
There are traitors in humans, and there are also parasitic beasts inside.
Humans will destroy their own kind for the sake of desire, and parasitic beasts are no exception.
As the pastor said, humans are parasitic, they just parasitize an organization.
The parasitic beasts in the play are like mirror images of humans: monsters are not scary, but the human heart is the most terrible.
When terrible monsters strive to parasitize into human form, only to fall into another siege of human desires.
This is also the biggest difference between the Korean version and the Japanese film version: the Japanese version opens, copying the original book, one ordinary morning, the husband walks up to his wife with a dull gaze, holds his wife's shoulders with both hands, and eats the entire wife's head in one bite.
not only directly established the cruel and terrible image of the parasitic beast, but also told the audience bluntly: the parasitic beast has no humanity.
In the Korean version, the second character of the parasitic beast saw the priest kill his own kind, and said with a calm expression, "Is this what humans say about the feeling of being betrayed", and before the character was killed at the end of the story, he even directly said sorry to the male protagonist.
In the Korean version, the parasitic beast has human nature.
Whether it is a human or a parasitic beast, winning this survival game and staying alive is the greatest instinct of living beings.
And the biggest aftertaste of the story is undoubtedly the ubiquitous satire of Korean reality in the play.
03 scale serves the plot, the characters are the bottom of the action, Netflix's adaptation of this version of "Parasitic Beast" did not lose
In recent years, among Netflix's classic IP adaptations in Asia, "Parasite" is a special case.
Before, whether it was "Youyou Hakusho" or "One Piece", Netflix basically pursued the ultimate restoration, as close to the original as possible.
The Korean drama version created by Korean director Yeon Sang-ho is completely different, basically creating a parallel universe story, and the only thing that allows the audience to seamlessly connect with the original version is the shocking ending easter egg.
The whole play uses suspense to drive the story, and guides the audience to start a thrilling journey with strong action and rhythm.
The final presentation is generally satisfactory.
First of all, the plot is subtracted.
The script jointly created by Yeon Sang-ho and the screenwriter of the Korean version of the banknote house is obviously much better than the scripts of the previous dramas created by Yeon Sang-ho alone.
It is different from the film version's attempt to cram comic elements into the story as much as possible.
The Korean drama version is actually a great tribute to the classic manga with another story.
This show has made the ultimate trade-off in the story, deleting or merging a large number of side stories. Thus completely focusing on the main line of the protagonist group fighting monsters and the gray troop parasitic beast duel.
The benefits are obvious.
The plot is simpler and clearer, and the pacing is tighter.
The rhythm of the whole play is first-class, every clue given will be landed, and the main characters are not stupid with IQ, and they soar to the end in one go.
Coupled with appropriate changes, people can intuitively feel the enthusiasm of the protagonist group constantly fighting monsters.
Secondly, the visuals are outstanding.
Note that it's visual, not special effects.
In terms of special effects alone, the special effects scene of parasitic beasts slapping each other is average at best.
But the texture of this show is still good.
The weirdness of the parasitic beast's transformation is scary enough.
The sense of atmosphere created by the monster hiding in human society is also very good.
Yeon Sang-ho's shots create that feeling of darkness and despair, which can be called cinematic.
has Netflix, a big financier with "money ability", and the performance of the big scenes of the whole drama is quite good.
The design of the action scenes is also very colorful.
For example, the parasitic beast transformation in the opening scene.
Directly split people in half, full of horror.
The battle scene between man and beast also makes the perception cool all the way to the end, with the pain and tearing of Korean-style actions.
The "two battle scenes" in the play have brought this feeling to the top.
The first is the bridge resistance battle of the parasitic beasts.
In the darkness of the night, a large number of parasitic beasts suddenly attacked, causing chaos on the bridge, and in the faint light there were only screams, splatters of blood, and corpses that kept being thrown.
Corpses strewn across the corridors, and the gray troops fought back with all their might, and the fire on the bridge was deafening, and there was a deathly silence.
The second scene is the mayor's sniper battle in the finale of the whole play.
The leader of the parasitic beast who wanted to parasitize the mayor suddenly attacked, and the crowd was in chaos.
The feeling of suffocation, the sense of tragedy overflowed the screen, and just thinking about it made people scary.
The most amazing thing is the anti-heaven design in the play: as long as the parasitic beast has a head, it can also attack quickly and occupy a new human body.
This setting is obviously the director's "hand".
And in the final battle of the gymnasium, the protagonist group fights against the parasitic beast, making full use of the environment in the gym to fight in pairs.
The unique action aesthetic style makes "Parasite" completely worthy of being the action benchmark for fantasy action dramas in recent years.
Finally, there is the wonderful bond.
On the one hand, the bond between people. In particular, the picture of the heroine and the police uncle getting along is incompatible with the dark atmosphere, and the warmth of the uncle and the ruthlessness of the parasite beast have a wonderful contrasting effect.
How beautiful the front is, how tragic the back is.
How happy the front is, how tragic it is in the back.
On the other hand, it is the bond between man and the parasitic beast.
The abandoned but warm girl, the rebellious gangsters and the special service team leader who turned into the goddess of revenge after her husband was parasitized, changed from mutual distrust to close comrades-in-arms step by step, and the crazy group leader & tough mutant got it.
Even, the parasitic beast Heidi and the host Xiuren also formed the most wonderful CP, and the symbiotic relationship was like a partner and a family.
In the extreme darkness, the warmth of a beam of light suddenly shines through the fingers, which makes the core of the film extremely touching.
For ordinary viewers who are not familiar with the original work, this adaptation undoubtedly greatly reduces the threshold for chasing dramas.
It's perfectly fine to just think of it as a monster fight story full of fantastical beasts.
Although it can't be exhaustive, it is enough to highlight sincerity.
Although there are still a lot of flaws in the series, such as the slightly convergent scale compared to Netflix;
a parasitic beast that lacks a sense of oppression;
The protagonist group has several abrupt emotional changes, as well as the special service team leader played by Lee Jung-hyun, who is sometimes sassy and sometimes exaggerated.
As a comic drama, the biggest slot is still the huge gap between the second dimension and real people.
The exaggerated painting style and weird imagination in the animation, the complex human nature, the sacred maternal love, and the connotation of the species working hard to survive are obviously impossible to restore in the live-action drama.
But by the standards of a sci-fi thriller action genre, "Parasite" is qualified. As long as it is not compared with the original.
So when the easter egg appears, Sugata Masaki appears, turning around and shaking hands one by one, and finally the camera focuses on the right hand of Shinichi who mysteriously visits the gray troops, and the stamina left behind will still make the audience can't help but look forward to the second season that I don't know if it will come.
In my opinion, as long as you are not a fan of the original book, the Netflix version of "Parasite" is worth watching.
And the most empathetic plot of the Korean version is undoubtedly that after the heroine is parasitized, she still has to go to the supermarket to continue working.
Even if it is a parasitic beast, it can't escape the siege of workers.