On October 6, the online movie "Makino Trick of GuanShan Taibao" was launched on iQiyi's online movie channel. The film starred young actors such as Sha Sha and Ye Ziqi (according to the subtitles of the film). The film is based on the novel of the same name by Tianxia Basheng. It is worth noting that in Places such as Douban, Tianxia Basing is one of the signed screenwriters of this online movie. And the whole film view, personal feelings, taste and chew wax, is really the same, can be called the ghost blowing lamp robbery series of "closed doors".
When the theme of tomb robbery first came out, it once blew up a relatively strong film and television trend. It is also because of the intervention of big stars and big productions, there have been many cinema film works with a box office of more than one billion. Later, a large number of web dramas and online movies intervened in this theme content, and the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series and the "Tomb Robber Notes" series have become new favorites of film and television. However, because of the uniformity of the theme content, in the end, the theme of tomb robbery began to gradually fall behind.
The first to fall behind is the "Southern Third Uncle" series of "Notes from the Tomb Robber". Many fans of film and television dramas are dissatisfied with the quality of the film and television drama works adapted from this series. I think that the film and television drama adapted from this series is not creative enough, and the components of nonsense are too heavy. In the past two years, the "Notes from the Tomb" series has basically not had a relatively good word-of-mouth film and television drama work, and there is no box office and broadcast hits.
In recent months, the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series has also been seen clearly by the audience because of the writer-director's three-plate axe, resulting in a plummeting decline in word-of-mouth and playback. The cast combination, once known as the Iron Triangle of Tomb Robbers, has also had problems in word-of-mouth and playback in the network drama adapted from the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, and has been on the verge of losing both. Obviously, this subject matter has become seriously outdated because of its uniformity.
"Makino's Strange Affair of Kanzan Taiho", which is currently being released, can basically be regarded as the "closed door work" of this genre. If the once big star and big-scale production of the tomb robbery theme movie opened the door to a new special effects tomb robbery theme, then this "Makino Trick" undoubtedly officially closed this door through its own starless, less special effects. In this film, fans can see the cookie-cutter content of the tomb robbery theme, but they can't see the special effects battles of this theme in the past.
In the film, there must be a strange tomb. And the tomb must be at least three groups of people and horses. The first group of men and horses must be a group of warlords with guns and cannons. The second group of people must be decent people who are good at robbing tombs. The third group of centaurs needs to be villains who can rob tombs. After the three groups of people and horses were together, they went down to the tomb together, and then encountered various mechanisms in the tomb that lacked the logical connection between the front and back. In these organs, it is necessary to let the bad guys die as soon as possible, so that the good guys, especially the good guys with the aura of the protagonist, live to the end.
The final story of the tomb robbery theme must be the good people laughing to the end, and the various organs in the tomb have killed the bad people. In the story of the film, the number of tomb organs depends on the length of the film that the screenwriter and director want. Like this "Makino Strange Affair of Guan Shan Tai bao", it is only a short 72-minute story length, so in the tomb, there is a group of small spiders and a large spider. The less content this "monster" appears, the lower the cost of film production. This kind of film, the main cost, is spent on making spiders, which is also the place where fans laugh off their teeth.
The content of the story, which has no new meaning to speak of, is the most restrictive place in the theme of tomb robbery at present. And this kind of content, once it encounters the problem of insufficient funding, even the special effects are stretched. The tomb robbery theme, which was originally known for its special effects, was eventually disliked by netizens because of the rotten customs of the story content, and the producer did not dare to spend a large production cost, and the final work content went to a state of "lack of special effects". The tomb robbery theme, which once took off with special effects, eventually failed in the special effects. It is said that this "Makino Mystery" is a closed work of the tomb robbery theme, and the reason is also here.
Of course, it is also a good thing to close the door to this kind of tomb robbery theme. The exhaustion of the subject matter content, coupled with the random fabrication of the original content, makes this type of work unable to give the audience any freshness. In fact, the theme of tomb robbery has been debatable since the beginning of the fire. The content of stealing graves and digging graves, coupled with the fancy praise, is difficult to convey any positive value. Such a work itself belongs to the end of the trail. Close the door and be glad to see it happen. (Text/Ma Qingyun)