Liu Guanwei was once the man behind Lin Zhengying, and it was he who sent Uncle Jiu to the throne of the king of zombie films, and the classic works they joined together include: "Mr. Ling fantasy", "Mr. Zombie", "New Mr. Zombie", "Zombie Family" and so on.
Qian Xiaohao plays the "Qiu Sheng", inside and outside the play, he is Lin Zhengying's proud protégé, the master's serious apprentice is witty, and their cooperation in the zombie movie complements each other perfectly.
Almost every year, I will turn over a few of these movies to relive old dreams, and the classic is never tired of watching.
Why is it said that Liu Guanwei and Qian Xiaohao wasted the classics?
In 2017, director Liu Guanwei threw himself into the network movie, he will love the former love Qian Xiaohao and Wu Yaohan to recruit his subordinates, together to shoot a "Return of the Heavenly Master", which is a bad film that cannot be saved by the rebirth of the ninth uncle, many viewers are insulted by iq or give sympathy points, Douban's rating is 3.2.
In 2018, Liu Guanwei and Qian Xiaohao continued to consume classics, this time the name of the movie was directly called "Mr. New Zombie 2", and the Douban score of the movie was very stable, or 3.2.
In 2019, Liu Guanwei and Qian Xiaohao pulled on their old friend Chen You and worked together to make a "Mr. Four Eyes", countless netizens implored the relevant departments to manage the pipe network, rotten always has to have a bottom line is not it, Douban score is only 2.7, this is the abyss of fantasy movies, I am afraid that only director Bi Zhifei can have a battle.
On March 1, 2021, "Mr. Yimei", which was released on an online platform, was another blind toss by Liu Guanwei, this time in addition to the money Xiaohao he packed, he also invited Xu Shaoqiang, Lou Nanguang, Huang Yishan and other classic supporting roles in the prosperous era of Hong Kong films, as well as Hong Tianming, the young master of Hong Jiaban, also came to play soy sauce, and the most important thing is that they invited a senior coser Zhang Dicai to imitate Uncle Ying, which is enough to have a gimmick, right?
Let's take a look at the story.
A yellow rune fighting zombies, goodbye to the ghost catchers of the year
Republic of China period, 1915 in the Gregorian calendar.
In the town late at night, the bell rings, the yellow-clad old road is followed by a row of jumping and orderly zombies, and suddenly four people stop the way and ask the Taoist: There is a gap between yin and yang, how do dead people walk the way of the living?
Among the four are Huang Ying (played by Zhang Dicai), a Taoist priest who runs a medicine shop, and Qian Zhenghao (played by Qian Xiaohao), as well as Qian's apprentices Qiu Sheng (played by Pang Jingfeng) and Wen Cai (played by Wang Ronghong).
It turned out that Huang Ying recognized that this was a "fake zombie", presumably an evil door and a crooked way to do bad things, so they intervened to stop it, and after some fighting techniques and fist and foot competition, the fake Taoist and the fake zombie rout and fled.
Afterwards, they cooperated with the local police investigation, which was a gang of people selling opium under the guise of exorcising corpses.
One day the wind and the sun is beautiful, the new town mayor Yang Chenghu rode a horse and sang, on the way to office unfortunately met the bandit, this bandit leader Ghost King (played by Xu Shaoqiang) does not talk about martial virtue, he blew up the mayor of the town after a plan: Grandpa I also want to be the mayor of the town!
Good guys, I know this way, they are going to Goose City to make money!
The old mayor Zheng Weizhi (played by Lou Nanguang) saw the appointment order without the slightest doubt and happily received the bandits of Longtou Mountain.
Huang Ying and Qian Zhenghao felt that there was something wrong with the mayor of the town, and after investigation, they found that the previous fake Taoist priest, the boss behind the big smoke house hidden in the bathhouse in the town, pointed to the same person behind their backs: that is, the bandit ghost king.
Under the investigation of the policeman Nan Ge (played by Huang Yishan), who manages the file, he determines that the bandit ghost king is the new mayor of the town, and the real mayor has been killed.
So Huang Ying and Qian Zhenghao also sorted out the ins and outs of the matter: the Ghost King killed the new mayor Yang Chenghu in order to run his opium business.
The Demon King has five king kongs, a somewhat demonic beauty jade phoenix, a cheetah pretending to be a Taoist, and mad dogs, vultures, and wolves, all of whom are extraordinary.
After the Ghost King knew that the matter had been exposed, he invited Qian Zhenghao to the Hongmen Feast, and on the other side, he sent a few King Kongs to intercept and kill Huang Ying.
The Ghost King first incarnated as a six-fingered piano demon to attack first with the sound of the piano, and after a simple fight, he and Qian Zhenghao still decided to use the hard-hitting fist and foot to fight to win or lose.
On the other hand, Huang Ying wore uncle Jiu's Daoist robe and fought with the "Ghost Army" of the Mountain Thief Regiment for 300 rounds.
After Huang Ying and several apprentices solved the small leaders of mad dogs, vultures, and wild wolves, they set out together to help Qian Zhenghao, and finally under the siege of everyone, the Ghost King was captured, and his subordinate Jade Phoenix fled in chaos.
Eventually, the mountain thieves' gang disintegrates, the town returns to peace, and the story ends.
Spit time
In the movie, all the Mandarin speakers are called a fluent and standard, not that they have to benchmark Cantonese, but whether the dubbing can use dim sum, why is the dubbing of the old Hong Kong film deeply rooted in the hearts of the people? Because the dubbing and the characters fit together, the voice actors have special training for this purpose, rather than the Mandarin dubbing of the current assembly line.
The costumes of all the characters are too clean, and the actors' makeup is too delicate, completely devoid of the fireworks atmosphere of the previous Hong Kong films.
The script of this movie can be written after two months of screenwriting, the story is flat and straight, and the only reversal is: zombies are fake, and female ghosts are also fake!
Character shaping is the biggest failure, obviously a number of supporting roles, but almost no success in shaping one, the old actors Lou Nanguang and Huang Yishan are slightly more advanced than the group acting, is a role with no acting skills but a few lines.
Finally, not an actor who is somewhat similar to the ninth uncle Lin Zhengying can inherit the mantle of his old man, since it is the craft of eating, it must be picked up with real skills.
The era of zombie movies is long gone
After watching it, I just want to say: Please let the "zombie film" lie in the cemetery well, and leave some memories.
A director and actor: Just eat.
Mu Weizhou: Let that jade phoenix take the initiative to surrender, and also shoot the second part of the wool.
In 2013, Mai Junlong's "Zombie" has become the absolute sound of zombie films, and there has been no zombie films since then.
Mai Junlong uses the oversized cup of blood plasma of American horror films, the strange shape and dark gray art style of Japanese horror films, as well as the wind bones of old Hong Kong films, and also gathers a number of old Hong Kong drama bones, with an unparalleled audiovisual experience, which can be described as the final collection of Hong Kong ghost films, paying tribute to and nostalgia for Lin Zhengying's old good times.
At present, due to the control of the mainland, zombie films are no longer appropriate, and the classic elements of many genre films cannot be filmed, and this niche theme is destined to be on the big screen, resulting in the investment volume of genre films must be large, and it is also doomed to be overstretched in production.
Director Liu, please let go of the obsession, don't pull on the "Autumn Sheng" to waste the classic together.
postscript
Privately, I think that the internet university should not be equated with shoddy production, and low cost should also be able to make a good movie, polish the script more, use more thought on character shaping, and tell a story well, which is the light of the right way.
Nowadays, these networks under the guise of "zombie films" are big, they consume feelings and touch porcelain classics, and then make one bad film after another with no sincerity to circle money, when will they stop spoiling?
Maybe it's because the audience misses the beautiful era of Hong Kong films too much.
The red rope glutinous rice is still there today, and Lin Zhengying is not seen in that year!
Miss Uncle Ying.
THE END!