The setting of Xu Xian and White Snake's original pre-life is not unfamiliar to the audience.
In the once-popular classic fantasy drama "The Legend of the New White Lady", Xu Xian in his previous life was a shepherd boy who saved the little white snake who had not yet cultivated the Tao.
When Bai Suzhen's cultivation has been successful, the last thing that needs to be completed is to "return the affection", that is, to end the enmity between the world, in order to achieve positive results. But this plot, in the episode, is only "flashback" with the help of a few clips.
The white snake: Origins, released in January 2019, takes their past lives as the main story line. From Xiao Bai's failed assassination and injury, he was rescued by Xu Xuan, but lost his past memories, to the two sides becoming more and more affectionate and in love with each other in getting along, until the final final battle, yin and yang separated.
The biggest feeling after watching "White Snake: Origins" is that it is no wonder that Xiao Bai will never forget Xu Xuan, crossing the reincarnation of the world, thousands of rivers and mountains, and also to find his reincarnation.
Such an optimistic, kind, sentient and righteous little brother is so worth it.
In "White Snake: Origins", in addition to the beautiful and sadistic love between Xiao Bai and Xu Xuan, he has been with Xiao Bai for a thousand years, and his personality is a bit impulsive, but the heroic Xiao Qing also left a deep impression on the audience.
After more than two years, the sequel "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" is about to land in theaters. This time, what points does the film's creator provide for the audience?
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The core of "White Snake: Origins" is the love between Xu Xuan and Xiao Bai.
In this story, although the friendship between Xiaoqing and Xiaobai also has many preparations, it is generally a "foil". In addition to Xiao Qing being distrusted by humans, so she particularly rejects and even hates Xu Xuan, she also shifted the gaze that Xiao Bai originally put on herself to Xu Xuan because she was dissatisfied, and had an awkward relationship with Xiao Bai.
Xiao Qing in the previous work, with a little girl's impulsiveness and willfulness. However, as a bystander, she witnessed the development of Xu Xuan's relationship with Xiao Bai, and also saw Xu Xuan's sincerity towards Xiao Bai, and then accepted this human being.
From another point of view, Xiao Qing, who witnessed this strange relationship in the world, also planted the seed called "love" in his heart.
The ending of "White Snake: Origins" is that Xiao Bai met the reincarnated Xu Xian at the Broken Bridge of the West Lake. Xu Xian picked up the beads that Xiao Bai had deliberately dropped, and also opened a love affair.
"White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" inherits this plot.
But for the audience, the story of Xu Xuan and Xiao Bai is very fresh, but the story of Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen has long been familiar. If the sequel just repeats this old plot, even if the picture is beautiful and the special effects are dazzling, I am afraid that it will not arouse much interest from the audience.
Therefore, as a sequel to "White Snake: Origins", "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" focuses on Xiao Qing to save Xiao Bai - after the water flooded the Golden Mountain, Xiao Bai was suppressed by Fahai under the Leifeng Pagoda, and Xiao Qing was beaten into the realm of Nirvana.
What she had to do was to get out of the nirvana state called "Shura City" and rescue Xiao Bai who was suppressed at the bottom of the tower.
If Xiao Bai's obsession is to find Xu Xuan, then Xiao Qing's obsession is to rescue Xiao Bai. Even in the face of thousands of dangers, she has never given up and will not give up.
In this process, Xiaoqing will gradually grow up from the little girl of the past and become a new self.
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In "White Snake: Origins", the plot of Bao Qingfang is very novel.
Compared with other plots and scenes, in addition to the mysterious elements, the Baoqingfang chapter also incorporates distinct modern and sci-fi elements. Lori's appearance, the "two-faced fox demon" of the old youkai style, is also one of the highlights of the film.
And this very brilliant character will continue to appear in "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery".
Judging from the information released by the film side, this time the owner of BaoqingFang is still a mysterious fangwai high-ranking person who "sees through and does not say broken", and the mercenary businessman is a businessman.
In the previous game, she made Xu Xuan, who wanted to become a youkai, wish. This time, what deal will she reach with Xiaoqing?
However, judging from the trailer, the most interesting thing about "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" is "Shuluo City".
People who fall into this city of illusion are all because they have a strong obsession in their hearts.
Obsession may be a person who is concerned, perhaps a vendetta that cannot be put down, or a line of life and death that cannot be escaped.
If you want to leave Shura City, you need to give up the obsession in your heart.
However, this is contradictory.
Taking Xiao Qing as an example, if she wanted to leave Shuluo City, she had to give up saving Xiao Bai. However, the reason why she wanted to leave Shuluo City was also to save Xiao Bai.
Dilemma, how to crack?
In addition to Xiao Qing's foreshadowing from the shura city, the setting of the shura city itself is also very interesting. Because it brings together a lot of modern elements, such as high-rise buildings with a sense of doomsday atmosphere, unmanned cars, dilapidated houses, and so on.
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In addition to the indispensable Fahai, "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" has added new roles such as "Masked Boy", "Minotaur Gang Leader" and "Sima Guanren" because of the setting of Shuluo City.
Since everyone fell into Shura City because of obsession, what was their obsession?
What secrets are hidden in the "masked teenager" who saved Xiaoqing at an emergency moment? What is the connection between the "Bull Head Helper" who looks like the Bull Demon King and Fahai?
These trailers do not reveal clues, and the answer can only be found in the main film.
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In "White Snake: Origins", the main creator painted a large number of oriental landscapes, Qingfeng is picturesque, clear water is poetic, whether it is the village where Xu Xuan lived, or the river where he later boated with Xiao Bai, and the endless flowers and fields when the two people flew in the wind, all of which were beautiful and dreamlike.
In "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery", in addition to the magnificent scene of "Shuluo City", the "Water Flooding Golden Mountain" section is already very stunning.
Judging from the trailer, the creators should use water and fire as the settings of both Xiao Bai and Fahai.
Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing wanted to use the help of the day of the sting to overturn the Golden Mountain Temple with water. However, it was no match for the "giant fire phoenix" of the Fahai, one was suppressed, and the other was beaten into the illusion.
The Leifeng Pagoda and the power of the Fire Phoenix in this plot give people a double enjoyment of pure spirit and beautiful spirit and cool explosion from the visual point of view. The Leifeng Pagoda in the film is perhaps the most "noodle" of all versions.
In the Shuluo City link, all the action scenes have a metallic and mechanical sense of "wasteland" elements due to environmental factors.
The battle between Xiaoqing and his opponent is no longer a "classical" cold weapon painting style, but a sense of toughness, handsomeness and even violence permeated with the science fiction style.
Just a few scenes flashed in the trailer have made people look bloody, how can it be a cool word?
In summary, "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" has love, scenes, aesthetic ancient style, modern science fiction has, the highlights of the previous work are there, their own highlights are also there, should not let the audience down, right?