On November 2nd, the online movie "The Dragon Hunt for Makino Mysteries", jointly created by Dongyang Xiangshang Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Cultural and Creative Trina Media Co., Ltd., Xiang Netfei (Hainan) Film Co., Ltd. and Beijing Omi Culture Communication Co., Ltd., was broadcast exclusively on Tencent Video. The film is directed by Li Feng, and Xiao Fei, CEO of Upward Pictures, serves as the producer and chief producer of the film, and once Tencent Video was launched, it attracted crowds of onlookers, and the topic degree was also high. As another hot hit on the suspense genre recently, what thoughts has "Makino Mystery Quest for the Dragon" brought to the innovation and transformation of online movies?
Classic IP recreates the legend to create a super network movie
After experiencing a spurt of explosive growth, online movies have gradually returned to rationality, the net market is ushering in a new inflection point of high-quality products, and the industry has also begun to try to dig deep into IP projects. In recent years, the suspense genre has become a big hit in the field of online movies, and there are frequent explosions. In particular, the theme of tomb robbery represented by "Makino Mystery" has become a popular hit loved by the majority of audiences because of its own oriental mystery and magnificent story background. In 2009, Tianxia Baxiang opened a column "Makino's Chapter" in the Southern Metropolis Daily, serializing short legends, and published the collection "Makino Mysteries" in October 2010. "Makino Mystery Of the Dragon", as an important work of the upward film industry, is a blockbuster work of the series towards high-quality products.
The film will extend the era outline of the upward film hegemonic universe to the anti-Japanese period of the Republic of China, on the basis of the original mystery, suspense and fantasy, add new elements such as legend and martial arts, and at the same time abandon the simple setting that the traditional tomb robbery film characters only have good and evil sides, deeply explore the emotions of the characters, and add points of view to the movie while being more in line with human nature.
The film tells the story of Hu Buming (Ying Haoming), a descendant of the Golden Queen, who wants to save money to find his missing brother in the early years of the Republic of China. He and the deserter Lao Lei (Peng Haofeng) go to The Village of Wuzi to make a coffin, and what they did not expect was that what awaited them in the Village of Wuzi was Third Master Peng, who went to the tomb with his brother. At this time, the big lady of the timber shop, Cinnabar (Tang Min), came to collect the debt and arrested Peng Sanye, Hu Bumi came to help in order to seek the truth, only to encounter a wild man attack and almost killed, and almost burned Peng Sanye's home, Cinnabar asked Hu Bumi to follow her to find the ghost immortal stone to save her brother, Hu Bumi had to agree to go to the tomb, and what awaited everyone in the tomb was an unexpected danger.
"The avenue dragon line has its own truth, the star peak lei falls to recognize the dragon body, the dragon is divided into gold and the bell and drum, and the yin and yang gossip have a life gate."
The film begins with a unique gold-touching dragon mouth trick, the magnificent opening, the ups and downs of the adventure plot, comparable to the special effects scenes of the cinema movie, the strange and mysterious camera screen, the profound and mysterious metaphysical guashu, and the spooky sound effect soundtrack truly create a strange atmosphere of the tomb robbery, coupled with the thrilling duel scene, the collision of the Yin and Yang divisions of the Chinese and Japanese tomb robbers, and the magnificent ancient cemetery palace, so that the moviegoers are immersed in the audiovisual shock brought by the film.
The top team creates word-of-mouth boutique treasure hunting suspense and then out of the style benchmark
The main creative team of this film brings together the top talents in China, and the team lineup is enough to see the importance that Upward Pictures attaches to the film. Xiao Fei, CEO of Upward Pictures, personally served as the film producer and chief producer, and specially invited Li Feng, a famous director who has the reputation of "royal screenwriter" with Zhang Yimou, who was shortlisted for the Best Screenplay Award at the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards for the film "Hero", and Li Danfeng, a famous sound director who won the best sound effect at the 55th Golden Horse Awards for the film "The Last Night of the Earth", as the sound director of the film. Coupled with the classic blessing of the original novel, the production level of this film has been comparable to that of cinema films, and it is also one of the few online movies.
Coupled with the joining of many powerful young actors such as "Yuanqi Xiaohua" Tang Min, "Strength Xiaosheng" Ying Haoming, Peng Haofeng, Shen Yunzhong, Yu Chengqun, Zhang Liwei, Hu A Xiaoxiao, Yang Han, Lou Nanguang, Jojo, etc., every link is full of painstaking efforts, and "Makino Mystery Dragon Hunt" is wonderful and cannot be missed.
The plot of the film is bright, which not only maintains the essence of the traditional tomb robbery film, but also combines the rhythmic characteristics of the action suspense film, and interprets the design of the treasure and the tomb room in a new way, and at the same time, on the basis of absorbing the production of the previous work, it carries out innovative content extension to create a unique style, which can be called the style benchmark of the treasure hunting suspense theme.
It is reported that the film "Makino Strange Affair of the Dragon" is more than 80 minutes long, and all the indicators have reached the level of screening on the big screen, and the big scenes such as the Golden Cave and the Dragon Tomb Decisive Battle are very exciting. The creation of the series of IP of "Makino Mystery dragon hunt" is leading the online film industry to the era of blockbusters, and I believe that the film will surely make the audience shine and experience the new action tomb robbery film.