Not long ago, Zach Schneider's version of "Justice League" exploded word of mouth as soon as it was launched.
Gloomy, cold, dark.
Let many fans shout directly: this is the real dc.
From the theater version 6.4 to the Zadao version 9.0, the Zadao version of "Justice League" played a beautiful turnaround battle.
Because of this, many people are also looking forward to Zach Schneider's new work "Army of the Living Dead".
When making "Army of the Living Dead", Za Dao once declared to the outside world that there was no constraint in the creation of the film, and it could be played freely, and it could be cut as much as he wanted.
This makes us wonder: what kind of spark will such a ghost director with such a strong personal color collide with the zombie genre?
On May 21, the much-anticipated zombie blockbuster finally arrived.
Douban opened a score of 6.3, currently 5.4, imdb 6.0, barely passed.
Word-of-mouth is fully swept the streets, and "Fast and Furious 9" released on the same day has been played to the point of overturning.
Are we asking too high to be flawed or are we really pulling?
Today we're going to talk about it —
Legion of the Living Dead
army of the dead
At the beginning of the filming, many people were puzzled, and Za Dao actually ran to shoot a "brainless" zombie film.
Such a choice cannot be said to be depraved, at least it is very unambitious.
In fact, he is just returning to where he first started, Dawn of the Living Dead.
The film, remade of horror master George A. Romero's eponymous work, is Za's debut.
△ 1978 edition of Dawn of the Living Dead and 2004 edition of Dawn of the Living Dead
The double harvest of word of mouth and box office made Za director a hit and broke into the film industry.
The director who started by shooting commercial films and mv has a set of lens language that belongs to his own style.
Wild, oil-painting-like visual scenes, sharp and cruel violent aesthetics, see people climax and blood boiling.
In Legion of the Living Dead, this stylized label still exists.
15 minutes before the opening of the movie.
Zombies invade Las Vegas, gushing plasma paired with cheerful bgm, in a witty way to depict the spread of the virus, the fall of the city, and the survivors and troops against the tide of corpses.
Zadui had planned to use it as a sequel to Dawn of the Living Dead.
The beauty is still online, but so are the shortcomings of the narrative.
Even if the screenwriters of "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Rush to Hunt 3" were invited to sit down, they still did not set off a big storm.
The story begins, ridiculous.
A group of American soldiers transporting zombies encountered a newlywed couple on the road, and the young couple was drying firewood in the car and crashing into the opposite army.
Eventually, the vehicle was destroyed, causing the zombies to flee.
Soon, zombies swept through the casino city of Las Vegas ahead, and the military had to send special forces to isolate the entire city with containers.
Compared to other zombies that only bite and kill wildly, the zombies here are obviously superior.
Not only has it established its own country within the casino.
There are also kings and queens as leaders who can give orders to other low-level zombies that only bite people.
The growing size of the zombies has caused headaches for the government.
So the president decided to drop a nuclear bomb directly into Las Vegas and raze the city to the ground.
At this time, Special Forces Scott took on a treasure hunting mission.
He needs to assemble a squad to infiltrate the zombie city a few hours before the nuclear bombing of Las Vegas.
Steal $200 million from the vault, and give the employer a promise to give Scott 50 million in return.
Isn't this setting "Busan Trip 2"?
The male protagonist of "Busan Trip 2" could not resist the temptation of money, and gathered a pair of people and horses to sneak into the "ghost town" that had long been isolated, and stole a huge amount of gambling money.
The story framework is the same.
A zombie film should be a fast-paced narrative that puts action first, but Za Dao focuses on the emotional aspects of the characters.
There are too many births and deaths between lovers and loved ones.
For example, the most criticized father-daughter relationship in the film.
Scott killed his wife who was infected and mutated in front of his daughter, and since then he has been suffering physically and mentally, and there has always been a gap between him and his daughter.
When his daughter insists on going into the casino with them to rescue her friends, Scott reluctantly agrees.
But what are the consequences?
The daughter who has no power to tie the chicken not only can't even shoot the gun, but also possesses the Mary Sue aura, always thinking of saving others.
Leaving the squad without authorization, he broke into the Dragon Pond Tiger Cave alone.
Not only did the squad put the squad in danger again, but finally the father was bitten by a zombie.
Such a "pig teammate" became the biggest hard injury in this film.
People who know Za Dao well may know.
Zadao's daughter committed suicide five years ago.
Perhaps in order to miss his daughter, Za Dao added a lot of plots of father-daughter interaction.
Including the heart-to-heart talk between father and daughter, and the controversial father-daughter farewell at the end of the film, these are the deepest emotional projections in Zadao's heart.
The original intention is good, but there are too many emotional dramas, but it spans the overall rhythm, which is not touching at all.
Let's talk about the latest strange setting of this film - mutant zombies.
There are three categories of zombies.
The first common zombie (including animals), known as the toddler, can bite, but is mentally inferior and is the lowest class.
The second, called alpha, has independent thinking, is organized, and can follow orders.
The third is the zombie king, Zeus, whose metaphor can be seen from its name.
The third type of zombie is not only not afraid of light, but also has excellent combat effectiveness and more agile and rapid movements.
They can also marry wives and concubines and reproduce offspring.
Knowing that his weakness is his head, he wears a helmet every time he goes to war to protect himself.
The most important thing is that they not only have the wisdom of the protagonist group, but also the same delicate emotions as ordinary people.
The fuse for the two sides to fight was not because Scott and his party entered the house and destroyed the original harmony.
It was because one of his teammates killed the Zombie Queen, which made the Zombie King furious, and he vowed to fight a fish to break the net.
Although it is dramatic and absurd, it inevitably falls into the cliché and is very dramatic.
Perhaps for Za Director, taking over this film is like Scott taking on the task of capturing treasure.
Full of blood, sprayed nowhere.
Even if there is a risk, make a vote for yourself.
When this vote is done, the "living dead" universe has just begun.
One is an anime based on the first 15 minutes of Army of the Living Dead.
Called Army of the Living Dead: The Fall of Las Vegas, it tells the story of Scott's experiences before the fall of Las Vegas.
Another spin-off is a prequel to Legion of the Living Dead, titled Legion of Thieves.
A prequel to the character of matthias Schweihev as the vault "locksmith", directed by Schweichev and starring himself, with the zawire and his wife as producers.
The film has long been completed, and the post-editing is also complete.
Obviously, the story of the "living dead" is not over, and this huge worldview only reveals the tip of the iceberg.
Zach Schneider, who does not shoot DC, although he does not have to compromise on capital.
But whether the future can be expected or the road is long, we can only put a question mark first, and then wait and see...