In the past two months, two ghost blowing lights series of network movies have been released in succession - "Makino Trick of Kanzan Taibao" and "Makino Trick of the Dragon Hunt".
"Guanshan Taibao" has grossed more than one million for three consecutive days, and has accumulated 7.77 million accounts so far, although there is a big gap compared with those works with tens of millions of accounts at the head, but it is still in the forefront of hundreds of online movies released this year.
The box office of "Makino Mystery of the Dragon" on the first day of release was as high as 1.51 million, and from the perspective of plot and special effects, the overall completion degree was above "Guanshan Taibao".
The box office of the two films is not unrelated to the popularity of "Ghost Blowing Lights", although many viewers complained that the theme of tomb robbery cannot be avoided in "Ghost Blowing Lights" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery".
But as long as there is a related movie released, the body is very honest. After all, compared to completely unfamiliar stories, the audience will always tend to choose the IP they are familiar with.
New stories represent new characters, new settings, new plots, and for creators, it takes more time to study the script, and for the audience to spend more time receiving information.
This is contrary to our nature of liking to be in our comfort zone, so the old IP helps to reduce the thinking time of both parties. But over time, drawbacks began to appear, especially in the "Ghost Blowing Lights" that has been adapted countless times, everyone has found a fixed routine.
"Makino Mystery Dragon Hunt" is still good from the overall point of view.
At the beginning, special effects elements such as zongzi, underground dragons, and octagonal door arrays appeared, which can be regarded as a qualified beginning in many online movies.
Later, there is also the reversal of the male protagonist Hu Buming being tricked into the tomb and the resurrection of the people, the protagonist has a huge growth in thinking along the way, coupled with the clear contradictions between Ma Gonggong, the female protagonist cinnabar, the male protagonist and other people, the plot story is comprehensive.
However, in everyone's comments, it is still mostly dissatisfied. The reason is actually what I said earlier - too routine.
In the film and television dramas with the theme of tomb robbery, there will basically be some elements:
The protagonist is either forced to go to the tomb because of saving people or because of self-help; the villain's purpose is roughly to seek eternal life, cure disease, and get rich; the main burial chamber must appear with a very powerful monster; and finally the tomb collapses...
Makino's Dragon Quest follows this framework, with only minor adjustments to the plot story.
In order to help the cinnabar sisters and brothers treat their illness, Hu Buming decided to go down to the tomb together to find the ghost immortal stone. Later, it was found that all this was the plan of Peng Sanye, Lao Lei, Cinnabar sisters and brothers, in order to let Hu Buxia go to the tomb to open the mechanism, and the others used the ghost immortal stone to make money.
Later, in the main burial chamber, the local bully Ma Gonggong appeared with people, and then was destroyed by the sudden appearance of the underground dragon.
At the moment of a thousand guns, Hu Buming and cinnabar stood in the yin and yang eye position of the Taiji Diagram, the male protagonist escaped to the day of birth, and the female protagonist was buried in the tomb. It just corresponds to the sentence "One person lives alone, born in the yin" that appears along the way.
The development of a plot like this is basically the kind that can be seen at a glance, because other tomb robbery films are filmed like this, and netizens have seen too much...
So the whole narrative rhythm of the movie is OK, and the script is not too faulty, but compared with the audience's taste that has become harsh, it seems ordinary.
Coupled with some small problems that appear from time to time in the movie, it is even more dramatic.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, Old Lei was blocked by Hu Buming while driving, and he was going to rob the male protagonist. Who knew that when he heard that a carpenter could earn 70 yuan, Old Ray immediately transferred from a robber to a helper. But the car you drive yourself, the back of the confession said that it was a theft of the horse gonggong, you changed hands and sold more than this money.
The cinnabar sisters and brothers were slaves of the Ma Gonggong family, and they had a hard time sneaking out, taking great risks to go to the tomb to steal treasures, but only to earn the road fare for escape, and finally both died in the tomb. Where is this normal people doing?
Normally speaking, sneaking out should be the farther you run, the better, the younger brother is young and strong, the sister can sing small songs with a sweet voice, and how to starve to death. The film uses "road fare" as a reason to forcibly leave the two in a place where Ma Gonggong can find it, which is too perfunctory.
In order to save the female protagonist who was entangled in vines, the male protagonist flew around to touch the mechanism, obviously there was a weapon in his hand and it split at once, so he had to go through such a trouble.
In addition, some of the plots of the film are handled very sloppily.
When escaping from the tomb, the female protagonist dies and the male protagonist lives alone, which is a forced wisdom reduction plot. The front has always emphasized that "one person lives alone, born in the yin", the female protagonist guesses that only the yin point is the birth gate, and the male protagonist who is the descendant of the golden lieutenant is hard to detect.
Such a setting is not so much that the male protagonist did not expect it, but rather that the screenwriter is pretending to be stupid. Because once the words are spoken, a dilemma arises - who to let live.
The yin point and the yang point are very far apart, and whoever is allowed to stand on the yin point must have a valid reason. This kind of problem is too difficult to solve, so the screenwriter simply let the male protagonist directly demote the wisdom - the unknown is not guilty.
The screenwriter was lazy more than this time, and the wild man who was raised by Third Master Peng originally thought that there was some foreshadowing, and the result was a dispensable role.
Boldly guessing, judging from the fact that the savage is unrecognizable and behaves like a beast, it may have been intended to portray him as an amnesiac Hu Dalang at the beginning, which would not only explain his relationship with Third Master Peng, but also explain why such an abrupt person appeared.
However, for a movie with only 80 minutes, the main plot and characters have not yet been explained completely, and there is really no extra energy to strengthen this line, so there is such a dispensable savage image.
It can be seen from "Makino Strange Dragon Hunt" that the IP of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is actually a double-edged sword, it has a huge fan base, and after years of hard work, it has opened up its popularity, and when it is filmed into film and television works, it is born with some audiences, so every time the film and television drama is released, it will become the focus of discussion among netizens.
However, the story elements and framework have not been able to innovate, and for the audience, it is tantamount to cold rice and hot frying, and it looks the same.
The novel allows the reader to imagine the scene by himself through the text, which makes countless possibilities arise. Film and television dramas shoot it out, and the scene is single, which requires the creator to exert his imagination. Only at present, it still does not jump out of the inherent template, and the soup is not changed.
Netizens complained about various kinds of complaints, which is also excusable.
In fact, in "Makino Mystery Dragon Hunt", there are several more eye-catching scenes, such as when the wild man appears, the entire movie atmosphere is carried out in the direction of horror and horror, which is a new direction.
The theme of tomb robbery is not necessarily adventure and special effects films, you can try to explore the horror elements, and there may be unexpected surprises.
The male protagonist of "Makino Strange Things in Search of the Dragon" looked particularly familiar, originally thought it was Han Dong, but did not expect that it was Ying Haoming. The appearance of the two has caused many netizens to talk about it on the Internet - the two are too similar.
Ying Haoming played the role of Lingduan, the second disciple of Tianyongcheng, in the 2004 broadcast of "Ancient Sword Qitan" starring Yang Mi and Li Yifeng. Compared with the image of ordinary and fat figure in the original work, Lingduan, played by Ying Haoming, is more handsome, but retains the characteristics of arrogance and arrogance and no one in sight.
Later, he participated in many film and television dramas such as "Old Nine Doors" and "Four Famous Catches of the Youth", and his acting skills were polished.
Judging from the dynamics of the past two years, Ying Haoming intends to expand the online movie sector. This is a good thing for online movies with uneven quality and awkward acting skills.
After all, the script is not enough, and the acting skills can be put together...
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