Mention of "Liaozhai" I believe that the audience must have remembered it deeply, one of the most frightening film and television works for children in the early years. But now when you re-watch "Liaozhai", in fact, it is not just about the story of ghosts, but also about using the story of ghosts to allude to people's hearts, and it is precisely because of this that "Liaozhai" can become a classic.
However, since the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has tightened its grip on "ghost" type film and television works, domestic ghost films have been in a slump.
"Liaozhai" has become a face value show, and zombie films have also become "science shows", such as "Mr. Yimei", a movie that is known as "tribute to Lin Zhengying", and the result is that "zombies" have become "artificial", and they can no longer find the fun of watching ghost movies.
However, in recent times, a domestic ghost film has been quietly released, although it is broadcast in the form of the network, but the degree of praise is no less than the classic "Liaozhai".
The film is called "The Legend of the Hunters of Xing'anling", starring the old drama bone Shang Tielong and Lin Fengye, mainly composed of three folk strange stories, and it is not completely ghostly. Although the Douban score is only 6.2 points just passed, but the comments have received a lot of affirmation for this drama, and as of now the number of plays has exceeded 100 million, which can be said to be a miracle for a domestic network ghost film.
The reason for this is largely because the old drama bone still has a sense of substitution. Take the characters he created, the "Ge Er Egg His Father" played in "Militia Ge Er Egg" and the "Yu Father" played in "I Am Yu Huanshui" are all roles that make the audience hate and love.
This time, Shang Tielong is no longer a supporting role, but has become the protagonist in one fell swoop, and his acting skills have been recognized again, and this is also the first ghost film of the old drama Shang Tielong.
In addition, this film is set in the Republic of China period, and the atmosphere is also very substitutionary, especially this is a ghost thriller that belongs to the Northern School, so to a large extent, the story is also very novel. (The southern faction is the Lin Zhengying type)
However, to say that the most impressive thing about this ghost film is that the moral of the three stories is very profound, and there is some flavor of "Liaozhai".
For example, the first short story in the opening chapter tells that a langzhong in the village was invited to the deep mountains to deliver the "fox fairy", and then got a bag of golden beans. This was the end of the matter, and people also told Lang Zhong not to be silent. However, Langzhong told the village chief for his own benefit, and eventually Langzhong's family was frequently killed.
There was no way but to invite the Imperial Siege Hunter Liu Erye, who knew that it was the big horse monkey who did it. And the big horse monkey will not inadvertently attack others, there must be hidden feelings in it. In the end, it was clear that it was Langzhong who was blinded by the interests and forgot the instructions of others, and the "fox fairy" was just a guardian who lived deep in the mountains to guard the golden vein, so in order to let Langzhong not go around publicizing, so he sent his own big horse monkey to commit murder.
It has to be said that people who are carried away by interests can only suffer the consequences of their own in the end.
Then the second story happens, a group of tomb robbers are ordered to look for the human face tree, but they bump into a woman dressed in red in the broken temple, and not only rape but also kill the woman who is waiting for her lover.
In the end, the group of grave robbers encountered the human face tree, but also saw the woman in red under the tree appear again, thinking that it was a ghost, they began to shoot with a gun, and finally ushered in the big snake, no one was spared. Afterwards, Second Master Liu said that this tree could reflect the appearance of the previous people under the tree, which made them mistakenly think that it was a ghost, and eventually attracted a large python.
Here I just want to say that if you don't do something wrong, and you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, this gang of tomb robbers can also be regarded as self-inflicted.
However, the matter was not over, a person named "Chunsheng" appeared, he said that he was the lover of the Hongying woman waiting, saw the old lady eating people and escaped, he was arrested by the warlord Zhuang Ding, and it took several years to come back.
However, all this was made up by him, and his real identity was actually the boss behind the tomb robbers, Dai Yonglin, and the identity of the president of the Dai Yonglin Chamber of Commerce was also replaced by him after killing the real Dai Yonglin and his grandmother.
When he was still in Chunsheng, he fell in love with the woman in red, and finally learned the secret of the woman's family in red, and wanted to steal the gold vein, but was driven away by the father of the woman in red. This time, he came back again in order to obtain the treasure under the golden vein, and was eventually forced by the big horse monkey and Liu Erye and others to go under the human face tree and be swallowed by the big snake.
It is not difficult to see from these three stories that they are actually the price of return after the allegorical human heart is driven by interests. Imagine if Chunsheng was only willing to live with the woman in red, then he would be a member of the guardian family, and naturally there would be no shortage of money.
Imagine that he became the president of the Chamber of Commerce, already a prominent status, but he was still greedy. However, the president who becomes to seize others is estimated to be indeed not good to receive, after all, "greed is not enough for snakes to swallow elephants".
For the film, in fact, what the audience likes the most is undoubtedly that the atmosphere of the film is well created, the people's hearts are in place, and the meaning is also very profound. Compared with the "zombie film" explained by "science", this ghost film created with the human heart is more worth watching.
I have to say that if the way of this film can continue to continue, it is likely to make the domestic ghost film turn over.