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Among the film types in the world, only "martial arts films" can be regarded as a unique type of China film industry. Flying over the wall in a blue coat has become the key for China's films to go global.
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1997165438+1On October 8th, Ching-Ying Lam, the "zombie master", passed away. Since then, Hong Kong zombie movies have gone forever, just like the whole trend of Hong Kong movies. In recent years, the western Resident Evil has swept the world, and the Busan trip is also very popular in Chinese mainland. It is particularly regrettable that the Chinese zombie kungfu movies that once stood out from the world failed to take this opportunity to revive again.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Ching-Ying Lam and the return of Hongkong to the motherland. To commemorate Ching-Ying Lam, the Hong Kong Film Culture Foundation organized a zombie film to pay tribute to Ching-Ying Lam.
-"Save the Death Sweeper"
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Zombies dressed in official uniforms, holding wood blade's maoshan taoist, and zombie kung fu movies that combine comedy and horror elements can always scare us out of our wits in childhood memories and make people laugh through tears. This is the viewing experience brought by zombie movies in Ching-Ying Lam.
In this novel "Saving the Dead Scavengers", we only see the long-lost jumping zombies, and the rest are just embarrassed to learn from others.
"Healing the wounded and dying" was directed by He, starring Siu-ho Chin,,, Cai Hanyi,,, Yuan Xiangren and Zhan Wen Rui.
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Are you a little excited to see this cast?
Siu-ho Chin, who starred in this film, is a key figure in establishing zombie Jianghu with Ching-Ying Lam.
Mr. Zombie, released on 1985, cost 8.5 million yuan at that time, which made He Guanchang and Sammo Hung, then the bosses of Jiahe Film Company, under great pressure, and director Liu Guanwei even pessimistically thought that this was probably the end of his directing career.
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But when Mr Zombie was first released in Taiwan Province Province, it was an unexpected success, and it was quickly released in Hongkong, setting a box office record of 20 million. So far, no one of its kind has broken this record.
The success of Mr. Zombie lies in the perfect combination of horror, comedy and kung fu, which greatly stimulates the audience's sensory enjoyment by using absurd techniques. Ching-Ying Lam skillfully played the role of Taoist Mao Shan, which brought many exciting action elements to the audience and became the biggest tonic for the film.
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At that time, Jin Shaohao, who was still a newcomer, and Xu Guanying, a "generation comedian", also contributed countless wonderful moments to the film.
Including Anthony wong met a female ghost.
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Cai Wen dances on the glutinous rice bed.
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These unforgettable bridges have become "indelible" memories of countless people's childhood.
Undoubtedly, the horror and gloomy theme, the design of laughter and laughter, and finally the wonderful action fighting, the genre film mode initiated by Ching-Ying Lam is an unrepeatable classic in China film industry.
The whole film is well-made, cleverly conceived, and the director's handling method is compact and smooth, which pushes the horror comedy since Ghost to a new climax.
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On the other hand, in the novel "Saving the Dead Scavengers", the main story revolves around Cai Hanyi's little boy Zhang Chuntian who is involved in a zombie catastrophe in Hong Kong history. In a research survey, he mistakenly brought the lovely female mummy Xiao Xia home and developed a friendship with him. Unexpectedly, he provoked the attack of the zombie king, and finally Qi Xin destroyed the zombie king.
Still using small fresh meat, Cai Hanyi is regarded as a minority with high appearance rate in this year's Hong Kong films and co-productions, and has appeared in Shock Wave 2 and When is the Moon?
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But obviously, Cai Hanyi's childish face can't drive away evil spirits. His master, Qiu Xiaohuqin, is still there, but he can only show his "true knowledge" by constantly cleaning up the garbage.
The director arranged many clips from "the master humiliated the apprentice" and "the apprentice was impatient" to "the genius of exorcism". These routines, which have been watched by the audience for more than a hundred times, are still used to pay tribute to Ching-Ying Lam in today's zombie movies, and they are useless except to make the audience lament that the movie is "boring".
Another focus of the film is the "love story" between the hero Zhang Chuntian and the mummy Xiao Xia. Unexpected investigation shows that Zhang Chuntian mistakenly "saved" Xiao Xia, a ghost in the water. Xiao Xia used to be beautiful, but it was buried alive a hundred years ago. Her ghost turned into a zombie today. After absorbing Zhang Chuntian's "popularity", he changed back to his original cute appearance. In order to protect her from being cremated by the masters,
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The director chose the fresh female singer Lin Minzhen from Malaysia as the leading role, which directly led to the "split" of the rhythm in the second half of the film.
Lin Minzhen is so "harmless" and even has the appearance of an "otaku goddess". How does he deal with the "female mummy" setting that needs a certain atmosphere? Therefore, the "emotional ambiguity" between Zhang Chuntian and Xiao Xia has become the most fatal weakness of Saving the National Scavenger. This setting is like the "love between men and women" that must appear in TVB dramas, and the audience did not imagine it in the cognition of "zombie movies"
To put it simply, the film was released with the gimmick of "recreating the style of Ching-Ying Lam in those days". The audience entered the cinema and found that half of them were watching Twilight, and it was a very low-quality version of Twilight. Of course, the audience will shout "refund" at any time.
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Then there are only a few other settings and "zombie type" scenes in "Save the Dead Scavengers" to retain the audience.
In Siu-ho Chin, Richard Ng, Yuan Xiangren and Luo Mang, these old artists took off their robes and put on the uniforms of sanitation workers. When zombies appeared, they chanted incantations, used knives, killed blood, pasted symbols, and some reserved scenes of "surrendering zombies", which can still remind the audience of the flavor of Hong Kong they talked about many years ago.
On the faces of these predecessors, I see the ruthless traces of time. I think it was these people who made Hong Kong movies grow and develop decades ago, but decades later, I want to watch these people play the same trick again, but they are no longer in their prime. Looking back at the younger generation of filmmakers, no one can inherit them. More painful than this.
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The zombie in the film is not pure enough. China's "zombies", that is, "jumping corpse", are all unsatisfied resentment, which can suck the yin of the moon. Zombies can be infected with ptomaine or the geomantic properties of cemeteries, leading to necrophilia. In the zombie world of Ching-Ying Lam, the jumping of zombies, the appearance of zombies, the symbols of zombies, the clothes of zombies, and holding your breath when encountering zombies have all become the classic scenes of Chinese zombie films.
In this movie "Saving the Dead Sweeper", the face of a zombie almost becomes a bloody "zombie" in the western world, and he doesn't wear unique clothes. Only Xiao Xia can jump with zombies. If you don't deliberately remind them, these zombies in the movie really can't tell the difference between regions.
Therefore, Saving the Dead Sweeper is a standard "pseudo" zombie movie.
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At the end of the film, Zhang Chuntian said to the camera with a "ritual" monologue, "In fact, everyone's road is their own. Good or bad depends on how you go." At that time, Zhang Chuntian had grown from a teenager to a zombie hunter, as if he had said many times, "The future of Hong Kong movies is in the hands of this generation of young people. Good or bad depends on how you go. " This is the director's attempt to speak to the industry through the film-don't be too hasty, the road is still so long, and there are still a group of filmmakers in Hong Kong who continue to work hard.
I have heard this dialogue countless times. At least, the director of Save the Scavengers, like Zhang Chuntian, who has not yet joined the WTO at the beginning of the film, is just an afterlife.
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"Since Ching-Ying Lam died of illness, there have been no zombie kung fu movies in the world."
Compared with other similar movies, most zombie movies in Ching-Ying Lam are generally superior in quality. Hong Kong has been involved in zombie movies since the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until the appearance of Mr. Ching-Ying Lam Zombie won a box office slam that the Hong Kong film industry really began to face up to this fat meat.
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Zombies are all strange movies. It not only staged "The Return of the Zombies", but also added weight to the wave of horror films in Hong Kong. The film focuses on refining zombies and seven-day rebirth, and five lines of gossip's demon slaying is also quite creative.
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Zombies in Juno Mak
It is no longer a zombie movie technique in the past, but brings new visual wonders through the extensive use of special effects. Therefore, it subverts the previous zombies and even has some literary accents, which may be somewhat disappointing for those "zombie fans" who are obsessed with ancient tastes. However, Hong Kong films need the same "breakthrough courage" as Juno Mak, so as to win a new generation. At this point, Juno Mak's zombies have unique significance.
The film also won seven nominations and two trophies at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year.
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Zombies in Juno Mak
Zombies Tonight, which is being shown in Hong Kong these days, is also a zombie theme, but strictly speaking, zombies do not belong to the category of "zombies". Zombies are China ghosts, which have a unique meaning in China. Besides biting and sucking blood, there are some cute and playful elements, such as yellow paper, red pen, black ink, real knife, wood blade, glutinous rice and other Maoshan techniques, which really belong to China movies.
I hope those filmmakers who are interested in reviving Chinese films can pay more attention to it, instead of just taking its skin and not absorbing its essence.
There is a movie called Xianggang.