Once upon a time, the domestic adventure genre also sprang up and was unique in domestic film and television.
One of the masterpieces is "Ghost Blowing Lights".
"Exquisite Ancient City", produced by Noon Sun, received rave reviews, but unfortunately it has become "out of print".
Fortunately, the iron triangle of Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi and Jiang Chao took shape, step by step from "Nuqing Xiangxi", "Longling Labyrinth", "Yunnan Worm Valley" and "Kunlun Divine Palace", although there were occasional overturns, but overall remained within a certain level.
But due to various reasons such as investment, the films of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series have always been trapped in the trap of creation.
Especially in the various ghost blowing lamp series of online movies, under the "hellish difficulty" of small money doing big things, such ghost blowing lamp works are often "tiger and snake", and even rotten from beginning to end.
This top IP that makes the Chinese film and television industry "unrepentant despite nine deaths" is also the most helpless bad film trap for the audience.
However, domestic adventure films, there are only all kinds of reliable and unreliable "Hu Bayi" and "Shirley Yang"? Adventure stories, is it really equivalent to going to the grave?
Can't we go to the sky and the sea, and fall into the golden soup?
Just today, finally an adventure movie that does not rob tombs has been released, and after only 5 hours of broadcasting, it rushed to the first place in the popularity of the whole network, and the proper popularity "carries the handle", so why is the movie so horizontal?
"Three-Lined Wheel".
Adapted from the popular novel of the same name by the author of "Sito", it is also another film and television adaptation of Tailfish's works after "Sito".
Although it has not been released in theaters, it has been launched simultaneously on the three major platforms of You, Ai, and Teng, which is a bit of a noodles.
Another point is that the length of the film is 112 minutes, compared to the usual seventy or eighty minutes of online movies, behind this length, there are obviously two words hidden: ambition.
As soon as he appeared, it was indeed imposing.
Is it true that domestic adventure films are really going to kill a waterway?
Under the halo of data, what is the gold content of this adventure movie?
Inspect the goods in one breath - summarize in one word, typed.
The story is in line with the original book, and the protagonist is brilliant.
The play connects the story and the supporting roles are powerful.
The production is small and big, and the atmosphere is in place.
Maybe, this "Three-Line Wheel" can really be a domestic adventure genre, in addition to touching gold, and explore a waterway?
Yes or no, get under the gin soup and see for yourself.
1. Enter the play: "Three Rivers Water Ghost", under the golden soup, turning the pot? The film's use of underwater fantasy is fantastic
Let's watch an adventure movie, how can we achieve the "most exciting" effect? The answer is also simple, believe it is real.
That is why, the ceiling of the domestic adventure type, is "ghost blowing lights".
But treasure hunting, adventure and fantasy, are not our originality.
Hollywood has long set the same benchmark -
Indiana Jones in Indiana, Lara in Tomb Raider, O'Connor in The Mummy, and National Treasure by Uncle Cage.
Our country is different.
With a history of 5,000 years, the diverse folk customs of 56 nationalities, and the wrapping of action-adventure films, what is hidden is a fantasy of the universe of ancient civilizations.
If folklore and fantasy imagination can be applied to movies consistently, the effect will naturally be doubled.
But the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series has reached a certain extreme.
Adventure treasure hunting, nothing more than heaven, earth, underground and underwater.
In heaven, don't think about it, it's a matter of the gods;
On the ground, it is also difficult to get, and there are too many domestic dramas;
There is "Ghost Blowing Lights" underground, where else is it?
And - underwater.
The original book of Tail Fish is so attractive that it has created a bizarre and imaginative underwater fantasy adventure universe such as "Three Rivers Water Ghost", "Underwater Bank", and "Underwater Six Arts".
The so-called "three-line wheel".
The third line refers to the three major rivers of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River. There are three families on these three lines, and since ancient times, they have been doing underwater business to help people sink treasures and hunt for treasures.
Some of them can survive underwater without any auxiliary equipment, and the most powerful are called water fish. They can come and go freely in the water, and have the skills of feng shui and dragon hunting treasure.
At the beginning of the movie, an underwater adventure drama unfolds.
And this opening scene is also the most tragic battle in the history of the Yi family in the third-tier family in the original work, and all the elites are almost lost.
Just at the beginning, all parties seem to be full of confidence, Yi family water fish Yi Xiao, heroic and sassy, standard water beauty, before entering the water is fighting with his sister, let his sister not rob his own things.
Boyfriend? It's a Walkman.
Suddenly, a message was sounded in front of him - "The golden soup cave has been found."
This pair of golden children and jade girls under the water immediately teamed up and prepared to go into the water. When leaving, her sister Yi Sa said, "Go down and be careful, don't be abducted by the water monkey." ”
At this time, the launching ceremony was ready, and an old man who was in the family stood in the middle of the boat and spoke aloud - "The sea is full of rivers, the water is hidden in a thousand gold, the Lancang River is easy to family, the water is easy to Xiao, and the golden soup is opened." ”
At this time, the drums on the boat sounded, and Yi Xiao released an arrow into the water, and the water suddenly burst into flames, illuminating the river.
It's time, "a hundred evils avoid the easy, the three sacrifices open the way, and the ancestral card leads the way."
Then Yi Xiao wiped the chest token, a little blood on his hand, and then gave his fiancé a playful smile, "But I lost it." ”
A backflip, into the water, like a fish swimming underwater, disappears in the water in an instant.
As soon as the camera turned, Yi Sa on the shore his sister's walkman again and began to listen to the song, "Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue." The voice left the flute and asked Jun when he was going. ”
Eating oranges and listening to songs, the girl took out an empty plastic bag sleeve, "This time you must hold back a song." ”
It turned out that the little girl had been silently training to hold her breath.
But at this moment, the sky changed color, and countless people seemed to be thrown into the air in the distance.
Then there was an explosion on the boat, reflecting the night, and the girl was blinded by the fire, and she turned her head unconsciously.
What's even weirder is that in the firelight, countless vines surfaced, and a figure that looked like a sister approached the shore step by step, like a ghost.
The girl gripped the steering wheel, already nervously speechless.
Then with a loud noise, the old man who had just presided over the launching ceremony smashed into the front of the car from mid-air, fell heavily on the roof of the car, smashed the roof down, and then poked a hand bone out of the car window, and finally spit out a few words: turned the pot.
Then Fujiman approached the shore at high speed, instantly surrounding the entire car, and the girl let out a piercing scream.
The surroundings finally fell silent, leaving only an empty car and a walkman still playing the song "Farewell".
The screen was bloody scarlet.
This opening scene maintains the consistent style of Yu Zong's works - extremely eye-catching.
It's not so much scary as the director is accumulating emotional stress.
The attraction of real adventure films has never relied on a startle, but on the self-substitution drawn by the plot.
Not all the time scary, all the time pressurized.
Instead, in the midst of peace, the rhythm suddenly drops, using special effects and lighting to pressure the audience.
Although I was across the screen, I had to hold my breath every time the camera turned a corner.
In an instant, everyone disappeared.
When the rescue convoy arrived at the scene during the day, it found a girl fainting on the shore not far from the incident.
She was the only able-bodied survivor of that accident. This girl is the heroine Yi Sa.
This way of appearance also sets the tone of the whole film of danger and unknown, which is creepy to watch.
Adventure and suspense, visually striking underwater action scenes and suspenseful stories, perfect intersection.
The combination of virtual and real, layer by layer, "Three Lines of Wheels" takes you into the underwater adventure world in this way.
"Here they come". Who are they?
2. Re-entry play: Jintang adventure, underwater opening, fantasy imagination in the movie is the biggest highlight
The opening material is solid and engaging, after "Three Lines of Wheels" is the basic requirement for a good film.
Horns, bright bloody flesh.
The protagonist is always the soul of an adventure film.
The ghost blowing lamp has Hu Bayi, and the three-line wheel has Yi Sa.
Yi Sa, who grew up, has already harvested divine power by accident and has become the last water fish of the Yi family, and is also the "manager" of the Lancang River Underwater Bank.
This time she came to Cambodia to explore a deep coffin.
Deep water cave search, underwater adventure.
Ignition opens the way, Naga in front.
With the assistance of Ding Yudie, the Ding family's water fish, she soon found the nine-headed Naga, the symbol of the royal family, "Here, is the tomb of the Khmer king." ”
And at this time, a fight is also underway on the local water, holding the Jiang family's ancestral card, the stupid rich second-generation Zong Hang is being hunted down by Ding Moraine, the adoptive son of Ding Changsheng, the head of the Ding family, after a fight for me, Zong Hang was shot down into the water, should have died, but inadvertently fused with the ancestral card, and actually came back to life and fell into a coma.
And when Yi Sa inserted the ancestral tablet into the mechanism, the underwater king's tomb suddenly shook.
It's time to test the special effects: the underwater tomb is burned red by the fire, the ground is constantly sinking, and it is about to topple.
The camera slowly rises again, and the heroine escapes.
Okay. What kind of ancient tomb is it, an underwater tomb that will "eat people".
Surprisingly, the director of this scene specially designed an adventure.
When the heroine jumped hard and found her way, she caught a glimpse of her sister between the gaps.
The provocative visual continues to sound the alarm for the audience. Danger ahead.
The ancient tomb is good, or the shadow of my sister.
It's like an illusion, like a fantasy.
Can use various elements of the underwater exploration universe to serve the horror and thriller effect of the movie, from these point of view, "Three Waters" still spends a lot of thought on the expression of the thriller atmosphere.
And just when the heroine escaped from the ancient tomb and went upstream, she unfortunately fell into cannon fodder and was shot in the unconscious water of the male protagonist, so she met the female protagonist.
And he wore the ancestral card on his chest, which obviously attracted Yi Sa, and while she saved the male protagonist, she also laid the groundwork for the next story.
From here on, the future head of the Sanshui family will merge into one, and finally at the bottom of the palace pavilion lake in "Asian Bermuda", with Ding Changsheng and Ding Moraine as a villain, in order to compete for the water spirit guts life and death duels, and the underwater beasts will eventually be awakened.
And when I saw this, I had already seen a chill in my spine and sweaty palms.
3. Highlights: Compare "Three Water Wheels" with similar adventure films, and the difference is out
It is not difficult to see the three highlights of this film:
The first is the rendering of the suspenseful atmosphere.
Starting from "Sito", the works of Tail Fish have always been thriller and adventure, go hand in hand.
For example, the psychological description of the heroine often uses retrospective methods to show Yi Sa's inner fear and pain:
Bathing in the scene alone, there was an uproar, and two blue-white arms suddenly stretched out behind her, revealing a frightening figure, and instantly fear wrapped around my neck.
This silent confrontation, although there is no fierce fight, but the terrifying horror atmosphere has slowly broken through the audience's psychological defenses.
There is also the scene of exploring the ancestral source of golden soup.
According to legend, the ancestral source of gold soup hides "water essence gall", swallowing water essence gallbladder can not only cure stubborn diseases, but also become the strongest water fish, and can open countless golden soup treasures in the Three Rivers Basin.
In order to find a cure for strange diseases and uncover the truth of the Yi family's massacre, Yi Sa decided to go to the ancestral source Jintang in person.
After the expedition began, everyone was in distress under the water, and encountered Fujiman at the beginning again, but by mistake, he found the Kobe Maru, which had disappeared for many years, and after some tossing, finally found that the so-called Fujiman was the rest recorded in the "Mountain and Sea Sutra".
People who have disappeared for so many years are not dead, but absorbed by the living dead and become living dead, and as long as they come into contact with the living dead, the living will instantly petrify into new living dead.
This scene is indeed wonderful.
The bottom of the water is solid.
Illusion is virtual.
At this time, the imagination of "Three Waters" began to appear: what is it like?
Hold your breath, open the circuit.
shua！ The living dead sprang out en masse and attacked the crowd.
A battle of the living dead, instantly vividly vivid -
The director deliberately set the final battle scene in the Kobe Maru under the water, which is cold and humid, and the environment is gloomy, which is a little scary to think about.
Plus the director is on the camera, and he has moved a lot of hands and feet.
"Kobe Maru" and ancestral source ginyu are a mysterious place in themselves, and the unknown is both fearful and curious for the audience.
When the director fuses these two mentalities, in fantasy, with horror, suspense effects, it is instantly full.
The second is interspersed with joy.
A story line that runs through the whole film is that the male protagonist Zong Hang Xiao Milk Dog is resurrected and transformed into a licking dog, and he is dead set on the female protagonist.
There are also many sudden funny scenes in the film, which make people endure.
For example, before the last battle of the three went into the water expedition, the heroine first came to a sensational speech: If you owe two, you will be rewarded in this life, and you will return it in the next life without life.
Ding Yudie also pretended to respond, saying that his lifelong dream was to step all over the rivers, and none of them owed anyone.
Unexpectedly, Zonghang's little milk dog immediately said: Me too, and then looked at the heroine affectionately: You are my big river.
The tragic atmosphere instantly turns into the rancid smell of love.
Ding Yudie: Huh!?
This repeatedly jumps in comedy and suspense, and it is old.
The third is the degree of reduction.
It must be said that to adapt a big book of tail fish into a movie, even if it is only half filmed, it is impossible not to make a huge adaptation.
But fortunately, this film basically guarantees that the literary drama and characters are exquisite and meticulously choreographed;
Martial arts can also play emotions and characters.
Especially the fight scenes of several heroines, smooth camera movement, spiritual soundtrack and excellent play choreography of the actors, made the audience addicted.
So although the story adaptation is large, it still maintains the essence of the original work.
For example, in the final paragraph, the duel between the trio and Ding Changsheng fought quietly and played a dragon and phoenix dance on the surface.
From seeing it without breaking it, to finally tearing the front of the face, the sense of atmosphere of the original book was filmed.
But the most restored thing is the characters.
Jiang Peiyao, who has starred in films such as "Apostle Walker 2", starred as the cold and domineering black belly royal sister Yi Sa, with neat short hair, a sexy waterfish makeup, with a pair of beautiful legs and ruthless eyes, Oriental Laura's sense of déjà vu is about to come out.
What's more exciting is that she restores the character's sense of despair, a scene hanging under the boat, like a ghost in the water and a suspended ghost.
The "go to die" tattoo on the ankle of the character in the original work, and the panic when the rancid smell appears on the body, are also perfectly restored.
"Three Waters" is not scary for the sake of scary, it has a relatively complete story.
And the key side line is how the heroine, who accidentally obtained the "power of the water fish" after the tragedy of turning over the pot and destroying the door twenty years ago, looks for her missing sister.
This suspense runs through the film, and it is not until the last moment when the theme is sublimated that all the hidden details are thrown.
When the core character stands, the film stands.
And the best acting skills in the whole film are undoubtedly the old man who plays the villain Ding Changsheng, what is the knife hidden in laughter, what is sinister and cunning, all make the old man play amazing.
These classic character performances are coming, no matter how the story changes, the taste of the original will not be lost.
4. Break the game: adventure films, you have to perfect yourself
Of course, the film is by no means perfect, on the contrary, there are many shortcomings.
For example, the plot of the original book has been changed too much, the story is overwhelmed, the male character is much worse than the female role, and the emotional drama is too abrupt and so on.
But I still think that this film is a rare adventure film in recent years.
In general, this new online film not only jumps out of the creative routine of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series of online movies, the horror plot and thriller atmosphere are also well rendered, and the investment is not large, but it can be seen that the special effects are used carefully.
No hard rubbing IP, selling feelings. In the words of the heroine in the film: perfect yourself.
For this kind of intentional reduction, as an audience, I think it should be tolerated and encouraged. Oriental adventure stories, what exactly is it watching?
One word, odd.
But not ethereal, but real.
Let the audience unconsciously immerse themselves in it, as if they have experienced an underwater adventure, and opening the golden soup is its wonder.
"Three Water Wheels" has a lot of room for improvement, but only when someone breaks the game can there be a future.
Compared with the ghost blowing lamp series, it chooses a road that is more difficult than others, the waterway.
And to go down this road, go far, and not turn over the pot, you must practice a more special skill than others.
This launch, I think passed, the question is, after opening the golden soup, what else?