On that side, the Paris Olympics have kicked off, and on this side, the summer film market is booming. took over "Catching the Doll" is Wu Ershan's new film "Under the Alien".
Do you still remember "Fengshen Part 1", which was carried all the way back to the general ward by netizens from the ICU last summer, and finally recovered and was discharged? Wu Ershan is really prolific, one new work a year, and they are all high-concept visual effects blockbusters.
If "Fengshen Part 1" is a classical and heavy traditional Chinese mythology, then "Under the Alien" is a trendy and cool contemporary mythology and urban martial arts. I don't know if you have the same experience as Yi Feijun: when reading martial arts novels, you always fantasize about what those chivalrous people who fly on the wall will be like in the modern city? Do they have a place to practice their muscles and bones outside and a breath of qi inside their skin? Do they still have so-called sects and martial arts? When encountering injustice, will they use their peerless martial arts to perform chivalrous deeds? Although writers such as Nine Swords have written martial arts works with contemporary themes, in film and television works, martial arts films seem to belong only to ancient Chinese society, and have no connection with neon flashes, busy traffic, and reinforced concrete cities. "Under the Inhuman" is adapted from the popular comic "Under One Man", and the original work creates a modern martial arts world with all kinds of Inhumans looming in the city. The so-called Inhuman is a person with various superpowers, and it is not a big problem to understand it as a Chinese version of a superhero. This IP was introduced into Chinese Taoist culture as "Qi", which refers to various energies in the body of living beings. Inhumans can manipulate and use the "Qi" in their own bodies to perform all kinds of strange tricks.
Like the ancient martial arts, "Under the Alien" also has rivers and lakes and sects. Strangers living in modern cities not only have to hide their identities and pretend to be ordinary people, but also practice martial arts diligently in secret, and there will also be contradictions and competition between various sects. The "martial arts conference" familiar to Chinese audiences also exists in the alien world, and various sects will show their housekeeping skills at the conference and compete for high and low. Seeing this, do you probably understand what kind of movie "Under the Inhuman" is? In Yi Feijun's view, the setting of the world view of Inhumans and the shaping of various Inhumans are the biggest highlights of this movie. For example, the heroine of the whole film, Feng Baobao (played by Li Wanda), is an oxygen beauty whose age and identity are mysterious, and her weapons are kitchen knives and shovels.
Another example is the new generation of actor Lan Xiya, who has performed brilliantly in "The Three-Body Problem" and "Wind Chaser" in the past two years, she plays Liu Yanyan in the film, from Xiangxi, which has the legend of "chasing corpses", so that a good puppet technique can make those black things listen to her orders.
There is also the children's program host "Scarab" Liu Chunyan that we are very familiar with, can you think that she actually plays a stranger who is good at giving people "hospice care" in the film? When she put her warm arms around the enemy and whispered "brainwashing" in his ear, even the strong-willed tough guy would disarm and surrender. Wu Ershan's skeletal Qingqi casting idea is also no one......
Feng Shaofeng, who has always been handsome on the screen, is a small businessman who specializes in providing small "Qi" loans in the film, and storing and transmitting "Qi" is his skill. Of course, "Qi" cannot be borrowed in vain, borrowing one to repay five.
The sects in the Inhuman world are also very interesting. Feng Baobao's "Anywhere Pass", on the surface, is a courier company under JD.com (yes, I didn't expect JD to be a bridge between the two worlds), but in fact, it is responsible for managing the Inhuman world.
Qiao Zhenyu plays the company executive, the ability is the control of things, and he can use his mind to make the courier fly around in the air, which is fully suitable for his disguised identity.
But there are also many sects that do not accept the "everything goes" management. For example, Wang Jinsong and Nar Naqian played the Feng father and daughter Feng Zhenghao and Feng Shayan, who are from the "World Society". Feng Zhenghao's ability is "Detention Spirit", and the movie presents it in a treacherous, imposing and spectacular way.
There is also a "whole sex faction", which focuses on a relaxed and comfortable one. Although there are many strangers under the door, they are actually loosely organized and do their own things. The male protagonist of the martial arts world is generally born with a mystery of his life experience, either with a deep blood feud, or always looking for his "where to come from". Zhang Chulan, the actor of "Under the Stranger", is no exception. The character played by Hu Xianxu has the stunt of "Qi Body Origin", but because of this, it has attracted the tracking of various sects, some people want to get rid of him, some people want to use him, and some people are silently guarding him. The movie released this time has just unfolded the whole story, and the main thing is to shape the world view and show the character setting, Zhang Chulan's secrets and missions, his love and hatred with many strangers, will have to wait until the next one to be further revealed, if any. In order to show the abilities of the Inhuman, Wu Ershan made a lot of efforts this time. On the one hand, there is the training of actors. Almost all the main actors in the film have relatively heavy action scenes, and they all do a lot of high-intensity action training in advance.
The last time he filmed "Fengshen", he had a training camp for the gods, and this time he filmed "Under the Inhuman", he held another training camp for Inhuman. The actors practice a variety of traditional Chinese martial arts for their roles: Feng Shaofeng practiced Jeet Kune Do, which matched the shape of his suit and leather shoes; Lanceia practiced Tai Chi and Hands-Shaking Dance, simulating the feeling of manipulating a puppet; Li Wanda practiced Baguazhang; Na Ran, who played Daji in "Fengshen Part 1", played a stunning beauty who turned everyone upside down in "Under the Alien", using snake fists to match her bewitching and charming temperament......
It's been a long time since I've seen at least a dozen kinds of Chinese martial arts in a movie, and I can rush this point, and "Under the Alien" can also rush. On the other hand, there are a lot of movie special effects. After all, "Under the Inhuman" is not a pure martial arts film, and the abilities of the Inhumans are not the kung fu of hard bridges and hard horses, but beyond the scope of ordinary people, to achieve a magical and gorgeous effect, which needs to be achieved by special effects. I think the film is very complete in this regard, and many abilities are dumbfounded and enjoyable. In order to pay tribute to the original comics, the film is also interspersed with several animations that are copied with AI technology.
Although "Under the Inhuman" has not yet achieved the counterattack of last year's "Fengshen Part 1", Yi Feijun deeply admires Wu Ershan's adventurous and pioneering spirit. If Chinese films want to make Marvel superhero films that are popular all over the world, and if they want to promote the film industry to a higher level, they must have an attempt like "Under the Inhuman". Maybe the film still has some imperfections, but the first step has been extraordinarily brave. Looking forward to the follow-up performance of "Under the Inhuman".
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Yi Feijun will give you 20 redemption codes for the movie "Under the Alien". Please forward this WeChat to the circle of friends, and take a screenshot to the background, and leave a message [under the stranger + name + phone]. We will randomly select 10 lucky fans and each receive 2 redemption codes.
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