Two years ago, a "Longling Labyrinth" completely changed the ecology of domestic film and television adaptation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". The blessing of
stars, the director's perseverance, and the improvement of special effects have all made this "Longling Labyrinth" a surprise to fans of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
However, " Yunnan Insect Valley " a year later was not satisfactory. A lot of special effects and useless plots caused the core story to be compressed and the look and feel decreased.
But after waiting for a year, "Kunlun Shrine" is finally here!
has a Douban score of 8.2, which has surpassed the reputation of "Longling Grottoes" and has become the highest-rated ghost blowing lamp in history.
released four episodes in one breath. As a fan of the new "Iron Triangle", Tomato-kun can't let it go.
"Kunlun Shrine" is the fourth book of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and it is also the end of the story of the three.
The previous story is about Hu Bayi , Fatty Wang and shirley Yang after touching gold, they suddenly contracted mysterious red spots and died soon. In order to save themselves, they first went to Shaanxi to explore Longlin Labyrinth, and got the keel Tips from the bible.
According to the book, this mysterious erythema is related to the tomb of King Xian in Yunnan, so the three bravely ventured into the Yunnan Insect Valley and found the legendary Zong Chenzhu.
But after getting the Zhuo Chenzhu, the erythema has not disappeared.
Hu Bayi remembered the mural on the tomb of King Xian, which was very similar to what he had seen when he was a soldier in Kunlun Mountain. In order to save their lives, the three could only go to Kunlun Mountain to find out.
And this "Kunlun Shrine" is about the adventure of the three people in the Kunlun Snow Mountain.
is reasonable, after experiencing the word-of-mouth of "Yunnan Insect Valley", "Kunlun Shrine" has indicated that it is going to fight a turnaround.
started with a tense story that directly caught the audience's attention. The
drama begins with the story of Hu Bayi serving as a soldier at the Great Phoenix Temple in Kunlun Mountains. Because of the attack, Hu Bayi, who was buried in the soil, struggled to get up and found that his comrades around him had turned into skeletons.
is only calling his name from the walkie-talkie: Hu Bayi! Hu Bayi!
Under the dim light of the flashlight, Hu Bayi heard his comrades' cry for help, and resisted getting up to help.
passed through the narrow secret passage, but the entrance was blocked by some kind of barrier.
Hu Ba watched the comrades outside fighting with the wolves, but he couldn't help himself.
Then, something strange happened. He saw his younger self, appeared at the entrance of the hole, and shot the wolf with a gun.
was fascinated, but Hu Bayi didn't notice that there was a white long-haired monster that had quietly appeared behind him.
When the monster's bloody mouth opened, Hu Bayi suddenly woke up: it turned out that everything just now was just a dream!
Hu Bayi woke up and found himself being crushed by a black cat.
He rolled up his sleeves and found that his arm was bleeding with golden blood. Can't stop, it's still golden. When
was washing his arms, Fatty Wang had already entered the door, pouting beside him.
Hu Bayi didn't notice, just inWhen he was concentrating on checking the wound, Fatty Wang suddenly stopped talking.
realized that something was wrong, Hu Bayi turned around and saw the fat man standing there dumbfounded, with a strange expression.
Then, slowly from a fat king to a decaying zombie.
and his own face also began to slowly "zombify".
what happened?
Once again, Hu Bayi woke up from his dream again, this time he was in the car.
Good guy, dream in a dream, this is probably not "Inception: Kunlun Shrine".
However, when he woke up this time, Hu Bayi came to reality, and everything he dreamed was just a worry about the team going to Kunlun.
Because they are going to Kunlun Snow Mountain, Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang and Da Jinya need to buy a lot of ginger and make ginger juice to melt the thousand-year ice. The strange thing about
is that the whole ginger of Beijing City has been bought.
break the "iron triangle", the people who buy ginger are obviously not good people.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for someone to come to the door.
The person who bought the ginger was a boss from Hong Kong named Ming Shu ( Tang Zhenye ), and he also went to Kunlun Shrine.
Uncle Ming's purpose in going to Kunlun is to find his father's body and bring it back. Although their purpose is different from that of Hu Bayi, the destination is the same.
Uncle Ming's purpose in buying ginger was to go with Hu Bayi and the others, so that they could take care of him.
But Hu Bayi found that this uncle Ming is not simple.
weirdness comes from three places.
One of them, , is Uncle Ming, who is very expensive. He hides all kinds of antiques from all ages in his home. Just take out one piece and it is worth a fortune.
Since he has this wealth, why go to Kunlun to take risks?
Second, Ming Shu is very rich, he can hire more powerful people to protect his own safety, why spend a lot of money, be sure to cooperate with "iron" Triangle" peers?
Third, Hu Bayi discovered that in the center of Uncle Ming's house, there is a thirteen-bearded raccoon cat, and this kind of cat is only enshrined in people's homes.
In addition, Hu Bayi discovered that Uncle Ming also knew how to rob tombs and locate acupoints, and even knew that the ice in Kunlun needed ginger to cut open.
Three doubts made Hu Bayi decide not to go with Ming Shu.
But the treasure map of the ghost mother's tomb in the hands of Uncle Ming made Hu Bayi change his mind. If they want to uncover the secret of Zong Chenzhu, they must use this map.
So the three of them decided to go with Uncle Ming. This line of
is a blessing or a curse. Tomato-kun will not spoil it, I will leave it to everyone to see for themselves.
As the follow-up to "Longling Labyrinth" and "Yunnan Insect Valley", this "Kunlun Shrine" can be said to have gathered the advantages of the first two films, and changed the shortcomings of the first two films. At least three surprises are worthwhile. focus on.
First, the biggest surprise of "Kunlun Shrine" is the restoration of monsters and scenery.
We all know that "Longling Labyrinth" is a real shot, but "Yunnan Insect Valley" uses a lot of green screens.
This leads to the lack of good monster production in "Yunnan Worm Valley".
But in "Kunlun Shrine", the production of monsters has been significantly upgraded. The first four episodes of
basically focus on the battle with Eating Sin Balu . The so-called Eating Sin Balu is a kind of hell hungry ghost in Tibet Samsara in the original book, it is a cat-headed beast with a humanoid body. Has a tail.
's Eating Sin Baru is in line with the original work, and blends well with the surrounding environment, without too much sense of separation.
, especially when attacking, the action is relatively smooth.
and the film restores the details of Adong being bitten to death by Eat Sin Balu for stealing a Buddha statue. From the perspective of restoration and authenticity, the scale of this paragraph is still very large.
In addition to the monsters, "Kunlun Shrine" is also obviously one level higher than "Yunnan Insect Valley" in terms of framing. Most of the framing of
"Insect Valley of Yunnan" is made on green screen. When the picture is cut to the big scene or the distant scene, all the real people and buildings seem to have the texture of a large net cutout, which is very cheap.
In "Kunlun Shrine", the framing obviously continued the advantages of "Longling Labyrinth" on-site framing.
not only adds aerial photography, it can overlook the magnificent scenery of various landforms,
especially the texture of Kunlun Snow Mountain and the appearance of Tianzhu poets, has the taste of a blockbuster.
The scenery and monsters are the most attractive features of the entire "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series. Those bizarre landscapes and strange beasts are the main elements that attract everyone. At this point,
can basically restore the original work, which is in line with the expectations of book fans, so the basic reputation of "Kunlun Shrine" will be guaranteed.
2. The second surprise of "Kunlun Shrine" came from the return of the trio "Doumenzi".
watching "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is not only curious, but also comedy and fun. In
"Iron Triangle", Fatty Wang is the atmosphere modifier. He and Hu Bayi are like a joker, and the other is like a puppet. One of them is clueless and the other is unhappy. One of the best characters.
Without Fatty Wang, without the "fat gold" comic dialogue between him and Da Jinya, the fun of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" would be reduced by half. In
"Kunlun Shrine", the pompous Fatty Wang is back. The three sections of
made people laugh, and also made the audience fall in love with this chubby Jin Xiaowei again. The first stage of
was when Da Jinya, Fatty Wang and Hu Bayi came to Uncle Ming's courtyard.
Fatty Wang looked at other people's things in a dazzling way, while muttering about his knowledge of literary play that he didn't know right or wrong.
Suddenly he and Da Jinya saw a Western human body painting, and their eyes widened.
's sentence "This is a bathhouse" and "I've seen too many committing hooliganism " made Tomato Jun almost burst out laughing.
The second segment is that before entering Kunlun, Fatty Wang has been doing his best to weave a pair of red underwear for his eldest brother Hu Bayi.
thought that the red panties were just what Fatty Wang was talking about.
As a result, he really knitted. After
got on Kunlun, Fatty Wang took out the red pants from his bag and shyly handed them over.Giving it to Hu Bayi is like giving him a token of love.
Hu Bayi saw this and was embarrassed to ask for it, not to mention that there were other people present at the time.
But in the face of Fatty Wang's fierce pursuit, Hu Bayi reluctantly subordinated and packed it in his backpack.
At this moment, there is even a sour smell of love in the air. In the third section of
, Fatty Hu climbed up the pillar in order to avoid the attack of Balu, but Fatty Wang couldn't hold back his urine and poured down for a while.
It's hilarious to see his cheap and relieved expression.
With the presence of Fatty Wang, the entire team also has an atmosphere modifier, and some of the terrifying and tense atmospheres are instantly dissolved.
This is also in line with the description in the original work, because in the original work of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Fat Master is such an existence.
3. The third surprise of "Kunlun Shrine" came from three supporting actors.
So far, various supporting actors will appear in each of Pan Yueming's version of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
For example: Ma Bold, who performed quite dazzlingly in "Longling Labyrinth".
But in "Insect Valley of Yunnan", not only did there not have any outstanding supporting roles, but a large group of villagers appeared meaningless, which dragged down the rhythm of the episode and reduced the tension.
arrived in "Kunlun Shrine", and the dazzling supporting roles returned again. The supporting roles of
this time are different from the previous one, because the supporting roles are not obstacles to the main group, but helpers, they are synergies, hindering only the monsters of Kunlun Snow Mountain.
, so the dazzling supporting role and the outstanding performance of the protagonist have a foil effect.
There are three most dazzling supporting roles in "Kunlun Shrine".
The first is Sha Baoliang, , who is a poet Ake .
When Ake appeared on the stage, he didn't give a close-up of his face, but gave a close-up of his rough and dark hands. At first glance, these hands were not the hands of a singer.
When the camera slowly rises and Ake appears, the audience can feel an exotic mystery and the vicissitudes of time.
just didn't know it was Sha Baoliang.
is reasonable, Sha Baoliang's performance is still very good, especially for Ake's shaping, in Hu Bayi's dialogue, the lines have a strong sense of rhythm, and there is no drama.
has a religious mystery, so in some small scenes, it can also adjust the atmosphere.
For example, when he witnessed Hu Fatty giving each other red underwear, the expression was really indescribably funny.
The second is Ming Shu played by Tang Zhenye .
Tang Zhenye's uncle Ming is more in line with the original work. This businessman from Hong Kong has a lot of points for a port.
had just finished saying that he was in good health at the age of sixty with his front feet, and
leaned against the wall and gasped for breath. In the
drama, Tang Zhenye also has a lot of eye-catching scenes that are very brilliant. For example, in the second reincarnation, when he was teased by the fat man, the contemptuous little eyes showed the cunning of a businessman just right.
And after seeing someone injured, the little expressions of disgust and fear are also very rich.
The role of Uncle Ming is an important supporting role in "Kunlun Shrine". Judging from the first four episodes, it is relatively successful to choose Tang Zhenye to play the role.
is the third place, is the girl Axiang played by Wen Qing .
Axiang has yin and yang eyes , so I look pure and cute and a little yin prey.
Axiang doesn't have many lines. At first glance, it is the confrontation with Sha Baoliang. Both
are a little mysterious. The moment they make eye contact, a strange atmosphere spreads.
At present, Ah Xiang has very few roles, I hope she can have a more exciting performance in the future.
The highlights are finished, let's talk about the shortcomings.
This "Kunlun Shrine" is not perfect, and there are still many areas for improvement in the play. For example,
, Fatty Wang's combat power has been weakened again. In addition to being poor, he has also become a "trouble maker". In the first four episodes of
, during the battle with Evil Balu, Fatty Wang dragged his feet all the way. Either he knocked over the stones to attract Adong's attention, or he couldn't hold back his urine and attracted Evil Balu. The whole battle became Hu Ba. The process of wiping Fatty Wang's buttocks made people feel uncomfortable.
In addition, for the scenes in the underground palace, the color grading is too dim, the picture loses a lot of details and looks blurry, especially the fighting scenes, it is basically impossible to see clearly.
's excessively dark filter makes the monster and black blend together, and also reduces the horror brought by the monster's appearance.
However, although there are such and other problems, the flaws do not hide the advantages. If the expectations of "Kunlun Shrine" are lowered, it is still worth watching.
's current monsters are only Sin-eating Baru, followed by Glacier Crystal Corpse, Snow Maitreya, Snow Mountain Golden Mummy, White Wolf King, Dapp Ghost Bug and so on.
has a total of 16 episodes, and there are 12 episodes in size. In each of the following episodes, there should be a monster appearing.
Let's wait and see!
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: 11)
