文|Linghu Boguang
In the summer of 2024, there are some blockbuster Hollywood movies, but neither Chinese movies nor Korean movies are good. Except for " Catch Baby ", other Chinese movies have average reputation, quality and box office performance, and the same goes for Korean movies. Since there is nothing to write about, I won’t go into it here.
This reminds me of the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year, the hot domestic movie " hot boiling hot " was very controversial. " Article 20 " and " Speeding Life 2" were relatively less popular. At the beginning of the year South Korea has released a blockbuster movie called "Tomb Raider", which has supernatural, tomb robbing, folklore and anti-Japanese themes. The movie
was later released on the Internet. After watching it, domestic netizens did not have a particularly good reputation, but today I will write about this movie.
From folklore to anti-Japanese drama? This Korean blockbuster at the beginning of the year is still ambitious.
In fact, ghost movies, or horror movies, are not easy to make. It can even be said to be a big problem, because this type of genre seems to have no middle state (that is, ordinary horror movies), either It's a classic, or it's a bad movie. There are probably only a few common ways to do this. Curiosity and Disgusting focus on visual wonders and socialism.
Since there are so many ways to play in this direction, after thinking about it, the socialist concept of reasoning may be more in line with what I want to express. It is roughly using ghosts to satirize people. Every sentence talks about ghosts, but every word talks about people. These movies Generally there are two major characteristics:
1. Ghosts are not the most terrifying existence in the movie, people are.
2. It integrates with various social issues, focusing on turning a deer into a horse, spiritual kung fu, and psychological horror... Of course, these directions do not mean that they are the only elements of this kind. Many horror films contain these things. It's just that the focus is different.
Actually, more strictly speaking, the social genre includes all types of horror films. After all, no one has ever seen a real ghost. This is an existence that cannot be falsified or verified. From the birth of "ghost stories", it has been used Talk about people, or the society at that time. And if it exists as an "image", there are more things to consider, and the time should be better allocated to "pictures", "suspense", "scary", "story"... and so on.
If urban idol dramas and youth movies belong to the relatively easy mode, then ghost movies belong to the difficult mode. But the audience for this thing is not that wide. Compared with action movies and special effects movies, the direct audience is much smaller, let alone family-friendly comedies. To put it bluntly, this is the choice of the market and capital...
I personally think that it’s not that it can’t be filmed, nor that it can’t pass the censorship of metaphysics, but that this genre is naturally not cost-effective in terms of images... All over the world, horror films (especially (referring to the ghost genre), the box office data are all "dismal".
The Japanese fox demon Onmyoji in the horror thriller "Tomb Raider" is really sinister and vicious. I have made three preparations (two back-ups). Is it said that he is a disciple of Abe Seimei? It is terrifying to analyze carefully and think about it carefully. Nails block the lifeblood of other countries in Feng Shui. Nails pull out zombies and cause harm to everyone.
1——Choose a remote mountaintop as the cemetery, a simple and scary environment, and a tombstone with only the longitude and latitude engraved on it (unable to be read by non-professionals) to avoid ordinary tomb robbers.
2——The horizontal coffin above was also cursed and abandoned by the descendants. In such a dark place, it became a wraith after the coffin was opened. Even if something happens, the matter of the horizontal coffin will be over, and it will not affect the rightful owner of the stacked burial (dealing with professionals such as Choi Min-sik and Kim Go-eun)
3 - The vertical coffin below is the focus, with the human-headed snake taking care of it, and the Japanese samurai (him) (The body is made of iron nails, which can also be understood as the demon knife sewn into the corpse). After getting rid of the evil spirit in the horizontal coffin, it is difficult to find the vertical coffin without digging deeply. Even if the vertical coffin is found, the iron nails cannot be found.The Korean grudge in the horizontal coffin was a pro-Japanese sect during his lifetime. Judging from the plot, it can be said that he was a Korean traitor and has been working for Japan. The real purpose of the fox demon Onmyoji is to bury nails and cut off the national bloodline of Korea in order to prevent others from digging it up.
So the person who deceived the Korean family to bury their great-grandfather on a nail (a plan within a plan, a stacked burial) was after all a high-ranking official in Korea. Those who came to pull out the nails would be taken away as tomb robbers to protect the nails below, and the iron nails were That vertical coffin is also the Japanese zombie samurai, and it is also the demon sword sealed in the corpse. Pull out the coffin, find a way to kill the zombie warrior, break the knife and melt the
The nail is truly pulled out after completing the three steps! , my opinion about the ancient tree part, the old lady in white is not only the heroine’s grandmother and blood relative, but also the heroine’s master. She must have some skills, so she helped the heroine, then why didn’t she help the second male lead, because the second male lead is a female The protagonist's junior brother is not his biological brother. Grandma can be regarded as the heroine's patron saint who appears to protect her in times of danger.
appears twice in the car (1 - in the rearview mirror, 2 - the junior brother knocks on the car window and prepares himself) The car was held down)
but it couldn't stop the zombie warriors. One was a pure ghost and the other was a stitched entity (corpse, demon, evil spirit), so it couldn't be fought but it could delay time. It played a key role so the zombie warriors did not pursue it anymore. The heroine senses something strange in the cemetery and returns in the form of a fireball.
The prototype of the human-headed snake body is the Japanese female ghost Ruinyu, because Ruinv is a drowned ghost who drowned in the sea. It belongs to the water attribute and can be used to suppress the Japanese samurai below who are fire and metal, so that the Japanese samurai will not be so powerful that they can turn into corpses and escape. He came out, but just stayed in place as a nail to cut off the national line of South Korea. As a result, he was shoveled to death by migrant workers with a shovel while digging the horizontal coffin.
Later, the protagonist group dug out the coffin and left the longitude and latitude, which eventually caused the transformation of the samurai into a corpse!
The most popular Korean movie in 2024? Terror is not the purpose, resistance against Japan is the expression.
This movie is relatively average in terms of setting and plot alone. 8090Who hasn’t seen Uncle Ying’s zombie movies? Why were Uncle Ying’s movies not so popular at the time? They have something to say, from the way the movie itself conforms to Taoism to the Taoist culture, it’s all sophisticated.
Comparing the Korean version of "Tomb", I can say that Uncle Ying's film is crushed in many aspects. To exaggerate, it is not an exaggeration to say that it rubs against the ground. Maybe our country’s culture is too rich and complex (it’s proud to be Chinese), but Koreans can’t even understand it, and they can’t steal the essence. The part about dancing to the great god seems to have borrowed from the folk customs of the Northeast, and the expressions on their faces Not to mention the text.
Not to mention anything else, just the introduction of ghosts makes four or five so-called "Xuanmen" masters helpless. In Uncle Ying's movies, this is simply a little Karami, even Uncle Ying's prodigal apprentice can handle it. From the "horror and thriller" point of view, I don't see anything ruthless. From the "action martial arts" point of view, there is no action.
From the "plot writer" point of view, the front and back are separated. The first is an East Asian idealistic horror film, and the second is a European and American zombie film.
Overall, this movie is still a good folk horror film in the first half, but in the second half, zombies appear and become an anti-Japanese drama. Not only does it weaken the horror atmosphere, but the big problem is that it becomes too much. If it is mixed, the content will not be developed. It seems a bit ridiculous to use Korea's anti-Japanese campaign to sublimate emotions.
The plot of "Broken Tomb" is set during the Japanese occupation. The Japanese planted a nail on the "tiger's waist" of Korean Feng Shui. It is a reference to a similar allusion to "Severing the Dragon Vein" in our country. This nail is composed of Japanese yin and yang. The warrior ghost created by the master (actually a collection of ghosts) guards the place, and at the same time, it is disguised as the tomb of a "Korean traitor" family to deceive others.
Then the metaphorical prediction of the film is to break the curse imposed on South Korea by the invaders (cannot straighten the waist, cannot move the legs, and is controlled by others; Korean traitors cannot be punished, traditional culture will die, and culture and religion will be "imported") occupation, etc.), can be extended from Japan to the United States.
By the standards of horror films, this film is quite cliche and has a bit of an internet feel to it, but if I interpret it from the perspective of a political metaphor, I don’t think this film scratches the mark.The debate between Lao Jin and his assistant can be seen as the current attitude of the lower and upper classes in Korean society towards Japan. Lao Jin represents the "liquidation" and "detoxification" of the lower class, while the assistant represents the upper class's "don't make a fuss out of a molehill".
Although the assistant compromised on Lao Jin in the end, his final role was actually zero. He still had to rely on Lao Jin to remove the poison, just like all Kakas in South Korea (including Moon Jae-in). But why do I say that this movie didn't scratch the itch? Because the climax discusses the issue of whether to remove the iron needle, but the current situation in Korea is actually the issue of whether the iron needle can be removed. There is a father who is in charge of it, and you are No matter how painful it was, I endured it, but I wasn't very good at this.
In my humble opinion, you can actually change the settings of that temple. This should be a very influential temple. They are responsible for managing the ancestral tombs. The temple has been obstructing the protagonist group since the Japanese ghosts came out. Unable to hide it anymore, he was forced to let the protagonist team fight ghosts. In the end, the temple promised that they would deal with the aftermath, but in fact they didn't care at all. The unkillable iron needle would still be stuck on the tiger's waist. This is in line with the current situation in Korea.
On the one hand, the Japanese ghosts are only superficially afraid of the scriptures, which implies that Japan is only superficially afraid of the United States. On the other hand, the ancestral graves and iron needles are the property of the temple. The temple does not care who tortures whom, but outsiders cannot interfere. The most important thing is What's more, the temple doesn't want to pull out the iron needle. By pricking it, the temple can strangle the necks of Japan and South Korea at the same time. Why not?
This South Korean hit in early 2024 puts Chinese movies in an "embarrassing position"
Finally, I saw that the country's tomb culture, Yin Yang, Five Elements, Feng Shui, Chinese characters, was secretly used to make movies by this small country, which is not much different from Japan. First of all, I am proud of it, but my country still refuses to let this kind of traditional Chinese culture appear on the screen on the pretext of breaking down feudal superstition (or is there no director willing to study it in depth?), but I still feel a bit powerless.
Recently, when watching horror movies that have something to do with these traditional cultures, the only one with a slightly better feeling is " zombie ", but I personally feel that the two ghost sisters in it still feel a bit more Japanese. This is A little disappointed. But the Chinese-style horror ghosts in it are really well done. I hope "Zombie" will not be the swan song of Chinese zombie movies.
No matter how much we accuse Koreans of plagiarism, they become more and more successful, and in the end, even lies will turn into the truth.
This aspect of Chinese folk culture is really difficult to describe. After all, even animations such as " Under the Stranger " have to be made into live-action film and television dramas, which require various changes.
