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to follow the trend with a wonderful movie every day, which is a common problem in Hong Kong movies.
After the death of Bruce Lee, fake Bruce Lee fever once emerged; after Tsui Hark’s version of "Once Upon a Time" succeeded, everyone followed suit and filmed "Once Upon a Time"; after the success of Wang Jing's "God of Gamblers", a large number of gambling films appeared on the market.
After the success of Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" in 1985, a large number of zombie films appeared in the following years, and of course Lin Zhengying himself starred in a large part of them.
By the end of the 1980s, zombie films began to slowly fail to sell. Lin Zhengying believed that we should introduce more horror elements instead of just Chinese zombies.
was born in 1989's "The Dao Man with One Eyebrow". The film absorbed the western vampire elements, making Dao Chang's enemy a vampire for the first time.
In order to better film his own ideas, Lin Zhengying acted as the director of this film, this is also Lin Zhengying's directorial debut. In the cast of
, Lin Zhengying retained his own team. In addition to playing the protagonist Yi Mei Dao, Qian Xiaohao and Lu Fang respectively played apprentices, and Lou Nanguang played the security captain, he also joined Wu Junru as the captain’s cousin. All the lineups are funny old drama bones.
Because of the introduction of vampire elements, the crew designed a monastery in which the vampire played by Franjohas was hidden, and the Portuguese Maria played the head of the monastery. The story of
tells that in a village in a small town with beautiful scenery, six animals are disturbed and the population is disturbed.
An eyebrow leader and his apprentice went to check and found that dead bats in the monastery on the top of the mountain fell into the water source.
They came to the monastery, but they accidentally revealed a dusty past in this village-
a long time ago, two priests came to this village to preach and built this monastery. Later they were attacked by demons, and one warrior Dies, the other is missing, and the missing one becomes a vampire that harms one side.
One day when the villagers were digging a well, they dug up a zombie. The Taoist chief had originally arranged to burn it as soon as possible. However, the greedy security captain saw the gem cross in the chest of the zombie, which was self-defeating. The
zombie was unexpectedly resurrected, consuming the blood of the cousin of the security captain, and turned into a vampire full of blood.
disaster is coming, the hero comes out, and the rest is the 300 rounds of the war between Taoist and vampire. The
movie naturally ended with the victory of Dao Chang's justice. Unlike the previous way of fighting zombies, it took Lin Dao Chang a lot of time in the movie to figure out the way to eliminate him in the face of vampires.
However, there is still a big bug in the movie. Those who are familiar with Western vampire movies know that there are actually two ways to eliminate a vampire. One is that the sun can burn him to death, and the other is to use a cross to penetrate his heart.
And the way Lin Daochang eliminated him in the movie was to sink the vampire into the swamp.
Vampires in Europe and the United States have also added local attributes after their sinicization. At that time, Hong Kong screenwriters liked to confuse it with local zombies.
later had a very popular TV series "I have a date with a zombie", it was about vampires, but the title was "zombies", which shows that Hong Kong people's concept of "vampires" is very vague.
Looking at it this way, Lin Daochang's handling is also understandable.
In the context of the endless follow-up works at the time, Lin Zhengying's work of "True Patriarch" will naturally maintain a certain level.
Therefore, in addition to the novel story and compact plot, the creation of the scene is also indispensable.
It is said that the filming of the whole drama "The Taoist One Eyebrow" lasted for a year. The crew has to work hard, and the crew have to work more than 8 hours a day. The crew of
needs a lot of work in order to film the scene of conquering the Basho ghost at the beginning. Banana trees could not be bought from farmers at the time, and those banana trees had to be planted by the crew themselves.
It can be seen that Lin Zhengying's requirements as a director are still quite high.
, of course, as the first film directed by Lin Zhengying, "The Taoist with One Eyebrow" also sold well in Hong Kong, with a total of 11.19 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, and also brought back the once exhausted Hong Kong "zombie film".
Lin Zhengying only directed two films in his lifetime, "The Taoist with One Eyebrow" is one of them and the only zombie film. What is interesting about
is that "The Taoist with One Eyebrow" cooperated with Qian Xiaohao, and his younger brother Qian Jiale was asked for another work "The Green Hornet". The two brothers
are excellent stuntmen, and they are low-key. In the film, many difficult martial arts actions are performed in person, which is impressive.
Now Qian Jiale is a well-known action instructor in China, and he leads a team; and Qian Xiaohao inherited the "mantle" of Lin Daochang and is still active in catching zombies in the inland network.
Later, Lin Zhengying also directed two ATV TV series "Zombie Daochang". There was a third one, but it was cancelled because of sudden death, which became the eternal regret of fans.
I think Lin Zhengying was born in theatrical troupe. At the age of 17, he entered the movie circle as a dragon and tiger martial artist. Later, he and Han Yingjie became Bruce Lee's right-hand man and became a famous martial arts instructor in the circle.
In the 1980s, the Hong Kong film scene was born with talents. He broke through with zombie films, and his talent is obvious to all.
Unfortunately, heroes always have a curtain call, but this curtain call is too early...
Text/Pippi Film Editor: Blood and Heart
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