I have to say that the current Internet University is really good at playing.
On December 9th, "Looking for the Dragon: The Door of Life and Death" premiered online, and it is estimated that many fans were excited when they heard this title, and thought it was a sequel to Chen Kun's version of "Looking for the Dragon" in 2015, after all, among so many adaptations of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", "Looking for the Dragon" has the best reputation and box office.
However, "Looking for the Dragon: The Door of Life and Death" is purely a copycat movie, and it can't even be concluded whether it is a tomb robbery film.
Rotten!The box office broke 3.12 million, and the 69-year-old Lou Nanguang Cottage "Ghost Blows the Lantern" received a bad review.
Looking for the Dragon: The Door of Life and Death" is definitely a copycat with a strong lineup in the popular "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".
The male protagonist Zhao Da is a famous actor in the mainland.
In 2016, he starred in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City", playing Wang Fatzi in the film, this Jin Dong's version of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has a good reputation, but unfortunately I didn't shoot one at noon sunshine, and then there was Pan Yueming's version.
The most amazing thing is that the second male in the film invited Liu Tianzuo, who is Wang Fatzi in another big tomb robbery IP "Tomb Robbery Notes".
The movie heroine Yan Zhuoling is a Hong Kong actor who once attracted much attention with "Crazy Dance", and the interesting thing is that Yan Zhuoling played a villain role in 2016 "Looking for the Dragon", that is, the adopted daughter of the villain Liu Xiaoqing, with short white hair, she is quite capable.
Dragon Quest: The Door of Life and Death is a proper multiverse of tomb robbery movies.
In terms of supporting roles, the movie also invited Lou Nanguang, who is unavoidable in the history of zombie films.
As the funniest character in Uncle Ying's movie, the captain played by 69-year-old Lou Nanguang this year is one of the favorite roles of countless mainland audiences in childhood, almost every zombie film starring Uncle Ying Lou Nanguang will star, this time in "Looking for the Dragon: The Door of Life and Death", Lou Nanguang played an old Faqiu Tianguan and adopted the three protagonists as apprentices.
Such a lineup can be considered to be able to play in the Internet University.
As of December 10th, the cumulative box office has exceeded 3.12 million in 2 days after the movie was released online, winning the first place in the popularity of the whole network for two consecutive days, and if nothing else, the movie will be a hit at the box office level of 10 million or even 20 million.
But the reputation of the movie is indescribable, and it can be called a bad review. The reason is simple, as a tomb robbery film released under the banner of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the movie has never really been in the tomb!
The special effects are rough, the plot is brainless and thunderous, Lou Nanguang has repeatedly made bad movies, can he keep it in the evening?
It's hard to define what type of movie it is.
The plot consists of three stories.
The movie opens with the story of Xiaoman, the tomb robber trio composed of Da Xia and Bai Lu who go to Southeast Asia to rob the tomb, they even storm a prison for the next ancient tomb, and finally obtain the treasure of the tomb owner at the cost of Bai Lu's eyes.
However, the opening of this spectacle is an old routine of the Internet University, and this story is actually made up by the protagonists selling fake antiques.
It turns out that the protagonists have lived in Thailand since childhood, and were adopted by the Faqiu Tianguan who lives in seclusion here, ** for various reasons unwilling to do this business, although the three protagonists were taught the ability to touch gold, but they were not allowed to go to the tomb, ** has a lovely daughter, but unfortunately she was born and couldn't speak, the protagonists thought of selling fake antiques to earn money to treat ** daughter.
On this day, the powerful local sheriff found **.
asked him to go to a royal tomb and find the ghost ginseng to save his terminally ill wife, I don't know why ** actually agreed, led the senior brother to the ancient tomb, and the three protagonists also secretly followed, of course, ** uncle had already discovered them, just don't say it.
A few days later, there was no news from Faqiu Tianguan and his party, and only the little junior sister Bai Lu came to the police station.
She told the sheriff the incredible second story in the ancient tomb, it turned out that Faqiu Tianguan and his party arrived at the location of the ancient tomb, but they were attacked by a group of gangsters, ** Shi Bo was killed in battle, and the three protagonists escaped death but met the German expedition group.
The German captain coerced and lured the three protagonists to lead the way to the tomb.
Later, we learned that there is no ghost ginseng in the ancient tomb, the treasure is actually a Roman bead, its effect is to turn back time, to be able to return to the time when the user wants to go back, the little sister Bai Lu has even experienced a time regression, but in the end, the three protagonists and the German expedition group fought, Bai Lu fled with Roman beads, she hoped that the sheriff could go out into the ancient tomb, so that the time could return to the beginning, and the senior brother and uncle could come back.
This story, of course, is also false.
It turned out that there were indeed gangsters who attacked Faqiu Tianguan and his party, and also killed the ** uncle, but the three protagonists quickly caught this group of people, and knew that all this was planned by the sheriff, and the sheriff married the mayor's daughter for power, but he has been cut off from his first love, so the mayor's daughter killed the sheriff's first love, maybe it was retribution.
The mayor's daughter was terminally ill, and the sheriff was very happy.
Unexpectedly, the mayor's daughter kidnapped **daughter,** could only go to the ancient tomb to find ghost ginseng, but the sheriff was unwilling, in order to avenge his first love, he sent a killer to kill **, and the mayor's daughter could not be saved.
After learning all this, the three protagonists make up a story for the sheriff to follow.
It's a pity that in the end, Xiao Man, Da Xia, the two Faqiu Tianguan, who seemed to be powerful, did not fight the sheriff, and finally died together.
This is the third story of the movie.
The whole movie seems to be constantly reversed, but unfortunately it is too cliché and logically completely unreasonable.
For example, the three protagonists all say that they love their **daughter very much, may I ask if the ** teacher and uncle are gone, and you still secretly follow them, haven't you considered how the five or six-year-old **daughter lives?But if you think about it for a while, you can find that ** daughter is missing, she must have been kidnapped.
In the end, Xiao Man, Da Xia controlled the sheriff in the car, won't he stop and fight two and one?
But a person has to drive, and it becomes a heads-up. The two of them tied up the sheriff, and everything was perfect.
The funniest thing is the copycat "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but the three protagonists have never really gone to the tomb, and the tomb robbery scenes in the whole film are all storytelling, all fake. You've set your background in Southeast Asia, can't the scale be bigger?
In addition to the plot, the most disappointing thing in the film is Lou Nanguang.
Both the lines and acting skills are quite average, in recent years, Lou Nanguang has filmed many Internet universities such as "Uncle Maoshan" and "Mr. Yimei" in the mainland by relying on his feelings, all of which are bad movies that sell cold rice and feelings, and I am afraid that the future will not be guaranteed.