If you have watched too many old Hong Kong films, it is not difficult to find out why we have been nostalgic for old films, and why the best films in old films have doubled, the reason is actually very simple, it is not that the Hong Kong films we said broke out collectively at that time, but because they found a pattern in the process of shooting. What is the law?Reproducible laws. If any type of movie can be reproduced, then a lot of effort can be saved in the story and structure, and the rest depends on the performance of the actors, if the actors' performances are not too bad, then there is no doubt that a qualified work or even a good film will be born, so that after a large number of movies are released, the production rate of good films will naturally be very high.
The film "Ghost" recommended to you today belongs to such an assembly line work, this is not a belittling, we can explore the general law through this model, if this law is summarized, it is also good for the creator to use it when shooting the same type of work in the future.
"Centipede Curse" is still about Nanyang evil arts, a rich daughter followed her friends to Nanyang to play, but inadvertently bumped into her own enemy and was beheaded, and in the end, the rich daughter died tragically in Nanyang. Her brother, who was in charge of investigating the incident, was ordered to come to Nanyang, only to discover that his grandfather had done shameful things in Nanyang during the investigation. Finding the truth can't help those who died tragically come back to life, and at this time, the enemy is still in line with the principle of revenge and revenge when facing the enemy's grandson, and Brother Gongzi is facing the test of life and death, does he want to pay for the mistakes his grandfather once made?That's what this film is about.
"Centipede Curse" can actually be classified as the second line of fantasy movies in Hong Kong films in the 80s of the last century, of course, it can also be said to be horror films, bewitchment films, etc., these movies have a significant feature that is to target the South Seas, which is the Southeast Asia region we know today. It was only after the 80s of the twentieth century that the region really ushered in the economic boom, and before that, it was a mysterious area for the outside world, and the mysterious reason was that it was backward, so for Hong Kong people at that time, there was a certain sense of superiority to travel to a backward place.
Why do we say this, we can summarize from it, the region of the Gu set in this film is in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia belonged to the backward region of South Asia before the eighties of the last century, and Hong Kong has taken off economically since the seventies, and after decades of development, Hong Kong has a sense of superiority in the face of Southeast Asia. And this sense of superiority coincides with the rapid development of Hong Kong films with the rapid development of the economy, and it is natural to continue this sense of superiority in such things, so a large number of movies related to it are about to come out.
Not only this film, but also films such as "Raising Ghosts", "Ghost Eyes", "Descending the Head" and other films all use similar routines to shoot, these films are characterized by small budgets, and the framework is surprisingly consistent. Take this film as an example, at the beginning, it must be a young and ignorant young man and woman who encountered something mysterious and then was tricked. And the purpose of the Gu is to take revenge. In the process of revealing the truth, we can see a tragic story and the people who committed the crime, and in the end, the truth is revealed, and the battle between good and evil, some have an open ending, some have an end where good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and so on.
These obvious routines are not what we want to criticize, in the period of rapid development of the film industry, there will always be people who will seize this opportunity to produce some batch works, and this film is one of them. Although this routine is not what a healthy film industry should have, it is unavailable for a fast-growing film industry.
Another explanation of the routine is that the repeatability is very high, when the repeatability is very high, all the productions can be produced in batches, which means that as long as the elements are there, the quality of the movie itself will not be too bad, taking this film as an example, the story is involved in a murder case decades ago through the two rich children who met the next Gu, when the truth is revealed, we do not see the end of the story, but when the truth is revealed, someone will face the problem of whether to die or not. In confronted with this issue, we have seen that the truth does not seem to matter, because for a long time no one has been held accountable for the truth.
Therefore, when these ghostly things descend on the new generation, the emotions of the audience are also complicated. On the one hand, the protagonist's second grandfather once committed a crime and went unpunished, and on the other hand, the innocent next generation has to suffer the catastrophe that the previous generation must handle. There's no such thing as right or wrong. This type of film is also designed to create a situation that downplays what is right and what is wrong, so that the audience can focus on what the creator is making.
Although the special effects of the films of the 80s of the last century look funny, for the plot framework constructed in this way, people can completely ignore the blessing of such special effects. After all, mass-produced films don't have elaborate props, and even if they do, the genre is still full of creativity in the cult field. This is indeed something we Xi learn.
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