The movie has only been shown for less than ten minutes, but Yi Jianmei has already mentally given it a high score of "8" in advance.

It is very difficult to put a string puppet show on the screen. The ceiling of the puppet's expressive ability is there, and it is destined that it cannot be as expressive as a real person.

But from the beginning of the movie to now, Yi Jianmei can clearly notice that when filming the movie, they try to avoid this shortcoming as much as possible. If it can't be avoided, they will use various methods to divert the audience's attention.

Make up for deficiencies.

Whether it is the scenes, special effects, especially the plot settings, that is, the content, they have achieved this to a large extent. The horror and suspense in the prologue, as well as the various humor, nonsensical, and constant laughter after entering the main film, can all be done.

You can see the quality of this film's production team.

In the final analysis, movies are just like magic, they are all about deceiving the audience's vision.

The movie in front of us uses this deception very well.

On the screen, Ning Caichen carried a lantern and was chased by wild wolves all the way into Lanruo Temple. He ran into Yan Chixia and the Xiahou swordsman who were fighting. This Xiahou swordsman was the black-clothed man who chased and killed the robbers in the prologue.

swordsman.

In fact, there have been two simple fight scenes before, one is the swordsman of Xiahou slashing and killing bandits, and the other is the policemen fighting in the market to rob people. But in comparison, this fight scene is the real one

Martial Arts!

Tomahawk Pictures is well-known for making kung fu movies. Even if real people are replaced by puppets, the fighting scenes are particularly exciting!

And unlike kung fu movies, where fists and feet are intertwined and punches reach the flesh, the movie in front of you is called a sword and sword shadow, flying over the wall! It is another style of free and easy, handsome!

Many movie fans are already fascinated by it, it’s so handsome!

There is martial arts in this world, and there are also martial arts movies, but because the blockbusters of Lighthouse Kingdom swept the world at that time, they were directly smashed and died prematurely. Martial arts style fighting still occasionally appears in some costume films to make up for the scene.

That's all, but that kind of fighting scene has to take into account the ability and beauty of the young man, so it can't be too difficult. It's far less exciting than the puppet fights nowadays!

Zhao Chengwen is a martial arts fan at heart. When he was filming "Zhu Xian 1", he brought in a lot of private goods, so many of the fight scenes in "Zhu Xian" can also see the shadow of martial arts. And Wang Shenzhi, as his student,

Obviously, he was also influenced by him a lot. When Han Lan proposed using martial arts scenes to make up for the shortcomings of puppet facial expressions, he integrated martial arts into it.

The effect is naturally very good. For puppets, it is easier to shoot this kind of climbing over walls than for real actors. Many difficult martial arts actions are also a piece of cake for them.

Yi Jianmei has already understood that the type and style of this movie is martial arts and humor, coupled with elements of horror, or to be precise, "spiritual monsters", and elements of love.

Ning Caichen met the swordsman Yan Chixia at Lanruo Temple, and also met the fox demon Nie Xiaoqian by accident. He was influenced by her kindness and silly ways of calling Nie Xiaoqian, and they gradually fell in love with each other.

This is Ning Caichen's main plot, but for Yan Chixia, it's actually about fighting monsters all the way, then fighting bosses, and finally fighting the final boss.

However, the film production team integrated these two lines very well, perfectly binding Yan Chixia, who is extremely powerful in combat, and Ning Caichen, the fifth scumbag of the war, to divide the work and cooperate, you fight monsters and I flirt with girls, and they push forward together.

The development of the plot.

The movie's rating in Yi Jian's eyes increased to 8.5, and it did not drop until the end of the movie.

The little chubby guy sitting next to him was crying, laughing, laughing, and crying throughout the whole process. He was a sweetheart, and his emotions were completely controlled by Nie Xiaoqian.

It's not just him. It is estimated that most of the viewers in the theater will remember Nie Xiaoqian the most after watching the movie. She has good looks, a good figure, a temperament, and is kind and infatuated. Let alone men, women will be moved after watching it.

Even Liu Rong showed some confusion after watching it. He didn't want to give up Nie Xiaoqian's reincarnation, but couldn't bear her to continue to be trapped in the fox's body and suffer.

"Alas~"

"Love is difficult..."

Liu Rong sighed and glanced at An Keke beside him. An Keke quickly threw the last popcorn into his mouth, and then stuffed the empty bucket into his arms:

"Stop sighing. Didn't I eat popcorn for you? We ate the popcorn together. Are you okay with me hugging you the whole time? Now it's your turn. Let's go." An Keke waved her hand.

, followed Xia Ningxuan and Han Lan out.

"..." Liu Rong.

This woman has no reaction to such a touching love story?

Liu Rong clicked his tongue and shook his head: "It's too difficult for me..."

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Yi Jianmei, a film critic who has always been known for his quick comments, was not the first to publish a review this time. Instead, he sat in a coffee shop with a notebook and reminisced about the movie.

What concerned him most about the whole movie was not actually Nie Xiaoqian, but the special nature of this movie.

In fact, after the trailer was released, he went to learn about the original "Liao Zhai" mentioned by director Wang Shenzhi, and also read the Nie Xiaoqian chapter.

This time the movie actually made a drastic adaptation of the original work, and what was presented to him was a completely different story from the original work.

Including the characters have been changed. For example, the most popular Nie Xiaoqian. In the original book, she was a female ghost, but in the movie she was changed to a fox demon, and a scene where the dryad grandmother sealed her soul into the fox corpse was added.

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And the dryad grandmother who alternates between male and female was naturally added by the crew and was not in the original work.

If there was a party about the original work, this movie would definitely be criticized in the headlines at this time.

But if you really respect the original work and put Nie Xiaoqian on the screen, you will definitely be scolded even more fiercely by the fans!

After all, after hundreds of years, people's preferences have changed.

If we look at it according to modern standards, Ning Caichen in the original work is definitely a scumbag!

At the beginning of the original book, it is written that he often said to others: "There is no difference in his life", which means that he never took concubines throughout his life, had no affairs, and was a dedicated and good man.

That is to say, in the original work, he was already married before he met Nie Xiaoqian. After rescuing Nie Xiaoqian, Nie Xiaoqian proposed to marry her with her body. He looked carefully at Nie Xiaoqian and saw that her "muscles reflected the flowing clouds, her feet were as thin as bamboo shoots, and she looked at her in the daytime."

"She is very beautiful and beautiful", so she agreed to take a concubine. This was in line with feudal etiquette. I was seduced in the temple before and refused decisively because it was against etiquette. Now I am taking a concubine, so there is no problem.

But the old mother of the Ning family did not dare to accept Nie Xiaoqian, and she only wanted them to be brothers and sisters.

Nie Xiaoqian just stayed in the Ning family. Not long after, Ning Caichen's first wife died of illness. Nie Xiaoqian waited for more than a year, and her old mother agreed, so Ning Caichen married her and renewed their relationship.

Later, Ning Caichen passed the Jinshi examination and took another concubine.

What about the "no two colors in life" that you said?

If Tomahawk Pictures really dares to make a movie like this, it will definitely be criticized by netizens.

Moreover, the original work is limited by the factors of the times and contains many feudal remnants, so it cannot be used directly.

After the drastic adaptation, both Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian, as well as the development of the entire story, are obviously more satisfying to the audience than the original work. Especially for Nie Xiaoqian, Yi Jianmei can roughly guess why her setting is changed.

It will definitely be changed to a fox demon.

People have a natural fear of ghosts, and even the most beautiful female ghosts always feel weird. On the other hand, fox demons, with the whitewashing of various movies, animations, and works in recent years, fox demons are obviously more powerful than female ghosts.

To be more popular.

In addition, in addition to Nie Xiaoqian's story, the film is expressed in the form of puppets.

In other words, this entire movie, from source to production, mainly uses things from traditional Chinese culture.

But the string puppets were actually modified by them, and they are completely different from the traditional string puppets.
Chapter completed!