Chapter 842 'Sky Curtain: Soldiers Arrive at the City' (2)
Entering the first scene of the feature film timeline, the camera is a high-altitude bird's-eye view, showing a mountainous environment with flowers, jungles, scattered trees, and gurgling streams.
Such an environment should be like a paradise, but the gray grass, yellow flowers, rotten trees, and black water seem to reflect the sunset and dusk sun in the sky that has remained unchanged for more than three hundred years.
, everything here seems to be full of vitality and color, but it is so gloomy, terrifying and chilling.
The focus of the back shot is on Chenglong's back, where a tribal leader-like figure is sitting on a big rock telling a story to a group of children.
The boys wear short silk trousers, and the girls wear simple sleeves and clothes. They have a sense of the clothing style of ordinary people in the late Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are not ancient, but they are not modern either.
Film critics and attentive movie fans have wondered why the characters and environment of the feature film have such a style. However, there are too few clues at present to think clearly and get the answer, so they immediately continue watching.
As the camera zooms in from a high altitude, it advances towards Chenglong's back to a close-up view, and then a smooth panning lens cuts the painting. This set of combined camera movements shows Chenglong's face in full view, allowing the high-altitude lens to
The transition to close-up is unobtrusive.
Seeing Chenglong's face, everyone in the audience felt a little strange.
The medium-short hair that goes past the shoulders is disheveled, with a little wave in the middle and at the ends. It is the natural curl that Chenglong has always had. This small natural curl seems to be a symbol, and people will know that this is Chenglong at a glance.
dragon.
The reason why we still have to judge whether this person is Chenglong by looking at his hair is because Chenglong's eyes are covered by a piece of black cloth, like a blind man.
The character played by Cheng Long is a blind man? No way...some viewers can't accept it because it damages Cheng Long's invincible image in his past films.
In the picture, a group of children urged Chenglong to tell the story of "Grandpa Grandpa". Chenglong kept a gentle smile and deliberately delayed the time to let the children worry, creating a warm atmosphere of an adult teasing a child.
Just when the audience was hesitant about whether Chenglong was blind, it was also when Chenglong was about to continue telling stories to the children...
I saw Chenglong's face becoming solemn, and he glanced blindly towards the void on the left, then jumped down from the big stone, picked up a long stick leaning on the stone, and continued to look to the left.
Long stick? Is this the weapon in Cheng Long's movie?... The audience had a suspicion. In the impression, Cheng Long had never used a long stick as a weapon, which added a bit of freshness.
Seeing Chenglong in such a state, people nearby appeared one after another.
Hui Yinghong, who has a heroic appearance, is holding a [playing card] attached to her arm. The playing card is a shield. During the Ming Dynasty, the army used it to block arrows. It is shaped like a flat round straw hat.
An Zhijie, who is iron-blooded and cold-blooded, lowered his head and put on a pair of [Zhihu] on both hands. The Zhihu is black iron color, similar to modern iron fist gloves. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhihu was mostly used by Jianghu people. Wearing Zhihu
A punch that would displace all the internal organs made him look very brave. Coupled with An Zhijie's cold face, he gave people the impression that he was ruthless and didn't say much.
Silent and cool Lin Feng, holding two crossbows, the star product of the Ming Dynasty [copper dragon-hand crossbow machine], this hand crossbow is not the kind that most people imagine is similar to a bow, but is shaped like a dragon head.
Put your hand through the "neck" and pull the trigger, then fire the arrow from the "dragon mouth".
Chen Weiting, who looks unruly, holds a long double-edged sword with the front end like a crescent knife and the back end like a red tassel spear. It was a military supply for coastal defense during the Ming Dynasty. To deal with Japanese pirates, the armor at the back could be pierced by the lance head at the back or the crescent moon at the front end.
The blade cuts the throat, and there is a gap between the helmet and the armor. Normal weapons cannot hit it, but this double-edged spear is very powerful.
Audiences who don't understand this have strange intuitions. Why are there all these weird weapons in science fiction movies?
Fans and film critics who understand some cultural connotations laughed. This is a cultural export!
Domestic science fiction must have domestic characteristics. These weapons are full of domestic attributes, and they are elements that the West cannot learn.
But a filmmaker who is very knowledgeable about history thought of something deeper: Why did the movie background originate from the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago?
Seeing the elements of cultural export on these weapons, this issue raises two other historical questions.
Why did the Renaissance come to the West after the Ming Dynasty was established?
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the West after the Ming Dynasty fell?
Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there was no news about literature and art in the West. After Zheng He's voyages to the West, the purpose of cultural exchange was the main purpose, and the so-called Renaissance came to Europe.
Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the West was also in the agricultural era, and the farming was much weaker than that of the Ming Dynasty, let alone the so-called industry. However, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of books and classics that had been passed down for thousands of years were lost.
Within a few years, the industrial revolution broke out in the West from the agricultural era, and the shipping system could directly build warships.
If you ask how the West achieved gap-like progress? Anyway, the records of Western history are all "a long time ago", but there are no specific years and specific examples indicating the inheritance of the Renaissance and industry. The main focus is a divine right, God's cow
force.
Only a very small number of Chinese people have the truth in their hearts and know that their God is in the east.
So, this movie takes the late Ming Dynasty as the story origin, and features aliens killing wantonly and imitating humans. Is this the profound connotation of this movie, that these aliens are the Western bandits?
Then after three hundred years of development, the West is now more powerful, and its suppression of our country has become more and more severe. It is equivalent to using the stolen achievements of civilization to suppress the source of civilization.
In the movie, it starts with the stolen time of the late Ming Dynasty, and now uses the weapons of the Ming Dynasty as the highlight of the movie. It is suspected that this is to resist or counterattack the "aliens" such as Western bandits.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! With a "pop", the media person patted his thigh and said with a smile: "This connotation is hidden deep enough, no wonder it is based on the last years of the Ming Dynasty."
For the origin of the background of the story, is it actually reflecting this thing?"
However, this movie is going to be released overseas... but so what, do those in Hollywood understand this connotation?
You keep on culturally brainwashing our audience, then we won’t throw a boomerang?
It doesn’t matter if the audience doesn’t understand it. Cultural things are subtle. Once their awareness improves, they will naturally understand everything and secretly acknowledge it without knowing it. This is the power of cultural output.
"Interesting." The media person felt happy and liked it.
As for the audience, their eyes are only focused on the situation on the screen. All the characters are in a state of preparedness. Is this a crisis coming?
However, there was no abnormality in the scene, and how did Chenglong know that a crisis was coming?
Then Chenglong took off the black cloth strips, revealing the true appearance of a pair of eyes, which were pitch black without eyeballs, exactly the same as the eyes of the previous "Chenglong Ancestor" who was immortal after being invaded by the evil light.
It's so weird, no wonder they wear black cloth strips, probably because they are afraid of scaring the audience...
The audience made up their own minds, and then acted horrified.
All I saw was that Chenglong's black hole-like eyes had changed. A little blood red appeared in the center, and then the blood red slowly spread until the originally black eyeballs completely turned into blood red eyes, and two drops of blood tears were shed from the corners of the eyes.
This was specially given a close-up shot, which is so scary!
Before the emotion could spread, special effects shots took them into Chenglong's red-eyed world. The whole world was based on light blood, which was the same as the real-world environment in the movie.
Just when the audience felt that this shot was advanced, that the screenwriter was too imaginative, and that they were a little confused, a large number of birds appeared in the sky of the bloody world. They couldn't name them, but they were all eagles.
The eagles in the sky were heading straight for Chenglong. The children were all frightened. The women and children were frightened and they all protected the children. The men picked up weapons and followed Hui Yinghong, An Zhijie, Lin Feng and Chen Weiting like the four great powers.
The general's four men fought in four large groups.
Even if you are well prepared, you can't defeat thousands of eagles that look very aggressive.
The audience's hearts were in their throats. The densely packed eagles were very oppressive, and they were also confused about where these eagles came from.
As the two sides approached, some of the eagles' bodies dissipated directly, and the dirty light hidden in their bodies was exposed.
"Holy shit!" Many viewers were surprised. It turned out that these eagles were all transformed into evil spirits.
However, Xie Guang can imitate the human form, so imitating an eagle is not so strange.
And more than three hundred years have passed, who knows what else this imaginative evil light setting will be able to do.
"Dong...dong...dong...dong..." One after another, frightening sounds sounded, and streaks of dirty light penetrated the bodies of children, women, children, and men, causing people to die one after another.
The audience swallowed their saliva. Is this the rhythm that the protagonist group will be destroyed at the beginning?
At this moment, the bloody world on the screen disappeared and returned to the normal "sinking world" of sunset and dusk.
At the same time, those dirty lights and those eagles disappeared, and those people who were obviously dead were all still alive, and the women and children were not protecting their children. The four supporting characters did not move in any way, and the children also had expressions on their faces.
So innocent, as if nothing happened.
"This..." The audience was stunned and a little confused.
Until a flock of eagles appeared in the sky, exactly the same as the same type of eagles flying from the same direction in the bloody world, some viewers seemed to understand something.
"Fortune-telling??"
Hearing someone making a sound, the audience who still didn't understand suddenly understood, and some people even said "Oh~" to express their understanding.
Everything that happens in the bloody world will happen in reality, so doesn't this predict the future?
"Awesome." You Chenglong fans were excited, this is a super power.
Chenglong has played countless awesome characters, but this is the first time that a character with super powers appears in Chenglong, which is very fresh.
Seeing the eagles swooping in again like in the bloody world, the audience felt nervous again. Even if Chenglong knew that he could predict the future, he would definitely fight back, but the perspective impact brought by the eagles would still make people nervous.
nervous.
Even more curious under the tension is, how will Chenglong respond to this crisis?
"Gen."
"shock."
"..."
Just when a dirty light emerged from the eagle, and he wanted to take the first life of a child just like in the bloody world, Cong Chenglong said a few words slightly abruptly.
The reason for the suddenness is that the audience did not understand the specific expressions of the so-called "gen" and "zhen".
But as soon as Chenglong finished speaking, a round shield like a straw hat spun through the air from behind that could not be seen on the screen, and the target went straight to the direction of "Gen Wei", which is the northeast direction.
As the shield broke through the air, a halo of light suddenly appeared on the edge, consistent with the gray-white color of the dirty light.
No one was surprised by this magical scene, as the shining shield collided with the incoming dirty light, colliding in mid-air diagonally above the child who would have been killed in the bloody world.
From the camera's perspective of a child raising his head in panic, the glowing shield can be seen smashing the dirty light into pieces, turning into gray-white airflow in a small area and then completely disappearing and extinguishing.
The shield continued to circle in an arc in mid-air, followed by a continuous "chi...chi..." sound like a knife cutting flesh, and dozens of dirty lights and eagles were seen turning into explosive gray-white airflow in mid-air.
extinguished.
The shield began to return to its original trajectory in mid-air, whirling towards the audience in front of the screen, causing many viewers to lean back subconsciously. Hui Yinghong came into the camera and smoothly retracted the shield to her arm, arriving in front of the child.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! From the appearance of the shield, to killing a group of dirty lights, to being taken back by Hui Yinghong's hand like a flowing cloud, these scenes are only four short
The five seconds of watching it really left the audience with no time to think, but they were very surprised in their hearts.
Before this feeling of surprise could be expressed, Lin Feng raised his hands, and the dragon-headed crossbow in his hand continued to fire out tiny arrows. Each arrow exuded a faint gray-white flame, and shot through a filthy light.
It didn't stop after that, it continued to penetrate many dirty lights and eagles, and all the dirty lights and eagles penetrated by the arrows were destroyed.
If the evil light was not extinguished in time and attacked, Lin Feng raised his left hand to block. The evil light hit the dragon-headed crossbow and made a "ding" sound before being bounced back into the air. Then Lin Feng raised his right hand and let out a "clang" sound.
Kill it with an arrow.
Then, Chen Weiting's long weapon was very effective. Whether it was sweeping or diagonally slashing, it would take away a wave of dirty light and cause an air explosion sound of the dirty light extinguishing.
As for An Zhijie's fists, one punch can kill one person. Compared with the group damage of Hui Yinghong, Lin Feng and Chen Weiting, it is a bit tiring, but the punches look very good, and the "bang bang bang" feeling of the blow sounds very good.
Comfortable.
It's not like in some dramas or movies where you have to grind for a long time before fighting.
All this happened very quickly, or the rhythm of the battle was very tight. There was no dialogue between the characters, and a large-scale sci-fi and magical special effects battle scene came to mind.
The audience was overwhelmed by the show and felt so happy in their hearts!
I also understood that the Bagua words such as "gen" and "zhen" in Chenglong's mouth represent directions, and then each supporting character uses this direction to make attacks.
This is a collaborative battle.
Why cooperate?
Why does Chenglong give directions?
Because Chenglong can predict the future, because Chenglong knows where there will be a crisis at the next moment.
This is not something that can be done by reaction ability, this is a 100% prediction in advance.
Under Chenglong's prejudgment, the four supporting characters worked together with the large group of men, women and children in a very rhythmic, organized and disciplined manner, guarding the children without any injuries.
Although there are obviously huge numbers of Hui Guang and Ying Flock, they are helpless against the fighting group led by Cheng Long who has a cheat.
However, the number of people on Chenglong's side is limited, and even if they can predict the lack of manpower for defense, they will still encounter crises.
I saw a group of filthy lights crossing the fierce battle group and taking advantage of the gap between Chenglong and the children in the center.
"Chengxiong!" Hui Yinghong shouted, and Chengxiong's name was called out for the first time. This was to clarify who the protagonist was at the beginning of the feature film.
Chenglong understood, holding a long stick in his right hand and extending his left hand back.
There were no words, a child naturally held his hand, and then the children spontaneously held each other's hands.
Just when the audience didn't know what was going on, Chenglong's eyes changed again.
The originally blood-red eyes turned purple from the center, and the purple quickly spread until the eyes were completely covered.
The audience didn't have time to observe this change, and saw a group of dirty lights approaching Chenglong with a "shrug", and saw Chenglong and a group of children retreating at lightning speed like time travel.
When the special effects in the picture disappeared, Chenglong and a group of children had appeared under a tree far away from the battle group.
"Damn it, teleport!"
The audience was surprised again and again, their eyes widened by this scene, full of shock and surprise.
First, predicting the future in the bloody world broke their imagination and gave them a concrete picture of how to predict the future.
Then there are all kinds of weird weapons, like magic weapons, which break their understanding of weapons and give them powerful attack methods with their respective weapons.
Originally, all this was very fresh, and the special effects scenes of the battle also made them happy. They thought the battle would end in such a happy way, but they didn't know that a magical element appeared again.
Predicting the future is already awesome, but how about teleporting? Then this is invincible!
At this moment, the battlefield on the screen changed again.
The targets of those dirty lights and eagles seemed to be Chenglong. Seeing that Chenglong was far away from the battlefield, they stopped fighting with the combatants and broke through. They all took off and rushed toward the tree where Chenglong was.
Hui Yinghong, An Zhijie and others all turned around, but remained motionless.
There are so many dirty lights attacking Chenglong. What do these people mean by just watching?
Many viewers were confused, but saw Chenglong's eyes begin to change under the close-up shot.
The purple eyes turned white from the center, and soon spread into a pair of eyeballs, Chenglong's eyes also turned into white eyes.
At the same time, Chenglong stamped his long stick on the ground. There was obviously no wind, but the nearby grassland tilted in the opposite direction with the stick as the center. It looked like a strong wind, but it was more like an invisible energy spreading in all directions.
When the camera is lifted up, the rushing lights and the eagles are all stagnant in mid-air, as if the time and space in front of you is frozen.
The camera cut to Hui Yinghong, seeing all the enemy troops frozen in mid-air by time and space. She raised her hand and the shield in her hand immediately spun away, cutting up the immobile enemy troops one by one like killing stupid puppets.
, destroyed.
"Fuck!"
“That’s awesome!”
"This is invincible!"
From the enemy's attack, the start of the battle, all kinds of magical powers, to the end of the battle in front of you, it only took two minutes.
The audience was breathless, mainly because of the waves of freshness and excitement. The excitement increased layer by layer in just two minutes, until the super power of "time and space stopped" was exposed and reached its peak.
I'm so... so happy!
There are no unseen ideas, only unimaginable ideas. In these two minutes, they were given completely unexpected surprises again and again, something they have never seen in other movies.
Leaving aside various weapons for the moment, let’s talk about Chenglong’s abilities.
Red eye, predicting the future.
Purple eyes, teleportation.
Eyes rolled, space froze.
How did you imagine this setting?
They were also convinced and could only comment with a word of "fuck".
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, the audience also discovered the theme element of this movie-superheroes.
Look at the adult character of Cheng Long, who has three super powers: predicting the future, teleportation, and space solidification. Isn't this a setting that only superheroes have? The benchmark is Marvel's Iron Man and the likes of Transformers.
Autobots, superpowers like "Star-Lord" in the Star Trek series.
Look at the changed but somewhat retro picture quality of the movie environment, look at the characters' clothing all painted in a Chinese style, and look at the weapons used are all ancient Chinese products. Under the feeling brought by these elements, Chenglong embodies
His superpowers are Chinese-style superpowers, and the Cheng Xiong played by Cheng Long is a Chinese-style superhero.
This feeling is very strong, and it feasts the eyes of the audience, and makes science fiction fans excited. This is an authentic Chinese science fiction blockbuster!
Several film critics were also very happy and excited.
Before coming to the theater, no one knew what the painting style of "Tianmen: The Enemy" was, but most people would have an imagination in roughly the same direction.
Future world? Future robots?
The kind with prosperous technology? Or the kind with interstellar voyages?
Crusu mythology system? Or the cyberpunk type?
That’s about it for the systematic speculation about this movie.
Why can we only think about these categories, because that’s all the western science fiction systems are.
Not only that, even those who write science fiction online novels are of the above types, and they cannot escape the thinking that is brainwashed and dominated by Western movies and television.
However, all this was broken by "Tianmu: Enemy at the Gate".
The science fiction elements reflected in these two minutes are not any of the above. If you want to name it, then it is called Chinese science fiction!
"Ahem..." A cough made the audience and film critics put aside their enthusiasm.
Seeing that Chenglong was very weak, it seemed as if his super power was overloaded.
Hui Yinghong and others stepped forward with concern. Chenglong waved and said, "It's okay to clean up and go back. Next time, it won't be a small team coming."
A small group of people?... The audience was surprised, were there so many dirty lights and eagles just a small group of people? How big would the large group of people be?
Also, go back? This is going home? In other words, this is not their base camp?
As some information is deciphered from a few words, more information follows to make the audience understand something.
"You'd better use your abilities less. If you really die one day, then we're all done." Hui Yinghong said.
The audience interprets the message that Chengxiong's superpower cannot be used more than once. From the context, it seems that the more he uses his superpower, the weaker he becomes.
"Hong, I will only die behind you." Chenglong said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
Hui Yinghong shrugged: "You have seen through the future, and I believe you, so I feel relieved."
"The future?" Lin Feng walked over slowly: "You said that there will be two people in the future who will be our saviors and the nemesis of those alien objects that even you can't do anything about. I doubt it. It's not that I question you. I just don't believe it.
There will be someone stronger than you."
Chenglong put on the black cloth strip, covering the eyes that had restored the black hole, and turned to look at the sky like the Milky Way falling into the sky. It was obvious that the black cloth covered his eyes, but under the forward movement of the mirror, it seemed that
Chenglong saw through the world on the other side: "Look, they are coming."
As soon as he finished speaking, the camera quickly moved forward, aiming directly at the world on the other side of the sky.
The audience laughed. Will these two people be the saviors of Chenglong and the others? Or will they be the existence of restrained aliens?
This is obvious, these two people must be Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei!
The rhythm of this story is full, and as soon as the exciting point in the beginning is over, just a few words are too much, and it immediately switches to the curious suspense——
What super powers will Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei have?
How can they help Chenglong and the others in the opposite world?
Also, what does the world on the other side look like? Is it the same as the sky here where it is always sunset and dusk?
As the camera got closer and closer to the sky, the audience was filled with anticipation.
