The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 380 Strange
"Did you watch The Walking Dead yesterday?"

"What walking dead? American drama?"

"No, domestic web dramas."

"I don't watch online dramas."

"It's a DreamWorks zombie drama."

"Dreamworks, do "Signal" and "Black Mirror" belong to his family?"

"The same is true for "Suspect Tracker". There is no score below 9 on Douban."

"You can watch it, but it's about zombies? A horror movie?"

"It's not a horror movie, um, let's add a little horror element, anyway, it's very exciting and exciting!"

"Do something yellow?"

"...It has no color, but it's quite heavy. Don't you like it? Amway didn't give me "Chain Saw Massacre"? The first episode of "The Walking Dead" just launched yesterday, which is not an ordinary excitement."

"Just one episode? That's too little, let's keep it up."

"It's really good-looking and touching. I regret it if I don't watch it..."

"..."

The day after "The Walking Dead" went live, this kind of conversation happened to many people.

It also created unprecedented heat on the Internet.

Short videos and moving pictures about zombies in the play spread in various forums in a short period of time.

Especially the animation of the female zombie crawling on the ground with only the upper half of the body in the play, with its extremely serious and curious style, spread like a virus on the Internet.

Several hot words in "The Walking Dead" were also quickly topped with hot searches.

In particular, the short video platform has been making efforts since the second half of last year, and is currently in a period of rapid expansion, with advertisements everywhere on the short video platform.

This put the influence of "The Walking Dead" on a high-speed train.

In particular, young people who are attracted by its novelty-seeking content have carried out Amway and complaints on major forums.

[This is one of the most exciting sci-fi movies and TV dramas I have ever seen. Although it contains some very heavy scenes, it really suits my taste. 】

[Opening a new world, my scalp is numb from the shock, and this kind of zombie film? 】

[I've already looped the opening song N times, where did you get the music from the underworld? 】

[The opening music makes me feel the cold wind whistling]

[I had a nightmare last night, dreaming of being chased by zombies...]

[The atmosphere of the zombie apocalypse is absolutely created, making people desperate and suffocating]

[What kind of trouble is there in the first episode! !A day of unintentional study]

【In the end, I was about to be bitten on the stairs, and I felt so uncomfortable! 】

【Halfway through watching, when the mother who turned into a zombie holds the doorknob, it closes. It’s so frighteningly scary. It’s refreshing and suitable for watching when the sun is strongest at noon.】

[The scene of empty road and scattered vehicles everywhere is too shocking, is it a special effect?This must be a movie-level special effect]

["The Walking Dead" has a total of 15 episodes, the production cost is 1.6 million, and the average episode is [-] million. It is indeed a movie-level web drama. Although I have high expectations, I have to say that the first episode is still completely beyond my expectations. expected】

[The happiest thing in life is watching DreamWorks' new dramas, but there are too few of them, only one or two a year, and most of the time there are drama shortages]

[Haha, let's be content, one or two movies a year can only produce high-quality goods]

[I wonder if "Black Mirror II" will come out this year, and when "Suspect Tracker II" will be filmed! ! 】

[Only two episodes a week, too little, why not one episode a day?Fortunately, there is another episode tonight, otherwise the end of the first episode will torture me until next week]

However, in addition to praise and shocking comments, there are also many negative comments. This is what distinguishes "The Walking Dead" from DreamWorks' previous TV series.

"The Walking Dead" is indeed heavy in a certain sense. Perhaps it can only be regarded as a novelty for those who are used to watching Hollywood heavy-mouthed film and television dramas. The scale is not large, but for many Chinese people, this is very Excited.

Plasma movies, hardcore movies, and monster movies are relatively mature types of movies in Hollywood, and they are not uncommon themes in small and medium-cost productions.

If the scale of "The Walking Dead" is placed in North America, it can actually be regarded as a relatively popular horror work. The highlight lies in the shaping of the world view and the innovation of the genre of zombies. It is a work that moves the theme of zombies from a niche to a position close to the public. .

In terms of scale, it really can't be called how bloody.

Even under Chen Jingxing's request, the amount of "plasma" was deliberately reduced.

But even such a scale is as shocking as the morning bell and evening drum to the Huaguo audience.

The last one that shocked the audience was "Black Mirror".

In fact, there are quite a few works with heavy tastes in the Internet University, and there are many works that rub the edge of color, but most people don’t pay much attention to the Internet University. Star dramas are the vast majority of Chinese people’s perception of the scale of film and television drama works.

However, "The Walking Dead", as an online drama of DreamWorks, has no weaker influence among young netizens than popular star dramas on first-line satellite TV.

Therefore, what "The Walking Dead" brings to the audience is not only the shock of scale, but also the shock of content and form to a greater extent.

The novel setting of zombies and the near-apocalyptic scene displayed in the world view made many viewers feel quite novel and amazed while hunting for novelty.

There is also a soundtrack, especially the music of the opening title, which is paired with horror, depression and occasional thriller plots, and the overall style is alternative, dark and exciting.

From the stimulation of the senses to the stimulation of the brain, in short, it can make people addicted.

And it also buried a lot of development clues worth looking forward to. It can be said that in the first episode, it truly achieved the perfect combination of characters, stories, emotions, scenes, atmosphere, and various elements of stimulation.

For audiences who like this category, or who can accept this scale and stimulation, it is a divine drama.

But it is true that for many people, the world view and plot excitement shown in the first episode of "The Walking Dead" are a bit too much.

It’s not that they can’t accept it, but that they may have rarely been exposed to some Hollywood B-grade plasma films in the past, and have never seen works similar to the doomsday wasteland. Suddenly seeing such a zombie apocalyptic world view will have a kind of stimulated overload discomfort.

So amidst the exciting, addictive, exciting, and thrilling sounds, there are also many such as:

【Too scary and bloody】

【It makes me uncomfortable to watch】

[Actually, it's pretty good-looking, but it's really a bit too exciting for me]

[As a veteran movie fan of DreamWorks, I was so excited to see the result that I was almost sent away, I have no luck to accept it]

[I thought it was the traditional zombie setting. I can accept even ordinary monsters, but it's the end of the world?It's really a bit too cruel, I feel very depressed after seeing it, damn, if the male lead rushed out of the hospital and saw that scene, I should have committed suicide directly]

[After thinking about it for a long time, I still gave it four stars, and the one star deducted was on the female zombie with only a half-stretched body. Is there any mental shock? It was directly engraved in my mind. This kind of drama about normal police and criminal crimes also contains human nature and emotion】This kind of comment.

In a sense, the popularity of "The Walking Dead" is similar to last year's "Black Mirror", that is, to get out of the circle by hunting for novelty.

Usually exquisite and good-looking, deeply rooted plots need to be foreshadowed and fermented, such as "Suspect Tracker", which reveals the truth through foreshadowing and layer-by-layer upgrades, its reputation needs to be accumulated episode by episode.

For example, the first episode of "Black Mirror" and the first episode of "The Walking Dead" do not need to be brewed and foreshadowed at all. Their sensory impact is accompanied by the audience's curiosity and has a powerful explosive force.

Even "The Walking Dead" has more impact than "Black Mirror".

The rapid explosion of "The Walking Dead", coupled with the suspense left by the first episode, directly increased the attention of the second episode the next day by an order of magnitude.

Countless netizens and viewers are waiting in front of computers and mobile phones for the update of the second episode.

"Lycra star" Wu Heng is also among these drama fans.

After watching the first episode, he couldn't wait to make a video, resisting the desire to comment and admire, and wanted to make a video together after watching the second episode.

Wu Heng was originally curious about DreamWorks' zombie drama "The Walking Dead", which has been controversial since the project was established.

Whether it is the zombies in the East or the living dead in the West, there have been many film and television works, and even the zombies have almost been ruined by the Internet.

But these film and television dramas are all highly entertaining video works without exception, focusing on sensory stimulation. " and the like are of the same genre.

The story is nothing more than a couple of men and women who happen to live in a remote, abandoned farmstead, or go on a camping adventure, and before long they find themselves trapped, with hordes of zombies attacking where they live, and for some unknown reason bringing dead bodies from graves back to life , Like to eat human flesh and blood.

Wu Heng has never been very interested in this kind of works, but with the release of "Black Mirror" and "Person of Interest", he has more and more confidence in DreamWorks' production capabilities.

He has certain confidence in whether DreamWorks can produce new ideas for this B-level bloody theme, but he can't imagine how the zombie theme can produce works comparable to "Suspect Tracker" or "Black Mirror". DreamWorks' film and television dramas It has always discussed a lot of serious propositions, not just cool.

But "The Walking Dead" completely exceeded his expectations, not only satisfying the desire for novelty, but also shocked the whole world view. DreamWorks turned zombies into zombie apocalypse.

Moreover, the shaping of the doomsday atmosphere is very delicate and has a strong impact.

A heavy and serious undertone is laid under the entertaining heavy-duty thriller genre such as zombies, without weakening its entertainment.

Immediately he became taller.

As a film critic, Wu Heng has watched more movies than ordinary movie fans. He can see at a glance how much potential this worldview has.

The so-called bigger the stage, the bigger the space for screenwriters to play.

And the doomsday world view of "The Walking Dead" seems to him to be a stage without boundaries.

The weird and ethereal title music sounded again, and Wu Heng once again felt as if cool oil dripped into his brain.

However, he has gained some immunity, because the bgm of "The Walking Dead" on Penguin Music and Wangyiyun has been updated last night. Song chart second.

"...The terminal station of this express train - Jiangcheng, it is strictly forbidden to carry..., please bring your belongings, the train is about to depart, passengers who bought tickets..."

Wu Heng looked at the computer screen with a question mark on his face. Isn't this the second episode of "The Walking Dead"?Didn't make a mistake...

(End of this chapter)