Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

Resident Evil is a survival horror game. The fascinating part of this game is that it introduces the concept and image of zombies in the game for the first time.

The concept of zombies has existed in some legends and literary works long before it appeared in film and television works.

In addition to being a legend, I am talking about the best-selling zombies, and there are also related content of zombies in plots like Pride and Prejudice.

The first appearance of zombies in film and television works was in the first night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero, the father of modern horror movies and known as the "originator of zombie films."

This brand-new genre film directed by the newcomer has just been released and caused a sensation in Hollywood. This film, which cost only a little over 100,000 U.S. dollars, eventually won the global box office of 30 million U.S. dollars, a full 250 times increase.

The Night of the Living Dead not only earned a super high box office and generated super profits, but it also opened the trend of zombie movies, allowing zombie movies to firmly occupy a place in the subsequent movie genres.

In addition, the significance of this movie is that it has formulated a series of characteristics for zombies. These characteristics have almost become the "three laws of zombies" in zombie culture, and are "conventionally" abided by zombie works. The "offensive and defensive" between zombies and humans has become effective. It can be followed.

For example, unexplained factors make the dead "resurrected" and become zombies.

Zombies do not have any consciousness and thinking ability, rely on instinctive activities, and the only thing is to eat human flesh.

Secondly, zombies will be infected.People bitten by zombies will quickly become zombies after death.

At first glance, zombies look like Chinese zombies, but in reality they are quite different.

The first is the emergence of primitive zombies. Zombies become humans after death. Of course, being bitten by zombies and turning into zombies is another continuation.

And zombies are living people who have changed due to various reasons, and they are veritable living dead.

Another, the process of transforming into a zombie is irreversible. This is the setting of most zombie movies and related works.

But the zombie is different. The process of being bitten into a zombie is reversible. Whether it is using rune water or glutinous rice or spells, generally as long as the process of transforming into a zombie, as long as it is not completely transformed into a zombie before being cured and bitten The injured person can still be restored.

Of course, whether it is a zombie or a zombie, the roots come from feudal superstitions and legends plus the fabricated spread of media such as film and television.

But back to the two products themselves, because of the different settings, the result is that whether it is a zombie film or a work, almost all of them happen in the context of a small number of characters in a small scene.

In this regard, the scene of zombies is generally larger.

Because zombies will continue to infect, once they change, they can’t be recovered. There are a lot of them, and they hurt people and animals in groups, except for the same kind.

In Qiao Feng's view, this is also the main reason why zombie movies will become popular and occupy an important position in the entire movie genre.

After all, small scenes, few characters, no matter how hard it is to make a blockbuster with super visual impact. (Of course, except for pure horror films with small production costs)

Therefore, Qiao Feng never wanted to promote zombie films to the world, because the first cultural difference made it too difficult to do this.

The English term for the word zombie comes from the voodoo culture of Haiti, and voodoo was initially popular in Ghana, West Africa. The religion spread to Haiti in the West Indies in the 16th century due to the slave trade of white colonists. .

It is said that in this religious belief, shamans have a mysterious ritual that can resurrect the dead and become zombies for them to drive.This is the original origin of the zombie concept

The world's first zombie movie is based on this story.

In 1932, the movie "White Zombie" starring by the famous vampire actor Bella Lugosi was released. It told a voodoo wizard who used witchcraft to turn people into zombies and let them work in the sugar factory day and night. The story of working to make money.In this movie, the zombies neither eat people, nor decay their limbs, but their complexion is as pale as a corpse; instead, their endless work makes people feel pity.

Obviously, although this movie wears a zombie hat, it is indeed the origin of the concept image of zombies, but in fact, the zombies mentioned here are not even related to zombies.

In reality, so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called so-called hypnotic wizards use drugs and hypnosis to control normal people to do things for them and follow their management stories.

The more vivid point is that it is no different from the evil capitalists who squeeze workers and the black coal mine owners violently control absenteeism and coal mining.

Therefore, although the term zombies originated from voodoo, the popular elements of zombies and zombie culture have no direct relationship with voodoo other than the name.

It was Night of the Living Dead that really made zombies become a popular element later.

But when it comes to the spread of zombie culture, it obviously started with fake zombies of Voodoo.

And from the spread of this religion, it can be seen that whether it is for Africans or whites in North and South America or other people of color, for zombies and zombies, they obviously know more about zombies.

At least there is the word zombie in their dictionary, but zombie does not.

The word zombie is directly spelled jiangshi in English.

Secondly, zombie films are really difficult to make into a big production.

Whether it is a horror movie or an action blockbuster, what people want most is the visual impact.

Zombies that can be assimilated infinitely can undoubtedly do this better than zombies.

Based on these considerations, in the setting of the Resident Evil game, Qiao Feng decided to copy it and not make any Chinese changes.

After all, the zombie culture is not the mainstream in Chinese culture. The minority can't talk about it.

That is to say, the zombie movies have been popular in the past few years, and everyone has learned about zombies.

Otherwise, there may not be a few people who know a little about zombies.

Such a feudal culture in China and its niche, even non-mainstream, is so difficult for foreigners to accept, Qiao Feng does not think it is necessary to promote it to the world.

For the culture of zombies and zombies, Qiao Feng felt that it would be good if he could make money. As for the origin, there is no need to entangle.

Even if you really promote zombies to the whole world, let everyone know that zombies, they all like zombie movies, and the zombie culture, can it be that China is so powerful?

nonexistent.

For example, Resident Evil originated in Japan, but when the Resident Evil movie became very popular among zombie lovers all over the world, no one would say, "Ah, because Japan has a Resident Evil game, and then Japan is really awesome. How is it..."

Because even if Japanese game makers make Resident Evil games better, the zombie culture is essentially originated in Europe and America, so people will only say that you imitate other people's things well.

Therefore, whether Resident Evil is making a game or making a movie in the future, you can make a lot of money, so just copy it directly and save the trouble, why not thank you to make changes.