In science fiction movies, the setting of "zombies" is definitely the most popular type of monster in Western entertainment and cultural works.
A large number of disaster themes describing the end of the world occupied by "zombies" have been derived.
The earliest "zombie" appeared in George Romero's 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead" .
Slow-moving, devoid of human emotion, brutal eating, flesh-loving, these corpses come back to life,
It forms a strong contrast with those terrifying and powerful monsters, and is unique, and the audience also gets a great sense of freshness from this creature for the first time.
"Zombie" is the product of the resurrection of the dead.
Therefore, the zombie theme has also added a lot of social metaphors and discussions of human nature in the subsequent development.
Take, for example, Drew Barrymore's zombie comedy The Rebirth Menu.
And AMC's "The Walking Dead" can be regarded as the benchmark for "zombie" theme.
In the "zombie" world of the apocalypse, the fierce confrontation between people and "zombies", the cruel battle between people, all merged together.
The bottomless human nature is placed in the "zombies", which greatly satirizes the greed and cruelty of human nature.
The adventure-like story setting also enhances the fun and excitement of the story.
"Resident Evil" , which was produced almost at the same time , took a different approach.
Relying on the heroine alone to fight the corpses, the omnipotent heroic style and the overwhelming "zombie" frenzy create a visual feast.
The 2004 British comedy "Shaun of Zombies" ,
It completely subverts the seriousness and bloody level of traditional zombie themes, but retains the unique form of British humor.
Using a playful way to make the "zombie" group into a sloppy cute pet who likes to walk and bask in the sun,
The "zombie" scene of the protagonist team has also become a game-like ease and fun.
Then "Train to Busan" , which was released in 2016 , once again changed the perception of "zombies".
The basic "zombie" framework has not changed, but the "zombie"'s mobility and bloodlust have been strengthened.
Once the image of the brave Asian "zombie" has risen, it has set off an innovation in the type of zombies.
And today, Hongyan Xiuying wants to recommend the "Overlord" released in 2018 ,
It is a coincidence that combines the characteristics of Western "zombies" and Asian "zombies", and moves the story to the German underground laboratory in World War II.
Immediately cast a mysterious and terrifying veil on the "zombie".
The background of the story of "Overlord" takes place on the eve of the Normandy landing in World War II, France, which was occupied by Germany.
The opening of the game is quite "Call of Duty".
A group of American soldiers was flown to a French town on a mission to bomb a tower to cover an air force attack.
The initial ambush was not smooth,
The fighter jets under the hail of bullets were smashed into pieces and were about to crash. During the panic parachuting, only a few people survived and went to perform their missions.
(The war scene in the first 10 minutes is absolutely cool!)
Leading the charge is the battle-hardened corporal Ford of steel will,
The rest include Boyce, the male protagonist of a Virgin Heart, and Tibbert, who loves chewing gum.
Although it is a traditional "zombie" theme,
But the first half of the story has the cruelty and rigor of a war movie , with fast-paced and constant accidents to set off the cruelty of war.
And laid the groundwork for the birth of the war machine behind.
And this team's adventure under the camera still has some "annihilation" flavor~
Unfortunately, the budget of "Barrier" is not sufficient in terms of volume.
The director gave full play to the diligence and thrift virtue of "money is spent on the knife's edge" ,
While keeping the rhythm of the story tight, we worked hard on the "zombie" special effects, gave up the large-scale control of the "zombie" group portraits, and focused on the creation of the individual horror of the "zombie".
This also led to the film forging for 70 minutes before the first "zombie" appeared!
The deformed parts of the facial muscles and bones of the "zombie" are much more frightening than the traditional "zombie" with white powder, dark circles, and black lips.
In the attic of the girl Chloe's house, the teammates who were injected with the serum by Boyce became "zombies".
At first, he was very excited and awake, and his blood vessels burst with infinite strength, and then he lost control, his head bones were deformed, and finally he was very angry.
The setting of "Zombie" leaves plenty of space in the first half,
At the beginning, Boyce's team met Chloe, a French girl who was walking at night.
Chloe, who had developed a little scheming during the war, first suspected their identities, and after confirming them, took them into his home to hide.
In the process, Boyce also felt for the first time the true reproduction of the superior's words, "The villains are inhumane, and we can only defeat them just like them!" ,
The generals of the villain camp shoot and kill people at will, and take the surviving ones to concentration camps for experiments.
After Boyce entered the girl Chloe's house, he accidentally saw Chloe's sick aunt, and also set off a corner for the terrifying appearance of the "zombie" army.
Then he was attacked by military dogs in Boyce and got on the military vehicle to the laboratory by mistake. The story is getting better.
The whole picture of the "zombie" surfaced, and the expression in this paragraph is very thrilling and tense. Boyce first saw a prisoner in great pain through a small hole in the wall, and then waited until the officers and military doctors finished observing,
Boyce looked at the small hole, and immediately appeared a monster eye with a bloodshot eyeball,
The panicked Boyce and the American team did not know the truth of the German experiment by this time, and did not get any useful information from the captured German officers.
In a panic, he filled a tube of serum and went back to find the large army stranded at Chloe's house.
After the German officer deliberately escaped and injured his teammates, Boyce, who was unaware, injected serum into his teammates in a panic and witnessed the mutation of his teammates.
A team of talents learned the purpose of the German experiment and the truth about the frequent arrests of people to church,
In several scenes of not saving the officer, rescuing Chloe, and tortured German officers,
Ford, who is loyal to completing the task, and Boyce, who is compassionate and humane, quarreled because of different ideas and led to constant conflicts, which enhanced the tension of the story.
In the end, the rescue of Chloe's younger brother and the task of blowing up the tower went down in parallel, and entered the exciting stage.
In "Overlord", the "zombies" of the high-speed, infinitely powerful and immortal legion,
Compared with the ordinary "zombies" with low combat effectiveness in the past, it is like the "zombie" type that has emerged in Asian countries such as South Korea in recent years.
Run fast, eat less, and work hard!
The political critique of the brutality, cold-blooded and reckless use of prisoners of war and civilians to conduct human experiments by the Germans in World War II is also implied.
The film abandoned the "zombie" all over the scene,
And it mainly created the image of a few German officers who turned into "zombies" and prisoners of war after their death became "zombies".
Especially after the German officer's face was penetrated, the flesh and blood were blurred, the flesh and blood were fully displayed, and the "zombie" image with violent blue veins enhanced the visual impact.
Zombies bred in a body bag locked in a laboratory were inserted into a steel needle to draw blood to feed the captives of the zombies,
The cleaning pools, corpse pools, and blood pools that can be seen everywhere enhance the sense of power of horror and suspense.
The German officers fought against the American soldier Ford, and the fighting power of the living zombies was rendered to the peak, and all the "zombie" legions were released. Ford ignited the explosives and stopped abruptly.
Ford's instructions to Boyce, in the past exploration of human nature, have a bit more anti-war warmth.
"Overlord" is an unexpected B-level cool film this year.
The characters are full, the interaction between the characters is logical, and the bloody part is not bloody for the sake of blood.
Instead, follow the story development, step by step, and it's worth watching.
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