I don't know if you have watched the part of Lin Zhengying's "Mr. New Zombie" with red and white double evil spirits? This clip and the scene in "The Corpse in the Village" where the ghosts drive a train underwater are juxtaposed with the shadow of my childhood!
When I first watched this movie, I was still about seven or eight years old. I watched it for the first time at night with great interest and was not afraid at all. However, I watched it again at home during the day and it was really true! scare! stupid! up! It has been 28 years since this movie was released in 1992. Looking back after 28 years, I still shudder!
especially the Red and White Shuangsha! The coldness on my back scared me so much that I almost cried. My family all burned paper money for my grandfather. I couldn’t find anyone myself, so I had to run to the yard and forcefully hold my dog in my arms and go back to the house to continue watching. Petting the dog while watching!
I believe many friends have the same feeling as me, so why does this lens give everyone a strong sense of weirdness? Let's take a closer look at the special features of this segment.
First of all, in addition to the strong contrast between warm and cold tones, this shot also features a wedding representing "happiness" and a funeral representing "mourning" at the same time, creating a strong psychological and visual impact on the audience. Because in the traditional Chinese concept, red represents happy events and white represents funerals. The decorations and costumes of these two colors rarely appear in the same scene. This clip in the movie uses this to create a weird atmosphere, and then uses The strong impact of warm and cold colors gives people a shocking look!
and then with the BGM, it really makes people shudder. The BGM of this movie, "Ghost Bride" and "Hundred Ghosts and Fog Forest", brought Mr. Zombie to a new level. The song "Ghost Bride" doesn't sound very scary, but it just makes me feel a little sad. Maybe it's because I watched the 2013 movie "Zombie"!
Let’s talk about the psychological part! Traditional Chinese weddings are good material for horror movies and horror stories, especially in some areas in the south of the Yangtze River. For example, in the famous "Shili Hongzhuang", some wealthy families in the past had a procession of marrying off their daughters and a huge dowry that could not be seen to the end. The people playing pipes and beatings all the way were particularly spectacular. The wine they drank was also "daughter red" because it contained red yeast rice. It's red!
Just imagine: somewhere in the south, there are high mountains and dense forests. Because of the humid climate, it is always cloudy in summer regardless of whether it rains or not. On this mountain road, there is a bride-to-be team dressed in red and colorful, carrying a red sedan slowly walking over!
Because musical instruments such as suona are used for weddings and funerals in China. Although the music is different, people who don’t understand music will feel the same when listening to it. It is easy to make associations, especially for special weddings, such as yin weddings and so on. Bright red with a little white or black, that weird and enchanting beauty, a classic underworld wedding!
I am superstitious about individualism. Although I admire science, I am also a little superstitious about things that science cannot explain. If you meet a female ghost, you still hope to fall in love with her. After all, sometimes people are scarier than ghosts!
Nowadays, the hardware conditions are better, but there are more and more restrictions. It cannot be said that there are no good directors and good scripts. It is just that some of them are difficult to film, and the films are cut out (for reasons such as promoting feudal superstition). Therefore, previous movies are regarded as classics, not only for their feelings, but also for their cultural inheritance. Personally, I think that some so-called feudal superstitions are actually a kind of culture. They must have been passed down from the time when our ancestors lived to the present. They cannot all be beaten to death with a stick. It is a pity to give them the title of "feudal superstitions". !
