Hong Kong Cult director Lan Naicai has always been famous for his bold image style. His comic films ": the peacock prince", "Asura" and "The King of Power" are all recognized masterpieces .
In addition to adapting Japanese stylized manga, Lan Naicai also has a special liking for Ni Kuang's "Wesley" series of novels.
He once launched the adventure action film "Original Zhenxia and Wesley" in 1986, and its excellent production is not out of date. At that time, the film won 10.22 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, achieving the only collaboration between Chow Yun-fat and Qian Xiaohao, and it also set a benchmark for Hong Kong adventure genres in the 1980s.
In 1992, Lan Naicai brought the "Old Cat" from the "Wesley" novel to the screen again. This time, Ni Kuang, two of his friends, Cai Kuang, were the producer. Everyone made cameos in the film. However, Lan Naicai used his expertise to make a science fiction film into a horror film, and became a classic in the "Shadow of Childhood" film of the generations born in the 1980s.
Today Pico will chat with everyone about this movie,And the story behind it -
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look at the story
film tells Wesley ( Waise Lee (played by )'s friend Li Tong (played by Liu Xixian) came to visit his house one day and told him about a peculiar strange thing he encountered.
Li Tong is a typical Hong Kong worker who lives in a high-rise building. Recently, the residents upstairs always make noises late at night, making people unable to sleep.
Li Tongren couldn’t bear it and knocked on the door of the residents upstairs, only to see an old girl living upstairs (played by _5 Yunyi) and Liu Zhaoming , And a big black cat.
Both the two and the black cat give people a terrible feeling,Li Tong saw blood on the old man's hands again, and he was too scared to speak. He didn't dare to ask more and left.
Li Tong asked the old man and the girl what he was going to do when he went to work the next night. Hesitated and refused to reveal the truth.
Li Tong was very curious, so he sneaked upstairs and found a lot of animal internal organs in the room, so he was scared to call the police. The police later took the internal organs for examination, only to realize that they were all cat internal organs.
This incident caused Li Tongxin’s lingering suspicion, and it also made Wesley, who heard about it, interested in it, and Wesley immediately decided to investigate. Fan.
Wesley got the new address of the old man and the girl from the moving company, and sneaked into their new home when there was no one, but was quickly discovered by a black cat, and Wesley was knocked out by the old man. .
But the old man let Wesley go under the persuasion of the girl,It turns out that they are aliens, the young girl is an alien princess, and the old man is named Yiluo. Like the black cat, they are servants of the princess.
The planet where the princess is is occupied by the enemy, Yiluo and the black cat escorted the princess to the earth.
And the alien killer also followed closely, it is a group of strange-looking mushroom-shaped creatures.
In order to return to her planet, the princess needs to collect several artifacts called octagons. The last two are kept in the museum. So the princess, Yi Luo and the black cat all came to the museum, and the black cat was responsible for stealing the octagonal device.
After they got their hands, they were attacked by a large mushroom. Although they escaped, several museum security guards were killed.
Wesley followed police Wang Jiemei to the museum to investigate. Wesley picked up some cat fur at the scene and determined that the black cat had stolen the octagonal device. He thought he needed to find a big dog to deal with the black cat, so he found Lao Chen (played by Ni Kuang) who raised the dog and borrowed a big black dog from him.
The last octagonal device is left in the museum,Wesley and the police used an octagonal device as bait and waited for the black cat to arrive. Sure enough, the black cat arrived at night, the big black dog and Sanlily still lost, but the black cat encountered Wesley, desperate, and bit his tail in order to escape.
Wesley took the tail dock to examine it, but found that the tail dock belonged to a long-dead cat, which made Wesley very confused.
Just when he was about to shave his scalp, the princess and Yiluo came with a black cat to ask for the cat's tail. They revealed the truth to Wesley. Wesley returned the tail immediately, but saw the princess soon Reattached the tail.
At this time, the policeman Wang Jiemei had been killed by a large weapon. Yiluo sacrificed to protect the princess, but Wesley led the crowd and retreated, and finally came to the observatory and made contact with the alien planet.
The technology of extraterrestrial travel has already been developed without the need for extraterrestrial transport. They have already invented the technology of space travel.
When the princess wanted to leave with the black cat, the big mushroom chased him, and the black cat jumped into the big mushroom's mouth at a critical moment and detonated it.
The last princess of the movie took the black cat and "flyed" back to her planet in the form of electric waves.
Wesley wrote this bizarre experience of his own into his "Wesley" series of novels.
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movie with other distinguished series "Wesley"
in the "Wesley" series of films, This film is somewhat similar to the story told by "Legend of Wesley" directed by Teddy Robin in 1987. Both aliens fell on the earth and need to find and use certain tools to return to the story line of the home planet.
The difference is that the "Legend of Wesley" did spend manpower and resources in the end to build a so-called dragon-shaped alien spaceship; and this film uses the so-called "octagonal", The setting of sending people away by "transmission" is somewhat cutting corners.
In terms of investment and scenes, this film and "Legend of Wesley" are not the same.
As a sci-fi film, there are very few sci-fi elements involved in the story, and the technology of aliens is not shown at all, so at least most people do not regard it as a sci-fi film, but just as one Watch a horror movie.
But "Old Cat" has its own distinctive characteristics, its scenes and props are unique, and the visual effects are very strong.
Its carefully crafted mushroom-shaped alien creatures continue the nasty taste of "The Peacock Prince" and "Asura". Pico believes that its image is more or less a reference to the 1982 Hollywood movie "Strange Shape", and it also bears the shadow of the 1980 movie "Span1span Shining".
The scenes of aliens devouring human beings, cats and dogs battles, alien invasion of buildings and other scenes are all vivid and dynamic.
One of the cat and dog fights is widely acclaimed, using real cats and dogs real shots, frame-by-frame photography, model shooting, fast editing and other methods, the movements of real cats and dogs and the pictures of fake cats and dogs are cleverly combined The editing together to create a cat and dog "martial arts blockbuster."
The scene of aliens attacking and devouring human beings obviously refers to the shooting routine of Hollywood movies of the same type.
Those mushroom-shaped aliens are real props. The use of real shots increases the sense of reality, and the sticky design makes people feel uncomfortable and fearful. These greatly increase the movie’s The sense of horror brought by the audience.
At the end of the movie, the mushroom-shaped alien became extremely large and swallowed the entire building.
This vigorous lens looks at it from the current point of view, although its special effects are fake,But in terms of the level of special effects in Hong Kong at that time, it was already very avant-garde, and it felt very shocking.
As far as the story is concerned, the weird atmosphere that envelopes the entire film and the suspenseful plot that always drives the audience's excitement will also be able to attract the audience to watch the movie until the end answer.
Therefore, as a science fiction horror film, the production of "Old Cat" is still very good.
It’s a pity that the goddess and Wu Yongwei doesn’t have much room for the classic character played by Wu Yongwei. Its own sexy charm.
Some people say that Lan Nai deliberately took these squeegee shots, but these undoubtedly add a lot of fun to the movie. span5spanThe female protagonist Ye Yunyi stressful life after divorce
"Old Cat" was released in Hong Kong in 1992, only one week after the release, it was difficult to be accepted by the market due to the terrifying plot , Received 2.75 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
Lan Naicai's comic work "The King of Power", which was launched in the same year, achieved even worse results. It only received 2.15 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office and caused huge controversy. It is still considered the largest film in Hong Kong in the 1990s , How many childhood nightmares born in the 1980s.
The box office failures of two consecutive films and the bad reviews from the news media made Lan Nai feel exhausted. After reflection, he made a decision that made the Hong Kong film industry very regrettable, that is, he retired from the film circle and no longer served as a director. "The King of Power" and "Old Cat" became his last works.
After years of silence, Lan Naicai suddenly appeared in public view in 2008. But this time he is no longer a director, but participates in voluntary work in an orphanage in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong. Later, as an executive member of the Jianxiong Love Association of China's Hope Project Zone, he participated in the work of helping students and helping the poor in remote areas of China.
Lan Naicai’s hobby,He also changed from a director to a travel photographer, and while traveling around the world, he took some photos of high artistic value. He and the amateur essayist Chen Xiuling also published a collection of travel essays called "Croatia's Winter Goes and Spring Comes".
The big black cat in the movie, of course, is no longer there, but Ye Yunyi, who plays the alien princess, is still active in the film industry.
Ye Yunyi has starred in Lan Naicai's "Prince of Peacock", "Asura", "Lord of Power" and "Old Cat". It can be said that Lan Naicai has a red hand. At that time, she was only 19 years old, with good image and temperament, and she followed the route of a young and beautiful girl.
However, all the stars in the entertainment circle who follow this route, although they can be red and purple at the beginning, they will certainly not last long. Because the majority of fans "like the new and dislike the old", they will lose their original freshness within two years. And when the halo fades, what is needed is the hard power and hard work of the star himself.
Whether Ye Yunyi possesses these abilities, we don’t know, because she chose to quit the showbiz in 1995 and marry the toy businessman Chen Bohao. But this marriage only lasted until 2000. Although the court ruled that Chen Bohao needed a one-time compensation of 8 million Hong Kong dollars,However, he failed to pay the compensation due to the company's bankruptcy. Because of the pressure of life, Ye Yunyi had to return to filming.
is another sad story of a goddess meeting a scum man. The sad thing is that with age, Ye Yunyi is no longer the same young girl as before It is a middle-aged woman with a big belly. The temper of life is engraved on her face. Ye Yunyi, now called "Grandma Ye", lacks the childishness of his youth, but has more determination to life.
Although Pico is a little smaller than Ye Yunyi, in the 1990s, like many boys of the same age, she used to regard her as her favorite girl. Ye Yunyi's acting skills are actually impossible to talk about, but her characteristic lies in the simplicity and purity that exudes from her bones. Coupled with the attractiveness of the big black cat, Pico has always been fond of this movie.
The legend has it that Director Lan Naicai is very disappointed in the current movie market and thinks that there is no place for a director like him. This is why he has been reluctant to come back .
Pig doesn’t know the authenticity of these rumors, but he does feel that movies like "The Peacock Prince", "Asura" and "Old Cat" are now ugly, not to mention. What about the horrifying "Old Cat" and "Li Wang"?
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