Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 848: Sky Curtain: Enemy at the Gate (V)
From the aerial camera, five military vehicles are speeding.

There are woods on both sides, and strange people keep running out of the dense forest.

Above the sky, dense swarms of birds and strange beasts gathered and attacked.

It was another large panoramic scene, which made the audience excited. There has never been such an amazing special effects scene in domestic movies. The visual effects were really maximized.

Some viewers felt nervous and anxious. This was a situation where they were surrounded by countless "zombies + aliens". How could the male and female protagonists, who were also human beings and resonated with the audience, escape?
This made some female viewers hold their breath. They wanted to watch but were afraid that someone would be harmed, so they didn't dare to watch. They half-closed their eyes nervously.

But what is strange is that the picture shows this scene: the target of the alien army and the bird and beast army is very clear, and they are aiming directly at the second military vehicle where the male and female protagonists are.

The third, fourth and fifth military vehicles at the back and the rear were all simply ignored by these aliens under the camera rendering, and they didn't even try to interfere. All the aliens had a clear goal, which was to destroy the car of the male and female protagonists.

This also confirmed the self-doubt of the heroine Lin Yi just now. These things seemed to be directed at her.

The aerial shot took more than ten seconds to render, which meant millions of dollars were wasted.

The scene ends with several madly running aliens climbing onto a military vehicle, and the scene switches to the interior of the vehicle.

"Ah——" In the close-up shot, several female classmates screamed loudly, just because the vehicle made a sudden sharp turn, causing the people in the car to fall all over the place.

The vehicle was turning right. Chu Xuan was sitting on the left side, bearing the pressure. Liu Yifei was sitting on the opposite right side, holding the upper armrest tightly with her hands. Compared to the other students who were in a mess due to the collision, Liu Yifei's strength and calmness even though she was injured made her character stand out to a higher level.

"Daniu, what's going on?" After comforting his classmates, Dillon picked up the intercom and asked hurriedly.

"Old Wolf, we've just been attacked. No one is wrong, but the car has already driven into the jungle. What should we do next?" The camera turns to the driver Daniu, played by Li Chen.

Dillon looked behind the car and saw that the vehicle was forced into the jungle due to the attack by aliens who hijacked the car. There were also a large group of aliens chasing the car, and there were several cars behind the group of aliens that seemed to be following and providing support.

Dillon said calmly, "Don't follow me! Protecting the students' safety is our top priority. Go and join the arriving troops first, and then come over to support us!"

After hearing this, several military vehicles behind that had originally turned to follow the track just straightened their tires and continued to move forward.

"Instructor, what should we do?" A female classmate was trembling. She was the new actress Liu Yase.

The rest of the students looked at Dillon, the backbone. The vehicle they were in went off track and headed in a different direction, and it seemed that they were facing the alien army alone, which made these young people very panicked.

"Since these strange people are coming for Lin Yi... then..." A selfish classmate wanted Lin Yi to do something, but he stopped talking when he met the direct gazes from Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei at the same time.

"What?" Chu Xuan said, "Let Lin Yi lead these aliens away? Why the hell don't you go?"

Chu Xuan cursed directly, even a poor student can be ruthless.

"Those strange people are not coming for me." The classmate said in a muffled voice. He is Cheng Yi, a student of the Central Academy of Drama, and a new actor like Liu Yase.

Chu Xuan ignored him, stared at the group of people in front of him, and said bluntly: "I'm telling you, if anyone has this idea again, I will throw you out one by one, believe it or not?"

Chu Xuan threatened directly, saying that the gangsters also had their own arrogance.

"Wei Ran!" Dillon warned, stopping Chu Xuan from speaking and also preventing the internal strife.

This scene made the audience feel relieved. The male protagonist Wei Ran is still very righteous. He looks useless, but he is a good person at heart.

Liu Yifei turned her cold face towards Chu Xuan. Seeing Chu Xuan defending her so much, her eyes softened a little.

But when Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows teasingly, Liu Yifei immediately withdrew the gentleness in her eyes and turned her head to look outside the car with a cold look.

The audience found it hilarious. This scene was very similar to the good-for-nothing man and the domineering female boss in online novels. Many viewers expected that the male protagonist would definitely catch up with the female protagonist to satisfy them.

The film critic has something to say. I heard that the character design of the male and female protagonists was done by Liu Yi, the golden partner of the couple. Liu Yi understands the psychology of the couple and the audience.

So far, this movie seems to have no romance to disrupt the rhythm of the story, but some of the conversations and behaviors between the hero and heroine make people look forward to the hope and expectation that the two will eventually be together.

With more expectations and anticipation, there will naturally be more viewing experience and more basic elements to watch the movie to the end. This is the beauty of having a good screenwriter on the crew.

On the screen, a small episode of internal strife was quickly passed by in a few scenes, and then there were frequent accidents in the tense and panic atmosphere.

Several strange birds flew in, and amid the screams and panic of the classmates, Dillon and several soldiers were scrambling to deal with the crisis.

Just as the manpower was restricted, the vehicle lost its speed in the jungle. Several aliens jumped into the car and scratched the calf of a classmate before being shot dead by the soldiers who had freed their hands after killing the alien bird.

In this atmosphere of panic, urgency and fear, the military vehicle rushed out of the jungle. Outside the jungle was a hillside, and a step on the accelerator made the military vehicle soar into the air.

The picture was in slow motion, and the movements of the alien army were also slowed down.

The audience also followed this slow motion, their hearts tense and excited with excitement in their throats.

With a "bang", the picture playback speed returned to normal. The military vehicle fell heavily from mid-air on the hillside, twisted the body of the vehicle very unsteadily from left to right, and then returned to its normal shaking and drove quickly down the hillside.

The audience's hearts, in their throats, gradually calmed down as the vehicle landed safely.

However, just a second after my mood began to calm down, another high-altitude shot arrived.

Whether it was on the roads in the jungles on both sides or in the jungle just now, no matter how big the scene was, it was limited by too many obstructions.

We were going uphill now, and there were no tall vegetation nearby to block our view. We saw a huge army of aliens rushing out of the forest, swarming towards the vehicles speeding down the mountains and plains.

"Oh——" The whole audience exclaimed. The number of these aliens was too many. The zombie horde in the Resident Evil was nothing compared to the scene before them.

In the scene before us, if the military vehicle is compared to a tree, then the emerging alien army is like a forest. The visual effect brought about by such a disproportionate number of enemies and ours is more than just shocking.

Some fans could not help but stand up excitedly. The visual impact that they had only experienced in foreign films before could one day be experienced in their own country's domestic films, and it happened one after another, with each scene being more grand than the last. For them as fans, this made them feel excited and proud, thrilled and inspired.

He said in his heart: "This movie is so fucking awesome!"

The tension in the movie rises and falls, and the excitement comes one after another. The resulting visual effect makes the audience's emotions swing up and down, but it's ultimately a great feeling.

This sense of excitement has not yet worn off, first there is a side shot of a military vehicle taking off, then a high-altitude shot of the grand scene, but the shot does not shoot from the front. Once it switches to the front, you can see the sky curtain just a few dozen meters in front of the military vehicle.

Sky curtain? Judging from the setting given in the previous plot, if you touch the sky curtain, you will die!
This was another wave of tension and excitement, making the audience tense.

Li Chen, who played the soldier driver, also noticed this scene. His pupils widened and he slammed the brakes hard.

The military vehicle, which was originally going downhill, was blocked while driving at high speed, which led to another exciting scene.

I saw the rear end of the car being lifted up instantly, and the front wheels moving forward alone, like performing an acrobatics.

When the audience's hearts were so excited that they seemed to burst out of their bodies, the rear end of the car miraculously found its center of gravity and fell to the ground with a "boom". Although it was very thrilling, the vehicle finally landed safely and stopped, only about 20 to 30 meters away from the sky curtain.

"It's so thrilling." One audience member breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little short of oxygen. After calming down, he expressed his thoughts after watching the movie very refreshingly.

The audience enjoyed the movie, but the people in the movie were not.

All the students looked dizzy, Dillon's forehead was bleeding, and Chu Xuan fell to the ground, his whole body aching and making him frown in pain.

In this depressing atmosphere, a figure rushed out.

"Lin Yi." Liu Yase said in surprise.

"Lin Yi!" Dillon came to his senses and shouted.

"This lunatic." Chu Xuan gritted his teeth, then propped himself up and rushed out in one step.

"Wei Ran!" Liu Yase shouted again.

"Wei Ran!" Dillon shouted.

Everyone understood that Lin Yi rushed out to attract these aliens and save them because she suspected that the aliens were coming for her.

However, this self-doubt was just a guess, and no one knew whether it was true or not. Lin Yi ran out impulsively, which shocked everyone.

As an instructor and soldier, it is Dillon's duty to protect students. Without saying a word, he picked up his gun and rushed out to save people.

But when he picked up the gun and looked outside, he and his classmates were all stunned.

The huge army of aliens rushed over and was very close to their vehicle, about ten meters away. It seemed that they were about to be doomed, but they saw that the aliens collectively turned around, ignoring their existence, and went straight to Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

This completely confirmed that Lin Yi's self-doubt was real.

Without giving it much thought, Dillon ordered two soldiers to protect the students, and chased forward with two other soldiers and three soldiers who came from the co-pilot seat.

Under the high-altitude lens, a magical scene occurred.

On the hillside, three groups of people were running horizontally.

Liu Yifei ran in the first place, followed closely by Chu Xuan. The alien army turned around or chased after them. Dillon and four other soldiers were at the back with guns to rescue them.

"You're crazy, why are you chasing me?"

"You are crazy! You came out alone to attract these monsters? Do you think you are so great?!"

Liu Yifei ran into the jungle, and Chu Xuan chased after her.

"None of your business, why are you chasing me?"

"My father told me to take good care of you before he died. Why did I come after you?"

Liu Yifei ran into the jungle and Chu Xuan followed her in.

"Take care of me? Have I taken care of you all these years, or have you taken care of me?"

"Don't talk about the past! That was just a little fight in a safe environment at school. Who would mess with you outside?"

In the eyes of the audience, the negative image of the male protagonist Wei Ran was instantly reversed.

"Get out of the way!" Liu Yifei shouted coldly after going twenty or thirty meters deep into the jungle.

She just picked up the "harmonica" with her left hand and pressed a button. The "harmonica" in her hand quickly and mechanically transformed into a bow. At the same time, her right hand reached behind her back and took out a steel arrow from the quiver attached to her back.

Then, he quickly ran forward in a "U"-shaped slide, with his left foot fixed on the ground and his right foot sliding in half a circle. The mud and fallen leaves flew along with the "U"-shaped slide. He turned his body and drew his bow and drew his arrow.

When Chu Xuan heard the word "get out of the way" and saw her smooth movements, he subconsciously rolled to the side.

At the moment of rolling, an arrow flew out quickly and hit the group of aliens rushing into the jungle.

"Puff." The leading alien was shot in the head, right in the forehead.

"Puff." The arrow pierced through the back of the head and hit the second alien's forehead.

"Puff." The arrow pierced through again, piercing the forehead of the third alien.

"Chi." The arrow pierced the forehead of the fourth alien and then stopped.

From Liu Yifei shouting "get out of the way", to sliding and turning to attack, to shooting four arrows, it only took 4 seconds in the edited footage.

In the first second, the machine changes into a powerful arrow.

In the second second, he slid, turned around, drew his bow and drew his arrow. The dirt and fallen leaves were blown by the wind, and his hair on both temples fluttered in the wind.

In the 3rd second, Liu Yifei’s heroic posture is frozen and rendered for 1 second.

At the 4th second, an arrow was shot out with a determined look in his eyes, and the picture showed a situation where one shot penetrated four.

"Fuck! So cool!"

"Oh my god, Liu Yifei is so handsome!"

"Awesome, really cool!"

The audience could not help but praise her. This set of martial arts movements was so fast that it seemed to flash by, but at the same time it left a deep memory in their minds. After waking up, they were amazed to see Liu Yifei's cool and ruthless performance art.

The film critics kept nodding their heads. Judging from the continuity of the few seconds without cuts, Liu Yifei's martial arts moves were obviously done in one go. It must have been trained many times before filming on the set.

But in terms of the level of action displayed in these few seconds, it is hard to imagine which actors of the same age can do it. Going back a generation, there are only Yang Ziqiong and Zhang Ziyi who can do it, and going back a generation, it is veterans like Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuoxian.

At a time when popularity is rising but strength is declining, and when the strict standards for both literary and martial arts dramas have been made less important by the impact of traffic, perhaps among the younger generation of actors, Liu Yifei will be the actress who takes up the banner of martial arts dramas.

Hearing the praises behind her, Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows at Chu Xuan to show her pride and pride.

Chu Xuan smiled slightly and gave her a thumbs up.

Seeing this, Liu Yifei was satisfied. She held Chu Xuan's hand and played with it, then looked up at the movie.

In the eyes of the audience, the heroine Lin Yi's action show was great, but the aliens who were shot in the head did not die, they just ran a little slower.

In the minds of some movie fans, the zombies in "Resident Evil" are weaker than the Aliens. Zombies can be killed by headshots, but the Aliens here cannot be killed by headshots either, which is really awesome.

And what follows is the personal show of the heroine Liu Yifei.

While running, Liu Yifei saw a strange man rushing from the jungle on the right, pointing directly at Chu Xuan behind her, and she turned around while running.

Turning around while running is a very dangerous thing. In the slow motion, Liu Yifei's body tends to stumble backwards.

Chu Xuan, who was running behind, was surprised to see Liu Yifei turning around, and was even more surprised to see Liu Yifei reaching out to him and putting her arms around his neck.

It was this action that allowed Liu Yifei's body, which had stumbled backwards, to return to normal, but it also created a relative impact force with Chu Xuan's running speed.

The camera speed returned to normal, and Liu Yifei turned sideways, with her hands around Chu Xuan's neck holding Chu Xuan's shoulders, and led Chu Xuan to turn around to offset the relative impact.

Then, at the moment when the two people turned around, Liu Yifei supported Chu Xuan's shoulders with one hand, stood up, and kicked the strange man away with a flying kick. The man hit the tree and rolled on the ground for a few rounds.

The two shots, one slow and one fast, only take 3 seconds. If the previous action of sliding, turning and shooting arrows can be described as flowing water, then this action can be said to be a perfect match between the male and female protagonists.

“Handsome!” The audience was at a loss for words to comment, but just one word, “handsome”, was enough.

If individual movements can be completed through hard work, then coordinated movements require more than hard work, and more importantly, tacit understanding. As long as the coordination is good and the tacit understanding is sufficient, the visual effect presented will be more surprising than that of a single action.

Liu Yifei was seen dragging Chu Xuan, pulling him to the left to protect him behind her, kicking another alien away, pulling him to the right to protect him on the other side, raising her hand to hold the bow in reverse, and using the bowstring to quickly wipe the neck of the alien who was approaching.

A blood line appeared on the stranger's neck. Although strangely there was no bleeding, the effect of killing with one sword in the throat was very impressive, and it made the audience's eyes ripple. Liu Yifei's fighting scenes were really wonderful!

Then, something strange happened.

I only see a strange man jumping up from a tree not far away, trying to swoop down from mid-air and kill the male and female protagonists.

Liu Yifei reacted quickly, and dodged to a tree trunk two meters away. She jumped up from the ground and stepped on the trunk with one foot, then moved in the opposite direction towards Chu Xuan's position.

Chu Xuan was still confused, and Liu Yifei stepped on his shoulder in mid-air to gain leverage, creating a hovering effect in slow motion. After returning to normal playback speed, Liu Yifei drew her arrow and shot, accurately hitting the chest of the alien who was attacking from the sky, causing him to fly backwards and hit the ground.

It was another perfectly coordinated move, and the stunning feeling made the entire audience feel overwhelmed.

"I have nothing to say. Liu Yifei will be my idol from now on. Isn't she so cool?" A female audience member was so excited that she was a passerby and was completely conquered by Liu Yifei.

"There's Xiao Long Nu for ancient costume action scenes, and there's Lin Yi for modern action scenes." An audience member muttered, with admiration in his eyes.

"Yes, yes, that's what I wanted to say too. Xiaolongnu is Liu Yifei's iconic role in ancient costume dramas that surpasses actors of the same age. And Lin Yi will definitely become another iconic character in Liu Yifei's modern action dramas. It's amazing!" An audience member nearby echoed enthusiastically, moved by Liu Yifei's role.

However, a film critic had a different feeling and said to his companion: "The Chenglong-style comedy is completely focused on these two people. Did you notice?"

"Yeah." The companion next to him nodded repeatedly.

Chenglong's comedy is very distinctive. In addition to funny martial arts moves, another feature is that Chenglong likes to take over the show. When performing moves, he will use a supporting role or some other character as a hand to help Chenglong complete some combination moves.

In Liu Yifei's series of personal shows just now, although the martial arts moves were not funny, Chu Xuan's presence was to assist Liu Yifei's moves, which was very much in the style of Chenglong's martial arts drama.

The most eye-catching point is that Cheng Long let Liu Yifei be the main character and Chu Xuan be the supporting character. This kind of relationship of strong woman and weak man has almost never appeared in Cheng Long's films, so it gives people the feeling that this movie is very Cheng Long, but it is a new style and it is also very groundbreaking.

"What are you doing? Let's go."

"Wait, dizzy."

“Hahahaha…” There was a burst of laughter in the screening room.

During Liu Yifei's series of actions, Chu Xuan was dragged around and was even stepped on in the end. If you don't feel dizzy, who would?
The audience discovered that Chu Xuan's Wei Ran is used for comedy, and has been a complete tool so far, but the fun this character has brought along and the ups and downs of the plot caused by both positive and negative emotional values ​​are very effective. From this point of view, Chu Xuan's acting skills are really good, even as a tool, he is very outstanding.

After a small comedy interlude, the tense plot atmosphere immediately unfolds.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei kept running in the jungle, not caring whether the road they were taking was right or not. After all, strangers were coming from all directions, so they didn't care whether the road was right or not.

However, when the man and woman ran out of the jungle, they found that they had reached a dead end.

“Is there a cliff ahead?”

"It's over now."

"How to do how to do."

Many viewers were anxious for the male and female protagonists. How could their luck be so bad? There were so many roads to go but they had to walk onto the cliff.

The critics were wondering, how can there be a big plot twist without going to the cliff? I guess there will be something interesting next.

A cliff extends from the dense forest. The platform on the cliff is about 50 meters long and 10 meters wide. Below the cliff is a vertical steep wall. The distance between the steep wall and the sky is less than ten meters.

In short, this is a dead end.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei walked to the entrance of the cliff. They turned around and looked at the countless strange people surging in the dense forest. They tried to stay calm and retreated towards the edge of the cliff.

The camera turned and shot towards the distant sky on the left, and a dozen helicopters appeared on the skyline visible at the end of the line of sight.

"Boom bang bang bang bang..." The sound of machine gun bullets firing continuously came from the sky. Dense lines of breaking through the air appeared in the air. The pouring bullets shot indiscriminately into the dense forest. In the turning back camera, it can be seen that strange people continue to fall down and die.

This is another big scene, technology VS mutation.

Some viewers clenched their fists and hope rose in their hearts. The military helicopter has arrived, so the hero and heroine should be saved, right?
In the picture, although the bullets were like heavy rain, there were too many of them.

When one alien was shot and fell, four or five more would rush forward.

Under such circumstances, the male and female protagonists Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were still forced to run backwards until they reached the edge of the cliff.

The audience, who had originally felt some hope, became anxious again, until one rocket after another exploded in the dense forest and on the cliff. After the fireworks dissipated, a large number of Inhumans were killed and wounded, effectively stopping the Inhumans' advance. Several helicopters flew over and poured bullets on the Inhumans on the cliff to protect the safety of the male and female protagonists.

Under the double command, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei seemed to be about to be safe.

The audience also breathed a sigh of relief, and they all felt that Lin Yi and Wei Ran were finally okay.

But there is a routine in movie story design, which is to give you hope first and then give you a blow, using this kind of emotional ups and downs to make the audience have great expectations for the subsequent plot.

Following this routine, the camera turns to a helicopter pilot, played by Hong Kong actor Zhou Bohao.

Zhou Bohao was launching rockets to kill a group of aliens in the dense forest, but the next moment, several alien birds suddenly smashed the window. After the window shattered, one of the alien birds smashed into his neck with its sharp beak.

"Ugh." Zhou Bohao choked. The helicopter became uncontrollable and turned. A hand at some distance pressed the launch button.

With a "whoosh" sound, a rocket flew straight towards the cliff.

The audience shrank their eyes, their hearts in their throats again.

With a loud "boom", the rocket exploded on the cliff about ten meters away from the edge of the cliff.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's faces also changed, but before they could react, a powerful shock wave swept towards them.

In slow motion, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei flew upside down from the edge of the cliff, and the place where they flew upside down was exactly the sky!
The camera flashed across the faces of the people on several helicopters, all of whom looked shocked.

The camera then swept across the faces of Ti Lung and other soldiers who had arrived, and they were also horrified.

With everyone on and off the screen focusing intensely, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were seen flying in the air in slow motion, slowly approaching the sky, while the foul light on the sky gathered like stars, waiting for the arrival of their prey.

The close-up shot was given to the sky, and the streaks of light were the evil light that the audience was already very familiar with. The evil light was originally converging towards the male and female protagonists at the position of the sky, but it was frozen in an instant, as if time and space had stopped.

Huh? How is this going?

Why does this scene where time and space stand still look so familiar?

Before the audience could react, after the slow-motion image returned to normal, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei crashed into the sky curtain and crossed to the other side without any incident.

"This..." Dillon was shocked.

"How is this possible?" The pilot, played by another Hong Kong actor, Huang Zongze, was shocked.

The picture did not give these people too many emotions, but cut to the other side, returning to the audience's slightly long-lost alien world in their hearts, the other half of the earth with sunset all day long.

"Lin Yi and Wei Ran have traveled through time. Are they going to meet up with Cheng Long and the others?" The audience was full of anticipation.

I was originally nervous about the crisis encountered by the hero and heroine, but now it seems that my worries were in vain. The hero and heroine seem to be able to freely travel through the sky. Although I don’t know why, this plug-in looks very cool.

The hero and heroine can freely travel through a sky that is in danger for all human beings. Isn’t that awesome!

A film critic smiled. He had guessed it right. The turning point of the plot indeed appeared in the escape plot, which also meant that the main plot of the story was about to begin.

(End of this chapter)