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In 1910, in a jungle on the border between China and Myanmar, a British explorer saw an old monk sitting cross-legged in the jungle slowly rising into the air in front of him and floating above the jungle.

But when he tried to get closer, he found that the old monk suddenly disappeared out of thin air and was never seen again.

There is also the miraculous experience of Huang Yanqiu, a farmer from Hebei who "flew" from a rural area in Hebei to Nanjing and Shanghai overnight, and to this day no one has figured out "who was carrying him on his back".

Machii Isao is a modern-day samurai with superhuman reflexes who can react abnormally quickly to things around him.

He has demonstrated in public many times that he can use a knife to split high-speed flying bullets, and thus became the holder of the Guinness World Record.

and Dean Karnazes, who is known as "Naruto".

He has extraordinary abilities and potential. His muscles never get tired. He once ran 350 miles without sleep and could run a marathon every day for 50 consecutive days.

All these things make us ask, "Are there really extraordinary people in the world?"

If you still have questions, maybe this blockbuster movie "Under the Alien》can give you some thoughts:

Under the Alien

Adapted from the comic "Under One Person" created by Chinese cartoonist Mi Er.

The original comic received huge attention as soon as it was released. While the number of clicks exceeded 30 billion, its reputation was also very good, with an average Douban score of 8.8.

For such a top IP, film and television adaptation will definitely help it break through its original circle and attract more people's attention, but the question is who to find to direct?

The person who took on this big job and turned the pinnacle masterpiece of Chinese animation into a movie was none other than the director who had been urged to update his film for a year - Wuershan.

Naturally, "Wuershan's strict selection" has become another key factor in the film's highly anticipated success.

Since the release of "Fengshen" last summer, director Wuershan has a new title - China's special effects blockbuster craftsman.

He definitely has both ideas and technology on how to create special effects blockbusters.

Having injected fantastic imagination into Investiture of the Gods, he now brings his oriental aesthetic imagination into the new film.

Since we are talking about this, let’s first talk about what kind of story this movie is about.

The film tells the story of Zhang Chulan (Hu Xianxu), after meeting the immortal girl Feng Baobao (Li Wanda) with a mysterious life experience, he is drawn into the vortex of fighting between different alien sects.

As the secret that Zhang Chulan was the successor of the mysterious martial art "Qi Body Origin" was made public, a fierce competition broke out in the alien world over him.

Various forces such as Nadutong, Quanxingfaction, Tianxiahui, and Tianyimen appeared one by one, and a melee was about to break out. In the process, Zhang Chulan accidentally uncovered the shocking secret of that year.

Different identity, mysterious skills, fighting between sects...

All of these leave a lot of room for special effects, and of course, Wuershan will not let us down.

Let’s first watch some special effects clips to satisfy your eyes.

The highlight of "Under the Aliens" is the appearance and struggle of aliens from all sides. The film's creative team has put a lot of effort into presenting the imaginative martial arts in the comics.

They found support from the concepts of Chinese meridian theory for various supernatural skills. Each character's Qi has an exclusive color, and the effect displayed is both cool and reasonable.

For example, Zhang Chulan's golden light technique used the effect of the solar corona and outlined the body with golden lines. In particular, the sense of energy flow created by special effects brought great visual shock as soon as it was used.

Under particularly large impacts, there will be an effect where the protective shield will crack.

There is also his Yang Wu Lei, which was changed from the white color in the original work to the red color representing "fire" in the five elements. It also matches the organ "heart", which makes it look like what this technique should look like.

Especially when fighting against Zhang Lingyu's Yin Wu Lei, the color contrast presented must be very cool to watch on the big screen.

Shen Chong's high-interest Qi loan is presented with a rainbow effect, giving people an unfathomable feeling.

Xia He's Prajna Palm has a pink lotus, which not only fits the color of the character, but also fits the name of the technique.

Liu Yanyan's puppetry is presented through an effect similar to "silk thread", which is very vivid and lifelike, especially when the zombies underground are "pulled out", which is instantly creepy.

In order to make this Chinese comic-adapted blockbuster well, the creative team led by Wuershan also put special thought into presenting the comic feel.

Whether it is the use of lenses or the artistic design of each character, they are all designed to satisfy three words - comic sense.

For example, Xia He, played by Na Ran, had her original pure pink hair color adjusted several times before being finalized as a dark pink design with highlights.

It gives people a sense that it can be seen in reality, but the picture presentation has a surreal dual feeling.

When encountering a strange person performing a magical act, one can truly experience what it means for a cartoon to come true.

The lighting effects on site are also designed according to the different scenes of each scene.

Being able to achieve this level of "industrial standards" is really something that deserves to be recognized!

In terms of plot adaptation, Wuershan made an adaptation that is closer to reality while respecting the original work.

The original author Mi Er was invited to personally review the film and added some details that were not present in the original comics.

They also solicited script adaptation proposals from comic fans, and after repeated research, they finally awarded 10 shortlisted candidates with a reward of 10,000 yuan each.

The special effects technology is excellent and the script is faithful to the original, but there is still one key question: who to cast in the film?

Do you still remember the most popular group of people last summer?

Yes, it is the Conferred God Proton Group.

Although the "Proton Group" is absent this year, the "Alien Group" has taken over!

"Under the Alien" is a major project that Wuershan has been preparing for many years. The auditions for the alien group began in 2021. Casting half a year in advance also means starting training half a year in advance.

After all, no matter how cool the special effects of the alien's martial arts are, the actor's own movements must keep up.

Li Wanda, who plays Feng Baobao, is very talented in martial arts and has starred in "Ip Man 4》。

In order to be thinner, she jumps rope for an hour every day, practices yoga in sweat-inducing clothes, and sweats while wrapped in plastic wrap.

As a result, she became thinner and stronger.

After this training in various martial arts moves, she also won first prize in the martial arts competition.

Na Ran, who plays Xia He, was given the snake fist in the movie, which looks soft but actually requires strength.

And because there are many difficult moves, she needs to have a stable core.

I have to say that Na Ran and Xia He are really compatible. The action of getting off the motorcycle brings out Xia He's charm to the extreme.

Narnaqi's Feng Sashayan "fought" in high heels throughout the whole process, which, combined with the extremely fast speed of the Hundred-Step Fist, was a difficulty that needed to be overcome.

Liu Yanyan from Lan Xiya, after training, performed Tai Chi like a master.

Shen ChongFeng ShaofengIn order to practice the body movements well, I started group training 10 months in advance.

The training camp set up by the Yiren Group once again put into practice what Director Wuershan said“Rather than letting actors create value for movies, it is better for movies to create value for actors.”

Qingshi dares to assert that after the release of "Under the Aliens", this group of alien actors will definitely become popular again with the help of the movie.

"What I've always wanted to do is to make Chinese blockbusters for young audiences."

This is the "crazy statement" made by director Wuershan when promoting his first trilogy movie "Fengshen".

At that time, this sentence seemed really "crazy".

Looking back now, he really did what he said.

The 2021 Chinese Movie Audience Survey Report shows that in the survey on "film types missing from theaters", fantasy/science fiction films received the highest demand.

In 2019, Guo Fan'sWandering Earth” tells us that Chinese science fiction blockbusters can also be made very well.

This point was made four years later inThe Wandering Earth 2》also proved it once again.

So who will support the Chinese fantasy blockbuster scene? The answer is obvious: "Fengshen".

And what’s even more fortunate is that only one year later, we welcomed another Chinese fantasy blockbuster - "Under the Stranger".

Whether it is "Fengshen" which ignited the summer movie last year, or "Under the Alien" which is about to ignite the summer movie this year, the two movies have one thing in common.

The 3,000-year-old national myth "Fengshen" tells the story of ancient extraordinary people, and the 30 billion-hit "Under the Extraordinary" tells the story of modern extraordinary people.

If we dig deeper into this point, we will find that this is what Wuershan has been doing all along - promoting traditional Chinese culture.

Many shots in "Fengshen" are full of creativity and imagination, showing the fantasy of the ancient mythological world vividly.

At the same time, the film is very innovative in its story and character design, even taking a different approach, giving us a completely new "Fengshen Story".

In the movie "Under the Aliens", starting from the rare group of "aliens", we are introduced to the concept of "Qi" in traditional Chinese culture.

What is an "alien"?

So what is "Qi"?

The movie uses a lot of our current elements and combines them with contemporary attributes to tell the story, making people feel more involved.

For example, the four major sects mentioned in the movie: Naduotong, Quanxing Sect, Tianxiahui, and Tianyi Sect.

Naduotong, on the surface, is a courier company, but in fact it is an organization that aims to maintain order in the alien world.

As soon as the word "express delivery" came out, this company suddenly became down-to-earth.

There is also Tianxiahui, a group with a market value of 300 billion. Who wouldn't want to get an offer from a big company? The working spirit of the workers was immediately awakened!

The Quanxing Sect is a sect that allows one to use one's supernatural powers as one pleases, and its main theme is to let go of oneself.

The four madmen of Quan Xing, Intestinal Poison, Bone Scraper, Root of Evil, and Thunder Smoke Cannon, correspond to wine, sex, money, and anger respectively.

The Tianyi Sect is similar to the famous and upright sects in martial arts novels.

The male protagonist Zhang Chulan is an ordinary sophomore student, and Feng Baobao is a girl who speaks Sichuan dialect. The dialect really adds points!

The movie presents a state that is more in line with real life, making the story of this "strange people" feel real. This group of people may be the people around us, which is very close to the Taoist philosophy of "small seclusion in the wild, big seclusion in the city".

This way of expression is also consistent with the original intention of the original author Mi Er in creating the comics.

"If one day you find yourself different from others, what will you do?"

In fact, in real life, everyone is different. Does this mean that each of us may be an extraordinary person?

Among the extraordinary people in the movie, some are born with extraordinary abilities, while others rely on acquired practice.

Cultivation is a word that contains the connotation of traditional Chinese culture, just like the core idea conveyed to us by the original novel "Under One Person": the more you can't bear it, the more time you need to cultivate.

On July 26, let’s meet at the cinema to watch our own Chinese-style supernatural blockbuster and our own oriental supernatural story.

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