Mutant Python (2021) - full transcript
Secluded mountain village in northern Fujian is in a state of panic. On the wedding day of Dong Wen Hui and Qian Xiu Chen father of the groom was tragically swallowed by a python.
(TENSE GONG MUSIC)
[NARRATOR] I have lived
in the village of Beilao
in northern Fujian
since I was a child.
Such a closed off
and backwards place.
An old custom has been
passed down in this village
from ancient times
to the present day.
[WOMAN] Wenlin!
(TENSE MUSIC)
The time has come.
Raise the grave!
[NARRATOR] The villagers
of Beilao believe
that because of the humid
climate in northern Fujian,
the bones of their ancestors
buried in the ground
are prone to decay and mold,
which will bring bad luck
to future generations
of relatives.
Therefore, every 20 years, the
next generation of relatives
will call the worthless
beggar into the tomb
to pick up the bones out
and wash and dry them
before putting them back
in place to seal the tomb.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Let me see.
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Snake!
Snake!
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
Snake!
Snake!
(PERSON GRUNTING AND YELPING)
Snake, snake!
The Long Snake
Fairy is revealed!
Kneel quickly, kneel
quickly, kneel quickly!
This snake is poisonous.
There's someone in there,
we have to help them.
This snake is not
to be messed with.
You want to get us killed?
If you don't help
them, then I will.
Wenlin, take care
of your sister.
Dad!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKES SLITHERING)
(PERSON GROANING)
(TENSE GONG MUSIC)
[NARRATOR] My ancestors have
lived here for generations.
I used to think this
isolated place was simple.
I would think to myself
that it was a paradise.
But I was wrong.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
The time has come.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(WATER SPLASHING)
(SNAKE ROARING)
The Snake Fairy is revealed!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(SNAKE GROWLING)
Snake meat?
It's okay.
Mom.
Did you two go back to
fight the snake again?
Mom.
How many times have I told you?
If people in the village
find out about this,
we'll get into a lot of trouble!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Please don't blame them.
Young people don't
know the rules.
Mom.
How can you still believe
that in this day and age?
Your father messed
with the Long Snake Fairy
and we had to suffer for it.
Wenlin, we were expelled from
the Dong family for this.
[WENLIN] No, wait,
that was hard to catch.
Mom.
Do you want me to die sooner?
Mom, don't be angry.
Mom, you go in first, go.
Brother, let's release the
snake, hurry up, let's go!
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- Patriarch.
- Patriarch.
- Patriarch.
- Greetings, greetings.
- Patriarch.
- Greetings.
- Brother.
- Yes.
Everything is back.
Wenyu is having
the room tidied up.
Don't worry about a thing.
The wedding will
be a great success!
That's wonderful.
Thank you for your hard work.
Ah, no problem.
Hey, be careful.
(GONG RINGING)
[BOY] Bro.
This horse is amazing!
[MAN] What's the big deal?
It's just an animal
for people to ride.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
Don't look.
- This is a rough place.
- Really?
Why?
[MAN] Don't ask.
Xiuqin, beyond here is
the village of Beilao.
The second lady, one pillow.
It's a mandarin duck pillow.
Eh?
Where's the invitation?
What?
Invitation?
That won't do.
How many people
are seated there?
It's all booked!
- There's a wait list.
- Uncle?
Chunhua!
I'm coming!
(COINS CLINK)
Zhang Chunhua.
Five silver dollars.
Eh?
Where's the invitation?
[CHUNHUA] I've lived in this
village for seven years now,
and no one will even
eat this tofu I made.
Even if I have an invitation,
I won't be allowed in.
Don't you think so, Uncle?
Yes, yes.
That certainly isn't right.
Go in, go in!
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
(FIRECRACKERS POPPING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
Let's let Sister
Chunhua have one.
- Okay!
- Shall we?
Come on. (LAUGHS)
(WOMAN VOCALIZING)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Brother.
Get her out of here.
This is outrageous.
Wenyu.
Hey, hey, Chunhua.
Slow down.
You should go back.
Don't go out anywhere.
Eh?
What are you doing out here?
Just go back, and keep an
eye on the place for me.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOG BARKING DISTANTLY)
(CHUNHUA VOCALIZING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(GASPS) Uncle.
What are you doing?
Chunhua, it must be hard
for you to live alone.
No, no, Uncle!
You can live with me, yeah?
I've been waiting a
long time for you.
From now on, I'll let you
eat and drink with me.
Come on, come on!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
No!
No, Uncle!
No!
- Yeah.
- No!
Help!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Help!
Help!
No!
[MAN] Bitch!
(WATER BUBBLING)
(SNAKE HISSING)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Help me!
(MAN GURGLING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
[CHUNHUA] Snake, snake, snake.
Chunhua?
Chunhua?
[CHUNHUA] The snake
has eaten Uncle.
- This snake has eaten Uncle.
- What did you just say?
What did you say
about my father?
Your father...
Your father was
eaten by a big snake.
(PEOPLE GASP)
Go and take a look!
- Let's go!
- Let's go!
Dad, I'm going too.
You can't go.
It's your big day.
Take care of Xiuqin.
Wenhui, a snake?
Xiuqin, remain
calm, large snakes
are native to these
mountains, but don't worry,
it hasn't entered the
village since ancient times.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Dad!
Dad!
What are you doing here?
I was just passing by.
San wandered out here drunk.
Why are you here?
He tried to take advantage.
What are you talking about?
If you slander my father
again, I'll kill you!
I'm not lying.
He just pushed me
down right here.
You're still talking
nonsense, I'll kill you!
Let's talk this out, okay?
I can take care
of this lying bitch.
It's none of your business.
Are you an adulterer, huh?
Wenyu Dong, what are you saying?
(WENYU CHUCKLES)
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(WOMAN GASPS)
(MEN GRUNTING)
What are you doing?
Come on!
(MEN GRUNTING)
[MAN] Let's kill him!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GRUNTING)
Poor Zhaoru, lived with
nobody, now dead with nobody.
A fate of bad luck, huh?
The Long Snake Fairy has
not entered the village
for 10 years.
This time it suddenly came.
There must be
something fishy in it.
The Long Snake Fairy didn't
come at some random time,
but came at the time of
your bride's wedding.
Did the bride bring the
Long Snake Fairy with her?
Wenyu!
What do you mean?
Oh, nothing.
It's just that everyone's
talking about it.
You're talking too much.
I don't come back often, so
we'll go back to the province
after the wedding.
I'll never come back
to this shit again.
(PORCELAIN CLATTERS)
Shut up!
Cease this arguing, or
I'll banish all of you!
Patriarch, how do we make
the Long Snake Fairy stop?
The only way to make
the Long Snake Fairy stop
is to use the method left
behind by our ancestors.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Dad!
- Shut up.
- Dad!
Get the hell out of here!
Get out!
Wenhui?
Wenhui?
You mean...
You want to use the
way of our ancestors.
We have to find a girl named
Dong who is pure and innocent
to offer to the Snake Fairy.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Where can we find
such an innocent girl?
Mom.
Anyway, we have to find
a girl who is named Dong.
You mean as long as
the surname is Dong...
Even one who has
been expelled, yes?
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenlin.
Don't get into
trouble in the future.
Avoid places where
there are many people,
and don't get into trouble.
Mom, I don't want
to cause trouble,
trouble wants to cause me.
(DOOR BANGS OPEN)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
What are you doing?!
- Mom!
- No!
- Brother!
- Wenjuan!
(MEN GRUNTING)
Wenjuan!
Wenlin, we have to do
this the old-fashioned way.
It's your family's good fortune.
She's just going to
the fairy world now.
(MEN GRUNTING)
You bastard, let her go!
Wenlin.
Brother!
Brother!
(MEN GRUNTING)
Stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Move it.
(MAN GRUNTS)
Brother!
- Wenjuan!
- Brother!
Brother!
Wenlin!
- Let me go!
- Come on!
- Let me go!
- Hurry up!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Some on!
[GIRL] Stop it!
- Wenyu Dong, let me go!
- Stop struggling!
- Let me go!
- Knock it off!
Stop it!
Uncle!
Wenjuan, you must
not resent your people.
It's your family's good fortune
to serve the Snake Fairy
in the honor of the Dong family.
In five days it will be the
9th day of the 6th month.
The full moon.
At that time, the Dong
family will send Wenjuan
to enter the Long
Snake immortal world.
Yes, sir.
Uncle!
Uncle, I'm Wenjuan!
You can't, Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
You can't do this, Uncle!
Wenhui, just now, Dong Wenyu
caught a girl in the barn.
Oh.
What has the girl done wrong?
Why is he arresting her?
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
She hasn't done anything wrong.
It's because she isn't
married, at that age, and...
Her surname.
What do you mean?
Whenever the Long Snake
Fairy causes trouble,
a young Dong girl is sacrificed
for 10 years of
peace in the village.
A real sacrifice?
But that's a real human life.
This is a rule inherited
from the ancestors.
Wenhui.
You've been educated
in the capital
and you still believe in this?
No way.
I have to tell Father to
let the little girl go.
Xiuqin.
Don't worry about it.
It was Dad's idea.
If you let the little girl go,
the whole clan will kill you.
Even I can't protect you.
Then you'll let me watch
the sacrifice of the girl?
(WENHUI SIGHS)
Just pretend you
don't know anything.
We'll be back in the
province in three days.
(WENHUI SIGHS)
It'll all be out of
sight and out of mind.
I didn't think you
were such a person.
I don't know who made
breakfast today, but I feel sick.
I'm going to the
toilet, you watch her.
Wait for me, I'm not
feeling well either
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenjuan.
Come on.
- Wenlin Dong.
- (STARTLING MUSIC)
I was waiting for you.
You've got a lot of nerve.
This is a sacrifice
to the Snake Fairy,
and you dare to touch it?
You are breaking the family law.
Brothers, break his legs.
(PEOPLE GRUNTING)
Brother!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Don't anyone run away.
If anyone lets her go, I'll
expel him from the family.
Get back!
Brother!
Beat him to death!
Brother!
Don't do it!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother, don't mind me!
Go now, don't mind me!
You go now!
- Go after him!
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenyu Dong, don't
you know the rules?
I'm a woman alone at home, and
you come in without knocking?
What's wrong with you guys?
Why'd you come in
here without knocking?
I'm sorry, Sister.
They're not well-mannered.
Sister, did you
see a man come in?
What do you mean?
Are you saying I'm hiding a man?
Do you believe me
that I'll tell Wenhui?
Oh, no.
I didn't mean it like that
We're arresting
someone, a thief.
Do you see any thieves here?
Where could they be?
I think the cupboard is
the only place in my house
where someone could hide.
But I'm telling you,
if you don't find
anyone in this cupboard, I'll
go to my father and tell him
you've ruined my innocence.
What are you doing?
Sister, it's all a
misunderstanding.
How could I possibly
suspect you?
If there's really
a man in this room,
it could only be my brother.
Why are you still standing here?
Go to find him!
(MAN CHUCKLING)
Excuse me.
(SHAKY BREATHING)
- Thank you.
- I've seen you before.
Last time.
Last time you were with a girl,
at the entrance to
the village. (GASPS)
The girl who was arrested.
It's my sister, Wenjuan.
But Dong Wenyu and his
brothers are guarding her.
You can't just
barge in like that.
I can't just stand
by and watch my sister
being sacrificed.
But you won't be able
to save your sister,
and you might even
get yourself killed.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
You'll have to find
a way to save her.
What are you thinking?
Do you know what logic means?
What?
I don't, sorry.
Ah, let me give you an example.
One plus one equals
two is not logic.
Two plus two equals four
is not logic either.
But one plus one plus two
equals four, that's logic.
Fine.
Let me ask you, why is your
sister being sacrificed?
The Long Snake Fairy.
And what if the
Long Snake Fairy died?
You're saying that...
But I can't kill that big snake.
Not by myself, anyway.
Then go and find someone
who can kill the snake.
(WENLIN GRUNTING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(SNAKE HISSING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE HISSING)
- Help!
- (MAN GRUNTING)
Help me!
Don't touch me!
- Don't touch me!
- Sister!
- Don't touch me!
- Wenyu Dong!
What the hell?
Sister.
Misunderstanding.
I just came to see Wenjuan.
(WENJUAN GASPS)
[WENJUAN] Brother!
(EERIE MUSIC)
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Thank you, Master
Wong, for saving me.
You recovered quickly.
You bastard
If it weren't for my
master, you'd be dead, huh?
[MASTER WONG] Enough.
What brings you to our place?
You're not a thief, are you?
(LAUGHS) No no no.
I've heard that Master Wong is
the best snake catcher ever.
Nonsense!
I'm the second best.
No one would dare to call me
the first best snake catcher!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Pay attention.
There are many
schools of thought
when it comes to
catching snakes,
from unarmed, forked,
blindfolded, illuminated,
netted, iron pliers, et cetera.
Yes, yes.
Sure, the exact choice
depends on the type
of snake to be caught, size
poisonous or non-poisonous,
and whether or not
- you are single.
- Single?
I'm telling you,
you're just waiting
to die every day,
aren't you, huh?
How many times have I told
you, but you can't remember?
The snake also has
a male and a female,
to determine whether
it is single or not
is to cast it in
the right direction.
But Master, what
if that snake...
(MAN GROANING)
I forgot to ask you,
where did you come from,
and where are you going to
invite us to catch a snake?
Beilao village.
What?
[BOTH] Beilao village?!
(JOWLS FLAPPING)
The people of Beilao
Village are known
for their respect of
the snakes as immortals.
I'd be scared to death if I
went there to catch a snake.
I don't have anything of
value on me, this is all I have.
I have always been
a man of principle.
You know what, I
accept your offer.
For catching snakes, this
more than suffices as payment.
But let's be clear,
this is only a deposit.
After the job is done,
the snake will be mine.
As long as I can save my
sister, it won't be a problem.
Your sister
How old is your sister?
And is she married?
My student is always
thinking about getting a wife.
Ermao, don't worry.
When we finish this job, I
promise, I will find you a wife.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GRUNTING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
Wenlin.
Wenlin.
Mom?
It's me.
Is there someone in the kitchen?
A passer-by.
- For a bowl of water.
- Oh, just two passers-by.
I felt sorry for them.
Oh, then get them
something to eat.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
Sir.
Are you feeling bad?
No, I'm fine.
Just a little hungry
Hungry?
Ermao.
You have to find some
food for the master.
It would be best if you
can get a drumstick.
But Master, in such a late hour,
how can I get you a drumstick?
There's no drumstick,
but you find one anyway,
only then can you
show your ability.
- I...
- What are you waiting for?
Hurry up and go, huh?
Do you want to kill your
master with hunger, huh?
Okay, okay, okay.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOG BARKING DISTANTLY)
It's such a late hour.
Where can I find a drumstick?
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(ERMAO SIGHS)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Brother.
(MAN GRUNTS)
I just don't get it.
My father's health was good,
why did he die so easily?
And your brother.
What are he doing there in
the middle of the night?
And that Zhang Chunhua.
If not because of her, my
father wouldn't have been
swallowed by a snake!
That woman is just a vulture!
I don't like that woman either.
Always smells like a slut.
Filthy whore.
She's a slut and
everyone knows it.
She's the one.
I've been waiting to fix
this bitch for a long time.
Okay.
Let's go dip her in a pig cage.
- Let's go!
- Let's go.
- Dip her in the cage!
- Let's go!
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Soak her in the cage.
[MAN] Yeah, soak
her in the cage!
[MAN] Yeah, we'll throw her
in the pig cage. (chuckles)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Let's go!
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(TENSE MUSIC)
- Hurry up!
- Let's go!
Come on!
(TENSE MUSIC)
- Come on, follow me.
- Come on!
Hurry up!
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Open the door!
Open the door!
I know you're in there.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Open the door!
If you don't open the
door, I'll kill you!
Mazu bless, God bless,
Master bless, Amitabha.
Ah, whatever.
If anyone's listening,
just send help, okay?
[MAN] Brother
Wenyu, kick it hard.
Brothers.
Find and catch that bitch.
Don't let her get away.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Brother, there's no one here.
Zhang Chunhua is gone.
Brother Wenyu, looks
like she ran away.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(ERMAO GASPS)
Don't make a sound.
It's okay, she can't get away.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Go check over there.
Little Pigtail, go check it out.
What are you doing?
There's gunpowder in there.
You want to die?
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
This bitch must be here.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(MAN WHIMPERING)
The snake.
It's huge.
Pigtail.
Pigtail!
You're too loud.
You'll attract the snake.
I don't want to shake
either, but I can't stop.
(ERMAO GROANS)
Pigtail.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Snake, snake.
Snake Fairy.
What are you doing?
Run.
When the snake finishes eating
them, it will eat us next.
Run!
- Quick, quick, quick!
- Go, go, go!
- Go, go, go.
- Run, run, run!
[ERMAO] Hurry up, hurry up!
It's Chunhua!
- It's Chunhua!
- Don't run.
(SNAKE HISSING)
Run.
Run!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(WENJUAN GASPS)
Don't be afraid
I'm here to get you out.
You belong to the first wife.
Why are you saving me?
We'll talk later
when we get out.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOORS BANG OPEN)
Tie them up.
Don't do this to her!
Son.
This woman is your wife.
Are you going to tie her
up and take her back home,
or do I need to send
someone to lock her up?
No, Dad, Xiuqin is new to us.
She doesn't know the rules here.
Please forgive her once.
- Xiuqin.
- I won't go back!
Unless you let Wenjuan go.
Dad, this is a
living human life.
How can you sacrifice her to
your so-called Snake Fairy?
That's ridiculous.
Dad, what Xiuqin means is...
What a useless thing.
Good girl.
Don't be afraid.
- Go back with Wenhui, huh?
- But...
- You need to go!
- What are you doing?
Dong Wenhui, get off me!
Dong Wenhui!
Let me go!
Put me down!
Dong Wenhui!
The snake!
There's a snake!
There's a snake!
- What's going on?
- A snake.
It ate my brother.
Wenyu, go to build the altar.
At midnight tomorrow,
we'll sacrifice the girl
- to the Long Snake Fairy!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Why did you throw it away?
Didn't your father ask
you to tie me up too?
Go ahead.
Send me and the girl to
be sacrificed tomorrow.
You're my wife.
I'll see who dares
to sacrifice you.
Your father.
Your father would dare.
Will you disobey
your father for me?
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
Xiuqin.
Listen to me.
You don't know Beilao village.
Wenhui.
I regret.
I regret marrying you.
I regret coming to your house.
I regret ever knowing you.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
The chains and the smoke.
If it can't control the snake,
then we must try
to lure it here.
This is our last chance.
Master.
Big guy.
Can they listen to us?
Master Wong.
Why not just lead
the snake here?
(MASTER WONG LAUGHING)
It's up to the person
who makes it happen.
- Oh.
- (TENSE MUSIC)
Master!
Master!
What is he doing?
Ha, I'm not surprised.
Master is watching
the grass lodging.
Looking for a snake trail.
The so-called snake
path is the place
where the snake has crawled.
The traces left behind.
This is the snake trail.
We can follow the snake
trail to find the snake cave.
Follow it.
I found it.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
I found the snake cave.
Ermao.
Hurry up.
Get ready to work.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Big snakes love
to eat lettuce oil.
Brush this.
It'll lure the snake out.
Come on, let's go to work.
(PIG GRUNTING)
Get in there.
Come on.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(BELLS RINGING)
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Little brat.
Slow down.
Master, I want to slow down too!
This chain is pulling me!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Master, save me!
(ERMAO GRUNTING)
Help me!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Hurry up!
(ALL GRUNTING)
The strength of this
bastard is really strong.
This chain, it's broken.
Ermao.
Sprinkle the two
sides with sulfur.
Leave a pathway in the middle.
Hurry up.
Move.
(ERMAO COUGHING)
Be patient.
It will be smoked
out in a moment.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
What is Master Wong doing?
Oh, this is an occult
science, old school.
It's a snake control
method from India.
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(WENLIN GASPING)
(WENLIN GRUNTS)
(SNAKE SCREECHING)
(SNAKE ROARS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE SCREECHING)
Master!
Is it ready?
It's coming!
(SNAKE HISSING)
(HARPOON GUN FIRES)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(CHAINS RATTLING)
(MASTER WONG GRUNTING)
Ermao!
Come on!
(ERMAO SHOUTS)
Ermao!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(MASTER WONG GRUNTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(MASTER WONG GROANING)
Go!
Master.
Your smoke bomb is still great.
Thank you.
All right, let's go.
Take that, take that.
(ERMAO GRUNTS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Ermao, the snake is not dead!
Get back!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Help!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Help!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Ermao!
Master, what should we do?!
If you are alive, then run away!
I don't need to teach you that.
Hurry, run to the trap!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Run to the trap, quickly!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
The snake.
Lead it to the trap.
(WENLIN GRUNTS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
- Get out of the way!
- (SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(TRAPS SNAPPING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Pity that the snake
skin is ruined.
But luckily, snake meat
is really quite good.
Master Wong.
Huh?
All of this was just
for the snake skin?
- Well...
- (FIREWORKS BOOMING)
Wenlin, the sacrifice
will happen soon.
You have to hurry up.
Master Wong.
Can you give me the snake first?
My sister's life is at stake.
No, we had a deal.
The snake is mine.
Besides, I only agreed to
help you kill the snake.
I didn't promise to
help you save people.
The matter in your village
is none of my business.
Ermao, pack up and let's go.
Master.
Should we help them?
Help what?
You talk too much.
Get to work.
Wait a sec, Master Wong.
Killing snakes and saving
people are the same.
You can have the snake and
you can still help his sister.
Moreover, we do
not want the snake.
We just want to tell them their
so-called Long Snake Fairy
is just an ordinary
snake, so that
we don't have to
sacrifice anymore.
Fine.
We'll help just this once.
Ermao?
When you're done, remember
to bring me back the snake.
- Okay, Master!
- Thank you, Master Wong.
Thank you.
Once I rescue my sister, I'll
bring the snake right back.
Let's get to work!
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
- Wenyu.
- Yes.
- Let's start.
- Okay.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(FIRECRACKERS POPPING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Wenhui, quickly, tell Dad.
This won't save the
villagers at all.
You'll throw away their
lives for nothing.
Brother!
Brother!
The big snake is dead.
From now on, no more Snake
Fairies will harm the village.
None of you will hurt my sister!
(PEOPLE MURMURING)
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
[ALL] Please forgive
me, Snake Fairy!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
Somebody!
Arrest these two
scourges immediately!
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Listen to me!
For all these years, the
snake has harmed our village.
I'm trying to help you!
How dare you give up
the ways of our ancestors?
- (MAN GRUNTS)
- Down.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MAN GRUNTS)
(MASTER WONG LAUGHS)
You little brat.
Listen up.
The twine has been soaked in
rapeseed oil for 749 days.
You won't be able to escape.
You bastard!
I'll kill you for this!
Master, you're here.
If I hadn't come, you kids
would see the king of hell.
As for your village's
business, I do not care at all.
But my disciple and this
snake I have to take back.
My guy don't need you
to teach him a lesson.
Are you all enjoying the show?
Arrest him!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
Master.
What are we supposed to do now?
I don't know, I've tried
everything that I can,
but I still couldn't fool them.
Patriarch!
All three culprits
should be arrested.
We should sacrifice them!
- Tie them up first.
- Yeah, arrest them!
Don't ruin the ritual
of the Long Snake Fairy.
Help!
Let me go!
- Wenjuan, don't be afraid!
- Stop struggling!
Wenjuan, I'm here,
don't be afraid!
Don't move!
Don't!
Dong Wenhui, you coward!
If you won't help, I will.
Shame on my Dong family!
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
[WENLIN] Wenjuan!
No!
- Brother!
- No!
No!
No!
No!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
The Long Snake
Fairy is not dead!
The Long Snake
Fairy has appeared!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Here are the offerings!
Please accept it,
Long Snake Fairy!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Long Snake Fairy.
Long Snake Fairy!
I will give you
the best tribute.
You must bless me for
generations to come.
I will give you
the best tribute!
(MAN GRUNTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
The Long Snake Fairy is angry!
The village is being punished!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Be careful!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Wenhui!
Wenhui!
(WOMAN SHOUTS)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Ermao.
Get the gunpowder.
It's time for us to blow it up.
Wenlin, help!
Brother.
Brother!
Brother!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy.
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy.
(MEN GROANING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GROANING)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(WENJUAN SCREAMING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Wenjuan!
Wake up, all of you!
Don't be so stupid anymore!
Instead of letting
the snake kill you,
why don't you stand
up and fight back?
There are so many of us.
If we work together, we can
definitely kill this scourge.
You've angered the
Long Snake Fairy.
That's why this is happening!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- That's right!
- That's right!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
If it weren't for you,
this wouldn't have happened.
[MAN] It's you!
The Long Snake Fairy, as
you call him, it's a devil.
If you continue to
believe this superstition,
you will only lose
more relatives.
Master Wong.
I beg you.
Kill this beast.
I'm afraid I
cannot deal with it.
I still have to save my life.
I have to take my disciple
back to the country.
Chunhua?
My Ermao.
Oh, oh, oh.
I'm willing to join you
in killing the python!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
Dad.
Patriarch.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Chen Ermao?
You must come back alive.
Kill the python.
In the future, I will
go wherever you go.
Master.
Please come with us too.
I'm afraid you won't be able
to come back and
marry your wife.
I won't go.
You will only be sent to death.
This python king is too big.
We can't fight it head-on.
We can only try
to find its nest.
Then use explosives.
- Explosives?
- Yeah.
- I know where some are.
- Where?
(TENSE MUSIC)
Ermao.
Load everything up.
We're taking it all with us.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Come on, load this.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WENJUAN COUGHING)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
It shouldn't be far away.
Follow me.
(RAT SQUEAKS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Master.
What's this?
Luckily we got here in time.
If all these snake
eggs had hatched,
the consequences would
have been unthinkable.
Then what are you waiting for?
Let's smash them!
Wait a minute.
The python will definitely
come back to hatch the eggs.
We'll bury the explosives here,
and as soon as the
python arrives,
detonate the
explosives immediately.
We'll really give
it to the snake
and then take care of
this once and for all.
Ermao, Wenlin.
Go get the explosives ready.
You, guard the entrance.
- Okay.
- Hurry.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
Snake.
Snake.
Snake.
Big snake.
- Big snake!
- Snake?
(ERMAO GASPS)
(SNAKE ROARING)
Ermao!
Light explosives!
Hurry!
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
It's not afraid of bullets.
(FUSE HISSING)
(SNAKE ROARING)
- Get back!
- Let's go.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Hurry up!
[WENJUAN] Brother?
Is that you?
- Brother!
- Wenjuan?
Wenjuan!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
This ore is
actually hot to touch.
Is the snake so big
because of the ore?
How can this snake be so
difficult to deal with?
Master, be careful!
(SNAKE ROARING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKS)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE ROARING)
(SNAKE GROWLING)
Master!
[MASTER WONG] Run!
Quickly!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
There's a path here.
Let's go.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Hurry up.
Why are you back again?
(SNAKE ROARING)
This time we'll
have to go head-on.
I'll distract the python.
You guys find a way to escape.
Master, let me go.
No, I'll go.
Xiuqin.
Take care of my sister for me.
Bastard!
Come on!
I'm right here!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Come on!
(TENSE MUSIC)
(WENLIN GRUNTING)
- Brother!
- Go, go!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE ROARING)
Xiuqin!
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
There's a hole there!
Run!
(CAVE RUMBLING)
Master, we're near the entrance.
We're almost outside.
Xiuqin.
Take Wenjuan and go first.
- Brother?
- Go.
- Brother.
- Go, go!
Brother!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE ROARING)
I must kill the snake.
I can't let it out to
harm the villagers.
Ermao, any more explosives?
(ERMAO GRUNTING)
No, I'm all out!
I still have some here.
(TENSE MUSIC)
The last one did nothing.
The scales are too tough.
I know that.
Time is running out.
- Hurry up and leave.
- Master!
If you don't leave,
you'll die here.
Ermao.
Take care of yourself.
Listen to your Master's words.
Go, now!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Master Wong!
(MASTER WONG GRUNTS)
(MASTER WONG SHOUTING)
Master!
(MASTER WONG SHOUTING)
(EXPLOSIONS BOOMING)
(CAVE COLLAPSING)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
- Ermao!
- Chunhua?
- Ermao!
- Chunhua!
It's okay.
From now on, I'll
take care of you.
Don't cry.
Let this monster and
all its superstitions
be buried together.
What are your plans
for the future?
Yes.
Wenjuan.
How about we take Mom
with us to the capital.
We leave this village
and never come back.
Hmm.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(EGG CRACKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKES HISSING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
[NARRATOR] I have lived
in the village of Beilao
in northern Fujian
since I was a child.
Such a closed off
and backwards place.
An old custom has been
passed down in this village
from ancient times
to the present day.
[WOMAN] Wenlin!
(TENSE MUSIC)
The time has come.
Raise the grave!
[NARRATOR] The villagers
of Beilao believe
that because of the humid
climate in northern Fujian,
the bones of their ancestors
buried in the ground
are prone to decay and mold,
which will bring bad luck
to future generations
of relatives.
Therefore, every 20 years, the
next generation of relatives
will call the worthless
beggar into the tomb
to pick up the bones out
and wash and dry them
before putting them back
in place to seal the tomb.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Let me see.
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Snake!
Snake!
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
Snake!
Snake!
(PERSON GRUNTING AND YELPING)
Snake, snake!
The Long Snake
Fairy is revealed!
Kneel quickly, kneel
quickly, kneel quickly!
This snake is poisonous.
There's someone in there,
we have to help them.
This snake is not
to be messed with.
You want to get us killed?
If you don't help
them, then I will.
Wenlin, take care
of your sister.
Dad!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKES SLITHERING)
(PERSON GROANING)
(TENSE GONG MUSIC)
[NARRATOR] My ancestors have
lived here for generations.
I used to think this
isolated place was simple.
I would think to myself
that it was a paradise.
But I was wrong.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
The time has come.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(WATER SPLASHING)
(SNAKE ROARING)
The Snake Fairy is revealed!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
Please spare my
life, Snake Fairy!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(SNAKE GROWLING)
Snake meat?
It's okay.
Mom.
Did you two go back to
fight the snake again?
Mom.
How many times have I told you?
If people in the village
find out about this,
we'll get into a lot of trouble!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Please don't blame them.
Young people don't
know the rules.
Mom.
How can you still believe
that in this day and age?
Your father messed
with the Long Snake Fairy
and we had to suffer for it.
Wenlin, we were expelled from
the Dong family for this.
[WENLIN] No, wait,
that was hard to catch.
Mom.
Do you want me to die sooner?
Mom, don't be angry.
Mom, you go in first, go.
Brother, let's release the
snake, hurry up, let's go!
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
- Patriarch.
- Patriarch.
- Patriarch.
- Greetings, greetings.
- Patriarch.
- Greetings.
- Brother.
- Yes.
Everything is back.
Wenyu is having
the room tidied up.
Don't worry about a thing.
The wedding will
be a great success!
That's wonderful.
Thank you for your hard work.
Ah, no problem.
Hey, be careful.
(GONG RINGING)
[BOY] Bro.
This horse is amazing!
[MAN] What's the big deal?
It's just an animal
for people to ride.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
Don't look.
- This is a rough place.
- Really?
Why?
[MAN] Don't ask.
Xiuqin, beyond here is
the village of Beilao.
The second lady, one pillow.
It's a mandarin duck pillow.
Eh?
Where's the invitation?
What?
Invitation?
That won't do.
How many people
are seated there?
It's all booked!
- There's a wait list.
- Uncle?
Chunhua!
I'm coming!
(COINS CLINK)
Zhang Chunhua.
Five silver dollars.
Eh?
Where's the invitation?
[CHUNHUA] I've lived in this
village for seven years now,
and no one will even
eat this tofu I made.
Even if I have an invitation,
I won't be allowed in.
Don't you think so, Uncle?
Yes, yes.
That certainly isn't right.
Go in, go in!
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
(FIRECRACKERS POPPING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
Let's let Sister
Chunhua have one.
- Okay!
- Shall we?
Come on. (LAUGHS)
(WOMAN VOCALIZING)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Brother.
Get her out of here.
This is outrageous.
Wenyu.
Hey, hey, Chunhua.
Slow down.
You should go back.
Don't go out anywhere.
Eh?
What are you doing out here?
Just go back, and keep an
eye on the place for me.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOG BARKING DISTANTLY)
(CHUNHUA VOCALIZING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(GASPS) Uncle.
What are you doing?
Chunhua, it must be hard
for you to live alone.
No, no, Uncle!
You can live with me, yeah?
I've been waiting a
long time for you.
From now on, I'll let you
eat and drink with me.
Come on, come on!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
No!
No, Uncle!
No!
- Yeah.
- No!
Help!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Help!
Help!
No!
[MAN] Bitch!
(WATER BUBBLING)
(SNAKE HISSING)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Help me!
(MAN GURGLING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
[CHUNHUA] Snake, snake, snake.
Chunhua?
Chunhua?
[CHUNHUA] The snake
has eaten Uncle.
- This snake has eaten Uncle.
- What did you just say?
What did you say
about my father?
Your father...
Your father was
eaten by a big snake.
(PEOPLE GASP)
Go and take a look!
- Let's go!
- Let's go!
Dad, I'm going too.
You can't go.
It's your big day.
Take care of Xiuqin.
Wenhui, a snake?
Xiuqin, remain
calm, large snakes
are native to these
mountains, but don't worry,
it hasn't entered the
village since ancient times.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Dad!
Dad!
What are you doing here?
I was just passing by.
San wandered out here drunk.
Why are you here?
He tried to take advantage.
What are you talking about?
If you slander my father
again, I'll kill you!
I'm not lying.
He just pushed me
down right here.
You're still talking
nonsense, I'll kill you!
Let's talk this out, okay?
I can take care
of this lying bitch.
It's none of your business.
Are you an adulterer, huh?
Wenyu Dong, what are you saying?
(WENYU CHUCKLES)
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(WOMAN GASPS)
(MEN GRUNTING)
What are you doing?
Come on!
(MEN GRUNTING)
[MAN] Let's kill him!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GRUNTING)
Poor Zhaoru, lived with
nobody, now dead with nobody.
A fate of bad luck, huh?
The Long Snake Fairy has
not entered the village
for 10 years.
This time it suddenly came.
There must be
something fishy in it.
The Long Snake Fairy didn't
come at some random time,
but came at the time of
your bride's wedding.
Did the bride bring the
Long Snake Fairy with her?
Wenyu!
What do you mean?
Oh, nothing.
It's just that everyone's
talking about it.
You're talking too much.
I don't come back often, so
we'll go back to the province
after the wedding.
I'll never come back
to this shit again.
(PORCELAIN CLATTERS)
Shut up!
Cease this arguing, or
I'll banish all of you!
Patriarch, how do we make
the Long Snake Fairy stop?
The only way to make
the Long Snake Fairy stop
is to use the method left
behind by our ancestors.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Dad!
- Shut up.
- Dad!
Get the hell out of here!
Get out!
Wenhui?
Wenhui?
You mean...
You want to use the
way of our ancestors.
We have to find a girl named
Dong who is pure and innocent
to offer to the Snake Fairy.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Where can we find
such an innocent girl?
Mom.
Anyway, we have to find
a girl who is named Dong.
You mean as long as
the surname is Dong...
Even one who has
been expelled, yes?
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenlin.
Don't get into
trouble in the future.
Avoid places where
there are many people,
and don't get into trouble.
Mom, I don't want
to cause trouble,
trouble wants to cause me.
(DOOR BANGS OPEN)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
What are you doing?!
- Mom!
- No!
- Brother!
- Wenjuan!
(MEN GRUNTING)
Wenjuan!
Wenlin, we have to do
this the old-fashioned way.
It's your family's good fortune.
She's just going to
the fairy world now.
(MEN GRUNTING)
You bastard, let her go!
Wenlin.
Brother!
Brother!
(MEN GRUNTING)
Stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Move it.
(MAN GRUNTS)
Brother!
- Wenjuan!
- Brother!
Brother!
Wenlin!
- Let me go!
- Come on!
- Let me go!
- Hurry up!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Some on!
[GIRL] Stop it!
- Wenyu Dong, let me go!
- Stop struggling!
- Let me go!
- Knock it off!
Stop it!
Uncle!
Wenjuan, you must
not resent your people.
It's your family's good fortune
to serve the Snake Fairy
in the honor of the Dong family.
In five days it will be the
9th day of the 6th month.
The full moon.
At that time, the Dong
family will send Wenjuan
to enter the Long
Snake immortal world.
Yes, sir.
Uncle!
Uncle, I'm Wenjuan!
You can't, Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
You can't do this, Uncle!
Wenhui, just now, Dong Wenyu
caught a girl in the barn.
Oh.
What has the girl done wrong?
Why is he arresting her?
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
She hasn't done anything wrong.
It's because she isn't
married, at that age, and...
Her surname.
What do you mean?
Whenever the Long Snake
Fairy causes trouble,
a young Dong girl is sacrificed
for 10 years of
peace in the village.
A real sacrifice?
But that's a real human life.
This is a rule inherited
from the ancestors.
Wenhui.
You've been educated
in the capital
and you still believe in this?
No way.
I have to tell Father to
let the little girl go.
Xiuqin.
Don't worry about it.
It was Dad's idea.
If you let the little girl go,
the whole clan will kill you.
Even I can't protect you.
Then you'll let me watch
the sacrifice of the girl?
(WENHUI SIGHS)
Just pretend you
don't know anything.
We'll be back in the
province in three days.
(WENHUI SIGHS)
It'll all be out of
sight and out of mind.
I didn't think you
were such a person.
I don't know who made
breakfast today, but I feel sick.
I'm going to the
toilet, you watch her.
Wait for me, I'm not
feeling well either
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenjuan.
Come on.
- Wenlin Dong.
- (STARTLING MUSIC)
I was waiting for you.
You've got a lot of nerve.
This is a sacrifice
to the Snake Fairy,
and you dare to touch it?
You are breaking the family law.
Brothers, break his legs.
(PEOPLE GRUNTING)
Brother!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Don't anyone run away.
If anyone lets her go, I'll
expel him from the family.
Get back!
Brother!
Beat him to death!
Brother!
Don't do it!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Brother, don't mind me!
Go now, don't mind me!
You go now!
- Go after him!
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Wenyu Dong, don't
you know the rules?
I'm a woman alone at home, and
you come in without knocking?
What's wrong with you guys?
Why'd you come in
here without knocking?
I'm sorry, Sister.
They're not well-mannered.
Sister, did you
see a man come in?
What do you mean?
Are you saying I'm hiding a man?
Do you believe me
that I'll tell Wenhui?
Oh, no.
I didn't mean it like that
We're arresting
someone, a thief.
Do you see any thieves here?
Where could they be?
I think the cupboard is
the only place in my house
where someone could hide.
But I'm telling you,
if you don't find
anyone in this cupboard, I'll
go to my father and tell him
you've ruined my innocence.
What are you doing?
Sister, it's all a
misunderstanding.
How could I possibly
suspect you?
If there's really
a man in this room,
it could only be my brother.
Why are you still standing here?
Go to find him!
(MAN CHUCKLING)
Excuse me.
(SHAKY BREATHING)
- Thank you.
- I've seen you before.
Last time.
Last time you were with a girl,
at the entrance to
the village. (GASPS)
The girl who was arrested.
It's my sister, Wenjuan.
But Dong Wenyu and his
brothers are guarding her.
You can't just
barge in like that.
I can't just stand
by and watch my sister
being sacrificed.
But you won't be able
to save your sister,
and you might even
get yourself killed.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
You'll have to find
a way to save her.
What are you thinking?
Do you know what logic means?
What?
I don't, sorry.
Ah, let me give you an example.
One plus one equals
two is not logic.
Two plus two equals four
is not logic either.
But one plus one plus two
equals four, that's logic.
Fine.
Let me ask you, why is your
sister being sacrificed?
The Long Snake Fairy.
And what if the
Long Snake Fairy died?
You're saying that...
But I can't kill that big snake.
Not by myself, anyway.
Then go and find someone
who can kill the snake.
(WENLIN GRUNTING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(SNAKE HISSING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE HISSING)
- Help!
- (MAN GRUNTING)
Help me!
Don't touch me!
- Don't touch me!
- Sister!
- Don't touch me!
- Wenyu Dong!
What the hell?
Sister.
Misunderstanding.
I just came to see Wenjuan.
(WENJUAN GASPS)
[WENJUAN] Brother!
(EERIE MUSIC)
Brother!
Brother!
Brother!
Thank you, Master
Wong, for saving me.
You recovered quickly.
You bastard
If it weren't for my
master, you'd be dead, huh?
[MASTER WONG] Enough.
What brings you to our place?
You're not a thief, are you?
(LAUGHS) No no no.
I've heard that Master Wong is
the best snake catcher ever.
Nonsense!
I'm the second best.
No one would dare to call me
the first best snake catcher!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Pay attention.
There are many
schools of thought
when it comes to
catching snakes,
from unarmed, forked,
blindfolded, illuminated,
netted, iron pliers, et cetera.
Yes, yes.
Sure, the exact choice
depends on the type
of snake to be caught, size
poisonous or non-poisonous,
and whether or not
- you are single.
- Single?
I'm telling you,
you're just waiting
to die every day,
aren't you, huh?
How many times have I told
you, but you can't remember?
The snake also has
a male and a female,
to determine whether
it is single or not
is to cast it in
the right direction.
But Master, what
if that snake...
(MAN GROANING)
I forgot to ask you,
where did you come from,
and where are you going to
invite us to catch a snake?
Beilao village.
What?
[BOTH] Beilao village?!
(JOWLS FLAPPING)
The people of Beilao
Village are known
for their respect of
the snakes as immortals.
I'd be scared to death if I
went there to catch a snake.
I don't have anything of
value on me, this is all I have.
I have always been
a man of principle.
You know what, I
accept your offer.
For catching snakes, this
more than suffices as payment.
But let's be clear,
this is only a deposit.
After the job is done,
the snake will be mine.
As long as I can save my
sister, it won't be a problem.
Your sister
How old is your sister?
And is she married?
My student is always
thinking about getting a wife.
Ermao, don't worry.
When we finish this job, I
promise, I will find you a wife.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GRUNTING)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
Wenlin.
Wenlin.
Mom?
It's me.
Is there someone in the kitchen?
A passer-by.
- For a bowl of water.
- Oh, just two passers-by.
I felt sorry for them.
Oh, then get them
something to eat.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
Sir.
Are you feeling bad?
No, I'm fine.
Just a little hungry
Hungry?
Ermao.
You have to find some
food for the master.
It would be best if you
can get a drumstick.
But Master, in such a late hour,
how can I get you a drumstick?
There's no drumstick,
but you find one anyway,
only then can you
show your ability.
- I...
- What are you waiting for?
Hurry up and go, huh?
Do you want to kill your
master with hunger, huh?
Okay, okay, okay.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOG BARKING DISTANTLY)
It's such a late hour.
Where can I find a drumstick?
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(ERMAO SIGHS)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Brother.
(MAN GRUNTS)
I just don't get it.
My father's health was good,
why did he die so easily?
And your brother.
What are he doing there in
the middle of the night?
And that Zhang Chunhua.
If not because of her, my
father wouldn't have been
swallowed by a snake!
That woman is just a vulture!
I don't like that woman either.
Always smells like a slut.
Filthy whore.
She's a slut and
everyone knows it.
She's the one.
I've been waiting to fix
this bitch for a long time.
Okay.
Let's go dip her in a pig cage.
- Let's go!
- Let's go.
- Dip her in the cage!
- Let's go!
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Soak her in the cage.
[MAN] Yeah, soak
her in the cage!
[MAN] Yeah, we'll throw her
in the pig cage. (chuckles)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Let's go!
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(TENSE MUSIC)
- Hurry up!
- Let's go!
Come on!
(TENSE MUSIC)
- Come on, follow me.
- Come on!
Hurry up!
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Open the door!
Open the door!
I know you're in there.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Open the door!
If you don't open the
door, I'll kill you!
Mazu bless, God bless,
Master bless, Amitabha.
Ah, whatever.
If anyone's listening,
just send help, okay?
[MAN] Brother
Wenyu, kick it hard.
Brothers.
Find and catch that bitch.
Don't let her get away.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Brother, there's no one here.
Zhang Chunhua is gone.
Brother Wenyu, looks
like she ran away.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(STARTLING MUSIC)
(ERMAO GASPS)
Don't make a sound.
It's okay, she can't get away.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Go check over there.
Little Pigtail, go check it out.
What are you doing?
There's gunpowder in there.
You want to die?
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
This bitch must be here.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(MAN WHIMPERING)
The snake.
It's huge.
Pigtail.
Pigtail!
You're too loud.
You'll attract the snake.
I don't want to shake
either, but I can't stop.
(ERMAO GROANS)
Pigtail.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Snake, snake.
Snake Fairy.
What are you doing?
Run.
When the snake finishes eating
them, it will eat us next.
Run!
- Quick, quick, quick!
- Go, go, go!
- Go, go, go.
- Run, run, run!
[ERMAO] Hurry up, hurry up!
It's Chunhua!
- It's Chunhua!
- Don't run.
(SNAKE HISSING)
Run.
Run!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(MAN SHOUTING)
(WENJUAN GASPS)
Don't be afraid
I'm here to get you out.
You belong to the first wife.
Why are you saving me?
We'll talk later
when we get out.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(DOORS BANG OPEN)
Tie them up.
Don't do this to her!
Son.
This woman is your wife.
Are you going to tie her
up and take her back home,
or do I need to send
someone to lock her up?
No, Dad, Xiuqin is new to us.
She doesn't know the rules here.
Please forgive her once.
- Xiuqin.
- I won't go back!
Unless you let Wenjuan go.
Dad, this is a
living human life.
How can you sacrifice her to
your so-called Snake Fairy?
That's ridiculous.
Dad, what Xiuqin means is...
What a useless thing.
Good girl.
Don't be afraid.
- Go back with Wenhui, huh?
- But...
- You need to go!
- What are you doing?
Dong Wenhui, get off me!
Dong Wenhui!
Let me go!
Put me down!
Dong Wenhui!
The snake!
There's a snake!
There's a snake!
- What's going on?
- A snake.
It ate my brother.
Wenyu, go to build the altar.
At midnight tomorrow,
we'll sacrifice the girl
- to the Long Snake Fairy!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Why did you throw it away?
Didn't your father ask
you to tie me up too?
Go ahead.
Send me and the girl to
be sacrificed tomorrow.
You're my wife.
I'll see who dares
to sacrifice you.
Your father.
Your father would dare.
Will you disobey
your father for me?
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
Xiuqin.
Listen to me.
You don't know Beilao village.
Wenhui.
I regret.
I regret marrying you.
I regret coming to your house.
I regret ever knowing you.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
The chains and the smoke.
If it can't control the snake,
then we must try
to lure it here.
This is our last chance.
Master.
Big guy.
Can they listen to us?
Master Wong.
Why not just lead
the snake here?
(MASTER WONG LAUGHING)
It's up to the person
who makes it happen.
- Oh.
- (TENSE MUSIC)
Master!
Master!
What is he doing?
Ha, I'm not surprised.
Master is watching
the grass lodging.
Looking for a snake trail.
The so-called snake
path is the place
where the snake has crawled.
The traces left behind.
This is the snake trail.
We can follow the snake
trail to find the snake cave.
Follow it.
I found it.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
I found the snake cave.
Ermao.
Hurry up.
Get ready to work.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Big snakes love
to eat lettuce oil.
Brush this.
It'll lure the snake out.
Come on, let's go to work.
(PIG GRUNTING)
Get in there.
Come on.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(BELLS RINGING)
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Little brat.
Slow down.
Master, I want to slow down too!
This chain is pulling me!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Master, save me!
(ERMAO GRUNTING)
Help me!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Hurry up!
(ALL GRUNTING)
The strength of this
bastard is really strong.
This chain, it's broken.
Ermao.
Sprinkle the two
sides with sulfur.
Leave a pathway in the middle.
Hurry up.
Move.
(ERMAO COUGHING)
Be patient.
It will be smoked
out in a moment.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
What is Master Wong doing?
Oh, this is an occult
science, old school.
It's a snake control
method from India.
(SNAKE SLITHERING)
(WENLIN GASPING)
(WENLIN GRUNTS)
(SNAKE SCREECHING)
(SNAKE ROARS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE SCREECHING)
Master!
Is it ready?
It's coming!
(SNAKE HISSING)
(HARPOON GUN FIRES)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(CHAINS RATTLING)
(MASTER WONG GRUNTING)
Ermao!
Come on!
(ERMAO SHOUTS)
Ermao!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(MASTER WONG GRUNTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(MASTER WONG GROANING)
Go!
Master.
Your smoke bomb is still great.
Thank you.
All right, let's go.
Take that, take that.
(ERMAO GRUNTS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Ermao, the snake is not dead!
Get back!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
Help!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Help!
(ERMAO SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Ermao!
Master, what should we do?!
If you are alive, then run away!
I don't need to teach you that.
Hurry, run to the trap!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Run to the trap, quickly!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
The snake.
Lead it to the trap.
(WENLIN GRUNTS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
- Get out of the way!
- (SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(TRAPS SNAPPING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Pity that the snake
skin is ruined.
But luckily, snake meat
is really quite good.
Master Wong.
Huh?
All of this was just
for the snake skin?
- Well...
- (FIREWORKS BOOMING)
Wenlin, the sacrifice
will happen soon.
You have to hurry up.
Master Wong.
Can you give me the snake first?
My sister's life is at stake.
No, we had a deal.
The snake is mine.
Besides, I only agreed to
help you kill the snake.
I didn't promise to
help you save people.
The matter in your village
is none of my business.
Ermao, pack up and let's go.
Master.
Should we help them?
Help what?
You talk too much.
Get to work.
Wait a sec, Master Wong.
Killing snakes and saving
people are the same.
You can have the snake and
you can still help his sister.
Moreover, we do
not want the snake.
We just want to tell them their
so-called Long Snake Fairy
is just an ordinary
snake, so that
we don't have to
sacrifice anymore.
Fine.
We'll help just this once.
Ermao?
When you're done, remember
to bring me back the snake.
- Okay, Master!
- Thank you, Master Wong.
Thank you.
Once I rescue my sister, I'll
bring the snake right back.
Let's get to work!
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
- Wenyu.
- Yes.
- Let's start.
- Okay.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(FIRECRACKERS POPPING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Wenhui, quickly, tell Dad.
This won't save the
villagers at all.
You'll throw away their
lives for nothing.
Brother!
Brother!
The big snake is dead.
From now on, no more Snake
Fairies will harm the village.
None of you will hurt my sister!
(PEOPLE MURMURING)
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
[ALL] Please forgive
me, Snake Fairy!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy!
Somebody!
Arrest these two
scourges immediately!
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Listen to me!
For all these years, the
snake has harmed our village.
I'm trying to help you!
How dare you give up
the ways of our ancestors?
- (MAN GRUNTS)
- Down.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MAN GRUNTS)
(MASTER WONG LAUGHS)
You little brat.
Listen up.
The twine has been soaked in
rapeseed oil for 749 days.
You won't be able to escape.
You bastard!
I'll kill you for this!
Master, you're here.
If I hadn't come, you kids
would see the king of hell.
As for your village's
business, I do not care at all.
But my disciple and this
snake I have to take back.
My guy don't need you
to teach him a lesson.
Are you all enjoying the show?
Arrest him!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
Master.
What are we supposed to do now?
I don't know, I've tried
everything that I can,
but I still couldn't fool them.
Patriarch!
All three culprits
should be arrested.
We should sacrifice them!
- Tie them up first.
- Yeah, arrest them!
Don't ruin the ritual
of the Long Snake Fairy.
Help!
Let me go!
- Wenjuan, don't be afraid!
- Stop struggling!
Wenjuan, I'm here,
don't be afraid!
Don't move!
Don't!
Dong Wenhui, you coward!
If you won't help, I will.
Shame on my Dong family!
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
[WENLIN] Wenjuan!
No!
- Brother!
- No!
No!
No!
No!
(WATER SPLASHING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
The Long Snake
Fairy is not dead!
The Long Snake
Fairy has appeared!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Here are the offerings!
Please accept it,
Long Snake Fairy!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Long Snake Fairy.
Long Snake Fairy!
I will give you
the best tribute.
You must bless me for
generations to come.
I will give you
the best tribute!
(MAN GRUNTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
The Long Snake Fairy is angry!
The village is being punished!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Be careful!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Wenhui!
Wenhui!
(WOMAN SHOUTS)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Ermao.
Get the gunpowder.
It's time for us to blow it up.
Wenlin, help!
Brother.
Brother!
Brother!
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy.
Please forgive me, Snake Fairy.
(MEN GROANING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MEN GROANING)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
(WENJUAN SCREAMING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Wenjuan!
Wake up, all of you!
Don't be so stupid anymore!
Instead of letting
the snake kill you,
why don't you stand
up and fight back?
There are so many of us.
If we work together, we can
definitely kill this scourge.
You've angered the
Long Snake Fairy.
That's why this is happening!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- That's right!
- That's right!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
If it weren't for you,
this wouldn't have happened.
[MAN] It's you!
The Long Snake Fairy, as
you call him, it's a devil.
If you continue to
believe this superstition,
you will only lose
more relatives.
Master Wong.
I beg you.
Kill this beast.
I'm afraid I
cannot deal with it.
I still have to save my life.
I have to take my disciple
back to the country.
Chunhua?
My Ermao.
Oh, oh, oh.
I'm willing to join you
in killing the python!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
Dad.
Patriarch.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Chen Ermao?
You must come back alive.
Kill the python.
In the future, I will
go wherever you go.
Master.
Please come with us too.
I'm afraid you won't be able
to come back and
marry your wife.
I won't go.
You will only be sent to death.
This python king is too big.
We can't fight it head-on.
We can only try
to find its nest.
Then use explosives.
- Explosives?
- Yeah.
- I know where some are.
- Where?
(TENSE MUSIC)
Ermao.
Load everything up.
We're taking it all with us.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Come on, load this.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WENJUAN COUGHING)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
It shouldn't be far away.
Follow me.
(RAT SQUEAKS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Master.
What's this?
Luckily we got here in time.
If all these snake
eggs had hatched,
the consequences would
have been unthinkable.
Then what are you waiting for?
Let's smash them!
Wait a minute.
The python will definitely
come back to hatch the eggs.
We'll bury the explosives here,
and as soon as the
python arrives,
detonate the
explosives immediately.
We'll really give
it to the snake
and then take care of
this once and for all.
Ermao, Wenlin.
Go get the explosives ready.
You, guard the entrance.
- Okay.
- Hurry.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
Snake.
Snake.
Snake.
Big snake.
- Big snake!
- Snake?
(ERMAO GASPS)
(SNAKE ROARING)
Ermao!
Light explosives!
Hurry!
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
It's not afraid of bullets.
(FUSE HISSING)
(SNAKE ROARING)
- Get back!
- Let's go.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Hurry up!
[WENJUAN] Brother?
Is that you?
- Brother!
- Wenjuan?
Wenjuan!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
This ore is
actually hot to touch.
Is the snake so big
because of the ore?
How can this snake be so
difficult to deal with?
Master, be careful!
(SNAKE ROARING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE SHRIEKS)
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(SNAKE ROARING)
(SNAKE GROWLING)
Master!
[MASTER WONG] Run!
Quickly!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
There's a path here.
Let's go.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Hurry up.
Why are you back again?
(SNAKE ROARING)
This time we'll
have to go head-on.
I'll distract the python.
You guys find a way to escape.
Master, let me go.
No, I'll go.
Xiuqin.
Take care of my sister for me.
Bastard!
Come on!
I'm right here!
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
Come on!
(TENSE MUSIC)
(WENLIN GRUNTING)
- Brother!
- Go, go!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE ROARING)
Xiuqin!
(GUNSHOT BANGS)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SNAKE SHRIEKING)
There's a hole there!
Run!
(CAVE RUMBLING)
Master, we're near the entrance.
We're almost outside.
Xiuqin.
Take Wenjuan and go first.
- Brother?
- Go.
- Brother.
- Go, go!
Brother!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKE ROARING)
I must kill the snake.
I can't let it out to
harm the villagers.
Ermao, any more explosives?
(ERMAO GRUNTING)
No, I'm all out!
I still have some here.
(TENSE MUSIC)
The last one did nothing.
The scales are too tough.
I know that.
Time is running out.
- Hurry up and leave.
- Master!
If you don't leave,
you'll die here.
Ermao.
Take care of yourself.
Listen to your Master's words.
Go, now!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Master Wong!
(MASTER WONG GRUNTS)
(MASTER WONG SHOUTING)
Master!
(MASTER WONG SHOUTING)
(EXPLOSIONS BOOMING)
(CAVE COLLAPSING)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
- Ermao!
- Chunhua?
- Ermao!
- Chunhua!
It's okay.
From now on, I'll
take care of you.
Don't cry.
Let this monster and
all its superstitions
be buried together.
What are your plans
for the future?
Yes.
Wenjuan.
How about we take Mom
with us to the capital.
We leave this village
and never come back.
Hmm.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(EGG CRACKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(SNAKES HISSING)
(TENSE MUSIC)