When it comes to horror movies, most people always think of the image of Sadako, who has long hair to cover her face, wears a white coat, and likes to come out of the TV and interact with you. The image of Sadako has become the spokesperson for the female ghost in horror movies, many people do not know her full name is Sadako Yamamura, and even Sadako is not clear in which movie she is from, but as soon as Sadako is mentioned, she immediately knows that the white-clad female ghost crawled out of the TV.
The popularity of Sadako's image has far exceeded the character itself, and the story behind Sadako is not clear to everyone, she has become a symbol of horror, and then in various spoofs, Sadako began to be played badly, and even became a comedy role, as a female ghost, Sadako is also very helpless in the face of a group of entertainment-oriented netizens.
One
In fact, Sadako did leave us with a classic horror picture in the history of cinema, but after we understand her complete story, we will find that in fact, Sadako's story is not as terrible as imagined, or a story about science fiction. At the beginning, because Sadako's first film "Midnight Murder Bell" created a good atmosphere of horror, coupled with the drill TV camera that everyone will know in the future, Sadako was pushed to the position of the spokesperson of horror movies. We have to say that "Midnight Bell", released in 1998, is a very good horror film, and the horror atmosphere it creates is the object of imitation of many horror movies in the future, even if the American version of "Midnight Bell" remade by Hollywood still does not have the eerie and terrifying horror atmosphere of the original version.
If we want to understand the story of Sadako, we need to start from both the original book and the movie. The script of "Midnight Bells" is based on the original book, and the original novel is called "The Circle", there are four in total, which is a complete science fiction novel. And the film is divided into Japanese version and American version, have been filmed separately a number of films, we generally say that the Sadako refers to the Japanese version, the American version is just a remake, the American horror movie is always brutal and bloody, but the thriller and supernatural feeling is not as good as the Oriental film.
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The Circle was the first film by Japanese writer Koji Suzuki in 1989, followed by three more, four in all. "The Circle" as a whole is mainly a science fiction theme rather than horror, horror thriller is only the spice of this work, the plot of this novel is actually similar to the "Matrix" we know.
The "ring boundary" is a virtual world created by computers, and humans have created this virtual world in order to deduce the future development of the earth. The circle simulates the development process of the earth, and the development speed of the ring is much higher than that of humans in reality, so when this "ring boundary" runs to a certain point, the level of scientific and technological civilization in the ring world begins to gradually exceed the human level in the real world. Real-world humans learn from the rings where technology fills the real-world tech tree.
This plot is indeed very familiar with "The Matrix", saying that there must be friends here who think of Sadako's identity. In The Matrix, Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, is the savior who destroys viruses in the virtual world. And the character of Sadako who becomes a ghost killer in this way is obviously not a savior, Sadako is a virus in the ring world, and the ring world will eventually be destroyed by Sadako.
Sadako is polluting the ring, and the entire ring system is on the verge of collapse, at this time, a character named Takayama Ryuji in the ring has evolved to be able to recognize himself as a character in the virtual world, so he makes a phone call before dying, and the phone goes directly to the hands of real-world researchers.
Real-world researchers were shocked and surprised to find this situation, and they immediately derived the DNA sequence of the virtual character Takayama Ryuji from the computer, and used cloning technology in the real world to cultivate a new, real-world Takayama Ryuji. The significance of the existence of this Takayama Ryuji is obviously to prevent the destruction of Sadako in the Ring, as it is easy for Takayama Ryuji and researchers to see the Ring from the perspective of God from the real world to find a way to eliminate this virus. However, in the virtual ring realm, Takayama Ryuji was killed by Sadako, that is, infected by the virus and died, and after being cloned in the real world, Takayama Ryuji also brought Sadako to the real world, and Sadako became a mutated cancer that spread in the real world.
At the end of the story, the cloned Takayama Ryuji completes his mission and sacrifices himself to save the two worlds, so that the two worlds are back to stability. He was decomposed into a pool of liquid by the decomposer in the real world, thus returning to the ring realm, using the technology he mastered in the real world to kill all the Sadako, and his own body was also infected by the Sadako virus, so he also died. The boundary has returned to stability, and the real world has also used a part of the decomposition liquid from Takayama Ryuji to begin researching ways to fight mutated cancer.
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In terms of movies, the Japanese version of "Midnight Bell" was also filmed four times, and later two movies called "Sadako 3D" were already the main 3D imaging technology, and the plot did not have much to do with the main line of the first four films. The plot direction of "Midnight Bells" removes the strong science fiction elements of the original book and replaces it with a large number of horror elements, so in the movie, the concepts of "computer", "virtual world", and "circle" do not appear at all, and Sadako appears in the form of a ghost instead of a computer virus.
The four films of "Midnight Bell" and the four original novels are not one-to-one correspondence, it should be said that the film does not do a very good job in the coherence of the story plot, the first "Midnight Bell" and the fourth "Virginity White" played a role in echoing the effect, but the middle two films have a chaotic plot, which is mainly the middle two films in the plot is a parallel relationship, there is no connection between each other, both want to do the first sequel, and the quality of the film is very general, which has to be said to be a major mistake of the producer.
The first and fourth parts of the beginning and end of the echo give the story that happened to Sadako a basic context, the first part creates suspense, the fourth part gradually unravels the truth, Sadako is a human with special functions, and she is far more than the only one with such abilities.
Four
The first "Midnight Bell" was starred by the big beauty Naoko Matsushima, who played a female journalist Reiko Asakawa. She learned that several high school students had watched a videotape of unknown origin and began to die one by one, and their expressions after death were all terrible, as if they had seen something very terrible before they died. So began the investigation of this videotape, of course, to investigate the need to watch this videotape, the content of the videotape is not terrible, the volcano erupted, the woman combed her hair, a well, but when watching Asakawa found that the TV reflected a white figure with long hair behind him, he turned his head in panic but did not see anyone. People who had been cursed to death by the video tape before received an inexplicable phone call after watching the video, and Asakawa's phone rang immediately, and no one on the phone spoke just a noisy noise, and Asakawa realized that he had been cursed. Frightened, Asakawa finds his ex-husband Ryuji Takayama, who was cloned by a real human in the original novel "The Circle" to save the virtual world.
Reiko Asakawa and her ex-husband Ryuji Takayama have a son named Yoichi, but Yoichi also got up in the middle of the night to watch the video, which forced the two to find a way to lift the curse. As their investigation progresses, Sadako's birth mother is Shizuko Yamamura, a person with special abilities who once successfully predicted a volcanic eruption, but was treated as a youkai, and finally became overwhelmed and committed suicide. His father was Dr. Heihachirō Ikuma, who also disappeared after Shizuko committed suicide. Asakawa and Takayama also see Sadako being pushed into a well and killed by her biological father, Hirabhiro, and the two immediately realize that it is Sadako's resentment that makes her use the video to kill people frequently, and usually she will rest in peace when she finds the body of the complainer. So the two men have to search for Sadako's body for their own child, Yoichi, and they succeed, and the police take Sadako's body.
Originally thought that the matter was about to come to an end, who knew that their prediction was completely wrong, Sadako did not stop her actions, Takayama Ryuji ushered in the most classic scene in the movie after returning home, Sadako approached step by step from the wellhead in the TV, and finally climbed out of the TV, Takayama Ryuji received the box lunch. It is said that the producers here cut a scene in which Sadako suddenly turned to the camera after killing Takayama and walked slowly as if to crawl out of the audience's TV, this turn of the head once stunned several viewers who first watched the film, and then deleted it, of course, this is just a rumor. For the current audience, Zhenzi is not terrible, and even began to become pitiful, because someone has already summarized the N ways to deal with Zhenzi, and Zhenzi still can't play the netizens who have a big brain hole after all.
Five
At the end of the first part of Midnight Bells, Sadako's body is found but the curse is not lifted, Ryuji Takayama dies, and Reiko Asakawa takes refuge with Yang Yiyuan after showing the video to her father (they believe that after being cursed, they need to pass the video to the next person to avoid death). The next two sequels, "Sadako Haunting" and "Murder Bell Reproduction", not only have the average shooting quality, but also the plot begins with the end of the first part, causing chaos in the plot, and we directly skip these two to the fourth work that really unveils the mystery of Sadako's life, "Zhenxiang White".
The reason why Sadako is so terrible is because she inherited the special function of her mother, Shizuko. Sadako's special abilities are the ability to intentionally kill people, heal, foresee the future, hypnosis, borrow a fetus, and mentally write curses on videotapes or other things.
Earlier we mentioned that Sadako's mother, Shizuko, committed suicide due to insanity, and there are two things that cause this situation. The first thing is that Sadako suddenly splits up on the way to growth, dividing into two Sadako. One with gentle superpowers such as healing is the Great Sadako, while the other with the ability to intentionally kill is the Little Sadako. Under this blow, Shizuko began to schizophrenia. The second thing that caused her condition to worsen was that Shizuko and Heihachiro had been experimenting with her own special functions, and during one experiment, some people questioned Shizuko's ability and began to talk nonsense. At this time, Sadako, who has the ability to kill with her mind, kills people who question her mother, after which Shizuko commits suicide, and Heihachirō locks up Sadako at home and uses drugs to limit her growth, so she has always been a little girl.
Nakama is played by Yuki Ōsaka
Ōsadako, on the other hand, grew up healthy as a big girl and worked in a theater troupe in Tokyo. Owasa is locked up at home for a long time, and becomes jealous of the Ōsadako, who can live a normal life, and often uses her mind to follow Sadako and destroy Ōsadako's image in the troupe. Daisadako was considered a monster by the troupe because of Sadako's revenge, but fortunately, Ōsadako had super self-healing ability and survived the hunt of everyone. Just when the great sadako's heart was haggard, the will of the little sadako took the opportunity to encroach on the body of the great sadako, and the body of the little sadako fell into the sea, and now there is only one sadako's body, a sadako with a dual personality.
Little Sadako took possession of the body and killed all those who came after him. The will of the Great Sadako often returns to the body, but she is becoming more and more unable to control herself, and the little Sadako's mind is too strong. In the end, his father, Heihachiro, could only inject the smallpox virus into Sadako's body in an attempt to kill her, and after slashing her head with a scythe, he pushed Sadako into the well. In fact, Sadako in the well did not die immediately, and the body of the great Sadako had a super self-healing ability, so he stayed in the well for 30 years before he died, which was a year or two before the first part of "Midnight Bells" occurred. Sadako's body is dead, but Sadako's will and resentment have always existed, and her revenge begins with a videotape.
Six
In fact, putting aside the horror elements, the "Midnight Bells" series of movies is really a very eye-catching series, with many beautiful women in the play, each leading the way.
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Miki Nakatani
Kyoko Fukada
Yuki Nakama
Takeuchi Yuko
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