Time can change everything.
Sadako Yamamura, who was once "Asia's most terrifying woman," probably wouldn't have imagined that she would have such a day: a scene of climbing out of the TV set was made into a huge model, carried by a large truck around the streets; appeared as a guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the tokyo sky tree, the world's tallest TV tower; participated in a baseball game held at the Dome and dropped the "Cursed Ball"; and the "Sadako Army" of 50 young girls formed by 50 girls launched the "Sadako Breeding Festival" on the streets of Shibuya, and they even shook hands with passers-by for photos and distributed souvenirs. How did passers-by react? They praised it as "cute".
What makes Sadako cute is not because of the promotional campaign launched by the producers of 3D "Sadako" for the release of the movie in 2012, Sadako has been cute for a long time and has been close to the people for a long time. In the horror house of various playgrounds, of course, the figure of Sadako is indispensable, and at the Halloween masquerade ball, it is also indispensable to Sadako's black hair and white dress suit, and the toy dealer has developed sadako toys that can climb in and out of the TV set, and the T-shirt is printed with the image of Sadako, Sadako rag dolls and key chains, which are also sold everywhere, and all appear in the form of "very Q very cute".
The 3D version of "Sadako" was released, and the producers also launched the "Cute Sadako KITTY Cat", which put a pink bow on her. She even became a source of inspiration for TV shows, serving as the muse behind shows like "Escape from Sadako" and "Finding Sadako". Everything is in broad daylight, and there is still a little evil, but the evil is generous and frank.
▲ Hello kitty is a product grafted with Sadako.
In 1989, at the age of 32, Mitsuji Suzuki wrote the first part of "Midnight Bell" (the last three parts were "The Road to Resurrection" in 1995, "Immortality" in 1998, and "Sadashi Daibai" in 1999), and Sadako was born in the literary world.
▲ The latest work in the "Sadako" series, "The Redemption of Sadako", Sadako... Redemption.
In that world, Sadako was born in 1947, her mother is Yamamura Shizuko, who has superpowers, and when Sadako was nine years old, Shizuko could not stand the pressure of public opinion and jumped off a volcano to commit suicide.
Inheriting Shizuko's superpowers and her tragic fate, Sadako was raped by Japan's last smallpox patient in 1966 while recuperating at the Minami Hakone Sanatorium and thrown into a well. In 1990, her resentment combined with the smallpox virus, attached to the videotape, with unlimited transmission as an appeal, several middle school students saw the videotape, died seven days later, the reporter Asakawa began to investigate the death, the dark and unpredictable world of Sadako, from the slippery, dark world of the well, spread to the whole world.
▲ In 1998, "Midnight Bell" directed by Hideo Nakata and starring Naoko Matsushima. The scene of combing one's hair in front of the mirror is the shadow of many people's childhood and youth.
Sadako's life and image come from at least three people, and the literary archetype is obviously the protagonist of the movie of the same name adapted by Stephen Jincheng's famous work "Carrie", and the superpowers, white dress, and mother-daughter relationship are all similar to "Carrie".
The real prototype is two female superpowers from japan's Meiji period, one is Chizuru Mifune, born in 1886, and the other is Nagao Ikuko, born in 1871, both of whom are famous for their superpowers (farsightedness and the conversion of ideas into images), they are manipulated by Dr. Fukurai Toyukichi, appear everywhere, and both die in 1911, one commits suicide, and the other is depressed. Dr. Fulai Toyukichi's hometown, hence the hometown of Sadako, where there is the doctor's former home, there is a museum, and "Sadako Steamed Buns".
In 1976, "Carrie" directed by Brian de Palma and starring Sisy Spicer.
The story of Sadako was made into a film in 1998, directed by Hideo Nakata, and Sadako Sabury, who contributed a beautiful and dusty Sadako, just like the depiction in the novel. Since then, Sadako has become a "fixed character", usually played by a first-class beauty, from Yuki Nakama to Ai Hashimoto in the 3D version. The TV series "Spiral", which is based on the story of Sadako, and the Sadako in the American version of "Midnight Bells", are also beautiful women with an extraneous atmosphere.
▲ Yuki Nakama. In 2000, she starred in "The White Of Chastity".
The Sadako in the movie is terrible, but insatiable because of the Japanese attitude towards the spirit of resentment. In the concept of the Orientals, only a smooth past life and a smooth death can pave the way for entering the next reincarnation, and excessively miserable death, excessively strong resentment and nostalgia for the deceased, will cause them to stop between the two worlds, become a ghost, and from time to time go to the world of the living to do evil and take revenge.
The Japanese have carried forward this culture and cultivated many grievance spirits, especially female ones. Their appearance has many possibilities, it can be beautiful and dusty, it can also be weird and terrible, they wander outside of daily life, they are not troubled by the details of daily life, and they have a special charm by spreading terror as the ultimate goal of existence.
In the ancient Japanese shiki stories, the most well-known is often the story of female wraiths, Japanese horror films, mostly the stage of female wraiths, Mitsuji Suzuki's Sadako, Kiyomizu Takashi's film Kagami, Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film "Shout" in the woman in red, as well as the "Rift Woman" and "Half-Body Necromancer" in the ghost, are all modern urban variants of female Wraiths. When they become a category, a huge race, they become cultural icons in another field.
▲ Kiyoshi Kurosawa, "Shout", 2006.
Therefore, most of the female ghosts in the movie are played by beautiful women. However, it is impossible to complete the bleaching of Sadako's identity only by playing a beautiful woman, making her a pro-people idol in broad daylight, and there are two elements, one is time, and the other is copying.
The "Midnight Bell" movie came out, creating a box office miracle, the American version followed, and then the 3D version of "Midnight Bell", a process that took fourteen years, fourteen years, plus her own characteristics that are conducive to dissemination - the image of white dress and black hair, surrounded by the dark night sea and deep well, and climbing out of the TV set this unforgettable moment, Sadako has obtained infinite possibilities for reproduction, from a frightening evil image, gradually becoming familiar. She has become an allusion, a discourse, a description of a woman dressed inappropriately, it can be said that she is like "Sadako", to illustrate the gloom and uneasiness of Japan after the economic crisis, it can also be said that it was the era of Sadako.
▲ American version of "Midnight Bells", 2002, directed by Gore Wiblinski and starring Naomi Watts.
Moreover, the Sadako in the novel and the movie takes "proliferation" and "copying" as the entire goal of existence, which is full of metaphors and coincides with the characteristics of the Internet, no wonder the producer of the 3D version will play this kind of slogan: "Sadako is the most commensurate woman in the world with 3D", and let her climb the TV, climb the computer, climb various monitors. With this sense of the times, Sadako can completely break away from the deep well, walk to the ground, take to the streets, and walk on T-shirts and keychains. The horror of life, on the contrary, has created a kind of contrast.
Sadako also encountered a good era, when Hollywood entered everyone's body, became a deeply hidden standard of creation and judgment, and let all literary and artistic works present a light white and bright quality, Sadako such a little abnormal, dragging behind the gloomy image, but more likely to stand out.
Time, and the constant reproduction in time, is the only way for all evil images to be recognized. The constant flow and replication of time make them desensitize and disinfect, so that the deep well soil stained on them continues to peel off, and eventually become the image of Cute and Q on the keychain.