This article is written by Grand Duke Peter Pavlovsk of Habsburg
Welcome to the Grand Duke to take you to the fourth issue of X.
In the last issue, we talked about the traditional Chinese chat about the literary and artistic costume method in the horror film, the Lin Zhengying series that can be enjoyed with his girlfriend when dating, since it is the fourth issue, the number is so auspicious, then talk about something really exciting.
Do you think that horror movies in the true sense of the word are not pretentious?
Don't worry, The Grand Duke will teach you.
Let's start by pretending.
Once upon a time, in the distant Milky Way...
Uncle Nine's horror films are not scary at all, witty and entertaining, and even combine the obvious comedy standard of the cold-faced laughing brother Xu Guanying and the untouchable king Lou Nanguang. It's actually an action comedy with a psychic theme. Therefore, it is very suitable for couples with a low fright value to watch, adjust the atmosphere, and cultivate sentiment in the fit.
Real hardcore horror movies don't have this attribute, because their hardcore is very likely to scare off your little girlfriend.
Take, for example, the recent Medium.
So is the hardcore horror movie really insulated from your little girlfriend?
In fact, it is not so terrible.
After all, you still have to consider one factor, and that is the times!
In fact, Uncle Nine's film was still a horror masterpiece in his time. It's true! If you look closely at Mr. Zombie, you can still see the horror.
Notice that it is the feeling, not the element. Because the horror element has always existed in the film, it is frozen in the film after filming, which cannot be changed. It is people who can change!
It doesn't scare you anymore, you're already indifferent to these horror elements. The biggest reason for this is your experience.
Many things are passively perceived in the subtleties of ordinary life.
For example, in order to ensure the visual horror effect, early horror films will make models of ghost monsters, such as "Qiannu Ghost 2 Human Road". It is then shot frame by frame through stop-motion animation. Even if you haven't seen the more exciting horror movies, only seen "The Avengers", the real special effects of the reunion can subtly affect your feelings, and looking back at the stop-motion animation ghosts of the nineties, you will have a false feeling. This can obviously affect your perception of terror.
Another problem is the same, a lot of horror movies are under-budget second-rate movies (or B-grade films), there is not so much money to do fine models, a lot of horror shots (such as broken hands and feet) at the time to see very scary, but when you are raised by the current high-budget A-grade big productions, the sense of horror is not so strong. The alien invaders in "The Avengers", especially the worm version of the starship, are quite infiltrative when they are modeled alone. It's no problem to be the protagonist of a monster horror movie. But you won't notice the horror of this monster when you watch the reunion film.
When you encounter a real monster horror movie, this experience will really affect your perception.
That's the power of experience! The power of the subconscious! And the biggest flaw in the movie!
That's why horror novels can really make you feel cold on your back. Because its image is what you describe as a brain supplement through words.
The horror movie has the characteristics of the times, the milestone "The Exorcist" little girl's head reversed 180 ° was a urine spot, scared a large number of people, and now it is estimated that it may be a laughing point.
So, boldly head down the path of classic horror movies. Believe your little girlfriend, in fact, the fear value is not as high as you think.
Note is the fear value.
Not a scare value! Not a scare value! Not a scare value!
The scare value never goes out of style, and it is human nature to be caught off guard. It doesn't change anything because of experience.
Like horror literature, he perceives danger through brain patching.
Many times it is actually a zombie or a grimace that looks like makeup garbage, and if you let you watch it for 1 minute, you will feel no sense of fear at all.
But when he jumps out and disappears again in half a second, you can't see its appearance at all, and then the clumsy makeup, and then the fake model, you can't see the details clearly and blindly, then you can only make up for his horror. This will make your adrenaline soar, very head-on.
For example, the Korean "Kunchiyan". You cut that shot out and see that it's nothing, just an overexposed white face under a black and white lens.
So avoid movies with high scary values.
OK！ After laying the groundwork, start pretending!
Straight to the point, choose a movie that can be both forced and famous.
Let's take a look at the starting point of the japanese modern urban horror film that is generally considered.
《ring》！
《ring》,Japanese sentence Kataname "Ring" Chinese sentence Kata name "Megyo Hein" ! In addition, "Seven Nights Of A Doubt", Hara Koji Yuki, Rin Nakata Hideo! Screened in 1998.
Hardcore enough, right?
You must have taken a sip of coffee to spray the phone on, and pretended to be forced, a good "Galaxy Team" must say "Starship Paratroopers", loaded!
Don't worry, it's a point of pretense, says below.
The reason why "Midnight Bells" is classic is because it has a certain degree of groundbreaking. Modern Japanese horror films are often summed up as "horror close to life". Because old-fashioned horror films are often born earlier, for example, the film master Masaki Kobayashi's "Strange Talk" tells several centuries-old ghost stories. They generally have fixed routines, pay attention to the cycle of cause and effect, repay good and evil, generally have a head and an end, and have a cause and effect. There are many ghosts in traditional culture, and the classic is a classic, but it also creates a sense of distance.
Japan has a wealth of ghost legends, and in the 17th century, Toriyama Ishitsuki painted "Hundred Ghosts at Night", and there are many materials. The traditional story structure of having a cause and effect will give people a sense of security, because as long as you don't plant that "cause", the ghosts and gods will not trouble you. This is the basic logic of old-fashioned horror movies.
When entering modern society, the horror of the old-style demons was greatly reduced because of this sense of distance from the times, so the Japanese developed many modern urban legends, such as the ghost doll Hanako who died in the bombing of World War II, several incredible events in every school, and so on. There is a traditional Japanese yokai called ear bags, who gathers children to tell ghost stories, and when he says 100, he will take the children to hell. So the Ear Bag Story Set has only 99 weird stories. The Japanese refer to this modern urban legend as the Strange Talk New Ear Bag.
Yes, there is a Japanese drama of the same name, which can be traced.
The charm of the new ear bags lies in the modern urban legend, quite grounded, the environment is the modern environment around us, so it is very intimate, pulling into the distance between us and what.
But Midnight Bells isn't the first urban legend movie. It was released in 1998, and as early as three years ago, in 1995, Hideyuki Hirayama directed a "School Strange Talk", and at a glance at the name, it was a typical modern urban weird talk.
The seminality of Midnight Bells is that it was the first film to give a female ghost to crawl out of the TV.
The new urban weird talk is only the background of the story in the modern era, and the routine of ghosts and demons is still traditional. "Midnight Bell" can be said to have truly created a new era of female ghosts, providing a new theoretical basis for those new female ghosts living on the Internet or other places in the future.
But it's still the traditional structure of cause and effect, just moving horror shots into modern home furnishings. Although objectively you can't live in fear from now on, the dark corners of your home have become terrible and abnormal, but he is still a story with causes and effects after all.
Although people at that time didn't seem to care much about this story.
Sadako's appearance is not so scary to this day. You can try it, after all, the special effects of the movie in 1998 can be realistic.
The movie that really breaks the law of cause and effect is Takashi Shimizu's "Curse", which is a film born purely for scariness, no logic, no matter any established rules, no matter day and night, no cause and effect, just to kill you.
Of course, this is another way.
Let's talk about the pretense of "Midnight Bells".
"Ring" is his original name, "Seven Nights" is his Chinese translation, in fact, it is still quite appropriate, because the plot is to die after watching the videotape seven days later. As for the translation of "Midnight Bells", I don't know why. Is it because of ring reading bells? Or is it related to the ringtone of the phone that comes to mind after reading it?
In fact, it is probably because "Seven Nights strange talk" has been used.
Yes, Midnight Bells is a flop, and this story was brought to the screen two years ago under the name "Seven Nights of Strange Talk."
If you have an original novel called Midnight Bells, be sure to collect it, and it will be worth a few decades later.
Because now this set of books is no longer called "Midnight Bells", it is called "Circle"!
The famous Japanese horror movie "Midnight Bell", adapted from the science fiction novel "Circle"! Attention, science fiction!
The relationship between the novel "Circle" and the movie "Midnight Bell" is basically the relationship between "Water Margin" and "Jin Ping Mei", which seems to be the same story, but it is definitely not a theme!
This is one of them.
Second, how many "Midnight Bells" are there? You must say that this is a bit of a bit of a forced point, Baidu, 7. "Midnight Bell", "Sadako Haunted", "Sadako Reappears", "Sadashi 3d", "Sadako 3d2", "Sadako vs. Ga Coconut".
Yes, there are seven movies, and of course the things that can be checked on the Internet cannot be forced. I asked about how many of midnight bells there are.
There are 4 films called "Ring", which is a trilogy structure. Four films.
Silly!
If you search for the official posters of "Sadako" and "Murder Bell Reappearance", you will find that they are both "ring2"
"Sadako" is "Ring 2"! Ring 2: Spiral!
You will say that I don't care why this movie has two second parts, anyway, I will follow the saying, it is called "Midnight Murder Bell 3 Murder Bell Reappearance", why drop it. That's the order I watched when I was a kid.
The Grand Duke watched the same order when he was a child! But this order is definitely a mistake.
The so-called Midnight Bell 3 Bell Reappearance was released on January 31, 1998. "Midnight Bell 2 Sadako" premiered in Hong Kong a full year and a half later, on June 10, 1999, and was only released in Japan on July 28.
Silly?
I guess it may be because "Sadako" was directed by Hideo Nakata, and when it was released, it was too quiet and snatched the name of 2.
Next, explain why there are two 2s.
If you want to experience the horrors of Hideo Nakata, you can watch "Sadako Haunting". This is Hideo Nakata's own story. Later stories named "Sadako 3d", "Sadako vs. Ga Coconut" and other stories named "Sadako" are its spiritual sequels.
But if you want to know about Koji Suzuki's original work, then "Murder Bell Reappears" was written by himself. It is an orthodox sequel.
Why? In fact, it is easy to guess that after the publication of "Circle 1", Hideo Nakata bought the story, but "Circle 2" did not.
And because "Murder Bell Reappearance" was changed by the original "Circle 2", there is no link to recreate the script, so it is faster to create. It was released before "Sadako".
So what story does "The Circle" tell? Why is it a science fiction novel and not a horror novel? Why can Sadako be so special and want to destroy all mankind? Before this, no ghost wanted to destroy all mankind, even if the Hell Demon King was alive, he just wanted to establish a system to rule all mankind, in the case of a complete system of reincarnation and soul setting, killing was just a process, and the ultimate goal was to rule.
And Sadako, what he wants is extinction!
Why?
That starts with the original.
That's not scary.
Be mentally prepared!
Sadako! Not a ghost!
That's right, not a ghost! It's true! Not a ghost!
In the original Circle 1, Sadako is a cyclic virus. And the long-haired, white-clad female ghost is just the figurative expression of the virus in the "that" world.
In the original "Ring 3", Sadako is not even a real-life biological virus. It's a computer virus. The whole world is not a concrete human world, but a virtual world simulated by computers. This world is the "ring boundary".
This is where the title comes from.
This is why Sadako, unlike other ghost foxes, is only harmful to people, and it has the laws of natural expansion that only a series of viruses such as reproductive mutations have. That's why there will be extinction!
Of course, "Circle" is far from so simple, the link between the virtual world and the real world in the original work, the DNA information in the virtual world (that is, a string of numbers) directly in the real world through biotechnology to create human settings, in the "only God can create man" In the European and American Christian values, it is absolutely heinous, and the Japanese can write this masterpiece, which is completely unimaginable for the Western world that is deeply bound by political correctness and has no freedom to speak of.
Of course, when you meet magnesium powder, don't say so, that gang of people is very glassy. They may attack you like crazy, a computer virtual world, isn't this The Matrix!
"Ring 3" was published in 1998, which officially proposed a virtual world "ring" created by scientists in the human world in computers, and this world slowly evolved from the initial nothingness, think about what the world of the Matrix is like? Let's find out what year The Matrix was released! It was a year later, in 1999. Moreover, "Boundary 1" was published in 1989!
This year,"The Matrix" 4 is going to be on, if you mention this movie, remember to pretend, don't shout the Matrix like this gang of bugs, follow the archduke to shout "the matrix", brood!
No white, no white!
Of course, the movie is not useless, although it should not be so scary to watch now, and it is not unbearable to change the handsome guy in the original asakawa to Matsushima Vegetables, (Strong Amway You go to see the first adaptation of the Seven Nights Strange Talk in 1995, in which Asakawa is played by a giant liu Haoran's small fresh meat handsome guy, after which he also mixed into a big guy, his name is Takahashi Katsunori. The important thing is that the character of Sadako is really successful. In particular, the twitching interpretation of Sadako's body language, the stiffness when she moves has a different kind of fear, and the subsequent works are even more twisted like spiders and other animals, with a sense of old age.
And just a bloody white face slowly approaching your ga coconut...
It's really different! (Smiley face)
Of course, the face may not look so good because it has been soaked in well water for decades.
So I prefer to add coconuts a little, after all, the value is high!
The ceiling of the Grand Duke was a little strange, and I went to see Ha.
The next issue I'm buffalo...
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