For horror films, what everyone likes very much is nothing more than not playing cards according to the routine, the audience expects the creator to give a unique way to show it, and the creator is constantly exploring the audience's concerns and improving their own creative methods. However, after the gradual lack of innovation in horror films, creators will fall into a situation where Jiang Lang is exhausted in his creation, so the framework of some horror films has been gradually stereotyped, and almost all horror films cannot escape from this framework. On this basis, it makes sense to push through the old and bring forth the new, and how to tell the story outside this framework has become a difficult problem for every creator.
The film "Beast Meal" recommended to you today is about an anti-routine horror film, but what is the essence of anti-routine? Actually, it's still a routine. A small bar in the wilderness, a group of all kinds of people, as night fell, they began to party, after the carnival, the door of the bar was slammed open, and a mysterious man covered in blood broke in, and everyone in the bar focused on the man. The man was nervous and told that there was a group of monsters outside the door, he and his wife were being pursued, and the people in the bar had to obey his command to meet the monsters if they wanted to survive.
Everyone looked at each other, whether the man was crazy, or if what he said was true. Hesitating, the man continued his speech, but in an instant, the man who was by the window was dragged out by the monster, the man died, and everyone in the bar began to realize that disaster had befallen him. Everyone was worried about the enemy, and they all thought about how to escape for their lives.
"Beast Meal" is an anti-routine horror film, basically our logic in many horror films does not apply in this film, and it is thrown to the opposite side of the story by the creator one by one, first of all, we see that everyone's way of dying is hit on the screen, but when we look at several characters in this way, it will not be as desired, this is one of them.
Second, almost all of the audience's beliefs about who is the protagonist and who is the supporting role, who died first and who died later have been overturned, and the protagonist who seems to be the most suitable protagonist is karma at the beginning. It seems that the supporting characters who should be the most supporting roles did not have the last laugh as everyone expected, while those inconspicuous characters lived until the sun rose, which seems to be a kind of game for the creators, a unique game, this game is fair for everyone, and playing this kind of anti-routine game itself makes a lot of sense.
The one who should live is not alive, the damned is not dead, this is the original intention of the creator, for example, in the original horror film, after being bitten by a monster, it will become the same kind of monster, and the first person to discover this phenomenon will definitely be bitten, when you use this logic to look forward to this film, you will continue to be disappointed, after the fat man was bitten by the monster, he did begin to mutate, but the first woman who found it easily killed the fat man. In addition, the betrayer, who is usually considered certain to die (everyone dragged the monster to drive her, only to end up driving her own car) escaped smoothly in this film. And the protagonist group, who is believed to be fleeing by car at dawn, should have experienced the embarrassing situation of the car not catching fire, but in the end they still escaped smoothly.
The creator repeatedly reconstructs his own logic with the logic of this common horror film routine being overturned, which is full of freshness for the audience, after all, what we want to see is a logic that is completely different from ordinary horror films, when this general logic is overturned, the audience naturally feels excited, but this is only the excitement of the inherent logic being overturned, not the excitement itself.
What is excitement itself? Of course, it is an innovation of horror films, even if we think that this film overturns the inherent logic of horror films, but there is still not much novelty in the core issue. When the audience's reading volume continues to rise, it will give birth to the creator's creative ability to continue to improve, if a creator walks in front of the audience, he will naturally be able to harvest some unique new works, otherwise, the audience will be bored with the existing creative genres.
Why do you want to reverse the routine, the reason is that when the creator uses the routine to create, just like writing an eight-strand text, at first glance, the battle is neat, and it will be easy to get bored if you watch too much, because all the battle is just a copy and paste of the rules, when the audience can guess the next scene from the previous scene, the creation needs to reflect, whether it is to improve its creative ability, whether it is to develop new creative types, whether it is to tell a unique story, whether it is to re-examine its own creative core, etc.
If a creator can get lost, then the audience can still accept it, otherwise, it will be abandoned by the audience. And this anti-routine in this film is actually still a routine, even if the creator thinks that he has been anti-routine, even the audience thinks that this is anti-routine, but for this film, it still does not jump out of the creative logic, because this film is not innovative, but always puts himself on the opposite side of the routine, what he is facing is still a routine, but the logic of all the routines is made the opposite.
Horror films need to be innovative, almost all films need creators to tirelessly pursue a more novel form of presentation, although this is a strict requirement, but it is not unattainable, the film industry is perfect and perfect are two concepts, and the audience still does not like it to become a finished form.
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