The Hollywood producers also specially sought out the original author of the novel, Dai Wei Schultz, and asked him to take matters into his own hands to adapt "Omen" into a movie script and appear on the screen. Although Schultz himself claimed that this script adaptation was only to "make money", the new version of "Omen" is undoubtedly much more refined than the 1976 version. The setting of many details adds a lot of thought-provoking metaphorical meaning. It is said that this film was made for people who did not believe in the existence of Satan. However, even many people who believe in the existence of Satan will be shocked when they see this film.
Like the old version of "Omen", the new version of "Omen" also sets the beginning of the horror at the moment of the maid's suicide, but before that, the protagonist couple who are American diplomats suffered an assassination accident in Rome, which made a meaningful preparation for the subsequent plot development, and also successfully rendered the eerie and terrifying atmosphere of the entire film.
The following storyline, although inseparable from the common routine of thrillers, the murder scenes of several main parties are quite uniquely designed. They were miraculously killed by the devil child Damien, which did not surprise the audience. But how they were killed was designed by the choreographer. The death of the maid was followed by the death of the priest. The priest ran to the church in the howling wind, and finally at the door of the church, he was pierced through the chest by a spear-like iron pestle and nailed alive to the door of the church. The whole shape of the priest's murder looks like a street sculpture, cruel and terrifying, and aesthetically quite interesting to modernist art. This scene cannot help but remind people of the historical moment when Christ was crucified. If the death of the priest is reminiscent of the crucifixion of Christ, then the death of the journalist in the film is a metaphor for the loss of the mind. In the film, the reporter does not find the traces of the devil by means of spiritual feelings, but through the negatives taken by the development, he sees a terrible scene. That is to say, the reporter perceives the shadow of the devil through the thinking of the mind. So the devil's counterattack became, cutting off the reporter's head. This is another profound death style in this film. Journalists are an indispensable group in modern societies, especially in democracies like the United States. They represent conscience and conscience, they represent the supervision of all kinds of evil forces, they represent human reason, they represent rational minds. The film uses the slashing of a journalist's head as a metaphor for a country's irrationality. This detail is obviously not the hand of the choreographer.
If cutting off a journalist's head symbolizes the muteness of the press, then strangling the mother symbolizes the suffocation of the American people after 9/11 in the face of demonic terrorism. The death of the journalist means that there is no word to say; the death of this mother is a metaphor for the inability to breathe. One is speechless, the other is breathless, whether the film's director intends it or not, these two death models quite accurately describe the dumb aphasia and dull suffocation mentality of the American people after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The fourth meaningful death pose is the death of the hero who is the U.S. ambassador to Britain. It is said that the male protagonist of this film is an avenger with the mission of killing the devil. First, however, his kindness did not bear to kill a child; then he was unable to execute the little devil without permission, but had to take the little devil to the church and execute him before the cross of Jesus, leading to repeated delays. Finally, as he raised the knife of vengeance, a gunshot rang out and vengeance was suspended forever.
Compared with the previous three shocking death models, the male protagonist's death shapes are invisibly rendered. Only SWAT shooting and gunshots appear on the screen, and then immediately a switch is made, and the next picture becomes the funeral of the male protagonist. The scene of death was completely blurred, and it was not known whether the bullet hit the hero's head or chest. All that is known is that the male protagonist was fatally dealt a blow. This kind of payment at the scene of death implies that this is an invisible murder, thus using this as a metaphor for the soldiers and relatives who died in the distance. The real reference of these four meaningful death forms is broken by another meaningful picture at the end. The little devil, named Dai Luo, was not killed, but was also adopted by the president. The final scene of the film is of the President of the United States holding the hand of the little devil, with his back to the audience, standing on the screen. The President of the United States is with the devil.