<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
In 1975, Spielberg used his Jaws and a mechanical shark model to turn 90 percent of America's beaches deserted.
People are frightened by the horror shark portrayed in the film and flee the beach, which sets off the third climax of the disaster horror film.
As a result, a large number of film companies and producers have sniffed the business opportunities of marine movies and shifted their attention from science fiction movies to ocean monsters.
However, in the next few years, one ocean monster film after another died on the way to catch up with "Jaws" because of its own quality problems.
"Extreme Deep Cold"
Until 23 years later, the emergence of the movie "Extreme Deep Cold" broke this embarrassment.
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Talking about the movie "Extremely Deep Cold", the most talked about is that it is the incomparably huge "octopus" sea monster.
The film takes place in the South China Sea, where a $400 million luxury cruise ship sails, and most of the tourists on board are rich people who are rich or expensive.
Suddenly, the cruise ship was hit violently from below the surface of the water, and the jubilant tourists were rolling over on their horses, running away in panic, and scattering.
An Asian-faced woman hid in the bathroom in a panic, slammed the door, sat on the toilet and cried helplessly.
At this moment, the water pipe hidden in the surrounding wall suddenly buzzed, emitting an indescribable hissing sound.
Before the woman could react, a huge suction force pulled her into the toilet, and blood splashed all over the walls.
The plot described above is the most tense picture in Extreme Cold.
The design of the film here is very clever, not directly showing the horror and horror of the monster, but reflecting from the side how terrible the creatures to be faced next are through the tragedy of the tourists who are devoured by the monsters.
In this paragraph, the scene of "female tourists being eaten by the toilet" has also become the best impression of countless people after watching this movie.
However, inheriting the fine tradition of Jaws, the 105-minute film did not meet the octopus for the first time until the 56th minute.
At the same time, the captain's words were also used to expose the true face of lushan of the "octopus monster":
"This thing should be the ancient octopus "Otwa", four thousand feet deep when pencil long, the size of a golf ball. ”
"At a depth of 20,000 feet, you can devour a great white shark."
"Otwa is cunning, they hide in caves and hunt prey with their tentacles, and then crush each other with their sharp jaws."
When the hostess asked if they would eat people, the captain's answer was even more chilling.
"No, they don't eat people, they drink you and suck you alive."
"Suck all the bodily fluids clean and spit out the bones."
This is roughly similar to the archaeological literature and the Wikipedia record of "Otwa", but also slightly different.
The historical prototype of Otwa was a leech-like creature
The Otwa are leeche-like creatures that are worms that live in the deep sea and suck blood for their livelihood. It's a strange-looking, huge creature.
In the Cambrian Period, about 600 million years ago, it lived in the deep-sea Grand Canyon and other places in the South China Sea, but its body length was only 2cm to 16cm.
This insect was one of the earliest sea kings in an era when even mammals did not appear.
The difference is that the Otwa Sea Monster in the movie, a combination of chapter fish sea creatures and leeches, is a genetically mutated monster.
Therefore, it has the same great intelligence as the octopus, and at the same time is extremely ferocious and cunning.
The filmmakers of "ExtremeLy Cold" also mentioned in the interview:
The inspiration for this monster began with an article in National Geographic where I peruse a story about a crown jellyfish.
It is one of the most vicious creatures on earth. About a week later, I saw a poster on TV about a vampire squid.
After studying giant anemones, I decided to create a thriller action blockbuster based on these creatures.
Although the creatures in the film are imagined by Sommers, they combine the characteristics of a variety of real creatures.
It's just that the appearance is bigger and more frightening, in other words, these sea monsters are completely possible.
The Otewa octopus body
So, with these elements together, there was the giant octopus monster we see on the movie screen today.
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In addition to the huge octopus monster and the "incomparably delicate" chrysanthemum tentacles, the most noteworthy thing in the film is the use of various bloody shots.
In horror and disaster films, the portrayal of bloody scenes is the most direct way to reflect fear and cruelty, and it is also the place that tests the level of directors the most.
A sea of corpses and blood in the cabin
How can you go with the flow and gracefully shoot the original tragic "monster eating man" more interestingly?
The crew of "Extremely Cold" used a large amount of red syrup mixed bananas to apply to the human bone model to create a "dry corpse" skeleton that was sucked dry by the sea monster, and the effect was realistic and very bloody.
But it was disgusting enough to shock all the audiences in front of the screen.
One of the elegant aspects is the portrayal of the characters in the movie.
Whether it's a greedy captain with a black heart, an Indian captain with a strong personality, or a mechanic who is only a promise, everyone has their own unique image.
The details are especially worth mentioning when the male protagonist and his party returned to the boat, and found that the mechanic's Korean girlfriend was eaten by the monster, and the mechanic wiped tears while welding the broken hull, which was very careful.
Another point is that our male protagonist, Fenigen, is very calm from beginning to end, no matter what kind of situation he faces, his paralyzed face has not changed a single expression.
Even when he finally faced the octopus monster body like a hill, he calmly pulled out his shotgun and exploded the monster's eyes.
Not only escaped unscathed, but also hugged the beauty, really elegant to the extreme.
Of course, the most profound meaning is at the end of the movie.
The three who escaped the day drifted with the waves to a nearby island and gasped for breath.
At this time, there was a sudden loud roar in the mountains behind it, and the woods were split, as if some huge creature was coming, and the camera pulled away, and the movie ended.
Therefore, many people saw the end of "Extreme Cold" and thought there would be a sequel.
In fact, it was supposed to make a sequel, but for many reasons, the plan was canceled.
I hope that after so many years, I can still have the opportunity to see its next part, which will certainly not be worse than the first part.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Countless years have passed since my childhood nightmares, but those vivid shots still emerge in front of me, making me remember these images clearly when I think of this movie.
What's in the deep sea?
Modern technology still has no way to fully explore, which gives filmmakers the space to create, and over the years about the monsters that emerge from the deep sea have become regular customers on movie screens.
With the appearance of these deep-sea monsters, it is bound to bring horror, bloodshed and all kinds of fierce devouring scenes, and the machinery made by human beings relying on modern technology is vulnerable to these monsters.
In this regard, "ExtremeLy Deep Cold" can be described as the peak state, whether it is imagination or horror, no one has been able to surpass it so far.
This also makes the "Otwa" in the film one of the super monsters that are level with "Alien", "Great White Shark", "Python", "King Kong" and so on, and become an indelible deep-sea nightmare in the hearts of a generation.