Because I listened to the advice of a Taiwanese blogger Super Granule Fang, before watching "Ready Player One", I first watched the 1980 horror film "The Shining" produced by Warner, at first I refused, because I did not like to watch horror movies, but in order not to let my viewing of "Ready Player One" become less popular, so I decided to open up. I began to show that after watching the film review commentary, I went to see the original film, and after watching the film in its entirety, I said that this movie is not a small thing, although there is no previous horror film to bring me that kind of visual and auditory horror, but looking back at what happened in the movie, first it was strange, then it was creepy, so where is the horror of the shining spirit?
"The Shining" ranks second in the list of horror films, the first is "The Exorcist", but many people do not watch the film is not scary, did not cause the audience to be frightened, the audience's reaction is not large, after watching it, it is said that the film is a movie blown out by the media. However, after watching it, in conjunction with some film interpretation materials and behind-the-scenes production, I said that this is a movie that can be interpreted from different angles, and each point can surprise you.
At the beginning, the film is explained in a pseudo-symmetrical way, as the camera moves, we follow the protagonist Jack's yellow beetle to the lookout hotel in the snowy mountains, after entering the hotel, through Jack's interview, we can learn the general situation of the hotel, and Jack's conversation with the hotel owner also foreshadows the fact that the hotel will drive Jack crazy, laying the groundwork for Jack to go crazy.
Before the beginning of each chapter of the film, the story of each stage will be told in a picture of white and black characters, from the beginning of the story title to the month, then to the month, followed by the day of the week, and then finally to the tight point in time, the purpose of this is to give the audience a sense of urgency and tension, because as Jack's madness intensifies, time also begins to become compact, and the director uses this to enhance the thriller of the film, which is impressive.
I really admire the long shots of this film, and the shooting method is amazing. The long shot of this film is used in the riding of his son Danny, the photographer uses the camera stabilizer that was just invented at that time, in order to match the height of the young actor Danny, the instrument is deliberately set up in a wheelchair to shoot, and the final presentation in front of the audience is the effect of the third person pushing forward in the back.
The casting side also had ulterior motives, and they chose Jack. Nicholson, originally intended to choose Harrison Ford, but was replaced by the original novel author Steven Nickerson. Kim vetoed, so they brought in Jack, who himself is the kind of sinister and cunning villain image, which is perfect for this play, maybe you will ask him who he really is, then you can find the answer from Tim Bolton's "Batman". Jack has a lot of improvisations, such as a scene where Jack is not working, but playing tennis, this is Jack himself added, the original script just wrote "Jack is not working." Jack thinks it will make the audience think that there is something wrong with Jack's head. There is also a scene where Jack is at work and his wife comes over and causes a fight. Jack confessed that it was the most difficult to shoot, so Jack sent the actors to draw inspiration from the previous quarrels with his girlfriend, and finally achieved the effect of the film. Talking about the heroine, many people think that the heroine is the most frightening thing in this film, in fact, Kubrick deliberately did it, because the actor himself is very thin, and in order to make the heroine achieve the collapse effect in the movie, the director on the set also used the method of reprimanding the actor to achieve the feeling of collapse in the film. Let's talk about the little actor Danny (the actor's own name is also called Danny... This is his first and last film, but he also shows his superb acting skills, and the bridge section of his vertical finger in the film is also conceived on the set, but since then, he has found that he has no interest in filming. From the above synthesis, you can find the director's carefulness in casting.
There is also the design of the set, you can see that each scene is arranged very full, but the layout is full, and the problem that is easy to appear is "wearing the gang", but Kubrick, as one of the few careful directors in the world, this kind of thing is almost impossible. In the eyes of others, it is said to be a gang, but it is actually a way of expression of the movie. For example, when arguing with his wife, Jack has a table and a chair behind him, but in the next shot, it disappears, but reappears when he turns back to Jack from his wife's close-up, which is actually through the movement of objects to render the horror atmosphere of this film, which shows that the director has a good control of this detail, but you say that there is really a place to wear a gang, then there must be.
Finally, to sum up what is the difference between this film and the previous horror films, the previous horror films brought us visual and auditory horror, and this step is a lot of use of the rendering of the characters to carry out horror, the protagonist's loneliness is the most terrifying fuse of this film, the original author is also through this kind of loneliness in the secret room to express terror, what will be the consequences when people are lonely? This is only on the surface, and I will talk to you again when I find out the connotation. However, after you watch it, you may be surprised, the ups and downs of the plot make you scratch your head, but when you think back, you will feel that this film is very scary, which is also the purpose that the director hopes to achieve.
This kind of movie is to repeat the taste to understand the connotation, which is the fun of watching movies.