Book Continuation By the "Lord of Mysteries" and "Prometheus" look at the Cthulhu myth, the Cthulhu myth breaks the cocoon of the butterfly (Part 1)
After the maturity of his creation, 1936's "Crazy Mountains" was serialized in the form of a magazine of Marvel Stories, and then published into a book, this book tells the story of a group of antarctic expeditions in the Antarctic mountains found a miracle left by an ancient civilization, an indescribable, indescribable horror, the book is difficult to use language to relay the mysterious atmosphere created in the book. At its core is the unspeakable horror. Among them, in 2010, the science fiction world anecdote published Chinese version of Crazy Mountains. Interested partners can look for it.
Can Xiao Ke's works be classified as fantasy themes? There is a lot of controversy in the literary world, because in Xiao Ke's works, there are obvious racist ideas, so the origin of the controversy, which also leads readers to ignore the works themselves, but Xiao Ke has played an undeniable role in the derivative development of science fiction literature and horror literature, and the Cthulhu myth he created has bloomed in later literary works and movies, such as the book "Crazy Mountains", and many Hollywood directors are like making movies.
"Prometheus" directed by Ridley Scott has a strong Cthulhu mythological style, in fact, this director and the Cthulhu myth have a great relationship, once wanted to make "Crazy Mountains" into a movie, and then gave up due to high costs, switched to "Prometheus", this book will be a group of scientists in the deserted wilderness encountered the miracles left by ancient civilizations, a mysterious building, which is full of inexplicable mysterious horrors, and then they encountered a variety of strange creatures, Similar to octopuses, which have many huge tentacles, this creature is highly aggressive, they attack scientists, and then cause scientists to kill each other.
On March 18, 2020, the Kaishen (Nicolas Cage) film of the same name "Star Color", and Xiao Ke's "Star Color" are the same theme, and now they are constantly remade into movies by Hollywood, Kaishen's "Star Color" has a mediocre response after its release, one is because Kaishen is bankrupt to repay debts, it is the film, it is also known as the "King of Bad Films", one is the small crowd of movies with the theme of Cthulhu Mythology, and the viewers only regard this kind of theme film as a new and different style horror movie, in fact, "Star Color" This movie is still very outstanding.
"Color of the Stars" had a great influence on the later film and television creation, the film adaptation of the novel of the same name", "The Lost South", this movie is a typical Cthulhu mythology movie, the story is about a meteorite hitting the Stare of the Florida HanHai in the United States, an unknown magical plague-like infection, spreading the entire coast, causing it to become a no-man's land, the government through different combinations of attempts, and finally sent the most surviving women to form a expedition, but the expedition team sent without exception, all are never returned , this film was introduced into the domestic release in the early days, but unfortunately the box office is dismal, if you are interested in the Cthulhu myth partners can go to find this film, the story is about the heroine's husband in a mysterious area disappeared, the heroine voluntarily joined the scientific expedition team, to explore this mysterious area, in which experienced a thrilling, twisting and bizarre adventure, and finally reached the lighthouse, in the lighthouse there was an inexplicable horror event, this film will bring you a completely different perception experience, which is mixed with too many elements, emotions , family, trust, betrayal. What happens to these elements in this particular situation if they can't stand the test.
The dismal box office after the domestic release also proves that the Cthulhu mythological theme film will be less accepted by domestic viewers, and unlike the Chinese cultural background, it is difficult to be accepted and recognized, in other words, it is neither a science fiction film theme nor a horror movie theme.
The Cthulhu Myth still has a group of literary lovers and audiences in China, for example, I, "Lord of Mystery" I have watched twice, and Amway showed it to my friends, although my friend looked at the beginning and said to me with a confused look: Just this? I hate iron not steel.
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