Charlie Clouser's theme melody "hello Zepp" for "Chainsaw" is believed to be familiar to everyone. Even if you really don't know how classic this series is, you should have heard this melody in various videos.
Even programs like "The Rule of Law", which introduce crime cases with a stern face, can be regarded as a big fan of "Chainsaw". In line with the principle of "freely use movie music for public welfare programs" , you can often listen to it on the program. To this urgency of the soundtrack.
(I struggled for a long time because of this, the series of movies that the government wants to ban, but the music is used with great fanfare, hum)
I believe that for many fans, the "Chainsaw" series is the first movie that comes to mind after hearing the three words "horror movie", and the old man "Jigsaw" played by Tobin Bell is also among the ranks . The spooky puppets of the major horror movie characters Tiantuan are even more psychological shadows for many people.
Wen Ziren, who was a fledgling at the time, certainly did not expect that a low-budget horror film with a mediocre appearance would be his first step toward the throne of "contemporary horror film master" step by step. " Chainsaw" in 2004 with a meager cost of 1.2 million hit a global box office of over 100 million , and it has become a classic case of "small to big" in film history.
The key reason why Wen Ziren's works can stand out among many European and American plasma films is that he integrates his understanding of oriental culture into Western-style horror films, making suspense and humanity, and the anti-routine shock and European-American nakedness that make people hold their breath. of violence and blood mixed together.
The "Conjuring" series of movie universes, which are now gradually developing blueprints, is the new era "The Exorcist", which is reborn under the stimulation of the old-fashioned atmosphere and serious methods. The experience of gradually getting started with A-type super blockbusters has also made his horror films more and more The more refined it is, whether it is the advancement of the plot or the hardware conditions such as photography, it gives people the feeling that it is farther and farther away from the "dirty and poor B-level plasma film" in everyone's traditional impression.
Judging from the performance of "Joker's Soul", this is likely to become a trend for horror films to revive along with the development of R-rated films.
So in the orthodox sequel of "Chainsaw", which reappeared on the big screen after 7 years, it is not difficult to see that even the setting of the murder props has become rich and rich , and the police and bandit chase scene at the beginning suddenly broke the series The overall tone of being closed and dull, the audience's attention is always shifted to how the police conduct their investigations, rather than the choices faced by the characters in the "game".
Various seemingly rough but well-intentioned mechanisms in the past have become laser cutters (heavy taste warning) in "Resident Evil" . There has always been a strong ironic response between the design of the agency and the victim, and the laser or millet pile basically serves the bloody design of the curious. (A similar ring device, the laser brings far less dread than the third needle.)
This is one of the important reasons why "Saw 8" is mediocre or even unsatisfactory. It is no longer so fresh or tearing.
It is difficult for you to find the entanglement caused by the various "self-mutilation" in the original series. If you don't self-harm, others will die because of you, not if you don't self-harm, you will die miserably. If all self-mutilation stops Under the premise of "forced" rather than choice, the so-called "game" is nothing more than a simple slaughter.
It is not difficult to see from the bloated first seven parts of the "Chainsaw" series that since the old jigsaw received the lunch, the focus of the series has shifted from the redemption of human nature to how to take people's lives in a variety of ways , although the basic core Not overly shaken, but "Chainsaw" may not hold so many excavations at all.
No independent character can get out of the shadow of the "jigsaw" and become a "punisher" and "teacher" on its own.
As the final seventh installment, it not only gained a disastrous 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but also the audience rating plummeted to 42%.
So what about the performance of Part 8? Although various tributes have been made to the first part, and the plot is reluctantly related to the old man, the constant self-repetition still makes this sequel go further and further on the boring road . (Of course, the audience may have been holding back for too long, and the audience favorite on Rotten Tomatoes actually climbed to 92%)
Of course, in order to make the film attractive enough, the Sperry Brothers cleverly combined the stories of the two timelines with editing , turning the return of the jigsaw into the biggest suspense point . Although this trick is not useless, but This trick of blindfolding still adds a bit of qualified suspense to the film.
In the last 20 minutes, it was considered that there was no self-defeating, but a series of big reversals were thrown on the basis of tribute . Although compared with the reversal that made people tremble at the beginning, this reversal seemed a little unexpected. But at least it took some effort. But what can this kind of intention leave for the sequel?
The answer is "no".
"Chainsaw 8" is always like a rumored movie , and it is the kind that can be shot indefinitely. You don't know how many admirers Jigsaw has, let alone the terminally ill old man's situation How many apprentices have you accepted, but you know that there will always be people who are much stupider than the old man to forcibly inherit the mantle.
Although the first 7 parts were forced to continue their lives in various ways, at least the last part retraced the original game, and used all kinds of disconnected details to wear the entire series. The 8th part seems to be very out of line. It may be an easy opportunity for new audiences to enter the pit, but there is no hope for the future development.
How to forcibly renew the life of a classic in an untimely situation is not just for the first-line series of blockbusters, but also a small-cost series with a clear soul. What can be passed down in a movie?
Is it a character or a concept ?
If the two can be easily separated, just take one of them . For example, in the new version of “Jumanji”, you can only grasp one core concept and do it well. Its fantasy comedy style of the 1990s does not require too many complicated game memes, but some basic game concepts will bring more general entertainment effects.
But if the two are inseparable , it will be very troublesome , the classic image of jigsaw and its extreme educational thought are difficult to copy , pay attention , it is " education " , not " revenge " Tests and choices, what his device guides is the human nature of the victim, like a "mentor". What is attractive about him is that he uses a "salvational" extreme way to judge "sinners" who have escaped the law.
In the process of watching, in addition to whether the people in the game can survive, we will also think about whether they should die . Guilty, but what about the sin? This kind of thinking is most prominent in the first installment, in which Wen Ziren personally took the helm, and began to deviate after Jigsaw died.
In fact, it is not outdated to put it in the present. Jigsaw can actually be regarded as an extreme online trial , a cruel lynching in the name of education . Jigsaw exists in the darkest corner of everyone's heart, occasionally raising his head Tell you in a soft voice, "That person should be punished", how many people in a group incident will easily make a statement or make a choice for a person's life or death?
The unique thing about Jigsaw, however, is that, as a dying man, he will not have an outrageous ambition, and will not justify his actions in the name of "justice" . In his eyes, this is just a game "game". Physical play is a way for children to be educated about teamwork and getting along with others, not for the big reason. And those victims, in the eyes of Jigsaw, are just children who need to be educated, and they have a chance to be redeemed.
But not to mention the few people in the first game of "Chainsaw 8", mothers other than maliciously killing their children will not fall to this point, even the selfish uncle who chose to sacrifice himself to save others, also He lost his life because of the "evil" of others. If the bullets were placed beside the two people instead of directly in the barrel, it would appear that the old man's behavior was more in line with the previous films.
Again, if there is an obvious sense of revenge in it, the taste will change.
As for the black guy selling motorcycles, I don't even understand the point of that device. Almost all other devices have to be manually operated by someone sitting behind the monitor. Who decides to disarm the mechanical mechanism after the injection?
If it is really because the story takes place in the early stage and the old man's design is not well-designed, at least there is a shot to explain it. The movie can have a moderate amount of brain space, but it is not possible when it comes to the logic part.
There are two tubes on the left and two tubes on the right. If the colors happen to be misaligned, I have reason to speculate that it is a cross. This is a reasonable inference left to the audience. If the two tubes are of the same color, is there anything in the middle? Crossover, do you also need the audience's brain to supplement? This is called a bug.
If nothing else, the last sentence at the end was changed from "game over" to "I speak for the dead", and it was telling the audience aloud that the previous fascinating "Chainsaw" series, It's really over.
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