Teacher Xu Junliu's selection of films really needs to be improved.
After college, I became a horror movie lover instead. My roommate said that every time I found a movie, I strongly requested to watch it together. How much do you like it? Not really. Probably just enjoying the atmosphere that everyone is watching together. Here and there, I also watched movies that I would never have opened. I just didn't expect such a film about deserts and pyramids in the elective course.
The themes of deserts and pyramids seem to have always been favored by Western directors, and I remember a good number of them, such as Scorpion King, Tomb Raider and so on. With Zhuyu in the front, "The Pyramid of Death" is indeed somewhat unsatisfactory.
The director seems to have a curious mind, especially fond of some anecdotes and legends. These things are often related to religion and history, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead. These things can really add color to a movie. But the presentation should be smart and appropriate. Take, for example, Ready Player One. Players must have a better viewing experience than ordinary audiences, but there is a premise here, players. What the player means is that they can understand the background of the movie, and even understand the intention of the director. Of course, this refers to Spielberg's fans. And how to get a rich movie viewing experience when most people are not gamers is the main point.
So if I make a type comparison, I think that the horror film with the hunting culture as the background, "Duo" is not as good as this year's "Hereditary Doom". It is also a horror movie with a legend as the background, and "The Legacy" is better in handling.
For example, the display of legends in "Dui" mainly relies on the murals and oral narratives in the pyramid, but the elements of legends appear abruptly throughout the exploration process. There are also close-up shots of the statue of Abinus, which are blurred and unexplained. It looks superfluous and lacks hints. We must first know a premise, that is, most audiences do not understand Egyptian cultural legends. To connect the elements in the film with legends that everyone does not know, we must work hard to reproduce and explain them. I think it would be better if the legends were presented earlier in the film, when the protagonists were doing their research or when they first entered the cave with the murals. It just so happens that the setting of the film is the film crew + experts, you can rely on the interviews of reporters to elicit legends for explanation, then the appearance of monsters will be more terrifying. The process of finding a way out will be even more hopeless.
There are many interesting details in "Legacy". It can be said that a clue of a cult runs through and appears repeatedly in the form of symbols. Even if you don't understand the background, you will notice that special symbol. After reading the analysis, it even makes people feel There is the urge to brush twice.
It can be said that the background enriches the film, but from the background, just looking at the film itself, "Legacy" is also an excellent work. "Duo" is said to be based on the background of an Egyptian legend, but it is actually quite different from the legend. This leads to people who don't know the background feel boring, and after a little understanding of the background, they feel more incomprehensible. It is not advisable to have a background without taking a clear picture.
Play tricks and hard work, at least one must be done well.
You can also see the pits dug out and not filled back in "Duo". In fact, if they were filled back, the film would be much better. such as professors. He should be the person who knows the tower best. At first, he expressed his unwillingness to let his daughter enter the tower. Later, he was supposed to lead the way, but he kept walking behind, and even let the photographer take the lead. He advocated that the injured boyfriend of his daughter should be taken Left alone in a secret room, trying to hide the truth after everyone heard the screams. . .
It's something to play with. Maybe the professor knew what was going on in the tower, maybe this was a lunatic on the cusp of a bullshit? If the film could have less terrifying scenes and more digs on the characters, it might fall into a cliché, but just teaching this character can make "Duo" jump to a new level.
What I'm also disappointed about with this film is that it's terrifying for horror's sake. In a slightly off-topic explanation, this is what I like more about the Coen Brothers and European directors than most Korean films. In Cohen's film, a headshot is a headshot, and all of a sudden blood splatters. It's a bloody thing, but it's very bland, like eating and sleeping, but the effect is there, enough. (I would also like to give teacher Amway a look at Cohen's new film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.) In terms of literary films, Korean films are too sensational and sold too much. It feels like you have to cry. Watching too much is a bit fake. But the presentation of European directors is very calm. What you see are countless ordinary people and the possibilities behind these ordinary times. Because it is normal, it shows a possibility. No overbearing president, no terminally ill car accident amnesia. But still unforgettable.
Not only kneeling and licking is humble, not only life and death can test love, not only cutting hands and feet is bloody, and not only being chased by monsters is terrifying. Too many tricks are meaningless. It's not because of the special effects that "Harry Potter" is better than "Legend of the Gods". The glue is not sticky, and the words are not sweet. The story itself is enough, too much layout will be annoying. This is the reason why many films are only for entertainment, but not enjoyed.
But even to say that many people actually just piled up a movie. Looking at its core, there is nothing new, and even the story itself does not make sense. Such a thing doesn't even come around for entertainment.
In addition, "Snatch" adopts the shooting method of pseudo-documentary. Although only partially used, it still adds a lot to the film.
The horror of this approach to me is that I am out of God's perspective and with the protagonist. Except for the characters and environments that appear in front of the camera, everything else is unfamiliar. The protagonist is crawling forward in the narrow passage, the person in front is desperately crawling, and the person in the back is desperately screaming that it is coming, and accompanied by the character's heavy breathing, screaming, and rustling sound, the screen It was either a darkness shaking, or it was moving up against the wall.
This is a good job, and it can also be compared with the new horror work "Kunchiyan" that uses the same shooting method this year.
There have been many popular films recently that did not use traditional shooting methods, such as "Kun", and screen recordings such as "The Internet Lost" and "Darknet 2 Unfriend", but all the shooting methods serve the viewing effect. It's just that I think "Kun" is not as good as the above two works, because it still has the problem of terror for terror as mentioned before. The shooting method of pseudo-documentary is more like a gimmick for "Kun". In this regard, "Duo" is better than "Kun", because the use of pseudo-documentary shooting techniques does add a lot to the film, and there is no intentional or redundant feeling.
2018.12.16
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