1. Gothic Romance
regarding the type of movie, if you hold the expectations of a horror movie, you may find it not scary; if you think it is a drama, you may be shocked. Director Guillermo del Toro has always emphasized in many interviews that this film is not a horror film, but a Gothic Romance film. Just as the heroine in the film commented on her novel: "This is not a ghost story, but a story with ghost characters." The
director is very particular about the setting, costume design and atmosphere rendering. The old Sharpe house in the film was built on site and took three to four months. At first, the film crew felt that the cost was too high, but the director insisted on building it and paid half of the price at his own expense. Because he thinks this house that bleeds, breathes and groans is also an important actor in the movie.
2. Horror film
directors actually refer to and pay tribute to many horror films. For example, "The Innocents" in 1961 tells the story of two twisted siblings living in a remote manor, and the heroine keeps encountering ghosts; "The Haunting" in 1963, which was filmed by the director of The Sound of Music The haunted house horror film of "Nosferatu" in 1922, the ghost of Scarlet Peak refers to the vampire shape inside; there is also the shape of the old lady lying in the bathtub in "The Shining"; the wall of the castle is covered with winged moths, It's a bit like the basement of the serial killer Buffalo Bill in "The Silent Lambs"; an important prop in Hitchcock's "Beauty" in 1946-the stolen key is called UNICA, which is a bit like ENOLA, the key to lock the secret in this film ( The five letters of ENOLA are reversed to "ALONE").
In terms of visual effects, the director also hopes to have the style of Mario Bava. He is a well-known Italian horror film director who opened the golden age of Italian Giallo movies from the 1960s to 1970s.
3. Director Guillermo del Toro
The Mexican director once filmed "Pacific Rim" (Pacific Rim, 2012), and its male lead Charlie Hunnam played the second male child of the female lead in "Scarlet Peak". I also filmed "Pan's Labyrinth" (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006).
In the film, the heroine’s father was smashed into a skull and a knife was hit in the face. These two methods of injury appeared in "Pan’s Labyrinth"; while the second man was stabbed by his sister’s armpit, and there was blood vapor in the ghost wound. It keeps drifting away, and there are similar shots in the director's 2001 "The Devil's Backbone".
Although he has filmed horror films, the director said that he had not wanted to eat meat for four years after watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and has been vegetarian.
4. The role of the protagonist
Dou Sen initially considered volume fortune, and the heroine initially decided Emma Stone.
In the last film "Only Lovers Left Alive" (Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013) co-authored by the heroine Mia and Dou Sen, Mia played Dou Sen's sister-in-law.
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At the beginning of the British female writers , the second man’s mother satirized that the heroine would never marry like Jane Austen, but the heroine refuted that she wanted to be like Mary Shelley, the mother of Frankenstein, and finally became one. widow. The ending is indeed... The
director also referred to the literary works of many British female writers, such as Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca" and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". In fact, there is "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
The line of the male protagonist confessing to the female protagonist at the hotel before leaving New York is very similar to that in Jane Eyre. In fact, the heroine Mia is the heroine of the 2011 movie "Jane Eyre", and the hero Fasha at the time showed her love in the same way (Is it because Mia starred, so the lines were written like this).
In "Scarlet Peak": "A thread in the dark is tied to your and my heart. If the thread is broken due to space or time, the heart will stop beating, and I will die. You will soon forget me. (A link exists between your heart and mine. And should that link be broken either by distance or by time, then my heart would cease to beat and I would die. And you... you'd soon forget about me.)"
"Jane Eyre" novel Middle: "In the place under my left rib, there seems to be a string tied to a similar string in the same place as your small body. It is tightly tied and can't be untied. If it's the turbulent strait Separating us far away from the land of about two hundred miles, then my heart will bleed. As for you, you will forget me. (It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I' ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.)”
6. Quasi-Baron
European nobility titles are: Duke Duke, Marquis Marquis, Earl Earl, Viscount Viscount, Baron Baron.
Dousen’s title, Baronet, is a quasi-baron/sub-baron, under the status of a baron, not a noble title, but a hereditary honor, that is, his father is also a quasi-baron. But only the daughter of earl and above can be called Lady, so it may not be appropriate to call Dou Sen sister "Lady" in the film. However, the lady of the baroness can be called "Lady".
7. In the part where the waltz
men and women waltzed, the candle was really not extinguished when filming.
8. butterfly
care of the household dog breed is picked up outside the castle butterfly dog, the English name is "butterfly" means. The connection with the butterfly implies the identity of the victim.
9. The
heroine of the wax cylinder phonograph discovered that the "tape and tape recorder" left by the "predecessors" was a wax cylinder phonograph (Phonograph Cyclinders) invented by Edison. The film was Gold Moulded. This method requires modeling and pre-recording. , And is mass-produced. In fact, it cannot be directly used for personal recording like in the film.
10. Stoker
actress Mia's "Stoker" in 2013 has some similarities with this film. It is a twisted family story, and the opening and ending scenes are the same.
11. The Halloween
film was completed in early 2015, but it was released in October in the United States to coincide with Halloween.
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