Domestic horror films have always been criticized, not only because of the unchanging plot and soft porn gimmicks, but also because of various low-level horror film titles.
Look, what are "Cinema of Horror", "Swimming Pool of Horror", "Midnight Plastic Surgery Room", "Somebody Under the Bed"...
Recently, the last horror blockbuster of 2018 finally released resources. The English name is "Halloween", and the Chinese name is creative, easy to understand, catchy, and cold-
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Halloween
This is not an easy movie.
In the history of foreign films, there are three originators of murderers——
Jason in " Friday the 13th ", Freddie in "Emperor Street" and Michael in "Moonlight" .
Jason on the top left, Michael on the bottom left, Freddie on the right
The reason why they are called murderers is not because of how terrible their killing methods are, or how powerful they are, but because of their motives for killing: all by chance .
Of the three murderers, the most famous, the oldest, and the most infiltrating is naturally Michael Myers in "Moonlight".
The first "Moonlight Panic" was released in 1978, creating a precedent for the horror thriller routine of mask + murderer. For forty years after the passage, this cult routine has been imitated.
Even the original version of "Moonlight" has been taken out and remade as many as 10, but one is worse than the other.
You know, the 1978 version of "Moonlight" had a production budget of only $300,000, and the global box office revenue was a staggering $70 million. In 2008, "Empire" magazine selected "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time", and "Moonlight" was one of them.
The new version I want to talk about today is the "true biography" after the 10 remakes - the original director John Carpenter returned and served as the producer himself. The plot also abandoned the setting of the middle 10 films, and it is only the first generation. The sequel is released.
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This time it was not smashed, it was original and wonderful.
It is necessary to make a brief summary for you-
The story of the original 1978 film began in 1963, on Halloween, when the sister of a 6-year-old boy, Michael, secretly brought her boyfriend home.
Then, the movie starts from a first-person perspective, wearing a clown mask,
Picked up the knife and stabbed to death the sister and the prospective brother-in-law who were in Yunyu,
No motive, no hatred, just killing.
After going out, when the parents came to the "murderer" and took off the mask, it was actually 6-year-old Michael, with a dull expression and a numb expression.
Later, Michael, who killed his sister, was sent to a mental hospital for 15 years.
In one delivery, 21-year-old Michael escaped, grabbing a random headgear from the store and kicking off a killing feast.
However, one girl escaped from Michael's knife, and she was Laurie, the heroine in the original.
Not only did she escape, she almost killed Michael by her own means.
Afterwards, Michael was sent to a mental hospital again, another 40 years later.
The situation is changing, and the rivers and lakes are far away. Forty years later, I came to the story of the 2018 version of "Moonlight".
At this time, Michael, who was over sixty years old, was locked up in a mental hospital, and as a doctor's guinea pig, he was used as a research object.
On the other side, the watery little girl Laurie has become an old grandmother.
Aged Laurie never forgot Michael, but felt that one day he would come and kill him. So not only does she make guns and dance sticks every day,
The younger daughter was also forced to practice various survival skills such as firearms, fighting, and physical fitness since she was a child.
Worrying about bringing disaster to her neighbors, Laurie built her house in the wilderness, full of traps and traps. She lived in the shadows and waited for Michael to arrive every day.
Sure enough, they were worried about what to expect. Two good journalists, wanting to write news about reading 10w+, came to the mental hospital to interview Michael.
The mental patient next to him went crazy, and the two ignorant reporters even took out their hoods to stimulate him.
However, Michael didn't say a word, he didn't even turn his head, and for forty years, he didn't seem to have changed.
Seeing that there was nothing they could do, the two reporters ran to persuade Laurie again. They hoped Laurie could chat with Michael and provide himself with some material by the way.
The reason why the two reporters were in such a hurry was that Michael was about to be transferred to the hospital and would be executed, and Laurie sent them off in a bad mood.
Sure enough, on Halloween, the mentally ill escaped during the transfer process, and Michael committed a bloody murder and disappeared.
First of all, it was the two Notre Dame reporters.
The female reporter pooped halfway in the toilet, and saw a bloody hand throw down a broken tooth,
Then, he was strangled to death in the toilet cubicle.
The male reporter was grabbed on the head by Michael and knocked out fireworks on the toilet door.
Among those killed were the gas station janitor and the car repairman.
After the killing, Michael found his mask in the trunk of the reporter, just one Halloween night, a killing game was about to begin.
He first killed a little boy's part-time nanny and her boyfriend,
Then in another yard, I met a single dog who had just been abandoned by the goddess. After listening to a complaint for a while, he clicked.
Later, Michael, who was knocked unconscious by the police, killed his doctor with his own hands and silently came to Laurie's residence.
After 40 years, the cat-and-mouse game is destined to be staged in the trap set by Laurie.
Who wins in the end? I leave it to you to see.
However, although it is a new version of "Moonlight Panic", there are many tributes to the old version in terms of killing methods and mirror movements.
For example, in the first part, Michael strangled the driver from behind when he escaped,
In the new version, he also strangled the driver's son from behind while escaping.
In the first part, the wardrobe door suddenly opens, and there is a corpse lying inside.
In the new version, the wardrobe door can't be closed, open it and take a look, hello Michael.
In the first, Michael pretended to be a ghost and strangled the phone girl from behind.
This time, after killing the nanny, she poses as a ghost.
In the first part, after Michael murdered, he set it on the wall to enjoy it,
In the new version, it is almost the same posture.
But unconsciously, the capture relationship between the characters has changed subtly.
Forty years ago, Michael was the hunter, and Laurie was hunted like the prey.
In the new version, although Laurie still looks weak, she is more like a hunter who lays traps and waits for the prey to be hooked, and Michael is the prey.
This kind of setting makes the whole movie fun in an instant. The killer may not always take the initiative, and the pursued may not always sit still and wait to die. After going back and forth, a single cat-and-mouse game has become a series of nested mutual harms. It seems that it doesn't matter who is righteous and who is evil, what matters more is the process of their fighting.
I don't know if you have noticed that, in addition to the role reversal, the core of the film has fundamentally changed.
In the 78 version of the movie, Laurie who survived is a good girl who everyone loves and sees flowers blooming.
In the 18th version, Laurie's granddaughter also fell in love early and did not return home at night, but finally escaped the clutches.
In the middle, it is actually the change in the world's view of women.
Being good is no longer the only virtue worth advocating. Those girls who look "bad" may also burst out with great energy.
More importantly, women began to independently control their own destiny.
In version 78, Laurie was eventually rescued by the police.
In the 18th edition, the police doctor and his daughter's husband died one by one. In the end, the three grandparents and grandchildren had to survive and could only rely on themselves.
Society is changing, people's values are changing, and at the same time, the status of women is also changing. This can be clearly seen from "Moonlight".
Men always like to call themselves "men", "heroes" and "saviors", especially in the routines of classic Hollywood movies, they habitually regard women as vulnerable groups or even burdens who need help.
However, no matter who it is, it is difficult to guarantee that it will be able to take the pulse of the times and manipulate the self-positioning of women.
In the past 40 years, society's stereotypes about women have changed.
And those machos who hold the same ideas will inevitably be changed or even eliminated by society one day.
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