Chapter 173: A Feast of Terror Originating from the Unknown
"In the movies, we can't see death, but we feel it all the time. Each death plot is arranged reasonably, but after watching it, I feel creepy.
Human life is so fragile in the face of the threat of death. It could be a rope in the bathroom, or it could be an electrified wire, and then life died silently.
Life is great, but it is also fragile, and after watching the movie, everyone should think deeply about whether they cherish their life.
Director Moran has fused the best of the first two films to create a new film that is now at its peak.
In the Grim Reaper, we can see the same unknown horrors as the witch Blair. It is also an invisible "existence" hiding in the shadows, and it is also impossible to see who has hurt us from the beginning to the end. But the fear that followed me and penetrated deep into the marrow was brutally revealed.
In the Grim Reaper, we see the same exquisite death creativity as S's mechanism, and we also feel the inescapable despair and powerlessness when facing death directly. ”
After praising the Grim Reaper, the opinion piece goes on to give an example of what Hitchcock had said.
Alfred Hitchcock is the greatest mystery thriller director in film history, and his work continues to influence generations of filmmakers decades later.
He has an interesting theory. Saying that three people are chatting on a chair, and there is a bomb under the chair that will explode in five minutes, how can this story be told in a twists and turns that is more exciting?
The first is to not mention anything in the footage, and just let the bomb explode. In this way, the audience will feel the impact at the moment of the explosion.
Second, tell the audience that there is a bomb hidden under the chair, and the three continue to chat, and then the bomb explodes. This is clearly without any passion, the worst way to tell it.
The third is to tell the audience that there is a bomb under the chair, and then the three people who are unaware of it talk for three minutes and are ready to leave, and one of them says no, he wants to talk for a while. A minute later, someone offered to leave, but the other person said no, and they hadn't had a good time.
In this way, viewers who know exactly one minute before the bomb will explode will be attracted to the plot. Regardless of whether the bomb exploded or not, the audience's attention was completely absorbed in the movie during the waiting period.
This is Hitchcock's famous "bomb theory".
An opinion piece in the Entertainment Newspaper suggested that Leila also used this technique during the filming.
"The key to "Death is Coming" is not the various novel ways in which the characters die, but the chronic torture before death. Under the suspense of director Moran, which is full of guidance and suggestion, the characters are in everyday circumstances, and every step can cause death. The audience's hearts also hung high on the heights, waiting in horror for the final arrival of death.
There are four men and three women in the Grim Reaper, and there are seven characters. There aren't many people who die in the movie, but the horror effect created is outstanding. It's because the director used a special technique to prolong their deaths, so that everyone died for a long time. In this slow time of death, the audience enjoys the excitement of horror. ”
Leila looked at the newspaper and felt a little bit of a light at the comments on her own newspaper. She felt that the person who wrote this report was right, and that it was the Grim Reaper that became a classic of horror films in film history.
Although other newspapers also have praise, the most thorough analysis has to be this one by the Entertainment Newspaper.
If you want to say that it is better to do things by yourself!, Leila sighed and put aside the newspaper she had finished reading.
Released on Friday, Leila earned $40 million in three days, winning the week's top spot without challenge. And the word-of-mouth of the movie has also burned throughout the United States under the word of mouth of fans.
Many people walked into the cinema again and again in order to find out what death hints appeared in the movie. And on the Internet, where fan activity is most active, Grim Reaper's fans also talk about the scenes in the movie with high interest, and sometimes they simply form a group to go to the cinema again because of differences of opinion.
This frenzied movie-watching frenzy has made many Hollywood studios red-eyed. Why wasn't it their movies that caused the craze? Why was it the lucky Leila who got the big bills in her hands? Why did she make films that poked the audience's excitement every time? Why couldn't they come up with such ideas?
So after inquiring about the Grim Reaper's script idea from the X-Files' alternate script, many people also began to focus their attention there, and soon a batch of horror movies with good quality were really released. Although it can't make a lot of money like the Grim Reaper, making a small profit is enough to make filmmakers and investors laugh like a flower.
"I heard that a new movie is coming out?"
Before the rare family dinner party, the old man carried Leila, who had just returned home to New York, into the study.
"Yes, it's been a week since it was released. "In front of the old man, Leila will always be well-behaved.
Osveld took a sip of tea, as if casually asking, "Is the box office good?"
"It's okay, as of yesterday, it has won more than 70 million at the box office. ”
This is a very good result, and it can be said to be an incredible result for a horror film. But Leila, who has long been accustomed to seeing hundreds of millions of billions of box office in the future, didn't make her feel particularly excited.
And her indifference in the eyes of the old man has become a manifestation of being able to "achieve great things". She will be the boss of the group in the future, how can she do it if she doesn't even have this bearing?
"It's a good promotion. Osveld wanted to put on a straight face and pose like an elder, but the corners of his mouth couldn't be calmed down, and in the end he could only cough dryly, pretending not to care. "Remember, many times words come out of someone else's mouth more than we say from our own. You're doing a good job this time. ”
Layla knew that "Death is Coming" couldn't hide the hype of John Denver's death from an old fox like her grandfather, so she didn't deny it: "It's just a little trick." The box office is everything. ”
"That's right, as long as you can make money, it doesn't matter what you do. Osvid waved his hand: "If you need help, just go find that kid Anthony, I think he's not bad, and it's enough to leave it to you as a deputy in the future." ”
If Anthony hears this, he will probably be happy not to find the north. What does Leila's deputy represent? How is he also a senior leader at the vice president level of the future group. From the advertising manager of a newspaper to the vice president of a media group, it can be said that it is a legendary rise experience.
Leila also recognized his abilities, but it was too early to mention them: "Let's talk about this later." There is no hurry. ”
The old man is in good health, and it is no problem to be a boss for a few more decades. She still has her own ideals to accomplish, how can she have time to be entangled in those trivial things?