Chapter 508: Uncanny Valley
On the big screen, the resurrection of the mummy is a little easier than on Charlotte's side.
No sooner had Evelyn finished the spell than it roared and came to life.
And at the same time, the signs of calamity immediately appeared-
Swarms of locusts flew from the sky.
In ancient times, locust plagues were very terrible disasters.
In modern times, although human beings with pesticides are no longer afraid of locust plagues, that is relative to the entire human society.
Personally, it is inevitable to panic when they see the overwhelming locusts coming like a black tornado.
In desperation, everyone had to hide in the underground mausoleum area that had been excavated by them.
However, he came out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den again-
A large swarm of corpse beetles poured out of the ground in the mausoleum, causing O'Connor, Evelyn and others to flee in all directions.
Those who didn't have time to escape were quickly overwhelmed by corpse beetles—
The corpse beetle burrows into their skin, then crawls under the skin, eventually spills into their chests, eats at their hearts, and crawls out of their mouths......
- The people who were drowned by the corpse beetles were soon gnawed into dried corpses that were even more shriveled than mummies.
"It's horrible!"
Gianna subconsciously covered her eyes, with her sassy tone, she looked like a soft girl.
Emily, who knows her true nature, scoffs at this.
"Is there a man here who pursues you, who are you acting for!?"
Emily muttered to herself,
"Especially, you're still covering your eyes and peeking through your fingers, are you trying to deceive the ghost!?"
Although Emily also knows that there are indeed many girls who pretend to be afraid when watching horror movies, and the more afraid they are, the more they want to watch them, but Emily, who has watched horror movies since she was a child, looks down on such people.
Of course, to say that she wasn't scared at all when she watched horror movies would be a lie-
At the very least, when she saw a large swarm of corpse beetles rushing towards the screen, she also felt that the cold hairs on her back stood on end.
On the big screen, chased by the corpse beetle, O'Connor and the others were separated from Evelyn.
Evelyn stumbles upon a rotating wall and is transferred to another room.
Here, she saw a cowboy from an American expedition whose eyes had been gouged out by something and his tongue was missing.
This scared Evelyn a lot.
Then, something even scarier appeared-
The resurrected mummy, with eyes and tongue stolen from the American cowboy on its face, stepped out of the shadows.
- It turns out that, as the curse on the chest unearthed by the American expedition says, for the mummy to be fully resurrected, it must kill all the people who opened the box and take a part of their body in order to transform into a human form.
And the hapless cowboy was the first to have his eyes and tongue robbed.
Now, with his newfound eyes, the mummy stared at Evelyn, who was staring back against the wall, too frightened to speak.
"Ansuna!?"
"Is this the mummy's mistake for Evelyn for his former lover Ansuna?"
Susan asked nervously, taking Donnie's hand.
"It should be!"
Donnie nodded, holding the red-haired lady's hand beside him and tightening it again.
- Although he was filmed away with a disdain by the other party before, but thanks to the horror atmosphere in the movie "The Mummy", Downey finally succeeded in the end.
Of course, that's just Downey's opinion.
In Susan's opinion on the side, this was purely because Donnie was too timid to let out a few screams when he saw the image of the corpse beetle eating people.
In order to avoid being disturbed by his screams, Susan had to hold the hand of the man who seemed to have a crush on her to comfort him and shut him up.
- Susan wouldn't admit that she was a little scared herself, anyway, and held Donnie's hand to keep warm.
Even, at this time, she was a little curious when she received psychological support-
"This mummy's expression looks like a real person, has the current special effects technology developed to this point?"
As a strong woman in the workplace who is a film producer, Susan has always kept up with the trend of film technology.
Like James Cameron's "Titanic", she went to study it no less than five times.
- Although every time I watched it, I cried red eyes, and by the way, I became a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, but Susan still insisted that she was going to study the special effects technology of the movie.
And Charlotte Booth is also one of Hollywood's directors who are good at using special effects technology in recent years.
- He may not be as grand as James Cameron in terms of the use of special effects, but he is better at being delicate and expressive.
Many times, Susan thinks that the special effects in Charlotte's movies are simply real.
This kind of delicate and real shocking power is not something that Cameron's films can give her.
Therefore, every Charlotte movie, Susan will also watch it as soon as it is released.
As a filmmaker, although she has not yet been a leading producer, just like Emperor Napoleon said-
A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier.
Susan naturally has the idea of making her own movie, so she will continue to track the development of computer special effects.
And now, she is keenly aware that Charlotte Booth's Ghost Party Studio must have made some technological breakthrough in live-action motion capture technology-
Therefore, they were able to make "mummies" that looked so much like real people and even showed obvious emotions.
"But it's even more terrifying! This is the so-called uncanny valley effect, right?"
Susan pondered.
This idea, but Susan's misunderstanding-
The so-called uncanny valley effect is a hypothesis about how humans feel about robots and non-human objects.
It was proposed in 1969 to illustrate that when robots resemble humans beyond a certain level, humans react to them suddenly and become extremely disgusted -
That is, even the slightest difference between robots and humans will be very conspicuous and dazzling, so that the whole robot has a very stiff and terrifying feeling, like facing the walking dead.
In other words, the uncanny valley effect is more manifested in puppets, robots, and 3D animations that are more similar to the image of living people.
Like this mummy on the big screen, its appearance is still very far away from the living.
The sense of fear is more due to people's natural fear of death and monsters.
Of course, there are also mummies' expressions that are very real, and the factors that make the audience more involved in the play, but they have nothing to do with the uncanny valley effect.
Until 1999, the uncanny valley effect in Hollywood movies was more obvious in the field of 3D animation.
Like Cowboy Woody in Pixar Studios' "Toy Story", he touches the boundaries of the uncanny valley effect.
In fact, how to avoid the uncanny valley effect is also an area that Hollywood 3D animation people are trying to study......