Who remembers such a foreign horror movie?

Introduction to the film:

After being bitten by a bat, the robust and lovely Saint Bernard became a deadly rabid dog. A mother and son were attacked by him on an abandoned farm. Without outside support, the mother and son were trapped in the car waiting for rescue.

Behind the scenes production:

It is hard to imagine that "Cujo" was once the most famous dog name in 1983. It was the release of this thriller with the same name that made Cujo deservedly top the list of the most popular dogs, and this drooling and deadly Saint Bernard became a symbol of terror.

Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, the film tells a simple story: a mother and her children are trapped in a car and attacked by a deadly Saint Bernard dog with rabies. Stephen King is not satisfied with telling a simple horror story, but deliberately slows down the narrative rhythm of the novel and deeply analyzes the characters' hearts and personalities. The film inherits this characteristic of Stephen King, instead of showing bloody scenes, it spends a lot of time to explore the characters' personalities, creating a tense suspense and extreme anxiety in a narrow space. In this seemingly 5-minute story-the climax is in the last 30 minutes of the film, and the horror reaches its climax here: the mother and her frightened son are trapped in a car that can't be started because of the failure of Gu Zhuo, an angry and drooling mad dog-in this closed space, director Louis Teague successfully creates a lot of visual suspense, which keeps the audience's appetite full: when Donna is trapped in the car in the scorching sun, the killer dog is crazy about rabies. Jan de Bont's excellent photographs perfectly show the horror of closed space, and the 360-degree rotating lens in the narrow carriage successfully conveys the urgency of approaching suffocation. At the same time, the wet chin and crazy barking of the terrible big dog look like a real threat.

The movie * * * uses five Saint Bernard dogs to play "Gu Zhuo". These dogs went through a series of exercises and endured getting their bodies dirty, covered with mud and dyes, until they no longer looked like dogs and accomplished their tasks well. In contrast, the actor's performance is much inferior and can only be said to be quite satisfactory. They are really trying their best to scream and appear frightened by something mysterious to scare the audience. Di Wallace Si Tong is a "working mother", and she also plays the role of mother in the movie Alien. In this film, Si Tong vividly shows the anxiety of a mother trying to protect her children, but daniel hugh kelly's performance is much more bleak.

Trivia:

In order to let Saint Bernard attack the car, dog trainer put the dog's favorite toy in the car, and the dog had to "attack" the car in order to get the toy.

The movie * * * uses five Saint Bernard dogs, a mechanical dog head and a dog suit for people.

"Gu Zhuo" is an ancient Indian word, which means "irresistible force".

Stephen King provided complete personal advice for the first draft of the screenplay, but in the end he adopted the idea of the Writers Guild.

The foam liquid in Gu Zhuo's mouth is made of protein and sugar. At the shooting scene, the dogs kept licking these delicious foods, which brought a lot of trouble to the shooting.

The second film is Shaping, which is also the original work of Stephen King. There are two versions of The Shining, one is directed by Stephen King himself, and the other is the scene where the landlord said there was a lot of blood pouring out of the elevator. The director is Kubrick and Jack. Nicholson starred in a great and classic film Don't Be Afraid!

Plot introduction

Warning: The following contents are seriously leaked. Reading in advance may reduce your appreciation of this work.

Jack torrance (Jack Nicholson) is a teacher and later becomes a writer. In order to get rid of the frustration at work, Jack applied to be the winter manager of Roy Hotel, which will be closed for five months when the mountain is closed by heavy snow, and will be isolated from the world during this period. The boss told Jack that he hired a guard in his last job, but he brutally killed his two daughters and his wife and committed suicide because of mental illness caused by long-term isolation. Jack said it would never happen to him, and his family would like it here.

So Jack, his wife Wendy (Shirley Duval) and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd) checked into the hotel. Danny had a bad feeling before he went to the restaurant, but Jack ignored it. Danny, like Dick Halloran, the chef in the restaurant, has the ability to predict the future and telepathize. Halloran called this ability "sharpness" (the origin of the film name). Harold warned Danny not to enter room 237 under any circumstances before leaving.

During his stay in the hotel, Danny kept having strange hallucinations and wrote the word "REDRUM" with unknown meaning at the door of his mother's room. Jack is writing in a restaurant. When his wife came to check his work, Jack looked very grumpy and wouldn't let her check it. Then Jack had a nightmare of killing his wife and children. Jack hurt Danny by drinking in his early years, and then he gave up drinking. Once Danny got a neck injury, and his wife wronged Jack. Jack started going in and out of the hotel bar. To his surprise, a bartender appeared in a bar that should be empty. Danny later admitted to Wendy that he was injured in room 237. Jack went to room 237 to check, but he saw an unexpected scene. Later, Jack witnessed a feast in the hotel lobby, which was supposed to be empty, and met Grady, the keeper who killed his family, at 1970. ...

Jack thinks that his wife's desire to leave the hotel hinders his reputation and work. All kinds of doubts, guesses and imaginations have caused a dispute between Jack and his wife, which has intensified. Wendy went to check Jack's writing results, only to see a sentence repeatedly printed on piles of paper: All work and no play makes Jack a doll (all work and no play makes Jack a doll), which shows that Jack has long lost his mind. Later, in an argument, Wendy knocked Jack unconscious and put him in the storage room. But with the sound of greed, the door was opened and Jack was released ... Jack, who was completely out of his mind, picked up an axe and hacked at his wife's door, killing his wife and son. At this tense moment, Wendy saw in the mirror the word "REDRUM" written by Danny on the door, which turned out to be "murder". Danny runs away from the window. Chef Halloran feels that Danny's hunch comes from "Shapin" earlier. He comes from Miami but is hacked to death by Jack.

Jack chased his wife and son into the maze outside the hotel, got lost and froze to death inside. The frightened wife and son left in Harold's car.

The last shot of the film is a photo of all the hotel staff on the wall of the hotel lobby, which was taken on July 4, 192 1 year (more than 50 years before the story happened). Young Jack can be seen in a prominent position in the photo.

The part that exposes the plot is over.

An analysis of the film.

White people should bring civilization to backward countries ... "-Inscription

Those who have seen the Chinese New Year blockbuster Kung Fu must be deeply impressed by the scene where the imaginary angry blood broke through the stone gate when Master Xing broke into the "Abnormal Human Research Center" at night. This is a rare bloody scene in the movie of Master Xing. People who have seen The Shining may suddenly realize that this is undoubtedly the infinite memory of the most classic thriller in history. ...

About "Sharp"

"sharping" is based on the transliteration of the English word "shinning", that is, the usual hunch or sixth sense. Tony, the imaginary good friend of Jack's son Danny in the film, can be understood as Shapin. At the same time, it can also be understood by borrowing the words that Haloan, the chef of Lookout Hotel, said to Danny: "I remember when I was a child, my grandmother and I could talk without talking at all, and my grandmother called it Shapin. For a long time, I thought that only we had' sharpening', just as you thought that only you had it and others had it, but most people didn't notice it or didn't believe it ... What happened will leave some traces, not everyone can see it, but people in ‘sharping' can see it, just as they can see the future, and sometimes they can see things long ago. " This is probably why there are images of former victims in Danny's world.

Old photos and colonialism—

Two seemingly unrelated concepts constitute the most essence and memorable part of the whole movie. The last group of ambiguous and suspicious photos in the film really caused quite a controversy after the film was released. This is an intriguing trick played by screenwriter and director stanley kubrick. What stands out in the photo is a cocktail party scene. As the picture zoomed in, a familiar face suddenly appeared. The waiter in the middle is Jack torrance, but the time shown in the lower right corner of the photo is:19265438+July 4th, 0.

Recalling the beginning of the film, the hotel manager told Wendy, "The location of the hotel used to be an Indian cemetery. I believe that when they build it, they must respond to the attacks launched by Indians. " In addition, Jack fantasized about going back to 192 1 and told the bartender that there was no direction, that is, the inscription said that "white people should bring civilization to backward nations ...". It is not difficult to infer that a series of tragedies in the King Hotel are probably because Indians who grew up under the oppression of colonialism retaliated against whites in order to make people not forget this history. Ironically, the "4th of July", a day of special significance-the birthday of the United States, is a day worthy of celebration that does not belong to the indigenous people of the American continent. ...

If we look closely, we can also find a person in the photo, that is, the former manager of Lookout Hotel who once appeared in Jack's dream was greedy. He and Jack only visited the hotel twice at different times, which can also be regarded as a warning that the hotel imprisoned the souls of Indians who died in the war. It was they who dragged one person after another into the hotel and made heinous acts.

From this perspective, it is the director's careful reflection on the stain of colonialism. Colonialism and the brutal killing of Indian aborigines have not only brought shame or even shame to Americans today, but also embarrassed proud Americans. ...

Moral decay and the destruction of human nature—

If ghosts and paranormals are an indispensable part of horror movies, then The Shining is more like describing the psychological process of a middle-aged man's morbid development in the face of career setbacks and family pressure-from depression and forbearance to the final passion of generate. Maybe Indian racial revenge is just a little joke played by stanley kubrick and the audience. Its real purpose is to expose the road to the destruction of human nature. Maybe that's what he really wants to show.

Looking back at the film, we can see that this middle-aged man has been overwhelmed by the reality around him. This invisible pressure was released three years ago-he took his son Danny's arm after drinking. He also tried to escape, so he wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains and make his own creation. But in the end, he found that his original creative desire only came from the repressed resentment of life and strong guilt about his family. Coupled with his wife's casual interruption, generate's anger is bound to overwhelm. ...

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The position of film history

This is one of the greatest horror films in the film history, which has created a new era for the shooting technology and production method of horror films. The most classic part of the film is the creation of atmosphere. The whole film is bright in color and low in tone. However, it is in this silence that Kubrick leads the audience into the film and constantly gives them psychological hints. Kubrick painted a huge and complicated palace-like house for us, which gave people heavy psychological pressure when the camera wandered in the maze-like corridor. These atmospheres make it easy for the audience to collapse when the plot finally breaks out. The score is very good. Kubrick used music perfectly, that is, it served the film atmosphere perfectly without usurping the role of the host. The soundtrack of this movie has become the most classic soundtrack of horror movies.

This film has a far-reaching impact on the development of horror movies. Friends who often watch horror movies can find that claustrophobic space (mostly castles or big houses that have lost contact with the outside world) is often the place where horror stories take place and often needs an ambiguous ending, and these elements are created and unified by this film. So today, more than 20 years later, Stephen Chow on the other side of the ocean will still pay tribute to this film with Kung Fu.