I blame the story introductions of the American version 1 and 2.

Director:

Takashi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu

Starring:

Sarah michelle gellar sarah michelle gellar

Bill pullman bill pullman

Type: thriller/horror/suspense

More Chinese titles:

An immortal curse/curse

More foreign books:

Juon

The unnamed remake of "Zhu An: Resentment"

Length: 92 minutes

Country/Region: Germany/Japan/USA

Dialogue language: English/Japanese

Issuing company: 0 1 distributor

Date of Issue: 2004122 October 65438

Plot introduction:

The curse comes from those who have suffered strange deaths. Because their death is accompanied by unexpected unspeakable pain, their thoughts before death become more intense, and those wishes between life and death will take them wandering between reality and the underworld. They want to find their enemies and realize those curses that span life and death.

Jiayun is an American exchange student studying sociology in Japan. After finishing school, she worked as a nurse in a shabby house near a school in the suburbs of Tokyo. Her nursing object is an elderly woman Emma, who suffers from severe mental illness, stiff body and inconvenient movement. Like this almost forgotten owner, this is a seemingly abandoned house, covered with cobwebs and dust everywhere, barren and messy.

Jiayun started her work in this gloomy house, but she was often disturbed by strange things here. Strange sounds came from upstairs from time to time, and the figure of a boy was swaying in the yard. With the gradual understanding and investigation, Jiayun learned that the former owner of the house had cruelly hurt his relatives, so now the whole house has been shrouded in a deep resentment, and it wants to start its own ambition for everyone who enters here.

Jiayun, who has no intention of breaking in here, has been firmly trapped by this cursed net. People around her are constantly being punished by curses, and these people who died because of curses are constantly aggravating this deep resentment. There is less and less time left for Jiayun. She must find out the secret of the curse before it completely breaks out, and find a way to crush it completely to stop the terrible curse from spreading. ...

Behind-the-scenes production: Two years after the Japanese version of Curse appeared, Takashi Shimizu filmed the American version again, and the biggest obstacle was the different tastes and horror between Japan and the United States. Japanese horror movies have their unique charm. For example, in many movies, mysterious events have no answers, and the whole story can be said to have no real ending. For the Japanese audience, this open structure is easy to cause fear, but the American audience always wants a clear answer, which puts high demands on the screenwriter. Steven Sko tried to find a suitable way to integrate his ideas with those of Takashi Shimizu, and Takashi Shimizu also gave him a lot of creative space, which gave him great encouragement.

2) Curse 2 (2006), the American version of Curse 2.

Director:

Takashi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu

Starring:

Arielle kebbel arielle kebbel

Amber tamblyn Amber Tamburin

Sarah michelle gellar sarah michelle gellar

Genre: thriller/plot/horror

Duration: 95 minutes

Country/Region: USA

Dialogue language: English/Japanese

Issuing company: Jincun Entertainment

Release date: June 65438+10/October 65438+March 2006

Synopsis: As the name implies, the story of "curse" comes from the intense anger with revenge as the ultimate goal. Sometimes, like an infectious disease, it spreads at a speed and way you can't imagine ... "Curse" tells a story about the most terrible consequences of "curse", which originated from a group of unsatisfied ghosts. They were burned to death in a house for unknown reasons. However, "grievances have a head and debts have a master." When these resentful souls began to attack some irrelevant people, disaster really came.

The story begins immediately after the end of the first episode: Aubrey Davis learns from the bedridden mother, Mrs. Davis, that her sister Karen is currently living in a mental hospital in Japan and is still under investigation by the police because she is suspected of having a close relationship with her boyfriend who was burned to death in a big house. Mrs. Davis was seriously ill and could not travel long distances, so she had to entrust her youngest daughter Aubrey to take Karen home to Tokyo. However, Aubrey, who just arrived in Tokyo, was warned by reporter Ethan that she and her sister Karen would fall into some unpredictable and perceptible dangers. ...

In a high school in Tokyo, Alison just came to this school as an exchange student. She is eager to enter the social circle led by Vanessa and Michelle. As long as she can be kind to her, Alison is willing to complete their task requirements, even if it means that she has to spend the night alone in the ruins of a burned house-there have been several unsolved murders and mysterious disappearances there. ...

The news that his father Billy suddenly decided to get engaged to Tracy made Jack, a shy little boy, very unhappy because he was still immersed in the grief of his mother's death. What he can't understand is that his sister Lacey accepted their stepmother so quickly and got along well. However, what makes him most curious is the mystery and uncertainty of the neighbor who lives next door. I feel that everyone is playing the role of "stranger" in the building where they live. ...

These seemingly unrelated people will be threatened by the terrible death curse, and obviously, this curse is no longer limited to the burnt-out big house, but comes out from it and begins to attack anyone who can attack aimlessly.

Behind-the-scenes production: a new beginning

Terrible and surreal "curse" usually comes from ancient and mysterious nations and is formed by resentment that cannot be dissipated. The Curse focuses on a group of undead who are devoured by the ruthless fire. When their despair and fear are overwhelmed by anger, they will form a powerful mysterious force and take people's lives with irresistible momentum.

Since the release of the American version of The Curse on June 5438+ 10, 2004, the global box office has reached nearly 200 million dollars. Horror movie fans all over the world have paid tribute to film director Takashi Shimizu, who told a series of stories about death caused by terror curse, which rushed out of Japan and went to the world with lightning speed, making audiences outside Japan feel a brand-new experience.

As early as in the Japanese version of Mantra, Takashi Shimizu began to study the terrible consequences of resentment formed by revenge and anger. His infinite imagination really frightened a large number of fans ... but in the 2004 American version of The Truth, except for the eastern face replaced by the western face, we regret to find that the story has not changed, but only "copied" this legend that has become a household name in Japan. Now the American version of Curse has a sequel. Fortunately, director Takashi Shimizu said that he would shoot a completely different story from the Japanese version of Curse 2: "If the American version repeats itself with the Japanese version, I will give up the position of the director without waiting for others to scold me, because it is neither challenging nor boring for me. When producer Sam Raimi promised to give me a brand-new script, I made my stand clear. I think the foundation of the story should be' curse', and then new clues and more deaths will be developed. "

Takashi Shimizu conveyed his ideas to another screenwriter, Stephen Susco, and got his very clear support: "Since we want to make a brand-new horror movie, it means that we need to spread our thoughts, open up a brand-new road, deepen and enrich the stories that people already know ... We decided to enrich the already shocking central perspective with multiple clues and more personality characters."

About the "curse" The Secret Behind and its source, the first episode of "curse" is not very clear, which will be fully played in the sequel ... Takashi Shimizu also pays attention to maintaining the integrity of the film. For those who haven't seen the Japanese and American remakes, the story won't be too obscure, and there is no need for any form of bedding to help the audience understand the cause and effect of the film.

Bits and pieces about "curse"

The center of the film is still the dilapidated house where the fire broke out-the house of destiny. But "curse" will "spread" in more different ways, and many story lines will separate and converge from time to time, forming the most unique charm of horror movies.

Due to the dispersion of story lines, it is decided to be more international in choosing actors. But because Takashi Shimizu didn't really know many non-Japanese actors, he explained the characters' personalities and positions in the script to producer Sam Raimi, and then left the task of selecting actors to him completely. Here, sarah michelle gellar continues to play Karen in the first episode. In the previous story, she tried to burn down the house with too many grievances, intending to let everything go ... The second episode begins with her story, and her sister Aubrey came to Japan to find out what terrible happened to her sister, thus launching a new adventure. As for Gaila, there is no room to play in the new story, because her role Karen has become a walking corpse. The poor girl not only experienced a series of blows and scares, but also lost the love of her life. She kept telling people what had happened to her, but except those who saw the first movie, it seemed impossible to other characters, which is why she was put in a mental hospital.

Most of the ghosts described in Japanese movies are women, with long black hair and wearing white kimonos-this is also the image of the ghost hair who comes out for revenge in the Japanese version of The Curse. It is estimated that many people already know that the murder weapon of the Russian hair is her black hair. As long as the people targeted by the "curse" are sleeping or taking a shower, they will eventually be swallowed up by the long hair of the hair ... Takashi Shimizu said that this image comes from an ancient Japanese tradition: "A long time ago, Japanese women loved to keep their hair and took care of it very carefully because they thought it was alive. So once a woman's hair is not neat enough, it becomes the most vivid description of resentment and anger. Messy hair represents depressed emotions. When sadness and hatred overcome reason, hair becomes the most favorable weapon that women can control. "

As for the white kimono, it originated from a custom of burying the dead in Japan: "In Japan, when a person dies, we will put on a white kimono for them. Because in the traditional Japanese concept, white can wash the souls of the dead and give them a pure heart to go to heaven ... This is why Japanese horror movies usually let them wear kimonos when describing ghosts. " In fact, the most interesting story here is the life story of Mao Zi that Takashi Shimizu will tell in the second episode, when the audience will understand: Why did the resentment of Mao Zi surge? How did the seeds of revenge germinate and grow before her death? What caused her to finally become an unsatisfied spectre?

Trivia: In 2004, just three days after the American version of Curse was released, Sony had already begun to prepare a sequel.

In order to maintain the panic atmosphere on the set, actors and directors will try their best to scare each other in various ways and have fun.

The role of Vanessa was originally tailored for vanessa lengies. Although Rogers quit the cast because of my suicide, the role still kept her name.

Actors are purely "international" in their choice, and their nationalities include American, Canadian, Australian, China, Hongkong and Japanese.