The scariest in history-sharping

? Everyone has a hidden fear of people, things or things, which is expressed in an exaggerated form by film art, thus producing horror films. Fans who like to watch horror movies know that there are great differences between eastern and western horror movies, and cultural and aesthetic differences are the main reasons for this difference. Most European and American horror films pursue sensory stimulation, mostly zombies or evil spirits, supplemented by tons of plasma and flying limbs. Oriental horror films are much more subtle, knowing that people's real fear comes not only from their senses, but also from their imagination of the unknown.

? Warner Bros. 1973 released the horror film "The Exorcist", which ranked first in the list of horror films all the year round. The exorcism ceremony in the film, as well as the fear and discomfort caused by the vacillation of people's religious beliefs, made the audience stunned. Today, after the baptism of countless horror films, modern people who are getting more and more nervous have long been indifferent. However, in the Japanese horror film "The Lord of the Rings at Midnight", the long and cold plots are paved and supernatural images are rendered, only for the moment when the true son appears, and the fear of infiltrating into the bone marrow in the oriental horror film is fully displayed in the film.

There are also horror films in the European and American film circles, such as The Sixth Sense, SHIELD, Anonymous and so on. In fact, as early as forty years ago, Warner Bros. had such a film that achieved the ultimate in psychological terror, and its artistic achievements were even more difficult for future generations to reach. Let's take a look at this movie, which is recognized as the scariest movie in film history.

Jack, a frustrated writer, accepted a job as a hotel manager to make a living. This luxury hotel was built in 1907. Many celebrities have lived here, and the old photos on the wall record the splendor of the hotel. The hotel manager told Jack that the snow in winter would seal up the mountain, and the hotel would not open until the snow melted the next year. All employees will have a holiday during this time, so we should hire someone to look after the hotel and maintain the heating equipment of the hotel. 192 1 year, the hotel was destroyed by fire due to boiler failure, and was rebuilt at the original site. The manager also said that the hotel hired an administrator before, but ended up killing his wife and two daughters with an axe and committing suicide. The police believe that his crazy behavior is due to claustrophobia ... so although the work of the administrator is very leisurely, he has to endure loneliness. After listening to the music, Jack said that he was a writer and he needed silence to create. And I like this restaurant very much, as if I have been here before, and it is really the best candidate for this job.

? Jack's son Danny is an unusual child. He is withdrawn and a little absent-minded. He claims to be able to perceive what others cannot. To put it bluntly, he is psychic. When he first came to the restaurant, he noticed some strange things, but his parents didn't believe him. They know that their children often have strange ideas. But Dick, the chef of the restaurant, believed what Danny said. Why? Because Dick is also a psychic. He told Danny that something "bad" had happened in this restaurant and told Danny to stay away from Room 237.

The hotel staff were evacuated and the mountain was closed by heavy snow, leaving only Jack's family of three in the hotel, which became particularly deserted. Jack moved the typewriter to the hall, and only the crisp sound of the typewriter echoed in the huge space, ha! This is really a good place to write, and Jack is very satisfied. It is enough for housewives to live in luxury suites and enjoy rich food. Jack's wife Wendy is very satisfied. Little Danny is also very satisfied. Anyway, he is used to playing alone. The happiest thing every day is riding a bike in the spacious corridor of the hotel or playing hide-and-seek with my mother in the maze outside the hotel-until he sees the two girls.

Two girls always appear suddenly, staring at him from a distance, and then suddenly disappear. Danny is afraid. What scares him even more is to see a lot of blood pouring out of the elevator! This must be an illusion, Danny thought. When he passed the room "237", he deliberately stopped to have a look. The door is closed. I don't know what's in it. Why doesn't the chef let himself in? What's the secret in the house? Danny is curious and scared.

At this time, the door of 237 opened by itself. ...

Jack was annoyed at his slow writing. Wendy usually doesn't bother her husband, but this day she went to Jack like crazy and said that Danny was scratched by a crazy woman in room 237, and now she is in a trance. Jack is very different. Is there anyone else in the hotel? He came to room 237 and saw someone in the bathroom. It turned out to be a naked beauty. The naked woman slowly walked up to Jack and hugged him. Jack was a little intoxicated by this sudden affair, but when he looked in the mirror inadvertently, he suddenly found a beautiful woman in his arms, but it was an old woman covered in dead spots! Jack tumbled out of the room in the old woman's strange laughter.

The heavier the snow, the worse the radio communication. Jack's family is really alone now. Jack was upset by the sudden strange things. He wandered restlessly around the restaurant. He has given up drinking for several days, and now he really wants to have a drink to relax. Unfortunately, before the evacuation, all the drinks in the hotel were drunk, so he had to stroll to the bar to find the feeling of drinking.

To my surprise, the bar was not closed. The bartender seems to know Jack and poured him a glass of his favorite bourbon. Jack took a sip of his wine and complained to the bartender that he had been a little upset recently. The bar began to sit down. It was empty just now, but now it is full of guests. Well-dressed men and women look like upper class by smoking cigars, drinking wine and listening to soothing jazz.

? At this time, Jack saw an old waiter who looked familiar and immediately recognized him: this old man is the former manager who killed himself mentioned by the hotel manager, and Jack is happy to talk to him. The old man said that my daughter wanted to set fire to the restaurant and I "corrected" them. My wife wouldn't let me correct it, so I "corrected" her. Now your son is going to bring a black cook to disturb the peace here. You should have a good talk with his wife and children. Maybe talking is not enough. ...

The old man's words are full of evil temptations. Jack can't help thinking: the article can't go on, his wife is noisy in his ear, and his son is increasingly alienated from himself. All this will drive him crazy. The old man is very reasonable. Yes! Do whatever you want, and you must remove all obstacles! He grabbed an axe and rushed out just in time for the visiting chef. He chopped it up without saying anything.

When Wendy saw Jack with a sharp axe, she was so scared that she grabbed Danny and ran away. At this moment, Jack is completely crazy, and he just wants to kill them. Wendy ran to the corridor and saw a man with his head split open holding a glass at him. Wendy ran past the bar and saw dead bodies in fine clothes, and a lot of blood gushed out of the elevator ... Oh, my God, what a ghost hotel this is! Danny ran out of the hotel and hid in the maze, with Jack running after him. Danny escaped from the haunted hotel with his mother after bypassing the maze. But Jack got lost and slowly froze. ...

? There is a photo taken in the hotel on July 4th, 192 1, which is the American Independence Day. In the photo, people dress up for the holiday dance, and Jack is smiling in the middle of the crowd. ...

? The Shining is adapted from Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, which is directed by stanley kubrick. Stephen King participated in the preparation of the film outline (the main content of the script was written by another writer who is good at horror novels, Diane Johnson Diane Johnson). Both of them think that Jack Nicholson, who is full of evil spirits, is the best candidate for the leading role "Jack". Kubrick has never made a horror film before, but he really wants to try it. He said, "People are born with evil, and horror stories can show this part of the subconscious mind and let us see the dark side without facing it directly." He adapted the original work and added a lot of his own ideas, which made the plot of the film almost divorced from the original work and evolved into a different story.

As a horror film, The Shining's production cycle of more than one year has been very scary. The film was originally shot for 17 weeks, but it took 5 1 week. The Shining shows Kubrick's arrogant perfectionism more than any other film. Every shot in the film has to be shot repeatedly until it is the best, and the actor can only accompany him on the set all day. During this period, the script has been revised countless times, so that Jack Nicholson has never read the script at all, because most of his lines were obtained only a few minutes before shooting, so the heavy shooting task made him fall asleep every day.

The heroine Shelley Duvall is even worse. In order to show the helplessness of the role, Kubrick told all the cast members "don't sympathize with Shelley, no one should pay attention to her" and refused to praise her performance. What I often say to her is "You are wasting everyone's time!" One of Shelley's shots was taken 127 times. Sometimes I cry for 12 hours a day, and I need several bottles of mineral water at any time. She showed off a lot of her hair to Nicholson and the director ... Unable to bear the pressure brought by the role and the director, Shelley and Kubrick quarreled several times during filming and fell ill for several months.

? Due to the long shooting time in The Shining, Warren Beatty's Heart of Red and Steven Allan Spielberg's raiders of the lost ark had to be postponed because they were also waiting to use the studio. Kubrick, who loves chess, always plays chess with the crew in his spare time. Even though the filming was seriously behind schedule, he took a day to hold a chess game. Of course, he won in the end.

Kubrick used a lot of depth-of-field shots in the film, which fully showed the intense claustrophobic atmosphere in large and small spaces. Those rooms, corridors, halls and mazes appeared calm and restrained in his shots. The whole film is everywhere, and the red scenery brings a strong sense of oppression to the audience; A lot of camera stabilizers (camera stabilizers) are used in the film, holding hands and following the camera, which makes the audience feel as if they are in the movie picture and moving with the camera. Especially, Danny rides a bicycle on the carpet and shoots strange patterns with a low-altitude high-speed camera, which shows his true nature of genius. Every frame and every tracking shot is a cold and paranoid composition masterpiece; Hints, metaphors and symbols can be seen everywhere in the film. Although it is numerous, it is not messy, which fully embodies Couboulic's control as movie master.

? After its release, The Shining became one of the top ten films of the year and was regarded as the pioneering work of modern horror films. Critics believe that this film is an "original work" in the genre of horror films, "transcending the mode of ghost films, and then exploring the depths of people's souls and the crisis of humanity and family". The Shining's artistic charm lies in the fact that it belongs to that kind of increasingly horrible movie. Later, when the video was released, the film was edited into two versions, one of which had a voiceover at the end, which explained the origin of the photo-"Jack" died in a hotel fire as early as 192 1 ... It is worth mentioning that Robert De Niro once said that he had nightmares for a month after watching The Shining.

The success of the film angered the original author Stephen King, who accused Kubrick of not knowing horror movies at all, saying that Kubrick "thought too much and felt too little", deleted and tampered with the original works in large quantities, and used his novels to "intentionally hurt the audience". For example, at the end of the film, Kubli tells the hero Jack to kill the black chef, then kills his wife and children with a sharp axe, and finally freezes to death in the maze. In the novel, Jack didn't kill anyone.

In fact, Stephen King should have thought of this ending at the beginning of filming. Everyone knows that Couboulic has always been eclectic, and adapting the original work beyond recognition is exactly what he loves to do. The Shining does embody some kind of conflict: the conflict between the traditional horror film style and Kubrick's own thinking and narrative style-this film is Kubrick-style, and like those movies with science fiction, war, love and history, Kubrick's attitude towards horror movies is only to take out the elements he needs from the original and then construct it into a movie in his own way.

There is another story about why Stephen King didn't like the film: during the filming, he received frequent phone calls from Kubrick, one of which was at 3 am. Kubrick called him and asked him, "Do you believe in God?"

The Shining is a 273-minute TV movie invested by Kim 1997, and the story is completely faithful to the original. But this TV version was mediocre, boring and lengthy, which was far from Kubrick's version and soon disappeared. Today, in countless horror films, sharping is still detached. It and another classic horror film, The Exorcist (1973), are both the best horror films, but it is clear to the audience that sharping's horror coefficient is much higher than that of the Exorcist. Sharping people's shooting skills and some classic shots are constantly imitated by later generations. For example, in the movie Kung Fu, Stephen Chow paid tribute to the classic shot of the elevator spraying blood. The layout of the hotel corridor in the Cohen Brothers film Barton Fink (199 1) is also a tribute to shine. Spielberg recreated sharping in Ready Player One (20 18).

There are many long articles about sharping with different viewpoints and angles. Some people think that The Shining shows the spiritual variation that human beings can't communicate with each other under the pressure of survival; Others regard it as a film accusing genocide, exposing and criticizing the massacre of Indians (because the hotel was built on the Indian cemetery); Some people think that little Danny in the film is the chief culprit of Jack's crazy death ... whether these articles are reasonable or not can be used as a reference for watching this film. However, let us never forget that this is a film directed by stanley kubrick, an unparalleled genius-when the audience thought of it, Hong Yu smiled.