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Plot introduction

Version 1

Four good friends came to Cancun, Mexico from America. As a result, they met a German tourist there. He claimed that his brother suddenly disappeared, and finally he saw his brother beside a mysterious pile of ruins. He invited four people to help him find relatives, and as a result, a group of people embarked on a dangerous journey ...

Version 2

This is a piece of advice, especially for young people who travel abroad: no matter what happens, don't stay away from the main road and try to stay in crowded places ... Amy and Stacy are good friends who grew up together, and they plan to travel to Mexico on vacation, so they take their boyfriends with them, and the four of them go together and take care of each other. On the way, Amy and others met Matthias from Germany and his friend Dimitri. The purpose of their trip is not to play, but to find Matthias' missing brother.

Unable to resist Matthias' plea, Amy, Stacy and others decided to search with him, so they stayed away from the busy highway and plunged into a remote and desolate jungle in Mexico, where they found a huge ruin. However, when everyone was amazed, they didn't realize that a man-eating vine was stirring around the ruins. These plants stimulated by delicious food slowly formed an encirclement, waiting for an opportunity to attack and fight for a blow. ...

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From novels to movies

Chris Bender, the producer, explained that the inspiration for the creation of Ruins of Terror came from the joint efforts of two other producers, Stuart Cornfeld and Ben Stiller: "Confield and Stiehler are both loyal fans of Scott B. Smith's first novel Surprise of Unexpected Wealth, which was later adapted into a film of the same name. He was also nominated for best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay ... Before the novel version of Ruins of Terror was officially published, Confield and Stiehler secretly read several chapters, then took the story to DreamWorks, and soon found a master for it-they bought the film adaptation right of the novel and found the original author Smith to handle the screenplay himself.

Both the novel and the script are based on the same basic story clue: four vacationers who have no intention of revealing the secrets of the Mayan ruins, and at the same time they are involved in the entanglement with a man-eating vine ... Of course, the original novel with rich material resources contains more than that. What is hidden behind struggle for existence is a person's efforts and struggles to go beyond the limit and explore the infinite potential of human beings. Several producers have given Scott B. Smith enough trust, and they firmly believe that he can create the same horrible and recognizable human emotional intensity for the script as in the novel. Charles Bender said: "Once we find the right director for the film, the story can only develop in two possible directions-either digging deep into the story and making a film that kills plants with incredible power; Either directly rush to test the psychological endurance of the audience, make the film both attractive and sinister, and it is possible to break away from the novel and become a 100% original story. "

If we want to find a suitable director who can shoulder this arduous task and make a scary and suspenseful film, we should also treat the texture and level of Scott B Smith's novels fairly. DreamWorks finally threw the hydrangea to Carter Smith. Although Carter Smith has never directed a real feature film, even though he started as a fashion photographer, after watching his award-winning short film Pest, all the producers agreed that they had finally found the right person ... jena malone, one of the leading actors, played Amy in the film, and she said, "I still remember that I had at least 10 minutes after watching Pest. Still sitting there motionless, I was really scared, because this short film is not the kind of horror film that is easy to understand. Although the movie is over, it seems that you can still smell, taste and feel it. It is a lingering entanglement that makes people feel uneasy. It was not until this time that I realized that I never seemed to have carefully interpreted this type of film. After watching Bug, I began to think about the strange way in which Ruins of Terror might be presented, and realized that it might become a pioneer representative of distorting this film genre. In the film, it is not only the climbing vines that kill people, but also the humanity hidden in ourselves-what kind of reaction will we make when something unusual happens around us? That was the first time I saw the most fascinating interpretation of the horror story. "

From Carter Smith's point of view, the reason why he agreed to be the director of Ruins of Terror naturally stems from his unfounded trust in the creator of the original novel. Smith said: "I have always liked Scott B. Smith's Surprise of a windfall. As for Ruins of Terror, I actually read it carefully after receiving the invitation from DreamWorks. In my opinion, directing a film like this can be called a treat, because what is in front of me is an excellent script with many wonderful colors and elements, which makes people want to stop. Let the original author of the novel write his own script, which is a very flattering practice, which is equivalent to a kind of' welfare', because no one knows the story and characters better than the author himself, and only he can dig out the real meaning from the plain words. As far as the current film industry is concerned, we all have to face the fact that in this kind of thriller and horror-oriented film, it is rare to see such a striking role setting, not to mention that I am an out-and-out horror fan ... The interesting thing about Ruins of Terror is that the young people concerned here are not the same and stereotyped plane characters-Amy and Stacy are best friends. But their boyfriends don't deal with each other very much, and then there are Matthias and his friend Dimitri. Matthias is a tourist from Germany who came here to look for his missing brother, so several people went together. Because most of these characters are unfamiliar, the film creates a strange atmosphere from the beginning: what can I do to get along well? Where should I put myself among these strangers? No one can get the real answer until the situation takes a turn for the worse and develops in the wrong direction. I like this kind of story very much. I can pick out these multifaceted characters at will, and then decorate their surroundings with complex situations to see their most authentic reactions in some emergencies. "