1 is undoubtedly the highest quality! James Wan's team took a large number of real descriptions of the dark side of human nature as the main meal, supplemented by four sources of fear such as unknown, darkness, claustrophobia and death as the side dishes, and only used a small amount of plasma as the supplementary food, skillfully using editing and post-production, and successfully realized the horror and horror everywhere in the film, making this ultra-low-cost production a real box office "fright". Its success is mainly reflected in:
1, the plot setting is the most unexpected! The plot of this movie is amazing. From the beginning, it seems to have an ending. The audience can't help wondering who is behind this. Adam, the black sheriff, the young police officer ... With the slow progress of the film, but actually ruled out most of the "thought killers", in fact, she was an inconspicuous nurse and almost forgotten. This sick guy! His face makes people look disgusting! So when Adam suddenly jumped up and hit him on the head with a slate, it is estimated that many viewers applauded.
"This is a good time, which is good!" The slate covered with plasma makes people feel wanton pleasure, everything is fine, and everyone including the audience can finally get out of the nightmare. However, what is the ending? The ending of 1 is reversed again. The nurse is just a game player. He just risked his life to save himself. He is also a victim! The last five minutes of the movie made people tremble This is really an exquisite bloody horror movie. The story is reversed enough and the narrative is powerful enough. It's worth watching n times.
Unfortunately, in the following films, the story becomes more common, especially in the eighth part of 20 17, where the killing is entirely for blood. Lost the essence of horror.
2, the theme of the thriller is also very profound! In addition to the clever suspense, what is more commendable is that the film has a clear theme. A thriller warns people to cherish the present and be grateful. James Wan and Ray can be seen from the lines in 1. Warnax's careful polishing.
For example, if I tell you the specific time of death, it will completely subvert your world. I know the feeling. Can you imagine someone telling you to sit down and tell you that death is coming? That kind of sadness, the clock ticks, in that second, your world is like a big crack. When looking at a problem, I feel that my perspective has changed and I will cherish everything, whether it is a glass of water or a walk in the park. But most people are lucky. They don't know when the clock will stop. Ironically, because of this, they can't live a good life.
There is also a classic line: death is a surprise party, unless of course you are dead inside. Unless you are the kind of person who paralyzes yourself by swallowing painkillers, you will be tested, your will will be tested, and you will let a person live. Can you obey the rules and accept the gifts given by life? Can you do it? No excuses, no playing dumb, no crying.
It is hard to imagine that the lines of a thriller have the texture of a literary film and can be so meaningful. Of course, it is limited to this line.
I can't help seeing the magical James Wan! James Wan was born in Malaysia and immigrated to Australia with his family at the age of 7. 1 1 He fell in love with movies. His father died at the age of 14, which had a great influence on him. After his father died, he preferred horror movies, especially plasma horror movies, and often had nightmares. These nightmares became the material of his movies, which made him the king of horror movies.
When we talk about James Wan, we must mention his good partner leigh whannell. They met at the Royal Institute of Technology in Melbourne, and their love for horror movies made them hit it off. They all like classic horror films such as texas chainsaw massacre, Texas, The Silence of the Lambs and so on, and have always dreamed of making a horror film of their own. After graduating from college, the two brothers didn't get along very well because they were unemployed and almost slept on the streets. Vonarx, who suffered from mental stress, even suspected that he had brain cancer because of frequent severe headaches. He withstood the pressure of life for "He is my brother" and wrote the original script of "Saw 1".
After barely preparing the funds, the two made a small film with rough pictures and submitted it to Lionsgate Film. I didn't expect Lionsgate to decide to shoot immediately after watching it. It is said that the first film directed by James Wan, Saw, took only five days to prepare and 65,438+08 days to shoot, and all the actors never rehearsed it. James Wan didn't get paid in advance, but chose to pay dividends. Unexpectedly, the film cost was $65.438+0.2 million, and the global box office was $65.438+0.3 billion, which gave birth to the miracle of the movie history-the chainsaw series.
After that, James Wan's films, such as Evocation, Dead Silence, Latency and Latency 2, were all small budgets and big box offices. Of course, the most surprising thing is that James Wan is not only good at making horror movies, but also good at making commercial blockbusters (action movies and romance movies), such as Speed ? ? and furious 7 and Neptune, a magical Malaysian Chinese, which is really a magical existence in Hollywood! ! !