One word review:
This is a film adaptation that is very close to the spirit of the original. You see, even Stephen King came out to complain about the bad ending he wrote back then!
I don’t know if my old friends are still impressed. I wrote a tweet about “The Clown’s Soul” almost a year ago. Although I wrote it a year after the movie was released, I felt a little vicissitudes when I started writing today. Before I knew it, the sequel to "it" came, and the series came to an end.
This is the first time that an IP has been completely written in [Little Monster World], and it is also the first time that a movie sequel has been written after such a long interval. What does this show?
This shows that our number still has a certain historical background. (referred to as the age)
Released in North America in 2017, "Joker's Soul" is undoubtedly the biggest dark horse of the year, with a low cost of 35 million US dollars and a box office revenue of 320 million US dollars, setting a series of horror film records.
After a lapse of two years, the weird Pennyworth has returned with upgraded visual effects and an actor team. It has already earned $200 million at the box office in North America, and the momentum of commercial success is still unabated.
In terms of look and feel, "Joker's Soul 2" is not as good as the first one. The 169-minute duration is enough to confuse most horror movie fans, while the original first film's relatively delicate audio-visual processing and the magical effect of retro elements in the 1980s Almost disappeared, too many fantasy visual effects can't give the audience more freshness, and the scary stimulation provided by the clown's "jump scare" style is not ideal. After adulthood, it was originally the tension in the original work. Biggest part, but underwhelming performance.
Although I prefer the first part, but in terms of my current viewing and reading volume, "Joker Returns 2" is quite representative, one of the few that restores the spirit of Stephen King's original work. Movie.
Now that the "Joker's Soul" series has ended, no matter how unsatisfactory it is, the previous guesses about it (forced) have also found the answer. This article is not limited to the movie, and the original literary work of "The Clown's Soul" is also included. Combine it and make it into a jumble.
The original author, Stephen King, is known as the "King of Horror Fiction", and his story output is also extremely terrifying. The more than 1,000-page "It" (original work of the Joker) was written in only nine months.
Lao Jin is usually rambling when writing stories. It seems that his attention is difficult to concentrate. He can easily write thousands of words on a small thing that has nothing to do with the main line, but it is undeniable that storytelling is a talent , Even in very ordinary little things, you can see Lao Jin instinctively play with various skills and write the story in twists and turns.
I think "It" is Stephen King's masterpiece. In the huge length, he created a clown who can change into various ghosts and evil spirits. It is filled with all kinds of imaginative imaginations. Each of the protagonists has an independent horror story, and the protagonist Billy is more like the incarnation of Lao Jin, telling the eternal theme in the author's heart: summer, American town and childhood unforgettable friendship.
There are countless movies and TV series adapted from Stephen King's novels, such as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Shining", but not many of them can be recognized by Lao Jin himself. He has publicly expressed that he hates library very much. Brick's adaptation of "The Shining" (the movie version of "The Shining" is immortal). But judging from Lao Jin's self-deprecating cameo in "Joker's Soul 2", this movie should be quite to his taste. (Stephen King wrote a paragraph at the end of "It" about Beverly doing inexplicably indescribable things with other boys, and was also dubbed "unfinished")
This may be caused by Lao Jin's unique creative concept. His novels emphasize stories and are anti-symbolic . He thinks that he can use the sentence pattern "...symbolizes something, and uses...to insinuate a certain phenomenon in society". The stories told are funny, politics, history, culture, these elements will appear naturally as long as the story is told well.
Lao Jin never justly condemned the society, but wrapped the theme with wonderful supernatural stories , not that he turned a blind eye to those evils.
The part of "Joker's Soul 2" showing the horror section is the reproduction of Lao Jin's narrative structure in "It", weaving the two time and space together, making each child independent, and narrating the story of the two time and space crosswise, Expand a huge social picture.
It's just that this violates the taboo of horror films that "act alone will cause an accident" .
The film works must either promote universal values or have a strong film authorship . Obviously, these two directions are incompatible with Lao Jin's writing purpose of "social criticism", and he shows the super imagination in the text. Force is also difficult to surpass visually.
Even though director Anders Muschietti showed his timidity in the second film, the visual spectacle he showed in the first film was already quite amazing, but King's literary original was too insurmountable.
Going back to the source, the horror of "It" is not only the author's use of clowns to write a lot of images of evil spirits that children fear. But extremely conservative and isolated.
There are countless dark sides in the town. School bullying, domestic violence, racial discrimination, discrimination against homosexuality, lynching, etc. are everywhere, but the biggest shadow behind it is people’s calmness in the face of the sins of their compatriots (last year’s tweet It also mentions that people turn a blind eye to bullying), and the clown is the embodiment of this shadow.
Therefore, it can transform into all kinds of scary monsters, but it cannot launch physical attacks directly. Because of the decay of people's concepts, it is also immortal.
Righteousness and justice are implicit in the town, because people secretly follow a set of dark judgment rules, and the clown is the monster who executes people and eliminates dissent.
In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" we saw a mental hospital in the city. Many patients in it did not need that kind of treatment. In fact, its function also included taking in marginalized people in society and preventing them from entering normal society.
And in Derry Town, this function is the clown. He is helping the town to remove the marginalized people it cannot accept. The tragic death of a homosexual at the beginning of the second part confirms this, and because children do not undertake social functions, they fall behind. A single child is the clown's first choice.
I misunderstood "The Clown" after watching it last year. I thought the story of the second part would be how the adult protagonists, after losing their innocence, overcome their mid-life crisis and fear and defeat the clown again. But that's not what the movie and Stephen King himself are trying to say. Stripping out the supernatural, King is always telling the story of the horrific transition from childhood to adulthood, and the tone of the story is always melancholy.
Growing up is easy, but Stephen King's fantasy adventure shows us that we can never exist as true adults unless we remember what we were like as children and consciously decide to let go of our teenage selves. World.
It is not without reason that "It" is called a milestone in American literature. Not only literature, but Stephen King's ideas have also been inherited by a new generation of filmmakers. of toys in the storage room", which became "Toy Story 3";
Some photographed a group of children exploring the shape of "death" along the railway, which became "Walk with Me";
Some let a middle-aged librarian who finally "adult" leave the town at the end of the film, and "it" has become "The Clown's Soul 2" today.
Stephen King himself wrote in the preface of "It" that many of us do this by raising our own children (meaning growing up), some by writing books, and many by reading.
I think it's time to add the movie, "Joker 2" may have fallen short in many ways, but I believe the characters in it are fresh people, and they will remind us that in Derry, Maine The town has unforgettable friendships, clowns in dark red costumes, teenagers riding their bicycles, and the best 12-year-old who will never go back.
A clown named Pennyworth has called the curtain call, and the next "Joker" is coming.
The article was first published on the WeChat public account [Little Monster World], I hope you, who are excellent, have a safe and happy life
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