This type of movie "Ghost Ship" is very typical. The specific content is that a Canadian Air Force plane found a small boat drifting in the waters. The pilot Jack was attracted by the secret behind the boat. He hired Captain Murphy and his search and rescue. The team went to the high seas to look for the aimless passenger ship wandering. According to the law of the sea, any unowned ship found on the high seas belongs to the discoverer, and a luxury passenger ship is undoubtedly a huge asset. It was only when the captain found the target that the drifting boat was the one that disappeared. The Antonia Graça is forty years old. But waiting for them is indeed not what you expected, because everyone in the team has different desires, which ultimately leads to a great tragedy.
At the beginning of the movie, everyone on the ship is dancing to the music. It seems that when everything is calm and calm, a fast-moving steel wire is pulled over in an instant, and everyone in the ballroom is instantly cut into their bodies because of that steel wire. Everyone's body splits and falls to the ground, and the scene is extremely bloody, which directly stimulates people's visual experience. This is an indispensable element in horror movies, in order to be able to create enough excitement, exaggeration, and gore to give the audience psychologically Give shock and fear impact, and such a direct horror effect is
the author of "New Theory on Screenwriters" that is rarely reflected in thrillers , Ken. Dan Sig and Jeff. Ruth summed up the characteristics of horror films more comprehensively:
1. The protagonist is like a sacrifice victim, not like a hero.
2. The inspiration for creating negative characters often comes from scientific whims such as "Frankenstein" or social whims.
3. Extreme violence and sex are the main elements of the horror film genre. The cruel behavior in horror films will never end in moderation, it must go to the extreme.
4. Science and technology make the negative characters extremely powerful, making the audience full of horror about the future world.
5. Religion is often seen as a variable that affects the final outcome. In horror movies, the protagonists of the decisive battle between the good and evil forces are usually God and Satan.
6. Children in horror movies usually have different talents. Whether it is the ability to get ahead or escape from the dead, they often appear in the children, but the adults are helpless.
7. Relatives and friends are helpless about what happened to the protagonist, and a certain member of the family is often the first of all evil.
8. The difference in the scene, such as: house, village, archaeological site... will affect the final outcome of the protagonist.
9. Spirituality is a major feature of horror films. Many weird phenomena cannot be reasonably explained scientifically, and everything can only be resorted to irrational spirituality.
Here, we can put the above points into "Ghost Ship" for specific and detailed analysis. The big villain in the movie is actually in the ship squad. From the beginning of the movie, we know that the movie is about to end. It is quite perfect. The audience even I didn't notice it, and this was in line with the seventh point. Although the group is not a family, it is also a group in the story. And none of the members of the small team ended up tragic death, and none of them failed to resist the temptation of desire to themselves, and ended up being killed by the villain. This fits the first point. Everyone has become a victim. There is no hero. There is still quite a lot of blood in the film, and the death method of everyone in the squad is extremely cruel, which really penetrates the atmosphere of horror into the psychology of the audience, which is in line with the third point. Throughout the movie, there is a little girl. Although she is a ghost, she has a human form. She is also the only figure in this movie who has an insight into the whole situation. She told one of the female members of the squad about the mystery of the passenger ship. . Children are often the first task in the movie, which meets the sixth point. The whole movie takes place on a passenger ship, and everyone is ultimately buried in the passenger ship. The passenger ship is the final destination for everyone, which meets the eighth point. After putting on everything, the people in the team have no way to explain. The final interpretation is the final interpretation, which is in line with the ninth point. It can be seen that horror films have very distinctive and unique characteristics. Depending on the plot of each story, there may be a little difference, but in general, it does not fall outside this range.
The plot setting in horror movies often likes to continue the development of the story in the form of one thought. Just like in "The Ghost Ship", everyone’s death is attributed to their own desires, just between that thought, just hold back Unable to die, I couldn't help but die, and in the end only one female team member survived, and the ghost ship was buried in the sea of flames. And horror films also use these to convey the values that the film itself wants to express, good and evil, normal and abnormal, and humans and aliens strictly follow the rule that good must triumph against evil.
In a word, horror movies are a kind of story based on irrational circumstances. In the country of rationality, everything is orderly, controllable, and predictable, while in irrational excess everything is chaotic. Order and unpredictability. The irrational forces in horror movies will make everything illogical and difficult to control, and morality and rules will be destroyed. Such forces are powerful and difficult to control and tend to overwhelm rationality. Horror films always reveal various horror factors hidden in reality on an unconscious level, such as the scene in "Ghost Ship" where the crew died unknowingly due to an illusion. Although the audience is terrified when watching horror films, they are always attracted by these hidden elusive and unpredictable fears. This kind of ambivalence is exactly what this type of film is expected to bring.
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