The film of Silent Hill 1 is known as "the watershed of game adaptation movies". The film has excellent special effects and plots. In terms of the setting of the world view, the first film of Silent Hill almost completely understands the triple world in the game. The essence of life, the atmosphere and the soundtrack are even more vividly restored, without losing the original innovation such as the air defense alarm switching world. In terms of plot, the film uses the outline of the first generation of the story to design another dark and reversed story, the exquisite foreshadowing and atmosphere creation in the early stage, the twists and turns in the later stage, the unexpected and reasonable climax, and the intriguing ending. It made the first Silent Hill the only great game adaptation movie I've ever seen, and it naturally made me full of expectations for the second game, and I even looked forward to going to HK to experience this domestically forbidden movie on the big screen. broadcast movie.
But what I just didn't investigate is that the writers and directors have all changed. . . . .
So a good screenwriter and a good director are indeed more important than the story itself.
In fact, if you carefully ponder the plot of the first part, you will find that it is also very general and simple. It is nothing more than the process of the little girl seducing the heroine to help her complete her revenge one by one. A story that was originally mediocre has been wonderfully interpreted by an excellent screenwriter and director. extremely. The story of the second game is even larger than the first, with more plots, but it was turned into a standard Hollywood-style haunted house adventure by a second-rate director and a few third-rate screenwriters. . .
What is the symbol of Silent Hill? What is the reason for his success (both games and movies)? Triple worldview? Connotation? I don't think it's the most important thing. I remember the producer of "Silent Hill: Homecoming" once said that "Silent Hill is a game that relies on atmosphere to eat." The most famous thing about Silent Hill is the atmosphere, and the core of the atmosphere of Silent Hill is One is - obscure!
Because of its obscurity, because there is no way for people to easily understand it, but it also makes people feel what the producer wants to express. The obscurity of Silent Hill has brought him the reputation of having the most humanistic connotations in the history of games, and brought fans The sense of oppression they rush for. Obviously, the director of the first film did a very good job, and the director of the second film did not understand this at all. In the shaping of the atmosphere, he constantly used the usual methods of American horror - very disgusting monsters and scenes, and shocking visual effects. But this is the first time that the dark and terrifying atmosphere of Silent Hill has left me indifferent, because it is no longer obscure, I keep stepping into the realm of terror, and there are constantly bloody scenes of disgusting monsters, but I almost fell asleep watching it. (In the next scene, men such as clothes do not have any visual stimulation, but I see no sleepiness = =). Remember the man's corpse in the first toilet? A birdcage in the hands of a cultist? The door behind the mysterious mural on fire? That's the horror and obscurity I want. . . .
Then there is the plot, the plot of this work can really be described as an idiot! I can make up this kind of plot. First of all, the director of the second part obviously didn't fully understand what the first part was talking about. Therefore, the second part's continuation of the first part is extremely far-fetched! The 3rd generation of the game is a continuation of the story of the 1st generation, so the second part of the movie copied the plot of the third part of the game without thinking, but found that although the first part of the game and the first part of the movie had the same structure in the early stage, the key to the later part of the story The bifurcation has long been that they have become two stories, but he still chose to copy the plot of the third generation of the game without thinking, and as a result, he did the best to distort the story of the first movie! The ending of the first movie already hinted that Alessa and Xue Rou had already joined together, and that it was her power that trapped Rose in the foggy world, but the second movie insisted that the one who was sent back was a kind-hearted Alessa. part, and finally forced them to fit together again (the lines of love and hate are weak, and the obscure and dark theme of Silent Hill has such a brain-damaged line). The cult members in the first movie are just a group of stupid believers, and they have already been wiped out in Aresa's final revenge (at least that's what I think the movie means), but the second movie uses "the cult's remnants" as the villain, and also It is abruptly put on the part of the game where they want to summon the evil god, which makes people dumbfounded. And all the monsters in Silent Hill must be the reflection of the protagonist's inner thoughts, and they must be negative thoughts. Once the protagonist gets rid of the inner demon, the monsters will disappear without a trace. This is the most basic setting of the entire series, but the film The second part will be recognized as a "combination of love (Baidu I love you), desire (developed muscles and bulging lower body) and violence (triangle symbolizes violence)" - the triangle head beautifies the heroine's patron saint, and also makes He finally fought the evil god. . .
In addition, the way of explaining the plot is also chaotic. After watching it, Qiqi told me that she had not seen the first part, so she was a bit confused. The storytelling of the film is very problematic! The film compresses the story into a very limited space to explain, and the rest spends a lot of time on the heroine's fussing ghosts + escape + SHOW's very licensed stunts and 3D effects. , it's strange that people don't see the fog in the clouds!
Let's put it this way, if you want to see special effects in this film, you can still watch it, but I think the special effects are second-tier, not as good as Hollywood's first-tier blockbusters. As for the plot, for those who don't know Silent Hill and haven't watched the first part, you can watch it. Otherwise, there will be the urge to scold the mother.
The director superficially thinks that if the audience will pay by inserting a few game characters, restoring some shapes, adding some music and scenes, and copying the far-fetched plot and licensed special effects, it will be too underestimating the quality of the audience, the bleak box office and reputation The failure of the film has proved that this film is really not good. Each of Silent Hill's current works includes movies and games. No matter what the outside world says, I have never been disappointed. No matter whether it is brilliant or declining, his unique style has long been irreplaceable in my heart. He has been taken over by countless people, and all of them are. It does a great job of restoring the style and atmosphere that he should have. But this time, it turned out to be a dumb Hollywood shit, so I hate this movie so much, and I really want to refuse to admit that he is part of Silent Hill!
Finally, I recommend Xiao A and Kiki to watch the first movie, which is really much better than the second one! ! ! !
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