Don't think the script is simple

Ruthie 2021-10-18 19:50:44

The advantages are as follows:

1. The transformation of a closed and open environment is very characteristic. It makes you nervous for a while and relaxes for a while. The whole article makes you feel that everything is happening too fast. Before you have time to react and taste, you will lose everything. It is quite high-powered.

2. Intuitively speaking, it doesn't give you a long pavement like other horror movies. In the end, it's a little bit. The story of the film is always in development, and the story is promoted by the results, not by people.

After talking about the advantages, let's talk about the shortcomings. There are a lot of unknown details without explanation, and there are fewer responses before and after, which gives viewers who are used to watching the film a bit of a sense of imprecision.

This also explains from the negative side that the film feels real, not deliberate. It is the roughness that some people admire. I think the director deliberately does not show some details, so that the audience can divert their enthusiasm or attention for the film from exploring to accepting and feeling the process. From this point, it can be seen that Director Carpenter is really thinking about it.

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Extended Reading
  • Christa 2021-10-20 19:00:59

    It's a pity that I haven't been able to hatch a series like Alien, but it should be the pinnacle of Uncle Carpenter.

  • Rubie 2022-03-20 09:01:09

    Yes, I’m wondering if I’m learning Alien. The first half has a lot of close-to-static shots, with BGM, and the rhythm is slow. On the contrary, it makes people guess or even expect what will happen and what will come out. A weird atmosphere that mobilizes emotions and creates tension... The biggest appreciation of "Weird Shapes" should be the setting-imitating ability of weird shapes, which mobilize the audience's mind to guess who is the weird shape. The open ending extends this emotion.

The Thing quotes

  • MacReady: I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.

    Childs: I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.

    Palmer: Childs, happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?

    Childs: You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?

    Palmer: Childs, Childs... Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.

    Garry: So, come on now, MacReady, Norwegians get ahold of this... and they dig it up out of the ice.

    MacReady: Yes, Garry, they dig it up, they cart it back, it gets thawed out, it wakes up... probably not the best of moods... I don't know, I wasn't there!

    Nauls: [skates in with ripped long johns] Which one of you disrespectful men been tossing his dirty drawers in the kitchen trash can, huh? From now, I want my kitchen clean, all right? Germ free!

    Childs: So how's this motherfucker wake up after thousands of years in the ice?

    George Bennings: And how can it look like a dog?

    MacReady: I don't know how. 'Cause it's different than us, see? 'Cause it's from outer space. What do you want from me? Ask him!

    [motions to Blair]

    Childs: You buy any of this Blair?

  • Garry: You reach anybody, yet?

    Windows: Reach anybody? We're a thousand miles from nowhere, man, and it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better!