To this day, many people still don’t understand how many of the "The Grudge" series are there? Why didn't I see the plot you saw? When we talked, everyone had seen some of them, but everyone said they were different. In fact, if you directly ignore the later American trilogy, and the two commemorative editions of "White Old Woman" and "Black Girl" directed by Takashi Shimizu in 2009, the Japanese version of "The Grudge" series by Gen Masaomi has The following four titles (in order of release): TV version of "The Grudge" first TV version of "The Grudge" second movie version of "The Grudge 1" Movie version of "The Grudge 2" Of course, no matter what the messy version, The most horrible and classic of these are definitely the first two TV versions (also called videotape versions). Due to the intersection of the plot content of the two TV versions, some people directly referred to it collectively as "The Grudge 0". However, most people have watched the two movie versions, which have completely different plot content from the TV version. But it's not that the movie version is not terrifying, but the TV version creates a more delicate and realistic atmosphere before each horror outbreak, so it brings a stronger sense of engagement, and at the same time confesses the origin of the curse. Therefore, if you don’t have the TV version as the basis and watch the movie version directly, it will produce what many people say is a chaotic and unclear movie-watching experience. Next, let's talk about the four major characteristics of the Japanese version of "The Grudge" series that create horror: 1. It uses a form similar to biographies to show a suggestive horror. After every horror outbreak, before the next "winning" character appears on the stage, the screen will turn to a pure black background and the name of the "winning" character will appear. At this time, the audience is implied: whether this person is male or female, beautiful or ugly, he will suffer anyway, just like an obituary announced in advance. In contrast, the US version has removed this character biographical style of plot transition, and instead has less fear. 2. It uses a lot of flashbacks, interspersed narratives, and even overlapping narratives of time and space to deliberately create a sense of plot chaos, so that the audience can't guess who will die next. In fact, some of the characters who died at the beginning of the second part of the TV version were actually the ones who died first, and all the people who died were related. This virtually created a kind of suspenseful fear for the film. 3. It directly targets people's inertial behaviors when they face fear. For example, turn on the lights, drill the bed, cover your face with your hands, etc. BOSS is always on the stage at this time, and by breaking people's security-seeking behaviors, they create classic horror sections. This gives the audience a fear of helplessness: don't struggle, you are dead! 4. The dark ending— —The empty, desolate and messy streets of Tokyo are full of missing persons notices! Suggest to the audience: As the death toll grows, grievances accumulate and the curse is unbreakable. Finally, for those who say that they are not scary at all, I think there are three situations: 1. The nerves are indeed congenital thick, anyway, I am not afraid! There is no solution to those people who were scared half to death or even to death, just at the two ends of the normal distribution. 2. A few people chatted with melon seeds, and pressed the fast forward button to finish reading, but there is no answer. 3. Patients with selective amnesia have no solution.
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