The cigarette was finally lit in the film 1408 and burned.
This is fate, which gave Stephen King a closed character and a depressed childhood, which also created Stephen King's rich imagination and soul-filled words.
Little Stephen King accidentally discovered a pile of horror novels saved by his father at home. He was fascinated by horror novels and began to write novels at the age of 7.
Stephen King has many novels about enclosed spaces, hotels, prisons, old houses... 1408 is one of them. There are a lot of cinematic descriptions in the novel, and even directly writing the slanted lens will create a sense of horror. It also mentions the slanted door in "Dr. Caligari's Cabin", which is used in the novel. The color of the hotel room mentioned in it, the dizzying effect of the color, I guess it is from "The Shining".
Stephen King himself said about 1408 that the novel scares him, but it didn't resonate with me when I read it. The 1408 shot by Swedish director Mikael Håfström really scared me. I wanted to watch it again several times, but I just watched it in paragraphs. The difference between the film is not that people are fearful because of the association, but the loneliness and helplessness conveyed by the film is suffocating. It doesn't necessarily work for everyone, but, for me, it works very well.
Horror movies and horror novels are the most difficult to fiddle with in my opinion. It cannot be done with technology alone. Repeating the tricks once or twice will have no effect. To create horror, you must first scare yourself and spy on the dark part of your heart. The average person is If you want to do it, only some people who seem to be a little weird can do it. You can use the characters of the story or the audio-visual language to create an atmosphere. Just the presence of goblins is not necessarily scary. There are many goblins in Harry Potter, and I haven't seen any scary ones.
1408, I think the movie is better than the original novel, the screenwriter is powerful enough, enriching a lot of content, and more soul penetrated from the lonely soul breath of Stephen King revealed in the novel, although it is also lonely and closed. This turned a film about a hotel into a hotel, full of ghosts and hotels that are not open to the living. Like hunters, they set traps, just waiting for a lonely soul to be shocked into the movie. It’s hard to say how many. The audience of a peculiar writer, such as the writer in the film, was hunted like innocent rabbits. These people have been stained with yin in this world. If they failed to hunt on Black Sunday, they would be hunted by other literature and art.
The screenwriter is familiar with the process of psychological breakdown. It can be clearly seen from the movie that from the beginning of a lonely character, to the mania of entering the hotel, and then to complete loneliness and helplessness, all the strange ghosts are indifferent and alienated until their relatives appear. Being able to see relatives in another world is not so scary anymore, so that the living relatives are also lured into the phantom evil. One person goes to hell and suffers, but it is not so painful to pull someone down, at least there is a companion. Maybe the hotel manager also has this idea, including the proprietress who started the Drizzle Beech Hotel. The English homonym of the name Drizzle Beech suggests the author's later experience. So, in a blink of an eye, I found that there are ghosts all around, and ghosts are peaceful. How can a newcomer feel at ease in hell? If you use your imagination and watch the movie, what does it feel like when everyone walking out of the theater is full of ghosts?
After watching the film, I only felt anxious, lonely and chaotic inside. All those ghosts, with sly expressions, seemed to be normal. They were in the low-camera camera and looked depressed. In retrospect, the film is only chaotic, although the film itself is very organized, maybe because of jumping and watching, I can't make it clear, and I can't stand still.
Director Mikael Håfström can make Stephen King's works so vivid, I think their souls always have something in common. Mikael Håfström's previous film "Evil" is also a story about a boy abandoned by his father. The family atmosphere is depressing. When he enters school, he finds that he has entered another prison. There are some similarities with Stephen King's experience. Maybe this is what he will do The reason for writing so many stories about enclosed spaces. Compared with the two people, Mikael Håfström is young and a new generation, so he made a different work from "The Shining". The same corridor, red carpet, 1408 color is dim, the props are modern, the writer has no worries about raising the family, only loneliness, the laptop has a camera and can surf the Internet wirelessly, but the person connected seems to be in another world, the helplessness and despair at this end, At that end it was as ridiculous as a joke. Also a writer who lives in a claustrophobic hotel, the writer in 1408 is more affectionate, nostalgic for a beautiful family, different from the writer in "The Shining". The identity of the writer in "The Shining" is a father and a husband. In 1408, the writer is not only a father and a husband, but also a son. In 1408, he saw the ghost of his father. In the cold white space, his father said "the more you more and more like me."
The screenwriter of 1408 seems to be deeply in Stephen King's heart. The writer has a shadow of Stephen King. The author's first novel in the film is about his father. The title is "The Long Road to My Home". The longing for home, the longing for belonging, but unfortunately, he was stuck in the hotel, and was eventually confined by the hotel, never belonging or free, like wandering alone, the ending seems bright, but please take a closer look at that building, Cooperate with the writer's weird smile.
What is the scariest? It seems that the world is staring at it, but it is found that the surrounding ghosts are terrifying. What is the least scary? It is already a ghost. It seems that the surrounding are all of the same kind, and there is no need to go around in the underworld.
In contrast, being able to occasionally see beautiful female ghosts and handsome male ghosts in the so-called yangjian is really interesting. I am afraid that I will find out that I am a ghost in a blink of an eye. Among the ghosts, it is not as good as the yin-yang world Beautiful female ghosts, handsome male ghosts come and go freely and leisurely.
For some people, the closed and narrow space is the most terrifying, and for some people, the endless ocean is the most terrifying. In this film, both spaces are included.
For me, the most terrifying place in the film is the depressing city in the dark. The cars are silent, and the people who see people in the opposite window become the author's own shadow, silent and dark, and the soul is suffocated. Nightmare and utter loneliness.
For you, please take a closer look and see how much weirdness is hidden behind the smiling faces of the people around you. Then, smile.
TOM Zhuangao, please do not reprint
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