Fan Gospel Classic Revitalizes - "Doctor Sleep"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Doctor Sleep".
The title is Doctor Sleep (2019), alias Doctor Sleep / Doctor Sleep / Doctor Sleep (Taiwan) / Doctor Sleep / "The Shining" sequel.
We know that the movie alias of "Doctor Sleep" is "The Shining 2", which is the orthodox sequel to the classic movie "The Shining".
"The Shining" is Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, no matter which horror movie list, "The Shining" must be among the top classics. Kubrick, known as the director closest to God, created a lot of horror movie shooting techniques in "The Shining" and became a textbook-level existence.
"The Shining" is based on the novel of Stephen King, the king of horror novels. It tells the story of Danny's father, Jack, who went mad at the Peak Hotel, where Jack was madly chasing his wife and children.
And Danny has an ability called "The Shining", which can communicate without speaking, can see the approaching death, and can communicate with the dead. The Mountaintop Hotel was built on the bones of the Indians. Over time, the tour shop became a living creature eager to devour people's lives. Jack went crazy under the temptation of the Mountaintop Hotel and became a tool for the hotel to borrow a knife to kill.
"Doctor Sleep" is adapted from the sequel novel "The Shining" written by Stephen King. It can be said that "Doctor Sleep" is the sequel that fans have been waiting for for nearly 40 years. It's a lifetime series, and I'm happy to see a sequel to The Shining.
Danny survived his father's pursuit, and "Doctor Sleep" tells the story of Danny as an adult.
Danny discovered his Shining abilities at a young age. But with that comes a fear of the unknown, and Danny doesn't know what this ability does or how to control it.
In "The Shining", Dick Halloran, a black chef at the Hilltop Inn, also has the ability to be Shining, and he was the only person who could understand Danny at the time. In the rest of his life, Halloran became Danny's guide, guiding him to overcome his fears and correctly understand his own abilities.
Stephen King's novel "The Shining" is mainly about people's psychological level of fear, supernatural elements are not the focus of the novel.
And Kubrick's "The Shining" strengthens the supernatural elements, making the film's visual effects even more shocking. The fly in the ointment is that "The Shining" does not interpret the supernatural elements in detail, so that the audience has a variety of interpretations.
"Doctor Sleep" further improves the world view of the previous work, and tells in detail what "The Shining" is all about.
In the setting of the film, everyone has a certain "aura", and those with strong abilities can realize that they can manipulate and use these auras, that is, the ability of "shining", while the weak are unaware of the existence of these auras, only When the life is exhausted and the oil is exhausted, the spiritual energy will leave the human body like the soul out of the body.
As we know from The Shining, Danny isn't the only one with the "Shining" ability. And those who can control the "Shining" ability well are not all good people with good hearts.
In "Doctor Sleep", a group of people who also possess the ability of "The Shining" get together. This group of people are not good men and women, they call themselves "the True Knot", like Death Eaters, they rely on the aura of people to absorb vitality, so as to make themselves immortal and youthful.
For the sake of immortality, the Zhenjie clan looked for people with stronger aura to start, slowly tortured and killed the target, and then sucked in the aura bit by bit.
Once the villain is established, the protagonists need to fight against it. Opposite the true knot family is a little girl, Abra Stone.
Abra was born with outstanding spiritual power, and his Shining ability exploded. Not only does he have all the abilities that Danny has, but he can also conjure up various objects and launch mental attacks on the enemy. When Abra didn't have a clear target, Shining wandered around, and accidentally ran into the scene of the true knot murder. After the Zhenjie people smelled Abra's powerful spiritual power, they moved by the wind, trying to capture Abra and raise him in captivity to become their own "food factory".
Abra was inexperienced and panicked at first, but quickly calmed down with Danny's help. Abra and Danny joined forces to formulate a plan to focus on dealing with this group of real-knots who harmed the world, to get justice for those dead souls, and to remove the scourge of the world.
After Dick Halloran became Danny's guide, he also taught Danny to guide future generations. Danny was young at the time, didn't understand what it meant, and turned down Dick Halloran's offer. But before he knew it, Danny became Abra's guide, and the Shining inheritance was completed.
"Doctor Sleeping" is full of sincerity and rich in content. The director's cut is three hours long, with a wealth of information and enough time to be adapted into a mini-series. A mini-series usually has three episodes, each one hour long.
The first half of the film mainly tells the story of Danny's escape from the mountaintop hotel. He and his mother Wendy depend on each other for life. He has the ability to shine, but he has to suppress himself. Danny lived a miserable life.
At the same time, he explained the origin of the Zhenjie clan clearly, and established these villain images through a few short stories to improve the worldview of Shining. Then introduce the most powerful Shining person, Abra, to form a conflict point between the two sides.
Finally, the battle will be settled in the most famous mountain top hotel, to meet all the needs of fans at one time.
When "Doctor Sleep" returned to the Peak Hotel, the feeling of revisiting the old place came up, which was quite exciting!
Danny took us back to the old place. It can be seen that Danny was in a very complicated mood. He saw the door that was split open by an axe in "The Shining" and saw the bartender who looked like Jack Nicholson. And as an audience, I was very excited.
"Doctor Sleep" fully pays homage to the classic "The Shining". The whole film "The Shining" is full of flavor. There are familiar soundtracks and familiar pictures everywhere. It can be seen that director Mike Flanagan has a lot of sincerity and homework. .
"Doctor Sleep" also uses oblique flying aerial shots, which are exactly the same as those in "The Shining". God has restored bars, fence mazes, broken doorways, stair-to-axe confrontation, bath lovers in room 237, and extensive use of libraries. The Kubrick zoom lens creates a suspenseful and frightening atmosphere. As the saying goes, it "has an inner taste", and it has a lot of flavor.
Speaking of actors, the casting of "Doctor Sleep" is also quite attentive.
"Trainspotting", "Big Fish", "Star Wars" series and other excellent works, Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor plays adult Danny. After all, little Danny in "The Shining" grew up and was disabled, and Ivan can get a lot of fans to support him.
The beautiful Swedish nightingale Rebecca Ferguson plays the villain Rose. The old witch, who was full of confidence, was taught a little bit to be a human being. Although she was a bad person, she was still beautiful.
The little girl Kyliegh Curran plays the most powerful Shining Abra. I have to say, this little girl is so cool, why not have such a cool person to save everyone.
Danny's mother Wendy is also quite similar to Wendy in "The Shining". The most iconic feature is their big eyes and nose. Her frightened expression can add a terrifying atmosphere to the whole film.
The orthodox sequel completes the worldview,
Movie fan gospel classics come to life.
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