In fact, the plot of the movie version of "Silent Hill" is basically an abridged version of the game's plot after considering the dual factors of the film's duration and the audience's perception. Concentrate on telling. This article makes a comparative analysis of some main aspects of the movie and game of "Silent Hill", and it is also convenient for audiences who do not understand the plot of the movie to understand the plot.
1. Mother's love and father's love, the return of family affection
The plot of "Silent Hill 1" is adapted from the first generation of the game. In the original game plot, the protagonist is sharron's father harry. In the game's plot setting, it was Alessi's own mother, Daliha, who harmed Alessi, and the reason why Alessa was burned was much more serious than the problem of illegitimate children in the movie: as the head of the crazy Silent Hill cult group, Daliha used a burning ceremony He let his daughter alessi give birth to the divine body in his belly, and as a result, Alessi was severely burned, and only half of the divine body in Alessi was born, so daliha imprisoned Alessi in the hospital and tried every means to make the other half of the divine body also born. Alessi, whose body was destroyed, was lying on the hospital bed. The hatred in her heart made her create a unique world in Silent Hill. She trapped all those who tortured her in the inner world. She is differentiated from her body, and this is sharron. The nurse who took care of Alessi at the time couldn't bear the persecution of Sharron, who was a baby at the time, by Daliha, so she secretly sent Sharron out of Silent Hill and put him on the side of the road. Harry, who was driving by, picked up Sharron and brought him back to raise him.
The opening of the first generation of the game is exactly the same as in the movie. Harry and sharron, who were driving to a ghost in the middle of the night, returned to Silent Hill under the call of alessi, where alessi and her daliha fought to the death. In the end, before dying, alessi couldn't bear Harry to lose his beloved daughter. Pain, I used my last remaining strength to differentiate into a clone. This is the third-generation protagonist of the game and the heroine heather of the movie "Silent Hill 2".
In fact, throughout the entire "Silent Hill" game series, aside from its The bizarre expression techniques, if you pay attention to the plot itself, you will find that the foothold of the "Silent Hill" game plot is mostly "the return of family affection" - the first generation of the game tells the story of harry searching for his daughter, and the second generation is james searching for his wife. The third generation is about heather looking for his father. Although the narrative method of the fourth generation is not the same as before, a big background of the story is Sullivan's search for his mother, while the fifth generation is about brotherhood (of course this A generation of games is later than the first movie).
"Silent Hill" is a story with a strong religious atmosphere, but the feature of Silent Hill is to use extreme religious style to wrap and render the most basic emotional relationship of human society-all aspects of family affection. Therefore, the adaptation of the Silent Hill game is destined to put aside the glamorous flowers, and to see the most common and deepest seeds of affection buried in the depths of the flowers. The extremist religion is the outer envelope of the entire Silent Hill, and the hidden fruit is the glowing family affection.
It is precisely because of this that in the first part of the "Silent Hill" movie, the biggest adaptation made by the screenwriter is to bring all the parents back to their amiable and respectable positions, that is, the movie focuses on whitewashing. Alessi's religious lunatic mother daliha in the game. In the game, daliha is a complete religious madman and a standard villain. The person who is mutilated by her is not only her daughter, alessi, but in the film, the screenwriter directly unifies the tone of the film's story, that is, mother's love, which is probably the same The reason for replacing male harry in game with female rose.
In the movie, the director and screenwriter remind the audience of this tone of the movie all the time: ROSE goes up to the sword and descends into the sea of fire, and is not afraid of the sky and the earth, for what? her daughter sharron; what the ugly daliha is always looking for is still her own daughter sharron; the alarm sounded in the world, and the giants killed anyone they saw, but left the daliha who was looking for her daughter alone; The policeman was tied to a ladder and grilled on the raging fire. The last word to call was her mother. In the last church battle, facing the maddened believers, she supported ROSE fearlessly to challenge the big boss. , is the simple concept of "mother is the child's world". When he finally walked out of the church with Sharon, Daliha asked why Alessa didn't kill her, and Rose replied that in the eyes of the children, the mother was their god. Therefore, the movie version accurately grasps the essence of the family love in the game plot.
The denunciation of religion
The structure of the entire world view of "Silent Hill" is based on an important background, that is, the extremely evil religion that exists in the local area of Silent Hill. In the Silent Hill games, only the first and third generations tell the main story of Silent Hill, and in both of them, without exception, contain the denunciation of this evil religion. Especially in the third generation of the game, the heir of the cult led by Claudia killed Harry in order to capture Heather and force the other half of her divine body from her body, forcing Heather to return to Silent Hill on her own initiative. In the final BOSS station of the game, what heather said when he questioned Claudia, who had been brainwashed and mad by religion, was the game's denunciation of the bloody religion that existed in Silent Hill. At the end of the game, heather took the abortion pill without hesitation, and spat out half of his body that was stored in his body. Heather, or more precisely, the game creators, expressed their extreme contempt and disdain for this practice of using extreme means to waste people's lives just to obtain the "divine body" that he considered.
In the second half of the film, the film focuses on the brainwashing and control of religion on the believers. In the last climax scene, during the siege of the church, ROSE stepped forward, not afraid of the crazy believers, and chrisbela, who has become the leader of the church The confrontation is like the third generation of the game, where heather confronts claudia. The film team firmly grasped the attitude of the local cult group in Silent Hill, which is one of the important reasons why the film's story is not out of shape.
Using the blood and horror of religion to contrast the eternity and beauty of family love is the same idea of the Silent Hill game plot. Although in the game, scenes and artworks rendered with bloody religious atmosphere are used as the main form of expression of the game, these strange and bizarre stream-of-consciousness elements still express the endless disasters and disasters brought by these cults to Silent Hill. Pain, not cult worship.
3. A person's journey
The "Silent Hill" game is a game for one person regardless of the generation. In the game, only the protagonist walks alone on the smoke-filled and foggy road of Silent Hill. Stepping on Silent Hill, no matter the sheep intestines trail, the small town block, or the high-rise house, this is a lonely journey of one person. Silent Hill is a place of evil, but also a place of redemption, a place of truth. In the first half of the movie, the director focused on the loneliness, desolation and horror that belonged to Silent Hill. ROSE was running around on the streets of the town alone, and she was accompanied by only a heart to find the truth.
Fourth, the list of the world
Silent Hill game fans play a much commendable set is its unique exterior view of the world. In addition to the adaptation of the environment, the switching between the two worlds in the game is actually not too clear-cut, because most of the time in the game, you are in the inner world to take risks. During the adaptation of the movie, in order to facilitate the understanding of the audience, ashes were used as a sign of world switching, and a siren was added as a sign of the world falling into madness. Whenever the alarm was sounded, Silent Hill entered madness. the inner world. So in the movie, when the alarm goes off, the world falls into a shattered, terrifying smog.
In the first generation of the game, the inner world was created by Alessi's resentment and hatred. She trapped all those who harmed her in the inner world. Sharron entered the inner world with Harry because of Alessi's call. In order to clarify the existence of these two completely different worlds to the audience, the film deliberately uses two sets of parallel lenses to express: one is looking for sharron's rose in the school in the inner world, and the other is in the outer world, that is, the real world. A husband looking for his wife in the Silent Hill School of the world. In the two sets of shots, the rose in the inner world is dark and depressed, and the husband in the outer world is sunny. Therefore, when explaining Silent Hill's best external and internal worlds, the director and screenwriter were still very attentive, so much so that they were borrowed by the fifth generation of the game "Homecoming".
5. The end of the first part and the second part
In the first generation of the original game, alessi was not a villain. She was blackened by persecution and revenge for blackening. In the end, she and sharron joined together to fight against her evil mother. She died in one battle and finally died. At the same time, she couldn't bear the sadness of Harry, who loved Sharron deeply, because he lost his beloved daughter, so she used her only remaining power to differentiate Heather and let Harry take Harry away from Silent Hill. Harry and Heather, who left Silent Hill, kept their names incognito and wandered around in order to avoid the pursuit of the Silent Hill cult. That's why heather talks about dyeing, moving, and changing names in the second movie. At least for those who don't know Silent Hill, the second film version doesn't explain the legacy of where heather came from and where sharron went.
Of course, according to the final concept of the first movie, the combined alessi and sharron did not die, because the big boss daliha in the original game was just a weak and dilapidated poor mother who was thinking about her daughter. And Sharron, who is no longer pure, finally trapped Rose in Silent Hill instead of letting her return to the real world. This arrangement of the movie is about trying to connect the story of the second game in the second movie, because the second game is a story about finding a wife. But who would have thought that because of the average box office performance of the first film, the director and screenwriter of the second film were changed, so that the second Silent Hill film did not connect with the story of the first film at all, and was purely talking to itself , which also makes it impossible for us to explore the idea of the first director.
Because in the original game setting, Silent Hill had a lot of background information that had to be explained, so in the first part of the movie, a paragraph where rose and alessi on the hospital bed met was specially set up. I explained some background information involved in the movie, and basically sorted out the development of the first movie, but because there was no explanation of the meaning of the world inside and outside, many people did not understand Silent Hill at all. The audience still can't understand the setting of the film.
In fact, the first film of "Silent Hill" is a rare film that captures the essence and essence of the game for film adaptation and re-creation. Compared with other films such as "Tomb Raider" and "Resident Evil", they completely capture the Without the verve of the game and the characteristic movies, "Silent Hill" is really the only remaining fruit of conscience in the game film industry. Movies and games are indeed two completely different expressions and forms. To successfully transition from games to movies, the core and most important thing is to find a director who understands the original game, just like "Silent Hill 1". Because of the poor performance of the second film, I will probably never see a new Silent Hill film in the future. I can't help but feel a pity for a film adaptation like "Silent Hill 1".
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