vulgar talk
The short story "Viy" is included in Gogol's collection of short stories "Milgrad". The Russian film industry has adapted it twice, in 1967's "Evil Spirit" and 2014's "Devil's Spirit". I watched "The Spirit of the Devil" in early 2015, and it was quite amazing!
In fact, whether something is good or not can be judged at a glance. Some films are liked at a glance, and want to watch them down; some films are at the beginning, and you know that you may not be able to sit still for two hours. Regarding this, I was talking about film art, and I was talking about an overall visual tone, and I didn't say anything else. At the beginning of "Devil's Spirit", the full moon, the twilight, the burning dead tree, the bathing girl, the pond... are as delicate as oil paintings, and this kind of delicacy continues. At that time, I shot straight on my thigh, "Oh, it's so good! From the inside to the outside, I like it." Film art, from the outside, is a fusion of expression and creative style; from the inside, It is the literature itself (essence) and the dramatic structure. Li'er and face's complement each other.
Lier is more important than face. It's impossible to make people like it from the beginning to the end just by looking at it, and so is this story. "Evil Spirit" used the length of the pilot episode of a TV series to tell the story of Gogol intact. The funniest part of the film is written in its introduction - fantasy, comedy, drama. What is the meaning of comedy, comedy part or comedy component in this film? This is where I care. In the past, I was personally familiar with horror films with such a temperament, which were mostly produced in Hong Kong. When they are terrifying, they are serious and terrifying; when they do not need to be terrifying, they are doing their best to be funny. Even in the treatment of comedy components, the two are split, funny, scary; funny, scary... and serious, not linked to each other. I even wonder if the way American-style thriller comedy deals with the middle of the two elements dissolves the flavors of the two. I was terrified, and suddenly I made a joke. Is this kind of light-hearted approach any good?
"Viy" was born in 1835. "Evil Spirit" was born in 1967. It was the most watched movie at that time, but it was the only color horror film. From the point of view of time nodes, the birth of such literary and film works is not accidental. It can even be said that it is an inevitable product of catering to the emotional color of an era. The European "literary books" created the supernatural literary images that are consumed today: werewolves, vampires, Frankensteins. If we want to trace its origins in the history of literature, it is all because of the spread of diseases, the Black Death, tuberculosis... For a time, science and religion, scientists and priests, have created a wonderful relative position. Count Dracula was killed by the medical scientist Van Helsing, and Frankenstein was coerced by Frankenstein. So we can determine what the core of a movie's story is long before we see similar movies. Religious heresy, heresy, will not continue to be the only force that dominates a movie, which is the inevitable reason why "Spirit of the Devil" can be distinguished from "Evil Spirit". It is no longer a simple exorcism story. The confrontation between science and the so-called supernatural force has also become the core of the drama of this century's films of this type, and "Spirit of the Devil" lives in it, which is also a "routine film" - a genre film. It is true that this is the inevitable path for a type to grow from nothing and gradually stabilize.
In literature, why write about demons, why write about Western-style monsters, and why Western-style monsters are endowed with so many fascinating character traits? In terms of movies, why does "Frankenstein" have to be shot again and again, and why are there so many high-quality horror films in a specific time period? What is the birth soil of Hong Kong ghost films, and what is the birth soil of horror films such as "Singing at Midnight" in my country? Take it all together, and you'll find that there's more to it than simple urban quirks.
Some people got sick, some said it was because of the plague, and some said it was God's punishment for mankind. Some people had tuberculosis, coughing up blood, fever, increased libido, and withered physique. If you imagine the image of many vampires, you will find that they look like tuberculosis patients! And these, Susan Sontag has sorted out and clarified. People also enjoy it, and they will never tire of it when it comes to new things.
This is the reason why "vulgar talk" is enduring. Taboos will be broken, and photophobia will be able to walk during the day.
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