Rating: 6
Keywords: Fear is a spirit;
1. Not all horrors are the same;
The East and West have totally two kinds of #subject nature# in terms of horror cognition.
The most obvious difference lies in the horror look.
Compared with Japan and Thailand's ubiquitous terror attitude, Western terrorism is very conservative in its design.
This creates a very embarrassing situation. In many cases, the styling design of European and American non-horror movies is even scarier than the horror themes.
The European and American major movie markets can accept bloody violence and ethical pornography, but they can't accept the minimum horror.
In other words, it is not impossible to be horrible, but the subject of horror cannot be horrified.
Capitalism is true and hypocritical.
Speaking of it, it is not their intention to restrict terror. The real problem is that the subject of terror is too sensitive to Western religions.
#No violence is allowed to participate in terror
#Nor allow erotic participation in horror
#Not allow religion to participate in terror
Adding up the three restricted areas, the terrorist content is basically over.
At the same time, even the purely psychological horror subject matter has many "Bible" pain points.
People always say that the East is conservative and the West is open. In fact, which one is also divided.
The West is very open to violence and eroticism. But in terms of terror, it is very conservative.
In the East, sex violence is relatively sensitive, but terror is extremely open.
Japanese and Thai horror films have basically no ideological restrictions in story design. How to play how you want to play.
Among them, #灵异恐怖# is the most, #情色恐怖# is the second, and #violent terrorist# is the least.
For example, the "Liao Zhai" in the mainland literature market has a typical literary and artistic nature of #情色恐怖#. It is very positive in the Chinese context and possesses historical and social profoundness.
But in the West, erotic terror is "anti-party and anti-society."
2. Western-style terror;
First of all, image design--especially no direct involvement of eroticism and violence is allowed; blood can be restricted, but not terrifying.
Secondly, the logic of horror-the element of horror will eventually be destroyed. This logic fundamentally negates the explosive power of horror drama;
Finally, the process of horror is full of childishness, and fear is a nightmare; it is more like a surprise performance in a circus, where fear is only physical shock and no substance.
Our original summary of Western-style horror was "magic", but now it looks more like "expedition."
3. Without Christianity, the spirit is a void;
Why do Eastern audiences always feel that Western fear is not scary?
Because of the lack of Christian ideology, Eastern audiences generally have no specific concept of the soul. It is just an abstraction.
Why is Western fear always childlike? Because children’s souls are the most naive and relatively vulnerable to evil spirits.
Take this film as an example, the fear element is the soul.
Soul drift-the physical struggle is the essence of fear and contradiction.
Western fear believes that the spirit is the cause of fear, and has no interest in the inner world.
While Eastern Fear does not manage the "soul", on the contrary, it cares more about the "inner heart."
Any ghost in the East seems to be "psychological sin" rather than "evil spirit".
Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love and evil desires are all a kind of heart, not a kind of spirit.
This is the most tangible example of the influence of ideology on the "fear element". The so-called suspicion produces evil spirits.
The religious foundation behind it must be considered-Christianity is concerned with the spirit, Taoism and Buddhism are concerned with the heart.
This is precisely the difference between anthropology and theology. -Anthropology is based on the heart, and theology is based on the spirit.
Many Eastern audiences are still arguing about idealism and materialism. From the standpoint of Christianity, idealism and materialism are indistinguishable from each other. They are all human beings.
In front of the spirit, mind and matter are one thing. God used clay to create his body and his heart. The real difference is that the breath that God blows makes people a living being with spirit.
Therefore, the real difference between Western fear and Eastern fear lies in the element of terror.
The terror element in the West is the spirit, and the terror element in the East is the heart. Wang Yangming said that there is nothing outside the heart, and the heart is the universe; Jesus said, if you are nonsense, the spirit is the universe.
It should be noted that Xiling and Dongxin are not different expressions of one thing. It's totally 2 kinds of things.
4. Why do we always think that people are more terrible than ghosts?
People eat people, people corrupt people, people deceive people, and people deceive people. . .
Ghosts are not so bad, this is the impression of many people.
However, the spirit standard believes that man is only a tool, and the bad thing is the spirit.
Therefore, there is no human being more terrible than ghosts.
The Bible says that the human heart is more deceitful than everything else, and it is extremely bad. But you are still too far behind the evil spirits. Not in an order of magnitude.
5. Why can't Western terror scare the Eastern audience? Almost mean?
Eastern culture does not have the concept of soul, but any Western terrors revolve around "soul".
The subjective deviation of fear causes Western-style fear to be an empty shelf in the East.
Orientals also say that "all things have anims", trees can be refined, and rubble and stones can be refined. But that is not the Holy Spirit or evil spirits. This is just a sensational impression, far from forming a "systematic theology" around the spirit like the West.
In this system, the mind is not enough to constitute a fear element.
When a person dies, resentment, love, desire, grievances are all dead. But the spirit is not dead.
Relative to the value of life, emotion is not important.
Therefore, psychological sin is at most a personality disorder, or mental illness. That is not horror.
Fear comes from death, death represents the unknown, and the unknown is the spirit. The spirit is the only information that human beings cannot see through.
In fact, speaking this way, we can probably understand why terror is so sensitive to the West.
Why can Hollywood create benchmarks for all types of movies, except for horror themes, they have nothing to do.
On the contrary, it was Japan, which caught the horror erotica.
At the root, the display of terror is an offense to the authority of God. They dare to challenge politics, pornography and violence, but they dare not challenge God.
Countries that can be photographed in House of Cards, but dare not to shoot horror themes casually, it is really interesting.
Basically,
1- Western fear is closer to the element of terror-the essence of fear is beyond morality.
2- One thing is often misunderstood, and it happens to be the fundamental reason why Western civilization is extremely sensitive to horror themes: in Western ideology, the'fundamental terror element' is God, not the devil. In Eastern ideology or thinking habits, this is just the opposite: no one thinks that'God' is terrible, and even Lord Yan is not terrible. Everyone thinks that'little ghost' is the most difficult one.
In the Bible, Lucifer or Satan has never appeared in a'horror' position. When it appears, it is always sweet and sweet.
On the contrary, God or God’s messengers often appear from the standpoint of “horror”, calling them “great and arguable gods”, which is generally called “awe”. People who have never been in contact with Christianity can generally only get it. Respect in awe, but ignoring "awe", in fact, the latter is the point.
The fundamental element of terror is the fundamental difference between the East and the West in their understanding of terror, and it is also the first reason why we believe that Western-style terror is closer to a terrorist entity.
6. Trends;
Of course, we can see that Western fear is also learning from the experience of Eastern fear. For example, haunted houses, mirrors, etc., these images, which are extremely fearful in the East, are also being used by the West. Although the soul does not need any entity at all, it transcends the entity.
Eastern fear is also learning from Western experience, such as entertainment-Western fear is always full of entertainment.
7. Digression;
Such a beautiful house is really a waste of ghost stories.
Our stalls, farmers' rooms, handshake rooms, and basements are depressed to the extent that there are no ghost stories. How can this kind of house be embarrassed to be haunted?
This kind of house is enough for us to live in the Garden of Eden. Marry another Barbara and live alive, what can your husband want?
I have to say that Americans are so corrupt. Give us a house like this, Voldemort is not afraid when he comes.
Since it is talking about terror, I want to make a digression. The gap in industrialization has been the real horror for hundreds of years.
We can't even afford to live in an apartment, but they squandered the villa.
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