Every year until the Qingming Festival in April and May, or the hot summer vacation, there are always a few ghost films that make money. It can be a "Liao Zhai"-style adaptation that uses scriptures but has no core: all kinds of Xiaoqian; it can be to find a few fresh meat and beauties to put together "Pen Xian" to finish "Dish Xian", "Pen Xian 123" to finish "Pen Xian's Horror" "; you can also find a few top-notch actors, do a little thriller, sell a figure and attract attention, such as "Far Cry".
Hollywood also likes to engage in fantasy and supernatural dramas
The "Under the Dome" series started with supernatural events, filled a season with military conspiracy theories, and ended with the supernatural;
"annihilation" completely shaped a supernatural fantasy, and also gained a lot of reputation.
In terms of shaping "ghosts", Lao Mei's skills are worth referring to——
"outsider"
The film was originally written by the famous Stephen King . Yes, the famous novelist of "The Shining", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Miracle in the Green Mile"...
The film has an audience score of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDB score of 8.7 , which has won unanimous praise from ordinary audiences and professional filmmakers.
presence and absence
At the beginning of the episode, an infiltrating atmosphere was created, with a gloomy forest background, slow camera movement, and music slowly brought in.
The dog walker stepped into the forest, but the dog smelled the blood and licked the blood that had just flowed from the roots of the tree.
As soon as the camera turned, two police officers walked straight into the baseball stadium and arrested Maitland, a well-known local baseball coach, in front of more than 100 people.
Reason for indictment: Rape, murder and throwing of a boy in the woods.
Ridiculously, in the mere hours after the case, multiple witnesses said they saw Coach Maitland walk out of the woods covered in blood, into a bar and hailed a taxi.
Strange facts: 1丨The suspect usually enjoys an excellent reputation and is a beloved baseball coach. 2丨After the crime was committed, the suspect appeared in multiple locations and was captured by multiple witnesses and cameras, as if he was just about to be seen. 3丨The most bizarre thing is that the suspect also appeared at a university faculty meeting 70 miles away on the same day and made a speech. 4丨Furthermore, the suspect’s DNA and fingerprints appeared at the murder scene and at the university meeting at the same time.
It's like, the suspect created an alibi for himself and was caught by the evidence on purpose.
- Incredible, unresolved.
However, the suspense and puzzlement still did not end. On the day the suspect appeared in court, a thug with a gun rushed to the scene and murdered the suspect.
Later, police searched a stable in the suburbs to find clothes and pants containing the suspect's DNA.
The suspenseful, reasoning, and bizarre opening of the play completely absorbs the audience's attention in the compactness of "alibi" and "is the murderer really him" .
The fragmentary parallel montage completely intersects the plots of the two timelines, and when the audience is caught in the "unsolved" reasoning, the supernatural core is slowly pulled out.
Pros and Cons
In the traditional sense, audiences prefer works of reasoning and suspense over fantasy and supernatural dramas.
First, "fantasy and supernatural" means "fictional, unrealistic". It is not easy to resonate, it is not enough to participate in the play, and it is easy to produce a sense of rejection at the nodes of the movie.
——This is how Freud explained "leaving the dream"
Second, the "supernatural" setting often leads to an "unfinished" ending. Because in the second creation, the "supernatural" that is difficult to explain in itself, it is difficult to get an explanation that convinces all audiences and complete the story.
Third, in terms of external factors, it is difficult for "supernatural themed" works to complete the highlights of several consecutive seasons. For the TV station producers, the investment income of short series is of course far inferior to the conventional suspense reasoning themes that can create multi-season ratings. Not to mention, the more focused sci-fi dramas and magical themes (you must know that HBO's most successful series in recent years are the magical "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld")
But it's not without precedent.
The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural are both long-lived supernatural shows. If you have to count it, the same is true of the currently popular comics, but most of them have added the objective setting of "superheroes".
The reason why such dramas can live a long life is that they are not rigidly centered around the "supernatural" setting, but put the content of "family", "brothers", and "superhero Team" at the first point.
Formally they belong to the supernatural-non-realistic, and the core is still family-emotional drama.
The drama "The Outsider" retains the horror part of Steve King's horror, with a rating of R-18 , which belongs to the horror theme that is not allowed to be watched by minors.
In the process of narration, many family ethical factors are added, and many emotional lines are buried. There is a tendency to be serialized for multiple seasons.
The film will start airing once a week from January 12, 2020. The first season has a total of 10 episodes, and 7 episodes have been played so far, which have received a good response in word of mouth and topicality.
However, the main storyline mainly follows the storyline of Steve King's original work, and whether there will be a major adaptation in the ending is still expected.
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