Movies and novels are good at each other

It seems that many people who have read the original book think that the movie is far inferior to the novel. The novel was read in one go in high school, but I have always had a psychological shadow on this legendary most terrifying movie. Until I watched it recently, the first feeling The movie is far less scary than the novel, but in retrospect it is precisely because after reading the novel, I have more expectations for the movie. If I have not read the original book beforehand, the movie can still achieve a scary effect.

A big change in the movie compared to the original is to turn Asakawa into a woman and make her fall in love with Ryuji Takayama. At first I thought it was totally unacceptable, but a movie wouldn't be a good movie if it wasn't recreated from the script. Isn't making a movie just to pay tribute to Suzuki Koji? Only Lucas could do this kind of thing, but he paid homage to himself without any humility.

When I saw it was about to end, I suddenly felt that this change was really successful for the first movie, and made the whole movie have more emotions in it. In fact, even if Asakawa does not have a wife and only children in the original novel, it is enough to trigger the ending "Who will go to hell if I don't go to hell". At most, women may lose their minds because of mother's love and not be as mindful of the world as men. But in the end, when Ryuji Takayama sent Asagawa home, and at the end when Ryuji died, Asakawa rushed to his residence and said that he was Ryuji's wife.

As for the part of Sadako crawling out of the TV in the movie, it has always been regarded as a classic, but in my opinion, the horror atmosphere created by this method is far less good than the original. The novel has its own charm to reveal the horror only in the descriptive words, and if the movie ends with the horrific music Ryuji struggles to stop his heartbeat, it would make me even more terrifying, because the description of the novel is the basis.

I found myself disgusted by Sadako crawling out of TV mainly because it ruined the heroic image of Ryuji in my mind. In the movie, Long Si died far less than Neo in The Matrix 1 and met Smith calmly. Although the two people who were the saviors later had the same ability as Batman and Superman, they were the saviors of the future after all. This reminds me of Ke Yuheng in Nine Swords. No one would have thought that the collapsed student would be the god in the future. God knows if Nine Knives is taking this to pay homage to the midnight bell.

In the end, Asakawa's actors looked beautiful, and Takayama Ryuji's actors were also very handsome, which led me to focus on them when I was watching the movie. Think, why didn't you give Sadako a shot. . .

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