British director Christopher Smith is more than enough to control the horror theme. In 1348, the plague in medieval England raged, killing one third of the population of Europe at that time. This is the background of the story.
The main characters are a young monk, the knight Ulrich and his mercenaries, and a beautiful witch Ranjiva. The main story line is that they travel to a village in a remote swamp to hunt down a pagan witch. There are many themes to be expressed, but
a few key words give me the feeling: faith, redemption, fear, death, etc.
The director tries to put the modern audience into the mental state of the fundamentalist people in the Middle Ages and face up to the barbaric side of ordinary people's characters. The concept is very clever, the stylized horror action, enough suspense and blood-filled, etc. to meet the sensory needs of watching the movie, at the same time, the film also hopes to explore a disturbing moral dilemma,
in that era of fear, they are subject to God Punishment? Or abandoned by God? Should we hold on to our beliefs? Or should we abandon God in turn? At the end,
it is sublimated to the point that religion can shape and destroy people at the same time.
To create a horror atmosphere, in addition to the need for the director and screenwriter to tell a good story, there
is no doubt that the actors are also a crucial part.
Sean Bean with distinctive personality in "The Lord of the Rings" (2001), he once wore armor and rode, full of heroic spirit.
In this film, he shows the heart of a knight who is struggling with the pain of belief in the era of catastrophe ravaged by the plague.
In comparison, the glamorous witch played by Caris van Houden is probably more eye-catching in appearance, and will also become a pivotal role in the film.
The director himself said: "When I was thinking about the theme of the "Black Death", I kept thinking, 'What story can be more interesting than the era itself'", when talking about the original intention of the director, Christopher mentioned, "So I From the beginning it was very keen to keep the Black Death as realistic and factual as possible for this film, while also delivering an exciting dark film.
I wanted to create a cinematic world where people would think all this That's how it should be.
In this world, people believed that the
plague was released by God to punish them, or that they were being tortured by the devil.
With no cure for the disease, fear whips people into madness. ","So, in this context, we send a team of knights and a fallen monk on a hunt to examine why a village was spared the plague.
Sean Bean's character, Ulrich, believes that the plague was sent by God, so if there is no plague in the village, then it must also be without God. "
The supernatural is so important to this movie!"
Christopher said firmly
, "because it's what brings us into the minds of the characters."
We believe what they believe, and then we get even deeper into their hunt.
While the subject matter of the film needs to be taken seriously, it also needs to be entertaining.
The supernatural element is equivalent to giving us a hook to connect the plot and horror. "
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