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Speaking of fog, friends who have known about it will associate it with another word at the first time Together: Humanity. Although many R-rated films will discuss some related issues more or less, but few people can show it in front of the audience as naked, direct and merciless as the mist. I believe that people who have seen the film will be ironic and incomparable The heart-wrenching ending adaptation is still fresh in my memory - when the protagonist shot his family in despair, but found the army in front of him, the strange feeling of despair mixed with hope seems to be more shocking than the simple unknown of the original book - this is also a movie One of the biggest reasons the Edition Mist ranks among the classics.
However, whether it is a movie or a short story of the original book, the creators are not prepared to discuss the origin of the fog, but focus on the relationship between people. The so-called "fog" is nothing but props and Just background. But in a long-narrative American drama, such a setting is obviously a bit unsustainable. Unlike the zombies or monsters that the audience has long been familiar with, the fog is a new form of disaster, and the audience will inevitably consider the reasons for it. And the constant refusal to talk about it can only make the audience continue to accumulate disappointment and eventually lose interest in the disaster itself. Therefore, the cause of the fog was buried in the whole story as a long-term main line, and the amnesiac black soldier was inserted into the protagonist team as the protagonist of this clue. In all fairness, this character does not match the overall atmosphere of the mist, and it is also one of the culprits why the initial plot seems limited and messy (the other is the drug dealer), but from the overall consideration, adding such a character is also a long-term plot. It is necessary, after all, if the whole show is composed of ordinary people like the neighbors, it will inevitably be insufficient tension.
But like the movie, the storyline revolves around an ordinary family: a virgin dad who looks flawless, a tough mom who seems to have an unbearable past, and a rebellious daughter whose adolescence has changed dramatically. Ordinary family, common separation, common search, seems to have the same setting as the movie, but there is a very different point that many audiences are dissatisfied with: the characters are not likable. In addition to the comments of Bai Lian's father, Bichi's mother, and the brain-dead daughter, they can be seen everywhere, which is very different from the brave father and the strong and lovely son in the movie. But after all, this is an American drama that may take several seasons rather than a two-hour movie. The contradictions between the characters in the drama cannot simply stay on the simple level of keeping a sane protagonist team and the rest of insane, but must Create a more three-dimensional character image through more diverse conflicts.
If you can insist on watching the foreshadowing of the first four episodes, the plot will gradually improve from the fifth episode. After introducing the background and the appearance of the characters, the deep-seated things in each character begin to be excavated little by little. What the plot has to do is to gradually subvert this impression after the audience has established a first impression of the characters. The important thing to mention here is that the witch who represents the evil of human nature in the movie version is split into two roles in this play. One is the old hippie lady in the church, and the other is the woman in the mall with her dead daughter. Compared with the cult goddesses in the movie, these two characters are more plump and logical: the old lady who believes she is the messenger of nature, but easily lost her self-confidence amid the doubts of the shopping mall crowd; After losing her daughter, she wanted to slander the mother and daughter of the protagonist. This more human evil has lost the pure horror, but it is also more thought-provoking. Except for the black brother whose background is still confusing, and the poisonous sister who is easy to clean up, the character building of this show is generally above the level.
As for the atmosphere creation, compared to the physical monsters in the movie, American dramas use the figurative representation of demons. It is hard to tell which is better and which is worse, but in terms of visual presentation, the latter should be better. After all, it is the heart. Demon, it is not surprising what kind of monsters appear. It's just from the current point of view, although the horror atmosphere in the plot is well grasped, the final sense of horror is slightly insufficient, and the strengthening of the character's humanization has further weakened the original horror atmosphere. If it is aimed at Friends from horror films may be disappointed.
At the end of this season, all the people in the mall that took ten episodes to shape, except for the black boss, were all destroyed. In addition to the full confidence of the screenwriter, it can also be seen that the focus of the first two seasons should be on the inner character of the protagonist team. Contact: Self-exposing that Lao Wang's EVE and his father can still be in love as before, or does his father embark on the road of blackening? Has the conflict between the almost virtuous daughter and her mother further intensified? Suddenly Pharaoh's sheriff after doing so many evils, is he whitewashed or is he willing to degenerate? In the apocalypse, how to excavate the deep character of the characters is a problem that every similar drama must face. I still remember that in the previous seasons of "The Walking Dead", when Carr was not dead, there were a lot of unpleasant characters. , Complaining that the plot is too protracted, but this is the only way for the characters to reshape their personalities after the baptism of the apocalypse. To frankly and thoroughly expose the weaknesses of human nature to the audience, in my opinion, this is not a defect of the fog, but a feature. After all, this is a world of horror that can turn people's inner demons into monsters and devour them. Some people succumb to it. , some people fight, and some people accompany them on the road.
If this is a remake of the movie version, then it is undoubtedly a failure. However, the American drama Mist is not just a tribute to the previous work. It can be seen that Lao Jin, as the screenwriter, wants to express more after the movie and novel - just like the movie ended abruptly in the desperate howl after his father shot his family, And what he has to do now is to continue to shoot, let such a character stand up after despair and continue to face the fog.
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