When the weather is too hot to bear,
A university in Beijing in April broke the embarrassment of "Beijing did not see snow this year".
I'm great,
Cooling never depends on snow, even if the heat is unbearable,
Watching this new drama will always make you feel cold-
"Evil Spirit"
The Terror
When "The Walking Dead" was mired in the creative quagmire and its reputation plummeted,
AMC (American cable channel) launched this new series, known as " epic thriller ", in a timely manner, trying to save the embarrassment of "The Walking Dead" while creating a phenomenon-level thriller.
Moreover, this time AMC began to try the Netflix model, releasing all the episodes at one time, but as a Chinese audience, there are only three episodes of cooked meat, and the time has just finished.
Quality-wise, AMC is off to a good start.
Producer Ridley Scott , "Prometheus", "Alien" and "The Martian", whether it is a thriller or a science fiction, Mr. Lei upholds the word "hard".
"Arctic Ghost" hasn't let us down either, at least so far.
IMDb is as high as 8.9 points, Rotten Tomatoes not only scored 90% freshness, but the audience can see it - 100%
The main feature is extreme cold thriller, which incorporates adventure, nature, horror, sci-fi, and even - plasma .
Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by author Dan Simmons .
The original was selected as Amazon's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2007, and won the 2008 International Horror Literature Association Best Novel Award.
The "Washington Post" (yes, the journal in the movie "Washington Post") once gave this evaluation -
Despite its staggering thickness, "Arctic Ghost" is an addictive read. After reading it, we will treat every meal we usually eat as a rich gift from the "God of Warmth ".
The author who wrote this novel is even more unusual.
Almighty .
Dan Simmons is a rare all-rounder who spans fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, and even historical fiction.
well-known .
One of the authors of black crime fiction and mainstream literary fiction, with books published in 29 countries.
His representative work "Hyberrian Quartet" has won the Hugo Award, Locus Award and many other awards.
attainments .
Voted by Locus magazine as one of the top ten science fiction novels in the history of the 1990s, and the "Galactic Empire" series are called two insurmountable peaks in the history of science fiction literature.
Do you know what Mr. Stephen King said about him——
I'm in awe of him (Dan Simmons) .
This innocuous neighbor next door is Dan Simmons himself.
And this "Polar Evil" was adapted by him based on real historical events - the exploration of the Franklin Northwest Passage.
In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition of 129 people, driving two of the most advanced steam-powered warships in the world at the time, the Royal Terror and Ghost, to explore the fabled Northwest Passage .
The so-called Northwest Passage is about 1,450 kilometers in length from Greenland via the Arctic Islands in northern Canada to the north coast of Alaska. and military value is immeasurable.
But the greater the value, the greater the danger.
No other route in the history of navigation was more difficult than the Northwest Passage, let alone in the 19th century without icebreakers and GPS.
In summer, ice from the long winter or icebergs accumulated over hundreds of years melts and spreads across the ocean.
These ice cubes are the biggest threat standing in their way.
Historically, Franklin set out in May with food for 3 years and was never seen again after making an appearance in northern Baffin Bay in late July.
People and wear, like encountering Bermuda, mysteriously disappeared.
Later, the United Kingdom sent more than 30 expeditions to the North Pole in 14 years to find the whereabouts of Franklin and others, all of which were unsuccessful.
It wasn't until 1854 that explorer John Ray got clues from the Inuit tribes on the Canadian Arctic coast.
Franklin's crew began cannibalism amid starvation and cold, and were eventually wiped out.
Until 2014 and 2016, Canada found the wreckage of the "Terror" and "Phantom" in the deep seabed in the southern Victoria Strait, but what happened was still unknown.
Under such a story background, Mr. Simmons gave full play to the four words of the title, and the story relies on the ability of "editing", which almost perfectly presents this unsolved mystery on the big screen.
If there is no mistake in judging the direction of the plot behind, then "Polar Evil" should be a perfect combination of two horrors - claustrophobic and open horror .
The sea froze overnight, and two high-tech ships were trapped on the ice, unable to move.
To go or to stay, that is the question of claustrophobia.
Trapped on the boat and waited for the food to run out, and eventually died, while the sailors who escaped the boat faced the extreme cold, the arctic ice sheet, and the unknown supernatural creatures...
Again, this is open terror.
Just like the introduction, these horror elements are always connected in series - a cold word.
This is probably the reason why time is sneezing all the time when the drama is being watched.
The title alone is enough to set the tone of the whole play.
Ships frozen on the ice, invisible aurora like ghosts, dark shadows in the depths, and extremely cold tones.
Plus enigmatic real historical events.
Such a cold air brings us to an unknown cold world,
For the audience, the white polar world is just a symbol, or a piece of text, or even the polar bear in the documentary, other than these, they know nothing.
"Polar Evil" cleverly uses this, it puts the limited "cold" in our cognition into the infinite "cold" in historical events——
In the eyes of the screenwriter, the so-called North Pole is just an " unknown world ", just like an alien planet.
All they have to do is design stories and characters with their own horror elements and architectural approach.
And this design method, "Polar Evil" is very particular.
It is not like most thrillers, where you can only hear the sound but not the shape, and it is not like "The Walking Dead", which simply feeds the audience with blood and horror visible to the naked eye.
"Arctic Ghost" has been around for a long time, and it can put the unprovoked weirdness on the detailed interpretation of the horror atmosphere .
At the beginning of the episode, the director is not shy and preconceived - borrowing the words of an Eskimo to tell you that this place is not right.
Feeds on two- and four-legged living creatures that are covered in muscles and charms.
Your friend took my hand, he said, and warned those who came looking for us not to stay, and the ship disappeared.
There's no way to go, no way, tell them we're gone.
A string of unintelligible words, which seems to have no purpose, is actually intended to give a credible explanation to the next story, leaving the audience more unknown.
Sure enough, the two ships were driving on the ice, and the crew members were talking, laughing, eating and making trouble.
Strange things started to happen, a young man started vomiting blood.
Before long, the young man named Yang died.
The team doctor dissected Yang's body and found no signs of illness.
Strangely, before he died, he saw a vision in front of him - an Eskimo wearing a strange mask, staring straight at him, warning him.
The funeral here was not finished yet, and another accident happened on the deck, and the crew saw the phenomenon of three suns.
Then, the ship suddenly broke down, hit ice, and a crew member fell into the sea—
Just as the two crew members were hopeful enough to throw the rope down at him, the ice surface slowly returned to calm.
The failure found that the engine propeller was stuck with ice.
A diver was sent into the water to clear the ice, and this time - he didn't die.
But he seemed to have discovered something more terrifying than death. His eyes were wide open, and he couldn't recover for a long time after boarding the ship——
Three things, one after the other, and after a reminder from the Eskimo,
This can't help but make the audience feel that there is always something supernatural surrounding the two ships.
The title of the episode is also well translated - Evil Pole .
No one knows whether this evil spirit refers to a ghost-like supernatural event, a supernatural supernatural creature, or just the name of a ship.
Fuzzy, it gives the audience space for reverie, but it just provides the entrance for the main creator to interpret his own horror methods.
Because there are only three episodes at present, time can't judge whether these things are deliberately dug by the screenwriter, but in the first episode, the episode has perfectly created its own thrilling atmosphere- extremely cold horror .
This kind of horror does not rely on figurative monsters, but only on the audience's own associations.
This kind of horror, there is no reason for the occurrence, there is no final result, but it is weird and scary.
The bizarre death of each crew member deliberately showed meticulously with close-up shots and parallel editing techniques.
, with the amplified ambient sound during the editing process, and the heavy breathing of the diver surrounded by ice cubes underwater,
While you feel the chill on your back, there is also a chill that is infinitely aroused deep in your heart .
Such a movie-watching experience will definitely eliminate the heat and quench your thirst.
At the same time, the curiosity of the audience was also hooked, and the curiosity to explore the reason was at work, and Time kept wanting to know why this happened.
Don't worry, this is exactly the director's trick.
The perfect atmosphere was created, the chill was successfully evoked, and the audience's patience was easily exhausted if there were some unexplainable weird things happening all the time.
At this juncture, "Polar Evil Spirit" began to use small details to guide the audience to explore the horror by themselves .
Since the crew was killed by unknown monsters, the captain ordered the sailors to make bait and wait to be hunted.
During the period, Captain John went to visit the soldiers and proposed to take pictures.
The photographer stood in the old-fashioned camera, holding the clock and waiting for the time to take a picture, when there was only the sound of the clock and the sound of heavy breathing——
At this moment, a trace of impatience flashed across everyone's face—
Between the expressions, many people don't notice - but in this view, only the viewer can notice that there is a trace of snow slipping from the top of the mountain (note the upper right corner).
No one cared about it, and after the photo was taken, the camera deliberately directed the angle of view to the bait outside the tent. Even if the audience saw the snow falling, they could not wait to shout to the characters in the play: Watch out for the top of your head! ! !
As we expected, this time something really happened, a sailor was bitten off on the spot, from the top of his head.
This kind of routine of "knowing that something is going to happen, but it's going to happen" is particularly useful after creating a thrilling atmosphere.
The audience who have suppressed three episodes can finally usher in their own catharsis in this scene - provided that you are serious about watching the drama.
Hearing, feeling, tortured one by one.
We thought we were going to take a break - there was no specific monster image, only the first-person voice and roar, as if we had understood the director's routine,
At this time, "Polar Evil Spirit" just didn't play cards according to the routine - began to play with blood.
(hint: high energy ahead!!!)
First, the sailor who was bitten from the air became two halves—
Then, a bloody leg that was bitten off—
Even though there are still many pits left unfilled, the sudden visual impact of blood spurting on the snow-covered ground has a refreshing effect.
Gradually get rid of the creative horror of " boiled frogs in warm water ", and the painting style turns to blood plasma, but it will make people breathe a long breath.
That suffocating feeling of being haunted, submerged and immersed in ghosts, got a catharsis in episode three, like something that's haunted you for so long, and you finally know what it's going to bring.
cool, but not cool .
After calming down after venting, we may wonder, are the screenwriters running out of routines?
Will that feeling of coldness in my heart never happen again?
Will "Arctic Ghost" become a simple ice desert survival game?
I think it's nothing to worry about.
The most frightening thing about this show is probably not the weirdness at the beginning, nor the later horror, nor the blood of the third episode.
As far as the visual and delicate style of the horror interpretation in the first three episodes is concerned, "Polar Evil Spirit" is enough to kill most of the dull horror movies in seconds.
As for the subsequent plot, I suggest that everyone don't think about it deliberately.
Sometimes, in a thriller,
It really doesn't matter if there are evil spirits or not.
You forgot that there are three keywords in the historical facts: man eats man .
You never know how terrifying human beings themselves can be until the most extreme circumstances.
And this terrible,
It is likely that the horror you have felt before is unmatched.
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