In 1978, there was a classic horror film "Halloween" (Moonlight Panic). Now everyone seems to be just a terrible third-rate film. But the classic is that it successfully opened the "routines" of many horror films. One of the routines is that slutty young people, especially women, are the first to die. On the contrary, virgin, who is pure and conservative in sexual life, is often the protagonist and lives to the end. The filmmakers in the 1970s simply wanted to express their old people's dissatisfaction with young people (the biggest consumer group of horror films) on sexual indulgence and premarital sex through such a setting.
For decades, such elements have been copied by many American horror films. Speaking of whore, everyone knows that she will die soon, especially when she is ooxx. Later, there were various extensions, such as athlete (athlete, jock), who often got along well with whore. Although he was a strong man with well-developed limbs, he usually didn't live long. As for virgin, some films let her live to the end, and some made her slouch at the last moment, making the audience take a breath and go home.
This is one of the "routines" of horror movies, and it is also what I think is mapped by the "world" in "The Cabin in the Woods". No one can tell why horror movies always follow such a routine, why there are whore and athletes, why look for a hut in the woods, why I like to find a zombie redneck torturing family as a ghost, and why leave a helpless one in the end virgin. So "The Cabin in the Woods" said yes, let's shoot the extreme, let you discover that all this is so natural but so artificial. The employees who execute the plan behind the scenes are equivalent to those who copied the routines to make horror movies, and the group of young protagonists represent the creators of the movie (screenwriter and director Joss Whedon + Drew Goddard). At first, the creators pretended to be making a routine movie, and the trailer was quite satisfactory. The only hint was the slogan "you think you know the story" (you think you know what the story is about). The story also progressed in accordance with the routine, all of them were warped and only virgin was left. But the plot changed suddenly, and the fool did not fall as planned. Some people call it illogical, but it's just illogical. The creators made a joke with those well-behaved horror movies. The two little characters released all the monsters and ghosts from various horror movies, put them on the executors of the routine, and killed them completely.
The last highlight of the film, Sigourney Weaver, a horror film icon who plays the "director" (director), appears and persuades virgin to kill fool (“You can die with them, or you can die for them”), because if fool is not killed Death, the routine will no longer exist, and the world system that everyone depends on will also be destroyed ("agonizing death of every human soul on the planet"). Virgin seems to have moved to focus on the overall situation. But after a turn of events, the female director was also dismissed by them. Virgin and fool sat together smoking a cigarette, and decided to destroy together with this unworthy world system. In the first sense, I did not sacrifice my consciousness to save mankind. In the second sense, this absurd sacrifice and the world on it are not worth saving. They are ruined to make room for the new ideas called by the creators ("Humanity.. It's time to give someone else a chance."). At the end of the day, the gods were angry, and the audience was awakened by a big hand that subverted the world.
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