Hollywood’s Asian flop horror films have always been praised by European and American audiences, and Asian audiences have criticized the typical film types. The reason is that the huge difference between Eastern and Western cultures makes the essence of Asian horror films disappear after being flopped by Hollywood. Many of them are There are few remakes like "Midnight Ring" that can also achieve good reputation in Asia. Of course, when I say this, I don’t mean that I agree with this view of Hollywood flops, but just to state the widest view that an ordinary audience can come into contact with. For me, maybe it’s because my tastes tend to be fast food. For Hollywood remakes, every time I watch it with the mood of watching bad movies, but every time I watch it, I find that the results are far beyond mine. Expected, such as the US version of "The Grudge." To put it bluntly, as a senior horror movie fan, I don’t have a great affinity for Japanese horror movies. The reputation of Japanese horror movies is far from false, but I can’t stand the procrastination and flatness of Japanese movies, horror movies. Same thing too. Looking for fame back then, I looked for "Midnight Ring" and "The Grudge" with anxiety. After yawning for more than half an hour, I saw ghosts. Since then, I haven’t had much to do with Japanese horror movies. Good impression. But the American version of "The Grudge" is very appetizing to me because it is fast food. I personally feel that the audiences in Asia and Europe and the United States are very different. Asian audiences like hard-working movies, while European and American audiences are not the same. Most of them want pure sensory stimulation and don't want to think about it. Therefore, Asian action films, science fiction films cannot be made in Hollywood, and Hollywood horror films cannot be made in Asia.
The flop of "Uninvited" is a classic Korean film "Red Lotus". Although the film has some logical problems, the film's creativity and director's film aesthetics have been brought into full play in the film. One of the distinctive features of the original version is the gloomy, reserved, and oriental characteristics. Because the original version is a one-person triangulation setting, the schizophrenia, Electra, the growth of women and other obscure topics are designed to be quiet and strange under the director's distinctive aesthetics, and the whole film There is an inexplicable truth in the story, few people can fully understand the first time. If you want to remake such a typical Asian horror film with obvious characteristics to foreigners, it is impossible to fundamentally change the structure of the story without hurting your muscles and bones.
After watching the film, I admire the director of the film very much. After they borrowed the basic structure of the story very cleverly, they boldly changed the character line and the truth of the story, and not only turned the original sister's one-man show into the US version of the sister's revenge. Remember, it even directly changed the character setting of the original story, and gave the role of stepmother to reality, and buried a cryptic clue behind the story. The original sister needs to be transformed into a ghost to claim the life of the stepmother. Americans obviously believe it more. Practically, the US version of the sister directly reported the hatred hidden in her heart, and was very smart to avoid the disaster of prison.
The Korean version of "Rose Flower and Red Lotus" is more like a family ethics film. It is about the fragmentary relationships within the family and the various entangled relationships. The forbearance of the Orientals is very obvious in the film, and the sister has lost it. The two most important relatives can only release the resentment in their hearts through their own infinite split fantasies, while the Westerners emphasize the liberation of individuality, and the younger sister uses her own step-by-step intentional or unintentional plan to solve her own heart. Hatred. Orientals attach more importance to family relationships, so sisterhood is expressed very strong, Westerners generally do not have deep family relationships, so the US version shows only a group of heartless young people, indulging in joy, and the only thing that can be said is affection. The relationship between her sister and mother is not too much in the film. The sisterhood is like air in the US version.
The true identity of the sister was once a highlight of the Korean version and the second biggest burden in the film. The effect of the director’s scheduling when the US version was throwing away this burden seriously weakened the shock that should have been, as the sister’s identity It was revealed that when the director left the wailing sister out of the camera with a long shot at that moment, the shock and impact that this setting should have was little left. I have to say that it is the most regrettable of the film.
Some people who have seen the Korean version are very keen to compare the film with the original version, and ridiculed the director of "painting a tiger is not an anti-dog". I want to say that after borrowing the elements of the original version, the director of the US version interprets a story that belongs to the director. He didn't want to paint a tiger at all, and he didn't want to paint a tiger. How could he be like a dog? As a remake, "Uninvited" is a success, but the most simple movie, "Uninvited" is not refined and perfect enough, so this youthful little thriller movie is still worth watching in leisure time of.
Note: This article first published on Cool 6
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