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Chapter 473 Dangdang is also a good producer
"Doctor Sleeper?"

When Ding Cheng looked at the new script, it turned out to be a sequel called The Shining?

The background of the story is set in Danny, the little hero of the Shining, after what happened in the hotel in the previous work, the shadow of the Shining in his heart has been haunting him, and some grievances in the hotel have been haunting Danny and he refuses to leave.

However, Dick, who had saved Danny and his mother, turned into a spirit and continued to be Danny's mentor, teaching Danny how to lock these evil spirits into the box.

Danny, who self-enclosed most of his psychic abilities, began to be depressed mentally. When he became an adult, he inherited his father Jack's alcoholism to kill his life and became a homeless man with nothing to do.

Later, he came to a small town, and with the help of the kind man Billy, he got a job as a cleaner in a nursing home. By chance, Danny used his ability to predict who would be in the nursing home. After passing away, Danny himself also did the work of comforting the deceased.

On the other hand, there is a Shining cult in this world. They specialize in absorbing the powerful children of the Shining, and they have obtained the effect of immortality. By chance, Rose, the leader of the cult, discovered the most powerful Shining she has so far. The girl Abra, and Abra also wanted to try to stop the Shining cult from continuing to kill people, and the two sides began to fight.

On the other hand, Abra and Danny have been pen pals in the sky since they were young. When Abra was defeated by the Shining cult, Abra asked Danny for help, and the two pen pals met.

At first, Danny wanted to continue to avoid and was unwilling to help, but Dick finally appeared to educate Danny and let Danny take on the superpower of the shining with greater ability and greater responsibility. Danny decided to help Abra, overthrew and killed him. Most of the Shining cult.

When only the coach Rose was left, Danny fought the poison with poison, and led Rose to the Overlook Hotel, which was once full of grievances. Finally, Danny unlocked all the vengeful spirits in the hotel. After killing Rose, he used the boiler to burn down the entire hotel.

However, Danny also sacrificed himself in this duel and turned into a spirit body to wait for Abra.

After reading the script, I can only say that it is quite satisfactory. In the past two years, it has been popular to adapt various popular classic IPs, but filming sequels is often a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can satisfy the feelings of fans, and on the other hand, it may subvert or even distort the original work, causing resentment among fans of the original work. .

The most ironic thing is that Kubrick was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award in 81 with "The Shining", and even almost won it.

As time went by, people realized that this is actually a great work, not only to justify its name, but also to "learn from" this classic for countless thriller movies.

In the 40 years since the film was released, no director dared to remake it, perhaps because "The Shining" has an irreplaceable height in the history of human film.

Director Mike has always been good at shooting B-level horror films. Last year, the series "The Haunting of Ghosts" was well-received. His works are not focused on vulgar bloody visuals, but intertwined warmth and darkness.It also plays with ease in the transformation of time and space, how the characters overcome the dark psychology, etc.

All of this has to go back to the starting point of the whole story, which is the point where the tragedy happened in The Shining, the Panorama Hotel located in a snowy field.

The director points out a path to spiritual redemption: only when Danny truly faces his own trauma can he be redeemed.This setting makes it possible to seamlessly connect classic scenes in "The Shining", and the tribute scenes that shuttle between them are enough to amaze many movie fans.

Even at the beginning of the script, the classic carpet pattern of the Panorama Hotel in "The Shining" is reproduced, and the scenes of Danny riding a stroller through the hotel porch in his childhood are slowly reproduced in separate shots. Sets the tone for a psychological thriller.

This corridor covers almost all kinds of horror elements, such as twin sisters with extremely disproportionate head-to-body proportions, the creepy Room 237 full of various coincidences, the bloody curtain, the pub full of beautiful things but few people...

The almost authentic reconstruction of Kubrick's classic scenes is not only out of respect for the classics, but also virtually adds an illusion and psychedelic sense of time and space displacement to the film.

Design a spiritual self-salvation therapy for the protagonist: imagine that there are countless boxes in his brain, and use willpower to tightly lock those black memories in the boxes.This setting is a psychological detail carefully laid out by the director, and it also plays a vital role in the subsequent stair battle.

The corridor may be regarded as Danny's long river of terrifying memories. It is deeply rooted in Danny's blood, and it is an inescapable nightmare in his childhood memories.To some extent, such a heavy memory burden also determines his future personality: melancholy and deep, with a tendency to escape from himself, he is an out-and-out pessimist.

I have to say that the dialogue is also very thoughtful. The low and gloomy words such as "the whole world is just a sanatorium with fresh air and that we are all dying" all imply that the protagonist seems to have escaped from the memory dilemma, but in fact he is still living in the world day after day. The battle between trapped beasts is repeated.

It's just a hidden struggle in a more negative way, unlike the 14-year-old girl who is full of vitality and fighting spirit. When facing the darkness, he appears to be more conservative, and he is reluctant to attack at first. attitude to resist evil.

Creation of the atmosphere of horror is more direct rather than gradual.But it is different from jump scare, which can always give the audience breathing room first, and then push the horror breaking point.

The collective turmoil of the Zhenkyu clan is quietly accumulating energy for the climax of the film.Undoubtedly, the True Knot organization created by the director is another highlight of the movie.This organization is both classical and modern. Their posture of devouring the living spirit is quite like a vampire, and the Gothic style of painting also puts a mysterious and treacherous cloak on the existence of this group.

They live on the edge of the dark and remote city, just like the director's satire on modern society. In the eyes of the world, they will always be out of place freaks.

On the other hand, their special functions endow them with the ability to see everything, and they can perceive the surroundings ahead of time, whether it is blessing or danger.

The supernatural power of the Shining is endowed by the director with the meaning of destruction and rebirth, which can make you fall into hell instantly, merge with the darkness, and kill innocent people indiscriminately in order to maintain youth forever.

At the same time, the weight of memory it carries can also make you kind, so that you can sensitively perceive justice and darkness.

Just like the girl Abra, after she foresaw what happened to the baseball boy, she decided without hesitation to defeat the True Knot tribe to rest the soul of the baseball boy.With the blessing of these two layers of meaning, Danny's psychological trajectory becomes more three-dimensional, rather than superficial.

The whole hotel can be regarded as a memory maze belonging to the protagonist. He saw his father again. It was the complex emotions towards his father that shaped Danny's life today.

The bar dialogue set by the director portrays Danny's father as an irresponsible man who is tired of family life. This is indeed not much different from the previous "The Shining", and it can be regarded as a continuation.

The director doesn't intend to just end everything with a clichéd reconciliation ending. It may be more appropriate to regard this dialogue as Danny's emotional catharsis.It didn't let Danny find the answer, but it implied a very crucial message: Danny will not follow his father's fate.

In Ding Cheng's view, compared to "The Shining" which has rich meanings, "Doctor Sleep" is more popular and does not have any technical problems that cannot be obtained.As a sequel to a classic movie, from a commercial film perspective, it is worth investing in.

(End of this chapter)