Chapter 1978: 1978 Horror Movie
In the long film history, although horror movies are declining, they always occupy an unshakable place in the market. Every once in a while, one or several amazing horror movies will appear and become the focus of people's discussion.
In the second half of the 1990s, due to the strong rise of the blockbuster era, the market space of horror movies was further compressed. Apart from the two psychological thrillers "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven Deadly Sins", they wanted to find a movie with a high box office. An $80 million horror movie is an almost impossible task.
Against this background, the "sixth supernatural sense" was born!
"The Sixth Sense" is not an "emotional version of 'The Shining'" as Robert said-in fact, this movie does not have much similarity to "The Shining" and is more like "The Exorcist". "A combination of "Ordinary People"-the former tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl who is possessed by a demon, and her parents and priests fight against the devil to save the little girl; the latter tells the story of brothers While out rowing, the eldest son who was loved by his parents drowned, while the second son who was neglected survived, and the family staggered forward in grief and pain.
"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" possesses the fear and horror of "the exorcist", as well as the emotional fetters and spiritual salvation of "ordinary people".
The film tells the story of Cole, an eight-year-old boy, who has a terrible secret that he can't get rid of. He can see ghosts. The son couldn't understand the son even more, even if he wanted to protect his son, he was at a loss. At this time, Malcolm, a child psychologist, extended a helping hand to him, helping Cole get rid of the nightmare step by step.
It's such a simple story, without even a clear main story line, it relies entirely on the interaction between the characters to promote the plot. But as Ernst said, what really touches people's hearts is always the most sincere and purest emotion. "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" injects amazing real emotions into this simple and plain story. Every audience will be moved by the sincere emotions in the movie after watching the movie.
As a horror movie, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is more about the fear of human beings from the heart, fear of real life, fear of failure and setbacks, fear of the unknown world, fear of the existence of the sixth sense, For the fear of not being able to understand those intuitions, compared with the bloody scenes, the movie focuses more on the creation of atmosphere and psychological horror, which really makes people hold their breath. The slowly overflowing atmosphere of horror spreads in the beautiful and fragile story, and it is frightening but can't help but continue watching. But horror aside, the film's essence is about learning how to communicate with those fears, whether it's between doctors and patients, between husband and wife, between mother and child, or between people and loved ones who have passed away.
The movie sets Cole's yin and yang eyes very cleverly. It not only sees the terrible devil, but also sees the inner pain when people face death, when people face parting, and when people face the disappearance of their loved ones. Bitterness, hardship, loneliness and loneliness are displayed in different forms. Everyone knows that "the dead are gone, and the living are like this", but not everyone can do it.
Just as Cole's yin and yang eyes connect the two worlds, the emotional bond between people maintains one's life. When this emotional bond is severed, life will be fragmented. This is what we strive for. The reason is also the reason for us to move on, and also the reason for us to survive in this cruel and cold world.
The run-in between Cole and Dr. Malcolm, the collision between Cole and his mother Lynn, the fragile emotions from the heart will firmly maintain each other, and the fear of yin and yang complement each other, just like The two sides of the palm are the same, completely different but inseparable.
This makes "The Sixth Sense" not only a good horror movie - creepy with creeping creeps into the blood - but also a great drama movie! The story like the dazzling light is even more twists and turns, making this movie break away from the excellent ranks and become a classic masterpiece. It is tied with works such as "The Shining", "The Exorcist" and "Psycho" as the most recognized in film history. One of the horror classics.
"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality"'s proper handling of the atmosphere of fear and emotional fetters has made it an unimaginable success. Not only has it swept the box office of 290 million US dollars in North America, it has become the most successful horror movie in film history; At the Oscars that year, it became the fourth horror film nominated for the best picture in film history - and it was also the last one in the era known to Hugo. A total of six nominations including Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing were in the bag.
Even on the IMDB list rated by the audience, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has been ranked among the top 200 all year round, hovering around 150. This shows that people love this work.
It is no exaggeration to say that as a horror movie, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has created an almost insurmountable peak. Perhaps it is not the best horror movie from the perspective of professional horror movies or professional movie fans. movie, but no one can deny that this is the most successful work in the combination of commerce and art, almost writing a miracle of horror movies, and no one has been able to match it in the next two decades, let alone break it. up.
The most interesting thing is that the great success of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" made Indian director M-Night Shyamalan (M. Night. Shyamalan) famous in one fell swoop. This movie is only Knight's second work-he He single-handedly shouldered the heavy burden of screenwriting and director, but it triggered an unimaginable and amazing effect, allowing him to experience a roller coaster of the American dream, climb to the top of Hollywood overnight, and become a leader among young directors. That's not the fun part, the fun part is what comes next.
The huge success of "The Sixth Sense" made Knight the hottest director in Hollywood in one fell swoop, and major film companies flocked to it-just like Hugo made history with "Speed" and "Pulp Fiction". But Knight's next career curve surprised everyone. He first cooperated with Bowei Films, the production company of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", in three consecutive films, "Unbreakable", "Sighs )", "The. Village", and all three films failed disastrously at the box office! Although the investment of the three works is around 70 million, the loss is not large, but it has greatly hurt the vitality of Bowei Pictures, and had to suspend the cooperation with Knight.
Subsequently, Knight and Warner Bros. collaborated on "Lady. In. The. Water", which failed miserably! He also collaborated with 20th Century Fox on "The. Happening", a fiasco! Cooperated with Paramount on "The Last Airbender (The. Last. Airbender)", which made Paramount, which was struggling with financial chains, almost filed for bankruptcy! Cooperated with Universal Pictures on "Devil in the Elevator (Devil)", and lost everything! Cooperated with Columbia Pictures on "After. Earth", which was a big failure and directly ended Will Smith's "Mythology of the Emperor", and even had to nod to agree to "I am Legend 2 (I. Am. Legend)” and “Mechanical Public Enemy 2 (I, Robot)” started shooting.
After MGM was acquired by Sony in 2005, New Line Pictures was also merged into Warner Bros. due to poor performance. Since then, Hollywood has only "six major film companies", Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Columbia Pictures industry, Universal Pictures and Disney.
Knight almost ruined the six major Hollywood film production companies all over the place—Bo Wei Pictures is a branch of Disney, especially the later works, the investment is more than 100 million U.S. dollars, and the recovered The box office can't even exceed the cost line, and the loss is heavy! As a result, people in the industry gave Knight a nickname, called "Pit Six", also known as "Hollywood Terminator".
This has also become a joke in Hollywood. People are joking that they don’t know who Knight will get in the next hole; what’s even more amazing is that Knight has failed so many times before and after, but Hollywood will always give it to him. He voted for confidence, and he could always find investment again, so this created a situation where the six major film companies were cheated over and over again.
In the historical track that Hugo knows, Knight temporarily died in the film industry, and cooperated with Twentieth Century Fox on the TV series "Wayward. Pines", adapted from David Lynch's classic "Double Peaks (Twin. Peaks)", unfortunately died before the success of the teacher, the internal evaluation is very bad.
The reason why Knight was able to go all over the top six in Hollywood is almost to create an unbelievable history-nine works that have suffered disastrous defeats in a row, which is probably unprecedented. The most important reason lies in the great success of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit". From this aspect, it can be seen that the success of the "Sixth Sense of the Spirit" in the form of a horror movie was of great significance to Hollywood as a whole. What an impact—that the Big Six studios had pampered Knight for two decades.
"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is a very delicate work, in which the three main characters - Malcolm, Cole and Lynn are the absolute core of the well-deserved, the characters are very full and three-dimensional, and the inner changes are rich and True, this makes the performance of the three people the key to the success of the movie.
Now Robert puts this work in front of Hugo, and hopes that Hugo will play the role of Malcolm. This is not only a wonderful story, but also a very challenging role. In Hugo's mind, all of Robert's words and words were connected together, and he had to applaud Robert's careful calculation. In short, Robert almost gave Hugo an irresistible project, and then made it clear that it was a project. It depends on whether Hugo is willing to jump into the trap.
This wisdom made Hugo couldn't help but want to applaud him.