on the ring remake

[Christine Marran]

As I recall, the video in the Ringu was more interesting because not 
every image of the video was explained; whereas the American version was 
very careful to explain every piece of the video which seemed uncreative 
to me.  The video itself seemed more curious, more bizarre in the 
original.  Also the sound effects on the American version were 
annoying...the film relied heavily on "spooky whooshing sounds" (it 
sounded like FOX TV football game to me).  But mostly for me it was the 
inclusion of the "family values" and the "romantic interest" (will the 
couple get back together?!) that bothered me. It seemed gratuitous and 
included to draw in as large an audience as possible.
I did like the apartment scene though where you see everyone watching tv 
from outside the building -- maybe an obvious scene to do but well 
executed nevertheless.

Christine

christophe crison wrote:
> Maybe i was a little too bit too harsh on the verbinsky movie ;-)
> 
> But the movie feels and looks actually too "clean" to me, there's no sense
> of dread in it,
> 
> it could have been a x-files tv episode, but it has no cinematographic scope
> 
> Verbinsky is "yes man" in the industry, a director with no personality; i
> mean from a who made "the mexican" & the "pirates", what can you expect? 
> 
> The original ring was no masterpiece either but it had some real scary
> moments. Sound effects were very effective, as in the remake it's all about
> a loud soundtrack...
> 
> Christophe
> 
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> 			    KINEJAPAN Digest 1303
> 
> Topics covered in this issue include:
> 
>   1) Re-enactment & mise-en-sc=?ISO-8859-1?B?6A==?=ne in Japanese
> 	reality TV
> 	by anne mcknight <akmck at sympatico.ca>
>   2) "the grudge" us remake trailer
> 	by "christophe crison" <ccrison at hotmail.com>
>   3) RE: "the grudge" us remake trailer
> 	by "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
> 
> .
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-- 
Christine L. Marran
Asst. Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota