252. The self-cultivation of horror film actors (monthly)
After returning from Jiangcheng City Mental Hospital, Lu Tian felt much more comfortable.
He came into contact with real mental patients and obtained a lot of first-hand information through communicating and chatting with them.
In the past, Lu Tan only had a superficial understanding of mental illness. Like many other ordinary normal people, he thought mental illness was bizarre, difficult to understand, weird, and impossible to communicate with.
But after actual contact, Lu Jian felt that these patients with diseases were actually just like ordinary people, but their way of thinking had some deviations due to the disease.
For example, typical delusional disorder seems to be neurotic, always fearing or hating things that do not exist, but in fact, they just often have delusions and regard imagination as reality. Just imagine, what if in reality
If there is an ugly creature around you, you will also want to drive it away. Patients with delusional disorder just make normal and reasonable actions. In other words, in addition to treating delusions as reality, they and
Ordinary people are no different.
Even some patients with delusions will construct a world view that belongs to them and act according to the rules of this world view. From this point of view, they are actually very normal in their delusions, even better than many people who do not know what they are doing every day.
What ordinary people are thinking is more normal.
Once you understand this, the thoughts of mentally ill patients can be captured.
The reason why Lu Jian wants to study mental patients is to learn about their unreasonable characteristics.
As we all know, the scariest thing about horror-themed works is the monster or the incomprehensible danger.
The most terrifying time is when the protagonists don’t know what they are chasing, killing, or threatening, and when they don’t know when the other party will appear from somewhere.
If those ghosts could be understood, seen through, or even eliminated, then the sense of terror would completely disappear.
In a horror game, if there is only a flashlight, anything that pops up can scare the player to death. But if the player is given a gun loaded with bullets, the player will just shout for more of these monsters.
Only.
Danger that cannot be resisted but can only be avoided will cause people to feel uneasy.
Mental patients fit this very well.
In many works, just the appearance of a mental patient is enough to heighten the atmosphere of terror. If the patient is unkempt and haggard, holds a tattered baby doll, and sings one or two nursery rhymes, it will definitely be terrifying.
Impressive.
When Lu Tian returned home, the TV was still on, playing short videos on industrial manufacturing that were used to decompress online. This time it was about the making of mirrors.
He saw Lu Jian in the mirror who seemed to enjoy watching this, staring intently at the screen.
The two fogs on the sofa didn't care at all and seemed to have fallen asleep.
Lu Tan came to the computer, opened the document, and began to record today's experience.
Three days later, on the last day of April, the May Day holiday was about to begin. On the afternoon of the 30th, everyone had no intention of working and was only thinking about how to spend the holiday.
But for the theater staff, this holiday is not a leisurely one.
During the May Day Golden Week, many movies will be released, bringing the beginning of summer, including "In the Mouth of a Madman".
The pre-sale box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" has reached close to 50 million, which is already an excellent result for a horror-thriller work. You must know that many similar movies only have a total box office of this much.
Most horror movies, which naturally have a deep connection with B-movies, are synonymous with low budget and low box office.
After all, when there are big productions and big investments, who would make horror movies? Why not make some superhero movies or disaster movies?
Horror movies are very cheap.
May 1st, midnight.
Premiere of "In the Mouth of a Madman".
Countless audiences flocked to the cinema at night just to catch a glimpse of Lu Jian's first work based on the world of horror films.
Bai Qiquan, a student at Yannan University of Communication, and his girlfriend Pang Zhen are also among them.
Bai Qiquan has been studying horror movies recently. After the baptism of "The Crying", Bai Qiquan began to become interested in horror movies. He didn't watch many before. During this time, he was crazily supplementing his diet. He didn't even show B-level movies.
However, for him, the routines of horror movies are already familiar to him.
It's nothing more than something suddenly appearing to scare you, using some disgusting things to make people disgusted, plus ketchup, severed limbs, chainsaws, and matching scenes such as hospitals, mental hospitals, and schools.
He will prepare the content of his graduation thesis this year, and Bai Qiquan is still thinking about whether to choose a topic for horror movie research.
When Bai Qiquan walked into the cinema, he saw that many people were smiling.
This is also normal. Because of the popularity of "The Cry", horror movies have begun to enter the public eye, and more and more people have begun to watch these horror movies. This time's pre-sale box office is also due to this reason.
In other words, many viewers are actually just joining in the fun of the premiere at midnight today, and have no intuitive understanding of Lu Tan's horror films before.
Bai Qiquan was a little gloating about his misfortune, but when he thought about it carefully, he was now sitting in the audience, and he didn't know who would be more ugly.
He stopped talking.
When the movie started, he calmed down and watched the movie.
More than a hundred minutes later.
As the credits and the ending song played, there was silence in the huge cinema.
Bai Qiquan looked at the screen, his mind went blank.
This is not the same as being frightened, or feeling frightened.
If watching "The Crying" and Lu Jian's other works brought him intuitive fear, a sense of terror that turned into a poisonous snake and wrapped around his body, then this film gave him the same feeling.
It was like a lot of things were forcefully shoved into his head.
Some people have such an experience when they were young. They used to only move around in their own homes, kindergartens and elementary schools. They felt that the world was very small and only so big. But one time, they suddenly saw something huge, such as the sea.
, such as the boundless starry sky, such as those huge and busy cities, the feeling at that moment is what Bai Qiquan recognized.
It was a feeling of fear that he could not control, understand, or recognize. The moment the credits ended and the lights in the cinema came on, Bai Qiquan cried.
He felt that his life seemed meaningless and everything was hypocritical. Just like the protagonists in the movie, just like the novelist, no effort of his could stop the world from moving forward towards destruction.
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This movie is like a switch. When it is pressed, the whole person becomes void.
"Lu Jian, this person is so terrifying!"
During the sage's time, Bai Qiquan was filled with emotions.
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