Sunday, October 28, 2007
You sound like you've seen a ghost...
As you all know, every year in October, you can find all kinds of horror movies showing on TV; from the classics such as "The Omen" and "The Exorcist", to those that were in theatres fews years ago such as "Freddy vs Jason" and "Dawn of the Dead".
Sometimes when we are watching films with supernatural theme, we question the "realness" of the makeup, CG, or even the plot. Some of you might have seen spirits or ghosts before, but I doubt that you guys have met a vampire or werewolf or other mystical beings... Then why do people criticize that in "Child's play", Chucky's movements are too robotic? It's not like they have ecountered a killer doll before. And how do they know if zombies walks like those in "Resident evil", or runs as fast as those in "28 weeks later"?
In horror movies, it seems like we are treating these socially constructed beings as "the Real", and how the director and actors and computer graphics interpret them as "the Reality". Then when we say "that ghost is so fake", we feel that "real ghost don't look like that"; that "something is missing" feeling, is that "the Surplus" that we are talking about in class? What do you guys think?
P.S. Happy Halloween everyone~~!!
Sometimes when we are watching films with supernatural theme, we question the "realness" of the makeup, CG, or even the plot. Some of you might have seen spirits or ghosts before, but I doubt that you guys have met a vampire or werewolf or other mystical beings... Then why do people criticize that in "Child's play", Chucky's movements are too robotic? It's not like they have ecountered a killer doll before. And how do they know if zombies walks like those in "Resident evil", or runs as fast as those in "28 weeks later"?
In horror movies, it seems like we are treating these socially constructed beings as "the Real", and how the director and actors and computer graphics interpret them as "the Reality". Then when we say "that ghost is so fake", we feel that "real ghost don't look like that"; that "something is missing" feeling, is that "the Surplus" that we are talking about in class? What do you guys think?
P.S. Happy Halloween everyone~~!!
# posted by Stanley @ 1:41 PM 
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I dont know if this one makes a lot of sense to me. When you say that ghosts and monsters in movies are "socially constructed beings," do you just mean that they're made up? and that 'real' ghosts are somehow a part of the real? Maybe you're confusing "real" in Lacan's sense as "real" meaning authentic? If the real is a state of oneness with your surroundings and a loss of self-awareness, where do ghosts fit into that? its an interesting idea. i'm still just trying to wrap my head around it.
maybe if director and actor interpretation of ghosts and monsters is a form of "the symbolic," an ordering and construction of they hypothetical 'reality' of ghosts and monsters?
(And then our feeling that they aren't realistic could just be that we can see their make-up running?)
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maybe if director and actor interpretation of ghosts and monsters is a form of "the symbolic," an ordering and construction of they hypothetical 'reality' of ghosts and monsters?
(And then our feeling that they aren't realistic could just be that we can see their make-up running?)
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