apropo icon?siochembioOctober 2 2011, 15:58:59 UTC
I have a strong feeling that the reason we read it differently is because of the ages at which we first watched it. 30 vs 10. If I had seen this film as a kid, the only thing that would have been imprinted on my mind would be "scary ass special effects run and hide!"
But I DIDN'T see it as a kid. I saw it when I was thirty. So I'm not really focusing on the gore, or shocked by it, per se. If the amount of gore/violence in a film is within my "reasonable limits" (re: not torture porn), then I'm okay with it and it's unlikely to make too much of an impression on me.
All the better to focus on the atmosphere!
I remember watching Star Wars when I was 6. Well, no, I remember ONE PART of watching Star Wars when I was six, and that is the trash compactor scene and the monster under the water. That scene scared the crap out of me and I didn't watch Star Wars again for another 8 years because I was too frightened. I honest to god have no other early memories of that film because that ONE SCENE was so scary for me.
So yes. My theory on our different takes is different ages of first exposure, and therefore looking at dramatically different - yet equally awesome! - aspects of the same awesome film.
OH MANNNN, I remember being freaked the hell out by that scene as a child, too! Any time you can't see the creature is always fifty times worse than actually seeing what it is -- your imagination can always concur something far scarier than anything they could put on screen.
...Though The Thing itself is something even I would be hard put to create in my worst nightmares...
But I DIDN'T see it as a kid. I saw it when I was thirty. So I'm not really focusing on the gore, or shocked by it, per se. If the amount of gore/violence in a film is within my "reasonable limits" (re: not torture porn), then I'm okay with it and it's unlikely to make too much of an impression on me.
All the better to focus on the atmosphere!
I remember watching Star Wars when I was 6. Well, no, I remember ONE PART of watching Star Wars when I was six, and that is the trash compactor scene and the monster under the water. That scene scared the crap out of me and I didn't watch Star Wars again for another 8 years because I was too frightened. I honest to god have no other early memories of that film because that ONE SCENE was so scary for me.
So yes. My theory on our different takes is different ages of first exposure, and therefore looking at dramatically different - yet equally awesome! - aspects of the same awesome film.
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...Though The Thing itself is something even I would be hard put to create in my worst nightmares...
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