Spoorloos, is an original Dutch/French thriller film filmed in 1988, and directed by George Sluizer. The film is about a couple, Rex and Saskia, traveling for vacations. Later, Saskia is abducted by a chemistry professor named Raymond, who is trying to prove that fate can be defeat. The main plot of the film is Rex looking for Saskia, while he has a new girlfriend, Lieneke. The antagonist of the film, Raymond, is loved by his family who know nothing about his another face. As mentioned before, he is a chemistry professor who was diagnosed sociopath. At the end, Raymond contacts Rex to reveal what happened to Saskia. In order to do this, Raymond tell Rex that he has to experiment the same as Saskia experimented. Rex ends up being buried alive.
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Some of the reasons that appear in Hift’s article are: the language barrier, the slower pace that the films have, and the popularity of foreign actors. Here is where Sluizer made changes to Spoorloos when he was directing the remake. The chronological order of the original film is organized as non-liner, which means that along the whole movie we have “jumps” in the time that most of the time are not really well defined. However, in the remake, the story is more linear and the few flashbacks showed are well defined. Also, popular brand names are well placed in the remake, as well as popular actors such as Salma …show more content…
The executive director of City Cinemas named Ralph Donney mentions in Hift’s article that “When it comes to the theaters, everybody is looking for blockbusters, and you don’t find those among the imports” (1). In my opinion, thanks to the Internet we have access to foreign content in just a few clicks away. Asian movies and series are really popular in this days.
Ken Nared article, “Language of Film 2: The end,” published in 2010 mentions how “The end of a film is where the last clash between the hero and villain plays out” (1). Nared said that every piece in the film takes form before the final battle to give a strong last scene. As a personal point of view, this is something missing from the original film. When I saw the final I had more than a few question about the whole film that made me feel incomplete. I was really waiting for the moment where the explaining everything, but instead, I had a final that left more questions than answers.
The original film lacks of that final scene, we just have the moment where Raymond offers Rex the truth, and the next moment we have Rex being buried alive. Nared mentions the
Some of the reasons that appear in Hift’s article are: the language barrier, the slower pace that the films have, and the popularity of foreign actors. Here is where Sluizer made changes to Spoorloos when he was directing the remake. The chronological order of the original film is organized as non-liner, which means that along the whole movie we have “jumps” in the time that most of the time are not really well defined. However, in the remake, the story is more linear and the few flashbacks showed are well defined. Also, popular brand names are well placed in the remake, as well as popular actors such as Salma …show more content…
The executive director of City Cinemas named Ralph Donney mentions in Hift’s article that “When it comes to the theaters, everybody is looking for blockbusters, and you don’t find those among the imports” (1). In my opinion, thanks to the Internet we have access to foreign content in just a few clicks away. Asian movies and series are really popular in this days.
Ken Nared article, “Language of Film 2: The end,” published in 2010 mentions how “The end of a film is where the last clash between the hero and villain plays out” (1). Nared said that every piece in the film takes form before the final battle to give a strong last scene. As a personal point of view, this is something missing from the original film. When I saw the final I had more than a few question about the whole film that made me feel incomplete. I was really waiting for the moment where the explaining everything, but instead, I had a final that left more questions than answers.
The original film lacks of that final scene, we just have the moment where Raymond offers Rex the truth, and the next moment we have Rex being buried alive. Nared mentions the