Okay, so despite good intentions with the second round of blogging, I seem to have somehow fallen behind again, so I am going to pick up where I left off, with one of the topics covered in class a couple of weeks ago.
So, getting into the discussion and subsequent response paper on genre for this class was something that I thought was actually pretty interesting. The readings and the writing assignment got me thinking more about the genres I prefer and why, which is something that I honestly had never given much consideration to before. One of my favorite film genres is horror, and I have seen The Ring and The Ring Two a few times before, so I was kind of excited to see the film that inspired them and see what similarities and differences there were. What I found most surprising about Ringu was that it was almost identical to its American counterpart. With most of the film remakes that I have seen, there are obviously many elements that are similar to the original, but there usually seem to be plenty of clear distinctions between the two. It seemed like the only significant difference in Ringu was the ESP factor, but I actually think the fact that the two films were so much alike made them more interesting to compare.
What did everyone else think about the similarities (and slight differences) between the two films?
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