Ringu and The Ring

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Sam Iles

Ringu and The Ring

Ringu (1998) was directed by Hideo Nakata and was produced by Masato Hara (executive producer) Ichise Makato (associate producer) Tatsuya Isomura (line producer) Shinya Kawai (producer) Takenori Sento (producer)

The Ring (2002) was directed by Gore Verbinski (“The Mexican,” “Mouse Hunt”) and produced by Walter F. Parkes (“Gladiator,” “Men in Black 2”) and Laurie MacDonald (“Gladiator,” “Men in Black 2”).

The ring and ringu are about a young girl who is pushed down a well by one of her parents and she is stuck down there for seven days and then dies. To take revenge on everyone who has been horrible to her she creates a tape that seven days after you watch it you die. A journalist’s niece dies after watching the tape and the journalist tries to find out what happens. She watches the tape and gets her old boyfriend to watch it and help her find out how to lift the curse. They think they have done it when they find the body of the girl but the man still dies. Then she finds that you have to copy the tape and show it to someone so you live. The story does vary slightly between the 2 films.

Although the two films are set in a different country both places are reasonably the same. They are both big cities and have kind of the same type of buildings and the same amount of people. Even though they are in the same sort of environment I think that it seems better set in Japan. This may be because it is a foreign country, which would make it scarier and also it is just feels like it would be more likely to happen there because it is a more mysterious. I think that as Verbinski could have filmed it in Japan and it would have been better but then really they would need Japanese actors and so would not have been able to have as many stars in. If Verbinski had filmed it in Japan it would have added a slight mystery to the whole thing I think this may be why some people prefer the Japanese version. This could have also been a way just to Americanise the whole film or because many people are racist against the Chinese and Japanese.

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The media are the most important group in the whole film. This is because they are the main reason that Sadaco turns evil in Ringu and partly in the ring and in both films they are the main good force and find out how to stop the tape. In the film The Ring I think that Verbinski has tried to make the media more of a good force in the film rather than showing them as split as equally good and bad, which is what Hideo Nakata has done in Ringu. This is shown by the fact that ...

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