What We Fear Statement
For our What We Fear project I chose the movie As Above, So Below Directed and Written by John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew Dowdle. I chose this movie because it has many fears embedded in it; one of the main fears that are present is the fear of being judged for our mistakes/sins, this especially is a very common fear in modern times. Another fear I saw was claustrophobia, though this is different from the judgement but still a present fear none the less. Though I don’t think I’m going to try and portray these fears in my adaptation, as much as I would love to be the next Stephen King I don’t think I could do it justice.
I think if you changed the movies setting it would be very difficult to convey the same fear and thought; It would be in a random cave which could still be scary but it wouldn’t have the same background, I feel like the thousands of souls really drives the feeling of dread home, haha. Though I feel like you could get a similar or scarier effect if you placed these events in a random cave in like old western ghost town that turned of to be a catacomb full of dead people or something around that preface. I plan on more of an explanation of the original story, the movie leaves the characters fresh out of hell in the middle of the Paris street. George and Scarlett are hugging and Zed is walking off but to where no one knows. I want to know what happens after the movie ends what happens to Scarlett now that her father's journey she was determined to finish do they keep this a secret between each other or do they tell the world, does the world believe them? I just want to know how they deal with this.
The Central Questions of my essay is what happened to Scarlett, George, and Zed after they escaped the catacombs? How they’re coping with their trauma? Does Scarlett still have her “power” or was it an in hell only special? My plan for my adaptation is to answer some questions the movie left unanswered. That’s one thing I sometimes hate in movies-- I hate not knowing but that’s also what makes some movies great, so it an uphill battle, but I also hate when franchises drag something out for way to long so who knows why I’m making a prequel for a movie that doesn't need one. Though some things I love about this is the story and the characters personalities and the way they act with with each other. I was quite surprised that I liked this movie because another movie that's similar to this is The Blair Witch Project and I thought that movie sucked, which I hope my audience doesn’t think about my adaptation.
For our What We Fear project I chose the movie As Above, So Below Directed and Written by John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew Dowdle. I chose this movie because it has many fears embedded in it; one of the main fears that are present is the fear of being judged for our mistakes/sins, this especially is a very common fear in modern times. Another fear I saw was claustrophobia, though this is different from the judgement but still a present fear none the less. Though I don’t think I’m going to try and portray these fears in my adaptation, as much as I would love to be the next Stephen King I don’t think I could do it justice.
I think if you changed the movies setting it would be very difficult to convey the same fear and thought; It would be in a random cave which could still be scary but it wouldn’t have the same background, I feel like the thousands of souls really drives the feeling of dread home, haha. Though I feel like you could get a similar or scarier effect if you placed these events in a random cave in like old western ghost town that turned of to be a catacomb full of dead people or something around that preface. I plan on more of an explanation of the original story, the movie leaves the characters fresh out of hell in the middle of the Paris street. George and Scarlett are hugging and Zed is walking off but to where no one knows. I want to know what happens after the movie ends what happens to Scarlett now that her father's journey she was determined to finish do they keep this a secret between each other or do they tell the world, does the world believe them? I just want to know how they deal with this.
The Central Questions of my essay is what happened to Scarlett, George, and Zed after they escaped the catacombs? How they’re coping with their trauma? Does Scarlett still have her “power” or was it an in hell only special? My plan for my adaptation is to answer some questions the movie left unanswered. That’s one thing I sometimes hate in movies-- I hate not knowing but that’s also what makes some movies great, so it an uphill battle, but I also hate when franchises drag something out for way to long so who knows why I’m making a prequel for a movie that doesn't need one. Though some things I love about this is the story and the characters personalities and the way they act with with each other. I was quite surprised that I liked this movie because another movie that's similar to this is The Blair Witch Project and I thought that movie sucked, which I hope my audience doesn’t think about my adaptation.
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What We Fear Research Summary
In As Above, So Below the characters have some pretty traumatic stuff happen to them. They’re haunted by literal ghosts of their past, they come face to face with demons and a reaper like entity, and out of the original six only three escape. Because of all this trauma they witness, I want to know how they cope with this, how they decide to release this footage the captured and just what they decide to do with their lives knowing what they know now. It is found out at the end of the movie before they escape hell that Zed has a kid that he knows is his but has been dismissing; I want to write about if he goes to the kid and tries becomes a dad or if he continues to dismiss them. At the beginning of the movie Scarlett's whole life mission is to discover the philosopher’s stone to prove her father wasn't crazy and that he didn't die in vain; now that she's discovered it and has ”inherited” its healing power, that we are unsure of its a permanent thing or an in hell only deal, what does she decide to focus on next? George’s situation is a little different than the others, he had no reason to be in the catacombs, he didn't want the treasure and he wasn't as driven as Scarlett to find this stone, heck he didn't even want to be down there. I guess what I'm getting at is I don't know if he'll hate Scarlett or they'll grow closer from this experience; also will he go back to breaking into historical places a fixing them or will he discover a new life passion.
Annotated Bibliography
Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia
A Wiki page all about the first part of the poem Divine Comedy. I chose this source to learn a bit more about the poem as the movie draws from it and many movie reviewers mention Dante's Inferno so I want to be well informed. For example, in the movie the 6 stumbles across the catacomb explorers old friend La Taupe, who used to live in the catacombs and presumably died there, and he leads them further into hell just like ”Virgil proceeds to guide Dante through the nine circles of Hell.” (Inferno (Dante)).
9 Circles of Hell (Dante's Inferno) - History Lists
A website that explains each of the 9 circles that Dante (and the 6) encounter, each representing a Sin. This is also a website I am using to learn about Dante’s Inferno and thus learning more about As Above, So Below. I want to try and find similarities between characters and the circle they died in.
NIMH >> Coping with Traumatic Events
This website is about how some people are affected by trauma and how they deal with it. I wanted to know more about how Traumatic events affect humans so I can make my adaptation factually correct.
As Above, So Below Movie Script
This website contains the entire movie script. I want to use this one to refer back to it and really nail down how each character talks and interacts with others.
AS ABOVE SO BELOW (2014) Ending Explained + Analysis
This is a YouTube video of someone really further explaining the movie and point out some of the similarities between As Above, So Below and Dante’s Inferno
As Above, So Below - IMDb
The IMDB for the movie, another website I am using to make sure I’m factually correct
Minos’s Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell ‘Inferno*
An academic resource about Dante’s Inferno. To have a different perspective on Dante’s Inferno.
Thai horror film: ghosts, archives of history/ies, 'real life,' and collective trauma.*
An academic resource about the trauma horror movies cause. This is to further my research on how trauma affects people but this is directed more towards horror movie trauma.
In As Above, So Below the characters have some pretty traumatic stuff happen to them. They’re haunted by literal ghosts of their past, they come face to face with demons and a reaper like entity, and out of the original six only three escape. Because of all this trauma they witness, I want to know how they cope with this, how they decide to release this footage the captured and just what they decide to do with their lives knowing what they know now. It is found out at the end of the movie before they escape hell that Zed has a kid that he knows is his but has been dismissing; I want to write about if he goes to the kid and tries becomes a dad or if he continues to dismiss them. At the beginning of the movie Scarlett's whole life mission is to discover the philosopher’s stone to prove her father wasn't crazy and that he didn't die in vain; now that she's discovered it and has ”inherited” its healing power, that we are unsure of its a permanent thing or an in hell only deal, what does she decide to focus on next? George’s situation is a little different than the others, he had no reason to be in the catacombs, he didn't want the treasure and he wasn't as driven as Scarlett to find this stone, heck he didn't even want to be down there. I guess what I'm getting at is I don't know if he'll hate Scarlett or they'll grow closer from this experience; also will he go back to breaking into historical places a fixing them or will he discover a new life passion.
Annotated Bibliography
Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia
A Wiki page all about the first part of the poem Divine Comedy. I chose this source to learn a bit more about the poem as the movie draws from it and many movie reviewers mention Dante's Inferno so I want to be well informed. For example, in the movie the 6 stumbles across the catacomb explorers old friend La Taupe, who used to live in the catacombs and presumably died there, and he leads them further into hell just like ”Virgil proceeds to guide Dante through the nine circles of Hell.” (Inferno (Dante)).
9 Circles of Hell (Dante's Inferno) - History Lists
A website that explains each of the 9 circles that Dante (and the 6) encounter, each representing a Sin. This is also a website I am using to learn about Dante’s Inferno and thus learning more about As Above, So Below. I want to try and find similarities between characters and the circle they died in.
NIMH >> Coping with Traumatic Events
This website is about how some people are affected by trauma and how they deal with it. I wanted to know more about how Traumatic events affect humans so I can make my adaptation factually correct.
As Above, So Below Movie Script
This website contains the entire movie script. I want to use this one to refer back to it and really nail down how each character talks and interacts with others.
AS ABOVE SO BELOW (2014) Ending Explained + Analysis
This is a YouTube video of someone really further explaining the movie and point out some of the similarities between As Above, So Below and Dante’s Inferno
As Above, So Below - IMDb
The IMDB for the movie, another website I am using to make sure I’m factually correct
Minos’s Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell ‘Inferno*
An academic resource about Dante’s Inferno. To have a different perspective on Dante’s Inferno.
Thai horror film: ghosts, archives of history/ies, 'real life,' and collective trauma.*
An academic resource about the trauma horror movies cause. This is to further my research on how trauma affects people but this is directed more towards horror movie trauma.
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