![]() ![]() ![]() Days later, Ben has to report for work with his friend Bruno (David Denman) Jane accompanies him but is somewhat left to her own devices as Ben needs to meet with the clients right away. ![]() Ben chooses to ignore it, and at the cabin, they are able to enjoy a few day long honeymoon, and Ben wants to take pictures to record the event. ![]() Jane tells him he needs to get it checked out. Ben's shoulder is bothering him, since the accident. Later, help does arrive for them, and they are able to continue with their travel to the cabin, but Jane is haunted by the image of the girl. He also thinks the injuries weren't life-threatening, as they cannot find any blood or evidence of a collision and wants to call for help. They find nothing, and Ben thinks that the girl was already found and has gotten the medical help that she would need. When she awakens, Jane realizes the girl could very well still be laying in the road, and rushes out of the car to find her, Ben on her heels. She hits the girl, and swerves off the road, crashing the car into a tree. While attempting to get their bearings, Jane sees a girl walk into the road. In the car on the way to the cabin, Jane gets lost and asks a sleeping Ben to check the map. The couple has made the decision to leave for Japan a few days early, renting a cabin so they can enjoy a shorter honeymoon. The film begins with the couple's wedding, and the audience learns that they are planning to leave their apartment in Brooklyn for Japan, where Ben has been hired to take pictures for a particular client. Also, you can find a review of the original Thai version of SHUTTER here.Shutter tells the story of photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor). Because they’re Shinto – not Christian, Jewish or Muslim – it is a totally different underpinning for the Japanese than it is for Westerners. When the supernatural starts happening, it is on their terms, and we need to be brought into their mythology. “When you have people in Thailand, they have the same basic cultural assumptions as the rest of the characters., so when supernatural stuff starts kicking off, whether they believe or don’t believe, they have a cultural understanding of it,” explains Jackson. ”Ours is the exact reverse of that, because we’re Westerners in Japan, Tokyo. The remake had to take a different approach. Perhaps the best comparison in American culture would be with UFOs – everyone has heard of them, whether or not we all believe they contain little green men from Mars. The Thai version of SHUTTER presents its Spirit Photography in a matter of fact way, although not necessarily as something universally believed. But because you’re introducing Westerners to Japanese-Asian culture, the first act and a half are radically different, because you need to introduce Westerners to the idea, even, of spirit photography.” It’s similar enough that the structure is there and the thrust of the spirit photography is taken across, and we borrowed some of their better sequences. Jackson explains, “When they sent out the script, they sent the original, with the instructions to watch the original, digest, forget, and then read the script. The ”Spirit Photography” is borrowed from the original film, but much of the plot has been refashioned to help acclimate audiences to the concept, which is more taken for granted in Thai culture. The premise this time is that the ghost manifests herself in on film, which wrecks havock on the livelihood of Ben (Jackson), a professional photographer. ![]()
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