See title!
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oceantide-27438 — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 10:58 PM)
The ring was designed to be like a virus.
A virus can't thrive without a living host, just as Samara's curse can't either. By copying the video tape and showing it to another, the curse is able to be passed onto the next person, and more people will be "infected" by it. The title "The Ring" literally refers to the life cycle of Samara's curse.
The Ring is based off a Japanese movie, Ringu, which is based off of a novel by the same title. Unfortunately, these facts didn't transfer well from the novel to the screen.
Granted, it's only in the novel and in the original movie where you had to make a copy and show it to someone in order to survive. The American producers felt this was too dark, and they changed it so only making a copy would suffice. But there are alternative scenes where the American characters did have to show it to someone to survive as well, and Rachel has a prisoner on death row watch the tape in order to save her son. -
pyxysyzygy-1 — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 05:20 PM)
The American producers felt this was too dark, and they changed it so only making a copy would suffice.
The last line of the American version is the son's,
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oceantide-27438 — 9 years ago(August 05, 2016 01:10 PM)
Good point. The American film was made sort of messy. There are 2 alternative endings to the American film. One is where Rachel rents a movie on the hot pics wall, and then swaps out the movie with her copy of Samara's tape, killing a random stranger to save Aiden's life. The other alternative has a couple scenes where earlier in the movie, Rachel is doing a story about a man on death row, and later drops off the tape for him to view because he's going to die anyway, so her son might as well be saved in the process.
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oceantide-27438 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 05:50 PM)
Anna didn't make the tape. Samara did using her supernatural powers. When the teenagers at the cabin wanted to record a football game, Samara used her powers to record her tape instead.
I hope this helps
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loverboylove — 9 years ago(August 07, 2016 10:15 AM)
My last question: When Rachel opened the well ,she said :''It's all passed,honey.'' I cannot understand the releation between Rachel's finding and hugging Samara in the well and her spirit's being set free. I mean what happenned when she hugged her? If her spirit had been set free ,how and why did her spirit was set free just by Rachel's hugging her?
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hoz_hun — 9 years ago(November 03, 2016 08:48 AM)
It doesn't matter what happens with her body. Only Rachel thinks that she set Samara spirit free and thought that she is an innocent little girl who suffer a lot and it will break the curse because thats what Samara wanted. Actually, Samara didn't and didn't care her rotten dead body anymore and her vengeance full spirit is still her own as always was.
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MrRazorz — 10 years ago(October 16, 2015 03:29 PM)
Making a copy isn't what saves you, showing it to someone else is. Basically you're taking the target off your back and slapping it on theirs.
If we're counting what happens in the sequel (and I'm not sure we should, because it was crap) it opens with a teenager who watched the tape a week ago and is now trying to get his girlfriend to watch the copy he made. He's
really insistent
that she watch it
right now
, because he knows he won't be safe until she does.
Besides, Rachel tries burning that copy of the tape later in the film, and it just screws things up even worse. The plot, for one thing. -
GreyHunter — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 01:07 AM)
For some odd reason, the people replying to you aren't taking the answer across the finish line. The
reason
you have to show someone else after you make a copy is made pretty clear in Rachel's epiphany moment at the end. That is, she's no just arbitrarily insisting that a copy be made. What she actually wants is to be heard. She wants others to see what's going on with her. A copy that you never show anyone else is worthless. It only gains significance if disseminated into the world. So by making the copy
and
getting someone else to watch, you perform a service for Samara getting her message out and are spared. Making a copy and keeping it yourself is essentially
coitus interruptus
. You're taking the first step but not following through. with the plan. As such, she has no reason to let you live. -
crissttigaldames — 9 years ago(June 06, 2016 02:02 PM)
But that isn't what the movie says. She has her son make a copy, they don't show them nor have anyone say they'll show it to anyone. Maybe in the deletedscenes, but that doesn't count. It's implied that her son is safe just by making the copy. Yeah, he says "what about the people who see it" but that doesn't mean they will actively show it to anyone.
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soulsk8ter225 — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 05:08 PM)
Oi. Clearly they showed it to somebody. We don't know who, but Rachel telling Aidan
"We didn't do anything wrong. We did what anyone would do. We started over."
clearly has a double-meaning with regard to both them moving to Oregon and also leaving somebody holding the keys do their death. I'm guessing they made it as well though, as Rings brought us to The Ring Two and caught up to Rachel again.
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