THE RING (Samara & Sadako's Curse + Ending) Explained

Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained and as voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring The Ring, the 2002 supernatural horror directed by Gore Verbinski. The film is essentially a remake of Hideo Nakata’s amazing 1998 Japanese horror, based on Koji Suzuki’s eponymous novel. As such, we’ll be noting some of the major differences between the three as we go through this video, especially at the end to avoid spoilers. First published in 1991, Koji’s novel is a dark ride into resentment and how that can spread like a malevolent disease. Set in modern-day Japan, when four teenagers mysteriously die simultaneously, a reporter named Kazuyuki Asakawa hears about one of the deaths from his taxi driver and begins a personal investigation into the matter. As the case begins taking a sinister turn with the discovery of a mysterious tape, Kazuyuki recruits the help of his oddball friend, Ryuji Takayama (a former doctor turned philosophy professor) to solve the riddle. There are quite a few key differences between the novel and the 1998 film adaptation. Most notably, in the novel Asakawa is a man named Kazuyuki, while in the film Asakawa is a woman named Reiko. (For the purposes of the explanation, we will use Koji to represent his main character). Kazuyuki also has a wife and daughter in the novel, while in the 98 film, Reiko is divorced from Ryuji, with whom Reiko shares a boy named Yoichi. Taking this dynamic and many of the cues found in Nakata’s film, (which we’ll be discussing later in the video) Verbinski’s movie is more of a loose adaptation of an adaptation, then a true representation of the novel. Check out my playlists on film here - Film Explored -    • Film Explored   Check out my playlist on Predator here -    • New to Predator? Start Here   Check out my playlist on Alien here -    • New to Aliens? Start Here   Hey there folks!! My name is Niyat and this channel was created to assist in answering all your questions about Films, Comics, Games and Popular culture in a fun and engaging way! All music is sourced from Epidemic Sound. To try a free 30-day trial of their music please head here - http://share.epidemicsound.com/v33gf #thering #ringu #sadako ABOUT ME Disclaimer: I do not own rights to any of the source materials I used in this work, appealing to allowance made for "fair use" purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research, under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.