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How was the "fog" depicted in the movie "The Fog"?

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How was the "fog" depicted in the movie "The Fog"?

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"The Fog" synopsis

The port town of Antonio Bay is buzzing with excitement during its 100th anniversary festival. At night, the town is covered in thick fog that flows from the sea, and strange phenomena occur one after another. The ghosts have been revived along with the fog after 100 years, and they brutally murder the residents one after another in order to take revenge on them.


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"Fog" in the movie



In the movie, fog can be any tool. A creepy device that hides the appearance of terrifying Monster. A tool that makes the criminal invisible. A mysterious background that hangs between lovers. Fog, which covers the screen in white, has been used in all genres of film, whether it's black and white or color.


There are many movies that use fog effectively, including Frank Darabont's `` The Mist '' (2007), which is a true ``fog'' movie as the title suggests. Most recently, director Park Chan-wook's `` The Decision to Leave '' (22) featured the fictional town of Ipoh, which is shrouded in fog all day long. It is shown in the movie that this is an homage to Kim Soo-young's ``The Fog'' (67), but it is probably a walk through an industrial area covered in smoke and fog in Michelangelo Antonioni's ` `Red Desert '' (64). Monica Vitti's appearance must have had a big influence on the shape of Sole, played by Tang Wei.


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Speaking of fog in movies, Alfred Hitchcock's `` Vertigo '' (1958) cannot be overlooked. The famous scene in which James Stewart, played by Kim Novak, follows Madeline and discovers her in a graveyard. According to `` Standard Film Technique: Hitchcock/Truffaut '' (Shobunsha), this scene was shot with a fog filter applied to the screen to ``create a vague, dream-like, mysterious mood.'' The result was a ``pale green tone that resembles a blanket of mist in the midst of a bright sun.'' This greenish fog is vividly reproduced in the second half of the film in the hotel scene where Judy, a woman who looks just like Madeline played by Kim Novak, appears in front of James Stewart again. The green neon light shining outside the window illuminates the room, as if Madeline, who was supposed to be dead, has come back to life from the green mist. Apparently, the mist has the power to resurrect non-human beings.





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