Episode 102: The Ring 📼

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses their first memories of watching the film, why it sits somewhere between an average B-horror flick and a "prestige" film, and how it manages to maintain tension while lacking any kind of "monster."

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.5	Today we are talking about The Ring, the 2002 film directed by Gore Vibinsky, screenplay by Aaron Kruger.
0:20.2	It's a remake of the Hideo Nakata 1999 Japanese film
0:24.2	rang based on Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel of the same name.
0:29.7	I'm joined today by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:32.9	Hello, everyone.
0:34.1	Brian Bittner.
0:34.9	Hello, hello.
0:35.8	And Alex Kayetos.
0:37.4	Hi. And we're kind And Alex Cayetos. Hi.
0:38.2	And we're kind of joined by some more people.
0:41.7	So to explain, we've been trying out different fun ideas over on our Patreon, like the
0:47.1	watch-along that we did for Skyfall.
0:49.4	And today, we are streaming the recording of this episode to our patrons live.
0:55.3	So they are going to get the uncensored experience,
0:59.2	the full-length pauses as we search for the right words to express ourselves.
1:04.7	They're going to hear it all.
1:06.8	Okay, so the ring.
1:09.0	So the ring, I want to talk, I want to hear from you guys about like the first time you sought, if you remember, because this, this movie came out when I was 16, which is like the prime age to be seeing like a horror film like this in the theater. And I remember a lot of my theater experience and the audience reacting to things.
1:29.3	I also realized rewatching it that this is like a horror movie for film people in a weird way.
1:35.5	And I think that's maybe where some of my fondness of it comes from is like they're talking about
1:40.2	video and time code and like all these things that I was like, I'm a nerd.
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