The Ring

Titolo originale: The Ring
Regia: Gore Verbinski |
Anno: 2002
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Horror Mistero
Tag: journalist | island | drowning | investigation | supernatural | horse | telephone | paranormal | remake | urban legend | curse | cabin in the woods | ghost | well | videotape | mysterious death | terrifying |
Cast: Naomi Watts | Martin Henderson | David Dorfman | Brian Cox | Jane Alexander | Lindsay Frost | Amber Tamblyn | Rachael Bella | Daveigh Chase | Shannon Cochran | Sandra Thigpen | Richard Lineback | Sasha Barrese | Tess Hall | Adam Brody | Alan Blumenfeld | Pauley Perrette | Joe Chrest | Stephanie Erb | Joanna Lin Black | Michael Spound | Art Frankel | Billy Lloyd | Sara Rue | Keith Campbell | Ronald William Lawrence | Lindsey Stoddart | Joe Sabatino | Aixa Clemente | Coleen Maloney | Catherine Paolone | Maura McNamara | David Povall | Gary Carlos Cervantes | Chuck Hicks |

Una leggenda metropolitana narra la storia di una videocassetta, contenenti immagini da incubo, la cui visione porta alla morte in esattamente sette giorni. La reporter Rachel Keller, scettica all'inizio, si ricrede quando viene a sapere che quattro ragazzi sono morti esattamente una settimana dopo la visione della misteriosa cassetta. Spinta dalla sua curiosità investigativa Rachel rintraccia la cassetta e la guarda: ha esattamente una settimana per riuscire a salvarsi...

Approfondimenti

The magazine that Rachel looks at says "Rings in the new year". D
Amber Tamblyn would go to appear in another Japanese horror remake, The Grudge 2 (2006). Excluding t [...] D
Sold more than two million DVD copies in the U.S. alone in its first 24 hours of video release. D
The role of Rachel was first offered to Jennifer Connelly (who would later star in another Japanese [...] D
The original cut of the film was over 130 minutes, with an estimated 20 minutes of footage excised f [...] D
The ring shape motif is unique to the American remake. Kôji Suzuki, the author of the novel upon [...] D
At one point, in the scene where Rachel is researching Anna Morgan and Moesko Island, she finds info [...] D
Brian Cox was the only actor considered to play Richard Morgan. He turned down a part in Ghost Ship [...] D
A lot of alleged "ghost sightings" videos have had a ghost that copied Samara's "look," with the hai [...] D
Becca, who is based on Masami from Ringu (1998), is featured in a subplot where she's institutionali [...] D
Reiko (Rachel's Japanese counterpart), after figuring out that she only survived the curse because s [...] D
When Noah searches through the archives on Anna Morgan, Japanese writing is seen briefly on paper. T [...] D
A theory about how Samara kills her victims is that she mentally projects all of the images from the [...] D
Producer Neal Edelstein offered the remake to David Lynch to direct, but he turned it down. D
This film was originally promoted under the title "Ring," like The Ring (1998), the original Japanes [...] D
In both the American and Japanese versions, the name of the little girl is connected to a story abou [...] D
The type of ghost that Samara (and her Japanese incarnation Sadako) is based on is the mythological [...] D
Subtle images of circles in various forms, such as the designs on the doctor's sweater, the shower d [...] D
During the scene in which Rachel is on the balcony looking into windows of another building, shown o [...] D
Brian Cox plays a character whose wife killed herself after psychically receiving horrific images fr [...] D
In the space of four years since the original The Ring (1998), the production budget multiplied roug [...] D
Stuntwoman Kelly Stables, in an uncredited role, played the ghostly Samara when she crawls out of th [...] D
Rachel finds out that one of the kids who watched the tape at the lodge died in a motorcycle crash i [...] D
The massive success of The Sixth Sense (1999) was what gave Paramount Pictures the confidence to gre [...] D
The pen that Rachel Keller uses throughout the film is a Sensa. D
While the film takes place in Seattle, in earlier drafts of the screenplay, it originally took place [...] D
Gore Verbinski deliberately chose not to cast major stars as any of the main or supporting character [...] D
Old electrodes are shown in the film, in the flashbacks to Samara's stay in the hospital, heavily im [...] D
There are several moments of foreshadowing in the film to future events in the plot: * Rachel pulls [...] D
The tree with the fiery red leaves featured in the movie is a Japanese maple. The fruit of this tree [...] D
Samara's psychic abilities are known as Nensha, which is a form of spirit photography that enables s [...] D
Since the release of "The Ring" in Canada, the story of the cursed video has become very popular in [...] D
A Bad Religion sticker is partially visible in Noah's locker in the A/V room; Gore Verbinski (credit [...] D
In a deleted scene, local fishermen tell Rachel some details of Samara's backstory. They tell her th [...] D
Until Stephen King's It (2017), this movie was the highest-grossing horror remake in history, with a [...] D
Aidan's teacher is wearing a shirt which has horse figures on it, suggesting the same hint can be fo [...] D
Playing the movie frame by frame, in the exact moment when Katie Embry is scared to death at the beg [...] D
When Rachel is looking off her balcony at the units of other residents, she focuses on one apartment [...] D
The "Moesko Island Lighthouse" is a fictional name for a real lighthouse located in Newport, Oregon. [...] D
After the horse jumps off the ferry and gets (presumably) chopped up in the propellers, the titular [...] D
The "cursed" video is available as an easter egg on the DVD. Select look here and press down and you [...] D
When Noah and Rachel return to the inn, at the end of the movie, there's a sign that reads "Closed u [...] D
To promote this film the studio placed copies of the mysterious "killer tape" at concerts and events [...] D
The possibility that Samara's father is an ocean demon was taken from Ringu (1998), and is an explan [...] D
One of producer Walter F. Parkes' executives rang him and told him to immediately go see a Japanese [...] D
Long before the movie premiered, the killer video was used as a commercial. The commercial did not m [...] D
Jennifer Love Hewitt was offered the role of Rachel Keller, but turned it down, not wishing to be ty [...] D
Although the meaning of the title "The Ring" is ambiguous, Kôji Suzuki, the author of the origina [...] D
Just like with the original Japanese film Ring (1998), the lead protagonist from the novel was gende [...] D
DreamWorks took an unusual but effective tack on the release plan for this film. When the lengthy po [...] D
Daveigh Chase took the role of Samara after losing the role of Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) to [...] D
It's 59 minutes before Brian Cox makes a proper appearance in the film. Even then, he only gets 4 mi [...] D
It is often incorrectly assumed by viewers that Rachel survived the 7 day week after watching the ta [...] D
There are no title cards or opening credits to the movie, although there is a flash of "the ring" du [...] D
The original WGA-approved credits listed Hiroshi Takahashi (writer of the original 1998 screenplay f [...] D
Naomi Watts appears in this film with Amber Tamblyn. Watts worked with her father Russ on Twin Peaks [...] D
Production designer Tom Duffield relied on Andrew Wyeth's paintings as his main visual inspiration f [...] D
First collaboration between director Gore Verbinski and composer Hans Zimmer. Ever since then, Zimme [...] D
In the opening scene, Katie (Amber Tamblyn) is walking around barefoot. The wardrobe department actu [...] D
On its first week of release in the U.S. and Canada, select cinemas put actual copies of the cursed [...] D
In a rare negative review that even surprised his colleagues, Roger Ebert gave the film a 2 out of 4 [...] D
For the choice of the film's color, it was decided that everything was to be tinged with the color g [...] D
This went into production without a completed script. Ehren Kruger had done three drafts when Scott [...] D
If one looks closely at Samara's fingers, she is lacking fingernails, as a result of trying to climb [...] D
Nearly every single scene in the film is set in daylight, with only the opening scene with Katie and [...] D
Katie and Becca are wearing what appears to be Japanese schoolgirl uniforms in the opening scene, a [...] D
In one scene, Naomi Watts pulls a long string out of her mouth. In director Gore Verbinski's feature [...] D
Amber Tamblyn (Katie) and David Dorfman (Aidan) also appeared together in the television series Joan [...] D
During the climax of the film when Naomi Watts' character is knocked into the well by the television [...] D
Samara's name means "protected by God" in Hebrew, alluding to her biologically supernatural origins. [...] D
Naomi Watts: [starring in remakes] The success of The Ring (2002) at the box-office paved the way fo [...] D
Seattle, Washington was chosen as the chief location of the film production because of its wet, isol [...] D
Chris Cooper appeared in a small role but was cut from the film. In an interview Cooper told Sci Fi [...] D
Tess Hall's debut. D
Sadako was a fully grown woman in the Japanese original film and the novel when she had died. She wa [...] D
In the opening of the film,Katie(Amber Tamblyn)and Becca(Rachel Bella)are lying around in a bedroom, [...] D
the tree with fiery red leaves is a Japanese maple. The fruit that this tree produces is called a sa [...] D
The red Japanese maple (seen in the video) was artificial, built out of steel tubing and plaster, wi [...] D
The October 3, 2001 draft of the screenplay credited Scott Frank as a writer, who revised the screen [...] D
An interesting feature on the VHS release: rewind the tape to the very beginning. (Or just put the t [...] D

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In one scene, there is a shot of a small clock ticking, but the hand is moving in a smooth motion. T [...] D
After watching the Samara medical video in the Morgan home, Rachel chases Richard Morgan to the stai [...] D
When Anna is coming up behind Samara just before putting the trash bag over her head, we see both ha [...] D
When Rachel falls into the well, the torch light reaches the end of the well, meanwhile earlier on N [...] D
After breaking into the records room, Noah is looking at Samara's pictures or photo negatives, holdi [...] D
When Rachel is holding the tape at sunset just before watching it, the shadows and red light move ac [...] D
When Richard Morgan dies by electrocution in the bath, at first it shows blood, and then when you re [...] D
Despite the fact that Mr. Morgan's suicide by electricity would have overloaded the circuit breaker [...] D
The level of the water in the well is not continuous. When Rachel is standing in the water it only c [...] D
When Noah is done watching the video, Rachel's phone rings with a rather long pause between rings. B [...] D
On the ferry, when the people gather at the stern to see the horse that fell overboard, a little gir [...] D
The counter numbers are messed up on both the original tape and the copy. This is not possible with [...] D
In the group photo of Anna Morgan with the old women, the shadows on her face reveal that her image [...] D
When Rachel is looking through the newspapers for what time all of the teens died, she sees a time o [...] D
Rachel has a very basic conversation with her sister at the wake about Katie's death, as if she'd ba [...] D
When Rachel lifts Samara's body out of the water, her hand is covered by Samara's hair. In the next [...] D
As Rachel is driving to try to warn Noah, she has her cell phone in her right hand. In the next shot [...] D
The way Aidan's tie is tied during the wake, changes between shots (the stripes move around at the k [...] D
When the horse rips loose on the ferry, it rips the rope from the wall without breaking the rope. In [...] D
Samara is a young girl when she falls down the well yet the actress who plays her in the supernatura [...] D
At the funeral, when Aidan is in Katie's room, the closet door opens and shuts repeatedly between sh [...] D
Towards end of movie, Rachel returns to find Aiden sleeping on the floor. She picks him up and when [...] D
When Rachel picks up Katie's photos a monorail is seen above heading in the south direction, moments [...] D
On the ferry the horse runs - and then falls over - along the center line of the ferry, but as we se [...] D
When Rachel is researching Anna Morgan and Moesko Island in the newspaper archives, she is unconscio [...] D
The death of Katie and all of her friends is listed as 10 p.m. However, 10 p.m. is the time it says [...] D
The cursed video ends on a shot of the well, except when Rachel's son watches it, when it ends with [...] D
When Noah and Rachel uncover the well, they drop a rock to see how deep it is, and we hear it drop o [...] D
When Noah chops a hole in the floor with the axe, he removes a circle of wood approximately four fee [...] D
When Noah is walking towards to the TV when Samara is coming out of the well, he is barefoot. When h [...] D
After Noah watches the video and the phone rings the position of the wire underneath the phone chang [...] D
In the shot of the horse falling off the ferry, the ferry's name "Quinault Seattle WA" is seen on on [...] D
Mr Morgan tells Rachel to leave his house, he opens the door and you can see that the day is very su [...] D
When Noah breaks into the mental institution's record room and is looking through Anna's files, ther [...] D
Near the end of the first scene between Noah and Rachel, Noah begins to eat an apple. He is clearly [...] D
When Rachel is searching the Internet for information, the address in the browser points to a file s [...] D
When Aidan is drawing in the car with Noah, his clipboard changes color from blue to green. D
When Rachel makes a copy of the tape, the images on the screen appear in a different sequence than w [...] D
When Noah is at the supermarket buying cigarettes, he pulls out of his pocket a bunch of junk such a [...] D
There is no such thing as a "tracking window" in videotape terminology, as the A/V lab clerk says. T [...] D

Frase

Samara Morgan: I love my mommy. D
Samara Morgan: [Speaking of her father] He wants m [...] D
Anna Morgan: All I ever wanted was you... D
Noah: I can't imagine being stuck down a well all [...] D
[last lines] Aidan Keller: What about the person [...] D
Samara Morgan: [singing by the well] : Here we go, [...] D
Harvey: You're fired. Rachel Keller: No, I'm not. [...] D
Aidan Keller: We don't have enough time. Rachel K [...] D
Doctor: Your daddy loves you. Samara Morgan: Dadd [...] D
Becca: You start to play it... and it's like someb [...] D
Cashier: You're gonna die. Noah: Huh? Cashier: M [...] D
Noah: [after watching the tape] Very student film. D
Doctor: Let's talk about these pictures you make. [...] D
Library Clerk: 1978. Man, we're really going back [...] D
Rachel Keller: [Referring to Samara] Was there any [...] D
Ruth: I spent four hours on the internet and I cou [...] D
Teacher: Yes, I know, but these pictures... Rache [...] D
Dr. Scott: You don't want to hurt anyone. Samara [...] D
Rachel Keller: He watched the tape. Noah: Who? wh [...] D
Aidan Keller: What happened to the girl? Rachel K [...] D
Rachel Keller: Would you say that I'm gullible? N [...] D
Samara Morgan: Seven days... D
Rachel Keller: Four people are dead. Noah: Not fr [...] D
Rachel Keller: Mr. Morgan! [sees the electronics [...] D
Rachel Keller: Hey Noah, can you pretend for a sec [...] D
Rachel Keller: Katie told you she was going to die [...] D
Samara Morgan: Everyone will suffer. D
Richard Morgan: What is it with reporters? You tak [...] D
[first lines] Katie: I hate television. Gives me [...] D
Rachel Keller: She wanted that child more than any [...] D
Dr. Grasnik: She wanted a child more than anything [...] D
Rachel Keller: What did you do to her? She was you [...] D
Rachel Keller: I'll take cabin 12 D
Rachel Keller: So, what was on this tape? Kellen, [...] D
Noah: [Referring to the tape] Look I'm sorry but I [...] D
Rachel Keller: LEAVE HIM ALONE! D
Doctor: Your parents love you, Samara. Samara Mor [...] D
Rachel Keller: Come on, we shouldn't be in her roo [...] D
Aidan Keller: I don't think I'd make a good father [...] D
Aidan Keller: [to Rachel] Don't you understand, Ra [...] D
Noah: [after watching the tape] I'm sure it's a lo [...] D
Rachel Keller: I think before you die, you see the [...] D
Ruth: Rachel, please. I saw her face. D
Innkeeper: This is your card, right? Rachel Kelle [...] D
Dr. Grasnik: See, when you live on an island you c [...] D
Katie: Becca, quit being a bitch! D
Rachel Keller: Honey, the house you drew for me... [...] D

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