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Could anyone explain the whole trilogy shortly?


So, sorry, I didn´t get it, I cannot see any logical connection between number 1, 2, and 0. There is no question answered in part 0, only more questions are coming up (thought her other father threw her in the well when she was a CHILD and not a 17-year-old girl).
WHAT THE ****?
Teacher in the house, she sees the mother staring insanely at the mirror, the something up in the attic, the sadako (lil girl sadako) next to her.
Somehow scary, but not logical.
At the end big girl sadako becomes lil killer sadako again. Why? PLEASE WHY???
And who is her father? thought he was younger and black haired (in part 1, wasn´t he?), and not old with glasses.

Please help me, am I the only one who doesn´t get it?

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Well it is a little convoluted. i think that most of the confusion occurs because Ring and Ring2 were based on the books but changed an awful lot while Rong0 was a much more faithful (though not truly faithful) adaptation of a short story called lemonheart. also it sounds like you may be mixing a bit of the remake in there as well. most of the discrepencies you mentioned are actually not discrepencies at all. Sadako was fully grown in all the films, her father did look like that.
The jist of Ring0 is that sadako split, when she was little, into good sadako and evil sadako. ikuma ('father') sent good sadako away to prvent her joining with evil sadako again while injecting evil sadako with drugs to stunt her physical and psychic growth. at the end she joins back up with the nasty one and reaks havoc!!

does this help?

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Yeah, somehow. Thanks.
I guess I am just not the right person to watch asian horror movies. I saw the American Ring first, that was in march 03, at the cinema. I was so scared, I coulcn´t describe. And so were my 2 friends, who were also with me.
1 month later, we watched the japanese Film on DVD. Just the three of us, dark room, outside dark, late at night - not a single excitement or even fear. Nope. Nothing. Just stupid.
I watched number 2 and 0 by myself. Same effect. Except part 0, had some scary scenes at the end.
So now, I got the story. Well. Ok. Number 1 is best.

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yes, i agree that the first is best. the second had some great moments but went a little of track IMO. Ring0 gave some interesting back story but maybe it's only really interesting if you've loved the whole lot. It seems that people prefer the version they saw first so if you saw the US film first then it doesn't surprise me that you prefer it.
Also if you think the story of Ring0 is odd the books are crazy! In them Sadako is a hermaphrodite who contracts small pox when she is raped shortly before being thrown down the wll (not by Dr ikuma at all) there she attaches the smallpox virus to her own DNA and plans to infect the WORLD Mwuhaha! works well in the books though... honest.

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"The jist of Ring0 is that sadako split, when she was little, into good sadako and evil sadako."
Wow this sounds like what happened in Silent Hill

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yes and it lays with the book...

basicly all the movies (even the japanese ones)have borrowed pieces from the book and so the real story is all out of joint and leaves a lot of questions to be answerd.

For instance in the book when the hero (can't remember his name) has to unravel the story of the ring he finds out that she used to belong to a stage school and finds out about her love affair and the strange deaths while she is there - this is what has influenced the Ring0

The "true" book story of Sadako is a lot deeper and invloves a lot of things that the movies have never touched upon, maybe because they aren't as comercial. I don't wanna spoil the book for anyone but hermahprodiates, rape and the mystry of an enchanted statue....odd I know but it's great

basicly the movies dont make total sense because of their bastardisation from the book, it isn't because you just don't get it or they are above you.

One last thing. Check out the website called ringworld, i think it's .com. it has everything you could want including some of the stories it was all based upon.


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'hero' = asakawa kazuyuki
ringworld = http://ringworld.somrux.com
The events of Ring0 come, for the most part, from a short story called 'lemonheart' which was published in a book of 3 short stories.

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what book is Lemonheart from? Love to add it to my collection

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look at 'ringworld' for more details. it's not been translated into english and, unlike the three novels, the rights to translate and publish haven't been bought by vertical... yet. i'd like to read it but i'm going to have to wait in hope for a translation. From what i can tell the novels have been translated into other languages first so if you speak/read french or russian or something you might be in more luck than me.

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yeah thought so. Have you read Spirals, I think the Japanese name for it is Uzamanki or something. if so is it worth a read?

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i haven't read uzumaki, i wasn't aware that it was a book (other than the manga comic). i've seen the film which is excellent but really weird! it's one of very few live action films to capture the feel of the manga that inspired it. i think the full title is uzumaki: spiral into horror (or words to that effect)

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to dipray: no, Rasen is the sequel to Ring translated into Spiral...Uzumaki translates into Spiral, too, but it's pretty much unrelated.

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uzumaki is NOT related to the ring series. it's a manga, and it's something totally different. was adapted into a movie as well, which goes by the same name.

the series goes as follows:
ring - the first book, the story of kazuyuki asakawa & ryuji takayama (here asakawa is male, not female); the discovery of the tape etc.; the base of the first movie and the american remake as well

rasen (spiral) - the sequel to ring. it was adapted to the flop movie of the same name; NOT into ring 2. the protagonist is the pathologist mitsuo andou, who has known ryuji takayama and gets involved with all the sadako stuff as well :)

loop - the third book which was not filmed. it's not really a direct sequel to rasen imho, but takes the two books in a different direction. it takes place some 10 (20?) years after the first two books. the protagonist is a medical student named kaoru futami; there's a nasty epidemy of an incurable, cancer-like disease. it gets kind of sci-fi, this one :D

birthday - the last book in the series. consisting of 3 short stories. the first one (floating coffin) is a "missing chapter" from rasen about mai. the second one (lemonheart) is about sadako's past in the dramatic group and the third one (happy birthday) is a continuation of the events in loop. kind of a conclusion to the series, i guess. i've to finish reading it :D

the theatrical movies are not 100% faithful to the books; the books are also way better i think, though less scary. for example, ring 0 - birthday is claimed to be based on the "lemonheart" story; however, they only have the base in common - that sadako was in a theatre troupe and had an affair with the guy toyama. there's nothing like the evil twin though. all in all the story is very different from the movie.

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I have read Ring. I am also trying to get the whole boook series. Where do you find the Lemon Heart short story? Is it contained in Birthday the novel?

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The Ring pages on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_%282002_film%29#External_links

I've worked on those articles too.

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actually in both ringu and ringu 2 the killer was teenager. the american versions has her as a kid though, sure your not mixing? also the father could have changed a lot during 30 years.

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