30 Days of Night (2007)

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Originally Posted by WriteSimply

Okay, how do you visually tell the audience that 30 days have passed on a piece of land where sunshine doesn't hit and it snows really hard?

Each film uses its own logic rules and accepted lore/myths. The key is telling the audience this rule and establishing it early on. Of course, doesn't mean that the audience will buy it.

Prior to the last vampire/dracula films of the 90s (which was mostly based on comics and novels), UV light as a deadly light was unheard of. Writers uses logic and science to support the age-old myth, based on genetic anomalies of some poor people inflicted with it. If a novel/comic/movie comes along that can believably explain using pseudo-science why if you kill the vampire that created you you can cease to be a vampire, people can suspend their disbelief (in vampire lore anyway) and go along with the story. If you tell them that you can kill the vampire with garlic bon-bons, well you're going to have another thing coming.

There's also a thing called cinematic convention. For example: I was woken up by the sound of the Death Star exploding.


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That's kinda my point. A great director/writer or whatever - would come up with ingenious ways to convey "30 days of night" to the audience. Is it easy? NO. Is it hard? Yeah! That's the whole magic about movie making. It's to pull the viewer into the movie and become part of the story. To make them think it literally is "30 days of night" that is taking place.

I am by no means a professional but I do enjoy watching movies and the best movies are ones that suck you into the film. Make you literally feel like you are a part of it. Very few of them do that these days.

30 Days of Night - While a good "flick" - is nothing more than just that. This is my OPINION - not fact so please don't take it as such