Post by DSkillz on Dec 19, 2013 3:07:21 GMT
Sadako Yamamura
Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子 Yamamura Sadako?) is the antagonist in Koji Suzuki's novel Ring and the 1998 film adaptation. She returns as the antagonist in Rasen and the protagonist in Ring 0: Birthday, and appears in the Korean and American remakes of the Ring Trilogy, although as different characters.
In the original novel, Sadako is intersex. In both the novels and movies, it is hinted that she is the daughter of some oceanic based entity, making her a quasi-oceanic demigod.
Her name combines the Japanese words for "chaste" (sada) and "child" (ko).
Sadako's character is not directly portrayed in Ring until the final scenes of the film, but is expanded briefly in Rasen and to a much greater extent in Ring 0: Birthday, although there are differences in these various portrayals.
In all versions of the Ring cycle, she appears as a shadowy young woman dressed in white, whose face is concealed behind her long black hair. The first film explains that, as a young girl, she was thrown into a deep well and left to die. Her spirit survived, however, and put itself into a videotape that kills anyone who views it unless someone else watches it within seven days. If not, Sadako herself emerges from the television screen, and the viewer dies of fright.
Most other incarnations share one thing in common: Sadako's need to reproduce, something she can not do herself, as she is portrayed as an intersexual. This is generally the reason why she creates the "Ring Virus", since she will "live on" in it, as long as her DNA (merged with that of the smallpox virus) still exists. In some incarnations, the "Ring Virus" is simply treated as a mysterious phenomenon rather than a biological virus; in these versions, she is portrayed as having created it to wreak vengeance on humanity.
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In the original novel, Sadako is intersex. In both the novels and movies, it is hinted that she is the daughter of some oceanic based entity, making her a quasi-oceanic demigod.
Her name combines the Japanese words for "chaste" (sada) and "child" (ko).
Sadako's character is not directly portrayed in Ring until the final scenes of the film, but is expanded briefly in Rasen and to a much greater extent in Ring 0: Birthday, although there are differences in these various portrayals.
In all versions of the Ring cycle, she appears as a shadowy young woman dressed in white, whose face is concealed behind her long black hair. The first film explains that, as a young girl, she was thrown into a deep well and left to die. Her spirit survived, however, and put itself into a videotape that kills anyone who views it unless someone else watches it within seven days. If not, Sadako herself emerges from the television screen, and the viewer dies of fright.
Most other incarnations share one thing in common: Sadako's need to reproduce, something she can not do herself, as she is portrayed as an intersexual. This is generally the reason why she creates the "Ring Virus", since she will "live on" in it, as long as her DNA (merged with that of the smallpox virus) still exists. In some incarnations, the "Ring Virus" is simply treated as a mysterious phenomenon rather than a biological virus; in these versions, she is portrayed as having created it to wreak vengeance on humanity.
Links:
Wikipedia
The Ring Wiki
Copyright Owner/Official Site
Vertical, Inc.
Record:
W:
L: