Notes I made while watching the ring and comparing it to Ringu day 1

Sleepover scene
- Similar beginning, two friends talking
- Story about a girl who stays in cabin
- More dramatic --> girl pretends to choke
- Similar dialogue at beginning of Japanese film
- Girls faces are extremely dramatic
- Friend picks up phone and slowly passes it to her friend and it is the mum
- The girl is more rude to her mother -- more like a typical American teenager --> She is also rude to her friend --> "Becca quit being a bitch"
- The film is more dramatic slowly fridge opens, girl slowly walks upstairs
- water comes from the bathroom
- TV scene is much more dramatic
- Zoom in on girls face as it distorts

Classroom scene
- More dramatic about son
- Moment with the teacher alien has drawn samara lying beneath the ground representing Aiden has kind of a 6th sense
- Dramatic lines "You say she died three nights ago? Aides drew these last week."

Tucking Aiden in
- More aiden dramatics
- "we don't have enough time"
  "Aiden I know Ive been working late"
  "No I mean we don't have enough time before we die"
  "Katy told you she was going to die?" --> "Katy knew"
- he's  creepy kid, he calls her Rachel

Funeral scene
- Compared to the Japanese film the Funeral is very Westernised
- Much more dramatic reaction to death with the parents especially the father
- In this version um asks Rachel to investigate instead of Rachel investigating on her own accord
- Katy's face when she is found looks way more dramatic
- Mum doesn't break down "This is where I found her" in this version
- Friends act way more like "teenagers"
- Aiden walks upstairs like Yoshino Ringu
- More dramatics, Rachel opens the Year book on Katy's desk and finds Katy has drawn black hair over everyones faces.

Photos
- Photos get developed the last one is blurry as they have watched the tape --> This is the same as Japanese film

- Rachel finds that everyone dies at 10pm. This is different from Ringu where you die exactly 7 days after watching the cursed tape

Hotel
- Rachels hotel experience is shorter, she doesn't go for a nap in the room, find a book a child has drawn or go and have lunch at the lodge restaurant.
- Tape is in the same place as it is in Ringu
- The tape is longer and way more dramatic than the tape in Ringu
- More establishing shots to show time of day
- 7 days phone call is still the same