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(yes I'm romanian) the first, second and third movie are gonna get released on Netflix on Aug.1!im super excited!!!!

Bloody Mary Writing Blog #04: Signs and Symbols

Every good Final Destination movie has symbolism and foreshadowing, some of it even being visible to the characters, plot relevant even.
Obviously this is an element I plan to incorporate in my story as well, but I need to gather ideas on which elements to use.
I will definitely need more ideas to each of these points so, feel free to comment if you have any😁! (Here’s the [summary](https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalDestination/s/DlHJHuK6af) of the story for those interested.)

**Possible Reoccurring Symbols**⚠**️**:
Each movie seems to have their own omen of death, like glass shards or the coin in Bloodlines or photos and wind in FD3. Since I want to bring in witch symbolism for Bloody Mary, possible symbols could be:
\- Fire, a classic, to reference the witch trials
\- Mirrors, a reference to the Bloody Mary urban legend
\- Crescent Moons, to symbolize night time, the spooky hours

**Songs**🎶**:**
People have also already mentioned the prevalence of pop songs that symbolize death, a different mixtape for each movie. The songs I had in mind are:
\- Mary on a Cross (Ghost): Bloody Mary is in the lyrics
\- Burning Love (Elvis Presley): the story has a lot of burning in it, and also love. And in the end, Marianne burns to save the one she loves
\- Another One Bites The Dust (Queen): the title means to die, and the irony of a Queen song playing, as a character with the surname King dies
\- Riding on a Freeway (Aretha Franklin): this song is part of the Cars 3 soundtrack, where Lightning McQueen crashes (childish, I know but I love Cars😂)

**The Lunar Lodge Fire**🌙**:**
The big disaster to kickstart the movie is a lodge fire, burying six college students under burning wood, and it’s all caused by a single candle that wasn’t blown out. To foreshadow this event, we can see:
\- Ricky commenting on the wood being old
\- A view from the balcony over the front door, which will later crush Lisa as she tries to escape the burning building (in premonition)
\- the crescent moon is established as an omen of death via the name of the lodge
\- Marianne reads her book with a candle on
\- the book she’s reading is Stephen King’s Fire Starter (note: Stephen King and his works are referenced in Lisa and Carrie’s names)
\- Aaron’s scary story is about the exact situation they are about to experience

**Aaron’s Death**🚙**:**
While Aaron and Ricky are sitting in the trunk of his SUV, the truck starts rolling down hill. Aaron’s hoodie gets caught, and his skull is crushed between a tree and his SUV:
\- his head is crushed by two different types of trunks
\- Ricky and Aaron fight about the radio station, Riding on a Freeway and Mary on a Cross can be heard
\- people tease him by pulling on his hoodie

**Ricky’s Death**🪑**:**
As a huge gust of wind and a broken wooden chair causes the friends to panic, Marianne accidentally pulls the attic open, letting a stowed away gaming chair fall down, which Ricky trips onto, causing the damaged pneumatic cylinder to explode, releasing a metal rod through his chest:
\- Marianne cleans his room of everything dangerous, including his gaming chair
\- She warns him not to keep the pole to open the attic hanging, but he forgets to listen to her advice
\- Death’s presence is obvious moments before his death, as it terrorizes Carrie first
\- A plastic bag Carrie’s dad had thrown onto the streets ends up blowing into Ricky’s room, causing Marianne to trip in the first place

**Carrie’s Death**🍟**:**
While being trapped in a walk-in freezer, a bottle of water (or cleaning alcohol) is knocked into the active deep fryer, causing a kitchen fire and spilled oil. After Carrie is rescued, she slips on some oil and is shoved into the deep fryer by a falling ventilation system:
\- Marianne gets a clue that alcohol will be the cause of her death. At first, the friends think her alcoholic father will be the cause
\- during her father’s tantrum, she is standing by her fridge
\- her name (Carrie Nicholson) is a reference to Carrie by Stephen King, who dies in a fire, as well as Jack Nicholson, who plays Jack Torrence in Stephen King’s Shining, who dies in the snow

**Lisa’s Death**♟**️**:
As she tries to escape the burning restaurant, she is crushed by a falling Letter “i” from the “Tower of Pizza” sign:
\- she is often teasingly told “Lisa, I will kill you!”
\- she is confident about beating death
\- seeing as her last name is King, a lot of chess references will be thrown her way, indicating her battle against death:
• she is almost crushed by a “Bishop Avenue”sign
• she dies at *Tower* of Pizza
• the flooring is checkered
• the car that crashed into the restaurant is a
Ferrari, which, of course, has a horse in its logo
• she dies to *Queen’s* Another One Bites the Dust
• the “i” sign that crushes her resembles a Pawn
• her final words are “Checkmate huh, Death?”

**Jake’s Death**🚪**:**
After Carrie and Lisa die, he flips out and goes after Marianne, chasing her into a gas station shop, before the kitchen fire moves towards it as well, causing a massive explosion at the gas station. Jake is crushed by a glass door:
\- he pushes the automatic glass door open while chasing Marianne
\- in the premonition, he is crushed while trying to escape through a window
\- George was meant to die by falling onto broke glass as well, before Marianne intervened
\- While chasing Marianne, he is aware of Death being after him

**Marianne’s Death**⛽**️**:
As the she and George try to escape the gas station fire, Marianne gets pushed away by George as a ceiling collapses, only, this traps her in a burning building. Marianne realizes this means George is saved before burning to death:
\- her guilt torments her throughout the whole book, and it is made clear that she would not be able to live with herself, if all her friends died
\- George keeps telling her it’s not her fault while Jake does the opposite

**George‘s Open Fate**🕯**️**:
George survives the book, but in the end, he falls down the stairs, leaving his fate up to the reader’s interpretation:
\- Aaron died by falling down the stairs in the premonition
\- before he was supposed to be cut by Marianne’s broken shower stall, tea spills on his white shirt, which looks like blood. Maybe it’ll be in the shape of a heart to symbolize life
\- he clearly values life and makes sure to enjoy each second he has
\- he generally wears white, which may symbolize life over death (like Light Yagami wearing black while L wears white in Death Note)

This is the symbolism and foreshadowing I have for now. I hope I manage to collect even more. Drop your feedback and ideas in the comments😁!

See you next time!

I just finished painting a shirt with bleach. At first I wanted to paint Alex in the middle of the skulls like in the posters of the first movie, but I got lazy and wanted to have it done in less than 2 hours lol. I also made a pin with the base of a can. Hope it looks cool ^^

For my own version of Final Destination (which I will be posting on Wattpad sometime in the future), I have drafted the plot below. I hope you enjoy, and feel free to give me feedback or suggestions😁. I hope you enjoy:

The Lunar Lodge Fire🌲🌲🏠🔥🌲
The story starts with seven friends (see characters) spending a weekend away at the Lunar Lodge in the woods. It is night time, and the friends are exchanging scary stories in the basement kitchen.
Aaron tells of a boy named Alex Browning, the story we know as well, except, people think he flipped out and murdered his friends and himself. Unless he was only aiding death…
They friends are interrupted by a house fire, which only Marianne manages to escape, with George pulling her out before attempting to save Jake, ending up buried by the burning debris like the rest.

Death on the Move🌲🚙💥🌲🌲
Of course the fire was just Marianne’s premonition. She blows out a candle she had lit while reading, and ponders if this candle could have caused the house fire in her premonition.
In the kitchen, she finds proof of her premonition having been real, but since there is no fire, she doesn’t think much of it.
The next morning, Aaron’s hoodie gets caught in his SUV’s trunk while it rolls down the hill.
He is crushed between his SUV and a tree, killing him.
The six remaining friends are taken back by the police, where they meet Officer Burke, who confirms to Marianne, off protocol, that Death might actually be after her friends.

Death’s List💀📜❌❌🖍️
Marianne gathers her friends to discuss the problem. Carrie couldn’t make it, but she is next on the list.
Lisa, who was sceptical at first, is worried, after Marianne gets a hint, that alcohol might be the cause of her death. Her father happens to be an alcoholic.
Lisa and the gang rush to Carries house, where Carrie indeed was in danger due to her drunk father (idk how yet, but probably an accident and her dad is too drunk to notice). Lisa saves Carrie and escorts her to Ricky’s room, the friends’ safe room.
Ricky and Marianne do research/call Officer Burke, figuring out FD2’s new life rule and FD5’s stealing life rule.
An accident causes a gaming chair’s pneumatic cylinder to get launched through Ricky’s chest.

Cheating Death🚏🚗🚛🚗🚗
Officer Burke confirms that skipping people on the list is possible, but someone from the list must intervene.
Lisa, who’s next on the list, is almost crushed by a street sign. She stays still, asking Marianne to push her away, which she does.
Lisa tells Death to back off. Her plan is to keep Jake and George safe from harm, so they immediately bring them to Marianne’s room. On the way, Jake is almost killed, but saved by the friends, meaning now George needs to be kept safe.
They decide to take turns, taking care of George.
Marianne volunteers to go first, while Lisa and Carrie decide to work their nightshift at Tower of Pizza, a pizzeria.
That night, George confesses his crush, which of course is mutual. Better get it out the way before they die.
Later on, Jake gets a frantic call by Marianne about her having saved George from an accident. Lisa and Carrie are in danger!!!

The Tower of Pizza🏰🍕🍟🥤🏰
Carrie is stuck in a walk-in freezer and panicking while Lisa is trying to help.
Jake immediately drives George and Marianne to the Tower of Pizza, where he finds out, Marianne saved George from slipping in the shower onto broken shards. Marianne swears they weren’t in the shower, they were just trying to clean off the tea Marianne had accidentally spilled onto him, after an embarrassing confession, but Jake wants to hear none of it.
While distracted by the conversation, he almost drives into a truck, which swirls out of control and glides into the restaurant, narrowly avoiding Lisa, but trapping her between the truck and the wall. She won’t die until Carrie does, so Marianne goes to save Carrie while the boys help the driver.
Lisa is nervous, realizing she’s surrounded by death traps, with only one direction to move to. Death could kill Lisa easily now.
A bottle of water had spilled into the deep fryer during the crash, causing a kitchen fire. Marianne carefully helps Carrie out of the freezer, but panicked Carrie slips during the escape, narrowly avoiding the fryer, before the vent falls and pushes her in, killing her.
Lisa hears Marianne’s screams and accepts that Death won the match. Lisa tries the only escape route she has left, but Death doesn’t waste this opportunity and squashes her with one of the letters spelling out “Pizza” over the entrance.

Gas Station Showdown🔥🚘⛽️🔥🔥
Jake blames everything on Marianne and flips out, trying to kill her. She flees to a nearby gas station shop, where a related fire starts. Jake wants to use this opportunity to kill Marianne, seeing as she was supposed to survive and has a life left to donate, and it is her duty to do so.
During the fight, Jake is hit by a falling glass door.
Marianne and George are surrounded by the fire.
This time, Marianne pulls George out of the fire. But before they can escape together, she tricks him into pushing her back into the store before the roof collapses onto them. Marianne is now trapped in the store, and technically George killed her.
Marianne smiles, knowing that she’s giving her life to George.
George is pulled away by firefighters, as he screams for her, but the firefighters fail to keep Marianne alive.
George received Mariannes life and must now live his life to the fullest.

I hope this somewhat rushed summary of the plot made enough sense and could lead to a decent Final Destination story. This is only the first draft, so let me know if some things don’t make sense, could use changing or if you have any other good ideas. I always appreciate the comments and interactions😁.

See you next time!

Movie name: Final Destination 4

like the title said, I was watching a different video with the audio used here and decided to make a video based on clear with this audio.

so how accurate do y’all think the audio is to clear?

Honestly a lot of characters are forgettable or just have annoyed me somehow

They’re not all accurate but I tried

This summer I'm learning rigging animation and I wanna animate every death, hunt might be a bit tricky but there's some easy ones like Brian or Perry

I organized an AMA/Q&A with Steven Quale, director of FINAL DESTINATION 5, INTO THE STORM, and BLACK BOX. He was also 2nd-unit director for TITANIC and AVATAR.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1ukl9js/hey_rmovies_im_steven_quale_director_of_final/

He will be back at 3-4 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

His new movie, BLACK BOX, is a supernatural-thriller set on a place that was released in theaters and digital this month:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-nf8hUFd98

Synopsis: Vero Airlines Flight 298 from New Orleans to Seattle becomes the center of a chilling supernatural mystery.

Thank you :)