Caged Bird

Post by **monmashq** » 30 Oct 2007

Hey Guys, What are those guys with the Caged Bird? When it sings they run.

Who are they?

HammeringInMyHead · Post by **HammeringInMyHead** » 30 Oct 2007

What you mean??? If you watched the movie you should know it. They are Christabella's followers.

Post by **crucifix** » 30 Oct 2007

yeah... fitting into the imaginary "mining" history that the movie took.

they used to use canaries as a warning sign. the birds would freak out or just die from noxious gases, so the miners would know to leave the area.

Post by **monmashq** » 30 Oct 2007

So they just exist in the movie? Not in any games?

Post by **crucifix** » 30 Oct 2007

HammeringInMyHead · Post by **HammeringInMyHead** » 30 Oct 2007

As far as we know, nope, they don't appear in any of the games.

Post by **monmashq** » 30 Oct 2007

-_- Guys, I just realised. They are the peeps at the elevator scene! ^.^;

Sorry.

HammeringInMyHead · Post by **HammeringInMyHead** » 30 Oct 2007

Haha, that was a big lol, don't worry

Post by **David01** » 30 Oct 2007

perhaps too.. the birds signify the butter flys that we saw throughout sh2.. of course why wouldn't gans just use butterflys.. Well as Gans himself said.. there are the games.. and this was a "movie".. and in order to do a movie.. it isnt a good idea to do the movie exactly like the games.. because in the games, there are too many puzzle elements.. that would become a bit boring on a big screen for just regular movie goers.... So the reason the movie is slightly different from the games.. is because it's suppose to be a slightly different story anyway... that way it's not the same thing we've all seen before.. a compramise of sorts... I believe Gans did this to invite regular fans of the games.. as well as introducing silent hill, In a slightly different way to those who haven't seen it before. But again the birds could have been something similar to the butterflys we saw in sh2.. signalling the curse on the town..

Post by **LanceS133** » 30 Oct 2007

I highly doubt that. Butterflys/moths had a direct meaning in the games. The birds are just in the movie to alert the miners of the otherworld like the radio alerts the characters in the game. Nothing more.

Post by **SethSunderland** » 30 Oct 2007

Well I dont think the birds identified noxious gases, more of knowing when the otherworld change was coming. Because all the birds flew to the church when the monsters came, then they rang the warning siren.

Correct me if im wrong, this is only my view.

Post by **Silent Vamphyri** » 31 Oct 2007

Animals have a very acute sense of danger. For example, before the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, it was reported that cats & dogs were seen running to higher areas of land.

I can also see how people can relate the bird to how miner's used Canaries, especially by the way the followers are dressed.

Post by **SethSunderland** » 01 Nov 2007

Silent Vamphyri wrote:Animals have a very acute sense of danger. For example, before the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, it was reported that cats & dogs were seen running to higher areas of land.

I can also see how people can relate the bird to how miner's used Canaries, especially by the way the followers are dressed.

So, the relation with the birds and the gasses only applys to the mines, but,

the "followers" with the miner uniforms used them to avoid the otherworld?

Just to clarify, after which this topic is resolved.

Post by **LanceS133** » 01 Nov 2007

^ Exactly. The caged bird in the movie is like the radio in the games, tis all.

Post by **Scanman22** » 02 Nov 2007

SethSunderland wrote:Well I dont think the birds identified noxious gases, more of knowing when the otherworld change was coming. Because all the birds flew to the church when the monsters came, then they rang the warning siren.

Correct me if im wrong, this is only my view.

No, they were talking about in real life. In the olden days before electronic detectors they used canaries to warn miners. In the movie, they use it to warn them of the "Darkness" aka Otherworld.

Post by **SethSunderland** » 05 Nov 2007

Scanman22 wrote:
SethSunderland wrote:Well I dont think the birds identified noxious gases, more of knowing when the otherworld change was coming. Because all the birds flew to the church when the monsters came, then they rang the warning siren.

Correct me if im wrong, this is only my view.
No, they were talking about in real life. In the olden days before electronic detectors they used canaries to warn miners. In the movie, they use it to warn them of the "Darkness" aka Otherworld.

Yea.

.. not really sure what else to say, since I already said that..

Post by **whiter4bbit** » 22 Sep 2009

Notice that caged canaries are also used as evil detectors in a book called "The MIDWICH cuckoos" → http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos

Dunno if it's a coincidence or not.

Post by **AuraTwilight** » 22 Sep 2009

It was probably a reference.